Rescuers work at the site of a train derailment, about 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Moscow.

 The ‘Nevsky Express’ train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed killing dozens of people and injuring dozens more in Tver Region, Russia, on November 28, 2009.

 Four cars derailed.

A bomb attack caused the crash, which killed up to 39 people and injured nearly 130.

The health minister said that the 18 people listed as missing after the incident had not been located in the three car that went off the tracks.

    In August 2007, an explosion derailed the same express train on the same railroad line, injuring 60 people. An investigation into that attack continues, with the main suspect still being sought by authorities.

    The disaster has fueled fears of a rise in terrorist attacks outside Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region. Russia was hit hard by terrorism in the 1990s and the early years of this decade, but there had been no major incident outside the North Caucasus region since 2004. 

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/29/content_12557383.htm

Un político filipino es encausado por la masacre de 57 personas

Asia

Masacre filipina: se entrega sospecho

BBC Mundo

Andal Ampatuan junior se declara inocente, pero se ha puesto a disposición de las autoridades.

Las fuerzas de seguridad filipinas confirmaron que un miembro prominente del clan sospechado de organizar la masacre política en la isla de Mindanao, que dejó al menos 57 muertos, se encuentra en poder de las autoridades.

Un oficial del ejército filipino indicó que el hombre, alcalde regional y miembro de la poderosa familia Ampatuan, se puso a disposición a pesar de que niega estar involucrado en los asesinatos.

Como explica la corresponsal de la BBC en la región, Rachel Harvey, Andal Ampatuan junior fue trasladado a Manila a bordo de un helicóptero militar, en momentos en que crece la presión sobre el gobierno para que se haga justicia.

Hasta este miércoles las autoridades no habían señalado oficialmente a ningún sospechoso, pero la policía investigaba al clan Ampatuan, que ayudó a asegurar los votos a favor de la actual presidenta Arroyo en elecciones pasadas.

La masacre se produjo el lunes en la zona de Maguindanao, cuando las víctimas -la mayoría mujeres- viajaban para presentar los documentos de la postulación de un político local de oposición, Ismael Mangudadatu, de cara a los comicios de mayo.

Mangudadato, quien no se encontraba en el convoy, acusó a los Ampatuan de estar vinculados a los pistoleros y de haber planeado la emboscada con antelación.

Vínculos políticos

La organización de derechos humanos Human Rights Watch expresó su preocupación sobre la estrecha relación que hay entre el gobierno y los Ampatuan, pues podría dificultar que la investigación sea imparcial.

El gobierno filipino ha declarado luto nacional por las víctimas de Mindanao.

No obstante, la presidenta Arroyo ha prometido en varias oportunidades que se hará justicia.

“Esta no es una simple contienda entre clanes rivales. Esto es un acto inhumano que es una ruina para nuestra nación”, le dijo a una televisión local el portavoz de la presidencia Cerge Remonde.

“La presidenta ha sido muy clara en que aquellas personas responsables, sin importar quienes son, deberían ser presentadas ante la justicia”, agregó el vocero el miércoles.

Varios analistas indican que la familia Ampatuan es la que ha estado a cargo de la provincia Maguindanao durante décadas.

Andal Ampatuan padre fue miembro del Congreso de Filipinas y ganó sin oposición la gobernación de la provincia en varias oportunidades.

Su hijo, Andal Ampatuan junior, tenía planeado ganar la silla de la gobernación de la misma forma que sus padres, hasta que Ismael Mangudadatu decidió lanzarse como candidato.

Al menos otros tres hijos de Ampatuan son alcaldes en Maguindanao. La mayoría de ellos tienen su fuerza de seguridad privada.

POACHERS see this rhino as their way to get rich quick – for its horn is now worth more than gold for the first time in a decade.

SECOND UPDATE: NUJP’s final  list of media casualties at the end of the article.

Someone on Facebook asked why people — we journalists, specifically — are saying, “Stop killing journalists” when it should, under the circumstances, be, “Stop killing” – period. That made me think, and I had to admit to myself that in the current case (the “Maguindanao massacre” or, as some colleagues insist, the “Ampatuan massacre” since it happened in the town of Ampatuan), we should really be condemning the fact that innocent people, regardless of their professions, were killed in such a gruesome manner.

If anything, the cry ought to be, “Stop killing women” since many of the victims, including two lawyers and a number of reporters, were women. Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu had tasked his wife Genalyn as well as two sisters of his to go to the Commission on Election (Comelec) office in Shariff Aquak to file his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for governor. He had thought that the people who had threatened to harm him if he insisted on filing his candidacy would be good Muslims and not touch the women, but he was wrong.

The killers disregarded the Koranic injunction not to harm women and proceeded to slaughter them; according to some reports, the women were even raped before they were killed. Just how barbaric the killings were were articulated by Vice Mayor Mangudadatu himself, who said his wife was “shot in the mouth, her eyes pierced, her breasts also shot, her legs mutilated, and her private part slashed four times.”

I’ve heard some people blame the vice mayor for the women’s deaths because he had deliberately placed them in harm’s way, but really, who would have thought the killers would be so inhuman? Mangudadatu had obviously intended to confound his enemies by using women as his emissaries to the Comelec, but the beasts responded by doing the unthinkable.

The vehicle of UNTV. Photo courtesy of Dann Pantoja of Peacebuilders Community, Inc.

Unfortunately, the unthinkable was also done to reporters who were brought in to cover the filing of Mangudadatu’s COC. It was an event — after all, he was going to go up against the acknowledged leader of Maguindanao — and as such the journalists were there on legitimate coverage. The vice mayor had also obviously thought his enemies would not try anything because the media were watching, but he was wrong.

If the alleged witness in the carnage is to be believed, then the journalists were also killed “so that no one would talk about the incident.” Which brings me back to the Facebook user’s comment I had mentioned at the beginning of this article. Why do we say “Stop killing journalists,” as if journalists were the only victims of the massacre? I am not justifying it, but I need to say that as a profession, journalists are one of the most targeted groups in the Philippines for attacks. The latest data from the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) show that 104 journalists have been killed since 1986. The worst part is that practically none of the killings have been solved — not to the extent that the masterminds, not just the paid gunmen, were caught and imprisoned.

This is the fear that we journalists have in the Maguindanao massacre. Government claims there will be no sacred cows in the investigation and that the perpetrators will be brought to justice, but we have heard the same thing before. So far, justice has eluded our fallen colleagues.

Photo courtesy of Dann Pantoja of Peacebuilders Community, Inc.

While it may be said that justice eludes everyone in this country, it is especially troublesome if  media are the victims because attacks on our profession are attacks on democracy itself. We are not special by any stretch of the imagination, and we do not enjoy privileges that other people are deprived of. What we are are practitioners of a freedom that all of us are supposed to enjoy but are all too often prevented from doing so. If we are free to speak, then the rest of the country is free. But if we are muzzled, censored, threatened, executed, or summarily killed, everyone’s freedom of expression is compromised. And when freedom of expression is compromised, then our very democracy is in danger.

So we continue to say, “Stop killing journalists” — not because we are the only victims, but because each journalist’s death is a nail driven into the coffin of our freedom and democracy.

Photo by Rene B. Lumawag

UPDATE:

Final tally according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP):

1. Adolfo, Benjie, Gold Star Daily, Koronadal City
2. Araneta, Henry, Radio DZRH, General Santos City
3. Arriola, Mark Gilbert “Mac-Mac,” UNTV, General Santos City
4. Bataluna, Rubello, Gold Star Daily, Koronadal City
5. Betia, Arturo, Periodico Ini, General Santos City
6. Cabillo, Romeo Jimmy, Midland Review, Tacurong City
7. Cablitas, Marites, News Focus, General Santos City
8. Cachuela, Hannibal, Punto News, Koronadal City
9. Caniban, John, Periodico Ini, General Santos City
10. Dalmacio, Lea, Socsargen News, General Santos City
11. Decina, Noel, Periodico Ini, General Santos City
12. Dela Cruz, Gina, Saksi News, General Santos City
13. Doheilo, Eugene, UNTV, General Santos City
14. Duhay, Jhoy, Gold Star Daily, Tacurong City
15. Gatchalian, Jun, Davao City
16. Legarte, Bienvenido, Jr., Prontiera News, Koronadal City
17. Lupogan, Lindo, News Media Gazette, Davao City
18. Maravilla, Ernesto “Bart,” Bombo Radyo, Koronadal City
19. Merisco, Rey, Periodico Ini, Koronadal City
20. Momay, Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay, Midland Review, Tacurong City
21. Montaño, Marife “Neneng,” Saksi News, General Santos City
22. Morales, Rosell, News Focus, General Santos City
23. Nuñez, Victor, UNTV, General Santos City
24. Perante, Ronnie, Gold Star Daily correspondent, Koronadal City
25. Parcon, Joel, Prontiera News, Koronadal City
26. Razon, Fernando “Rani,” Periodico Ini, General Santos City
27. Reblando, Alejandro “Bong,” Manila Bulletin, General Santos City
28. Salaysay, Napoleon, Mindanao Gazette, Cotabato City
29. Santos, Gatchalian, Davao City (media affiliation not known)
30. Subang, Ian, Socsargen Today, General Santos City
31. Teodoro, Andres “Andy,” Central Mindanao Inquirer, Tacurong City

Additional name from UNTV:
1. Evardo, Jolito

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If the La Basse is a big rubbish heap, soon it will be a heap of bodies if this damn Gov’nt don’t do anything about educating the youth, uplifting the poor and putting away criminals for life. 

Useless National Security Minister, Martin Joseph

In the US and other countries, 18 yrs old is an adult.  I hope this 17 yr old and this 18 yr old gets charged like adults fo the senseless killing of a fellow schoolmate (not same school, but gosh, they all still in secondary school).

I don’t know if it’s the music that promotes casual sex, gang war between “Gaza & Gully“  or baby mamas, but we all know it isn’t as easy as that and not at all fair for artists who DO come from that way of life and are jut reflecting on it.  It’s poor parenting, a Gov’nt who is too busy spending money on buildings than the youth and an Education system that needs better measures in place so that they can pull quality teachers who will influence their students in positivity. 

Jah know what we need and at this point, is only Jah who can show us the way.  I can’t even say this is rubbish..it’s more like tragedy.

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Here is a video with some graphic footage by Jane Goodall Institute about the Bushmeat trade.

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I don’t know what kind of people are those who perpetrated the senseless killing of women and innocent victims. I don’t know if those people who killed journalists whose only reason to be there was to inform the public have hearts and soul? They could do things more than what the devil could do; rape and kill women just to sow fear and send a message to their political rivals–don’t go against us.

Politics, political rivalry nothing else is the reason behind the Maguindanao Massacre according to media practitioners, political analysts, law enforcers, and ordinary citizens. Why?

A portion from abs-cbnNEWS.com report yesterday has this to say:

Buluan vice mayor Ismael “Toto” Mangudadatu told ANC that his wife, Jenn, his sister, and some relatives were on their way to file a certificate of candidacy on his behalf when a group of about 100 armed men abducted them.

Mangudadatu, who is running for governor of Maguindanao, said some 15 media men who went to cover the event were also seized.

The Mangudadatus believe the abduction was politically motivated. Madaser “Toy” Mangudadato, a member of regional legislative assembly of ARMM, told ANC that they sent their female relatives to file the certificate of candidacy for “Toto” in the hope that their political rivals would not harm them.

Toy said they were warned that if Toto will personally file his candidacy, he will be hurt

Meanwhile president Arroyo declared a state of emergency in Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat to prevent further blood-shed. “There is an urgent need to prevent and suppress the occurrence of several other incidents of lawless violence,” according to Press Secretary Cerge Remonde. This (indefinite state of emergency) will give the military and police adequate powers of arrest and detention for peace and justice.

On the other hand senators who have been very critical to this administration expressed concern of possible whitewash on the massacre as those suspected to have to have masterminded the crime are closest allies of the president. So they dare the president to go after her political allies the Ampatuans. But Malacanang however assured the public that there’s going to be no sacred cow to be spared in the investigation. All of the suspected perpetrators will be brought to justice to answer for their crime.

As of this writing, 24 more bodies have been recovered by the authorities in the area and that the massacre toll already rose to 46.

The entire nation is watching, the world is observing us, the president has no other prerogative but to arrests the perpetrators including those political leaders suspected of masterminding it. At this time when president Arroyo’s acceptability rating is plunging down to the lowest, her resolve perhaps to run after these ruthless killers and lock them behind bars may help in any way reverse public’s negative perception of her administration.

Perhaps before her term ends, at least the public will be aware that the president has done one great thing in her country in the dispensation of justice for those senselessly killed.

“When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood” Sam Ewing

I realized when thinking about the subject matter of this blog that it would have been much easier had I chosen the opposite title, “what I miss least about Lebanon”. That would have been quite concise as an article. Where to begin listing what one likes about one’s home. How do you quantify nostalgia for a place you spent your adult life running away from? How do you verbalize intense longing for streets where you ran as bullets ricocheted on your way to and from a shelter. Is it possible to have an intense feeling of loss when not living in a place where one saw death at a young age, senseless death of friends, in a war one understood nothing of, and lived through like a spectator forced to experience the whole drama. But that is not the part that springs to my mind when Lebanon is mentioned. I drift to thoughts of friendships, too strong to be waned by distance and time.

I think of the music, going out to dance, and then seriously and wholeheartedly dance till dawn, going for an after party breakfast before heading home, laughing and recounting the events of the night with a friend, and waking up a few hours later to go to work or university or whatever people do when they are not partying. Living life to the full was a fact we all accepted as the antidote to the horrors that were happening around us. You had to live it up, even if you died trying. A few of our friends did, die trying. I got kidnapped trying. With a group of friends, now scattered all over the world. They are forever my partners in that adventure, we cemented our friendship when we said goodbye to each other in that dark night in Beirut, battles raging around us, at a moment we were certain we were going to get shot. I appreciated that night what sheep must have felt when led to the slaughter. Not unlike us that night, they adopt a resigned attitude, they accept the eventuality of it all. I don’t miss that part of life in Beirut.

I miss the humanity that unites friends being kidnapped together and saying goodbye to each other, accepting the destiny that was to unite them. In a moment of survival instinct that night, I blew it. I went to one of our kidnappers, and asked him if he would let us three girls go free and take our two male friends instead. I didn’t think of what I was asking, I just wanted not to be raped by the horribly smelly men with beards who were threatening to kill us. My two friends who I offered as a hostage in our place remind me of what I said until now. One of them is still my best friend, and I love him dearly, but I could have lost him if the heavens did not intervene to keep the five of us together with the gruff men, who turned out to be after our money and jewelry at the end of the day.

with my cool bro, who takes me out to the best clubs in Lebanon

I loved my life in Beirut at all times, the good and the bad, the sense of recklessness that defined everything we did, defying death many times, and having a warped sense of who we were, and how oblivious we were to our insignificance in the grand scheme of things. How expandable we were back then, the very definition of collateral damage. I still miss Lebanon despite everything. There is more to reminisce about in future entries, but this experience came to mind tonight and had to be recounted. Maybe because I spoke to one of my kidnap adventure friends when I was recently in New York, and how happy I was to hear his voice. You rock, Arian Doc. Thanks for teasing me about my brainlessness that night, my humanity is strengthened each time we talk about it.

Associated Press……Belgium’s Rom Houben uses his touchscreen and assistance of his speech therapist Linda Wouters to communicate during an interview at the service center at Weyerke in Zolder, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Houben was misdiagnosed for 23 years as being in a coma until a doctor at Liege University discovered three years ago that Houben’s brain was still functioning. Houben was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state following a car crash in 1983. The discovery took place three years ago but only recently came to light, after publication of a study on the misdiagnosis of people with consciousness disorders.
Here’s food for thought…..how many more people have been conscious and alert as their “loved ones” openly discussed pulling the plug or starving their relative to death. Another case of man’s wisdom gone awry. Only God, our Creator, has the right to take a life.

I decided to look into the Nazi Socialist movement in America as I never bothered to look into political views.  So, I went to a few of their websites and ironically, they believe much like the republican party and can’t stand Obama or liberals.

I thought I would start to build a list of things they have in common with the Republican Party since the Republicans have called Obama a Socialist before he took office.

How is the Nazi Socialist Movement in America like the GOP:

1. Both groups claim claim Jesus Christ is Lord (Christians)

2. Both groups spread hate towards liberals

3. Both groups are anti-immigrant and spread hate against these groups

4. Both are against Health Care Reform (Nazi’s even showed up to support Tea Baggers)

5. Both groups spread hate against gays

6. Both claim conservative values

7. Both are against same sex marriage

8. Both groups are racist (Nazi’s are open, GOP attempts to hide their hate and some are not racist).

9. Both groups support invasion of Iraq based on lies and excuse torture

10. Both groups support overthrowing the American government to “take back control of their America”.

11. Both groups demonize liberals, even for doing what is moral and helps others.  Even if it is against immoral behaviors like torture and illegal war killing/war in Iraq.

12. BOTH HATE Obama, primarily because he is black but also because he is a liberal

13. Both groups are overwhelmingly of the white race

14. Both groups work to DIVIDE America (You are with us or you are against us).

Conclusion:  If we compare Obama to the Nazi Socialist Movement and White Supremacist we see that Obama not only IS NOT a fit, but he wouldn’t be welcome in those groups. It is interesting to  note that Obama wouldn’t be welcomed in the GOP either, and he isn’t.

It appears the Republican Christians that want to claim Obama is a Socialist seems to be an almost perfect fit with the Christian Nazi groups.

At least if Obama was a Socialist, he would be more like the Socialist of Denmark or other well run and honest, moral countries.

In fact, the Christian Republicans even invaded a country that was innocent of crimes pinned on them (wmd and ties to 9/11).  The Christian Republicans would have made Hitler proud with their excuses and support for torture.

If we are going to be Socialist, I rather be a good socialist than a Nazi socialist.

11. That’s the number of people I’ve killed since becoming a vampire nearly 4 weeks ago. I don’t think 11 is all that bad. It’s still less than the number of people I’ve slept with. HA! I won’t tell you what that number is, lest you think your “humble narrator” is a slut. (And 10 points to you if you know where that reference comes from.)

Murder happens for all kinds of petty human reasons: jealousy, anger, greed, etc. And then you’ve got serial killers, the biggest idiots of all. They don’t even have a good reason to kill. At least I’ve got a reason. I’m hungry. (What am I supposed to do? Starve to death?)

And it’s not like I kill children or old people. I pick on people my own size (or bigger, in many cases). And if they can’t fight me off, that’s their problem.

The weird thing is, the body of that first guy (the one I killed back in Chicago) was never found. I called Sarah (my old roommate) when I got to Detroit, and sort of casually asked if she’d heard about the murder that happened a few streets over. She got all freaked out, and then emailed me later to say she couldn’t find ANY report of a recent murder in our neighborhood. I said I must’ve been mistaken. But it worries me. I killed someone and stupidly left them in an alley. Why wasn’t the body ever found?

Yet another religious ritual where thousands of Hindu devotees flock to a village in Nepal to  sacrifice more than 300,000 animals in a ceremony is about to take place.

Priests are preparing for the slaughter of more than 15,000 buffaloes and 300,000 birds, goats and sheep during the event, which starts Tuesday and is thought to be the biggest ritual sacrifice anywhere in the world.

Every five years, the village of Bariyapur, near Nepal’s southern border with India, hosts this religious festival dedicated to Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power.

I wonder, I guess if they don’t torture the animals and then actually eat them after the fact, then it wouldn’t be much different than what we do all around the world to survive.  However, we don’t do it for religious reasons and I’m not sure if they are allowed to eat the meat the sacrifice to their Goddess as then she wouldn’t get to eat it.

I guess that is much better than the Catholic and Christian molesting and marriage of children.  Much better than that Christian “mission from god”  war in Iraq based on “moral” lies and in which God “agreed it was right” to torture.

Well, now that I think about it, that Hindu religion is peaceful compared to the Christians.

by ANDREA McCALLUM

A TEEN who murdered a dad-of-two in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for life.

Thomas Main, 18, kicked and stamped Michael Wood to death in Aberdeen in June this year.

Mr Wood’s face was “smashed” during the attack and he died from his injuries.

Today (Monday) at the High Court in Livingston, thug Main was jailed for life after he previously admitted killing him.

Judge Lord Bracadale said the murder was “unprovoked” and ruled that Main must serve a minimum of 13 years before he can be considered for parole.

Defending, Mark Stewart QC, said Main had left school at an early age and had “drifted” into a life of drink and drugs.

He said: “It was the combination of his taking drink and drugs on the date in question which led to the incident which resulted in the attack and death of Mr Wood.

“There’s nothing which I can say which in any way explains or justifies the assault on Mr Wood – the apology I’m instructed to make will mean little to those affected by Mr Wood’s death.

“There is some understanding of the extremely serious nature of what occurred that day.

“There is some insight reported in the report in to the full extent of what he was responsible for and there is some indication that he understands the consequences of his actions.”

Lord Bracadale said to that the unprovoked attacked on Mr Wood involved Main “forcing” his victim down a flight of stairs and stamping on his head whilst he was unconscious, resulting in his whole face being “smashed in”.

He added: “This was a very serious assault which went on for some time.

“You have previous convictions of assault – one of which involved a weapon – and you were under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

“These are incriminating facts which will increase the length of imprisonment.

“I do take into account you age, that there was no weapon used and it was not pre-meditated.”

Relatives of Mr Wood present in the court room were elated and whispered shouts of joy when Main was handed down his sentence.

Main, was aged just 17 when he kicked 43-year-old Michael Wood “like a ball” so hard it left the distinctive pattern of his shoes imprinted on him during the attack in Balnagask Terrace late on Tuesday 9 June.

Headlock

The court heard previously that dad of two Mr Wood had split from his wife, suffered from an alcohol problem and had been on a binge with friends.

Main, who had five previous convictions for serious violence, had in turn been drinking vodka and Jack Daniels and was described as being “hyper” before he began punching Mr Wood in the face.

In evidence, the court heard previously how Main grabbed the older man in a headlock and during the struggle they both fell down stairs.

Main fell on top of the unconscious Mr Wood, breaking his fall.

But almost as soon as the teenage thug got to his feet again,he started kicking and stamping on Mr Wood’s head.

As he stamped on Mr Wood’s head one witness heard what he described as a ‘big snap’ – but still the attack continued.

Mr Wood was rushed to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after but he died from his injuries.

A Post Mortem examination later revealed his entire face had been “fragmented” with only his jaw bone still intact.

Main initially denied any involvement.

However he later admitted punching Mr Wood and kicking him “like kicking a ball” although claimed he had not meant to kill him.

Police earlier described the assault as a “cowardly and brutal attack on a vulnerable and defenceless man”

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Well, the final exams in my school’s over now, in case you don’t know (which I very much doubt that you do).. But unfortunately, school isn’t over yet, that’s gonna happen in like another, 14 days.. So for the past few mornings I’ve been doing absolutely close to nothing..

But I am glad that the exams are over though.. All that I’ve been ’studying’ for tested in just under three weeks.. Now I must say, although I could have been more prepared for it, it was, in fact not as hard as I thought it was gonna be.. I was expecting those three weeks to end in warm blood red spatter everywhere, where my fellow classmates and would go crazy on seeing the exam papers and start maniacally attempt suicide right there and then like what happen in the muthafucka of all suicide movie ‘The Happening’..

Safe to say, that did not happen (although I did saw a friend of mine nervously taping his legs and sneaking a glance at the door almost everytime an exam was about to start).. Instead, it went by quite well with minimal blood spatter save for some minor paper cuts..

So here I am, blissfully aware that the burden loaded on me throughout the year has been gracefully lifted of my back now that I don’t have to touch any of my school books again..well, at least until school starts again in January.. Then the whole I’d-rather-be-dead-than-trying-to-study-this-whole-load-of-bullshit routine starts all over again.

And here’s where the title of this blog comes in.. Yeah, now that it’s all over, I do have a lot of free time on my hand but most of the time, when I’m not sleeping I have absolutely nothing to do.. My days have been spent with me watching videos on Youtube, listening to music and basically anything that doesn’t involve any outdoor atmosphere *shudders*, heavy lifting, or heavy breathing too…

But I guess it’s true what they say, with great amount of free time comes great chances of you being bored out of your mind..or something like that.. Having to much of a good thing is not always perky, but take it that you know to spend those few extra minutes, or in my case days, you do get some kind of benefit.. Doomed as I may be with these free time, I’m finding time to stop to smell the virtual rose on my desktop background.. Somehow, I’m enjoying stuff that I’ve been neglecting for the past few months, like a good book, or fresh toasted bread for breakfast, and even the sweet melodies of a Beyonce’s song..

But I guess it’s true what they say, with great amount of free time comes great chances of you being bored out of your mind..or something like that.. Having to much of a good thing is not always perky, but take it that you know to spend those few extra minutes, or in my case days, you do get some kind of benefit.. Doomed as I may be with these free time, I’m finding time to stop to smell the virtual rose on my desktop background.. Somehow, I’m enjoying stuff that I’ve been neglecting for the past few months, like a good book, or fresh toasted bread for breakfast, and even the sweet melodies of a Beyonce’s song..

That’s it for me, now excuse me while I go and practice my newest found talent,

dancing to The Pussycat Dolls..

Jacqueline Rose concludes her recent LRB review of Rana Husseini’s Murder in the Name of Honour, Unni Wikan’s In Honour of Fadime, and Ayse Onal’s Honour Killing with the following (the whole review is worthwhile reading):

“By the time I had finished reading these ghastly stories, it was the sisters who for me stood out as the heroines. Not the ones who are lamented too late, but those who survive and go on telling the story. For Wikan, Songül Sahindal is the bravest of them all, taking to the witness stand against the advice of her whole family, who were happy to dismiss her and her evidence as insane – ‘a madwoman’s tale’. Bekhal Mahmod, whose sister Banaz was killed in 2006, was the key prosecution witness at the trial of her father and uncle and the first woman in the UK ever to testify at an honour killing trial. Undercover and in hiding ever since, she continues to speak out on behalf of her dead sister (you can see one of the interviews on YouTube). These sisters’ futures will probably not be public knowledge, although Wikan is optimistic about Songül. But trying to follow them, or perhaps just remembering the difficulty of the lives they are now likely to be living, might be one way to keep the issue at the forefront of our minds, and to hold on to what happens next.” (from Jacqueline Rose, “A Piece of White Silk”, London Review of Books, November 5 2009)

Waste – September 20, 2007

I’m going to

Control you

More and more

You’re falling

Faster

I’ll tear you apart

I’ll break

You down

To your breaking

Point.

I’ll drag you

Closer to

Death.

C’mon,

Slip in my clutches.

No one is

Noticing you

When you’re screaming

Inside, just waiting

For some real help.

Shrinks make it

Worse.

The police are

No better.

Hurry.

Call a doctor

Before you waste away.

Time’s running

Out, Sweetie.

______

Death – September, 2007

Dead.

I’m dead.

I’m feeling dead.

Somehow, I’m feeling dead.

Murder.

Murder me.

Murder me, please.

Someone murder me, please.

Kill.

Kill you.

Kill you soon.

I’ll kill you soon.

_____

Silence – September, 2007

Silence

Loud quiet silence

Footsteps

Falling like leaves on a Fall day

Thumping across the stage

Shock.

She falls dead

Silence

Can kill.

_____

Watching a Fairytale – September, 2007

Blood red

He’s swimming in it

Help

The last word that

Escapes from his lips

Before he falls silent

Forever

_____

These come from the beginning of my freshman year. Looking back, I realize I was not a happy camper. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself that it only gets better from there. Then maybe just five months after these poems were written, I wouldn’t of tried to kill myself so many times. I wouldn’t of been carted off in ambulances every other day. And I wouldn’t of ruined everything I had. From these poems, I remember exactly why I did what I did.. It was a hard life, man. So maybe I should stop bitching about my current life, it’s much better than the old one.

Nah, that's not me, just some fat, obsessed gamer.

The little theme behind this blog says “MMA and other shit”, so today I’m going to post about the shit portion of Hard-BoiledMMA.  I’m one of the millions of people who like videogames, in fact, I love them.  They’re fun as fuck and they make me feel better about myself.  As a former US Marine, I can’t help but be attracted to war games, especially the Call of Duty series.  I played the shit out of Modern Warfare, as well as World at War, and now….it’s onto Modern Warfare TWO, which was recently released on the Marine Corps birthday (Yut!).  This game kicks fucking ass, everything that was wrong with World at War and the first Modern Warfare seems to be fixed, the weapons are cooler, the animations and more fluid, and the maps are much better.  I can’t recommend this game enough to someone who loves the following:

• Killing people
• Shooting guns
• Having fun
• Online

If you’ve got the $60 to spare, and are looking for a new game, get either this or Borderlands, both are worth the cash and should appeal to any gaming dork like myself.

It will be hard for many to believe and impossible for others to accept, but the Holy Bible provides numerous Scriptures telling us that ALL will be SAVED!  I will provide Scriptural evidence to support my claims

It is interesting to note that since I started exposing this Scriptural truth, some time ago, many Christians have sent threatening and hateful emails to include verbal attacks on my family.  Instead of attempting to prove I was wrong, they make personal attacks and thus demonstrate they have no real argument.  God Himself could come and state the words in his Scripture to them personally and they would still deny it is true.

Most of us have been taught the story of Hell Fire and the Second Death, preached by most Christians.  Many of us were told of the unfathomable horror and pain that will be inflected unto us for an eternity, by a Father that loves us with great compassion and forgiveness.  Many of us had it explained to us from birth and throughout life while our minds were impressionable and developing.  At a time where it was easy to manipulate by those we trusted most; our family and their friends in the church.

Do you wonder why Christians would want to brainwash children or others through treats or torture and promises of rewards; thus robbing them of their free will to reason and choose without the constraint of necessity or fate?

“Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience — what they see, hear, think, and believe — will determine the future course for the nation.”

— James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family

Brainwashing children allows others to control them as adults, to build the trust and manipulate in an attempt to have power over future events, religious and political.

Remember the war in Iraq that sent 1000’s of Americans to their needless death for lies of WMD and ties to 9/11.  A war supported and excused by Christians, resulting in the death and suffering of 10’s of thousands?  A war which our Christian President, George Bush, claimed was sanctioned by God and allowed torture to be practiced and excused.

Clearly, if they can mold the minds of children so that one day, as adults, they support any immoral act while demonizing those of us with moral objections (war, killing, torture), they have a strong reasons to deceive (Control, Power).

Why have millions of Christians and non-Chritians read these Scriptures, yet ignored them?  It’s rather simple to understand that once we convince someone, especially a child, that something is true they will likely search for reasons to support their choice as we all have a need to feel we are correct.  To admit we are wrong, especially about something we have believed since

Scripture:

“For this is GOOD and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who WILL Have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (I Tim. 2:3-4).

“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of ALL MEN specially of those that believe” (I Tim. 4:10).

Notice, the word specially (bolded text) in the last verse.  Specially doesn’t not mean exclusively.  That is right, if you were to die this moment and were not a Christian, you will still be SAVED in the end.

If you have read your Scriptures to include the ones I posted above you will see what I state must be true, according to Scripture.  God seems to want to make it clear that he will do what he says he does and the words out of His mount will not return void.

“So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth; it shall NOT return unto me (that would be God again) void, but shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper (you know…bear fruit, benefit, increase, make good…etc) in the thing whereto I sent it” Isa. 55:11.

If you think God is not going to Save ALL men then you just happen to disagree with him.  It is not disagreeing with me, I couldn’t care less what the myth claims it will do or not do.  Just as I couldn’t care less if a tooth fairy left me money for a tooth.

Scripture makes it clear that ALL Will Be SAVED!  Not 10,000 or 10 percent!  ALL!

I will prove why God will and must Save All Men in follow up parts of this series.

Let’s continue with additional evidence and support for my claim:

“I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL (Gk. “the all”) men unto me” (John 12:32).

And

“For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified” (I Cor. 15:22).

And

“The Lord…is not willing that ANY should perish…” (II Peter. 3:9).

Do you think that if the Lord is not willing something will happen, that it will magically happen outside of his will?  That would be impossible based on Scripture.  He stated “my (God’s) Will Be Done”.

And

“To wit that God was in Christ, reconciling THE WORLD unto Himself, NOT imputing  their trespasses against them” (II Cor. 5:19)

And

“And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for our’s only, but also for the sins of THE WHOLE WORLD” (I John 2:2).

And

“That in the name of Jesus every knee will bow, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean, and every tongue should be acclaiming that Jesus Christ is Lord, for the glory of God, the Father” (Phil. 2:10-11).

What happens if in the end time you are acclaiming Jesus Christ is Lord?  The same thing that happens if you do it now; you are SAVED!  Scripture tells us this WILL happen.

This next verse basically gives us the entire story, from beginning to end.  Notice how the word “ALL” is used extensively and how it applies, in context, to “reconcile ALL to Him”.

“Who is the Image of the invisible God, Firstborn of every creature, for in Him is all created, that in the heavens and that on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or sovereignties, or authorities, all is created through Him and for Him, and He is before all, and all has it cohesion in Him. And He is the Head of the body, the ecclesia, Who is Sovereign, Firstborn from among the dead, that in all He may be becoming first, for in Him the entire complement delights to dwell, and through Him to reconcile all to Him making peace through the blood of His cross, through Him, whether those on the earth or those in the heavens” (Col. 1:14-20).

It is apparent that Scripture after Scripture indicates that everyone will one day be saved.  Of course this contradicts what I call the lie of the Christian doctrine but as an agnostic, I don’t actually believe God is real and no matter what Scripture states, it isn’t actually going to happen.  I only present what I view as what is actually taught in Scripture.

Christians are going to hate this next verse I present.  We know that according to Scripture God appointed a day in which He will “Judge” the whole world.  Revelation 20:10 begins the topic of that Day Of Judgement.

Now, we also know that those NOT found in the “book of life” will be put into fire and that they will be tormented.  Some will say I contradict myself at this point but this only shows they are not paying attention.  The fire is NOT literal and will NOT burn literal bodies.

The Judgement in Revelation 20 is the same worldwide judgement spoken of in prophecies but again, it’s purpose is not to torture people by burning them for eternity.

Again, there is a reason for this and there is NO ETERNAL Torture by fire inflected on anyone, that is a complete lie and unScriptural.  According to Scriptures, God burns up the “works of the flesh” and this is of course tormenting.  What comes out of these ashes?  Salvation!

Let me show you what happens when God judges the world in righteousness (according to Scripture):

“For he (that would be God) bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low, even to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust” (Isa. 26:5)

I don’t know about you but it seems pretty clear to me.

“With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when Thy judgments are in the earth, the INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD will learn righteousness” (Isaiah 26:9)!

Are you still with me?

The inhabitants of the WORLD will learn RIGHTEOUSNESS!!  They won’t just hear of it….NO…they will LEARN it.  Scripture makes it clear.

“Look unto me, and be ye SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, EVERY TONGUE SHALL SWEAR” Isa. 45:22-23

“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE … I have spoken it, I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS; I HAVE PURPOSED IT, I WILL ALSO DO IT” (Isa. 46:10-11).

It is important to realize that all of this follows perfectly with the additional posts I plan to provide on the subject of all being saved.  There is a reason ALL will be saved and I will prove it through Scripture. According to Scriptures, Man has no Free Will, any evil he has done is because God planned it to happen at an appointed time.  God created the wicked man that he wants to do evil and God does it all.  The book of Revelation is symbolic and NO human flesh will burn for any amount of time.  None need to fear the Christian lie of a loving God burning billions and billions of his children in a fire of unfathomable pain for an eternity of torture…..out of love, mercy and compassion…haha.

NO, according to Scripture it will not happen and in the next few parts of this series of the Christian Lies, I will expose what I feel (with Scriptural evidence supporting my view) is stated in the Bible.

Did you all catch that?  God apparently believes that if he has spoken it, IT WILL come to pass and HE WILL DO IT!