Monthly Archives: February 2013
NORTH KOREA RELEASES VIDEO APPARENTLY SHOWING THE ATTACK OF A US CITY
North Korea’s official government website released a propaganda video showing a young man sleeping and having a dream. In his dream the man goes in a space shuttle and orbits the earth. The dream shows a missile being launched, similar to one the rogue state tested in December last year.
The dream then shows a unified Korea, and an image of the America flag. This is followed by images of a city like New York under attack.
“Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing,” runs the caption across the screen.
“It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze with the fire started by itself,” it added.
The music in the background is “We Are the World”. The video ends with the young man waking up and with him concluding this dream will “surely come true”.
It is expected that North Korea will soon perform more nuclear tests, despite further UN sanctions imposed in December.
“MUSLIM PATROLS” BECOMING MORE COMMON ACROSS EUROPE’S CITIES
Large scale immigration has changed the demographic of many of Europe’s cities. In the UK, multiculturalism has left some of England’s largest cities with areas in which Muslims make up with majority of the population, and schools have more children with English as a second language, than native English speakers.
Now some of the failures of multiculturalism are becoming more apparent as some Muslim communities have failed to integrate into the local communities.
In many parts of London, and other English cities, white residents are moving out. With one London borough seeing a third of the white British population leave in recent years. The result is, areas which feel more like downtown Islamabad than inner city London. Those who have remained feel increasingly like strangers in the places they grew up.
Now an anti-extremist organisation has warned that Britain could see more Muslim Patrols on their city streets. Muslim Patrols are springing up across Europe. Groups of young Muslim men intimidating non-Muslims to conform to the demands of sharia law.
Recently a video posted on YouTube showed a Muslim Patrol confront a man drinking alcohol telling him to stop, that he was in a “muslim area”. The video also showed the men verbally abuse a homosexual man, and a young woman for not dressing modestly, describing white women as “naked animals with no self–respect”.
Maajid Nawaz, the chairman of the Quilliam Foundation, has now raised concerns that these Muslim Patrols could become more common, and more violent. As more and more young British Muslim men go to dangerous Islamic nations, like Syria, Libya, Mali and Somalia, and become more radicalised by al-Qaeda groups operating in these countries.
“Scores of young European-born Arabs and Somalis are following in the footsteps of British Pakistanis in travelling to lawless conflict zones.
“What happens when these men, schooled in the use of political violence in far-flung places, return to Britain?”
SAND MANDALA AT NICEVILLE, FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE
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Mattie Kelly Arts Center
Niceville, Florida
February 5, 2013
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery created a sand mandala at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center at Northwest Florida State College.
Half of the sand from the mandala was given to the people present for the ceremony. The other half was dispersed into an unnamed body of water nearby.
UK PARLIAMENT VOTES TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
The House of Commons, in London, voted today to legalise same-sex marriage. The Prime Minister won the vote with a comfortable margin of 400 to 175 against. The bill will now pass to the House of Lords, where it is expected to face stiffer opposition.
The bill has divided David Cameron’s Conservative party, with more than half of his own MPs voting against the bill, and the Prime Minister relying on support from the Liberal Democrats and Labour to win the vote.
Although the bill is likely to face a tougher challenge in the Lords, it is predicted that the bill will become law, by May.
FINANCIAL PLANNING
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune.
One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.
“I may look like just an ordinary guy,” he said to her, “but in just a few years, my father will die and I will inherit $200 million.”
Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at financial planning than men.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PASSES FIRST PARLIAMENTARY VOTE IN FRANCE
Lawmakers in France passed the first part of the Marriage Equality Bill today. They voted on the most controversial article of the bill which redefines marriage as an agreement between two people of the same or opposite sex. The article was passed with an overwhelming majority of 249-97.
The Marriage Equality Bill also seeks to grant same-sex couples equal adoption rights as heterosexual couples.
Over the Channel in Britain, parliament is also set to debate gay marriage next week. The UK government are keen to legalise same-sex marriage, and are expected to win the vote this week. However, the bill will face stiffer opposition in the House of Lords. A final vote in the Commons is expected in May.
FOUR HUSBANDS !
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband’s occupation. “He’s a funeral director,”she answered. “Interesting,” the newsman thought.
He then asked her if she wouldn’t mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she had first married a banker when she was in her 20’s, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40’s, and a preacher when in her 60’s, and now – in her 80’s – a funeral director. The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.
(wait for it)
She smiled and explained,
“I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go.”