1. A nation, country even a region is defined by language, culture, religion and borders…
2. A broken nation, country or region has multiple languages, no shared culture, and no borders…
3. Hence, in part, explains where we are and what we are seeing in the world…
4. I am sorry to tell you this, but not all people can, could, should be mixed together in a “Kum ba yah” society…
WtR
The USA has decided how your country should allow what and about the religion you can and will respect and worship…
Now first note that this is an “international” Executive Order from Trump and the USA…
On second note you now know who thinks they are God, not God’s chosen, but God…
Executive Order on Advancing International Religious Freedom
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. (a) Religious freedom, America’s first freedom, is a moral and national security imperative. Religious freedom for all people worldwide is a foreign policy priority of the United States, and the United States will respect and vigorously promote this freedom. As stated in the 2017 National Security Strategy, our Founders understood religious freedom not as a creation of the state, but as a gift of God to every person and a right that is fundamental for the flourishing of our society.
(b) Religious communities and organizations, and other institutions of civil society, are vital partners in United States Government efforts to advance religious freedom around the world. It is the policy of the United States to engage robustly and continually with civil society organizations — including those in foreign countries — to inform United States Government policies, programs, and activities related to international religious freedom.
Sec. 2. Prioritization of International Religious Freedom. Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State (Secretary) shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), develop a plan to prioritize international religious freedom in the planning and implementation of United States foreign policy and in the foreign assistance programs of the Department of State and USAID.
Sec. 3. Foreign Assistance Funding for International Religious Freedom. (a) The Secretary shall, in consultation with the Administrator of USAID, budget at least $50 million per fiscal year for programs that advance international religious freedom, to the extent feasible and permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations. Such programs shall include those intended to anticipate, prevent, and respond to attacks against individuals and groups on the basis of their religion, including programs designed to help ensure that such groups can persevere as distinct communities; to promote accountability for the perpetrators of such attacks; to ensure equal rights and legal protections for individuals and groups regardless of belief; to improve the safety and security of houses of worship and public spaces for all faiths; and to protect and preserve the cultural heritages of religious communities.
(b) Executive departments and agencies (agencies) that fund foreign assistance programs shall ensure that faith-based and religious entities, including eligible entities in foreign countries, are not discriminated against on the basis of religious identity or religious belief when competing for Federal funding, to the extent permitted by law.
Sec. 4. Integrating International Religious Freedom into United States Diplomacy. (a) The Secretary shall direct Chiefs of Mission in countries of particular concern, countries on the Special Watch List, countries in which there are entities of particular concern, and any other countries that have engaged in or tolerated violations of religious freedom as noted in the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom required by section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-292), as amended (the “Act”), to develop comprehensive action plans to inform and support the efforts of the United States to advance international religious freedom and to encourage the host governments to make progress in eliminating violations of religious freedom.
(b) In meetings with their counterparts in foreign governments, the heads of agencies shall, when appropriate and in coordination with the Secretary, raise concerns about international religious freedom and cases that involve individuals imprisoned because of their religion.
(c) The Secretary shall advocate for United States international religious freedom policy in both bilateral and multilateral fora, when appropriate, and shall direct the Administrator of USAID to do the same.
Sec. 5. Training for Federal Officials. (a) The Secretary shall require all Department of State civil service employees in the Foreign Affairs Series to undertake training modeled on the international religious freedom training described in section 708(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-465), as amended by section 103(a)(1) of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (Public Law 114-281).
(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the heads of all agencies that assign personnel to positions overseas shall submit plans to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, detailing how their agencies will incorporate the type of training described in subsection (a) of this section into the training required before the start of overseas assignments for all personnel who are to be stationed abroad, or who will deploy and remain abroad, in one location for 30 days or more.
(c) All Federal employees subject to these requirements shall be required to complete international religious freedom training not less frequently than once every 3 years.
Sec. 6. Economic Tools. (a) The Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and through the process described in National Security Presidential Memorandum-4 of April 4, 2017 (Organization of the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and Subcommittees), develop recommendations to prioritize the appropriate use of economic tools to advance international religious freedom in countries of particular concern, countries on the Special Watch List, countries in which there are entities of particular concern, and any other countries that have engaged in or tolerated violations of religious freedom as noted in the report required by section 102(b) of the Act. These economic tools may include, as appropriate and to the extent permitted by law, increasing religious freedom programming, realigning foreign assistance to better reflect country circumstances, or restricting the issuance of visas under section 604(a) of the Act.
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may consider imposing sanctions under Executive Order 13818 of December 20, 2017 (Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption), which, among other things, implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Public Law 114-328).
Sec. 7. Definitions. For purposes of this order:
(a) “Country of particular concern” is defined as provided in section 402(b)(1)(A) of the Act;
(b) “Entity of particular concern” is defined as provided in section 301 of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (Public Law 114-281);
(c) “Special Watch List” is defined as provided in sections 3(15) and 402(b)(1)(A)(iii) of the Act; and
(d) “Violations of religious freedom” is defined as provided in section 3(16) of the Act.
Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
USAIDDONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 2, 2020.
Source: Executive Order on AdvaUSAIDncing International Religious Freedom | The White House
Third note USAID (NGO)….a vast tool used to destroy other countries by the USA…
Booted Out: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is specifically specified as the tool used to implement this nasty Executive Order by Trump….
I could go on forever about this. But it is all in black and white and all you have to do is go to the GOV site and read for yourself the truth…
Source: Executive Order on AdvaUSAIDncing International Religious Freedom | The White House
You cannot make this stuff up. If we did make it up no one would believe that it was true and yet, here we are looking at an Executive Order by the President of the USA to force majeure other countries to follow the USA way of thinking about religion around the whole world…
Other words in simple language: You either change your religious views within your country to appease the USA and or suffer the consequences!
Have you had enough of the Bully yet?
Or should I just say, “The self-appointed religion police (USA) are trying to jackboot ‘your’ country!”
WtR
Why you watch the greatest show on earth and do not miss the dog and pony show. It is to die for…
When us Americans get tired of the, “Dog and Pony show” and the “Three Ring Circus”…
Maybe we can get serious about changing the USA system of governing? So much wasted money and so much illegal war and so much hate and lies!
Got to admit, voting for Trump was correct, he is a perfect match for a very psychotic country called the USA….when I watched him walk to the church near the White House, I smiled and said to Fat Cat outside, “Trump cannot even do good propaganda and make it right!”
Why you watch the greatest show on earth and do not miss the dog and pony show. It is to die for…
The soap opera as The USA Turns, has now become as The USA Burns…
It is looking rather fried right now around the USA edges…
Got to turn it over in the skillet before it burns you know?
How does it feel to have the same thing done to the USA that the USA does to countless countries all over the world? Really sucks actually, but what goes around comes around and we have asked for it for a longtime….actually we have begged for it…
I have been tired of the SHOW for a very longtime. And if you have ever read what I have wrote for ten years plus on this blog, we have been the greatest soap opera for what seems like an eternity…
France burned (Is it still burning?) and we basically ignored the warning signs from that and as America burns, we just are looking at the wrong place as always for the problem…
Until we all look square at the issue at hand and quite playing the circus theme again and again…
Rainy day in TRV and what do you do…
Why you watch the greatest show on earth and do not miss the dog and pony show. It is to die for…
WtR
Did you say something to me?
I woke at 3 a.m. and found only a sneaky foxy fox running around TRV. It was getting light out and I took a walk. Mister Foxy Fox was standing in the road near our home and I noticed he was with his back to me and watching something else in life….then I saw our fat Cat slinking through the grass and decided that expressing distaste in what the Mister Foxy Fox might be thinking about…
I said rather loudly, “Excuse me Mister Foxy Fox!”
Then a red streak of Mister Foxy Fox went down the hill and across the dam of the lake and disappeared into the river area. I can attest to the fact that a Mister Foxy Fox can move very fast… 😉
Fat Cat looked at me as if to say, “Did you say something to me?”
And he slunk away and I truly believe that he never knew Mister Foxy Fox was even there…
Okay Fat Cat, you owe me one!
Eat some mice for me…
WtR
With just about everybody but the rioters themselves getting the blame, Susan Rice – former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama – chimed in with a tried and true villain: Russia. “I would bet,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday, “this is right out of the Russian playbook.”
Absolutely Incredible: Obama’s Former NSA Susan Rice on CNN talking about the protests and domestic strife” This is right out of the Russian playbook” pic.twitter.com/luXiPV0bOq — Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) May 31, 2020
Rice at least admitted that she’s “not reading the intelligence these days,” essentially confirming that her theory was plucked from thin air.
Blitzer didn’t push back on Rice’s claim, and Rice went on to accuse Moscow of trying to “disintegrate” the US from within. “I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they’re funding it in some way, shape or form,” she added, another theory pulled from the ether.
Russia did it and did it and did it… ~~
The gift that keeps on giving!
WtR
PS: I keep watching a lot of videos of these demonstrations and other data about this, and no one as in a politician from another country has come to the USA to pass out cookies, pizza and or even handfuls of money…. I am very disappointed in the rest of the world. They need cookies, funding for a new illegally implemented dictator and weapons of defense! ~~
Does that sound familiar?
United States of Maidan…
Kinda says it all in one image…
You should know about Ukraine, the US and those cookies of delight…The act of and the intentional act of the murder of George Floyd by cops, is a reminder to all of us who are oppressed by the same system all over the world. It was a loathsome act and a pity that someone at the time did not intervene to save this person, so that other wounded, handcuffed and humiliated citizens have constitutional rights. Crime committing or not. The law is in place to stop things like this. George Floyd was dragged out of the cop car after being arrested and handcuffed and then a knee was pressed against his neck until he died….as he begged for his life…
They have to uphold the United States Constitution that proclaims freedom, justice and human rights for all. And for all until proven in a court of law that they are guilty…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 11, states: “Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.”…
Being innocent until proven guilty means that regardless of whether or not the crime being charged was committed, or the defendant was the person who committed the crime, the state has the entire burden of proof. Therefore, the defendant has no burden of proof, regardless of the issue or situation…
“Trial by Cops” is a Hollywood idiom and never should be partaken upon society as a normality….cops arrest, protect and do the damn best they can. Yet we have in our face a cop and cops deciding that they are executioners and took matters into their own hands. George Floyd was subdued with handcuffs and not a flight/fight risk by any means…
This cannot be a precedent to be allowed to happen. Any more than the rioting that is going on can be allowed to happen. But when society cracks, things will get nasty fast…
“When people have nothing left to lose, and they’ve lost everything, they lose it. – Gerald Celente”
I have mentioned this before on this website…
Several times…
Guilty or not is not the cops job. The cop has to allow the court system to work and yet we see a perfect example of taking the law into your own hands…
The rioting that is happening is a combination of this act, other acts against society and internal forces prodding the cattle. No one in the USA is innocent of this happening and everyone needs to look in the mirror and ask that person, “Is everything really alright on the home front?”
Therefore, if this is being used as a catalyst to do other mischief within the USA. No one but the USA can be blamed. This issue is internal and has been growing for a long time. If you make hate upon the world, then one day that world will see the weak spot and exploit it…
No one to blame, but that person in the mirror…
WtR
United States of Maidan?
You should know about Ukraine, the US and those cookies of delight…
I walked at 3 a.m. and thought about something…
The USA: Around 40 million people out of work, society in a nervous breakdown, a police force out of control & murdering people, a population with give or take 300 million legal and many illegal guns, and everybody wearing a face mask….What the hell could go wrong?
Then I became thoughtful some more…
~~ Why is the world standing by enjoying the soap opera whilst this perfect freedom loving sweet fascist regime suppresses the people in the land of liberty and freedom called America?
Isn’t it time some freedom loving countries start supply these freedom fighters with weapons to defend themselves from the love and understanding being shown?
Also, why aren’t governments worldwide selecting a new president for this freedom and democracy of a country?
The entire US govt. is broken and hateful to the peasants, lock up their and that is politicians and others, savings abroad, put a no fly zone over the US and bomb some real democracy into this pit of soiled land…
It’s like the world doesn’t care about freedom anymore? ~~
Sarcasm of the truth. For this is exactly how the USA treats other countries when this happens…
It is all okay! Just ignore the main fact that this was over just $20 bill of fake money, which the truth is all dollars are fake and the cops, one with his knee on a mans neck and others watching and doing nothing, all the while the man pleaded and begged for his life. You will be there one day and wonder why you ignored something like this…
(CNN)Surveillance video from outside a Minneapolis restaurant appears to contradict police claims that George Floyd resisted arrest before an officer knelt on his neck. – Source: Surveillance video does not support police claims that George Floyd resisted arrest – CNN
Therefore, while I am being sarcastic (maybe & maybe not), the truth is not what you want to hear….I have said many times. Grow up people and look in the mirror…
Man, that mirror sucks right now in the USA…
WtR
Pretty simple actually…
“[Chauvin] pulled Mr. Floyd out of the passenger side of the squad car at 8:19:38 pm and Mr. Floyd went to the ground face down and still handcuffed. Kueng held Mr. Floyd’s back and Lane held his legs. The defendant placed his knee in the area of Mr. Floyd’s head and neck.”
— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) May 30, 2020
Oh and Twitter is censoring like crazy about just about everything…
Weather was good and will be good for a couple of days and I decided to spruce the Ole Village Home up. I repaired a roof section and then I scraped and scraped. Then I started to paint and paint. The wood soaked up the paint like a sponge and I definitely have to give it another coat of paint…
I finally got the back of the barn cleaned out and am in the process of repairing the bad areas. I hope to live ten plus more years and want my barn the whole time. 😉
This morning I will go to the Fish Village and buy more paint. I know they have two cans at least and that will save me from having to go to the Big Village…
So I went to bed last night at 9 p.m. and up at 2 a.m. this morning….that five hours of sleep is just about like clock work and I can’t get around it. The only difference is that if I went to bed at midnight, I would still get up around 3 a.m…. Yuck…
Today I finish the eaves of the wall I started to paint and then start scraping another wall. I need to get a bag of concrete and rework the foundation in areas. Then I will paint the foundation burnt orange again…
I also….have a million other things to do. So right now I will walk for a couple of hours and start painting again…
Have a nice day…
WtR
I looked at some news today. I have intentionally stayed away from the Main Stream Media and today I looked over what I missed…
Actually I missed nothing, but what I saw and realized was this…
The Truth is buried, the crap is promoted and the lies are expounded upon…
The simple fact that we have sent a thousand Marines to Libya in 2014 shows the state of affairs and to what extent we did to destroy a country that was under control and was prosperous…
I wonder if everyone in America realize that we are being played by the devil and we sing his songs for him, from the news to the church pulpit?
One day an alien race will come to the earth and all they will see is the feet of all the people as they try to dig deeper and deeper to keep from acknowledging the facts as they really are…
I took a few day rest from the news and when I stepped back, it sprang out like a demon from the shadows…
Truth has flown away…
Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
To a Neocon, no matter where in the world they reside and every country has these so called neocons, there is only one dream and that is to have the biggest bomb and better yet, The “BOMB”…
So be it early Christmas, your dreams come true, fantasies galore and or just plain want to see the world in flames. Well, your reveries are coming true…
Lets bless the BOMB and make things so much better!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s arms control negotiator on Thursday said the United States is prepared to spend Russia and China “into oblivion” in order to win a new nuclear arms race. “The president has made clear that we have a tried and true practice here. We know how to win these races and we know how to spend the adversary into oblivion. If we have to, we will, but we sure would like to avoid it,” Special Presidential Envoy Marshall Billingslea said in an online presentation to a Washington think tank.
Source: U.S. prepared to spend Russia, China ‘into oblivion’ to win nuclear arms race: U.S. envoy – Reuters
The US is playing right into the worlds Neocons plans and “throwing into the wind” anything that helped the world become a better place. Nothing has changed with how the world will play with their toys and thus, no pressure and restrictions allow many who so desire, to have Christmas and Thanksgiving all rolled up into one neat package…
Besides how can a country that is so broke spend anyone into oblivion?
Good question and it looks like Russia and China are smiling as America tightens that noose around its neck…
Lets all dream about our favorite girlfriend, The BOMB!
Merry Christmas… ~~
WtR
~~ Why is the world standing by enjoying the soap opera whilst this perfect freedom loving sweet fascist regime suppresses the people in the land of liberty and freedom called America?