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2010-05-01T19:00:00.000Z
Carol J Burns
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<p align="center"><strong>In July, we will roll-out three new pricing plans and begin phasing out our free service.</strong></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: small"><span style="COLOR: #339966">As part of this change, we'll be phasing out our free service. We will announce further details about Ning's product roadmap and different pricing options on May 4, 2010.…</span></span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>In July, we will roll-out three new pricing plans and begin phasing out our free service.</strong></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: small"><span style="COLOR: #339966">As part of this change, we'll be phasing out our free service. We will announce further details about Ning's product roadmap and different pricing options on May 4, 2010.</span></span></strong></p>
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Three-Stage Vaccinations May Create Perfect Cytokine Storm
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2009-11-13T22:58:31.000Z
Carol J Burns
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/07/30/three-stage-vaccinations-may-create-perfect-cytokine-storm/" rel="bookmark"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #008000;">Three-Stage Vaccinations May Create Perfect Cytokine Storm</span></span></strong></a></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">"Squalene produces auto-immunity and eventually death in everyone who takes…</span></span></strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/07/30/three-stage-vaccinations-may-create-perfect-cytokine-storm/"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #008000;">Three-Stage Vaccinations May Create Perfect Cytokine Storm</span></span></strong></a></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">"Squalene produces auto-immunity and eventually death in everyone who takes it"</span></span></strong></em></p>
<p><img src="http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/files/2009/07/vaccine4.jpeg" alt="vaccine4" width="118" height="111"/><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #339966;">The</span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #339966;">vaccine is to be given by a series of three injections. Speaking on the Republic Broadcasting Network with Dr. Rebecca Carley as host on July 11th, meta-analyst and vaccine researcher Patrick Jordan reported belief that the first injection will be for the purpose of turning off the victim's immune system. The second injection will be for the purpose of loading people with deadly organisms. And the third injection will be to turn the immune system back on for the purpose of creating a cytokine storm that will deal a lethal blow to the body.</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="font-size: small;">In his chronicle of the connection between vaccines and death, Jordan pointed out that in 1915 the pertussis vaccine became available and was widely given. This bacterial poison from whopping cough, called pertussis coxon, so depresses the immune system that it is used in laboratories today to turn off nutrafils and reduce white blood cell counts. Then, in 1918, soldiers who had received the pertussis vaccine were deployed to Europe, where they were given another unknown vaccine. They were then exposed to a Lucite gas, which is an arsenic compound, and phosgenegas, a chlorine compound. As a result, their immune systems kicked in with a cytokine storm that killed many of the otherwise healthy young men. This is the 1,2,3 punch Jordan is warning will come again with the "swine flu" vaccinations.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have been conditioned to think of external microbes as our enemy during a time of influenza. But our own immune systems are potentially more lethal. When the body detects foreign microorganisms indicating an infection, it can respond by overprotecting the site of that infection. In its hurry to get antibodies to the infection site, the body may dispatch so many that the level of cytokines becomes highly elevated, creating a cytokine storm that can be fatal. For example, during a lung infection, a cytokine storm can potentially block airways and result in suffocation. (What is a Cytokine Storm, <a href="www.wisegeek.com" target="_blank">www.wisegeek.com</a>)</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jordan continued by painting a picture outlined in the WHO Memorandum Number 1 with a study that found virus infections make antibody and antigen complexes. These complexes can clog blood vessels or implant tissue, making the body eventually attack itself. The main focus of this study was kidney disease. Animals with induced immune system deficiency were infected with lethal virus until every single cell in their bodies reflected the disease. But for a time these animals ran around like there was nothing wrong with them because their immune system was so depressed that it was making no effort to fight the disease, and there was no immune response. The WHO experimenters then took their lab animals and stimulated the cell-mediated immune response, and the animals died immediately from their bodies attacking themselves in the kind of cytokine storm associated with the 1918 Spanish flu.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #339966;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even if this described scenario does not develop, Jordan points out that the current "swine flu" vaccine is made with an adjuvant that may contain a material poison, salmonella, or typhoid fever toxin, along with squalene. Although not known with certainty, the second round of injections given to the soldiers in 1918 is believed to have contained typhus. Squalene produces auto-immunity and eventually death in everyone who takes it.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #339966;">Squalene contributed to the cascade reactions known as Gulf War Syndrome that left GIs with arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, photosensitive rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood</span></strong> <span style="color: #339966;"><strong>changes, neuro-psychiatric problems, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and other diseases.</strong></span></span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is the Cytokine Storm?</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">We think of external microbes as our worst enemy during an outbreak of <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-influenza.htm">influenza</a> or <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bronchitis.htm">bronchitis</a> but our own immune system is potentially more lethal. When our body detects foreign microorganisms indicating an infection, our body might respond by over-protecting the site of infection. The body may race so many <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-antibodies.htm">antibodies</a> to the infection site that they collect in a cytokine storm. When the infection is in the lungs, for example, a cytokine storm can potentially block airways and result in suffocation. Medical researchers have identified the causes and stages of the cytokine storm and are working on treatments to weaken an overactive immune response.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">At all times, white blood cells circulate in the bloodstream and are the first to sense if a virus or bacteria has infiltrated the body. Immediately, our body sends immune cells, including T-cells and macrophages, to attack the infection. During this stage, our immunity functions properly, and immune cells attack the microbes so they do not get too strong a foothold in our lungs.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">For reasons not completely known, too many immune cells can be sent to the infection site. This happens when a particular type of molecule in the body, known as <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-cytokines.htm">cytokines</a>, activate the immune cells at the infection site and cause more immune cells to flood the site of infection. This propagates what is referred to as a cytokine storm where far too many immune cells are caught in an endless loop of calling more and more immune cells to fight the infection. The cytokine storm ends up inflaming the tissue surrounding the infection.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">When the infection is in the lungs, severe inflammation caused by a cytokine storm can cause permanent lung damage. A prolonged cytokine storm will eventually shut down breathing altogether. Airducts get clogged and cells no longer properly absorb <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-oxygen.htm">oxygen</a>. This is what makes the cytokine storm so deadly in certain epidemic strains, such as bird <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-influenza.htm">flu</a>. Even bronchitis, other varieties of influenza, <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-pneumonia.htm">pneumonia</a>, <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-sepsis.htm">sepsis</a> and possibly rheumatoid <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-arthritis.htm">arthritis</a> are susceptible to triggering a cytokine storm.Of course, flu vaccines are usually effective at preventing the flu during its peak season. But they are no guarantee, especially when flu strains mutate after the vaccine has been manufactured. Therefore, researchers are pursuing other methods of preventing the cytokine storm by bioengineering a drug that could slow the snowball effect of antibodies. They hope to force the cytokines to recirculate in the bloodstream, rather than pool in the lungs. Experts predict that a major influenza <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-pandemic.htm">pandemic</a> could kill millions of people worldwide as it has done in centuries past.</span></p>
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Homeland Security Targeting Christians
tag:12160.info,2009-09-09:2649739:BlogPost:98441
2009-09-09T18:50:17.000Z
Carol J Burns
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em><a href="http://www.ldsresources.net/homeland-security-targeting-christians/" style="CURSOR: pointer" title="Homeland Security Targeting Christians">Homeland Security Targeting Christians</a></em></span></strong><p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em>April 19th, 2009 at 7:50 pm</em></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em>A Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment equates Christians who believe…</em></span></strong></p>
<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em><a style="CURSOR: pointer" title="Homeland Security Targeting Christians" href="http://www.ldsresources.net/homeland-security-targeting-christians/">Homeland Security Targeting Christians</a></em></span></strong><p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em>April 19th, 2009 at 7:50 pm</em></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em>A Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment equates Christians who believe in "end times prophecies" with violent terrorists and states that radical extremists are "stockpiling" food in fear of Obama administration regulations that may facilitate the occurrence of prophesied events.</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em>This newly uncovered document is just the latest in a long sordid line of training manuals in which the federal government characterizes tens of millions of American citizens as potentially violent terrorists who are a threat to law enforcement. The document is titled: <a style="CURSOR: pointer" title="Right Wing Extremism" href="http://www.ldsresources.net/download/rightwing-dhs.pdf">Right Wing Extremism</a>. It states, in part:</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><em>"Antigovernment conspiracy theories and <strong>"end times" prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food</strong>, ammunition, and weapons."</em></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Simply put, any Christian who believes in the end times prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ would be labeled as a terrorist. In addition, <strong>anyone who has a food storage is now labeled as a terrorist.</strong></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>This is among the first of many attacks to come against Christians by the Socialist Obama Administration! Perhaps this might be why the General Authorities have stopped telling people to get a food storage?</strong></p>
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HOMELAND SECURITY LINKS HOME SCHOOLERS TO TERRORISTS
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2009-09-09T18:45:18.000Z
Carol J Burns
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>HOMELAND SECURITY LINKS HOME SCHOOLERS TO TERRORISTS</strong></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>HOMELAND SECURITY LINKS HOME SCHOOLERS TO TERRORISTS</strong></span></strong></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align="left"><strong>October 12, 2004</strong></p>
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<blockquote><strong>"The public school establishment hates homeschoolers. They've smeared the movement as a conspiracy of conservative Christian zealots.... They've painted homeschooling parents as uneducated and negligent. And now, under the guise of preparing students for a violent terrorist attack, educators in one public school district are casting homeschoolers as bomb-detonating militants."<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> Michelle Malkin, "<a href="http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040923-084643-5886r.htm">Homeschooling ambush</a>"</strong></blockquote>
<p align="left"><strong>On September 20, the Department of Homeland Security sponsored a mock assault on a school bus. The fictitious terrorists who supposedly planted a bomb on a school bus were portrayed as a group of home schooling radicals labeled "Wackos Against Schools and Education." <a href="http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-5/109586432686410.xml?muchronicle?NEM">The Muskegon Chronicle</a> describes the role-playing scenario involving local students:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"Muskegon County officials want to be prepared in case the unthinkable happens here. So it was that 25 students ... found themselves crammed at odd angles into a school bus that had been turned onto its side Tuesday morning.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"The scenario for the exercise on Durham Road near Holton-Whitehall Road began after a domestic terrorist group exploded a bomb in the front of the bus. The student victims wore makeup that simulated blood, burns and other injuries. Each wore a tag with a made-up name, age, type of injury and other information.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"Many of the volunteers were from theater class. 'We all carried on and got into character as best we could,' said Kristin Smith, 17, a Reeths-Puffer senior. They screamed and banged on the inside of the bus, waiting to be rescued. Some wouldn't get out alive. Others were assigned to die on the way to the hospital....</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"Organizers tried to make the exercise as realistic as possible, complete with distraught parents arriving at the scene."<a href="#_ftn2">[2]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Do you wonder why <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/homeland.htm">Homeland Security</a> officials would sponsor an emergency preparedness drill that painted home schooling families as bomb-planting terrorists? We may never know the full answer, but recent history of "prevention" tactics and hostility toward traditional values exposes some frightening facts many Americans prefer to ignore.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>The script for this disaster drill was written by Daniel Stout, chief deputy for emergency services with the Muskegon County Sheriff's Department. After choosing to label peaceable home schooling families (rather than Islamic radicals) as the terrorist killers, Stout was told that the event would be offensive -- but he chose to ignore the warning.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>In a report titled <a href="http://hslda.org/hs/state/mi/200409220.asp">"Homeschoolers Portrayed as "Terrorists,"</a> Michigan's Home School Legal Defense Association (<a href="http://hslda.org/hs/state/MI/">HSLDA</a>) adds the following details:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"On Monday, September 20, the Muskegon Chronicle reported on a Department of Homeland Security sponsored terrorism drill involving the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and the Muskegon County Emergency Services. A mock attack would occur on a public school bus. The simulated attack would come from a fictitious radical group called 'Wackos Against Schools and Education' who believe everyone should be homeschooled.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"We immediately called the Muskegon Chronicle and explained how this is offensive to millions of people who have chosen to exercise their right to homeschool. Homeschoolers have never committed violent acts against public schools or any terrorist acts. Comparing us to the most dangerous people in the world is a terrible insult and a travesty."<a href="#_ftn3">[3]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Michael H. Bozym, Superintendent, Muskegon Area Intermediate School District responded with this apology:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"The Muskegon Area Intermediate School District (MAISD) shared the disappointment of others when we learned the September 21, 2004, emergency preparedness drill referenced home-schoolers as the fictitious group responsible for a mock disaster. We apologize.... A sample scenario was required in order to receive the necessary funding to stage the event. The Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and our local schools did not construct the scenario, but participated with other county agencies, hospitals, and emergency responders in conducting the drill.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"This exercise was meant to sharpen the skills and response time of our emergency services personnel, but was unfortunately clouded by the choice of this fictional group.... We sincerely regret offending home school educators."<a href="#_ftn3">[3]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Daniel Stout added his apology for the bias expressed in his script:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"In the world today, Homeland security is a very important issue. The training of our nation to respond to the many threats we face is of utmost importance. As part of a full scale homeland security exercise on September 21, 2004 in Muskegon, I wrote about a fictional group and fictional scenario for the exercise. This fictional group and scenario made reference to fictional people who are against schools. This fictional group and scenario was not meant to offend any home school students. It has nothing to do with any home school population...."<a href="#_ftn3">[3]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>It has a lot to do with the home school population! Though it would have been politically incorrect to link fictional terrorists to Muslim radicals, home schooling families have become a permissible target for all kinds of hostile media assaults. Like Christian pastors and fathers, they face endless mockery and ridicule in movies, slanted news reports, and public school curricula. They simply don't fit the new vision of the 21st century community.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>In light of our Supreme Court's growing tendency to seek legal models in European law, the following examples show an ominous trend:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>1. <a href="http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/afa/282003f.asp">New Sitcom Plans to Lampoon Home Schooling</a>: "A new cable TV sitcom pokes fun at home schoolers, pushing the myth that children who get their education at home lack sufficient 'socialization' skills. The WB network [providers for Yu-gi] will be airing a 30-minute comedy called The O'Keefes...."</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>2. <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/04/homeschooling_under_fire.htm">Homeschooling Under Fire</a>. "This view, which likens homeschooling to the criminal act of child abuse, was to become the pillar upon which Iowa's homeschool crisis was founded. A corollary view holds that homeschooling parents are potential 'closet child abusers,' and that the State must conduct routine surveillance of this atypical, 'abnormal' family. Many social reformers held the cynical notion that it was implausible that parents would desire to stay home and educate children out of genuine affection, devotion, and sincere conviction. The nasty inference was made that there must be some sinister ulterior motive for wanting to keep the children at home."</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>3. <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40332">Judges try to snatch homeschoolers - Families escape homeland to keep from losing children to state</a>: "Germans who choose to homeschool their children are coming under increasing pressure from the state with some families escaping the European Union nation to keep from having their children taken from them.... A few weeks ago, HSLDA reports, a German homeschool family escaped to Central America under threat of a judge who wanted to take custody of the couple's school-aged child. ... [See <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/ban-truth.htm">Ban truth - Reap Tyranny</a>]</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>4. <a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29751">Children flee homeschool cop</a>: "'The homeschooled boys have been on edge,' says their father Roger, since a truant officer came to the family's front door Oct. 3 and warned, 'I could have your children taken away.'"</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>WHY THE HOSTILITY TOWARD HOME SCHOOLING?</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>While home schooling parents are less likely to fight back, there are other reasons why change agents in education and government agencies would want to discourage home education. Home schooling families are unlikely to applaud today's march toward a government controlled system of "lifelong learning" in collective thinking and pluralistic values. They are more likely to trust the Bible and the U.S. Constitution than to trust the growing body of UN treaties. They prefer factual history to earth-centered myths and biased social studies curricula. And they avoid participation in the Hegelian dialectic process that immunizes adults as well as children against God's unchanging truths.<a href="#_ftn4">[4]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>In other words, their "separateness" doesn't fit the global plan for "continual change" and worldwide <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/solidarity.html">solidarity</a>. Remember Al Gore's sobering warning at a 1991 Communitarian conference in Washington DC: "Seeing ourselves as separate is the central problem in our political thinking."<a href="#_ftn5">[5]</a></strong></p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Gore's statement was quoted in the book, Spiritual Politics, co-authored by Corinne McLaughlin, a follower of the Dhjwal Khul, the spirit guide channeled by occultist Alice Bailey. Lest you think McLaughlin too "far out" to be relevant, know that she was the first Task Force Coordinator for President Clinton's Council for Sustainable Development. She also taught her dialectic mediation strategies at the Department of Education, Pentagon, and the EPA.<a href="#_ftn6">[6]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"There really is only one sin -- separateness," she states in her book. "War is more likely to spring from rampant nationalism, ethnocentrism, and intolerant religious fundamentalism -- all extreme and separative attitudes."<a href="#_ftn6">[6]</a> Her solution? The same as Clinton's: "What is needed as a cure for separateness is a deep sense of community -- that we're all in this together."</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Professor John Goodlad, an influential "change agent" in the global as well as national arena, would agree. He warned his fellow educators that "most youth still hold the same values as their parents.... If we do not alter this pattern, if we don't resocialize... our society may decay."<a href="#_ftn7">[7]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"Paradigm shifts are complicated," added Chester Finn, who helped Lamar Alexander market America 2000 to the public. "But shift we will."<a href="#_ftn8">[8]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>After the bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building in 1996, government and media leaders found an opportunity to blend a varied mix of "malcontents" into the singular group labeled the Radical Right. Day after day, the media's accusing pens pointed to suspected foes of American togetherness -- those whose "enraged rhetoric" had created a national "climate of hate and paranoia." They ranged from "rabid" radio hosts and armed "extremists" to Pat Robertson and concerned parents.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"Their coalition," said Time, "included well known-elements of far-right thought: tax protesters, Christian home schoolers, conspiracy theorists... and self-reliant types who resent a Federal Government that seems to favor grizzly bears and wolves over humans..."<a href="#_ftn9">[9]</a> All were implicated, for all had questioned the government's growing control over local schools and personal lives.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"There is a dedicated, very well organized, very well financed movement in America that is very anti-public schools, very anti-government...." said Lew Finch, the superintendent of schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "The ultimate example of that sentiment is the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City."<a href="#_ftn10">[10]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Finch's main target seemed to be Christian parents, those who supposedly want "all schools" to "be controlled by the church -- their church." Like many progressive educators, he felt hampered by parents who resisted two key parts of the new education system mandated through President Clinton's education program, Goals 2000: (1) the psychological strategies for changing their children's beliefs and values and (2) their government's plan to expand the educational bureaucracy through national standards and tests that emphasize attitudes, not academics.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Across the country, educators battling "the agenda of the Radical Right" express similar paranoia toward concerned parents. In state after state, leaders organize conferences to identify opposition groups, analyze their tactics, and plan counter-action. Many follow the suggestions from Ronald Havelock's book, The Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education. "[T]ry to identify resisters before they become vocal and committed," he wrote. "Resisters, like innovators, should be judged for relative sophistication and influence."<a href="#_ftn11">[11]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>A report titled "Primer on the Extremist Attacks on Public Education," teaches educators to do just that. Prepared by the California Teachers' Association, it also lists specific strategies for defeating "Extreme Right Groups" so that "the majority's moderate, more inclusive values may be promoted and protected...."<a href="#_ftn12">[12]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>HOMELAND SECURITY TARGETS POTENTIAL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>To understand the massive Homeland Security system, you may want to read "<a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/homeland.htm">Homeland Security and the transformation of America</a>." Notice its emphasis on prevention. As in the new push for "mental health" (i.e. pluralistic values and collective thinking), terms and goals are redefined. "Prevention" as used in security efforts shifts the public emphasis from catching actual terrorists to identifying potential terrorists. And who might they be? Who could one day become terrorists?</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>The White House's National Strategy explains the part played by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) in Homeland Security: "We will build and continually update a fully integrated, fully accessible terrorist watch list."<a href="#_ftn13">[13]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>One of JTTF's 56 FBI field offices -- located in Phoenix, Arizona -- printed a three-fold flier several years ago. The front panel states, "If you encounter any of the following, call the Joint Terrorism Task Force." Its list of suspects justifiably included "Hate Groups" such as "Skinheads, Nazis, Neo-Nazis (usually recognized by tattoos), KKK, White Nationalists...." But it also listed some surprising suspects:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>-'defenders' of US Constitution against federal government and the UN (Super Patriots)</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- groups of individuals engaged in para-military training</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>COMMON LAW MOVEMENT PROPONENTS</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- No driver's license</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- Refuse to identity themselves</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- Make numerous references to US Constitution</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- Claim driving is a right, not a privilege</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- Attempt to "police the police"</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>SINGLE ISSUE TERRORISTS</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>- Lone individuals"<a href="#_ftn14">[14]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>If you wonder why "lone individuals" would be listed, read "<a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/MentalHealth2-99.html">The UN Plan for Your Mental Health</a>." Remember, "separateness" does not fit today's vision of a united world characterized by solidarity and universal participation in Unesco's "lifelong learning" and <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/Reinventing2.htm">dialectic process</a>.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>The call for prevention opens the door to unthinkable methods. In "<a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/1-mental.htm">Legalizing Mind Control</a>," you saw that President Bush's Freedom Commission on Mental Health would involve continual assessments and monitoring of "human resources" for signs of broad and ambiguous signs of unwanted personality profiles. Home schooled children who might be considered loners, independent thinkers, unwilling to compromise or who prefer to work alone rather than in groups would be suspect.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>This vision of solidarity inspired socialist leaders decades ago. "It is urged upon the citizen that it is wrong for him to oppose economic, social, and political change," wrote Dr. Lewis A. Alesen's warnings in his 1956 book, Mental Robots. "He is admonished, urged, threatened, and cajoled by all manner of techniques both overt and covert to adopt a 'positive' attitude and to work for... the adoption of these proposed harbingers... of the perfect and classless society."<a href="#_ftn15">[15]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>The framework for control is in place. So is the process for managing, molding and monitoring "healthy communities" and "<a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/MentalHealth2-99.html">healthy people</a>" around the world.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>STRATEGIES THAT PRODUCE CHANGE</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>It's easier to change minds through an emotional fictional scenario than to engage the public in a factual debate. It's more effective to discredit non-conforming citizens by linking them to violent anarchists through suggestions or role-playing drills than to give logical answers to legitimate questions. History has shown that nothing crushes earnest but "separative" groups faster than well-planned disinformation and false accusations.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Role-playing simulations and fictional scenarios feed lasting suggestions to individual minds as well as to the public consciousness. These impressions take root and mold public values and planned resentments. That's why educational change agents use shocking stories to evoke the strong feelings needed to implant new values into the minds of our children. Whether imagined or real, events and stories that stir strong emotions build convincing mental models.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>This involuntary and unconscious process is part of a century-old plan for change. [See <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Books/BraveNewSchools/Chronology.htm">Chronology</a>]. Professor Raymond Houghton described the vision in a book titled, "To Nurture Humaneness," published in 1970 by the ASCD, the curriculum arm of the National Education Association. He wrote, "...absolute behavior control is imminent.... The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self-conscious realization that a crisis is at hand. Man will... never self-consciously know that it has happened."<a href="#_ftn16">[16]</a></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Storytelling and role-playing in community settings are vital to this process, for they create persuasive group illusions (and delusions) through imagined experiences that stir strong feelings. As Harvard Professor Chris Dede, a global leader the development of education technology programs, writes, "Sensory immersion helps learners grasp reality through illusion."<a href="#_ftn17">[17]</a> (See <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/suggestion.htm">The Power of Suggestion</a> and <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/charts/brainwashing.html">Brainwashing & How to Resist It</a>)</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>CHRISTIAN RESPONSE</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>We shouldn't be surprised. Jesus told us that hostility and persecution are normal to the true Christian life. "If they persecuted Me," said Jesus, "they will also persecute you... because they do not know the One who sent Me." (John 15:20-21)</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Our challenge is to follow God's narrow way in the midst of the world's pressure to conform to its inclusive way toward "continual change" and global oneness. Christian home schooling parents have made a wise but costly choice to guard and guide the training of their children. Their path will be increasingly difficult as they face new regulations, rising opposition and growing threats to their freedom. But our God -- the almightly King of heaven and earth -- assures us that He will indeed guard and guide those who trust and follow Him.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>"...in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:37-39</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong><strong>Endnotes:</strong></strong></p>
<p align="left"><a name="_ftn1" href="#_ftnref1"></a><strong>1.</strong> Michelle Maulkin, "<a href="http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040923-084643-5886r.htm">Homeschooling ambush</a>," The Washington Times, September 24, 2004 <br/><a name="_ftn2" href="#_ftnref2"></a><strong>2.</strong> Lisa Medendorp, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-5/109586432686410.xml?muchronicle?NEM">Mock terror exercise helps county practice emergency operations plan</a>", September 22, 2004The Muskegon Chronicle, September 22, 2004<br/><a name="_ftn3" href="#_ftnref3"></a><strong>3.</strong> <a href="http://hslda.org/hs/state/mi/200409220.asp">Homeschoolers Portrayed as "Terrorists</a>," the Home School Legal Defense Association (<a href="http://hslda.org/hs/state/MI/">HSLDA</a>) in Michigan <br/><a name="_ftn4" href="#_ftnref4"></a><strong>4.</strong> See <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/MentalHealth2-99.html">The UN Plan for Your Mental Health</a>, <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/cwhbcv3-98.html">Clinton's War on Hate Bans Christian Values</a>, <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/nis1196.html">An International Information System</a>, <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/brainwashing.html">Brainwashing in America</a>, <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/turfur12-98.html">Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules</a>, <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/whtpr96.html">What Happened to Parents' Rights</a>? <br/><a name="_ftn5" href="#_ftnref5"></a><strong>5.</strong> Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994),147. <br/><a name="_ftn6" href="#_ftnref6"></a><strong>6.</strong> See "<a href="http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/la21_198.html">Local Agenda 21</a>" at our web site. Corinne McLaughlin listed her experiences while conducting a workshop attended by Berit Kjos during a 50th anniversary celebration for the United Nations titled "Celebrating the Spirit" at the University of California at Berkeley, June 19-21, 1995. <br/><a name="_ftn7" href="#_ftnref7"></a><strong>7.</strong> John Goodlad, "Report of Task Force C: Strategies for Change," Schooling for the Future, a report to the President's Commission on Schools Finance, Issue #9, 1971. <br/><a name="_ftn8" href="#_ftnref8"></a><strong>8.</strong> Chester Finn, Jr., "The Biggest Reform of All," Phi Delta Kappan (April 1990); 592. <br/><a name="_ftn9" href="#_ftnref9"></a><strong>9.</strong> Philip Weiss, "Outcasts Digging in for the Apocalypse," Time (May 1, 1995); 48. <br/><a name="_ftn10" href="#_ftnref10"></a><strong>10.</strong> Anne Carothers-Kay, "School chief fighting the radical right," Des Moines Register, May 4, 1995. <br/><a name="_ftn11" href="#_ftnref11"></a><strong>11.</strong> Ronald G. Havelock, The Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, 1973);122. <br/><a name="_ftn12" href="#_ftnref12"></a><strong>12.</strong> CTA Human Rights Department and CTA Division of Governmental Relations, "Primer on the Extremist Attacks on Public Education," June 1994, page 13. <br/><a name="_ftn13" href="#_ftnref13"></a><strong>13.</strong> "<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/book/sect3-2.pdf">Domestic Counterterrosism</a>," The Department of Homeland Security, page 26. White House website page: <br/><a name="_ftn14" href="#_ftnref14"></a><strong>14.</strong> The author has a copy of the "Joint Terrorism Task Forces" flier. <br/><a name="_ftn15" href="#_ftnref15"></a><strong>15.</strong> Lewis Albert Alesen, Mental Robots (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1960); page 10-11.Mental Robots, 10-11 <br/><a name="_ftn16" href="#_ftnref16"></a><strong>16.</strong> Raymond Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness, ASCD (curriculum arm of the NEA), 1970. <br/><a name="_ftn17" href="#_ftnref17"></a><strong>17.</strong> Professor Chris Dede, <a href="http://www.nib.unicamp.br/recursos/distance_education/dede.htm">The Transformation of Distance Education to Distributed Learning</a>. This link is no longer active.</p>
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<hr/><p><em><span>Berit Kjos is a widely respected researcher, writer and conference speaker. A frequent guest on national radio and television programs, Kjos has been interviewed on Point of View (Marlin Maddoux), The 700 Club, Bible Answer Man, Beverly LaHaye Live, Crosstalk and Family Radio Network. She has also been a guest on "Talk Back Live" (CNN) and other secular radio and TV networks. Her last two books are A Twist of Faith and Brave New Schools.</span></em> <span><em>Kjos Ministries Web Site: <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/index.html">http://www.crossroad.to/index.html</a></em></span></p>
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