Friday, April 1, 2016

THERE IS MUCH DISMAY IN THE "CLIMATE" OF AMERICA







THERE IS MUCH DISMAY IN THE "CLIMATE" OF AMERICA



Matt. 7 :  13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:  14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Galatians 5  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

"There is much dismay in the world. There is much dismay in the "climate" of America for where there is quarreling, where there are disputes about this candidate or that candidate, there is disorder of the highest kind for the entire nation is sick and it has a cancer that has festered.

You hate much of what is already inside you. The disease has spread even unto much of my own body, and yet you don't even know that you are ill. You would kill and harm and maim just to prove your own point. You bite and claw at each other. You are like children in your own play pen.

Return to Me!  Come back, for you have strayed far from the path. You have entered upon the main road and, upon it, many there are who travel. Come back to the narrow road, and there you will find peace, for my peace will overshadow you as you walk upon this road.

My peace will not be found in anything of this world. My peace is not to be found in any one person or leader. My peace is not to be found in a political system or candidate. Even when the world is falling apart around you, you can find my peace. My peace is not to be found in the halls of government. My peace is not to be found in the halls of justice but it is to be found when you enter my gates of thanksgiving. It is to be found even in the simplest of things.

The world's disorder will turn.  Nations will rise and fall at my command. The seas will rise and cover the land. And a new leader will come to your land. What I will choose is NOT to make you great, but that I would bring you to your knees."
 

Stephen Hanson 
Mar 31 2016


Global Governance And NWO To Rule


Elites Spill BIG Intel In DAVOS: America’s Obsolete!   Global Governance And NWO To Rule 

Note: I woke up Tuesday morning with Davos Switzerland vividly on my mind - to the point I HAD to inquire for WHY?  WHAT IS GOING ON IN DAVOS, AND WHY THE STRONG URGE TO FIND OUT?  ANYONE KNOW? Below may be a valuable prelude to finding out what 'they' are up to. If you have reliable sources, send the info to us and we will publish

The New World Order’s World Economic Forum hosted their annual Davos-Klosters meeting, in Switzerland where 2,500 politicians, celebrities, and business leaders from all over the world attended this “Bilderberg style” meeting. Their attendees include 53 people who own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world and over 1,000 of the world biggest multinational corporations all of whom have their eye set on The New World Order.

One of the biggest discussions held at this meeting is the fact that citizens are no longer trusting their governments:
“If this growing disconnect between governments and citizens is not fixed rapidly, there can be no legitimate, accountable and trusted global cooperation, problem solving or governance.” WEF Everybody’s Business Report
Their proposed solution includes getting rid of the voice from the average person, who in their words, are unfit to make decisions that need to be left to the globalists.
In a document called Global Redesign Initiative (GRI) put out in by the World Economic Forum they proposed a transition away from international government decision making body into a system of multinational-stakeholders governance. Simply put they are, by stealth, replacing our model of voting in governments who negotiate treaties which are then ratified by our elected representative, to a model where a self-selected group of ‘stake-holders’ make decisions on our behalf. This is a terrifying thought to anyone who values freedom.

Other topics of discussion at this meeting include: Middle East conflicts, the fact that Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican presidential candidate (which means the globalists don’t like him), technological innovation, Agenda 21, and other twisted details.

In the video below I cover all the above and more! You won’t believe some of the things at play in Davos, Switzerland…


 

To be frank, the wealth gap is quickly widening and the middle class is starting to fade into the distance. If we continue to allow these creeps to rule over us, then we can project that we will land head first into a Socialism/Communism style rule with once percent ruling over the rest.

For More Information See: 
Paul Polman Comment (@42 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AqSOfg21BY
UN Sustainable Development Goals (pdf) (pg.14):  http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=E
 
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/elites-spill-big-intel-in-davos-americas-obsolete-global-governance-and-nwo-to-rule-video/ 

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Please do watch.......America needs to wise up.

A TIMELY VIDEO (OUCH!) รข€” CND
                A MUST WATCH VIDEO FROM BELGIUM***
 
 
WELCOME TO "BELGISTAN" 
 
MUST WATCH VIDEO FROM BELGIUM! Here's an interesting little video clip.  They seem to be perfectly happy telling everyone what's in store and nobody seems to care. (THE POLICE DO NOT GO IN THEIR AREAS AS WELL)
 
This is a wake-up call for the U.S. When you want a glimpse of the future for your grandchildren sit down and watch this short 6 minute news video.     This is what is in store for the USA and our grandkids if we maintain our present course.           
 

Welcome to the Republic! The real Republic! DeFacto to DeJure How to "Manual"


We THE People who are the Lawfull Civilian Authority over the U.S. Military as the interim Republican form of government operating under the United States Constitution 1789, Bill of Rights 1791 with the original 13th Amendment that prohibits persons who have accepted entitlements from foreign governments from holding public office are standing as the true form of Government.

Frequency Asked Questions:

1. How do we join? 
There is no paperwork to sign.  We require you to assemble and reseat your state De Jure governance with public notice verification.  We have an outline of the basic steps available to complete this task. 

2. Do we have to follow your procedure or steps?
These common law protocols have been tested for over six years with no successful rebuttals from the any faction of the De Facto Corporations.  This includes at STATE, NATIONAL and WORLD levels.  Just like if you do not follow the protocols for takeoff, flying and landing a plane you will crash and burn.  The same holds true for following this outline.

3. Who are we?
​ We are an assemble of living and breathing men and women who actually believe in this ideal that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —” Declaration of Independence Circa 1776 and Oct 21, 2012. And we are the assembly who reseated Congress from “Sine Die” Oct 21st, 2012.


DeFacto to DeJure training manual for the public to get involved.

This is the real deal. The lawful civilian authority for the people, by the people, of the people. No more fake republics headed by DeFacto employees and military generals.

There is a support forum and bi-weekly national assembly conference call available for answering questions and continued training. National assembly conference calls are posted on nesaranews.blogspot.com several days before the call time.

This is something that only the people can do.

 De Jure Constitutional Republic!

Next Conference call is Thursday April 14th at 9pm eastern.
Click here for call info

NOTRE DAME TO HONOR PRO-ABORTION VP JOE BIDEN



UNIVERSITY  OF  NOTRE  DAME  TO  HONOR  PRO-ABORTION  VP  JOE  BIDEN  WITH  HIGHEST  AWARD

SIGN PROTEST

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY TO HONOR BIDEN WITH ITS HIGHEST AWARD - the Laetare Medal


March 29, 2016 


Although Vice-President Joe Biden strongly supports abortion, the Catholic University of Notre Dame announced that it will give him its highest and most prestigious award -- the Laetare Medal -- on May 15, 2016.

You are invited to express your urgent concern by signing TFP Student Action's protest petition because Mr. Biden's public record goes against the Catholic Church.

For example:

  • Joe Biden supports abortion: During a 2008 debate he said, "I strongly support Roe v. Wade."  (Source: The New York Times)  Mr. Biden also received 100% approval ratings from mega abortion provider Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America.  (Source: Vote Smart)
  • Joe Biden supports homosexual "marriage":  On national TV, he said:  "I am absolutely comfortable with... men marrying men, women marrying women..." (Source: NBC's Meet the Press)
  • Joe Biden supports Obamacare/HHS mandate.  As the Little Sisters of the Poor battle at the U.S. Supreme Court for their freedom from the HHS mandate -- Joe Biden's record shows that he supported that government mandate which forces these good nuns and other Catholic institutions to offer pro-abortion services that violate God's Law and Church teaching.
With such ungodly positions, how can Notre Dame possibly hold up Biden as an example of "outstanding service to the Church and society"?

Remember:  In 2012, Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs said that Vice President Biden should NOT present himself to receive Holy Communion.


Earlier this month, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend, Indiana, stated:

"My principal concern about this whole matter is scandal. In honoring a 'pro-choice' Catholic who also has supported the redefinition of marriage which the Church considers harmful to the common good of society, it can give the impression to people, including Catholics in political office, that one can be 'a good Catholic' while also supporting or advocating for positions that contradict our fundamental moral and social principles and teachings."


Go to this page to sign:  http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/notre-dame-joe-biden-laetare-award-protest.html?utm_source=petitions&utm_medium=sendtofriend&utm_campaign=SAE0369 

After you sign the petition, ask your friends to sign it, too. 

Share this page on social media.

http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/notre-dame-joe-biden-laetare-award-protest.html?utm_source=petitions&utm_medium=sendtofriend&utm_campaign=SAE0369

A SHERIFF LIKE ARIZONA HAS!


LOOKS  LIKE  FLORIDA  HAS  A  SHERIFF  LIKE  ARIZONA  HAS!


Looks like Florida has a sheriff like Arizona has!  "You kill a policeman, it means no arrest...no Miranda rights...no negotiations...nothing but as many bullets as we can shoot into you...period." said Polk County Florida Sheriff, Grady Judd.
 
An illegal alien in Polk County, Florida (Orlanda metro area), who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop, ended up "executing" the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. The murderer was found hiding in a wooded area.
 
As soon as he took a shot at the SWAT team, officers opened fire on him. They hit the guy 68 times. 

Naturally, the liberal media went nuts and asked why they had to shoot the poor, undocumented immigrant 68 times.
 
Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel: "Because that's all the ammunition we had."
 
Now, is that just about the all-time greatest answer or what!
 
The Coroner also reported that the illegal alien died of natural causes.
 
When asked by a reporter how that could be, since there were 68 bullet wounds in his body, he simply replied: (BEST QUOTE ever) .. .. "When you are shot 68 times, you are naturally gonna die."
 
"Welcome to Florida, Y'all!  

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The 'poor' undocumented illegal ba*t*rd murders a cop in cold blood, severely wounds another, and murders the dog. The cost of his 'burial' will, of course, be at the expense of the people. Meanwhile, the families of the murdered cop and the wounded cop suffer from this jerk's actions.  He got what he deserved.  Justice needed to be served and, indeed, it was. 

Call Log Could Upend 2016 Race


D.C.  Madam's  Attorney  Says      Call  Log  Bombshell  Could         Upend  2016  Race

 

Judges 'are letting people vote blindly,' gagged lawyer says.

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An attorney for the late Deborah Palfrey, who operated an escort service popular among Washington's upper class, says the presidential race could change if he discloses client information.

Cruz was first elected to the Senate in 2012 but represented Texas several times during Supreme Court arguments while Palfrey’s escort business operated.

Most of the other presidential candidates also lived in or visited the nation’s capital while Palfrey’s business operated, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Ohio Gov. John Kasich – a former congressman. 

Billionaire GOP front-runner Donald Trump likely visited the region during the decade-long time period.

Complicating Sibley’s bid to release one or more name from the records is that he’s been having trouble getting a court to give him a hearing.

In February, he filed a complaint of judicial misconduct against Richard Roberts, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, for instructing a clerk not to file his request for a hearing on modifying the restraining order. 

(Roberts resigned earlier this month on the day a woman filed a lawsuit claiming he sexually assaulted her while she was a 16-year-old witness in a case he prosecuted three decades ago. Roberts said the sex was consensual.)

About two weeks ago, Sibley asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to order the clerk to accept his filing and, feeling a sense of urgency and lacking a response, hand-delivered an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.

A lawyer who represented the so-called “D.C. madam” says he has phone records that could influence the outcome of the presidential election, and he’s threatening to release one or more names on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court if he’s denied a hearing on his right to distribute them.

Montgomery Blair Sibley, the late madam Deborah Palfrey’s colorful attorney, has been subject to a restraining order since 2007 barring him from releasing the information, which he says includes 815 names, addresses and Social Security numbers of Verizon Wireless customers.

“Time is of the essence because people are casting votes in primaries and caucuses,” he says. “I believe this information is relevant to that political discourse.”

Sibley first said the records could be relevant to the presidential race in January, when there were 15 high-profile candidates. Now, just three Republicans and two Democrats remain – though Sibley won’t say if any are implicated, citing fear of being jailed for contempt.

He would not say if he was surprised by a National Enquirer report last week that alleged Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had engaged in five extramarital affairs. Cruz, currently in second place in the GOP contest, vigorously denied the report on Friday, and in doing so uncapped mainstream media coverage.

“The footnote to the pleading I filed today says this: If I do not get the right to file my request to modify the restraining order and if I do not get an expedited hearing, I’m going to publicly release those records and see what happens,” he says. “If they want to hold me in contempt of court for violating an order they will not give me a hearing on, I think they lose the right to enforce that order.”

By not promptly scheduling a hearing, he says, courts “are letting people vote blindly.”

Palfrey became nationally famous following her 2006 arrest and was found dead with a nylon rope around her neck in her mother’s shed in 2008. Before her apparent 'suicide', Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and the then-leader of the U.S. Agency for International Development were outed as her clients.

Their names came from a set of call records that revealed Vitter – who remains a sitting senator – spoke on the phone with Palfrey during congressional votes. The large batch contained about 10,000 numbers released by Sibley and Palfrey in 2007.

The records had carelessly been left in Palfrey’s basement, Sibley recalls. “When the Keystone Kop police came in to seize everything [from Palfrey’s house], they walked by these boxes saying Pamela Martin Associates telephone records, 1996-2006, and they just left them there,” Sibley says. “So I got my hands on them and released a portion of them.”

But about a third of the records were not released, he says. “We held back these 5,000,” Sibley says. “I wanted to have something to negotiate with or surprise people at trial.”

Before trial, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler authorized subpoenas for cell phone companies requesting personal information. Verizon Wireless returned a list containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 815 people, Sibley says – a sizable subset of the 5,000 numbers not initially released.

Other companies did not respond before a different federal judge, James Robertson, quashed the phone company subpoenas two months later. Palfrey was convicted of money laundering and other charges two weeks before her death.

Sibley is known for being a high-energy attorney with an eccentric client list, including Larry Sinclair who, despite his lengthy rap sheet for forgery and other crimes, gained significant attention claiming he had sexual relations with 'president' Barack Obama. 

Sibley’s ability to practice law was suspended for three years in Florida in 2008 for filing “vexatious and meritless” lawsuits against judges and for a child support payment dispute. He faced reciprocal discipline in D.C.

Sibley is not yet giving judges a deadline to allow for the release of information before he does so unilaterally. "Their delay, in hindsight, will seem like they’re favoring one person over another,” he says.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-28/dc-madams-attorney-says-call-log-bombshell-could-upend-presidential-race

Clintons have betrayed America


Uranium One
Clintons Have Betrayed America




A MUSLIM CAT




 A MUSLIM CAT


Your gotta love this one! 
Is frame-able! Ha ha.......  

We need to keep a sense of humor .....


COLLEGE GRADUATES ARE DUMBER THAN A SACK OF HAMMERS


WHY  SPECIAL  SNOWFLAKE  COLLEGE  GRADUATES  ARE  DUMBER  THAN  A  SACK  OF  HAMMERS  


30 March 2016
by Administrator in Economy


If you ever needed more proof that a college education has become a virtual joke, check out the chart below. 

Higher Education should be renamed Lower Education, since the standards of excellence have been lowered so far, any moron can get a degree. With a large distribution of students, grades should resemble a bell curve. I learned that in my college Stat class. That would mean approximately 15% to 20% A’s. 

Shockingly, back in the 1960s & 1970s about 15% to 20% of students got As. Did college students suddenly get super smart over the last 15 years? Based on the chart, we’ve got some real Einsteins out there. The number of A grades has skyrocketed from 30% to 45% in the last fifteen years. This is a f**king joke. This is the same time period in which every moron who can spell CAT has been able to matriculate into college with the trillions in student loan debt being peddled by Obama and his minions. 

We know for a fact, based on SAT scores, that at least 50% of kids in college aren’t intellectually capable of succeeding. So the solution is to dumb down the curriculum and inflate grades because it is only about the money. Kids who flunk out don’t pay tuition. 

Our entire educational edifice of idiocy is a disaster. Kids graduating with 3.5 GPAs today aren’t half as smart as the kids graduating with 3.5 GPAs in 1980. The lack of intelligence and common sense is evident everywhere you look. The special snowflakes can be coddled and given A’s for doing C work, but that doesn’t make them prepared for the real world.

This country is so screwed and there is no way to unscrew it. 

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IT'S  NEVER  BEEN  EASIER  TO  GET  AN  'A'  IN  A  COLLEGE  CLASS  (OR  MORE  EXPENSIVE) 



Add this to the list of consequences of rising college tuition: Students getting better grades than they deserve.

A’s were the most common grade on college campuses in 2013, accounting for 45% of grades awarded to students, according to an analysis of grade data at more than 80 schools by Stuart Rojstaczer, an independent researcher, and Chris Healy, a computer science professor at Furman University. 

By contrast, college students were most likely to get C’s leading up to the Vietnam War, accounting for about 35% of grades awarded. 

The two researchers have been collecting and reporting on grade data for years. Monday’s release marks the latest version of their analysis.
 


Stuart Rojstaczer and Chris Healy
The researchers’ data shows how A’s have become the most common grade awarded at colleges.


So how did we get here? There were two distinct periods of grade inflation, according to Rojstaczer. The first began during the Vietnam era when many professors began elevating grades in part to keep male students from flunking out and being forced into the draft. But flagship public colleges and private schools inflated grades beyond what was required to keep students from going to war.

Their rationale, Rojstaczer said, was to start awarding grades that were based more on a national average, so instead of comparing students with each other, they compared them to students at other schools. That meant that for example, fewer students got C’s because while they might have been doing average work on their campuses, their work wasn’t average compared with students at regional schools, the teachers reasoned.

The second, modern era of grade inflation, which began in the 1980s, has more to do with money than shifting academic standards. As college tuition rose, eating an ever larger chunk of families’ income, university leaders and parents and students began to see college as more of a commodity, said Rojstaczer. That mindset fueled a desire among administrators to keep families happy.

“If you’re going to treat a student as a customer, the customer is always right,” said Rojstaczer who is a former Duke University professor and novelist. “You want to please them and how do you please them? You give them the grades they want instead of the grades they deserve.”

Some have argued that the higher grades reflect a higher caliber of student. While Rojstaczer and Healy acknowledge that may be true at some universities, they say there hasn’t been a significant enough change in the quality of students since the 1980s to account for the uptick in grades during that period.

Though students may like getting more A’s, grade inflation can dilute the quality of their education, Rojstaczer said. “It reduces the energy level in the classroom when a student walks in knowing that simply by showing up they can get a B+ or better,” he said. “Not all of them, but a significant percentage of them are simply going to show up.”

Some colleges have taken stabs at clamping down on grade inflation. Princeton University enacted and then ultimately abandoned a policy that banned any department from awarding more than 35% A grades. Wellesley College, the all women’s school in Massachusetts, is known for its policy that requires the mean grade in introductory level courses with 10 students or more not exceed a B+.

While these kinds of policies are successful at the university level, Rojstaczer said he’d like to see a more coordinated national effort by university leaders to make sure students get the grades they deserve. “This is, in a sense nothing new. The intensity and quality of the educational experience at universities has waxed and waned for hundreds of years and we’re in an era where it’s on the downside,” he said.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/03/30/why-special-snowflake-college-graduates-are-dumber-than-a-sack-of-hammers/ 

HOW EXTREMELY STUPID AMERICA HAS BECOME


DEPRESSING  SURVEY  RESULTS  SHOW  HOW  EXTREMELY  STUPID  AMERICA  HAS  BECOME





Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.

In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in.

Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us.  

We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach.  

Hardly anyone takes time to read a book any more, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television.   

75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet.  

It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

What in the world has happened to us?  How is it possible that we have become so stupid?  According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court…
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know.
Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation.
More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal.
It can be tempting to laugh at numbers like these until you realize that survey after survey has come up with similar results.

Just consider what Newsweek found a few years ago…
When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president.
Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.
Even worse were the extremely depressing results of a study conducted a few years ago by Common Core…

*Only 43 percent of all U.S. high school students knew that the Civil War was fought some time between 1850 and 1900.

*More than a quarter of all U.S. high school students thought that Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean after the year 1750.

*Approximately a third of all U.S. high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

*Only 60 percent of all U.S. students knew that World War I was fought some time between 1900 and 1950.

Of course survey results can be skewed, and much hinges on how the questions are asked.

However, even studies that are scientifically conducted confirm how stupid America has become.  In fact, a report from the Educational Testing Service found that Americans are falling way behind much of the rest of the industrialized world.  

The following comes from CBS News
Americans born after 1980 are lagging their peers in countries ranging from Australia to Estonia, according to a new report from researchers at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The study looked at scores for literacy and numeracy from a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which tested the abilities of people in 22 countries.
The results are sobering, with dire implications for America. It hints that students may be falling behind not only in their early educational years but at the college level.
Even though more Americans between the ages of 20 to 34 are achieving higher levels of education, they’re still falling behind their cohorts in other countries.
In Japan, Finland and the Netherlands, young adults with only a high school degree scored on par with American Millennials holding four-year college degrees, the report said.
Out of 22 countries that were part of the study, the Educational Testing Service found that Americans were dead last in tech proficiency, dead last in numeracy and only two countries performed worse than us when it came to literacy proficiency
Half of American Millennials score below the minimum standard of literacy proficiency. Only two countries scored worse by that measure: Italy (60 percent) and Spain (59 percent). The results were even worse for numeracy, with almost two-thirds of American Millennials failing to meet the minimum standard for under standing and working with numbers. That placed U.S. Millennials dead last for numeracy among the study’s 22 developed countries.
So why has this happened?

Why have we become such an extremely stupid nation?

Well, at least a portion of the blame must be directed at our system of education.

The following is an excerpt from an article written by reporter Mark Morford.  

In this article, he shared how one of his friends which had served for a very long time as a high school teacher in Oakland, California was considering moving out of the country when he retired due to the relentless “dumb-ification of the American brain”
It’s gotten so bad that, as my friend nears retirement, he says he is very seriously considering moving out of the country so as to escape what he sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning American society in the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable destruction, the shocking — and nearly hopeless — dumb-ification of the American brain. It is just that bad.
Now, you may think he’s merely a curmudgeon, a tired old teacher who stopped caring long ago. Not true. Teaching is his life. He says he loves his students, loves education and learning and watching young minds awaken. Problem is, he is seeing much less of it.
And of course things don’t get much better when it comes to our college students.  In a previous article, I shared some statistics from USA Today about the rapidly declining state of college education in the United States…
 
-“After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.”

-“Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago”

-“35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone.”

-“50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages”

-“32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.”

I spent eight years studying at some of the finest public universities in the country, and I can tell you from personal experience that even our most challenging college courses have been pathetically dumbed down.

And at our “less than finest” public universities, the level of education can be something of a bad joke.  

In another previous article, I shared some examples of actual courses that have been taught at U.S. universities in recent years…

-“What If Harry Potter Is Real?
-“Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame
-“Philosophy And Star Trek
-“Learning From YouTube
-“How To Watch Television

Could you imagine getting actual college credit for a course entitled “What If Harry Potter Is Real?”

This is why many of our college graduates can barely put two sentences together.  They aren’t being challenged, and the quality of the education most of them are receiving is incredibly poor.

But even though they aren’t being challenged, students are taking longer to get through college than ever.  

Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of all full-time students receive a bachelor’s degree within four years, and only 77 percent of all full-time students have earned a bachelor’s degree by the end of six years.

Of course our system of education is not entirely to blame.  The truth is that young Americans spend far more time consuming media than they do hitting the books, and what passes for “entertainment” these days is rapidly turning their brains to mush.

According to a report put out by Nielsen, this is how much time the average American spends consuming media on various devices each day…

Watching live television: 4 hours, 32 minutes
Watching time-shifted television: 30 minutes
Listening to the radio: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Using a smartphone: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Using Internet on a computer: 1 hour, 6 minutes

When you add it all up, the average American spends more than 10 hours a day plugged into some form of media.

And if you allow anyone to pump “programming” into your mind for 10 hours a day, it is going to have a dramatic impact.

In the end, I truly believe that we all greatly underestimate the influence that the mainstream media has on all of us.  We willingly plug into “the Matrix” for endless hours, but then somehow we still expect “to think for ourselves”.

There are very few of us that can say that we have not been exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of conditioning.  And all of that garbage can make it very, very difficult to think clearly.

It is not because of a lack of input that we have become so stupid as a society.  The big problem is what we are putting into our minds.

If we continue to put garbage in, we are going to continue to get garbage out, and that is the cold, hard reality of the matter.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/depressing-survey-results-show-how-extremely-stupid-america-has-become