just another way to make the PTB richer and more powerful

Free speech is under growing threat at British universities, with serious restrictions on expression at more than half of campuses.

Student unions or universities banned speakers, pressure groups, types of behaviour, songs and even hand gestures on 55 per cent of campuses last year, up from 41 per cent in 2014, according to a new analysis.

Some curbs on free expression were in place at 90 per cent of campuses, compared with 80 per cent the previous year, with the elite Russell Group universities showing high levels of intolerance.

Universities are "killing free speech" by banning anything that causes offence, a group of leading academics have warned.

Students are being denied the opportunity to debate opposing views due to political correctness and censorship, the group argued in a letter published in The Telegraph.

Academics led by Frank Furedi, a professor at the University of Canterbury, said universities see students as customers and do not dare to stand against them.

The letter argued universities are curtailing freedom of speech “like never before” and also concluded that “students who are offended by opposing views are perhaps not yet ready to be at university”.

reasons to doubt official stories

religion and the state reinforce each other
climate science and the state reinforce each other

Not only does she want to disarm Americans, she also hates LAW ENFORCEMENT

The neocons seem very happy that the heckler who shouted "Marco Rubio is owned by Jews!" was violently attacked. The guy behind the heckler, who looked literally like Brutus from the Popeye cartoons, immediately attacked the heckler and pulled him to the ground, to cheers from the crowd and laughs from Rubio himself. It's outrageous how quickly these thugs resort to violence, it's very disgusting. When I shouted at Donald Trump about the Israelis arrested on 9/11, I wasn't attacked at all, despite being surrounded by 9,000 Trump fans whom Trump himself called 'maniacs' at that very rally. I will explain why. I took several preemptive measures. Common sense warns us to take action in order to prevent an anticipated event from happening.

?9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Formula: C21H30O2
Molecular Mass: 314.2246 g/mol
Boiling Point: 157 °C (315 °F)

?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (commonly referred to as “?9-THC,” “D9-THC,” “d9-THC” or simply “THC”) is a neutral cannabinoid, well known for being strongly psychoactive. Of all the scientific discoveries that have been made about THC, probably the single most important was how THC enabled scientists to discover the existence of the Endocannabinoid system in vertebrate animals (including humans): a critical part of physiology that, up until then, was unknown. THC has been shown to be effective in the treatment of a variety of ailments and disorders including pain, tumors, nausea and ADHD.

And there is more!

For centuries, treaties have defined the relationship between many Native American nations and the U.S. More than 370 ratified treaties have helped the U.S. expand its territory and led to many broken promises made to American Indians.

A rare exhibit of such treaties at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., looks back at this history. It currently features one of the first compacts between the U.S. and Native American nations – the Treaty of Canandaigua.

On Monday, hundreds of teachers took part in a coordinated “sickout” that closed two-thirds of the district’s 97 schools. On Tuesday, 24 schools were closed. The job actions have been organized independently of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT), which has long collaborated in the bipartisan attack on teachers and the public schools.

can we come together to save our lives?

snip: This year, though, the "us" against "them" seems more like an us against us. Yes, the Evil Empire is still there, but gradually the Rebels are starting to turn on each other. We've all watched for years as the battle lines have been drawn: men against women; black against white; rich against poor; gay against straight. Rage-inducing stories about rapes on campuses counter rage-inducing stories about false accusations of rape on campus. Rage-inducing stories about cops shooting blacks counter rage-inducing stories about "knockout games" against whites. Milquetoast comics like Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld are baffled by racism jibes and white western feminists flee from the Cologne assault story as out-of-state ranchers swoop in to claim land from the federal government that the federal government stole in the first place.

colluding to push psycho-active drugs

On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building. They shed their jackets, gloves and belts, shivering as they wait to pass through a metal detector and send their backpacks through an x-ray machine. School safety agents stand nearby, poised to step in if the alarm bleats. It’s an everyday occurrence for more than 100,000 middle and high school students across the city.

still believe in a political solution?

snip: The state of our nation under Obama has become more bureaucratic, more debt-ridden, more violent, more militarized, more fascist, more lawless, more invasive, more corrupt, more untrustworthy, more mired in war, and more unresponsive to the wishes and needs of the electorate. Most of all, the government, already diabolical and manipulative to the nth degree, has mastered the art of “do what I say and not what I do” hypocrisy.

I’m going to move to Mexico. I swear I am. Except that I already have. Well, I’m going to move there twice. It’s to get away from Hussein Obama.

Who is this President? How did we get him? Does he have anything in common with me? Is there anything even American about him? He is an African of Islamo-Indonesian culture, deeply hostile to America and white people and ruling with a dictatorial style more like that of Shaka Zulu than Thomas Jefferson.

Yet I confess to a grudging admiration. He, belonging to one of the virile peoples—blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems–has keenly diagnosed the weakness of American society:

There is no one who will say ”No.”

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Several years ago, my wife said out of the blue,

"I know God has to be a man."

I paused, thought, and asked, “Why do you say that?”

"Because no mother would ever let her children get as out of control as they are on Earth."

She’s right, as she is about 99% of the time on everything (she’s not good at predicting sports outcomes, so that drives down her average).

The .01% pretend to be “leaders” and wanna-be masters, but they’re nothing more than what my wife also told me several years previous to her proof that God is male.

She said:

"You know, you’re wasting your time trying to end poverty, fix education, fix the economy, and whatever else. This is a planet of children."

I politely asked, “What do you mean?”

The Detroit News revealed this week that Detroit Public Schools (DPS) debt payments will balloon from $6.6 million to $26.8 million a month this year, essentially bankrupting the largest public school district in Michigan. These new payment levels, to begin in February, will cause the district to run out of money by April 2016.

This beautiful little girl, an "ecological truth activist" named Kiara, who appears to be about seven years old, recently got kicked out of a grocery store for daring to tell the truth. The video caption begins: "On December 28, 2015, Kiara and her papa were caught inside a local grocery store telling the truth about all the so-called food being sold there." But it has a happy ending! This is an absolute must-see.

Over the New Year's weekend Texas police arrested 127 people and Tennessee police arrested 11 people at no-refusal checkpoints Police, will arrest any motorist who refuses to take a breathalyzer and will FORCIBLY extract their blood. "This year, (Tennessee) troopers will patrol various checkpoints and bars, checking to ensure drivers are buckled up and sober. Officers will be allowed to seek search warrants, and any suspected impaired driver could be subject to blood sampling."

The armed protest and occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon calls to mind a very interesting historical event which occurred on Alcatraz Island in 1969. It seems few people are aware of this very fascinating history. On November 20, 1969, a group of native American Indians commandeered Alcatraz Island off San Francisco to protest the U.S. Government's numerous and egregious violations of treaties with Native American tribes. At one point there were over 100 Indians living on the island. The National Park Service notes that "it would become the longest prolonged occupation of a federal facility by Indian people to this very day."
Supporters would bring out food and supplies by boat to the island. The FBI and military took a "hands off" approach and the standoff didn't end until to June 11, 1971.

In what was the largest campaign event in Mississippi history, at the Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center on January 2, 2016, Presidential front-runner Donald Trump dropped some major truth bombs, boldly proclaiming that "HILLARY CLINTON CREATED ISIS WITH OBAMA." The first video is a short clip of these remarks, below that is the video of the entire speech. Tens of thousands of Trump supporters were in attendance, with thousands also waiting outside.

In his message on how to 'Overcome Indifference and Win Peace,' issued January 1st, Pope Francis spoke of the role of the media and those who shape public opinion in the information age. "Sadly, it must be said that today's information explosion does not of itself lead to an increased concern for other people's problems, which demands openness and a sense of solidarity. Indeed, the information glut can numb people’s sensibilities...Communicators also have a responsibility for education and formation, especially nowadays, when the means of information and communication are so widespread. Their duty is first and foremost to serve the truth, and not particular interests.

what will you do?

The nation’s for-profit, private college industry is a study in horror.

Start with the fact that it actually calls itself an “industry.” Excuse me, but education is a social investment — not an industrial product.

Let’s face it: 2015 has been a bumpy ride across the board — government intruded into our private lives by clandestinely passing CISA and laughed in our face by passing the ironically-monikered USA Freedom Act; the Police State kicked into high gear, with cops having killed at least one person in all 50 states by the time Christmas rolled around; and the attack in San Bernardino codified the presidential candidates’ push for war, while threatening to further erode any number of liberties for all of us. And that’s just a taste of what happened in the United States.

In order to narrow focus sufficiently for the confines of a single article, the struggle for cannabis rights earned more victories for the people than ever before, though the State still managed to ruin lives in several stunningly unjustifiable examples.

Following are a mere five stories of the countless wins — and sadly numerous losses — concerning cannabis, that took place in 2015.

On January 1, 1933, Father Charles E. Coughlin broadcast his New Year's Day message to the American people. He spoke of "the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, a system of unbridled financial control...No longer shall an awakened American public be lulled into inactivity by empty promises which are impotent to contradict present facts." Coughlin continued, "On the one side shall stand the arrayed and determined forces whose watchword is love. On the other, the entrenched powers of those who believe in exploitation. Time and time again I have enunciated the principle that money must never be used as a medium of control despite the fact that Rothschilds advocated this very thing. You can't keep that philosophy and be a Christian. Time and time again I have brought before this audience that money must not obstruct the exchange of food and clothing and shelter and the necessities of life, although today every High School boy understands that this very thing is happening..

welfare drives criminality - not poverty, not unemployment

Earlier this month, six weeks after receiving a “Warning Letter” for hanging a Palestinian flag out his dormitory window, George Washington University (GWU) student Ramie Abounaja obtained a formal apology from university president Steven Knapp for the attack on his free speech rights. The apology came after an implied threat of legal action against the university.

Kim Bellware Reporter, The Huffington Post

With marijuana now legal in some form throughout 23 states, the number of Americans who fatally overdosed on the drug last year was significant:

In public classrooms across the country, the corporate name that is fast becoming as common as pencils and erasers is Google. More than half of K-12 laptops or tablets purchased by U.S. schools in the third quarter were Chromebooks, cheap laptops that run Google software. Beyond its famed Web search, the company freely offers word processing and other software to schools. In total, Google programs are used by more than 50 million students and teachers around the world, the company says.

Millenials are delayed from becoming real grown-ups because economic opportunity to advance has been destroyed.

Home ownership among young people is at its lowest level since records began, according to new figures released today.

Read more at SHTFplan.com

for some, all the wealth in the world is not enough

If Sanders is going to make a play for teachers, parents, students and education advocates, he still has a chance. But time is running out.

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From ZenGardner, StormCloudsGathering’s The truth about school in 2 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZqMaBY2MI

When We the People have some time to reflect upon our world once we’ve won our global contest against a criminal .01% (documentation in “Truth” section), we’ll demand three obvious transformations for educating our children:

Truth: correct lies of omission and commission in all subjects.
Technology: utilize released technology for optimal human freedom.
Love: in human preference and connected reality, explore/create Life newly in light of expressing love.

Let’s consider each point:

1. Truth: Education, corporate media (including school text publishers), and .01% “leaders” centered in government and money constantly lie in omission and commission. We the People will win because the Emperor’s New Clothes game-changing truths are revealed to anyone who cares to look:

Unlawful and lie-began wars.

Young Americans are increasingly turning their backs on a college education. Not because they don’t want to study … but because they simply can’t afford to.

The only real solution in my view is to create and distribute money at the base of the pyramid rather than to those in the top of the pyramid. Many well-intended people want to reform the status quo for all sorts of worthy reasons: to reduce wealth inequality, restore democracy, create good-paying jobs, and so on. All these goals are laudable, but if we don't change the way money is created and distributed, nothing really changes: wealth inequality will keep rising, governance will remain a bidding process of the wealthy, wages will continue stagnating, etc.

Before there was Back to the Future, there was the early phase of science fiction embodied in Fabian H.G. Wells’ 1895 novella, The Time Machine. Wells’ work is both entertaining and important for the course of modern literature, yet also calls for an analysis given the prevalence of propaganda functioning at many levels within the novel.

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Kaoru Yamamoto, from Reflections from the desert:

Change is a slow process, at least until all the spadework has been done. While attention is typically arrested by the swift, sometimes spectacular, final phase of the process, little note is taken of the long, hard preparatory work.

'Time moved on. Changes came into being slowly-almost imperceptibly. Like the shift of the seasons. Barely noticeable, the changing, till the change was there.' -Dorothy W. Baruch, One Little Boy

he'd be in deep trouble

Below is a conversation that is unlike any that I have heard before. When preparing for interviews Dave Kranzler and I usually go over what we are going to discuss, how to get the show started and how we will hand off the conversation. It’s a good formula that has served us well. We are very, very grateful Dr. Roberts had other ideas.

Parents in Katy, Texas are questioning why the junior high school calendar features Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah, but neglects to mention Christmas. The criticism comes after West Junior High School seventh-grader Jordan Wooley told the school board in October that a teacher required students to deny God is real as part of a graded reading assignment. Katy Independent School District Superintendent Alton Frailey initially apologized to Wooley, then called a press conference the next day alleging she’s a liar, prompting several other students to come forward to prove him wrong

feel-good government and educational programs that cause harm

A whole generation of students is being denied the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views” because self-censorship is turning campuses into over-sanitised “safe spaces”, they say.

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore stood outside Trump Tower with a hand-written sign today which read "We Are All Muslim." Police eventually escorted Moore away, and then he went home and wrote a letter to Donald Trump, and posted it, along with the photo of Moore holding his sign outside Trump Tower, on Facebook.

In the late 1930s, Catholic Priest Fr. Charles E. Coughlin of Michigan had one of the most popular weekly radio shows in the country. On April 7, 1940, Coughlin gave a scathing rebuke of the Federal Reserve, explaining how it 'thrives on misery' and is 'leading this country into chaos.' He begins "On December 23, 1913, 27 years ago - a Federal Reserve Act was approved by the Congress of the United States. This Act permitted bankers to establish a bankers' bank- or, to be more precise, 12 bankers' banks situated one in each regional division of the United States of America... In other words, the Federal Reserve Banking System is a privately owned corporation. It is not a Government owned corporation as some persons believe.

Students were told to copy a Muslim statement of faith known as the Shahada which translates to “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah” in Arabic. The assignment included other religious faiths as well. The school claimed the lesson was meant to “illustrate the complexity of the written Arabic language”.

While this specific message the kids were writing is a well known profession of faith for Muslims, it also happens to appear on the flags of the Islamic State.

On that day, His Honor, Judge Manuel J. Mendez, J.S.C., handed down the decision overturning a Mayor Bloomberg-era regulation requiring all children 6 months through 59 months of age must obtain a flu vaccine in…

Sometimes it’s hard not to begin a story with the line “this country is going to Hell in a hand basket”.

This pathetic display shows the ivy leaguers at Yale not just signing a petition to do away with the First Amendment, but actually fawning over how wonderful of an idea they all think repealing the First Amendment is because of reasons like if something hurts someone’s feelings, it should not be protected as free speech...

NSA Whistleblower, 9-11 Truth Advocate and Former NC House Candidate Frederick C. Blackburn (aka blackbird9) continues discussion on today's Global Situation.

Hour 2 Guest for "The Big Nine @ 9" : Dion Wehrwolf

Science is never settled

A £34,000-a-year girls' boarding school is using finger-vein scanners to check pupils in for lessons and even lunch, it has been revealed.

Pupils at the well respected St Mary's School Ascot in Berkshire are registered for the day by passing one of their fingers over a scanner, which identifies them from their pattern of veins.

The school, which is the UK’s first to use the technology to keep track of pupils, is warned if pupils are missing - and expects them to scan their fingers whenever they exit or enter the school grounds.

History is being rewritten left and right to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings in this country.

Now a school in Philadelphia recently announced that it was removing Huckleberry Finn, the Mark Twain novel written in 1885 that ranks as one of the all-time great American novels ever, from its classroom curriculum…

Because the book dares, in its historical accuracy, to include use of the “N” word.

Of course, the book is poignantly ahead of its time in its critique of slavery, and depicts a boy who befriends a slave and goes through many difficulties to help him reach freedom…

But the truth stopped mattering a long time ago in America.

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