Sunday, March 30, 2014
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SCOTUS - Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
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Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Docket Number: 13-354
Date Argued:03/25/14
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Do you know who is behind Common Core State Standards? This may surprise you...
Posted by Darla Dawald, National Director on March 26, 2014 at 3:03pm in Patriot Action
Contrary to what you may have heard, there are many organizations that are involved in Common Core that also stand to gain a lot financially with its implementation nationally. Of course, these groups will tell you that their involvement is simply to provide a great education platform that will increase the learning curve of all of our children. Nothing cold be farther from the truth. This is nothing more than a plot and ploy to amass more money and essentially, control and information on our children and push toward the UN and control internationally.
WHO IS BEHIND COMMON CORE?
A nonprofit organization called Achieve, Inc., in Washington, D.C. is the main driving force behind creating the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). The Common Core (CC) standards were initiated by private interests in Washington, D.C., without any representation from the states. See Common Core: Myths vs. Facts here written by American Principles Project. |  |
From the Achieve, Inc. website: "To this day, Achieve remains the only education reform organization led by a Board of Directors of governors and business leaders. This unique perspective has enabled Achieve to set a bold and visionary agenda over the past 15 years, leading Education Week in 2006 to rank Achieve as one of the most influential education policy organizations in the nation." Achieve is a Washington, D.C. "think tank" which does not include membership from all of the states.
In Achieve's "Common Core Implementation Workbook" they state, "After 30 years of fits and starts, true transformational reform in education is not only possible but also entirely within our grasp." So Achieve has been working on "national education standards" for 30 years! They continue on, "The implementation challenge looms large. In response, Achieve and the U.S. Education Delivery Institute have developed a practical Common Core Implementation Workbook for all states in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). The workbook uses a proven performance management methodology known as 'delivery' to lay out clear action steps for states and districts. It provides relevant information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises for leadership teams to complete together. Regardless of your timeline, the workbook offers state and district leaders the means to plan for the CCSS and then drive successful implementation. The discipline of delivery was first developed in 2001 under U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. "So the system of delivery was not first developed by the states but from from the United Kingdom's Tony Blair and in 2001! So much for the Common Core standards being a "state-led" effort! This is long before what is stated on the CCSSI website of this process starting in 2009!
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"Eventually the creators of the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) realized the need to present a facade of state involvement, and therefore, enlisted the National Governors Association (NGA) {a trade association that doesn't include all governors}, and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), another DC-based trade association. Neither of these groups have grant authority from any particular state or states to write the standards. The bulk of the creative work was done by Achieve, Inc., a DC-based nonprofit that includes many progressive education reformers who have been advocating national standards and curriculum for decades. Massive funding for all this came from private interests such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. which has donated $150 million in grants to implement the Common Core Standards (See Common Core: Myths vs. Facts as well for further information).
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WHAT COMPANIES HAVE TO GAIN FROM COMMON CORE?
You can see from the "How is it Implemented in our 'States'?" flowchart, there are companies that will directly benefit by implementing Common Core. Some of these companies are:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, pledged $150 million dollars in Grants in 2007. Bill and Melinda Gates are directly tied to the United Nations, and they will directly benefit from the software packages that are sold to train teachers in the classroom through Microsoft. Publishing Companies- Pearson, Scholastic News, MacGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (AZ textbooks used in Public Schools are primarily from the publisher Harcourt) etc., will benefit from Common Core because they will provide the textbooks, for training teachers and teaching students, and curriculum changes that will need to be made to implement Common Core. Pearson, the largest on-line book company in the world, announced in their 2012 Earnings Report that "The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)...awarded Pearson and Educational Testing Service (ETS) the contract to develop test items that will be part of the new English and Mathematics assessments to be administered from the 2014-2015 school year. We continued to produce strong growth in secure online testing, an important market for the future. We increased online testing volumes by more than 10%, delivering 6.5 million state accountability tests, 4.5 million constructed response items and 21 million spoken tests. We now assess oral proficiency in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese. We also launched the Online Assessment Readiness Tool for the PARCC and the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Common Core consortia to help 45 states prepare for the transition to online assessments." Can you say more $$$ for Pearson??? Achieve, Inc. connections- who will benefit from Common Core? Craig Barrett is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Achieve, Inc., he is the current Chairman for the AZ Ready Education Council; and he is a Thunderbird Faculty member promoting United Nation Principles. (He is also the Former CEO/Chairman of the Board of Intel). Computer companies will directly benefit from computer sales to the states and local school districts. All of the Common Core student assessment testing will now be computer based. See (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers {PARCC} website for more details on the new student testing that will replace AIMS).Source
COMMON CORE MOVEMENT IS A TROJAN HORSE AND TIED TO THE UNITED NATIONS (UN)
If you cannot see that Common Core is tied to the United Nations you have not done your homework! The major funder of the Common Core Movement is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has pledged $60 million dollars to this effort. Bill and Melinda Gates are tied to UN through-and-through and have spent money in America and overseas for UN programs in Africa and all over the world for decades. Wake up and smell the koolaide you have been drinking and wake up that you are being lied to! Common Core is part of the UN's plan for complete federal control over our education systems and the "Dumbing-down" of America. Again, Wake up!More Here
WISE WORDS
"The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail."
- George Washington
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
- Benjamin Franklin
Communist Goals from Congressional Records 1963:
Note the items in RED as they apply to the Common Core Agenda...
- Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
- Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .
- Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
- At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
- [From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
- 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
- 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
- 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
- 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
- 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
- 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
- 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
- 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in
- 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
- 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
- 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
- 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
- 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
- 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
- 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
- 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
- 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
- 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- 18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
- 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
- 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
- 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
- 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
- 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
- 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
- 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
- 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
- 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
- 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
- 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
- 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
- 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
- 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
- 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
- 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
- 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
- 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
- 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
- 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
- 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
- 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
- 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
- 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
- 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
- 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
There you have it friends, the bigger, more sinister plan that has been in the works at least as far back as 1963 but probably a lot longer, is finally seeing the fruit of its labor. All of this at the expense of our children and our society as a whole.
What will you do to PUSH BACK? We cannot stand for this any longer. You MUST get involved in your local area and FIGHT this communist takeover of our education and children. Our children DO NOT belong to the state or the federal government. They belong to their family!
- You can start by signing our petition to STOP COMMON CORE
- Then, you must attend your local school district meetings (whether you have children in the school or not). Finally contact your STATE legislators and let them know that you are vehemently against Common Core. It's time to bring our education back to the local/states control. Let's get the Feds out of our education system; it is Unconstitutional!
- Be sure to sign our petition to STOP COMMON CORE!
- Because these kids deserve the very best!
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Democrats are destroying our USA!
President
Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_pancanal_1.html
President
Bill Clinton transferred the anti-missile missile technology from the US
Military to the US Commerce; allowing China and other nations to ascertain this
technology. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/inside-the-ring-2059116/?page=all
Are New Yorkers losing their Constitutional ‘Patriotism’
By
Oscar Y. Harward
Senator
‘Chuck” Schumer (D-NY), Governor Andrew Cuomo, and New York Mayor Bill
de Blasio, all essentially indicate that they, and ‘the people’ of New York,
apparently have no desire to accept, support, and/or defend the Constitution of
the United States, and more specifically, the Bill of Rights. Sen. Schumer
says the 1st Ten Amendments to the Constitution are being taken too literally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFBGaKJk7o.
Sen.
Schumer is particularly referencing the First Amendment and the freedom of
speech. Are we to release these rights? Will the voters of New York
advocate that we surrender this and other ‘Bill of Rights’ to the Government?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says pro-life
activists along with anti-gay activists, and other supporters of the Second Amendment, are not welcomed in
New York. By my personal observation, this may have been Gov. Cuomo’s
first exploratory remark as he chases a pursuit to become a 2016 Democrat Party
Presidential nominee.
NY Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to be duplicating
President Obama’s plan of ‘redistribution’ by proposing, “A tax
on the wealthy to pay for free pre-school education for every four-year-old. He
has already launched measures to expand paid sick leave to another half a
million employees. He has promised to work for 200,000 new affordable
housing units, and to rebuild trust and confidence in the police.”
Does
New Yorkers know and understand our US Constitution and/or New York’s
History? US Congress convened for the 1st time in New York
City on March 4, 1789 in approving the
Bill of Rights?
Do New
Yorkers know, or have they forgotten the sacrifice of attaining ‘Independence’
from the Revolutionary War? Have New Yorkers been taught or have they
forgotten the Battle of Harlem
Heights,
Battle Hill, the Battle of Stony Point that later allowed Washington
to cross the Hudson, other Revolutionary War, and additional war
history? Are these failures instrumental of your public education system
as may be taught in public schools?
Have
Sen.
Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and New Yorkers forgotten "9/11/01"? Do you
remember how our entire Nation rallied around New York during and after these
terrorist attacks? Have Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and
New Yorkers forgotten the honor, the sacrifices, and the lives of New York’s
and others’ police officers, firemen, and our soldiers in defense of our
Constitution? Have Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio,
and New Yorker's forgotten our Founding Fathers’ precious freedoms in our
Constitution with inserted Christian values?
Freedom
is not free. Constitutional freedoms are fought and won at a heavy cost;
Americans’ blood. More than 600,000 American soldiers have died in combat
for protecting our Constitution, our Nation, and our American flag.
Why
do Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and New Yorkers continue
efforts to disassemble our Constitution? How do New Yorkers fail to
understand, and appreciate the price and values of ‘freedoms’? Do New Yorkers
fail to understand the loss of ‘freedoms’, and whom then elect, appoint, and/or
direct officials in the State of New York as in other states? Will Sen.
Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and other New Yorkers awaken before
we, they, and/or others lose these precious ‘freedoms’?
The Army's Oath of Enlistment states
that “I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …”
Every American should proudly ‘pledge, honor, and obey’ this ‘Oath’.
Patriotic
Americans must be asking, “What rights do New Yorkers have in dismantling our
Constitution comprised to insure all Americans may remain free from an
oppressive government?”
It
is a duty for each voter to elect and/or re-elect ‘responsible’
representatives. If the voters of New York fully support Constitutional
values, Americans will discover that New Yorkers are ‘Patriotic’ to our
USA. Your representatives will ‘honor’ the sacrifices of over 600,000
American soldiers; including your ancestors who fought and died for these
values embedded within (y)our Constitution.
Up front, and based on
election results, it is logical to assume that Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, and NY
Mayor de Blasio are speaking for the people of New York. If so, many of
us are saddened. Most of us anticipate that may change.
Currently, if Sen.
Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, and NY Mayor de Blasio are not domestic enemies to our
Constitution, who is? Each element in our Constitution today is just as
relevant now as our Founding Fathers inscribed in the 18th Century.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Is Democrat Party Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) lying to America from the podium of the US Senate?
Should Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) be impeached or disbarred for lying
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