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Charlotte Iserbyt: The Miseducation of America [video included]
by Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post
June 18, 2012
Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan.
While working there she discovered a long-term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told.
Part one of this exclusive interview with Iserbyt explains how conditioning/training under the globalist Elite agenda has replaced traditional education, leading to a deliberate dumbing down of America.
Iserbyt further explains how Reagan signed agreements merging the U.S. and Soviet systems under the United Nations banner, turning over education and many other areas of public policy to global control.
This 74 minute exposé is a must see for anyone who wants to truly know why the education system is deliberately crafted to produce human drones with no critical thinking whose only skills are to be subservient, trust authority and follow orders.
Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of Occupy Corporatism. Our alternative news site is dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporately funded mainstream media. You can find us on our Facebook page.
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Ron and Rand Paul Were Never Going to Save Us
[Acitivst Post] Editor’s Note: We love the message of peace and liberty, and respect Ron Paul for educating the masses, but we’d be naive to think the Pauls are exempt from an utterly corrupt political system.
by Paul Adams, J.D.
Activist Post
August 21, 2012
Many people believe that Ron and Rand Paul are the only hope to save the United States from becoming a totalitarian fascist police state. After all, for decades only congressman Ron Paul exposed the crimes and consequences of the private Federal Reserve, fractional reserve banking, fraudulent war on drugs, wars and coups of aggression, the growth of government and dependency on it.
Many Ron Paul supporters believed that Ron’s son, Rand Paul, would promote the same polices as his father after being elected to the U.S. Senate. Yes, Ron and Rand appeared to be the last Jedis of freedom, battling and exposing the empire of bankster monopoly occultists.
Let us now examine whether Ron and Rand Paul can be trusted to save us and how effective their efforts have been.
Ron Paul and his Campaign for Liberty PAC are great at fundraising. During the 2011-2012 election cycle, Ron Paul raised $40,909,878 and spent $38,934,716.
Unfortunately;
We may not get liberty because of the Ron Paul campaign run, but it sure looks like Ron Paul campaign manager, Jesse Benton, got the big bucks.
Benton’s total income from the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign and PACs, in the 2012 election cycle, is at least $586,616, EPJ has learned.
According to Open Secrets, he has been paid $322,577 in the 2012 election cycle, by Liberty PAC. His total income directly from the Ron Paul presidential campaign 2012 is, to date, $264,039.
Benton is married to Ron Paul’s granddaughter Valerie Pyeatt.
Many Ron Paul supporters have become unhappy with Benton because of his suspected contacts with the Romney campaign and his overall handling of the Ron Paul campaign.”
Furthermore, the average donation to Ron Paul is $61.92, meaning that the individuals that donated have little to spare. One could argue that Ron Paul and his family, through excessive payments to Jesse Benton, have embezzled donations from loyal supporters of liberty.
According to renowned researcher Webster Griffin Tarpley, Ron Paul is a master in nepotism and employs approximately 61 of his family members. Granted, Ron Paul could argue that it is necessary to employ family members to avoid COINTELPRO infiltration, but how can he justify paying his grandson-in-law nearly $600,000 in one year?
Strangely, Ron Paul and Mitt Romey were very friendly during the Republican presidential primary campaign. Romney is the antithesis of Ron Paul and supports everything Paul claims to oppose, such as the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011, which authorizes the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, socialized medicine (eugenics against the elderly with death panels that deny care), endless wars of aggression in foreign countries, unlimited financial aid to Israel, the fraudulent war on drugs, and Romey is a vulture bankster like those that run the private Federal Reserve. One would think that Ron Paul, “The Champion of the Constitution,” would find Romney and his CFR/Bilderberg/Trilateral/Neocon associates repugnant.
Yet Ron Paul is considering voting for Mitt Romney. With his political career at its end, why won’t Ron tell the people the truth about voting or at least clearly refuse to support vulture-bankster Romney?
Webster Tarpley persuasively argues that Ron Paul served as Romney’s wing-man to ensure Romney received the Republican presidential nomination (attending Bilderberg likely helped as well).
Paul and Romney were generally friendly throughout the primary election. During the slew of Republican debates, the two saved their most withering attacks for other Republican contenders on stage, sparking rumors that they were somehow in cahoots.
In February, Santorum accused the two campaigns of working together to undermine his presidential bid, a charge both camps denied at the time.
It appears that Ron and Rand Paul, either knowingly or unknowingly, are being used to keep millions of Americans invested in corrupt political system that is beyond repair and the false left vs. right divide-and-conquer paradigm, dominated by eugenics loving Wall Street Banksters since at least 1913.
According to one researcher, “of the 620 measures that Paul has sponsored, just four have made it to a vote on the House floor. Only one has been signed into law.” Because the Audit of the Fed occurred, it appears that only two of Ron Paul’s many measures have been made into law.
Ron Paul has given hundreds of great speeches and written hundreds of important articles; but was he able to stop any of the following: NDAA, Real ID Act, Military Commissions Act, Patriot Act, TSA groping and expansion, John Warner Defense Authorization Act, Bankster bailouts, clergy response teams, CIA drug-running, tyrannical executive orders, Council of State Governors, covert acts of war against Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Egypt and Iran, or Fast and Furious?
No. Why not? Because even if Ron Paul is legitimate, Congress and the President don’t work for you, don’t represent you, and they never did.
During his 2008 campaign, Ron Paul said that he wanted to “end the Fed” and the I.R.S. In 2012, for some reason, he softened his tone to we should “audit the fed” and rarely mentions the I.R.S.
To Ron’s credit, the Fed was audited and we learned that the largest banks were bailed out with over 16 trillion dollars as they foreclosed on millions of homes and gave their executives bonuses.
By now the criminal cartel of usury known as the Fed should have been abolished or nationalized but Ron Paul says only that we should audit it again? What happened to “end the Fed?”
Ron’s son, Rand Paul, raised money from Ron Paul supporters and was elected to the U.S. Senate on his father’s platform. However, rather than endorsing his father’s policies, Rand shocked the world by endorsing Mitt Romney for president on national television, who is the antithesis of everything Ron and Rand claim stand for. Even a blind man can feel the sting from Rand’s slap in the face to his campaign donors and “Ron Paul Revolutionaries.”
Do you think Rand Paul was allowed to use Ron’s political machine (Campaign for Liberty) to get elected to the senate and then endorse Romney without Daddy Ron’s approval? If so, you can get a great deal on some oceanfront property in Arizona.
But one slap in the face wasn’t enough as Rand appears to be a Neocon in Libertarian clothing. In 2010, Rand met with war lover William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a so-called Neocon think-tank that published a paper one year prior to 9/11 stating that transforming the U.S. into a military-state would require a “ catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor.” Dick Cheney, who gave the stand-down order on 9/11, was also associated with PNAC.
Additionally, when reporter Abby Martin questioned Rand about his decision to endorse Romney, Rand showed his support for freedom of the press and the First Amendment by attempting to get her arrested and stripped of her press credentials.
Ron and Rand Paul often brag about their Christian Values, yet Rand is a member of the NoZe Brotherhood at Baylor University and claimed to worship the “Aqua Buddha” (idolatry). George W. Bush of Skull and Bones and Kenneth Star are honorary members on NoZe..
The NoZe Brotherhood, as the group was called, was formally banned by Baylor two years before Paul arrived on the grounds of ‘sacrilege,’ the university president said at the time. ‘They had ‘made fun of not only the Baptist religion, but Christianity and Christ,’ President Herbert Reynolds told the student newspaper, The Lariat.
The group hardly denied the charge. One ‘brother’ told a reporter from the Lariat during Paul’s sophomore year that the group was raising awareness of an abundance of both ‘hot air’ and ‘dangerous and even toxic levels of Christian atmosphere on campus.’
In conclusion, Ron Paul and Rand Paul may give good speeches, they have even educated millions of people about important issues. However, they cannot be trusted to save the United States from becoming a totalitarian fascist police state as they get practically no results yet provide patriots reason to believe in a system that is beyond repair in its current state. Representative government in the United States is a fast-fading illusion and it makes no difference which mass-murderer occupies next Whitehouse as he or she is merely a puppet.
Ending the police state (it’s already here) and planned democide is the responsibility of every individual. We must not consent to the criminal bankster state. We must refuse to vote in rigged elections or for candidates associated with political parties. We must not take any actions contrary to our conscience.
Rather than cheer for Ron and Rand Paul, we must do everything we peacefully can to stop the planned shooting war from occurring in the United States.
Paul Adams is your humble servant.
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Rand Paul Tries to Intimidate & Harass Journalist After A Youtube Video [video]
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August 1, 2012
Luke Rudkowski talks with Abby Martin of MediaRoots.org and RT about U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s attempt to get her arrested and stripped of her press credentials for asking him tough questions in the Capitol building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtO5INu-VY4 A week after our video with Abby Martin came out on YouTube, the RT office, where Abby works, got an ominous phone call from the Senate Media Relations Committee. The Committee was acting on behalf of Rand Paul and threatened both Abby and the entire RT news organization. The threats included ambiguous “charges” for violating the rules of the Committee floor, Abby’s possible arrest and the termination of her and the entire office’s press credentials.
After a month of meetings and deliberation, the Senate Media Relations office backed down and did not make good on any of their threats.
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False Flag Fires! The Rise of The Phoenix [video]
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August 21, 2012
In every government and every civilization that has ever existed it has always been the authoritarian ruling cabal who benefit from horrendous acts of violence. Governments have a documented history of attacking their own people through “false flag attacks” which are blamed on their political enemies in an effort to gain “Order Out Of Chaos”. In the 21st century these tactics will continuously be used by the global elite to gain more control so we must also continue to expose these agendas and to shed light on the deeds that are done in the dark.
US Desperation Surfaces in Syria
Obama’s bizarre threats indicative of losing strategy and increasing desperation.
by Tony Cartalucci
August 21, 2012 – US-led NATO forces armed, funded, trained, and even provided air support for Libyan terrorists emanating out of Libya’s eastern Cyrenaica region – most notably Benghazi which had served as the premier international terrorist recruiting ground in the world, according to the US Army’s Combating Terrorism Center, producing a percentage per capita of militants outstripping even that of Saudi Arabia.
Operating under the banner of the “Libyan Islamic Fighting Group” (LIFG), a US State Department, British Home Office, and United Nations-listed international terrorist organization, and officially merged with Al Qaeda in 2007, its commanders including Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Mahdi al-Harati led NATO’s military proxy forces on the ground as US, French, and British planes destroyed the nation from the air.
These very same commanders of this very same listed-terrorist organization would then turn its cash, weapons, and fighters on Syria, as early as November 2011, arriving on the Turkish-Syrian border to enjoy yet another NATO safe haven and logistical networks overseen by Western intelligence along with US funding and arms laundered through Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) members such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Image: Libyan Mahdi al-Harati of the US State Department, United Nations, and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf)-listed terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), addressing fellow terrorists in Syria. Harati is now commanding a Libyan brigade operating inside of Syria attempting to destroy the Syrian government and subjugate the Syrian population. Traditionally, this is known as “foreign invasion.”
In essence, just as Al Qaeda had served as an “Arab Foreign Legion” for the US in Afghanistan in the 1980’s during its inception, it once again is serving as a foreign legion inside Syria, fighting Washington’s proxy war against the Syrian government.
It appears however that unlike in Afghanistan where Al Qaeda fought alongside a sizable indigenous force against foreign Soviet troops, the tactical environment is revered – where Washington’s proxy terrorist forces are foreigners facing a highly motivated, well organized, and better armed indigenous Syrian Army.
US Machinations Unraveling – Shareholders Face Liquidation
Coordinated attempts by NATO and its proxy forces to invade and overrun the cities of Damascus and Aleppo in July and early August have failed, with proxy forces being expelled after suffering sizable loses. An attempt to decapitate Syria’s leadership in a bombing in central Damascus also fell flat, with high ranking officials quickly replaced, followed quickly by a cohesive military counter offensive.
The bombing was also followed by the mysterious disappearance of Saudi Arabia’s Bandar “Bush” Bin Sultan, who if confirmed assassinated, may indicate that NATO’s plans are suffering at even the highest levels of organization.
Compounding the West’s attempts to overthrow the government of Syria, is the increasing support Syria has been receiving due to Iranian efforts to assemble international forums representing half of the world’s population, condemning the support of foreign interference and promoting alternatives to the violent destabilization being carried out by the West. A 30 member conference was held ahead of the annual Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran, Iran – and another meeting will be held again on the sidelines of NAM toward the end of August.
Image: An impressive counter to the so-called “Friends of Syria” confabs held by Wall Street and London corporate-financier interests in an attempt to sway global opinion toward a repeat of Libya’s destruction at NATO’s hands, the International Consultative Conference hosed by Iran seeks to end the flow of foreign arms into militant hands and resolve political differences through more civilized means.
With the tactical situation inside Syria deteriorating for Western proxies and international consensus shifting in unprecedented directions against Washington and London, shareholders in the West’s latest adventure appear to be making tacit moves to divest their support and protect their own interests, lest they be left with the ignominious results of an increasingly compounding failure.
Obama’s Recent Threats
With this in mind, the US has been making increasingly unhinged “Bush-esque” remarks regarding “weapons of mass destruction” in Syria and attempting to expand the pretexts under which it could “militarily intervene.” Even the very “movement” of Syria’s “unconventional weapons” in a “threatening manner,” US President Barack Obama claimed in a recent statement, would constitute a “red line.”
Obama claims that the US “fears” Syria’s unconventional weapons “falling into the hands of the wrong people.” If the US is willfully arming, funding, and threatening to back militarily, listed Al Qaeda terrorist organizations, then whose hands is the US referring to? And while the US struggles to foment victory in Syria, it seems to have stretched its support for terrorism all the way to Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, reigniting violence there, linked to Al Qaeda as well.
Image: The Washington Consensus’ shrinking legitimacy is proportionally matched to its increasingly untenable perpetuation. Its unjustified, disastrous military adventure in Libya seems to have resulted in a Pyrrhic victory, hobbling the institutions and legitimacy it needed to likewise undermine and overthrow the Syrian government in a timely fashion. Overstretched, it appears the West is even trying to strike at Russia with terrorist proxies that now span from North Africa all the way to the Caucasus Mountains.
To say that the US is overstretched is an understatement. It is overstretched politically, economically, and tactically. It risks a historically unprecedented collapse that would destroy all shareholders invested in its increasingly unhinged and transparently illegitimate ambitions. Nations, in particular GCC members, are beginning to realize with acute alarm that their support of Washington’s agenda is now threatening their very self-preservation. A victory even at this point would still likely be Pyrrhic.
No matter how well Syria goes for the West from this point on, the mechanisms it has used to get here, including its “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine, the legitimacy of the UN, the West’s so-called commitment to “human rights,” and the narrative of the so-called “War on Terror” have been undermined beyond salvage.
One can only imagine the mountains Washington is promising to move in order to keep its allies lined up behind them, particularly the ruling governments of Turkey and the GCC. For an elitist clique that has prided itself in “realist” political discourse, it has become increasingly surrealist. Whether or not Washington’s allies mirror this surrealism all the way to their own demise, remains to be seen.
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