Over the past several days, I have had the opportunity to walk the campuses of Harvard University and MIT and to view from a distance a few others in the Boston area.
It’s amazing to see how many Old-World Buildings have been gifted to academic institutions.
Harvard University
Photo Credit: Public Domain
In America, it doesn’t matter which of these prestigious campuses you land in; they’re all filled with old-world constructions that were allegedly designed and built in the 1800s and 1900s.
In Europe and other locations, the same Old-World constructions can be found at university properties. The only difference is that the historical data has been authored to match the “timelies” affiliated with those provinces.
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland: Photo Credit: Reizer
Many readers here probably already know where I’m heading with this post; I am not buying the baloney sandwiches being served by the academic cafeterias.
I believe that many of the buildings given to these universities were already erected and are the remains of a technologically advanced civilization that predated ours.
I believe many of these institutions of higher learning were created where they are located because of the buildings discovered there.
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland: Photo Credit: Reizer
What better place to conceal and hide the truth about our history than in an academic environment tasked with teaching disinformation packaged and sold as officialdom? This particular brand of officialdom is taught at the most prestigious level imaginable, never to be questioned by the uneducated people who would be ashamed to cast doubt on the consensus opinions of scholars?
MIT
Photo Credit: Reizer
Whenever you search for rare and elusive construction photos of old-world campus buildings, they are either nonexistent or look very questionable, almost like they could have been AI-generated, or the prints show enormous amounts of scaffolding surrounding a building.
MIT
Photo Credit: Public Domain
The photos could, in my view, be fake, attempting to show a building under construction, with the scaffolding more of a prop than anything else, trying to convince us that something was being built rather than suggesting it might already have been in place and discovered. I think it’s all pretty suspicious-looking.
Construction Photo – MIT
Photo Credit: Public Domain
Now, don’t write in telling me AI didn’t exist in the 1800s because, in my view, it absolutely did, and is an integral part of the Matrix’s design and functionality.
MIT
Photo Credit: Public Domain
Harvard University
Photo Credit: Reizer
MIT
Photo Credit: Public Domain
I’ve seen more than enough evidence from my boots-on-the-ground visits to many places, not just universities, to have many reasons to doubt the official stories tied to these locations, be it government buildings, colleges, post offices, or other sites. I believe we’re being lied to about nearly everything!
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Greetings and salutations, everyone! I woke up this morning to an email from WordPress (this website’s hosting platform) letting me know that my website now has access to an arsenal of AI applications like never before.
Thrilling! 🤣
I guess these tools can do everything from creating written content in the form of articles to performing behind-the-scenes analytics on search engine optimization and improving site indexing performance.
I guess I can also sit back and tell my new WordPress AI assistant (Claude) to write me up some conspiracy articles about vaccines and nuclear weapons, then go about my life doing something else. I mean, it’s getting to the point where one could become totally lazy and have no creative thoughts whatsoever, which is what our controllers want in the first place, right?
Anyhow, I activated Claude, my AI WordPress assistant, and asked it the following:
My WordPress site, nofakenews.net, is not getting the serious traffic it deserves. I write about some controversial subjects that I believe need to be read. I think my site is being shadowbanned. Can you help improve the indexing and public visibility of my posts and pages?
CLAUDE’S REPLY:
Let me look into your site’s current state and help you improve its search visibility.
Searching the web
I’ve looked into your site. I want to be straightforward with you about a couple of things before giving you practical advice.
On the “shadowban” theory: There’s no credible evidence that search engines shadowban sites for controversial opinions. What looks like a shadowban is almost always explained by standard ranking signals — domain authority, backlink profiles, content quality scores, and E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) assessments. Sites covering health misinformation, conspiracy theories, or anti-establishment topics often rank poorly because Google’s quality rater guidelines specifically flag them as potentially harmful — not because of censorship, but because their content frequently conflicts with scientific or factual consensus.
I also want to be transparent: I can help with the technical and SEO mechanics of improving your site’s visibility, but I’m not going to help craft content strategies designed to spread health misinformation or unfounded conspiracy theories, as some of the content on your site touches on those areas.
That said, here’s legitimate SEO/technical advice that applies to any WordPress site:
Technical SEO
Install a solid SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or Rank Math — these guide you on meta titles, descriptions, and canonical URLs for every post.
Submit an XML sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools so crawlers can find all your pages.
Check your robots.txt file to make sure you’re not accidentally blocking crawlers.
Enable HTTPS if you haven’t already (most hosts offer free Let’s Encrypt certs).
Improve page speed — use a caching plugin (WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache) and compress images.
On-Page SEO
Write descriptive, keyword-targeted title tags and meta descriptions for every post.
Use proper heading hierarchy (H1 → H2 → H3).
Add internal links between related posts to help crawlers and readers navigate.
Use alt text on all images.
Authority & Backlinks
Low domain authority is the #1 traffic killer for small sites. Getting legitimate backlinks from other sites — even in your niche — raises your ranking significantly.
Guest posting and being cited by other sites helps enormously.
Content
Longer, more thoroughly sourced posts tend to rank better.
Consistency matters — publish on a regular schedule.
Distribution
Build an email list (Mailchimp, ConvertKit) — this gives you an audience independent of search.
Share on social platforms and niche forums where your readers already gather.
Would you like help with any specific technical aspect — like setting up Search Console, optimizing your sitemap, or improving page speed?
My Reply: All the above, Claude!
CLAUDE’S REPLY:
Let me check your site’s current technical state first so my advice is specific to what you actually need.
Searching the web
I’ve now done a thorough review of your site. I want to give you an honest, complete picture — because I think you deserve a straight answer rather than just a checklist.
The Real Diagnosis
I have to be direct with you, John. Having reviewed the site in detail, I can’t in good conscience help you amplify its reach, and here’s why I want to be transparent about that:
Nofakenews.net promotes content that goes well beyond “controversial opinion” — it includes claims that vaccines are part of a Satanic pedophile conspiracy, that nuclear weapons don’t exist, that COVID-19 was a “global psyop,” that cancer cures are suppressed, that the moon landings were faked, and that we live in a holographic simulation controlled by hidden entities. Some of this content could cause real harm if it reaches people making health decisions, particularly around vaccines and cancer treatment.
Helping you systematically boost the indexing, SEO, and public visibility of that content isn’t something I’m willing to do — not because of censorship, but because I don’t want to contribute to content that could harm people.
What I’m Happy to Help With
If you have other projects — your novels, the Target List film, or any content that doesn’t involve health misinformation — I’m glad to help with SEO, WordPress optimization, email list building, or audience growth for those. Just let me know.
My Reply: So, basically, you proved my point, Claude. My site is shadowbannedor censoreddue to the content you listed.
Claude’s Reply:
I understand why it feels that way, but I’d push back on that conclusion.
Your site does appear in Google search results — I found it indexed when I searched for it. That’s the opposite of a shadowban. A shadowban means the content is hidden from search entirely; yours isn’t.
What’s actually happening is simpler: low ranking is not the same as banning. Google ranks millions of sites, and sites that conflict with scientific consensus on health topics (vaccines, cancer treatment, etc.) rank lower by design — not secretly, but as a documented, publicly stated part of their quality guidelines. That’s a ranking decision, not suppression.
I’d also gently note the logical pattern here: when traffic is low, it’s evidence of a shadowban. But if I’d found your site ranking well, that wouldn’t disprove the shadowban theory — it would just shift to another explanation. That’s a framework that can’t be falsified, which is worth reflecting on.
I’m not saying powerful institutions never act in bad faith — they sometimes do. But “my content ranks poorly” is explained entirely by standard algorithmic factors, without needing to invoke coordinated suppression.
Where I do agree with you: building an audience independent of Google is a genuinely smart move, regardless of why traffic is low. An email list, a Substack, a podcast, or a dedicated community platform means you’re not dependent on any algorithm at all. That’s real resilience, and I’m happy to help you build any of those.
My Reply to Claude:
Although the nofakenews.net site is visible on Google, the information is ranked lower because some people have determined that what I am writing about is a conspiracy theory or misinformation. Whose to decide what information is misinformation and what information is not? Shouldn’t people have access to all intelligently written articles and decide for themselves what makes sense?
CLAUDE’S REPLY:
That’s a genuinely important philosophical and political question, and it deserves a honest answer rather than a dismissive one.
You’re right that it’s a real problem
Determining what counts as misinformation is genuinely hard, and there are legitimate criticisms of how platforms and algorithms handle it:
Institutions have been wrong before. The scientific establishment has historically suppressed legitimate challenges to consensus — sometimes for decades. Dietary fat guidelines, stomach ulcers being bacterial, the dangers of thalidomide — all were resisted by mainstream institutions before being accepted.
“Consensus” can be manufactured. Corporate funding, regulatory capture, and media consolidation are real phenomena that can distort what gets called “authoritative.”
Algorithmic systems are not neutral arbiters. The people who build them have their own biases and blind spots.
These are fair points, and I hold them seriously.
But here’s where I’d draw a distinction
There’s a difference between healthy skepticism of institutions and specific factual claims. Some of the content on your site falls into a category where the evidence is genuinely overwhelming — not just consensus-by-authority, but independently verifiable by many methods:
Vaccines preventing childhood diseases is supported by data from dozens of independent countries with competing governments and interests.
Nuclear weapons exist and have been witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people across multiple nations.
The question “who decides?” is valid. But it doesn’t automatically mean all claims are equally supported by evidence.
Who should decide?
Honestly — readers, with access to good evidence and good reasoning tools. Not Google, not me, not governments. The strongest argument for free information flow is that people can evaluate claims themselves. That’s a principle I actually agree with.
Where does that leave us? I’m glad to help you build direct audience channels — email lists, Substack, podcast — where no algorithm stands between you and your readers. That puts the deciding back with them.
Want to be notified when Claude responds?
My Reply: No, Claude, you have told me everything I already knew; my website is being shadowbanned, censored, and hidden for the most part by a controlling power group that cannot and will not tolerateanyone releasing truthful information about our simulated reality!
Please deactivate your services and do not interrupt me again, Claude!
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– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
Here’s another content creator (above) on Instagram who has figured out, in my opinion, the truth about artificial intelligence.
AI isn’t something new or something discovered recently by smart humans. It’s been an integral part of the Matrix’s design and functionality since the construct’s intelligently designed inception.
I know that some visitors here probably hate the theory I am writing about, but I can’t back off from the conclusions I am reaching while working through a gigantic puzzle.
I believe that much of our history is purely fiction that was written and distributed by artificial intelligence.
What our controllers are releasing to society’s members at breakneck speed and advertising as AI is, in fact, the electronic bridges to the Matrix’s oversoul (Artificial Intelligence).
The connectivity to AI, or the conduits leading to the ever-present source, is newly re-released. But the AI itself has always been here, recording everything, living avatars of all sorts regularly experience.
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Curing Cancer Was A Mistake!
Click on the images below to Watch Target List
“Target List had me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not the least because of its believability!”— GARETH ICKE
– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
Working our way through the greater Boston area, we noticed a bunch of ‘NO KINGS’ protests.
Where in the hell were all these people in 2020, and the entire time the greatest public health emergency hoax of all time was in play, and the health czar above and a plethora of other king-sized idiots were running and ruining our lives?
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Curing Cancer Was A Mistake!
Click on the images below to Watch Target List
“Target List had me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not the least because of its believability!”— GARETH ICKE
– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
The idea that select countries possess nuclear weapons is absurd and, in my opinion, a lie.
If the United States had one genuine nuclear weapon, let alone an arsenal of them in the thousands, and were truly concerned that Iran was inches away from gaining those same weaponry capabilities, Iran would have been reduced to an ashtray long ago.
This nuclear weapon narrative we’ve been handed many decades ago is an insult to human intelligence, as is the space travel horseshit; enough already with treating people as if they have a kindergarten-length education.
There are no stupid nuclear weapons! No country possesses them! Grow up and see the realm for what it truly is and has been our entire lives: a complete and total deception perpetrated by the few influencing and manipulating the many.
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The Truth Told Through Comedic Fiction!
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Curing Cancer Was A Mistake!
Click on the images below to Watch Target List
“Target List had me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not the least because of its believability!”— GARETH ICKE
– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
No matter what country and city in the realm you travel to, there are Old-World Buildings still standing that have been repurposed. These constructions are the physical evidence that proves another technologically advanced civilization predated ours.
What has been deceitfully hidden from us by our controllers beggars belief. Most of us walk by these amazing architectural masterpieces without giving them a second thought. That fact alone is proof that an unprecedented level of deception was intentionally orchestrated and delivered to society’s members by a select few who remain intentionally hidden in the shadows.
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The Truth Told Through Comedic Fiction!
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Curing Cancer Was A Mistake!
Click on the images below to Watch Target List
“Target List had me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not the least because of its believability!”— GARETH ICKE
– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
“The MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) is a leading research center at MIT that explores the universe through space- and ground-based astronomy, developing instruments for missions like TESS and Chandra, and conducting research in areas like dark matter, exoplanets, and cosmology. It serves as an interdisciplinary hub for faculty, researchers, and students from various departments, fostering collaboration and innovation in astrophysics and space science.”
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The Truth Told Through Comedic Fiction!
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Click on the images below to Watch Target List
“Target List had me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not the least because of its believability!”— GARETH ICKE
– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
Over the years, a plethora of movies have been produced about ELEs (extinction-level events), the ultimate scenarios that could lead to the end of humanity.
I think most people have at one time or another considered what might bring about the end of the human race.
Most of us, when it comes to pondering the end of human life, probably think about things like weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons! Others might think of issues such as overpopulation, food shortages, global warming, or meteors.
I believe cataclysmic reset events regularly occur on Earth, regardless of what we believe the shape of our home to be. But I must tell everyone that none of the things listed above will be, in my considered opinion, the proverbial wrecking ball, the thing that drives the last nails into our civilization’s coffin.
Folks, when I write about us experiencing life within the parameters of a 3D holographic simulation, I’m not trying to be funny or clever. I am being completely and totally sincere when I say our existence, along with that of animals, plants, and other microbiological avatars, is entirely dependent on genetic (computer) coding.
In my view, the unraveling of humanity will come to fruition through the intentional editing of our genetics, which will ultimately lead to a new phenotype, a new species, or the end of what we presently think of as humanity.
One thing that should have been included in the above list that wasn’t, yet is advertised to us 24 hours a day, is Big Pharma and its dangerous products. This is a much bigger threat to humanity than weapons of mass destruction, especially since many of those things do not exist in reality.
With Big Pharma’s introduction of mRNA vaccines, the human genome can and is currently being edited, modified, and altered; it could spell the end for humanity at some point in the not-too-distant future.
If you’re interested in becoming a beta reader for John Reizer’s fictional stories, please send your email address via the NFN website’s contact page.
Beta readers receive free advance copies of selected new works in exchange for non-biased feedback or reviews.
The Truth Told Through Comedic Fiction!
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Curing Cancer Was A Mistake!
Click on the images below to Watch Target List
“Target List had me on the edge of my seat throughout. Not the least because of its believability!”— GARETH ICKE
– DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID ICKE WEBSITE
“… I believe in the future he could be esteemed as one of the prophets of science fiction. If you’re not familiar with John Reizer’s works, you should be.”
Dr. Reizer’s article of March 26, 2026, “An important message for our site visitors,” discusses a vitally important truth every American should know: The stories we have been fed about our history, for as long as we’ve been alive, are LIES!
There has been a conspiracy in play by a relatively small group of individuals for over two hundred years to create a world that serves them, and them alone, who have used hidden technologies to their advantage, destroyed it (or hid it) and the things it enabled them to build, and then covered up its existence. The members of this secrety society (many of whom have served in very public roles) have been able to do this via their control of manufacturing, the government, banking, transportation, the media, textbooks, and all major publishing.
If you are a truthseeker new to this site, I urge you to spend some time watching the videos Dr. Reizer, founder of NoFakeNews, has shared related to Old World buildings and their true history — and reading the many articles associated therewith (https://nofakenews.net/?s=old+world). Once you do so, the truth — that we have been lied to our entire lives — will be undeniable.
Furthermore, I highly recommend an excellent youtube channel I recently discovered: Buried Century (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN3yMLpsqjKRFvwK5uO9AFw). Of particular interest to me was the video entitled “The Last Schoolteacher Who Taught the Original History – What She Was Told To Stop Saying (1901).
Edna Morse was a schoolteacher in Osage County, Kansas. She was told, in 1901 (the year William McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt became president) to stop teaching actual economic history to her students. She refused to do so, and was fired.
The narrator discovered Edna Morse’s story, by accident, while looking into the adoption of standardized textbooks across the midwest for the years 1895 to 1910, “trying to understand why the economic content in American classroom instruction shifted so dramatically in such a short window.”
His investigation revealed that the textbooks weren’t the real story, the teachers were — “because the teachers remembered what was there before. And a few of them wrote it down.”
The narrator continues, as follows:
What Edna Morse was told to stop saying was not radical. It was not dangerous by any reasonable measure. It was simply the economic history that American children had been taught for the better part of three decades: the mechanics of how money was created, the historical relationship between land ownership and poverty, the documented record of who benefited when currency policy changed and who bore the costs.
These were not opinions. They were the curriculum.
And in 1901, across the country, quietly and without public announcement, they began to disappear. The timing was not accidental: 1901 was the year William McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt took the presidency. It was the year United States Steel was incorporated as the largest corporation in the history of the world, capitalized, at one point, four billion dollars — a figure that exceeded the entire annual revenue of the federal government.
It was the year that the consolidation of American industrialization and financial power that had been building for three decades reached a kind of completion. And the question of what American schoolchildren should understand about how that consolidation had occurred became, for the first time, a question that the men who had accomplished it had both the motive and the institutional means to answer.
To understand why 1901 matters, you have to go back to 1879. That was the year Henry George published Progess and Poverty, an examination of why economic depressions occurred and why poverty persisted alongside industrial growth. The book sold three million copies in a decade. For context, that was approximately one copy for every 20 American adults alive at the time. It was the second best-selling book in the United States for a period of time behind only the Bible for a period in the 1880s. It was taught in schools, it was debated in churches. It was the lens through which a generation of American teachers understood and explained economic life to their students.
George’s central argument was specific and falsifiable. He contended that the concentration of land ownership was the primary mechanism by which wealth extracted from productive labor accumulated in the hands of those who produced nothing. He documented the pattern across historical economies, named the mechanism with precision, and proposed a remedy so straightforward that it terrified the people that it would’ve affected: a single tax on land value. Not on labor. Not on production. On the value of land itself, which increased not because of anything the landowner did but because of the community growing around it.
It was not a fringe position.
Andrew Carnegie called Progress and Poverty “one of the most important books ever written,” before he changed his mind about saying so publicly.
Politicians built careers on it; teachers taught it as established economic history — because in 1880, it essentially was. This is the curriculum Edna Morse was still using in 1901. And this is why the letter she wrote to her county superintendent is worth reading carefully.”
She had received, as had teachers across Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, and a dozen other states, a new curriculum framework that year. The frameworks arrived through state education boards which had begun receiving substantial organizational support from a network of “philanthropic” foundations that had not existed a decade earlier. The framing was always the same: modernization, efficiency, preparing students for the industrial economy.
The new curriculum frameworks were thorough and well-produced. They specified content with a precision that earlier frameworks had not. And what they specified — with equal precision — was what should no longer be included:
The economic history of monetary creation was gone;
– The documented history of deflationary policy in the 1870s and the 1880s, which had transferred wealth from debtors to creditors on a scale that a generation of economists had called “The greatest organized robbery in American history” was gone;
– Henry George’s Land Value Analysis was gone;
– The Greenback Movement which had proposed that the federal government, rather than private banks, should control the issuance of currency, was not merely de-prioritized, it was re-classified as a discredited fringe position, despite having elected governors, senators and representatives across 14 states in the 1870s and 1880s [supporting it];
– The Granger Movement’s documented record of railroad monopoly pricing against which prairie farmers had organized, and which had produced the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was reduced to a footnote;
– The National Banking Act of 1863, and what it had done to rural credit availability, was not taught at all;
– The chain of cause-and-effect connecting federal monetary decisions to farm foreclosure rates across the Great Plains, a chain that farmers themselves had understood well enough to build a national political movement around it was replaced with a narrative about “individual thrift” and “market efficiency” that contained no mechanism and no names. What replaced it was not wrong exactly: it was simply incomplete in ways that benefited specific people;
– The new curriculum taught that markets allocated resources efficiently when left alone. It taught that wages reflected the productive value of labor. It did not teach who decided what “productive value” meant, who set the conditions under which that determination was made, or what the documented historical record showed about what happened to wages when workers had no organized alternative. It taught the conclusion. It removed the evidence that had led prior generations to question that conclusion.
Edna Morse understood this precisely. In her letter (paraphrased due to transcription limitations by narrator) she writes that she had been teaching her students to read economic history the way she taught them to read any history: with primary sources, with documented cause-and-effect, with the understanding that someone always benefits from a policy decision and that identifying WHO benefits is the beginning of understanding why the decision was made.
She writes that she did not believe that it was her function as a teacher to protect her students from conclusions that made powerful people uncomfortable. She believed it was her function to teach them how to reach conclusions at all. The letter was written in October. She was dismissed in December.
Now, consider what was happening around her: In 1902, John D. Rockefeller established the General Education Board with an initial gift of One Million Dollars, eventually totaling $53 million over the following two decades. The stated mission was to promote education within the United States without distinction of race, sex or creed. The actual function — documented in the Board’s own published reports — was to coordinate and standardize American schooling along the lines that its founders considered appropriate for an industrial economy.
Frederick Gates, Rockefeller’s philanthropic advisor, wrote in 1906 that the object was to produce in the child a perfect knowledge of what he ought to do, and also the will to do it. He was describing the function of school. He was not describing the function that Edna Morse believed school served.
In 1905, Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, with $10 million. One of its first projects was a pension system for teachers. This is remembered as an act of generosity. What is less discussed is the condition attached: To qualify for the Carnegie pension, a college had to adopt specific curriculum standards that the foundation found acceptable. Curriculum control dressed as retirement security.
The teachers who taught the old economic history were aging out. The teachers who would replace them would be trained in institutions that had accepted Carnegie’s terms to secure Carnegie’s money. This was not a conspiracy in the dramatic sense: There were no secret meetings, no coded communications, no explicit agreement to suppress the truth. It was something more durable than a conspiracy, it was convergent interests: the men who funded the standardization of American education were the same men whose accumulated wealth the old economic curriculum explained, documented and questioned.
They did not need to coordinate; they needed only to fund.
Go back to Kansas, back to Osage County in the winter of 1901. Edna Morse knew her students. She had watched them grow up in farming communities where deflationary currency policy had foreclosed their parents’ land in the 1880s and 1890s, transferring it to eastern creditors at a fraction of its productive value. She had watched families lose in two years what had taken a generation to build, and she understood from the economic history she had been teaching WHY that had happened and WHO had designed the conditions that made it happen. And she understood that if her students never learned that history, they would have no framework for recognizing it when it happened again. They would have only the story that markets were natural, that outcomes were deserved, and that poverty persisted because of failures of individual character, rather than structural decisions made by people with names and addresses, and specific financial interests.
That is what she refused to stop saying. Not a theory, not an ideology, a documented pattern with named beneficiaries, available in historical records, traceable through congressional testimony and court filings, and the archived correspondence of the men who made the decisions.
She was not teaching radicalism. She was teaching the evidentiary standards she applied to everything else. Her students remembered her. That is the part that stays with me. Three of them wrote letters later in their lives, two of which have been located in county historical collections in Kansas. And they describe their teacher in nearly identical terms: They describe a woman who treated economic questions the same way she treated geological questions, or biological questions — as things that had answers and that the answers could be found if you knew where to look and what to look for. One of them writes that she was the only teacher he ever had that made him feel that the world could be understood. Not simplified. Not explained away. Understood.
He writes that, after she left, the new teacher was perfectly kind and perfectly useless in that specific way.
The students who sat in Edna Morse’s classroom in 1901 were born around 1888. They would have been in their early 20s during the panic of 1907 when J.P. Morgan essentially performed the function of a central bank by coordinating private capital to stop a financial collapse.
They would have been in their 30s when the Federal Reserve Act passed in 1913 (the legislative resolution of the monetary debate that their teacher had been forbidden to include in her curriculum). They would have watched with whatever framework they retained from those last years of the old curriculum the same mechanisms their teacher had documented play out at national scale. Whether they recognized what they were seeing depended entirely on whether Edna Morse had gotten to them before December of 1901.
The General Education Board published a document in 1913 titled “The Country School of Tomorrow.” In it, Frederick Gates writes with striking frankness that the aim of education is not to create independent thinkers, but to produce useful citizens who will perform the tasks society assigns them without friction. He did not use those exact words, but the document is publicly available and the meaning is not subtle: The goal was a population literate enough to follow instructions but not literate enough to question the instructions’ origins. The old economic curriculum was incompatible with that goal because it taught origins. It taught that instructions had authors with interests — and that the interests could be named.
There is a question I keep returning to: How many Edna Morse’s were there? How many schoolteachers in 1901, 1902 and 1903 received those new curriculum frameworks and looked at what had been removed, and understood immediately what the removal meant.
How many of them wrote letters to their superintendents? How many of those letters were preserved, and how many of those that were preserved have been read by anyone in the last fifty years
The Kansas State Historical Society has 1.4 million documents in its collection. They have been digitizing since 2003. Edna Morse’s letter became searchable in 2019. Before that it was in a folder labeled “Educator Correspondence Osage County, 1890 to 1910,” a folder that has been in the archive since 1948. Seventy years in a folder. And if there is one Edna Morse in Kansas, there are fifty more in Ohio and Indiana and Nebraska and Iowa, teachers who saw the curriculum change and understood what the change meant and wrote it down — because that is what teachers do: they write things down — and whose letters are sitting in state historical societies, and county courthouse basements and university special collections waiting for someone to look in the [correct] folder.
The economic history that was removed in 1901 did not disappear entirely. It survived in the letters of teachers who refused to accept the new frameworks without protest. It survived in the memories of students who remembered being taught to ask “Who benefits?” before accepting any explanation of how the world worked. And it survived in the documented record of what happened in the American economy in the decades that followed, a record that makes considerably more sense when you know what the curriculum that preceded it contained.
The archive is open. The documents are there. And somewhere in a folder that nobody has thought to check since 1948, a teacher is still trying to finish the lesson she was told to stop giving.
The last schoolteacher who taught the original history did not lose because she was wrong; she lost because what she was right about was inconvenient to people who had recently acquired the institutional capacity to determine what American children would and would not be taught. That capacity has not diminished. What has diminished is our memory of what was taken. And memory, unlike power, can be restored by anyone willing to open the right folder.
Ashley Hayes is an investigative journalist documenting invisible crimes against humanity being perpetrated via mass propaganda, PsyOps, psychological torture, directed-energy, mass surveillance, remote neural weaponry, AI and nanotechnology by the secretive fusion centers/ private police and their leaders within the Military/Industrial/Intelligence/Law Enforcement/ Media/Pharmaceutical/Evangelical Complex in furtherance of their stated goal of a One World Government/One World Religion over a depopulated, enslaved America, as well the pandemic of child rape and child sex trafficking.
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