Use Cash And Enjoy Privacy? You’re A Terrorist Paul Joseph Watson

A new government commercial currently running on one of Britain's most popular radio stations is selling one thing -- fear -- by encouraging Londoners to report their neighbors as terrorists if they use cash, enjoy their privacy, or even close their curtains.

The advertisement, produced in conjunction with national radio outlet TallkSport, promotes the "anti-terrorist hotline" and encourages people to report individuals who don't talk to their neighbors much, people who like to keep themselves to themselves, people who close their curtains, and people who don't use credit cards.

"This may mean nothing, but together it could all add up to you having suspicions," states the voice on the ad, before continuing "We all have a role to play in combating terrorism" (we're all indentured stasi informants for the government).

"If you see anything suspicious, call the confidential anti-terrorist hotline... if you suspect it, report it," concludes the commercial.

Listen to the ad below.

There is a way for the every day people of the world to gain control of their lives. In light of the most recent move by the world government group to subvert democratic elections by expanding corporate power we still have a chance to restore a sense of sanity. In fact, the powers that would be all, have drawn us a map.

We (people) all know the consequences of the supreme court action. I suggest, instead of sending letters and demonstrating in hopes of swaying the ones who did it in the first place, we simply use their tactics against them.

As of 2008 there are this many people in the world – 6,692,030,277. If we form the world citizens corporation and receive a $5 from every shareholder we have a corporation with liquid assets of just under twenty billion dollars. Needless to say that can buy a lot of Senators and congressman. Once in place – it’s game over.

The corporation would start to work immediately wherever an election is taking place in the world. When a president want’s to install a Siddiqui, the citizen corporation outbids them and installs a gardener from New Hampshire.

I know this plan isn’t as complicated as people are used to but it has been proven to work. That’s another favor we’ve received from the world domination crew. We don’t even have to spend time figuring anything out. It’s working like a well oiled machine against the people of the world right now. All I suggest is we pick up the tools provided and follow the steps laid out for us by our suppressors.

We’ll need?

Start making a list and putting the necessary pieces in place to run the company.

As soon as we’re set up we can began putting things right.

The only obstacle I can see is, not everyone has five dollars. Well I have fifteen so I’ll sponsor two others.

I've been studying the System of Life for some time now. With any study one thing that has to be done is a lot of data collecting. I suppose there are three main areas we can get this data. The first would be watching the world around us.

Watching The World

The World of People - Watching everything that happens. Listening to everything people say. Reading what people have written. Read some of the Poets, look at the Art, listen to the Music, read what the world shapers say and everything in between. Watch what people do, how they act and react and listen to everything they say.

The Natural World - Watching nature, plants, animals, the weather, the seasons, the heavens. Then read and look at everything that people have said about the natural world.

The Inner World - This is the study of life through introspection. Meditation, paying attention to thoughts and feeling. Finding out what's in there and what "it" is.

The System of Life

Everyone and anyone is completely qualified to remark on the system of life. Everybody knows or has observed something. What I want to look at today is how the Natural World does things. Then I want to ask if we can do things in the same way. If we can - wouldn't this be the best way - since we're a part of this natural world?

One thing you'll notice if you watch nature is it does a lot of stuff without any noise. The rain forest was made in silence. I was looking at the tree off the balcony the other day. It's been there all winter apparently idle. Completely silent. Then all of a sudden (overnight) I see a little action on the ends of the branches. The days are getting longer. It knows this and knows that this is the time for a little action on the ends of the branches.

I think this type of work, or accomplishing, or whatever you want to call it is available to us. When I look around at the world of people I don't see much of this silent vibrant accomplishment. What I see are Ants. The industrious Ant has become the model for humans. I have nothing against Ants - but - I don't want to be one. What I learned from Ants is, if I keep putting one thing on top of another it will get taller.

There are a lot of people who behave like Tigers. They have adopted the style of a ferocious, gemme that, predator. I really like Tigers too - but - are they good role models? Are they all I need to know? Is this how I want society to work? The Tigers rule and the Ants toil? What I've learned from Tigers is - there are some obstacles you can't meet head on with a club. Sometimes a geographic relocation is the best solution.

How can I best, "Get Things Done"?

I don't want to be an Ant, and being a Tiger plays as long as you're the toughest Tiger (also a lot of work). How about learning from the tree? Could I do things like that? In total silence? Without all that noise and movement and effort?

I've come to see that this is the best way to get things done. It's the best "Earth System" I've seen. Is it possible for we humans to do things in this way? Let's take the chore of finding solutions to our problems. Remember, problems are problems because we say they are. All problems are personal problems.

Over the past few years most of my problems have been resolved while I was asleep. Or, they just popped into my head while I was doing something else - like reading. What I've attempted to do is: simply concentrate on identifying the problem. My current personal problem is: I keep - habitually - addressing problems as if I were an Ant, or a Tiger. Neither of which I am, or wish to be.

Here is the experiment, the test, to see if this is possible.

• What's the problem?

• What is my state of consciousness?

• Putting our Problems to Bed

• The Primacy Of Consciousness

I remember a song with this title. I never listened to any of the lyrics. I liked the sound. I heard the title cause they repeated it so many times. I’m always trying to figure out what causes humans to have so many problems here on earth and I think this one desire for control is at the root of it all.

First though we should remove the word “World” and replace it with “The People of Earth”. Everybody wants to rule the people of earth. Secondly we should clean up another portion of the statement by replacing “Rule” with “Control”. Also if we want to reach a more inclusive idea we might replace “People” with “Peoples behavior”. In fact lets change “Peoples Behavior” to “Peoples Bad Behavior” or “Peoples Destructive Behavior”. Everybody wants to control peoples destructive behavior.

I think anyone in there right mind who has done a good deal of self examination will find they are part of this “Everybody”. I know I am. I also know I absolutely hate being controlled. I was one of those tantrum throwing kids. I would just go nuts if my parents said I had to do something I didn’t want to do.

From very early I felt I had no control over anything. As I moved out into the world of the public school system I was overwhelmed by my lack of control. At the same time I was assaulted by what I deemed bad behavior. Mostly what I thought was bad behavior was “Mean Behavior”. At five years of age I didn’t have the advantage of hindsight so I didn’t know anything about cruelty breeding cruelty. Fear breeding fear – Like begetting  like if you will. In fact I didn’t know much of anything.

What I felt was this – I was at the mercy of a world I didn’t have any control over. For many years I tried to control others on an individual basis. I got in a lot of fights. At some point I realized that this was a complete waste of time and accomplished next to nothing. But I still wanted control. I wanted to control, if not the entire world of other peoples behavior, at least that worlds ability to negatively affect and control me.

What I found was, as far as controlling the worlds ability to effect me  - It’s just to big. The world of “People on Earth” is to big for me to control. The  intrusiveness of something that big is next to impossible to control. There are historic aspects that one can never go back and change. The IRS was well established by the time I was born. Ideas about marriage, funerals, gods, life had been formed without any input from me – so I really felt like I was dropped off in an alien world with no instructions – and no power.

Obviously somebody had a lot of power and was controlling things. Needless to say I didn’t like the way they had set things up. What I’ve been fighting against since is the world set up and ruled by “The Control Freaks”. Another thing I realized at some point was that I didn’t have what it took to compete with them. I lacked the aspect of utter ruthlessness needed to be a world class control freak. I lacked that degree of meanness necessary to rule the world. I also wanted no part of their world. Despite my best thinking at the time all I could come up with was “Hide”.

In order to gain any aspect of control in this controlled world one has to cooperate with the controllers. I couldn’t do it.

I’m convinced this desire to control others is present in everyone. Regardless of the outward behavior everyone would like to control the behavior of others. What effect does this have on the cosmic consciousness? Don’t think their is such a thing as a cosmic consciousness? Why? Lets pretend their is.

What I’m after, as always, is some answers. Some since of solution to what I see as a sort of universal madness. I understand peoples reaction to “The People of Earth”. I understand the resulting need to have control. After all – the people of earth are the main threat to the people of earth. Has it always been this way? Was it this way with every tribe and community throughout history? What I think happens is that, although we all want to rule the world, most of us have an altruistic bent.

The majority of people, while desiring an end to others destructive behavior, desire a state harmony. Most of us can get along because of this primary motivation towards harmony. There is, in most, the instinctual connection between harmony and happiness. Since no person desires to be unhappy most people will personally aim for non destructive behavior.

But there’s something else going on too. I’m always weirded out by mobs. Mob scenes at the public executions of the past, the obsession of TV addicts with trials,  any type of mob mentality, mob violence and destruction. Throughout history their have been people, quite a few, who show their true colors within the mob. Nazi Germany was a good example of hidden tendencies for cruelty and a need to control. Remember before the brown shirts, there were no brown shirts. These people came from the community. They had families. They were offered one thing – control.

Wanting to control everything is not really the problem. If a kingdom has a good king there is no better place to live. A good king can have absolute control over the kingdom and things can be really great for everyone. But in the end the king will die.

The problem, as I see it,  is this: Here There Be Monsters. Where is here? Everywhere. The more people, the more monsters. The monsters we have with us today are the sociopath and the psychopath. These deviant pathologies are the the ones who have the ruthlessness I lacked. The ruthlessness needed to strive rule the world.

I knew someone who grew up with Bill Clinton. This person and I used to talk about behavior and people and so on and one day he told me that the only true sociopath he ever met, for sure, was Bill Clinton. Recently there has been an ad on TV and Internet TV where Bill and George are trying to get money from people using Haiti. I saw that and thought, “These people are truly evil”. The other thing they have going for them is they’re connected.

Evil disconnectedness attracts it’s like. These people naturally find each other. They cooperate. They study, they plan, they obsess, they naturally and cooperatively move toward positions of power and control. Most of us never see them. Ever wonder where that person running for office came from. How many people in the U.S., or the world,  knew who Barrack Obama was in 2007? These crazies are all connected in and through the maniacal web of power and control.

Nobody in their right mind denies the existence of evil and madness. The only debate is to the source of this realities. People can always debate the source of evil and madness. Some blame it on an otherworldly cause like the Devil or evil spirits. This philosophy always needs and includes the otherworldly solution. That’s a never ending debate and doesn’t lend itself to much in the way of a solution.

I see all evil, madness, meanness and so on as having “The People Of Earth”  as it’s source. I’ve only seen people, and the good or evil that they produce. I attribute the cause of evil in people to a broken connection with humanness. I don’t know where humanness is. I don’t know how the connection works exactly. I have ideas and I study and search for answers, but as yet I don’t know much. There is another possibility, other than a broken connection, for evil. Evil people may not be human.

Broken connections or not human. How could a person not be human? I don’t know. But to think that all there is in the entire world is human beings doesn’t make much sense. That isn’t even true on earth. Most of our little planet is populated by bugs. But none of that matters. What matters is understanding the problem.

The main problem is that the truly messed up are the ones best equipped to rule the world. It’s easier for them because they’re so singular – it’s an obsession. They don’t even have to try. Great care givers don’t try to be great care givers – it’s what they are. They are connected to the nurturing nature of humanness.

A lot of people seem to be broken. The part that should be functioning to facilitate a connection to some human goodness is broke. It may simply be that some switch didn’t get thrown when the fetus was forming and something didn’t get built that should have been. What I have seen in all people is the desire to control other peoples behavior. So I would say this is natural simply because it’s so all inclusive.

Mainly most of us want people to behave for the purpose of harmony and happiness. Okay, nothing weird about that, recognize it, own it, work with it. But also recognize that some people are broke. This break causes an obsession with control that has nothing to do with harmony. Recognize it – Accept it – Work with it.

By Dave Harrison at www.tradewithdave.com

Ian Fleming’s fictional hero James Bond was never shaken, but he was stirred into action if he discovered he was being followed. If you are an active participant in the social media world, like Bond, you too may soon have an unwelcome follower. The infiltration won’t be a henchman such as Odd Job in Goldfinger or Dr. No from the inaugural 007 film of the same name. Instead your latest followers on Twitter may be on the payroll of the United States Government. That was the plan suggested in a paper co-authored by the White House’s Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Professor Cass Sunstein. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_administrator/

As I was considering the implications of professor Sunstein’s 2008 academic paper (John Wiley & Sons ~ Journal of Political Philosophy) titled Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures, something quite strange struck me. I had the distinct feeling that Professor Sunstein’s list of ways to deal with much of the independent thought displayed on the social web may potentially backfire. Then I thought that I should make this post as quickly as possible considering the list of suggestions outlined under Professor Sunstein’s self-described plan of “cognitive infiltration.”

• Government might undertake tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories.
• Government agents might enter chat rooms, online social networks, even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, casual logic or implications for political action.

If you have read much of my blog at TradeWithDave.com, you know that I am fascinated by concepts such as quantum mechanics, the impact of our personal choices on our lives and those around us, and our role as both observers and the observed. From a personal point of view, I believe these concepts support my personal belief and faith that we were made in God’s image with the unique power to choose. No doubt that President Obama’s choice for Administrator of the OIRA is highly intelligent and well respected in both academic and political circles. According to ForeignPolicy.com, Professor Sunstein (#7) and his wife Samantha Power (#80) are the only married couple to be named individually to this year’s Global Thinkers list. I was curious to know if my conclusion was the same as Professor Sunstein that his idea would actually destabilize the current government regime in the United States. Let me tell you why.

In my opinion, like all fields of study being a behavioral economist, has its shortcomings. Being able to predict and anticipate how people will respond is of great value in the business world. Whether you’re performing the Coke/Pepsi taste challenge, or running a focus group for the Apple Ipad name selection process, behavioral economics is big business, but there is a slight problem. When you observe people it has an effect on their behavior. No matter how much the observer may try to isolate their influence, scientifically there is no way to avoid affecting outcomes. If Sean Connery is administering the Pepsi challenge he will get slightly different results from a Roger Moore led test. Our impact, however slight, on outcomes is unavoidable.

This Call May Be Recorded For Quality Assurance

In the town where I live, they have red light cameras and as you approach the downtown area, there are signs clearly warning drivers of the presence of these cameras. Throughout our days we are continually warned that our activities are being observed. Why do we choose to use Gmail or drive through a town with red light cameras when we know that our actions will be observed and stored indefinitely along with every email, phone call and text message we have ever sent? Jeremy Bentham designed the proposal for the first panopticon prison. The design allowed for the inspector to see each of the prisoners at all times without being seen. This allowed for a utilitarian approach of very few guards in proportion to very many prisoners. Equally as important as the economic efficiency of the guard to prisoner ratio was the fact that the prisoners could not tell when they were being actively observed. Based on Bentham’s ingenious design, prisoners have no way of knowing if they were not being observed at all, because they could not see the observer. According to Bentham’s philosophy, in the mind of the prisoner they are always being observed and they act accordingly. Like many drugs that treat the sympton, this utilitarian solution based on behavioral economics also has unwanted side effects. The proposed initiative (i.e. cognitive infiltration) is designed to expose more truth and less “crippling” from erroneous theories formed within social groups both on the web and in your living room. The eventual side effects on the observer of being observed are not only a problem for the government, but also a big problem for Google and its $500 plus stock price.

Diminishing Returns is the Law in Economics

Once we enter what James Cascio called the &ldquoarticipatory panopticon” and the permanent record of our actions are stored away in the prison of social media archives such as Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, WordPress and the like, diminishing returns come into play. The ability of behavioral economists to accurately profile users and anticipate their actions declines proportionately to the increasing awareness of the observer in the life of the observed. If a young man is being administered the Pepsi Challenge by a young lady that he finds attractive and he modifies his answer to the one that he believes will be more likely to impress her, then that is considered a lie by behavioral scientists. Thus is life in Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon.

We learn from Queens University Professor, David Lyons, author of Theorizing Surveillance: the Panopticon and Beyond, once we start monitoring an individual’s behavior that behavior gradually becomes disingenuous and less predictable. Individuals who would never consider speaking an untruth will lie without hesitation when they discover that they are being observed against their wishes. Duke University professor Timur Kuran in his book, Private Truths, Public Lies, shows how individuals modify their choices and opinions based on what appears socially acceptable. He argues that our willingness to hide our true feelings in exchange for being socially acceptable has huge consequences, particularly in the realm of the build up prior to social unrest and political revolution. Kuran labels this phenomenon &ldquoreference falsification” and it is particularly relevant in light of the explosive popularity of social media.

Well known French philosopher Michel Foucault said, “visibility is a trap. It is through this visibility that modern society exercises its controlling system of power and knowledge.” I would agree with Monsieur Foucault’s claim if not for one thing. He is assuming that wherever the body is trapped, in this example Blenheim’s panoptic prison architecture, that within that same prison also trapped is the soul. That is probably a question better suited for Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi or even John the Baptist who lost his head in prison, rather than Mr. Foucault or me.

Foucault’s conclusion is that the observed effectively polices himself because the observed never knows when he is being watched, so he basically acts if he is being watched all the time. It’s the equivalent of not yelling “BOMB!” when on a crowded airplane. Everyone understands the ramifications of being observed. When I consider Professor Sunstein’s suggestion for cognitive infiltration of the social web, I see this as much more of a prison for those who perform the “gazing upon” rather than those who are visible to the observers. For you see, the gaze is with the eye that can take in everything that it can see, but no more. Whether the gaze is as harsh as that of a real life prison guard, or as subtle as social media database profiling, it is still observation and has consequences.

Just as the TSA inspector at the airport goes through your bags and scans your body, does he have any idea what’s on your mind? The one thing that the eye cannot interpret of the observed is that which is occurring within the heart and mind of the observed. Therefore it is those that are participating in cognitive infiltration and their masters who will find themselves trapped within the tower in the center of their own panopticon. With only their database to comfort them as they stare at their profiling x-ray screens scrutinizing the life luggage of others who are heading off into new frontiers. Their own lives and the lives of their handlers diminish with each passing suitcase of information. They may scan the web tracks, but never the mind and its power to choose between good or evil. They can only look back in history and apply their algorithms while even the most powerful software is yet to predict the future.

If you study revolutions and revolutionaries what you will discover is that the monitoring (i. e. cognitive infiltration) actually results in the opposite of the intended effect. The observed begin to exhibit traits of disinformation rather than information. Not only does this devalue the quality of the information and its ability to predict future performance based on past result, in the case of revolutions and revolutionaries it actually creates a false sense of security on the part of the observers charged with maintaining security. Those doing the monitoring would be led to believe simply that “nothing is up.” This only increases the chances of an unexpected attack, revolution or other disruptive insurgency.

Disinformation and counterintelligence are nothing new and although George Orwell’s classic social science fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four introduced us to the concept of Big Brother watching over us, it’s purpose was to serve as a “show-up of the perversions.” Orwell closely predicted today’s internet with his telescreen and the panopticon prison that it created within the community. How different is today than the Orwellian prophesy under the cognitive infiltration plan when our essential conveniences of email, facebook, twitter, texting and search are actively infiltrated as Professor Sunstein clearly proposes?

“Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!”

Jesse Ventura – Former Governor of Minnesota, Professional Wrestler and TV Host of “Conspiracy Theory”

Professor Kuran outlines in his book “Sparks and Prairie Fires: A Theory of Unanticipated Political Revolutions” a series of examples of revolutions that arose with shockingly fast speed and very little anticipation. Kuran suggests that revolutions will continue to catch political leaders with their pants down due to people’s willingness to conceal their true beliefs under public pressures such as those found in today’s social media. In their jointly authored article “Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation”, Professors Sunstein and Kuran suggest several measures the government implement in an effort to manage public opinion and avoid these types of unexpected revolutions.

In my opinion, these cascades are essentially what occur when the dam breaks from a build up of preference falsification. Professors Sunstein and Kuran describe the activists that attempt to capitalize on these swells and use them to drive the public discourse as “availability entrepreneurs.” In the Stanford Law Review publication of the article, the authors suggest a series of ways that the government can suppress any potential harm that may be caused by quick shifts in public perception that could trigger unanticipated actions. The co-author’s suggestions listed below would seem to be designed to minimize the influence that one person’s outspoken opinions might have on the formation of another person’s beliefs.

• Creation of new institutions to give policy makers better insulation against sudden mass demands for new market restrictions.
• Implementation of product disparagement laws and the creation of an easily accessible scientific database to reduce people’s dependence on popular perceptions for information on risks whose accurate measurement requires advanced scientific techniques.

So what happens based on the research of Professors Lyon and Kuran and the proposal of Professor Sunstein that we monitor groups that engage in conspiracy theory propoganda? The answer is obvious in my opinion. The observed will modify their behavior in such a way as to make their surveillance data of little or no value. From a security or intelligence standpoint, the unwarranted observation (in absence of probable cause) could even potentially reduce national security since the observation of web-based social media is essentially panoptic ~ ever-present for everyone. In the same way that prisoners in the panoptic designed prisons develop sophisticated techniques for communication and apply continuous pressure to the efficiencies of the few-observing-many model, the same could be said of the internet. Rather than set up a government agency to handle the monitoring, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs could simply run an advertising campaign suggesting the people call in to a tip line if they run across anything on the internet that appears to be theoretical conspiracy based on potentially “crippled epistemology.”

As people realize that they are being monitored, the personal behavioral data currently being monetized and leveraged back against their freedom of choice will continue to diminish in accuracy and value. To address the problem of diminishing returns, in yet another recent book titled Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein introduce the concept of “choice architects.” According to the authors, these designers know what is best for you just like your parents did when you were a child. They label political orientation as “libertarian paternalism.” It is fundamentally when someone else knows what is best for you whether you like it or not. It may pertain to your health care choices, or in the case of one of Professor Sunstein’s proposals, the rightful ownership of your vital organs regardless of whether you have opted in as an organ donor or not.

What will happen to the value of the behavioral economics data from the cognitive infiltration and also to the stock price of behavioral advertising optimization tools such as Google’s relevant search? It has the potential of evaporating just like the $30 billion worth of frequent flier miles that will disappear this year for people who either don’t know of, or consciously don’t choose to, follow the rules. Many Americans place a high value on their life, liberty and pursuits. When the cost of surveillance exceeds the benefit (air travel included), they will abandon the value proposition and find another solution, even if it means starting another nation from scratch or replacing the entire governmental regime – lock, stock and barrel. Does nation building or revolution sound like an extreme response?

This is cause for concern in both Cary, North Carolina, home of SAS Analytics recently named as Fortune’s #1 slot as America’s Best Place To Work as we all Mountain Valley California, Google’s hometown. What’s a big brother to do when doing evil isn’t an option? In light of Sunstein’s suggestion of cognitive infiltration, then let’s apply the concept to our knowledge that everything we do and say on the internet and in social media context is being saved or recorded, and takes the form of a permanent web footprint. Under this scheme, the government is monitoring someone to see if that individual is a conspiracy theorist, revolutionary, insurgent or just a crippled epistemologist (not a well-rounded/well-informed learner) as described by Professor Sunstein.

Introducing Google Social Search

From Google’s Site: Google Social Search is a feature designed to help you discover relevant publicly-accessible content from your social circle, a set of online friends and contacts. The idea is that content from your friends and social contacts is often more relevant to you than content from strangers. For example, a movie review from an expert is useful, but a movie review from your best friend can be even better.

What are the implications to social search if your social circle happens to be tea party revolutionaries or members of the militia of the several states? If the observer-expectancy effect (i.e. Rosenthal Effect) is real and the government is monitoring you because it fears that you may be conspiring theoretically, would it not be the case that through spying on you the government is essentially nudging you towards revolution? If so, wouldn’t the action of spying on you be technologically driven treason from within? Is it possible that the ultimate conspiracy theory of them all is that the government is trying to overthrow itself?

To make things worse, if the goal of the government was to improve security, wouldn’t the exact opposite be the case? Wouldn’t guarding against investigations in absence of probable cause be crucial to maintaining security? If it is true, what Professor Kuran has shown, is that in recording someone’s behavior the observer causes the observed to modify that behavior. If the U.S. Government follows Professor Sunstein’s outline of how to infiltrate social media groups and this causes the group’s participants to modify their behavior, then how is someone hired for cognitive infiltration supposed to deliver on their mission if that mission is to protect and defend. If a more secure nation is the goal, then what’s a spy to do? An even tougher question for Google is; what’s a spy to do if the spy’s mission statement is “DON’T BE EVIL?” The Washington Post article of February 4th discusses the relationship between Google and the NSA.

The research says, if people are considering revolution, but they think they may be monitored, they will modify behavior to avoid detection(essentially exhibiting disinformation). What happens under such a scenario is revolutionary tendencies build up and boil over in unanticipated and unexpected ways with very little warning. Professor Kuran’s book shows several examples of these surprise revolutions. You go from a situation where everything appears fine on the surface to some strange tipping point where within a couple of days an entire country is engulfed in riots and mayhem that no one was expecting. There are more benign scenarios where suddenly a huge percentage of the population refuses to pay their taxes for example or show up on street corners holding up protest signs by the millions or they vote out the entire sitting government and the two-party system.

To me what is most interesting about Professor Sunstein’s recommendations for cognitive infiltration is the irony of it. He is suggesting that we sell out on the liberty guaranteed in the constitution in exchange for security, only to find out that by focusing on possible security risks (think future crimes and Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report), we actually decrease our security. This is all brought about by the process of observing We the People with preconceived ideas or fears about our theories. In a failed attempt by the government to guide or nudge our choices with “choice architects” or to arbitrate like a court what would be considered a reasonable level of education on a topic (i. e. anti-crippled epistemology) rather than allowing individuals to merely engage in their own level of free thought. It’s the moral menu equivalent of requiring every person to use the government’s food pyramid before partaking of their next meal.

A Chicken in Every Pot and a Court Summons In Every Mailbox

Truett Cathy, the founder of Chic-fil-A has always said, he didn’t invent the chicken, just the chicken sandwich. Professor Sunstein can’t claim inventing the chicken sandwich either, but he did invent the idea of being sued by your chicken-sandwich.

“We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are persons, or that they are not property. A state could certainly confer rights on a pristine area, or a painting, and allow people to bring suit on its behalf, without therefore saying that that area and that painting may not be owned. It might, in these circumstances, seem puzzling that so many people are focusing on the question of whether animals are property. We could retain the idea of property but also give animals far more protection against injury or neglect of their interests.”

–Cass R. Sunstein, Martha C. Nussbaum. Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. (Oxford University Press, USA, 2004). P. 11

After watching the video The Meatrix (www.themeatrix.com) you might tend to agree with Professor Sunstein’s suggestion about an animal’s injury or neglect. Although I can’t say that I can imagine how an animal would ever possess an interest as Professor Sunstein claims. Then again you could choose to un-cripple your epistemology (also known as wake up and inform yourself) and find out whose food you are eating and how they run their business. You may even choose to cut down on your consumption of animal products and choose more fruits and vegetables without guidance from the Supreme Court, the USDA or the FDA. I know my dog has a strong case against me for not being willing to throw him a Frisbee more than fifteen minutes per day, or the fact that I discriminate by not throwing it in the rain thereby denying him exercise. As a well-bred male Portuguese water dog, his stud fee is $1,000. He could certainly afford his own attorney.

We can rely on the government to protect us from ourselves, or we can rely on one of my favorite lines from the movie Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais plays the socially awkward dentist Dr. Bertram Pincus. Dr. Pincus can be heard calling out to his patients as they leave his office; “Just floss the ones you want to keep!” He was simply reminding them of their personal responsibility for their own dental care, a pleasing appearance, and the reality that a complete smile is composed of individual teeth that the owner can choose to floss selectively. I guess the same goes for our elected officials. Just vote for the ones you want to keep.

I probably would not have even written the above paragraph if I had agreed with Professor Sunstein’s proposal for mandatory “electronic sidewalks” for the internet. These sidewalks would display links to opposing viewpoints and also would require a 24-hour cooling off period for angry emails. Thankfully he rethought his original proposal and later on acknowledged it was “almost certainly unconstitutional.” To me it sounded like the equivalent of the opposing party’s response following a State of the Union address, but this time it was for every email.

I just went ahead and wrote down what I was thinking and posted it to my website. If I have offended anyone, I would suggest they stop reading and not come back because it could get worse. As Professor Sunstein suggests, I agree that certain aspects of my epistemology are crippled since I went to UPenn and not Harvard, but thankfully I can still type ninety words per minute and Wordpress made it easy for me to blog without tech support and still get this posted in time to shovel snow before dark.

What does all this cognitive infiltration mean for Google, especially in light of social search? The team in Mountain View had long since organized, monetized and handed over our extremist information to the advertising industry, prior to Professor Sunstein’s published article. From the perspective of behavioral economics, it means that the law of diminishing returns applies to Google as well. Google may be capable of competing in the office automation, wireless phone, tablet computer, or telecom markets with products such as Google Voice and Docs. Google’s evolution into social search along with the introduction of feedback loops such as www.vark.com were central to my decision to launch this blog and to become the observed rather than the observer as I outlined in my early posts. If you want to predict the future of Google’s stock price, you need to remember that the great breakthrough technology that forged their value proposition was based on the power of relevant search. They were the first, the best and it shows in their stock price and is particularly evident when contrasted with all of the bankruptcies in the daily newspaper industry. Relevant search is quite a different animal than automatically routed social feedback loops as the folks at The Mechanical Zoo in San Francisco are showing with their powerful routing and feedback solution known as Aardvark.

Will Google somehow be able to leverage their leadership in relevant search to be the best in mobile phone, email, office automation, and social media search? Google has the catbird seat and is able to observe most of us and follow our conversations more quickly and accurately than the White House Administrator of the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs. That position as observer would seem to give Google a head start on innovation? We all know the fable about the tortoise and the hare. If you agree with Professor Lyons, then you would reach the conclusion that Google’s cognitive infiltration will gradually diminish into a liability. As humans realize they are being observed, their behavior changes in the same way that a light particle becomes a wave and vice versa. Therefore Google will become the first and earliest recipient of the corrupted data fed to them through the increasingly clogged filter of behavioral economics.

You see, if you deconstruct behavioral economics, it is essentially based on the patterns of human behavior based on the perceptions of scarce resources and their allocation and distribution within society. The fundamental problem with the field of study is that it does not recognize the limitless potential of the human mind to not only outsmart Google and the OIRA, but to overthrow entire paradigms in the process through its power of choice. President Obama should consider thoughtfully how he pursues the current holy grail of national security. If not, any plan may be overshadowed by a tree called liberty.

Then again, if “change” is what you’re looking for, transforming the social web into an insurgency by spying on citizens will require ever-complex and sophisticated “choice architects” as described by Professor Sunstein. Participants in the social media may be faced with the ultimate survey question of all; selecting between initiating a new movement or being nudged along with the masses.

If you believe in the observer-expectancy effect, then you would conclude that Professor Sunstein’s proposal to infiltrate conspiracy groups is because they are a threat to our nation. Can it not be argued that from the perspective of national security, the outcome will actually be the opposite of Sunstein’s stated goal? It’s quite simple. If you spy on people, everyone for that matter, because you believe they may be extremists or revolutionaries, the laws of quantum mechanics, economics and human psychology say that you actually transform those you choose to observe into the revolutionaries you feared.

One of Those Unexpected Endings

Therefore, the conclusion is that if you want to witness the overthrow of a standing government, then one surefire way to nudge the citizenry towards insurgency is to spy on them without cause. As far as Google is concerned, they may be an unwilling participant as their commercial aspirations and innovations become a tool of the government’s nudge of the citizenry to their breaking points http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew.

If you believed that your country needed a complete overhaul and remodeling of it’s Constitution and you were in the seat of power, the only safe way to deliver on that revolution would be to manipulate the citizenry. The idea would be to structure it in such a way as that the citizenry overturn their own Constitution all the while believing it was their own idea. I must admit I wasn’t the person who came up with the idea. You probably recognize this totalitarian leader’s quote.

“The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

When you consider the implications of Professor Sunstein’s work, the natural extension of it would be for the hosts of social media sites and blogs to be liable for the content of their sites if it did not fit within the acceptable framework of the administration’s Choice Architects. Imagine Blogger.com being held liable for the theories of its writers. I couldn’t help but consider why Ian Flemming’s James Bond film franchise is the most successful in the history of motion pictures. Although 007 had the substantial support of the United Kingdom’s Crown behind him, not to mention his quartermaster “Q”, essentially Bond worked alone. I think I know why.

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica

If you’ve been following our coverage of the nation’s unemployment insurance system, you may have concluded that things are pretty bad. (See our interactive feature showing whether your state’s fund is in the red.)

But what about some historical perspective?

It’s official, recession hounds: The 26 states with insolvent unemployment insurance trust funds have now borrowed more than was borrowed during 1981 and 1982, the last time there was a severe recession in the U.S., and oft-used benchmark for when things are Officially Really Bad.

According to this long-buried CBO document (PDF), in March 1983, total outstanding state loans were 13.7 billion, a figure that includes borrowing during 1981 and 1982 and the first quarter of 1983 plus carried-over borrowing from 1975 to 1980.

In 2009 dollars, that’s $29.5 billion. Current state borrowing is now just over $30 billion.

As we’ve written, borrowing from the federal government, which occurs when states have spent all of their own unemployment trust fund reserves, will affect states for years to come. States that cannot repay their loans before 2011 will face tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in interest payments. To shore up their funds, states have also been forced to raise taxes and in some cases cut benefits.

Of course, there are other ways of looking at historical borrowing. It’s not just how much states have borrowed – it also matters how quickly they will able to generate revenue to pay it back.

There are more workers paying into the system now than in 1983. Won’t states be able to generate more tax revenue and pay loans back faster?

Turns out, not so much – in part because many states only tax the first few thousand dollars of each worker’s earnings. (The federal government only requires states to tax the first $7,000 of earnings, a figure hasn’t changed since … 1983.) In 1981, 42 percent of eligible workers’ earnings were taxed. In 2008 that figure was only 27 percent.

In 1983, states’ borrowing was equal to about 3 percent of total taxable wages. Today, that borrowing is equal to about 2.4 percent. But never fear – states only have to borrow $6.5 billion more to make up the difference, and California alone is projected to borrow $11 billion more before the recession is over.

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Want to be a MEDLINE Information Censor?
The National Library of Medicine Needs You!

(OMNS, Jan 28, 2010) Would you like to dictate what nutritional research people may or may not access? Why not join the NLM's Literature Selection Technical Review Committee?

We think a good preparatory step is to take the Medline Censorship Aptitude Test (MED-CENT).

Not to worry; it's multiple choice.

First question: Which of the following research papers is NOT indexed by the National Library of Medicine's Medline?

A) Olfactory responses and field attraction of mosquitoes to volatiles from Limburger cheese and human foot odor. (J Vector Ecol, 1998)

Heated socks maintain toe temperature but not always skin blood flow as mean skin temperature falls. (Aviat Space Environ Med, 2003)

C) Jefferson JW, Thompson TD. Rhinotillexomania (nose-picking): psychiatric disorder or habit? (J Clin Psychiatry, 1995)

D) Pauling L, Rath M. An orthomolecular theory of human health and disease. (J Orthomolecular Medicine, 1991)

Answer: Only choice "D" is not available on Medline. The others most certainly are. Search each one and see for yourself at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

Let's try another: Which of these studies is NOT indexed by Medline?

A) Psychophysiological responding during script-driven imagery in people reporting abduction by space aliens. (Psychol Sci, 2004)

The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. (Emotion, 2002)

C) Staring at one side of the face increases blood flow on that side of the face. (Psychophysiology, 2004)

D) Rath M, Pauling L. Solution to the puzzle of human cardiovascular disease: Its primary cause is ascorbate deficiency leading to the deposition of lipoprotein(a) and fibrinogen/fibrin in the vascular wall. (J Orthomolecular Medicine, 1991)

Answer: "D" is not on Medline. All the rest are.

Ready? Select the study below that is NOT on Medline:

A) Espresso kiosks can be profitable addition to hospital foodservice. (Health Foodserv Mag, 2000)

Espresso maker's wrist. (West J Med, 1990)

C) Characterization of particles in cream cheese. (J Dairy Sci, 2004)

D) Rath M, Pauling L. Case Report: Lysine/ascorbate related amelioration of angina pectoris. (J Orthomolecular Medicine, 1991)

Yes, the study that Medline does not think is important enough for you to see is choice "D". The others are all indexed online by NLM at taxpayer expense.

Next:

A) The Easter bunny in October: is it disguised as a duck? (Percept Mot Skills, 1993)

Increasing the portion size of a packaged snack increases energy intake in men and women. (Appetite, 2004)

C) A piece of my mind. Reflections while listening to the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto. (JAMA, 2003)

D) Rath M, Pauling L. Apoprotein(a) is an adhesive protein. (J Orthomolecular Medicine, 1991)

You guessed it: "D" is not on Medline.

One last chance, now:

A) How dogs navigate to catch Frisbees. (Psychol. Sci, 2004)

Effect on tipping of barman drawing a sun on the bottom of customers' checks. (Psychol Rep, 2000)

C) An objective evaluation of the waterproofing qualities, ease of insertion and comfort of commonly available earplugs. (Clin Otolaryngol, 2004)

D) Hoffer A, Pauling L. Hardin Jones biostatistical analysis of mortality data for a second set of cohorts of cancer patients with a large fraction surviving at the termination of the study and a comparison of survival times of cancer patients receiving large regular oral doses of vitamin C and other nutrients with similar patients not receiving these doses. (J Orthomolecular Medicine, 1993)

Choice "D" is not indexed by Medline. The others are. Yes, they really are. Just type in the title at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

If you got all the above items right, you are well qualified to become a member of the NLM's Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, because you can discern what research should and should not be available to the public.

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Censoring Linus Pauling

If you look carefully at the first four questions, you will see that four of Linus Pauling's papers appeared in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in just one year. That year was 1991. Two years after this, JOM was reviewed by the National Library of Medicine's Literature Selection Technical Review Committee. NLM uses a point scale of zero to 5, with five being the highest recommendation for indexing, and zero being the lowest. On March 4, 1993, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine received a "0.0" score.

One cannot escape the significance of such judgment. After all, "0.0" is not merely a low mark. "0.0" represents an absolute dearth of merit. And "zero point zero" states it so flatly as to leave no room for alternate interpretations.

To this day, after additional reviews, Medline still does not include the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.

To read the Linus Pauling papers that Medline decided rate a "0.0": http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1991/toc3.shtml and http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1993/toc3.shtml

For free online access to 600 more full-text papers from the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine: http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/

To personally thank your National Library of Medicine for keeping all this information from the taxpayer:

Ms Betsy Humphreys, Deputy Director, NLM
email: betsy.humphreys@nih.gov or betsy_humphreys@nlm.nih.gov
phone: 301-496-6661

You can also call the NLM Customer Service desk at 1-888-FIND-NLM (1-888-346-3656). Remember to be polite, because, after all, they are the "World's Largest Medical Library." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome.html

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

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The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.

Editorial Review Board:

Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. (Canada)
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Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D. (USA), Editor and contact person. Email: omns@orthomolecular.org

The American Freedom Campaign wholly endorses this effort, so we want to share it with you. We hope you will join BORDC in Washington and sign their letter opposing PATRIOT Act re-authorization. On February 3, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) will gather rule of law supporters from across the country in Washington, DC, to share concerns about domestic spying with members of Congress as they turn their attention, once again, to the PATRIOT Act.

The lobby day will include a morning briefing, advice on how to talk to your members of Congress, sessions with issue experts, meetings with your senators and representative, and an afternoon debrief. Join us in Washington on February 3 and tell your congressional representatives how important it is to you--their constituent--that they stand up for your constitutional rights.

Even if you can't travel to the nation's capital, you can still raise your voice to insist that the PATRIOT Act be amended to also include protections for constitutional rights. We have also launched a sign-on letter promoting amendments to incorporate into the PATRIOT Act long overdue civil liberties and transparency protections. 

Specifically, we're supporting measures from the JUSTICE Act (proposed by Senator Feingold and opposed by the Obama administration) that limit bulk data collection through warrantless wiretapping and require the government to prove the relevance of frequently abused national security letters before issuing them. Sign this letter today to call on the President and your members of Congress to reject fear mongering and instead fulfill their oaths to defend the Constitution.

Many thanks for your continuing commitment to the Bill of Rights,

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If you watch what happens in the United States where “Our Corporate Government” get’s caught doing something illegal, inhuman, stupid and so on, you’ll notice the tendencies in people that allow tyrannies to have their way.

That tendency is – people forget things in direct correlation to their personal interests. If I was asked, which I often am, if I remember about someones kid doing something, I usually say, “Not really”. When I ask, which I often do, if someone remembers me talking about gravity being a result of spin, they usually say, “Not really”. People forget and pursue their interests. It’s natural…

I don’t want to think about the New World Order, Imperialism in the 21st Century, the state of the Idiocracy or anything else like that…But I must pay attention because what I’m really interested in is being thwarted at every turn by these things.

So I’m publishing this story. I put this and stories like this here over and over because I don’t want people to be able to forget what’s going on – right now.

By Charlotte T. Iserbyt

Copyrighted by the author

April 12, 2002

President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” could be referred to as “No American Left Alone” since what we are looking at is what the National Alliance of Business, which supports &ldquolanned economy,” refers to as Kindergarten through Age 80 Education/Training. This is basically the United Nations Lifelong Learning-Brainwashing Agenda under the umbrella of what will eventually be “unelected” school and community councils (council is defined as “soviet” in many dictionaries) which will make all decisions for us at the local level. Former Senator Bill Bradley, N.J., called for this on one of the Sunday morning talk shows about four years ago. The Governors, very recently at their NGA conference, discussed the use of unelected (politically-correct?) citizens to police our communities. This is so unbelievable I find it hard to even write about it.

Although Pres. Bush, according to a Washington Times article by Bill Sammon, 1/9/02, said in regard to the education bill he signed that “Parents will have more information about the schools and more say in how their children are educated . . . from this day forward, all students will have a better chance to learn, to excel and to live out their dreams.” Pardon me, but this is a plain lie, and a lie embraced by Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy and others supporting this legislation as well. How can parents have a say in how their children are educated when the federal government is mandating testing of children’s attitudes and values? (Sixty % of the test items on National Assessment of Educational Progress – NAEP are attitudinal.) Bush’s mandate for testing will of course call for a mandated federal curriculum since one can’t test what one hasn’t taught. What tiny bit of local control remained prior to this legislation will be swept away. School superintendents and good teachers are already complaining about having lost control.

Even the New York Times has problems with Leave No Child Behind. It bragged that the more than 1000-page giant education bill will “dramatically extend the federal role in public education” and, indeed, is “a breathtaking intrusion of the federal government on states’ control of education.”

This legislation, which passed 381-41 in the House and 87-10 in the Senate in January 2002, is accompanied by the largest dollar increase ever in federal education aid. Education Week, 1/9/02, describes the No Child Left Behind Act as follows: “The mega-measure is accompanied by the largest dollar increase ever in federal education aid. The Department of Education’s overall budget will rise by $6.7 billion in fiscal 2002, to nearly $49 billion.”

The legislation, although pretending to terminate the highly controversial Goals 2000 and the School-To-Work (STW) legislation passed in the nineties under President Clinton and initiated in the eighties under Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr., actually continues the totalitarian agenda since all states have implemented the requirements of Goals 2000 and STW. Goals 2000 was originally called America 2000 under former President Bush who in addition called for implementing the Soviet system of workforce training in 1991 (See Congressional Record). This STW system calls for quotas for doctors, lawyers, janitors, etc. and limits freedom of choice for children or adults.

Minnesota and Indiana are two of the states that mandate children choose a job/career track in the 8th grade — just like Cuba or any other communist/socialist country! How accurate the National Alliance of Business has been to refer to this agenda as Kindergarten through Age 80 (life-long learning)!

The system is the UN’s lifelong learning (brainwashing) system called for by Lenin (a.k.a. international socialism). Very simply, such a communist system (Lenin’s world government) can only be implemented when the following components have been put in place. Very sadly, to say the least, most, if not all of the following actions have taken place. They are included in my book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America . . . a chronological paper trail.

1. CONTROL OF EDUCATION-

The chairman of the Communist Party, U.S.A., 1932, William Foster, in his book Toward a Soviet America, called for a U.S. Dept. of Education, the teaching of evolution, elimination of nationalism and religion in schools, the teaching of internationalism, and for the use of the Pavlovian method (direct instruction) on the students, etc., etc. Note: School choice is a Trojan Horse. The only requirement left to implement school choice is tuition tax credits or vouchers which will take over the private sector. If those choice proposals do not fly in legislatures or in Congress, federally-funded charter schools will be used, as is already the case in many states, to implement the school to work planned economic system.

2. CONTROL OF ECONOMY-

The planned economy will come to us through school to work legislation. There will be quotas for jobs; no upward mobility for children. Students must select their careers by 8th grade. It is the same as the Cuban system. STW is implemented in all states. This is the failed elitist system which brought the Soviet Union down but which is still being used worldwide. And, now our Congress has voted to implement it. How deliberately dumbed down our Congress seems to be! They don’t even know what form of government and economy we are supposed to have. Of interest is that Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney, spoke eloquently, prior to the election, in opposition to the STW agenda being implemented in the United States. How sad that her advice was not sought or listened to in regard to this most controversial initiative which will result in changing our economic and political system.

3. CONTROL OF CHURCHES AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS-

The Washington Post refers to President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative as “communitarianism” which is defined in most dictionaries as “a member or supporter of a communistic community” or “a communistic form of government.” The camel’s nose is under the tent right now with Bush using/funding churches to “tutor” students in failing public schools. Churches which accept federal monies will be controlled by the government as in fascist/communist countries. The same federal control applies to private schools or homeschooling families who accept one penny of federal money.

4. CONTROL OF NATION THROUGH UNELECTED COUNCILS AND DROPPING OF COUNTY, STATE, NATIONAL BORDERS-

This control takes place through regional government which was referred to by a communist writer for Daily World as the Soviet system that has “worked so well in the Soviet Union!” Regional government is being implemented worldwide. The European Community is a good example of a major region being set up for the world management system (Lenin’s international socialism). Does anyone need to be reminded that unelected councils are appointed councils? Regrettably, we’re getting participatory democracy. You get to participate IF chosen!

5. CONTROL OF PHYSICAL/MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM-

The government will direct and fund health care through the schools (school-based clinics for all children regardless of income). Hilary’s health care system (socialized medicine) is being implemented without a whimper from those who fought its implementation. This seamless web includes all services under the umbrella of the school district (birth through death).

6. CONTROL OF LOCAL POLICING

Community monitoring will be accomplished through the Community Oriented Policing System (COP, put in under President Clinton. His administration laid ground work for a strong community crime control strategy with federal, state, and local partnerships to fight crime. From the Clinton Administration’s Law and Enforcement Strategy, March 1999, we read, “Across the country an expanded number of community police officers have been working together with block watches, neighborhood patrols, high school guidance counselors, probation and parole officers, religious groups and local businesses . . . “. President Bush is focusing more on community policing in schools. His recently passed Patriot Act will enforce this totalitarian agenda and limit citizen resistance. Eyes will be watching over us continually!

7. PARTNERSHIPS

Business, education and religious partnerships with the government, pointed out above, extend the socialist/communitarianism agenda. An international conference entitled “Community Schools and Education Policy in Transition Countries During the 21st Century” was held October 9-13, 2000, in Omsk (Siberia) Russia. The goal was “to establish partnership between government education departments and the community school movement” (taken from Russian URL on Community Education.) Community Educator, out of Alaska, in the early 1970s at a Community Education conference in Washington, D.C., defined community education as the Chinese Communist system. Community education now comes under a variety of names including site-based management, regionalism, community ‘whatever’, school-based ‘everything’, lifelong ‘anything’, sustainable development, communitarianism and other terms. (For those interested in this subject, education researchers are in possession of filing cabinets loaded with community education research, and may be contacted through Iserbyt. Deliberate Dumbing Down of America also carries several important entries on Community Education.)

8. CONTROL OF LAND

Environmental legislation and sustainable development efforts (beginning with the Earth Summit, Rio 1992 and now finished with Earth Charter in 2000), implement controls on the right to own and use property as one wishes. The President’s Council on Sustainable Development (Clinton in 1996) helped form a joint effort between the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties. They came together to form The Joint Center for Sustainable Communities. And the U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution endorsing the Earth Charter in 2001.

9. CONTROL OF BEHAVIOR USING SKINNERIAN/PAVLOVIAN

This psychological method is stimulus-response-stimulus dog/animal training. It has recently been referred to as the Direct Instruction method, which is failed OBE mastery learning. Direct Instruction (same as mastery learning) is now being used to teach reading and math and is especially necessary for workforce training for dumbed down “third world” skills. Skinner said “I could make a pigeon a high achiever by reinforcing it on a proper schedule.” Following this reinforcement method, teachers are forced to read from a script, use hand signals as in dog training, clap their hands and, pop candies in students’ mouths when they get the correct answer. President Bush is mandating this method in his legislation that calls for retraining teachers to use “scientific research based” teaching methods.

Not only is above reward and punishment method being used in the schools, one sees it all around in our communities with citizens who conform to the government agenda receiving rewards and those who resist being ignored, isolated or punished. CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD found in The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America . . . A Chronological Paper Trail:

CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD (excerted from The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America . . . )

1930s: Chamber of Commerce plans for UN, regional government, school vouchers, etc.

1932: William Foster, Chairman of the United States Communist Party, has his book, Toward a Soviet America published. It calls for everything that has since been implemented in our nation’s schools, including the establishment of the U.S. Dept. of Education.

1934: Carnegie Corp. plans to change America’s free economic system to socialism/ collectivism in the New Order. They pilot an 8-Year Study using Outcome-based Education.

1942: Time Magazine publishes an article revealing plans for the Federal Council of Churches to implement world government.

1945: The United Nations is created by a majority of communists. Alger Hiss and his close friend, Canadian General and psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, made statements calling for using the schools (retraining the teachers) to get rid of the conscience (right and wrong).

1953: Congress set up the Congressional Investigation of Tax-exempt Foundations. Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, tells Norman Dodd that foundations receive directions from White House in regards to using tax-exempt monies to change America so that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.

1958: Eisenhower signs the first U.S.-Soviet agreements.

1965: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act moved our pre-1960 excellent education system from academics to behavior modification and values destruction (beginning of OBE/ Skinner method).

1978: The U.S. Department of Education was created.

1981: Due to the Chicago disaster in 1981 when one half of the Chicago inner city school children dropped out due to Benjamin Bloom’s ten year mastery learning experiment on minorities, Spady et al changed the label to OBE. Thus, federal funding of OBE began in 1981. (D.I. is the new label for the failed mastery learning.) President Reagan implements public/private (corporate fascist) partnerships by creating the President’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives.

1982: President Reagan scheduled to meet with the developer of major Skinnerian mastery learning program in the Bronx, N.Y.

1984: The federally funded paper entitled “Shamanistic Rituals in Effective Schools” by sociologist Brian Rowan, Spady’s closest associate was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. It discusses conning inner city parents into believing their children are doing well by using “Effective School Research” (Pavlovian/ Skinnerian ML/DI: teach to the test and manipulation of demographic statistics, etc.) Washington Post article entitled “Industrial Policy Urged for GOP” was published May 14, 1984. This article explained involvement of leading Republicans in advocating Republicans shed some of their deep-rooted antipathy to a planned economy.

1985: U.S.-Soviet (Reagan-Gorbachev) and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements merged the two nations’ education systems and set in motion a planned economy.

80s and 90s: These were years of involvement of Secretaries of Education, Bell, Bennett and Alexander, and President George Bush, Sr. in America 2000. Clinton continued America 2000, implemented by Secretary Riley, under the new name, Goals 2000.

1990s: Carnegie Corp.’s Marc Tucker, governors, corporations, etc. implemented Goals 2000 lifelong l learning out of UN and Soviet-style STW across country during nineties.

2001: President George Bush, Jr., embraced by Senator Ted Kennedy, MA and Congressman George Miller, CA, call for passage of H.R. 1, S. 1, which completes a socialist takeover. This is the final nail in the coffin. Has anyone looked inside to see who is being buried.

CONCLUSION-

If you want to bake a cake you usually use a recipe which calls for certain ingredients; if you want to implement international socialism (communism) one would have to take certain actions over a period of time which are clearly spelled out in the Communist Manifesto and in William Foster’s “Toward a Soviet America,” and in many other books and documents. Those actions constitute a “recipe” so to speak. All those requirements have been met. I’ve spelled them out for you: free trade, international banking system, U.S. Dept. of Ed with teaching of evolution, humanism (atheism), internationalism, and use of Pavlovian method; faith-based initiatives (communitarianism defined in dictionaries as communism) and choice to control schools and community through the tax dollar, STW to control economy (planned economy), Patriot Act to control “us” when we resist. Now I ask, “What label would you put on a system which encompassed those elements?”

No longer can we who love America and what she stands for say “If we don’t do something, such and such will happen.” We are now obliged to say “International socialism has happened and the United States is a major player in this unthinkable agenda.” Isn’t this tragic? Americans were bamboozled when the Soviet Union fell apart, believing communism was dead, when in fact it simply leaped across the oceans.

We were taken through what I refer to as The Four-Prong Fork, a most diabolical undertaking:

1. GRADUALISM

(Put a frog in cold water, heat it up gradually and he stays until he’s dead). The top change agents at the UN, federal government and state government levels, including non-governmental persons and entities, have been at this game for over one hundred years.

2. SEMANTIC DECEPTION

This is the use of familiar, nice sounding terms, which have one meaning to good Americans and entirely different meaning to “change agents.” Example: Basic skills used to mean 3R’s; now it means believing in tolerance of all behavior; the need to move to an international system; the need for a new Constitution; the need for a new economic system.

3. HEGELIAN DIALECTIC

Create a problem; people scream; impose solution; people embrace “it” — not realizing they have been taken to the cleaners through the deliberate creation of a problem. Example: Create high school budgets that create high property taxes which causes people to have to sell their houses and move. Then propose a solution to move funding of education from local to state level; the people embrace the idea since it lowers their property tax. However, locals have just lost all their control of schools to state, federal, and the international level. Also, dialectic includes moving from sound morals and values to situational ethics through constant discussion using group process. Pit “It’s wrong to lie” against “It’s OK to lie” and nearly all agree that lying is wrong. But through discussion and presentation of situations calling for compromise, one arrives at “Sometimes it’s OK to lie.” Then eventually, one comes to the realization it is OK to lie, or kill, or steal, or do anything else that makes one feel good anytime one feels like it.

4. BILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS

Our money is spent on social engineering. Tax money is not spent on academic education as most people believe. It appears we are getting a lot of taxation and very little representation. SOLUTION (other than a tea-party) The only solution that has the remotest possibility of saving our country, outside of getting out of the United Nations, is to throw out all rascals who voted for this education legislation in the next elections. The litmus test for candidates running for Congress should be “will they work to abolish the U.S. Dept. of Education and break up that cozy, in-the-same-bed, relationship it shares with the Department of Labor and the UN?”

Choice proposals are traps supported by multinational corporations (David Rockefeller, etc., and by top education union officials — not teachers — who have no allegiance to the USA and care nothing for our children’s upward mobility or America itself.) Education must be returned to the local level, bypassing even state education agencies that take their orders from and receive between 60 and 80% of their operational budgets from the federal government.

Education must be restored to its state of excellence prior to 1960 – the best education system in the world. This can be done, and must be done, if our children are going to have upward mobility and if America is going to survive as a free country.

My book [, Dumbing Down of America,] is into its third printing in two years. Barnes & Noble.com had it ranked #two in terms of sales out of 1290 books in its category of “educational change” (May 2001)

© Charlotte T. Iserbyt, All Rights Reserved

Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt [pronounced ih' zr beet"]

Author The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America…

A Chronological Paper Trail.

Website: http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com
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