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Arthurs Named to ECAC Division III Metro All-Star Team
- Arthurs receives Second-Team honors -
Cape Cod, Mass. - Junior defender Mat Arthurs (Islip Terrace, N.Y./East Islip) was named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Metro All-Star Team for men's soccer. Arthurs received Second-Team honors.
Arthurs led a Farmingdale State defense that was second the Skyline Conference with seven shutouts in 20 games played this season. The Rams recorded shutouts in five of their eight Skyline Conference games and were second in the Skyline with a 0.49 goals against average in conference games. Farmingdale State finished the year 10-9-1 and fell to Drew University, 2-1, in the ECAC Metro Championship game.
The 2009 ECAC Division III Metro Men's Soccer All-Stars are as follows...
Co-Offensive Players
of the Year
Fabiano Santibanez - Senior, Old Westbury
Elysee Vilsaint - Junior, York College
Defensive Player of the Year
Charlie Cunliffe - Junior, Rowan
Rookie of the Year
John Dettori - Freshman, St. Joseph's (NY)
First Team All-Stars
Fabiano Santibanez - Senior - Forward, Old Westbury
John Dettori, Freshman - Forward - St. Joseph's (NY)
Rob Santaniello - Freshman - Forward, Ramapo
Michael Cullen - Senior - Forward, Montclair State
Rafael Duarte - Junior - Forward, Richard Stockton
Elysee Vilsaint - Junior - Midfielder, York College
Stephan Zaech - Junior - Midfielder, St. Joseph's (NY)
Julian Valerio - Junior - Midfielder, William Paterson
Joseph Cullen - Senior - Midfield, Montclair State
K.J. LaBarbera - Junior - Defender, St. Joseph's (NY)
Jaime Hay - Freshman - Defender, York
William Griffin - Senior - Defender, Montclair State
Charlie Cunliffe - Junior - Goalkeeper, Rowan
Second Team All-Stars
Freddy Carasco Dance - Senior - Forward, Baruch
Jacob Hartog - Sophomore - Forward, Bard
Sharard Sullivan - Junior - Forward, Medgar Evers
Kevin Luber - Senior - Forward, TCNJ
Erik Badger - Senior - Midfielder, Bard
Estiven Benitez - Junior - Midfielder, Rutgers-Newark
Sean Nelson - Junior - Midfielder, Richard Stockton
Stefan Cocea - Sophomore - Defender, Baruch
Mike Krol - Junior - Defender, Montclair State
Mat Arthurs - Junior - Defender, Farmingdale State
Michael Dougherty - Senior - Goalkeeper, St. Joseph's (NY)

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Add adhesive to ONE rectangle and adhere the two piece together.
This is what it should look like. Make sure the diagnols point downwards.
Take your DSP and cut it on a diagnol. I like using double sided DSP so that you can have two different coordinating patterns on your card.
Adhere these to our diagnols. You will flip one so that they fit.After adhering both pieces of DSP you will add sticky strip as shown above.
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So I guessThe Brothers Grimm is officially a bomb now, huh?
Terry Gilliam Talks "Good Omens"
Obviously what you are doing right now is called (in my upcoming book of psychology at least) validation. I think it's a normal thing to do. People will reply, say anything, and then you're gonna do what you were subconsciently thinking of doing all along.
Terry Gilliam Likes "Crash"
. . . any Gilliam and Depp collaboration is worthwhile.
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Most of us know that fiber is one of those good-for-you nutrients. But you don't have to eat gravelly, tooth-breaking cereal to get it. Some of the best and most delicious foods have loads of fiber. Find out how to get your fill of fiber without sacrificing good taste — or tooth enamel!
So, what exactly is fiber? Why do you need it and what food should you eat to get it?
The term fiber refers to carbohydrates that cannot be digested. Fiber is found in the plants we eat for food — fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes.
Sometimes, a distinction is made between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber:
It's important to include both kinds of fiber as part of a healthy diet.
A diet that includes foods that are rich in fiber can help lower blood cholesterol and prevent diabetes and heart disease. When carbohydrates are combined with fiber, it slows the absorption of sugar and regulates insulin response. And food with fiber make us feel full, which discourages overeating.
Also, fiber itself has no calories, and adequate amounts of fiber help move food through the digestive system, promoting healthy bowel function and protecting against constipation.
Great sources of fiber include:
Look for the fiber content of foods on the nutrition labels — it's listed as part of the information given for "total carbohydrates." A high-fiber food has 5 grams or more of fiber per serving and a good source of fiber is one that provides 2.5 to 4.9 grams per serving.
Here's how some fiber-friendly foods stack up:
Most Americans are not getting enough fiber. According to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, teen girls (14 to 18 years) should get 25 grams of fiber per day and teen boys (14 to 18 years) should get 31 grams of fiber per day. The best sources are fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and legumes, and whole-grain foods.
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Since man cannot live by bread alone (unfortunately), I though I'd add a recipe for an incredibly tasty soup so that you'd have a good reason to have MORE bread.
This recipe specifically lists butternut squash, ergo it's name, "Spicy Butternut Squash Bisque". But since that doesn't happen to be what we grew in the garden this year, I used our acorn squash instead. And really, I would bet you could use just about any squash that is available in the produce section.
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Why Would Anyone Want to Go to Every Starbucks in the World?
We don't know that there's an answer to this puzzling question, but the best place to look would be Starbucking, an indie documentary out on April 24th that follows a man named Winter as he attempts to visit every Starbucks-owned (non-franchise) Starbucks in the world.
The company opens an average of 10 new Starbucks-owned Starbucks a week, but Winter's already hit up over 6,000 since 1997. Can anyone do the math? Will he actually make it?
"My name is Winter. Only Winter. Past articles referring to a name other than Winter reflect inaccurate/imprecise reporting because they do not tell the whole story. Since most articles do not have space to tell the whole story, simply stick to this fact: my full legal name, as decreed by a judge in Texas, is Winter. Nothing else. Just Winter."
Sounds like he's had a little too much coffee?
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Could Romney Actually Roll Back New MPG Standards?
Dumping Obama's 54.5 mpg fuel efficiency rules is far easier said than done, experts say. The only way 'is to effectively disband the EPA.'
Mitt Romney has come out strongly against the Obama administration's newest fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks—rules his campaign calls "extreme [1]."
The Republican presidential nominee says that if he takes office next year, he'll consider rolling back the fuel standards, which require car manufacturers to make drastically cleaner and more efficient cars over time.
In June, Romney told The Detroit News [2] that he'd seek "a better way of encouraging fuel economy" than the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements. A campaign spokesperson recently reiterated Romney's opposition, saying that any savings consumers see from CAFE at the pump "will be wiped out by having to pay thousands of dollars more upfront for unproven technology that they may not even want."
But changing the new vehicle rules is easier said than done, according to clean-car and auto experts interviewed by InsideClimate News. While Romney could indeed water down or severely limit the standards, he'd face so many hurdles that it seems unlikely he would choose that path.
"I think what [Romney] is trying to do is articulate a philosophy. I don't necessarily view that as an indicator of what he would do if he was in office," said Jeremy Anwyl, vice chairman of Edmunds.com, an auto information company. "In the practical sense, if he was president I think he would find the circumstances would constrain him."
The Romney campaign didn't respond to questions about the governor's position on the CAFE standards in time for publication.
How He Could Do It
To alter the vehicle standards, Romney would have to work closely with the two federal agencies responsible for writing them. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [3] (EPA) sets the standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [4] (NHTSA) sets the rules for fuel efficiency.
Romney could start by ordering them to lower the standards the Obama administration has set for model years 2012 to 2016. Those rules require automakers to boost the average fuel economy of new cars and light-duty trucks by about 15 percent over the five-year period, to 34.1 miles per gallon. Greenhouse emissions should drop by more than one-fifth, to the equivalent of 35.5 miles per gallon.
But the altered rules couldn't go into effect until model year 2015 at the earliest. According to David Friedman, deputy director of the clean vehicles program at the Union of Concerned Scientists [5], a non-partisan science advocacy group, the government is legally required to give automakers at least 18 month's notice before any rule changes go into effect.
Next, Romney could take on Obama's new vehicle standards for model years 2017 and beyond, which the president announced late last month. Those rules include the EPA requirement that automakers curb their average greenhouse gas emissions by an additional one-third by 2025, or the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon. They also include an NHTSA requirement that new cars and trucks get an average fuel efficiency of 41 miles per gallon by 2021.
At least one group, the National Automobile Dealers Association [6] (NADA), supports delaying action on the vehicle standards for 2017 and beyond. The trade group, which represents nearly 16,000 new car and truck dealers worldwide, says that while it supports raising fuel economy standards, Obama's rules will likely shut millions of Americans out of the new car market by raising the average sticker price of vehicles—roughly $3,000 by 2025, according to federal estimates.
If the agencies decide to alter the rules, however, they would probably face lawsuits by myriad parties, including environmental, clean-air and consumer groups, Friedman said.
The agencies "can set the standards how they want, and then they'd get sued, because they'd be violating the law," he said.
According to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Bush administration's sweeping energy law, the NHTSA is required to achieve "the maximum feasible average fuel economy level" in new vehicles. The act also requires automakers to get at least an average of 35 miles per gallon by model year 2020.
Lowering emissions targets also could violate the federal Clean Air Act and its later amendments. The law requires the EPA to regulate new vehicle emissions that contribute to air pollution and could "endanger public health or welfare." A 2007 Supreme Court case [7], State of Massachusetts v. EPA, affirmed that the agency has to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions as well.
Because of that ruling, the EPA must regulate vehicle greenhouse gases "irrespective of who is in the White House," Ted Hesser, a clean energy analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance in New York, told InsideClimate News.
"The only way for Romney to stop [the rules] is to effectively disband the EPA ... but it's not likely that that's going to happen," he said.
Congress could help Romney try to scrap the standards.
Legislators, for instance, could strip the 2007 energy law of its "maximum feasible" language or set a cap on fuel efficiency targets, rendering the program less effective. They could use annual budget bills to block the NHTSA from spending taxpayer dollars to enforce CAFE law or to penalize automakers that don't comply. Policymakers used a similar strategy in the 1990s to keep fuel efficiency targets from ratcheting up, preventing the DOT from spending funds to develop stronger standards.
A Snag in the Plan—California
If Romney did pare down the federal fuel economy rules, automakers wouldn't be completely off the hook. California could still set its own standards for vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, and a dozen states could follow its lead.
California has that power in part because of its efforts back in the late 1950s to regulate new vehicle emissions, long before the federal government took action. When the Air Quality Act of 1967 was passed, it allowed California to keep doing that so long as the state's standards were as stringent as federal standards and the EPA granted it a waiver.
The California Air Resources Board [8] (CARB) already has waivers for model years 2016 and earlier, and it recently asked the EPA for waivers for later years. The EPA is expected to grant those waivers by January.
A key reason the automakers endorsed the 2017 to 2025 standards was that California and the Obama administration agreed to the same targets, thus creating one federal rule instead of a patchwork of regulations.
If a Romney administration scaled back the new vehicle standards, California could use the waivers to keep its own stringent rules in place. So could the other 12 states that have adopted California's clean car standards for light-duty vehicles: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Gov. Jan Brewer's administration withdrew Arizona from the program earlier this year.
Daniel Sperling said he didn't think the EPA could rescind those waivers. Sperling is a member of CARB and the founding director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis.
But if they tried, "California and the other...states would undoubtedly sue and use their political clout."
But Is It Worth It?
Given that Romney could roll back the federal fuel economy rules, a second question arises: Would he actually do it?
The answer is probably no, said Anwyl, the vice chairman at Edmunds.com [9], in part because the auto industry isn't demanding such changes.
Carmakers are comfortable with the vehicle standards for a couple of reasons, Anwyl said.
In the short term, they'll probably be able to meet the 2012 to 2016 targets without much difficulty, because they're already developing more fuel-efficient models and because consumers are demanding alternatives to gas guzzlers. New passenger cars got an average of 23.8 miles per gallon [10] in the first six months of this year, the highest-ever fuel efficiency levels for such vehicles.
Plus, the 2022 to 2025 rules aren't final yet. Starting in late 2017, the federal agencies will review and perhaps tweak them to better reflect the economic conditions, consumer demand and price of gas and alternatives, like electric cars.
"It's not likely that these standards will move into the next decade without some additional scrutiny," Anwyl said.
Ann Mesnikoff, director of the Sierra Club's Green Transportation program [11], said that preemptively weakening CAFE rules would waste the taxpayer dollars spent to study and develop the rules.
The EPA and NHTSA "have made a tremendous amount of work and investment to come up with strong and well-documented rules for 2017 to 2025," she said. "To undo that, one has to question whether that's a wise use of government resources."


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via Brian Kilmeade Asks Black Woman Harris Faulkner If She Makes "Kool-aid" | Bossip.
I grew up in the 60s in a Long Island community located near the community where Kilmeade grew up.
Kool-Aid was a very popular SUMMER refreshment served by many moms in my community. We even used to wet our fingers, dipping them into the sugary powder before licking the sweetness from our fingers.
I am reading comments that Fox News is a white supremacist, racist media outlet.
I have a question.
Is Bill O'Reilly racist for repeatedly addressing with many different guests, America's expanding and shameful National Epidemic of Childhood Abuse and Neglect, aka Poverty, that for more than two generations has deprived untold numbers of American kids from experiencing and enjoying a fairly happy American kid childhood with Safe Streets to travel and play on.
Child Abuse and Neglect that is primarily responsible for populating our prisons with depressed, angry, frustrated, undisciplined, unpredictable, sometimes suicidal teens and adults full of resentment for irresponsibly being introduced to a life of hardships and struggles.
Early Childhood Abuse and Neglect that often leads depressed, sometimes suicidal (NY Times May 18, 2015 – Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers) children to develop into depressed, angry, frustrated, unpredictable, sometimes suicidal teens and adults lacking empathy and compassion for others, though needing to vent their pent up negative emotions, often causing emotional and physical harm to peaceful people…instead of venting their anger, resentment and pain on the immature single moms and/or dads who introduced them to a life of pain and struggle by irresponsibly building a family before acquiring the practical skills, PATIENCE and means to successfully raise and nurture a developing young child who matures into a fairly happy responsible teen and adult with mostly fond memories of his or her childhood.
The question all concerned, compassionate Americans should seriously be asking ourselves, our elected, civil, social, community and religious leaders is, what real, substantial changes in our society's attitude and laws need to occur to prevent abuse that often causes young kids to mature into depressed, frustrated, angry teens and adults as a result of experiencing the emotional and/or physical trauma of an abusive childhood?
Take Pride In Parenting; End Our National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect; End Community Violence, Police Fear & Educator's Frustrations
Is Jaye DeBlack incorrect about his assessment of many SINGLE MOMS and how they are emotionally harming a substantial population of our nation's children by irresponsibly building families out of selfishness – instead of caring and love between two committed adult partners?
Sandra Bland Indirectly Speaks About Child Abuse and Neglect Harming Her Quality of Life And Community
Victims of Child Abuse
This video depicts horrific examples of men who were victims of childhood abuse and neglect, conditioning a young teen to embrace 'The Street' culture Baltimore Mom of The Year failed to protect her teen son from…not to mention representing the fear peaceful people living and WORKING in the community experience knowing depressed, angry, unpredictable teens and young adults need to vent their angers and frustrations for being introduced to a life of pain and struggle by irresponsible, "living wild" single moms and/or dads.
A little girl, catching a cool breeze from an air conditioning unit in the yard, was blindsided by another child about her same age, who had evidently had some practice with fighting fierce. The small victim wasn't alone, as there were plenty of nearby witnesses, who could have protected her but didn't because they were too busy recording the brutal beat down and encouraging it. | Written By Amanda Shea
What I see in this recorded act of criminal child abuse, is adults conditioning children to embrace the cycle of child abuse, child maltreatment and violence passed down from generation to generation by depressed Americans who are content living in the poverty they are primarily responsible for fueling when irresponsibly birthing children from selfishness, instead of the love between two committed adult partners.
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Victims of Child Abuse – Brooklyn, NY:
Nationally Popular Victims of Early Childhood Abuse and Neglect
Read popular American rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur (Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996) lyrics to learn about his love-hate relationship with his mom, his great disappointment with his dad, and about Tupac's frequent suicidal thoughts.
Read about how Tupac's drug addicted mother accepted proceeds of the harmful anti-social acts Tupac raps/writes about committing against his peaceful neighbors. I have to tell you, reading Tupac's lyrics brings back a lot memories of the horrific emotional child abuse I witnessed during the nearly twelve year I provided police services to Shawn Carter's community.
Shawn "Jay Z" Carter (born December 4, 1969) is another victim of child abuse/neglect who raps/writes about the physical harm and fear he caused to his peaceful neighbors and community.
Reading Shawn "Jay Z" Carter describe the pain he caused to his neighbors and community, brought back painful memories, causing me experience much of the same anxiety and pain I experienced from personally witnessing the physical and emotional pain young Shawn Carter caused to individuals as well as an entire housing complex and surrounding neighborhoods.
In 1987, the same year emotionally depressed 2015 Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar was born, songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and VICTIM DENIAL that was nominated for a Grammy.
Suzanne nailed it, parents and caregivers do the most horrific things to their kids, yet many kids will defend their abusers, blaming themselves for their "blues," bruises and injuries before admitting a parent/caretaker harmed them.
"Yes I think I'm okay I walked into the door again
Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
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Wonder to know our knowledge about legal post-incident practices.
Let's assume there was an incident. Rider A collided with rider B.
Rider A breached the rules and did not give a way to the rider B.
Few seconds before the collision he has realised his mistake and tried to avoid the collision. Unfortunately in that moment the rider B did panic and breached the rules too (for example he changed direction of riding into the rider B).
In a consequences rider's A lines were cut in half. Nothing happened to rider's B gear.
The rider A was 75% guilty and the rider B remaining 25%.
What then?
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text: The World's Matthew Bell talks with Israelis and Palestinians about hopes and disappointments of the past year in US-brokered peace processing, along with what to expect in the year ahead. In the de facto Palestinian capital of Ramallah in the West Bank, hotels and restaurants are fully booked. Every other street corner seems to have a new building going up. The security situation is probably better than at any time in the last decade. In many ways, it's been a good year, said Husam Zomlot, a spokesman for the Fatah party's international relations commission. 2010 was a Palestinian year par excellence, in terms of succeeding despite the most adverse, unprecedented situations for any nation, Zomlot said. Zomlot said the Israelis still occupy Palestinian lands in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and that situation must end. Nonetheless, Zomlot said the Palestinians and their leadership in Ramallah have turned a corner in the last year. The logic of �if they destroy, you destroy' isn't working, Zomlot explained from his office. Palestinians now, after all these years are focused on the positive energy, despite the extremely negative energy coming from their opponent. The World Bank says that actually despite all the difficult circumstances Palestinians face, they are now ready to assume full statehood. What the Palestinians are not ready to do, however, is return to the negotiating table. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is still refusing to re-start direct talks with Israel unless settlement building stops. Going into 2011, the Palestinians are focusing on a different strategy. They are seeking unilateral recognition as a state from the international community. They are also reportedly seeking a resolution from the United Nations Security Council that would condemn Israeli settlement building. Israeli government spokesman Yigal Palmor said such efforts are harming the chances for peace. All these diplomatic successes that they boast now are nothing but fireworks. I mean, they make a lot of noise, they please the boys, but they vanish into thin air very quickly. If the Palestinians continue down this road, Palmor said, they will be left with nothing tangible. Palmor said direct peace talks are the only way for Israelis and Palestinians to resolve their differences. And despite the lack of progress in 2010, he said next year could provide an opportunity. There is no lack of disagreement � profound disagreement � between ourselves and the Palestinians on many core issues, Palmor said in an interview with The World. But how else will we ever solve these problems, if we don�t talk to each other? Palmor added that, direct talks are only a matter of time. But so far, the US-sponsored peace process is widely considered a failure in the region. Washington has suffered another major setback in the Middle East this year, said Israeli security expert Jonathan Rynhold of Bar Ilan University. Iran and its allies � Hezbollah, Syria and Hamas � have actually increased in power, Rynhold said. Turkey has begun to move into [Iran's] sphere and Hezbollah seems to have made enormous ground, he said. Rynhold described the Islamic militant group as the de facto ruler of Lebanon that has acquired rockets capable of hitting anywhere inside of Israel. Rynhold said the US and Israel both perceive Iran's nuclear program as a serious threat and as a result, military cooperation between the two allies has never been better than during the past year. He said the Israelis do see military force as one possible option for dealing with Iran, but it's not a great one, he said. While Israel certainly thinks that a nuclear Iran is a disaster for the region, it has to weigh up how much damage it could do to the Iranian nuclear program and given that, how much damage would Iran do to Israel in response. On both counts, Rynhold said the estimates are such that Israel is likely to let the United States continue to take the lead on dealing with Iran during 2011.


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Be Smart is an NHP Neaheliopolis Napoli spin-off, whose main objective is to restore the balance between man, city and solar energy through a sustainable development model. It handles integrated solutions for managing mobility projects, primarily for businesses. Bee is a car-sharing service that allows users to pick up a vehicle at a point in the city (Bee Point) and return it to another point. Bee currently has 230 vehicles (electric quadricycles) available throughout Naples, Milan and Rome, and aims to have 500 available vehicles within the next 48 months.
They needed to find an integrated solution for optimal car-sharing management in order to optimise their service.
Since the start of May 2014, the entire Bee – Green Mobility Sharing fleet has provided a high standard of service, thanks to Webfleet Solutions and Be Smart. The user can search for nearby available vehicles on the mobile app, using information recorded by the WEBFLEET platform and sent using the WEBFLEET.connect API.
There are many benefits to this integration. For starters, the customer enjoys a complete and accurate service down to the last detail. The WEBFLEET platform means that customer care always have the details of all vehicles at their fingertips, so they can respond to users' needs quickly and in a detailed and efficient manner, processing a greater number of requests and reducing management costs.
'Thanks to the incredible possibilities provided by the WEBFLEET integration, the Be Smart solution has acquired unique capabilities, making Bee — Green Mobility Sharing one of the most efficient, secure and reliable players in its sector', says Mr Mario Cuollo Conforti, CEO of Be Smart. 'The LINK.connect and WEBFLEET.connect APIs have enabled us to undertake a major project that brings together all the successful elements of our service under one umbrella. The WEBFLEET platform has become the "live" window to the 230 vehicles in the Bee fleet!'


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You wake up with a start! You overslept. Why didn't your alarm go off? You quickly check your phone and then you realize: It's a Saturday.
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The official "lyric video" for "You Only Live Once", a brand new song from California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE, can be viewed below. The tune comes off the group's new album, "The Black Crown", which is scheduled for release on July 12 via Century Media Records. The CD was recorded with heavyweight producer Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, EVERY TIME I DIE, HATEBREED) and features the following songtitles, among others: "Human Violence", "Cancerous Skies" and "Fuck Everything".
The cover artwork for "The Black Crown" was created by the Delaware-based freelance graphic designer and illustrator Ken "K3N" Adams, who has previously worked with LAMB OF GOD.
"'The Black Crown' is our most mature, well-produced, and well-written record as a band," SUICIDE SILENCE singer Mitch Lucker told AOL's Noisecreep. "People should come see us play songs from it live on [this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink] Mayhem [Festival] this summer, or buy it when it comes out!"
Lucker also revealed that "The Black Crown" will be SUICIDE SILENCE's third and final release for longtime label Century Media Records. Lucker noted that the band will be free agents after the release of this album.
SUICIDE SILENCE's last album, "No Time To Bleed", sold 14,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 32 on The Billboard 200 chart. The effort was made available on June 30, 2009 in a number of different versions.
"No Time To Bleed" was recorded with acclaimed producer Machine (LAMB OF GOD).


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It's been five years since Lara Croft last occupied our screens - just enough of a hiatus to give the Tomb Raider franchise a much needed break and turn the game on its head.
We don't just mean figuratively either: the latest Tomb Raider opens with our heroine hanging upside down dangling from a rope, bound and tied. It's no attempt to reverse 17 years of ill-effect induced by top-heavy, er, assets either - yup, it's been that long since the first title launched in 1996 - as 2013's take is no joking matter. Not one bit.
A gritty cinematic setting certainly weaves an immediate strength throughout the latest title, but it's the new Lara that wields the most strength of all because, finally, she's portrayed as a real, proper person. One who, dirtied, injured and blood-splattered, doesn't look too far short of losing it all in the opening scenes.
It's an obvious take really, but one not explored before: Tomb Raider in 2013 immediately grips because it connects you to the character with emotion. It matters what happens to this three-dimensional character on screen because her tale is also three-dimensional, largely thanks to Rhianna Pratchett - daughter of the Terry - who has taken up pen-and-ink duties to deliver an engaging plot. And, as we'll come to later, an unflinching one at that.
Not sure quite the same can be said for new Lara's tally-ho proper-proper British accent - courtesy of Camilla Luddington, take note Californication and True Blood fans - but simultaneously it's got that nail-on-head heavy twang that perfectly fits the bill and backstory.
Uncharted Territory?
The preview build of the game that Pocket-lint handled took us on a three-hour epic journey that begins with escaping from tied-up capture. The game is a melting pot of genres - think Heavy Rain meets Uncharted - yet never loses sight of being a third-person platformer meets puzzler at its core.
But it does throw in handfuls of FPS-esque shooting, Metal-Gear-like stealth, hunter-gatherer tasks to help advance weapons and abilities in an almost Fallout fashion and even a pinch of Matrix-inspired Max Payne-like "bullet time" slow-mo combat.
Fortunately Tomb Raider doesn't feel like a patchwork of cherry-picked goodies from those other top titles. It succeeds in its own style that, while not 100 per cent original all of the time (but what is these days?), is engrossing to play. There are natural stoppage points in the form of camp sites too, which helps break up the play. It's not the level-by-level norm.
The Xbox 360 version we previewed uses the dual analogue sticks to balance up well between character movement and camera adjustment. But the title also boldly throws up specific scenes with fixed camera angles or wildly adjusted ones - claustrophobic close-ups in water-filled tunnels; wide pan-outs while climbing up rock faces and plenty more besides.
Such fluid camera movement gives the game an even more cinematic feel than it already has from the second Lara surfaces from the initial horrors of her captive pit into the thunder and lightning drama of the world above. It also gives her more face time to camera, pained expressions fully visible.
Wolves And Weirdos
That world, stumbled upon by shipwreck as the unfolding scenes reveal, has all the promise and fear of the island from Lost. Well, imagine it back in time from the first series as Tomb Raider's managed to avoid all the clap-trap nonsense and - at least we hope - any ludicrous ending.
The "others" - ie, the human enemies - in Tomb Raider have all the creepiness of the weirdos in The Hills Have Eyes, hauntingly captured in scenes of apparent human butchery and, more harrowing still, another scene of attempted rape. Bash those buttons in the right order and Mr Nasty - we made that name up, of course - will promptly get those testes serviced by nothing more than a pointy knee and a facelift courtesy of a 9mm pistol.
Despite the controversy we think it's an engaging section that's suggestive rather than explicit - if anything it's only explicit in the way it further enhances that emotional player bond with Lara.
It's not just other humans you'll need to worry about of course. The wolves - a Tomb Raider classic which seems to have a real taste for posh Brits - are not only a nod to the series as a whole, they can also be downright terrifying when they pounce unexpectedly from the shadows. In a particular nook-and-cranny cave scene the flickering fires cast shadows on rocks that mingle with that belonging to a particularly prominent furred foe. It builds up genuine tension. The rest, well, we'll leave that for you to find out...
Weapons are fairly few and far between, which gives each its own particular value and importance. You'll want to find those special crates dotted around the landscape which, collected in the right numbers, can be used to upgrade weapons to become all the better. From silent bow and arrow through to pistol and meatier automatic, we look forward to seeing which other bullet-expending treats are in store in the final game.
Pleased To Puzzle
Of course Tomb Raider wouldn't be Tomb Raider without its share of puzzles. There are moments when it's hard to know where to go next, while other more-staged puzzles will have you jumping through hoops to open the path to the next section.
What is initially trial and error expands into more-connected thinking as the game progresses. However, we're bound by oath not to reveal exactly what some of these are or how they're solved until the game's released - the best way, really, as it'll keep the game all the more fun when you come to play it.
The combination of all these elements adds up to what we think has the makings of one of 2013's top titles. Cinematic style, emotional character connectivity, a dash of controversy, the need to think before pulling the trigger and a gorgeous landscape for it all to unravel in.
Tomb Raider in 2013 takes the generation of pop-tastic Girl Power and coats it with a thick, treacle-black storyline that's more reminiscent of a Christopher Nolan epic. It's edgier and more contemporary than the predecessors that its severed itself from… we can't wait to invest ourselves into more of this tale.
Tomb Raider is due for worldwide release on 5 March 2013, available for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.


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"The Vow," this week's movie "inspired" by real events, features, appropriately enough, a Nicholas Sparks All-Stars tandem of Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams. It's the story of a man who must try to win his wife's heart all over again after a terrible car crash erases her memories of him.
It's only after the accident that we learn that McAdams' Paige is estranged from her wealthy Lake Forest parents, played by Sam Neill and Jessica Lange, for reasons she can't recall. Seeing their chance to reconnect, they swoop in to the rescue and elbow the suddenly persona non grata Tatum aside.
There was a time, after "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers" that McAdams was poised to be America's new sweetheart--in spite of her Canadian heritage. Like the more recent "Morning Glory," "The Vow" isn't very good, but it reminds you why exactly people thought she was the next big thing. Her smile is impossibly bright and wide, the points nearly reaching her ears, and yet it remains unmistakably sincere... Well, as sincere as an actress' smile has any right to be.
Tatum is one of Hollywood's more bewildering personalities. The former stripper has a screen presence so totally lacking in guile that when he stammers, you can't be sure if it's an actorly affectation or if he's forgotten his line. But there must be something beyond his six-pack abs, as he's been cast by directors ranging from Steven Soderbergh to Michael Mann to Kevin McDonald to Ron Howard to Lasse Hallstrom. You root for him without being sure why exactly.
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For all their pluck and aw-shucks super-cuteness, McAdams and Tatum both feel miscast. Leo and Paige are, for lack of a better word, hipsters. She's a sculptor, he owns a recording studio and wears ugly sweaters long out of style; they live in a huge old unfinished industrial space, their friends looked like they were rounded up at a Williamsburg loft party... But the minute you see her back in Lake Forest with her freshly done hair and her claim-diggers, you think she finally looks at home.
The conceit of "The Vow" is harrowing, having the love of your life totally forget you who you are is no doubt beyond wrenching, but the delivery is mostly flat. You can feel the tension between the army of screenwriters wrestling to give the film a voice, there's a thoughtful and deeply moving story trying to shake off the paint-by-numbers emotions we're presented with. Director Michael Sucsy tries too hard to give the film a signature visual style, moving his camera back and forth in an effort to convey pensiveness or depth. And Tatum's narration sounds like a melodramatic teen's journal entries.


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Asia Bibi is a mother of five children and a devout Christian. She is also on death row — for "blasphemy." And incredibly, she lives under a government that receives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year: Pakistan, one of the top recipients of American foreign aid. Over the last 10 years, the Pakistani regime has raked in well over $20 billion from U.S. taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the government has been brutally persecuting and oppressing the sizeable Christian minority. Indeed, the Pakistani regime consistently ranks as among the worst in the world in terms of persecution. And according to senior U.S. officials, Pakistan's "intelligence" services have even been collaborating with terrorist groups to attack American targets.
Almost three years ago, Bibi was working as a farmhand when she apparently got into an argument with some Muslim women also working in the fields. Her co-workers alleged that she "defamed" the Islamic prophet, Mohammed. She insists she merely defended her own faith and was falsely accused because of existing animosity. That's when the tragic ordeal began.
Hearing that a Christian woman made a derogatory remark about Mohammed, a furious mob led by a local cleric promptly descended on Bibi's home. According to news reports, her family was beaten and tortured by the outraged local residents. They sexually assaulted Bibi, put a noose around her neck, and almost killed her.
When police finally arrived, they rescued the family — temporarily, at least — before charging Bibi with a capital offense: blasphemy. She was ultimately arrested, and has been in jail ever since. Her family went into hiding to avoid being murdered by vigilantes. "My children," she wrote in a letter to her family, published in a book about her ordeal, "don't lose courage or faith in Jesus Christ."
In November of 2010, Bibi, also known as Aasiya Noreen, was sentenced to execution by hanging. She has been in a tiny prison cell for years — in deplorable conditions and complete isolation — awaiting an appeal with a higher court. But even if she is freed, countless religious leaders have vowed to murder her — there is already a bounty on her head.
And Bibi was not the only victim. As her case attracted international attention, Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, spoke out in defense of Bibi and against Pakistan's brutal blasphemy laws. He paid for his activism with his life. In January of last year, he was murdered by a member of his own security detail. Hundreds of Muslim scholars and clerics praised the assassination, and more than a thousand lawyers rushed to the killer's defense. Taseer's son was kidnapped by jihadists later that year.
Two months after the assassination, Pakistani Minister of Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti — the only Christian Minister in the regime — was also murdered. His killers left leaflets at the crime scene indicating that they assassinated him for opposing the blasphemy law.
Just this March, another mother, 26 years old, was reportedly taken into custody on "blasphemy" charges. More than a few Christians have been executed by vigilantes after being charged.
"A close examination of the cases reveals the blasphemy laws are often invoked to settle personal scores, or they are used by Islamist extremists as cover to persecute religious minorities, sadly with the help of the state under these laws," noted Pakistanis for Peace founder Manzer Munir, saying there had been almost 1,000 cases of "blasphemy" since the death penalty was adopted as a punishment for it in 1986.
The U.S. government, of course, knows very well that it is bankrolling the atrocities. "Pakistan continues to be responsible for systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief," noted the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its 2011 annual report. And conditions continue to deteriorate.
Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, another close U.S. "ally," is also ranked as among the worst oppressors of Christians in the world, behind only Afghanistan and North Korea. And the hard-line Islamic dictatorship's Grand Mufti — the highest-ranking Muslim cleric — recently claimed it was "necessary to destroy all churches in the region."
Trillions Spent, and for What?
After trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives were sacrificed by the U.S. government over the last decade intervening in the Middle East — the birthplace of Jesus Christ and Christianity — Christian communities are facing unprecedented struggles across most of the region. More than a few analysts have even called the systematic and growing persecution of Christians throughout much of the Muslim world an ongoing example of genocide.
"Conditions for genocide against non-Muslim communities exist in varying degrees throughout the region stretching from Pakistan to Morocco. The crisis of survival for non-Muslim communities is especially acute in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Iran and Pakistan," explained Dr. John Eibner of the non-profit human-rights group Christian Solidarity International. "Millions of lives and the future of a religiously pluralistic civilization in the Middle East are at stake."
According to some estimates, more than 150,000 Christians are murdered every year for their faith around the world. The vast majority of those — over three-fourths — are in Islamic-dominated nations. And in many cases, U.S. taxpayers are either subsidizing the slaughter by distributing billions to oppressive regimes, or worse, helping to create the conditions that allow the persecution to happen in the first place.
One of the most frequent excuses offered to justify the persecution of Christians by murderous regimes and the anti-Christian fanatics they enable is that believers in Christ are somehow acting as surrogates or proxies for Western interests — especially the U.S. government. After decades of meddling in the internal affairs of nations around the world — backing dictators, sparking revolutions, imposing sanctions, and more — America is widely perceived as hostile and dangerous. Plus, as tyrants throughout history have learned, minorities make good scapegoats.
The trend of linking local Christian populations to American foreign policy goes back decades. In 1970, for example, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an official Islamic decree, or "fatwa," accusing Iranian Christians of "working with American imperialists and oppressive rulers to distort the truths of Islam, lead Muslims astray, and convert our children." The fatwa came while the Western establishment was still intervening on behalf of the Shah of Iran — leading to widespread anti-American resentment — and after the Central Intelligence Agency sparked a coup d'état in 1953 under the guise of fighting communism.
More recently, U.S. government intervention in the region has been justified using a broad array of issues: supposed "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs), the terror war, regional security, trade, and vaguely defined "national interests." But increasingly, American policymakers have been meddling in the Middle East under the guise of "spreading democracy." And as analysts have noted, when the overwhelming majority of the population is Muslim, so-called "democracy" — or majority rule — does not generally bode well for Christians and other minorities.
But to better understand the role of U.S. foreign policy in the ongoing and worsening atrocities against Christians, it helps to examine the two nations where the American government has been most involved over the last decade: Iraq and Afghanistan. According to experts like Chairman Leonard Leo of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an official advisory body, there is now a very real prospect that Christianity could be completely wiped out in both countries. And in other nations — from Libya and Egypt to Pakistan and Syria — the effects of U.S. policies are producing similar fruit.
Christianity goes back almost 2,000 years in the land known today as Iraq. In fact, Assyrian Christians are often said to be the true indigenous people of the area. The devout communities there survived through centuries of invasion, persecution, and attempted extermination. Despite the never-ending onslaught, Christianity continued to thrive. Until "democracy" arrived, that is.
In the wake of the U.S. invasion and occupation — which in 2007 the Congressional Budget Office estimated would cost U.S. taxpayers about $2 trillion — Christianity in Iraq might very well be fully eradicated. Reliable estimates found that about 1.4 million Christians lived in Iraq before 2003. Today, that number is less than 500,000, with some experts claiming the true figure is actually around 200,000. In all, some two-thirds of the nation's Christians have already fled or been killed.
Despite making up just three percent of the population prior to the U.S. invasion, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Christians accounted for nearly half of the refugees by 2008. Much of the faithful remnant in Iraq is seeking a way out before the persecution gets even worse — and that is despite calls by numerous Iraqi church leaders for the Christian communities to remain in their homeland.
Under the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Christians and other minorities were largely protected from Islamist violence and genocide — unlike in many areas of the Middle East. Indeed, the tyrant's socialist Ba'th Party was founded by Michel Aflaq, an Orthodox Christian, and actually held "freedom of religion" as one of its core tenets.
Of course, as is well documented, enemies of the Iraqi regime were viciously persecuted and slaughtered. Despite the fact that the U.S. government once supported the regime, Hussein has been properly characterized as a monster. But under the dictator's iron fist, Christians worshipped openly throughout Iraq and were not treated any worse than Muslims or anyone else.
Anti-Christian violence, prevalent across much of the Middle East, was not tolerated. Almost unprecedented in the entire region's contemporary history: A Catholic, Tariq Aziz, served as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
Even before the United States invaded Iraq, the repercussions of overthrowing a secular dictator in the Middle East were glaringly obvious to analysts — then-President George W. Bush was even warned of the consequences by his own advisors. The public was alerted, too, or at least could have been had citizens taken the time to perform a simple online search. Just a few weeks before American forces invaded, analyst and political-science expert Glen Chancy, a member of the Orthodox Church, wrote a piece explaining exactly what was likely to happen to Christians in the wake of war.
"This may come as a shock to many Americans, whose image of Saddam has been framed by comparisons to Adolf Hitler, but the prevalent fear among Assyrians [Christians], both in Iraq and abroad, is that what comes next after an American invasion will be worse," he wrote. "Should the Assyrians be so concerned about being liberated by U.S. military power? If history is our guide, they shouldn't be afraid. They should be terrified."
Chancy made no effort to hide the murderous and barbaric nature of Saddam's tyranny. But the Iraqi tyrant was brutal to all, and unlike under most Middle Eastern regimes, Christians in Iraq were doing very well. "Saddam's regime has permitted a degree of free practice for Christians that is positively enviable compared to the situations experienced in such U.S. 'allies' as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia," he noted. "Christmas and Easter decorations always abound, even in Baghdad, and attending church does not require an act of courage."
After the United States invaded, however, everything changed. "The Assyrians have survived the coming of the Persians, the Arabs, and the Turks," Chancy observed. "It remains to be seen if they will survive the coming of the Americans." Unfortunately, as Chancy and countless other analysts warned, Christians did not fare well. With the fall of Hussein's regime, Islamist militias vented their fury not just on the "infidel" invaders, but on local Christians, too.
Businesses were seized, churches were bombed, women were raped, Sharia law was brutally enforced, and Christians, including women and children, were viciously slaughtered. Muslim extremists throughout the nation and Kurdish nationalists in northern areas — supposedly U.S. allies — all participated in the massacres and persecution.
A year after the U.S. invasion, Chancy's dire warnings had become reality. "In fact, the current policies of the Bush administration are threatening to absolutely devastate ancient and pious Christian communities whose blood will be on all our heads," he observed in late 2004, saying the American people had become accomplices in the slaughter and destruction of large segments of the world's Christian population.
"To deal with the subject honestly, it must be acknowledged that it almost appears as if President George Walker Bush were waging a global war against Christians," he wrote. "Had President George W. Bush set out with the intentional goal of destroying the Christian population in Iraq, it is hard to see how he could have been more effective than he has been to date." That was in 2004.
Since then, the situation has deteriorated further. In October of 2010, for example, Islamic extremists under the banner of the "Islamic State of Iraq" attacked Our Lady of Salvation Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad. More than 50 Christians were murdered including two priests. The same church had already been bombed in 2004.
In August of 2011, a series of apparently coordinated attacks on more than a dozen churches left over 65 dead. In 2006, a 14-year-old boy was reportedly crucified. A priest was also beheaded. Christian women and girls, meanwhile, are also among the victims, being routinely targeted for rape and execution.
The new U.S.-imposed "democracy" remains unable or unwilling to do much about the problem. Perpetrators are rarely brought to justice, and in more than a few cases, officials have been suspected of involvement. The brave Christians who remain in Iraq live in complete terror.
"Why did they come? To do what? They came to give us freedom — the freedom to kill one another," Auxiliary Chaldean Bishop of Baghdad Shelmon Warduni told the Christian relief agency Aid to the Church in Need. Countless senior church figures have expressed similar thoughts in recent years.
"Everybody hates the Christian. Yes, during Saddam Hussein, we were living in peace — nobody attacked us. We had human rights, we had protection from the government. But now, nobody protects us," explained Archbishop Athanasios Dawood of the Syrian Orthodox Church, accusing the U.S. government of making empty promises. "Since 2003, there has been no protection for Christians. We've lost many people and they've bombed our homes, our churches, monasteries."
Top Vatican officials have pointed to the tragedy facing Christians in Iraq as well. After blasting the "pre-emptive" U.S. war as a "crime against peace" before the invasion began, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue Jean-Louis Tauran noted in a 2007 interview that Christians, "paradoxically, were more protected under the dictatorship."
Even the U.S. government's own research confirms the ongoing tragedy. "In Iraq, members of the country's smallest religious minorities suffer from targeted violence, threats, and intimidation, against which the government does not provide effective protection," noted the USCIRF in its 2011 annual report. "These violations are systematic, ongoing and egregious, and perpetrators are rarely identified, investigated, or punished, creating a climate of impunity."
In fact, beyond failing to protect Christians, the new regime installed by Western forces is actually part of the problem. "The smallest minorities also experience a pattern of official discrimination, marginalization, and neglect," the report stated. "The violence, forced displacement, discrimination, marginalization, and neglect suffered by members of these [Christian and other minority] groups threaten these ancient communities' very existence in Iraq."
Analysts debate the causes of Christianity's virtual extermination in Iraq under U.S. military occupation. Some say the American government was not prepared to deal with the situation. Others contend that it simply had other priorities and was not sufficiently concerned with the fate of Christians and minority groups.
International relations and geopolitics analyst Lee Jay Walker, for example, wrote in the Seoul Times that "the destruction of Christianity in Iraq is taking place because of misguided American policies and because the Christian community is not deemed to be important." No matter the reason, however, it is undeniable that Christians in Iraq have suffered tremendously as a direct result of U.S. foreign policy.
Meanwhile, the purpose of the war — WMDs, terror, democracy, freedom? — remains as elusive as ever. But the constitution of Iraq, imposed with Western assistance, has come under fire from around the globe. "Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation," it states. "No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established." The document also enshrines big-government control over healthcare, education, employment, housing, and virtually every other sector.
As in Iraq, the history of Christianity in Afghanistan is believed to go back almost 2,000 years. According to numerous sources, the apostle Thomas set out for the region and preached the Gospel throughout several areas that are now part of modern-day Afghanistan and India. The so-called "Church of the East" thrived in the region for almost 1,000 years until the arrival of strict Islamism in the 13th and 14th centuries resulted in the destruction of churches and the attempted eradication of Christianity. Still, a small remnant of Christians is believed to have survived in Afghanistan over the centuries.
The Afghan Taliban — largely armed and trained in the 1970s and 1980s by the U.S. government and its allies — was brutal when it finally seized power, especially to Christians. Once the coalition of Islamic extremists took over Kabul, it destroyed churches and viciously sought to stamp out Christianity. But despite the persecution, a sort of "underground" church continued to exist throughout the group's murderous reign.
According to the U.S. State Department, the hidden Christian minority inside Afghanistan is estimated at between 500 and 8,000 adherents. Other estimates place the number even higher, but it is impossible to know — publicly admitting to be a Christian would be a death sentence. Thousands more live as exiles outside of the country.
Incredibly, since the U.S. occupation began in 2001, experts say the situation for Christians in Afghanistan has not only failed to improve — it may have actually become worse. Even regular Afghans now associate Christians with the widely unpopular foreign occupation. And the new government is openly hostile to Christianity, which is, for all intents and purposes, illegal.
Meanwhile, the Taliban continue to rule over vast swaths of the nation, waging "jihad" against any Christians they may discover — foreign or domestic. Plus, the Obama administration is desperately seeking to negotiate with the group in a bid that could see it eventually restored to power. Hardly encouraging to U.S. troops or local Christians.
Finally, the last remaining public Christian church in Afghanistan was demolished in 2010. Apparently the courts refused to uphold Christians' claim to the property. And the U.S.-backed regime has not issued a single new building permit for churches.
Open Doors' 2012 World Watch List, a yearly ranking of the worst regimes in terms of Christian persecution, ranked Afghanistan as number two, up from third place the year before. The only nation worse than Afghanistan was the mass-murdering communist dictatorship ruling North Korea, which, perhaps ironically, also receives significant amounts of aid from the U.S. government. Saudi Arabia came in third.
For Afghanistan too, official U.S. entities acknowledge the tragic situation. "The government's level of respect for religious freedom in law and in practice declined during the reporting period, particularly for Christian groups and individuals," noted the 2010 State Department Religious Freedom report almost a decade after U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan and overthrew the government. That decline came after President Obama's military "surge," too.
"Negative societal opinions and suspicion of Christian activities led to targeting of Christian groups and individuals, including Muslim converts to Christianity," the report noted. "The lack of government responsiveness and protection for these groups and individuals contributed to the deterioration of religious freedom."
In its 2011 report, the USCIRF reported similar findings. "Conditions for religious freedom remain exceedingly poor for minority religious communities and dissenting members of the majority faith [Islam], despite the presence of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan for almost 10 years and the substantial investment of lives, resources, and expertise by the United States and international community," it noted, adding that even the government was prosecuting people for such "crimes" as apostasy and blasphemy. "The 2004 Afghan constitution has effectively established Islamic law as the law of the land."
The new Afghan constitution, imposed with help from the U.S. government, states that "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam" — Islam being the "official" religion of Afghanistan. And because certain interpretations of the Koran call for executing those who leave Islam, the few remaining Christians live under permanent threat of martyrdom at the hands of the U.S. government-backed regime or the Taliban, America's former ally.
After a media broadcast showed Afghans being baptized, U.S.-backed "President" Hamid Karzai vowed to hunt down the new Christians. Some 20 people were reportedly arrested. A series of official prosecutions of Christians and converts has indeed helped shine the international spotlight on the issue — putting global pressure on the regime to back down in a few cases. But converts like Sayed Mussa, for example, have been imprisoned, raped, tortured, and prosecuted for their faith in Christ. Mussa and others like him were facing the death penalty, but massive global outcries may have saved their lives.
Of course, the U.S.-subsidized persecution has not gone unnoticed. Some American officials have even complained. "We cannot justify taxpayer dollars going to a government that allows the same restrictions on basic human rights that existed under the Taliban," charged Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) in a letter to then-U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry. So far, however, it appears that little has changed.
Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi was brutal to opponents, but his regime was largely secular in nature. The vast majority of his victims — especially in recent years — were hardline Islamic extremists seeking to overthrow his government and install a theocracy. The notorious al-Qaeda affiliate known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), for example, was a top enemy of Gadhafi and, until recently, the U.S. government.
As in most Islamic-dominated societies, Christians did face restrictions. Evangelizing to Muslims, for example, was mostly prohibited. But Gadhafi was not normally openly hostile to the more than 100,000 Christian faithful throughout the nation. In fact, he was actually on very friendly terms with the leader of Coptic Christianity, whom he offered an award in 2003. The tyrant even gave Copts in Libya buildings to use as churches — for free.
Then the war came. The coalition of "rebel" leadership working with Western forces to bring about "regime change" was made up of senior al-Qaeda personnel associated with the LIFG, former Gadhafi officials, members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and other radicals — more than a few of whom publicly boasted of having battled American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. government knew, but helped arm and train them anyway.
As the conflict grew, Christians promptly fled the nation en masse, fearing the worst. A few months into the conflict, Sylvester Magro, the Catholic bishop of Benghazi, told Reuters that his usual flock of around 10,000 had been reduced to a few hundred. A Coptic priest said his congregation declined from more than 1,000 to about 40. It remains unclear how many might return.
But thousands of black Christians and members of other non-Muslim communities — mostly migrant workers — were trapped inside Libya between the warring factions. And they paid dearly. Observers called the persecution of blacks "ethnic cleansing" and even "genocide." Thousands faced rape, torture, and execution. More recently, footage emerged of blacks in a cage being forced to eat flags as Libyan Islamists taunted them. After the U.S. government- and NATO-backed rebels took over, the al-Qaeda flag even flew over the rebel headquarters in Benghazi.
Meanwhile, as analysts warned, the war on Libya also offered unprecedented amounts of military weaponry to al-Qaeda and assorted radical Islamists — missiles, machine guns, and much more. And now, according to officials and reports, those heavy weapons are being turned on Christians and others throughout the region.
For now, the situation in Libya remains highly uncertain and volatile. While the "new" Libya — if the Western-backed regime manages to cling to power amidst ongoing chaos and battles — will be governed by strict sharia law, senior officials have promised to respect minorities. Whether that will be the case, however, is still unclear. Most analysts don't believe it.
And so far, the trend is less than encouraging. As rebels marched into Tripoli, for example, Saint George's Church — the oldest Orthodox church in North Africa, dating back to 1647 — was ransacked and desecrated. Meanwhile, Christians who imported Christian literature were imprisoned. And in March, heavily armed Islamists desecrated the Christian graves of fallen Italian and British World War II veterans in Benghazi, smashing crosses and headstones with a sledge hammer. "This is a grave of a Christian," one of the men says in a video of the incident posted online. The new regime apologized, but around the world, people were outraged.
Consider, too, that the new Libyan government is pursuing "integration" with the neighboring regime in Sudan, officially designated by the U.S. State Department as a "state-sponsor" of terror. (Ironically, the U.S. government is also supplying aid and training to that regime's "security" apparatus.) The brutal socialist-Islamic dictatorship in Sudan, led by mass-murderer and indicted war criminal Omar Al-Bashir, has reportedly massacred millions of people — mostly Christians and members of various animist sects. In March, the regime also announced that it was expelling between 500,000 and 700,000 Christians from the nation by stripping them of their citizenship.
Christianity has existed in Egypt for almost 2,000 years. And today, Coptic Christians represent about 10 percent of the nation's population. But for the ancient minority community, recent developments have hardly been positive. In fact, hundreds of thousands of Copts have already been forced to flee their homes as mob violence and state-sponsored persecution continue to grow.
Despite the general brutality of Hosni Mubarak, he was a close U.S. ally for decades before he was forced to step down by Western establishment-backed protests and, eventually, President Obama's demands. "Change must take place," Obama said. "My belief is that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now."
But unlike the nation's new U.S.-sponsored rulers, the former tyrant at least tried to protect the Coptic community from radical Islamist terror. Perpetrators were punished, and violence against minorities was not tolerated.
Today, all that has changed. The military junta now in charge, rather than protecting Christians, is actually killing them and allowing them to be killed. After a wave of savage terror attacks against Copts and their churches rocked the nation, the new regime refused to take action. So Christians decided to protest the attacks and the lack of protection offered by authorities.
Activists marched to the state-run TV station in Cairo, chanting and demanding reforms. Instead of protection, however, the military regime responded with brute force. "Security" forces mowed down hundreds of Christian protesters with guns and tanks, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more. "The Copts are being persecuted by the state," priest Sila Abd al-Nour was quoted as saying during a ceremony mourning the victims.
And again, the U.S. government — which sends over a billion in "security" assistance to Egypt every year, and will continue to do so despite recent developments — knows very well what is going on. "Since February 11 [2011, when Hosni Mubarak stepped down], military and security forces have reportedly used excessive force and live ammunition in targeting Christian places of worship and Christian demonstrators," noted the USCIRF's report last year.
Of course, Egypt is an entirely different situation than Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. But while U.S. armed forces did not participate directly in the removal of America's former ally, the federal government is known to have played a large role in his ouster. American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the U.S. embassy in Cairo was well aware of the"regime change" operation being planned, and even provided key training and support for its leaders at taxpayer expense. When some of the "activists" were arrested by the Mubarak regime, American officials demanded they be set free. And, according to Egyptian prosecutors, an assortment of U.S. government-funded "Non-Governmental Organizations" (NGOs) continued stirring up the unrest even after the "revolution" succeeded.
So-called "pro-democracy" groups funded by American taxpayers — the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and Freedom House — were very active in Cairo until Egyptian authorities finally cracked down. "The United States and Israel could not create a state of chaos and work to maintain it in Egypt directly, so they used direct funding to organizations, especially American, as a means of implementing these goals," noted Egyptian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Aboul Naga in official testimony about the criminal charges against the groups' employees.
But even if the tax-funded "NGOs" are taken at their word and were simply "promoting democracy," as they claim, the interference, aside from being unconstitutional, is considered by some analysts to be a travesty. Consider the recent elections: The Muslim Brotherhood and an even more radical Islamist party dominated, taking control of more than 70 percent of the seats in Parliament.
Tunisia suffered a similar fate. And while the Islamist groups surging to power in the so-called "Arab Spring" claim they will support the individual rights of minorities, very few observers are convinced. Islamic law will almost certainly become the new law of the land. And U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill. The Egyptian regime alone is slated to receive about $1.5 billion this year.
Incredibly, despite the unprecedented trail of death and destruction unleashed by recent U.S. government intervention overseas, President Obama, speaking before the UN General Assembly in September, declared that more UN-led wars were needed to ensure peace. He cited Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan as success stories.
Another Obama-backed UN military adventure, while much less well-known around the world, was also cited by the President as a model to emulate in the future: the violent overthrow of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo last year by international forces and local partner militias. "The world refused to look the other way," Obama declared, mistakenly claiming that Gbagbo had lost the election. "The [UN] Security Council, led by the United States, Nigeria, and France, came together to support the will of the people."
The reality of the "regime change" operation, of course, bears little resemblance to the picture painted by Obama. Vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing resulted in the nation's Constitutional Council declaring incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo the election winner. And that was supposed to be the final word, at least according to Ivorian law.
But instead of respecting the nation's constitutional system, Obama, France, and the UN decided to invade. Partnering with local Muslim militias, international forces dropped bombs and marched to the capital to arrest President Gbagbo, a Christian — slaughtering and raping tens of thousands of Christians along the way. Many fleeing Christians were hacked to death with machetes. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) called the UN- and Obama-backed campaign "a reign of terror."
The international coalition and its militias on the ground then installed a Muslim central banker named Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast's new ruler. But despite the impression given by Obama in his speech, critics say the campaign was an illegitimate and bloody disaster that should never have happened. But it will not be the last. During Obama's UN speech, he praised the wars and demanded more international military intervention. The two countries in the crosshairs now: Iran and Syria.
After decades of U.S. meddling in Iran that included a CIA-orchestrated coup d'état and variously backing both sides during the Iran-Iraq war (including giving Hussein WMDs and facilitating secret illegal weapons sales to the Iranian regime), Western powers are at it again. There is already a covert war going on against Iran that involves the use of terror and assassinations. But much of the Western-backed dirty work is being carried out by the officially designated "foreign terrorist organization" known as the -Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Islamo-Marxist group that has murdered more than a few senior American military officials and countless civilians.
Christians (at least those who did not convert from Islam) and Jews in Iran are currently allowed to worship relatively freely. But if Western "regime change" through overt military force does arrive, that would almost certainly change. There are currently almost 500,000 Christians in Iran, and experts say a Western invasion or military campaign would — like it did in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya — put them in grave jeopardy.
In Syria, the Western-backed "regime change" campaign is already underway, too. Indeed, the situation there bears striking resemblances to some elements of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Libya. As in Iraq before the American invasion, the Socialist Ba'th Party rules over Syria with an iron fist. But Christians in Syria are better off than almost anywhere in the region, often serving in top government jobs, from Ambassadors to senior law--enforcement officials. Despite the ongoing strife and relatively new wave of Islamist attacks on Christians, Syria remains, according to Christian leaders and analysts, one of the final refuges of Christianity in the region.
"Syria has been very much a safe haven for Christians in the Middle East, one of the few Arab countries where they were treated with respect and had equality with the Muslim majority. Syria also has a history of welcoming in persecuted Christians from other countries," noted Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, international director of the Barnabas Fund, a non-profit group that supports persecuted and oppressed Christians. "But I greatly fear that within the near future we will see a new Iraq developing in Syria."
Christians who fled in droves to Syria from Iraq in the wake of the U.S. invasion are now faced with the prospect of death and persecution there as Western governments, led by the Obama administration, join forces with al-Qaeda to oust Assad in a scenario reminiscent of the underhanded war on Libya. The Western and Islamist alliance, along with the Turkish regime — which is becoming increasingly Islamist as it continues to deny its mass murder of Christians over the last century — have been working with the so-called "Syrian National Council," a coalition of opposition groups that is largely dominated by the Marxist-inspired Muslim Brotherhood and other extremists. And Christians throughout Syria fear that, if Assad falls, Islamists will take over, and Christianity will be brutally wiped out there, too.
Refugees and Reason
Even as U.S. policies continue to lead to massacres of Christian communities throughout the Middle East, members of those communities are having a difficult time escaping the destruction. "Christians are being refused refugee status and face persecution and many times certain death for their religious beliefs under ... sharia, while whole Muslim communities are entering the US by the tens of thousands per month despite the fact that they face no religious persecution," noted Pamela Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and of Stop Islamization of America.
But how could the situation have become so dire? While not all analysts agree, at the very least, it has become clear that the fate of Christians and Christianity is low on the U.S. government's agenda. And without an outcry, that is unlikely to change.
"Fundamentally, United States policies in the Middle East have never placed a significant priority on the conditions of indigenous Christians or the threats they have been up against just for being Christian. There is an ingrained culture in Washington's foreign policy establishment that prefers to avoid addressing the existential phobias of the region's Christians," noted author Habib Malik, a professor of history and cultural studies at the Lebanese American University. "These beleaguered Christian communities have become marginalized in American strategic thinking and hence expendable next to larger and more pressing economic, political, and security interests."
But according to other experts, the fact that U.S. foreign policy is highly detrimental to Christians around the world should come as no surprise. After all, this is the same government that, along with its partners in the media, has been relentlessly seeking to eliminate all vestiges of Christianity from public life in America.
"Our government's policies in the Middle East are a reflection of our government's policies at home. The war on Christianity in public life here at home in the schools and courthouses is manifested in the Middle East with the destruction of Christianity in the nations where we have been interfering," said CEO Art Thompson of The John Birch Society, citing Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and other nations. But the continuing destruction of Christians and Christian culture is often impelled by forces beyond a particular U.S. administration, even beyond the U.S. government.
"Likewise, the domestic policies of people in the federal government who are connected to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) moving us toward domestic socialism are reflected in the Middle East with CFR-connected organizations financed by the federal government interfering in Middle Eastern politics with disastrous results, with Egypt being the prime example," Thompson added. "The rise of militant Islam is nothing more than a rise of socialism under a different title."
"I do not believe that our fighting men and women had this in mind when they committed themselves to combat," noted Thompson. "Instead of freedom, the aftermath is totalitarianism and less security for the people of all religions." Indeed, polls show U.S. troops are quickly losing confidence in Obama and the wars.
As predicted by innumerable experts, imposing "democracy" in Muslim-majority countries has been a disaster for Christians. Asked for an example of U.S. foreign policy benefiting Christians, a senior official with the USCIRF could not name one. Christianity has managed to survive in the Middle East for 2,000 years without U.S. government intervention. But if current trends continue, the religion of Christ could very well be eradicated in the region of its birth within the next few decades. And unfortunately, America will bear at least part of the responsibility.


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There's a lot of "he's not that good any longer" talk going about these days. Therefore:
From here. Also, when Argentina wins the World Cup in a couple of months' time it'll all be forgotten.
There's a lot of "he's not that good any longer" talk going about these days. Therefore:
The whole of part two of the double album Aerial, subtitled 'A(n Endless) Sky Of Honey'
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"4) Uranium won't break $40/lb at any point and the sector will continue to get the rah-rah from the promo people still holding their large bags. "
Here's a chart for gold holdings in GLD (the bullion ETF) in 2014:
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...and I'm looking at this from the Augusta Resource Corp (AZC) (AZC.to) news release this evening..."The EPA does not determine appropriate mitigations, this is the ACOE's responsibility.Rosemont has developed a comprehensive environmental, social and cultural mitigation program with detailed monitoring and reporting protocols to address the concerns and requirements of numerous agency and permit requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act 404 processes.This mitigation program addresses, and goes well beyond, the EPA's comments on the approximately 65 acres of direct and indirect impacts to dry washes and waters of the US that are under review by the Army Corp of Engineers for the 404 jurisdictional mitigation."
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"In a disturbing development in the telecommunications reform, the President and the Secretary of the Interior will have the power to censor Internet communications, including email, Twitter, Facebook messaging and others.
"In this trend, censorship poses as modernization; and dictatorial control, as democracy."
Regarding the "Well in fact BTO's numbers kinda sucked" post from yesterday:
Just in case you were wondering:
Scotia on ABX/NEM today:
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