“Ron Paul: We have you surrounded. We are the media,” sounded the voice from a megaphone as Paul staffers ushered him into a waiting SUV, just minutes after he arrived at the restaurant.
Holding the megaphone was a man dressed roughly as a wizard, with shaggy hair and tousled beard, wearing a massive black boot upside down on his head.
Lance Wallnau, a major proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, explained that the Occupy Wall Street movement emerged as a result of the fact that the Devil, and not right-wing Christians, was in charge of Wall Street banks, which he says led to the economic crisis. Wallnau said that along with the economics mountain, “the Devil will send kings” to different cultural mountains, such as government media, arts and education, to “screw it up.”
Prof. Boswell’s academic study is so well researched and documented that it poses fundamental questions for both modern church leaders and heterosexual Christians about their own modern attitudes towards homosexuality.
For the Church to ignore the evidence in its own archives would be cowardly and deceptive. The evidence convincingly shows that what the modern church claims has always been its unchanging attitude towards homosexuality is, in fact, nothing of the sort.
http://www.christianity-revealed.com/cr/files/whensamesexmarriagewasachristianrite.html
Photojournalist Kristyna Wentz-Graff was wearing media credentials and “was clearly not part of the protest” when city police arrested her Wednesday near the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, reports The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. A police spokeswoman said Wentz-Graff “never identified herself as a journalist to officers.” It’s the second time in the past two months that Milwaukee police have arrested a working photojournalist.
Men and sometimes women from a group of Jefferson County families disavowed by mainstream Amish have terrorized a half-dozen or more fellow Amish, cutting the beards off men and the hair off men and women, the sheriff said. The attacks occurred over the past three weeks in Carroll, Holmes, Jefferson and Trumbull counties, which form the heart of Ohio’s Amish population, one of the nation’s largest.
Abdalla said the motive may be related to unspecified religious differences involving 18 Amish families, 17 of them related, that have drawn previous attention from law enforcement, including a threat against the sheriff and a relative convicted of sexual contact with a minor.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AMISH_ATTACKS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The plaintiffs say that 59 schools and owners tied to the company “jointly promoted, advertised, and marketed defendants’ residential boarding schools as a place where children with problems could get an education while receiving instruction and direction in behavior modification for emotional growth and personal development.”
But they say the children were subjected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the schools including, Cross Creek Center for Boys, Brightway Adolescent Hospital and Red Rock Springs. They say the abuses inflicted upon some children for years “could be accurately described as torture.”
According to the complaint, students were locked in boxes, cages and basements at the schools, denied medical and dental care, and forced “to carry heavy bags of sand around their necks or logs throughout the day over many days.”
They were sexually abused, “which included forced sexual relations and acts of fondling and masturbation performed on them,” according to the 119-page complaint.
Students were “forced to eat their own vomit … bound and tied by hands and/or feet … chained and locked in dog cages … forced to lie in, or wear, urine and feces … forced to sleep on cold concrete floors, boxspring, or plywood,” and put to forced labor, the complaint states.
Children were “kicked, beaten, thrown and slammed to the ground … forced to eat raw or rotten food … poked and prodded with various objects while being strip searched … denied any religious affiliation, except for the Mormon faith … [and] threatened [with] severe punishment, including death, if they told anyone of their abuses and poor living conditions,” according to the complaint.
WORSE THAN WAR documents Daniel Jonah Goldhagens travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis. He speaks with victims, perpetrators, witnesses, politicians, diplomats, historians, aid workers, and journalists, all with the purpose of explaining and understanding the features of genocide and how to stop it.
