SYRIA - ONE MAN ENJOYING THE CRIES OF THE DYING

How many millions murdered?

How many millions fleeing his bombs, his gas, his army?

Fast Facts:

Nearly 12 million Syrians have been forced from their homes by the fighting; half are children.

At least 7.6 million have been displaced within Syria, and more than 4 million have fled as refugees in neighboring countries.

Increasing numbers of refugees are making dangerous attempts to reach Europe. About 51 percent of them are from Syria, the UN Refugee Agency says.

Children affected by the Syrian conflict are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. Millions have been forced to quit school.

Since the beginning of this crisis, World Vision has helped more than 2 million people in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq.

In response to the migration toward Europe, we are now also providing aid in Serbia.

 http://www.worldvision.org/news-stories-videos/syria-war-refugee-crisis#sthash.hc18Fokk.dpuf

INDIA - THERE ARE FOOLS ALL OVER THE WORLD - THIS ONE TRIED TO START A MASSACRE

Sk Mujahidul Islam Islam shared Abu Talha Zahack's post to the group: Human Rights Watch.

Abu Talha Zahack

A non-Muslim was caught red handed in India trying to trigger Hindu-Muslim communal riots attempting to throw beef in a Hindu temple dressed as a Muslim woman!!

WHO IS RUSSIA REALLY BOMBING IN SYRIA? - HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SAYS, "NOT ISIS"

Zdenek Ptacek to ‎Human Rights Watch

It is not the terrorists Russians are bombing in Syria, but those, who are opposed to Bashar al-Assad. Russsians are bombing the South, terrorists are in the North.

Syria crisis: Russian air strikes 'not hitting IS areas' - BBC News

The US and Nato expressed concern that the first Russian air strikes in Syria have not targeted the Islamic State group, their stated aim.

BBC.COM

BERNIE SANDERS, ROBERT REICH, POPE FRANCIS VS INSANITY

Democracy Now!

"I think he's telling the truth, and I think people are responding with extraordinary enthusiasm, even many conservatives and Republicans I meet, to a truth teller."

Bernie Sanders Tells the Truth: Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on His Surging Campaign

Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President Clinton, discusses the economic plans of Democratic front-runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton,…

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• Phyllis Carter - Truth is so refreshing. Sometimes we feel so alone when we are confronted by the enormous powers of the filthy rich who are running the world today. Once there were Caesars and tsars. Now we have Wall Street, Trump, the Republican tyrants, and Putin and the KKK, the NRA, the veiled Free Masons, and Nazis and pseudo-Nazis and Islamic lunatics and crazy Jews running wild all over the place. To hear Bernie Sanders and Robert Reich and yes, for the most part, Pope Francis, allows us a flicker of light. Do we dare to hope?

GOD OF THE REPUBLICANS

RELIGION KILLS - INDIA - THEY LET CHILDREN DIE OF HUNGER RATHER THAN EAT EGGS

London — GANDHI famously denied himself food. And by starving himself to protest British rule, he ultimately made India stronger. But India's leaders today are using food as a weapon, and they are sacrificing not themselves, but others. Their decisions threaten to make India's children — already among the most undernourished in the world — weaker still.

 

Earlier this month, the chief minister of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, struck down a proposed pilot project to introduce eggs in free government nursery schools in districts populated by economically disadvantaged indigenous groups. The proposal came from the state's own officials, but was dismissed by Mr. Chouhan on the grounds that eggs are a nonvegetarian food. Mr. Chouhan, like many Hindus, is a vegetarian and avoids eggs because they may be fertilized and are seen as a life force. While he has refused to address this incident publicly, his press officer claimed there were "more nutritious options available." But what, exactly?

 

In Madhya Pradesh, many of the poor communities survive on government-subsidized grain and foraged plants. According to the last National Family Health Survey, indigenous children were the most malnourished of any community in the state. Even across the state, 52 percent of children under 6 — the age up to which they may attend government nurseries — are underweight, says the National Institute of Nutrition. Indeed Madhya Pradesh, the economist Jean Drèze told me, "is far worse than even the Indian average." It is in the grip of a "nutritional emergency," he said.

 

Child-rights activists had supported the proposal, because eggs — a superfood that is about 10 percent fat and extremely high in protein — are the most nutritional way to improve the children's health, more so than a cup of milk or a banana, which the state claims it will offer in place of eggs. Bananas spoil easily, and milk is often laced in India with paint, detergent or shampoo, so much so that the federal government is considering making milk adulteration punishable with life imprisonment.

 

Another staple food was taken from the plates of the poor in the neighboring state of Maharashtra, after it banned the possession and sale of beef. It is enforceable with a prison term of up to five years. Hindus consider cows to be sacred, but Hindu nationalists, emboldened by the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have lobbied aggressively on the issue, not out of concern for the animals — which are typically bone-thin and live on garbage — but to force their religious beliefs on non-Hindus. The ban, implemented in March, was a body blow to the poor. Beef, unlike mutton and chicken, is cheap. It is an important source of protein for low-caste Dalits, and for minority communities like Muslims and Christians.

 

The decision by Devendra Fadnavis, chief minister of Maharashtra, is appalling given the widespread poverty in his state. It is also inhumane toward the very animals it claims to protect. The Indian Express newspaper reports that farmers don't know what to do with dying cattle. Since they can neither sell nor butcher them, they are letting the animals loose to fend for themselves. Surely, there is nothing sacred about starving cows. 

 

These decisions are not the first of their kind. Over the years, at least 20 Indian states out of 29 have banned cow slaughter (although Maharashtra's laws are the harshest). And eggs are offered in meal plans in only 10 states. But these decisions are startling in the face of new reports reiterating that Indians urgently need more food — not less — and of a higher nutritious standard than what they get now.

 

India has twice as many malnourished children as sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Bank, and our children are often shorter than those born in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Unicef, 51 percent of children under 5 in rural India are stunted. Compare this with neighboring China, where the stunting rate for rural children is 12 percent. And hunger isn't just stunting our kids' growth; it is also affecting their intelligence.

 

Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party tried to shift the blame for these poor decisions onto leaders of the Jain faith — who did indeed lobby for the changes, and were involved in drafting the beef ban legislation.

 

The Jains are strict vegetarians who do not consume food that involves the injury or death of a living being. They won't eat meat or fish, and they also avoid eggs.

 

But even the most uncompromising Jain can't be blamed for the fact that the B.J.P. has denied eggs to children in all but one state it runs. 

Similarly, the beef ban has less to do with the demands of one group than the party line. Last month, Amit Shah, the B.J.P. president and a vegetarian, said, "Wherever there is a B.J.P. government, there is a ban on beef." (This is not quite the case as yet, but it is clearly the direction the party is taking.)

 

The B.J.P. is determined to deny children eggs even though every nursery currently offering the option also offers a vegetarian alternative — such as a cup of milk or a piece of fruit. No child is forced to eat food that contradicts his or her religious beliefs. But all children will now be denied certain foods in order to adhere to the religion of others.

 

In India you are what you eat, and devotion to strict vegetarianism is a trait common to many upper-caste Hindus. Some wield their diet like a badge of their status. Others demand that people around them — like children and household staff members — eat as they do to maintain the purity of their kitchens. They will not visit restaurants that also serve nonvegetarian food for fear of being polluted.

 

Privileged politicians are imposing their will on underprivileged people, who do not share their beliefs and also do not have the luxury of rejecting cheap sources of protein. By injecting religion and caste into politics, the B.J.P. is preventing India from moving forward by reinforcing the prejudices that have kept it back.

 

In a speech last September, Mr. Modi said, "If the determination is strong, then I believe that youngsters and children of this country have the strength and talent to move forward." But many of our children are not strong, precisely because politicians are depriving them of basic nutrition. India is suffering a huge loss of human capital in the process, and foolishly turning an enormous asset into a liability.

 

If Mr. Modi's goal is to take India forward, he must reassess his party's priorities and stop allowing religion to dictate policy. It's a simple choice: The B.J.P. government can either feed our children or undermine the country's future.

New York Times

BIGOTED KENTUCKY CLERK CLAIMS POPE BLESSED HER ACTIONS

Ottawa Citizen

The pair reportedly chatted about bravery, hugged and exchanged promises of prayer. Pope Francis said, 'Thank you for your courage,'" a press release claimed.

Same-sex marriage-opposing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis claims private meeting with Pope Francis

OTTAWACITIZEN.COM|BY ,JUSTIN WM. MOYER, WASHINGTON POST

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      Phyllis Carter - 

      If this is true, she has stained Pope Francis with her arrogance and her bigotry. The Pope is in the "forgiving business". It would be almost impossible for him to call her out on what she is doing. All he can do is forgive and forgive and forgive -"Seventy-times seven." But in the real world, decent people are in the reality business. And the reality in this case is that a woman who holds power over the lives of others has made herself god.

U.S.A. - PRIMITIVE JEWS MASSACRE CHICKENS TO APPEASE GOD - GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

Last Chance for Animals (LCA)

Activists disrupt the Kaporos chicken massacre, in which participants swing live chickens over their heads to "transfer their sins," then slaughter the animals and dump them into trash cans.

VIDEO: Activists Disrupt Kaporos Chicken Massacre

In Brooklyn, police officers struggled to control the chaos as an army of animal rights activists clashed with ultra-Orthodox Jews who were swinging tens of thousands of live chickens around their heads in an annual ritual to transfer their sins to the chickens ...

WHILE WE BLAME ISIS AND OTHER TERRORISTS FOR DEATH AND MISERY - REMEMBER DICK CHENEY'S ROLE

Gregory Boyce

Another facetious "Thank you GW and Dick Cheney" moment.....How many millions of lives have been ruined behind their immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq....and for what? ...to increase profits in companies that made billions from their war? Who can watch this film and not know that these young ladies will never forget their horrific escape from ISIS?

Yazidi girl recalls helicopter escape from ISIS - CNN.com

Aziza Hamad was one of more than 30 desperate people in a mad scramble to get onto an Iraqi military helicopter in August 2014. A year on, what happened to her?

CNN.COM|BY IVAN WATSON, CNN

JEWISH AND MUSLIM EXTREMISTS SLAUGHTER HELPLESS ANIMALS AND BLAME GOD

Ritual slaughter of animals by extremist Jews and Muslims continues in the west because people in authority do not have the courage to impede "freedom of religion."

How far will you let "freedom of religion" continue with the blood of the innocent on their hands? 

Will you allow child rape, the slaughter of infants - in God's name?

How far will you go to avoid responsibility for the innocents that suffer and die for the blood-thirsty satisfaction of fanatics?

It must stop ! It must be outlawed !

The extremists will go to great lengths screaming that their religious freedoms are being attacked. The truth is obvious.

Cruelty cannot be justified by blaming "God's will". The rapes and slaughter are done to satisfy MEN'S will, men's blood lust. 

The creator of atoms and universes has absolutely nothing to do with these massacres.

The animals have no voice, no language we can understand. We must speak for them and save them from torture and slaughter, impotent men defiling God's name - bloodying God's name - to satisfy their own lust for blood and power.

Does a God who creates galaxies and black holes need mortals to sacrifice helpless creatures for Him?  Does God drink blood? Does God eat flesh? Does God need mere mortals to bow and scrape to prove loyalty and devotion? The Bible clearly says he does not. How small, how limited, how greedy and cruel, how petty  and unjust these fools make their version of God.

The killers are defying the Bible - God does not want blood sacrifice -
Isaiah 1:11

"SHLOG KAPOROS" - LAY YOUR SINS ON A HELPLESS CHICKEN -TORTURE IT AND BLAME GOD

Phyllis Carter

Last Chance for Animals (LCA)

Activists disrupt the Kaporos chicken massacre, in which participants swing live chickens over their heads to "transfer their sins," then slaughter the animals and dump them into trash cans.

VIDEO: Activists Disrupt Kaporos Chicken Massacre
In Brooklyn, police officers struggled to control the chaos as an army of animal rights activists clashed with ultra-Orthodox Jews who were swinging tens of thousands of live chickens around their heads in an annual ritual to transfer their sins...
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Phyllis Carter - It is a primitive, savage, heartless, arrogant, disgusting ritual, As a Jew, and a decent. civilized, human being I am outraged that anyone still carries out this slaughter and dares to lay their own sins on a helpless creature - and blames God for the ritual. It makes me sick and angry.

When I was a very little child, I think I witnessed this ritual once. But I do remember clearly that my mother put money she had saved into a handkerchief, tied the handkerchief into a little bundle and performed the ritual using the little sack of money. At the end of the rite, the "sacrifice" is tossed away and my parents gave that money to charity.

This kind of "freedom of religion", the torture and slaughter of the innocents, MUST BE OUTLAWED IN ALL CIVILIZED COUNTRIES.

If someone's "religion" required rape of children and the slaughter of infants, would Canada and America allow that too?

Are we blood thirsty savages to stand by and allow such atrocity - IN GOD'S NAME ?

THIS MUST BE STOPPED ! NEVER AGAIN !

SAUDI ARABIA TO CRUCIFY THIS MAN - HAS BEHEADED OTHERS

Sharon Silva shared her post to the group: Human Rights Watch.

Sharon Silva

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https://www.avaaz.org/fr/stop_saudi_beheadings_loc/?fpla

Who Is Ali Mohammad Baqir Al-Nimr? Saudi Arabian Pro-Democracy Activist Could Be Crucified Soon

"A Saudi man accused of participating in demonstrations against the government and inciting others to do the same could be beheaded and crucified any day by the country's authorities. Ali Mohammad Baqir al-Nimr, 21, was sentenced for crimes he allegedly committed when he was 17 years old, and his case has been lambasted as "deeply flawed" and unjust by human rights activists and organizations."

"He is the nephew of a popular Shiite reformist cleric, Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, who also was sentenced recently to death for his criticisms of corruption and discrimination against minority groups in the Saudi kingdom."

http://www.ibtimes.com/who-ali-mohammad-baqir-al-nimr-saudi…

Nimr Bazir al-Nimr

"Activists and relatives say Sheikh Nimr, who has a wide following among Shia in Eastern Province and other states, supported only peaceful protests and eschewed all violent opposition to the government.

In 2011, he told the BBC that he supported "the roar of the word against authorities rather than weapons... the weapon of the word is stronger than bullets, because authorities will profit from a battle of weapons".

His arrest prompted days of protests in which three people were killed.
Human Rights Watch said more than 1,040 people had been arrested at Shia protests between February 2011 and August 2014. At least 240 are still believed to be in detention.

"I think the message that Saudis are saying is: 'We will arrest anybody. We don't care how high profile they are... nobody is above this. We don't have any tolerance. We don't have any flexibility,'" HRW Middle East researcher Adam Coogle told AP after Sheikh Nimr's sentencing."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29627766

What "Heading the Human Rights Council at the UN" means:

Despite Saudi Arabia possessing "arguably the worst record in the world" in terms of women's rights and dissidents, on September 17 the kingdom was chosen to lead a powerful five-member group of ambassadors, according to CNN.

Dubbed the Consultative Group, the powerful group has the mandate to select applicants for more than 77 positions in regards to country-specific and thematic human rights mandates, documents published by the UNHRC state.

http://www.jpost.com/…/Saudi-Arabia-plans-to-crucify-protes…

"These appointments represent important work; the mandates help set the norms about how the world can enhance respect for, and protection and fulfillment of human rights, and how that should be at the core of every action. But changes are gradual. A special rapporteur on violence against women, for example, may produce path-breaking research and offer advice on how states can stop that, but states are under no legal obligations to implement those recommendations. If a special rapporteur criticizes a particular country's conduct against minorities, the country can brazen it out—it can even deny the rapporteur the right to visit the country to undertake investigations. As important the mandates are, they are toothless. And that is because the member-states want it that way, just as it is the member-states which want Saudi Arabia to be in the consultative group and in the UNHRC."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/…/why-is-saudi-arabia-heading-…

The US responds to this logical event:

QUESTION: Yesterday, Saudi Arabia was named to head the Human Rights Council, and today I think they announced they are about to behead a 21-year-old Shia activist named Muhammed al-Nimr. Are you aware of that?

MR. TONER: I'm not aware of the trial that you—or the verdict—death sentence.

QUESTION: Well, apparently, he was arrested when [he] was 17 years old and kept in juvenile detention, then moved on. And now, he's been scheduled to be executed.

MR. TONER: Right. I mean, we've talked about our concerns about some of the capital punishment cases in Saudi Arabia in our Human Rights Report, but I don't have any more to add to it.

QUESTION: So you—

QUESTION: Well, how about a reaction to them heading the council?

MR. TONER: Again, I don't have any comment, don't have any reaction to it. I mean, frankly, it's—we would welcome it. We're close allies. If we—

QUESTION: Do you think that they're an appropriate choice given—I mean, how many pages is—does Saudi Arabia get in the Human Rights Report annually?

MR. TONER: I can't give that off the top of my head, Matt.

QUESTION: I can't either, but let's just say that there's a lot to write about Saudi Arabia and human rights in that report. I'm just wondering if you [think] that it's appropriate for them to have a leadership position.

MR. TONER: We have a strong dialogue, obviously a partnership with Saudi Arabia that spans, obviously, many issues. We talk about human-rights concerns with them. As to this leadership role, we hope that it's an occasion for them to look at human rights around the world but also within their own borders.

http://www.theatlantic.com/…/saudi-arabia-beheading…/407221/

Mr Corbyn also raised questions about a Ministry of Justice bid to provide services to Saudi prisons.

He referenced reports Justice Secretary Michael Gove wanted to withdraw the bid but was "blocked" by "other departments".

And he wrote: "Will you step in to terminate the Ministry of Justice's bid to provide services to the Saudi prisons system - the very body, I should stress, which will be responsible for carrying out Ali's execution?"

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-34365856

UK Activists requests the UK to discontinue dealing arms with Saudi Arabia . . . but that's a lucrative business . . . 2 minute video

http://www.presstv.com/…/430619/UK-human-rights-Saudi-Arabia

This job posting may have expired, but as of May 18, 2015, Saudi Arabia was hiring 8 new executioners

"Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, in a recruitment drive which leading human rights charity Amnesty International has warned is symptomatic of an "unprecedented spike" of judicial killings in the country.

An advert for the position, posted on the country's civil service jobs website, states that no specific qualifications are required for the brutal role which involves "executing a judgement of death" and performing amputations on those convicted of less serious crimes.

The application form describes the executioners as "religious functionaries" and says that recruits would be at the lower end of the civil service pay scale."

http://www.independent.co.uk/…/saudi-arabia-hiring-eight-ne…

A mere 3 days after this job posting, it was reported that they began their bid to head the UN Human Rights Counsel

"Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to make a bid to head the United Nations' Human Rights Council, in a move that has been described as the "final nail in the coffin for the credibility" of the HRC.

Reports of the bid come just days after Saudi Arabia posted a job advertisement for eight new executioners. This year it has already put 85 people to death in what has been branded by Amnesty International a "macabre spike" from the 87 people it killed in total last year."

http://www.independent.co.uk/…/saudi-arabia-reportedly-seek…

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EVANGELICALS DO NOT LOVE ISRAEL

Evangelicals appear to be great supporters of Israel, but you all don't get it.
 

I am a Jew and a Christian. I spent about ten years studying the bible day and night. I participated in many seminars and study sessions and discussions and prayer groups. 

I studied the program of the Order of St. Luke the Physician, an international healing ministry. I was inducted into the OSL by Rev. Barry C. Clarke, recently retired as Anglican Bishop of Montreal. 

I taught the healing course to others at St.Paul's, Lachine, where Barry was the minister at the time. 

In the course of all this time and study I met many evangelicals. They profess to love Israel and the Jewish people. But you don't get it. 

THE EVANGELICALS WANT ALL THE JEWS IN THE WORLD TO GO BACK TO ISRAEL SO THAT JESUS CAN RETURN. 

They believe Jesus will not come back until all the Jews return "home".

In other words, folks, the evangelicals want the same thing many bigots want - to get rid of the Jews from every place on earth  - except Israel. 

I was attending an assembly of evangelicals in an old theatre on St. Lawrence Blvd. in Montreal when I realized what was really happening. 

I stood up and announced for all to hear that I wanted no part of the great cleansing of Jews from all the earth and I walked out.

 

I am a Jew by birth, by blood, by family, history, culture, tradition and love. I am a baptized Christian by choice.

I am a Canadian whose family has been here for a hundred years. I am not going anywhere.

When Jesus wants to come, I'll give him a place to sleep and a good Jewish meal.  

A MAN IN CHINA SUED HIS WIFE FOR BEARING HIM UGLY CHILDREN. THE COURT AGREED - FACEBOOK

   The Chinese court granted him an award of thousands of dollars.

• I know the world has gone mad. We are seeing stories like this that defy sanity. The fact that a man can blame his wife for how his children look?
  
  Could it not be that he is so ugly - inside, if not on the surface - that his unfortunate kids are cursed with his genes?
  
  And the fact that any legitimate authority could actually support his ludicrous claim? Are the Chinese people totally insane?
  
  Even worse, have we all gone mad? Allied with the mass murderer Assad in Syria, with China in spite of everything China has done to the west via the Internet - and its cruelty - torturing and skinning dogs alive and eating them in their helpless thousands.
  
  Is mankind now beyond help? Have we become so corrupt, so entangled in corruption that all hope is gone? I despair.