Mali: Sharia imposed in Timbuktu. Muslims Demolish Churches & Behead Christians

from: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/mali-sharia-imposed-in-timbuktu-muslims-demolish-churches-behead-christian-leader-compile-list-of-ot.html

But remember, the real problem is "Islamophobia."
"Christian leader beheaded as Islamists terrorize Mali," by Charles Gardner for the ASSIST News Service, April 7 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

TIMBUKTU, MALI (ANS) -- A Christian leader has been beheaded and others are being threatened with similar treatment as Islamic militants run amok in Mali, West Africa.

Christians have fled the town of Timbuktu in the north of the country where harsh Sharia Law has already been imposed amid reports that churches in Gao, 200 miles to the east, have been completely destroyed.
The news comes in the wake of a military coup in the country, one of the effects of which is that sanctions applied from outside has cut off electricity supplies, further delaying reports of the latest upheavals along with desperate pleas for help.

Among those affected is British Bible college graduate Timothee (Tim) Yattara, who recently returned home to his home country in a bid to help spread the gospel in this remote – and now dangerous – part of Africa located on the edge of the Sahara.

Tim has fled with his family to Bamako, the country’s main city some 400 miles away in the south-west, but without the money to rent a house.
“We have escaped in the wake of horrible death threats as the Islamists have a list of all the Christians in Timbuktu whom they intend to execute by beheading. As proof of their intentions, one leader has already been killed in this way and some churches in Gao have been demolished. Most Christians have already fled for safety, but Sharia Law has been imposed all over the north....

Israeli Letter to Activists

from: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/04/jew-haters-suffer-setback-airlines-cancel-pro-jihad-flytilla-militants-flights-to-israel.html

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Artist: Grandmaster Flash
Song Title: The Message
Writer(s): DAVIS, CARL

Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause a man with the tow-truck repossessed my car

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
Sitting on princes seems to have lost her senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got social security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

My brother's doing bad stole my mother's T.V.
Says she watches too much, is just not healthy
All my children in the daytime, Dallas at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
Bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
Midrange, migrained, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane!

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

My son said daddy I don't want to go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They push that girl in front of a train
Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again
Stabbed that man, right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after the dark
Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like an outlaw, broke my last last jaw
Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a seesaw

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

A child is born, with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling but he is frowning too
Cause only god knows what you go through
You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers;
thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you want to grow up to be just like them
Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpocketers, peddlers and even pan-handlers
You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
Walking around like you're pretty boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
Got send up for a eight year bid
Now your man hood is took and you're a Maytag
Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
Being used and abused, and served like hell
Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

From http://www.lyrics007.com

No Paper or Plastic: LA Bids Bags Goodbye

by Tony Lee at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/12/no-paper-or-plastic-la-bids-bags-goodbye

Influenced by out-of-touch environmentalists, the Los Angeles City Council committee moved forward last week with plans to phase out and ultimately ban paper and plastic bags in Los Angeles.

Environmentalists would like similar legislation to pass across the nation, completely oblivious to the fact that such legislation would not only inconvenience many consumers and shoppers but kill jobs. In Los Angeles alone, 2,000 people are employed by companies that make bags, and if bags are banned, these workers would be out of jobs and the health insurance benefits that accompany them.

This week, those in the bag manufacturing industry took to the airwaves to highlight the detrimental effect such legislation would have not only on the economy but the very environment the radical environmentalists purportedly want to preserve.

Stan Bikulege, CEO of bag producer Hilex, appeared this week on Hannity to offer an update on the pending LA ban and similar bans that are being proposed throughout the country:

BIKULEGE: We have 1250 jobs here in the United States-10 plants. And we spend all of our time focused on working against the government who is trying to ban us out of existence.

HANNITY: So you have to spend all this money to protect those jobs that you have, just to stay in business?

BIKULEGE: Oh, absolutely. We've spent so much money. We could have built more recycling plants, which we actually take garbage, turn it back into plastics and put it back into products. We could be rebuilding those and creating jobs. Instead, we're spending our time fighting against legislation that's going to take American jobs out of this country."

Environmentalists believe that legislation that bans paper and plastic bags will force people to use reusable bags; however, as The Washington Post discovered after the nation’s capital instituted a fee for paper and plastic bags, reusable bags are often breeding grounds for bacteria that can be harmful to people’s health.

So while environmentalists think they are doing everyone a favor by banning bags, they are essentially unleashing a host of unintended consequences not limited to more unemployment, less recycling facilities, and potential contamination of the food put in bacteria-laden reusable grocery bags.

Demonstration of Double Dutch Jump Rope by Kojak LaLanne

The Term "Good Friday"

The State of "Palestine" Quiz

Tell-Tale Signs of Untruthfulness

A pair of flaming trousers (or a growing nose, à la Pinocchio) isn’t the only sign that a person is spewing falsehoods. Here, five experts teach you how to smoke out a fibber.

 

1. A Person’s Demeanor or Voice Radically Changes - Gregg McCrary is a retired FBI criminal profiler and a crime analyst in Fredericksburg, Va.

As an investigator, I first try to assess how someone normally speaks. To do that, I begin an interview by asking questions that I know the answers to, like “What’s your full name?” or “Where do you live?” Some folks are naturally animated and talk fast; others are more subdued. Once I know which type of talker a person is, I start asking him questions that I don’t know the answer to. If his manner shifts abruptly—going from calm to agitated or lively to mellow—chances are he’s not telling the truth.


2. A Person Avoids Saying “I”- Jeffrey Hancock is an associate professor of communication at Cornell University who studies online lying.

In my research, I’ve discovered that when people fib about themselves, they tend to use I and me less often than people who are being truthful. Instead, they’ll speak about themselves in the third person (“This is a girl who loves to ski”) or even truncate their language (“Really into listening to jazz”)—anything to give themselves psychological distance from the lie.


3. A Person Has an Answer for Everything - Julia Chung has been an educator for 16 years, first as a high school teacher in Los Angeles and now as an assistant principal in Westchester County, N.Y.

Ask most people what they were doing last week and they’ll have to pause and think about it. That’s even more true of teenagers, who generally don’t have the capacity to tell an elaborate story on the fly. So when I call a child into my office and he seems totally rehearsed—there’s zero hesitation before he answers a question—well, that’s a dead giveaway.


4. A Person Fidgets and Fusses for No Reason -Barbara Mitchell has been a relationship therapist in New York City for 34 years

If someone keeps performing a random physical action that seems unnecessary—cleaning her glasses excessively, retying her shoelaces, or dusting off the (clean) table in front of her—she may be lying. The guilt and anxiety make her restless. That can be particularly true if she is lying to somebody she loves. When a person fibs to a traffic cop, she won’t necessarily fidget a lot. But if she is deceiving her husband, she won’t be able to sit still.


5. A Person Proclaims His Honesty Repeatedly - Joseph Buckley is the president of John E. Reid and Associates, in Chicago, which trains law-enforcement investigators.

To sell us on the integrity of their answers, liars often use phrases emphasizing the validity of their statements, like “to tell the truth” and “to be perfectly honest.” These verbal tip-offs frequently invoke religion. Think of expressions like “I swear on a stack of Bibles” and “as God is my witness.” Most truthful people don’t need to go that far.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/04/03/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying/?intcmp=features#ixzz1r7JZR2ge

What is the Capital of Israel? - Not an April Fools' Day Joke

I wish this were an April Fools' Day joke - but it is not.



It caused quite a stir this week when the Washington Free Beacon discovered a State Department press release which referred to Jerusalem and Israel as two separate entities. The not-so-subtle categorical slight was all the more shocking for how it contradicted decades of U.S. foreign policy and President Obama's own words from an AIPAC speech in 2008.

However, the now-corrected release and subsequent State Department press conference reveals a glaring contradiction in the Department's position over the permanent status of Jerusalem to that held by President Obama--at least, to that held by President Obama four years ago.

Let's begin with the State Department, whose press release clearly mentions Jerusalem and Israel separately: "Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Kathleen Stephens is traveling to Algiers, Doha, Amman, Jerusalem, and Israel from March 23 to April 5 to meet with a broad cross-section of government officials, students, NGOs, and exchange program alumni."

Shortly after this was discovered, the State Department, in no surprise move, quickly scrubbed the release from the Internet and corrected the "error" by swapping out "Israel" for "Tel Aviv." This prompted an alarming exchange between AP State Department Reporter Matt Lee and State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland at Thursday's press briefing.

After an explanation regarding the mix-up, Nuland stated, "With regard to our Jerusalem policy, it's a permanent-status issue. It's got to be resolved through the negotiations between the parties."

These negotiations to which Nuland was referring have to do with a discrepancy between the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch. The Legislature acknowledges Jerusalem's "undivided status" as the capital of Israel. It is the position the Executive branch that Western and Eastern Jerusalem are subject to international peace negotiations; therefore, it does not claim that Jerusalem in its entirety is the permanent capital.

Following her comments, Lee pressed Nuland for the State Department's position on the current status of Jerusalem--whether they consider it the capital of Israel, a position President Obama held rather strongly in 2008.

In his speech to AIPAC, the president declared, "Let me clear, Israel's security is sacrosanct, it is non-negotiable, the Palestinians need a state... that is contiguous and cohesive and that allows them to prosper, but any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized, defensible borders, and Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."

As usual, no one stopped President Obama from being perfectly clear. His message conveyed strong support for Jerusalem to remain "the undivided capital of Israel." Yet somehow, that clarity seems to have dissipated somewhere, as his state department claimed on Thursday, "With regard to our Jerusalem policy, it's a permanent-status issue. It's got to be resolved through the negotiations between the parties."

Even more alarming, as Lee continued to ask, "What is the capital of Israel?" Nuland replied, "Our policy with regard to Jerusalem is that it has to be solved through negotiations. That's all I have to say on this issue."

Herein lies the real problem with the State Department's position, at least according to Victoria Nuland. Not only does the State Department leave the status of East and West Jerusalem up to negotiations, it dismissed the U.S. recognition that any part of Jerusalem is the permanent capital of Israel.

Lee pressed this issue directly by asking, "Is it your -- is it your position that all of Jerusalem is a final-status issue, or do you think -- or is it just East Jerusalem?" Nuland again responded with, "Matt, I don't have anything further to what I've said 17 times on that subject. Okay."

So we are left with all she had to say on the issue, what she "said 17 times already," and it indicates a drastic inconsistency between the State Department's position, President Obama's positions in 2008, and longstanding U.S. policy.

Story from: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/03/30/obama-2008-jerusalem-capital-of-israel-undivided by by Rebel Pundit

Stranglehold -- Ted Nugent