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SCHOOL DATA REQUESTED ON STUDENT SUICIDE WITHOUT PARENT APPROVAL~ALEX NEWMAN & DR. DUKE PESTA DISCUSS
In an effort to perform a “psychological autopsy” to learn more about
what went wrong, authorities in Utah are seeking to gather highly
sensitive and private data from schools about children in the state who
have committed suicide. To get it, health officials want an agreement
with education officials.
Better understanding child suicide may sound like a noble effort. But
critics of the proposal, as written, have a big problem with it: Right
now, there is no requirement for parental consent prior to the release
of records. It is part of a troubling nationwide pattern of government
increasingly sidelining parents and trampling on parental rights,
according to critics.
GLOBALISTS WANT TO DEGRADE THE MILITARY, DEMORALIZE THE NATION, & DESTROY FREEDOM
Alex Jones exposes how the globalist forces hope to usher in an era of
world government by degrading the military forces of all nations and
dismantling the very things that allow for freedom.
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Iran is known for its human rights abuses and harsh treatment of Christians, whom it claims to be “’threatening national security,’ either for converting people or for attending house churches.” All the while, UN “experts” and spokespersons pay lip service to Iran’s human rights abuses, but take no action. If it ever took Muslim persecution of Christians seriously, the UN would have its hands full. Over 200 million Christians worldwide are facing severe persecution, and 12 out of 14 of the top persecuting countries are Muslim countries. No significant efforts are ever made by the UN on their behalf, which is not surprising, given the power of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the UN.
In 2016, the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs for the UN, Miroslav Jenca, told the UN Security Council that “we need to join forces with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to devise joint strategies.” The UN has long been working closely with the OIC, which does not ascribe to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, but instead to the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, which says that all human rights derive from the Sharia. It is no wonder that the ongoing jihad genocide against Christians in the Middle East is being disregarded by the UN, as well as efforts to defend Christian rights and freedoms.
At the end of January, Pastor Victor Bet Tamraz’s wife, Shamiram Isavi, was also sentenced to five years in prison for “acting against national security.”
We can only hope that other human rights groups and Christian watchdogs will continue to advocate stridently on behalf of Victor Bet Tamraz, Shamiram Isavi, Amin Afshar Naderi, and Hadi Asgari.
“Iranian Christians Appeal Convictions By Islamic Court”, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 4, 2018:
Three Iranian Christians are due to appear before Iran’s
Islamic Revolutionary Court on February 4 to appeal against their 2017
convictions on charges of “conducting evangelism” and carrying out
“illegal church activities.”
Pastor Victor Bet Tamraz, Amin Afshar Naderi, and Hadi Asgari each
received a provisional sentence of 10 years in prison for the charges
filed against them.
The Islamic judges also imposed an additional five-year prison sentence against Naderi on a charge of blasphemy.
The Revolutionary Court has the power to end the case, confirm the sentences, or refer the case to Iran’s Supreme Court.
Iran’s secretive Revolutionary Court system was established after the
1979 Islamic Revolution to try suspected ideological opponents of the
country’s Islamic rulers. It operates without juries, without defense lawyers, and often without evidence except confessions extracted through torture.
The court system’s case load includes suspects charged with
espionage, threatening the internal and external security of Iran,
trying to overthrow Iran’s Islamic government, blasphemy, inciting
violence, and drug smuggling.
On February 2, four UN human rights experts issued a joint statement
calling on Iran to ensure “a fair and transparent final hearing” for the
three men.
The UN special rapporteurs said the charges and sentences were
“completely contrary” to Iran’s obligations under international law.
“We are additionally concerned about the lack of health care made
available to them while in detention and, in particular, about the
current health condition of Mr. Asgari, who remains in prison,” they
said.
The UN experts also said they were concerned that the prosecution of the three Christians was not an isolated case.
They called on Iran to “ensure fair trials for all, including the religious minorities in the country.”
“We are aware of several other reported cases in which members of the
Christian minority have received heavy sentences after being charged
with ‘threatening national security,’ either for converting people or
for attending house churches,” their joint statement said.
“This shows a disturbing pattern of individuals being targeted
because of their religion or beliefs, in this case a religious minority
in the country,” they said.
“Members of the Christian minority in Iran, particularly those who
have converted to the faith, are facing severe discrimination and
religious persecution,” the UN experts said.
The UN experts also urged Iran’s government to “immediately and
unconditionally release all those who have been arrested and detained
for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.”….
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CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refusedtodenounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. Would Bethany Lutheran Church, blithely indifferent to all that as it is, offer office space to a group that had, say, been defamed by the hard-Left Southern Poverty Law Center? Not on your life! But Hamas? Fine!
“Muslim group CAIR finds new home at Bethany Lutheran Church in Mpls.,” by Faiza Mahamud, Star Tribune, January 28, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
Jaylani Hussein knew the cramped Minneapolis office of
the Council on American-Islamic Relations wasn’t big enough to hold the
growing staff much longer. But it was the threats, hate-filled letters and menacing phone calls
directed at the organization that sent him in search of something more
than extra square footage. CAIR held an open house last week to celebrate its new office in
Bethany Lutheran Church in Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhood, a location
that offers more space, is closer to clients and, CAIR staff members
hope, serves as a sanctuary.
The alliance comes amid heightened fear and uncertainty for local
Muslims, as hate crimes against them rise. On Friday, President Donald
Trump issued an order temporarily barring refugees from entering the
country. Officials with the civil rights organization and the church
hope they can work together to undercut discrimination.
“These are our allies,” said Hussein, CAIR’s local executive
director. “These are the people that stood with us when we were
challenging Islamophobia.”
The Rev. Mike Matson, pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church, said the
congregation has parishioners from across the political spectrum and
strives to be open and “willing to come to the middle … where it’s
messy, but safely and with integrity.” He said it’s unfortunate there is
such anger and division in the country. “We wanted to be a model of how people can come together so that we
can stop all that rhetoric of hate, name-calling or labeling,” Matson
said.
He acknowledged that CAIR has dealt with threats of violence. At
least three of the threats in 2015 were serious enough that CAIR
reported them to police. Records show they included threats of physical
harm and a taunting letter. But Matson said the congregation is undeterred, because of its
history of supporting advocacy organizations and its stances in support
of minorities and the gay community. He said Bethany received threats
when the church ordained an openly gay pastor and opened its doors to
other faith groups. The church has leased space to the Latino worker
advocacy group Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha. It has invited an
African small business to make bread in the kitchen and partnered with a
Tunisian chef to provide a free hot soup meal to the surrounding
community.
Dianne Holte, president of the Bethany Lutheran Church Council said
the group voted unanimously in support of leasing the space to CAIR and
building an interfaith partnership. Discussion about partnering with
CAIR started last spring, with the Augsburg College Campus Ministry
helping make the connection. “We are honored to have them house their offices within our walls,” Holte said….
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Last Thursday, Sam Brownback was sworn in as the State Department's new ambassador for religious liberty.
Today -- in his first official speech as ambassador -- Brownback openly embraced a hardline Islamic cleric who authorized a fatwa in 2004 justifying the killing of Americans in Iraq, and another fatwa in 2012 calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah's past is no mystery to the State Department. For example, the Obama administration's State Department had to repeatedly apologize in May 2014 for promoting Bin Bayyah as a moderate. However, the Obama administration then implemented a full-court press with the U.S. media and the D.C. foreign policy "Smart Set" to rehabilitate the image of the Mauritanian cleric.
The presence of multiple senior Trump State Department officials at an "interfaith" event in Washington, D.C. in support of Bin Bayyah's efforts appears to confirm there will be no change. The Trump administration is continuing the engagement with Bin Bayyah they inherited from Obama -- despite the fact that Bin Bayyah's views on Israel are directly contrary to those of President Trump.
There is also an inherent contradiction in the Trump State Department embracing the interfaith efforts of an Islamic cleric who openly states on his website that Christians are going to hell. Bin Bayyah has also said that interfaith outreach to Jews in Arab lands should only be done with extreme caution -- and only with Jews who oppose Israel.
The State Department is promoting Brownback's speech at Bin Bayyah's event earlier today:
An Obama administration holdover, State Department Special Advisor for Religious Minorities Knox Thames, gushed his praise of Bin Bayyah during the cleric's opening keynote last night:
Good to join opening event of the #allianceofvirtue conference with Sheikh Bin Bayyah about promoting interfaith understanding, minority rights, and peace. pic.twitter.com/uw7jutEu90
The Obama administration's attempts to rehabilitate Bin Bayyah were not without controversy. Most embarrassing for the Obama White House was Bin Bayyah's approval of a 2004 fatwa authorizing the killing of Americans in Iraq and endorsing the Iraqi "resistance." This information was raised in June 2013 after it was reported Bin Bayyah had been escorted into the White House to meet with senior members of Obama's National Security Council.
The 2004 fatwa was issued by the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) while Bin Bayyah was serving as vice president. It called for "resisting occupation forces," stating this was a "duty" for all able-bodied Muslims inside and outside Iraq. The official Iraqi resistance site posted the IUMS fatwa.
The Obama White House defended meeting with the cleric, but made no comment about Bin Bayyah's past extremist statements or Islamic rulings.
Bin Bayyah's extremist past was raised again in May 2014, when the State Department tweeted a link to one of Bin Bayyah's statements. State quickly deleted the tweet and repeatedly apologized for promoting his work.
The 2004 fatwa is not the only controversial IUMS fatwa involving Bin Bayyah.
As noted by Steve Emerson and John Rossomando of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, in 2009 IUMS prohibited any political, economic and cultural interaction between Muslims and Israel as “a form of loyalty to the enemy, which is religiously prohibited.”
Then, a December 2012 IUMS fatwa called for the destruction of the state of Israel. Pictures clearly show Bin Bayyah front and center at the event.
How those fatwas from Bin Bayyah's organization square with the Trump administration's policies regarding Israel, and Jerusalem in particular, would be interesting to hear.
Bin Bayyah resigned his leadership role with IUMS in 2013, issuing a cryptic statement: “[T]he path for reform and reconciliation requires a speech that does not fit with my role in the Union."
However, it appears he has never publicly recanted his role in the IUMS fatwas or apologized for his rulings.
In fact, those extremist fatwas align with his own published statements:
In a 2010 televised interview with Al Jazeera, Bin Bayyah endorsed Palestinian terrorism, saying that "it is their right to resist" and that such violence was in line with sharia.
A 2011 post in Arabic on his own site criticizes Western governments for lumping Palestinian terror groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad with al-Qaeda.
Notwithstanding his criticism of al-Qaeda and ISIS, Bin Bayyah openly endorses the idea of all of Islam united under one banner and one ruler in a caliphate as the only Quranic model. He called for a unified army to fight Islam's wars.
In 2012, Bin Bayyah issued a personal fatwa calling on all Muslim leaders worldwide to provide the Hamas government in Gaza with financial, military, and diplomatic support.
Immediately following the September 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi -- which killed two State Department officials including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, as well as two CIA contractors -- Bin Bayyah called for Western governments to outlaw speech criticizing religions. He seemingly endorsed the view that if the attacks that killed four Americans were not justified, they were a reasonable, expected response to the provocation of an anti-Islam video. This view was pushed by the Clinton State Department at the time.
Despite his endorsement of killing Americans in Iraq and destroying Israel, and despite his defense of Palestinian terror groups, in recent years Bin Bayyah has become a darling of D.C. think-tanks. The Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Institute of Peace have been positive about him, as has been the establishment media: Bin Bayyah was the subject of glowing profiles by NPR and CNN.
According to a press release on his site, Bin Bayyah's event culminates with an "interfaith" meeting tomorrow to sign a so-called "Washington Declaration" in support of religious minorities in the Muslim world.
This declaration most likely mirrors the "Marrakesh Declaration" pushed by Bin Bayyah in 2016. That declaration has been criticized as weak, and produced no changes whatsoever in the policies of Muslim countries towards non-Muslim religious minorities. If anything, the condition of religious minorities in the Muslim world continues to rapidly deteriorate.
Bin Bayyah's event also appears timed to coincide with Friday's National Prayer Breakfast featuring President Trump. It's still unknown if Bin Bayyah will be present at that event, and if he will perhaps even speak alongside Trump.
Given that the Trump State Department is ostensibly dedicated to "draining the swamp" of its predecessor, it seems remarkable that it would so openly wade into Bin Bayyah's swamp of Islamic extremism. Perhaps there's more draining to be done.
“Powdered human baby flesh” marketed as an aphrodisiac is still being smuggled from China to South Korea.
The abominable contraband is reportedly in high demand in both countries; moreover, customs officials narrowed down the pills’ sources to four cities in China.
“The investigative team acquired these capsules and ran DNA tests on it,” said an International Business Times reporter when the practice first appeared in 2012. “The test results reported that the pills were 99.7% human.”
“Tests also found hair and nail remnants in the pills.”
Cases like this illustrate the urgency to shut down abortion clinics due to the fact they operate as merchants for exporting baby remains – and the resulting black market incentivizes further murders of the unborn.
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“Powdered human baby flesh” marketed as an aphrodisiac is still being smuggled from China to South Korea.
The abominable contraband is reportedly in high demand in both countries; moreover, customs officials narrowed down the pills’ sources to four cities in China. “The investigative team acquired these capsules and ran DNA tests on it,” said an International Business Times reporter when the practice first appeared in 2012. “The test results reported that the pills were 99.7% human.” “Tests also found hair and nail remnants in the pills.”
Cases like this illustrate the urgency to shut down abortion clinics due to the fact they operate as merchants for exporting baby remains – and the resulting black market incentivizes further murders of the unborn. Read more at: https://www.infowars.com/disturbing-child-flesh-used-for-enhancement-pills/ ___________________________________________________
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Hungarian leaders have blasted a new United Nations migration treaty currently in developmental stages that would pry Europe's borders open even wider, saying it looks like it was "copied from the Soros plan" and threatening to abandon negotiations altogether. A slew of ranking officials from Hungary have come out against the compact in the last week, arguing that it promotes, rather than discourages, an increase in migration from the Third World to Europe, creating security risks and financial burdens that have already deeply imperiled Europeans. Hungarian officials have also asserted that the global plan runs parallel to agendas being promoted by the European Union and 'George Soros mafia network,' and that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his co-conspirators are moving forward with the scheme regardless of opposition.
"The UN’s draft directive on migration is chillingly reminiscent of the European Union’s plans, against which the Hungarian government is also fighting," said Chief Security Advisor György Bakondi. "The opinions of the UN Secretary General with relation to the planned compact for migration are far from supported internationally. The Hungarian government has also protested against the fact that the UN Secretary General is putting the plan forward as his own standpoint on the global organization’s various forums without the existence of a consensus on the issue."
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has warned that his government is prepared to walk away from the negotiating table, vowing to uphold sovereign immigration policies that put Hungarians' safety and security above the diktats of unelected internationalists.
"The Hungarian government wants migration to be stopped, not promoted," Szijjarto said. "We regard it as unacceptable that the Secretary General is preempting the results of such a debate and to all intents and purposes announcing the result, while he is otherwise fully aware of the fact that he in no way enjoys the unanimous backing of member states on this issue."
"The question therefore arises whether there is any point in taking part in these negotiations at all." Prime Minister Viktor Orban explained that the treaty calls for countries to relax their immigration laws and penalties for illegal entry, and to transfer migration controls over to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 'charities' - many of which are funded by George Soros. "Hungary has had bad experiences with NGOs," Orban said. "The fake civic organizations dealing with migration are eating out of George Soros’ hand."
"The UN is valuable, but we must not let it establish principles that go against Hungary’s interests."
FM Szijjarto has corroborated Orban's assessment, saying that the new UN agreement endeavors to make "migration appear as a fundamental human right, as well as to remove the difference between legal and illegal migration, which is unacceptable."
"The ability to protect the border is one of the most important aspects of statehood, an important component of sovereignty."
Secretary of State Zoltán Kovács has said Hungary is prepared to "build [another] fence, boost its police and military forces and shape the legal environment to suit its goals."
Orban's statement comes partly in response to recent comments made by PM Michel in which he warned, "We have formulated an ultimatum against the countries of Visegrad (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia) who refuse solidarity in welcoming migrants: in the absence of a consensus, we will use qualified majorities at the end of the first semester to decide without them."
European globalists are preparing to "force" Central European nations to accept mandated migrant quotas and open borders, according to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.
Trump is doing all he can to boost the economy, but the elite are trying to stop him
Alex Jones details the economic growth under President Trump and explains how the Federal Reserve recognizes that strength and is now actively working against the best interest of the American Economy.
MUST SEE: The Federal Reserve Admits To Engineering Stock Market Plunge
Alex Jones presents an audio clip From Michael Savage's radio program where he helps verify what was suspected here on Infowars about the artificial nature of the stock market plunge.
Execute Order 666: Stock Market Plunge Globalist Signal To Trump?
Was recent 666 point drop in stock market warning to president?
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Last Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 666 points amid interest
rate fears and news of the FISA memo’s release.
Ominous? Yes. Coincidence? Maybe not. On Monday, the Dow dropped 1,175 points (4.6%), the biggest single day selloff in history. Conservative radio host Michael Savage surmised the globalists were behind the market shakeups because the FISA memo story is gaining steam and they need to hurt Trump where he’s strongest: the economy.
“The establishment, meaning the ‘Deep State,’ call it whatever you want, went into overdrive to destroy Trump, or try to destroy him, where he is strongest, because they couldn’t get him where they thought he was weakest,” Savage said Monday.
“So they are taking the market down. They are trying to hurt you. They are the enemies of the average American. Make no mistake about it, they are going for you! These people are so evil and so power-drunk that they’d burn the nation to the ground rather than let Donald Trump live another day in office.”
Economist Peter Schiff said the Federal Reserve may be attempting to destroy the “Trump effect” that’s been rallying the stock market for the last year.
“Maybe the Fed would be happy to see a bear market that could be blamed on Trump,” Shiff said in an interview with The Street.
“We’ve had a huge move up since the election of Trump even though prior to the election the expectation was if Trump won it [would be a disaster for markets].”
Are the globalists playing their last hand out of desperation?
Intelligence insider known as QAnon recently posted on 8chan suggesting the globalists’ next move was to rattle the stock market to send a signal to Trump they are still in control.
“[666]. Signal to POTUS they control the market? Signal? Threat? Welcome to the global war.” Click to enlarge
Interestingly, QAnon also points out the Rothschild banking family has been selling off their properties and investment holdings like Apache Co. at about the same time as the recent market volatility.
“This type of transaction happens once in a century in a family like the Rothschilds,” Austrian real estate broker Klaus Bischof told Bloomberg last week.
The so-called “Nunes Memo” currently rocking Washington is ripping back the curtain of Deep State secrecy and the establishment has gone into overdrive trying to discredit it.
Despite the corporate media’s best attempts to distract and disinform, the revelations from the memo are only getting more traction.
Is the stock market plunge an attempt by the globalists to get off the subject of the memo and DoJ/FBI corruption?
