Of course no one wants or advocates for child labor. The problem is, no one ever asks why it exists in the first place. Tom Woods was one of the people who got me into the Libertarian movement back in 2009. It's talks like this that show that not only is the Free Market the answer to many of our problems, but also that the people who rule over us are imbeciles.
This is the complex argument I gave the 12th graders today during our 4th week of the Novel Coronavirus Online Learning Arrangement (NCOLA).
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Starting about 0:25 in the video, Tom Woods, historian, argues the reasons why child labor existed. While he is obviously, as a father of 5, against forcing children to work, he argues that the reasons children have had to work in the past are legitimate. He also argues that passing laws against child labor in poor countries is the wrong thing to do.
What approach(es) does he use to argue this type of topic?
Does he come up with things that made you think twice about Child Labor - or not? Explain clearly please.
Analyze his tone, speech patterns, body language, and word choice. If you were rating this, what type of grade would you give and why?
I feel it's important to send this out to you today. Especially now, with the Novel Coronavirus working its way around, and government officials and Corporate Media talking heads telling me what I need to do in order to be safe. People often wonder why I have trip-wire sensitivity and inherent distrust for the Government Media complex and their statements. The story below is the first thing I think of when I ask myself "are these people trustworthy?" It is also the first thing I talk about when people get angry at me for not instantly bending the knee and doing as I'm told by Corporate Media / Gov't.
It's a dark chapter in American history, and it wasn't that long ago.
The conspiracy theory, in the 1980's and the 1990's, was that the government was responsible for flooding the Black Neighborhood with crack cocaine. If you spoke openly of this, you were called all sorts of names. One of the more common ones was "Conspiracy Theorist". The problem was, it was all true. A reporter, Gary Webb, figured out the entire thing. The chain of command, why the CIA was sending drugs into certain areas, which government officials were involved - Webb had it all mapped out and he wrote a series of articles on it.
As usual, the Power Elite, mostly the Government and the Corporate Media, went after Webb, not his story. They didn't go after what he said or the facts They wen't after him. Hard. Webb killed himself eventually, shooting himself in the head twice. Re-read that last sentence.
He eventually turned the whole thing into a book, called Dark Alliance. I own it.
"Gary Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.
Derided by some as conspiracy theory and heralded by others as investigative reporting at its finest, Webb’s series spread through extensive talk radio coverage and global availability via the internet, which at the time was still a novel way to promote national news."
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The above article is really good. I recommend it.
There are some good videos, documentaries and movies on this topic. Here are some of them:
Crack in the System: It is the go to documentary on who was responsible, and how they did it. By using Freeway Ricky Ross, an illiterate high school tennis star, as its lens, the documentary gives you chapter and verse on the path of destruction created by the Federal Government and the Media.
Gary Webb lays out the process in this video. This video was originally erased from Youtube until recently re-uploaded:
The story was made into a Hollywood movie, which, while only a cursory analysis, is actually pretty good:
After going through this material, I don't think there is any way you can, from this day forward, look at Corporate Media and / or government officals with anything but distrust.
If they're willing to not only cause this level of death and destruction, lie about it, and kill the messenger; what else are they willing to do?
For: The Presentational Speaking Classes - 12th Grade
"Freeway" Ricky Ross, a former US street legend, who as a drug dealer was once responsible for flooding California's streets with most of its hard drugs, spoke with RT about his activism against drugs. After making up to US $3 million a day and then spending 20 years in prison, Ross started from scratch and is now trying to make a difference by keeping kids from following into his footsteps."
Rick Ross's story is an interesting one, and I'll provide informative and optional links later, probably tomorrow, for those who are interested. This was one of those stories, "the gov't flooded the black neighborhood with crack!", that was scoffed at for years as a 'conspiracy theory'. Your enemies will always do that - call information they don't like a bad name. It isn't an argument.
Ross was illiterate all through his schooling, and with the help of the US Federal Gov't, became the top drug dealer in Los Angeles. He makes some controversial statements during this interview. He says the CIA and the gov't were responible for flooding the Black Neighborhood with drugs and destorying it. He is also exceedingly critical of his schooling.
1) Does he present his case well?
He continues, around 8:00 in, that both school and the music industry are in it to get paid, not to help young people in any way.
2) Does he explain himself well? 3) How does his past life as a dealer, who had multiple $3 million dollar days, help his case? Or does it hurt it? Explain this aspect of Ethos in this interview.
There are going to be some rabbit holes presented here, lots of inconsistencies, and a heavy dose of conspiracy.
I don't fully know what to think about the Novel Coronavirus, and neither do you. But this is the kind of material I share with students. Not to tell them what to think, but to show them how to think. When a young mind is told to process information and make its own decision, amazing things happen. The student in your 9th grade English class comes back to you as a 12th grader and is a totally different person.
I've had scores of students tell me that they are awake, and they can never go back to sleep. That isn't anything reflective upon me as a 'teacher'. It is reflective upon my humility and ability to say "I don't know, but here is what I've seen from sources I trust."
I don't know the real deal with The Novel Coronavirus, but here are things from sources I trust.
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Dr. Fauci says Coronavirus isn't a big deal:
WATCH : Dr. Anthony Fauci's original thoughts about the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak are revisited from a January 21st interview with Newsman TV's Greg Kelly. He says it's "not a threat."
When did that change? How? Is it a big deal? How does someone in his position not know how big a threat CV19 is? If he was mistaken it sure was a big mistake.
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Investigative reporter Sharyl Atkisson figured out that the H1N1 Swine flu numbers were not only inflated by the CDC, they were created out of nothing.
Remember this pandemic? I do. It should bother you that people use your trust in their institutions to lie to you, and scare you.
From Jon Rappaport's site:
'I interviewed Sharyl Attkisson. She told me the following:
“…we discovered through our FOI efforts that before the CDC mysteriously stopped counting Swine Flu cases, they had learned that almost none of the cases they had counted as Swine Flu were, in fact, Swine Flu or any sort of flu at all! The interest in the story from one [CBS] executive was very enthusiastic. He said it was ‘the most original story’ he’d seen on the whole Swine Flu epidemic. But others [at CBS] pushed to stop it and, in the end, no [CBS television news] broadcast wanted to touch it. We aired numerous stories pumping up the idea of an epidemic, but not the one that would shed original, new light on all the hype. It [Attkisson’s investigation] was fair, accurate, legally approved and a heck of a story. With the CDC keeping the true Swine Flu stats secret, it meant that many in the public took and gave their children an experimental vaccine that may not have been necessary.” (italics mine).
Trust government pronouncements about diseases?
Are you serious?'
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Swine flu is from a place in Mexico where they were slaughtering hogs in the hundreds of thousands, with feces pools you could see from high altitude. Harsh chemicals were put in the pools to try to cure the deaths and sicknesses of the workers.
This is why you heard 'Mexico' as the origin of the Swine Flu, but NEVER the actual town from which it arose, La Gloria:
"In 2009, in La Gloria, Mexico, on a giant commercial pig farm, pig feces and urine are allowed to bake and steam and bubble in the sun. These deposits are called lagoons. They’re so large, you can see them from outer space. Toxic chemicals are routinely sprayed and laid out like whipped cream on the lagoons. Workers are falling ill. New workers are brought in to spray even more toxic chemicals. Workers die. Then the Centers for Disease Control sends in their tuned-up virus hunters to look for the germ causing the “mysterious” illness. They claim to find a Swine Flu virus. IT MUST BE THE VIRUS. WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE? THE DECAYING PIG SH*T AND URINE? The layers of poisonous chemicals? Don’t be ridiculous."
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Apparently the NYPD believes the dangers of the Novel Coronavirus, until it means putting people in prison:
A woman got busted for not doing proper 'social distancing'. This was a problem, and unhealthy problem. Didn't she know there was a Pandemic! going on? This is a serious issue. Until it isn't:
"The woman was taken to the local precinct and then to central booking, where she shared a cell with two dozen other women for the next 36 hours. Only women who already had masks when they were arrested were allowed to keep them. There was no soap and the cell was dirty, but at one point an officer went around distributing drops of hand sanitizer to the women held there.
“They got us all bunched up in one cell,” the woman said. “Nobody gave us no tissues. Regular jail stuff. Once you go in there they are going to treat you like the scum of the earth.”
Does that make sense to you? If they're worried about people being healthy, bow does throwing them in a cell with 24 other women in close proximity help? The NYPD officers are either stupid, or unconcerned about their health. If it's the latter, then why arrest them in the first place?
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All of these stories are for you to process. I don't have the answers. I know that the Corporate Media has been working to scare people for decades. They are merchants of despair, and their motives are nefarious - too big a topic to go into here. I process Media information with that in the back of my mind.
My mind goes places where it isn't supposed to. I understand the potential severity of Corona-chan. However, I listen to the people who've been kicked off of the mainstream internet, so the information I process isn't for the normies, and therefore exposes inconsistency. Adding to that, I know and enjoy history.
This makes the Corona Time more difficult for me that it is for you.
Here is some information from the Spanish Flu Pandemic 100 years ago; "In the U.S., about 28% of the population of 105 million became infected, and 500,000 to 675,000 died (0.48 to 0.64 percent of the population)"
675,000 deaths. If you match that same ratio to today's coronachan it would have to reach almost 2 million deaths in the United States. The numbers don't seem to be getting there. I don't think they will.
Real Questions:
Why didn't they close down the economy and the businesses back then? Were they sociopaths praying for death? If the Spanish Flu was so wretched, why didn't the gov't close down the schools?
Before we get to my report from Glass Mountain, there are some other issues that are no longer issues.
No one is talking about Greta and Global Warming.
World War III has completely faded into nothingness.
The Amazon isn't burning.
The threat of a mass shooting is gone.
Russia Collusion Hoax is now even sillier than when it was going on.
Impeach Trump is a non-issue.
We owe Corona a great debt, for it has made the above 6 topics disappear. It has also made us appreciate many of our good neighbors, who have come through for the elderly in my area.
Jair Bolsonaro is the president of Brazil. Roughly 58 million Brazilians voted for him. Brazil is one of the largest countries in the world, and has a long, rich history.
With all of that said, Mr. Bolsonaro did something you're never allowed to do. He agreed with Pres. Trump. We all know that simply isn't done.
Here's how Facebook and Twitter ran cover for their censorship:
"Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google’s YouTube have all removed posts shared by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for including coronavirus misinformation that violates the social media companies’ rules against posting harmful content.
Facebook said it took down a video on Monday that had been shared to both Facebook and Instagram, in which Bolsonaro said the anti-malaria prescription drug hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for Covid-19. Twitter earlier had removed two tweets that also showed video of Bolsonaro praising hydroxychloroquine and encouraging the end of social distancing. On Tuesday morning, YouTube also said it had pulled two videos from Bolsonaro’s official account for violating its policies."
Did you realize that Twitter and Facebook are the authorities on COVID-19? They are the Gatekeepers who give you only the information on The Novel Coronavirus you need to have. They know better than you do. They are the scientists. They are the Authority. You know who else they know better than? Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump. We all know why the Corporate Media and Big Social did this. They don't like the Bolsonaros or Trumps of the world. It has nothing to do with science or misinformation.
Luckily for us, the toothpaste is out of the tube, and these cloddish attempts at censorship will fail. This article is proof: I had no idea about Bolsonaro's position until I saw that he'd been censored. Then I was compelled to look it up.
Now I know what he posted. Good for him. I like him even more now.
I wonder why the Power Elite want to control the kind of information you get. Is there something wrong with you? It's almost as if they don't trust you.
1) When Pride Still Mattered, by David Maraniss. This book is not only the definitive biography of Vince Lombardi, the legendary football coach, it is a prism into an America that is gone. Maraniss used Lombardi’s reputation and life to explain the coach’s life, but also a time when your word was bond, and hard work, craftsmanship, and pride in one’s self and work was paramount. Lombardi spend years as a football coach at a small Catholic High school, and he scratched and clawed his way to the top. There was no building of a ‘brand’, no posing for the cameras, and no handouts. It’s a fantastic journey into a more difficult, and perhaps better, America.
2) Carnage and Culture, by Victor Davis Hanson. There are reasons why the Christian West has won key battles throughout history. Hanson details all the key decisions, predicated on the culture of the West, that helped the British win at Rorke’s Drift, Cortez win at Tenochtitlan, and the Americans to win at Midway. There are other important battles talked about in the book. The chapter I go to repeatedly is the one on Cortez in Mexico. How a much smaller group of Spaniards could take down a powerful and violent Aztec Empire is fascinating. Hanson’s thesis is solid, and he impeccably defends it.
3) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, written by Himself. This is the first of the autobiographies, and the most raw. A young Douglass intuitively recognized not only the double and triple standards of society in his young life, he learned, and unashamedly described, human nature. The worst personality traits of each sex, the way power corrupts a soul, the power of literacy – Douglass learned them all before he was ten. A short read, but it has the depth of a much longer book.
4) The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto. Gatto was a schoolteacher for 30 years. The last decade of his career he researched the creation and motivation behind the American public school system. What he found is both fascinating and disturbing. Disturbing is probably not a strong enough word. A small group of powerful people wanted a mass of malleable, thoughtless citizens who would be good factory workers and soldiers. To create the Elite top of the pyramid, look at the curriculum of the 8 top boarding schools in the United States (Kent, Hotchkiss et al). To create the managers of society, look at where I went, Brooklyn Tech High School. To look at how to create millions of unthinking consumers, take a walk through your local K-12 system. If you really want to get black pilled, read the Common Core State Standards. Gatto rips the cover off the system and shows you some dirty secrets. Often people ask me “what can one person do?” You can do what John Taylor Gatto did.
5) Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson. When they look back at the ‘woke’ era, this incident, meticulously recounted by the authors, will be one of the bellwethers of the time. 3 young men, all white and well off, were accused of a rape they did not commit. Because of their race and economic status, the Corporate Media told the American people, for months, that they were rapists and racists. The rhetoric and actions of the press, the awful behavior of the school administration and many professors, show you that the media and woke culture are 2 of the most despicable entities ever let loose within American society. The future Robot Historians will wonder why we didn’t put the press and university administrators on an ice floe and push them into the sea.
6) The Great Bridge, by David McCullough. The Brooklyn Bridge construction project began right after the Civil War. It is still one of the most busy and functional bridges today. How did they do it? Who dreamed it up and built it? There was no electricity. There were no combustion engines. And yet, the bridge towers are 275 feet high, and one of them is grounded on bedrock. The Manhattan tower never made it down to bedrock. They were so deep under the riverbed, and the silt was so thick, Roebling, the chief engineer, made the executive decision to anchor the tower and move forward. In an era of small to no government help, a gold standard, no unions, no bailouts … you get a look at how things got done and the intellectual firepower of the men who got them done. One of the best post-Civil War books of all time.
7) The Power Broker, by Robert Caro. This book won the Pulitzer Prize. Caro goes through the life of Robert Moses, one man who irrevocably changed the shape of arguably the most important city on earth: New York City. Moses wasn’t interested in money, but he was interested in power. Once he learned how to get it, he got more, and he learned how to keep it. The early years of his career under Alfred E. Smith are particularly interesting as Caro explains the monumental amount of effort Moses put in to cement his positions of power. A study of government, the nature of power, and the gaping flaws within people are all on display. This is one of those books where the subject is closed. No one will ever write another biography of Robert Moses as there is nothing left to write.
8) The Illusion of Victory, by Thomas Fleming. One of the last nails in the coffin of a once free America is the Progressive Era and America’s entry into World War I. The story you get in school (see #4) is that the good guys suited up and beat the bad Germans. Then they celebrated Armistice Day. This isn’t even the comic book level of history usually found in the textbooks. Fleming explains the massive propaganda campaign surrounding America’s entry into The Great War. You learn that the Industrial and Banking interests didn’t really care if a few hundred thousand American citizens were killed. If they were made financially whole, that didn’t matter. Britain and France were going to lose, and America’s entry was necessary to win. With the help of the worst president in American History, Woodrow Wilson, America went into an unnecessary war, and the Progressives got their claws into the American Free Enterprise system. It was all they needed to eventually bring the whole thing down. Fleming got kicked out of the Conservative author club for telling too much truth. This book is an example of that.
