THANK YOU FROM ANNE BELLRINGER

 August 26, 2008 Thank you to the many readers Fourwinds who sent me get-well wishes.  It is deeply appreciated. For the past 2 months I have been quite ill.  I found that I had  food poisoning and that it had compromised my colon and pancreas.   I am now on the way to recovery and hope to be totally well soon.. » read more

BLUEPRINT FOR A PRISON PLANET

Posted 8/4/08   Introduction This work is split up into four sections. Firstly it contains an overview of an increasingly popular 'conspiracy theory' relating to a proposed plot to turn the Earth into a 'prison planet', thus chaining us forever to material desires, a life of simply working and consuming! Secondly, a look at how this hidden agenda may be being kept from us and how we are unwittingly being led into assisting in its unfoldment. Thirdly, an overall view of how the Prison Planet is being created. And, finally, and a look at what we can do to stop it. People from a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds are increasingly willing to take serious the notion that much of what we are taught of our history is some distance from the truth.. » read more

Exclusive: Indoctrination in Public Schools Leads to Rise in Home Schooling

August 1, 2008 t’s that time of year again as parents scramble to pick up the necessary supplies to send with their children as they are bussed off to the public school (I call them government indoctrination centers) across town. Unlike years ago, when our parents sent us to school with a notebook for each class, a couple of pencils and our lunch money, today’s child will lug clear or mesh backpacks filled with such necessities as liquid anti-bacterial hand soap, boxes of baby wipes and, in the case of Hermitage Elementary School in Hermitage, Arkansas, their first graders will supply two rolls of paper towels and a 50 count pack of clear sheet protectors each.    The lists this year at our local schools here in Arkansas for each student include a wide variety of products necessary for your child to complete his or her school work. I have not quite understood the need for a kindergarten boy to provide a box of gallon Ziploc bags or a kindergarten girl to provide a box of pint sized Ziploc bags (brand names only, please) or a second grade boy to provide a package of construction paper while second grade girls provide a pack of white computer paper. Then again, in my “old fashioned” view of preparing for school, I cannot fathom why each first grade child must provide a package of red ink pens.. » read more

The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)

Posted 8/3/08 And probably the most boring. But then again, when I told that to my students and had them give me feedback, most said that if you followed along with what the presenter (a professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder) is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, because it is so compelling. Part 1  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=related   Part 2  http://www.. » read more

U.S. Government: WE KNOW PARENTING BETTER THAN YOU DO !

July 24, 2008 Proposals would give Washington unprecedented control over kids The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems.   The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) are two bills geared toward military and families who fall below state poverty lines. The measures are said to be a way to prevent child abuse, close the achievement gap in education between poor and minority infants versus middle-class children and evaluate babies younger than 5 for medical conditions.. » read more

TOLSTOY AND ANARCHISM

Posted 71508 My old sociology tutor once remarked that people under 35 are advocates of social change, while people over that age tend to be keen on social control. Certainly there seems to be a general idea around that as the years go by people become more and more conservative in their thinking. Tolstoy is a clear exception to this rule; the older he got, the more radical he became. As a consequence in the last years of his life he consistently expressed a religious form of anarchism. Tolstoy's politics, which combined Christianity, pacifism and anarchism, has always been a source of disquiet to his many biographers, and to many Marxists too.. » read more

How a Motorist was Fined for Having a Parking Ticket...Beause the Traffic Warden Could not Tell the Time

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The Original Purpose of Public Instruction in American and Its Result

It would be fair to call Thomas Jefferson the father of public education in America. Though Jefferson’s writings on the subject seem to ignore the dubious history of state-sponsored instruction, they do reflect his desire that primary, secondary and higher education in America be dedicated to planting and nurturing the tree of liberty in every educated American heart. It was his hope that public school would not be compulsory but desirable; that each student be able to reach his educational goals and enter adulthood as a good citizen capable of fulfilling his self-determined purpose in life and; that students who show specific talents be awarded the opportunity to pursue them to their personally and socially beneficial limits. A proportionally-educated, maximally self-governing electorate, Jefferson reasoned, would be America’s greatest defense against tyranny. But Jefferson’s dream that generations of publicly-instructed Americans would preserve their own liberty in perpetuity has been co-opted by a fear-mongering, lie-propagating, corporately-controlled, liberty-usurping central government and its sycophants.. » read more

Campaign Exposes Teacher's Unions

June 26, 2008 America's teachers unions have a lot to answer for. An international comparison study found that the United States gets the least bang for the bucks it spends on education, putting the U.S. at 18th in reading (behind countries like Japan and Poland) and a dismal 28th in math. While they're always the first (and loudest) ones to demand more money for schools that don't teach kids anything, when it comes to promoting quality schooling or offering ideas for reform, the unions are nowhere to be found.. » read more

Watch Babies Read and LIsten to What Parents are Saying

Posted 6/18/08 TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: www.yourbabycanread. com/video-page.php#video. » read more

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