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Violence Can Never Bring Peace
December 22, 2014 Leave a Comment
I don’t know the earth beneath me.
Is this ground meant only to be my bloody grave?
I feel helpless.
I wonder who is God?
I wonder if this land exists
Just as a place for cruelty or destruction.
Violence can never bring peace.
No terrorist can teach me who is God!
The way to Paradise is not through killing,
Blood and ignorance.
Taliban, you make my body a shell—empty from the inside.
I feel helpless.
I don’t know the earth beneath me.
Is this ground meant only to be my bloody grave?
Why can’t we grow flowers there instead?
By Pari
via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Violence Can Never Bring Peace.
Richard Mack Announces Plan to Take Over Arizona’s Navajo County as a “Constitutional” Haven | Hatewatch
Richard Mack, the leader of the so-called “Constitutional sheriffs” movement and a longtime figure in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, made a somewhat startling announcement near the end of his speech Saturday December 13 to the gathering of fellow gun-rights enthusiasts at the “We Will Not Comply” rally in Olympia, Wash.
Record numbers at German anti-Islam rally | News | DW.DE | 22.12.2014
German society and the political establishment has for weeks grappled with the emergence of the “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident,” or PEGIDA, whose ranks in the city of Dresden have quickly grown from just a few hundred in October.
Around 4,000 counter-demonstrators marched through Dresden under the slogan “Nazi-free,” warning there was no place for racism and xenophobia in a country marred by racial hatred during World War II.
Most PEGIDA followers insisted they had no connection to Nazis, calling themselves “patriots” concerned by the “watering down” of Germany’s Christian-rooted culture and traditions. They often accuse mainstream political parties of betraying them, and the media of lying.
Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), called Monday for citizens to launch a “rebellion of the decent” against the anti-foreigner movement, telling a weekly magazine “that’s the kind of public reaction we need now.”
via Record numbers at German anti-Islam rally | News | DW.DE | 22.12.2014.
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And I thought Cincinnati had the corner on Flying Pigs? It’s raining pig plop should joint Soylent Green in iconic phrase status!
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Two NYPD cops get killed and ‘wartime’ police blame the protesters. Have we learned nothing? | Steven W Thrasher | Comment is free | The Guardian
Six years ago, I went for a run in New York City. I’d left my watch and phone at home, so when I saw two NYPD cops on a corner, I stopped and said, “Excuse me, officers, can you tell me the time?”
One officer reached for his gun, pulled it out of his holster, and – when he saw the terror in my eyes – started laughing.
“Just kidding,” the white cop said as he put away his gun. “Gotcha!”
He didn’t kill me, obviously. But I was going to die. What little faith I had in the most powerful police force in America died in that moment, too. I felt “social death” in the humiliation and shame of being too frightened to go back and get his badge number. I felt powerless when I tried to report the cop’s threat to a civilian accountability board and was told there was nothing they could do.
Unidentified American Indian Man Shot and Killed by Rapid City Police Officer
Twenty-seven hours after American Indians ended a peaceful rally in downtown Rapid City that brought awareness to police shooting of American Indians, a young American Indian man was shot to death by a Rapid City officer Saturday evening.
The American Indian man allegedly charged the officer with a knife, according to a news release issued by the Rapid City Police Department. The victim has not been officially identified at this time.
via Unidentified American Indian Man Shot and Killed by Rapid City Police Officer.
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Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 51 ( Dec 15 – 21)
The Sun. Equinox. Winter solstice. Karnak. Luxor.
Via Cecilia Udden
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egyptian presidency approves US-Egypt agreements US-Egypt cooperation agreements
- El-Sisi issues a decree to create a new police rank with arrest powers
- New militant group in Sinai splinters off Ansar Beit-al-Maqdis
- Court revision of electoral constituencies law makes it constitutional: Official
- Muslim clerics slam Interpol bid on Egypt-born preacher
- Archaeologists unveiled a restored colossal statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III
- Authorities delay newspaper from printing due to security concerns
- Egypt’s top religious authority condemns Sydney’s attack
- Forensics: Three suspects in Cairo alleged gay bathhouse were sexually assaulted
Tuesday
- Egyptian court overturns seizure of some Muslim Brotherhood’s asset
- 312 Egyptian Islamists to face military courts
- 17 ‘terrorists’ killed and 11 arrested in North Sinai within two days
- British Embassy in Egypt resumes all services
- Egyptian court recognises two Morsi-era killed protesters as martyrs of January 25 uprising
- Egypt…
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