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Sunday, August 28, 2016
Can’t Find A Qualified US Worker Redux 6
Displaced American STEM workers spur Senate hearing
By Beryl Lieff Benderly
Science Magazine
March 3, 2016
The plight of the shrinking middle class has been a resonant theme in the 2016 presidential campaign. The issue of job loss for American science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers has now also entered the enduring national debate over high-skill guest workers, as illustrated last week at a HEARING of the Senate Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest.
At the hearing, titled “The Impact of High-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Workers,” subcommittee chair Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) kept the discussion focused on the MOVES by a number of U.S. companies to replace long-serving American workers with workers on H-1B skilled guest worker visas and to force the laid-off Americans to TRAIN THEIR REPLACEMENTS. As Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) explained, Congress intended the H-1B program to allow an employer to hire a skilled foreign worker in a specialized occupation when the employer could not find an American worker with needed skills and abilities, and for many years the debate has focused on employers claims of a STEM skills shortage. But, Sessions said, “the sad reality is that not only is there not a shortage of exceptionally qualified U.S. workers, but across the country thousands of U.S. workers are being replaced by foreign labor.” As H-1B expert Ron Hira of Howard University in Washington, D.C., testified, ԓover the past year, in addition to the Southern California Edison case, a number of other casesincluding Disney, Northeast Utilities, the Fossil Group, Catalina Marketing, New York Life, Hertz, Toys R Us, and I could keep going onחwere highlighted by the press. But these were only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. There are many more cases out there. Testimony by labor force expert Hal Salzman of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey added that “all evidence and events suggest [that] the substitution of guest workers for U.S. workers is accelerating.”
Testimony by economist Chad Sparber of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, who co-authored a report published by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a group whose co-chairs include Disney CEO and President Bob Iger and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, presented a contrary view. “Immigrants and native-born Americans do not directly compete with each other for jobs in the same way that a lot of people might imagine, and when foreign-born STEM workers enter the U.S. labor force, it creates an opportunity for native-born Americans to respond by doing other types of work, including managerial occupations, that often, though not always, pay higher wages,” he stated. Sessions noted, however, that people who come to the United States to take a specific job under a time-limited guest worker visa are not immigrants.
The hearings emotional high point came in the testimony of Leo Perrero, an information technology (IT) worker with 20 years of experience, more than 10 of them at Disney. In a voice choked with emotion, he told of being invited to a meeting with a company executive in 2014. Because of his previous excellent evaluations, Perrero said, he went in expecting a bonus or promotion. Instead, he abruptly learned that his job would end in 90 days and that, to receive severance pay, he would have to spend his remaining time with the company training his replacement. “[M]y team, along with hundreds of others, were displaced by a less-skilled foreign work force imported into our country using the H-1B visa program,” Perrero said. “The former Disney employees, with far superior skills and knowledge, were the trainers, and the guest workers just entering the technology field were the trainees. During the months of training,” he said, he and his colleagues “all felt extremely humiliated.” Sessions asked Perrero whether he or any of his laid-off colleagues had found higher paying work, managerial or otherwise; Perrero responded that none had.
“What happened at Disney is not an accident; it was clear statutory design,” testified attorney and former computer programmer John Miano, co-author of a recent book about the H-1B visa. “In 1998, Congress made it explicitly legal to replace Americans with H-1B workers,” he said. “Then, in 2004, Congress changed the H-1B prevailing wage system to allow employers to pay these workers extremely low wages.” Normally, the prevailing wage is the median wage, the 50th percentile, but for the H-1B program, the normal prevailing wage is the 17th percentile. In normal-wage areas, this creates a wage differential with domestic workers of about $20,000 per worker, and in high-wage areas like Silicon Valley, it creates a differential of about $40,000, with predictable result[s], he said. The law, he added, is needlessly complicated and this complexity seriously hinders enforcement.
When 10 senators sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor in 2015 wanting to know if Southern California Edisons replacement of American workers with H-1B workers who were $40,000 a year cheaper was legal, the department responded that it could not investigate because it had received no complaints from workers, Hira said. The reason for that lack, he continued, was company gag orders that workers are forced to accept, which prevent them from speaking about their experience. These gag orders, Durbin said, are ғhurting us dramatically in gaining information about the situation. (Perrero stated he could testify because he had abandoned his career in the IT industry.) Nonetheless, ԓin the face of the intimidation from gag orders and the threat of being blackballed from the industry, some brave workers stepped forward to file complaints, and the Department began investigating, Hira continued. Ultimately, the ԓlabor department affirmed [that] American workers can legally be replaced by Ņ H-1B worker[s], who ԓcan legally be paid much less than American workers, he said.
Although employers often claim in public statements that shortages of domestic talent prevent them from finding workers, they tell a different story in filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Salzman noted. ԓAccenture states that restrictions on guest worker supply would result in new or higher minimum salary requirements and increased costs.ђ Another firm says they would have to replace existing offshore resources with local resources, namely U.S. workers, at higher wages.ђ That is, without the congressional discount for guest workers, the highly profitable IT industry would have to hire more U.S. workers and pay them more than guest workers.
In practice, Salzman said, the ԓprimary function of the H-1Bԗas well as other temporary worker programs including L visas and the Optional Practical Training programדis to support offshoring low-cost labor. He questioned the premise that ԓsearching the globe for the best talent leads to finding only one specific demographic group of very young workersԗprimarily recent graduates from India. The claims of a worker shortage come from an industry that keeps average wages at levels from the last century, fires more people in a year than H-1B guest workers it hires, Ӆ is allowed to discriminate in hiring at levels unprecedented in half a century [, and is] one of the most profitable industries on the planet, he continued. ԓMeanwhile, the tech industry spends $15 million a month in Washington. Perhaps this is the level of lobbying necessary to drive the wedge separating policy from evidence.
“The fight for changes in the laws that serve the interests of American people has begun in the Senate,” Sessions said. “A number of senators have introduced bills S.2266, S.2394, and S.2365, which would protect American workers’ jobs against replacement by workers on visa,” he added. Whether any will become law, however, remains to be seen.
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
Emotional Intelligent
About Emotional Intelligence
By TalentSmart
Emotional Intelligence Is the Other Kind of Smart.
When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses in 1995, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of successIQ. Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as the critical factor that sets star performers apart from the rest of the pack.
Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. It affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions that achieve positive results. Emotional intelligence is made up of four core skills that pair up under two primary competencies: personal competence and social competence.
Personal competence is made up of your self-awareness and self-management skills, which focus more on you individually than on your interactions with other people. Personal competence is your ability to stay aware of your emotions and manage your behavior and tendencies.
Self-Awareness is your ability to accurately perceive your emotions and stay aware of them as they happen.
Self-Management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and positively direct your behavior.
Social competence is made up of your social awareness and relationship management skills; social competence is your ability to understand other peoples moods, behavior, and motives in order to improve the quality of your relationships.
Social Awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on.
Relationship Management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions and the othersҒ emotions to manage interactions successfully.
Emotional Intelligence, IQ, and Personality Are Different.
Emotional intelligence taps into a fundamental element of human behavior that is distinct from your intellect. There is no known connection between IQ and emotional intelligence; you simply can’t predict emotional intelligence based on how smart someone is. Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it’s the same at age 15 as it is at age 50. Emotional intelligence, on the other hand, is a flexible set of skills that can be acquired and improved with practice. Although some people are naturally more emotionally intelligent than others, you can develop high emotional intelligence even if you arent born with it.
Personality is the final piece of the puzzle. It’s the stable “style” that defines each of us. Personality is the result of hard-wired preferences, such as the inclination toward introversion or extroversion. However, like IQ, personality can’t be used to predict emotional intelligence. Also like IQ, personality is stable over a lifetime and doesn’t change. IQ, emotional intelligence, and personality each cover unique ground and help to explain what makes a person tick.
Emotional Intelligence Is Linked to Performance.
How much of an impact does emotional intelligence have on your professional success? The short answer is: a lot! Its a powerful way to focus your energy in one direction with a tremendous result. TalentSmart tested emotional intelligence alongside 33 other important workplace skills, and found that emotional intelligence is the strongest predictor of performance, explaining a full 58% of success in all types of jobs.
Your emotional intelligence is the foundation for a host of critical skills - it impacts most everything you say and do each day.
Of all the people weve studied at work, weҒve found that 90% of top performers are also high in emotional intelligence. On the flip side, just 20% of bottom performers are high in emotional intelligence. You can be a top performer without emotional intelligence, but the chances are slim. Naturally, people with a high degree of emotional intelligence make more moneyan average of $29,000 more per year than people with a low degree of emotional intelligence. The link between emotional intelligence and earnings is so direct that every point increase in emotional intelligence adds $1,300 to an annual salary. These findings hold true for people in all industries, at all levels, in every region of the world. We havenגt yet been able to find a job in which performance and pay arent tied closely to emotional intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence Can Be Developed.
The communication between your emotional and rational ғbrains is the physical source of emotional intelligence. The pathway for emotional intelligence starts in the brain, at the spinal cord. Your primary senses enter here and must travel to the front of your brain before you can think rationally about your experience. However, first they travel through the limbic system, the place where emotions are generated. So, we have an emotional reaction to events before our rational mind is able to engage. Emotional intelligence requires effective communication between the rational and emotional centers of the brain.
“Plasticity” is the term neurologists use to describe the brain’s ability to change. Your brain grows new connections as you learn new skills. The change is gradual, as your brain cells develop new connections to speed the efficiency of new skills acquired.
Using strategies to increase your emotional intelligence allows the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain to branch off small arms (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells. A single cell can grow 15,000 connections with its neighbors. This chain reaction of growth ensures its easier to kick this new behavior into action in the future. Once you train your brain by repeatedly using new emotional intelligence strategies, emotionally intelligent behaviors become habits.
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9 Habits Of Highly Emotionally Intelligent People
By Dr. Travis Bradberry
August 20, 2016
When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of success--IQ.
How much of an impact does emotional intelligence (EQ) have on your personal and professional success? The short answer is: a lot! It’s a powerful way to focus your energy in one direction with a tremendous result.
Emotional intelligence is the “something” in each of us that is a bit intangible. It affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions that achieve positive results. Emotional intelligence is made up of four core skills that pair up under two primary competencies: personal competence and social competence.
Personal competence comprises your self-awareness and self-management skills, which focus more on you individually than on your interactions with other people. Personal competence is your ability to stay aware of your emotions and manage your behavior and tendencies.
Self-Awareness is your ability to accurately perceive your emotions and stay aware of them as they happen.
Self-Management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and positively direct your behavior.
Social competence is made up of your social awareness and relationship management skills; social competence is your ability to understand other people’s moods, behavior, and motives in order to respond effectively and improve the quality of your relationships.
Social Awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on.
Relationship Management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions and the others’ emotions to manage interactions successfully.
Despite the significance of emotional intelligence, its intangible nature makes it very difficult to know which behaviors you should emulate. So I’ve analyzed the data from the million-plus people TalentSmart has tested in order to identify the habits that set high-EQ people apart.
1. They’re relentlessly positive. Keep your eyes on the news for any length of time, and you’ll see that it’s just one endless cycle of war, violent attacks, fragile economies, failing companies, and environmental disasters. It’s easy to think the world is headed downhill fast. And who knows? Maybe it is. But emotionally intelligent people don’t worry about that because they don’t get caught up in things they can’t control. They focus their energy on directing the two things that are completely within their power--their attention and their effort. Numerous studies have shown that optimists are physically and psychologically healthier than pessimists. They also perform better at work. Remind yourself of this the next time a negative train of thought takes hold of you.
2. They have a robust emotional vocabulary. All people experience emotions, but it is a select few who can accurately identify them as they occur, which is problematic because unlabeled emotions often go misunderstood, which leads to irrational choices and counterproductive actions. People with high EQs master their emotions because they understand them, and they use an extensive vocabulary of feelings to do so. While many people might describe themselves as simply feeling “bad,” emotionally intelligent people can pinpoint whether they feel “irritable,” “frustrated,” “downtrodden,” or “anxious.” The more specific your word choice, the better insight you have into exactly how you are feeling, what caused it, and what you should do about it.
3. They’re assertive. People with high EQs balance good manners, empathy, and kindness with the ability to assert themselves and establish boundaries. This tactful combination is ideal for handling conflict. When most people are crossed, they default to passive or aggressive behavior. Emotionally intelligent people remain balanced and assertive by steering themselves away from unfiltered emotional reactions. This enables them to neutralize difficult and toxic people without creating enemies.
4. They’re curious about other people. It doesn’t matter if they’re introverted or extroverted, emotionally intelligent people are curious about everyone around them. This curiosity is the product of empathy, one of the most significant gateways to a high EQ. The more you care about other people and what they’re going through, the more curiosity you’re going to have about them.
5. They forgive, but they don’t forget. Emotionally intelligent people live by the motto “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” They forgive in order to prevent a grudge, but they never forget. The negative emotions that come with holding onto a grudge are actually a stress response. Holding on to that stress can have devastating health consequences, and emotionally intelligent people know to avoid this at all costs. However, offering forgiveness doesn’t mean they’ll give a wrongdoer another chance. Emotionally intelligent people will not be bogged down by mistreatment from others, so they quickly let things go and are assertive in protecting themselves from future harm.
6. They won’t let anyone limit their joy. When your sense of pleasure and satisfaction are derived from comparing yourself to others, you are no longer the master of your own happiness. When emotionally intelligent people feel good about something that they’ve done, they won’t let anyone’s opinions or accomplishments take that away from them. While it’s impossible to turn off your reactions to what others think of you, you don’t have to compare yourself to others, and you can always take people’s opinions with a grain of salt. That way, no matter what other people are thinking or doing, your self-worth comes from within. Regardless of what people think of you at any particular moment, one thing is certain--you’re never as good or bad as they say you are.
7. They make things fun. Emotionally intelligent people know exactly what makes them happy, and they constantly work to bring this happiness into everything they do. They turn monotonous work into games, go the extra mile to make people they care about happy, and take breaks to enjoy the things they love no matter how busy they are. They know that injecting this fun into their lives fights off stress and builds lasting resilience.
8. They are difficult to offend. If you have a firm grasp of whom you are, it’s difficult for someone to say or do something that gets your goat. Emotionally intelligent people are self-confident and open-minded, which creates a pretty thick skin.
9. They squash negative self-talk. A big step in developing emotional intelligence involves stopping negative self-talk in its tracks. The more you ruminate on negative thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our negative thoughts are just that--thoughts, not facts. You can stop the negative and pessimistic things your inner voice says by writing them down. Once you’ve taken a moment to slow down the negative momentum of your thoughts, you will be more rational and clear-headed in evaluating their veracity. You can bet that your statements aren’t true any time you use words such as “never,” “worst,” and “ever.” If your statements still look like facts once they’re on paper, take them to a friend and see if he or she agrees with you. Then the truth will surely come out.
Bringing It All Together
Unlike your IQ, your EQ is highly malleable. As you train your brain by repeatedly practicing new emotionally intelligent behaviors, your brain builds the pathways needed to make them into habits. Before long, you will begin responding to your surroundings with emotional intelligence without even having to think about it. And as your brain reinforces the use of new behaviors, the connections supporting old, destructive behaviors will die off.
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Monday, August 15, 2016
How to Approach the Generation Gap in the Workplace
How to Approach the Generation Gap in the Workplace
NY Times
August 9, 2015
A generation gap is widening in the workplace. As baby boomers (ages 51 to 69 or so) express reluctance about retiring, so-called millennials (roughly ages 18 to 34) have become the single largest demographic in the American labor force. Because of this, more older workers have found themselves being hired and managed by people much younger than they are.
The Workologist hears fairly frequently from people who have experienced fallout from this reversal of expectations including cases that might run afoul of age discrimination laws. But often the problems are more subtle and ambiguous, which makes them harder to address. So on the second anniversary of this column, I asked readers to help me get a handle on the issue. I was inspired by a query from a 52-year-old job candidate who wondered, after a baffling interview that did not lead to a job, about the thinking of hiring managers who were significantly younger than her. I sought to offer practical suggestions for applicants looking for work in a job market that often prizes youthful qualities over experience, or to help workers reporting to a manager a couple of decades their junior. So I reversed this columnגs traditional formula and asked readers for their thoughts and tips.
You had plenty to say, offering hundreds of thoughtful, useful and insightful replies. The overwhelming majority of respondents who revealed their ages were 50 or older. While their advice encompassed a range of attitudes and experiences, several common themes and suggestions emerged. My thanks to everyone who responded.
CHECK YOUR OWN BIAS. “For starters, it’s worth remembering that making age-based assumptions works both ways,” wrote Julianna Warren, echoing a point made by several other readers. “Don’t assume that bosses or co-workers who lack your experience need a lecture about how things were done back in the day: A co-worker, no matter how young, may know more than you do about some things, and information-sharing can be a useful two-way street.”
Keep in mind that any manager or potential employer is likely to pick up on a lack of respect, and behave accordingly. Jack Terry proposed a few questions worth asking: “Are you dismissing the millennial in the workplace? Do you roll your eyes when they talk about student loan debt? Do you poke fun at their use of technology? If so, step back for a moment and rethink your approach,” he wrote. “What was life like for you at that age?” His advice is to build a bridge and connect with the people you work with.
“Be open to learning from younger people,” said Mary Jacobs, who described a “great experience” with a boss 23 years her junior. “She saw how I could help her,” Ms. Jacobs wrote, “but that didn’t mean she always wanted the hard-earned-wisdom point of view. If she didn’t follow my advice, I let it go.”
SEE IT THEIR WAY. “It’s possible that some younger managers don’t want talented, energetic older people blocking ambitious career paths,” wrote Jim Rowbotham. In short, a perceived slight may spring from fear rather than disrespect.
William Cannon also pointed to that possibility, and suggested allaying that concern by clearly signaling that “you respect the authority of your boss. Be strategic about demonstrating your experience and wisdom,” he said: “Hold your tongue and allow your expertise to slip out a bit at a time,” and work toward consensus with your boss and larger work team.
Show the same respect you did for more seasoned bosses in the past, JMG (who did not want his full name used) wrote: “Your knowledge and experience will be valued if the younger boss is not threatened, and knows that you have his (or her) back.”
AGE, AND HOW TO ACT IT. One of my favorite responses came from Robert Goldfarb, 85, a working management consultant. “The moment I enter the office of a prospective client, there’s an elephant in the room,” he wrote. “My age.” He says he makes sure to skip allusions to Grace Kelly or Sugar Ray Leonard (much less Sugar Ray Robinson). But more seriously, he seeks to demonstrate immediately, through conversation and attitude that “what I have become is more important than a number,” he said. “I’m there to talk about tomorrow, not yesterday.”
Many readers made similar points about projecting the right attitude, and a word that came up over and over was ԓenergy. A surprising number of self-identified ԓolder respondents also emphasized fitness and other elements of physical appearance. I have mixed feelings about that: ItԒs obviously good to stay healthy, but Im not sure what to make of, for instance, one suggestion involving a Facebook video ғof me dead lifting 275 pounds last month.
The more useful framing is probably less extreme. ԓYou dont have to dress or talk like someone whoҒs 20 or 30 years younger, Leslie Wengenroth wrote, ԓbut you need to negate the stereotypical views that people often have of an older person. Project enthusiasm and engagement. People who seem to be looking to mark time until retirement arenԒt going to make a great impression, whatever their age. If youre not sure how you come across, Ms. Wengenroth said, record or make a video of yourself, ғor ask a friend for honest feedback.
Mr. GoldfarbԒs experience certainly suggests the right presentation trumps the stereotypes: One of his recent jobs was for a marketing firm where he was interviewed by staff who appeared fresh out of nursery school,Ӕ he wrote. I told the firmӒs C.E.O. I was surprised his young team selected me. I was, too,ђ he said, but they told me they wanted your wisdom.ђ
NUMBERS GAMES. Multiple readers had related rԩsum suggestions for job seekers of a certain age. You do not need to list every single job you铒ve ever held, all the way back to the 64 WorldҒs Fair, Cathi Venis said. Several others advised omitting the year of a college degree if youԒre concerned it might date you.
Jane DeWitt had an interesting perspective on this, having been a young hiring manager in the past, and an olderӔ job seeker today. She has added one of the younger ex-colleagues with whom she had a terrificӔ relationship to her list of references.
TECH TECH TECH.I doubt anyone will be surprised to hear that many readers emphasized staying current with technology. Many also pointed out that this is easier to do than ever: From instructional YouTube videos to courses at your local library, the resources are endless. Be conversant in tech-tool developments in your field; be curious about (not dismissive of) such developments in general; and be proactive, so youre not just promising that you are willing to keep learning, but demonstrating that you do so all the time.
Readers also stressed the importance of social media platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter. Your future may not depend on obsessing over a digital ғfollowing, but the fact that these tools are so popular makes them worth exploring ԗ and some can be useful networking aids. Dismissing the entire category out of hand can, intentionally or not, send a message that youre closed-minded and resistant to change.
THE GOOD NEWS. The last of the recurring themes that I have space to mention boils down to: DonҒt assume victimhood,Ӕ as one reader, Lance Tukell, put it. I coach those wishing to obtain employment to focus on things that they can control, chronological age not being one of them.Ӕ
And while the reader response has made it clear that age bias can be a real challenge, there are many counterexamples that demonstrate how its being overcome. Consider Tony Maramarco’s description of a work team whose members range in age from 24 to 68: Those on the “younger side” acknowledge our decades of experience and respect us for our competence. We on the “older side” don’t preach or pontificate and remain open to new ideas.
“Have confidence, be curious,” advised A. Lucas, who is 62 and working happily with colleagues half her age and younger at a start-up. “And if they don’t want to work with you because you’re ‘too old’ perhaps you don’t want to work with them either,” she said.
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Monday, August 08, 2016
Brainwashed Kids
7 Ways Our Children Are Being Brainwashed
By Gregg Prescott, M.S.
Editor, In5D.com
January 11, 2015
From birth, virtually all of us have been brainwashed through various outlets that encourage materialism, ego, subservience, control and conformity. But where do the origins of mind control begin and what can we do about it?
1. Religion
AS CHILDREN, the brainwashing begins in the church when we are baptized. Many parents do not question baptism or the origins of it and blindly have their children baptized as the church welcomes them into the community in the name of Jesus Christ. The Jesus story, alone, isn’t questioned by enough Christians who blindly believe anything they are told in the name of “faith.”
I’d like to believe there is a Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny, too. These holidays both have Pagan origins, yet Christians never question these either. Its all part of the lie propagated to us by religion.
Many Christians will argue that their church does good things for others while the bible provides good morals and values.
A counter-argument is that you don’t need a church to do good things for others or a bible to be a morally sound person. Additionally, the bible also teaches hatred and fear such as when God allegedly kills everyone with the Great Flood, except Noah and his family.
These are the horror stories our children learn in Sunday school. Not only that, but the messages are often convoluted and ambiguous. What kind of message are we sending our children?
While the bible provides nice parables to learn from, they are not necessary, especially with all of the other negative content provided by religion.
And we haven’t even touched all of the unnecessary deaths through inquisitions and crusades which continue today. Killing innocent people seems to have a common theme in religion and is carried on to our children as they become toddlers.
With the idea planted that it is alright to kill in the name of God, our children begin to emulate these preconceived ideas through the games they play.
2. Ridiculous role models
Boys play with cork guns and cap guns and begin to play “Cowboys and Indians” at a young age. Think about how appalling this is, not only to indigenous people but also teaching a child to kill as a game.
They also are bought G.I. Joe action figures and pretend to kill opposing troops. Plastic figurines of soldiers in combat are sold to children, some of which prominently display ethnicity, which plays into the divide and conquer mentality that is seeded at this age.
Most girls have played with a Barbie doll at some point in their life. The Barbie doll sets the stage for materialistic attitudes as well as buying into the Cosmo girl image. It also dictates the role and expectations of what a woman should look like while dividing our children in stereotyped roles for the rest of their lives.
3. Money, ego and materialism
We often ask our children, What do you want to be when you grow up?” Rarely does a child say, “A healer” or “A yoga instructor.” Often, a parent will help to persuade a child into a lucrative job role such becoming a doctor or lawyer.
The need for money is further enhanced through board games such as Monopoly and Life, where our children learn greed through bankrupting their friends. While there are some positive attributes of these games, the bottom line is how they support a positive view of the banksters who have corrupted this planet while emphasizing materialism and greed.
The latest bankster game involves CASHLESS MONOPOLY
What are kids really learning in the GAME OF LIFE?
4. Divide and conquer techniques
Our children are taught how to play sports and the importance of winning. While sports provide exercise and promote physical dexterity and good health, they also play into the ”DIVIDE AND CONQUER” mentality that our children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
How many asinine arguments have you seen between two grown men arguing whose team or player (OR JOB) is better than the other? First of all, it’s not “their” team unless they have physical ownership of it. Secondly, the two players theyre arguing about probably could care less about their argument. Lastly, these two people are too blind to see how they’re still buying into the divide and conquer mentality that was engrained within them since they began playing “Cowboys and Indians” at a young age.
The game is blatantly being played before our own eyes, yet many of us fail to see it. For example, if the Dallas Cowboys were to play the Kansas City Chiefs (or Washington Redskins), then you have your classic Cowboys vs. Indiansӓ matchup. Its all about ԒMy tribe is better than ӔYour Tribe which keeps us separated as people.
5. Television
Many of us grew up watching television which can be a humorous outlet or an opportunity to actually learn something, but for the most part, it gets us accustomed and hypnotized into subservience once our brains enter the alpha state of conditioning. How many times have you sat through a commercial, knowing fully how much you despise the commercial without changing the channel?
Albert Bandura has a theory of modeling where the child will emulate the parent’s behavior. This is why the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. In the absence of the parent(s), the child will be influenced by what he or she sees on television, further influencing their materialistic and ego-ladened views of society, while accepting television as a normal part of their daily routine.
The entire MAIN STREAM MEDIA (radio, television, magazines, book publishers, etc) are owned by 6 corporations who greatly influence our children through PROGRAMMING. Even the word “programming” should be questioned, because this is exactly what brainwashing does it programs our minds and especially, the minds of children who are easily influenced.
6. Education
Our educational systems encourage conformity and competition while suppressing or ignoring any special abilities a child may have, such as the ability to have an out of body experience. In addition, our children are not learning the true history of our origin while being forced to learn a propaganda filled view of what history looks like through biased eyes.
The textbooks our children read are printed by companies who, ultimately, are Zionist owned. What are the chances that a Zionist view would differ from the view of a Palestinian or someone who opposes Zionism?
7. Health
In a recent article entitled, ӅThe HIDDEN History Of Fluoride the addition to fluoride in our water supply as well as in chemtrails has helped to dumb down the population in order to make us more subservient and controllable.
Part of the hidden history of fluoride includes the following:
1940 Soviet concentration camps maintained by fluoride administration to inmates to decrease resistance to authority and induce physical deteriorization.
1950 Soviets add fluoride to water in prison system to maintain subservience in the inmate population.
1954 C.E.Perkins, I.G.Farben chemist, admits fluoride is to reduce resistance in people to authority.
Robert Carton, PhD formerly President of the union of Government Scientists working at the US Environmental Protection Agency said: “Water fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time.”
If fluoride has been proven to create subservience in prison and concentration camps, then what is it doing to our children who refuse to question authority figures or any official government position that is against the best interests of humanity?
One must also question the insurmountable number of vaccines our children receive. There is NO amount of mercury that is acceptable in the human body, so one must ask how ANY mercury will affect our newborn children? With the incresing number of vaccines our children receive, we also see a correlation to the number of deaths due to vaccinations as well as an exponential rise in autism.
What can I do about this?
1. Realize that as long as there is money, we are ALL economic slaves.
It all happens by the age of 12-14. One thing we donӔt teach our children is how accumulated wealth is a delusional idea which inconspicuously facilitates status, security and happiness, all of which are inherent without money, yet we have been engrained in this illusion that separates us as a global society while maintaining barbaric divide and conquer principles in a capitalist society masquerading as a democracy.
At what point is enough, enoughғ?
2. Ask questions a lot of them!
Our children should be encouraged to ASK QUESTIONS as AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE instead of regurgitating the state-sponsored propaganda that our schools teach.
For example, because of corporate greed, we are creating an unsustainable society. The use of fossil fuels is a ridiculous proposition within itself to assume that all of the world’s oil came from decomposed dinosaurs, but its even more asinine to assume we even need oil for fuel when hydro technologies are available, such as the water powered car invented by Stanley Meyer or Tesla’s free energy system.
Innovators, such as Meyer, are rewardedԓ by threats and execution by those who fear the loss of power. The simplest answer is to open source all inventions, including suppressed technologies.
Our children never learn these truths in school because according to our economic slave masters, innovation only comes at the expense of need, not conformity.
Our children should be encouraged to be the innovators of the future who work in the best interests of humanity instead of CEOs and business executives who are pillaging our planet at the expense of the 99% who are enslaved beneath them.
3. Think outside the box
Our educational system does not encourage creative thinking and the majority of what our children learn is all left-hemisphere thinking, which is mathematical and logic based, instead of right hemisphered, which is artistic and creative. By doing so, our children are essentially being trained to work either inside a cubicle or at a fast food restaurant because they never learned the tools of creativity and how to follow their life purpose versus being forced into the corporate world of economic subservience until they are 65 years old.
4. STOP WATCHING (STATE SPONSORED PROPAGANDA) TELEVISION!!!
Watching TV is arguably the #1 brainwashing tool of the corporate elite as the television will tell you what to wear and how to think while taking away your own ability to think critically for yourself.
The news programs are designed to keep us living in perpetual fear because when we live in fear, we move further away from our true spiritual essence. The use of fear also makes us more controllable as a population where we eventually give up our civil rights in exchange for perceived security.
The commercials are just as bad as any Ԓprogramming. Most TV commercials show extroverts who are specifically dressed in a certain way with clothing that appeals to your senses in subliminal ways.
5. Try to eliminate as much fluoride from your daily routine.
Not only does fluoride help to contribute to a more subservient population, it also calcifies your pineal gland, otherwise known as the Ӕ3rd eye. Your pineal gland is a gateway to other dimensions, so if it is calcified, then you will be limiting your utmost ability for creative thought and expression as well as dimming your spiritual connection to Creator and your higher self.
The further you move away from spirituality, the easier it is for you to be controlled.
6. Research the detriments of vaccinations.
Please keep in mind that there is NO amount of mercury that is good for anyone, especially children!
7. Do NOT ingest any genetically modified foods (or processed foods)
There have been NO longitudinal studies on the effect of GMOӔs on our bodies, so we are all literally guinea pigs being tested.
One thing you might want to consider is the poison that is built into specific foods, such as GMO corn. When a bug eats GMO corn, it explodes from the inside out because the BT Toxin is not in the husk of the corn, but it the corn, itself. Imagine what this corn is doing to you and your children?
Try to buy organic food or grow your own with organic heirloom seeds. When shopping at the grocery store, avoid just about all products in the middle aisles as they are generally all processed foods.
8. Teach your children how to meditate.
Meditation has the potential to literally transform the world. In 1978, what is known as the Maharishi Effectғ a group of 7000 individuals over the course of 3 weeks were meditating in hopes of positively effecting the surrounding city. They were able to literally transform the collective energy of the city which reduced global crime rates, violence, and casualties during the times of their meditation by an average of 16%. Suicide rates and automobile accidents also were reduced with all variables accounted for. In fact, there was a 72% reduction in terrorist activity during the times at which this group was meditation.
When you meditate, you look within for answers instead of relying on other peoples opinions, whether religious, political or educational. The truth is ALWAYS within. Anything you have ever been taught has been something that was regurgitated by someone else. Look within and you will find the answers you are looking for.
Can you envision world without money?
If you can’t envision a world without money, then you will probably have a difficult time understanding the future, especially if you watch a lot of television.
In the future, when a child is asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” they will answer, “Me” and will have a concrete idea “who me” is versus the children who have been raised to worship the almighty dollar as they blindly follow the flock ahead of them through religious and educational institutions.
We have been brainwashed for over 2,000 years. Its time to break the chains.
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How To Deprogram Yourself
By Gregg Prescott, M.S.
Editor, In5D.com
May 14, 2014
Society has undergone a MASS BRAINWASHING and it is time for us to deprogram ourselves in order to be completely immersed in the evolution of consciousness.
1. Religion
If a UFO were to LAND IN YOUR BACKYARD tonight, I promise the ET will not have either a BIBLE or MONEY. Religion has been the longest running form of MIND CONTROL on the planet and has served to not only keep us separated, but to depopulate the world through numerous wars, Inquisitions and Crusades in the name of God.
What religion does not teach us is that we are powerful, spiritual beings without them.
In the next few months or years, we can look forward to religions next form of mind control as they admit to the presence of extraterrestrial beings. This, of course, will not fall into the bible’s timeline, unless they try to convince their followers that the ETs have only been around for the last 6,000 years as well. If that were true, then why are they so much more advanced than we are if they are able to travel light years to visit us?
The real truth is that the bible is just a story to keep you living in SUBSERVIENCE, CONTROL, AND CONFORMITY, the same template as every government.
Solution: Ask lots of questions and go within for answers. It is time to take control of your own life instead of giving your energy and power away to others.
2. Money
When you find RELIGION, you find money as these two tenets in life are married to one another. Within these two entities, you’ll also find their bastard stepchild, government as all 3 are perpetually tied to each other.
I often ask people, ”IF THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS MONEY, then what would you be doing with your life?” This will give you an idea of what your life purpose should be if you were not influenced by the almighty dollar.
While money can simply be viewed as another form of energy, neither positive or negative, it also takes us away from our true, natural selves along with what is truly important in our lives.
We are all economic slaves to the system. How many of us work 40+ hours a week only to find ourselves so drained at the end of the day that we dont want to do anything other than relax and watch TV?
That means that you are working 40+ hours so you can enjoy yourself for the weekend. In essence, you are an economic slave for 5 days to the corporations in exchange for 2 days to yourself. Does this sound fair? And how are you spending these two days? Are you helping to make this world a better place or are you simply recharging your batteries so you can go back to being a slave to these corporations who drained your battery in the first place?
Solution: We live in a society that relies on money for existence. Some people are able to get off the grid completely but they are few and far between. Find whatever it is that truly makes you happy, then find ways to make a living doing it. There may be a time when you have to work your current job while building a new career, but in the end, youҒll find that working for yourself is much more gratifying than working some job that you hate for a boss who is an a*hole.
Also, stop supporting these companies that keep us living as economic slaves. Buy local.
3. Nature
Everything that man has done has contributed to the degradation of nature as we have polluted our food, skies and water supplies. Nature was much better off without us.
Despite our ways, nature provides an outlet and an opportunity to connect with what is important in life because without nature, we do not exist, period.
Solution: Take to time to CONNECT WITH NATURE Go out for a long walk in the woods or at the beach. Listen. Stargaze. Find that inner peace that nature provides. This is much more enriching than wasting your time watching TV.
4. TV
Along with religion, this is one of the biggest mind control venues out there. How many times have you ever felt good after watching the news? If you trace who owns the MAINSTREAM MEDIA in the United States (TV, newspapers, radio stations, magazines, etc) youŒll find that there are only 6 people at the top of the chain and all have Zionist ties, so what are the chances that your news is fair and unbiasedӔ?
Do you enjoy being (literally) programmed into what you should eat, wear, drink, etc through the commercials?
This is why we never see an INTROVERTED person on TV ads because it shows the wrong message to those in power as they discourage people from looking within. Every ad shows some EXTROVERT with his or her group of friends living the fictitious life that you should be living (through their eyes). And these people have above average looks and portray success, which subconsciously tell us that we are not good enough the way we are and if we want to be successful, beautiful and have friends like them, then we need to purchase whatever product they are selling. Does this sound ridiculous? It is, yet many people fall for this ploy, otherwise the commercial would not exist.
Solution: Stop watching TV. If you cannot do this, then record educational programs and skip through the commercials.
5. Meditate
The biggest excuse people say when asked why they do not meditate is, “I don’t have the time,” yet these same people will waste hours watching their favorite TV shows.
Another excuse is, “I can’t clear my mind.”
There are many different forms of meditation and in time, you will be able to meditate at a crowded beach or swimming pool if you really wanted to.
There are many physiological, psychological and spiritual benefits to meditating.
Meditation allows you to connect to your higher self while giving you clarity and insight to your direction and purpose for being here. This is why our senses are over-stimulated with everything else to keep us too busy to connect with our higher selves.
Solution: Find the time to meditate, even if it is for only 5-10 minutes a day. Experiment with different meditation techniques.
6. Cleanse Your Body
As part of the programming, our bodies have been introduced to many foreign substances, such as vaccines, GMOs, fluoridated water, chemtrails, mercury fillings, etc҅
There is a reason why 55 countries have BANNED GMOs and why there is a Monsanto Protection Act in the United States. If you havenҒt already, please educate yourself on the dangers of genetically modified organisms.
Each of these substances and elements have been specifically designed to keep our energies at low levels while polluting our bodies along with the air, water, and food supplies.
Plus, each of these are introducing elements that are foreign to our bodies and cannot possibly be good for you.
People will say, Well, IӒve been eating GMOs for years and I feel great!Ҕ
10 years from now, when theyre on dialysis from kidney failure or need massive tumors removed, will they be saying the same thing?
Solution: Buy local. Buy organic. Stop buying from chain stores. Filter your water, use reverse osmosis or buy clean drinking water. Plant organic heirloom seeds. Replace mercury fillings. Refuse vaccinations. Research holistic physicians and methods to cure holistically.
7. Education
Our educational system is a complete failure as it basically grooms our children to become corporate economic slaves while discouraging them to ask questions and to follow their own path.
Generally, there has been a DUMBING DOWN in our educational systems because it is not in the controller’s best interests to have a large part of the society QUESTIONING why things are the way they are, nor is it in their best interests for us to come up with better solutions.
College is yet another failure as it generally creates even more economic subservience through student loans that will take a life time to repay.
Solution: Homeschool your children without the state sponsored propaganda. Teach them at a young age to take time out to meditate. Encourage metaphysical abilities within them (or yourself!).
Conclusion
For many people, they will not see or acknowledge the BRAINWASHING and programming that has been occurring throughout the decades and centuries until it is too late. Many will live their lives content as being economic slaves to a broken system.
There are options and solutions. Please watch the video below, Global Unity Project: What The World Need Right Now.
We are at an important juncture in human history. The path we are currently following is unsustainable and will inevitably self-destruct, as it is already doing under its own weight. What we need are solutions and answers, but first, we need to awaken from the collective programming were under and work together to provide solutions in the best interests of humanity.
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