Clearwater, Fla. - Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry. He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only "public" Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology program called Super Power. Where in L.A. did he do this? "Just in Los Angeles," is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that secret.
Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual rollout in Scientology's massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists, will be offered. A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one's perceptions - and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 "perceptics." They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction, temperature, gravity and an "awareness of importance, unimportance."
Church officials won't discuss specifics of Super Power. But Feshbach and another prominent Clearwater Scientologist who, like Feshbach, is a major donor to Super Power's building fund, provided some details in interviews with the St. Petersburg Times. A group of former Scientologists who worked for the church on a campus in California where the program was in development also described elements of it. Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person's so-called perceptics. Those machines include an antigravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists. A video screen that moves forward and backward while flashing images is used to hone a viewer's ability to identify subliminal messages, they said.
Hubbard promised Super Power would improve perceptions and "put the person into a new realm of ability." He believed it would unlock abilities needed to spread Scientology across the planet.
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As the light turned green, the boy bolted into the street, ahead of his mother. Feshbach perceived a pickup bearing down on the boy, driven by a young woman. He yelled and saved the boy's life by a quarter of an inch, he said.
Wow! Super Power!
Shaw would not say how much the program will cost. Upper levels of Scientology training can run tens of thousands of dollars.
Wow! Super Duper Power! Especially if your Scientology's banker...
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I'm sure a boxer or martial-arts person has 'super-powers' to see an oncoming punch, hit, or kick which I coundn't even concieve of.
Just as a baseball hitter has 'super-power' to track a oncoming 100MPH baseball in order to be able to hit it with a stick.
Or a race-car driver or jet pilot has a 'super-power' to be able to percive objects while traveling at a high rate of speed or an experienced police-officer able to percieve and remember people faces or descriptions.
Or I have a 'super-power' to notice bugs in other people's perl code (while being blind to the obvious errors in my own...).
Nothing special about it. Just a matter of training and experience.
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There are 57 Perceptics in the State Department!
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Scientologist Ron Pollack, who donated $5-million to the Super Power fund
My super powers tell me that all of those Pollock jokes over the years should have been Pollack jokes instead. Us non scientoligists may be psychic, just not the best spellers.
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Able to leap Oprah's couch in a single bound. Faster that a paparazzi's speedflash. Is it a man, is it a loon, is it an extraplanar thetan? Why it's Scientology Man.
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Scientology leaders have been compelled to redesign the building's interior repeatedly to make it a crown jewel
SuperPowers -- can't decide on a colour scheme. Sounds pretty scattered and directionless to me for a bunch of super leaders. Should add a training unit on interior design and project planning - freezing change cases.
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CF, right you are. You can train yourself to see polarized light (no real value, but it's pretty).
It has nothing to do with Scientology.
As the late Ron B Hubbard once said: "I bet that there are so many suckers out there that if I establish a church, I can rake in millions" ... So it was said and so it was done.
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One setback occurred when the church checked back on the staffers who had been through Super Power. It turned out, Hines said, many had left the church - hardly the expected outcome
Apparently the sense of smell IS ENHANCED!
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I had a college roommate we lost to Scientology - they stripped him of every dollar and made him a cult slave.
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I gather you get a thetan for red cars if you are looking at a red car and somebody frightens you. However, you can get rid of the thetan for red cars for like 50 bucks.
This gave a friend of mine an idea. He would sneak up behind Scientologists, grab them and scream "THETANS!!!" at them, hoping to give them a thetan about thetans. He figured it would cost them at least $5,000 to get rid of one of those.
I wonder if Tom Cruise was trying to transmit his thetans to Oprah by jumping up on her sofa and screaming at her?
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has repeated a demand that France apologise to Algeria for "genocidal" colonial rule, saying this was the only way to turn a chronically ill relationship into true friendship. Bouteflika's remarks are likely to annoy French authorities, ...
... who nevertheless assumed the proper position ...
... who only last month were dismayed when the Algerian leader said France's 132-year possession of the giant oil-exporting north African country amounted to a genocide of Algerian identity. France is trying to shore up its diplomatic and economic influence in Africa's second largest country at a time when the United States is developing more oil interests and trade across the southern shores of the Mediterranean.
Being an old-fashioned fellow, I have a hard time relating to this seeming need for constant apologies for events that occurred in the remote past. It takes me two trips through all my fingers and toes to count the number of years since Algeria's independence, with a third trip started. Prior to that, Algeria was a part of metropolitan France. If it was a part of France, of course France committed at least something like mayhem of its Algerian identity, though I'd call "genocide" verging on hysteria. It also seems to me that Algeria didn't have much of an identity before the arrival of the Frenchies, with their penchant for development, certainly not as much of an identity as Tunisia and Libya and Morocco. In fact, I think Algeria used to be the mostly empty area between Morocco and Libya, a pirate den controlled by the Bey of Algiers. If I was Chirac, which thankfully I'm not, I'd tell them to piss off; if they want to be friends they should be working on letting bygones be bygones, and the Frenchies can work on trying to forget the terrible things the locals did to the pieds noirs. But Chirac being Chirac, and France being part of modern Europe, I'm sure an apology is just a matter of time.
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This is the guy who comes to France in order to get medical care all while not missing an opportunity to denigrate it.
This is the guy who is saudifyng and wahabifying his country by forcing upon Algerian thropats the use of "classic" Arabic instead of dialectal Arabic from Algeria, Berberic and French (the use of the later being favoured by liberals and by Berberts when dealing with Arabs) while replacing suffi imams with wahabi ones.
This is the who has taken part in cultural genocide against the Berbers and whose country has the more antiwomen legislation on all Maghreb
This is the guy who performed horrendous actions (whole Arab villages where wiped out by the FLN because they didn't support it, eg because the people in the villages knew the FLN were former pimps and robbers).
This is the guy who massacred the harkis (Arabs who sided with the French) and their families in the most sadistic ways.
And thuis guy has teh chutpah to come to France to get medical care? Send himl packing or still better accept him and perform the operation without anaesthesia.
Filthy infidel temptress!!! Surgeons have reattached the penis of a Saudi man who paid the price for trying to have sex with his Filipina maid and she attacked him with a knife, a hospital source said on Monday. Oh. You mean like...attempted rape?
"This is a sophisticated operation. You are dealing with an organ in a difficult area and you want to try to return to its efficiency," said a spokesman at Riyadh's Takhassusi Hospital. I'll bet his goat's breathing a sigh of relief...
Earlier this month newspapers reported that the maid removed her employer's manhood when he tried to molest her in the middle of the night as his wife was sleeping. The maid is now in police custody. Like I said, filthy infidel temptress!
Good luck, honey. You're gonna need it.
"It's one of the rare cases ... but they did it (the operation) last week and it went smoothly," the spokesman said. "The hospital has done this kind of operation before, but only after people had car accidents." So now he can go on raping, inshallah...
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"efficiency" Since he is a rapist the most efficent thing would have been to remove both his testis.
Seeing he is a muslim and she in all likely hood is not I am sure under islamic law it's nit rape. You can rape a lowly infidel since we are no humans like muslims.
Good luck mam you are going to need it.
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Good for her. Even if she is beheaded for it, I hope several other females in Saudi do the same. It sends a message with a strong deterrent effect.
When Abdul gets a stiffie, they just pantomime that they are sharpening a knife and suddenly Abdul loses interest.
Optimally, in Islamic countries, someday there will be gangs of women who hunt down abusive men and castrate them. *And* the Mullahs who complain loudly that it is women's place to be raped.
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This shows one thing..Filipinas are one hell of a lot smarter then Muslim females who have to be the DUMBEST bitches on the earth. This cult nonsense would stop immediately if their females took charge and stopped the idiocy. This really stops it. It's common knowlwdge that the pious Mooselimbs rape and abuse all the imported help.
Britain has the worst record for anti-social behaviour in Europe.
According to a new report, Britons feel our booze culture and a lack of discipline are the key causes of an escalating problem.
Researchers said it was a "wake-up call" and that increased access to alcohol could not be the answer.
The survey found 76% questioned in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain believed Britain had a "big or moderate problem" with anti-social behaviour, followed by France (75%) and Germany (61%).
In Britain, 95% agreed it was a "big or moderate problem" here, according to the survey by security firm ADT and the Jill Dando Institute of Crime.
Professor Gloria Laycock of the Jill Dando Institute said: "This research is a wake-up call.
"We know anti-social behaviour is a major issue in Great Britain - and the rest of Europe clearly agrees.
"The study shows people believe it is fuelled by the excessive consumption of alcohol.
"Increasing our access to alcohol cannot be the answer and it is time that the Government addressed perceptions of this problem."
Adrian Casey, managing director of ADT Europe & South Africa, said: "These perceptions, both inside and outside of Britain, are worrying."
The survey was carried out in January and questioned 1,055 people in France, 1,061 in Germany, 1,748 in Great Britain, 1,060 in Italy, 1,061 in the Netherlands and 1,062 in Spain.
Respondents were aged 16 to 64 in all countries except Spain and Italy where they were 16 to 54.
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Too many Irish, or too little - Macaulay "the Scream" Caulkin wants to know??? Its a quandry -No alcohol versus ignoring the time-honored and natural desire of competitive males to butt or break each other's heads, in fun or in war!?
MOSCOW - A volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in far eastern Russia erupted Tuesday in a powerful explosion that spewed smoke and ash up to 15 kilometers (nine miles) into the air and sent red-hot lava flowing down the volcanos slopes, news agencies reported. The eruption posed no immediate danger to populated areas on the remote peninsula but aircraft were advised to skirt far around the vicinity while authorities said tourists and hunters should not approach any closer than 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the volcano, ITAR-TASS said.
Hunters have more sense. Tourists, however.....
A massive cloud from the eruption was blowing east over the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of around eight kilometers (five miles) and had already spread over a distance of up to 700 kilometers (435 miles), the agency said, quoting experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The volcano, known by the name of No Name, sits amid a group of 28 volcanos in the central portion of the Kamchatka peninsula and is the most active among them, erupting once or twice a year on average, RIA Novosti said. Ash from an eruption from the No Name volcano in 2004 was detected in the US Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska.
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DUESSELDORF: A Muslim girl in Germany, who was briefly suspended from classes for wearing a burqa, has decided not to return to her school in the western city of Bonn, authorities said on Tuesday. "The Muslim pupil, who has come of age (18), has applied to be freed from compulsory school attendance for the time she has left," the local council said in a statement. The girl was suspended from the school for two weeks in April with one of her classmates after authorities said their decision to wear the all-enveloping garment was creating too much distraction in the classroom. The second girl will no longer wear her burqa but is considering changing school, her lawyer said. The suspensions attracted considerable media attention in Germany as politicians grapple with how to integrate the country's sizeable Muslim population. It also sparked calls for the introduction of a national school uniform.
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Germany should change mandatory school uniforms to bikinis, thongs for the upper classmen.
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WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Democrats endorsed an absent Rep. Patrick Kennedy, being treated for addiction to prescription pain drugs, for re-election Monday night at their state convention.
"He may be a whacked out nonentity, but he's our whacked out nonentity. Except that he's from Massachussetts. But we're not very big, so it didn't take him too long to learn his way around. He still talks funny, though....
It's Baja Massachussetts, what do you expect?
Kennedy checked into the Mayo Clinic on Friday for his second stay in less than five months after a middle-of-the-night car crash near the Capitol on Thursday that he said he couldn't remember.
"I can't remember, man! I was sooooooo whacked out!"
It was his second car crash in three weeks. Republicans have said Kennedy should step aside because he can't fulfill his duties. But Democratic leaders said Monday night that he has done a good job and deserves support in his battle with addiction. "We do not walk away from our friends," Democratic Party Chairman Bill Lynch said.
You should indeed stand by your friends, but you don't necessarily return a depressed, bipolar, alcoholic, drug addict to Congress.
It's never stopped Teddy from being re-elected
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This crap makes me sick. Sorry It really does. Any chance he is actually paying fo this"treatment" himself? I kind of doubt it. You are via his ccongressional perks. I can't because I don't pay taxes. No income so no taxes.
However it does give me an idea. I perhaps should be really up front and run my loopy, dislexic, memory deficent butt for the House of Representatives. It would solve my all unemployment dilemmas.
Nope it wont work, not that I couldn't possible get elected, PT Barnum was right after all and the Kenedeys prove it. The proplem is I then would become a parasite on society as I would be getting income from the public coffers. I'll stay unemployed and not a parrasite instead. It might be a bad deal for me but it's better for society and the country.
Maybe Patrick could learn something from, my example but I doubt it.
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Compare how the MSM is treating Patrick (a repeat offender who was driving under the influence and then lied about it) with how they treated Rush Limbaugh.
The very same people who are so sympathedic and apologetic for placing that barracade in the way of his car and restraining him from killing somebody like dear-ole-dad were, only a few months ago, on a blood-hunt demanding Rush's head on a pike.
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Patrick and Teddy are symptoms of the bigger problem: why the voters keep reelecting disfunctional and hypocritical losers like these to national office. THAT is the big issue, and it does not bode well for this country.
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The voters identify with them. It makes them feel superior as well as magnamonious for those who don't imbibe or use and break laws without impunity - poor wretch of society "i am to blame". And for those voters who perform the same behaviours, it's "go man, i'm right with ya. we rock."
Either way, the country loses when this behaviour becomes the elected standard.
LOS ANGELES The U.S. Border Patrol is alerting the Mexican government to the locations of civilian border patrol groups when the organizations help detain suspected illegal immigrants or use violence against them, according to a published report. U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Mario Martinez told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario that the policy is meant to assure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed. The policy pertains to groups including the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and the Friends of the Border Patrol, a Chino-based nonprofit.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Martinez said Monday. "This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."
Minuteman members, however, said the Border Patrol's policy negates the private group's effectiveness and could endanger their lives. "Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, the organization's founder. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels."
The Daily Bulletin said it was unable to reach officials with the Mexican consulate in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
TJ Bonner, president of the Border Patrol agents' union, said members have long complained that the Mexican government has undue influence over U.S. enforcement policies. "That's not a legitimate role for any foreign nation," Bonner said.
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Incredible. If they Border Patrol is going to work for the Mexicans, they can be paid by them. Disband them and bring back the US Army border forts and treat border jumpers as invaders.
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Someone's going to be on the hot seat when a mexican army militant group invades the US and kills some miniutemen. I think this will piss a *lot* of people off no matter how Bush protrays it.
1- The Minutemen have NEVER used violence against illegal immigrants. Calling the Border patrol or detaining an illegal until the Border Patrol arrives is not violence. It is patriotism. President Bush knows this, even though he calls them 'vigilantes'. So does Mr. Martinez. The government is being disingenuous.
2- Our government seems not only to be doing very little to stop illegal immigration, but is actually protecting and encouraging it. Shame!
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If the Minutemen get a little bored, might I suggest taking a pickup truck full of cholla (jumping cactus) balls down there, spreading them around and watering them? That would densely cover an area about the size of a football field with cholla, one of the meanest, nastiest and most useless cacti out there.
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"...meant to assure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed."
Sorry to sound obtuse but...what are "migrant rights"? Honestly, do illegal foreign nationals technically have "civil" rights in another country? If they're talking about some form of internationally recognized "human" rights then they should just come out and say it instead of making up some phoney term.
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Malkin is reporting that the BP officials are also informing the Mexican government about the activities of the Minutemen in non-border states, i.e, Illinois, passing updates on whether they have any political contacts, their recruiting efforts, etc.
So essentially, we have a US government agency spying on law abiding American citizens who are petitioning their government for redress of greivances within our own heartland, and passing this information unlawfully to a foreign government. We do still have a Constitition, right? Throw the BP bastards in jail.
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4) Not prosecuting the war vigorously, expending large resources for small gain.
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This is just another thing to jerk my chain. These people come here and take my job. Literally take my job. My government aids them. If you don't believe they take my job the guy at the local Job search place told me today to look into "kitchen help" ie Dish washing and Janitorial work since apperently it's all they think I am qualified to do.
So Border Patrol up yours you are all useless helping a foreign power directly aid it's citizens come illegally to my counrty and take an oprtunity at a job from a US citizen. Your "fine" efforts really warm my heart. Rot in hell every last one of you Border Patrol employees, rot in hell.
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ISLAMABAD - Reservoirs in Pakistan are drying up, temperatures are soaring and there is little chance of significant rain for at least the next few months, a top weather official said on Monday.
In some areas, taps have already run dry and people are worried about whether they will find enough water for their families. As I wake up, the first thing I worry about is getting water. I have to fetch water from other streets as the water tap in my street has dried up, Mohammad Zafar, a resident of Tench Bhatta, a low-income neighbourhood in Rawalpindi, said.
Sucks to live in a failed state, doesn't it.
The wilting heat is adding to the nations misery. In Turbat, a town in Baluchistan, temperatures reached 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit) on Monday.
Pakistan, a country of 150 million people, relies heavily on winter rains and snow in the northern mountains to fill rivers and reservoirs to stock up for the long, hot dry months ahead of the July-September monsoon. There is a likelihood of a severe water shortage in the coming months because of this drought, Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, Director-General of the Meteorological Department, told Reuters. He said the country received 40 percent less than normal winter rains and up to 25 percent less snowfall. Water levels in major reservoirs were now critically low, he said.
Thanks, Halliburton.
Rawal Lake, the main source of water supply to Rawalpindi, a city of nearly two million people, has largely dried up. Drought conditions already prevailed in the southwestern province of Baluchistan and neighbouring Sindh province, and Chaudhry expected other parts of Pakistan to be affected.
A severe drought between 1999 and 2002 affected Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan and India. Agriculture accounts for 24 percent of Pakistans mediocre gross domestic product and marginally employs about 42 percent of its labour force. Right now, the situation is not very bad and the adverse impact of the drought could be minimised through proper planning, Chaudhry said.
'Proper' planning. Yep, you find that everywhere you look in Pak-land. It's a veritable planned nation.
At this stage, we dont foresee any major impact on our agriculture sector ... but the situation could get out of hand if we dont handle it properly, he added.
They're screwed.
Apart from rainfall, Pakistan relies on irrigation water from two huge reservoirs, the Tarbela and Mangla dams. As of May 8, the water level at Tarbela Dam, 50 km (30 miles) north of Islamabad in the North West Frontier Province, was just 20 feet (6 metres) above the point where water cannot be discharged. The level of water at the Mangla Dam, Pakistans second-largest, about 85 km (53 miles) southeast of Islamabad, was 74 feet (25 metres) above the cut-off point.
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You can alway pray to Allan. But you still need water.
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Maybe they could work a trade: send Palestine some $$ and they can ship some 'humanitarian' water that Israel allows in. 'Course it will need repackaged, being infedel water and all....
Idea needa a bit of work, like how to transport, but I am sure they can figure it out. They can hide Binny, so this should be a cake walk.
Nepal's new multi-party cabinet has recalled ambassadors from 12 countries, including India and the United States, and cancelled appointments made by the king during his rule by royal decree. The decisions were implemented with "immediate effect" Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat said.
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The Supreme Court on Monday directed Sindh Chief Secretary Fazal-ul-Rehman to appear before it today (Tuesday) to explain why he had transferred a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police who had uncovered private police-run torture prison cells and who had made headway in arresting an influential Sindhi wadera (feudal lord), accused of kidnapping nine members of a peasant family.
"This is sheer interference in court function. The DIG was assisting the court in important cases. The chief secretary should explain why a contempt of court proceedings not be initiated against him," said the show cause notice issued to the chief secretary by the Supreme Court bench, comprising of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad and Justice Hamid Ali Mirza.
The bench directed the Sindh additional advocate general, Qazi Khalid, to request that the chief secretary revoke the transfer orders of the Mirpurkhas DIG, who had been subsequently made an officer on special duty (OSD). "We will not let any body erode the authority of the court," the bench observed.
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An 11-year-old boy was strangled by tribesmen after a tribal jirga ordered that the boy be married to one of their women, police in Karachi said yesterday. The marriage had been ordered in compensation for the kidnapping of the boys sister.
Mohammad Asif was killed on Sunday, five months after his 15-year-old sister was abducted from their home in a poor part of the southern Pakistani city. The childrens father, Saeed Akbar, a rickshaw driver, who hailed from northern Pakistan, appealed to a tribal jirga, or council, for justice after his daughter was snatched. But after the jirga ordered the kidnappers to betroth one of their daughters to the boy, they began making threats, prompting Saeed Akbar to seek protection from the jirga. But before that they killed my innocent son in revenge, he said, describing how he saw smoke rising from his house after leaving for work and raced back to find his sons body. I rushed back and found the house was on fire. I called for help and we took out Asifs body.
A post-mortem showed the boy was strangled, according to police surgeon Liaquat Memon. Three men, all brothers, and a woman are accused of murdering the child, Sheikh Iqbal, an investigating police officer, told Reuters. We are still hunting for all four of them, he said. Thousands of poor workers who have migrated from conservative rural areas of Pakistan to Karachi turn to elders in their clan to resolve family and other feuds instead of going to the police.
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"...turn to elders in their clan to resolve family and other feuds instead of going to the police."
Lets see. Child abduction and most likely child rape. An arranged marrige followed by arson, violent threats, and a murder of an 11 year old boy. Yep...that's Jirga resolve bayybee!
Cuba on Tuesday secured a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council, which replaced an agency where abusers were often members, obtaining the seventh spot out of eight reserved for Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Cuba's candidacy was viewed as a test case for the seriousness of the new Council. Other nations with questionable rights records that were elected at a U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York included Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.
But General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, who oversaw the negotiations that created the new council, downplayed the election of some nations accused of rights abuses, saying it was nonetheless a ''truly historic occasion'' and a ''new departure'' for human rights work worldwide.
Venezuela failed to obtain a spot on the 47-member body, which will start its sessions June 19 amidst expectations that it will mark a departure from its discredited and defunct predecessor, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
The other Latin American nations that secured seats, in the order of votes obtained, are Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Uruguay and Ecuador. Brazil, the top vote-getter in the group, garnered 165 votes. Cuba obtained 135 votes.
Nations needed at least 96 of the 191 General Assembly votes to get elected.
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why not just walk away at the outrageousness and spit in humanity's face? Disavow this commission and UN in toto and let them try and explain the dead
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Cuba on Tuesday secured a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council, which replaced an agency where abusers were often members, obtaining the seventh spot out of eight reserved for Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Cuba's candidacy was viewed as a test case for the seriousness of the new Council. Other nations with questionable rights records that were elected at a U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York included Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.
Just how is this change? How is this correcting the same darn problem?
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Postscript: a ''truly historic occasion'' and a ''new departure'' for human rights work worldwide.
It's a new departure all right. A departure of the ways. This is the declaration that the UN is the supporter of Human Rights abuses and opposes freedom and democracy. It is the league of the despotic and insane.
The insane are running this asylum and their goal will be to insist the world obey their diverse psychosis. Now they can vote on it and we'll all obey. 'Cause they're the UN doncha know.
Talk about jumping the shark. How does one turn in a membership card here?
A short circuit has sparked a fire in the Palestinian parliament building sending a plume of black smoke billowing into the air and forcing workers out. Rescue crews attended the scene and helped people climb down a ladder from the second-floor window on to the roof of a fire engine. A large crowd of onlookers gathered to watch at the Ram Allah scene. Officials said one side of the building was damaged on three stories, though details on the extent of the damage were not available. There were no immediate reports of injuries, and the fire was under control.
The parliament's secretary-general, Mahmud al-Ramhi, said: "The fire caused some material damage, but there have been no casualties. All the staff were swiftly evacuated." Yazid Abu Einayah, in charge of electrical maintenance at the parliament, confirmed that the fire had been set off by an electrical fault. "The fire broke out in an electricity panel on the ground floor and then spread to other electricity boxes," he said.
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This is what I saw:
Official PA government Religious Judicial Council web site:
1.Christian Zionists "adopted Satan as God"
2.Christian Zionism is a dangerous distortion, a deviation from the true Christian faith
3.The Christian Zionists and Zionist Jews "comprise the greatest danger to world truth, justice, and peace".
4.The International Christian Embassy "carries out criminal activities" against Palestinians
5.Christian Zionism must be expelled by the World Church.
Introduction:
The following article, written by a senior Palestinian Authority religious figure and placed on the website of the PA Supreme [Islamic] Judicial Council, attacks Christian Zionists for adopting "Satan as God" and deviating "from the true Christian faith." Christian Zionists are presented as a danger to Muslims and the world, and the PA Religious leader calls for their expulsion by the "World Church." Zionist-Christian motivation is said to be "Crusader motivation" and was behind not only the "cursed Balfour Declaration" but is today "behind the British and American policy in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Arab and Muslim countries."
It should be noted that the writer Hamed Al-Tamimi, a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, was appointed to his position of religious leadership before the Hamas came to power in the PA.
The following is the text as it appears today on the website of the Supreme [Islamic] Judicial Council:
Christian Zionism /
by Hamed Al-Tamimi - Director Inter Religion Dialogue Department, member of the Supreme Judicial Council
Very few people know the truth about this [Christian Zionist] movement, which unconditionally supports the Zionist enemy, and unconditionally opposes Islam and the Muslims Their association and their organizations, headed by "The International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem," carry out their criminal activities against the Palestinian issue and the Palestinian people, as Walter Riggans, the Secretary-General of the International Christian Embassy, proudly and defiantly announced: "We are more Zionist than the Israelis"
And even if the sides of this hated- malicious alliance [of Israelis and Christian Zionists] have different goals, they both agree on hatred of Islam and the Muslims and on [the goal] to destroy them
The Zionist-Christian motivation, in addition to imperialist motivation, was behind the cursed Balfour Declaration -Balfour and Prime Minister Lloyd George were Christian Zionists - and the truth is we should not deny [that] these Crusader motivations stand [today] behind the British and American policy in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Arab and Muslim countries.
We choose [to quote from] the following lecture, by the Doctor Priest Riad Jarjour, the Secretary-General of the Middle-Eastern Churches Committee to shed light on this destructive [Christian Zionist] movement that together with her Zionist Jewish ally comprise the greatest danger to world truth, justice, and peace.
[From lecture of Riad Jarjour]:
"Hence there is no place in the Middle East for Christian Zionism, it must be expelled by the World Church, since it is a dangerous distortion and a big deviation from the true Christian faith, which concentrates on Jesus, and it [Christian Zionism] defends a national political program which considers the Jewish race supreme "
[Back to Tamimi]
They [Christian Zionists] are a group who adopted Satan as God who drives their crazy nature. They have praised depravity and cursed virtue, they have turned the moral scale upside down and have reached [a point] in which forgery, deception, and lying, have turned into descriptions of world policy, which is led by the Zionism on both its branches - the Jewish and the Christian."
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are a group who adopted Satan as God who drives their crazy nature. They have praised depravity and cursed virtue, they have turned the moral scale upside down and have reached [a point] in which forgery, deception, and lying, have turned into descriptions of world policy
Can you say marvelous text-book example of projection? I knew you could...
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Walter Riggans, the Secretary-General of the International Christian Embassy, proudly and defiantly announced: "We are deranged nutballs completely detached from reality."
Myanmar's opposition on Monday rejected claims in official media that over 60 of its members had resigned amid pressure from the ruling junta, which has accused the party of links to "terrorists." The New Light of Myanmar said Monday that 67 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), headed by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, sent resignation letters to the party's headquarters and the government. The report in the state-run daily also repeated the junta's claim last month that the NLD had links with "groups of exiles, insurgents and terrorists".
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Ah Aung San Suu Kyi, we meet at last. You've resigned.
Are you sure? Again? I dont remember anyone saying anything? or signing anything? or voting? or somesuch?
You see those three type64 toting concerned citizens at your gate?
Oh!
Iran's hardline Islamic regime has had enough of footballers with long hair and plucked eyebrows. "I will ban athletes with an effeminate look," the head of the country's Physical Education Organisation, Mohammad Ali-Abadi said, told the Etemad-Melli newspaper.
"It is really disgraceful for Iran that young people step onto fields wearing make-up," the top official fumed. "When a man enters the field with dyed hair and groomed eyebrows he is disrespecting society."
And the ayatollahs are fainting left and right ...
The paper said Ali-Abadi appeared to be particularly worried about footballers, and warned that "even though they get away with it now, they will be disqualified in future".
"Keep it up and I'll give you guys such a hit ..."
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OMG Ahmed, did you see that German winger's legs? They are soooo gourgeous!
Irans supreme leader has vetoed a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow women into sports stadiums, a government official said yesterday, after the move caused a furor in the clerical establishment. It marked the first time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on matters of state in Irans system of clerical rule, has openly challenged government policy since Ahmadinejads inauguration last August.
Irans supreme leader has instructed the government to consider the religious leaders views and reverse its decision (on letting women into stadiums), government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham told a news conference. The government will act based on this instruction, he said.
Several high-ranking clerics had criticized Ahmadinejads announcement last month that women would be permitted to watch men compete in sports stadiums for the first time since the 1979 Revolution. The presidents move had surprised many given his traditional religious background and pledge to restore revolutionary values. Among those who criticized his decision was Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, a staunch proponent of strict Islamic codes who some analysts see as a mentor of the president.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Clearwater, Fla. - Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry. He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only "public" Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology program called Super Power. Where in L.A. did he do this? "Just in Los Angeles," is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that secret.
President 
Surgeons have reattached the penis of a Saudi man who paid the price for trying to have sex with his Filipina maid and she attacked him with a knife, a hospital source said on Monday. 
MOSCOW - A volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in far eastern Russia erupted Tuesday in a powerful explosion that spewed smoke and ash up to 15 kilometers (nine miles) into the air and sent red-hot lava flowing down the volcanos slopes, news agencies reported. The eruption posed no immediate danger to populated areas on the remote peninsula but aircraft were advised to skirt far around the vicinity while authorities said tourists and hunters should not approach any closer than 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the volcano, ITAR-TASS said. 
WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - Democrats endorsed an absent Rep. 
ISLAMABAD - Reservoirs in Pakistan are drying up, temperatures are soaring and there is little chance of significant rain for at least the next few months, a top weather official said on Monday.
Nepal's new multi-party cabinet has recalled ambassadors from 12 countries, including India and the United States, and cancelled appointments made by the king during his rule by royal decree. The decisions were implemented with "immediate effect" Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat said.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed Sindh Chief Secretary Fazal-ul-Rehman to appear before it today (Tuesday) to explain why he had transferred a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police who had uncovered private police-run torture prison cells and who had made headway in arresting an influential Sindhi wadera (feudal lord), accused of kidnapping nine members of a peasant family. 
An 11-year-old boy was strangled by tribesmen after a tribal jirga ordered that the boy be married to one of their women, police in Karachi said yesterday. The marriage had been ordered in compensation for the kidnapping of the boys sister. 
Cuba on Tuesday secured a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council, which replaced an agency where abusers were often members, obtaining the seventh spot out of eight reserved for Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Iran's hardline Islamic regime has had enough of footballers with long hair and plucked eyebrows. "I will ban athletes with an effeminate look," the head of the country's Physical Education Organisation, Mohammad Ali-Abadi said, told the Etemad-Melli newspaper.
Irans supreme leader has vetoed a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow women into sports stadiums, a government official said yesterday, after the move caused a furor in the clerical establishment. It marked the first time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final word on matters of state in Irans system of clerical rule, has openly challenged government policy since Ahmadinejads inauguration last August.
