It is not a secret that there has been a party composed of the leaders of the Federalists, for I do not include all Federalists with their leaders, who have been working by various means for several years past, to overturn the Federal constitution established on the representative system, and place government in the new world on the corrupt system of the old. To accomplish this a large standing army was necessary, and as a pretence for such an army, the danger of a foreign invasion must be bellowed forth, from the pulpit, from the press, and by their public orators.
When there’s an illusion of choice, it’s almost certainly a reflection of corrupt power.
INFORMAT!ØNACT!ØN: "Big Brother" is big business?
The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous….
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
~Albert Einstein
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent
That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the “war on terror” will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of “endless war”. Obama officials, despite repeatedly boasting that they have delivered permanently crippling blows to al-Qaida, are now, as clearly as the English language permits, openly declaring this to be so.It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.”In response, I wrote that the “war on terror” cannot and will not end on its own for two reasons: (1) it is designed by its very terms to be permanent, incapable of ending, since the war itself ironically ensures that there will never come a time when people stop wanting to bring violence back to the US (the operational definition of “terrorism”), and (2) the nation’s most powerful political and economic factions reap a bonanza of benefits from its continuation.Meanwhile, the 1995 movie Canadian Bacon was an all too accurate satire on politics while this scene in particular sums up U.S. foreign policy perfectly!
Consider George Orwell’s description in his novel 1984 of permanent war with special consideration for the alliances that have long existed among the dictators of Middle Eastern states and between them and the Western powers that have long supported them.
18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children
By Kathleen Berchelmann, M.D.
1) We spend less time homeschooling each day than we used to spend driving…
2) We can’t afford private education…
3) Our kids are excelling academically as homeschoolers…
4) Homeschooling is not hard, and it’s fun…
5) Use whatever public school services you like…
6) I like parenting more, by far…
7) Our family spends our best hours of each day together…
8) We yell at our kids less…
9) Our kids have time for creative play and unique interests…
10) We are able to work on the kids’ behavior and work ethic throughout the day…
11) Get rid of bad habits, fast…
12) Be the master of your own schedule…
13) Younger children learn from older siblings…
14) Save money…
15) Teach your kids practical life skills…
16) Better socialization, less unhealthy peer pressure and bullying…
17) Sleep…
18) Teach kids your own values…
I’d never thought of so many benefits of home schooling. I always assumed it would make kids weird and antisocial… now that I think about, all of the home schooled kids I knew were socially awkward because they had awful parents.
This post just about has me convinced to home school my children when I start a family.
Homeschooling is an ever-changing movement, but one of the best things about it growing in popularity is (as mentioned above) the extensive resources for socializing outside of the family while still opting out of institutionalized education. It’s interesting that we would think negatively of home-schooled children because of their educational environment. If we were to strictly judge by how the kids turn out, public education is a breeding ground for bullies, criminals, rapists, psychopaths, etc.
Not every parent is fully-equipped to educate their children, either. But the more families that home-school, the more opportunity there is for community cooperation in raising and educating children outside of the system. Teamwork!
Glad this post changed your mind! It’s a huge undertaking, but it’s also something I plan on doing. I would not have it any other way.
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Seeds of Freedom
How the global food crisis is perpetuated by GMO seeds and intellectual property.
Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD Is A Fictitious Disease"
In other news, ADHD is not real. The guy who “discovered” it has even admitted to making it up. He died a rich man and the pharmaceutical companies are praising his name.
So does this therefore mean that public education is fictitious education??? :)
Somewhere in the afterlife Thomas Szasz is smiling!
Read Bastiat.
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