Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channel
Written by Patrick Courrielche

Children are uniquely malleable beings, readily convinced of magically colorful tales – Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are the first that come to mind. This innocence is beautiful, but it is a quality that can easily fall victim to radically foreign ideas if taught consistently and pervasively at an early age. One need only look at the birth of fascism or socialism to see a recipe for how radical ideas become ubiquitous among a nation’s youth.

Enter Howard Zinn – an author, professor and American historian – who, with the help of Hollywood and the History Channel, intends to change the way our pre-K through high school children learn American history. His current curriculum suggestions, like introducing three-year-olds to the lynching of African-Americans, or quizzing seven-year-olds on which Presidents owned slaves, should be a red flag to parents.

Zinn has spent a lifetime teaching college students about the evils of capitalism, the promise of Marxism, and his version of American history – a history that has, in his view, been kept from students. His controversial 1980-book The People’s History of the United States paints traditional American history as a façade – one that has grotesquely immortalized flawed leaders and is based on principles that victimize the common man. In 2004, Zinn wrote a companion book entitled Voices Of A People’s History Of The United States, which includes speeches and writings from many of the people featured in The People’s History.

These two books have now become the basis for a new documentary, entitled The People Speak, to be aired December 13th at 8pm on the History Channel. The trailer portrays the documentary as a collage of compelling one-person readings, told through the words of “ordinary” people who have struggled throughout American history against oppression. Produced by Zinn, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Chris Moore, the documentary appears to be cloaked, ironically (given Zinn’s admitted socialist agenda), in many of the traditional ideas that were behind our founding. The verdict is still out on the doc, but it is not for the books that inspired the film as well as the educational initiative associated with it.

For the rest of the story please go here:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/12/07/next-week-on-the-history-channel-hollywood-stars-introduce-your-kids-to-marxism/

Face Forward Comments:

I saw some of the material that is going to be used for this, Documentary.  It is a very one sided presentation that continues the attack on the heart of the nation.  It promotes racial division, and supports the belief held by this administration that we are an arrogant people and should pay for it.

Unless you want your child feeling guilty about something they had nothing to do with, wish for them to be a Marxist, or really think that history needs to be rewritten, I suggest you skip out on this family entertainment.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday he could nationalize private banks unless they comply with the law, adding he had “no problem with that because the banks don’t want to extend credit to the poor.”

In a broadcast from nationalized farmland in central Venezuela, he said: “To all the country’s private bankers … (I’m saying) he who slips up loses; I’ll take over the bank, whatever its size.”

“You want me to nationalize the banks?” he said during the broadcast of his weekly TV show “Alo Presidente.”

“I have no problem with that because the banks don’t want to extend credit to the poor, they don’t comply, they don’t want to comply with the bank’s purpose for existence, and that is the law.”

Chavez said the purpose of banks was not to enrich a small group of people but “should be to collect funds and savings to help aid the country’s development by making loans, extending credits for housing.”

In power for a decade, Chavez has nationalized broad swathes of the economy.

His banking nationalization threats on Sunday appeared to be broader in scope than his well-publicized warnings in recent years to nationalize Spanish-owned banks in Venezuela.

He repeatedly threatened to seize Spanish bank subsidiaries in Venezuela unless Spain’s king apologized for telling him to “shut up” in November 2007 at a regional summit where Chavez branded a recent ex-Spanish prime minister a fascist.

But the only major private bank, foreign or Venezuelan, to fall into state hands under Chavez’s rule was Spain’s Banco Santander unit Banco de Venezuela, sold to Venezuela in July for $1.05 billion.

The government’s last banking takeover was on November 20, when it seized four small banks, accounting for about 6 percent of Venezuela’s deposits.

Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez then said the move stemmed from concerns about credit portfolios, problems explaining the source of funds and failure to comply with some obligations.
For the rest of the story please go here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091129/wl_nm/us_venezuela_banks_chavez_1

Face Forward Comments:
We run a large number of stories about Chavez and there is a reason behind it.  If you look at the pattern of what he has done in Venezuela you will see a striking resemblance to what is happening in the USA.

When you say, “it could never happen here”, did you ever think the government would own GM, fine you for not having health insurance, or have a man with and Islamic name as president?  Probably not.

The thing that is so much more worrisome about the Obama Administration is that he already has the majority of the lawmakers (Democrats) supporting him.  The first step in preventing a complete takeover of our government by the left is a change in 2010.  We must vote out people that believe in big government and big spending.

Health and safety snoops to enter family homes

Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.

New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to “collect data” on properties where children are thought to be at “greatest risk of unintentional injury”.

Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.

The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny state”.

Until now, councils have made only a limited number of home inspections to check on building work and in extreme cases where the state of a house is thought to pose a serious risk to public health.

Nice also recommends the creation of a new government database to allow GPs, midwives and other officials who visit homes to log health and safety concerns they spot.

The guidance aims to “encourage all practitioners who visit families and carers with children and young people aged under 15 to provide home safety advice and, where necessary, conduct a home risk assessment”. It continues: “If possible, they should supply and install home safety equipment.”

For the rest of this article please go here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6917328.ece

Face Forward Comments:

Just a hint of what we can expect.

WASHINGTON The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday a U.S. House health-care system re-write would extend health insurance to 96% of the nonelderly U.S. population by 2019, and spend $1.055 trillion to do so. Penalties imposed on individuals who did not purchase insurance, and employers who did not offer coverage to their workers, would raise $161 billion over that time-frame. That brings the net cost of the bill to $894 billion through 2019, CBO said.

House Democrats have seized on that net cost figure to claim that their bill is below President Barack Obama’s upper limit which he set for health-care legislation of $900 billion.

The $1.055 trillion estimate also does not include $245 billion needed to stop Medicare payments to doctors from decreasing, which the House plans to address through separate legislation introduced Thursday.

The costs of the bill are fully offset by cuts to existing spending programs– including the Medicare?Advantage and other programs–saving $426 billion through 2019, and by tax increases raising $572 billion over that time, CBO said. In fact, the combined impact of provisions in the bill would be a net deficit reduction of $104 billion in the next decade, according to CBO.

CBO also said the House bill would not add to the deficit in the first decade beyond 2019–a key condition for support from fiscally conservative House Democrats. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, in a Thursday letter to House Democratic Chairmen, cautioned that his estimates are preliminary and “subject to substantial uncertainty.”

For the rest of the Story Please go here:

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200910291728dowjonesdjonline000980&title=cbo-puts-house-health-bill-total-cost-at-1055-trillion

Face Forward Comments:

Dear Lord, this Democratic controlled congress loves to spend your money.  As I have said so many times, I hope everybody has good health care. I really don’t want anyone to suffer.  On the other hand, I have worked hard to provide for my family to get them the health care they have needed.  My problem with this whole thing is; I am not sure with increased taxes that I will be able to afford the level I think they need any longer.  That will especially be true after we get through paying for all of the people who do not want to work, have blown off getting their own health care or worse are not even citizens of this country.

I don’t want to see the “needy” (which seems to be a much larger number when the Democrats give it) to go without.  Having said that, at what point do any of us take away from our own family to give to others?  No sane parent would ever give food to another child and let their own children starve.  Seems like a strong analogy, but in essence that is what we are being asked to do. 

Our government will argue that is not the case.  In their eyes they are just leveling the playing field by taking from us, the tax payers, and redistributing to everyone, including you and me.  So, while we may be paying for others that are not paying, we are also getting to use it (even if it is sub-par), which in their eyes makes it alright.  If this system of government sounds familiar, it is one of the founding principals of socialism.

“socialists advocate the creation of a society in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly based on the amount of work expended in production, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved.”

One might argue that what is being proposed is several steps beyond even socialism.  A classic definition of Communism is:

A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.

You can find full definitions of both Communism and Socialism in the Face Forward education section.

Yikes, it looks like we have all just joined the communist movement, comrade  That movement flies in the face of the principals that made this country great.  Everyone has to be  accountable for themselves for if they are not we waste resources on them rather than increasing our innovation and growth.

On another note, at least they put the bill online just like Obama promised.  I am sure that fact will only be mentioned several hundred times.  So go ahead America and read it.  I am sure you will understand the words that are being used (at least they are not yet in Russian), however I bet you have no idea as to the context or the sentence structure.  Here is one of my favorite passages on Outpatient Hospitals:

Many people fear that the Health Care system will become politicized

(a) OUTPATIENT HOSPITALS.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The first sentence of section1833(t)(3)(C)(iv) of the Social Security Act (42U.S.C. 1395l(t)(3)(C)(iv)) is amended—(A) by inserting ‘‘(which is subject to the productivity adjustment described in subclause (II) of such section)’’ after ‘‘1886(b)(3)(B)(iii)’’; and (B) by inserting ‘‘(but not below 0)’’ after ‘‘reduced’’.  (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall apply to increase factors for services furnished in years beginning with 2010.

Did you get all of that?  Well of course not….just as George Soros and the Tides group planned it (George and his group are rumored to be the actual authors of the bill).  I read somewhere that by dividing every word on the 1900+ pages by the actual amount the bill will cost, you come out with an amount of just under $3,000,000 per word.  After reading a large portion of the bill, most of the words are not any I would ever pay for if given the choice, anyway.

What to do?  I am sorry to say, that I don’t know if anything can be done. If we have any chance at all we must get on the phone/fax/email to every Blue Dog Democrat and appeal to their financial senses.  We know how the majority of the Republicans are going to vote and we know how the liberal lawmakers are going to vote.  The only chance we have is to influence the Blue Dogs, and help them see this as an obstacle ito balancing the budget, which cannot be overcome. Go here to see if there is a Blue Dog Democrat in your state: http://www.house.gov/melancon/BlueDogs/Member%20Page.html

Other than that, I know of nothing else we can do.  I have letters on my desk from my Senator and  Congressman telling me that will not support the bill. I am willing to take a stand….will you stand with me?