The village of Maaloula has been taken over by Syrian rebels associated with al Qaeda, who have stormed the Christian center and offered local Christians a choice: conversion or death. A resident of the town said the rebels shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as they moved through the village, and proceeded to assault Christian homes and churches.
“They shot and killed people,” he said. “I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village. Where is President Obama to see what has befallen us?” Another witness stated, “I saw the militants grabbing five villagers and threatening them and saying, ‘Either you convert to Islam, or you will be beheaded.’”
The village is located just 25 miles from Damascus, and sites within the village are dedicated as United Nations world heritage sites. Residents still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus. The rebels who took over the city are associated with the al Nusra Front, an al Qaeda-associated Islamist group. Villagers reported foreign dialects ranging from Tunisian to Libyan, from Moroccan to Chechen.
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MAIN STREAM MEDIA IS SCRIPTED TO PROGRAM US, BUT WHO WRITES THIS STUFF?
Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year!
Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.
TIFF 2013 – It took nearly four decades, but TIFF has truly become The Festival of Festivals
The next time you hear about the imminent death of film, think on the Toronto International Film Festival, which used to be known by the brash title The Festival of Festivals, and has grown over its 37-year history to become just that.
The event, which kicked off Sept. 5 and runs until Sept. 15, is a deal-making Mecca and a cultural force to rival the Academy Awards. In fact, the ovations that will greet many of this year’s 288 features also function as a kind of starter’s pistol for the race to the Oscars. They may be six months away, but the clock has started ticking.
The opening day features only a handful of films — screenings don’t start until 3:30 p.m., and half the venues remain dark until Friday — but even at quarter-speed, the power of the festival is astonishing.
George Zimmerman Stoned Trayvon Martin ? ?
CHURCHES ATTEMPTING TO SKIRT THE LAW ON GAY MARRIAGES
It’s only a matter of time now until churches begin to be sewed by gay couples they refuse to marry under the hate crimes laws.
To date Christian wedding businesses, photographers and the like, have been sewed under these hate crime laws. It seems you cannot practice your faith, except within the confines of a small church building.
Since the church began throwing “retreats” years ago, they have all but been corralled into small empty buildings, to practice these archaic hate based rituals. The results of retreating are very evident these days or as one man said “Hey religious, hows that retreating plan working out for you?”
Quoting from united press “It’s probably one of the most difficult issues our churches are facing right now,” said Doug Anderson, a national coordinator with the evangelical Vineyard Church. “It’s almost an impossible situation to reconcile what’s going on in our culture, and our whole theology of welcoming and loving people, versus what it says in the Bible.”
What does it actually say in the bible Doug Anderson? Oh… cast the demons out. First thing the disciples did when new people came in. We read in both Luke 8 and Mark 16 that Mary Magdalen once had seven devils within her and they were cast out and that The Blood of Jesus cleanses generational sin, or demonic access that infiltrates a persons personality. These are the voices / thoughts many wrestle with night and day in a private personal torment.
Of course that’s not what Doug operates in… he only knows the law and nice church…
Hmm… seems like the demonic is conquering in the world and the poor christian is hiding in the church… Doug in the Bible, only a few went into the promised land and fought and made it their home. The multitude followed you into your buildings and wasted their lives decorating said buildings so they could reside in the safety confines of a dead church, creating their own “escapism” reality… never to be heard of again in the real world…
Doug Jesus in the Bible, called those blind leaders of the blind…
Rant off:
HERE WE GO AGAIN ! – PRESIDENT OBAMA TO VISIT SANTA MONICA- ONE DIFFERENCE THIS TIME – PROPHET IN THE ZONE- WILL THERE BE MASS SHOOTINGS LIKE LAST TIME?
SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — President Barack Obama will be in the Southland Friday for a fundraiser and meeting with the President of China.
Mr. Obama will arrive at LAX Friday at 10:30 a.m. for a Democratic National Committee event at the home of Hollywood executive Peter Chernin in Santa Monica.
The fundraiser is scheduled to last until 2 p.m.
26th and San Vincente Blvd.
You be the judge
WHAT IS A PROPHETS REWARD?
The warfare is hell, but the results are amazing…
America does not go into race war in spite of those pushing it…
We are in position… are you?
Apple Developer Website Hacked. If APPLE can’t protect your data, you think the government will do any better?
Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.
In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.
That’s right, all hell will breakout against you as an individual if Obama is successful in building a US all your information computer to be hacked and compromised and used against you by an unfriendly administration.
Identity thefts Love Obama’s plan…
Unfortunately it means the end of everything as we knew it…
Stay tuned…
FUTURE CRIMES- MINORITY REPORT- FUTURE CRIMES? THE FUTURE IS HERE !
The ACLU found that only five states have laws governing license plate readers. New Hampshire, for example, bans the technology except in narrow circumstances, while Maine and Arkansas limit how long plate information can be stored.
“There’s no expectation of privacy” for a vehicle driving on a public road or parked in a public place, said Lt. Bill Hedgpeth, a spokesman for the Mesquite Police Department in Texas, which has records stretching back to 2008, although the city plans next month to begin deleting files older than two years. “It’s just a vehicle. It’s just a license plate.”
In Yonkers, New York, police said retaining the information indefinitely helps detectives solve FUTURE CRIMES. In a statement, the department said it uses license plate readers as a “reactive investigative tool” that is only accessed if detectives are looking for a particular vehicle in connection to a crime.
“These plate readers are not intended nor used to follow the movements of members of the public,” the department’s statement said.
But even if law enforcement officials say they don’t want a public location tracking system, the records add up quickly. In Jersey City, New Jersey, for example, the population is only 250,000 but the city collected more than 2 million plate images on file. Because the city keeps records for five years, the ACLU estimates that it has some 10 million on file, making it possible for police to plot the movements of most residents depending upon the number and location of the scanners, according to the ACLU.
The ACLU study, based on 26,000 pages of responses from 293 police departments and state agencies across the country, also found that license plate scanners produced a small fraction of “hits,” or alerts to police that a suspicious vehicle has been found. .
SO YOU HATE YOUR JOB? WATCH THIS…
ALI AHMED, 1ST GRADER IN EGYPT, ABOUT THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
This 12-year-old Egyptian boy just put all of America to shame.
In a video interview with Egyptian news outlet El Wady, first grader Ali Ahmed delivers an incredibly precocious condemnation of the Muslim Brotherhood that will leave you speechless.
Touching on topics like Egypt’s wealth inequality, lack of rights for women, and oversize influence of religion on politics…
BLACK WOMAN HAS 15 KIDS SAYS SOMEONE IS RESPONSIBLE AND NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND NEEDS TO PAY !
MARSEILLE FRANCE, THE NEW DRUG EMPIRE- DID SOMEONE SAY MUSLIM?
France’s second city will be European capital of culture in 2013. But for the moment, news from Marseille is dominated by feuds among Kalashnikov toting drug dealers who hold sway over entire neighbourhoods. Excerpts.
Yves Bordenave | Laurent Borredon
As night falls, an unmarked anti-criminal brigade police car relentlessly patrols the neighbourhoods of northern Marseille. In each of the cités or housing projects, the ritual is the same. With the arrival of the police, shouts ring out from block to block, from building to building, and from stairwell to stairwell. The lookouts, children no more than 15 years old, are there to carefully supervise the drug trade. On occasion, the police are escorted by one or two motor scooters until they leave the area. Font-Vert, Clos la Rose, Castellane are just some of the many districts that are organised and structured by drug trafficking.
Over the last three years, the cités have engaged in a war that has brought blood to the streets of Marseille. In his office in the city’s main police station, known as l’Evêché (in honour of the building’s past as bishop’s palace), judicial police chief Roland Gauze reels off the figures: “In 2010, there were 54 murders and attempted murders in Marseille, including 17 drug feud killings. In 2011, there were 38, of which 20 were caused by drug feuds.”
It was a quieter year, but one that was marred by a particularly violent month of December, with five fatalities aged between 18 and 38, including one policeman: all of them mowed down by Kaslashnikovs. The four other victims all had a record of varying degrees of involvement in drug trafficking. “It is such easy money that they are willing to kill for it,” explains Yves Robert, a representative of SNOP, the main police force union.
“The problem will never be overcome by policing alone”
When police raids are organised, the haul brought back by investigators is usually the same: a few dozen kilos of cannabis, a few thousand euros in cash and various weapons. In the Cité de la Visitation, monthly wages for dealing range from 5,000 euros for lookouts to 10,000 euros for charbonneurs or sellers. However, elsewhere in the city there are many dealers, even retail sellers, who do not earn more than 1,500 euros per month. “There are many youngsters who in fact earn very little, but they flaunt what they have,” explains Claire Duport.
“The problem will never be overcome by policing alone,” remarks, Jean-Louis Martini of the Synergie-Officiers police union. A year ago, the judicial police dismantled just one of the networks in the Cité de la Busserine, arresting four dealers in their twenties and seizing a haul of 25 kilos of cannabis and 6,000 euros in cash. The sales point, which was open daily from midday to midnight, was taking in an average of 15,000 euros per day from approximately 300 customers.
Today another network has now taken over the business and the lookouts have returned to La Busserine. The new charbonneur even has an armchair in front of one the buildings. As they do everywhere, the housing projects in Marseille abhor a vacuum.