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Who This Blog Is For

“The most pervasive disease to plague the human race is the disease of being normal.”
– JP Sears

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
– Robert Byrne

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BreakawayIndividual.com
Zy Marquiez
March 27, 2020

As a preamble, let’s preface this piece with who this blog isn’t for.

This blog is not for individuals seeking the easy way out.  What is covered in this blog is not by any means easy.  Not.  Even.  Close.  If comfort zones are your thing, this blog will set off depthcharges in the foundation of your reality and make you so uncomfortable you might just think you stumbled into a live episode of the Twilight Zone.

I’m not going to beat around the bush.  The reason humanity got here, where planned obsolescence is a thing, where corporate rule takes place corruptly, where consent is manufactured from the ground up, where social engineering is possible at a mass scale brought about through a public schooling system that was corrupted on purpose from the ground up, is because people were afraid of contemplating disturbing scenarios in the past, yet alone making uncomfortable questions, thus failing at keeping the establishment in check.  The corrupt part of the establishment maintains power when citizens are passive with their rights, which is exact the reason why they want to keep us entertained.

The inability to ask the tough questions are what lead to official stories to stand, such as the ‘magic bullet’ touted for the John F. Kennedy assassination, or the ‘magic airplane’ that never hit building 7, yet somehow managed to collapse building 7 during the 9/11 conspiracy.  [News Flash: A lot of people still don’t know this, particularly those in the new generation, but no Airplane ever hit Building 7 during 9/11, so how did it come down?  And what are the deeper implications of that?]  Those are just two of countless examples of official stories with holes in them the size of Mars that still stand to this day even though serious research undertaken by individuals beckon those topics to be boldly explored.

As such, this blog is not for individuals who are comfortable with the mainstream version of reality that continues to make less and less sense with every passing day.

This blog is definitely not for people who value conformity in any way shape or form.  If this blog is about anything, it is about range, about exploration, about life, and life has never, does not, and will never fit within a box.  And neither will this blog.  Hell, have you seen the personal logo for my pen names and what it stands for?  The point is, I’m not afraid to be different, to be myself, and neither should you as an individual.

Likewise, this blog is not for people who are afraid to question anything, and this blog is certainly not for individuals that just want comfort or want issues sugar coated by the media matrix.

Finally, this blog finally isn’t for people who just want to be told what is best for them. Only YOU – The Individual – can decide what is best for yourself.

Then, who is this blog for?

This blog is for the many individuals who strive to learn proactively from life; the individuals who will not be held back on their journey to achieve the pinnacle of their dreams – their true dreams, and not the ones prescribed by society, whatever those may be, all the while proactively learning about part of what really undergirds the power structure in society that seeks to divide and conquer the populace via the left-right paradigm to no end. 

This blog is for people seeking to breakaway from the matrix as individuals, which is part of what helped spawn the blog name, in order to become the very best version of themselves.

In addition, this blog is for individuals who not only want a better world, but are willing to work for it to create it themselves by not being stagnant, waiting for change like most people have done in 1st world countries the last century or so.  Notice, it’s usually in the 2nd and 3rd world country where most of the people are willing to fight for what they dream of, which doesn’t happen here in America (and other modern countries) because we live in a one huge comfort zone that most people are afraid to even tippy toe out of, yet alone venture boldly beyond.

This blog is also for individuals who wish to understand reality for what it is, no matter how uncomfortable it is, and no matter what the mainstream media matrix says it is. [Quick Aside: if you want to see how YouTube socially engineers what’s ‘available’, go type “social engineering 101 CorbettReportExtras”, which is where the second link in the intro sentence of this paragraph takes you, into the search engine, and watch how that documentary does not show up. 

That’s so you don’t educate yourself.  The comptrollers do not want you to self-educate, which is the very reason I’m sending you to that link in the first place, so you’re able to it yourself.  Now ask yourself this, if YouTube is doing it, why not Google?  Do you really think Google’s search engine, which is vastly more sophisticated than YouTube, cannot, and does not do the same thing?  What else are the comptrollers moving behind the curtain to hide from the unsuspecting public?  Tough questions no doubt, but those are the type of questions that must be asked nonetheless if we are going to gravitate towards the truth, yet alone find it.]

On top of that, this blog is also for individuals that are not only willing to help themselves, but also willing to take others under their wing and help create a new culture – a new way of thinking that is closer to the common traditional ways that America was founded on and made the country so strong early on, rather than the recent one that has spawned the cultural decline that is exacerbating as we speak with no end in sight.

Plain and simple: are you tired of the cookie cutter answers the establishment has ready-made for every single scenario that props up, which only engenders fear, but is never truly addressed properly? Then this blog is for you.

Are you searching for answers as to why the world is screwed up and the establishment doesn’t seem to find any semblance of viable meaningful solutions that don’t often make things worse, then this blog is for you.

Have your instincts taught you not to trust the mainstream media institutions and corporations that lie to you repeatedly? Then this blog is certainly for you.

And if you are tired of the rat rate and fed up with a system that dumbs society down by default (that wasn’t always the way), that seeks to socially engineer society in vile ways, all the while attacking Free Speech in covert ways that lead to many of the very issues that we are facing today, then this blog is definitely for you.

If any of the information on this website is intriguing to you, then I would suggest you all to take a gander at the following websites.  In no particular order:

Solari.com – Solari features a wide array of information that seeks not only to inspire individuals, but also widens the template from which to view finance, culture, and many more fascinating subjects.  Now, as I have detailed in the past, Solari has been censored heavily in various ways, particularly because of Catherine Austin Fitts’ inexorable stance on finding the missing $21 Trillion from Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development that Dr. Mark Skidmore and his graduate students were able to corroborate, so if you can’t access the website via PC, then use your phone.  And if you can’t access it with either, then I highly suggest you find another way to access the website because the information on that website is incredibly relevant to many of the pressing issues that we are facing today.

GreenMedInfo.com – This is a website that not only features critical information regarding health, but also offers mindful health considerations for individuals that could potentially be helpful depending on personal circumstances.

NoMoreFakeNews.com – This is Jon Rappoport’s website, and is another website that I’ve seen censored at least 3 times the last month at minimum, one of which I talk about here.  I believe this is because Rappoport’s inexorable stance at piercing through the veil of Big Pharma and the establishment, particularly regarding the Coronavirus of late, though he certainly covers many more topics than just viruses and health.

KellyBroganMD.com – This website features many articles on mental health, along with numerous other aspects of health not oft-considered.  Dr. Brogan, who is a holistic psychiatrist, is an individual that relentlessly seeks to empower women as well.  It was Dr. Brogan’s book A Mind of Your Own – The Truth About Depression And How Women Can Heal Their Bodies To Reclaim Their Lives which really opened my eyes to her work, which I highly suggest everyone take a look at.

GizaDeathStar.com – This is Oxford educated Dr. Farrell’s website, which delves into many of the most abstruse subjects out there in a very outside-of-the-box way, which can be seen throughout all of Farrell’s books.  As someone who has read through dozens of Dr. Farrell’s books, some of which have been reviewed here, I can tell you that his work is something that should be taken very seriously given the potential ramifications of what he covers.  Farrell’s ability to dot-connect is like nobody I have ever seen except with the best researchers out there, which is the reason why I support his website and have been a member of GizaDeathStar for years.

ActivistPost.com – This is a website that features a variety of subjects like technology, health, war, liberty, and more.  As the other websites listed, I believe this is one of the best alternative media websites, and it not only collates data from many of the more ironclad sources within alternative media on a regular basis, but has incredible pieces written by some of their writers as well.

TruthstreamMedia.com – This is a website that features the work of alternative media power couple Aaron and Melissa Dykes featuring myriad subjects, many of which focus on mental health.  If you want to delve right into it, check out their amazing documentary The Minds of Men, which in a rational world, would be mandatory viewing as part of psychology and history classes.

Those are just a handful of the many alternative media websites that I frequent and support.  I highly suggest a discerning foray into those websites, and you might just find information that might not only be helpful, but might just change your life.

In their own ways, each of those websites has changed my life to varying degrees.  Some certainly more than others, but I mention those for starters given how they’re my “Top 7” if I were to make an ‘official’ personal list.

What are you waiting for?  GO CHEK ‘EM OUT!  You won’t regret it.

See you on the road.

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Note: This blog was inspired by the work of Jon Rappoport from NoMoreFakeNews.com, who made a post by a similar name quite a long time ago.

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About Me:

Zy Marquiez is author of Amor Vincit Omnia – Love Conquers All, and also an avid book reviewer, poet, inquirer, an open-minded skeptic, health freedom advocate, and writer who aims at empowering individuals in many ways, while also delving deeper and regularly mirroring subjects like Consciousness, Education, Creativity, Individuality, Ancient History & Ancient Civilizations, Forbidden Archaeology, Big Pharma, Alternative Health, Space, Geoengineering, Social Engineering, Propaganda, and much more.

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Suggested Reading & Viewing:

Backpedaling 101: Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson Drastically Downgrades COVID-19 Projection
The Coronavirus House Of Cards
Dr. Deborah Birx’s Coronavirus Propaganda: Does NOT Want People To Be “Reassured” Of Negative Tests
Coronavirus, Fearmongering, Hopelessness & Propaganda
The Rise Of Censorship By ISPs, Working Around Censors & More
7 Phenomenal Books For Homeschooling, Self-Directed Learners & Autodidacts
How TV Robs You Of Your Life
Have You Ever Walked On The Moon?
The Gift Of Truth, The Gift Of Friendship
The True Purpose Of Modern Schooling
WordPress Censorship
Catherine Austin Fitts’ Website Blocked By My ISP
Why The Incessant Propaganda Regarding Coronavirus, Especially Given Italy’s Latest Numbers? 
Quality Of Consciousness
Social Engineering, Censorship, Censorship Of The Solari Website & More
13 Great Reasons To Study Logic
Are You Living Your Dreams?
The Divide & Conquer Left Right Paradigm
What Is The Difference Between Education & Public Schooling?
How A Generation Lost Its Common Culture
Jon Rappoport’s NoMoreFakeNews.com Website Is Being Censored
Philosophy 101 by Socrates – An Introduction To Phylosophy Via Plato’s Apology By Peter Kreeft Ph.D.
How To Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
A Different Kind Of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
Logical Fallacies Employed In Every Day Life
The Imaginative Argument – A Practical Manifesto For Writers By Frank L. Cioffi
A Workbook For Arguments – A Complete Course In Critical Thinking by David Morrow
The Minds Of Men [Documentary] | Social Engineering & Mind Control
Manipulation Of Media Messages & Astroturf by Sharyl Attkisson
Mainstream Media Control
Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Susuzi
Socratic Logic V 3.1 by Peter Kreeft PhD
Dialectical Thinking – Zeno, Socrates, Kant, Marx by Tommi Juhani Hanjijarvi Ph.D.
The Trivium – The Liberal Arts Of Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric by Sister Mary Joseph Ph.D.
Why Read The Classics?
Getting Things done by David Allen
Classrooms Of The Heart [Mini Documentary] – John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
History So It Doesn’t Repeat – The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America with Charlotte Iserbyt
The Catastrophic Decline of Public Schooling: 21 Facts Why School Performs Poorly
Mindset Musings#1: Venturing Outside Of Comfort Zones
Rotten To The Common Core by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell & Gary Lawrence
Lesson’s From Orwell’s 1984
Against Public Schooling – How Public Education Cripples Our Kids By John Taylor Gatto
Social Engineering 101
The Tavistock Institute – Social Engineering The Masses By Daniel Estulin
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Emergence Of Orwellian Newspeak & The Death Of Free Speech
What Is An Elite Curriculum?
A Mind Of Your Own – The Truth About Depression by Dr. Kelly Brogan
Social Engineering 101
Propaganda by Edward Bernays 
Drilling Through The Core by Sandra Stotski & Contributors
What Is An Elite Curriculum?
Invisible Influence by Kevin Hogan
The Secret Space Program & Breakaway Civilization by Richard Dolan

 

Police are Keeping a List of People Who Tell Offensive Jokes (And Other Absurd Global News of the Week)

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By Simon Black, Sovereign Man
March 6, 2020

Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity… and on occasion, poetic justice.

Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal Just Rose From the Dead

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for you or me.

But somehow when Hillary Clinton broke the law while Secretary of State, it was her intentions that mattered.

As everyone knows by now, Clinton stored confidential, top secret emails on a personal, unsecured email server while she was Secretary of State.

She got off the hook because she claimed that she didn’t intend to violate the law… she didn’t realize that what she was doing was totally illegal.

That’s why she’s not rotting in a prison cell, even though you or I would be turning big rocks into little rocks in a DayGlo Orange jumpsuit if we had committed an equivalent crime.

But a group called Judicial Watch wasn’t as quick to let it go.

Using Freedom of Information Act requests, they continued to uncover more and more details of the case and bringing it all to court. And as the judge in the case commented, “With each passing round of discovery, the Court is left with more questions than answers.”

Therefore a federal judge has permitted another round of discovery. This means Hillary Clinton will be forced to sit for an interview with government officials to answer “significant questions” about her violation of the law.

Click here to read the full story.

Police in Scotland have a list of people who tell offensive jokes

Scottish Internet users better be careful of the jokes they tell online– you might end up on a government watchlist.

A Freedom of Information request revealed that 3,300 “non-crime hate incidents” have been logged in a police database.

Hundreds of people were added to the list last year for making offensive jokes or rude comments online.

Police say they track these individuals just in case their humor crosses the line into illegal territory.

For example, a couple years ago a Scottish YouTuber was arrested and convicted for teaching his pug a Nazi salute.

They guy may have been way too sophomoric… but when did it become a crime to be immature and offensive?

And now free speech is being monitored for signs of criminality.

Plus, with certain types of background checks, potential employers could see that these innocent people have been logged social media posts deemed to be offensive by the government.

Click here to read the full story.

School forbade kids from saying no when asked to dance

I just love it when wokeness contradicts itself.

A middle school in Utah was gearing up to host its Valentine’s Day dance. And in an effort to make sure that all students felt “welcome, comfortable, safe, and included,” the school adopted a policy forcing the kids to dance with anyone who asked them.

And sure enough, when an 11-year old girl was asked to dance by a boy who creeped her out, the principal forced them to dance together.

This is pretty much the opposite of #MeToo.

And in their ridiculous effort to make sure that no student was upset or offended, they violated one of the most basic consent rules in our society.

This is the paradox of wokeness: it’s absolutely impossible to prevent people from feeling upset, offended, excluded, or rejected.

Click here to read the full story.

Update: not illegal to remove cops’ GPS from your car

In December we talked about police who suspected a man of selling drugs.

They placed a GPS tracker on his car, but the man removed it. So the police got a warrant to search the man’s property for the “stolen” GPS.

While searching for the GPS, they found drugs.

Now the case against him for theft of the GPS has been dismissed along with the evidence of drug crimes.

The courts said it was all collected illegally, because the GPS was never stolen in the first place.

Click here to read the full story.

Update: woman pleads guilty to being topless in her own home

We’ve been following the case of Tilli Buchanan who was charged with sex crimes for being topless in her own home.

She and her husband had removed their shirts after installing insulation. Because her step-children saw her barechested, Tilli was charged with “child sex abuse” under Utah criminal code 76-9-702.5(2)(a)(ii)(B) for exposing “the female breast below the top of the areola. . .”

That left her facing the possibility of having to register as a child sex offender.

Originally she tried to challenge the law itself under equal protection grounds, since it treated male and female nipples differently.

But when she lost that case, she opted to take a plea deal. The charges were downgraded so she won’t be considered a sex offender.

Tilli will pay $600 and the case will be dismissed in a year if she doesn’t commit any crimes.

It’s pretty pathetic that she was ever charged in the first place, and sad that this is what the justice system wastes resources on.

Click here to read the full story.

Article source: The Daily Bell

Schools Are Spying on Students — But Students Can Fight Back

Source: ActivistPost.com
March 3, 2020

San Francisco – Schools across the country are increasingly using technology to spy on students at home, at school, and on social media. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a new Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students and their parents, so they can learn more about how schools are watching them, and how they can fight back.

The surveillance technology currently in use includes software to scan students’ social media posts, cameras with facial recognition and other scanning capabilities, and microphones to “detect aggression.” Schools can even track you on devices that they don’t control: if you have to download a certain kind of security certificate to use the school Internet, they may be monitoring your browser history and messages you send.

“Some administrators argue that they need to use this technology to keep schools safe, yet there is little evidence that it works,” said EFF Activism Project Manager Lindsay Oliver. “Instead, surveillance can make people second-guess everything they do or say. When we are constantly spied on, we censor the way we express ourselves. That’s known as the ‘chilling effect.’ Students need space to experiment and learn without being monitored and recorded by their schools at every turn.”

School discipline disproportionately targets students of color, and it’s reasonable to think that additional, and more comprehensive scrutiny of their lives will only add to that injustice. As a criminologist told Vice, LGBTQ+ students, who tend to look for support online as they explore their orientations and gender identities, “find they’re under so much surveillance that it affects them in ways that shuts them out of those resources. They learn not to look. They learn not to trust online public spaces.”

In the new guide, EFF shows students and concerned parents what kind of technologies to watch for, how they can track you, and what it means for privacy. For example, some schools are tracking students’ locations, ostensibly to automate attendance or track school bus ridership. This monitoring can be conducted through tools ranging from students’ cell phones to ID cards with tracking chips, and it can easily continue when you are off campus. Location information is extraordinarily sensitive—it can reveal who your friends are and what you do when you see them, as well as what kind of medical appointments you might have or what sort of meetings or groups you attend regularly. In some cases, student data is reported to school resource officers or the police, and it can be kept over time, creating a granular history of a student’s actions.

But what can students and concerned parents do? Often, the best solution is to simply not use the systems that schools have set up, if you’re able to, and encourage your friends to do the same. But the new guide also shows students how to gather information on what’s happening and how to talk to adults about it.

“Being under constant surveillance at home and school teaches kids to accept that people they should trust are spying on them—and that’s a lesson that will serve them poorly in later life,” said EFF Associate Director of Research Gennie Gebhart. “If authority figures for youth say constant surveillance is OK, what happens when a romantic partner wants access to every message on their phone? Or an employer wants your social media password? Invasive monitoring isn’t acceptable, no matter who tries to do it, and personal privacy matters.”

Source: ActivistPost.com

California Reinvents the English Language Yet Again (And Other Crazy Global News Of The Week)

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via: ActivistPost.com
Source: SovereignMan
Simon Black

Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity.

Man fined almost $7 million for painting his own property

In 2002, the owner of some dilapidated warehouses in New York City decided to make use of the property.

He hired an artist to decorate the warehouses with graffiti, and curate graffiti art from others. Soon it became a bustling art hub, with artists renting out space to do their work.

But after eleven years, the owner decided to demolish the warehouses to make way for luxury apartments.

That’s when the artists sued to protect ‘their’ graffiti.

But the owner of the property went ahead and whitewashed the artwork while the lawsuit was ongoing.

After years of legal battles, the court sided with the artists and demanded the owner pay $6.75 million to the artists whose work he destroyed. And now on appeal, another court affirmed that decision.

Turns out, you don’t have the same property rights when it comes to art.

New York has a Visual Artists Rights Act. It doesn’t matter who owns the art, or the building it’s affixed to. Artists still maintain certain rights to their work, even if it is sold (or they never owned the canvass).

So in New York, you better be careful who you let decorate your property. It may become their property.

Click here to read the full story.

California politicians reinvent the dictionary again

California is at it again, editing language to alter reality.

First San Francisco changed “felon” to “justice involved person.”

Now California will refer to “at risk youth” instead as, “at promise youth.”

Legislation went into effect at the beginning of this year which changed the state’s legal term for children at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

The point is to change the negative connotation of the phrase “at risk”.

Uplifting, right? But these people always fail to understand that changing words doesn’t change reality.

Click here to read the full story.

Indonesian minister wants to manage who people should marry

An Indonesian government minister has suggested a unique way to solve inequality.

Rather than redistributing wealth, rich people simply need to start marrying poor people.

He said that when poor people marry other poor people, it just creates more poverty.

So he suggested issuing a fatwa (a legal opinion in Islamic law) mandating that the rich look for poor spouses, and poor look for rich spouses.

But his opinions aren’t that different than the Bolsheviks in the USA.

This minister simply wants to control people directly, instead of their capital.

But they all believe you are the property of the state, to do with as they please.

Click here to read the full story.

Progressive parking tickets could make rich pay more

Boston, Massachusetts tickets drivers as much as $40 for an expired parking meter.

Boston collected over $61 million worth of fines in 2018, the same year it began increasing parking fines. Now some parking tickets run up to $120.

But a new city councillor is concerned that some Boston residents may have to decide between paying a parking ticket, and putting food on the table.

She has introduced rules that would scale the cost of a parking ticket based on the violator’s income.

So rich people will still face huge fines for tiny infractions – maybe even higher than they are currently. But low-income folks will pay lower fines for parking illegally.

The proposal says, “for some a $40 parking ticket is simply the cost to park illegally while for others it is a major financial setback.”

So, as usual, the solution is to redistribute the wealth.

“From each according to his means,” to pay parking tickets, as Karl Marx would say.

Click here to read the full story.

Article source: The Daily Bell

Image: Pixabay

Read More At: ActivistPost.com

Students in All 50 States Being Taught Revolutionary War Was Fought To Promote Slavery | #SocialEngineering

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Source: TheFederalistPapers.org
Randy De Soto, The Western Journal
February 6, 2020

The New York Times’ 1619 Project — a curriculum that makes the fantastical claim that a primary cause of the Revolutionary War was the colonists’ desire to protect slavery — has been adopted in 3,500 classrooms across all 50 states.

For this reason, some of the nation’s most renowned historians have called for The Times to correct this and other factual errors.

The Pulitzer Center, which is partnering with The Times to promote The 1619 Project, recounted in its 2019 annual report, “Good journalism, innovative educational resources, and deep community engagement are absolutely essential to bridging the divisions that threaten to rip our democracy apart. It is this belief that has driven the Pulitzer Center for the last 14 years.”

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Times’ lead writer on the project, argued in her introductory essay to it, “The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie. Our Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, proclaims that ‘all men are created equal’ and ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.’

“But the white men who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for the hundreds of thousands of black people in their midst.”

“Conveniently left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery,” Hannah-Jones wrote.

The reporter is honest enough to admit that slavery in America predated the nation’s founding by over 150 years.

However, she alleges by 1776, Britain “had grown deeply conflicted over its role in the barbaric institution.”

There were calls to abolish slavery, which “would have upended the economy of the colonies, in both the North and the South,” Hannah-Jones wrote.

Slavery was abolished in Great Britain in 1833 — over a half-century after the founding of the United States.

Also working completely against Hannah-Jones’ narrative is the fact that almost all the states north of the Mason-Dixon Line had voted to abolish slavery by the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783.

By 1804, all the Northern states had passed legislation ending slavery.

The preposterous notion that protecting slavery was one of the “primary” reasons the American Colonies declared independence is not supported by the documentary evidence from the period, either, as my research for my book “We Hold These Truths” made clear.

Any middle school history student should be taught that the Stamp Act in 1765, followed by the Declaratory Act in 1766, were what began rallying colonists against Mother England.

In the Declaratory Act, Parliament claimed the legislative body held “full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America … in all cases whatsoever.”

The rallying cry in the Colonies became, “No taxation without representation.”

Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, made the case against King George III and Parliament in his 1774 essay “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” pointing to Britain’s tax and trade policies toward the Colonies, the decision to suspend the New York legislature and the imposition of martial law in Massachusetts as unjust acts that must be opposed.

Thomas Paine, in his widely read political pamphlet “Common Sense,” published in January 1776, did not list a fear that Great Britain would end slavery in the Colonies as a reason for declaring independence.

Over 500,000 copies of the pamphlet were published just three months after its release at a time when the entire population of the 13 Colonies was only 4 million at most.

Paine was an abolitionist who wrote the preamble to Pennsylvania’s abolition act in 1780 (during the heart of the Revolutionary War), which freed 6,000 slaves in the state, according to History.com.

The Declaration of Independence itself, which lists dozens of grievances the Colonies had against the king and Parliament, makes just a passing reference to slavery by pointing to England’s efforts to “excite domestic insurrections.”

Jefferson’s original draft submitted to the Continental Congress included a condemnation of the king’s support for the African slave trade, writing it was a violation of the “most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.”

This language was struck from the Declaration’s final text out of deference to South Carolina and Georgia, which wanted to continue the African slave trade, according to the Claremont Institute’s Founding.com.

“The British had encouraged slave and Indian revolts against the colonists,” the institute reported. “For example, in 1775, [British Governor] Lord Dunmore of Virginia, swore to members of the Virginia House of Burgesses that if ‘any Injury or insult were offered to himself’ he would ‘declare Freedom to the Slaves, and reduce the City of Williamsburg to Ashes.’”

So the issue for the British rulers in America wasn’t really a desire to free to slaves, but to wreak havoc in the rebellious Colonies.

Some of the nation’s top historians sent a letter to The New York Times in December taking The 1619 Project to task for claiming that protecting slavery was a primary cause of the Revolution.

Among the signers of the letter were Princeton University American history professor emeritus James McPherson, Brown University history professor emeritus Gordon Wood and Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz.

McPherson is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era,” while Wood won the Pulitzer Prize for his work “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.”

Wilentz was a Pulitzer finalist for his book, “The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.”

So by Pulitzer’s estimation, these historians know what they are talking about when it comes to American history.

In their letter to The Times, the academics applauded The 1619 Project’s desire “to address the enduring centrality of slavery and racism to our history.”

“Nevertheless, we are dismayed at some of the factual errors in the project and the closed process behind it,” they wrote.

“On the American Revolution, pivotal to any account of our history, the project asserts that the founders declared the colonies’ independence of Britain ‘in order to ensure slavery would continue.’ This is not true. If supportable, the allegation would be astounding — yet every statement offered by the project to validate it is false.”

The historians went on to list their concern that this and other unsupported claims were “offered as an authoritative account that bears the imprimatur and credibility of The New York Times.”

Woods told RealClearInvestigations the only way The 1619 Project should be used in the classroom is “as a way of showing how history can be distorted and perverted.”

The New York Times Magazine’s editor in chief, Jake Silverstein, issued a response last month disputing the charge that The 1619 Project contains “significant factual errors and is driven by ideology rather than historical understanding.”

“The project was intended to address the marginalization of African-American history in the telling of our national story and examine the legacy of slavery in contemporary American life,” Silverstein wrote.

In a December radio interview, Hannah-Jones said, “When my editor asks me, like, what’s your ultimate goal for the project, my ultimate goal is that there’ll be a reparations bill passed.”

“If you read the whole project, I don’t think you can come away from it without understanding the project is an argument for reparations,” she told the Chicago Tribune in October.

It sure sounds like The 1619 Project is ideologically driven.

The Atlantic reported in December that Hannah-Jones has not “budged from her conviction that slavery helped fuel the Revolution.”

“I do still back up that claim,” she told The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, but she conceded her essay phrased it too strongly to make readers think slavery was universally supported in the Colonies.

“I think someone reading that would assume that this was the case: All 13 Colonies and most people involved. And I accept that criticism, for sure,” Hannah-Jones said, while promising to better contextualize the claim when The 1619 Project is published in textbook form by Random House.

That promise does not sound too reassuring when the entire proposition is bunk.

Further proof against Hannah-Jones’s claim is in the Constitution itself, which rather than protect slavery put it on a path to extinction, Abraham Lincoln and abolitionists like Frederick Douglass argued.

The Constitution specifically authorized the federal government to ban the importation of slaves in 1808 (approximately 20 years from the date the document was ratified).

Congress did so in 1808, and President Thomas Jefferson signed the bill into law.

An additional compromise that the Founders reached was counting three-fifths of the state’s slave population when calculating the overall population for determining how many representatives a state would have in Congress.

The Southern states wanted to count their entire slave populations for representation purposes, but the Northern states did not allow it.

The impact was to lessen the number of votes slaveholding interests held in the House of Representatives.

Both of these constitutional provisions were a recognition that slavery was a present evil but not something many of the Founders wanted to see continue in perpetuity.

Finally, one other triumph in the fight against slavery during the founding period took place right across the street from the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

The Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, which established the laws governing the territorial land encompassing the future states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. The ordinance outlawed the introduction of slavery in the territory.

All of these facts from the founding era demonstrate that slavery was not a primary reason the Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, and our nation’s students should not be taught that it was.

Not satisfied to push their liberal ideological perspective in reporting current events, The Times has moved on to propagate false narratives about America’s founding.

What motivated the founding generation to pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor was not to protect slavery but to secure their God-given right to liberty.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

The True Purpose Of Modern Schooling

“Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”[1][Bold & Italics Emphasis Added]

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of the system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class.  That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does.”[2][Bold & Italics Emphasis Added]

BreakawayIndividual.com
Zy Marquiez
February 22, 2020

There are individuals out there that whittle facing the storm, and there are those who challenge the storm.  The late John Taylor Gatto is one of the latter.

Gatto is the former NY City and NY State Teacher of the year (1991), where he inspired his students to achieve some amazing results through his nontraditional methods of instruction.

Not only has Gatto been relentless in detailing many of the inherent issues within the public school system for quite some time now, but he’s had the courage to take it a step further and detail that all of the issues within public schooling are not mistakes, it is done by design.

To illustrate this, an excerpt of John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons Of Mass Instruction will follow below.

Within Weapons Of Mass Instruction, John Taylor Gatto breaks down Alexander Inglis’s book Principles of Secondary Education, which:

“..makes it perfectly clear that compulsory schooling on this continent was intended to be just what it had been for Prussia in the 1820s: a fifth column into the burgeoning democratic movement that threatened to give the peasants and the proletarians a voice at the bargaining table.  Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests, and by many other more subtle means, and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood, would ever re-integrated into a dangerous whole.”[3][Bold Emphasis Added]

Furthermore, Gatto notes that Inglis, who has an honor lecture in education named for him in Harvard, breaks down the natural purpose of schooling into 6 basic functions,” which are as follows:

  1. The adjective or adaptive function.  Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority…It is also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can’t test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.

    2.  The integrating function.  This might well be called “the conformity function,” because its intention is to make children as alike as possible.  People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a larger labor force.

    3.  The diagnostic and directive function.  School is meant to determine each student’s proper role in society.

    4.  The differentiating function.  Once the social role has been “diagnosed,” children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits – and not one step further.  So much for making kids their personal best.

    5.  The selective function.  This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin’s theory of natural selection as applied to what he called “the favored races…Schools are meant to tag the unfit – with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments – clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes.  That’s what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.

    6.  The propaedeutic function.  The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers.  To that end, a small fraction of the kids will be quietly taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.” [xviii-xix][Bold Emphasis Added]

And just in case some wonder if Inglis was alone in these thoughts, he was certainly not.  Horace Mann, James Bryant Conant, George Peabody, and many others shared the same sentiments.

What we witness above is nothing more than the employment of Social Engineering from the bottom up, at a national scale, beginning with the most malleable minds in the land – those of children.  It doesn’t get any more cut and dry.

John Taylor Gatto is one of the few individuals out there whose wisdom seeps into all societal strata, given that education, and the lack there of affects all of us.  His timeless words should be heeded, because the issue is only exacerbating year after year.

In life, an individual can choose to write their own script, or be part of someone else’s.

As we can gather, if those in control of the system carry out their plans of mass conformity and control, children, an all future generations, will never write their own authentic scripts unless they breakaway from those proverbial shackles.

Education, true classical education, and not the facsimile society is being sold, is the only way out.  Everything else is merely a parody, and by public schooling’s repeated failures this is shown to be true.

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Sources & References:

[1]John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down – The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling, pg. 23.
[2] Ibid., pg. 24.
[3] John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons Of Mass Instruction, pp. xviii
[4] Ibid., pp. xviii-xix.

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Suggested Reading & Viewing:

Have You Ever Walked On The Moon?
7 Phenomenal Books For Homeschooling, Self-Directed Learners & Autodidacts
How TV Robs You Of Your Life
13 Great Reasons To Study Logic
Are You Living Your Dreams?
The Divide & Conquer Left Right Paradigm
What Is The Difference Between Education & Public Schooling?
How A Generation Lost Its Common Culture
Philosophy 101 by Socrates – An Introduction To Phylosophy Via Plato’s Apology By Peter Kreeft Ph.D.
How To Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
A Different Kind Of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
Logical Fallacies Employed In Every Day Life
The Imaginative Argument – A Practical Manifesto For Writers By Frank L. Cioffi
A Workbook For Arguments – A Complete Course In Critical Thinking by David Morrow
The Minds Of Men [Documentary] | Social Engineering & Mind Control
Manipulation Of Media Messages & Astroturf by Sharyl Attkisson
Mainstream Media Control
Socratic Logic V 3.1 by Peter Kreeft PhD
Dialectical Thinking – Zeno, Socrates, Kant, Marx by Tommi Juhani Hanjijarvi Ph.D.
The Trivium – The Liberal Arts Of Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric by Sister Mary Joseph Ph.D.
Why Read The Classics?
Getting Things done by David Allen
Classrooms Of The Heart [Mini Documentary] – John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
History So It Doesn’t Repeat – The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America with Charlotte Iserbyt
The Catastrophic Decline of Public Schooling: 21 Facts Why School Performs Poorly
Mindset Musings#1: Venturing Outside Of Comfort Zones
Rotten To The Common Core by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell & Gary Lawrence
Lesson’s From Orwell’s 1984
Against Public Schooling – How Public Education Cripples Our Kids By John Taylor Gatto
Social Engineering 101
The Tavistock Institute – Social Engineering The Masses By Daniel Estulin
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Emergence Of Orwellian Newspeak & The Death Of Free Speech
What Is An Elite Curriculum?
A Mind Of Your Own – The Truth About Depression by Dr. Kelly Brogan
Social Engineering 101
Propaganda by Edward Bernays 
Drilling Through The Core by Sandra Stotski & Contributors
What Is An Elite Curriculum?
Invisible Influence by Kevin Hogan
The Secret Space Program & Breakaway Civilization by Richard Dolan

Charlotte Iserbyt – The Secret History of Western Education [Full Documentary]

BreakawayIndividual.com
Zy Marquiez
February 20, 2020

In the following video, Charlotte Iserbyt speaks at length about the real history of public education and its ties to systemic corruption within the public schooling system.  As a former Senior Policy Adviser for the Office Of Educational Research & Improvement during the Reagan Administration, she was in the heart of the beast, and as so, knew the system well.  Her words should be ruminated upon seriously.  For further research, Charlotte Iserbyt’s book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America, gets at the heart of the matter.

Charlotte Iserbyt also became a whistleblower about the  major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.

While working there she discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told.

This is a must see for anyone who wants to truly know why the public schooling system is deliberately crafted to produce human drones with no critical thinking whose only skills are to be subservient, trust authority and follow orders

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Suggested Reading & Viewing:

Have You Ever Walked On The Moon?
13 Great Reasons To Study Logic
Are You Living Your Dreams?
What Is The Difference Between Education & Public Schooling?
How TV Robs You Of Your Life
7 Phenomenal Books For Homeschooling, Self-Directed Learners & Autodidacts
How A Generation Lost Its Common Culture
Philosophy 101 by Socrates – An Introduction To Phylosophy Via Plato’s Apology By Peter Kreeft Ph.D.
How To Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
A Different Kind Of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
Logical Fallacies Employed In Every Day Life
The Imaginative Argument – A Practical Manifesto For Writers By Frank L. Cioffi
A Workbook For Arguments – A Complete Course In Critical Thinking by David Morrow
The Minds Of Men [Documentary] | Social Engineering & Mind Control
Manipulation Of Media Messages & Astroturf by Sharyl Attkisson
Mainstream Media Control
Socratic Logic V 3.1 by Peter Kreeft PhD
The Trivium – The Liberal Arts Of Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric by Sister Mary Joseph Ph.D.
Why Read The Classics?
Getting Things done by David Allen
Classrooms Of The Heart [Mini Documentary] – John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
History So It Doesn’t Repeat – The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America with Charlotte Iserbyt
The Catastrophic Decline of Public Schooling: 21 Facts Why School Performs Poorly
Mindset Musings#1: Venturing Outside Of Comfort Zones
Rotten To The Common Core by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell & Gary Lawrence
Lesson’s From Orwell’s 1984
Against Public Schooling – How Public Education Cripples Our Kids By John Taylor Gatto
Social Engineering 101
The Tavistock Institute – Social Engineering The Masses By Daniel Estulin
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Emergence Of Orwellian Newspeak & The Death Of Free Speech
What Is An Elite Curriculum?
A Mind Of Your Own – The Truth About Depression by Dr. Kelly Brogan
Social Engineering 101
Drilling Through The Core by Sandra Stotski & Contributors
What Is An Elite Curriculum?
Invisible Influence by Kevin Hogan