Common Core: The Demoralization and Dehumanization of our Youth Part 1

The Obama Administration has been busy. President Obama promised that he would "fundamentally transform" America, and he was dead serious. One of the latest moves has been largely ignored in the mainstream media. Common Core is the Obama Administration's overhaul of the public education system, and it's turning out to be just as much if not more of a disaster than even Obamacare. But unfortunately this goes way beyond just Obama and the American Progressive movement. Here I will attempt to follow the money and find out just what this new set of standards and curriculum is all about. Make sure to follow all the links provided here, as they can provide much more info than I can fit in this article.

For starters, the first question we must ask is "What is Common Core?" and how did it begin? Well, it goes all the way back to before Obama was even in office. In June 2008 The Hunt Institute for Education Leadership hosted a conference with the National Governors Association to discuss writing a common set of standards for public schools. This was funded by 2.2 Million Dollars provided by The Gates Foundation. Take note of that, because Bill Gates has his fingers all over this. Of course the stated goal was to "Make America a global leader in education", which just like any other progressive initiative sounds like a noble endeavor.

Following this conference, The NGA and the Council of Chief State School Officials (CCSSO) began accepting grants to fund the writing of the Common Core standards and curriculum. In December of 2008, during the transition of power from Bush to Obama, the NGA and CCSSO provided the Obama Administration with their plan. Titled "Benchmarking For Success", the plan outlined state adoption of a "Common Core" of international standards, and assured that state textbooks, curricula, and testing would reflect these standards.

In February of 2009, as part of The American Recovery and Restoration Act, Obama signed into law the "Race to the Top" program, and announced that 5 Billion Dollars had been allotted for these education incentives. Acceptance of Common Core was an "Absolute Priority" for states to get in on this funding.

Fast forward to the end of 2010, and 41 states and Washington DC had adopted the Common Core standards, with 5 more set to join by the end of 2011. So far as we've seen, this was all sugar coated with feel good language about "preparing our youth for the global marketplace of the 21st century". But as with anything the federal government does, the substance of how this all affects you is far beneath the surface of legalese and rhetoric. To date, The Gates Foundation has pumped $150 Million into the Common Core program.

As I briefly mentioned, Common Core is aligning our education system with a global set of standards. When anything is involved with international standards, obviously the UN is involved, and along with the UN comes their Agenda 21 program, which is much more of an involved subject than I can get into in this article alone. However I will attempt to connect some of the dots as to how Common Core relates to this

As much as this all has been buried by the mainstream media, those who have been paying attention have had some ample warning of this. Charlotte Iserbyt, who is a former high level employee in the Department of Education has done several excellent interviews on the subjects of education and how globalized standards will in reality serve to indoctrinate our youth to Agenda 21, and the leftist ideology.

Common Core may only be the tip of the iceberg of Agenda 21, but it is central to the movement towards global socialism. This is mainly because education is obviously compulsory for our youth, and if they can get a grip on our children in their youngest and most impressionable years, they will have a stranglehold on the future of our country. The higher education system in America has already become infested with thousands of professors who are spouting hard left communist ideologies on a daily basis, but this agenda seeks to begin the indoctrination from Kindergarten all the way through University.

In the interest of not getting too long winded, I will finish up part one with a few examples of how these standards are subscribing to an agenda of an all out assault on the moral fiber of America, with a goal of desensitizing our youth to the most radical fringes of society.

One of the most shocking things I have found in my research has been a movement toward the overt hyper sexualization of our children. Not just middle school and high school kids, but elementary and even as young as kindergarten students are beginning to see sexual indoctrination. In New York, there was an especially grotesque example of this, where children logging on to the Common Core test prep website were linked to a page with extremely vulgar sexual personality quizzes. While this was eventually pulled from the New York Common Core website, it just goes to show how the progressive movement is testing the waters and pushing the boundaries to see how much you will put up with.

This is obviously a large, in depth subject with a lot of moving parts, so this will probably end up being a running series of articles so we can attempt to cover as much as possible and hopefully educate ourselves together. There are many groups who are standing up and fighting back against this, and we are definitely not going to roll over to this agenda. The UN wishes to impose its will on us and establish global rule through fiat and backroom agreements and treaties. There is much to learn and they have a head start as they have been working this movement of globalization since its inception after World War 2. This just means that we have to arm ourselves to the teeth with knowledge. This is truly an information war, and truth is our main weapon.

Bringing all of this into the light of the public eye is our best defense. The social engineers can accomplish much by tucking these initiatives into the back pages of thousand page bills that Congress is not reading anyway. I will work to unmask the true intentions of the ruling class, and I hope you will stand with me.

Where do we draw the line between compassion and dependency?

It's a very tough question to address, let alone answer. Of course government aid programs come from a host of well meaning thoughts full of good intentions, but the problems quickly become apparent that it is nearly impossible to keep these programs under control and prevent them from turning into a mass of fraud and abuse.

Just in the last few days we've seen reports showing just how out of control these welfare programs are.

Firstly, how can we ever expect unemployment numbers to drop in any substantial way when in many states it actually pays more to collect welfare than it does to work 40 hours a week at minimum wage? Combine those statistics with the fact that Obama has removed the limits for how long people can collect welfare, and you can begin to see how these policies are accomplishing nothing but breeding more perpetual dependence on these programs.

Food stamp programs have surely helped many families and countless children to keep themselves nourished during tough times. Unfortunately, along with this we have reports showing that the government overpaid food stamp recipients by 2.1 Billion dollars last year. New USDA stats also show that a record 20% of all US households received SNAP benefits during 2013. That's 23 Million households! In some states the numbers are as high as 30+%! With no true work requirements we move deeper down the road of total dependence.

Sure they claim that you must be actively seeking employment while receiving these benefits, but there is also nothing stopping people from basically sabotaging their own chances of landing a job by purposefully doing a shoddy job of filling out job applications, thus completing the requirements of job seeking while simultaneously ensuring the flow of free money continues.

All of this is happening alongside the government cutting off unemployment benefits which actually is a better system because there is at least a bit more accountability when it comes to seeking employment. But the government wants you dependent, especially the liberals who grandstand as being the compassionate ones, while the reality is they are really acting more like drug dealers, giving you the "potent" stuff, (ie free "benefits" making you feel like you're getting something for nothing), extending these programs indefinitely and meanwhile the people are failing to realize that the longer they milk the system, the harder it becomes to get gainful employment.

Do you think a prospective employer will be impressed by an application that basically says you've been sitting around for the past 2 years collecting a check paid for by that employer's tax money? He probably would be and rightly should be offended. So this cycle continues to grind forward, spitting out the poor saps that bought into the nonsensical idea of a perpetual free lunch.

Then we come to probably the toughest program to pin down in terms of drawing a line, and that is SSI/Disability. West Virginia in particular just has gone through a big fiasco with disability judges and corruption and that's definitely not making this issue any easier to pin down. Obviously it's a noble thing to want to provide for those who physically cannot provide for themselves, but it is painfully obvious that this system is probably the worst breeding ground for fraud and abuse. This leads to people who genuinely are in need of help having to fight like dogs and pay a hefty price for legal representation to navigate the system, and also leads to things happening like addicts, alcoholics, and cases of mild depression getting paid, while people with much more debilitating (and not self inflicted) conditions being left to fight an increasingly uphill battle.

I definitely don't claim to have the answers to these problems. They have become so pervasive, so deeply entrenched in our culture that even if we made a commitment to work towards reform today, it would likely take years or even decades to find solutions, let alone implement them.

Complicating all of these matters even further is the growing income gap as the middle class is being increasingly squeezed, while those at the top can afford to buy politicians and procure huge amounts of corporate welfare. The richest of the rich are able to procure endless supplies of easy money at near zero interest and exponentially compound and centralize their wealth through derivatives, high frequency trading, and countless other market manipulations that the vast majority of people can't even begin to fully understand.

So once you step back and look at the bigger picture, it begins to become clear that what is touted as compassionate and love for the less fortunate is in reality nothing more than a shell game to transform what used to be our wonderful system of free market capitalism into nothing short of crony corporatism.

I implore all who read this to do your own research, learn all you can about these systems of control and together we can pick ourselves up and restore our republic to the great bastion of liberty that our founders envisioned.

Gov. Cuomo thinks you are Loco

For the Governor of New York to speak about people who are against infanticide with such disdain like being Pro Life is some kind of dirty, evil position to take isn't just sad, it's borderline criminal... 55 MILLION of our unborn have been snuffed out since Roe v Wade, as if that's something to be proud of, as if we've saved those women from the burden of giving life... Sure, some of those babies would have had tough childhoods. Some of them may have grown up to be murderers or rapists, but how is that any reason to not give them at least a shot at life? Would you like to be judged for things you might do in the future? That's the kind of precedent being set here.

You can't really get the whole picture of how grotesque Mr. Cuomo's comments are without listening to the audio for yourself. The hatred and disgust in his voice is more than apparent. His tone is thick with rage, and you can almost feel his lust for the blood of the unborn.

These are the kind of people we have allowed to gain a stranglehold on power in this country. Those who not only love to belittle the value of human life, but also would have you believe that murdering babies is empowering and liberating women. But the Governor's comments didn't stop there. He went on to attack all conservative viewpoints in general, also showing equal disgust and disdain for anyone who is for the 2nd Amendment and the basic right of self defense. While that viewpoint isn't all that surprising coming from a leftist, he went on to say that if you hold these conservative viewpoints, then you have no place in the state of New York.

Sure, we can write this off as a left wing loon who has no grasp of our Constitution or the idea of unalienable rights, but the reality is far more dangerous and dark than that.

Conservatives have allowed this kind of thinking to become not only pervasive in our culture, but also very powerful. For those same leftists who hold these radical viewpoints have been extremely effective in stifling dissenting voices by viciously attacking conservatives. Not only are we constantly portrayed as racist, homophobic, anti-women, backwards ignorant redneck bigots, but the leftists have also become adept at using our own government against us.

When conservatives try to organize they are audited and constantly harassed by the IRS. The DOJ and NSA target conservative journalists and commentators. The left has a giant, well oiled and well funded propaganda machine dedicated to reading and attacking all conservative media. Groups like the SPLC and the ADL have an unlimited warchest and are always on the warpath. Even our own President has the audacity to insinuate that if you are against his policies that must mean you are racist.

The race card is an extremely effective one too, because it automatically puts people on the defensive, and forces them to dispel the accusation instead of being able to argue the merits of one position or another.

While all of this may be discouraging, to me it lights the fire in my gut to stand up. Because the radical left has no fear in their positions, they have become emboldened over the last decade. So too we should have no fear in standing against them.

So be daring my fellow Americans, dare to stand in the face of tyranny, stand in the face of the labels and name calling, stand up, for the only other option is to lay down and be trampled.