We’re sorry, but our website was not working properly for several days.  It’s almost fixed now and soon should be in full working order.  I’d tell you what happened if I knew.  As for 21^st Century WATCH, we sent the layout to the printer several days before leaving for the Feast of Tabernacles.  In the past we’ve been surprised at how fast we received printed copies back here at the office, and knew that everyone would receive their copy within days.  But you’ve been hearing about shortages and delays with ordered goods?  That’s what we’re being told about the magazine, they couldn’t get the paper in a timely fashion.  And still we wait.  The issue has been posted at 21^stCenturyWatch.com if you’re tired of waiting.

Our immediate concern is for those that are experiencing health difficulties.  Not here in Tyler.  Some have had the dreaded Wuhan virus, and recovered at about the same rate as familiar bouts with the flu. Apparently  people react differently, some with very mild symptoms, others more severe.

These Updates have been a little testy about everybody barking orders and making demands.  Even those who’ve taken the decision and gotten their shots recognize that government officials (the infamous doctor comes to mind) don’t have the power to demand that we inject something.  Hundreds, no doubt thousands of employees at various concerns are walking off the job, unwilling to bow down to heavy-handed dictates by firms doing the government’s bidding.  But there is no law.  When did Congress pass a law requiring vaccination papers for employment?  It’s not been done.  Companies that survive on federal contracts are clamping down for obvious reasons.  The mainstream hasn’t heard.

As we’ve mentioned before, and everybody knows by now, parents have been shredding school officials over the anti-American, racial indoctrination little kids are subjected to as part of their curriculum.  Not only that, but the children are told that there are alternatives if they’re not happy with their gender assignment. No problem.  They can swap genders if they so choose, they’re taught.

The Coronavirus may end up saving America.  It turns out that parents got a good look at the kids’ schoolwork during the great quarantine, and those who paid attention were none too pleased.  School board officials have been publicly thrashed and shamed by furious parents.  You’ve undoubtedly seen some of these incidents.  School officials, fully masked, pretending to be distracted by some papers or their phones, acting disinterested while parents express absolute fury about the drivel their children are forced to “learn.”

According to communications that have gone public, a letter went from some national school board association to the White House saying that officials had been harassed and threatened.  Almost immediately the Attorney General fired off a letter to the FBI suggesting that the parents were a danger and should be investigated.  Maybe you’ve seen that he (Merrick Garland) was questioned before the Senate this week.  It went on and on as he denied everything.  You might call his answers stonewalling.  He had a memorized statement about his “memo” and repeated it to every question.  Even when asked about his daughter and son in law making huge sums off the marketing of the “educational” system, he repeated the same statement, over and over again.

This guy was nominated to the Supreme Court by the messianic transformer.  He didn’t get that job, but may be able to sustain serious damage as the Attorney General.  Some of the exchanges are extremely telling.  Somehow you get the impression that none of these high office holders have America’s best interests at heart.

They can’t wait to spend outrageous sums on socialist dreams for our future.  Maybe the future they plan doesn’t include us, how ‘bout that?  We can be thankful that a couple of holdouts have delayed their plans and may yet scuttle the spending spree, temporarily.  But it may not matter.  Apparently they’ve figured out ways to work around Congress whether there is any advice and consent or not.

So the mainstream media goes on acting as if they have a vast majority, a mandate in fact.  That may not be the case, but that’s the attitude broadcast over about five networks and several social media outlets.  Don’t agree?  Get lost.

Some of us are going to hang on to our Divinely ordained liberty more deliberately than ever before.  There’s only so much they can do to us, and it’s not nearly enough.

Mark

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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It turns out that Antarctica is setting historic (for as long as man has been keeping track) records in the cold department.  There’s more snow and ice than they’ve ever seen.  But keep it secret.  They’ll throw you off social media if you dare lampoon settled nonsense.  It’s good they switched global warming for climate change, and just in time.  Now record cold is proof of global warming. What are you, a science denier? It’s been comical for some time, but the buffoons pushing “climate change” have no sense of humor.  Particularly where they themselves are concerned.

There’s been some funny stuff already in the great movement to convince us of “climate change.”  The Australian ship that set out to monitor warming seas, that got marooned in ice requiring rescue.  The scandal of East Anglia climate experts and the communications that proved that even “scientists” were willing to fake the numbers in fact “hide the decline” in order to “prove” their false narrative.

But the powers that be (and nearly every large business concern) are all through trying to convince us of anything.  Now it’s all about punishment for the non-believers.  Say something questioning their religion, you’re banned.  We can’t have people like you expressing opinions that aren’t sanctioned by science. The real problem is that these power mongers don’t believe in God.  They’re still operating on the basis of the first lie ever told, “You shall not surely die.”  Unless of course you refuse to do what you’re told.  Then you’re dead.

We haven’t heard too much about predestination lately.  “I guess it was his time…”  No, everybody is supposed to have their hair on fire about Coronavirus, global warming, and domestic terrorists.  It must be important that the bunch of them stay on offense at all times, always blaming regular Americans, trying to  make everyone feel guilt for working, prospering and trying to live our lives in freedom.

How much time and effort was devoted to the nonsense the mainstream spewed ceaselessly for the entire duration of the Trump presidency?  How much of it turned out to be true?  They hammered headline accusations.  They dissected the word “collusion,” said it had happened, and that was a crime.  In fact, they said it was treason.  The networks rooted for impeachment breathlessly, and took great pleasure in informing us that it was happening.  Finally!  But it all came to naught.  All but the lingering suspicions on the part of the networks and their reporters that Trump was guilty, alright.  The case just hadn’t been adequately proven.  But don’t fret, they were right all along.  Now back to the pandemic.

Scandals are roiling, but they never see the light of day in the mainstream.  The Attorney General is calling parents, ticked off by the racial curriculum being used to brainwash their children, domestic terrorists and trying to get the investigative branch involved.  Who do these parents think they are?  Turns out that his family (daughter and son in law) are making a fortune supplying this drivel to schools all over the country.  We were apparently never supposed to find out, but did.  The mainstream knows nothing about it.  They preach global warming like a religion, and you better not insult their idea-baby.  My Dad invented the term, and there could be no better use of it.

AP News June 30th 1989 – ‘Senior UN Official warns entire nations wiped off the face of the Earth unless Global Warming is not reversed by the Year 2000….governments have a 10-year window to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control’.

“It may already be too late!” the headlines screamed.  The litany of failed prognostications by these pompous buffoons is beyond comical.  They’ve been trying to get the public panicked for at least forty years.  First they freaked out about the coming ice age.  Papers were published and leading scientists interviewed.  Yep, global freezing was going to make us all move somewhere, carrying a load of man-made guilt.

But then they realized that it wasn’t getting colder, so they flipped a 180 and told us we were all going to burn up instead.  The sea ice would be gone at the poles.  Children would have to see pictures to understand snow.  It was a thing of the past.  Al Gore made his infamous movie and was lauded, virtually worshiped as some great seer.  We plan to include the ridiculous headlines in the next issue of 21^st Century WATCH magazine.  It’s so idiotic as to defy credulity.  All efforts to convince anybody have faded into the background.  It’s settled science, if there is such a thing, and we will now obey the mainstream or be castigated as some throwback who just doesn’t get it.  You wouldn’t want to risk cancellation, would you?

Some things you just don’t do.  Contradicting “settled science” is verboten.  Even when the scientists are caught making stuff up to convince us to shape up, media covers for them and keeps pounding the clap trap as if it were true.  Not panicked about global warming?  You might be a danger to society.

But they’ve been making fools of themselves for the duration.  But we are a polite bunch.  The sissy boys act like they’re in the know, and all educated people agree with them on a whole range of subjects and attitudes.  What if that’s not the case?  Forget all the sneering and the eye-rolling, “everybody knows” routine.  Even the anchors know better, never-mind all the acting.

They make it seem like all but the mentally deranged agree, and the corporate advertising doubles down on all the self-righteous nonsense.  The regular Joe is facing a flood of propaganda, and we just shake our heads.  It’s a pretend majority, and we all know it.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.  Let’s not lose heart.  The rotten scoundrels trying to undermine this nation will stumble upon justice sooner or later.  Let’s pray it’s sooner.

Mark

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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The right-leaning National Association of Scholars (NAS) isn’t just critical of the wisdom of the proposed rule, which would prioritize federal funding for history and civics programs that “incorporate culturally and linguistically responsive learning environments.”

It’s calling on state attorneys general to go to court to block the Department of Education proposal, which is accepting public comments through May 19.

The proposal favorably mentions Boston University professor Ibram Kendi, the foremost popularizer of “anti-racism,” and the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which is also a school curriculum offered through the Pulitzer Center.

NAS policy director Teresa Manning, a former law professor who unsuccessfully sued her university for viewpoint discrimination, predicted that AGs from West Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana and Texas would get involved.

These six Republicans fired a shot across the bow of the Biden administration in its first week, triggered by the president’s unprecedented flood of executive orders. They promised to challenge unconstitutional laws, overbroad agency actions and violations of the Administrative Procedure Act.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen “is looking closely at how the Biden administration’s proposed rule could create a race-based ‘hostile environment’ in Montana schools in violation of state and federal law,” a spokesperson told Just the News.

He is “concerned about its basis in Critical Race Theory — a racist ideology that directly contradicts the founding principles of our nation,” the statement continued. “Montana will not stand for anti-American indoctrination that turns our schools into training grounds for fringe political activism and violence.”

A spokesperson for Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said their office was “evaluating the proposed priorities and their implications” but hadn’t committed to intervening.

A statement from Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office said she is “a leader in pushing back against the Biden Administration’s federal overreach and will continue to monitor unconstitutional actions made by the Administration.” Other AGs didn’t respond to queries.

Even though the “proposed priorities” just set conditions for a grant program, “states cannot afford to simply ignore” the creation of a de facto “industry standard” for civics and history education, Manning told Just the News.

“On the contrary, they need to treat this cancer before it metastasizes!” she wrote in an email. Her group launched a Civics Alliance last month with civil rights veteran Bob Woodson, Brown University economist Glenn Loury and others.

Other critics are calling on state legislatures to push back. Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote model legislation backed by NAS that would ban what he calls “action civics” and CRT training for K-12 teachers.

It is “urgently necessary” for states to approve bans in K-12 curricula as well, he wrote in National Review. Otherwise “it will be almost impossible to resist the carrots and sticks soon to be deployed” by the administration.

Like Race to the Top, ‘few red-state politicians will have the guts’ to reject federal money

The federal proposal justifies the new funding priority based on the COVID-19 pandemic, which had a “disproportionate impact on communities of color,” as well as “the ongoing national reckoning with systemic racism.”

The teaching and learning of history should include “the consequences of slavery, and the significant contributions of Black Americans to our society,” as reflected in the 1619 Project and Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

It’s good that schools nationwide are “working to incorporate anti-racist practices into teaching and learning,” such as those advocated by Kendi. The proposal quotes his claim that “racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.”

Applicants for grant money must show how their projects consider “systemic marginalization, biases, inequities, and discriminatory policy and practice in American history” and incorporate “racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives.” Conspicuously, political diversity is left out.

Education Week said the grant program was given only $5.3 million this fiscal year. But Kurtz argued in National Review that the proposed priorities would influence the bipartisan Civics Secures Democracy Act, introduced last month, which would authorize $1 billion over six years for civics education grants.

He compared it to the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program, which incentivized “nearly every state” to adopt “abysmal” Common Core standards. “Few red-state politicians will have the guts to stand up” to the media for rejecting federal money for civics and history.

Manning’s analysis for NAS said the priorities “would cement radically racist instruction into the nation’s schools” that is likely to create a “hostile environment” by race under Title VI. “NAS plans to encourage state attorneys general and other high-level legal officials to challenge” the grants for promoting “state sponsored discrimination.”

The six AGs who signed the Jan. 27 warning letter to President Biden are “especially vigilant” about his actions of “questionable legality,” she told Just the News. The proposed priorities also “may encroach on standards set by the states,” providing more opportunities for legal challenges.

Not applying for the grants is not enough, Manning argued, because states that opt out will be hemmed in by a “brick wall” of new education standards.

“No one in an industry can simply ignore something that might become the industry standard because everyone is expected, eventually, to meet the industry standard” — in this case, heavily influenced by federal money, she said.

Voters don’t want progressive activism in the classroom

Multiple critics compared the proposed priorities to a new Illinois rule that mandates “culturally responsive teaching and leading standards for all Illinois educators,” an early draft of which required teachers to promote “progressive viewpoints and perspectives.”

The right-leaning American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) commissioned a survey that found Illinoisans reject “progressive political activism” in the classroom by more than two to one, including nearly 50% of self-identified Democrats.

The federal proposal is marked by a “deafening silence about such matters as the Founding documents, the Emancipation Proclamation, the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement,” ACTA President Michael Poliakoff wrote in an email.

“Instead, we get a homage” to Kendi and the 1619 Project, “whose tendentious rewriting of American history drew the scathing critique of a broadly nonpartisan group of the nation’s leading historians,” he wrote. Poliakoff criticized the branding of the proposal as “culturally responsive teaching standards,” when it would actually teach students to “view everything through the lens of racial oppression” and worsen societal divisions.

“ACTA is unsure of the legal basis to challenge this rule,” he answered when asked about NAS’s theories. “But we are certain it is an unseemly intrusion of a particular ideology into public education.”

A spokesperson for Woodson, the civil rights veteran and 1776 Unites founder, simply told Just the News that he “opposes government funding for CRT in schools.”

Murray Bessette, vice president of education for the Common Sense Society, called the proposed priorities “a kind of antiwisdom” that will accomplish the inverse of their intentions.

“We need to teach American history in all its complexity as a precondition of learning from the mistakes of the past and of doing better,” said Bessette, until recently the head of academic programs for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. America is the “successful overcoming” of past injustices by heroes from Abraham Lincoln to John Lewis, “who built the most successful multiethnic country in the history of the world.”

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