Month: August 2016

Following is an article by Adan Salazar on Infowars.com:  

Educators at a North Carolina public school district have been ordered to avoid using gender-specific pronouns when addressing pupils, according to a recently published training manual.

A slideshow presentation, entitled “Supporting Transgender Students,” provides guidance for the upcoming school year to K-12 teachers of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, directing them how to properly handle students with gender identity issues.

“Transgendered,” “transsexual,” “transvestite,” “MtF or FtM,” “Cross Dresser,” and “Drag Queen/King,” are all terms teachers are instructed to avoid in order to “maximize academic achievement for every child.”

Instead, the slideshow suggests, teachers should familiarize themselves with terms such as “Questioning,” “Cisgender,” “Non-binary,” “Genderqueer,’ and “Gender nonconforming.”

A worksheet with a purple unicorn appears amid the instructional, which students are intended to fill out with their own gender identities.

Among techniques to “avoid gender specific classroom management,” the slideshow tells teachers to line students up by birth month, favorite color, or alphabetized, rather than “boy/girl.”

Children should also be addressed as “scholars or students vs. boys and girls,” the guidance recommends.

Additionally, faculty should “allow students to dress in accordance with their gender identity” (emphasis theirs), and “students must have access to the restroom/changing facilities that correspond to their gender identity,” in accordance with a recent Fourth Circuit court ruling.

“A student’s transgender status is confidential,” the Powerpoint presentation reminds teachers, and “Staff must take care not to ‘out’ a student to others, including the parents of an older student, without the student’s permission.”

“In contacting the parents, use the student’s name/pronoun on birth certificate unless student or parent says otherwise,” slide #34 reads.

Speaking to the Charlotte-Observer, Superintendent Ann Clark said little to nothing would change for most students.

“I would say to parents in this community that very little is going to be different in terms of your child’s experience unless you are the parent of a transgender student,” she stated.

But residents say the school’s new guidelines are an exercise in cultural Marxism.

“It’s a radical sexual revolution being forced on our kids,” Charlotte resident David Benham said to Fox News.

“What they are doing is highlighting and exploiting the transgender community and trying to push their radical agenda on the rest of the students,” Benham told Todd Starnes.

“It was really slick,” another parent told WCNC. “It is friendly looking and deceitful because that unicorn, to me, represents the religion of sex. It is silencing and penalizing those of us who believe we were created male and female and should be able to use those terms.”

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg 2016-2017 school year begins on Monday, August 29.

Following is a summary of this Cleveland 19 News article: 

A gang of seven men chanting “Black Lives Matter” attacked and beat up seven white victims in Akron, Ohio early Sunday morning.   Police said victims were walking when they were approached by five black men and two white men who started hitting them with bottles, punching and kicking them.  One of the victims was kicked in the head a few times before loosing consciousness.  The suspects took the belongings of the victims before running away.  The police then located and arrested the suspects nearby.

The following information is summarized from this France 24 article:  

Video of a six year old girl named Gharibgol who was sold into marriage to a 55 year old Imam is being widely shared on social media in Afghanistan where many are expressing shock by the marriage, in particularly because it was in exchange for a goat and some food.

According to Afghan law, a woman can get married from age 16 and men from age 18, but despite those laws it is not rare for underage girls to get married in Afghanistan.  However such a huge age gap as in this case is not common though.

The journalist Fawad Ahmady who recorded the video explained:

“About 40 days ago Gharibgol was forced to marry the mullah of Obeh, the village where she lives with her family.  She was sold to him by her father in exchange for a goat, a bag of rice, tea, sugar, and a few litres of cooking oil.”

“After their marriage, her husband took her to Firozkoh, in Ghor province, to stay at a distant relative’s house.  This host first thought that Gharibgol was the mullah’s daughter.  But then the host realized that he was undressing her at night.  So he asked the mullah: she’s not your daughter?  The mullah replied: no, she’s my wife; her father gave her to me.  The host told a friend, who called the local women rights bureau for Ghor province.  The bureau called the police, and called me, as well.”

“The next day, on July 31, police arrested the mullah, and then went to arrest Gharibgol’s father in his village…”

“Gharibgol is now living with her mother in a safe house in Firozkoh.  Negineh Khalili, the head of the women’s rights bureau for Ghor province, told me she will do her best to make sure that her father loses his parental rights and that Gharibgol is granted a divorce.  She and the mullah were only married religiously, which makes things more difficult – a judge cannot divorce them; another imam must do that.  And divorce remains very taboo in Afghanistan…”

“This is just one of so many acts of violence against girls in Afghanistan”

“Under the law, nobody is allowed to marry underage children.  But imams like this mullah are quite respected, and don’t always face consequences.  Moreover, there’s the problem of poverty – the girl’s father said that he was having trouble making ends meet and that selling her not only meant gaining a goat and two months’ worth of food, it meant one less mouth to feed.  He tried to defend himself by saying that the mullah had promised he wouldn’t sleep with his daughter until she was 18.   I really hope that both men will serve time in jail.”

“This is just one of so many acts of violence against girls in Afghanistan.  Most don’t make the news.  But there have been a few cases that shocked the nation lately: one was the case of Zahra, a girl who was forced to marry at the age of eight.  At age 18, last month, she was burned to death after by her husband’s family after a dispute with her parents.  Then there was Rokhshana, 19, who was stoned to death last year.  She had been married when she was underage and was accused of having sexual relationship with a boy of her own age.  A video of her stoning drew shock from around the world.”

According to a 2011 UN survey, half of marriages in Afghanistan are to women under the age of 18, but according to Afghan human rights activists the real number is probably much higher due to many marriages not being registered in rural areas.

At least two shameful occurrences happened at the 2016 Rio summer Olympics involving Islamic athletes disrespecting Israelis.

First, all of the Lebanese athletes refused to allow the Israeli athletes to board a bus with them en route to the Olympic opening ceremonies:

The following information is summarized from this Jerusalem Post article: 

The Israeli sailing coach Udi Gal wrote a Facebook post telling of a ridiculous situation where the entire Lebanese delegation of athletes refused to let the Israelis travel with them to the opening ceremony.

As the Israelis were preparing to board a joint-bus, they were blocked entry by the Lebanese who refused to share the ride with them.

Gal wrote:

“The Lebanese, upon comprehending that they were to share a bus with the Israelis, addressed the driver in refusal and demanded that the door to the bus be shut.  Event organizers then attempted to scatter us on different buses – something that is unacceptable for security and representative reasons.”

“We insisted that we board the bus designated for us – and that the Lebanese should de-board if so they wish.  So the bus driver opened the door.  But this time, the head of the Lebanese delegation blocked the entrance to the bus with his own body.  Event organizers – attempting to prevent a diplomatic incident – then organized a separate ride for us.  But the diplomatic incident already occurred – shame!”

“How can it be that something like this occurs on the eve of the Olympic opening ceremony?   Does this not directly oppose what the Olympics represent and stand for… I cannot begin to express my feelings, I’m in shock from the incident.”

A source from the Lebanese Olympic committee later said the refusal to allow the Israelis to board the bus was a group decision of the Lebanese Olympic delegation.  Another source said the Lebanese athletes are “committed to the national position in refusing to be in the same place as the Israelis.”

 

… Then, an Egyptian judo competitor refused to shake hands with his Israeli opponent after being beaten by him in the first round, drawing boos from the crowd and resulting in him being sent home early:

The following information is summarized from a Daily Mail UK article: 

Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian Judo competitor at the Rio Olympics refused to shake hands with his Israeli opponent Or Sasson after loosing to him, resulting in him being booed by the audience and being sent home from the Olympics early.

El Shehaby said, “I have no problem with Jewish people or any other religion or different beliefs.  But for personal reasons, you can’t ask me to shake the hand of anyone from this State, especially in front of the whole world.”

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, the then Iranian world champion Arash Mirasmaeili refused to fight the Israeli judoka Ehud Vaks, which brought him praise back home.

This video explains that Syrian Refugees in Quebec are being given drivers licenses even if they fail their drivers tests as long as they have had any sort of a drivers license in their home country.

Also see the associated article on TheRebel.media.

Following is a summary of this Daily Mail article:

Since last Friday, whenever somebody gets into a yellow cab in New York City, there will be a chance that the driver won’t know any English whatsoever.

The New York Taxi Commission eliminated the requirement that taxi drivers have a knowledge of English, and tests for a taxi license are now available in several languages to accommodate non-English speakers.

The City Council sponsors of the bill argued that the requirement was a barrier to employment for potential immigrant drivers from other countries, also citing the fact that the app-based private car service Uber does not have a language requirement which has led to many yellow taxi drivers leaving to work for that company.

Also, last year the Commission also eliminated most of the geography questions from the license exam due to the drivers being able to use global positioning devices rather than having knowledge of the city.

Only 4 percent of taxi drivers are born in the United States. The largest share of drivers is 24 percent coming from Bangladesh and 10 percent coming from Pakistan.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who sponsored the bill said the legislation was intended to “level the playing field” to compete with Uber for drivers. “They don’t have any language requirement, and no one has complained that they can’t communicate with them,” he said.  [However he failed to note that people can have a choice of drivers when calling a cab with Uber.]

Austin Finan, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said that ending the English speaking requirement would not do harm to the “safe and reliable customer service” in the industry.

Also see this New York Post article about the issue.

[Note:  March 13, 2020— Apparently the transfer has happened, according to the Wikipedia page about IANA, however it only mentions it very briefly in the last sentence, saying: “On October the contract between the United States Department of Commerce and ICANN to perform the IANA functions was allowed to expire and the stewardship of IANA functions was officially transitioned to the private-sector.”]

The following is a summary of this Washington Examiner article: 

Officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Commerce is about to hand off the last remaining American control over the Internet to unelected and unaccountable UN related international bodies on October 1, when the transition will be finalized barring what the Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling called “any significant impediment.”

The “Internet Assigned Numbers Authority,” which is the agency responsible for converting numerical web locations into human-readable domain names such as “openmindedrealism.com,” will be moved from U.S. control to an international body which includes influence by China and Russia.

Critics of the move have pointed out that the agency would be able to be used by totalitarian governments such as China to shut down the Web anywhere around the globe, and it would create a gateway for censorship and content regulation.  [Also since the Establishment controlled UN would have jurisdiction, it would open up the potential for internet censorship due to political reasons at the request of the organization.]

If the facilities were to be moved to China, they would go into the same building as the Cyberspace Administration agency which is responsible for censoring that country’s internet.

Opponents have found a loophole to the transfer taking place, due to the fact that the federal government is constitutionally prohibited from transferring federal property without approval from Congress.

A coalition of 25 advocacy groups including Americans for Tax Reform, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Heritage Action have sent a letter to Congress making those points last week.   Also, Americans for Limited Government issued a separate statement calling for Congress to sue in the event that the transfer occurs.

Following is a summary of this Infowars article: 

In June the European Commission published a draft document outlining a proposed online electronic ID system which would be used by each European citizen to identify and authenticate themselves online.  The document calls for the ID credentials to be “issued or recognized by national public authorities, such as electronic or mobile IDs, national identity cards, or bank cards.”

While such a system may sound as if it would be convenient, it would actually set a dangerous precedent for the political establishment to track and trace everything that Europeans say and do online, including online shopping, and it would destroy online anonymity. [Other risks also exit such as potential for increased harm caused by identity theft due to the ID being centralized to all online activity.] 

A Washington Examiner article  speaks with homeland security expert Mark Sauter explaining that the method of how the U.S. “vets” immigrants doesn’t take into account modern terrorist threats such as ISIS or al Qaeda, focusing instead on asking applicants if they are WWII Nazi veterans, alcoholics, polygamists, or Communists.

Sauter explains that the U.S. doesn’t have “readily available” statistics on how many immigrants have admitted to terrorist ties when asked, and when the USCIS provided him with a list of what it considers to be terrorist groups, many organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood were not on it.

He said he was especially surprised when the government said that it doesn’t even keep statistics on how many prospective immigrants say “no” when asked if they support the US Constitution.

“Critics of improved screening say that terrorists will just lie – that may be true in many cases, but it misses the point that getting applicants on the record now can be a critical law enforcement tool later,” Sauter said.  He explains that if the applicants lie when answering the questions then perjury can be used to deport them later if they are ever outed.

“All this doesn’t mean Donald Trump has the right plans, but he is certainly correct in saying the immigration system needs an urgent update to respond to America’s current threats,” Sauter said.

Sauter is a former Army officer and the author of a McGraw-Hill university textbook entitled “Homeland Security”.  He says he will post further reports as his investigation continues on his blog  www.needtosharenews.com.

The following is a summary of an Express UK article: 

Nine Iraqi asylum seekers aged 21 to 47 have been arrested for a horrific abduction and rape of a German woman in Austria.

They drugged the woman and dragged her to a nearby apartment where they brutally raped her for over four hours.

The men were arrested after a “protracted and difficult” investigation where DNA evidence and CCTV footage was used to successfully build a case against the rapists.

A police spokesperson said: “There is no doubt about the gang rape according to the biological traces.”