1. ISIS hacks Anonymous twitter acct. Sends tweets of war horror to all anon followers
2. F/A-18 jets dropped 500-pound laser guided bombs on ISIL
U.S. fighter jets have begun pounding artillery held by the al Qaeda-inspired militants in northern Iraq with laser guided bombs, a senior Defense Department official said Friday.
“At approximately 6:45 a.m. EDT, the U.S. military conducted a targeted airstrike against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists,” Rear Adm. John Kirby, a top Pentagon spokesman said in a statement.
“Two F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Erbil,” Rear Adm. Kirby said. “ISIL was using this artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Erbil where U.S. personnel are located.”
A small clutch of U.S. advisers have been based in the city during recent weeks, assessing the capability of Kurdish forces to defend the region. No other details were immediately provided.
(More here at FOX with video)
3. School bans pig books to avoid offending Muslims
(It is extremely important to view this story in the light of it being a component of a process and not as a static event. Given the timeline of this process where it begins with schools that enjoyed freedom of speech to now, one can assume that full on sharia compliance could be expected in a few years)
A headteacher has defended her decision to ban books which contained stories about pigs from some classes in case it offended Muslims.
The literature has been removed from classes for under-sevens at Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Headteacher Barbara Harris said the books remained in the school library for children to read.
Sixty per cent of the pupils are of Pakistani or Indian origin and 99% of these are Muslims.
Mrs Harris said in a statement released today: “Recently the headteacher has been aware of an occasion where young Muslim children in a class were read stories about pigs.
“This could have caused offence to religious sensitivities.”
4. Child rapists avoid prosecution – by saying SORRY
Fourteen sex offenders dodged the courts AFTER admitting their guilt by apologising to their young victims – all aged under 13.
Astonishingly, they were all dealt with by way of a community resolution – originally designed to dispose of minor offences and yob behaviour.
Resolutions were also used on 14 people who committed GBH with intent, two caught with a knife on school premises and on 86 who willfully neglected a child.
(England appears to be looking at rape of the kufar much as islamic law does. Which is to say that it isn’t a crime but some token might have to be done to stop them from kicking up too much of a fuss)
5. Israel resumes strikes on targets after rocket fire from Gaza
(Is it possible that a Hamas leader saw the play, ‘The Mouse that Roared’ and thought, hey! what a great idea!)
Aug 8, 2014: Smoke rises over Gaza City after an Israeli strike as Israel and Gaza militants resumed cross-border attacks after a three-day truce expired and Egyptian-brokered talks on a new border deal for blockaded Gaza hit a deadlock.AP
Israel resumed strikes on targets in Gaza in response to rocket fire from the area shortly after the expiration of a cease-fire between Israel and the terror group Hamas, Israeli military officials said Friday.
6. An extremely graphic and horrible video of ISIS beheadings of Christians etc.
I am not going to watch or embed it but here is the link.
Also here is a link to Catholic.Org which features photos and videos etc. on the same subject.
Thank you Don C. M., Richard, Maria J. and many more.
I don’t blame you, I couldn’t watch the whole thing.
The still photos are bad enough
CNN – Gingrich: The truth about radical Islam
Obama bombing ISIS because Iran wants him to.
http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/
This makes a lot of sense and gives the minorities a better chance of surviving long enough to find some way out of the middle east.
video – fake victims
LEBANON – Hariri backs patriarchs’ call to stem Iraq’s Christian exodus
[…]The heads of Eastern churches expressed outrage earlier Thursday over the displacement of Christians in north Iraq and appealed to the international community, Arab and Islamic states in particular, to take swift action to stop the jihadist onslaught.
“We call upon the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference, the U.N. Security Council and the International Criminal Court to take swift, effective and immediate salvaging action,” it said. “The United Nations is requested to take a firm decision to ensure the return of the people to their lands by all possible means and in the quickest possible time.”
“We call on all Islamic religious authorities, Sunni and Shiite, to issue clear fatwas forbidding assaults on Christians and other innocent people and their properties,” it added.
In a clear reference to France, which has offered asylum to Iraqi Christians fleeing Mosul, the patriarchs warned that “the situation [in Iraq] is further endangered by European countries that encouraged the emigration of Christians under the pretext of protecting them from killing and terrorism.”
They also called on states that are financing takfiri groups in Iraq and Syria to stop their support immediately, cautioning that terrorism posed a danger to the region and the world.
[…]They condemned Israel’s military onslaught on Gaza, which they blasted as a “crime against humanity,” and called on Israel to lift its siege on the coastal territory.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Aug-08/266434-hariri-backs-patriarchs-call-to-stem-iraqs-christian-exodus.ashx
Pope sends envoy to Iraq to help ousted Christians
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is sending a personal envoy to Iraq to show solidarity with Christians who have been forced from their homes by Islamic militants.
Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the Vatican’s ambassador in Baghdad during the Iraqi war, said Friday that his aim will be to offer spiritual help to those forced to leave their homes.
Details of his trip are still being worked out. Filoni acknowledged in an interview with Vatican Radio that the region is difficult to reach.
Amid new incursions by Islamic militants in Christian villages of northern Iraq, Francis beefed up his call for the international community to take measures to protect Christians from violence. On Friday he tweeted: “Please take a moment to pray for all those who have been forced from their homes in Iraq.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/pope-sends-envoy-to-iraq-to-help-ousted-christians/2014/08/08/7b9bb366-1f29-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html
“West Midlands Police decides which offences are suitable for disposal through community resolutions, with the agreement of the victim and the perpetrator.”
No, no, no the role of the police is to decide to pass to the Citizen Prosecution Service or say “now get on your bike and hoppit”. They decide if it is criminal or not. The punishment is decided by the judiciary. That’s their job. This way the police can’t be bribed. Are they stupid or handled by socialists?
The being handed a fine was the first step in this mixing of one person to be accuser, judge and gaoler.
It encourages this behavior
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2013/88.html
The story is news to me, though I see it shouldn’t have been.
It would certainly save time, trouble, money, grief, mental energy and an awful lot of words not allowing dishonest WABs and ‘flamboyant’ JADs into the country in the first place.
REUTERS – RAW – White House: U.S. ready to support “inclusive” government in Iraq against threat of ISIL
VICE NEWS – Grooming Children for Jihad: The Islamic State (Part 2)
U.S. Air Operations Carried Out Over Iraq
CNN – W.H. details goals of latest Iraq mission
Iraq official: Militants hold 100s of Yazidi women
The spokesman for Iraq’s human rights ministry says hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by militants from the Islamic State group.
Kamil Amin says the women are below the age of 35 and some are being held in schools in Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul. He said the ministry learned of the captives from their families.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. Amin’s comments were the first Iraqi government confirmation that some women were being held by the group. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iraq-official-militants-hold-100s-yazidi-women
Forgive another of my simplistic knowledge questions:
What’s this “Anonymous” business all about?
Anonymous is a little like WikiLeaks and a few other groups that started out with great ideas and excellent principles. Sort of, ‘activist Wikipedia’ model if you like.
Anyway Anonymous was a group of hackers that decided to make a loose coalition of people unknown even to each other that anyone could join and attack bad people. Of course, it didn’t take long till the Govt of Iran started making Anonymous videos and attacking Israel and so on and so on and so on.
I personally hate them as they are overall cyber-vigilantes who, from what I have seen, mostly attack undeserving people. I have made a few ‘Anonymous videos myself to mock these guys. But having said that, some of the original people are actually highly competent hackers and some of them have very good principles and do go after truly horrific people and organizations. Most of the videos I see however are banal and not very intelligent.
This is one I made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0xLw65zO0
And then later I did one which actually got a lot of attention from Anonymous twitter feeds, one which was recently hacked by ISIS and for which they had to apologize. An irony that I don’t know quite how to react to. Its like Jack the Ripper hacking an incompetent proctologist and sending his patient list horrifying photos.
This was my reaction to them stealing CC data from STRATFOR, which I used to belong to but now do not partially because their security was so bad this could happen to them but also because they changed their policy of objectivity after Obama was elected and started to parrot the Obama line on certain groups and how they distribute adjectives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3m7FK7tvh0
The one below I think is the one that actually got a lot of laughs from Anonymous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrVB6oSgjwg
This is the most recent one I did. Remember, I am not in anonymous. I am a critic of their generally speaking. And they have picked one or two targets which deserve it. But the problem with vigilante actions is, if groups do this before the situation is bad enough to warrant it, they add more chaos and problems than they can possibly solve.
This video is very good!
I have to spend some time with your links and their links.
Heads-up: I may just start seeing everything as ‘Anonymous’ or ‘The Narrative’.
It’s ok: My father’s father used to say, “Beware of the man of one book.”
I kind of get the idea.
Sounds like geeky pranks my college classmates did brilliantly. More evolved Easter eggs.
But it seems some under the loose banner – or mask, I guess – of Anonymous took themselves seriously. A knack for hacking never made anyone a moral arbiter.
The thing about the hacking is the idea that national borders mean less and that the internet makes a new kind of world where the threat and the benefit is transnational groups.
To be honest, I think its pure bullshit. But there will be blood when we put that idea down like the rabid dog it is. There are no organizing principles yet better than nation states where you can institutionalize your culture and values in law, protect individual and minority rights as you like and have national discussions about what people want.
That’s the ‘plot structure’ of the first 5 books of the Bible. Semi-nomadic tribes constantly competing against each other. Brutal, wasteful. Over time they evolved to form societies that rewarded cooperation instead.
A ronin model seems like a giant step backwards.
5/ Eeyore, I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while. Great minds…
I hadn’t thought of it that way, in some ways it makes sense but only if you assume the leaders of Hamas are subhuman monsters, which we all know they are.
All of us know they are. The others, especially the Jew-hating fiends of Europe, refuse to consider them the sane way.
Sadly, they constitute the vast majority of them.