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School districts weaponizing child protection services against uncooperative parents on the rise

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Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: "In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on-because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."

This filtering process begins very early in a child's schooling as conformity is rewarded and divergence is punished.

Public Schooling Breeds Obedience

Most of us played this game as schoolchildren. We know the rules. The kids who raise their hands, color in the lines, and obey succeed; the kids who challenge the rules struggle. The problem now is that the rules are extending beyond the classroom. Parents are increasingly required to obey, to conform to a school's demands even if they believe such orders may not be appropriate for their child.

In my advocacy work with homeschooling families across the country, I frequently hear stories from parents who decided to homeschool their kids because schools were pressuring them to comply with various special education plans, push medications onto their children, or submit to other restrictive procedures they felt were not in their child's best interest. Even more heartbreaking is the growing trend of school officials to unleash child protective services (CPS) on parents, homeschooling or not, who refuse to give in to a district's demands.

Comment: It gets worse. For example in Canada a bill was passed earlier this year:
Pro-family advocates warn Bill 89 gives the state more power to seize children from families that oppose the LGBTQI and gender ideology agenda, and allows government agencies to effectively ban couples who disagree with that agenda from fostering or adopting children.

[...]

Children's Aid agencies now have "a type of police power to bust down your door, and seize your biological children if you are known to oppose LGBT ideology and the fraudulent theory of 'gender identity', if for instance, some claim is made that your child may be same-sex attracted or confused about their 'gender,'" according to Fonseca.
In other words, if you don't agree with the latest 'gender fluidity' madness that has been making the rounds and some unscrupulous counselor decides that your child needs 'gender re-assignment therapy', you might get a visit from CPS. See also:


Fire

Watch what happens when Irish bank hires British security thugs to evict people from their homes

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Vans used by private security forces hired by banks in Ireland to evict the homes of owners who are behind on mortgage payments... are torched by angry locals
Eight hired heavies who carried out an eviction on behalf of KBC bank near Strokestown in Co. Roscommon earlier this week were run out of Roscommon in the early hours of this morning by up to 50 local Irish patriots.

Locals have told The Liberal that the security men are allegedly from East Belfast and allegedly former members of the UVF.

Disparaging jokes about Catholics were said to have been spat out by the security men during the eviction.

The UVF was a loyalist terrorist organisation responsible for the murder of many innocent Catholics during the troubles.

During the actual eviction itself, two elderly brothers and an elderly sister, who were all on the same farm for three generations, were put out on the road.


Comment: See also: Yellow Vest anti-government protest movement launched in Ireland - Calls for 'revolution'


Cult

Police dismantle massive child sex slavery ring run by Israelis, fmr IDF Soldier-MSM silent

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A large child sex slavery ring overseen by Israelis was dismantled by Colombian police earlier this week, in a story that has shocked Colombia and much of Latin America but received minimal coverage from mainstream Western media outlets. The network had been active since 2011 and expressly "recruited" young, underage females in situations of economic hardship or domestic abuse to work as "sex slaves" catering to Israeli tourists visiting Colombia.

Colombian authorities first began to investigate the sex slavery network in June 2016 following the murder of Israeli citizen Shay Azran in the Colombian city of Medellín. Soon after, Azran's murderer was found to be another Israeli, Assi Ben Mush, an ex-IDF soldier who was known for his past involvement in both drug and human trafficking in the early 2000s. However, Mush was never arrested for Azran's murder.

As authorities delved deeper into Mush's current activities while investigating the homicide, they determined that he was the owner of a hostel in Cartagena, Colombia and that he was also one of the coordinators of "tourism" packages sold exclusively to Israeli men visiting Colombia.

Hardhat

Best of the Web: Yellow Vest anti-government protest movement launched in Ireland - Calls for 'revolution'

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Several hundred people have attended a protest in the centre of Dublin in solidarity with the French yellow vest demonstrations.

The protesters in Dublin wore yellow vests and some had hard hats, while others tied scarves over their faces. The chanting was mainly anti-Government in nature.

Those who gathered outside the Custom House overlooking the River Liffey before marching to Leinster House included pro-Palestinian organisations and socialist republicans.


Caesar

Putin worries that listening to rap music is "a path to the degradation of the nation"

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© Mikhail Svetlov/Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin applauds during the concert marking the 80th anniversary of Soviet and Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov at Saint Petersburg Conservatory on December 15, 2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to devise a plan of controlling rap as the music genre becomes more popular with his country's youth.

According to the Associated Press, during a meeting with Russian cultural advisers on Saturday Putin said that rap music is "based on three pillars: sex, drugs and protest."

He has a history of suppressing protests. But he stated that his biggest issue with the music is themes of drug use and abuse, noting to his advisers that listening to rap is "a path to the degradation of the nation." The genre's "drug propaganda" is worse than the expletives used, Putin said.


Comment: No right-thinking person would find anything to argue with there. Besides, it wasn't so long ago that great bastion of democracy - the USA - banned music for similar reasons:
The 1978 Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation established that the FCC had the power to regulate the broadcast of content considered "indecent" on terrestrial radio and television.

In 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), founded by Tipper Gore, published the "Filthy Fifteen"-a list of fifteen songs it deemed to be the most objectionable due to their references to drugs and alcohol, sexual acts, violence, or "occult" activities.

Comment: Newsweek is fulfilling its Russian spin duties while it can. Putin has expressed concern for the social effects of rap music, but has never considered censorship.

Putin: Drug content in rap songs is concerning, but banning will only make things worse
Banning rappers is a bad idea, and the state should fight drug culture rather than youth culture, Vladimir Putin has said, weighing in on the scandal over some Russian rap gigs, canceled for their links to narcotics and violence.

The Russian president on Saturday warned against attempts to ban and prosecute rappers, describing such measures as "the least effective, the worst ones anyone could come up with."

"The effect of them would be opposite to the desired one," Putin said.
The Russian Parliament has already found in favor of rappers' right to free speech:
Musicians have every right to use obscenities for self-expression and must be allowed to swear from stage if their shows have proper age restrictions, the deputy head of the Russian Parliament's information committee said.

"People go to concerts, already knowing what to expect there. They're not going blindly. This is art. He (the artist) sees thing this way," Andrey Svintsov from nationalist Liberal Democratic Party said about the use of foul language by some musicians.

"If you do not like it then just don't go there. That's it," he added.
RT reports on attempts to find a compromise between the artists and the government.
Despite rap being the most commercially viable youth musical genre in the country, its proponents frequently face last-minute gig cancellations while touring outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, often on the pretext of advertising drug use, obscene language or the alleged threat of violence. Things came to a head last month after provocative performer Husky was stopped from taking to the stage in Krasnodar, then arrested for 12 days when he performed an impromptu gig on the boot of a car outside the venue. Both Moscow officials and civil rights organizations protested, and the rapper was released, but the issue begs for a resolution.

[...]

There were tangents, discussions of the misuse of hate speech legislation, poems and skits read by the participants without a backing track, but mostly all the talking heads delivered their pieces, with little spontaneous engagement between the participants.

Finally, as he rubbed his face red with growing frustration Zhigan, most notorious for his car theft and robbery convictions for which he served time, snapped.

"We are having a conversation about nothing here," he said, before quickly advertising the release of his upcoming film, and making a dramatic exit. "We can spend another 20 years talking about this, bro," he said to Ptaha, tapping him on the shoulder

Two hours in, and the meeting wrapped up, still no concrete proposals on the table. But while the cringe factor was high, and legislative changes unlikely, the mere fact that the high-profile meeting took place sends a signal (particularly to regional officials) that the government cares, and that rappers won't be made into pariahs on whom social ills are blamed. And if the price to pay for progress is sitting three feet from a senior policeman after writing odes to multiple ways to break the law, then this could be a deal worth striking even for the true non-conformists.
Completely overlooked by the Western media's framing of this discussion in Russia as one of 'an authoritarian crackdown' is the evidence that American rap music was also 'guided' - though towards degradation...

Fight the Power: The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation


Yoda

Jordan Peterson speaks out on Patreon's deplatforming controversy (UPDATE)

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Peterson defends controversial YouTuber and pledges to help look for solutions

In a new post on Patreon today, Jordan Peterson has articulated his position on Patreon's deplatforming of controversial YouTube personality Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad. In the post, Peterson states: "I am an admirer of Sargon, and he was a great friend of mine when I was in deep trouble two years ago. I think there is no excuse for deplatforming him (particularly when his fundamental crime was defending himself against neo-Nazis)."

Benjamin was booted from Patreon after a video surfaced of him deriding Neo-Nazis by using a racist term in an ironic way. Whatever you may think of Benjamin's language in the video, it was not in violation of Patreon's policies. Benjamin was well within his right to express himself, and the fact that he was deplatformed for exercising free speech as opposed to committing some kind of harmful action is problematic to say the least.

Comment: Sargon of Akkad on his dispute with Patreon:


UPDATE: Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin give more information on their Patreon-like enterprise:





Attention

Hollywood crash scene: Dump truck barrels down hill & crashes into Crimea water park

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A dump truck driver in Crimea should be thanking his lucky stars after he lost control of his truck on a hill, plowed into a water park, then landed sideways - and survived to tell the tale. The entire incident was caught on film.

The footage begins with the truck going far too fast down a hill in the Crimean resort city of Yalta. It narrowly misses a smaller vehicle before breaking through a fence, crashing into a hotel water park, and finally landing sideways.

Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident, which was like a Hollywood crash scene.

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Pepe Escobar: An historical journey into Crimea

Kerch Harbor in the Russian controlled Sea of Azoz
© Asia TimesKerch Harbor in the Russian controlled Sea of Azoz.
We are at the remains of Panticapaeum, the capital of the Kingdom of Bosphorus, founded in the second quarter of the 6th century BC on both sides of the Kerch Strait.

We start our walk on the hilltop of Mithridates, in the heart of modern Kerch, where "terrible" king Mithridates of Pontus (134 - 64 BC) was killed. Greek geographer Strabo (63 BC - 23 AD) said Panticapaeum was the mother country of "all the Milesian cities of Bosphorus". It was a big city that boasted a convenient harbor and a shipyard.

As we climb higher, we come across an obelisk celebrating victory in the Great Patriotic War. This is one of the last ridges in eastern Crimea. To the left is Kerch harbor with no warships, only coastguard patrol boats. To the right, the dark blue Sea of Azov, the Kerch strait - now one of the geopolitical hot spots of the young 21st century - and far in the distance is Krimsky Most, the Crimea bridge.

Crossing the bridge - a 19km-long engineering marvel, built in only two years - is as smooth as it gets and takes less than 15 minutes. On the right, work proceeds on the rail bridge, which will be ready next year.

Snowflake

Fashion line Prada faces backlash over new holiday collection - slammed on Twitter as 'racist'

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© PradaThe Pradamalia collection, featuring a variety of characters, is being slammed as racist.
'The devil really does wear Prada'

Prada is facing a fury of backlash online for its latest collection featuring characters many are calling racist.

The company issued an apology Friday and said it would be pulling all Pradamalia products from its stores after people were quick to point out the problem with the imagery.

Pradamalia, "a new family of mysterious tiny creatures that are one part biological, one part technological, all parts Prada," can be found on T-shirts, wallets, necklace charms, earrings and in ad campaigns.

Star of David

Bibi's scandal-plagued son Yair Netanyahu: He'd 'prefer' if 'all the Muslims leave' Israel

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© Flash90Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is seen in Tel Aviv on November 26, 2017.
PM's son declares there will be no peace until one of the land's two major religions departs, and he rather it wasn't the Jews

Yair Netanyahu has said there will not be peace in the land of Israel until either all the Jews or all the Muslims leave - and he would prefer the latter.

The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted the comment on Facebook on Thursday:

"There will not be peace here until:
1. All the Jews leave the land of Israel.
2. All the Muslims leave the land of Israel.

"I prefer the second option," he added.

Comment: RT adds:
The 27-year-old defended his thoughts on Saturday, asking why the same people who have been calling to "evacuate the settlers and establish a Palestinian state free of Jews" were angered by his words.

Many on social media were indeed unimpressed with the younger Netanyahu's Facebook posts, with one person instead stating that he should be the one to leave Israel.


Ben White, author of the book Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel, questioned who "radicalized" the prime minister's son.


And another person referred to him as the "third Trump brother."

Yair Netanyahu is no stranger to the spotlight, or to controversy. In May, he came under fire for posting "F*** Turkey" on Instagram amid a diplomatic row between Israel and Ankara.

In January, recordings were released which included Netanyahu, then 25, and his friends talking about spending thousands of shekels for private dances from strippers. He also appeared to offer his friends sexual favors from a woman he was in an intimate relationship with in exchange for money. Some Israeli media outlets have implied that those comments were made in jest while inebriated.

The same tapes, recorded by Netanyahu's then-driver, also revealed Netanyahu asking his friend to "spot him" some money because the elder Netanyahu had secured an "awesome" gas deal that would benefit the friend's father.