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... Mean Verbal SAT scores have spiraled downward between 1972 and 2005. The trend continued in 2006, when SAT scores experienced their largest single drop in 31 years, with verbal scores falling 5 points over the previous year....
The Rand Corporation concluded, “Overall, the data show that our nation faces a tremendous challenge to raise the literacy skills of our nation’s adolescents....
Businesses and institutions of higher learning are already feeling the effects of students’ poor literacy: Seventy-four percent of professors and 73 percent of employers told Public Agenda that American students lack basic grammar and spelling skills.
Roughly the same percentages said they also lack the ability to write clearly.
However, for literacy and reading comprehension to improve, teachers and schools have to engage students in learning. The number of students saying they read for fun almost every day has dropped in the last 20 years. During the same time frame, the percentage indicating that they never or hardly ever read for fun has increased.... The Center for Education Reform 2006
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Hi everyone, this is a great thread and I enjoyed reading the posts. I believe that the controlling elite definitely do use the Internet in their warfare. How many times have we encountered someone suggesting that another one is a paid poster. We know that they want a killswitch in the US now, but decry the use of it in places like Egypt and Tunisia. I find that so curious. Google? Well just a short few years ago I remember they got in hot water with China and there was that huge breuhaha about turning over data about dissidents there and there was even a Congressional hearing about it and the Intl implications. I remember reading posts about the Great Firewall of China. These days, I read articles about how Google was spying on China. I wonder which it really was, spying on China for US or spying on Chinese people for the Chinese govt. Or a little of both maybe. And Bill Gates was over in China giving them the source code for Microsoft. Did Gates sell his soul to the devil when the govt brought suit against his corp? Or is he just naturally a traitorous Intl globetrotter?
I had high hopes when the Tunisian protests broke out. But I found an obscure article pretty early on discussing the trade unions involvement there. I said to some friends that I suspected there was some Socialist activity involved. Then I put up an #Egypt hashtag in my twitter, and shortly after El Baradei resurfaced, there was suddenly a bunch of anti American rhetoric, and all the Socialists and communists came out of the woodwork. I began to feel it was really a concerted effort or at least an effort to use the movement to stir up support for Intl Socialism. Then the Union protests in Wi happened. Suddenly there's all this solidarity going on and reports of Egyptians ordering pizza for the unions in Wi. Sounds really neat huh? Only it's the World Socialists gearing up and stirring protests.
I'm sorry to say, I don't think it bodes well for freedom loving peoples of the world. Now POTUS is giving tough talk to Qaddafi and theres rumors of wars. Oh wait, where have I heard that before? Like others have said on this thread, the Elite want their NWO and things like this always look to me like it's been engineered. After all, the Elite sit around in their secret Bilderberg meetings and discuss this stuff. They wanted a global tax. Well who is sporting a global tax now? Why, its none other than the AFL-CIO boss Trumka. And guess what? He's bragging about how his group is involved in Egypt. Who else was in Egypt recently? Why Bill Ayers, Code Pink.
So, are they gearing up for a war with ships and tanks and guns? Or is it just a takeover of Intl Socialists? Or both? Amd they've frozen Libyan assets in the name of prosecuting human rights violators. I don't believe it for one second. I think they will use that money in their global power grab.
Oh btw, the name they are giving that global tax? Its being called the Global Financial Transaction tax. Sound familiar?
Anyway, they always seem a step ahead, but we must educate ourselves.
I have one last contribution I wanted to make toward this thread, and it relates to unity and the Internet. So here it is and please enjoy.
www.heartcom.org...
www.heartcom.org...
Namasteedit on 28-2-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by crimvelvet
reply to post by jackflap
Jack, thank you for digging all that information out and putting it into a logical order.
I have seen this mental manipulation at work.
Barbara Kowalcyk Co-founder, director of food safety, Center For Foodborne Illness is a classic example of this manipulation process where much of the "WAR" was carried out on the internet.
Her son, Kevin died in 2001. Instead of going after the REAL cause of the problem, corruption in the USDA and FDA, she has been shepherded into joining ranks with those who killed her son.
In her own words:
President Obama made history Tuesday when he signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law. This historic event establishes the first major reform of food oversight at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1938...
This new law [Food is the first step moving us toward such a system, as described in a recent National Academy of Sciences report which I co-authored.
One of Nine Americans is Old TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES, nearly 40 million Americans are age 65 and older, an estimated 12% of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Their number is expected to more than double to 89 million by 2050.
In addition: * The United States contains more people age 65 and older than the total population of Canada. * Americans aged 65 and older outnumber the combined populations of New York, London, and Moscow. * I n 2010, Baby Boomers will begin reaching age 65, swelling the 65 and over population in the United States from 13 to 20 percent by the year 2050.* America's elderly population is expected to reach 72 million by 2030, more than double the number in 2000.
But today bankers sit on both sides dividing up countries like child molesters with lollipops at a Barney event.
VeriChip Markets Its Implantable RFID Tags and Services Direct to Consumers
The company has launched a three-month advertising campaign for its newly rebranded Health Link system, and hopes to convince 1,000 South Floridians to get injected with rice-grain-sized transponders linked to health records.
April 28, 2008
....For $149, a consumer can have a passive 134 kHz RFID chip, compliant with the ISO 11784 and 11785 standards, implanted in his or her arm, with the transponder's unique 16-digit ID number linked to a database containing that individual's medical records and, if they so choose, a living will.
VeriChip is partnering with hearing care provider HearUSA to make the chips available....
...only about 600 people in the United States have embedded VeriChip transponders. However, the company expects that number to rise as hospital employees gradually make it a standard practice to scan the arms of unresponsive patients being admitted to an emergency room in order to access their identity and medical records immediately...
Thus far, about 900 hospitals on the East Coast have agreed to participate in the VeriChip system. These hospitals have received RFID interrogators that can be used to read a patient's embedded VeriChip RFID transponder to automatically access that person's medical records. Of those hospitals, Silverman says, about 200 have completed VeriChip training on using the system...
RFID Patient Tracking with Latest RFID Development Kit
August 27, 2010 - DAILY RFID has released the latest RFID Development Kit for patient tracking. The RFID patient management kit provides a smart combination of passive RFID wristbands, PDA handheld reader, desktop HF reader...
NC Governor Easley's staffer's explains the definition of voluntary.
As for the "coercive tactics" of requiring children to sign up for this voluntary program: Exhibiting at the N.C. State Fair is not mandatory any more than driving a vehicle is mandatory. However, if you voluntarily choose to show at the fair, there are stipulations attached to that choice, such as entry forms to be correctly filled out, entry fees to be paid, health examinations, etc., just as if you drive a vehicle you must have a valid driver's license. That a choice carries conditions does not change the voluntary nature of the "choice," any more than requiring a driver's license makes driving a vehicle mandatory by law. nonais.org...
Originally posted by SincerelySarcastic
Benjamin Fulford would certainly agree with you, he has clearly stated that the Illuminati inspired unrest was meant to come to America. Obviously this is one of those excuses for Martial Law sorts of things, since the Illuminati have already lost and are in their death throes, this is about their last option, use us protesting against us. I actually heard on Rush a few days ago about a different story imvolving fake people on Facebook and such, they'll literally create a fake background for these people sometime. Also, I haven't taken the time to explain to many people the situation in WI, Koch bros aside, I've just been keeping it simple: You people who support the protestors and "public" unions are on the same side as the Illuminati News Networks and the Illuminati Obama Regime. These are the same ones who blamed Tucson on Talk Radio and Sarah Palin, called for civility, then continued to be extremely uncivil (gotta get in the street and get bloody). These are the same people who are in contempt for their illegal drilling moratorium and the same ones who are continuing to implement the HC bill even though it's been ruled unconstitutional. These are teh same people that needed a "shovel-ready" stimulus to save us, but had 70% of the fund left the first year, then they spent it during an election year, giving much of it out to the various Dem tentacles. This is the same regime that called for Mubarak's ousting because a tiny little group of people began protesting, which turned violent, yet are fine with Iran's crack down on their protestors and even Libya's bombing of civilians. This is the same bunch which threatened martial law if TAARP wasn't passed, the same group that gave GM and Chrysler to the unions which destroyed it. This is the party of Al Sharpton, who is responsible for the murder of several Jewish "diamond merchants". These are the same ones who continue to lie to us every time they open their mouths, yet for some reason you people think they're telling the truth about WI. The easiest way to get the truth is to realize that the MSM lie to us every second, so it's very simple to figure out the truth, it's generally the opposite of what the MSM tells us.
As far as the internet's importance to all of this, well it's pretty clear, the first thing that happens during these times of unrest is shutting down communication, generally phones and the internet. Look at Obama, he's not asking for a switch to turn off newspapers. So I would say the internet is very important to these things, especiallly if you add disinfo agents and shills. Also, on WWIII, not going to happen, beginning of a new Golden Age, much more probable, global unrest as a catalyst to kicking out the Illuminati, most likely, financial collapse as the last straw, most certainly.
Originally posted by daddio
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
WOW, very nice post. I am so glad you included actual photos of the book covers and some reference material. Good to see that you and Crimvelvet are well informed, can not wait till more people open their closed minds, put down the drink and research and study who is behind it and what is going on. If they were to all learn what they were and who they are and how to communicate in a non-violent way, what a discussion we would have and the knowledge would hopefully spread like wildfire.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Project for the New American Century
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from early 1997 to 2006.
It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan.
The PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership."
Fundamental to the PNAC were the view that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."
The PNAC exerted influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and affected the Bush Administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Project for the New American Century : Statement of Principles
PNAC's first public act was releasing a "Statement of Principles" on June 3, 1997, which was signed by both its members and a variety of other notable conservative politicians and journalists (see Signatories to Statement of Principles).
The statement began by framing a series of questions, which the rest of the document proposes to answer:
As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world's pre-eminent power.
Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge:
Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades?
Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?
In response to these questions, the PNAC states its aim to "remind America" of "lessons" learned from American history, drawing the following "four consequences" for America in 1997:
we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;
we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; [and]
we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
While "Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today," the "Statement of Principles" concludes, "it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next."
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Originally posted by hp1229
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by malcr
Well, the internet is good for letting people in the third world know that the people in the west, or the first world nations, do not support the oppressive regimes of the third world.
All the working people on this planet suffer when child labor sweat shops are allowed to be set up anywhere in this world, whether it is in Pakistan or Florida.
Are you sure about that? Did you ever think that the internet is used heavily at times to promote this thought into the so called third world population? Sorta like brain washing with a smokescreen to set the people against their own government? Though I agree most of the leaders and dictators in the so called third world countries are loonies living with a political system that used to work at some point in history but not anymore. Otherwise, politicians in general are crooks no matter where you go. Thats is what POLITICS is all about. Crime by Pen, Internet or War is nothing new for politicians around the globe.
You will be surprised at the political chess games of the West and the Regimes of the so called third world countries. Many of them are nothing more than a pawn in the Great Chess Game who were setup and used by the West.edit on 28-2-2011 by hp1229 because: add content.
... Good to see that you and Crimvelvet are well informed, can not wait till more people open their closed minds, put down the drink and research and study who is behind it and what is going on. If they were to all learn what they were and who they are and how to communicate in a non-violent way, what a discussion we would have and the knowledge would hopefully spread like wildfire.
Informed jury amendments have been filed as an initiative in seven states and legislation has been introduced in the Alaska state legislature....
Today, the constitutions of only two states -- Maryland and Indiana -- clearly declare the nullification right, although two others -- Georgia and Oregon -- refer to it obliquely. The informed jury movement would like all states to require that judges instruct juries on their power to serve, in effect, as the final legislature of the land concerning the law in a particular case....
Those who have endorsed the right of a jury to judge both the law and the facts include Chief Justice John Jay, Samuel Chase, Dean Roscoe Pound, Learned Hand and Oliver Wendell Holmes. According to the Yale Law Journal in 1964, during the first third of the 19th century judges did inform juries of the right, forcing lawyers to argue "the law -- its interpretation and validity -- to the jury." By the latter part of the century, however, judges and state law were increasingly moving against nullification. In 1895 the US Supreme Court upheld the principle but ruled that juries were not to be informed of it by defense attorneys, nor were judges required to tell them about it....
While bank bailouts fatten Wall Street, states continue to battle the credit crisis. In the search for innovative solutions, some political candidates are proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks.
In the first few years of the 21st century, Iran experienced a great surge in Internet usage, and, with 20 million people on the Internet, currently has the second highest percentage of its population online in the Middle East, after Israel. When initially introduced, the Internet services provided by the government within Iran were comparatively open. Many users saw the Internet as an easy way to get around Iran's strict press laws. A clampdown started with the election of Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, and the start of the 2nd of Khordad reform movement. It worsened with the administration of conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005. Regime opponents in Iran are said to rely heavily on Web-based communication with the outside world.
Libya Telecom & Technology (LTT) (Arabic: ليبيا للاتصالات والتقنية) was established in 1997 as a Private Libyan Company. LTT is Libya's main and biggest Internet service provider (ISP) offering both dial-up and broadband Internet to customers Libya wide. LTT was bought over by the General Post and Telecommunication Company (GPTC) in 2004.
Egypt has a modern Internet infrastructure, including widespread broadband Internet access via ADSL. Starting on midnight of 27/28 January 2011 (Cairo time), widespread political protests against the Egyptian government led to the government imposing partial Internet censorship, followed by an almost complete shutdown of international Internet access between Egypt and the rest of the world. As of 2 February 2011, normal connectivity appears to have been mostly restored. With an Internet penetration rate of 15.4 percent, Egypt is ahead of most of Africa, though it lags behind many Middle Eastern countries. Also, unlike in many Arab countries, the international bandwidth market and VoIP Internet telephony have been liberalized. More than 200 Internet and data service providers operate in Egypt, making ADSL services among the cheapest in Africa. As the information and communications technology (ICT) sector continues to grow, Egypt’s spending on ICT reached $9.8 billion in 2008 and is expected to increase to $13.5 billion by 2011.
Under the government of Saddam Hussein, Internet access was tightly controlled and very few people were thought to be online; in 2002 it was estimated that only 25,000 Iraqis used the Internet. With his ouster, Internet usage has become commonplace. Uruklink, originally the sole Iraqi Internet service provider, now faces competition from other ISPs, including broadband satellite Internet access services from both Middle East and European VSAT hubs. The premier military telecom service provider in Iraq is Ts 2. Since 2006 several more companies emerged to provide options to individual Iraqis that made Internet access more affordable, albeit with less bandwidth. One such business is Advanced Technology Systems-Iraq
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by xuenchen
Heaven help us if artificial intelligence comes along then.
The machines will be in charge.
Might be an improvement you never know!
No the core DOES NOT remains pretty much the same. That is what I was trying to point out.
In this situation there were two parties to the war. Once the bankers came up with Fractional Reserve Banking and started lending "fiat currency" to the princes, the princes could hide the cost of the war from the peasants (us) because the cost showed up as inflation of prices instead of direct taxes. This meant there was a third party to war, the bankers. Wars were no longer fought to acquire more land and resources but were fought as a way to funnel the peasants wealth directly into the pockets of the bankers and their friends.
Is it possible that the UN Commission on Global Governance is trying to mitigate the effects of Corporate Global Governance - and "free trade" agreement terms that neutralize individual rights and freedoms?
FAO is supporting harmonization of seed rules and regulations in Africa and Central Asia in order to stimulate the development of a vibrant seed industry...An effective seed regulation harmonization process involves dialogue amongst all relevant stakeholders from both private and public sectors. Seed quality assurance, variety release, plant variety protection, biosafety, plant quarantine and phytosanitary issues are among the major technical areas of a regional harmonized seed system. The key to a successful seed regulation harmonization is a strong political will of the governments involved www.fao.org...
Global Diversity Treaty:
Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) a standardized contract that will enable much easier access to crop diversity. [ germplasm for patenting] royalty payment (1.1% of sales) is paid only if product is unavailable for further breeding and research. funds will be devoted to conservation efforts. Translation: Bio-techs Corporations steal seed from third world farmers, patents it and pay money to Bioversity International www.bioversityinternational.org...
Mexico: Statement from the Network to Defend Native Maize from GMOs
...the “Monsanto law” is only part of a series of laws aimed at the spoilation and privatisation of our resources and our rights...
... government bodies are promoting the projects and the interests of multinational companies, and that agricultural and social programmes like PROMAF (Programa de Maiz y Frijol) have been created to take away our ownership of our seed stock...
seed banks, which are made up of seeds gathered from our lands and are the product of our knowledge, are now going to be under the control of big business, like Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF and Dow, which are allied under the banner of the cartel the Mexican Seeds Growers’ Association AC (AMSAC) to promote their interests in this country, declaring themselves as “protectors” of the seed stock, when in reality they are destroying it....
That AMSAC is demanding that only its “certified” seeds are sown, and is calling our original seed “pirated”...
Guide to good farming practices
This draft guide to good farming practices for animal production food safety was taken from the Report of the Meeting of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (Paris, 17-28 January 2005)
Following a request by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) International Committee to strengthen activities in the food safety area, and desiring to further develop collaboration with the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), a permanent ‘OIE Working Group on Animal Production Food Safety’ was established in 2002. The Working Group’s role is to coordinate OIE activities related to animal production food safety and to provide advice to the Director General of the OIE and relevant Specialist Commissions in these areas.
www.oie.int...
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ANIMAL RECORDING
PATENTING IN THE ANIMAL SECTOR
“...The Patenting Sentinel and Action Service (PSAS) is an important initiative of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) as regards patenting in the animal sector. This is an issue which is of uttermost importance for the future of all organizations involved in the sectors of animal recording and genetic evaluation. The latest developments in this field and the future prospects are causing increasing concern among industrialists and breeders, thus stressing the need for continuous updating on the progress of animal patenting issues worldwide and raising the awareness of professionals regarding their possibility to take action towards the protection of their professional interests....
As the animal recording and evaluation industry evolves, so will ICAR membership.... ICAR will continue to build on its strength of neutrality and integrity as related to standards and guidelines for animal recording, evaluations and equipment approvals. This will include further strategic alliances with international organizations including EAAP, FAO, IDF, OIE, ILRI, WAAP and ISO.
www.icar.org...
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Speaking of the power of the Internet...
HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down
Embattled CEO Aaron Barr says he is stepping down from his post at HBGary Federal to allow the company to move on after an embarassing data breach.
The announcement comes three weeks after Barr became the target of a coordinated attack by members of the online mischief making group Anonymous, which hacked into HBGary Federal's computer network and published tens of thousands of company e-mail messages on the Internet. HBGary did not respond to telephone and e-mail requests for comments on Barr's resignation.
In an interview with Threatpost, Barr said that he is stepping down to allow himself and the company he ran to move on in the wake of the high profile hack.
threatpost.com...
Now we just need to be this criminal in jail and get this software outlawed.
Barbara Kowalcyk Co-founder, director of food safety, Center For Foodborne Illness is a classic example of this manipulation process where much of the "WAR" was carried out on the internet.
Her son, Kevin died in 2001. Instead of going after the REAL cause of the problem, corruption in the USDA and FDA, she has been shepherded into joining ranks with those who killed her son.
It may be possible that the son was never murdered.
TPTB will go to great lengths to "secure" solid supporters.
Maybe She has been paid "extra" overtime to appear so gallant !