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Rising violence against Egypt’s Coptic Christians

Egyptian Streets


The removal of Egypt’s Islamist president Mohammed Morsi from power has ignited a wave of attacks against Coptic Christians. Over the past few days, sectarian violence has rocked Minya, with Islamist groups attacking the homes, stores, cars, and even Churches of the country’s Copts.

The violence in Minya, which has left dozens injured, displaced many Copts, with many refusing to return to their homes due to fear of further attacks. On Sunday, Islamists prevented Copts in Minya from attending mass at a Church by blocking the entrances.

In other locations across Egypt, at least 11 Coptic Christians are reported to have been killed in sectarian-related incidents since June 30. Countless others have been kidnapped and injured. Churches have also been looted, vandalized and in some cases torched.

According to the Maspero Youth Coalition, the attacks on Copts in Minya are part of a wave of attacks that stared following Morsi’s…

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www.german-foreign-policy.com – Buddies: NSA and BND

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) admits having forwarded so-called metadata to the US military’s NSA secret service. According to the BND, this data which, as shown by US whistleblower Edward Snowden’s documents, was forwarded from Germany to the United States, may also contain material resulting from espionage in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the BND, at the instigation of the German Chancellery, is particularly engaged in spying on that country’s government. In any case, not only the domestic spying service (the “Office of the Protection of the Constitution”), but also the BND has been trained by the NSA in how to operate the XKeyscore surveillance program, which, according to the German weekly “Der Spiegel,” opens the possibility of a nearly “total surveillance.”

via www.german-foreign-policy.com.

So what’s the real reason Boris Johnson broke his promise not to cut London’s fire services?

Boris is also a dolt and thinks other services will bail out London if there is a big fire, the smaller force cannot handle.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s Boris Johnson!)

He lied.

Before his re-election, when asked whether he was planning to cut London’s fire services, Boris Johnson rather testily – but very clearly – denied it:

I am in favour of retaining the 27 fire appliances and all front line operatives…There shouldn’t be a reduction in the fire appliances… I don’t want to get rid of them, what’s the problem?

But now – surprise surprise – we discover Johnson has agreed to close 10 fire stations, axe 14 fire engines, slash 552 frontline firefighting jobs and remove two rescue units.

Which means cuddly Boris broke his promise.

Or to put it another way, the real reason he broke his promise is because he’s a deceitful, deceptive, delusive, dissembling, double-crossing, double-dealing, equivocating, misinforming, oily, perfidious, shifty, slippery, soft-soaping, treacherous, two-faced, bullshitting liar.

Simple.

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Related articles by Tom Pride:

Boris Johnson can’t distance himself from Cameron. He’s family.

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A War of Numbers

It was enough people to show that many more than voted for the past elected government had decided that he was wrecking Egypt and had to go.

Egyptian Streets

Numbers, numbers everywhere, but not an accurate statistic in sight

By Peter Schwartz, contributor, EgyptianStreets.com


‘So let me get this straight: how big were the demonstrations?’ an Irish friend recently asked me.

I hummed and hawed, bandied around a few possible statistics, but then embarrassed, was forced to admit I didn’t really know. He was mightily unimpressed. After regaling him with tales of Ittihadeya crammed to the gills and suffocating-room only in Tahrir, I was supposed to have a good grasp of the situation.

I don’t, though, at least not when it comes to providing precise, or even vague figures.

In this, however, I’m far from alone, because Egypt, whose Pharaohs were conducting censuses when most Europeans were just about getting to grips with the wheel, has a problem with numbers.

Take June 30th as a case in point: 33 million people protested against Morsi, many of his opponents say.  It was more like 17…

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Immigration officers accused of singling out ‘Australian’ looking people in spot checks

Pride's Purge

(satire?)

Immigration chiefs have been accused of using ‘heavy handed’ and ‘intimidating’ tactics against anybody who looks Australian or New Zealand-ish during anti-immigration operations carried out across London recently.

The criticism comes after immigration officers targeting illegal immigrants stopped and questioned any passengers who were tall and suntanned with long shaggy blond hair and wearing surfer shorts at tube stations in several London boroughs.

However, according to several witnesses the officers were aggressive, intimidating and were specifically targeting individuals who had corks hanging from their hats.

Kensal Rise resident Sheila Irwin told the Times she was closely questioned about her attitude to wrestling crocodiles and threatened with arrest after she admitted she preferred vegemite to marmite.

She said:

I thought the behaviour of the immigration officers was heavy-handed and frightening. They appeared to be stopping and questioning every antipodean-looking person, many of whom were clearly ordinary Kensal Green residents on…

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Dressed For Murder

God wants to and does love us all – killing in God’s name is the abomination and fear of no being sure of yourself does drive men and women to believe they are above God

Jamaica Woman Tongue

DWAYNE JONES probably thought he was dressed to kill when he stepped out to that fateful dance. He couldn’t have known he was going to be the prey. But he must have realised he was making a risky fashion statement. After all, the dance was taking place just outside ‘Gyal-tego’ Bay.

That’s the new name for Montego Bay in the twisted vocabulary of super-sensitive Jamaican males. And Mandeville is now ‘Gyal-deville’. It’s not a joke. It’s a very serious matter. Sexually insecure men are so fearful of appearing to be homosexual that they cannot go into a ‘man’ town or city. Only gyal.

images-1It’s the same ‘reason’ bad man don’t eat guinep. Dem don’t suck seed. And, despite all the bravado, they don’t succeed in hiding their weakness. If you have to go to such extremes to reassure yourself that you are a real-real man, something must be fundamentally wrong.

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Egyptian Aak- Week 31. The Anatomy of Defiance

Ignoring the failed regime may well be the best strategy to diffuse it…

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Venice Boardwalk Hit-And-Run Victim Identified As Italian Woman On Honeymoon: LAist

(So sad – RIP Alice)

The woman killed in last nights horrific hit-and-run on the Venice Beach Boardwalk has been identified as an Italian woman who was honeymooning in California.Alice Gruppioni, 32, died just hours after a car plowed through the crowded boardwalk, injuring a dozen. Gruppioni was on a honeymoon with her new husband Christian Casadei, an architect and planner. The pair were married on July 20, and they were building a home together in Pianoro, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.Gruppionis aunt, sister and father-in-law are headed to Los Angeles to meet Casadei, who is still in the hospital recovering from his injuries, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera. His injuries were not serious.

via Venice Boardwalk Hit-And-Run Victim Identified As Italian Woman On Honeymoon: LAist.

Breaking News: I Almost Died

Almost funny but people are injured and some die every year because of people shooting in the air to “celebrate.”

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Well, not quite.

I was in Tripoli when Saad Hariri’s long-awaited Ramadan speech was taking place. I couldn’t care less about what he had to say so I just sat with my friends on a porch, enjoying an afternoon August breeze.

“He’s ten minutes in and we haven’t heard bullets yet,” Ismail said jokingly. And, as if on queue, the bullets started getting fired up the air.

So as we discussed some inescapable politics through the distant shots, we heard something ricochet off the wall and land immediately next to us. We were four people. This surprisingly heavy bullet could have hit anyone:

Bullet tripoli lebanon

I’m not the kind to immediately freak out so we simply retreated inside as they cursed the morons shooting on the streets in celebration. The shooting soon ended as the speech died down.

Then I wondered: what if this actually hit one of us?

Any kind of…

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Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Today’s Jobs Report in Pictures

Today’s jobs report shows a familiar pattern. Private employers added jobs for the 41st straight month, yet nonfarm payroll employment remains lower than it was at the start of the recession in December 2007. It’s well below what’s required for full employment. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent, but as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated recently, the current unemployment rate “overstates the health of our labor markets.” In particular, the share of the population with a job remains stuck near levels reached in the depth of the recession.

Below are some charts to show how the new figures look in historical context. Check back soon for my full statement with further analysis.

via Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Today’s Jobs Report in Pictures.