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for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal
ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it." John Lennon, before his murder
by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman
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- When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization
he said it would be a good idea. But that oft-cited quote, is misleading,
assuming as it does that civilization is an unmitigated blessing.
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- Civilized people, we are told, live peacefully and cooperatively
with their fellows, sharing the necessary labour in order to obtain the
leisure to develop arts and sciences. And while that would be a good
idea, it is not a good description of what has been going on in the so-called
advanced cultures during the past 8,000 years.
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- Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation
of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been based on
slavery and "warfare." Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism
for mass murder.
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systematic mass murderers;
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seize control of their labour power and its fruits);
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process (by using the economic surplus to employ scribes, priests, and
PR men). Then go back to step one and repeat the process.
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- Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the
development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill,
injure, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without
feeling any remorse. The inventor of civilization - the first tribal chieftain
who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers- was
almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery,
psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non- psychopaths
in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies - especially military
hierarchies.
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killers. The 5% or so of human males who feel no remorse about killing
their fellow human beings make the best soldiers. And the 95% who are
extremely reluctant to kill make terrible soldiers - unless they are
brainwashed with highly sophisticated modern techniques that turn them
(temporarily it is hoped) into functional psychopaths.
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- In On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has re-written
military history, to highlight what other histories hide: The fact that
military science is less about strategy and technology, than about overcoming
the instinctive human reluctance to kill members of our own species. The
true "Revolution in Military Affairs" was not Donald Rumsfeld's
move to high-tech in 2001, but Brigadier Gen. S.L.A. Marshall's discovery
in the 1940s that only 15-20% of World War II soldiers along the line
of fire would use their weapons: "Those (80-85%) who did not fire
did not run or hide (in many cases they were willing to risk great danger
to rescue comrades, get ammunition, or run messages), but they simply
would not fire their weapons at the enemy, even when faced with repeated
waves of banzai charges" (Grossman, p. 4).
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- Marshall's discovery and subsequent research, proved
that in all previous wars, a tiny minority of soldiers - the 5% who are
natural- born psychopaths, and perhaps a few temporarily-insane imitators-did
almost all the killing. Normal men just went through the motions and,
if at all possible, refused to take the life of an enemy soldier, even
if that meant giving up their own. The implication: Wars are ritualized
mass murders by psychopaths of non-psychopaths. (This cannot be good for
humanity's genetic endowment!)
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- Marshall's work, brought a Copernican revolution to military
science. In the past, everyone believed that the soldier willing to kill
for his country was the (heroic) norm, while one who refused to fight
was a (cowardly) aberration. The truth, as it turned out, was that the
normative soldier hailed from the psychopathic five percent. The sane
majority, would rather die than fight.
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Marshall and Grossman to fully digest, was that the norms for soldiers'
behaviour in battle had been set by psychopaths. That meant that psychopaths
were in control of the military as an institution. Worse, it meant that
psychopaths were in control of society's perception of military affairs.
Evidently, psychopaths exercised an enormous amount of power in seemingly
sane, normal society.
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- How could that be? In Political Ponerology, Andrzej Lobaczewski
explains that clinical psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non- violent
competitions to climb the ranks of social hierarchies. Because they can
lie without remorse (and without the telltale physiological stress that
is measured by lie detector tests) psychopaths can always say whatever
is necessary to get what they want. In court, for example, psychopaths
can tell extreme bald-faced lies in a plausible manner, while their sane
opponents are handicapped by an emotional predisposition to remain within
hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the judge or jury imagines that
the truth must be somewhere in the middle, and then issues decisions that
benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too with those
charged with decisions concerning who to promote and who not to promote
in corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result is that
all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths.
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- So-called conspiracy theorists, some of whom deserve
the pejorative connotation of that much-abused term, often imagine that
secret societies of Jews, Jesuits, bankers, communists, Bilderbergers,
Muslim extremists, papists, and so on, are secretly controlling history,
doing dastardly deeds, and/or threatening to take over the world. As a
leading "conspiracy theorist" according to Wikipedia, I feel
eminently qualified to offer an alternative conspiracy theory which, like
the alternative conspiracy theory of 9/11, is both simpler and more accurate
than the prevailing wisdom: The only conspiracy that matters is the conspiracy
of the psychopaths against the rest of us.
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is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate
power. And as that power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths
grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld-the
criminal syndicate or overlapping set of syndicates that lurks above ordinary
society and law just as the underworld lurks below it. In 9/11 and the
9/11 wars, we are seeing the final desperate power-grab or "endgame"
(Alex Jones) of brutal, cunning gangs of CIA drug-runners and President-killers;
money-laundering international bankers and their hit-men, economic and
otherwise; corrupt military contractors and gung-ho generals; corporate
predators and their political enablers; brainwashers and mind-rapists
euphemistically known as psy-ops experts and PR specialists-in short,
the whole sick crew of certifiable psychopaths running our so- called civilization.
And they are running scared. It was their terror of losing control that
they projected onto the rest of us by blowing up the Twin Towers and inciting
temporary psychopathic terror-rage in the American public.
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it is threatened by the spread of knowledge. The greatest fear of any
psychopath is of being found out. As George H. W. Bush said to journalist
Sarah McClendon, December 1992, "If the people knew what we had done,
they would chase us down the street and lynch us." Given that Bush
is reported to have participated in parties where child prostitutes were
sodomized and otherwise abused, among his many other crimes, his statement
to McClendon should be taken seriously.
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- Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are completely
different from other people. They quickly learn to hide their lack of
empathy, while carefully studying others' emotions so as to mimic normalcy
while cold-bloodedly manipulating the normals.
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on the brink of unmasking the psychopaths and building a civilization
of, by and for the normal human being - a civilization without war, a
civilization based on truth, a civilization in which the saintly few rather
than the diabolical few would gravitate to positions of power. We already
have the knowledge necessary to diagnose psychopathic personalities and
keep them out of power. We have the knowledge necessary to dismantle the
institutions in which psychopaths especially flourish - militaries, intelligence
agencies, large corporations, and secret societies. We simply need to
disseminate this knowledge, and the will to use it, as widely as possible.
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co-opt and corrupt normal human beings. One way they do this, is by manipulating
shame and denial - emotions foreign to psychopaths but common and easily-induced
among normals.
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- Consider how gangs and secret societies (psychopaths'
guilds in disguise) recruit new members. Some criminal gangs and satanist
covens demand that candidates for admission commit a murder to "earn
their stripes." Skull and Bones, the Yale-based secret society that
supplies the CIA with drug-runners, mind-rapists, child abusers and professional
killers, requires neophytes to lie naked in a coffin and masturbate in
front of older members while reciting the candidate's entire sexual history.
By forcing the neophyte to engage in ritualized behaviour that would be
horrendously shameful in normal society, the psychopaths' guild destroys
the candidate's normal personality, assuming he had one in the first place,
and turns the individual into a co-opted, corrupt, degraded shadow of
his former self - a manufactured psychopath or psychopath's apprentice.
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psychopathic organizations effectively invisible to normal society. Despite
easily available media reports, American voters in 2004 simply refused
to see that the two major-party presidential candidates had lain naked
in a coffin masturbating in front of older Bonesmen in order to gain admission
to Skull and Bones and thus become members of the criminal overworld.
Likewise, many Americans have long refused to see that hawkish elements
of the overworld, operating through the CIA, had obviously been the murderers
of JFK, MLK, RFK, JFK Jr., Malcolm X, ChÈ, AllendÈ, Wellstone,
Lumumba, Aguilera, Diem, and countless other relatively non-psychopathic
leaders. They refuse to see the continuing murders of millions of people
around the world in what amounts to an American holocaust. They refuse
to see the evidence that the psychopaths' guilds running America's most
powerful institutions use the most horrific forms of sexualized abuse
imaginable to induce multiple-personality-disorder in child victims, then
use the resulting mind-control slaves as disposable drug-runners, prostitutes,
Manchurian candidates, and even diplomatic envoys. And of course they
refuse to see that 9/11 was a transparently obvious inside job, and that
their own psychopath- dominated military-intelligence apparatus is behind
almost every major terrorist outrage of recent decades.
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social hierarchy is simply too shameful for ordinary people to see, so
they avert their gaze, just as wives of husbands who are sexually abusing
their children sometimes refuse to see what is happening in plain view.
If deep, deep denial were a river in Egypt, American citizens' wilful
blindness would be more like the Marianas Trench.
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are waking up. The only obvious non-psychopath among Republican presidential
candidates, Ron Paul, also happens to be the only candidate in either
party with significant grassroots support.
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Paul heralds, that is because Dr. Paul - a kindly, soft-spoken physician
who has delivered more than 4,000 babies - implicitly recognizes that
government is the invention and tool of psychopaths, and therefore must
be strictly limited in scope and subjected to a rigorous system of checks
and balances, lest the psychopath's tools, fear and hatred, replace love
as the glue that binds society together.
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countries, the spread of literacy and communications technology, and the
people's growing demands for a better life, together represent a gathering
force that terrifies the pathocracy, (those alternately competing-then-cooperating
gangs of psychopaths who have ruled through lies, fear and intimidation
since the dawn of so-called civilization).
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- Since nuclear weapons have made war obsolete, the pathocracy
is terrified that its favourite social control mechanism - ritualized
mass slaughter - is increasingly unavailable. And if war was the great
human tragedy, the pathocrats' pathetic attempt at a war- substitute -
the transparently phoney "war on terror" - is repeating it as
sheerest farce.
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Whether in their death throes they succeed in pulling down the curtain
of eternal night on all of us, or whether we resist them and survive to
see the dawn of a civilization worthy of the name, is the great decision
in which all of us others, however humbly, are now participating.
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- Dr. Kevin Barrett, co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish
Alliance for 9/11 Truth, LINK, has taught English, French, Arabic, American
Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at
colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and Madison,
Wisconsin. Barrett became a 9/11 truth activist in 2004 after reading
David Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor and conducting follow-up research
that convinced him Griffin had accurately summarized evidence indicating
9/11 was an inside job.
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Fox newscasters demanded that Barrett be fired from his job teaching an
introductory Islam class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but
the University refused to buckle, and Barrett got high marks from his
students. He has appeared in several documentary films, lectures widely
on 9/11 and hosts three radio programs on three different patriot networks.
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‘US legitimacy waning over 9/11 hoax’
TRUTH JIHAD MY EPIC STRUGGLE AGAINST THE 9/11 BIG LIE - DR KEVIN BARRETT
A retired US Army general says America should hold public hearings to investigate 9/11 and the wars it triggered.
Gen. Daniel P. Bolger, a leader of the US campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, made the comments during an exclusive interview with Truth Jihad Radio. Gen. Bolger is the author of the explosive new book Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
Asked about worldwide skepticism concerning the official account of
9/11, including the 80% of Muslims worldwide who believe the attacks
were a false flag deception, Gen. Bolger said: “We need to have public
hearings sort of like the 9/11 Commission, for our own people first, for
Americans! I mean, you’re American. Wouldn’t you like to know –
wouldn’t you like to see not just me, but other people like me, come
into a public forum and answer the kind of questions you’re asking me
today?”
Gen. Bolger’s remarks add further impetus to the accelerating
campaign, led by the 9/11 family members, to declassify the top secret
28 pages of the 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11. Those
pages, according to numerous Congressional Representatives and Senators
who have read them, completely overturn the official account and show
that “one or more governments” were behind the 9/11 attacks. The
governments in question appear to have been Saudi Arabia and Israel, not
Iraq or Afghanistan, raising questions about the real motive of the
9/11 wars.
Meanwhile, CNN has reported that convicted “20th hijacker” Zacarias
Moussaoui has charged that the Saudi royal family paid for his flying
lessons when he was training as a suicide pilot (or, more likely, being
framed as a patsy). Moussaoui makes the allegations against the Saudis
in two handwritten letters to federal courts in New York and Oklahoma.
He also claims that Saudi Royals plotted to assassinate President Bill
Clinton by shooting down Air Force One.
The Saudi government hotly denies these charges, and has even called
for the top secret 28 pages to be declassified so it can defend itself.
So far, Obama has refused to declassify the 28 pages – which were sealed
by then-President George W. Bush – and Congress has not yet voted to
force the issue. So it is not the Saudi government but the American
government that is covering up the truth. Why would the US government
want to hide the truth about the worst catastrophe in its history?
The probable answer is that 9/11 was carried out not only with the
help of the Saudi and Israeli governments, but corrupt, treasonous
members of the US government as well. Declassifying the 28 pages would
reveal that 9/11 was a government-sponsored deception, not an
independent “al-Qaeda” operation. This would force the kind of new 9/11
investigation that Gen. Bolger advocates. And such an investigation
might lead to some very uncomfortable places.
A real 9/11 investigation would very likely reveal treasonous
criminal complicity in the attacks on the part of former officials
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and
at least some members of the upper echelons of the Secret Service and
the Armed Forces. Let’s review just some of the abundant evidence
pointing in that direction, much of which was already well-known in 2004
thanks to Dr. David Ray Griffin’s book The New Pearl Harbor.
Events at the Emma E. Booker School in Florida on the
morning of 9/11 prove that Bush and the Secret Service must have had
foreknowledge of the attacks. When Andrew Card spent less than two
seconds whispering something in Bush’s ear at 9:03 a.m. supposedly
informing the president that a second plane had hit the World Trade
Center proving that America was under attack, neither Bush nor the
Secret Service responded according to protocol. If it had been a real
surprise attack, the Secret Service would have whisked Bush away to
safety at maximum speed. Instead, they allowed Bush to spend eight more
minutes in a pre-announced location practicing reading with
schoolchildren. (The words they chanted, oddly enough, were
“kite-plane-must-hit-steel.”)
Bush posed for photo ops for another fifteen minutes, and did not
leave the school (where the whole world including potential attackers
knew he was) until almost 9:30! Then the presidential limousine followed
the pre-announced route, at a leisurely pace, to the airport, where Air
Force One did not take off until almost 10 a.m. Obviously, this was no
surprise attack! Later, Bush would repeatedly claim that he actually saw
the first attack plane hit the North Tower before he entered the
classroom – an impossibility unless he saw a live feed in the
presidential limousine, set up by 9/11-complicit officials, as alleged
by national security sources to former NSA officer-turned-journalist
Wayne Madsen.
As for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, both have incriminated
themselves by telling conflicting, implausible stories about where they
were and what they were doing on the morning of 9/11. The 9/11
Commission, trying to cover up Cheney’s conflicting statements, has also
been caught in absurdly obvious lies. Secretary of Transportation
Norman Mineta’s sworn account of Cheney issuing a stand-down order to
allow the attack on the Pentagon to proceed unmolested is just the most
obvious of the multiple smoking guns incriminating Cheney and Rumsfeld.
YouTube - Veterans Today -
Indeed, the attack on the Pentagon, which occurred almost 90 minutes
after the Secret Service, the FAA and the military high command had
established phone bridges to deal with the reports of hijackings, could
never have happened if it were an actual attack by a hijacked plane and
if normal air defense protocols had been followed.
Top US military leaders, trying in vain to follow a hopelessly
muddled script, repeatedly perjured themselves before the 9/11
Commission as they offered wildly-conflicting accounts of why US air
defenses had not stopped the “hijackings.” 9/11 Commission co-chairs
Kean and Hamilton have stated that they considered prosecuting those
military leaders for perjury. Then-US Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN) nearly
broke down crying on the Senate floor as he railed against the grotesque lies told by his own military leadership.
YouTube - Veterans Today -
Shortly thereafter Senator Dayton was forced to flee Washington DC,
along with his entire staff, and return to Minnesota due to “terrorist threats”
and announce his retirement. His fellow Minnesota Senator and 9/11
skeptic, Paul Wellstone, didn’t get the message, and was murdered, along
with his wife, daughter, and staffers, in a rigged plane crash less
than a week after he was issued an apparent death threat by Dick Cheney.
YouTube - Veterans Today -
Circumstantial evidence points toward Paul Wolfowitz being a 9/11
mastermind. Stanley Hilton and University of Illinois law professor
Francis Boyle, both classmates of Wolfowitz at the University of Chicago
in the 1960s, have stated that Wolfowitz and other pet students of
neocon guru Leo Strauss were even then plotting the coup d’état in
America that eventually came to fruition as the 9/11-anthrax attack. The
general script for the 9/11-anthrax coup was published in 1968 under
the name Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook by
top neocon strategist Edward Luttwak. (Zionist neocons like Wolfowitz,
Luttwak, Dov Zakheim, Richard Perle, Scooter Libby, Elliot Abrams and
most of the signatories of PNAC’s September 2000 call for a “New Pearl
Harbor” are suspected of designing 9/11 to trick the US into a long-term
fight against Israel’s enemies.)
YouTube - Veterans Today -
The participation of high-level Americans in the 9/11 deception
explains the US government’s reluctance to release the explosive 28
pages and risk igniting the greatest scandal in world history. Such a
scandal would destabilize the American political system by annihilating
the government’s legitimacy in the eyes of the people. It is easy to see
why even non-9/11-complicit officials don’t want to go there.
Yet, that 9/11 scandal already exists, unofficially. Most of the
world knows or suspects the truth. America’s legitimacy, in the eyes of
the world and its own people, is being terminally sapped by the
festering boil of the 9/11 big lie.
The only way to cure this potentially terminal illness is by lancing
that boil with the sharp needle of truth. The pain will be temporary;
healing will commence quickly. By forthrightly facing and accepting the
consequences of such a momentous scandal, the US will be able to
re-establish its legitimacy and good name – and perhaps even end its
experimental status as Orwellian-Straussian empire, and return to its
roots as a Constitutional democratic republic.
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DR KEVIN BARRETT "DIALOGUE AND CONVIVIALITY"
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ANJEM
CHOUDARY a BOGUS
Muslim (MI5, MI6, Scotland Yard recruit!!!
French
Journalist (Jewish Libération) and colleague interviewing ANJEM CHOUDARY a BOGUS Muslim (MI5, MI6, Scotland Yard recruit!!!) , Thursday 11th of August 2006 – Photos B.A.F.S Copyright
There, I stood behind (slightly by the side) of a cameraman and took a shot
when a young 'Asian' approached me and asked me politely to leave the pavement
in order not to obstruct the worshippers who were coming out of the Masjid. He
addressed me as “uncle”. But, I was annoyed because, first, I was not
obstructing anybody and, then, that young man seemed to be monitoring only the
Asian (allegedly Muslim) crowd! I said something like:
“Why don’t you say the same thing to the Rupert Murdoch’s
mafia who is filming even your women in hijaab or to the Police who is causing
a public disturbance by their mere provocative presence. The Police are
terrorizing the Muslim communities all over England making the British people
hate the Muslims the more."
He answered that
they had a right to be there and to do what they are doing. A 'Black' Police
officer JC73 in faction with other officers in front of the Masjid
(standing as if they were guarding a concentration or torture camp like Guantanamo
or Abu Ghuraib!) spotted me and came straight to me and without a word
grabbed me very firmly with both his hands (or one hand) and pushed/dragged me
off the side of the pavement. I responded:
“ How dare you touch me?" pointing my
finger at him. This is an assault!”
He immediately released me.
Other officers were watching, but did not intervene. I was not in the way at
all, but other people were on the pavement while I was on the side, as the
picture I had taken at that very moment tends to show. I went back to the other
side of the road and informed Jane or Geneviève about this incident. They were
surprised and left me to go to the other side to carry on with their job.
http://muhammad-ali-ben-marcus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/britains-police-daily-terror-campaigns.html
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Lawmaker Considering Legislation To Cut Down 'Islam-Bias' In Fla. School Textbooks
A
Florida lawmaker is considering legislation that would give the public
input on the content found in Florida school textbooks. His overall aim
is to cut down on what he calls the “Islam-bias” in state schools.
Melbourne
Republican Representative Ritch Workman says Prentice Hall’s “World
History” book not only puts an inaccurate spin on Islam, it also
dedicates a whole chapter to the religion…
“..which would be okay
, if they had a whole chapter dedicated to all world religions and they
wanted to make it kind of a World Religion subtext to a World History
book, but they don’t,” said Workman.
He says the textbook also,
in his words,” whitewashes history.” For example, he says it talks about
both Christian and Muslim crusades, but only shows the brutality of
Christianity. So, Workman says he’d like to reverse a change to state
law made last year which took away the public’s voice on textbook
content.
“In order to streamline the Department of Education, we
may have very well taken out some valuable input and so, we still need
to look into undoing that. Because we want to make sure that parent
groups and organizations have a right to read these textbooks in advance
of them being approved by the state, and looking for these biases. We
can’t control the Publisher, but we can control what we buy—which in
turn, will control what the publisher,” Workman added.
Workman
recently brought his concerns to a Brevard County School Board meeting.
The board is currently reviewing the textbook. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman
for Pearson, the textbook’s publisher, says the textbook is not biased
toward Islam and the company treats all religions fairly.
Full Pearson Statement:
We’ve recently heard concerns about a Pearson high school textbook used in Brevard County, Florida, entitled Florida World History. Some
have claimed that this text, used in a 10th grade course, is biased
towards Islam at the expense of Judaism and Christianity. We’d like to
set the record straight.
In Florida, as in other states, Pearson
creates custom course materials that align to the state’s specific
curriculum standards. Florida’s standards split the world history
curriculum into two years of study, in grades 6 and 10. The state’s
standards require the sixth grade curriculum start with early
civilizations and continue through to the fall of Rome (476 A.D.). In
the 10th grade, the state’s high school curriculum begins with the
Byzantines (330 A.D.), proceeds to the Early Middle Ages in Europe (500
A.D.) and continues to the present day.
The Florida edition of
the Pearson high school World History text aligns to the state’s
standards, which require that the high school course includes content on
the origins of Islam, while the middle school text details the earlier
origins of Judaism and Christianity. The Florida Department of Education
approved the Pearson World History programs for adoption and validated
that the content in our programs meets the requirements and educational
goals of the state.
Pearson and its authors adhere to the highest
editorial standards when creating course materials. We rigorously
support the integrity of our content with both internal reviewers and
independent expert reviewers. We are committed to presenting balanced,
unbiased and accurate coverage of world religions. The content is
thoroughly reviewed by scholars of comparative religion, as well as
academic
specialists in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
For more news updates, follow Sascha Cordner on twitter @SaschaCordner.
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Could Clash Over Whether Fla. Textbooks Have ‘Islam-Bias’ Lead To
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School Board Votes to Keep Textbook with Chapter on Islam
Imagine 2050 Staff • Nov 26, 2013
After weeks of controversy and debate, a
Florida school board decided last week to continue using a world history
textbook despite opposition from protesters who claimed the book was
proselytizing Islam.
The
controversy began early November after protesters claimed a textbook
being used in Volusia County high schools “white washed” Islam and
favored the Muslim religion over Christianity, Judaism, and other
religions. The book in question is the statewide approved Prentice
Hall’s “World History” textbook used in tenth grade Social Studies
classes. Protesters and “concerned parents” said the book reduced
Christianity to a mere footnote, while dedicating an entire chapter to
the history of Muslim civilizations. Although a single chapter is
designated to Muslim civilizations, information about Christianity and
Judaism is covered in seven other chapters throughout the book,
according to the Daytona Times.
Thus, revealing the driving force behind these protests was anti-Muslim
prejudice disguised as concern over historical accuracy.
Protesters view the textbook chapter on Islam, which is at the center of the controversy.
The
Volusia County school board was scheduled to meet on November 5 to
review the textbook, however, the meeting was postponed to November 18
due to security reasons. Despite the cancellation, close to 100
protesters showed up demanding the book be banned and called for parents
of students to rip the Muslim chapter pages out of the book. A Facebook
page regarding the textbook was also set up by the chairman of Volusia
County’s Republican party, Tony Ledbetter. The page stated,
“We cannot allow our local, state and federal governments to take away
our Christian heritage and indoctrinate our youth with that of one
religion over all others. This is AMERICA for God’s sake!” However last
Monday, after hearing from 80 speakers, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported
the Volusia County school board ruled the book will remain in the
school’s curriculum with all but one board member in agreement.
The
Florida protesters’ actions and language mirror that of the organized
Islamophobia movement, and further demonstrates what can stem from their
rhetoric.
One of the most prominent groups leading the charge against the alleged
Islamization of public schools is the anti-Muslim grassroots
organization ACT! for America.
ACT! provides an online tool that lists all the so-called Islam biased
textbooks being used in schools so that members and parents can decide
if their child’s book is “education or indoctrination.” The Volusia
County textbook in question made the list, of course.
The group
operates on a national level trying to prevent what they perceive as
biased textbooks from being used. However, they are actually spreading
bigotry and further perpetuating the myth that Muslims aim to take over
the West. ACT! is currently involved in a Tennessee textbook debate
where they are claiming victory after supposedly influencing the state’s
department of education’s textbook commission to refuse to approve a
social studies book after the group claimed Islam was presented in a
flawed and biased way.
Vehement anti-Muslim blogger and figurehead of the Islamophobia movmenet, Pamela Geller, also claims public schools are being infiltrated by Muslims. In
her latest column at the conspiracy theory internet hub World Net Daily
(WND), Geller applauded the Volusia County protesters and disapproved
of the Prentice Hall textbook devoting an entire chapter to Islam. “This
is a mosqueing of the public school,” she wrote, adding that school
officials and textbook publishers need to be exposed for using
“pro-Islamic” books that do not reflect Islam as a religion of violence
and oppression. Geller also believes this to be one of the most
“insidious forms of stealth jihad,” claiming education about Islam is
being used to prepare students to wage war against Western
civilization.
However, hate and prejudice did not prevail in Volusia County and the
school board’s decision to uphold the statewide-approved textbook
demonstrated they were unwilling to give into bigotry of any form. It
remains increasingly important to teach and learn about religious,
racial, and cultural differences. By doing so, we can further understand
and celebrate our world’s diversity as well as strive to treat all
cultures, and people from all walks of life, with dignity and respect.
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Putin set to drop “truth bomb” on USA
Will Russia blow 9/11 wide open?
 As Gordon Duff reported here Tuesday – and as discussed on today’s False Flag Weekly News (posted above – click here for story links)
– Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing the release of Russian
satellite photos and other evidence showing that 9/11 was a false-flag
operation by treasonous elements of the American national security
community.
The original story reporting Putin’s threat was published by Pravda
on February 7th. According to Duff, that story has been confirmed by a
reliable source who has actually seen some of the photos during a visit
to Moscow. VT sources insist that this is NOT merely a shot across the
bow of the US government. Putin, these sources say, is genuinely
planning to release the 9/11 material.
These historic photos are expected to show:
* That none of the passenger airliners allegedly used as weapons on 9/11 actually crashed where we were told they did; and:
* That the World Trade Center demolitions were conducted using extremely high-energy weapons.
“The sh*t has hit the fan!” exclaimed one highly knowledgable VT source.
Russia’s classified 9/11 dossier has been held in reserve against the
day the Russians feel a vital national interest – such as their
survival as a free and independent nation – is at stake. That day, it
appears, has either finally come, or is approaching so fast that the
impending launch of the “truth bomb” is being prepared.
Russia’s satellite photos and other evidence are currently serving a
strategic role analogous to that of nuclear weapons. They are primarily a
deterrent – a last-ditch ace-in-the-hole whose main role is to deter
and dissuade the enemy from going too far.
But unlike nuclear weapons, the “truth bomb” will not kill anyone;
and its use against the US would first and foremost harm the
9/11-complicit faction of the American power structure, while helping
the non-complicit faction regain control and adjust the course of the
ship of state away from the icebergs. While risky (the 9/11 bomb could
indirectly lead to Israel contemplating or even exercising its Samson
Option) and therefore anathema to risk-averse elites, Putin has
apparently decided that the benefits outweigh the potential drawbacks.
If and when the Russians finally release their 9/11 dossier, the
cataclysm that ensues will stand as a milestone in the march of one of
the signal trends in modern warfare and geostrategy: the weaponization
of truth. While lies have been weaponized since time immemorial, in the
form of propaganda, disinformation, false signals, and so on, truth has
rarely been in a position to fight back.
Today, the weaponized big lies of the Zio-American
Empire – like the empire itself – are over-extended and vulnerable. The
stage is being set for a David’s slingshot of truth to bring down a
Goliath of lies. To understand how 9/11 has backfired, let’s review the
past few decades of history.
During the 1990s, the neoconservatives (and even some realists like
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has since repented of the way his views were
used to justify 9/11) believed a New Pearl Harbor would bring invaluable
benefits to American geo-strategy. According to their analysis,
famously expressed in Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard (1997) the US was “too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad.” In The Grand Chessboard,
Brzezinski stated that the US would increasingly find it “difficult to
fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the
circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat.” He ominously noted: “The public supported America’s engagement
in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor.”
The obvious solution: A New Pearl Harbor
that would convince the American people they were under massive
external threat. The neoconservatives, with their Israeli friends, were
glad to oblige. The result was 9/11: The event that was supposed to
enable a “New American Century.”
But the New Pearl Harbor backfired, for several reasons.
First, the “direct external threat,” alleged Arab and Muslim
extremism, was bogus. The Arab and Muslim world, with its vast energy
reserves and economic growth potential, should have been a US ally, not
an enemy. And the religious element in Arab-Muslim civilization was
especially conducive to friendship with the US, since the US and the
Islamic nations are the last monotheistic cultures on earth. It would
have been in the US strategic interest to be a strong ally of the Muslim
world against European secularism, Russian and Chinese post-communism,
and Hindu extremism. The deal should go something like this: America
protects the genuine independence, including the religious values,
dignity and autonomy, of its fellow monotheists; and in return gets a
say (though not total control) in oil pricing and policy.
But thanks to a false flag that turned the US against Islam and
Muslims, America chose precisely the wrong enemy. While Israel has
benefitted mightily from the US war on Islam, America has been digging
its own grave by wasting its substance, even its sanity, on a fight
against a phantom.
Secondly, rather than uniting Americans behind their leaders in a
“good fight” against the nation’s enemies, 9/11 has greatly
exacerbated the fractiousness and mistrust of leadership that makes it
hard for the US to conduct foreign policy. Polls show that 36% of Americans (over 100 million people) think 9/11 was an inside job, while a whopping 84% or so don’t believe they are getting the full truth about 9/11 from their government. Confidence in government is at record lows,
and the sickening feeling of having been lied to is largely responsible
for the US military’s inability to win wars – and for the rash of troop and veteran suicides that are far more lethal than any enemy army.
So 9/11, the neoconservative New Pearl Harbor, has
hollowed out America, not strengthened it. The false-flag attack on New
York and Washington has left the US morally and financially bankrupted,
without a functioning Constitution, fragmented in every conceivable
way, lacking domestic and international legitimacy, and no longer in a
position to be even a first among equals, much less a self-styled sole
superpower.
The neoconservatives, whose top priority has always been Israel, are
in a panic. Their only hope is to flee forward into ever-bigger wars.
That is why Netanyahu is so desperately lobbying for a war on Iran that
would set the Middle East, and perhaps the whole world, on fire. And
that is why such neoconservatives as Victoria Nuland are pushing for a war with Russia that would in all likelihood go nuclear.
World War III is the last desperate hope for the neoconservatives and
their Likudnik allies. Such a war would usher in martial law, enable
the suppression (or at least continued obfuscation) of the truth about
9/11, and save the neocons from treason trials, and Israel from
dismantlement.
Though Putin doesn’t want to play his ace in the hole, the 9/11 truth
card, until he absolutely has to, the moment of truth may have finally
arrived. As soon as it becomes absolutely clear that the US is never
going to back off from its attempt to turn Ukraine into a hostile NATO
base; that the economic war on Russia has reached a point of no return;
that the neoconservative “flight forward” into World War III is
inevitable…
…at that point, no sooner and no later, Putin will slap his 9/11
truth card down on the table and let the chips fall where they may.
If he plays it too soon, he is taking unnecessary risks.
But if he waits too long, the move will lose its impact. (Once World
War III is underway, 9/11 truth from the Russian government will be
dismissed as propaganda, and censorship under martial law will turn the
truth bomb into a dud.)
I believe the moment of truth is at hand. Strategically, Putin needs to play his 9/11 truth card now.
The Pravda story, confirmed by VT’s inside sources, suggests that the card is about to be played.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
Dr.
Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast
outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York
Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other
leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and
universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for
Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author,
and talk radio host.
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