For the third time, in three days, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner had issues. On Wednesday, an All Nippon Airways flight from Yamaguchi prefecture to Tokyo was cancelled due to brake problems. This incident follows two that happened for Japan Airlines at Logan International Airport, in Boston. The first happened on Monday, when an auxiliary battery system caught on fire, after landing. It was followed on Tuesday, when another 787 started leaking fuel, as it was taxiing for take off.
Both airlines say that this will not change their mind about using the 787s, and neither will cancel their orders to have many more made. They feel that the problems are just growing pains, which will be worked out as the planes are used. Other airlines stated similar opinions.
Despite the support of the airlines, Boeing's stock did fall both Monday and Tuesday, and was looking to do so again, on Wednesday. Aerospace analysts are suggesting that Boeing should have focused more on quality assurance and rigorous testing, instead of mass production of the planes.
A woman was sent to the hospital after being shot, Wednesday morning. It happened near I-25 and Inverness Drive West, in the Denver Tech Center.
Police are looking for the gunman, who fled the scene, Christopher Lyle Fields. When last seen he was wearing a black jacket, black stocking cap, and carrying a a backpack.
He is known to own a silver Toyota Corolla, with license 981JBW, and a Blue Kawasaki Motorcycle with license 561YDJ, and may be driving either. Twenty-seven year old Fields is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call the Douglas County Regional Dispatch Center at 303-660-7500 or 911.
The woman's condition has not been released, nor has her identity been released. It is believed she is Fields' ex girlfriend.
From about 08:30 til 10:00 MST fifteen area schools were on lockdown, because of the shooting. They were: Acres Green Elementary, Bridges Program, Chaparral High School, Cloverleaf, DCS Montessori in Castle Rock, Eagle Ridge
Elementary, Early Childhood Center North, Fox Creek Elementary, Hope
Online, Mammoth Heights
Elementary, Lone Tree Elementary, Pine Lane Elementary, Sand Creek Elementary, Sierra Middle School, and Sky View
Academy.
India is accusing Pakistan of launching a raid into it's territory, on Tuesday. The attack happened along the disputed Kashmir region border.
According to India, two of their troops were killed, one of whom was mutilated, and another was injured in the attack. Pakistan denies that the incident occurred.
Afterwards the two sides exchanged fire, over the border, for more than an hour. Neither side reported any injuries from the firing.
This comes just two days after Pakistan accused India of crossing the border. On Sunday, Pakistan claimed that they repulsed an attack from India, while India said their troops responded to fire coming over the border. In that exchange, one Pakistani was killed and another was injured.
In December, I reported
on the move by the federal government to replace traditional curriculum
with government information documents. This is part of the trend
towards the centralization of education, which has resulted in parents
and teachers having less impact on what goes on in the classroom while
the federal government’s control is expanded. One of the main concerns
regarding the government information documents is the high potential for
a politicized curriculum.
Add to that the revisionist history being taught in some classrooms, along with the the promotion of one religion over another.
An example of this can be found in the Texas Education Service Center
Curriculum collaborative (TESCCC) and its company, CSCOPE, a major
producer of curriculum used in the Texas education system. A report
shows that CSCOPE has portrayed participants in the Boston Tea Party as
terrorists and is also accused of having developed an anti-Christian,
pro-Islam curriculum.
And, though by law the curriculum is supposed to be accessible to parents, according to the Texas CSCOPE Review:
“I was contacted about the matter by
Ginger Russell, whose mother, Janice VanCleve, writes homeschool science
materials, which she graciously sent a book to each of my own children.
Mrs. Russell says that parents have been denied access to the
curriculum and that teachers were even given a “gag order”, signing a
copy of the gag order without legal counsel, but they are finding ways
of obtaining the curriculum to get the word out on CSCOPE. Russell and
VanCleave have teamed up to create the Texas CSCOPE Review website to
inform the parents of what their children are being taught with this
curriculum.”
There are reportedly
other instances of Founding Father revisionist history in CSCOPE’s
educational materials. Additionally, Christianity is described as a
resurrection of pagan religions with the resurrection of Jesus Christ
characterized as parallel with Osiris and Mithraism. Christians are
also accused of engaging in cannibalism and incest, while indulging in
“love feasts” and the “Lord’s Supper.”
Though CSCOPE is zealous in its onslaught against Christianity, it
apparently finds Islam above reproach. The purpose of the tutorials is
to teach the basic tenets of each religion. But, CSCOPE clearly presents
a preference for one over the other.
Conservative Christian activist, Donna Garner, has said
that CSCOPE never actually received approval from elected members of
the Texas State Board of Education. She has also described how CSCOPE
is able to sidestep the law which requires parental access to their
childrens’ curriculum. In an email to Freedom Outpost, Garner wrote:
“The Texas Attorney General’s office ruled on 4.4.12 (Opinion #449557) that CSCOPE (TESCCC) is a governmental body and does fall within the
scope of Gov. Code – 552.003(1)(A)(xii). This means that CSCOPE
(TESCCC) is subject to the Public Information Act (PIA) and should be
required to make public its curriculum, tax returns, check register, and
bylaws.”
Garner goes on to say: “However, because of Section 552.104 (Gov.
Code) which makes an exception that protects a governmental body (such
as TESCCC) from following the PIA if doing so would give competitors a
demonstrable advantage by allowing them to develop similar products and
harm the marketplace advantages of CSCOPE, the Texas Attorney General
has ruled that CSCOPE (TESCCC) does not have to follow all the PIA
requirements.”
She concludes by saying that, “the lawyers who originally set up the
TESCCC corporation undoubtedly knew exactly how to get around the PIA
laws.”
In Florida, controversy has been brewing over a world history book published by Prentice Hall Pearson and which has been described as a “1054 page monster” that is biased against Christianity and Judaism.
Due to complaints about the 2007 edition, some of the anti-Christian,
anti-Semitic misinformation has been removed from the 2013 edition.
Citizens for National Security and Act for America were key in getting
this content removed. However, according to The Report Card, the 2013 edition still “commits great sins of omission in favor of Islam.”
Shabbir Mansuri and Susan Douglass were retained
by Pearson as consultants to review the material in the world history
books. Both Mansuri and Douglass are associated with the Council on
Islamic Education (CIE), which The Report Card describes as a “front for
the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”
Is a leading contributor and consultant to publishers of textbooks that include Islamic related content
Promotes sanitized, inaccurate information about Islam in K-12 education
Has associations with the Islamic Saudi Academy, the Council on
American Islamic Relations, and the Islamic Circle of North America,
front groups for the anti Christian, anti American, and anti Israel
Muslim Brotherhood
Mansuri has developed a reputation
for threatening public officials and scholars who balk at requests from
the CIE. In these instances, those who hesitate are warned that they
will be perceived as “racists, reactionaries, and enemies of Islam.”
In addition to efforts by the CIE, the Council on American Islamic
Relations (CAIR) is engaged in infiltrating the U.S. public school
system. While the CIE is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR has ties
to terrorist group, Hamas. CAIR has been accused of distributing misleading and biased information, regarding Islam, for the purpose of implementing Sharia law in the U.S.
Dave Gaubatz
has uncovered evidence of CAIR’s role in the subversion of America’s
Schools. Gaubatz reports that while interrogating terrorists in Iraq, he
was repeatedly told: “We will attack the heart of America.” When
Gaubatz asked for elaboration, he was told: “We will attack the children
who are the heart of America.” CAIR has been busy doing just that, via
textbooks and schools.
Gaubatz has exposed
a trajectory of information that indisputably shows the deceptive, not
to mention well funded, exploits of the Muslim Brotherhood under the
nonprofit guise of CAIR in its full support of jihad in the US. The plan
is to destroy American society from within.
As the following video demonstrates, they have been quite successful:
It may come as a surprise, to most Americans, that the largest
taxpayer supported charter school network is the Gulen Movement, which
advances and promotes Islamic beliefs. The 135 U.S. charter schools
associated with the Gulen Movement (GM) enroll more than 45,000
students. Founder, Fethullah Gulen, has been under investigation by the
U.S. government since 2011. The Report Card reports:
“That investigation, carried out by FBI
and the Departments of Labor and Education, is centered around charter
school employees who are allegedly engaged in kicking back part of their
salaries to the Muslim movement also known as Hizmet (service to
others), founded by Gulen. Gulen initiated his movement in Izmir, a city
on Turkey’s Aegean coast, more than forty years ago, preaching impassioned
sermons to his followers, who may now number as many as six million. In
Turkey, the Gulen Movement has been accused of pushing for a hardline
Islamic state. In recent years, Turkey has moved for more towards an
Islamic State that is a sharp departure from the secular government in
charge for nearly ninety years. Despite this reality, government officials
investigating the kickback scheme are apparently satisfied that there is
no religious agenda being disseminated in America. Their investigation
is centered around the hundreds of Turkish teachers, administrators, and
other staffers employed under the H1B visa program, who may or may not
be misusing taxpayer money.”
Gulen arrived in the US after hightailing it out of Turkey under
charges that he was trying to overthrow the secular government. He now
lives on a twenty-eight acre estate in the Poconos in Pennsylvania.
The Gulen Movement is clandestine operation of which Sharon Higgins, in a March 27 Washington Post piece, wrote:
“The concerns raised about the charter
schools in the GM network have related to questionable admissions
practices; the channeling of school funds to close associates; abuse of
contractors; participation in biased, GM created competitions; incidents
of bribing; using the schools to generate political connections;
science fair projects being done by teachers; unfair hiring and
termination practices; and more. Still, authorizers continue to approve
charter applications, ill informed parents continue to use them, and
taxpayers keep funding the schools, all without much discussion.”
According to Front Page Magazine, there have also been reports of
mandatory Islamic studies at the Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy in Inver Grove,
Minnesota, though school officials deny this.
The movement has a loyal benefactor
in Microsoft’s Bill Gates. The Gates Foundation, through the Texas High
School Project, contributed $10,550,000 to the Cosmos Foundation, a
Gulen enterprise that operates 25 publicly funded charter schools in
Texas. The Internal Revenue Service Form 990, for Cosmos, shows that the
Cosmos Foundation received $41,570,721 from taxpayers.
With a grand total of $100 Million taxpayer dollars having
been spent on Gulen Schools, taxpayers across the country should demand
answers to the many unanswered questions surrounding the Gulen
movement. Parents need to actively monitor what is being taught to
their children and insist on accountability from those involved in the
their education. Now is the time to act.
