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"The Future is Calling

http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=issues Scroll down the page to the series of pdfs. The first one "The Chasm" deals with the role of tax exempt endowments (Ford, Carnegie, etc.) in the control over educzation, the re-writing of histo...

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Last Post: Feb 23, 2008 3:00pm
by js

LEARN

http://www.learn-usa.com/index.htm … certain segments of the population must be programmed to be robotic drones, incapable or unwilling to think on their own. In this scenario, the “individual” is the enemy of the state. Individual thinking and...

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Last Post: Feb 23, 2008 8:27am
by js

marlon

You say you want a...

Revolution! http://www.alternet.org/democracy/77498/

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Last Post: Feb 22, 2008 1:53pm
by marlon

Eclipse photos

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/pictures-of-las.html

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Last Post: Feb 22, 2008 5:15am
by js

On Mending and Ending Things

http://www.chesterton.org/gkc/essayist/V1N9.GKCessay.html On Mending and Ending Things by G.K. Chesterton Illustrated London News, December 23, 1905 A certain politician (whom I would not discuss here on any account) once said of a certain institution (which...

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Last Post: Feb 22, 2008 5:10am
by js

Negative and Positive Morality

http://www.chesterton.org/gkc/essayist/V1N12.GKCessay.html Negative and Positive Morality by G.K. Chesterton Illustrated London News (ILN), January 3, 1920 A vast amount of nonsense is talked against negative and destructive things. The silliest sort of progr...

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Last Post: Feb 22, 2008 5:05am
by js

Who is this guy and why haven't I heard of him?

http://www.chesterton.org/discover/who.html "Who is this guy and why haven’t I heard of him?" by Dale Ahlquist President American Chesterton Society I’ve heard the question more than once. It is asked by people who have just started to disc...

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Last Post: Feb 22, 2008 4:53am
by js

A 12 yr sentence to compulsory propaganda camp

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz74.html Locking Our Children Away From the Real World by Vin Suprynowicz Last week, we again delved into John Taylor Gatto's invaluable text The Underground History of American Education, citing his summary...

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Last Post: Feb 22, 2008 4:41am
by js

Catalytic Sojourner

Act one; Scene 4.5 billion.

Ah, the grand drama. I once heard that god is the stage and all of it's players, that everything is unfolding perfectly. What a dull story this would be if everyone had the script memorized.

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Last Post: Feb 21, 2008 1:05pm
by Catalytic Sojour...

Dr. Lord

Exxon Valdez Whole Truth Campaign

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Last Post: Feb 21, 2008 9:24am
by Dr. Lord

Dr. Lord

How can js and Lew Rockwell contain their laughter over the Exxon Valdez oil spill?

Subject: Rockwell's Anti-environmental Manifesto (hang onto your panties, Jack) Name: js Date Posted: Sep 6, 06 - 5:50 AM Message: ""Hitler, a vegetarian and health-food enthusiast, was also a teetotaler. Himmler shared Hitler's hatred for alcohol, and had his...

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Last Post: Feb 21, 2008 9:16am
by Dr. Lord

Dr. Lord

js displays her deep understanding of the English language as she condemns Curtis White

js Date Posted: Jul 15, 07 - 4:22 AM Message: Work Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work—and supplants it by Curtis White Published in the May/June 2007 issue of Orion magazine Last of a two-part s...

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Last Post: Feb 21, 2008 9:12am
by Dr. Lord

Catalyst

Solutions Now!

«Resurge, breath, shout, walk, fight, Vibrate, glide, thunder; shine forth... Rise! Revolt! Resist! Do as the bull in the face of adversity: charge with confident power.» JOSÈ DE DIEGO TO THE PERSECUTED

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Last Post: Feb 20, 2008 10:09pm
by Catalyst

Marlon

The story of stuff..

http://www.realitysandwich.com/wasted_years

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Last Post: Feb 19, 2008 6:24am
by Marlon

Jennifer in Alaska

Need help figuring out Northern Territories sit'n in Australia

I have a friend there. I know the US is interfering. I need to write my congresspeople, but I don't want to do it "cold." And for certain I don't want to support the UN if I don't have to. Anyone have a clue??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ter...

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Last Post: Feb 18, 2008 9:35am
by Jennifer in Alas...

Hawksbill

BBC News Article on optimum age to start school

Hi! I've been lurking here for a long time, but thought I'd say hello and post a link to an article I thought was kind of interesting. It's from the BBC website and is questioning the age that British kids start school (at 5 years, apparently). http://news.bbc.c...

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Last Post: Feb 13, 2008 9:53am
by Hawksbill

Heartbroken (Blogged on Ronpaulforums)

Julia Julia is offline New Member About: Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 11 This is Breaking My Heart Anyone round here ever seen something horrible happen and then a few years later see it happening all over again? That's where I am living just now....

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Last Post: Feb 13, 2008 8:10am
by js

Jennifer

Expelled, The Movie

http://www.expelledthemovie.com./playground.php

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Last Post: Feb 12, 2008 6:39am
by Jennifer

Rubie Goldberg

Dreaming of a trip to see Creation in Kentucky? Here's a contest for you!

Risible Tech Geekotopia iscool Labor-saving inventions anl

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Last Post: Feb 11, 2008 4:35pm
by Rubie Goldberg

Anonymous

TCS

http://www.greenanarchy.info/etc/tcs.htm

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Last Post: Feb 7, 2008 4:54pm
by Anonymous

World government

Tom Cruise and Hillary Clinton

This made me laugh! http://youtube.com/watch?v=I3enFIPvnFg

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Last Post: Jan 30, 2008 9:26pm
by World government

School science "homeostasis" lesson

And they worry about "unsupervised" homeschoolers??? No wonder science scores are low. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=28354 (8th graders chugging milk til they barf)

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Last Post: Jan 28, 2008 2:00pm
by js

Economics at Pres. debate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-tg1kQ8dk

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Last Post: Jan 26, 2008 10:18am
by js

Propaganda Alert

A real American Patriot

http://judicial-inc.biz/7_6_father_coughlin.htm

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Last Post: Jan 20, 2008 2:22am
by Propaganda Alert

Raul Flandes

Dear Harvey,

You are a brilliant and eloquent writer and I appreciate your responses despite the impression I get that you are reluctant to or just frustrated... You said before (as Prudence) that "you and I are in the same boat as 'recovering liberals'" and I do agree. I still...

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Last Post: Jan 18, 2008 7:20am
by Raul Flandes

Harvey

Why Curtis White may oppose being a 'functionary' on corporate welfare

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/TakeRichOffWelfare.html Oh, but what will we do to support a family? thirdworldtraveler

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Last Post: Jan 17, 2008 10:32am
by Harvey

The liberals Ron Paul (and Kucinich) problem

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-perrin/the-liberals-ron-paul-pr_b_81465.html

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Last Post: Jan 16, 2008 5:43am
by js

Soviet vs American History books

http://www.lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant27.html An Authorized Biography of the State by Michael Tennant Would you trust an authorized biography or an autobiography to give you the whole truth about a person’s life? It would be foolish to do so beca...

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Last Post: Jan 16, 2008 5:23am
by js

Sister Aimee

Review of Frank Schaeffer's 'Crazy for God'

Crazy for God newstatesman

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Last Post: Jan 15, 2008 3:36pm
by Sister Aimee

Baptist blogs

No statists here baptiststandard But even if there were, they'd be good guys.

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Last Post: Jan 15, 2008 2:12pm
by OH

OH, Outside the Hive

Curtis White and Jesus

http://community.muohio.edu/oxmag/node/25 Abundant life muohio

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Last Post: Jan 15, 2008 1:36pm
by OH, Outside the ...

A Sorcerer's Apprentice

Science resources for home learning

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/85/8516education1.html

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Last Post: Jan 14, 2008 10:27pm
by A Sorcerer's App...

Trainer

Dumbed Up?

Try shadow boxing to shape up your overweight brain.

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Last Post: Jan 13, 2008 1:47pm
by Trainer

Almost there

I can almost smell the "social justice" now. http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto 1848 by Karl Heinrich Marx How "Marxist" Has the United States Become? Although Marx advocated the use of a...

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Last Post: Jan 13, 2008 12:48pm
by js

Marxist public schools

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50013 WND Exclusive Commentary 'Public Education Against America' Posted: May 3, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Dr. Bruce Shortt, along with fellow Baptist Roger Moran, has proposed a resolution...

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Last Post: Jan 13, 2008 12:31pm
by js

Brilliant Aaron Russo interview

Long, but worth it. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5420753830426590918&q=Historic+Aaron+Russo

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Last Post: Jan 9, 2008 8:14pm
by js

Jennifer

Help promote Gatto's message...

Visit Authors@Google(http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html) ...then select the "contact" option, and write a short note asking that Gatto be interviewed by Google.

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Last Post: Jan 8, 2008 11:51am
by Jennifer

Douglas Mäuck

Precipice

Over the years I've often thought that humanity is merely a massive colony of cells and synapses that have inundated this planet. A human infestation. Earth's diversity and inherent, intrinsic beauty are continually obscured by the dark, overcast horizon of humanitie...

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Last Post: Jan 7, 2008 7:36pm
by Douglas Mäuck

Invisible Hands

Gatto on "Breaking Out Of The Trap"

"The best way to start offering some choice immediately is to give each public school the independence that private schools have. De-systematize them, grant each private, parochial, and homeschool equal access to public funds through vouchers administered as a loan p...

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Last Post: Jan 7, 2008 6:34pm
by Invisible Hands

Commie Hero: Che Guevara

http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2005/11/guevara_murdere.html http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/23/171252.shtml http://media.www.ksgcitizen.org/media/storage/paper223/news/2005/10/06/OpEd/Che-Guevara.Icon.Murderer-1014117.shtml http://www...

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Last Post: Jan 5, 2008 1:10pm
by js

Agoradora

Welcome to Gatto Land, a commie subsidiary of Stateless News Inc.

Ya say ya wanna revolution csmonitor

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Last Post: Jan 5, 2008 12:09pm
by Agoradora

Bill Moyers interview of Ron Paul

Fair interview http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01042008/watch2.html He talks about his plans for the welfare state at about 15:40.

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Last Post: Jan 5, 2008 8:35am
by js

Jennifer

Asian Education

Have you all heard of this? http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/02/business/yen.php ...what do you think?

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Last Post: Jan 2, 2008 9:16am
by Jennifer

Mr. Mike

Time Bomb High School

It's the title track to the album of the same name. Greg Cartwright's Reigning Sound. If you like rock-n-roll music, then you might like 'em. Well it's a well known drag that it brings me down but, my folks don't care cause they ain't around and, I'm the one that...

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Last Post: Dec 31, 2007 9:18pm
by Mr. Mike

Harvey

Guardian article on Huckabee, Republicans, politics & religion

Comment Is Free guardian

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Last Post: Dec 26, 2007 10:07pm
by Harvey

Harvey and Socrates

Clarification

I know js isn't reading this, but in case anyone else read the thread that I, as Anthony Comstock and Mary Wollstonecraft, et al., and Ted Haggard's massage therapist and Wife, et al., participated in, here's a clarification. I said that Comstockery and Bible Camp...

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Last Post: Dec 22, 2007 2:02pm
by Harvey and Socra...

What candidates support homeschooling??

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/kluck1.html An Open Letter to Homeschoolers – Will the Real Homeschool-Friendly Candidate Please Stand Up? by Shana Kluck Read More Open Letters Daily I read a new article about overtures being made to the...

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Last Post: Dec 17, 2007 8:20am
by js

ECS Reader

"Solitude of Self"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self," Address before the U. S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 20, 1892 "The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul-our Protestant idea, the right of indi...

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Last Post: Dec 16, 2007 12:28am
by ECS Reader

Janet E. Van Asten

Judge shuts down charter e-school in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, we have some e-schools where the student may live 100 miles away, and yet enroll in a school district. They do a home program via computer and other materials. A licensed teacher is overseeing it via phone and computer. (I do not favor it) But the...

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Last Post: Dec 8, 2007 11:00pm
by Janet E. Van Ast...

Harvey

Obedience through chemistry

At the beginning of life and the end of life, people who won't sit still are drugged into obedience. Whether it's ADD or AD, there's little tolerance for deviation from normative societal behavior. If a disobedient dog is incontinent, it may be euthanized. If...

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Last Post: Dec 5, 2007 9:05am
by Harvey