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From American Dream To American Nightmare

By Jim Quinn/The Burning Platform

Our educational system has been an embarrassing failure for decades, as hundreds of billions of our taxes have been wasted on mediocre union teachers, useless curriculum, and bloated administration, while math and reading scores have steadily declined. If you were to pick up a fifth-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850, you would see what today would be considered college level material.

Every fact, book, historical event, and mathematical equation is at our fingertips, but somehow all our technological advances have only made us dumber. Upon closer examination, our public education system is not designed to encourage learning, individuality, critical thinking, or creating curious questioning citizens. It is purposely designed to matriculate non-thinking, obedient, rule following, non-questioning consumers who do as they are told by those designated as their superiors.

And this was before the more recent humiliating descent into madness wrought by the idiocy of wokeness, gender absurdity, censorship of speech, cancel culture, and anti-racist tripe. John Taylor Gatto has been decrying the uselessness of public education for decades, as 50% of college students are not intellectually capable of meeting the minimum requirements for success. The ridiculousness of degree majors (Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Pop Culture, African American Studies) would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.

Radical Communist professors infest our universities. With 76% of K-12 teachers being female, the feminization of boys from twelve years of indoctrination has been unavoidable. They have been forced to feel and emote, rather than think, question and experience life outside prison classrooms. When boys act like boys, they are diagnosed by women as having ADHD and immediately drugged into submission. School is now a detriment to learning and irrelevant to a person attaining wisdom and understanding.

The rot within our educational system does not appear to be a mistake. It seems to be a calculated goal of those controlling the system. Our overlords want obedient, easily manipulated, non-questioning, conformist, robotic consumers of material goods who believe debt equals wealth, the family unit is irrelevant, systematic racism is real, there are 65 genders, a flu with a 99.7% survival rate is a reason to surrender their remaining freedoms and liberties, and an all-knowing benevolent government is here to help them.

So, the ruling class does not see the dumbing down of Americans as a detriment to the country. They see it as an essential cog in their wealth seeking ventures and by raising barely sentient sheep, they can herd them in any desired direction. This entire Covid pandemic “crisis” hoax is nothing more than a further power grab by the ruling elite, who gladly embrace tyranny and false narratives to achieve their aims of more wealth, power, and control over your lives.

This country has been in a downward spiral since 2001, obscured by the use of debt to give the appearance of economic growth and rising financial markets. The Federal Reserve and our politicians have sold unborn generations into debt slavery, in their myopic, self-centered, destructive attempt to prop up this cancer ridden empire of lies, delusions, and greed. By still leaning on the relative strength of the USD and our military might, the American Empire gives the appearance of strength, but the rot within has hollowed out the tree of liberty and the coming storms will deal a final death blow to this noble experiment, started two centuries ago.

It did not have to happen this way, but we willingly surrendered our country to rapacious psychopaths bent on enriching themselves at the expense of current and future generations. These evil men who constitute what some call the Deep State, ruling oligarchy, or Davos crowd, are ego-maniacal tyrants bent on implementing their new world order, with them as supreme rulers and the rest of us as nothing more than chess pieces to be sacrificed at their will. It would be clear to a critical thinking populace, but we know the term “ignorant masses” is used to describe Americans because it is true for the vast majority. Plunder has become the way of life in our society.

Read the entire article HERE.

Big Corporations Now Deploying Woke Ideology The Way Intelligence Agencies Do: As A Disguise

By Glenn Greenwald

The British spy agency GCHQ is so aggressive, extreme and unconstrained by law or ethics that the NSA — not exactly world renowned for its restraint — often farms out spying activities too scandalous or illegal for the NSA to their eager British counterparts. There is, as the Snowden reporting demonstrated, virtually nothing too deceitful or invasive for the GCHQ. They spy on entire populations, deliberately disseminate fake news, exploit psychological research to control behavior and manipulate public perception, and destroy the reputations, including through the use of sex traps, of anyone deemed adversarial to the British government.

But they want you to know that they absolutely adore gay people. In fact, they love the cause of LGBT equality so very much that, beginning on May 17, 2015 — International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia — they started draping their creepy, UFO-style headquarters in the colors of the rainbow flag. The prior year, in 2014, they had merely raised the rainbow flag in front of their headquarters, but in 2015, they announced, “we wanted to make a bold statement to show the nation we serve how strongly we believe in this.”

Who could possibly be opposed to an institution that offers such noble gestures and works behind such a pretty facade? How bad could the GCHQ really be if they are so deeply committed to the rights of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and trans people? Sure, maybe they go a little overboard with the spying sometimes, and maybe some of their surveillance and disinformation programs are a bit questionable, and they do not necessarily have the highest regard for law, privacy and truth. But we know that, deep down, these are fundamentally good people working within a fundamentally benign institution. Just look at their flamboyant support for this virtuous cause of social justice.

Similar agencies of deceit, militarism and imperialism now robustly use this same branding tactic. The CIA — in between military coups, domestic disinformation campaigns, planting false stories with their journalist-partners, and drone-assassinating U.S. citizens without due process — joyously celebrates Women’s Day, promotes what it calls The Agency Network of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Officers (ANGLE), hosts activities for Pride Month, and organizes events to commemorate Black History Month. The FBI does the same.

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Large corporations have obviously witnessed the success of this tactic — to prettify the face of militarism and imperialism with the costumes of social justice — and are now weaponizing it for themselves. As a result, they are becoming increasingly aggressive in their involvement in partisan and highly politicized debates, always on the side of the same causes of social justice which entities of imperialism and militarism have so effectively co-opted.

Read the entire article HERE.

“We’re #1”: Yet Another Ignominious All-Time Record High Is Established In The Late, Great United States…

By Michael Snyder/The Economic Collapse Blog

Whenever it seems like this country can’t possibly sink any lower, we always seem to find a way to top ourselves.  According to a report that was just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in the United States reached the highest level ever recorded in 2019.  Thanks to the popularity of Internet “dating apps”, there has been a boom in casual sex in recent years, and this has resulted in a tsunami of STD cases that is absolutely unprecedented in our history.  Needless to say, this is not a sign of a healthy society.

Of course things were not always this bad.  In fact, if you go back to the early days of the Bush administration, syphilis had almost been entirely wiped out, and cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea were at very low levels…

“Less than 20 years ago, gonorrhea rates in the U.S. were at historic lows, syphilis was close to elimination, and advances in chlamydia diagnostics made it easier to detect infections,” said Raul Romaguera, DMD, MPH, acting director for CDC’s Division of STD Prevention in a written statement.

“That progress has since unraveled.”

Unfortunately, the landscape has completely changed since that time.  Just check out these numbers…

Data showed 1.8 million cases of chlamydia, 616,000 cases gonorrhea and 129,000 cases of syphilis.

Comparatively, in 2000, there were 709,000 cases of chlamydia, 363,000 cases gonorrhea and 31,000 cases of syphilis.

There are a lot of things that we want America to be great at, but spreading sexually-transmitted diseases is not one of them.

And the numbers tell us that cases have been rising at a particularly frightening pace since 2015…

For 2019, health departments across the U.S. reported 1.8 million cases of chlamydia, an almost 20% increase since 2015; 616,392 cases of gonorrhea, more than 50% higher than 2015, and 129,813 cases of all stages of syphilis, a whopping 70% increase, the CDC said.

So why is this happening?

Well, an NPR article on this subject is pointing out that dating apps have made finding casual sex easier than ordering a pizza…

There are many factors that contribute to the rise of STDs, and syphilis in particular.

In the gay community in San Francisco, for example, the rise of mobile dating apps like Grindr and Tinder made finding a date “faster than getting pizza delivered to your home,” says Dan Wohlfeiler, an STD prevention specialist and co-founder of Building Healthy Online Communities, which uses these apps to improve gay men’s health.

These dating apps are particularly popular among young people and in the gay community, and this is clearly showing up in the case numbers…

Additionally, gay and bisexual men and younger people also faced an increased burden. According to the report, gay and bisexual men made up nearly half of all 2019 primary and secondary syphilis cases and had gonorrhea rates that were 42 times higher than heterosexual men in some areas, whereas people aged 15 to 24 years accounted for 61% of chlamydia cases and 42% of gonorrhea cases.

It is important to keep in mind that chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are just three pieces of a much larger puzzle.

According to the CDC, there are dozens of STDs currently spreading in the United States.  Approximately 20 million new STD infections occur in the U.S. every single year, and at any moment in time approximately 110 million Americans are dealing with a sexually-transmitted disease…

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have long been a formidable challenge for public health. CDC estimates that approximately 20 million new STD infections occur in the United States each year, and that more than 110 million total (new and existing) people are infected at any given time. These infections also are an economic drain on the U.S. healthcare system. Data suggest the direct cost of treating STDs in the United States is nearly $16 billion annually. Even more concerning, some STDs are becoming increasingly resistant to antimicrobials used to treat them.

According to Google, the current population of the United States is 328 million.

So if you have casual sex with some random person, there is a more than one in three chance that person will be infected.

Read the entire article HERE.

The mindless mask regime might be here to stay, unless YOU resist it

Via The New York Post

The masks might be forever. We have to come to terms with the fact that a large chunk of the US population will be wearing masks in public for years, maybe even decades to come.

Even if we unquestionably achieve herd immunity, even if 100 percent of the population is vaccinated, even if COVID cases nationwide drop to zero and even if the coronavirus by some miracle learns to communicate in a human language and tells us, forthrightly, “Well, you beat me,” some Americans, especially those in blue metropolises, will continue to cover their faces — and shame you for not going along.

It’s a massively depressing thought.

For more than a year, public-health authorities have urged us to put up with temporary inconveniences, always with the soothing promise that it will be only a little while longer. But recently, NPR cheerfully reported about the growing number of people who see masks as a source of Permanent and Absolute Safety.

Flu and other respiratory illnesses are down this year owing to our ubiquitous face coverings, our state-run news agency tells us, so maybe we should just keep wearing them. Meanwhile, the rapper Will.i.am and Honeywell have introduced a super-duper smart mask that runs $300. The “Xupermask” allows the wearer to chat on the phone or listen to some dulcet music while signaling her virtue.

None of this should give anyone the slightest bit of confidence that the days of ubiquitous mask wearing will soon be behind us.

Yes, masks reduce the transmission of airborne illnesses. You know what else reduces transmission? Staying in a protective plastic bubble in your living room and never venturing into the dirty, filthy, infectious outdoors. And even if it makes sense to wear a mask in tight indoor quarters, it is utterly unscientific and, yes, moronic to wear them outside, and yet blue-state denizens insist.

Sigh. The mask fanatics — some of whom hold advanced degrees that make them no wiser as human beings — can’t be reasoned with.

Read the entire article HERE.

FLASHBACK: Globalist Henry Kissinger: Coronavirus Will Forever Alter the World Order

Via The New American

The establishment insider called for vaccines, world government, and big government socialism in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

The global elites have spoken.

Henry Kissinger (shown), the globalist-minded diplomat who played a pivotal role shaping U.S. foreign policy under the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, has solemnly declared that the global order must and will change dramatically in response to the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled “The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order,” Kissinger, calls for greater international cooperation in preventing and addressing future pandemics, arguing that the individual efforts of individual nations are insufficient to deal with crises of this magnitude.

“When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, many countries’ institutions will be perceived as having failed,” Kissinger writes, insinuating that this will prime the public into not only accepting, but demanding, radical political change better able to protect them from infectious disease.

In the “post-coronavirus order,” Kissinger asserts:

Leaders are dealing with the crisis on a largely national basis, but the virus’s society-dissolving effects do not recognize borders. While the assault on human health will — hopefully — be temporary, the political and economic upheaval it has unleashed could last for generations. No country, not even the U.S., can in a purely national effort overcome the virus. Addressing the necessities of the moment must ultimately be coupled with a global collaborative vision and program. If we cannot do both in tandem, we will face the worst of each.

Describing the effort needed as akin in scope to the Marshall Plan and the Manhattan Project, Kissinger, who famously said “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,” proposes honing-in on three “domains” in building the post-virus world.

First, the German-born political scientist says, America must “shore up global resilience to infectious disease.” How? By developing new “technologies for infection control and commensurate vaccines across large populations.”

It should be noted that Bill Gates, the world’s richest man in the years he isn’t edged out by Jeff Bezos, plans to spend billions of dollars (and has already spent hundreds of millions) to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

Gates is a longtime insider of the globalist-socialist elite, perhaps one of its chief members, considering his vast wealth. He has called the free market “inept” at solving climate change (believing a global big government regime would do better) and was even inducted into Communist China’s elite Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The Gates are known proponents of population control, and Bill had a cozy relationship with establishment-connected sex trafficker Jeff Epstein, giving $2 million to MIT at the deceased money man’s request.

Are Bill Gates’ projects what Kissinger has in mind when he says we need “commensurate vaccines across large populations”?

It wouldn’t be surprising, considering the two men run in the same globalist circles. Gates works with the world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, of which Kissinger is a member (as was Epstein).

And curiously, in October of last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with the World Economic Forum and the John Hopkins Center for Health Security in an “exercise” called Event 201, which calculated how the world would respond to a coronavirus pandemic.

Kissinger goes on to say that Step Two should be to “heal the wounds of the world economy.” Hearkening back to the 2008 financial crisis, Kissinger calls for programs to ameliorate chaos, suggesting the big government bailouts and government interventionism we witnessed in response to the Great Recession.

But Kissinger, ever the globalist, wants to make sure we don’t let coronavirus push us toward nationalism rather than internationalism. In his third “domain,” the 96-year-old says the pandemic “has prompted an anachronism, a revival of the walled city in an age when prosperity depends on global trade and movement of people.”

Kissinger wants the nations of the world to resist this urge, the urge of closed borders and national autonomy, and instead “safeguard the principles of the liberal world order,” i.e. a politically and economically integrated world in which nations submit to the authority of regional and international bodies such as the European Union and the United Nations.

Calling for restraint from all sides in this “epochal period,” Kissinger asserts that failure to preserve the liberal order “could set the world on fire.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Man Imprisoned In Gulag Just Glad President Isn’t Tweeting Mean Things

Via The Babylon Bee

PORTLAND, OR—A man in a Portland-area gulag expressed today that he’s glad the president isn’t tweeting mean things anymore.

He was hauled away to the gulag after it was revealed that he voted Republican in 2004. He recanted and promised to do better, but his crimes were deemed too bad to integrate him back into society, and so he was sentenced to 100 years’ hard labor at the Kamala Harris Peace and Love Facility for Adults.

Despite his predicament, the man is happy there are no more mean tweets from the man in the White House.

“I mean, yeah, Biden isn’t perfect — but at least he’s not Trump,” he said to his cellmate as they shared a rat. “The destruction of all our institutions is bad, but his tweets are pretty good. He has people write them for him and they sound really smart and stuff. No misspellings or typos. Seems like a decent guy.”

He also said he’s not super-happy with the demolishing of the Supreme Court, the abolishing of the Electoral College, the increase in spending and rampant inflation, $100 gas, and tens of thousands of people pouring across our southern border. But, he says, the important thing is that the president seems civil and decent.

“Things weren’t so bad under Trump,” he admitted. “But his tweets were beyond the pale. I’m glad we don’t live in that dystopia where Trump said mean things sometimes anymore.”

Check out all of the Bee’s takes on a world gone mad HERE.

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