Advanced Placement (AP) Macroeconomics Discussion Board promotes corporate media ‘reporting’ on ‘Climate Change’, and I step in for another battle in this 14-year war

I began this war in 2009 when the US national debt was just a third of what it is today documenting: 

• the mechanics of our “modern” central banks are mathematically certain to cause exponential debt because they are adding negative numbers forever,
• monetary reform and public banking have been argued and proven effective by leading Americans since Ben Franklin wrote that colonial Pennsylvania needed ZERO TAXES when the government is the bank (my published research via The Claremont Colleges),
• when the debt burden becomes too tragic-comic, we can all kiss our assets goodbye.

The AP Macro and College Board “leaderships” witnessed that none of the ~2,000 AP teachers could factually refute any data I offered, or demonstrate any lies of omission, yet threatened to terminate my account if I didn’t stop addressing “current events” not on the AP exam. 

Please take a moment to consider and reflect: our brightest and most academically motivated young men and women’s teachers are forbidden to discuss any data or events not approved by the College Board. 

I discovered the College Board is serious about censorship after my account was terminated without warning in 2012 from the AP US Government Discussion Board for asking colleagues how the ongoing US wars formerly known as “On Terror” were legal given two US treaties after both world wars made war illegal outside a narrow definition of “self-defense.” I was informed that discussing the legality of war is “non-academic,” of “personal nature,” and “unsuitable” for consideration of teachers in a college-level course on government, and given no opportunity to discuss or appeal my termination.

When the AP Macroeconomics Discussion Board Moderator (an economics college professor) promised my termination for raising questions and data not on their exam perhaps 5 years ago, I retreated to only commenting on current events posted by other teachers. With this policy to only discuss abstract test material, the discussions among teachers shriveled. That said, our Discussion Board moderator chose to post this:

The Macroeconomics of Global Climate Change

7/31/23 10:51 AM

Students in the many places with record heat might be intrigued by discussions of the macroeconomics of climate change. Recent research quantifies the effects of this. Climate change is reportedly costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars in lost productivity. This could be a great vehicle for student engagement in class coverage of how changes affect the PPF, AS, AD, and so forth. 

I responded immediately with:

Thank you, David, for opportunity for our teachers and students to consider current macroeconomic events.

"Climate Change" is as controversial as prima facie-illegal "wars for freedom", "The Great Reset" (eat bugs, confiscate farms, "own nothing and be happy"), reneged/ignored "official" promises to end poverty since 1969, "Covid", etc. These policies affect trillions, and with the tragic-comic derivatives market: ~1 quadrillion.

Colleagues, I'm curious: given polling data demonstrate Americans are more likely to conclude corporate media are lying to us than not (trending for over a decade), with former New England Journal of Medicine Chief Editor and Harvard Medical School's Dr. Marcia Angell demonstrating "research" is similarly tainted, how much trust do you give to corporate media reports as David offers via The New York Times? For example, I have personal experience of The New York Times lying and burying their "reporting" to end poverty promised at the largest meeting of heads of state in world history. The costs of such “reporting” and “official” lies include ~ one million children dying from preventable poverty in slow-motion agony every month.

Personally, I stand with Gandhi and Dr. King to withdraw consent. 

Where do you stand?

“For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”  ~ General George Washington, Address to the officers of the Army, March 15, 1783 (Newburg Address) 

Carl Herman

National Board Certified Teacher

National Board Certified Teacher Coach

Carl_Herman@post.harvard.edu

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So far today, there are no further comments on that topic, except one “down vote” to my response. I’ll keep you posted on developments in this battle.

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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 

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