Aspen Institute influences politicians

Yesterday I posted an article about net neutrality and I'd like to report that there may be some good news, but not much. Senator Blackburn R-TN was on Freedom Watch tonight stating that if the vote by the FCC to impose net neutrality was passed that she would be introducing HR-3924. This bill would make it so that only Congress can regulate the Internet under the Interstate Commerce clause. I think this is a good gesture, but it wont stop future Congress's or groups like The Aspen Institute from imposing their views.



When I wrote Truth about net neutrality, I only scratched the surface. In my gut I knew something was wrong and didn't trust their motives and I was right. When you look on the surface The Aspen Institute looks like a legitimate 501(c)3, but then I started digging on their website and on the web. Good thing its not regulated because I may not have been able to find what I was looking for because what a lot of people wouldn't know is that The Aspen Institute was formally known as The Aspen Institute for Humanism. Luckily I was able to stumble across a true patriots blog on wordpress that helped me get to the information I needed to find.


If you look up the definition of Humanism, you'll see that it's just another kind word for Atheism. Being humanist wasn't that bad in my book because our Founding Fathers gave us the right to practice any religion or none at all. The bad part about their version of Humanism is that they wanted to create a global government through being active in education and other aspects of society. Don't get me wrong when I say they're not as bad as they seem, they're not the George Soros global governance crew, but global government is like communism, it's a good idea in theory, but not good in practice.


The original founder of The Aspen Institute was Walter Paepcke which was created officially in 1950. One of his closest friends and co-founders was Robert Hutchins who was also the founder and president of the “committee to form a world Constitution” in 1947. This isn't as horrible as you might think, although Robert Hutchins believed in a one world government, he was also a federalist.

We must take a step back in time to think about this. During 1947 after WWII had just ended, the cold war was starting up and we had also just dropped the H-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During that time there was also a big nuclear disarmament movement going on, which is where the hippies stole the peace sign from, and the best way to avoid total destruction would be to form a one world government because in a way that would be the lesser of two evils when facing total inhalation. Both Paepcke and Hutchins were influenced by philosophers like Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe who wrote Faust (Faust believed that the devil eternally wills evil, but eternally works good. Think of it like yen and yang. This philosophy was popular among Russian Christians). They also celebrated scholars like Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer.

Like all good ideas though, it has been hijacked by the scary globalists. Now The Aspen Institute is considered a liberal think tank which trains world leaders globally. So, the question is, what are they trying to do with the Internet? The Aspen Institute is calling for localized statutes to be put in place by using organizations like the NGA (National Governors Association) and those who write the education curriculum to teach digital literacy because they know it wont be passed on a federal level. The main idea behind digital literacy is to teach our elementary through college children how to discern what is true, how to think critically, and how to use search terms, and what current events need to be kept up with. The big problem with this is the fact that those who hated America and protested during the 60's and 70's are now teaching college students which in turn teach are our future educators.


Everyone should be an advocate of truth, no matter what the consequences. The thing is there are so many orginizations that are influencing everything in our society that we're being overrun. The real solution to this is that we as citizens need to be informed. We need to start looking at the organizations that contribute to our politicians and our society and see what their motives are. Everyone has a motive which makes this easy to find. If we see our candidate has shady people funding them, be sure to let the politician know about it and ask him or her to send back the contribution or you will be informing the public. The thing we need to realize is that most Americans align themselves with the Founding Fathers in more ways than we know, it's just taking the time to find out. Although our elected officials are our representatives, sometimes they don't do their homework, that's our job as an informed voter.

Truth about net neutrality

I'm writing this article in defense of everyone who gets or shares information over the internet. On December 21st of this year the FCC will be voting on net neutrality. When I first started researching the subject I thought it was an OK idea, not something that would harm people, but as I dug father I began to see the real danger. If you look at this subject with an open mind you'll see that it's actually a Socialist agenda to control what we see and create absolutely no competition.

Let's start with the basics of what net neutrality originally started out as and use San Francisco as an example. In San Francisco a company called Covad owns all of the lines that have been installed in the area. Covad sells or leases these lines to companies like AT&T which then charges a consumer an access fee. Currently all ISP's offer a specific bandwidth on a tiered system all the way down the food chain. Net neutrality will step in and void that by forcing someone like Covad and AT&T to offer service without a fee, it will be a lot like public access TV.

Another complaint that net neutrality is trying to tackle is the fact that Comcast slowed down a peer-to-peer network connection because of their packet sniffing software. Some will say this is an invasion of privacy, but considering I worked in the IT department for a web based company, this is your first line of defense. The company I worked for even used Comcast. I would get regular calls from Comcast when our Engineers would download larges bits of information that was not in our normal habits or normal bandwidth usage. While I was there we also received a DoS or Denial of Service attack trying to shut down our website, if Comcast wasn't monitoring our traffic we could have gone down for minutes or hours and had a virus or two. Everyone knows with software it will eventually stop or slow down some forms of traffic, but not by intention, so it's a small price to pay to make sure that we're able to have ease of access on the internet. If you were to take away these safety measures from companies like Comcast you would open the door the DoS and viral attacks all over the internet, I think you would be less safe even.

If that was the only thing trying to be pushed through with net neutrality I would be OK with that, but get ready for a new buzz word “digital literacy”. The Aspen Institute recently held a town hall meeting discussing their outline for not only digital literacy, but even all aspects of information we receive over the internet. The Aspen Institute is influencing members of the FCC which will ultimately control the internet.

According to the Aspen Institute's argument for digital literacy is that people aren't just informed enough. I would normally go on a rant talking about how I have the right to think for myself, but this is bigger than that. They state that there are so many contributors to the internet that people aren't able to discern what's true and what's opinion. They think that, starting in the elementary schools, people need to be educated how to use search key words, use critical thinking, learn how to keep up on current events, and discern the credibility of messages. The Aspen Institute does not think that this will be done Federally, or if it is it will be a long time, so digital literacy needs to be handled locally. The NGA along with other educational institutions up to colleges.


Recently Senator Rockefeller recently called for the reinstatement of the “fairness doctrine” during his speech in front of the Cable & Broadcast TV Carriage Negotiations committee. Granted this would be for cable TV for now, but this could and would expand quickly. The cable companies would be the first regulated and the domains they sale would more than likely be a part of that, but we need to be fair and regulate all domain providers like Yahoo, Go daddy, and others because it would be an unfair advantage. Don't forget Comcast is looking at buying MSNBC. This would be a slippery slope which would take away the right to choose for consumers because it would require a pop up or link to an alternative point of view. An example would be a Huffington Post pop up when you go to Fox News' website. This is probably not likely with the Federal Government especially since the Republicans just won the House, but like the Aspen Institute just said, they would use local organizations which would include the FCC.

I think this is all bad news. Some people have warned that certain organizations would side step Congress and use other means to complete their goals. I think that the Aspen Institute may be a dangerous organization to those who like to get alternative news that gives alternative, non mainstream, ideas. This will be a slow process hopefully, but my 16 month old son will be being educated in school about digital literacy, how to discern truth, and how to use search terms. Considering I don't agree with the views of most educated professionals because of the indoctrination that happens in college, I'm going to have to work even harder to keep my son's mind open to all ideas. The scary part of this is it will be a generational indoctrination that may never be broken. As we saw in the 60's and 70's, those hippies or long hairs are today's leaders and educators.
 
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/3G/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224201539
 
http://reboot.fcc.gov/futureofmedia/blog?entryId=104620&sblog=y&#respond
http://reboot.fcc.gov/futureofmedia/blog?entryId=549398
http://www.corestandards.org/articles/9-nga-and-ccsso-comment-on-ccssi-governance-suggestions
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CoreFAQ.pdf
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20004165-38.html
http://www.topix.com/news/privacy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNZv1h2iZg