A dispute between a 28-year-old Syrian woman and a 24-year-old Syrian man resulted in a violent end on Monday afternoon at the Pirna-Copitz suburban train station. According to the police, the 24-year-old beat the woman and pushed her onto the tracks. A witness intervened and helped the 28-year-old. Police officers of the Pirna station are now investigating the man for assault and are looking for witnesses, especially the unknown female rescuer. Clues are being taken by calling 0351/483 22 33.

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The Protestant Church in Wuerttemberg wants to be ” prepared for refugees”, Bishop Frank Otfried July has repeatedly demanded. But how does that work in practice? The members of the Württemberg Association for World Mission (WAW) have thought about this and have published a book of more than 200 pages (” I have been a stranger. Mission between the causes for fleeing and the welcoming culture”) for everyday church life.The book ends with cultural advice when you spend time with people from, for example, oriental countries for the first time. You should leave your dog at home, he is considered unclean in many cultures. You should never contradict your counterpart directly, but indirectly, it is a question of honour. Physical contact – including shaking hands – with persons of the opposite sex is considered taboo by some people, and here too, according to the authors, a certain restraint is advisable.

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By Judith Acosta

It started one ordinary day, in one otherwise ordinary session: A beautiful young woman I had known for a few years wanted to cut off her breasts. (Details changed to protect identity.)

“What happened?” In my mind, the first concern was cancer.

“Nothing. I just hate them. I’d really like to be rid of them. I was just wondering what you thought.”

So I told her. She had a long history of abuse, abandonment, and self-mutilation. Given that, I suggested, didn’t it seem like another aspect of self-hatred and rage? I urged her to take time to really consider all the ramifications — its effect on her physiology, on her partner, on her children.

She bristled and said I was being unsupportive. I explained I couldn’t be supportive of something that was an extension of existing pathology.

She found another, more supportive therapist, and is now living with the results of her surgery. 

That was the beginning of the end for me.

For weeks afterward I found myself fighting off fears of being reported to the licensing board for not agreeing with her and realized, finally, that the whole profession had become a political platform. Therapy had become a form of indoctrination and if you weren’t goose-stepping with whatever was trending, you were truly risking everything.

This is honestly a great loss for everyone because social work had so much promise in its beginnings.

Social work was a profession that was birthed by a belief in God and a devotion to charity. Its ranks were the committed and caring women who went to clean the typhus-ridden, brought food to the disabled, bandaged the botched abortion victim. They were epitomes of compassion and righteousness, ministers of presence and love. They supplied what was needed, listened with great skill, found hidden resources and advocated for the powerless. 

But then, as they formalized their positions and started to ask for salaries and professional validation from related professions (e.g., doctors), it required more than a belief in goodness; it required a business plan, a mission statement, and a board of directors.  Quickly, as the attachment to funding took hold and the culture became more and more laissez faire, social workers surreptitiously morphed into something that resonated more with Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood and less with the Sisters of Charity. With no other moral code in place, the Self took center stage. The motto:  whatever makes you happy.

The results of that transformation are visible  today in every social service agency: A social worker who wants to continue working had better understand that he or she has to support all aspects of LGBT platforms, has to facilitate partial-birth abortions, and has to eliminate any and all references to God — no matter what he or she believes. Alternative therapies are acceptable so long as they are goddess-driven and support mandatory vaccination.  All therapies have to pass their “ethical” (i.e. political) means testing… and they all revolve around the exaltation of the Self, even when that “self” has the emotional stability of packing peanuts.

The essential problem is this: the Self can only be exalted in this manner once the Creator Himself has been ejected. And that is precisely what has happened… slowly and cunningly, but steadily.

The breakdown started with Engel v. Vitale ’62 (370 U.S. 421)  when God was ejected from the public square, specifically schools. And then, after that, men were ejected from the household in the welfare laws of the 60s.

Under the man-in-the-house rule, a child who otherwise qualified for welfare benefits was denied those benefits if the child’s mother was living with, or having relations with, any single or married able-bodied male. The man was considered a substitute father, even if the man was not supporting the child. (law.jrank.org)

Families soon became a form of interpretive art: one day you’re there, then you’re not. Roles became fluid and this fluidity was embraced with both arms of modern media. Then in 1973 (410 U.S. 113) a form of eugenics emerged: abortion on demand.  And in the 80s transgenders were officially recognized and allowed (subsidized by federal and insurance monies) to undergo sex-change surgery.

Yet, the more we were allowed to do, the less responsibility we took for doing it, and the more miserable we were. Someone had to pay, but it wouldn’t be us! With the man ousted and God gone, a vacuum of mythic proportions was left in its place. Something had to fill it.

The State was happy to insinuate itself as the new Pater Noster.

So, here we are in 2020, with socialism/state dictatorship actually being discussed on national television, with genders “fluid,” and abortion scaling to new heights of availability (an “essential service” in the COVID world). With the Self in charge, nothing but personal feelings or a blockage of funding can stop the flow of progress. In cutting out God, truth becomes relative and the value of any life dependent on its “value to you.”

The ultimate humanistic derivative of all this — the takeaway from all these years of individualism and unconditional positive regard: There is no Other. All there remains is the perception of her/him/it in you.

So, how does this play out in the world of ordinary relationships? Very subtly and very insidiously. This is a distilled example of a modern therapeutic conversation:

“I miss her. I love her so much.”

“Are you sure? What if… it’s not about her so much as about you? You miss howyou felt when you were with her. You miss what you imagined about her.”

“Gee, I was sure I missed her.”

It is so much babble it’s hard to believe that so many people not only practice therapy within that paradigm, but that patients actually believe it. It denies the self-evident. Why are we putting up with it when instinctively we know better?

The bottom line: in the modern social-work paradigm, there is nothing to believe in or hold onto besides your Self, there are no prohibitions and no judgments besides those unfairly imposed upon you by white males the world over. There is also no real experience, no real love and finally, no real other.

And there we are… alone, on the emotional dole, unsure of who we are, broken, and without hope.

It’s a far cry from the birth of social work. And if that’s all my profession offers, I’m signing off.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/why_i_am_no_longer_a_social_worker.html

Ali M. (name changed) seems anything but intimidated after his controversial arrest by the Düsseldorf police. In a short clip via Snapchat, the 15-year-old teenager strolls through a park, thanking all his friends on the net for their wishes for recovery. “I kiss all your hearts”, the dark-haired curly-haired man, the baseball cap casually placed on the back of his head, says. At the same time Ali M. announced another statement about the things that had happened. The German-Moroccan ended the 13-second sequence with a grinning laugh.There is no evidence of the injuries that Ali M. allegedly suffered during an arrest action by police officers on Saturday evening in Düsseldorf’s Old Town. At least he has no visible damage to his head.Local Green politician Samy Charchira had reported after a visit to the family that the pupil had suffered a first-degree craniocerebral trauma as a result of the intervention of officials near the McDonald’s branch at Bolker Stern. The boy had spent a day in hospital for observation. “He suffered multiple contusions to the face, skull, pelvis, thoracic and cervical spine. His mental health, but also that of his parents, is precarious,” said the candidate for the upcoming local elections in Düsseldorf. The video of the “victim”, on the other hand, shows a young man who apparently seems to be barely impaired. FOCUS Online asked the Green politician about the background, but got no answer.The case caused a stir after short clips on the net showed an apparently brutal approach by a police officer to the arrest of the 15-year-old teenager.Ali M. is said to have interfered in a police operation in the old town and to have beaten the officers. He called them “sons of bitches” and is said to have made it clear that he “always hated this police uniform”.Two police officers brought the rioter, who was well known to the police, to the ground after a long struggle. One of them pushed him down with his knee. At this time it is not clear whether the leg was on the head or on the neck. In the latter case, such an action constitutes criminal police violence. Since then, the public prosecutor’s office has been investigating four officers.North Rhine Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU) promised a comprehensive clarification in view of the video fragments circulating on the Internet about the incident. Investigators are currently evaluating the surveillance cameras at the scene of the crime.Afterwards, they are having the scenes evaluated by police trainers in order to separate right from wrong police acting. In the end, the public prosecutor’s office must decide on a charge.Investigations are currently underway, in particular against a 29-year-old police officer. He has taken a few days off in order to work through the accusations, his lawyer Christoph Arnold reports. “What particularly irritates him is the fact that he is lumped together with the violent death of the US-African-American George Floyd caused by policemen in Minneapolis. According to his information, a blood-stained mouthguard was also found on the young man. These utensils are used not only by boxers but also by football hooligans when they get into a brawl with rival groups to protect their teeth. Investigators refused to confirm or deny this when asked.In addition to the proceedings against the police officers, the prosecutors are also investigating 15-year-old Ali M. for resisting law enforcement officers. This is not the first criminal case that is brought against him. More cases can be found in his criminal file. According to Christian Democrat Gregor Golland, the CDU interior affairs politician, “the alleged victim is a violent youth who has deliberately attacked police officers. The hunt and the incitement by Social Democrats and Greens against police officers who are risking their lives every day is unbearable.Apart from that, the police may expect new trouble in the case over the weekend. Supporters of the young man have called for a protest march through downtown Düsseldorf.

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“I wasn’t trying to do anything but get a drink,” Adam Haner told KATU. Haner was viciously attacked by a BLM supporter. “I wasn’t the enemy, I’ll tell you that. I was just the guy standing there, and I was white, evidently,” he explained. According to Haner that he had previously marched in BLM protests.

“I was for that. I’ve had cops beat me up before. I was for their [BLM] cause,” he told KPTV.

Haner emphasized that he had done or said nothing offensive to the black crowd — but both he and his girlfriend, Tammie Martin, were assaulted by BLM supporters who had started denouncing them as white supremacists for no reason.

“I remember vaguely being on the ground […] Then I don’t remember anything. And then two days later I wake up” in an intensive care unit.

Meanwhile, YouTube has been purging all videos of the attack on Haner. While anyone can watch George Floyd allegedly “murdered” by police thanks to edited footage, all videos of racial violence against whites are systematically taken down.

This week, a racoon met with a similar fate in New York City. After the animal is run over, the panicked and injured animal is beaten to death with a baseball bat by two black men while black onlookers celebrate and cheer. The alleged niece of one of the men responded on social media that “only white peoples worry about this”.

Not only are raccoons being killed in the streets of New York City, the Wall Street Journal reported that the city also recorded “an 84,6 percent rise in shooting victims” compared with the same period in 2019.

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The former acting director of intelligence for the US Richard Grenell authored a stinging indictment of Germany’s government for its failure to vote in favor of an extended weapons embargo against Iran’s regime, a deadly adversary of the United States, Israel as well as the West.Writing in his The Hill column, Grenell, a former Ambassador to Germany, declared “this was a particularly troubling decision by Germany, which recently took the bold step of circumventing EU policy by designating the entirety of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Germany also regularly reaffirms its special commitment to the security of Israel, the country most threatened by Iranian arms.”

He added that “Germany’s decision not to prevent Iran from importing Chinese and Russian weapons systems is so consequential for Hezbollah’s resourcing capacities that it effectively neutralizes the positive step Berlin had taken by revising its Hezbollah policy.“Germany banned all Hezbollah activities within the territory of the Federal Republic in April.  Grenell said the reason for Germany’s vote, along with France and the United Kingdom, to abstain last week at the United Nations Security Council, was due to its goal to preserve the controversial 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formerly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The US withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 because the unsigned agreement did not advance American national security interests to stop Iranian terrorism and its nuclear weapons ambitions, according to the Trump administration.The title of Grenell’s Hill commentary reads: Why would our allies allow an enemy like Iran to rearm?Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has provided diplomatic and economic support for Iran over the years. Germany’s foreign ministry routinely celebrates Iran’s Islamic revolution at Tehran’s embassy in Berlin.German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier congratulated Iran’s regime in the name of the German people in 2019 in connection with the Islamic revolution. Merkel’s administration also sends government officials to economic workshops to circumvent US financial sanctions against the mullah regime.Israel supports the extension of the UN arms embargo against Iran. Merkel told the Knesset in 2008 that the security of the Jewish state is “non-negotiable” for her government. 

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/former-us-intel-director-slams-germany-for-lifting-iran-arms-embargo-639425

Last Tuesday, police officers arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of raping a then 17-year-old girl in July 2018.The girl encountered the suspect, whom she fugitively knew, at the train station in Bad Cannstatt in July 2018. According to the police, the then also 17-year-old apparently lured the girl into a hotel room and raped her there despite strong resistance.

Subsequently, the suspect is said to have intimidated the teenager under massive threats. For this reason, she did not report to the police until two years after the crime.

Detectives were able to identify the suspect and arrest him in Reutlingen County on Tuesday after an intensive search. The Syrian suspect was brought before a judge on Wednesday ( August 19) who issued an arrest warrant and brought it to trial.

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By Andrea Widburg

Thursday was a bad day for Netflix, one of the largest video content providers in the world, as well as being a left-leaning organization that partners with the Obamas and other well-known Democrats. Thursday was the day when thousands of people got upset that Netflix was screening and promoting a new French film about tweens twerking as a form of liberation.

The obvious problem, of course, is that what Netflix did is catnip for pedophiles. It also degrades our culture and encourages young children to sexualize themselves. Beyond the obvious, Netflix’s terrible decision points to a more serious problem in Western culture, which is that sexualizing children is a precursor of state control over the individual.

A tweet on Wednesday first identified the problem:

A Variety article from January promoting the movie when the producer had entered into an agreement for it to open nationwide on Netflix, described the film this way:

“Cuties” is about the hyper-sexualization of pre-adolescent girls. It follows an 11-year-old girl of Senegalese [Muslim] origin, living in one of Paris’ poorest neighborhoods, who is raised in a pious tradition, but joins a group of young dancers who hope to twerk their way to stardom. 

The movie may indeed be about culture clashes in modern Paris or about pressure on immigrant children (which is what the producer seemed to say), but it still sounds like pedophile porn — and that’s certainly how Americans understood Netflix’s promotional campaign.

In response to Thursday’s outcry, Netflix lowered the sexual heat in its promotion:

Amy, 11 years old, tries to escape family dysfunction by joining a free-spirited dance clique called “Cuties,” as they build self confidence through dance.”

It later lowered the heat again. As of this writing, the description sounds like a wholesome Disney tween comedy:

Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.

The people pictured on the movie’s Netflix page in dance poses are no longer disturbingly sexualized little girls but are, instead, older teenagers, including boys.

On his Thursday night show, Tucker asked the right question: Why?

The obvious answer is that our cultural arbiters are debauched people with pedophile tendencies. After all, stories about Hollywood’s pedophilia and pederasty problem are everywhere.

It goes deeper, though. Since the 1960s, the left has focused on pedophilia as a way to diminish children’s sense of self and make them easier to subdue. It’s a form of grooming, of the type Epstein and Maxwell did, but on a national scale.

Children are born with a strong sense of self (“Me! Mine!”), but it’s instinctive, not intellectual. The intellectual knowledge of oneself as a unique and inviolate individual develops in later childhood and continues through the tweens and teens.

Leftism, of course, isn’t about the individual; it’s about the collective. If leftists are to take over a society, they need to break the connection between a person’s body and his or her sense of self.

German leftism was at the forefront of this movement. Typically for leftists, of course, they promised that sexualizing children would promote, not destroy, individuality. For example, Der Spiegel wrote about Revolution der Erziehung (The Revolution in Education), published in 1971, which insisted that bourgeoise morals dehumanized children:

“The de-eroticization of family life, from the prohibition of sexual activity among children to the taboo of incest, serves as preparation for total assimilation — as preparation for the hostile treatment of sexual pleasure in school and voluntary subjugation to a dehumanizing labor system.”

The same Spiegel article then offered chapter and verse about the German left’s active efforts to sexualize children – and the damage it did to those children’s development.

In West Berlin, beginning in the 1970s and continuing for thirty years, a psychology professor convinced the authorities to place homeless children with known pedophile men on the theory that they’d make “loving” parents. In Belgium, the leftist Catholic diocese actively promoted pedophilia. In Hawaii, Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s communist mentor, along with promoting disturbing sexual practices such as bondage, simulated rape, and undinism, also encouraged pedophilia (or, at the very least, pederasty).

In America, using the vehicle of the LGBTQ movement, Leftists relentlessly pressure schools to expose children to graphic sexual practices. In California, a sex-ed curriculum ostensibly intended to help kids have safe sex, exposes fifth graders, not only to traditional male-female sex but also to . . . well, everything, including extreme and dangerous sexual practices.

What statists have always understood is that our bodies are the first line in the battle between statism and individualism. If a person is allowed to develop a sense that his body is his own to control, he will never willingly yield to the demands of the state. Only by convincing its citizens that they have no personal autonomy, beginning with control over their bodies, can a state completely subsume the individual to the bureaucracy. 

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/theres_a_reason_that_netflix_is_sexualizing_young_girls.html#ixzz6VkGxwvYJ

Well-informed sources told Dutch daily De Telegraaf that the man suspected of the murder of Bas van Wijk in Amsterdam is known to the police. It is a Dutch citizen with Moroccan roots, reported the daily. And the lawyer who assists another suspect is unhappy with the Public Prosecution Service (OM), which, according to him, released this information.

The OM announced this week that a firearm and a watch had been found on the suspect and will be included in the investigation.

Four immigrant youths, aged between 18 and 20 were arrested. The most pressing question is of course: will the main offender be tried under juvenile criminal law or not? Should this happen, then the penalty is a maximum of two years prison.

Forensic tests will be conducted to determine whether the weapon found was the firearm used in the murder. The suspect who gave the police the clues is the one who made a confessional statement last week. Police are conducting extensive investigations into the case, on the death of Bas van Wijk and has called on witnesses to share photos and camera images, police said in a press release.

On Monday, August 24, the four suspects will appear in the Amsterdam court.

The man suspected of shooting Bas van Wijk (24) was known to the police, “not for serious but for persistent crime”.

Lawyer Van Vliet, lawyer for one of the three immigrant suspects, has criticised the Public Prosecution Service. “The Public Prosecution Service should never have released the information about the weapon and watch found,” he complained.

“I understand that this matter is very sensitive. It is also terrible how Bas van Wijk was shot,” continued the Amsterdam criminal lawyer. The lawyer said he heard information about the case not through the Public Prosecution Service but through the media. And that’s not how it should be.

“To top it all off, when we arrived at the arraignment last Friday, there were no statements from co-suspects in the file. While we as lawyers knew from the media that there were. I was therefore not allowed to share that information with my client. That is an unworkable situation.”

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