RIR nonzero mini-pack 2013

RIR nonzero mini-pack 2013

John Taylor Gatto - History of Education, Social Engineering, Indoctrination in the School System & Homeschooling
May 19, 2011
John Taylor Gatto was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He attended public schools and a private Catholic boarding. Later, he did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia and then served in the U.S. Army medical corps. Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva, the University of California, and Cornell. After college, Mr. Gatto worked as a scriptwriter in the film business, was an advertising writer, a taxi driver, a jewelry designer, an ASCAP songwriter, and a hotdog vendor before becoming a schoolteacher. He climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called "An Evening With John Taylor Gatto," which launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Gatto over a million and a half miles in all fifty states and seven foreign countries. John discuss the school system both past and present, social engineering, and the dumbing down of our children. In the second hour John and Henrik begin talking about camera surveillance and privacy invasion in school. Now days, the mind is open for inspection. School is not for everyone and John will talk about the "hot house" of social dynamics that occur for children at school and why concentration is not possible in that environment. He talks about school as a laboratory, a place that divides people and places them in the social order. Then, the topic of home school comes up. John shares an inspiring story of a farmer in Canada who allowed his daughters to teach themselves at home. It is a story of a life led respecting and trusting children. John talks about the path of freedom, of respect for our children, of trust in them and belief in their ability to regulate and educate themselves. He says, children have it in them to design their own future and we can see what is possible when the school scam stops working. He gives examples in history of young children and teens that have risen to incredible heights without schooling, as well as successful adults today without college degrees. John suggests that we should think of teachers as associates, rather than judges. He also talks about the redundancy in studying subject areas which only lead to memorizing facts and becomes pointless. Rather we should, as they did in old times, teach children the art of reasoning and rhetoric so that they may be able to understand for themselves and critically argue and think on their own.

Troy McLachlan & Theodore Holden - Cosmos in Collision: Antique Solar System, Neanderthals & Modern Man
April 21, 2013
Authors Troy D. McLachlan and Theodore A. Holden will discuss their new book, Cosmos in Collision, which concentrates on events in the solar system before the arrival of Saturn and its accompanying planets, including Earth. Ted and Troy propose that the Jupiter moon Ganymede was once a liquid water world with an oxygen atmosphere fully capable of supporting life (including humans) as we know it. With Jupiter having once been in a much closer orbit to the Sun, Ganymede was warmed by both the sun and Jupiter, the latter being at that time a sub-brown dwarf similar to ancient Saturn. They have dubbed this era of our Solar System’s history as the Antique Solar System epoch. They also propose a new theory for planet formation. This theory is based on the Herbig-Haro objects observed throughout the galaxy. They will also introduce the concept of a Paleolithic conflict between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals in which Neanderthals are controversially depicted as predatory hominids according to Danny Vendramini’s theories. Troy and Ted will contrast the superbly nocturnally adapted Neanderthal to Cro-Magnons during the Purple Dawn era and come to the inescapable conclusion that modern humans (Cro-Magnons) are not native to this planet. They believe they may have found a world within our solar system that once served as humanity’s original home world (Ganymede).