Why Did Hundreds of Common Core Implementers Meet in Dubai?

Common Core in Dubai ?! 

A concerned Williamson County [Tenn.] parent stumbled upon this, “On October 24 and 25, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region will gather in Dubai, to learn about the Common Core State Standards, share curricula and best practices, and network with each other.”

“If Common Core is local and state-led why are they holding Common Core conferences in the Middle East including more than 20 other nations? If Williamson Strong is local and parent-led why is their logo included among the international organizations sponsoring this event?” asks Julie West. 

And, what is MENA? Middle East North Africa Common Core. 

Yep. Great article here explains it all!

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Islamic State executes 400 tribesmen in 48 hours

Ebola 11-2-2014

Reports of States monitoring travelers from West Africa for Ebola

ALABAMA

MontgomeryAdvertiser: Alabama monitors 3 from Ebola outbreak areas October 30, 2014

Alabamas13: Gov. Bentley and State Health Officer address Alabama’s Ebola plan

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ALASKA

BuffaloNews: A look at Ebola guidelines in some states October 31, 2014 State health officials in Alaska are finishing a plan that will outline the steps for when to put someone in quarantine or how to manage a patient who is off Alaska's limited road system, said Dr. Joe McLaughlin, the state's chief epidemiologist.

Anyone who traveled to the hardest hit West African nations within the last three weeks would be interviewed and asked about their histories, such as whether they cared directly for Ebola patients. From there, officials would determine that person's exposure risk and decide what quarantine measures are appropriate.

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ARIZONA

ABC15: Arizona man back from Liberia quarantines self, family over Ebola fearsOctober 3, 2014

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ARKANSAS

EpochTimes: Ebola in Arkansas? No, hospital confirms patient in Clinton doesn’t have Ebola virus October 16, 2014

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CALIFORNIA

Fox5: 3 in San Diego being monitored for Ebola symptoms

CastroVlyPatch: CA issues Ebola Quarantine Order; One Stanford Doctor Quarantined 10/30/2014

MountainViewVoice: El Camino readies for Ebola October 31, 2014

UCSF.edu: Preparations and training continue at UCSF for possible patient infected with Ebola 10/31/2014

BuffaloNews: A look at Ebola guidelines in some states October 31, 2014 The California Department of Public Health on Wednesday ordered people returning from Ebola-stricken areas who have had contact with infected patients to be monitored for the disease and left it up to county officers to decide how, including a 21-day quarantine.

Plumas County leaders and local hospitals prepare for Ebola; Outbreak deemed unlikely but not an impossibility 10/28/2104

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COLORADO

Colorado.gov: Quarantine and isolation

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Video of ISIS ‘Slave Market Day’, Buying Yazidi Women

Putin: Turkey is governed by a demagogue dictator who supports terrorists

Putin: Turkey is governed by a demagogue dictator who supports terrorists

Speaking on the sidelines of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, the Russian president Vladimir Putin accused the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an of supporting foreign Islamist rebel fighters in Syria and providing them with medical care and turning turkey to an international hub for global terrorism.

“The Turkish regime became a serious threat to international security and is jeopardizing the regional stability; hence the Russian Federation won’t hesitate to ignore this grave menace and will do the necessary steps to prevent Erdo?an from committing a suicide adventure in the Middle-East,” state news agency Itar-Tass cited Putin as saying on Friday in Russian resort town of Sochi.

Pentagon: DOD personnel to handle Ebola bodies

I Have Deployed The Military 

To Give Aid and Comfort 

To Undocumented Americans in Liberia 

From WND:

WASHINGTON – A Department of Defense memo confirms DoD personnel – which could include civilians and/or troops – will have direct contact with “exposed remains” of Ebola victims. 

While the DoD has issued new guidance on how military personnel and civilians will undergo pre- and post-deployment training while in the Ebola-affected areas of West Africa, buried in the 19-page memorandum in an attachment is an indication that the personnel will have direct exposure to the affected population. 

The statement is in a memorandum from Jessica L. Write, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Broken down into three levels, Level II training will be for personnel who “interact with the local populace,” and Level III training for personnel “assigned to supporting medical units or expected to handle exposed remains.”

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Build Me Up from Bones

Over The Edge

 

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Scuzlims Teach Their Little Girls How To Dance On Severed Heads

From Bare Naked Islam:

"Evil Clown" Attacks Spike in France, So, In Short Order, a French Town Has Banned Clowns

Muslims have perpetrated many more attacks than clowns ever have.

When are we going to start banning Muslims?

A town in southern France has banned people from dressing up as clowns after a spate of attacks in several parts of the country. 

There have been a number of assaults by people disguised as fake, “evil” clowns. Some of those wreaking havoc on the streets have been armed with pistols, knives or baseball bats. 

The incidents include one where a youngster hit a passer-by 30 times with an iron bar in Montpellier. He was jailed for four months. 

Vendargues, which has a population of about 6,000 and is near Montpellier, is believed to be the first town to impose such a ban. 

The decision was made by the mayor, and official Bruno Giraudo said France wants to “avoid any disruption… by evil clowns”.

SCIENTISTS TRY TO PREDICT NUMBER OF US EBOLA CASES

Obola Is Setting Up Important Trade Agreements 

With African Nations 
To Insure Americans Have Equal Access to Ebola

From AP:

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year's end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing from the deadly disease. 

But how many cases? 

No one knows for sure how many infections will emerge in the U.S. or anywhere else, but scientists have made educated guesses based on data models that weigh hundreds of variables, including daily new infections in West Africa, airline traffic worldwide and transmission possibilities. 

This week, several top infectious disease experts ran simulations for The Associated Press that predicted as few as one or two additional infections by the end of 2014 to a worst-case scenario of 130. 

"I don't think there's going to be a huge outbreak here, no," said Dr. David Relman, a professor of infectious disease, microbiology and immunology at Stanford University's medical school. 

"However, as best we can tell right now, it is quite possible that every major city will see at least a handful of cases."

And every single case will be because of the irresponsible leadership of Barack Hussein Obola.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

LIBERIAN WOMAN Hospitalized in Oregon With Ebola Symptoms – Arrived in US Tuesday 

300 Italian physicians : African immigrants are the Trojan Horse of Ebola

From Vlad Tepes:

An Open Letter of 300 Lombardi physicians to the Minister of Health:

Mr. Minister,

 As you know, the Ebola disease is currently spreading in certain African countries where, as the UN stated, the situation is totally out of control. This means that the epidemiological data relating to the geographical dissemination of the virus, the number of infected people, and the number of deaths are not credible and are probably underestimated.

You said that it’s not necessary to be alarmed, that we doctors should neither worry nor spread panic among our patients, even if, according to WHO (World Health Organization), it is “the most grave and  serious health emergency of modern times.”

You have the duty to worry about it and to put in place all possible measures toprotect the health of the population. 

The measures you have taken are the same as those put in place in other European countries, that is, to notify airport personnel to isolate any suspected cases. But the isolation of infected people can only be effective from the very beginning, that is, before these people come into contact with other individuals.

Patient zero, and most recently Craig Spencer of the USA, were perfectly fine at the time of their landing, and were able to walk around peacefully for several days before the onset of fever, thereby infecting other people. This shows us that the steps taken do not guarantee the early identification of infected people in countries not equipped to perform checks at ports and airports. 

Italy has, as additional and exclusive risk factors compared to other countries, amassive and continuous surge of migrants arriving from Africa, and each arrival poses the risk of being a Trojan horse that could spark a tragedy. Continue reading →

The Kufr Trifecta -- A personal journey

For those who still remember me, I used to be a much more prolific contributor to IBA. Well, I'm still above ground and still above room temperature. I still reside in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority, Muslim-controlled state, where the one-way ratchet that is Islam slowly tightens. It's where I live, where I hang my hat at least for now, but not home, and never a place where I could belong, for three very good reasons.

1) I unapologetically support Israel. In Malaysia, that's a personal and political view best kept out of sight; being a Zionist is the worse possible epithet that one can be called here. Nobody has the temerity to openly support Israel in Malaysian society, and anyone who does is looking, at the very least, at expulsion from so-called polite society and probably worse. Anyone who's foolish enough to support the hated Zionist regime says that privately, if he or she does that at all. Well, I say the hell with Malaysia's 'polite society'. They love Hamas, after all.

2) I'm an unbeliever, a kufr, which as the Quran says is the most vile of creatures (8:55, 98:6). I've personally turned down many invitations to Islam ('dawah') and I have written at length and many times against Islam's teachings. So this no doubt puts me personally beyond the pale and marked for death -- does anyone remember what happened to Theo Van Gogh exactly 10 years ago?

3) I have married a member of an explicit enemy class to true believers, to Muslims and to Islam. According to the prime minister of Malaysia, LGBT people (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transsexual) are enemies of Islam that must be fought. And I have made a transsexual woman from this country my partner and legal spouse outside of Malaysia. Of course this arrangement is not and will never be recognized in Malaysia, but the point remains. I'm an enemy that's fraternizing with the enemy. We must be destroyed.

For me personally, it was my choice of spouse and mate that brought me many years ago to oppose Islam and all its works. I have to oppose Islam because Islam opposes me, and would wipe out my wife and everything and everyone else I care about from the face of this earth if the true believers of the so-called religion of peace had their way. My opposition to Islam is as personal as it can possibly be.

School Filing ‘Racial Discrimination’ Against Students Who Refuse Muslim Education

Is This Some Sort of Common Core Crap?

From American News:

Parents of students at Littleton Green Community School were outraged after they found out that if their children decided not to attend a controversial field trip, they would be officially deemed racist. 

The trip was to a religious workshop about the Muslim faith, and administration warned that a “racial discrimination note” would be added to the students’ school records, should they fail to join. 

As to be expected, parents did not take the information lightly, especially since the class consisted of children as young as eight years old. 

“I was shocked by the letter. To be told my kids have got to attend this workshop is disgusting,” said Tracy Ward, a mother of four. 

“Everyone should have a choice but that’s my opinion and I don’t want a stain on my kids’ record as a result. 

“To be told we had to pay for the trip as well was just a kick in the teeth,” added another parent. “How dare they threaten to brand the children racist at such a young age. It’s going to make them feel like little criminals.” 

Afraid of the disturbance they’d caused, the school quickly retracted their statement, saying instead that it was “important for children to learn about cultures and religions other than their own.” 

What do you think of the school’s comments? What would you do if you were a parent there?

What Rough Beast: The Rise of Anti-Semitism

From Roger Simon:

WELCOME TO BERLIN, 1937I have never in my increasingly long life felt vulnerable as a Jew in America. I never even dreamed it would happen. But it has now — with the Obama administration.Something is seriously wrong. 

At almost every opportunity, Obama and his minions have criticized Israel out of all proportion to the actions of the Jewish state, particularly during the recent Gaza War when there was a constant barrage of warnings from our State Department about harming civilians. (This is a criticism State would never turn on itself. Who knows how many innocents have died in the U.S. air attacks on ISIS — no one even says a word about it.) 

Now they have called Israel’s prime minister a “chickensh*t,” a “coward” and who knows what else, using adjectives for Benjamin Netanyahu they don’t employ with Kim Jung-un, Vladimir Putin, Hassan Nasrallah, Bashar Assad or even the murderous Islamic State’s al-Baghdadi, not to mention — and this is probably crucial — the potentially most homicidal of all, Ayatollah Khamenei of the Islamic State of Iran. (One of the more sinister aspects of Jeff Goldberg’s article that generated this controversy was that one of his leakers bragged they had scared cowardly Netanyahu into not attacking Iran’s nuclear installations, as if this were a good thing, the implication being that the administration can now look good for making an Iran deal — that would ultimately give the mullahs the bomb.) 

It’s as if Netanyahu, not the aforementioned maniacs, were the administration’s worst enemy.Meanwhile, the attempts to make nice to the Israelis over the vicious personal slurs from the article, which apparently came from two high and thus far unpunished administration officials, have been perfunctory, so perfunctory that you know they are not meant to be taken seriously, quite the contrary. 

In fact, an attempted terrorist assassination of a prominent American-Israeli in Jerusalem yesterday that caused the Israeli government to put the Temple Mount on lockdown has already generated more chastisement of the Israelis from our secretary of State. All this against an unprecedented, at least since World War II, rise in global anti-Semitism. 

The administration claims to be making these “constructive” criticisms for Israel’s sake, but the Jewish state has better allies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia than they do in an Obama administration that seems to prefer Islamofascist Qatar — those same oil sheiks that bankroll Hamas, the terror organization whose charter exhorts all Muslims to kill every Jew hiding behind a tree anywhere in the world. 

And you wonder why I feel like I’m living in Berlin in 1937.Well, I do.You will excuse me if I think my Jewish American friends that vote Democratic every year by rote are a bit sick. I have tried to have patience with them for about a decade, tried to persuade them with reason, but now I think they’re… well, there’s an excellent Yiddish word… ferkochta. Or suffering from a Stockholm Syndrome so massive it wouldn’t fit in all the Volvo factories in Sweden.Yes, I know many of those same people don’t give a sh*t, chicken or otherwise, about Israel — or if they do they are highly critical of everything about it, think it’s an apartheid state, yaddayaddayadda. (Don’t ask them to define apartheid, however.) 

I will just remind those same “progressive” people that there were plenty of German Jews who felt pretty much as they do back in, ahem, 1937.If those “progressives” are of a Marxist tilt, I will further remind them that the man himself said, in The Eighteenth Brumaire, that history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. We’re now on the tragedy part.Not that farce is, in this instance, so reassuring and not that I didn’t know in the first place. Indeed, I suspected this would happen all along, although that doesn’t make me the slightest bit happier. 

Attentive readers of this site will recall that I have on several occasions called upon the Los Angeles Times to release the Khalidi tape. That’s a videotape held in the LAT’s vault of a going-away party for Rashid Khalidi, the University of Chicago professor who was on his way to Columbia to replace the vehemently anti-Zionest Edward Said as head of that university’s Middle East Studies department. 

The party was reported to be quite an Israel bash, probably laced with some good-old fashioned Jew hatred. Rashid’s good friends the Obamas, Michelle and Barack, were in attendance. How much they agreed with the tenor of the evening we will never know, because the LAT refuses to release the tape. You would think the paper, given recent events and the decline in the Emperor’s popularity, might change its mind.Fat chance. To do so would go against a narrative engrained in stone since at least 1968. They wouldn’t dare look inside that vault for fear they would have to act on what they might find. They are the real “chickensh*ts,” not Netanyahu.

EZRA LEVANT AND MELANIE PHILLIPS ON THE RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM

KaciHickox roommate in Africa tested positive for Ebola?

What? Me Worry?

#KaciHickox roommate in Africa tested positive for Ebola. 
This is from a reporter at NECN, the New England Cable Network.
Also reported on CNN. No further info. 
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