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Monday, April 28, 2014

Indiana Becomes First State to Formally Abandon Common Core

 

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The federal education standard known as Common Core has been essentially bribed into school districts with very little local debate.
Now as more parents and localities begin to take a deeper look at this curriculum, they're finding a multitude of inadequacies which appear to be agenda-driven and standard-lowering.
Until today resistance to Common Core has been small and relatively silent, but Indiana just became the first state to formally discard Common Core standards when their State Board of Education voted 10-1 to endorse a replacement standard.
The Associated Press reports:

One of the first states to adopt Common Core standards became the first state to formally abandon the national benchmarks, as Indiana's State Board of Education voted overwhelmingly Monday for a replacement that will guide student learning for years.
The board voted 10-1 to endorse the new benchmarks to guide what students in kindergarten through 12th grade should learn in math and English, which were created by a panel of faculty from Indiana universities and representatives from science and technology industries. The vote came ahead of the state's July deadline and could end months of heated debate.

"I hope that with this conversation behind us, we can stick with these standards and make sure we're not continually moving the goal posts on our students and educators," board member at-large Gordon Hendry said. "The reasons academic standards have been successful in places like Massachusetts is because legislators and policymakers picked a direction and stayed with it."
Indiana adopted Common Core in 2010 along with 44 other states. But states' rights advocates and tea party members later vocally opposed the Common Core standards, saying they were created without adequate local input.

The new benchmarks, however, are also under scrutiny as the activist group Hoosiers Against Common Core warned that the replacement is just a "rebranded" version of Common Core.
Indeed, the South Bend Superintendent of Schools said the new standards are "very, very, much aligned" with Common Core:

Indiana Becomes First State to Formally Abandon Common Core
Activist Post
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:01:00 GMT

Do “Something” – If It’s the Right Something

 

Congress is back, but not for long, according to The Washington Post:

Fewer than 200 days remain until Nov. 4, when Republicans are expected to expand their majority in the House. Democrats are fighting to maintain their narrow majority in the Senate. Congress will convene for about 60 days in the next six months as all members of the House and 36 senators continue campaigning. In the next five weeks, the House will meet for just 15 days with a weeklong Mother’s Day break in between. The Senate plans to work four consecutive weeks before spending a week at home for Memorial Day.

Typically around this point in a congressional cycle, legislators are expected to tackle a few high-profile items while walking on eggshells to survive in November.

Check out the full article here.

Reading the piece, I couldn’t help but think of an image we’ve posted on Campaign for Liberty’s Facebook page:

Do-Nothing

Legislators are criticized for their frequent trips out of town, but history has shown liberty to be far safer during the breaks, when the House and Senate’s only purpose is to be viewed by tourists.  A “do-something” Congress is desirable when that something is to defend liberty, uphold the Constitution, and roll back Big Government.  So C4L is continuing to press for votes on liberty-advancing bills such as Audit the Fed.  And with politicians’ eyes on job security, sustained and overwhelming grassroots pressure is critical to demonstrate the strength of support for key issues so that when Congress does act, freedom benefits.

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Do “Something” – If It’s the Right Something
Matthew Hawes
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:36:59 GMT

US southeast states brace for more tornadoes

 

Warning comes a day after powerful storms in the southeast kill at least 16 people and leave a trail of destruction.

US southeast states brace for more tornadoes
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:17:18 GMT

U.S. oil stockpiles hit record high levels

 

(OILPRICE) — Crude oil stockpiles in the United States are at record levels and, with no place to go, oil inventories may continue to build because of the accelerating rate of production from shale operations.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said April 23 that crude oil stockpiles along the Gulf Coast in an area known as Petroleum Administration for Defense District 3 (PADD 3) have reached more than 209 million barrels, the highest level since 1990.

Inventories at the storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, meanwhile, are at their lowest levels since 2009, at 26 million barrels.

More oil is flowing to PADD 3 because of expanding infrastructure in the region.

U.S. oil stockpiles hit record high levels
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Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:04:16 GMT

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Judge Jeanine: Harry Reid Made Millions in “Suspicious” Land Deals [VIDEO]

 

Judge Jeanine is one of the most blunt, honest, and powerful hosts in news and current events commentary in America today. Almost every one of her “Opening Statements” go viral as she manages to capture what millions of libertarian and conservative Americans are thinking almost every week. This week, she focused on something that everyone should care about: the corruption and likely crimes of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who just had an ethics complaint filed against him. Reid has

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Judge Jeanine: Harry Reid Made Millions in “Suspicious” Land Deals [VIDEO]
Shaun Connell
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:11:18 GMT

Political Movement to “Fire Harry Reid” Has Been Launched

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been called the “most hated” leader in Congress.  This is because he is a bully that uses his position and power to influence and intimidate other members of Congress, business people and regular citizens. Reid is also hated due to his appearance of being corrupt, making shady land deals and accepting bribes.  He is also viewed unfavorably for his naked nepotism, getting cushy jobs and lobbying positions for his sons, and giving over $30k

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Political Movement to “Fire Harry Reid” Has Been Launched
Ben Marquis
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:14:07 GMT

Bill Gates Criticised for Investment in G4S' Israel Torture Prisons

 

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Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:44:03 GMT

Explosive: What really happened to Sharyl Attkisson at CBS?

 

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Jon Rappoport
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Sharyl Attkisson, CBS’s top investigative reporter: gone, resigned, floating free, unchained, now viewed by the news establishment as an outsider, a defector, a weirdo with an axe to grind.
Among the controversial stories she covered at CBS: Benghazi. Just as she was digging below the surface of the Obama coverup, she was cut off and shut down by her network bosses.
Here’s the crux. The Rhodes brothers.
Ben Rhodes, David Rhodes.
Ben is a deputy national security advisor to Obama and writes speeches for him. In September 2012, Ben was “instrumental,” according to ABC News, in changing the White House talking points (the story) on what happened in Benghazi.
Ben’s brother, David, is president of CBS News. Attkisson was working for David. She was investigating all the changes (12) in the Benghazi talking points. She was shut down.

Nothing to see there, move along, eyes straight ahead, go back to sleep, zombie-zombie, it’s all good don’t worry, be happy, hope and change, the audacity of whatever.
Now, on top of this, Attkisson’s computers, at work and at home, were hacked while she was still at CBS. The network acknowledged this and said “they were investigating.” They’re still investigating. So are other unnamed entities.
Who hacked her computers? CBS? The White House? NSA?
Attkisson covered other stories at CBS that were highly problematic for the White House. Fast&Furious, for example. And in the summer of 2009, Attkisson struck gold on Swine Flu. You know, the pandemic that wasn’t. She discovered that the CDC, which is tasked with tracking numbers of cases of outbreaks, had, get this, stopped counting Swine Flu cases in America. Stopped.
But the CDC was still trumpeting the extreme danger of Swine Flu, with no way to measure its true impact.
Dr. Peter Doshi, long after the whole Swine Flu dud was over, wrote a stunning report for the British Medical Journal Online. Seems that every year, hundreds of thousands of samples from suspected and diagnosed flu patients are sent to labs for analysis—and only about 16% of these samples turn out to be positive for the flu.
That’s a killer of a revelation. Among other things, it means that most people who are told they have the flu couldn’t possibly have been protected by any flu vaccine, even assuming the vaccines are useful and effective…because these people don’t have the flu.
I wrote Attkisson about Dr. Doshi’s finding, and she got back to me, in essence saying, well, yes, this is why the CDC stopped counting Swine Flu cases.
Huge numbers of people who were being diagnosed with Swine Flu didn’t have any kind of flu at all.
CBS shut down Attkisson on both the Fast&Furious story and the Swine Flu story.
Here’s an interesting bombshell. On April 1, 2011, Attkisson authored a piece for CBS News, “Vaccines and Autism: a new scientific review.” She dispelled the notion that the vaccine-autism connection was a dead issue. All sorts of red flags went up the flagpole. Mainstream media are supposed to treat vaccines, all vaccines, as holy sacraments of the medical cartel. Praise them, bow down to them, never accuse them of doing harm of any kind.
Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of CBS, Attkisson’s employer, has a very significant stake in vaccines. His Foundation, on its site, states: “The Sumner M. Redstone Foundation’s contribution to the Global Poverty Project raising $118 million in pledges for vaccines…”
Redstone’s Foundation has also donated $1 million to a charity called Autism Speaks, which supports genetic testing for the diagnosis of Autism. You can be sure this charity has zero interest in reviving the vaccine-Autism debate and exposing the fact that there is most definitely a connection.
So Attkisson was stepping on Sumner Redstone’s toes with heavy boots.
Attkisson is now writing a book about her career. When published, it’ll land in the mainstream news cycle for a week or two at the most. Doesn’t matter how explosive its revelations are. She’s an outsider now. She isn’t in the loop. She isn’t playing the game according to the rules.
Therefore, my advice to her: come out swinging. Blast the whole rotting news establishment.
However, if Attkisson is angling for a new job at, say, FOX, or even CNN, whose ratings have gone down the toilet, she’ll have to pull her punches. Every major news outlet sits on its own reporters and gags them when things get too hot.
The first casualty in mainstream news is the truth.
Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Explosive: What really happened to Sharyl Attkisson at CBS?
Activist
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:18:00 GMT

Goodbye, Net Neutrality: FCC’s New Internet Rules ‘create incentives for discrimination’

 

AFP | Internet fast lanes that seemingly run counter to the concept of “net neutrality” would be allowed under rules proposed by US regulators.

Goodbye, Net Neutrality: FCC’s New Internet Rules ‘create incentives for discrimination’
Adan
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:08:16 GMT

Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Begin For Global Internet Censorship Plan

 

Daniel Taylor | TPP will create international “internet police” that will have the power to censor content and remove websites.

Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Begin For Global Internet Censorship Plan
kurtnimmoadmin
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:28:25 GMT