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The N-Word and the C-WORD

2/14/2022

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You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone covered you: carnelian, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold; they were prepared on the day you were created.
---Ezeikiel 28:13
 
 
In Ancient Rome, the word Christian was a derogatory term used by pagans to imply racial inferiority in much the same way the terms nigger, spic, chink, pollack, and arab have been used in modern times.
 
After Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, his apostates, the disciples, and their followers scattered from the Holy Land into the Greek nation, up through Constantinople and then into Eastern Europe. Almost everywhere they went, they met with persecution and resistance. Especially near Athens: there they were hunted like animals and sold into captivity by Greek officials.
 
An underground railroad of sorts was established all through the Greek corridor. Friendly taverns and inns marked their establishments with the Chi Rho Symbol: the first initials of Christ the King from the Greek alphabet interwoven with one another.
 
In the areas in which they settled, followers of Christ treated their neighbors with kindness and welcomed outsiders to join their flock. This gave birth to orchards and vineyards up and down the Aegean coastline.
 
Taking the Lord’s name in Vain
Rome’s decadence and bloodlust spun out of control after Christ rose from the grave. In the years that followed, Roman legionnaires expanded the Empire’s boundaries northward into Germania and eastward across the Aegean Sea. They subjugated the people in the lands they conquered; enslaving their defeated warriors and claiming their women.
 
Followers of Christ Jesus were typically executed by the Praetorian Guard for remaining true to their faith. Some able-bodied men were however picked at random and sold into slavery. Many of these men were carted off to Rome where they were paraded before the Emperor in triumph.
 
Within the capital, they were mixed in with slaves from all corners of the Empire: North Africa and the Saharan Desert, Espania, Gaul, Samaria and Carthage just to name a few.
 
Christian slaves shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with their fellow captives and echoed Christ’s teachings. This converted Gentiles to the faith and expanded the flock.
 
Followers of Christ were routinely persecuted for their beliefs by Roman citizens. Unwavering in their devotion to the Christ Jesus who had freed them of their sin, they stood resolute in their faith. Some even earned the status of freedmen by exploiting loopholes in Roman law to relinquish their shackles.
 
Roman Citizens and friends of Rome took notice of their strength; as did the Roman nobility.
The Roman Senate expressed concerns about the growing faith movement with Julius Caesar and he uttered the word Christian in profanity: out of avarice and prideful anger.​
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Caesar despised the Jewish tribes and chose to make a mockery of their faithful: the ones who recognized Christ Jesus as God incarnate and accepted His divine providence over the heavens and the earth. He fed those he labeled Christians to hungry lions in the Roman Colosseum as sport: to demonstrate his authority over and his apathy toward the Jews.
 
A Warning to the Western World
Jesus Christ welcomed all nations of the earth into His dominion before he was betrayed; and few people have heeded the calling. Like the Israelites Moses led out Egypt and into the promised land, our elders have largely ignored the Ten Commandments and chosen their own decadence and sin over honor and virtue.
 
Today, authoritarians and bigots in positions of power exploit immutable characteristics such as our age, our skin color, our sex and our genealogy for their own gain. They seek to divide and distract us from true threats they themselves have largely enabled. They employ useful idiots to trumpet their unholy rhetoric in our schools, on the airwaves and over the internet to embitter us toward one another.
 
What seems like a majority of the privileged class within Australia, Great Britain, the European Union and the Americas have forgotten their Biblical upbringings. Tax paying citizens have effectively become the new niggers within the corridors of power: treated with contempt and apathy.

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May God bless and keep the shadow players who prey upon tax paying citizens around the world and lead us again into war.

​Author: 
Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting
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The Great Divide

1/10/2022

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If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people, and my people, who bear my name, humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
---2 Chronicles 7:13-14

 
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Ever ask yourself why our public schools are in the toilet? It all began at home.

For the most part, Baby Boomers and Gen Xers forsook their parental responsibilities after the Berlin Wall fell and the U.S.S.R. crumbled. We focused on selfish pursuits and allowed 
gambling, inebriation, filth, pornography, fornication, and debt to rot away the soul of our nation. We've failed to pass along the oral tradition of our nation's history to our children; and they wallow away in ignorance as a consequence.

The threats of fascism and communism are alive and well; and most Americans under the age of 50 have little or no idea the evil nature of these two beasts. Unless we open our eyes to the cancers we have wrought upon Western civilization, we will lose the blessing of liberty and the freedoms afforded us by the Magna Carta, our Bill of Rights, and the United States Constitution to these scourges.

This article traces how we've enabled Marxist ideologues to resurface and gain momentum. As you read through it, ask yourself: Am I willing to do whatever it takes to stop these authoritarian cancers for the good of the nation?
 
For the Brave Soldiers Who Fell at Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk marked a turning point for Western Civilization and all of humanity. Before the battle, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had the rug sold out from underneath him by American career politicians and crony capitalists. The Catholic Church played a part in it as well. Western civilization has been in decline ever since.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt deserves much of the blame for this. The fat cat progressive President feasted on American tax dollars while Great Britain’s brave soldiers fought gallantly to preserve freedom and democracy, preventing Nazi Germany’s unholy Third Reich from advancing over the English Channel.
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​In desperate need of resources and capital to mobilize Great Britain for the war effort, Churchill pleaded with FDR to join the fight against the Nazis for the sake of Western civilization. Roosevelt humiliated the British Prime Minster and denied his request.  Thousands of British and French soldiers lost their lives as a result.

FDR was beholden to the elite. The upper crust of American society pandered to Roosevelt so they could bleed the middle class dry during the Great Depression. He and his administration were aligned with a legion of vultures: nihilists backed by big tobacco and gambling syndicates, as well as a consortium of Wall Street robber barons.

Together, FDR and his cronies altered the landscape of the American experience. They birthed the welfare state and gave rise to corporatocracy. They forsook many of our God-given rights to line their own pockets and solidify their oligarchy.

It was a short-sighted scheme. The house of cards they established has been in state of collapse since the end of the Cold War. In the time since, remnants of their oligarchy have covertly sold  our nation out to the People's Republic of China as well as interests controlled  by the Bilderberg syndicate.

 
​Have I Not Told You
Our public education systems would have you believe that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were the root of all the evil that gave rise to the Second World War. The wool has been pulled over your eyes if you truly believe this.

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World War II was in fact a Holy Crusade of sorts. A battle against an unholy two-headed hydra manipulated by  God's true enemy. That hydra is commonly known as Marxism.
​Germany's fascist Third Reich was one head of the serpent. Joseph Stalin's communist Soviet Union was the other. Both regimes aimed to destroy Christendom to further their own despotic ambitions.
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The seeds of the Second World War were planted at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles was ratified. Our Allied representatives allowed their own wrath to get the better of them. They closed the table to their defeated foes. Germany was locked out of the negotiations and forced to accept the terms of the treaty unconditionally.

Additionally, the unholy Communist threat manifesting within the Soviet Union was largely ignored at the Paris Conference as were the growing nationalist movements in the Far East. Both omissions proved fatal after the terms of the treaty were set into stone.

Throughout the Roaring Twenties, the Western Allied powers celebrated excessively as Germany and much of Europe destabilized, Japan militarized, and China engaged in a civil war. The general malaise of that period laid the groundwork for the Second World War and set the stage
 for the political upheavals we are presently witnessing across Western civilization today.

Sewing the Seeds of Wrath
Allied representatives burdened Germany with costly reparations at the Paris Peace Conference. The newly formed Weimar Republic was required to repay the debt the Allied powers had incurred to defeat the Axis. The treaty also limited Germany's future military production. And with the specter of communism rapidly advancing out of the Soviet Union, this posed a serious threat to the safety and security of the German people.

Before World War I, Germany’s industrial system was a bedrock of the global economy. After the war, it simply could not function. Factories were shuttered, banks foreclosed on loans, and transportation stalled.  As a result, Germany's unemployment skyrocketed. This had a ripple effect on economies all throughout Europe.

Men across the continent were stripped of their dignity and their hope. They took to the streets largely because they could not afford to feed their families. Poverty and hunger sparked political uprisings throughout most of Europe; and Satanic political ideologies began to take root outside Soviet Russia. Born from the infantile minds of privileged children who’d gathered in Vienna in the 1880's, Marxism bore fruit all over the continent and quickly spread across the globe.


Sensing that a second global conflict was inevitable, moneylenders drew wise to the volatile situation and hedged their lending. In parallel, unscrupulous speculators stockpiled precious materials and tilted the markets in their favor. This triggered what is known today as the Great Depression.
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Burgeoning Marxist movements metastasized throughout Europe during this period: most notably in Russia, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Adolph Hitler’s National Socialist Democratic Party was among them.
 
The Austrian-born Hitler was of Jewish heritage. He resented his father and found Marxist economic theories appealing. That said, he despised Communist leadership principles and abhorred religion. In league with the devil, he set about to transform Germany and all of Europe under an authoritarian dictatorship guided by Marxist economic principles​.

The battle between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions within the Russian Empire during the First World War gave birth to another insidious Marxist movement. That maniacal struggle unseated Tzar Nicholas II; and the Bolshevik's victory produced the Soviet Communist Party under Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky's leadership

After Lenin passed away in 1924, the U.S.S.R. endured a bloody reign of terror under Joseph Stalin that cost an estimated 20MM Eastern Europeans their lives. The genocide Stalin, his lieutenants, and their reign of successors committed nearly destroyed the soul of the Russian people and much of Eastern Europe's as well.
 
Pope On The Ropes
After the Nazi regime successfully toppled the Weimar puppet state in 1933, shylocks within the German Gestapo began to undermine banking efforts around the globe in order to generate wealth and resources for the Third Reich's ascension.
From 1937 to 1940, the Nazis expanded their territory in all four directions. Hitler and his underlings set the stage for this by neutralizing the Catholic church within Germany and most of Europe through the Reich Concordat of 1933. In effect, the European Catholic church became subservient to the Third Reich through most of the Second World War.
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In August of 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Joseph Stalin. This enabled Germany to concentrate their blitzkrieg efforts in France, Belgium, Holland, and the Scandinavian countries the remainder of that year and the next. The Catholic church offered no quarter to resistance fighters in the occupied territories during the war for the most part. They also frequently collaborated with German officials to facilitate the Holocaust all throughout Europe.

By May of 1940, the German army had boxed Allied forces in near the French town of Dunkirk. Churchill groveled for assistance from FDR and was given the cold shoulder by the American President.

Our British allies were all but abandoned by FDR and his crony capitalists prior Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Had it not been for the valiant effort of every able-bodied British sea captain, the bulk of the British army would have perished on the beaches at Dunkirk and the war would have had a much different outcome.  

The mass evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk effectively galvanized the British Empire. Nearly every man, woman, and child on the isle of Great Britain dug in and prepared for the battle ahead. Similarly, the British Colonies fortified themselves for the war effort.

A bitter Churchill eloquently surmised Britain's resolve in the "We Will Fight On the Beaches" speech he delivered at the House of Commons that June. That moment would turn out to be a fait acompli for the Third Reich.

​The Nazi's knew that taking Great Britain would be arduous, so Hitler broke his non-aggression pact with Stalin largely to feed the Third Reich's war machine. Their invasion of the Soviet Union began in June of 1941 and met with great success early on.  That said, divine providence derailed the Nazi invaders that winter and Operation Barbarossa ground to a standstill.

The Soviets launched an aggressive series of counter-attacks starting on December 6th that carried on into the following year. Their steadfast efforts during the winter of 1941-42 effectively crippled and the Nazi war machine and turned the tide of the war against the Germans.

 
Washing Away Our Moral Values
The Vatican made a deal with the devil when they signed the Reich Concordat of 1933, and they have not repented. In fact,
 many Catholic Bishops continue to commit apostasy to this day.  

We can largely thank Pope Francis and his predecessors for the decline in morality and decency throughout most of Western Civilization over the last four generations. With few exceptions, the Vatican and their Archbishops have routinely embraced sins worthy of a Spanish Inquisition since the end of the Second World War. 

When Pope Pius XI decided to hand the fate of the Catholic Church over to the Enemy, he effectively sold Catholics over to the devil for what amounted to a coffer full of silver. The Vatican assumed that the German Chancellor and the Reichstag would deliver "Caesar's tribe" to their promised land. They elected to rob Peter to pay Paul.

The Vatican repeated a similar pattern in their dealings with the Soviet Union near the end of the Second World War. They largely deceived Catholics throughout the West when they released Pope Pius XII's  Christmas statement on the “Subject of Democracy and a Lasting Peace” in December of 1944.
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Believing the Soviets would ultimately be victorious in their struggle with the West, the Vatican had quietly aligned itself with the Communists as the Second World War was drawing to an end. They forsook Our lord and savior Jesus Christ in the process. They largely ignored the plight of the Jewish people within the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, and all but abandoned their sacrosanct obligations in the West.

The plague of sex scandals that have infested Catholic archdiocese around the globe since the 1950’s should come as little surprise given these facts. The Catholic church was once a foundation for benevolence and acts of charity in our most impoverished neighborhoods. This no longer happens to be the case in America; nor in most of the rest of the free world for that matter. Instead, many Catholic diocese have become breeding grounds for sodomites and pedophiles.
The dismantling of our classical education system by the Vatican in recent decades truly began in earnest following Nikita Krushchev's infamous 1956 “We will bury you” speech. 
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Once Krushchev laid down the gauntlet with the West, the Vatican reaffirmed their commitment with the Communists and set their sights on China. They began divesting their North American and European interests; and ramped up investment in Asia and the Pacific Isles.
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I Tell You the Truth

Unless we swiftly return to our Biblical foundations, the bedrock of Eden will soon go dark for non-believers and false Christians alike. Satan has planted roots within the People's Republic of China, and that regime is preparing for war with the West.
 
They have already begun a campaign to compromise corporate executives, media icons, civil servants, and elected public officials with loose moral values through bribery, extortion and corruption. Additionally, they spend billions of dollars every year on political propaganda and misinformation campaigns to sow dissension and discord amongst our citizenries.
 
Their efforts are paying off. Marxist movements of the fascist variety are budding throughout Western Europe, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. And in the Americas, there is a growing Communist insurgency as well.

Like 1920s Europe, the two-headed hydra of communism and fascism is resurfacing. And with no end in sight to the growing inflationary pressures throughout the world, a second Great Depression is certain. Armageddon will follow when this happens.

Given our rising geopolitical tensions with China and the Bilderberg syndicate's deliberate attempts to dismantle our Constitutional Republic, the time has come to rid ourselves of fear and cast light on the people and institutions that threaten the very fabric of our civilization.
 
Like Daniel, it’s time for the faithful to enter the Lion’s den. We must confront the purveyors of evil within our civilization and hold them to the fire. We need also hold our corrupt corporate executives, media icons, public servants, and elected officials to account for their moral turpitude. Otherwise, we will be doomed to a dystopian future similar to the one George Orwell described in his  novel 1984.
 
The political divide within our nation and much of the Western world is symptomatic of our moral decay. Marxist ideologues leverage our weakness to lull us to sleep; and prey upon our ignorance to stoke irrational fears.
 
Since time immemorial, despotic rulers have understood the power of fear. Fear breeds dependency and distracts us from fulfilling our role in God's plan. A fearful population is easily manipulated, quickly divided and painless to conquer. As Benjamin Franklin once remarked: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Like sheep among the wolves, they are led to the slaughter.



A Clarion Call
May Our lord and savior Jesus Christ bless you and keep you as you decide your place in history: eternal life for those who welcome Him; or eternal damnation for those who refuse to bow down before Him upon Judgment Day. His will shall prevail during the trying times ahead.
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
---Revelation 7:9-12

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Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting
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The Time Has Come to Gut the American Education System

10/24/2021

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“The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that."
---Marco Rubio (American Politician)
 
Education in the United States has nearly rotted to the core because we have allowed it to rot. As a nation, we’ve largely forsaken the principles that hold us together: that we are guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are our God-given rights. And guaranteeing the pursuit of happiness does not imply that we have a right to have all our fantasies fulfilled.
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Our world turned toward hell after Adam & Eve took a bite out of the apple, and the evil that stained the Earth after the original sin has largely consumed the spirit and purpose of the American educational system. We are no longer focused on forming young minds to set their ambitions high and think for themselves. Instead, we lead them astray by focusing on feelings and telling students what to think.
​Our schools have largely become breeding grounds for the seven deadly sins largely because we have banished our divine Creator from our classrooms and replaced Him with a slew of demigods. What we refer to today as diversity, equity and inclusion are nothing new. They are simply Marxist slogans rebranded for two generations largely ignorant of world history and lacking guidance.

Hate runs rampant in their lesson plans. Courses and materials derived from Critical Race Theory are a good example. It is an envious premise that produces nothing but jealousy, contempt and mistrust. The unholy doctrine ignores a universal truth: that no one has a choice over the circumstances of their birth.

Some people are born into wealth and luxury, and some into abject poverty. Similarly, some are born into abusive homes and others into nurturing environments. No matter, we are all equal in the eyes of our divine Creator at birth. What we decide to do with the time we are afforded here on Earth, and what we accomplish with that time are what truly matter.

​No other nation on Earth affords its citizenry the guaranteed liberties and freedoms that we are afforded under The Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution. With the blessings of our divine Creator, every one of us is free to employ our God-given talents to their very limits.
​This is the true essence of the American Dream; and our future will be stolen out from under us unless we eviscerate the American education system and rebuild from ground up.
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There is no secret that our nation is presently divided against itself, and you can place much of the blame for this on our school systems. Teachers and administrators who develop and promote false doctrines like Critical Race Theory are a cancer within our nation and the whole of Western civilization. Rather than equip our children with necessary survival skills, they prepare our lambs for slaughter.

Much of the root of our nation’s current sickness can be traced to a 1947 U.S. Supreme Court decision: Everson v. The Board of Education set precedent that the establishment clause of our First Amendment applies not only to the federal government, but also at the state and local levels as well. This case paved the way for decisions like Engel v. Vitale in 1962.
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That case ruled that organized prayer in our public schools is unlawful and effectively shut God out of the classrooms. Our Supreme Court rendered unto Cesar a sovereign right afforded every citizen by our divine Creator: freedom of expression. The standards and curriculum within the public schools have eroded since that point.
Apostates capitalized on this opportunity to infuse an unholy agenda into our public schools. Specifically, organizers behind the Red for Ed movement: a Marxist organization hell-bent on poisoning the minds of our nation’s youth and overthrowing our Constitutional Republic.
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Abject lies are told to our children within our public schools every single day by heretical teachers. Take for instance the myth of gender identity: a belief that our divine Creator could mistakenly assign a soul to the wrong body at birth; and that our lustful sexual urges are genetic.

Another example is the egalitarian theory of social justice: an envious and deliberate attempt to bind people to their immutable characteristics; and blind them to the truth about the power of faith, hard work and perseverance.
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These heretics divide our nation and blind us to the truth: that the Marxists behind all this have unholy spiritual agenda. They are attempting to corrode young minds with distorted narratives about the origins and history of our Constitutional Republic and the whole Western civilization much like the Book of Timothy 2 describes:

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

The 1619 Project is one such myth. This drivel wrathfully focuses on the ills of American slavery to sow racial division for political ends. It ignores our nation’s virtues, fails to mention that slavery was and still is a world-wide occurrence, and bends the facts.

The Marxists pushing this propaganda are covetous. They sow seeds of division and pull the wool over the eyes of our children with one hand, so they can steal the fruits of our labor with the other. And sadly, some school districts throughout the United States have already injected this treasonous venom into their daily lesson plans.

Parents deserve much of the blame for allowing this evil to propagate. We allowed Congress to dump our children into the hands of organized labor in 1979 under the Carter Administration; and they have been progressively poisoning their minds ever since.

Rather than equipping our flock to become productive members of society and think for themselves, the U.S. Department of Education instead prepares lamb for wolves. Specifically, money lenders that fund the rising costs of college tuition and a corporatocracy that profits from the wages of sin.

Our nation’s founders drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with a Biblical framework. Judeo-Christian values birthed our rights, and the Ten Commandments established our rule of law. Nearing the end of the Cold War, we largely began to ignore this fact. Consequently, we have allowed lustful, gluttonous and prideful agendas to eat into the roots of educational institutions.

To be clear, the rot we speak of goes beyond our public k12 schools. Most of our nation’s colleges and university are past the moral tipping point. This is especially true at the Ivy’s. In general, developing discipline, character and integrity are no longer paramount concerns for the faculty and administrators at these elite schools. Instead, they horde grant money, act much like country club resorts, and wave the middle finger at the God written into their charters.

Take Harvard University for example. America’s oldest academic institution once rooted in Puritan beliefs had the audacity to hand the reigns of their chapel over to an avowed atheist earlier this year. When asked of his philosophy, Chaplain President Greg Epstein pridefully boasted: “We don’t look to a god for answers…We are each other’s answers.”
The same was true under the Chancellor of Germany’s Third Reich Adolf Hitler. The leaders of the Nazi regime perverted their country’s schools during the 1930s, and then spawned death and destruction across the European continent in the 1940s.
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​Princeton University’s response to last year’s nation-wide riots provides another example. Following the George Floyd incident, University President Christopher Eisgruber issued a gluttonous and prideful statement condemning his own institution as racist to students, alumni and faculty. In his letter, Eisgruber also wrathfully convicted the officers involved in the incident prior to their jury trial.

The fact that a man chartered with leading one of our nation’s top universities is willing to cast stones at the students and faculty he claims to shepherd bares true testimony to how sick and perverted our schools have become. It belies the need to gut our entire education system and build again from scratch. For our nation to flourish once again, this is a strategic imperative.


​Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting
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Revitalizing Education In America (From an Entrepreneur and Investor's Perspective)

11/27/2018

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“The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.”
---Henry Rollins (American Musician)
 
Up front, we want to make one thing perfectly clear: we are NOT in favor of nationalizing our primary schools nor our secondary educational institutions. Under our Constitution, these matters reside with our state and local governments; and we believe that it should remain that way. Nevertheless, it would be foolish or naive to ignore that the fabric of American education is changing dramatically during the digital revolution.

Take a look at the numbers. The education market in the United States has grown dramatically since the advent of the Internet and it's only expected to grow more over the next several years. In short: the ED hasn't kept pace with the changes; and it’s time we recognize the cultural shift that's occurring as a result. In other words, we ought to re-engineer and re-tool our educational systems; and we ought to act quickly!


THE STARTING POINT
The amount of information available today to the public over the world wide web is unprecedented in our history. Concurrently, the information age has spawned a number of innovations in the field of education. Among the most sweeping changes in primary and secondary research:
  1. Search Engines have effectively replaced the traditional library “Card Catalog” - as well as librarians for the most part.
  2. Wiki sites have become our society's primary encyclopedias.
  3. A plethora of dictionaries, thesauruses and other reference tools are currently available at a moment's notice over the web and through digital distribution platforms.

When you take a step back and look at the big picture, it's evident that how and where we learn in this era is much different than it was before. This led us to ask the following questions: 
  • Aren’t the tools and resources described above the very foundations of a public library system?  If so, why are corporations and select non-profits the principal gate-keepers of vital strategic resources like these? Does the current situation pose national security risks? 
  • If guarding, growing and enhancing these resources is crucial for our nation, then shouldn’t our federal government step in and assert some span of control?
  • If both are true, then when, where, and to what degree should the federal government be involved?

These are the fundamental questions we’ll address in this article. We’ll argue that Americans need to fully understand and quickly accept the fact that educational tools like Google, Wikipedia, and the Dictionary.com’s of the world all serve the public interest and ought to be nationalized to some degree. In other words, a complete re-tooling of our Department of Education is long overdue.
 

AS SIMPLE AS 1,2,3
Here’s where we’d start:
  1. A search engine, an encyclopedia, and other reference tools (e.g. a dictionary and a thesaurus) ought to be considered part of our national library system.
  2. It makes sense for Google & Wikipedia to become public utilities (similar to AT&T way back when),  or whole parts of the ED as soon as possible.
  3. Still allow for competition within these categories through private enterprise.

The proposed system would re-tool the Department of Education; and also support crucial National Security and Defense initiatives.  We’ll explain what we mean as you read on:  
 

MOST OF US NOW CARRY A “POCKET LIBRARY”
Like 77% of all Americans, I own a smartphone; and I often download and access useful apps for personal education, writing and research purposes. The apps on my device include a couple of different Search Engines (Google and Bing), a global encyclopedia (Wikipedia), a dictionary and a thesaurus (my preferred version is Merriam-Webster), as well as a multitude of other small reference tools (e.g. area code lookups and zip code lookups, etc.).

If you were born after 1989, these things probably seem natural.  However, for those of us who are older, the Internet revolutionized access to libraries of information as well as primary and secondary research tools. Imagine: before the 1990's, people actually had to travel (by automobile or by foot) to a library to access a wide body of research materials if they weren’t fortunate enough to own them themselves. Furthermore, if their research requirements were extensive, they often had to travel to multiple locations to complete their research! 

Research tools and materials are vital necessities for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset: people who wish to invest time and energy in determining their own futures. Nearly every entrepreneur and investor will tell you that if you want to gain advantages over your competition, you need to excel in school and continuously strive for personal growth. In other words, you spend a great deal of time in library facilities.

Any way you look at it, a public library is about education, growth. and learning. It’s a core extension of our public education system. As Campbell Brown of Facebook notes, “It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about children and learning. It’s a core extension of the public education system. As kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.”

(Keep in mind that we are all considered children in eyes of our Creator to a certain degree regardless of our age...)

Currently, we have libraries in our public school systems for our children from grades K-12; and reference materials are of course vital to those systems. Ask any teacher, and they’ll definitively tell you that high-caliber tools facilitate quality education. So then, why aren't the tools in our "pocket library" considered an extension of our public education system, if public libraries in fact are?

It boils down to this: some of the tools within our aggregate pocket library must be integrated into the ED in order to effectively manage public education in the United States today. Otherwise, we may put the American way of life at risk as things currently stand.


A CASE FOR NATIONALIZING OUR POCKET LIBRARY
Is it in our best interests to have all our digital research tools developed, managed and updated by private corporations and select non-profits? The answer is unequivocally NO!

Of course, Innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity are the driving factors behind the success of the corporations that maintain our "pocket library" (Google and Microsoft as well as the Wikimedia Foundation and others).  For example, Google launched in 1996 as a research project by PhD students at Stanford University. Two years later, the company received a $100,000 angel investment; and away it went!

Nevertheless, Google has received a great deal of scrutiny and criticism recently from conservative & libertarian political pundits and conservative economists; as well as from radical leftist ideologues like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

on the right side of the political spectrum, Conservative and Libertarian political pundits accuse the tech monolith of down-ranking sites and pages that don’t align with corporate’s political positions, thereby suppressing free speech. The concerns of the conservative economists are largely geopolitical in nature. For example, Google has agreed to build a censored version of their search engine for communist China. Both sets of concerns suggest that Google deliberately stifles competition and suppresses the very principles that led to the company’s founding: entrepreneurship and innovation!

On the other hand, far-left zealots have seized upon these factors to push forth visions of an impossible socialist utopia. For example, Sanders (a self-proclaimed "Democratic Socialist” demagogue) contends: “You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.”

To be blunt, Senator Sanders full of crap. The police, the fire department and the public library ARE NOT socialist institutions.  Rather, they’re public resources; and there’s are HUGE differences between the two!


BERNIE SANDERS MAY BE MISGUIDED... BUT HE DOES HAVE A POINT
Several of the tools we've listed (i.e. search engines, dictionaries and encyclopedias) and are in-fact primary and secondary research staples used in libraries the world over.  However, unlike brick and mortar libraries, the information available within our "Pocket Library" is decentralized, poorly curated and loosely maintained at the present time. 

For example, a dictionary reference tool now often appears in Google's search results when you include the word “definition” with a search term. That said, the word inclusion criteria (and definitions) appear to be determined by Google itself!

This should concern anyone who believes in the American Dream. If you look under the surface, you'll find that terms like Fascism were completely omitted from Google's dictionary tool last year after the Daily Caller questioned the definition that Google supplied.

Perhaps even more disturbing, Google has now integrated a feedback tool to report “wrong and offensive” definitions; quite possibly modifying or altering definitions on a day-to-day basis in most extreme cases.

Google currently dominates the search industry. Coupling search with a dictionary and thesaurus in effect makes Google (and the semi-anonymous voting body that supplies feedback on word acceptance) the principle arbiters of English, Spanish and a multitude of other human languages!

We must question whether it’s reasonable and prudent to allow companies like Google and non-profits like Wikimedia such enormous sway over the literacy and education of the American public! It seems to us that leverage these monoliths have over our society could in-fact fuel Fascism; very word Google omitted from their dictionary back in 2017!


THIS IS A NO-BRAINER
Clearly, the "Pocket Library" we’ve discussed here is vital to our national interests. In-fact, you could say that it’s a national treasure of sorts: Young and old men and women of varying backgrounds and ethnic persuasions scour their "Pocket Libraries" daily seeking to educate themselves, better their lives and expand their horizons.

When it comes to the tools and resources in our "Pocket Library" we need to ensure there's a level playing field.  We must ensure the accuracy and integrity of the information available to the public, preserve our national heritage and cultivate advancements that strengthen our society.

So, why not:
  1. Nationalize some of the tools and materials that comprise our aggregate Pocket Library?
  2. Create a repository under one branch of the federal government, where the library's tools and resources can be effectively curated, expanded and protected?

For the reasons we've described, both these ideas make clear sense to us.
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CONCLUSIONS​
There’s little doubt that it’s time for a complete re-tooling of the Department of Education under Betsy DuVos. Again, we believe that digital reference tools like search engines and encyclopedias are key strategic resources and therefore should be considered public resources.

​Google recently removed their motto “Don’t Be Evil” from their employees’ code of conduct. Given, their dominance of search and the vital role Google plays in educational research today, this should be very disconcerting to anyone who believes in the American way of life. Simply put, it's a dangerous concentration of power.
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Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist ideals are in-fact Utopian fantasies. They're a means to an apocalyptic end for American free enterprise, free speech and free expression. We’re not proposing an end to the free market in the case we've presented. Instead, we’re talking about centralizing a core set of vital public services; just like the United States postal service does for mail and package delivery. Not the whole enchilada mind you; just the meaty part of it.

We also argue that setting up such a service will lead to a much fairer competitive environment and open the door for a wide array of entrepreneurial business ventures within the affected industry categories. You only need look at the success of shipping companies like Federal Express, UPS and DHL to realize that opportunity will eventually open up in this space if the federal government steps in and asserts a degree of authority.

Jesus, I hope more Americans soon realize the strategic importance of the research tools that comprise our aggregate "Pocket Library" and demand immediate action from our lawmakers. ​Otherwise, we’re headed toward a world where George Orwell’s "Doublespeak" becomes a real possibility.


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Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting
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