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CNN: Palestinians Want to Die
By David Swanson
In this latest assault on Gaza, Israel had by Thursday already killed 69 Palestinians including 22 children and 13 women, plus 469 wounded including 166 children and 85 women, and 70 houses destroyed. These numbers have since increased significantly.
In this video from Thursday on CNN, Jake Tapper interviews Diana Buttu, a former advisor to the PLO. After failing to persuade her of Israel's complete innocence, he tells her that Hamas is instructing women and children to remain in their homes to die as Israel bombs them. She responds by expressing doubt that people want to die. Oh no, says Tapper, Palestinians live in a culture of martyrdom; they want to die.
CPS Across The Nation Fails The Children They’re Tasked To Protect
Posted on July 11, 2014 by State of the Nation 2014
Arizona Disbands CPS; Child Immigration Fueling Crisis
Any interested party is compelled to ask: Qui bono? Who really benefits when Child Protective Services (CPS) is in such a state of disarray. Truly, that question must be addressed if the solutions are to be found to this ever-worsening predicament.
Why is it that so many children across America are unlawfully taken from their homes, unjustifiably separated from their legal parents, and/or shipped off to foster care in faraway places? More importantly, why are there so many unaddressed child abuse and neglect cases throughout the nation? Even after serious complaints have been filed with CPS, they are often backlogged into oblivion!
Something is very wrong with the current state of affairs within Child Protective Services — across the vast majority of the 50 states. Of course, there is no ongoing predicament like Los Angeles County, California; clearly, the Golden State is not so ‘golden’ where it concerns the welfare and safety of its children.
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What real meteorologists are worried about but are forbidden to mention
Gary G. Kohls
The video talks about the frightening scientific evidence behind the media/government censored-out geoengineering program that has been going on for decades. Be SURE to watch it.
The presentation discusses the reality of weather modification, global warming, chemtrail aerosolization (just LOOK UP) of the atmosphere (that happens on most relatively cloudless days over my city), weather warfare experiments by the Pentagon, bio-accumulative/endocrine disruption of our sickening bodies via metal poisoning of the atmosphere/planet/brains/endocrine systems.
U.S. Out of Germany
By David Swanson
If Germany hasn't had enough, we in the United States sure have.
Despite the supposed ending of World War II, the U.S. still keeps over 40,000 armed soldiers permanently in Germany.
Despite the ending of the Cold War, the U.S. still spies on the German government with relentless malevolence and incompetence, building on the fine tradition in which the CIA was created.
Germany has kicked out the latest CIA "station chief" -- a job title that seems to give one's career the longevity and utility of a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.
Does Germany need a better CIA station chief? A reformed NSA? A properly reviewed and vetted U.S. occupation?
Georgia court may have given sex predator custody of child victims
By Anne Stevenson, Communities Digital News
June 26, 2014
Photo by Southworth Sailor
ATLANTA, June 26, 2014 — According to court records, throughout 2011-2012, “Jane’s” children (then ages 2 and 7) repeatedly insisted and showed credible evidence to child psychologist Nancy McGarrah, Ph.D and Ann Shannon, LCSW, that that their father made suicidal and homicidal plans with them, that he routinely watched child porn with them and sexually assaulted them during overnight visits.
Court orders show that Cobb County, Georgia Family Court Judge C Latain Kell has repeatedly ordered Jane’s children back into the unsupervised care of their alleged rapist, even after the Walton County Department of Family And Children’s Services (DFCS) issued a report substantiating emotional and sexual abuse allegations against the father.
Protecting Abused Children from the Court System
By MCMoewe
U.S. judges routinely force abused children to live with their abusers.
But after nearly a decade of trying, I have given up on the mainstream media doing any significant investigations into this ongoing human rights atrocity. My name is M.C. Moewe. I have worked at several newspapers but my last full-time job was in 2008 as the investigative reporter for the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
My first day on the job, an editor handed me a stack of files asking me to look into a family court custody case. I was surprised, because as anyone who has worked in a newsroom can tell you, there are frequent calls from distraught parents alleging that the other parent is doing something horrible to their child and no one will help.
When that happens, a young reporter listens intently to the caller and then rushes over to their editor, who promptly explains to the newbie that this is a he-said/she-said case simply too difficult to write about. A seasoned reporter listens for as long as they have to, then hangs up without even bothering to tell their editor.
The 'Silent Scandal' of Courts Putting Children With Their Abusers
By MCMoewe
Sitting on a flowery couch, a 10-year-old girl recalls the first time her father raped her. She was three years old and tried to roll away, but there was little she could do when he pulled her towards him and took off her nightgown.
“I often wonder what would have happened if I had either cut, or at least moved that scene,” said the filmmaker who shot and edited Small Justice: Little Justice in America’s Court, a 2001 documentary that followed three parents through the U.S. family court system as they tried to protect their children from abuse.
A PBS executive had told Garland Waller that the opening scene was just too much and if she’d change it, the documentary might have a chance to air. “I wish I had been more flexible about changing the content,” said Waller, an assistant professor of communications at Boston University and a documentary film producer. “Because I refused to make that change, the conversation came to a dead stop. If the show had aired on PBS, would it have been the trigger for national change?”
Waller had underestimated what she calls the “yuck factor,” people’s unwillingness to deal with a distasteful topic like a parent raping their child. (You probably experienced it yourself when you began reading this story.)
Unfortunately, telling the story of child sexual abuse begins at home. A 2013 Tampa Tribune article points out that the number of children victimized by parents was nearly seven times that of children exploited by strangers.
World passively watching as Israel perpetrates open-ended massacre in Gaza
Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
The Israeli army, which can be called the Jewish Wehrmacht given its Nazi-like behavior, continues to pound the Gaza Strip from ground, sea and air. According to sources in Gaza, virtually all targets hit so far are civilian.
As many as 90 Palestinians, virtually all of them innocent civilians, have been reported killed so far. A thousand others were injured, many sustaining life-threatening wounds.
The scenes of mutilated and maimed children, some of whose bodies are seen protruding through the rubble of their homes, destroyed by missiles fired by American-supplied F-16 fighter jets, seem to verify the view that Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians knowingly and deliberately.
Making Washington Hear the Children Forced to Live With Abusers
By MCMoewe
Speaking to a group of parents struggling to protect their children, a White House advisor assures the room of mostly women that she understands courts are giving abusers custody of children and she is working to address the problem.
"I read about custody evaluators who weren't looking at evidence of abuse, even when it was actually in the file," Lynn Rosenthal, the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women said during the May 2013 event. She had been reading studies gathered by multiple agencies on the family court system's treatment of domestic violence and abused children. "I read about all of these third parties in the court who are using work that is not evidence-based and not reflective of the experiences of battered moms. I was really reminded back to the early days of the Violence Against Women Act, when we started looking at the criminal courts and Vice President Biden held these hearings 20 years ago and recognized that the justice system was failing and we needed to put in place these principles of victims' safety and offender accountability.
"I don't think I realized how much we were failing those principles in the family court system until I began these readings."
For those attending the 10th annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference last year, it was a rare moment of recognition by a U.S. government official that courts were forcing children into abusive relationships.
If You Want Custody Of Your Kids, It's Better to Be a Criminal Than a Concerned Parent
By MCMoewe
They had both lost, one mother in criminal court, the other in family court. But Mary Winkler, convicted of voluntary manslaughter for shooting her husband, got her children back. The other parent never did.
“I was sitting in my living room in disbelief,” Florida mother Linda Marie Sacks said of watching a 2008 TV news story about Winkler. “All I did was try to protect my children and raised concerns regarding disclosures, drawings, and asked the official avenues for help in trying to protect my children, to no avail. I never knew that parents in America would lose custody for reporting abuse. Mary Winkler had killed someone and she got out of jail and drove right over to pick up her children.”
When it comes to taking parental rights away from a convicted criminal, courts have checks and balances built into the system. Under federal law, criminal courts terminate parental rights only as a last resort and require reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify families.
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