Who Controls The Information Your Brain Receives

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While reading Kenneth Vogel’s book, “Big Money”, published in 2014, an expose of the rise and “legality” of big money capturing the political process in our country via the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission I stumbled upon an interesting history of the publisher of the book. I am always curious how and why information is made available for consumers….notice the acquisition of various sectors leading up to controlling print and electronic media world wide. The beginning starts with a brick layer🤭code for Masonic assistance? “Building firm”

https://web.archive.org/web/20131015023257/http://www.pearson.com/about-us/our-history.html

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#2

… another interesting “money book” … works the same everywhere

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

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#3

Yes, he quotes her on page 11as the most serious threats she received was from Koch brothers, not the government. Seems they both are supposed to or allowed tell to us how “the system” really works… there are shadow manipulators, don’t bother voting or think democracy is real…the billionaires are playing the political game, not you plebeians. Notice the company name of the assigned killer of the Minnesota politicians? Praetorian Guard Security Services.

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#4

… as the Late, Great Jim Marrs used to say about voting, “If it actually made a difference do you think they’d let us do it?”

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#5

… intentional joke or accident you think?

#6

Oh I think the phrase is tongue-in-cheek so as not to raise any alarms, but with his background and serious research probably meant it.

#7

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is older he will not depart from it” bible quote. Pearson has captured the educational institutions, and training young minds on what to believe.

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#8

Bingo! That was my take on the acquisition history was to be the gatekeeper of who gets an education and what kind of knowledge will they be allowed. All the way from the children’s D@ick and Jane and Spot publishers to eLearning and IQ and vocational testing of children.

#9

And of course, they have some help. The researcher Alison McDowell (who is a crabby person - don’t disagree with her or she’ll snap at you, but she remains a skillful researcher) has tracked lots of the current educational space control structure. Social-emotional learning is part of it, and of all places, my local YMCA supports a program that includes “social-emotional learning.” Sounds warm & fuzzy, but McDowell explains why not… I was creeped out by some of the giant corporations controlling even timesheets for employees (Frontline Education, owned by Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm) and providers of the big screens/whiteboards all elementary teachers use now (CleverTouch _ “interactive solutions for the global education market”). Teachers have been trained to have a blind trust in big tech firms.

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#10

The programs and processes started at the end of the 1890’s when various educators, including John Dewey, and scientific motion consultants for industry battled over school curriculum. The traditional courses in the humanities used for centuries were deemed impractical for the workers needed for industry. With the influx of so many immigrants to staff and work in the industrial areas, it was determined a sorting of students based on tests especially the IQ test used during WWI to gauge which students were college material and would study material the universities required leaving the rest, about 90%, to learn vocational and general subjects that would help them later in life when taking their roles in society and industry.
There was a drive to keep the children interested in schooling, as many quit to work or out of boredom. They then had their own children with the same issues. Finally here we are with education as a sociological engineering tool instead of intellectual development as originally planned. Mastery of a subject such as history was down graded to the required mastery of the technique of teaching. It’s now all so scientific and efficient…
Those contributing the financial means and influence of course came from the major philanthropic foundations like the Rockefeller’s and their University of Chicago, Yale’s Teachers College and others. Their mission was to produce workers for the industrial age, not more intellectuals. They have a history of causing trouble and discontent in the workplace🤭

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