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		<title>By: nourishing obscurity &#187; Just how bad is education now?</title>
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		<dc:creator>nourishing obscurity &#187; Just how bad is education now?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] your pick of articles on the educational malaise &#8211; here, here or here, for starters.  Let&#8217;s avoid the trap this time round of ascribing the malaise [...]</description>
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		<title>By: nourishing obscurity &#187; Some reasons for the current state of education</title>
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		<dc:creator>nourishing obscurity &#187; Some reasons for the current state of education</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ordeal and ostracism.  You can put the IPCC under that heading and in education, it is also so in the historical roots of the dumbing down we now have.  More further down in the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ordeal and ostracism.  You can put the IPCC under that heading and in education, it is also so in the historical roots of the dumbing down we now have.  More further down in the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: All must have prizes &#171; nourishing obscurity</title>
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		<dc:creator>All must have prizes &#171; nourishing obscurity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The longer version of the history of the Lincoln School is here. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Fat Hen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fat Hen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can see where you are going James and I agree to a large extend, but I also think that the actual problem begins right after birth.

Children need a mom and ideally at least one granddad to minister to them 1-1, every day, all day (a dad would be too busy in most cases, granddads however have time, if you have the luxury of having one...)

The kid should start to count and read around 3, and by the time they are 6 and enter school, they should be proficient in reading and counting for the most part -- this is how I grew up, and many of my peers back then also had the same experience (ok, I should change my name to old fat hen I guess, heh).

Mixing toddlers with other toddlers on a regular basis for as long and often as we do nowadays is a bad idea too -- they are little savages and thus savage each other more than is good for them if left that long too often.  Also, older children are great company too, something else that rarely happens nowadays.
 
But if mom goes to work and parks the kid in the nursery they of course end up stunted(duh!), as you can see readily from the army of unsocialised retards who are education resistent.  Not that they are &#039;bad&#039; kids as such, but they are not what they could have been with proper nurture.  I could bore you all with some physical facts about how kids brains&#039; grow, but y&#039;all have google if you care to find out.  Let&#039;s just abbreviate that to the statement that the first 2 years are absolutely crucial here.

And that is damage that can never be undone (also see the Jesuits&#039; approach to raising children here).  But, if a kid had a proper early childhood, then they usually can withstand any disaster after the age of 6 and not take as much damage and still turn out decent people even if they go through hell for 12 years until they are adults and free to leave.

As for the idea that people are not involved and it&#039;s all down to the education establishments -- that is wrong, because there is no need for a mother in the UK to go to work since the dole is enough to live on(not good but better than abandoning your child like a puppy every day), the reason, to be brutally frank, is that most women have been convinced into finding children tedious and boring(plus they pong and make your clothes dirty, eww), and are quite happy that there are nurseries, because it frees them to live an more interesting life (they think at least).  

And most of todays&#039; women were nursery victims themselves, and so they have no idea how to be a mother and housewife (since that is sooo boring and only dull women like it!) and so a vital skill is lost that took our culture over 1000 years to develop and hone.

If women didn&#039;t abandon their kids in this way, it would not matter what the school does (or tries to).  Besides that, there is still the option of homeschooling.

So, the people themselves have the option of refusing to mess up their kids in the name of progress, but because they rather have a career and want to &#039;own&#039; an overpriced hovel, they don&#039;t.  Most women don&#039;t even want a husband anymore (nor do men want a wife) -- the skill of keeping a marriage working well also has been lost, as this generation didn&#039;t have the benefit of growing up watching a working example in their childhood.

So, maybe we deserve all the bad things we are getting showered with as of late... and all this self-hatred the leftards indulge in serially is spot on in a twisted kind of way.

And I think that no education system, no matter how perfect it is would undo the problems that modern child-rearing (or shall we say, child-neglect) creates -- and the current system could not do as much damage either if the kids they receive were properly raised -- in fact, the brainwashers amongst the teachers would fear those kids, because those kind of kids are not easily bamboozled, they know who they are and what they want to be, and they dislike a fake and will find them out in no time... oops.

Btw, Andrew, your reply is a perfect example of the malaise of dissing our heritage and how deep it has sunk into our thinking -- you ask if we want the Taleban&#039;s kids to be Taleban because it seems to be a bad thing to you to pass on our culture to our kids and choosing Taleban as an example seems to illustrate the point, after all, who&#039;d want to be one?  

Speaking as a hen myself, I certainly want my children to be proper chicks that grow into stout hens and proud roosters, and I would be most stressed if I find bunnies (maybe Taleban rabbits? Eek!)in my nest instead, and in any case, I would not know what to do with buns either ;)  

Basically you deny kids their heritage with this thought pattern (and parents theirs and reduce them to being mere incubators), with the idea that the their culture is a bad thing and that they should change it to something else (not necessarily better as you know because deriving from first principles is damn hard to do...) -- and in doing so, you fall into the very trap that has almost wiped out our own culture so far.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can see where you are going James and I agree to a large extend, but I also think that the actual problem begins right after birth.</p>
<p>Children need a mom and ideally at least one granddad to minister to them 1-1, every day, all day (a dad would be too busy in most cases, granddads however have time, if you have the luxury of having one&#8230;)</p>
<p>The kid should start to count and read around 3, and by the time they are 6 and enter school, they should be proficient in reading and counting for the most part &#8212; this is how I grew up, and many of my peers back then also had the same experience (ok, I should change my name to old fat hen I guess, heh).</p>
<p>Mixing toddlers with other toddlers on a regular basis for as long and often as we do nowadays is a bad idea too &#8212; they are little savages and thus savage each other more than is good for them if left that long too often.  Also, older children are great company too, something else that rarely happens nowadays.</p>
<p>But if mom goes to work and parks the kid in the nursery they of course end up stunted(duh!), as you can see readily from the army of unsocialised retards who are education resistent.  Not that they are &#8216;bad&#8217; kids as such, but they are not what they could have been with proper nurture.  I could bore you all with some physical facts about how kids brains&#8217; grow, but y&#8217;all have google if you care to find out.  Let&#8217;s just abbreviate that to the statement that the first 2 years are absolutely crucial here.</p>
<p>And that is damage that can never be undone (also see the Jesuits&#8217; approach to raising children here).  But, if a kid had a proper early childhood, then they usually can withstand any disaster after the age of 6 and not take as much damage and still turn out decent people even if they go through hell for 12 years until they are adults and free to leave.</p>
<p>As for the idea that people are not involved and it&#8217;s all down to the education establishments &#8212; that is wrong, because there is no need for a mother in the UK to go to work since the dole is enough to live on(not good but better than abandoning your child like a puppy every day), the reason, to be brutally frank, is that most women have been convinced into finding children tedious and boring(plus they pong and make your clothes dirty, eww), and are quite happy that there are nurseries, because it frees them to live an more interesting life (they think at least).  </p>
<p>And most of todays&#8217; women were nursery victims themselves, and so they have no idea how to be a mother and housewife (since that is sooo boring and only dull women like it!) and so a vital skill is lost that took our culture over 1000 years to develop and hone.</p>
<p>If women didn&#8217;t abandon their kids in this way, it would not matter what the school does (or tries to).  Besides that, there is still the option of homeschooling.</p>
<p>So, the people themselves have the option of refusing to mess up their kids in the name of progress, but because they rather have a career and want to &#8216;own&#8217; an overpriced hovel, they don&#8217;t.  Most women don&#8217;t even want a husband anymore (nor do men want a wife) &#8212; the skill of keeping a marriage working well also has been lost, as this generation didn&#8217;t have the benefit of growing up watching a working example in their childhood.</p>
<p>So, maybe we deserve all the bad things we are getting showered with as of late&#8230; and all this self-hatred the leftards indulge in serially is spot on in a twisted kind of way.</p>
<p>And I think that no education system, no matter how perfect it is would undo the problems that modern child-rearing (or shall we say, child-neglect) creates &#8212; and the current system could not do as much damage either if the kids they receive were properly raised &#8212; in fact, the brainwashers amongst the teachers would fear those kids, because those kind of kids are not easily bamboozled, they know who they are and what they want to be, and they dislike a fake and will find them out in no time&#8230; oops.</p>
<p>Btw, Andrew, your reply is a perfect example of the malaise of dissing our heritage and how deep it has sunk into our thinking &#8212; you ask if we want the Taleban&#8217;s kids to be Taleban because it seems to be a bad thing to you to pass on our culture to our kids and choosing Taleban as an example seems to illustrate the point, after all, who&#8217;d want to be one?  </p>
<p>Speaking as a hen myself, I certainly want my children to be proper chicks that grow into stout hens and proud roosters, and I would be most stressed if I find bunnies (maybe Taleban rabbits? Eek!)in my nest instead, and in any case, I would not know what to do with buns either <img src='http://nourishingobscurity.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />   </p>
<p>Basically you deny kids their heritage with this thought pattern (and parents theirs and reduce them to being mere incubators), with the idea that the their culture is a bad thing and that they should change it to something else (not necessarily better as you know because deriving from first principles is damn hard to do&#8230;) &#8212; and in doing so, you fall into the very trap that has almost wiped out our own culture so far.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And James, just to make my position absolutely clear, having been a lecturer (part-time, but regular) since 1981 and a parent watching two bright children survive their years at school, my considered and oft-stated opinion to anyone who will listen is that left wing trendy educationalists (or educationists as some prefer) with their false premises and invalid research have wrecked and continue to wreck what&#039;s left of the entire fabric of our system of education, and if today&#039;s youngsters succeed it is in large part despite rather than because of the education they have to endure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And James, just to make my position absolutely clear, having been a lecturer (part-time, but regular) since 1981 and a parent watching two bright children survive their years at school, my considered and oft-stated opinion to anyone who will listen is that left wing trendy educationalists (or educationists as some prefer) with their false premises and invalid research have wrecked and continue to wreck what&#8217;s left of the entire fabric of our system of education, and if today&#8217;s youngsters succeed it is in large part despite rather than because of the education they have to endure.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think you misunderstand my motives James. I detest what so-called educationalists have done and are doing to education. Can&#039;t stand them. I only &quot;zero in&quot; on what strikes me as needing zeroed in on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you misunderstand my motives James. I detest what so-called educationalists have done and are doing to education. Can&#8217;t stand them. I only &#8220;zero in&#8221; on what strikes me as needing zeroed in on.</p>
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		<title>By: James Higham</title>
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		<dc:creator>James Higham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Zeroed in on one quote, Andrew, where there was some possibility of a counter-argument.  To the rest there is not.</description>
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		<title>By: Andrew Scott</title>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2009/11/06/the-historical-roots-of-the-dumbing-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1569</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;You’re not thinking ‘critically’ if you’re accepting the values that mommy and daddy taught you&quot;

I agree, bad as stated, but I expect what was meant was you are not thinking critically if you accept your parents&#039; values without question, which is valid.

Do you want the kids of the Taliban to unquestioningly become Taliban? The kids of al Quaeda to unquestioningly become al Quaeda? The kids of criminals to unquestioningly become criminals? Or, indeed, the kids of socialists to unquestioningly become socialists? I suspect you only want unquestioning acceptance from a specific kind of parent, the kind you approve of. If only kids were less inclined to act just like their parents then many of the world&#039;s problems would not be passing from generation to generation without any end in sight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You’re not thinking ‘critically’ if you’re accepting the values that mommy and daddy taught you&#8221;</p>
<p>I agree, bad as stated, but I expect what was meant was you are not thinking critically if you accept your parents&#8217; values without question, which is valid.</p>
<p>Do you want the kids of the Taliban to unquestioningly become Taliban? The kids of al Quaeda to unquestioningly become al Quaeda? The kids of criminals to unquestioningly become criminals? Or, indeed, the kids of socialists to unquestioningly become socialists? I suspect you only want unquestioning acceptance from a specific kind of parent, the kind you approve of. If only kids were less inclined to act just like their parents then many of the world&#8217;s problems would not be passing from generation to generation without any end in sight.</p>
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		<title>By: xxxl</title>
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		<dc:creator>xxxl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat


&quot;Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.

But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.

This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.<br />
&#8211; Frederic Bastiat</p>
<p>&#8220;Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.</p>
<p>But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.</p>
<p>Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.</p>
<p>When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.</p>
<p>It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.</p>
<p>But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.</p>
<p>This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: xxxl</title>
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		<dc:creator>xxxl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Up to date unemployment lies&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm" rel="nofollow">Up to date unemployment lies</a></p>
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		<title>By: xxxl</title>
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		<dc:creator>xxxl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ivan

One of &quot;their&quot; oft stated goals is global population reduction.

The historical end-game to the current financial non-sense has been, and I&#039;m betting, could very likely be, war.

Hitlary Clinton, a CFR member visited China immediately after the Obarmy election. China is pushing for an IMF administered global currency, cashing in, if you will, on the global revulsion of everything USA, after the financial crash.
Strauss Kahn, head of IMF is a communist, and a member of the European Council Foreign Relations.

Google ECFR if you will, look at the members, and weep!

A &quot;One World Order&quot; main aim is control of a global currency.

She is also rumoured to have discussed &quot;Eminent Domain&quot; in relation to US freehold, in payment of international debts.

Kissinger, a CFR member and rabid promoter of &quot;One World Order&quot;, sorted Obarmy&#039;s first job. Kissinger also attended the recent wedding of current fiat car company head, after the previous boss met his maker, in very suspicious circumstances. Note the recent very surprising selection by Obarmy, of Fiat, to tie in with Chrysler, following Chrysler financial woes. Check out the history of new Fiat head!

Everything is going according to plan.

AAHH, Puke!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ivan</p>
<p>One of &#8220;their&#8221; oft stated goals is global population reduction.</p>
<p>The historical end-game to the current financial non-sense has been, and I&#8217;m betting, could very likely be, war.</p>
<p>Hitlary Clinton, a CFR member visited China immediately after the Obarmy election. China is pushing for an IMF administered global currency, cashing in, if you will, on the global revulsion of everything USA, after the financial crash.<br />
Strauss Kahn, head of IMF is a communist, and a member of the European Council Foreign Relations.</p>
<p>Google ECFR if you will, look at the members, and weep!</p>
<p>A &#8220;One World Order&#8221; main aim is control of a global currency.</p>
<p>She is also rumoured to have discussed &#8220;Eminent Domain&#8221; in relation to US freehold, in payment of international debts.</p>
<p>Kissinger, a CFR member and rabid promoter of &#8220;One World Order&#8221;, sorted Obarmy&#8217;s first job. Kissinger also attended the recent wedding of current fiat car company head, after the previous boss met his maker, in very suspicious circumstances. Note the recent very surprising selection by Obarmy, of Fiat, to tie in with Chrysler, following Chrysler financial woes. Check out the history of new Fiat head!</p>
<p>Everything is going according to plan.</p>
<p>AAHH, Puke!</p>
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		<title>By: ivan</title>
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		<dc:creator>ivan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>James,

What you say is very true but, in the long run, might prove to be self defeating.

If you dumb down education you produce people with lower IQs.  Lower IQ has been shown to equate with violence, so unless the world ends up as depicted in the film Idiocracy we could be destined for a world war that might benefit &#039;them&#039; in the short term but end their agenda in the long term.

I left education nearly 40 years ago and the trend was in place then and I&#039;m very surprised it isn&#039;t worse than it is now..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James,</p>
<p>What you say is very true but, in the long run, might prove to be self defeating.</p>
<p>If you dumb down education you produce people with lower IQs.  Lower IQ has been shown to equate with violence, so unless the world ends up as depicted in the film Idiocracy we could be destined for a world war that might benefit &#8216;them&#8217; in the short term but end their agenda in the long term.</p>
<p>I left education nearly 40 years ago and the trend was in place then and I&#8217;m very surprised it isn&#8217;t worse than it is now..</p>
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		<title>By: xxxl</title>
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		<description>25th March, 1947, John D Rockefeller presented a cheque to Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the UN, value $8,500,000, for the purchase of land on Manhattan Island, which would house the UN building.

Through the CFR, the Rockefellers have been in the forefront of the drive for a world government which is being built on the principles of socialism and FEUDALISM.

Nick Rockefeller predicted to Aaron Russo, just prior to 9/11, a &quot;happening&quot; that would result in a vast curtailment of personal freedom throughout the US, and war in Afghanistan, with US military searching in caves.

ALL the major players in the current financial debacle are CFR.

You think this current situation is not planned? 

If you do, I have a bridge I could sell you.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>25th March, 1947, John D Rockefeller presented a cheque to Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the UN, value $8,500,000, for the purchase of land on Manhattan Island, which would house the UN building.</p>
<p>Through the CFR, the Rockefellers have been in the forefront of the drive for a world government which is being built on the principles of socialism and FEUDALISM.</p>
<p>Nick Rockefeller predicted to Aaron Russo, just prior to 9/11, a &#8220;happening&#8221; that would result in a vast curtailment of personal freedom throughout the US, and war in Afghanistan, with US military searching in caves.</p>
<p>ALL the major players in the current financial debacle are CFR.</p>
<p>You think this current situation is not planned? </p>
<p>If you do, I have a bridge I could sell you&#8230;..</p>
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