The real problem with any religious activity is that it's a drain on human energy. There's no value in attempting to prove which particular set of fairy tales is true.
Japan Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family
Thai Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family
See a pattern here?
Yes, I do see a pattern - you either don't know what you are talking about or are making things up.
There was looting in Thailand after the 2004 Tsunami (and after their recent unrest), and in Japan now.
And what of Sweden, who lost a number of citizens in the 2004 disaster in Thailand?
Even famously law-abiding Sweden and Norway have been hit by scammers who have robbed and looted the homes of tourists who vanished in the chaos.
"It is, unfortunately, a reality that people who are known to be missing . . . have had their homes gone through and partly emptied," Swedish State Secretary Lars Danielsson said.......
Fearing an outbreak of looting akin to what occurred after the 1994 sinking of the ferryboat Estonia that killed 551 Swedes, police refused to release the names of the dead and missing. Somehow, though, the names got out, and now police are standing watch over hundreds of homes scattered across the country. Gangs pillage tsunami villages, stealing corpses & selling orphans
Referring to the looters, the Sri Lanka church council said: "We appeal to them to kindly desist from such dastardly conduct and join with the several who are helping those in need," as it urged more church volunteers and others to join in the relief work.
The criticism came after reports that thugs were looting homes of some tsunami victims and rapists were preying on homeless survivors.
"We have received reports of incidents of rape, gang rape, molestation and physical abuse of women and girls in the course of unsupervised rescue operations," the Women and Media Collective group in Sri Lanka was quoted saying by the Reuters news agency.
But don't only bad people have guns? No. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King owned guns for protection.
Making preparations for emergencies and disasters gives you a greater margin to survive. You might not be getting any help any time soon, if ever. Consider the fact that the states knew that they were responsible for taking care of incidents for four days before FEMA stepped in, and the botched responses by the city of New Orleans (epic fail), the state of Louisiana (epic fail), and ultimately the federal government in Katrina. Not a shining moment for the United States.
However, many police, fire and EMS organizations from outside the affected areas were reportedly hindered or otherwise slowed in their efforts to send help and assistance to the area. FEMA sent hundreds of firefighters who had volunteered to help rescue victims to Atlanta for 2 days of training classes on topics including sexual harassment and the history of FEMA.[12] Official requests for help through the proper chains of command were not forthcoming due to local and state delays in engaging FEMA for federal assistance, even after approached by such authorities. Local police and other EMS workers found the situation traumatic; at least two officers committed suicide, and over 300 deserted the city after gang violence and "turf wars" erupted around the city.[13] A report by the Appleseed Foundation, a public policy network, found that local entities (nonprofit and local government agencies) were far more flexible and responsive than the federal government or national organizations. The federal response was often constrained by lack of legal authority or by ill-suited eligibility and application requirements. In many instances, federal staff and national organizations did not seem to have the flexibility, training, and resources to meet demands on the ground."[14Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina]
Think at least five basic scenarios, not all of which you may believe is necessary to prepare for, and you can do it in steps. - Trouble on the road (breakdown on deserted road, trapped by blizzard or flood) - Quickly evacuate from home indefinitely (hurricane, tornado, fire, flash flood, industrial accident, terrorist attack) - Trapped at home for 1-4 weeks with loss of some services (massive blizzard, floods, loss of power, flu epidemic) - Massive civil disorder (LA riots, Katrina looting & gang activity) - Society changing event (deadly pandemic, EMP bombs destroy all electronics, major disruption in society)
Preparations can start small: - For the car: a first aid kit, a couple of space blankets and plastic ponchos, some matches, steel mugs, a few granola bars, a can/bottle opener, bottled water, small tool kit, knife, duct tape, and flashlight. - For the home: 3 days supply of food and water set aside, a first aid kit, flashlights w/ batteries, battery operated radio, some emergency cash, a fire extinguisher, a small repair kit/tool kit - Start pulling your documents together in a safe place
Over time, you can build up to prepare to the level you believe necessary, including a one year supply of food for long term storage (just an example - many other vendors / options).
Translation: "Subtleties in discussion are lost on me. Scientists are authority figures above suspicion. I'm pretty much a dumbass..... and a snappy dresser!"
I haven't watched "Expelled", but I've heard that all the "discrimination" presented in the documentary had much simpler explanations, most if not all of the subjects failed to perform their regular duties and were terminated for both failure to perform the duties of the jobs and failure to improve on that performance after receiving several warnings.
Perhaps it is sort of like the way shining employees with strong performance records over many years who act as whistle blowers develop sudden performance problems that ultimately, and "sadly", result in their being fired?
"The Bureaus second most powerful manager Deputy Director Edgar Domenech, himself filed a whistleblower complaint and publicly stated that the Bureau of ATF has a propensity for reprisal and he "knew" such actions would result in career suicide."
"A Special Agent attempts to resist an investigation using unlawful wiretaps. The Special Agent openly challenges and reports it to superiors. After 20 + years of exemplary service, the next 1½ years results in the Special Agent and his family being transferred 5 times, suspended for 3 days, attempts made to have a psyche evaluation conducted, 2 letters of reprimand, and ultimately a termination." 25 ATF Agents write letter outlining scandals
Of course scientists are only interested in arriving at the truth, right?
It also seems Mr. Mann and his friends weren't averse to blacklisting scientists who disputed some of their contentions, or journals that published their work. "I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal," goes one email, apparently written by Mr. Mann to several recipients in March 2003. "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."
I doubt that the departments dealing with matters touching on evolutionary biology would be much (any?) better than the tainted "Climate Change" nee "Global Warming" departments in dealing with dissenting views regardless of the strength of the scientific case. That is really too bad. The skeptics are going to bring closer scrutiny of the theories and help weed out the bad ones better than those who love the theories. The scientists may deal with the ideas of evolution, but they are still only human.
Hence academic life is a mad hazard. If the young scholar asks for my advice with regard to habilitation, the responsibility of encouraging him can hardly be borne. If he is a Jew, of course one says, give up any hope. But one must ask every other man: Do you in all conscience believe that you can stand seeing mediocrity after mediocrity, year after year, climb beyond you, without becoming embittered and without coming to grief? Naturally, one always receives the answer: 'Of course, I live only for my "calling."' Yet, I have found that only a few persons could endure this situation without coming to grief -- Science as a Vocation by Max Weber
The Stockholm district court had ordered on November 18th an arrest warrant for Assange for questioning on suspicions of "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion" in Sweden in August.
wMind actually showing who was put into what sort of risk? I know of one Iranian fencer from a prominent family that was used as a contact. He can probably be identified by authorities. So far, that's it.
And if you even THINK about throwing back some vague "endangering our troops" comment, you need to re-examine your entire argument. Because I can quite equally and vaguely say that he's a great force for freedom and liberty. The difference is that I can point to specific examples of transgressions that he brought to light. Although you might have to dig around, it appears the powers that be have decided to move a lot of stuff to various subpages.
Updated | 12:36 p.m. A spokesman for the Taliban told Britain’s Channel 4 News on Thursday that the insurgent group is scouring classified American military documents posted online by the group WikiLeaks for information to help them find and “punish” Afghan informers.
Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, Zabihullah Mujahid, who frequently contacts news organizations, including The Times on behalf of the Taliban, said, “We are studying the report.” He added:
We knew about the spies and people who collaborate with U.S. forces. We will investigate through our own secret service whether the people mentioned are really spies working for the U.S. If they are U.S. spies, then we know how to punish them.
Steve Coll, an expert on the region and a former senior editor of The Washington Post, said in a New Yorker podcast on Thursday, “my reading of the disclosure of these informants in the context of Taliban-menaced southern Afghanistan is that people named in those documents have a reasonable belief that they are going to get killed, or — actually the way it works with the Taliban is, if they can’t find you, they’ll take your brother instead.”
Although various professional news outlets attempted to redact the documents, there were documents put on the Internet without redaction. Names were named.
Having informants against the Taliban is a good thing, and not just because of what is going on in Afghanistan.
Funny, I thought his fellow service members were busy betraying their principles by colluding in the organised rape of children that Manning helped expose.
Yeah, finding out my country was funding that could quite possibly put me "in a bad place emotionally" and lead to a "fit of pique". Of course, I'd probably call it "righteous anger" and "exposing corruption", but spin it however you will. After all, it's easier to call people "drama queens" and "ego maniacs" than it is to actually believe that your saintly government could be involved in corruption.
No doubt you will be relieved to know that those claims are false.
A salacious, scandalous story involving allegations of child sex that has unfolded on blogs and websites over the last two weeks seems to implicate DynCorp International, a major Fort Worth employer.
The problem, say both DynCorp and the U.S. State Department, is that the story is exaggerated and the worst parts of it untrue.
The recent release of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks prompted the reports. Among the cables is one that discusses a meeting with Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar, who wanted the U.S. to help quash a possible newspaper article about foreign employees of DynCorp hiring "dancing boys" to perform at a party.
Britain's Guardian newspaper published an article Dec. 2 about the memo and the minister's meeting with embassy officials. The article tied the reported party to "a long [Afghan] tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men... that sometimes crosses the line into child abuse with Afghans keeping the boys as possessions.".....
In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.
According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."
Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive... stopped the performance," according to the statement.
The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."
The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.
"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.
Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.
For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.
The leaked memo says the Afghanistan government was prosecuting two Afghan police officers and nine other persons for "the crime of purchasing a service from a child."
Publication of the leaked memo didn't actually break any news. The Washington Post reported on the party in a July 2009 article about DynCorp. The Post said the company was taking steps to strengthen its ethics
What was that saying about good men doing nothing again?
Good men doing nothing is all that is needed for the Slavic race to have been exterminated by the Nazis might do as a stand-in until you remember.
The Russian church faced extermination by the Nazis or harsh repression by the Soviets (who also controlled who was appointed to Church leadership). Do the math.
Just FYI... Joseph Stalin attended(but left just short of graduating) from a Georgian Orthodox Seminary. He could afford to do so because of a scholarship earned during his earlier years at a church school. His theistic activities were largely confined to his early life; but he probably went to a great many masses, after the eastern orthodox style.
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. -Joseph Stalin
Not really the Orthodox Christian position, I think.
Everyone trots on Mao, Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin as extreme examples of "atheists" who demonstrated the cruelty of "atheism". The problem, of course, is that none of them were actually atheist....
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. -Joseph Stalin
League of The Militant Godless -- Operating in the Soviet Union during Stalin's rule (with official permission and support)
Prof. PAPE: No. Actually, the Tamil Tigers are a purely secular suicide terrorist group. They're not a group that most of the listeners will have heard too much about because even though they're actually the world leader in suicide terrorism from 1980 to 2003, carrying out more suicide attacks than Hamas or Islamic Jihad, they're not attacking us and they're not attacking our allies.
And so, even though they've done really quite tremendously spectacular suicide attacks - for instance, in 1993, it's the Tamil Tigers who assassinated - with the suicide assassination a sitting president, Premadasa, a president of Sri Lanka. That's the only time that a suicide attack has actually assassinated a sitting president.
And then just a few years before that, Rajiv Gandhi, when he was running for prime minister in 1991, a Tamil suicide attacker, this time a woman by the name of Dhanu assassinated him. And so, despite the fact there have been these spectacular attacks, they have been occurring not against us or against our allies, and so many folks won't really have been as familiar with them.
But they are not religious. They're not Islamic. They're a Hindu group. They're a Marxist group. They're actually anti-religious. They are building the concept of martyrdom around a secular idea of individuals essentially altruistically sacrificing for the good of the local community.
The militantly atheist communists were, and are, one of the most dangerous threats to humanity.
US Contractors in Afganastan pimp out young boys and the State Department coverd it up: "The Guardian reported on a cable describing an incident in which employees of DynCorp, a U.S. military contractor, hired a âoedancing boyâ for a party. The term âoedancing boy,â also known as bacha bazi, is a euphemism for a custom in Afghanistan in which underaged boys are dressed as women, dance for gatherings of men and are then prostituted. Read more. The incident allegedly involved soliciting local Afghan police for a bacha bazi as well as usage of illegal drugs. The cable detailed that Hanif Armar, minister of the Interior of Afghanistan, urged the United States to help contain the scandal by warning journalists that reporting on the incident would endanger lives. "
In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.
According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."
Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive... stopped the performance," according to the statement.
The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."
The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.
"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.
Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.
For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.
The leaked memo says the Afghanistan government was prosecuting two Afghan police officers and nine other persons for "the crime of purchasing a service from a child."
Publication of the leaked memo didn't actually break any news. The Washington Post reported on the party in a July 2009 article about DynCorp. The Post said the company was taking steps to strengthen its ethics and employee behavior standards in response to U.S. government criticisms and, in part, because of the party with the boy dancer
Previously unseen tape shows bin Laden's declaration of war
A never-before-seen al Qaeda video obtained by CNN shows Osama bin Laden declaring war against the United States and the West.
The tape of a May 26, 1998, news conference is among 64 obtained in Afghanistan from a source, who said the tapes were found in an Afghan house where bin Laden had stayed. Experts say the collection of tapes sheds new light on al Qaeda's training, capabilities and mindset.
"By God's grace," bin Laden says on the tape, "we have formed with many other Islamic groups and organizations in the Islamic world a front called the International Islamic Front to do jihad against the crusaders and Jews."
"And by God's grace," he says at another point in the tape, "the men... are going to have a successful result in killing Americans and getting rid of them."
CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, who interviewed bin Laden a year earlier, believes the tape depicts a key moment for al Qaeda.
"They're going public," Bergen said. "They're saying, 'We're having this war against the United States.'"
Accompanying bin Laden on the video are Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's right-hand man and inspirational ally, and military adviser Mohammad Atef, who died last November in coalition bombing.
Although a select group of Pakistani journalists and one Chinese writer were invited to witness as al Qaeda launched its jihad on the West, the event never got wide exposure because no independent videotaping was allowed.
Ismail Khan was one of the journalists there that day.
"We were given a few instructions, you know, on how to photograph and only take a picture of Osama and the two leaders who were going to sit close by him. Nobody else," Khan said.
Rohan Gunaratna, an international terrorism expert and author of "Inside Al Qaeda," suggests security was a key reason for keeping the video under wraps.
"Making that tape public would compromise the security of al Qaeda and of Osama bin Laden," he said. "They did not release that tape."
Among those who appear with bin Laden are the two sons of Sheik Abdul Rahman, the spiritual leader of those convicted of blowing up the World Trade Center in 1993. He is now in a U.S. prison for planning other attacks on New York.
Bergen says the significance of the sons' presence at the press conference "can't be underestimated." They distribute what they claim is the will of their father, which calls for attacks on Americans.
"The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere. Attack their economy,'" Bergen said.
The connection to Rahman, Bergen said, is key for bin Laden, who uses the sheik's spiritual guidance as a religious fig leaf from behind which bin Laden broadens his terror groups' appeal to radicals.
With hindsight, the important moments on the video are easy to pick out, including bin Laden hinting at an attack on U.S. targets.
Within 11 weeks of the declaration, al Qaeda attacked U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in bombings that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
And perhaps almost as chilling, because it didn't happen, al-Zawahiri appears to justify an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Bin Laden gave his peace terms in is letter to America. In short: covert to Islam as a nation, give up the US constitution and implement strict Sharia la
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Where does Linux fail where BSD succeeds?
For some people it's the licensing (BSD vs GPL). For others it is the coherence of the system (how many places hide an IP address in Red Hat?). For others, it is a question of style (BSD vs AT&T type Unix). For some, its functionality (I always liked the way the BSD _______ command worked). From some, it's the simple Joy of BSD, or the McKusick - take your pick. For some, it could be the approach taken to a particular problem taken by one of the BSDs, such as the continuous OpenBSD code audits. For some it might be a particular platform maintained as part of the main distribution. For some, it may be the continuing BSD innovations. For some it might be the counter-culture aspect BSD in the Linux world. Plenty more reasons that people could have, including: Linux - 5 letters, BSD - 3 letters. Do the math.
You could say that the only truly popular Unix desktop is Apple's Macintosh running OS X. Mac OS X: What is BSD?
The Supreme Court has long held (since the 1800s) that searches at international borders don't require a warrant.
In addition, the courts have repeated ruled that national security warrantless wiretaps are legal, such as this recent ruling:
Intelligence Court Releases Ruling in Favor of Warrantless Wiretapping The judges...concluded that the government's protections and restrictions included in the 2007 procedures were appropriate. "Our decision recognizes that where the government has instituted several layers of serviceable safeguards to protect individuals against unwarranted harms and to minimize incidental intrusions, its efforts to protect national security should not be frustrated by the courts," Selya wrote in the 29-page opinion.
He added that requiring a warrant in such cases would probably "hinder the government's ability to collect time-sensitive information and, thus, would impede the vital national security interests that are at stake."
And here are just a few recent examples of why they might need to do so:
But, if it will make you more comfortable, for the moment lets forget about the children, and see where we stand. We can recap, and maybe you could point out what is actually wrong instead of in essence saying "I don't like it".
Even the page you linked to noted the EFF defeat on the legal question:
EFF Plans Appeal of Jewel v. NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Case Court Rules That Mass Surveillance of Americans is Immune From Judicial Review San Francisco - A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls and emails.
I also pointed out just a handful of the many active terrorism investigations and court cases going on inside the US. This points to a genuine, current, dangerous threat of people being killed by militant Muslim extremists. I assume you don't debate that they are genuine.
That's ok. The old Communism wasn't much of a threat either. But, like Islam, it's an ideal to rally your people (sorry...our people) against. See: liberal, conservative, white, black, rich, poor, east, west, north, south (for that matter), and French for details.
You are so wrong. The crimes of the Communists dwarf those of the Nazis and Fascists. There are still many who proudly call themselves Communist, and work toward their return to power. Maybe you could try looking into the question of starvation - Ukraine in the 30s, North Korea now, and in China during the "Great Leap Forward". That's before you look into the secret police, gulags, mass executions, subversion in other countries, and on, and on, and on.
Black Book of Communism - Review by Claire Wolfe Examining the photos and reading their captions in The Black Book of Communism, you might expect the surrounding 700+ pages to contain a wail of outrage. The photos, though few, are as graphic and heart-rending as the worst from Nazi Germany.
But the text is no impassioned partisan cry. It's something more powerful than that; it's the facts. The Black Book has been called a catalog, an indictment, a prosecutorial manual against Communist crimes. It is a simply a dispassionate account - article after article - of the history of Communist power. Beginning with Leninist terror policies and concluding with the starvation produced by Afrocommunism, the historians of The Black Book list the events, tally the numbers, describe the conditions, name the names.
Their conclusion:
USSR: 20 million deaths China: 65 million deaths Vietnam: 1 million deaths North Korea: 2 million deaths Cambodia: 2 million deaths Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths Latin America: 150,000 deaths Africa: 1.7 million deaths Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths Communist movements or parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths
Nearly 100 million deaths. Not casualties of war, but civilian slaughter. Deaths in gulags and concentration camps. Deaths from a bullet to the head. Most of all, deaths by starvation - the result either of planned famines, meted out as punishment to internal foes (as in Stalin's USSR), or unintended consequences of central policy.
Muslim Brotherhood members have ran for office before as independents. I would expect that they have also ran as members of other parties while maintaining their Muslim Brotherhood affiliation.
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The real problem with any religious activity is that it's a drain on human energy. There's no value in attempting to prove which particular set of fairy tales is true.
Quite wrong.
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Japan Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family
Thai Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family
See a pattern here?
Yes, I do see a pattern - you either don't know what you are talking about or are making things up.
There was looting in Thailand after the 2004 Tsunami (and after their recent unrest), and in Japan now.
Thailand 2004: Thai looters cash in on tsunami destruction
Thailand 2010: Thai forces to fire on looters and arsonists
Japan 2011: Japan earthquake: Looting reported by desperate survivors
Now, is it firearms that causes people to form mobs with ill intent? Apparently not as they will form with makeshift weapons:
And what of Sweden, who lost a number of citizens in the 2004 disaster in Thailand?
And more of the same: Robbery, rape and kidnap
Sri Lanka Churches Worried about Looting in Tsunami-hit Areas
But don't only bad people have guns? No. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King owned guns for protection.
I also suggest that you become clear on this point: Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone . This has been the law for quite some time.
You can't necessarily count on the police:
Making preparations for emergencies and disasters gives you a greater margin to survive. You might not be getting any help any time soon, if ever. Consider the fact that the states knew that they were responsible for taking care of incidents for four days before FEMA stepped in, and the botched responses by the city of New Orleans (epic fail), the state of Louisiana (epic fail), and ultimately the federal government in Katrina. Not a shining moment for the United States.
Think at least five basic scenarios, not all of which you may believe is necessary to prepare for, and you can do it in steps.
- Trouble on the road (breakdown on deserted road, trapped by blizzard or flood)
- Quickly evacuate from home indefinitely (hurricane, tornado, fire, flash flood, industrial accident, terrorist attack)
- Trapped at home for 1-4 weeks with loss of some services (massive blizzard, floods, loss of power, flu epidemic)
- Massive civil disorder (LA riots, Katrina looting & gang activity)
- Society changing event (deadly pandemic, EMP bombs destroy all electronics, major disruption in society)
Preparations can start small:
- For the car: a first aid kit, a couple of space blankets and plastic ponchos, some matches, steel mugs, a few granola bars, a can/bottle opener, bottled water, small tool kit, knife, duct tape, and flashlight.
- For the home: 3 days supply of food and water set aside, a first aid kit, flashlights w/ batteries, battery operated radio, some emergency cash, a fire extinguisher, a small repair kit/tool kit
- Start pulling your documents together in a safe place
Over time, you can build up to prepare to the level you believe necessary, including a one year supply of food for long term storage (just an example - many other vendors / options).
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Translation: "Subtleties in discussion are lost on me. Scientists are authority figures above suspicion. I'm pretty much a dumbass..... and a snappy dresser!"
I haven't watched "Expelled", but I've heard that all the "discrimination" presented in the documentary had much simpler explanations, most if not all of the subjects failed to perform their regular duties and were terminated for both failure to perform the duties of the jobs and failure to improve on that performance after receiving several warnings.
Perhaps it is sort of like the way shining employees with strong performance records over many years who act as whistle blowers develop sudden performance problems that ultimately, and "sadly", result in their being fired?
Of course scientists are only interested in arriving at the truth, right?
I doubt that the departments dealing with matters touching on evolutionary biology would be much (any?) better than the tainted "Climate Change" nee "Global Warming" departments in dealing with dissenting views regardless of the strength of the scientific case. That is really too bad. The skeptics are going to bring closer scrutiny of the theories and help weed out the bad ones better than those who love the theories. The scientists may deal with the ideas of evolution, but they are still only human.
Well, and Julian Assange... who... gets called a terrorist....
Actually he is allegedly a rapist.
Sweden renews Assange arrest warrant
It takes a special kind of retard to equate Obama with Mao.
Isn't that a rather harsh way to refer to the Chinese? Seems to have been popular with them.
Is this Anita Dunn’s favorite clothing store?
So you're saying that the mafia was acting as an agent of US government policy?
Yes.
You better reread it - that's not what it says.
wMind actually showing who was put into what sort of risk? I know of one Iranian fencer from a prominent family that was used as a contact. He can probably be identified by authorities. So far, that's it.
And if you even THINK about throwing back some vague "endangering our troops" comment, you need to re-examine your entire argument. Because I can quite equally and vaguely say that he's a great force for freedom and liberty. The difference is that I can point to specific examples of transgressions that he brought to light. Although you might have to dig around, it appears the powers that be have decided to move a lot of stuff to various subpages.
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Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants
Although various professional news outlets attempted to redact the documents, there were documents put on the Internet without redaction. Names were named.
Having informants against the Taliban is a good thing, and not just because of what is going on in Afghanistan.
Pakistani Taliban paid $12,000 to Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad
You picked the wrong "hero".
Funny, I thought his fellow service members were busy betraying their principles by colluding in the organised rape of children that Manning helped expose.
Yeah, finding out my country was funding that could quite possibly put me "in a bad place emotionally" and lead to a "fit of pique". Of course, I'd probably call it "righteous anger" and "exposing corruption", but spin it however you will. After all, it's easier to call people "drama queens" and "ego maniacs" than it is to actually believe that your saintly government could be involved in corruption.
No doubt you will be relieved to know that those claims are false.
DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations
What was that saying about good men doing nothing again?
Good men doing nothing is all that is needed for the Slavic race to have been exterminated by the Nazis might do as a stand-in until you remember.
The Russian church faced extermination by the Nazis or harsh repression by the Soviets (who also controlled who was appointed to Church leadership). Do the math.
The Church lived to continue the struggle.
Just FYI... Joseph Stalin attended(but left just short of graduating) from a Georgian Orthodox Seminary. He could afford to do so because of a scholarship earned during his earlier years at a church school. His theistic activities were largely confined to his early life; but he probably went to a great many masses, after the eastern orthodox style.
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. -Joseph Stalin
Not really the Orthodox Christian position, I think.
Everyone trots on Mao, Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin as extreme examples of "atheists" who demonstrated the cruelty of "atheism". The problem, of course, is that none of them were actually atheist....
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will. -Joseph Stalin
League of The Militant Godless -- Operating in the Soviet Union during Stalin's rule (with official permission and support)
The Black Book of Communism - Crimes, Terror, Repression --100 million deaths
Totally. I'm sick of atheists and their "logic" and "rationality". They're clearly worse than people blowing themselves up in the name of religion.
You mean the likes of the secular Marxist Tamil TIgers?
Tamil Tigers: Suicide Bombing Innovators
The militantly atheist communists were, and are, one of the most dangerous threats to humanity.
The Black Book of Communism
US Contractors in Afganastan pimp out young boys and the State Department coverd it up:
"The Guardian reported on a cable describing an incident in which employees of DynCorp, a U.S. military contractor, hired a âoedancing boyâ for a party. The term âoedancing boy,â also known as bacha bazi, is a euphemism for a custom in Afghanistan in which underaged boys are dressed as women, dance for gatherings of men and are then prostituted. Read more. The incident allegedly involved soliciting local Afghan police for a bacha bazi as well as usage of illegal drugs. The cable detailed that Hanif Armar, minister of the Interior of Afghanistan, urged the United States to help contain the scandal by warning journalists that reporting on the incident would endanger lives. "
Not quite.
DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations
Yes because Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Or was it Eurasia? So many enemies...
Allow me to alleviate your (feigned) bafflement. (For those who like to cut to the chase.)
Previously unseen tape shows bin Laden's declaration of war
Bin Laden gave his peace terms in is letter to America. In short: covert to Islam as a nation, give up the US constitution and implement strict Sharia la
Where does Linux fail where BSD succeeds?
For some people it's the licensing (BSD vs GPL). For others it is the coherence of the system (how many places hide an IP address in Red Hat?). For others, it is a question of style (BSD vs AT&T type Unix). For some, its functionality (I always liked the way the BSD _______ command worked). From some, it's the simple Joy of BSD, or the McKusick - take your pick. For some, it could be the approach taken to a particular problem taken by one of the BSDs, such as the continuous OpenBSD code audits. For some it might be a particular platform maintained as part of the main distribution. For some, it may be the continuing BSD innovations. For some it might be the counter-culture aspect BSD in the Linux world. Plenty more reasons that people could have, including: Linux - 5 letters, BSD - 3 letters. Do the math.
You could say that the only truly popular Unix desktop is Apple's Macintosh running OS X.
Mac OS X: What is BSD?
What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?
OpenBSD FreeBSD NetBSD PC BSD
FreeBSD Mall BSD Magazine
To each his own.
Only if he hosted it in the USA.
Host what? You mean the stolen US Government classified documents? Is that really necessary?
Whose signing statements? You mean Obama's?
Signing Statements Reappear in Obama White House
The Supreme Court has long held (since the 1800s) that searches at international borders don't require a warrant.
In addition, the courts have repeated ruled that national security warrantless wiretaps are legal, such as this recent ruling:
And here are just a few recent examples of why they might need to do so:
The national security wiretaps are legal, and not an abuse of human rights.
They do them because people either in the US, or who come to the US, keep trying to conduct attacks. Just a few recent examples (there are many more):
Well, that's maybe where we differ. I think we need to be adults and think of everybody, especially if Al Qaeda is successful in getting nuclear weapons, which they already have permission to use.
But, if it will make you more comfortable, for the moment lets forget about the children, and see where we stand. We can recap, and maybe you could point out what is actually wrong instead of in essence saying "I don't like it".
I pointed out that the courts have ruled against your assertion that the government's national security wiretapping is illegal, and a human rights violation: Intelligence Court Releases Ruling in Favor of Warrantless Wiretapping
Even the page you linked to noted the EFF defeat on the legal question:
I also pointed out just a handful of the many active terrorism investigations and court cases going on inside the US. This points to a genuine, current, dangerous threat of people being killed by militant Muslim extremists. I assume you don't debate that they are genuine.
I then pointed out that this current turmoil started with Al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks, and that according to Bin Laden, he won't stop trying to a
You are so wrong. The crimes of the Communists dwarf those of the Nazis and Fascists. There are still many who proudly call themselves Communist, and work toward their return to power. Maybe you could try looking into the question of starvation - Ukraine in the 30s, North Korea now, and in China during the "Great Leap Forward". That's before you look into the secret police, gulags, mass executions, subversion in other countries, and on, and on, and on.
Muslim Brotherhood members have ran for office before as independents. I would expect that they have also ran as members of other parties while maintaining their Muslim Brotherhood affiliation.
It has worked out that way in Turkey several times. The Egyptions should be so lucky. Unfortunately I don't think the Turks will be so lucky again.