[PJ] The U.S. Marshals Service recently launched a nationwide effort to recover missing and exploited children. Three major operations rescued over 100 children, many of them from sex traffickers. But a disturbing trend discovered during the operation should launch a nationwide investigation into the American child welfare system. PJ Media reached out to USMS for details on the rescued children and was told that the majority of them came from foster care. This information was ignored in the initial media reports on the operation. Dave Oney, press contact at the USMS, responded via email to questions about the rescued children.
For the Northern Ohio Operation Safety Net: 25 of the 31 children recovered were in DCFS care in either a group homes or foster case. Additionally, seven children have been confirmed victims of sex trafficking.
For Operation Not Forgotten in Georgia: 28 of the 39 recovered were in the care of DFACS; 15 were victims of sex trafficking
For Operation Homecoming in Indianapolis: Of the eight children recovered, two were in foster homes or group homes. Five were runaways with risk factors. One was a noncustodial kidnapping. The bulk of the cases still being worked are foster/group home situations.
The State Department recently confirmed that a large number of children involved in sex trafficking in the United States are coming from foster care.
#6
My wife and I were foster-parents for a private group. We had much interaction with different social services workers. Some were great, others were useless. The biggest problem is that social services budgets depend upon case loads, so there is incentive to keep case loads high, and little incentive to actually do things that HELP CHILDREN. There's also a lot of politics involved, from the top down. As for vetting, been there, done that. Even the best vetting fails to identify people who should never be around children. The whole system is a mess, and it won't change until enough people get mad enough to hold politicians accountable. Which pretty much applies to anything government gets involved in.
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/\ You've just told us a lot about yourself OP. There is a special gated golf community in heaven awaiting you, I am certain of it.
#8
When my wife and I decided we wanted to adopt or foster another child, we began the seven step process our county requires. We got to about step four before we decided "f__k this!" Here are two quotes from the county adoption employee we interacted with that have stuck with me over the years:
1) "You have a child with Down syndrome? Well, you don't want any of our kids. All they'll do is beat her up!"
2) "Hope you don't have any ideas about getting black child. We put like with like here: white with white, black with black, Mexican with Mexican."
I remember hating this woman very, very much.
Several months after we dropped out of the program, we took in a teenage girl we'd known since she was little in a private arrangement with her family: no government involvement. (It's a complicated story with no villains, but they weren't able to take care of her.) It's been four years, she's almost 18, and we'e still her guardians. She's a great kid and I'm very proud of her: no different from my biological child.
My advice is to avoid social workers, CPS, and all the rest of them. Work with a private agency, or directly with a family that isn't able to take proper care of a child. (There are a lot of them.) The later is a balancing act, but it can be made to work. After all: it's about the child, not you.
[FOX] The far-left demonstrations seen in U.S. cities this summer are part of a "cultural Maoist" movement that has the approval of Democratic officials, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday.
Hanson explained to host Tucker Carlson that protesters and rioters are acting out their personal angst and agendas against the U.S. and have "redefined traditional Marxism" into identity politics.
"We saw it with Maxine Waters, who said, ’Get in their face at gas stations and follow them into department stores.’ We saw them when they kicked Sarah Sanders [out] from a restaurant," Hanson said. "We saw it when they swarmed the house of Mitch McConnell. And no one said anything because they were saying to us, 'This isn't a political revolution and this is a cultural Maoist revolution."
#4
Let's try the experiment and start by indicting the coup members for sedition, treason, obstruction of justice, destruction of records and evidence, etc. By ignoring these acts, a climate of acceptance of law-breaking has been created that has spawned Antifa/BLM violence and destruction.
#9
I said at the very beginning that this would continue until someone started shooting the rioters and looters. Trump should authorize the Militia of the Whole to put down the riots, and provide clear rules of engagement that allow shoot-on-sight for anyone tossing a molotov cocktail, using force against non-rioters, or destruction of private or public property. If all the retired military gathered in one spot with weapons, that spot would soon not have any living rioters. This has gone on long enough.
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/\ Some well aimed #6 from a 12 gauge, it would end fairly rapidly I suspect.
[Irish Times] Covid-19 is "much less severe" than the average annual flu and current "draconian" restrictions are no longer justified, according to a senior Health Service Executive doctor.
People at low risk from the virus should be exposed to it so they can develop herd immunity and reduce the risk to vulnerable groups, according to Dr Martin Feeley, clinical director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group.
"That is what is happening and yet the policy seems to be to prevent it," he says. "This should have been allowed to happen during the summer months before the annual flu season, to reduce the workload on the health service during winter months."
Any assessment of Ireland’s strategy to combat the virus should take into account the cost to people’s quality of life, according to the former vascular surgeon, who points out that "you can’t postpone youth".
"The financial cost can be seen in any walk or drive through cities, towns and villages. Mortgage repayments and other financial setbacks are virtually all suffered by the young worker or business person and not by the over-65, who are guaranteed their pension, as indeed are the salaries of the individuals who decide to inflict these draconian measures," the 70 year old told The Irish Times.
Dr Feeley is critical of the media and public "obsession" with daily case numbers, when so few people are being admitted to hospital or intensive care units. "The number of deaths among recent cases is less than one in a thousand. This data reflects a disease much less severe than the average annual flu.
#6
Why single out NHS? The entire medical community around the globe dropped the ball on this. Too busy prescribing sex change surgery and asking patients if they have guns at home. It's assholery to consider them a clerisy at this point.
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[Weasel Zippers] "Mother Earth is angry," Speaker Pelosi says, discussing wildfires burning in California. "She’s telling us with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the West, whatever it is...the climate crisis is real and has an impact."
[RedState] It took Netflix releasing a pedophilic movie to come together on something but America made it clear that the movie "Cuties," featuring young girls mimicking sexual acts and dancing provocatively as the camera focuses on places where it shouldn't, shouldn't be featured on Netflix, much less, exist.
It had few defenders, and surprising no one, you could find those defenders in the leftist mainstream media. as of this posting, rotten tomatoes had it at 88 out of 100 by critics and 3 out of 100 by viewers
speculation is that the movie was designed to soften the impact of eventual revelations about Bill Clinton on Epstein's Island
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#1
How is this not exploitation of kids for sexual purposes. The ped0s are most likely thrilled.
#3
Where were the parents? At the bank counting their money?
And I saw some black gal who may have been the director trying to explain why the movie was made. Really? Management trying to hide behind her privileged skirt?
#6
Honestly, if they were going to get anything out of the Epstein case, I think they would have. That woman has been in custody for over a month now, I believe. It's been buried.
#8
To be fair, Cobra Kai had some moments season 2 which I was not happy with: High School sex and drinking.
I would like my eldest to watch it, and the language can be forgiven even though they're dropping cuss bombs it isn't gratuitous and I've said much worse in a not large house after a fire the language isn't unfamiliar. Can't do it with teenagers getting drunk as OK is not right.
I know that isn't unfamiliar territory (cough cough) but the glorification of it isn't good.
The political re-pay puff pieces are shameful.
I know people have disagreements with the young girl dance competitions (as I when wife was watching 'reality TV' about such), but:
#9
Honestly, if they were going to get anything out of the Epstein case, I think they would have. That woman has been in custody for over a month now, I believe. It's been buried.
Sure seem to be a lot of flesh trade orgs getting busted recently...
[ZERO] As Americans pause to remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001 which saw almost 3,000 innocents killed in the worst terror attack in United States history, it might also be worth contemplating the horrific wars and foreign quagmires unleashed during the subsequent 'war on terror'.
Bush's so-called Global War on Terror targeted 'rogue states' like Saddam's Iraq, but also consistently had a focus on uprooting and destroying al-Qaeda and other armed Islamist terror organizations (this led to the falsehood that Baathist Saddam and AQ were in cahoots). But the idea that Washington from the start saw al-Qaeda and its affiliates as some kind of eternal enemy is largely a myth.
Recall that the US covertly supported the Afghan mujahideen and other international jihadists throughout the 1980's Afghan-Soviet War, the very campaign in which hardened al-Qaeda terrorists got their start. In 1999 The Guardian in a rare moment of honest mainstream journalism warned of the Frankenstein the CIA created — among their ranks a terror mastermind named Osama bin Laden.
#1
The 'Frankestein' farm; Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq, Fidel Castro, Guzman, Diem, Noriega, Muammar Gaddafi, the list goes on.
It was obviously a short journey from attempting to shape foreign policy and politics to shaping domestic policy and politics. Not a great deal of re-tooling necessary.
#5
The Al Qaeda was formed at Khost, Afghanistan, in August 1988. There were more than 45 present, and, no, no CIA agent was there. Nor was there CIA funding. Nor did the CIA really find what it was all about until a cache of papers was discovered in Bosnia more than a decade later. Truth be told, CIA omniscience is a myth.
"Omniscience" as in all knowing, yes I agree. I suspect you may concur, not having an employee in the battle space does not constitute non-involvement.
#8
I imagine you are referring to the billions supplied the Arab-Afghans by Saudi Arabia, and the matching funds supplied by the USA in support of military operations. Recall, USA military support was taken charge of by Pakistani ISI once it arrived in Karachi port, or the various airfields of Pakistan. The CIA worked around the edges, (in one unknown case collecting mules for shipment to Pakistan to move arms cross-border to the Muj, etc.). Finally, USA involvement turned the tide when it was decided to send Stingers rather than mules to Muj actives. So, yes, the US military didn't pull the trigger but it certainly was involved in myriad ways in the War for Afghanistan.
#10
Doesn’t Zero Hedge have a Russia connection of some sort? What are they trying to accomplish by writing about this now? Stipulating that the CIA has gotten far too many things wrong over the past few generations, is there anything new in this piece?
#11
TW, I think you are definitely in the ball park. If I remember correctly from many years ago, there was even some Bulgarian connection.
But ZH sure has posted its fair share of Sputnik and Russia Today articles over the years.
I think he only recently had his Twitter account restored, so he has that "badge of honor".
But to answer your question, I suppose it is just a reminder--in conjunction with 9/11--about unintended consequences by our government, be it the mujahideen or 1953 Iran.
[American Thinker] A Democrat bureaucrat finally said what we all have known to be the truth: the Wuhan virus limitations that Democrat politicians and bureaucrats have imposed on Americans will go away after the election because that was the plan all along.
As 2019 ended, the Democrats knew that Trump was cruising to re-election. He'd kept his base because he kept his promises about the wall, trade deals, the military, abortion, and our Second Amendment rights. Best of all, he'd supercharged the economy with tax and regulation cuts. The surging economy enticed other Americans who had not voted for Trump in 2016 to contemplate voting for him in 2020.
The Democrats' troubles continued in 2020. In January, their impeachment imploded. Worst of all, the Democrat primary candidates did not excite the base. The only passion was for a spittle-flecked, wild-haired old communist, and the Democrats knew that, even in 2020, nominating a communist was a bridge too far. The Wuhan virus was an extraordinary and unlooked-for blessing for the Democrats because they used it to destroy Trump's economy.
Right now, some might say, "That's harsh. The Democrats have been trying to save lives. It's worked out well for them that their efforts wrecked the economy, but that doesn't mean that they deliberately manipulated the economy, destroying thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands, even millions, of lives, only to win the election."
Sorry, but it's true.
Rather than recite the history of America's politics before the Wuhan virus struck, we'll have Saturday Night Live do it. Some of you may recall that, in early 2017, SNL did a funny sketch about a team of scientists, led by Scarlett Johansson, who hooked up a dog to a contraption that translated its thoughts. To everyone's horror, the dog was a Trump-supporter:
Libya, Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, all of Arabia and both the Gulf and Red Sea.
In ~5 years, and don’t hold any of this against me:
• Israel will have its 1st base in the Gulf • Turkey will control a zone from northern Iraq to northern Syria • Turkey will expand Libya presence • Egypt & Sudan will form something along the lines of a “Nile Confederation”
[Mercer at WND] Critical Race Theory is the "remedial" lens through which America's race reality is refracted.
Look hard enough and the need for this subintelligent theoretical concoction becomes abundantly clear:
It's on the playground and in the classroom. Watch for the bossy white kids.
It's in businesses and boardrooms, where microaggressions tumble from the mouths of their white mothers and fathers.
It's in government departments, brought about by the few whites who haven't been weeded out by quotas and set-asides for "oppressed" minorities.
So WTF is it?
WIKI sez:Critical race theory (CRT)[1] is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that examines society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power.[2][3] Developed out of postmodern philosophy, it is based on critical theory, a social philosophy that argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors. It began as a theoretical movement within American law schools in the mid- to late 1980s as a reworking of critical legal studies on race issues,[4][5] and is loosely unified by two common themes. Firstly, CRT proposes that white supremacy and racial power are maintained over time, and in particular, that the law may play a role in this process. Secondly, CRT work has investigated the possibility of transforming the relationship between law and racial power, as well as pursuing a project of achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly.[6]
By 2002, over 20 American law schools, and at least 3 law schools in other countries, offered critical race theory courses or classes which covered the issue centrally.[7] In addition to law, critical race theory is taught and innovated in the fields of education, political science, women's studies, ethnic studies, communication, sociology, and American studies.[8] Important scholars to the theory include Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, Richard Delgado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Camara Phyllis Jones, and Mari Matsuda.
Critics of CRT, including Richard Posner and Alex Kozinski, take issue with its foundations in postmodernism and reliance on moral relativism, social constructionism, and other tenets contrary to classical liberalism.
#4
Posner and Kozinski ought get wise. There is no amount of reason and rhetoric sufficient to thwart this crap, it is gibberish BY DESIGN. Thus you either accept it and seek it's advantages or make yourself crazy trying to unravel it.
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#4 Posner and Kozinski ought get wise. There is no amount of reason and rhetoric sufficient to thwart this crap, it is gibberish BY DESIGN. Thus you either accept it and seek it's advantages or make yourself crazy trying to unravel it.
Yes, it's the classic "Surely we can reason together" mentality of feckless intellectuals.
It's the price that "conservatism" has paid for farming out the "movement" to these scribblers.
[Townhall] Today in the United States there are many who not only push for "equality" but actually work to force it on all citizens but themselves. The Founders embodied equal rights, not equality, yet collectivists continue to demand equality. Economist Richard Vedder stated, "This obsession with equality is very destructive for the human race." He goes on to say, "I have never understood the appeal of a goal like "equality." People are inherently different. They have different talents, different interests, and different degrees of marginal productivity. This is what makes exchange possible. It’s what makes life interesting and complex. Variety is the spice of life."[1]
Our Founders distinctly recognized this, and as a result empowered equal — inalienable — rights as granted by God. Moreover, as Dr. Vedder explains, we are all unique — each given individual gifts from God. Thus, we have equal rights to use our gifts; but certainly not equality, since by default of each individual being unique, we all will accomplish different goals and levels in life.
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII addressed this notion head-on, in response to Communist activities of the late 19th century. "Neither justice nor the common good allows any individual to seize upon that which belongs to another," declares Leo, "or, under the futile and shallow pretext of equality, to lay violent hands on other people’s possessions." Pope Leo is rightfully and artfully tying together the evil push for material equality with the fundamental right to property. He continued by aligning his argument directly to God’s purpose, writing, "No man may with impunity outrage that human dignity which God Himself treats with great reverence."[2] He is directing his argument to the communists, but his same argument applies to collectivists today.
[Free Beacon] Last week a few sharp-eyed members of the audience for Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan noticed something ugly in the credits. The film’s producers thanked, among others, the publicity department of the "CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Committee" as well as the "Turpan Municipal Bureau of Public Security." These are the same political and disciplinary institutions that oppress China’s Uighur minority. Disney cooperated with them without batting an eye.
But Disney is more than happy to call attention to human-rights abuses in the United States. Since George Floyd died in police custody earlier this year, the corporation and its subsidiaries, including ABC and ESPN, have issued statements in support of Black Lives Matter. The House of Mouse has reaffirmed its commitment to the ideology and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Nor is Disney the only film studio to ignore repression in the People’s Republic of China while embracing the cause of social justice at home. They all do it. The question is why.
Part of the reason is parochialism. Americans just don’t care very much about what happens in other countries. Another motivation is profit. All companies desire access to the largest possible markets. Angering the Chinese Communist Party, or violating the tenets of political correctness, endangers the bottom line. Meanwhile the legitimacy of political, cultural, and economic institutions, including the corporation, has come into question. To ensure their survival, corporations must conform to the values and regulations of host societies and governments. That means playing nice with China, embracing "stakeholder capitalism," and adopting the teachings of Ibram X. Kendi.
Selective indignation is not new. What’s striking about this latest version is its zones of prevalence. The sectors of the economy most wedded to the view that American society is systemically racist—entertainment, sports, media, tech—are the least concerned with the real and concrete injustices of the antidemocratic and hostile Chinese regime. This is the woke dialectic: dissent in America, acquiescence to China.
#3
Money yes, but also a sneaking sympathy with the (avowed) views of Communists and a belief that if Commies actually took over, they could be part of the elite and not suffer.
If you look at the history of Communism, it can certainly be said that entertainers who played ball with the regime had privileged positions and guaranteed audiences.
And our "entertainment industry" has already demonstrated a willingness to play ball with Communists.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] The U.S. Marshals Service recently launched a nationwide effort to recover missing and exploited children. Three major operations rescued over 100 children, many of them from sex traffickers. But a disturbing trend discovered during the operation should launch a nationwide investigation into the American child welfare system. PJ Media reached out to USMS for details on the rescued children and was told that the majority of them came from foster care. This information was ignored in the initial media reports on the operation. Dave Oney, press contact at the USMS, responded via email to questions about the rescued children.
'Gateway' crime? You decide. 
[ZERO] As Americans pause to remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001 which saw almost 3,000 innocents killed in the worst terror attack in United States history, it might also be worth contemplating the horrific wars and foreign quagmires unleashed during the subsequent 'war on terror'. 
