Category: Planners

Purpose of Common Core: Centralize, standardize, digitize, harvest the young

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that changes, the more it’s the same thing.) — French proverb In part a review of The Educator & the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody. (New York, Garn Press, 2014. 199 pages, no index. $15.30 from abebooks.com) By Franklin Sanders […]

Why state should not tax access to public records (3 wondrous points)

A roomful of people from media and activist groups argue against taxing access to public records. I am in the back, standing alone in my best suit next to the door. (Photo Brian Hornback at Brianhornback.com) By David Tulis State government should not attempt to charge people to view public records because government is “a […]

Border law feeds poor to lions; also, Rev. Maize rebukes police

Refugee crisis putting 1,500 souls onto streets is prompted by seizure mentality, thanks to easy money for city under Tenn. Border Region Retail Development District Act. Whew. In Part 2, Deborah Fisher fights bid to close Tenn. open records provisions. Part 3: Does existence of police make things better, worse for blacks? Ezra Maize explores […]

The gods we control turn tables on us

As a lost people, we create gods we control, but some of these deities (U.S. government, for example) really have cut loose and claim their own sovereignty. In Part 2, John Anthony of Chattanooga of Sustainable Freedom Lab explores HUD rules that intend to recreate American cities, towns over the next century. Also, docs flee […]

HUD rule enables U.S. to enslave cities to its will

HUD rules will impose rules on cities and towns that become internally enforced. By John Anthony OOLTEWAH, Tenn. — Local rule died in America on July 8.  With it passes the rights of rural and suburban communities to decide their own futures.  The trigger was the final 377-page ruling from HUD called Affirmatively Furthering Fair […]

Obama ignores U.S. sky striping program but cites ‘global security’ threat of sunlight

Behind a bizarre June 2, 2015, hailstorm in Gatlinburg, Tenn., manipulation of the weather by jet emissions, a program known as stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. (Photo Tennessee Skywatch on Facebook) The term used to describe cloud-creation is “albedo modification,” which enhances the reflectivity of the planet, as that here in Sevierville, Tenn., May 23, 2015. (Photo […]

The new slave trade; how national economy sucks us dry

(Cartoon The Moneychanger) We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them . . . we will . . . […]

Supt. Smith demands F$34 million more, yet silent on ‘eligibility standards’ in law

State government’s No. 2 expenditure is the school system. (Graphic Tennessee comprehensive annual financial report, 2014) By David Tulis Dr. Rick Smith is the man whose great will in matters of schooling superintends the wills of others in the local system. He intends there to be more cash to spend for administration, improvements and students. […]

Chattanooga Declaration asks breakup of U.S. to end totalitarianism, ease bankruptcy

The Farm Stand at Chattanooga’s Crabtree Farms draws members of the public who want fresh locally grown fare. The ideas of local economy and local food have implications for the size of nations. (Photo Crabtree Farms.) By David Tulis If the concept of local economy appears quaint and inward looking, consider its “foreign policy” implications. […]