(SomaliNet) After gangs killed three albinos for their body parts, albinos in Burundi have been forced to seek police protection, reports said.
According to the BBC, four albinos were taken to a provincial town, where they were being guarded by police. The BBC quoted local police as saying two of the albinos killed were found with limbs missing.
An investigation by the BBC in neighbouring Tanzania claimed witchdoctors were behind the killings of 26 albinos in last than a year. Albino body parts are believed to be of use in potions to make people rich.
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Such civilized people.
NOT.
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gangs killed three albinos for their body parts
Before today, I never thought that the English language could be arranged in such a sentence. But here we are.
Sputnik 1 (Russian: "Ñïóòíèê-1", "Satellite-1", or literally "Co-traveler-1" byname ÏÑ-1 (PS-1, i.e. "Ïðîñòåéøèé Ñïóòíèê-1", or Elementary Satellite-1)) was the first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, it was the first satellite of the Sputnik program. . . .
Sputnik-1 was set in motion during the International Geophysical Year from the 5th Tyuratam range in Kazakh SSR (now Baikonur Cosmodrome). The satellite travelled at 29,000 kilometers (18,000 mi) per hour and emitted radio signals at around 20.005 and 40.002 MHz which were monitored by Amateur radio operators throughout the world. The signals continued for 22 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on October 26, 1957. Sputnik 1 burned as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after traveling about 60 million km (37 million miles) in orbit. . . .
Tiger Woods says football players who have the kind of knee surgery that ended his season usually are not at their best for two years.
``Luckily, I don't play football,'' Woods said Monday.
Woods said his knee will probably be no more than 85 percent strong when he returns, but he sees no reason why he can't get back to the level of play that brought him nine victories in 12 official events this year, no finish worse than a tie for fifth.
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Tiger is playing mind games on the tour. They need him like Wall Street needs capital. He is the CBS and NBC golf coverage bail out plan. Plus Tiger at 85% is like all the other guys combined at their max plus some.
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That's true. But that knee been cut on now.. what 3 times. Rest up. enjoy life for another year and be able to run with your grand-kids.
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He's one of those special atheletes. Ungodly talent, incredible work ethic, knife in the teeth competitive. If he waits until he's ready, and doesn't let the competitiveness make him jump the gun, I'll bet he picks up right where he left off.
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I'm a Phil Mickelson fan (local boy, does good works through charity, Like LaDainian), but I also appreciate Tiger's presence and talent. He's so good, that he pushes everyone else, like Phil, to concentrate and elevate their game. Get well, Tiger, take your time, the tour needs you
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Tiger Woods says he won't be fully healed until 2010
Unless Obama performs the laying on of hands before then. HEAL!
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My prediction is that this kid was an Indigenous Australian.
Could be, but the kid in the pic yesterday seemed white, though it was very grainy and the face was hidden. Probably just a random sociopath/psychopath in the making, coming from a "problem" desocialized/destructured white family kinda like Darlymple writes about in the UK.
Alternatively, from what I've read, the aboriginal culture seems very dysfunctional, and i don't mean just from woes induced by being colonized, but with rampant and tolerated child sexual abuse and great cruelty toward animals, so it might be the case?
Anyway, this kid is going to be a real charmer when he will be a few years older, I wonder if he will graduate to humans?
A report about a Leiden historian who claims that William of Orange was a practicing Muslim has spread like wildfire on the (Dutch speaking) internet. "It seems to have struck a sensitive chord," says Jochem van den Berg, who's behind the report.
According to the report historian 'Tjalling Wenselaar' claims that William of Orange should appear in the history books as Yusuf Ibrahim of Orange Nassau. William's conversion to Islam, occurring in the spring of 1582, was 'strategic'. "In return for his conversion to Islam and Islamisizing the Dutch provinces, the Moorish khalif Abdul Abu Uzrim promised William military aid in in fight against the Spanish," according to Wenselaar. Since William was killed shortly afterward and his son loved wine and pork too much, it did not bring about the Islamization of the Netherlands. The Oranges tried to erase all traces of the conversion of their ancestor. University of Leiden researchers say the claim is obviously untrue and that they don't know of any Tjalling Wenselaar.
The report first appeared on the De Speld website, which at first glance looks like an internet news site. Jochem van den Berg confirms that it was indeed written by the site. The historian and the research don't exist. "We wanted to start off a discussion about Dutch identity. By way of satirical reflection we wrote the article from a Judeo-Christian and Islamic background."
"We had no idea that this article would spread like wildfire on the internet," beams Van den Berg. The phones of his colleagues and him have been ringing off the hook. "Turkish and Moroccan sites copied the article and we were also approached by the Muslim broadcaster and other Muslim organizations. they all reacted moderately." He says he got comments from the ethnic Dutch as well - people related to the PVV, Pim Fortuyn and Hirsi Ali. According to Van den Berg this shows that satire and Islam go rather well together.
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Y'all realize, I'm sure, why this claim is being made - i.e., it 'justifies' the islamic (re)colonization of the Netherlands that is in advanced stages and against which a few brave Dutch are speaking out.
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This claim is bull on so many levels. They were dangerous religious times between Catholoics and Protestants and he'd have been burned in seconds if he chose a third option and lost the support of his family, friends, people, country and neighbors.
The historian is a liar or a fool. I suggest the former as he's managed to get a ton of publicity despite the damage it might do to the Netherlands viza ve Islamic claims.
The report first appeared on the De Speld website, which at first glance looks like an internet news site. Jochem van den Berg confirms that it was indeed written by the site. The historian and the research don't exist. "We wanted to start off a discussion about Dutch identity. By way of satirical reflection we wrote the article from a Judeo-Christian and Islamic background."
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King Billy was a gentleman
He wore a watch and chain
The Pope he was a beggarman
And came from Castlemagne
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OOps. Hit wrong key. Try again.
King Billy was a gentleman
He wore a watch and chain
The Pope he was a beggar man
And came from Castlemaine
King Billy had an Orange cat
That sat upon the fender
And every time it caught a mouse
He shouted, "no surrender!"
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A few things come to mind...
- it will be accepted as fact by muslim scholars & holy men, who will add that to the long list of supposed converts with which they woe the rubs (remember, it's legits, it's from scholars and wa spublished online), just see how muslim media reacted to this, they bask in that.
- I can't imagine muslim scholars, even secular ones, writing one of the califes as a Christian convert - proving once again that multiculturalism & Diveristy is a one-way street (or a single-edged sword to fall upon, if you wish). The whole exercise is unhealthy and fits well into the "cultural pessismism" of the Enlightened Elites.
- And, apart from muslims (see first item), I have no doubt that many of th epeople who got caught in that "internet wildfire" were ethnic dutch... and the simple idea that someone of dutch heritage can even think this is remotely possible is not a sign of gullibility, it's a sign that the dutch collective mind is under siege from islam, and that for many, they already interiorized the fact that they have lost. Would any pre-60's dutchman, even with the internet, would have thought such an enormity was remotely possible? No. But 2008 dutchmen could, because they already have lost the battle of memes, just like so many french, german, and americans.
Can Muslims still pray five times a day in the military? Can women wear the hijab while serving? Will I have to fight against people in my home country? These and other questions may be part of an upcoming "town hall meeting" in Burnaby's mosque Oct. 8.
The Canadian Forces are hosting a recruiting session in the Al-Salaam mosque on Canada Way, and the event is eliciting discussion in the Muslim community.
What about Canada's participation in the war in Afghanistan, where troops are fighting the Taliban and their version of Islamic jihad? "You'd be surprised, a lot of Muslim people want to go over," said Imaad Ali, youth director at the mosque. "There are a lot of misconceptions of what people do over there." Canada has 2,500 personnel in Afghanistan, mostly working in Kandahar province in the more dangerous southern region.
Vancouverite Toshio Rahman said he was a bit shocked to hear the military would be recruiting inside the mosque he attends. "I honestly don't see too many Muslims signing up for the army," he said. "If Muslims want to go to the army, that's their issue, but I don't think the mosque is the proper locale for it."
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Not as outrageous as it sounds. Sensory interpretation is the vast majority of perception. It has long been established that even our common senses uptake vastly greater amounts of information than our brains use. Of this fraction of information, we then carefully skim a very limited number of bits of data.
For example, when you look at a photograph of a human face, you ignore your peripheral vision to focus on the photograph. But even in the photograph, your focus darts around from point to point to point. The most common point of focus is the eyes, which are visited repeatedly
At any given moment, you therefore have less than 1% focus on your "overall" view, all on the photograph, and less than 1% of that in focus on a particular point on the photograph. Everything else *can* be paid attention to, but isn't. It exists in temporary memory as an afterimage.
Add to that synethesia, which is a variation from the norm of how sensory input is interpreted, like "hearing" colors, "smelling" music, "feeling" perspective, etc., and you are left with potential capabilities far beyond what most people normally can experience.
In the case of skin cells, if they can react in different ways to different bandwidths or intensities of light, then they are basically seeing, if they send variable signals to the brain. Most of the work is in how the brain learns to interpret that information.
So all that needs to be done is to train the brain to correctly interpret a different type of the surfeit of data. We also know that the brain can do this, and it can be dramatic.
A classic experiment was of a man who put on special glasses that made him see the world as upside down. Within just a few weeks, his brain relearned to see, adjusting the image so that it was right side up again. When he removed the special glasses, he was naturally seeing the world upside down.
In some traditions, seers were believed to see through their skin, but importantly, not in the same way we see with our eyes. They were able to see a person and know it was a person, but it didn't look anything like a person. Importantly, their eyes were closed at the time, to limit visual data and prevent data overload.
Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading. The Google Blog Search tool rolled out this week competes with Techmeme, Polymeme, Wikio and other "memetrackers" that sort and organize blog posts into categories.
"Did you know that millions of bloggers around the world write new posts each week?" Google product manager Michael Cohen wrote in an Internet posting of his own.
No, reeeeaallly?
"We're pleased to launch a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere."
The Northern California company applied technology from its Google News website to separate blog postings into clusters based on topics, stories or events. A lead category Friday morning at Google Blog Search was the debate that occurred the previous evening between US vice presidential contenders Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
An icon with a picture of the political rivals indicated that 1,620 blogs were compiled in the category during the previous 19 hours. The lead item was a Huffington Post piece saying ex-officials from the administration of US President George W. Bush believe Biden won the verbal duel with Palin.
"Grouping them in clusters lets you see the best posts on a story or get a variety of perspectives," Cohen said in his online message. "When you look within a cluster, you'll find a collection of the most interesting and recent posts on the topic, along with a timeline graph that shows you how the story is gaining momentum in the blogosphere."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Can Muslims still pray five times a day in the military? Can women wear the hijab while serving? Will I have to fight against people in my home country? These and other questions may be part of an upcoming "town hall meeting" in Burnaby's mosque Oct. 8.
