http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Resident Sat, 18 May 2013 05:30:13 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Resident Fri, 17 May 2013 17:02:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=396_1368824434 cathy winslow Despite Iraq being rich in natural resources and the US pouring money into its economy for over a decade, Iraqi infrastructure is constantly failing and the people are forced to beg, as RT's Lucy Kafanov reported from the war-torn country. Read on Friday and Thursday bombings in Iraq here In spite of billions of dollars spent on reconstruction following the decade-long conflict, many neighborhoods lack sewerage systems and trash collection services. In some settlements, there are barely any streets. Water is also a big problem, locals pointed out. "Nobody drinks the city water because we know it's not clean. Since the war, I've had to rely on bottled water. What comes out of the tap is contaminated and makes us sick. How can we drink it?" local resident Umm Muhammad indicated. Central power is another issue, with the system sometimes on for as little as two hours a day. Electrician from Baghdad Abu Meria is sure the new government is to blame for the chaos that reigning in his homeland. "It's the citizens who suffer in the end, not the government. The services are so bad and the power system has really deteriorated. There were billions spent on fixing the grid but there's little to show for it." Abu Meria now earns four times more than before the war due to the frequent failures and blackouts all over the city. As RT's Lucy Kafanov also discovered, the crumbling infrastructure is closely entangled with rampant corruption. Transparency International group has ranked Iraq as the eighth most-corrupt state in the world. In the latest scandal, the country's Electricity Ministry was involved in a $1.7 billion fraud case. On the backdrop of this, most Iraqis remain impoverished, struggling to make their ends meet. In the Al Tajiat landfill, on the outskirts of Baghdad, people are actually forced to live -- without any proper living conditions. "There are no schools for the kids here, no electricity, no real houses. To get a drink of water we have to travel 4km. It's very difficult to live here." Watch RT's Lucy Kafanov's full report. http://on.rt.com/yg993f http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=396_1368824434 cathy winslow Iraq in ruins: Post-war life overshadowed by crumbling infrastructure, corruption, poverty Iraq,Baghdad,Ruin,Destruction,chaos Thu, 16 May 2013 20:46:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9f1_1368751417 Gorilla Biscuit My foresay: This is my response to the recent viral video of the asshat claiming police illegally entered his home and got tased in Cotati, California. How many times have there been domestic calls where the cops arrive, the people tell them everything is OK, and later find out someone was seriously injured or killed? All BS aside, I am sure a victim of domestic violence would agree that the police need to make sure it is all OK, no matter how asinine the call may be by making sure there are no visible injuries and satisfaction violence has not occurred, and will not continue once they leave. Be objective and ask yourselves, what would have happened if the cops just walked away in this scenario? In this case, probably nothing, but how were the police to know? Something to consider is the guy in this video is an Army reservist, and any incidents of domestic violence can get him chaptered out and considered a violation of any clearance he has in the military. I know, because I was in the US Army, and every unit (I was in) harped on the issue and raised awareness because you cannot use a firearm or weapon if convicted of domestic violence. Arguments between all couples happen, and if they had just shown the cops that no violence occurred, at most, both parties would have been encouraged to separate from each other and cool off. The police have a moral and legal obligation to make sure everyone (him included) is not the victim of domestic violence. Call me cynical, but I don't trust someone that tells me I can't come in after a concerned citizen calls in a violent complaint. Keep that in mind because the police did not magically appear in a group of 4. After all, the police are meant to protect and serve and had they disregarded the issue (as the police previously did in Ohio regarding the Amanda Berry case where they were called out for women seen walking on leashes and they did not look further, then these officers would have been held to the fire even longer for not doing anything. Just my 2 cents. - Gorilla Biscuit A video of Cotati police officers entering a home and using a Taser on a resident went viral this week, prompting questions about the officers' tactics and whether a citizen must open the door for police. The video, which was filmed May 10, shows officers responding to a report of a domestic disturbance at an apartment on Marsh Way, Chief Michael Parish said. An officer investigating the 3:48 p.m. call from a concerned citizen heard a man yelling and a woman sobbing in the backyard, Parish said. He called for backup. What followed was an encounter in part captured on video with resident James Wood's cellphone. It shows Wood, his wife and their roommate refusing to let police inside and stating there was no domestic violence issue. The officers kicked in the door and deployed at least one round of Taser darts on Wood after the man moved toward an officer grabbing his wife's arm. The video spread rapidly on the Internet, where the original YouTube video had been viewed more than 120,000 times by Wednesday evening and reposted dozens of times on YouTube and other social networking sites. "People say: Why didn't you just open the door?" said James Wood, 33, an Army reservist. "They wouldn't tell me why they were there. They wanted to use force, they wanted to use intimidation, they wanted to flash their guns and intimidate me, a free man, into submitting." Parish said his officers have an obligation to thoroughly investigate all reports of domestic disturbances. "The officers simply cannot walk away from a domestic disturbance call without ensuring that all parties are safe and secure," Parish said. Still, Parish said his department will launch an administrative review of the call, including the use of force, to determine if the officers acted appropriately. Wood and his wife, Jennifer, 29, said they had been arguing in the backyard that day about whether to spend their tax refund on fixing their car or buying a new one. Their roommate, James Helton, 32, was inside, putting the couple's 2-year-old daughter down for a nap when the officers knocked. The Woods' son was playing outside with a friend and his parent. Helton said he went to the back door to tell the Woods police were at the door. Officers said they heard Helton lock the door and decline their request to speak with him. James Wood and Helton said that police had their guns drawn when they came to their front window. "We had our hands up against the glass. We were more than happy to talk through the glass, or he can have dispatch call our cellphones," Helton said. "(An officer) became agitated and said, 'No you're going to do what I tell you to do.' " Officers said there was too much glare on the window to see inside, Parish said. Wood said he refused to open the door because the officers didn't explain why they were there and because he felt the law protected his right to keep unwanted people out of his home. "If you want to arrest me, you haven't told me why, but you want me to let you into my house brandishing firearms?" Wood said in an interview Wednesday. "I have a Fourth Amendment right: If you don't have a search warrant or probable cause, I'm not opening that door." Parish said the officers had announced they were there to investigate a domestic disturbance call. The officers continued ordering them to open the door and come outside to talk, and the individuals inside continued to refuse. "They could plainly see I was not in distress," Jennifer Wood said. "I honestly did not want them inside my home." James Wood pulled out his cellphone and announced that he was recording the officers, holding his military ID in one hand, his phone in the other. At that point, according to Wood, the officers put away their guns and instead held Tasers. "I was afraid we might get shot," he recalled. "The only thing I could think of is, 'I need to document this right now.' " As the video rolled, Wood told the officers there was one child inside and another playing in the yard. In response to an inaudible comment from the officers he said: "You're coming inside without a warrant, probable cause, you're going to kick my door down?" "Why are you guys not coming out?" an officer said. "Because we don't live in a police state, sir," Helton said. "Can you do us a favor, all get down on the ground and put your hands behind your back?" an officer said. "We can't record if our hands are behind our back," Helton said. "We need documentation of this violation of our civil rights." The officers appear to kick a door down and enter the home with weapons drawn. Jennifer Wood is partially shown standing with her hands up, but she had not complied with commands to get onto the ground. An officer grabbed her arm, and her husband said: "You have no right to be in here, you have no right to be here, do not touch her, do not touch her, you are assaulting her." The officer deployed Taser darts at Wood, and his wife screamed. The video ends. The Woods and Helton said they were pushed to the ground and handcuffed. Parish said the officers said Jennifer Wood appeared to be "taking direction from James supporting the officer's belief that she was a domestic violence victim." Wood was arrested on suspicion of resisting/obstructing officers and booked into the Sonoma County Jail, later released on bail. Jennifer Wood and Helton were cited for the same charge but not booked into jail. The Woods and Helton said they believed strongly they were not required by law to open the door, and they felt the officers' use of force was unnecessary. Although people do not always have to open the door for police, in this case they did, according to Parish. The officers were investigating a domestic disturbance, which he said qualifies as an exigent circumstance, or an emergency situation, in which they do not need a warrant, Parish said. "If the officers would have walked away and something happened, then the Police Department would have been criticized for not performing their duties," Parish said. Parish said the administrative review had not yet begun and will involve interviewing all parties involved. However, he defended what he observed of his officers' behavior. "It was a poor choice on their (the residents') behalf not to cooperate with law enforcement," Parish said. "My officers were very professional and very calm, and I'm proud of their performance." Cotati Mayor Mark Landman said he asked the chief to issue a statement about the video but would not comment on the incident while it is under investigation. Source: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130515/MULTIMEDIA/130519717/1033/news?Title=Video-of-Cotati-police-using-stun-gun-on-man-goes-viral You can reach Staff Writer Julie Johnson at 521-5220 or julie.johnson@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @jjpressdem. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9f1_1368751417 Gorilla Biscuit New information of Viral Video of Cotati Police Using Stun Gun On <span class="highlight">Resident</span> Cotati Police Thu, 16 May 2013 18:38:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=396_1368743794 omniradar Take It From the Rabbi's Mouth Take It From the Rabbi's Mouth Introduction by Gilad Atzmon Every so often we come across a secular Jewish 'anti' Zionist' who argues that Zionism is not Judaism and vice versa. Interestingly enough, I have just come across an invaluable text that illuminates this question from a rabbinical perspective. Apparently back in 1942, 757 American Rabbis added their names to a public pronouncement titled 'Zionism an Affirmation of Judaism'. This Rabbinical rally for Zionism was declared at the time "the largest public pronouncement in all Jewish history." Today, we tend to believe that world Jewry's transition towards support for Israel followed the 1967 war though some might argue that already in 1948, American Jews manifested a growing support for Zionism. However, this rabbinical pronouncement proves that as early as 1942, the American Jewish religious establishment was already deeply Zionist. And if this is not enough, the rabbis also regarded Zionism as the 'implementation' of Judaism. Seemingly, already then, the peak of World War two, the overwhelming majority of American Rabbis regarded Zionism, not only as fully consistent with Judaism, but as a "logical expression and implementation of it." In spite of the fact that early Zionist leaders were largely secular and the East European Jewish settler waves were driven by Jewish socialist ideology, the rabbis contend that "Zionism is not a secularist movement. It has its origins and roots in the authoritative religious texts of Judaism. Those rabbis were not a bunch of ignoramuses. They were patriotic and nationalistic and they grasped that "universalism is not a contradiction of nationalism." The rabbis tried to differentiate between contemporaneous German Nationalism and other national movements and they definitely wanted to believe that Zionism was categorically different to Nazism. "Nationalism as such, whether it be English, French, American or Jewish, is not in itself evil. It is only militaristic and chauvinistic nationalism, that nationalism which shamelessly flouts all mandates of international morality, which is evil." But as we know, just three years after the liberation of Auschwitz the new Jewish State launched a devastating racially driven ethnic-cleansing campaign. Zionism has proven to be militaristic and chauvinistic. Shockingly enough, back in 1942 as many as 757 American rabbis were able to predict the outcome of the war and they realised that the suffering of European Jewry would be translated into a Jewish State . "We are not so bold as to predict the nature of the international order which will emerge from the present war. It is altogether likely, and indeed it may be desirable, that all sovereign states shall under the coming peace surrender some of their sovereignty to achieve a just and peaceful world society (a Jewish State)." Some American patriots today are concerned with Israeli-American dual nationality and the dual aspirations of American Jews. Apparently our rabbis addressed this topic too. According to them, there is no such conflict whatsoever. All American Jews are American patriots and all American decision makers are Zionists. "Every fair-minded American knows that American Jews have only one political allegiance-and that is to America. There is nothing in Zionism to impair this loyalty. Zionism has been endorsed in our generation by every President from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and has been approved by the Congress of the United States. The noblest spirits in American life, statesmen, scholars, writers, ministers and leaders of labor and industry, have lent their sympathy and encouragement to the movement." Back in 1942 our American rabbis were bold enough to state that defeating Hitler was far from sufficient. For them, a full solution of the Jewish question could only take place in Palestine. "Jews, and all non-Jews who are sympathetically interested in the plight of Jewry, should bear in mind that the defeat of Hitler will not of itself normalize Jewish life in Europe. " But there was one thing the American rabbis failed to mention - the Palestinian people. For some reason, those rabbis who knew much about 'universalism' and in particular Jewish 'universalism' showed very little concern to the people of the land. I guess that after all, chosennss is a form of blindness and rabbis probably know more about this than anyone else. Zionism: An Affirmation of Judaism http://zionistsout.blogspot.com/2008/03/zionism-affirmation-of-judaism.html ZIONISM http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=396_1368743794 omniradar Take It From the Rabbi's Mouth Jewish anti-zionist Rabbi Thu, 16 May 2013 17:09:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=28a_1368738408 SunniLebanese Syria crisis threatens Palestinian refugeesPro- and anti-Assad factions seek support of Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps as tensions there rise over Syria. Zak Brophy Last Modified: 16 May 2013 10:49 The Palestinian community in Lebanon is socially vulnerable and politically divided Beirut, Lebanon - The Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila is perilously wedged along one of Lebanon's many sectarian fault lines. Black Islamic flags adorn the lampposts when approaching this small slum from Sunni strongholds to the north, while expansive Shia ghettoes border the camp immediately to the south. In recent months, an increasing number of clashes have erupted in and around Shatila, as rival Lebanese factions fight for the loyalty of the socially vulnerable and politically divided Palestinian camps. The Syrian civil war and rising Shia-Sunni discord in Lebanon are exacerbating the pressure. "These are concerted efforts to provoke a response," explained Fathi Abou al-Ardat, secretary for the Fatah movement and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Lebanon. On May 12, clashes - described by local residents as the most intense fighting yet - erupted between groups inside Shatila and neighbouring Shia communities. Volleys of gunfire were exchanged for several hours, and the army encircled the camp with armoured personnel carriers. "We know the Palestinians are divided and some groups are exploiting that to stir things up here. We are not taking the bait, but these groups have to know that if they push too hard we will run all over them like we did in 2008," said Abu Ali, a resident of the Rihaab district, a predominantly Shia neighbourhood on the edge of Shatila. Palestinian refugees struggle in Lebanon Although Shatila was founded as a Palestinian refugee camp, many non-Palestinians now live there as well. Ahmad, a 20-year-old Shatila resident with little education and scant work prospects, reasoned: "Us Sunna reacted strongly and started to boil over when we saw the killing in Syria. This caused clashes with Shia because they are helping with the slaughter of our people there." Losing faith Syrian President Bashar al-Assad comes from the Alawite sect - an offshoot of Shia Islam - and the powerful Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah supports Assad. Like many of his peers, Ahmad has lost faith in the traditional Sunni leadership and places his trust instead with more religiously conservative and combative leaders such as Sheikh Ahmad Assir, who have been trying to garner support from predominantly Sunni Palestinians. "There are more and more of us prepared to follow Assir," said Ahmad. "More and more people are becoming increasingly religious. Everyone is preparing himself for what may come." The Palestinian camps in Lebanon consist of basic, overcrowded homes, their people victims of decades of war, neglect and abuse. In Shatila, the buildings are so cramped that sunlight is a rare commodity. The smells of garbage and sewage foul the air and unemployed youth fill the cramped alleys. "We are seeing increased efforts to recruit from our youth. There is desperation and anger here, so whatever they pay they will find people to say 'yes'. They think we are cheap," said Ayman Zaher, a youth worker in Shatila. All of the major Palestinian political parties have adopted, and until now managed to maintain, a policy of neutrality in Lebanon regardless of their stance on the conflict in Syria. However, in Ein el-Helweh, the largest and most populous camp in Lebanon, armed groups such as Jund al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra and Asbat al-Ansar have found a safe haven under the protective wing of powerful local families. Their number of followers may not be huge, but their hard-line ideology and links to like-minded movements in Lebanon and Syria make Ein el-Helweh a particularly worrying flashpoint for Palestinians and Lebanese alike. "There is so much pressure on the camps and they are ready to explode, especially Ein el-Helweh, which could go off before there is a wider conflict in Lebanon. There is so much provocation from the Islamist groups there and I'm not sure if the PLO can keep a lid on it," warned Mutuwalli Abu Naser, a Palestinian journalist and playwright from Yarmouk camp in Damascus, who now lives in Lebanon. SpotlightIn-depth coverage of escalating violence across Syria Syrian influence On the other side, Hezbollah and its allies have also been working to secure the allegiance of Palestinians in Lebanon. Until withdrawing its troops from Lebanon in 2005, the Syrian government was influential in many of the camps through various Palestinian allies. Since the Syrian withdrawal, Hezbollah has by-and-large maintained Syria's leverage in the camps, even though the stance of several Palestinian groups has shifted since the start of the Syrian uprising. "Hezbollah works by a very low profile without making noise, because they work with the Palestinians from a security background, not a political one," explained Edward Kattoura, a political analyst at Pursue, a Palestinian think-tank. Many of the Palestinian camps are located in Hezbollah-dominated areas, especially in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. Recently, Shaker Berjawi - a Sunni "strongman" in Beirut who earned his battlefield stripes in the Lebanese civil war - decided to move the headquarters of his pro-Syrian Arab Movement Party to the edge of Shatila, indicating the importance of the camp's support. While maintaining a local influence over the years, he has switched political allegiances numerous times, and he is now aligned with the Hezbollah-led camp. "It seems people use us as mercenaries, whether it be for one side or the other. When he opens up his office at the entrance to the camps, he is sending a message that the camps are part of his fight," said Kattoura. 'Sacrificial lamb' But many Palestinians in Lebanon are driven by nationalist rather than sectarian sensibilities, and the camps may be able to stay out of internal Lebanese conflict. "Most of Lebanese have a view of the camps as a source of militia fighters and criminals. There is destitution and desperation, it is true, but in fact they are much less sectarian than most of Lebanese society," said Moe Ali Nayel, a Lebanese writer and activist who regularly works in the camps. "The Palestinians are used like a sacrificial lamb in Lebanon. Lebanese groups like to have Palestinians up front and then the blame can be put on us. " - Marwan Abdulal, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine And the Palestinians' time in Lebanon has cruelly taught them while their loyalty is dear, their blood is cheap, whether it be the massacre at Sabra and Shatila at the hands of Christian militias in 1982, the "War of the Camps" from 1985-87 between the Shia Amal Movement and Palestinian refugees, or the bombardment of Nahr Bared camp by the Lebanese army in 2007. "The Palestinians are used like a sacrificial lamb in Lebanon. Lebanese groups like to have Palestinians up front and then the blame can be put on us," said Marwan Abdulal, member of the political bureau for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Palestinian camps can hope to stay detached from the conflict in Lebanon as long as the fighting is constrained to the prevailing pattern of intermittent local clashes and firebrand speeches. However, should the situation escalate, residents will be hard pressed not to get dragged into the affray. "It will be very difficult for the camps to stay aside if this descends into a serious fitna ," warned the PLO's Fathi Abou al-Ardat. "The general atmosphere, the speeches, all of it is setting the stage for a fitna . In reality, it is already here." http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/20135791049958517.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=28a_1368738408 SunniLebanese Syria vis a vis the Palestinians in Lebanon in case you were wondering Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Palestinians, FSA, SAA, Hezbollah Thu, 16 May 2013 13:32:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=235_1368721981 omniradar A web of control - with fingers in every pie The influence of Jewish moneylenders has been woven into the history of the West for centuries and runs like a thread throughout all events, hidden in many guises, yet ever present. An insidious, dangerous, secret coterie that works behind the scenes. But, like a jigsaw puzzle, out of the mesh of intrigue the pieces fit together to form a pattern. Thread Number One: England The watershed for Europe was the Reformation. Henry VIII of England was in need of a son and a new wife. Thomas Cromwell was happy to oblige. The split away from the old church, brought the Bible into prominence and thereby increased Jewish influence. After an embargo of almost 400 years, Jews were allowed to return to England in 1656 thanks to a "financial arrangement" between Oliver Cromwell and the Jewish Sanhedrin. As a "National Debt" is an essential first ingredient of financial control, and wars are the prime cause of debt, it took only to 1693 before England found herself unable to meet her commitments, thanks to the continental wars of William of Orange which had been financed by the Jewish moneylenders of Amsterdam. Despite the many dissident voices against the establishment of the Bank of England, (i.e. a method whereby the State finance was taken out of the control of the State and into the hands of bankers) the bill went through the House of Commons and, although the House of Lords asserted it was intended to enrich usurers at the expense of the nobility, the Bank came into being and was founded in 1694. Fueled by the gold and silver bled from South America that poured into Europe to fill the coffers of the bankers, the Industrial Revolution produced a false face of prosperity whilst at the same time destroying cottage industry, producing urban factory squalor and commencing the start of economic control by the moneylenders. This phase continued into the mid-nineteenth century when the first Jewish Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, commented: "...the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes..." The stage was now set for the British Empire and underneath the Pomp and Circumstance came the steady infiltration into the economics of the east - and its riches. Max Weber, a historian, published "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (By that time usury had achieved respectability under the new title of Capitalism.) In his book he claimed that Protestantism - more specifically, its Calvinist branches - promoted the rise of modern capitalism. In England the need to muzzle the old ruling order was achieved, not by assassination or execution as in France and Russia, but by erosion, i.e. via a Land Tax and then by marriage. Lord Rosebery started the trend by marrying a Rothschild and Arthur Balfour, the signatory of the fallacious "Balfour Declaration", set the stage for the creation of Israel. The trend towards the formation of a new Jewish aristocracy continues with Blair's "title for money" policy, orchestrated by the chief fundraiser for the Labour Party, "Lord" Levy. Queen Victoria may have been the Empress of India but it was Disraeli the agent of the "City" of London who engineered the means whereby the east was conquered using the manpower of the British Isles. Thread Number Two: France In France the monarchy foundered on bankrupcy, stemming from Louis X1V's continental wars. Necker (supposedly Protestant but probably of Jewish origin) lauded as a financial genius, employed the dangerous tactics of using ruinous short-term loans at exorbitant interest to shore up the shaky finances, which spelt ultimate disaster. At the same time the necklace conspiracy engineered through Cagliostro (a Freemason) and the Jewish jewellers, Bassenge and Bohmer, fueled anger against the extravagance of the queen. The dismissal of Necker led to the attack on the Bastille, and the aristocracy - a much more top heavy group than the English variety - were effectively eradicated by the guillotine. France by this time had acquired a National Debt and the Bank of France was created in Paris in 1800. Napoleon wanted the country to break free from the power of the bankers and the debt. According to him: "when the Government is dependent on bankers for money, the bankers, not the leaders of the Government, are in control.... The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland. Financiers are without patriotism or decency. Their sole object is gain." In 1806, he remarked: "By what miracle did whole provinces of France become heavily mortgaged to the Jews, when there are only sixty thousand of them in this country?" (MSS of Napoleon, 1811.) In 1882 the collapse of the Union Gen http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=235_1368721981 omniradar All Wars Are Bankers' Wars . Not in School History Books Strangely. All Wars &amp; Both Sides &amp; Financed By Zionist Bankers ! Thu, 16 May 2013 01:31:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2d_1368682136 Salamander That's all folks, can't even enjoy your last few years in peace ;) "A 75-year-old resident of a New Jersey senior citizen housing complex is suspected of running a prostitution ring that employed some elderly residents as sex workers, NBC 4 New York has learned." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2d_1368682136 Salamander Cops persecute seniors for paying for sex Prostitution, seniors, police Wed, 15 May 2013 04:36:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6d_1368606832 travisjhake The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched a $ 20 million credit line supporting energy efficiency improvements in households and private enterprises in Kyrgyzstan. Credits are complemented by donor funding provided by the EU Central Asia Investment Facility (IFCA). The total donor funding made available for technical assistance and grants offered together with the KyrSEFF credit line amounts to 3.8 million euros. Over the next four years, loans under the new Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Financing Facility (KyrSEFF) will be provided through partner banks. KyrSEFF credits are now available through Demirbank and KICB, with additional partners expected to join in the next few months. Loans under this credit line may be as little as a few hundred dollars but may reach a maximum of US$ 1 million depending on the borrower and the investment type. "Working with the Kyrgyz banks on energy efficiency projects is a high priority for the EBRD. We hope that through our partner banks we can reach many Kyrgyz businesses and households that wish to invest in energy efficient equipment or insulation. ", said Mike Taylor, EBRD Director for Financial Institutions, Central Asia, Caucasus and Mongolia. For private households, home improvements financed under the new credit line could include the installation of energy efficient windows, the insulation of walls, roofs and floors, and the introduction of efficient boilers, biomass-fuelled room heaters, solar water systems or heat pumps. Any home owner, resident's association, energy service company, developer or facility management company will be entitled to receive a grant. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6d_1368606832 travisjhake Kyrgyzstan gets loan for power efficiency Kyrgyzstan gets loan for power efficiency Tue, 14 May 2013 04:55:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a0_1368521330 english-patriot33 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119266/Pensioner-died-fall-care-home-lay-floor-bleeding-10-minutes-Muslim-nurse-praying.html Pensioner who died after fall at care home 'lay on the floor bleeding for up to 10 minutes because Muslim nurse was praying' :Dorothy Griffiths, 89, fell from her bed, cutting her head and leaving a gash in her hip :After finishing praying the nurse said Mrs Griffiths was fine, only for her to fall unconscious four hours later An elderly woman who suffered a fall was left lying on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a senior nurse was praying, an inquest heard. Abdul Bhutto, an agency nurse, told junior staff they would have to wait until he finished before he would attend to 87-year-old Dorothy Griffiths, who died nine days later. Mrs Griffiths, who suffered from Alzheimer's, was left on the floor while the Muslim nurse continued to pray on his mat. Eventually he arrived and examined the pensioner before telling carers to put her back to bed. She was later found unresponsive and was taken to hospital. Mrs Griffiths had cut her head and gashed her hip when she fell from her bed during the night and was found on the floor when staff rushed to her room after hearing a loud bang. A carer went to the care home's office for help to lift her but Mr Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait until he had finished his prayers. Carer Zoe Shaw told the inquest: 'It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish.' The inquest heard Mr Bhutto was the most senior nurse on duty. He examined Mrs Griffiths on the floor but did not call an ambulance and instructed carers to put her back to bed. But instead Mrs Shaw, worried that she might fall again, washed the pensioner, dressed her and sat with her in the office. At about 5.45am she took Mrs Griffiths to the lounge and said she appeared to be well and was 'talking fine' and walking around. But at breakfast time Mrs Griffiths was found to be unresponsive and an ambulance was called at about 7.30am. Mrs Shaw, who broke down and wept during her evidence, said she would have called an ambulance immediately after the fall. She said that as a carer she did not realise she could and since this incident she had discovered staff could override a nurse's decision. Mrs Griffiths, a former pub landlady and the widow of former Barnsley footballer Steve Griffiths, had been a resident at the privately-run Valley Park Nursing Home in Wombwell, near Barnsley, since 2009 and died in hospital on November 3. Mr Bhutto failed to appear at the inquest in Sheffield and a summons had to be issued for him to attend later in the year. The court heard he had been contacted and denied being senior nurse that night. After the hearing was adjourned, Mrs Griffiths's daughter Jean David, 61, said the family had been put through more grief due to the nurse not turning up. Mrs David added: 'You put your trust in these people. 'What would happen if there was a fire, would they then stop praying?' It is understood Mrs Griffiths died from a brain haemorrhage and pneumonia although this has yet to be confirmed. A spokesman for the home, which is run by the Mimosa Healthcare Group, declined to comment. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a0_1368521330 english-patriot33 Pensioner who died after fall at care home 'lay on the floor bleeding for up to 10 minutes because Muslim nurse was praying' islam, muslims, terrorists, pedophiles, outlaw islam, Mon, 13 May 2013 06:57:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=24d_1368442434 Detroit Iron Jonathan S. Tobin 05.12.2013 - 11:00 AM On Friday, I wrote about what seemed to be a solid wall of liberal indifference to the recent revelations about Benghazi. The chorus of "move along, there's nothing to see here" admonitions from Democrats and liberal journalists lacked credibility. As Peter Wehner said this morning , White House spokesman Jay Carney's disgraceful "no regrets" performance Friday afternoon showed just how desperate the administration has become. But its determination to keep stonewalling and denying was rooted in a not unreasonable conviction: So long as the Democrats and liberal journalists close ranks behind the president, and more importantly, the reputation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Benghazi will be viewed as a partisan club used by Republicans rather than a genuine scandal. But while most in the chattering classes are sticking to the new talking points, a prominent exception today marks a significant crack in that heretofore-solid wall of liberal opinion. Conservatives rightly disdain Maureen Dowd as the New York Times's queen of snark, a writer whose work has long become the byword for pointless nastiness and deeply unserious takes on the news of the day that gives a bad name to political hatchet work. Yet, harking back to her salad days in the 1990s when she earned a reputation as the rare liberal who was willing to challenge Bill Clinton's cult of personality, Dowd has today written what may be the first sign that Hillary is not going to be able to escape accountability for 9/11/12 and the cover-up that followed that tragedy. In discussing the revelations of the last week, Dowd must, of course, try to depict Republican attempts to bring accountability to the scandal as equally reprehensible as the administration's failures and lies. But her framing the current debate as a contest between "Hillaryland" and "Foxworld" has at least the virtue of acknowledging the fact that what we are discussing is a disgraceful dereliction of duty by the administration: The toxic theatrics, including Karl Rove's first attack ad against Hillary, cloud a simple truth: The administration's behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth. This is important not because Dowd's any kind of a moral authority but because as one of the resident op-ed gods of the New York Times, her breaking of the liberal code of omerta on the subject of administration misconduct on Benghazi signals that what is unfolding is a genuine scandal with unforeseen repercussions, and not a Republican temper tantrum. In the midst of a re-election campaign, Obama aides wanted to promote the mythology that the president who killed Osama was vanquishing terror. So they deemed it problematic to mention any possible Qaeda involvement in the Benghazi attack. ... Looking ahead to 2016, Hillaryland needed to shore up the mythology that Clinton was a stellar secretary of state. Dowd goes straight to the heart of the matter when she rightly notes that the lives of Americans were sacrificed for the sake of trying to make Libya appear as if it were a triumph of the Obama administration's foreign policy. Just as important, the subsequent cover-up was clearly intended to protect Mrs. Clinton's reputation. The lies that were told about the attack being caused by a video and the effort to quash mention of al-Qaeda and terrorism were clearly intended to bolster the president's re-election efforts as well as avoid damaging a future Democratic candidate. There are three issues here that still remain unresolved. How is it that decision makers failed to understand the danger? How is it that forces were not made available to save four Americans when they were placed in peril? Why did the administration fail to tell the truth about all of this? Those questions will require the formation of a select congressional committee with subpoena power to get to the answers the American people need. Democratic counter-attacks trying to portray the effort to get those answers as mere partisan squabbling are failing. The premise of Hillary Clinton's rhetorical question, "What difference does it make?" was the belief that the media would protect her and ensure that Americans wouldn't care. She's wrong, and the betting here is that Maureen Dowd won't be the last rat to leave the sinking ship of liberal denial. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/12/a-crack-in-the-liberal-wall-of-benghazi-denial-dowd-clinton/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=24d_1368442434 Detroit Iron The Liberal Wall of Benghazi Denial Cracks Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd Sun, 12 May 2013 22:50:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19d_1368412932 Dethblms I completely understand this is fake but I just had to share it with you guys. Not only is it hilarious but I actually could see some form of this happening. Enjoy NEW YORK-At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants.With audible murmurs of "This is no way to live," "What the hell am I doing here-I hate it here," and "Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place," all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.By 5:15 p.m. there was gridlock traffic on the outbound sides of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, and the area's three major airports were flooded with New Yorkers, all of whom said they wanted to go anyplace where the pressure of 20 million tons of concrete wasn't constantly suffocating them."I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here," said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. "Well, fuck that. I don't need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being.""You see this?" added McQuade, pointing at a real estate listing for a duplex in Hagerstown, MD. "Two bedrooms, two baths, a den-a fucking den -and a patio. Twelve hundred a month. That's total, not per person. "According to residents, the mass exodus was triggered by a number of normal, everyday New York City events. For Erin Caldwell of Manhattan, an endlessly honking car horn sent her over the edge, causing her to go into a blind rage and scream "shut up!" at the vehicle as loud as she could until her voice went hoarse; for Danny Tremba of Queens it was being cursed at for walking too slow; and for Paul Ogden, also of Queens, it was his overreaction to somebody walking too slow.Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase "Only in New York" is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience."I was sitting on my stoop, drinking coffee, and out of nowhere this crazy-looking woman just starts screaming, 'I am inside all of you,' over and over," Bronx resident Sarah Perez, 37, said. "Then, we both had this moment where we looked at each other and realized, okay, we have to get out of here.""This place sucks," Manhattan resident Woody Allen, 74, told reporters. "It just fucking sucks." When fleeing New Yorkers were asked if they would miss the city's iconic landmarks, most responded that Central Park is just a pathetic excuse for experiencing actual nature, that the Brooklyn Bridge is great but it's just a fucking bridge, that nobody goes to the Met anyway, and that living in a dingy, grime-caked apartment while exhaust fumes from an idling truck seep through your bedroom window isn't worth slightly bigger bagels."This is no place to raise a kid, that's for sure," said 32-year-old Brandon Rushing, a lifelong New Yorker. "I grew up here and I turned into a giant asshole. Why would I want that for my son?""Plus, we're the place most likely to get nuked by a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack," he added. "So that's great. Also, it smells like shit here, and I'm not exaggerating. You'll just be walking around and it starts smelling like human shit, and it just fills your nostrils and you breathe in shit for like 20 seconds."Before departing by private helicopter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke with members of the media to address the situation. "You know what the greatest city in the world is?" Bloomberg asked reporters. "Scottsdale, Arizona. It's clean, it's not too big, it's got a couple streets with shops and restaurants, and the people there aren't fucking insane. This place is fucking insane. And by the way, that's not a reason to like it. Anyone who says that is a delusional dirtbag."By Tuesday night, New York was completely abandoned. At press time, however, some 10 million Los Angeles-area residents, tired of their self-centered, laid-back culture and lack of four distinct seasons, and yearning for the hustle and bustle of East Coast life, had already begun repopulating the city. Original Post: http://www.theonion.com/articles/84-million-new-yorkers-suddenly-realize-new-york-c,18003/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19d_1368412932 Dethblms Article from the Onion News Network New York, Shit, Onion News Network, Funny Sat, 11 May 2013 15:52:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14f_1368301708 english-patriot33 http://pickeringpost.com/article/the-cost-of-islamic-incest/1316 THE COST OF ISLAMIC INCEST A tragic phenomenon which is taking a terrible toll on everyone involved. There is a dire phenomenon rising in Europe that is crippling entire societies and yet the continent sleeps, refusing not only to confront the destructive elephant in the room, but also to admit its very existence. The troubling reality being referred to is the widespread practice of Muslim inbreeding and the birth defects and social ills that it spawns. The tragic effect of the Left's control of the boundaries of debate is that any discussion about vital issues such as these marks an individual as an "Islamophobe" and a "racist." A person who dares to point at the pathology of inbreeding in the Muslim community is accused of whipping up hatred against Muslim people. But all of this could not be further from the truth. To fight against inbreeding anywhere is to defend humanity and to defend innocent babies from birth defects. Fighting against this Islamic practice stems from a pro-Muslim calling, since identifying destructive ideologies and practices in Islam enables the protection of the Muslim people from harm. Massive inbreeding Massive inbreeding among Muslims has been going on since their prophet allowed first-cousin marriages more than 50 generations (1,400 years) ago. For many Muslims, therefore, intermarriage is regarded as being part of their religion. In many Muslim communities, it is a source of social status to marry one's daughter or son to his or her cousin. Intermarriage also ensures that wealth is kept within the family. Islam's strict authoritarianism plays a large role as well: keeping daughters and sons close gives families more power to control and decide their choices and lifestyles. Westerners have a historical tradition of being ready to fight and die for their country. Muslims, on the other hand, are bound together less by patriotism, but mainly by family relations and religion. Intermarrying to protect the family and community from outside non-Islamic influence is much more important to Muslims living in a Western nation than integrating into that nation and supporting it. Today, 70% of all Pakistanis are inbred and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30% (Jyllands-Posten, 27/2 2009 "More stillbirths among immigrants"). A rough estimate reveals that close to half of everybody living in the Arab world is inbred. A large percentage of the parents that are blood related come from families where intermarriage has been a tradition for generations. A BBC investigation in Britain several years ago revealed that at least 55% of the Pakistani community in Britain was married to a first cousin. The Times of India affirmed that "this is thought to be linked to the probability that a British Pakistani family is at least 13 times more likely than the general population to have children with recessive genetic disorders." The BBC's research also discovered that while British Pakistanis accounted for just 3.4% of all births in Britain, they accounted for 30% of all British children with recessive disorders and a higher rate of infant mortality. It is not a surprise, therefore, that, in response to this evidence, a Labour Party MP has called for a ban on first-cousin marriage. Medical evidence shows that one of the negative consequences of inbreeding is a 100% increase in the risk of stillbirths. One study comparing Norwegians and Pakistanis shows the risk that the child dies during labour increases by 50%. The risk of death due to autosomal recessive disorders - e.g., cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy - is 18 times higher. Risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher. Mental health is also at risk: the probability of depression is higher in communities where consanguine marriages are also high. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of mental and physical retardation and schizophrenic illness. And then there are the findings on intelligence. Research shows that if one's parents are cousins, intelligence goes down 10-16 IQ points. The risk of having an IQ lower than 70 (criterion for being "retarded") increases 400% among children from cousin marriages. An academic paper published in the Indian National Science Academy found that "the onset of various social profiles like visual fixation, social smile, sound seizures, oral expression and hand-grasping are significantly delayed among the new-born inbred babies." Another study found that Indian Muslim schoolboys whose parents were first cousins tested significantly lower than boys whose parents were unrelated in a non-verbal test on intelligence. It is estimated that one third of all handicapped people in Copenhagen have a foreign background and 64% of school children in Denmark with Arabic parents are illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The same study concludes that in reading ability, mathematics, and science, the pattern is the same: "The bilingual (largely Muslim) immigrants' skills are exceedingly poor compared to their Danish classmates." These problems within Islam bring many detriments to Western countries. Expenses related to mentally and physically handicapped Muslim immigrants, for instance, severely drain the budgets and resources of our societies. Denmark, for example: One third of the budget for the country's schools is spent on children with special needs. Muslim children are grossly over-represented among these children. More than half of all children in schools for children with mental and physical handicaps in Copenhagen are foreigners - of whom Muslims are by far the largest group. One study concludes that "foreigners inbreeding costs our municipalities millions" because of the many handicapped children and adults. What must our role be as a humanitarian society to this rising crisis? We know that the greatest concern among pregnant women and their husbands is for their child to be healthy. It is not difficult to imagine the sorrow and stress among interrelated couples who are forced to marry and pressured to have children. Is it not our duty to fight for the rights of these human beings subjected to such Barbaric and inhuman predicaments? What is it we can do? Denmark is a pioneering example of where to begin: In order to counter forced marriages, the country does not allow Danish citizens to marry foreigners younger than 24 years old. It also offers non-Western immigrants up to 15,000 Euros or 20,000 Dollars to emigrate back to their countries of origin. Immigrants who are not Danish citizens are banished from Denmark if they commit violent crimes. The state does not support families economically for having more than the country's average amount of children. This prevents foreigners from coming to Denmark who have plans to have a lot of children and live off the State's child support system. The country also denies resident permits to foreigners who are marrying their cousin in Denmark. Right now, the country is working on a complete halt to immigration from countries that are not oriented towards Western values (mainly Muslim countries). No more intermarriage We must simply forbid intermarriage among first cousins. Doing so will not only help slow down all the terrible consequences of inbreeding, but also prevent Muslims who insist on practising this damaging practice from moving to our countries. Let us keep in mind that Muslims are the first - though maybe not the biggest - victims of Islam. As long as we know that our motivation is to help them, then our conscience is clear in the face of the Left's accusations that we are somehow "anti-Muslim" when we show our concern about Muslim babies who are born with mental and physical defects - and about their parents who endure endless suffering and worry. In fact, it is the Left's callous silence on this issue (and on so many others) that exposes who is truly "anti-Muslim." As long as we stick to facts, have a compassionate motivation, and are still able to be brave, we can be certain that not only are we right to reach out to protect Muslim people, but that in doing so we are also protecting ourselves from destroying our own basic humanistic and Western values while struggling against anti-human and aggressive practices and ideologies. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14f_1368301708 english-patriot33 THE COST OF ISLAMIC INCEST islam, muslims, Wed, 08 May 2013 14:31:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=752_1368037421 dcdirectactionnews Video interview at "water testing station" at Appalachia Rising protest and sit-in at EPA headquarters. Background (video of overall action will be next up): On the 8th of May, Appalachia Rising staged a sit-in at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, demanding that the EPA accept gallons of contaminated water from the wells, taps, and streams used by Appalachia residents in the protest. The main demand was that the EPA cut off the source of the contamination by putting an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. After nearly two hours, Mary Stoner, who is assistant administrator for water at EPA come outside, met with protesters, and accepted samples of the water as well as the letter protesters had brought. She refused to sign anything, but accepted the delivery. Now let's hope EPA does their job and cuts off the source of the poison contaminating Appalachia residents' drinking water. That cannot be done without either banning mountaintop removal mining outright or making it totally unprofitable, which would have the same result. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=752_1368037421 dcdirectactionnews Kentucky <span class="highlight">Resident</span> displays water poisoned by mountaintop removal mining during EPA sit-in dcdirectactionnews, Appalachia Rising, EPA, mountaintop removal mining, coal