editor victoria’s comment ~ quite horrifying (but not surprising given what we know now) human trafficking increased over 800% during the years of 2010 and 2015. smack dab in obama-land presidency.
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January 1, 2019 13:22, Last Updated: January 1, 2019 20:14
In a lengthy proclamation issued on Dec. 31, Trump said that it’s not enough to merely denounce such horrific assaults, instead, we must “actively work to prevent and end this barbaric exploitation of innocent victims.”
“Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery,” the proclamation stated. “We are morally obligated to confront and defeat the abhorrent practice of human trafficking, and I am keeping my pledge to take aggressive action.”
Such crimes are often described as an everyday problem hidden in plain sight. Data from a landmark Global Slavery Index report in July last year found that 1 in 800 people in the United States lives in modern slavery. The phrase is a broad term used to describe victims of forced labor, sexual exploitation or servitude, and forced marriages, among other abuses.
Trump has made combating human trafficking a focal point of his administration over the past two years. In February 2018, he signed an executive order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit people. In January 2018, Trump signed a similar declaration for the month.
A school system in Massachusetts is proving to be malicious, incompetent, or maybe both.
Of course, we suspected that already. But the latest example comes from a lawsuit from a woman who pulled her 8-year-old son from Worcester Public Schools to homeschool him last January.
Josilyn Goodall is suing the Worcester School Committee, Superintendent Maureen Binienda, and the state Department of Children and Families after police entered her home, handcuffed her, and arrested her over what amounted to a paperwork dispute.
According to the lawsuit, Goodall is seeking unspecified compensatory damages for the violation of her Constitutional rights and for the “mental pain and suffering” inflicted upon her and her son.
The lawsuit details Goodall’s multiple attempts to contact the Superintendent after filing paperwork in January saying she was going to homeschool her son. She said she never got a response to any of her phone calls or emails.
In Massachusetts, parents who wish to homeschool their children must submit an education plan to the superintendent of the local school system for approval. However, according to Care and Protection of Charles (1987), the court case upon which homeschool legal precedent was established, the burden of proof is on the school to show that the homeschool program is insufficient.
The lawsuit further alleges that the Worcester School Committee’s homeschool policy is unlawful, in that it requires students to continue attending public school until the education plan is approved. Charles allows for homeschooling to begin as soon as the plan has been submitted.
To most rational people, Charles makes sense. If parents are to have any right to educate their children at home, they must be able to begin homeschooling before receiving approval from the schools. Otherwise, a school could conveniently hold hostage the education plan and never approve it, essentially forcing the child to stay in the public school.
But instead of following the state law or even their own policy, Worcester school administrators ignored Goodall’s education plan and her attempts to contact them, continued marking her son absent, and never reached out to Goodall to discuss their concerns.
It would be hard to tell if the school was being passive-aggressive or just plain incompetent, unable to send or receive emails and phone calls. Except that they had no problem contacting the Department of Children and Families to report Goodall for “educational neglect.”
DCF officials apparently took the school’s word for it, never asking for attendance records for Goodall’s son before showing up at her door on March 30. In addition, a DCF investigator believed the superintendent’s secretary, who told her there was a new law that required homeschooled students to continue attending school until their education plan was approved.
Yes, a state department took legal advice from a superintendent’s secretary.
Then, police escalated the situation, to the surprise of absolutely no one. The lawsuit states that officers pounded on Goodall’s door and threatened to forcibly open it. When Goodall was intimidated into letting them in, an officer laid hands on Goodall, handcuffed her, ordered her into a chair and yelled in her face — while her son watched and cried.
Additional officers arrived and started searching the home, while the DCF investigator questioned the son. Goodall was arrested and brought to the police station and was booked, though no charges were filed. She paid bail and finally made it back home after a 7-hour ordeal.
The legal battle continued with DCF filing a complaint of educational neglect that was eventually dropped by the court. Goodall submitted another education plan to the Superintendent on April 10.
You would think school officials would jump right on it this time around, but they dragged their feet yet again. Goodall left another voicemail and sent an email before finally hearing from the secretary on April 25. Her plan was not officially approved until May 9, after Goodall’s legal counsel wrote a letter essentially asking the Superintendent’s Office to piss or get off the pot.
Goodall’s ordeal is just the most extreme of many examples of harassment and intimidation the Worcester School District is doling out to homeschoolers.
According to the Worcester Telegram, many homeschooling families were waiting on District approval of their education plans months after submitting them. To add to the stress, many were receiving letters that said they could face truancy charges if their children were not in school and they had not received approval.
The hypocrisy of the District is astounding. Rather than sending approval letters—or even rejection letters— in a timely fashion, they sent letters threatening parents, as though it was the parents’ fault that their plan might not be approved “in time.”
While it is bad news that school administrators seem intent on harassing homeschoolers and escalating disputes, there is a silver lining to this whole issue.
We’re not going to take it.
Homeschoolers routinely show up in large numbers to protect their right to homeschool their children. The Homeschool Legal Defense Association hosted an informational forum on Aug. 15 in Worcester to discuss the concerns of local homeschooling families and to clarify the state’s laws.
As a Massachusetts homeschooler myself, I attended the meeting. There were upwards of 100 people in attendance from Worcester and surrounding towns. The group shared advice, made plans to turn out en masse to School Committee meetings, and made sure they were educated on what is and is not legally required in state homeschool law.
Public schools are in the business of teaching conformity and unquestioning obedience of authority. Meanwhile, homeschoolers are by definition educational non-conformists. They also tend to have a healthy skepticism of authority figures and government in general.
They show up to fight stupid policies. They protest. They write letters. They politely decline unlawful demands from school systems.
They file lawsuits.
And since homeschoolers are in the business of educating their children, it seems likely that these ideals will transfer to the next generation.
And that is why I expect an education revolution in my lifetime, one in which consent and freedom dominate children’s learning.
Public schools, with their policies of intimidation and coercion for children and adults alike, have at least one lesson to offer homeschooled kids: everyone deserves better.
editor victoria’s comment ~ this is horrible. i heard the woman who committed the assault say “you shouldn’t be saying that (bleep).” programming right there. until this incident she shares some good info/insight on the Flynn hearing today including how the Judge later retracted his statements on referring to Flynn’s actions as “treasonous”. which of course we won’t be hearing that from the media outlets.
“My wife is French & in France & said there is misunderstanding of the Yellow Vest movement. She said: “I am seeing a lot of wrong information, so I prefer to explain a bit better: It is not just the tax on fuel; it is mostly the Macron Govt cut the retirement paycheck for everybody (including my parents), and they increased gas and electric bills in all homes, all taxes increased (property taxes, habitation, city taxes, income taxes), and cut the taxes for the ultra rich (ISF). Macron does not care for the ecology. He did not increase gas tax to protect earth but to make more money. One of the best french environmental activists, Nicolas Hulot, was Ecology Minister under Macron but he resigned because it was impossible to do anything sincerely for the environment in the Macron government. Also, fuel was already over the equivalent of $5 per gallon with high taxes, and most people already drive very small cars. Increasing the tax is very regressive, hits the poor hardest. They cant get to work. Another approach to ending oil addiction is needed.
Altogether, it is ultimately class warfare.”
“Macron gave huge tax breaks to the very richest and then tried to put the climate burden on the working class. So the working class are rioting. They’re not protesting globalism, they’re protesting oligarchy and the domination of the very wealthiest. We live under class warfare and we lay down and take it. Time for REAL CHANGE.”
speaking of the fires at google in china and google exec dumping shares…and the F/F today suspect being a known terrorist…of course they don’t arrest all of them…gotta keep them handy for situations like this…no more. the people have awoken.
editor victoria’s comment ~ reading through the comments it was said that the lawyers being arrested were representing some of the yellow-vests and/or were joining in with the protesters. one interesting tidbit to toss into this mix – in france they do not add artificial fluoride to their water.
editor victoria’s comment ~ this was sent to me (and others) in a message via social media. i wanted to know more about John Barbour and found this on his youtube “about” page:
“He also directed and wrote the 1992 documentary The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes. This film covers the investigation of District Attorney Jim Garrison, who, after the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, decided to further investigate the official report given by the Warren Commission. The documentary hypothesizes connections between the assassination and the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and other organizations and foreign affairs issues.”
and info (fyi) on Jim Garrison:
“The CIA retains two secret files on New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, the crusading prosecutor who inspired Oliver Stone’s hit movie “JFK.”
The files–whose existence was first reported by JFK Facts–are among the 3,600 secret U.S. government records related to JFK’s assassination that are scheduled to be released in October 2017.
The two Garrison files contain 16 pages of undated and unclassified material, according to the National Archives’ online database of JFK assassination records.
One file– labelled “CIA File on Garrison, James”–contains ten pages of material. The other–described as “Illegible Document, Garrison Investigation”–has six pages.
The CIA says that both files are “Not Believed Relevant” to the JFK’s assassination.
How a CIA file on Jim Garrison could not be relevant to the JFK story is one of those questions that only the metaphysicians of Langley can answer.” (source)
editor victoria’s comment ~ wow – this really did happen and explains why POTUS and FLOTUS left the stage rather suddenly – only to return later. i see no proof of MOSSAD so this is just alleged – however would not surprise me. this piece shows the follow up video as well as the first livestream which cut its feed after they left the stage and the livefeed did not resume.
i also did not fully understand the scope of the incident in South Carolina today. i will be linking another article on that below. allegedly the attempt on his life (which also includes the same 2 pics i linked earlier showing the laser marks on his body) was due to the outing’s of today out of SC. again – all of this is allegedly. however what does appear to be true is an attempt on his life. obviously there was some security threat for POTUS and FLOTUS to leave so quickly and return later.
here is a tweet from the white house scheduling office for POTUS speaking of the protective glass:
POTUS_Schedule @POTUS_Schedule
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Many protective measures you never knew were there…
Level 10 projectile resistant optical polycarbonate multilayered shielding.
very relieved he and melania are safe. continue holding them in the protective energies.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The planned White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony was postponed for several minutes today as the Secret Service successfully intercepted and foiled a Mossad-led assassination attempt on the President of the United States of America.
It seems Mossad does not like when their blackmail honey pots are uncovered and attempted to silence the President of the United States forever, but the Hand of God alone stopped them, working through the brave men and women of the United States Secret Service.
Below, the originally planned livestream (which can be viewed at the original YouTube here but has been reuploaded below since we are sure they will take it down in due time, please notice that POTUS enters at approximately 58:09 and abruptly exits the stage, for seemingly no reason, at approximately 59:38):
After this, seen below after Secret Service cleared the area and gave the five by five order (all clear) for POTUS to return and finish the ceremony (which can be viewed at the original YouTube here but has been reuploaded below since we are sure they will take it down in due time):
COLUMBIA, SC – The DOJ has just unveiled a multi-defendant “sextortion” case in which bad actors were sending child pornography to unwitting military members, and using their responses to blackmail them, using “contraband cellphones”; it is important to note that there are MANY “TracFone/Obamaphone” warrants listed in the recently unveiled DOJ indictments, a decent number of which were for National Security crimes/Providing Aid to Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
NCIS has been on the case for just under the past two years. It is “one of many,” the officials stated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin brushed off concerns about his country’s recent military confrontation with Ukraine, calling it a “minor incident.”
On Wednesday, he then went on to accuse Ukraine of stirring up anti-Russian sentiment as a way to placate its population, saying that if the Ukrainians wanted to eat babies, then the government would let them do that too.
“Kiev is actively stirring up anti-Russian sentiment. That’s all they have. And it all works. If they want to eat babies for breakfast tomorrow, they’ll probably give them babies,” he told an audience at a conference in Moscow.
On Monday, Ukraine’s government announced that it would declare martial law in 10 of the regions that are believed to be at risk of a Russian military invasion. The government in Kiev said that its intelligence services have evidence that Russia is planning a ground invasion.
The escalation began on Sunday when Russian ships prevented three Ukrainian navy vessels from entering the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea via the Kerch Strait. The incident ended with three wounded Ukrainian soldiers being detained by Russia, and they still remain in Moscow’s custody. They later emerged on Russian television confessing that the Ukrainians had been provocative, but officials in Kiev said that the men had been forced to lie.
