Americans today are being played, Big Time! The average voter has become a pawn in a high-stakes game of political maneuvering and chicanery that has moved beyond mere competition and challenge to something more closely resembling combat. Behind every sound-bite or online news byte is a surreptitious attempt to shape public opinion and spin events in a game of one-upmanship.

Agenda Games: How Today's High-Stakes Political Combat Works

Politics & Social Sciences

Eakman, B. K.

Politics & Government

Midnight Whistler Publishing

Before you volunteer for that curriculum committee, school violence task force or focus group; before you run for school board or PTA president: Find out who the professional manipulators are and how they're going to get you to stick your foot in your mouth. Here is a hands-on workshop in strategies used to silence parents and concerned citizens and generate a predetermined consensus on controversial issues. Updated 2011 Edition.

How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics: The Techniques of Unethical Consensus-Building Unmasked

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Createspace Independent Pub

Walking Targets exposes how the greatest coup of the millennium came off without firing a shot, wresting control from those still committed to the nation's founding principles and family values, by stigmatizing their "inflexible" and "dogmatic" children as mentally ill. Computer technologies popularly believed to be restricted to use in defense of our country have been redirected for use in tracking the opinions of schoolchildren from the earliest years, under the cover of educational and mental health testing. This includes psychographic surveys and data-mining techniques. In this anthology of columns and feature articles, Mrs. Eakman exposes the tactics of professional agitators-cum-educators; details the latest advances in microchip implants, computerized cross-matching, tracking and monitoring, and clarifies experts' justifications for psychological profiling.

Walking Targets: How Out Psychologized Classrooms are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A Common-Sense Platform for the 21st Century represents a starting point for true patriots committed to the ideals and principles of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as the Declaration of Independence. The Platform recognizes the genius of the Founders in anticipating progress to the extent that they included a means for amending the American Constitution while keeping the original ideals and precepts intact, a means that stands in stark opposition to today's attempts to throw the baby out with the bathwater. While additional pressing concerns may be added to (or deleted from) the Platform position statements, as events dictate, the tone and construction of this document harkens back to the remarkable (and refreshingly modern) views and tenets contained in Thomas Paine's 1776 booklet, Common Sense, which greatly influenced the Framers and revolutionized governance throughout the world. Kudos for "A Common Sense Platform for the 21st Century": "This platform for the 21st century could not have arrived at a better time. With the new Congress convening after the holidays, and the next presidential election cycle already under way, this book should be required reading for every elected official, every candidate, campaign worker and, indeed, for every American." Read the whole review at WorldNetDaily http://budurl.com/LambReview ~ Henry Lamb is the author of "The Rise of Global Governance," chairman of Sovereignty International and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) and Freedom21 Inc. "A post-election Washington Post survey recently announced that 'few in the [Tea Party] movement agree on a legislative agenda beyond [merely] downsizing government.' Not so. Award-winning author Beverly Eakman has thrown down the gauntlet: In a mere 120 pages, Eakman lays out an astonishing and comprehensive legislative agenda that represents views common not only to most Tea Partiers, but to all constitutionally minded Americans — and the various fed-up ‘others’ — who are sick and tired of party politics as usual. Eakman draws a line in the sand with A Common-Sense Platform for the 21st Century. ~ A Proud American "Beverly Eakman's book is FANTASTIC! Not just the platform -type recommendations, but ALL of it. Every American needs to read it, preferably before the national election in 2012." ~ Joan Battey, political columnist, Apalachian, NY In my opinion Beverly Eakman is the most thorough and honest observer/recorder/tracker of politically induced behavior modification in America today! This booklet makes the case for me!" ~ Roni Bell Sylvester, past Chairman Good Neighbor Law and Editor of LandandWaterUSA, Denver, CO "This booklet shows how close we have come to being totally dominated and flummoxed by people bent on controlling us and our country. So many of us appreciate Bev Eakman's work." ~ Richard L. Cutler, Ph.D., VP University of Michigan (ret); past president Nat'l Assoc of Scholars, Michigan chapter

A Common-Sense Platform for the 21st Century

How many times have you had the unsettling experience of being treated as a troublemaker as soon as you question or raise an objection to a school policy, a textbook, a course of study, a new county regulation, or a community proposal? Every day, attendees of conferences, community forums, PTA meetings, and board meetings are made to feel uncomfortable and occasionally foolish by the person or persons leading the meeting. The speakers, moderators, or provocateurs—whom author B. K. Eakman refers to as professional manipulators—hold power over the room and know how to steer the discussion back to their agendas without ever answering audience questions or addressing their concerns. These people use techniques to ostracize those brave enough to stand and question or criticize them. With Push Back!, readers will be able to counter group manipulation tactics by learning to: Recognize psychologically controlled environments Identify the professional agitator/provocateur Examine components of psych war Undercut faulty, distorted, and biased arguments of opponents Squelch techniques used to rebuff audience members who complain or balk Neutralize consensus-building techniques And much more

Push Back!: How to Take a Stand Against Groupthink, Bullies, Agitators, and Professional Manipulators

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Skyhorse