Archive for the 'Religion' Category
U.S.-Funded Somali Intelligence Agency Has Been Using Kids as Spies
May 7th, 2016Via: Washington Post: For years they were children at war, boys given rifles and training by al-Qaeda-backed militants and sent to the front lines of this country’s bloody conflict. Many had been kidnapped from schools and soccer fields and forced to fight. The United Nations pleaded for them to be removed from the battlefield. The […]
‘Mason’ Present at Brussels, Paris and Boston Terror Attacks
March 23rd, 2016Don’t look at me. I just work here. Via: Metro: A teenager who survived the Brussels airport attack was a block away from the Boston Marathon finish line at the time of the bombing and was in Paris on November 13 last year. Mason Wells, 19, was hit by shrapnel when the bombs, which were […]
Homeland Security: “An Entirely New Phase”
December 6th, 2015The whole ISIS mess originates with U.S. activities in Iraq (which, even the mainstream hive mind admits had nothing to do with 9/11), and now, “We have moved to an entirely new phase in the global terrorist threat.” Via: Reuters: U.S. officials, faced with an evolving threat of deadly attacks by homegrown extremists, are rethinking […]
Vatican Inspectors Suspect Key Office Was Used for Money Laundering
November 4th, 2015Via: Reuters: Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been […]
Hundreds Gather in Arizona for Armed Anti-Muslim Protest
May 30th, 2015Armed two minutes hate. Via: Washington Post: About 250 mostly armed anti-Muslim demonstrators — many wearing T-shirts bearing a profanity-laced message denouncing Islam — faced-off against a crowd of roughly the same size defending the faith in front of a Phoenix mosque Friday night. Demonstrators yelled and taunted one another across a line of police […]
Pentagon Report Predicted West’s Support for Islamist Rebels Would Create ISIS
May 27th, 2015Try not to die of shock. Via: Medium: A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, […]
Priest Who Ran Meth Ring Bought Sex Shop to Launder Drug Money
May 7th, 2015Via: NBC: A suspended Connecticut Roman Catholic priest who authorities say dealt pounds of methamphetamine and bought a sex shop intending to launder his drug money will spend another three years in prison after being sentenced on Thursday.
Texas: 2 Gunmen Killed Outside Muhammad Cartoon Contest
May 4th, 2015Update: Elton Simpson: Alleged Garland Shooting Suspect Was Known to FBI Fascinating. Via: Independent: Police were on Monday morning said to be searching an apartment block in Arizona linked to the men believed of launching the attack on the Texas cartoon exhibition as reports named one of the gunmen as Elton Simpson – an individual […]
Yemen’s Shiite Rebels Capture Presidential Palace in Aden
April 2nd, 2015Via: CTV: Yemen’s Shiite rebels and their allies fought their way through the commercial centre of Aden on Thursday and seized the presidential palace on a strategic hilltop in this southern coastal city, security officials said. The capture was a major blow to the Saudi-led coalition, which has been carrying out airstrikes for a week […]
Hipster Churches in Silicon Valley
January 30th, 2015This one made me laugh, but it also reminded me of an old piece on io9: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid of These Science Fictional Cults. Via: Guardian: When raising the issue of how to reach younger Bay Areans, one ministry in particular came up several times: Reality SF, which makes its Sunday home in a […]
