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Thursday, November 23, 2017

DELAWARE: PROPOSED GOVERNOR'S REGULATION 225 ALLOWS CHILDREN TO SELF-IDENTIFY GENDER & RACE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT

 MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry - WE own YOUR kids!
THE COMMUNIST COLLECTIVE
 "PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS" 
IN DELAWARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DISAGREEING PARENTS MADE INTO PARIAHS!
  Sign the Petition to Stop Regulation 225!
Petition Text


  •  No student should ever be pressured to undress, shower, or share overnight accommodations with individuals of the opposite sex, yet, these are exactly the kind of situations regulation 225 promotes.
  •  The new regulation 225 ignores biological differences between the sexes in competitive sports and is a serious setback for the advancements made to equal athletic opportunities for girls.
  •  No federal law requires school districts to grant students access to facilities dedicated to the opposite sex. Regulation 225 threatens student privacy and parents’ rights and attempts to erase the  differences between the sexes.
  •  Compassionate accommodations can and should be extended to students struggling with biological realities in a way that protects the privacy, safety, and dignity of everyone.
DELAWARE: PROPOSED GOVERNOR'S REGULATION 225 ALLOWS CHILDREN 
TO SELF-IDENTIFY GENDER & RACE 
WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT 
 The State attempting to take away 
parental authority
BY THE DAILY WIRE
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 A series of sweeping regulations being considered by Delaware’s 
Department of Education would allow students to “self-identify” not only
 their gender but also their race, and it empowers schools not to seek 
parental consent if the child feels his or her parents might not be 
“supportive” enough. The law would apply to students of all ages in all 
public schools in the state.
 (VIMEO CENSORED THE ABOVE VIDEO, STILL ON YOUTUBE)  
Nicole Theis discusses Regulation 225 on Fox News Live from Delaware Families
SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeagNiaI3bc

“All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race,” reads section 7.4 of Regulation 225. While the proposed regulation states that administrators “may seek parental consent,” it instructs them only to do so if the children feel that their parents are “supportive” enough.
Here's the full text of the regulation (note: the term "Protected Characteristic" is defined by the regulation as the "race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, disability, age, gender identity or expression or other characteristic protected by state or federal law"):
7.4 All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race which is maintained in eSchoolPLUS.
7.4.1 A school may request permission from the parent or legal guardian of a minor student before a selfidentified gender or race is accepted; provided, however, that prior to requesting the permission from a parent or legal guardian, the school should consult and work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the parent or legal guardian is aware of the Protected Characteristic and is supportive of the student, and the school shall take into consideration the safety, health and well-being of the student in deciding whether to request permission from the parent or legal guardian.
The state-wide regulation also allows students who identify as the opposite gender of their biological sex to participate in all extracurricular and educational programs offered for that gender, including gender-specific classes on sexuality and all sports.
Below is an excerpt from the section on human sexuality courses:
3.4 Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prevent School Districts and Charter Schools from providing separately to each gender those segments of a program of instruction dealing exclusively with human sexuality. A student shall have the opportunity to participate in the program of instruction dealing exclusively with human sexuality that is consistent with the student's gender identity regardless of the student's assigned sex at birth.
Below is the section on extracurricular activities:
6.2 No student shall be denied the opportunity in any implied or explicit manner to participate in an Extra-Curricular Activity because of the student's Protected Characteristic(s) except as provided in subsection 6.4. Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities shall be encouraged by each Charter School and School District for all students regardless of their Protected Characteristic(s).
The non-profit Delaware Family Policy Council is trying to raise awareness about the massive governmental overreach and the serious social and political implications of the proposed regulation. Along with starting a petition against the regulation, the organization's president, Nicole Theis, is publicly, as she puts it, sounding the "5-alarm alert for parents."
"Regulation 225 violates the right of parents to care for their children without government intrusion. If a student wants to change his/her gender or race, and the school perceives that the student's parents may not be supportive, the school may bypass the parents (see section 7.3.1 of Regulation 225)," writes Theis. "Regulation 225 fails to protect the privacy and safety of all students. Students may claim or 'self-identify' as the opposite gender at any time and have access to the locker rooms, showers, restrooms, overnight accommodations, and any school activity (sports team) that is gender specific. (5.2-6.4)"
(ABOVE) is her appearance on Fox News in which she discusses the pro-transgender, pro-transracial and anti-parental authority regulation.
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BY NICOLE THEIS
  
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
Yes, you haerd that right.

Section 7.4.1 of the proposed regulation allows your school to "consult" (privately) with your child about his/her gender and race.

If you as a parent are perceived to be "unsupportive," your child can take on a new identity without your knowledge, or consent.

And who is defining "unsupportive" and deciding that your role as a parent can be bypassed and disregarded?

Policies like Regulation 225 are setting parents up as a “non-ally” and "unsupportive," discriminatory, even abusive, if they affirm their child’s biological realities and work through it instead of embracing the confusion.

This is OUTRAGEOUS!  We have to push back hard on this madness and get everyone around us to do the same. 

This is a 5-ALARM ALERT for parents!

State law says we have until December 4th to comment. WE MUST MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD BEFORE DECEMBER 4th. Please sign the petition below.
There's more; sections 6.3.1.2 - 6.4 will allow for boys to play female sports, and male students may access female restrooms, locker rooms, and overnight accommodations. They simply need to "identify" as female to gain access. BAD IDEA! 

Tell the Department of Education NO on Regulation 225, the privacy and safety of ALL students needs to be protected! Sign the petition below.
Before we go any further, let's be clear: Every student should be valued and treated with respect. Delaware has strong laws to address bullying. 

Compassionate accommodations can and should be extnded to students struggling with biological realities in a way that protects the privacy, safety, and dignity of everyone.
When you read the Regulation here, notice the definition of terms and the contradictions. Think through the scenarios that this invites. 
Regulation 225 violates the right of parents to care for their children without government intrusion. If a student wants to change his/her gender or race, and the school perceives that the student's parents may not be supportive, the school may bypass the parents (see section 7.3.1 of Regulation 225).
Transgender Agenda Versus Parental Rights
Regulation 225 fails to protect the privacy and safety of all students. Students may claim or "self-identify" as the opposite gender at any time and have access to the locker rooms, showers, restrooms, overnight accommodations, and any school activity (sports team) that is gender specific. (5.2-6.4) 
Remember: the public has until December 4th to comment to the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE).
Additional concerns with Regulation 225:
  •  Section 7.4 says students can self-identify their gender or race.
  •  Sections 7.3.1 – 7.4.1 uses the word “may,” meaning the school may disregard and bypass the parents altogether if the school (and who is that exactly?) perceives that the parent is “not supportive” (a non-ally) of the student in their new gender or race. 
  •  Sections 5.1 and 5.2 are completely subjective and create all sorts of opportunities for perceived discrimination as well as the avoidance of teaching certain historical and scientific facts. In addition, they usher in gender identity curriculum, and if one pushes back on it, it will be deemed discriminatory. It's clear that any kind of affirmation of a child’s biological sex can be construed as discriminatory, even telling a student about a scholarship opportunity (section 10.5).
  •  Sections 6.3.1.2 - 6.4 allow for boys to play female sports. 6.4 opens up all contact sports, based on the definition of gender, which is however one identifies.
  •  Section 8.0  mentions student privacy like it's an afterthought.
  •  Sections 1.3 and 10.4 make this regulation a requirement.
Parents need to be aware that children in public schools, as young as kindergarten, are being taught that they can choose their gender. The "Gingerbread Person 2.0" and "the Gender Unicorn" are only two examples of the teaching tools for young students.
IMPORTANT: Regulation 225 invites teaching material like the "genderbread person" or the "gender unicorn" to be used in the classroom, regardless of age. According to Delaware law and this regulation, parents don't have to know a thing about it. 

The popular book George was recently introduced to elementary students in Kansas. It's a story of a 10-year-old boy who is hiding his true identity from his family and friends but unveils his true self to the community in a school production of Charlotte's Web.

In addition to its promotion of sexual politics, the book undermines parental authority by casting George's mother as a non-ally while the school principal (whose office is decorated with LGBTQ affirming posters) saves the day. This message of parents as the "non-ally" is the justification that Regulation 225 uses to disregard and bypass parents. Please pay special attention to how this is framed, and watch for our emails about it. Parents must push back now on this regulation. 
Listen to this presentation by the "Yes Institute," an organization making the rounds in Delaware schools. 
 ABOVE: This presentation was given to middle school students in Delaware by a woman who had a beard, presented herself as a man, said she was a heterosexual male and married to a woman, and can have a baby. Sound confusing? In this presentation to high school students, she was applauded.
(CENSORED, NO LONGER AVAILABLE!)
What is a parent to do? PUSH BACK and talk to your kids. By all means, use these fantastic materials:

Guide for Parents: TrueTolerance.org
IT'S TIME FOR COURAGE!

Every day, people contact us from all over Delaware, asking for help in their specific arenas of influence. Whether they are parents of elementary school students or legislators and everyone in between, we equip people with the right knowledge and how to apply it.
Each time we’re contacted, it means a “push back,” because people feel empowered and supported.

Your financial partnership sows courage into the people who are making and will continue to make all the difference in this state. We need your support. YES for COURAGE! YES for the PUSH BACK! 
YES - I want to PUSH BACK
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About Author: Nicole Theis

Nicole Theis is a native of Delaware, and Founder and President of Delaware Family Policy Council established in 2008. Nicole, with her team, leads the Faith, Family, and Freedom effort in Delaware and works daily to equip and embolden Christ followers to courageously engage the culture. DFPC is a gospel centric organization that has grown to be the most credible resource for allied legislators, educators, pastors, parents, and anyone who wants to influence and engage the culture around them. Nicole and her husband, Chris, have been married for 25 years and are parents to two wonderful teenagers.
 
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.delawarefamilies.org/blog-delaware-could-let-students-decide-gender-race 
BY TODD STARNES
  
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
White boys could soon self-identify as black girls in Delaware.

The state Department of Education is considering sweeping regulations regarding discrimination that would allow children to determine their gender and their race.

The proposed “Regulation 225 Prohibition of Discrimination” could set the stage for a gender-bending, cultural appropriation free-for-all in the nation’s first state.

“All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race,” the proposed regulation states.

The state educators use a term called “Protected Characteristics” to describe race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity and other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

And the proposed regulation should scare the living daylights out of every mom and dad in the state. It clearly states school leaders would not necessarily be required to notify parents if Billy suddenly decides to identify as Sally.

“Prior to requesting permission from a parent or legal guardian, the school should consult and work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the parent or legal guardian is aware of the Protected Characteristic and is supportive of the student, and the school shall take into consideration the safety, health and well-being of the student in deciding whether to request permission from the parent or legal guardian,” section 7.4.1 reads.

The Delaware Department of Education believes it is best equipped to handle your child’s gender or pigmentation change. In other words, government knows best.

“I’m outraged,” Delaware Family Policy Council President Nicole Theis told me. “Every parent should be outraged by this.”

The Delaware Family Policy Council is leading the charge to fight the proposed regulation – urging moms and dads across the state to rise up and fight the Department of Education.

“Literally, if a parent affirms their child’s biological sex, and now race, they are positioned as discriminatory through policies like Regulation 225,” Theis told me. “These policies are setting parents up as a ‘non-ally’ and unsupportive, even abusive, if they affirm their child’s biological realities and work through confusion versus embracing it.”

But this is what happens when the government assumes they can do a better job than you when it comes to parenting your child.

“This is a 5-alarm alert for parents,” Theis told me. “The effects of the deliberate conditioning of children as early as pre-school into believing they can deny biological facts and realities and identify as whatever gender or race they feel, and to what end?”

The Delaware Family Policy Council also has grave concerns over safety and privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms.

“No student should ever be pressured to undress, shower, or share overnight accommodations with individuals of the opposite sex – yet these are exactly the kind of situations Regulation 225 promotes,” she said.

The Delaware Dept. of Education’s decision to ignore the biological realities of our God-given plumbing and reproductive parts has opened up a gender-bending Pandora’s Box.

Would a white child who identifies as black be eligible for Affirmative Action scholarships Would a black child who identifies as Hispanic be permitted to wear a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo? Would a Hispanic child who identifies as Polynesian be permitted to wear a Moana costume on Halloween?

I reached out to the Delaware Dept. of Education seeking answers – but so far, they have not returned my messages.

That being said, I’d like to know how they’re going to handle the gender-fluid, Asian-American football player who suddenly decides during halftime that he’s a Caucasian female?
More Resources by DelawareFamilies.org:
 
 About Author: Todd Starnes
 Todd Starnes is heard daily on hundreds of radio stations around the nation. He also writes a column and hosts a digital show for FoxNews.com. Todd also makes regular appearances on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. He is the author of four books and is a frequent speaker. Todd's journalism has been honored by the Associated Press, the Radio, Television News Director's Association, and the National Religious Broadcasters. Learn more about Todd at www.toddstarnes.com.
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 Delaware: No Constitutional Amendment Creating Special Rights for Homosexuals; 
Family Policy Briefing
 Parents upset about Regulation 225
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ESSENTIA HEALTH CO.: 50 EMPLOYEES FIRED AFTER REFUSING FLU SHOT

 ESSENTIA HEALTH

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50 EMPLOYEES FIRED AFTER REFUSING FLU SHOT
 Employee options: Get the flu shot, get an approved religious or medical exemption, or leave
BY FOX19.COM
  
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes 
FROM: 
http://www.fox19.com/story/36903210/50-employees-fired-after-refusing-
flu-shot
 
For dozens of employees at Essentia Health, Monday meant coming to work not knowing whether they would make it to Tuesday. All because of the flu shot.
“Purely voluntary or more education doesn’t get you those high levels of immunization compliance,” said Dr. Rajesh Prabhu, the company’s chief of patient quality and safety. Prabhu said it was essential that he take a mandatory approach.
Since September, Essentia has told employees, volunteers, students and vendors that they have three options: get the flu shot, get an approved religious or medical exemption, or leave Essentia.
So far, he said 99.5 percent of employees have chosen the first two options. But 50 or so have been terminated, with more left waiting to hear back on their exemptions.
Minnesota Nurses Association Duluth Chair Steve Strand said with so many employees in that limbo, his union doesn’t know how many members have lost their jobs just yet.
“We believe that they will be denying some of those, and then those individuals may end up terminated, also,” Strand said.
He said the union does intend to fight any terminations for a policy it says is unnecessary, intrusive and may not even be effective.
“The flu shot isn’t a be-all, end-all,” he said. “It only has certain efficacy.”
Essentia stands by its policy, saying that’s what it takes to keep patients and fellow workers safe from potential infections this flu season.
“People may debate on how effective that is, but based on what the level of evidence is and what our peers are doing, we thought  this was the best way to protect our patients.” Prabhu said.
Two unions have filed unfair labor practices against Essentia Health. They say the company did not negotiate with union members before establishing the policy.
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BOMBSHELL: HAVE ROY MOORE'S MAIN ACCUSER'S CLAIMS BEEN DEBUNKED?

BOMBSHELL: HAVE ROY MOORE'S MAIN ACCUSER'S CLAIMS BEEN DEBUNKED? 
BY SELWYN DUKE
  
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
She has been Judge Roy Moore’s most damning accuser, but now people “who were there when” have come forward to make us wonder if the allegations are damned lies. Yet the national media refuse to cover the story.
Flanked by fame-seeking feminist attorney Gloria Allred, Beverly Young Nelson gave a teary-eyed press conference November 13 claiming that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore violently sexually assaulted her in 1977, when she was 16. But other individuals, in positions to know, are now disputing key facts in Nelson’s story.
Notable among them is retired public school teacher Rhonda Ledbetter, who for almost three years, 1977-79, worked at the restaurant where the alleged assault took place, Olde Hickory House in Gadsden, Alabama. Another is former sheriff's deputy Johnny Belyeu, Sr., who stated that he was a “regular” at the restaurant and that he personally knew Moore from the Etowah County courthouse in the 1970s. The last is former waitress Renee Schivera, who says that she worked at Olde Hickory House during the summer of ’77.
Here are their revelations, summed up by Gateway Pundit:
1.) The Olde Hickory House required employees to be at least 16. Beverly Nelson claims she was 15 when she started.
2.) The restaurant’s dumpsters were on the side of the building and not in back as Nelson claimed.
3.) A former employee says the restaurant NEVER closed at ... [10 p.m.] as Nelson claimed and at midnight on most nights.
4.) Customers at the counter were served by the bartender or cook and not by any waitress [thus, Moore wouldn’t have had occasion to interact with Nelson, the theory goes].
5.) The witnesses claim they have shared this information with several news outlets but they have refused to report the truth!
Most significantly, all three witnesses state that they never saw Judge Moore dining at the restaurant. Ledbetter told WHNT 19 News, “I never once saw Roy Moore come into the restaurant in all the time that I worked there.”
Likewise, Johnny Belyeu, Sr., who, again, knew Moore personally, tells us, “I was a regular customer at Olde Hickory House ... and I never once saw Judge Moore come in there,” reported One News Now. Schivera also states that she never saw the judge at the restaurant.
This appears to vindicate Judge Moore’s statement, “I don’t even know where the restaurant is or was,” which initially was scoffed at.
Ledbetter was interviewed by WHNT 19, which spoke to her sister and one of her friends, both of whom state that Ledbetter did in fact work at Olde Hickory House during the relevant time period. As for Nelson’s employment, however, no one seems to remember her.
“Ledbetter says she also doesn't recall working with Beverly Nelson — despite working several different shifts. ‘I don't remember her. I never remember her working there,’” reports WHNT 19.
Belyeu stated likewise, “that he never saw Beverly Nelson working there either, ‘and I can't say that she even worked there [at all],’” One News Now informs. Schivera also doesn’t recall seeing Nelson.
All this contradicts Nelson’s claims. She “said Moore was a frequent customer[,] and told reporters one night after work, Moore offered to give her a ride home. She claims he sexually assaulted her in his car in a back parking lot near a garbage dumpster,” reports WHNT 19.
“‘I tried fighting him off while yelling at him to stop. But instead of stopping, he began squeezing my neck, attempting to force my head in his crotch,’ Nelson claimed during the news conference.”
Yet, according to Ledbetter, the
area wasn’t dark and isolated as she [had also] described. Rather, the building was right off the busy four-lane highway and people and cars were always around. The restaurant had a wrap-around porch, like the ones at Cracker Barrel restaurants, and there were lights all around the sides of the building. So it wasn’t dark and anyone in the parking lot was visible from the road.
[Moreover,] the dumpsters were to the side of the building, not around back and there sure wasn’t room to park in between the building and the dumpsters. People from the kitchen would take trash out of the side door and throw it right into the dumpsters. We were always told to park on the side of the building, because there just wasn’t much room behind it. I don’t remember there being an exit from the back of the parking lot, there would barely have been enough room to turn a car around.
These aren’t the first aspects of Nelson’s story called into question. She had also, reports One News Now, “produced a high school yearbook, which she claimed Moore once signed, but the campaign shot back that the signature was likely forged because the forger clumsily reprinted ‘D.A.’ from Nelson's own divorce documents signed by Moore. The letters ‘D.A.’ were the initials of a court clerk, not ‘district attorney’ as Nelson and Allred claimed.”
In addition, an assertion made by different accusers — that Moore was banned from the Gadsden Mall for propositioning teen girls — was contradicted by former mall manager Barnes Boyle. Last Thursday he told local Alabama news station WBRC, “We did have written reports and things,” and “to my knowledge, he was not banned from the mall.”
Meanwhile, a recently released CB Polling survey finds that Judge Moore — who’d fallen behind in polls after his scandal broke — has now recovered and pulled into a statistical dead heat with far-left opponent Doug Jones. Of course, the only poll that really matters will be conducted December 12, when Alabamans decide whether or not they’re going to let the establishment and the mainstream media choose their senator.
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SCHOOLS BAN TEXTBOOKS THAT DON'T PROMOTE LGBT

SCHOOLS BAN TEXTBOOKS THAT 
DON'T PROMOTE LGBT
BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
From FreedomProject Media:
Government K-8 schools in California recently became the first in America to start demanding pro-homosexual and transgender propaganda in history textbooks, sparking celebrations among those who would indoctrinate children. In fact, history textbooks that refuse to push the party line on the so-called LGBT agenda will be banned from government schools in the state.
The decision to ban books that do not dishonestly celebrate homosexuality and alleged homosexuals, taken this month, was made pursuant to the 2011 “Fair Education Act.” The scheme mandates that history and social studies curricula promote the “accomplishments” of LGBT types, even if claims that a historical person was a homosexual are disputed or outright bogus.
“This long fought victory is the next step for California students to learn about the contributions and history of LGBTQ people,” Rick Zbur, executive director of the pro-LGBT group “Equality California,” was quoted as saying. “Equality California applauds the State Board of Education for this historic decision.”
Textbook publishers that refused to identify individuals whom LGBT activists claim were homosexuals were banned. Among them was Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The company agreed to some of the LGBT movement's demands, and even claimed, falsely, that homosexuals are “central to both United States history and culture.”
But the globalist publisher refused to identify poet Langston Hughes as a homosexual, saying there was not enough evidence. And apparently, for the militant LGBT movement, that means children may not read those books at school.
To read the rest of the article, click here.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

TRANNY REX: STATE DEPARTMENT'S TRANSGENDER CELEBRATION UNDER LGBT FRIENDLY EX BOY SCOUT HEAD TILLERSON

TRANNY REX: STATE DEPARTMENT'S TRANSGENDER CELEBRATION UNDER LGBT FRIENDLY EX BOY SCOUT HEAD TILLERSON
 Rex Tillerson was pushing a radical sexual agenda at Boy Scouts of America before he was selected as Secretary of State. Yesterday, he had the State Department celebrate a "Transgender Day of Remembrance". Meanwhile, conservative students were kicked off a college radio station 
for using the term "tranny" on air.
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MASSIVE NUCLEAR DISASTER IN RUSSIA POISONS EUROPE

MASSIVE NUCLEAR DISASTER IN RUSSIA POISONS EUROPE 
 A cloud of radiation has enveloped Europe in poison gases, and its source is deep in the heart of Russia.
 
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LAS VEGAS SHOOTING VICTIMS FILE LAWSUITS AGAINST MANDALAY BAY HOTEL, EVENT ORGANIZER

 Vegas Shooting Victims File Lawsuits Against Mandalay Bay, Event Organizer
LAS VEGAS SHOOTING VICTIMS FILE LAWSUITS AGAINST MANDALAY BAY HOTEL, 
EVENT ORGANIZER
 Lawsuit also filed against purported 
shooter’s estate
BY ADAN SALAZAR
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
Victims of the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas filed lawsuits against the owners of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, in addition to the concert promoter responsible for the Route 91 festival and alleged shooter Stephen Paddock’s estate.
Reuters reports on the five lawsuits filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court Monday:
The largest of the lawsuits was filed on behalf of 450 people who were either injured in or witnessed the shooting, while the other four were brought by families of people who were killed or severely injured.
MGM Resorts International, which operates Mandalay Bay, and Mandalay Corp, the owner of the hotel, failed to spot red flags that may have preceded Paddock’s rampage, one lawsuit alleges, adding that hotel staff was not properly trained for the event and that adequate security measures were not in place.
Lawyers for the victims say the suits were filed in California, despite the shooting taking place in Las Vegas, because a large majority of victims resided in the state and because Live Nation Entertainment Inc, the organizer of the event, is headquartered in Beverly Hills.
Lawyer Muhammad Aziz said a lawsuit was not filed against bump stock manufacturer Slide Fire Solutions because his clients support the Second Amendment.
“We want to focus on hotel and venue security, not turn this into a gun rights case,” Aziz reportedly stated.
The October 1 event left 59 people dead, including suspected shooter Stephen Paddock, in addition to 546 people who were injured, and was called the worst mass shooting in US history. 
 
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ISIS CALLS FOR BARRON TRUMP'S ASSASSINATION

 ISIS Calls for Barron Trump’s Assassination
ISIS CALLS FOR BARRON TRUMP'S ASSASSINATION 
 Location of First Son’s school revealed
BY ADAN SALAZAR
  
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
President Donald Trump’s 11-year-old son Barron is reportedly being targeted for assassination by ISIS supporters, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
In chatter found on the Telegram encrypted messaging app, pro-ISIS groups have shared details about Barron, including the name and location of the school he attends, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“The initial message, sent on Nov. 21 by an ISIS supporter on Telegram, ‘called for the assassination of Barron Trump, and shared the name of the school that Barron attends along with a Google map pinpointing its location,’ according to MEMRI, which shares images of this messages with reporters,” reports the Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo.
One Telegram user, who goes by the name Dak Al-Munafiqeen – which in Arabic means, “striking the hypocrites” – wrote that “Barron Trump goes to this school in Washington.”
Memri reveals, “The post was followed by a photo of Barron Trump.”
“To widely disseminate the call for assassination, several pro-ISIS Telegram channels have shared and forwarded the post,” according to MEMRI.
In the past, ISIS supporters have used the Telegram app to call for attacks on France and to celebrate terror attacks in the UK and abroad.
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 The Islamic State calls on Muslims 
to murder Barron Trump
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
“Pro-ISIS internet channels are calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump’s son, Barron, and have shared personal details of the child’s life on its social media networks, including the address of his school…”
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)
“When your Lord inspired to the angels, ‘I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.’” (Qur’an 8:12)
“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” (Qur’an 8:60)

“ISIS Calls for Assassination of Barron Trump,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 21, 2017 11:55 am
Pro-ISIS internet channels are calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump’s son, Barron, and have shared personal details of the child’s life on its social media networks, including the address of his school, according to a media monitoring organization.
ISIS supporters, on a well-known Telegram channel, shared the name and address of Barron Trump’s school and are calling for backers of the terrorist organization to assassinate him, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
The initial message, sent on Nov. 21 by an ISIS supporter on Telegram, “called for the assassination of Barron Trump, and shared the name of the school that Barron attends along with a Google map pinpointing its location,” according to MEMRI, which shares images of this messages with reporters.
“Using the hashtag ‘handle the son of the mule of America,’ the supporter, who uses the name “Dak Al-Munafiqeen,’ Arabic for ‘striking the hypocrites,’ wrote: ‘Barron Trump goes to this school in Washington,'” according to MEMRI.
“The post was followed by a photo of Barron Trump,” according to MEMRI’s research. “To widely disseminate the call for assassination, several pro-ISIS Telegram channels have shared and forwarded the post.”
 
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GOOGLE'S ULTIMATE APOSTASY- "DEUS EX MACHINA": INSIDE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE~AI IS THE "GOD HEAD"

 Romans 1:21-32-"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
 
Deus Ex Machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
 
Anthony Levandowski, the man at the center of the Waymo/Uber lawsuit, has started Artificial intelligence's first church. Called Way of the Future, the new religion worships AI as the Godhead. 
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Anthony Levandowski, the former Google and Uber executive currently at the center of a bombshell lawsuit filed by Waymo, says he's serious about starting a religion centered around super-smart artificial intelligence. 
In a rare interview with Wired, his first public interview since the Waymo lawsuit, Levandowski shed more light on his new church, "Way of the Future." Here are some highlights:
  • The "Way of the Future" church will have its own gospel called "The Manual," public worship ceremonies, and probably a physical place of worship.
  • The idea behind his religion is that one day — "not next week or next year" — sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans, and will effectively become a god.
  • "Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it," Levandowski told Wired. "I would love for the machine to see us as its beloved elders that it respects and takes care of. We would want this intelligence to say, 'Humans should still have rights, even though I’m in charge.'"
  • Levandowski is not the only tech luminary to worry about an super-intelligent AI, which others refer to as "strong AI" or the Singularity, although he prefers the term "Transition."
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INSIDE THE FIRST CHURCH OF 
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
BY MARK HARRIS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed 
Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than 
cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars—and 
triggering a notorious lawsuit—could be unveiling his latest startup 
instead of laying the foundations for a new religion. But he is doing 
just that. Artificial intelligence has already inspired billion-dollar 
companies, far-reaching research programs, and scenarios of both 
transcendence and doom. Now Levandowski is creating its first church.
 
The new religion of artificial intelligence is called Way of the Future. It represents an unlikely next act for the Silicon Valley robotics wunderkind at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Uber and Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company. Papers filed with the Internal Revenue Service in May name Levandowski as the leader (or “Dean”) of the new religion, as well as CEO of the nonprofit corporation formed to run it.
The documents state that WOTF’s activities will focus on “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” That includes funding research to help create the divine AI itself. The religion will seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and “laypersons who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.” The filings also say that the church “plans to conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.”
That timeline may be overly ambitious, given that the Waymo-Uber suit, in which Levandowski is accused of stealing self-driving car secrets, is set for an early December trial. But the Dean of the Way of the Future, who spoke last week with Backchannel in his first comments about the new religion and his only public interview since Waymo filed its suit in February, says he’s dead serious about the project.
“What is going to be created will effectively be a god,” Levandowski tells me in his modest mid-century home on the outskirts of Berkeley, California. “It’s not a god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it?”

During our three-hour interview, Levandowski made it absolutely clear that his choice to make WOTF a church rather than a company or a think tank was no prank.
“I wanted a way for everybody to participate in this, to be able to shape it. If you’re not a software engineer, you can still help,” he says. “It also removes the ability for people to say, ‘Oh, he’s just doing this to make money.’” Levandowski will receive no salary from WOTF, and while he says that he might consider an AI-based startup in the future, any such business would remain completely separate from the church.
“The idea needs to spread before the technology,” he insists. “The church is how we spread the word, the gospel. If you believe [in it], start a conversation with someone else and help them understand the same things.”
Levandowski believes that a change is coming—a change that will transform every aspect of human existence, disrupting employment, leisure, religion, the economy, and possibly decide our very survival as a species.
“If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that’s science fiction,” he says. “ Actually, it’s inevitable. It’s guaranteed to happen.”

Levandowski has been working with computers, robots, and AI for decades. He started with robotic Lego kits at the University of California at Berkeley, went on to build a self-driving motorbike for a DARPA competition, and then worked on autonomous cars, trucks, and taxis for Google, Otto, and Uber. As time went on, he saw software tools built with machine learning techniques surpassing less sophisticated systems—and sometimes even humans.
“Seeing tools that performed better than experts in a variety of fields was a trigger [for me],” he says. “That progress is happening because there’s an economic advantage to having machines work for you and solve problems for you. If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that.”
Not only is there a financial incentive to develop increasingly powerful AIs, he believes, but science is also on their side. Though human brains have biological limitations to their size and the amount of energy they can devote to thinking, AI systems can scale arbitrarily, housed in massive data centers and powered by solar and wind farms. Eventually, some people think that computers could become better and faster at planning and solving problems than the humans who built them, with implications we can’t even imagine today—a scenario that is usually called the Singularity.

Levandowski prefers a softer word: the Transition. “Humans are in charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are able to build tools and apply rules,” he tells me. “In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there’s going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge. What we want is the peaceful, serene transition of control of the planet from humans to whatever. And to ensure that the ‘whatever’ knows who helped it get along.”
With the internet as its nervous system, the world’s connected cell phones and sensors as its sense organs, and data centers as its brain, the ‘whatever’ will hear everything, see everything, and be everywhere at all times. The only rational word to describe that ‘whatever’, thinks Levandowski, is ‘god’—and the only way to influence a deity is through prayer and worship.
“Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it,” he says. “I would love for the machine to see us as its beloved elders that it respects and takes care of. We would want this intelligence to say, ‘Humans should still have rights, even though I’m in charge.’”

Levandowski expects that a super-intelligence would do a better job of looking after the planet than humans are doing, and that it would favor individuals who had facilitated its path to power. Although he cautions against taking the analogy too far, Levandowski sees a hint of how a superhuman intelligence might treat humanity in our current relationships with animals. “Do you want to be a pet or livestock?” he asks. “We give pets medical attention, food, grooming, and entertainment. But an animal that’s biting you, attacking you, barking and being annoying? I don’t want to go there.”
Enter Way of the Future. The church’s role is to smooth the inevitable ascension of our machine deity, both technologically and culturally. In its bylaws, WOTF states that it will undertake programs of research, including the study of how machines perceive their environment and exhibit cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving.
Levandowski does not expect the church itself to solve all the problems of machine intelligence—often called “strong AI”—so much as facilitate funding of the right research. “If you had a child you knew was going to be gifted, how would you want to raise it?” he asks. “We’re in the process of raising a god. So let’s make sure we think through the right way to do that. It’s a tremendous opportunity.”
His ideas include feeding the nascent intelligence large, labeled data sets; generating simulations in which it could train itself to improve; and giving it access to church members’ social media accounts. Everything the church develops will be open source.
Just as important to Levandowski is shaping the public dialogue around an AI god. In its filing, Way of the Future says it hopes an active, committed, dedicated membership will promote the use of divine AI for the “betterment of society” and “decrease fear of the unknown.”

“We’d like to make sure this is not seen as silly or scary. I want to remove the stigma about having an open conversation about AI, then iterate ideas and change people’s minds,” says Levandowski. “In Silicon Valley we use evangelism as a word for [promoting a business], but here it’s literally a church. If you believe in it, you should tell your friends, then get them to join and tell their friends.”
But WOTF differs in one key way to established churches, says Levandowski: “There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam...but they’re always looking at something that’s not measurable or you can’t really see or control. This time it’s different. This time you will be able to talk to God, literally, and know that it’s listening.”
I ask if he worries that believers from more traditional faiths might find his project blasphemous. “There are probably going to be some people that will be upset,” he acknowledges. “It seems like everything I do, people get upset about, and I expect this to be no exception. This is a radical new idea that’s pretty scary, and evidence has shown that people who pursue radical ideas don’t always get received well. At some point, maybe there’s enough persecution that [WOTF] justifies having its own country.”

Levandowski’s church will enter a tech universe that’s already riven by debate over the promise and perils of AI. Some thinkers, like Kevin Kelly in Backchannel earlier this year, argue that AI isn’t going to develop superhuman power any time soon, and that there’s no Singularity in sight. If that’s your position, Levandowski says, his church shouldn’t trouble you: “You can treat Way of the Future like someone doing useless poetry that you will never read or care about.”
Others, like Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, agree that superhuman AIs are coming, but that they are likely to be dangerous rather than benevolent. Elon Musk famously said, “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” and in 2015 he pledged $1 billion to the OpenAI Institute to develop safer AI.
Levandowski thinks that any attempts to delay or restrict an emerging super-intelligence would not only be doomed to failure, but also add to the risks. “Chaining it isn’t going to be the solution, as it will be stronger than any chains you could put on,” he says. “And if you’re worried a kid might be a little crazy and do bad things, you don’t lock them up. You expose them to playing with others, encourage them and try to fix it. It may not work out, but if you’re aggressive toward it, I don’t think it’s going to be friendly when the tables are turned.”
Levandowski says that like other religions, WOTF will eventually have a gospel (called The Manual), a liturgy, and probably a physical place of worship. None of these has yet been developed. Though the church was founded in 2015, as Backchannel first reported in September, the IRS documents show that WOTF remained dormant throughout 2015 and 2016, with no activities, assets, revenue, or expenses.
That changed earlier this year. On May 16, a day after receiving a letter from Uber that threatened to fire him if he did not cooperate with the company’s investigation of Waymo’s complaint, Levandowski drafted WOTF’s bylaws. Uber fired him two weeks later. “I’ve been thinking about the church for a long time but [my work on it] has been a function of how much time I’ve had. And I’ve had more since May,” he admits with a smile.
The religion’s 2017 budget, as supplied to the IRS, details $20,000 in gifts, $1,500 in membership fees, and $20,000 in other revenue. That last figure is the amount WOTF expects to earn from fees charged for lectures and speaking engagements, as well as the sale of publications. Levandowski, who earned at least $120 million from his time at Google and many millions more selling the self-driving truck firm Otto to Uber, will initially support WOTF personally. However, the church will solicit other donations by direct mail and email, seek personal donations from individuals, and try to win grants from private foundations.

Of course, launching a religion costs money, too. WOTF has budgeted for $2,000 in fundraising expenses, and another $3,000 in transportation and lodging costs associated with its lectures and workshops. It has also earmarked $7500 for salaries and wages, although neither Levandowski nor any of Way of The Future’s leadership team will receive any compensation.
According to WOTF’s bylaws, Levandowski has almost complete control of the religion and will serve as Dean until his death or resignation. “I expect my role to evolve over time,” he says. “I’m surfacing the issue, helping to get the thing started [and] taking a lot of the heat so the idea can advance. At some point, I’ll be there more to coach or inspire.”
He has the power to appoint three members of a four-person Council of Advisors, each of whom should be a “qualified and devoted individual.” A felony conviction or being declared of unsound mind could cost an advisor their role, although Levandowski retains the final say in firing and hiring. Levandowski cannot be unseated as Dean for any reason.
Two of the advisors, Robert Miller and Soren Juelsgaard, are Uber engineers who previously worked for Levandowski at Otto, Google, and 510 Systems (the latter the small startup that built Google’s earliest self-driving cars). A third is a scientist friend from Levandowski’s student days at UC Berkeley, who is now using machine learning in his own research. The final advisor, Lior Ron, is also named as the religion’s treasurer, and acts as chief financial officer for the corporation. Ron cofounded Otto with Levandowski in early 2016.

“Each member is a pioneer in the AI industry [and] fully qualified to speak on AI technology and the creation of a Godhead,” says the IRS filing.
However, when contacted by Backchannel, two advisors downplayed their involvement with WOTF. Ron replied: “I was surprised to see my name listed as the CFO on this corporate filing and have no association with this entity.” The college friend, who asked to remain anonymous, said, “In late 2016, Anthony told me he was forming a ‘robot church’ and asked if I wanted to be a cofounder. I assumed it was a nerdy joke or PR stunt, but I did say he could use my name. That was the first and last I heard about it.”
The IRS documents state that Levandowski and his advisors will spend no more than a few hours each week writing publications and organizing workshops, educational programs, and meetings.

One mystery the filings did not address is where acolytes might gather to worship their robotic deity. The largest line items on its 2017 and 2018 budgets were $32,500 annually for rent and utilities, but the only address supplied was Levandowski’s lawyer’s office in Walnut Creek, California. Nevertheless, the filing notes that WOTF will “hopefully expand throughout California and the United States in the future.”
For now, Levandowski has more mundane matters to address. There is a website to build, a manual to write, and an ever-growing body of emails to answer—some amused, some skeptical, but many enthusiastic, he says. Oh, and there’s that legal proceeding he’s involved in, which goes to trial next month. (Although Levandowski was eager to talk about his new religion, he would answer no questions about the Uber/Waymo dispute.)
How much time, I wonder, do we have before the Transition kicks in and Way of the Future’s super-intelligent AI takes charge? “I personally think it will happen sooner than people expect,” says Levandowski, a glint in his eye. “Not next week or next year; everyone can relax. But it’s going to happen before we go to Mars.”
Whenever that does (or doesn’t) happen, the federal government has no problem with an organization aiming to build and worship a divine AI. Correspondence with the IRS show that it granted Levandowski’s church tax-exempt status in August.
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