9/11 Had Significant Impact on Young Children

July 19, 2010

This article is in discussion to the events of 9/11, not necessarily taking into account that our children are growing up in a police state of which you are either “with, or against.” This also does not get into the effects of the War of Terror that was waged after the false flag-flag attack known as 9/11.

source: Psych Central   July 19, 2010

Long-term studies on the effects of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 show that young children were especially vulnerable.

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Dylan Ratigan, Anthony Shaffer, Glenn Greenwald Discuss Wikileaks Video.

April 9, 2010

April 9, 2010

Please see our collection on this story here.

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Britain: Children Reaching Age 3 Without Being Able to Say a Word

January 5, 2010

source: Cryptogon

The piece says that television isn’t a factor, but keep this USA Today article in mind:

A study released Monday adds to the debate over whether television impairs children’s language development. It found that parents and children virtually stop talking to each other when the TV is on, even if they’re in the same room.

For every hour in front of the TV, parents spoke 770 fewer words to children, according to a study of 329 children, ages 2 months to 4 years, in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Adults usually speak about 941 words an hour.

Children vocalized less, too, says author Dimitri Christakis of the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. In some cases, parents may have spoken less because they sat a child in front of a TV and left the room, he says. In others, parents simply zoned out themselves while watching TV with a child. Researchers didn’t note the content of the TV shows.

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Teacher’s Aides Accused of Waterboarding Special-Needs Student

October 23, 2009

see aslo: 16 Year Old Boy With Autism Shot 5 Times by Officer at School.  

   

source: Raw Story

Political observers like The Atlantic‘s Andrew Sullivan have argued that one of the most dangerous elements of the Bush administration’s torture policies was the risk that a “torture mentality” would take hold in American society.

Those who seek evidence for that theory need look no further than Great Falls, Montana, where two teacher’s aides have been charged with using water torture on a middle school student.

Julie Ann Parrish and Kristina Marie Kallies face one count each of felony abuse after allegations that they forced a 13-year-old autistic boy’s head under water after he fell asleep in class. They also stand accused of “forcing him to sit in his soiled pants for hours and making him eat his own vomit when he got sick,” reports KTLA in Los Angeles.

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Sonoma County School Absences in Normal Range

October 19, 2009

2 weeks ago I tried calling the Sonoma County Department of Health Services to find out if what the Press Democrat had printed was true. The article in question says, “The additions were made after state health officials revised their counting methods..”  referring to upping the local swine flu death count to 9. The article gives no clearer reasoning than that, look for yourself. The comment was made by Mark Netherda, the county’s deputy public health officer. Anyhow, they have not gotten back to me yet. My questions of course is what does ”revising counting methods” mean in medical terms?  -Brian

source: Press Democrat

Sonoma County school officials are monitoring student absences related to flu infections, but so far no mass outbreaks have been documented.

Through conversations, e-mails and social networking sites, parents have passed on reports of illnesses and absences at their children’s schools, but county health officials and school district administrators said Thursday they haven’t had any widespread problems.

Carl Wong, the superintendent of Sonoma County Schools, said absences don’t prompt a second look until they stray about 5 percent from normal rates. That hasn’t happened yet this year among the 71,074 students in kindergarten through 12th grade in county public schools.

“There is no indication of problems at this point,” he said.


Programing Students About 9/11; Hunting Terrorists Globally

September 9, 2009

The poor children of today and tomorrow.  Propaganda is hard at work to keep the gears of the “GLobal War of Terror” in working order. The Obama Administration, along with the Bush’s and Clinton’s, Bankers and Oiler’s, Intelligence agencies and more must continue the LIES OF SEPTEMBER THE 11th, 2001 in order for that to happen. The post below taken from the AP shows exactly how they will train the youth of tomorrow. By using Google Earth to hunt for terrorist’s they will remind the youth who were ” ..not even alive at the time of the attacks” of why they must support the endless war. It also means the surge of police abuses will continue along with corporate control of the individual. I suppose if you dont have your children out of public schools, now would be a good time. Remember to breathe when you read this article. -ed

source: AP

NEW YORK — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined Sept. 11 family members and college professors on Tuesday at a hotel blocks from the World Trade Center site to unveil a plan to teach middle and high school students about the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The 9/11 curriculum, believed to be the first comprehensive educational plan focusing on the attacks, is expected to be tested this year at schools in New York City, California, New Jersey, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas.

It was developed with the help of educators by the Brick, N.J.-based Sept. 11 Education Trust, and was based on primary sources, archival footage and more than 70 interviews with witnesses, family members of victims and politicians, including Giuliani and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a New York senator at the time of the attacks.

The curriculum is taught through videos, lessons and interactive exercises, including one that requires students to use Google Earth software to map global terrorist activity.

One of the main goals is to help students entering middle and high school, who may been too young to have strong memories of the attacks, to develop a tangible connection to what happened.

“In a few years, we will be teaching students who were not even alive at the time of the attacks,” said Anthony Gardner, the executive director of the Sept. 11 Education Trust.

Giuliani said that the curriculum can help students to think critically about the attacks as both a historical event and one that shapes the present, noting the continued threat of terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The Makings of a Police State-Part I

July 19, 2009

 

source: 123 Real Change

The National Security Generation

“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I say calmly, ‘Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community’.”- – Adolf Hitler

Our children who were born on and around September 11, 2001 are now almost eight years old. These children, who we usually refer to as ‘the future,’ have only known a nation that has been engaged in perpetual wars, and to them it is ‘forever.’ How many times a day do they hear and read the word ‘war’? Whether it’s the TV they are tuned in to, or their parents’ daily paper they happen to get a glimpse of, or the radio news program they listen to during their car rides…they can’t help but hear and see ‘wars’: war on terror, war in Iraq, the Afghan war…

They know a nation whose state is defined by a color coded alert system. They are being told and taught to be ‘alert’ against a vague and never-defined threat posed by an even more vague enemy.

To them the days when their parents traveled with dignity is a sweet bed-time story; one that starts with ‘Once upon a time we boarded our planes without going through metal detectors and puff-machines, without bending over before the ‘badge-men’ to remove our shoes, without being searched and probed…without fear; the fear of becoming a chosen one by our state and it’s badge-men…’

Their national pride before international eyes is forced to adopt a coping mechanism: How to defend their nation’s record on torture; how to explain their government’s world-wide kidnapping as extraordinary renditions prompted by even more extraordinary circumstances; how to justify the civilian death tolls accumulated nonstop by their government’s never-justified wars; and more.

 

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