Extreme leadership: Champions of game-changing facts for humanity so fearful & stupefied they’re afraid to look

“If somebody asks them, ‘Why, what evil does he practice or teach?’ they do not know, and cannot tell; but in order that they do not appear to be at a loss, they repeat the ready-made charges which are used against all philosophers about teaching things up in the clouds and under the earth, and having no gods, and making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like to confess that their pretense of knowledge has been detected — which is the truth…”   Plato, Apology of Socrates, 23d

Wise practice and challenging competition produce increasing expertise. Arguably, the most important area to practice and compete is to upgrade living conditions on Earth for a planet dominated by historical rogue state empires annually killing millions, harming billions, and looting trillions (and here).

After 42 years of such practice and competition, these are my current “top 3” conclusions:

• Paradoxically, ordinary humans reject consideration of the most important areas of Life, such as lie-started and Orwellian-illegal (and here) Wars of Aggression, ending poverty, and stopping the looting of trillions of our dollars. Relatively trivial areas such as sports (and here) and entertainment receive tremendous focus, insight, and expertise. Family, friends, and professional colleagues not only reject consideration, but distort data, and invent ad hominem stories to attack messengers such as you and I (psychological projection and cognitive dissonance). Given my professional interactions with educators, I estimate the US population awake to US rogue state empire as ~1 million (1 person for every ~300).
• Given an apparently impossible environment within which to communicate our most important Truths, I interact with humans regarding what they find important, and contribute Truths that intersect with their areas of interest. Sometimes this shorter distance between others’ interests/competence with Truth sparks awakening. Regardless of others’ responses, I personally must continue learning and “teaching” as best I can given apparent ongoing emergency of several planetary destructions crushing lives of all species. Also, this path is my current best to experience and express virtue for everyone’s benefit, especially my own.
• Our passion for Truth and Justice is mitigated by recognition that we humans are not planetary management, but guests born ignorant into these Hellish conditions. And apparently, we have very limited power to upgrade planetary conditions (consider my story working up to two UN summits for heads of state). The Revolution on Earth seems at four levels relative to Americans: exposing US rogue state empire, exposing global empires among “former” colonial powers, advanced civilizations operating occultly (historic and likely current), and cosmic revolution regarding allowing the robust and dominating evil we have on Earth (analogous to allowing a body to become so unhealthy that such parasites thrive).

These working conclusions exist within a context of trusting Life’s management (God or gods) to be loving and just; that is, Life on Earth is the best imagined response by superior beings to address some kind of evolutionary “problem” allowing evil conditions we perceive. Paradoxically, this also points to Cosmic Revolution because messengers such as you and I do not like our work, even as we must accept the reality that Earth was given to evil control. That is, God allowed conditions for the possibility of the extreme evil we find on Earth. Importantly, my own dislike of living in this type of Hell is relative, as I appreciate receiving relative “riches” for humans, and appreciate higher perspectives than human somehow chose this incarnation. 

Let’s briefly consider these three points and context.

Humans as mind-controlled minions/sheeple

sheeple: compression of two words, sheep and people, meaning an ignorant, unoriginal human herd mindlessly following .01% masters.

I’ve considered the topic of humans as sheeple before.

If We the People are to reclaim freedom, ordinary people must become aware of at least the fundamental crimes of the Empire class (fully documented below). Despite the enormous and constant costs of Empire in lives, taxes, and domestic freedom, ordinary people do not recognize the lies and crimes, despite Emperor’s New Clothes obviousness. 

Ordinary people discern leadership for marginal improvements of what they recognize and are allowed by corporate media to discuss, such as “launch angle” for baseball hitting, improvements in CGI for video games and movies, backup cameras for cars, but not to end global poverty, end lie-started and Orwellian-illegal Wars of Aggression, monetary/credit reform to save the average US household literally ~$1,000,000, or even the King Family civil trial with verdict the US government assassinated Martin because of the overwhelming evidence. Martin's assassination is particularly ironic for me as a school teacher, for ~half our teachers have quotes and/or pictures of Martin in their classrooms, but none, zip, zero have responded to I believe three all-staff email invites (up to the district level regarding celebrations of Dr. King) regarding school activities connected to Martin and Black History Month.

Rather than ask questions about game-changing factual claims, ordinary people attack those pointing to objective data even if the evidence is overwhelming. It seems that part of evil’s control over Earth includes some kind of manipulation to cause people to tune-out and/or defend their dictators. 

We the Relatively Awake have constant choices and opportunities to engage with ordinary people regarding factual claims. After 42 years’ experimentation with this opening, I’ve found that I must retreat from topics too sensitive for friends and family, or they will choose their false beliefs over factual inquiry and relationship with me. That is, they will reject facts and my company rather than reject their false beliefs. This is cognitive dissonance. The verbal attacks we receive are projections of their own fallacies.

So how should we respond to this condition of Hell on Earth that’s only possible because people can’t/won’t see it?

Intellectual integrity and moral courage for Truth

Personally, I must learn the truth to satisfy my sense of integrity. I must speak the truth when those topics are open, at least in offering to check for interest. It’s self-evident we must lead by personal example.

The benefits include feeling whole, contributing important data that at least encourages other awake individuals, and perhaps required groundwork if we are meant to win Earth from evil rule.

The costs include the definition of leadership that going first means relatively nobody else is with you, only being appreciated once for every ~300 reactions of fear and attack, and being generally viewed from various psychological projections of vice that include being labeled as:

• naive, 
• irrational, 
• believing in factless claims (conspiracy theories), etc.

My personal story is an example I’m especially familiar with. The contrast between the positive responses one would expect versus the negative responses I actually receive seems an excellent case study to demonstrate this human predicament.

The attacks I receive as a professional educator are truly ironic. To place these costs in context, share necessary data to best appreciate the case study, and make clear that even under apparently optimal circumstances our chances of success seem small, among the tools I bring as a teacher:

• Degrees from Berkeley and Harvard.
• National Board Certification and certified Coach for Candidates.
• Credentials in two subjects (Social Science and Mathematics).
• Honored by two Los Angeles Mayors for being among the best teachers among in Central L.A. (~20,000 teacher population)
• Voted by students as their favorite teacher at the school more times than not when those votes were held.
• Decades of anonymous student surveys at semester-end with an average grade of my teaching as “A+” including the most heart-warming appreciation for finally receiving a teacher offering important information rather than stupefying disconnected and irrelevant factoids.
• Currently teaching algebra at a school and district where each and every other algebra teacher fails ~50% of students (average class GPA of ~1.00), my students perform on peer-reviewed and approved assessments with ~90% passing and usual class GPA of 3.00 (in good-faith estimation comparing “apples to apples” by subtracting students from data with 50%+ truancies).
• The comparative GPA data of 3.00 to 1.00 seems to show my teaching algebra produces learning over three standard deviations above the mean for the school, and over four for the district; that is, my average student produces correct test answers at the ~99.9th percentile of expected results for the school and ~99.99th for the district.
• Four standard deviations above the mean seems to demonstrate my teaching as one in ~10,000 for expected results, which in ballpark figures for California’s teacher total of ~275,000 to include ~100,000 high school teachers with ~10,000 total math teachers should communicate extraordinary expertise.
• Real-world applications as among the leaders of a citizens’ lobby for ending poverty that led to two UN summits for heads of state. A UNICEF Executive Director told us our lobby work was saving ~1,000,000 children's lives every year, and our microcredit work has likely saved over 200 million lives since we began (topic of Nobel Peace Prize in 2007). 
• Contributing to creating and delivering ~300 policy briefs for Members of Congress, academic experts, committed organizations for ending poverty.
• Published research by The Claremont Colleges with several invitations from other leading research universities to present or submit papers.
• Leadership among ~2,000 Advanced Placement teachers of US Government and Macroeconomics to connect curriculum to real-world events never refuted for factual accuracy.

Despite having results literally more impressive than imaginable, here are among my costs to date:

• Being fired four times with a fifth attempt apparently active requiring legal representation (“non re-elected” in the first two years in a district means fired without cause). I believe our .01% opponents were involved in four of these cases to direct my removals, and with unquestioning ordinary humans following their orders to remove a “wacky teacher,” despite all above data to the contrary.
• Fired from a district after my first year despite Seniors voting me as the teacher contributing most to their four years of high school education and tied for the most votes with one other teacher), and fired so illegally the district was forced to pay me a year’s salary in compensation. This particular principal (former art and science teacher) told me my work with US Government students' class presentations was wrong: my experience delivering ~300 policy briefs to Congress was irrelevant to her opinion that the proper class presentation was to spur class argument over which polar position (pro or con) was "right."
• Fired after demonstrating to a high school history text author my “top 10 list” of factual errors hiding American Empire. The author chose not to address any factual claims documented on my list, but to focus on ad hominem characterizations of my teaching as “immature.”
• Fired from the high school I graduated from, ironically as I was Senior Class President, Valedictorian, winner of the award to the student giving the most in community service, 3-sport athlete, the top performing student on JPL’s math test to search for future scientists, and the only Sophomore ever invited to the Advanced Acting class. I was hired by a former teacher of mine specifically to teach Advanced Placement US Government and Economics given my experience (see above) but admonished to “never teach current events” (I did and was fired).
• Fired from a middle school teaching algebra despite outperforming the district’s “teacher of the year” on district-created unit exams. The reason given was the evaluator’s subjective opinions that “students aren’t learning” were more credible than the objective data everyone previously aligned was the first place to look to determine teaching effectiveness (the principal’s personal request to keep me as one of his teachers was declined).
• These four firings were despite dressing professionally (usually the only male wearing business clothes with tie Monday through Thursday), never being absent most years (many teachers take 5-10 “mental health days”/year), timely completion of paperwork, always volunteering to advise clubs, always volunteering for school leadership positions, and cheerful disposition.
• In the economic environment of districts and teachers' unions scrambling for money, all parties refuse to meet with me to be briefed on published research from The Claremont Colleges of monetary reform and public banking that would fully fund public education (and all infrastructure). At my current district these parties include: math department chair (and union VP), teachers' union president, district superintendent, district assistant superintendent for finance, district school board, county department of education, and state union officials. And yes, they know the information is published research, that I helped drive policy leading to two UN summits for heads of state, that ~2,000 Advanced Placement Economics teachers have found zero refutations of the data over 10 years of my sharing, and that I promise all data easily understood if I could have about 20 minutes of their professional attention.
• At my current district suffering 50% failing algebra students, my invitations to lead a project for upgraded teaching and learning as literally the one and only teacher performing at an inspirational level of 90% passing peer-reviewed tests have all been rejected. These rejecting parties include: school principal, math department chair, fellow algebra teachers, district assistant superintendent for instruction, and district "principal of the principals." In fact, the principal found cause to discipline me, and included in his communication that my work has been "below standards" since I arrived. The same principal admitted that the data seems to show my algebra students learning at ~99.99th percentile of expected results.
• Because I demonstrate the so-called "real-world problems" in our 1,200 page algebra text are contrived lies to measure trivia that nobody actually performs, and therefore "anti-math" because we who apply mathematics do so to improve performance in areas we're passionate for, this has caused at least two teachers of math to complain to the principal that I teach "math is irrelevant." The principal emailed me to demand I "stop teaching math is irrelevant" without inquiry. And yes, all these people know that I've applied math to quantify vital aspects of poverty that helped two UN summits for heads of state, have published research in economics, and am the only algebra teacher in the district not failing half the students (and with tests they viewed and approved).

My full analysis of public education as bullshit to stupefy our children for lives as work animals is here (video interview with Professor Jim Fetzer here).

Not to put too fine a point on this, but I see the playing field people reference of “dying for others’ sins”, and pathways whereby Martin King and others were assassinated by our .01% opponents when all other attempts to marginalize fail. My “career assassinations” are perhaps a blessing to avoid actual assassination if my messages were better received.

My teaching colleagues do not want to discuss our subject fields with me. Their responses are an odd mix of respect for my obvious professionalism, knowledge, and real-world applications, along with almost total avoidance to discuss anything for which they are academically trained, professionally experienced, and likely personally passionate for having chosen the area for college study and career expression. 

Administrators admit my results are outstanding according to test data, student survey data, and real-world applications, yet decline to consider any projects to improve the normalized emergency of literally half our high school students failing algebra. 

My best explanation of what I experience is that my colleagues perceive me analogous to a ranting "conspiracy theorist" attacking the walls and doors to our collective US home, the best place on Earth. They see me as delusional even with my pointing out the windows to peace and beauty, pointing inside to the constant torturing and killing, and my willingness to debate anyone challenging the factual accuracy of my claims. Other analogies are The Emperor's New Clothes and Plato's Allegory of the Cave if the puppet masters were demons. 

Rene Descartes well-expressed what I experience. He is considered the founder of modern philosophy, the founder of analytical geometry (which led to calculus), and a founder of the Scientific Revolution. Descartes was well-known in his age, and highly controversial. His work was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633, and his books put on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1663. The University of Utrecht condemned his work in 1643, where he had previously taught. How Rene saw sheeple:

“But now, after having once and for all put to the test the judgments of men, I here again approach these same questions regarding God and the human mind, and at the same time treat the beginnings of the whole of first philosophy, but in such a way that I have no expectation of approval from the vulgar and no wide audience of readers. Rather, I am an author to none who read these things but those who seriously meditate with me, who have the ability and the desire to withdraw their mind from the senses and at the same time from all prejudices. Such people I know all too well to be few and far between. As to those who do not take care to comprehend the order and series of my reasons but eagerly dispute over single conclusions by themselves, as is the custom for many-those, I say, will derive little benefit from a reading of this treatise; and although perhaps they might find an occasion for quibbling in many spots, still it is not an easy matter for them to raise an objection that is either compelling or worthy of response.”  ~ Meditations on First Philosophy, 1641, “Preface to the Reader”

Our .01% opponents have been extraordinarily successful to condition humans to act like sheeple, with my best efforts apparently in near-total failure to achieve my intended Emperor’s New Clothes breakthrough to see the most obvious realities parading nakedly for all who care to look. This, despite work among professionals committed to improvement in exactly the areas addressed.

So it seems Life tests us if we value virtue more than lies. It might be that the tests include forms of “being fired” for standing with virtue and/or rejecting obvious lies. It might be there is no way to pass these tests except by “being fired” enough times for us to at least accept and anticipate this as an expected part of the game.

That all said, humans are NOT Earth management, just guests, so we are only responsible for personal integrity

Humans are blank-slated when born: zero memory of who we were before birth (some remember), needing to learn everything, and unaware of the conditions of evil and bleating sheeple. 

Obviously, humans exist at some level far below planetary management.

Therefore, we are not responsible for anything more than our personal thoughts, words, and actions. We the awake seem placed on Earth in so few numbers that we only offer powerless choice to victimized sheeple, who seem too powerfully programmed to do much more than deny and deflect our offers.

If one trusts Life/God, then there is zero fear or concern with this condition. If one lacks trust in Life/God, then there is always concern regarding evil’s domination over Earth in past, present, and future. 

Paradoxically, one can take the position I’ve evolved into: taking actions in good-faith effort to awaken humanity to the option of a world that works for everyone, while having zero attachment to any virtuous outcomes. In fact, it’s possible to totally trust Life/God while witnessing personal outcomes on the scale of the story of Jesus: being a better human than imaginable, having personal superpowers, activism against invading Roman empire with sycophant local religious surrender, and thereby causing the sycophants to defend their hypocrisy with bullshit, the government to convict for treason, the disciples to reject Jesus, and the sheeple to vote freedom for a murderer rather than keep Jesus alive. 

It’s just a story, but a powerful one that might tell truth of what happens on Earth if one chooses truth, love, and justice.

Socrates’ trial is a story, and closer to what historians are comfortable as factual. Socrates was a decorated military veteran, defended constitutional rule in the “Trial of the Generals,” pointed out official hypocrisies their state was for “freedom” while demanding tribute from “allies” or being put to death, declared the “most wise” by an honored Oracle from the Gods, focused on subjects so important and timely that the failure to address caused a 27 year civil war with Sparta, and tireless in his patriotism and love for humanity. This outstanding civic leadership was still rejected even after Athens lost the civil war that Socrates attempted to prevent, with his presence such a reminder of civic failure that the sheeple voted his guilt for essentially “teaching seditious lies” to children and attacking the Gods protecting Athenians. The citizens voted that Socrates’ voice must be silenced through execution.

These are two examples of such stories about sheeple rejecting and silencing virtuous leaders addressing the most important topics. Perhaps there is truth here: humans must be willing to die for virtue in order to graduate beyond the earthly human experience. Perhaps this is the point of being human: to choose either virtue or evil, or if failing to see the difference such as Earth’s ordinary humans, to remain at the human level of existence for however many incarnations needed to see and choose.

Americans must grow-up to demand .01% arrests

“It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behavior. Robbers of the world, having by universal plunder exhausted the land, their drive is greed. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if poor, they lust for domination. Neither rule of the East nor West can satisfy them. Alone among men, they crave with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To plunder, slaughter, seize with false pretenses, they give the lying name ‘empire.’ And where nothing remains but a desert, they call that ‘peace.’ ” 

~ Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania (analyses here, here)

The United States is the most dangerous illegal rogue state empire in human history. Among the damning facts:

• People around the world view the US as the greatest threat to peace; voted three  times more dangerous than any other country.
• Since WW2, Earth has had 248 armed conflicts. The US started 201 of them.
• These US armed attacks have killed ~30 million and counting; 90% of these deaths are innocent children, the elderly and ordinary working civilian women and men (and here). The US has war-murdered more than Hitler’s Nazis.
• The total deaths caused by rogue state empire for resource control (natural and human) in the last 20 years is over 400 million, more than all total wars and violence in all recorded Earth history.
• The annual number of poverty deaths is equal in volume to a Freedom Tower in NYC. “Leaders” of “developed” nations have promised the end of poverty since 1969. Better read that again, and reflect on its meaning of what kind of “leaders” we have in the “developed” world.
• Since Operation O.I.L. (Operation Iraqi Liberation; yes, that was the oligarchs’ first name), 2.4 million Iraqis have been killed as a direct consequence. 

The US is arguably worse in corruption, psychopathy, and causing misery than tragic-comic Roman Emperors. Such “leaders” certainly have the greater capacity to harm.

As a National Board Certified Teacher in History, Government, and Economics, I factually assert that rogue state empire is the most accurate description of the US. But don’t believe me (or anyone); look for yourself in professionally thoroughly documented writing, this peer-reviewed and published paper, this White Paper circulated among Members of Congress, or this 56-minute interview to define rogue state empire with three case studies:

You don't need further data than the above, and that said, there's more in abundance:

• When Americans are told an election is defined by touching a computer screen without a countable receipt that can be verified, they are being told a criminal lie to allow election fraud. This is self-evident, but Princeton, Stanford, and the President of the American Statistical Association are among the leaders pointing to the obvious (and here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here). Again, no professional would/can argue an election is legitimate when there is nothing for anyone to count. The facts show Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Primary election, and claims by Democratic “leadership” of Russian election “meddling” are without factual documentation.
• US military now illegally occupy eight bases in Syria (and here), with escalating bombing of Syria and Iraq of over 4,000 bombs/month, and over 84,000 since 2014. The US acknowledges ~500 civilian deaths from these bombs, with independent count of ~750 just in June 2017, and causing the worst war-destruction since Vietnam.
• Among dozens of independent writers, I’ve documented that all “reasons” for wars on Iran, Syria, and Russia are easily proved lies (recently, here, here, here, and going back to 2005), with US Department of illegal Wars of Aggression (so-called “Defense”) claiming to have “lost” $65,000 for every US household.
• US ongoing lie-started and Orwellian-illegal Wars of Aggression require all US military and government to refuse all war orders because there are no lawful orders for obviously unlawful wars. Officers are required to arrest those who issue obviously unlawful orders. And again, those of us working for this area of justice are aware of zero attempts to refute this with, “War law states (a, b, c), so the wars are legal because (d, e, f).” All we receive is easy-to-reveal bullshit.
• The destruction of nearly all rights lawfully guaranteed in the US Bill of Rights within the US Constitution, and in Orwellian inversion of limited government. 
• Corporate media are criminally complicit through constant lies of omission and commission to “cover” all these crimes. Historic tragic-comic empire is only possible through such straight-face lying, making our Emperor’s New Clothesanalogy perfectly chosen. Propagandizing Americans is supported by US intelligence "leaders" and "experts" to manipulate public opinion for illegal war (and here).
• The top three benefits each of monetary reform and public banking total ~$1,000,000 for the average American household, and would be received nearly instantly. Please read that twice and imagine the connection between having a rogue state empire to enrich an oligarchy combined with internal financial manipulation to maximize those parasitical riches. Now look to verify for yourself.
• Iran has never threatened to “wipe Israel off the map” and only has IAEA-verified legal energy and medicine programs with nuclear materials. Trump and corporate media continues and escalates easily-verified lies to threaten more illegal war on Iran.
• Israel engages in lie-started and illegal War of Aggression on Gaza; ironically the largest concentration camp in world history. This is also easy to verify.

Categories of crime include:

1. Wars of Aggression (the worst crime a nation can commit).
2. Likely treason for lying to US military, ordering unlawful attack and invasions of foreign lands, and causing thousands of US military deaths.
3. Crimes Against Humanity for ongoing intentional policy of poverty that’s killed over 400 million human beings just since 1995 (~75% children; more deaths than from all wars in Earth’s recorded history).

US military, law enforcement, and all with Oaths to support and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, face an endgame choice:

• Demand arrests, with those with lawful authority to enact it. An arrest is the lawful action to stop apparent crimes, with the most serious crimes documented here meaning the most serious need for arrests.
• Watch the US escalate its rogue state crimes that annually kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions.

In just 90 seconds, former US Marine Ken O’Keefe powerfully states how you may choose to voice “very obvious solutions”: arrest the criminal leaders (video starts at 20:51, then finishes this episode of Cross Talk):

3-minute video: Police, Military – Was your Oath sincere?

I make all factual assertions as a National Board Certified Teacher of US Government, Economics, and History (also credentialed in Mathematics), with all economic factual claims receiving zero refutation since I began writing in 2008 among Advanced Placement Macroeconomics teachers on our discussion board, public audiences of these articles, and international conferences (and here). I invite readers to empower their civic voices with the strongest comprehensive facts most important to building a brighter future. I challenge professionals, academics, and citizens to add their voices for the benefit of all Earth’s inhabitants.

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Carl Herman worked with both US political parties over 18 years and two UN Summits with the citizen’s lobby, RESULTS, for US domestic and foreign policy to end poverty. He can be reached at Carl_Herman@post.harvard.edu

Note: My work from 2012 to October, 2017 is on Washington’s Blog. Work back to 2009 is blocked by Examiner.com (and from other whistleblowers), so some links to those essays are blocked. If you’d like to search for those articles other sites may have republished, use words from the article title within the blocked link. Or, go to http://archive.org/web/, paste the expired link into the box, click “Browse history,” then click onto the screenshots of that page for each time it was screen-shot and uploaded to webarchive (blocked author pages: here, here).