MariaThinks
MariaThinks's JournalWe the US have become Dummified
Democrats, Republicans, Independents alike have been dummified. It took a loudmouth like Trump to speak the truth openly. Bush did not keep us safe on 911. We invaded the wrong country. And here is the key. Trump said everyone knew there were no weapons of mass destruction - we were lied to by the bush regime. Trump being the idiot he is then of course going off the deep end on everything else.
But where are our leaders and our friends in the media? Why do they let republicans get away with lies all the time.
Now with the Supreme court battle. Does anyone believe if the situation was reversed, republicans would sit quietly? They would be out for our blood, and we'd cave and accept another scalia like imbecile on scotus on the last day of a republican presidency.
it took trump to speak the truth to republican liars. Where are our balls?
Nadia Murad: Yazidi survivor kept as ISIS sex slave describes moment her family was massacred
Source: Times of India
Yazidi woman who was kept as a sex slave for three months by ISIS has described the moment her family was massacred.
Nadia Murad, 21, is in the UK campaigning to build solidarity with victims of violence in Iraq and unite the world against ISIS.
Speaking at Trade Union Congress House in central London, she described how ISIS fighters killed six of her brothers and her mother. "When I speak I didn't speak just on my behalf, but on behalf of all the women and children affected in the war zone," she said, according to The Mirror.
"Two months have passed since I have been campaigning and people have been happy, not just Yazidis, about this message. About 5,800 Yazidi women and children were captured by the so-called Islamic State. They have killed many people in Iraq and Syria and displaced millions," Murad said.
"For us, the Yazidis, they killed the men and took the women and children. They were committing all kinds; murder, rape and displacing people by force in the name of Islam. Many people may think my story is difficult, but many more had more difficult than mine," Murad further said.
"They killed six of my brothers, but there are families that have lost 10 brothers."
Murad went on to say there are still around 3,400 women in the hands of ISIS.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Nadia-Murad-Yazidi-survivor-kept-as-ISIS-sex-slave-describes-moment-her-family-was-massacred/articleshow/51004636.cms
Twin Suicide Bombings Kill More Than 60 In Nigerian Refugee Camp
Source: Huffington Post
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa, military and emergency officials said on Wednesday.
The attack occurred 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, centre of the seven-year insurgency, they said. It took place on Tuesday, but a breakdown in the telephone system prevented the incident being made public earlier.
The two female suicide bombers sneaked into an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp and detonated themselves in the middle of it, emergency officials and the military source said.
The chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency, Satomi Ahmad, added that 78 people were injured.
No group claimed responsibility but the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has frequently used female bombers and even children to hit targets.
The militant group has recently increased the frequency and deadliness of attacks with three at the end of January. At least 65 people were killed outside Borno state capital Maiduguri on Jan. 31.
Since it lost territory to a government counter-offensive last year, Boko Haram has reverted to hit-and-run attacks on villages and suicide bombings at places of worship or markets.
Boko Haram has only rarely targeted camps housing people displaced by the conflict and Tuesday's attack was the first one to kill victims in Borno state.
The military said militants made one abortive attempt on a camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri on Jan. 31. Boko Haram hit a Nigerian IDP camp for the first time last September, in the Adamawa state capital of Yola.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twin-suicide-bombings-kill-more-than-60-in-nigerian-refugee-camp_us_56bb8415e4b0b40245c500ca?ir=Canada§ion=ca_canada&utm_hp_ref=canada
Bernie Sanders: Electible in a General Election or Not?
After watching Bernie in several debates now, I am very impressed. He answers questions really well, knows his stuff, and is passionate in his positions. He is not afraid of labeling or apologetic for his positions. His personality comes through and he seems very real.
I have to say that I believe he is electable in a general election and more Americans will vote for him than any republican candidate.
Bernie Sanders: Electible in a general election or not?
After watching Bernie in several debates now, I am very impressed. He answers questions really well, knows his stuff, and is passionate in his positions. He is not afraid of labeling or apologetic for his positions. His personality comes through and he seems very real.
I have to say that I believe he is electable in a general election and more Americans will vote for him than any republican candidate.
Her Father Shot Her in the Head, as an ‘Honor Killing’
Source: NY TImes
WHETHER it wins or not, the Oscar nominee with the greatest impact — saving lives of perhaps thousands of girls — may be one you’ve never heard of.
It stars not Leonardo DiCaprio but a real-life 19-year-old Pakistani woman named Saba Qaiser. Her odyssey began when she fell in love against her family’s wishes and ran off to marry her boyfriend. Hours after the marriage, her father and uncle sweet-talked her into their car and took her to a spot along a riverbank to murder her for her defiance — an “honor killing.”
First they beat Saba, then her uncle held her as her own father pointed a pistol at her head and pulled the trigger. Blood spewed, Saba collapsed and her father and uncle packed her body into a large sack and threw it into the river to sink. They then drove away, thinking they had restored the family’s good name.
Incredibly, Saba was unconscious but alive. She had jerked her head as the gun went off, and the bullet tore through the left side of her face but didn’t kill her. The river water revived her, and she clawed her way out of the sack and crawled onto land. She staggered toward a gasoline station, and someone called for help.
About every 90 minutes, an honor killing unfolds somewhere in the world, usually in a Muslim country. Pakistan alone has more than 1,000 a year, and the killers often go unpunished.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/her-father-shot-her-in-the-head-as-an-honor-killing.html?WT.mc_id=2016-FEBRUARY-OTB-INTL_AUD_DEV-0201-0229&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0
Biggest losers last night: Jeb!, Christie and the Republican party
Those are the biggest losers of the evening.
The bush dynasty is suffering the fate it deserves.
Christie bullshit bullying personality is hurting him at last.
The republican party is arguably the biggest loser - their frontrunner in iowa is hated by everyone in their party. There second place winner is not the invincible superman he was being portrayed to be. This should lead to months of nastiness that will push them more to the right. The eventual winner should not stand a chance against either Hillary or Bernie.
ISIS warns of severe attack on Britain that will 'turn children's hair white'
Source: The Times of India
The Islamic State terror group has warned Britain of an attack more severe than the Paris strikes, saying the country will receive the "lion's share" of the slaughter for its "declaration of war against Muslims".
In the latest edition of its Arabic newspaper 'al-Naba' (The News), ISIS warns that the UK should be prepared for an attack more severe than in Paris last November which claimed 130 lives.
According to 'The Sunday Times', the article eulogises Mohammed Emwazi, the British national dubbed Jihadi John who was killed by a US drone strike.
It said "his words will never die" and that his message of slaughter did not end "with the blood of the soldiers of the caliphate who sent it to France in their own special way".
Britain will receive the "lion's share" of the slaughter "in response to its declaration of war against the Muslims", the group said in reference to last month's UK Parliament vote on airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
An attack on Britain will be so severe, it claims, "that it will turn children's hair to white". The warning refers to a Quranic verse outlining the horrors of the Judgement Day.
ISIS had released a video last week that featured nine of the Paris attackers, including ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
By examining the montage frame by frame, 'The Sunday Times' has identified a string of potential targets, including Buckingham Palace and the National Gallery in central London.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/ISIS-warns-of-severe-attack-on-Britain-that-will-turn-childrens-hair-white/articleshow/50795939.cms?utm_source=TOInewHP_TILwidget&utm_medium=ABtest&utm_campaign=TOInewHP
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