Simple Questions regarding the Syrian Immigrants

Here they come. Strange how almost all the "refugees" are fit males between 15 & 25. Where are the women, children & elderly? Sounds more like an invasion to me.~ Political Veracity

Political Veracity Simple Questions regarding the Syrian Immigrants...
• Why are they not Fighting for their own Country, there must easily be 2 Million Syrian Men among the refugees?
• Why is Saudi Arabia not taking refugees when they have vacant facilities that would house 3 Million people?
• Why would we continue to give Foreign Aid to Saudi Arabia if they continue to refuse to help?
• Why are the refugees being shipped to other countries when we can provide food, water and medical services right there? That was how we helped Indonesia after the tsunami, Japan after the earth quake, Haiti and countless other countries.
• Why are we not destroying ISIS and Assad so they can simply go home?
• Why are the refugees spitting in the faces of those helping them?
• Why are the Refugees refusing food and water?
• Why are the refugees throwing feces at those helping them?
• Why are the Refugees chanting expletives about those helping them?
• Why are most of the refugees Young Men?
• What is the real truth behind this?

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Greece promises ship to house refugees as Kos humanitarian situation worsens

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Court upholds life sentence for televangelist Joyce Meyer's bodyguard who strangled his family to death

Court upholds life sentence for televangelist's bodyguard who strangled his family to death while they slept after starting an affair with his wife's childhood friend

• Christopher Coleman was found guilty of murdering his wife and their two sons - aged 11 and nine - at their Waterloo home in 2009
• All three were found strangled in their beds
• Prosecutors said he was having an affair and wanted to start a new life 
• Coleman was the bodyguard for high-profile televangelist Joyce Meyer
• He feared knowledge of the affair would cost him his $100K job
• Pleaded not guilty but sentenced to life in prison in 2011
• Coleman this week lost an appeal due to 'overwhelming evidence'
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An Illinois man who was the bodyguard for high-profile televangelist Joyce Meyer has lost a bid in an appellate court this week after being convicted and sentenced to life in prison for strangling his wife and two sons to death.

Christopher Coleman was 32 when he killed his wife, Sheri, 31, and their two boys Garett, 11, and Gavin, nine, in 2009, in order to start a new life with his mistress, a jury found.

Prosecutors argued at his 2011 trial that Coleman feared he would lose his $100,000-a-year job as part of the personal security detail for multi-millionaire Pentecostal preacher Meyer - who travels the world delivering evangelical lectures - if his affair were to become public.

The year before the murders he started a relationship with Tara Lintz, a childhood friend of Coleman's wife, who testified that Coleman had promised he would serve divorce papers on May 5, 2009 - the same day his family were found murdered in their beds inside their Waterloo home.

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Wicked: Father-of-two Christopher Coleman - seen here wearing a bulletproof vest to his 2011 trial - was found guilty of killing his wife and his two sons and will spend the rest of his life in prison

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Secrets: Christopher Coleman murdered his wife, Sheri, and sons Garett, left, and Gavin so he would be free to marry his mistress, a Florida cocktail waitress and a childhood friend of his wife

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Picture perfect: The white suburban home that became the scene of a nightmare when the Colemans were found killed in their bedrooms in May, 2009

Coleman allegedly spent six months plotting the brutal murder, shortly after beginning an affair with Miss Lintz, a Florida cocktail waitress.

The jury was shown explicit photos and messages exchanged between the pair, including a video of Coleman masturbating.

They had also filmed a sex tape in Hawaii. 

According to the prosecution, Coleman started sending his family threatening, expletive-filled messages from a gmail account he set up himself.

The first read simply: 'Your family is done'. They continued with 'tell Joyce to stop preaching [expletive] or your Chris's family will die' and 'I will kill them all as they sleep.'

But prosecutors say the threats were in fact a ploy to set up a mystery stalker as the murderer, the St Louis Post-Despatch reported at the time of the trial.

The mistress: Florida cocktail waitress Tina Lintz admitted in court to having an affair with Coleman

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High-profile employer: Multi-millionaire televangelist Joyce Meyer told the court 'it could definitely have affected his job' if Mr Coleman was found to have had an affair

They claim he decided to kill his wife rather than reveal his affair and go through a divorce

Charismatic Christian Meyer - who Coleman had known since he was a child - gave a pre-recorded testimony saying that Coleman most likely would have lost his job had he been revealed as having an affair.

The next day, May 5, 2009, Coleman left his comfortable suburban house in Waterloo to go to the gym at 5.43am.

After his workout he said he called home and was worried when no-one answered, so he rang a neighbor, police officer Justin Barlow, to check on his family.

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Double life: Christopher Coleman was having an affair with a friend of his wife, Sheri, for six months before his family were killed

Officer Jason Donjon, who entered the house with Mr Barlow, testified last week they found the house was covered in threatening messages daubed in red paint.

The graffiti read: 'I am watching', 'punished' and 'u have paid'.

Then they discovered the bodies of Mrs Coleman and her two sons, killed in separate bedrooms.

Mrs Coleman was left naked in bed, strangled with a ligature. Her eldest son, Garett, was curled up in bed with spray paint on his sheets.

Finally the youngest, Gavin, was seen lying face down with his limbs dangling either side of the bed and swear words daubed on his covers.

Later, pathologist Dr Raj Nanduri, who performed the autopsy, said it was likely the victims were strangled between 3am and 5am - before Coleman left for the gym.

Police also said they found a Word document on Coleman's computer that had details about Lintz, including her ring size, and even a name for their future child, Zoe. 

Coleman pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Tragic: The Colemans lived in a comfortable suburban home, funded by Mr Coleman's $100,000-a-year job as Joyce Meyer's bodyguard. Mrs Coleman was 31 when she was strangled in her own bed

He has never admitted having anything to do with the murders.

He was found guilty of three charges of first-degree murder in 2011.

However his defense argued that a judge wrongly allowed hearsay testimony about his failing marriage. 

Coleman also questioned testimony about the victims’ time of death and prosecutors’ use of a forensic linguist and of sexually provocative photos and videos of Coleman’s mistress.

The Mount Vernon-based 5th District Appellate Court issued a ruling Wednesday that found circumstantial evidence presented at Christopher Coleman’s Monroe County trial was 'overwhelming'.

He will spend the rest of his life in prison. 

By JOEL CHRISTIE FOR THE MAILONLINE and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 17:32 EST, 3 January 2015 | UPDATED: 10:09 EST, 4 January 2015

Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad

Duong Chi Dung (C-front), 56, former chairman of Vinalines, and his accomplices listen to the verdict at a local People's Court in Hanoi on December 16, 2013. Two top executives were sentenced to death for embezzlement as authorities try to allay rising public anger over corruption. Three corrupt bankers have also recently the death sentence. (Staff/AFP/Getty Images)

BANGKOK — For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses.

Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers.

The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn’t just send unscrupulous financiers to jail. Sometimes, it sends them to death row.

Amid a sweeping cleanup of its financial sector, Vietnam has sentenced three bankers to death in the past six months.

One duo now on death row embezzled roughly $25 million from the state-owned Vietnam Agribank. Their co-conspirators caught decade-plus prison sentences.

In March, a 57-year-old former regional boss from Vietnam Development Bank, another government-run bank, was sentenced to death over a $93-million swindling job.

According to Vietnam’s Tuoi Tre news outlet, several of his colluders were sentenced to life imprisonment after they confessed to securing bogus loans with a diamond ring and a BMW coupe. And last week, in an unrelated case, charges against senior employees from the same bank allege $47 million in losses from dubious loans.

None of this would impress Bernie Madoff, mastermind of America’s largest ever financial fraud scheme. The combined amount from all three Vietnamese cases adds up to less than 1 percent of his purported $18-billion haul.

But these death sentences nevertheless are high profile scandals in Vietnam.

That’s the point. Human rights watchdogs contend that splashy trials in Vietnam are acts of political theater with predetermined conclusions. The audience: a Vietnamese public weary of state corruption. But these sentences also sound loud alarm bells to dodgy bankers who are currently running scams.

“It’s a message to those in this game to be less greedy and that business as usual is getting out of hand,” said Adam McCarty, chief economist with the Hanoi-based consulting firm Mekong Economics.

“The message to people in the system is this: Your chances of getting caught are increasing,” McCarty said. “Don’t just rely on big people above you. Because some of these [perpetrators] would’ve had big people above them. And it didn’t help them.”

Like most nations that crush dissent and operate with little transparency, Vietnam is highly corrupt.

According to a World Bank study, half of all businesses operating within the communist state expect that gift giving toward officials is required “to get things done.” Transparency International, which publishes the world’s leading corruption gauge, contends Vietnam is more corrupt than Mexico but not quite as bad as Russia.

Unlike in America, where judges can’t sentence white-collar criminals to death, Vietnam can execute its citizens for a range of corporate crimes.

Amnesty International reports that death sentences in Vietnam have been handed down to criminals for running shady investment schemes, counterfeiting cash and even defaulting on loans. This is unusual: United Nations officials have condemned death for “economic crimes” yet Vietnam persists with these sentences — as does neighboring China.

Though statistics on Vietnam’s opaque justice system are scarce, a state official conceded that more than 675 people sit on death row for a range of crimes, according to the Associated Press.

It’s still unclear how the bankers will be killed. Vietnam’s traditional means of execution involves binding perpetrators to a wooden post, stuffing their mouths with lemons and calling in a firing squad. The nation wants to transition to lethal injections. But European nations refuse to export chemicals used in executions (namely sodium thiopental) to governments practicing capital punishment.

Fraudulent bankers are receiving heavy sentences at a moment when Vietnam is enacting major financial reforms.

For decades, Vietnam has been slowly transforming its communist-style, state-run market into a more open and competitive arena. In the post-reunification era, the government owned every bank in Vietnam. Today, state-run banks control only 40 percent of all assets.

This push to bank in a more Western style has ushered in improvements as well as temptations to swindle. According to the UN economist Vu Quang Viet, Vietnamese credit laws passed in 2010 “simply copied the lax US law now widely believed to be at least partially responsible for the financial debacle in 2008.”

Campaigns to root out corruption are promoted as a way to entice foreign investment, which could help prop up Vietnamese banks whose growth has slowed from a sprint to a jog.

But the recent death sentences aren’t really intended to prove the reformers’ sincerity to the outside world, according to McCarty.

“They don’t care about foreigners. It’s all internal politics,” McCarty said. Foreign banking honchos wouldn’t be impressed by a few executions anyway. “If you really want to want to resolve the problem, you can’t just arrest people,” he said. “You’ve got to improve accountability and transparency in the entire system.”

A leading Vietnamese newspaper, Thanh Nien, is also pushing for system-wide cleanup in lieu of showcase trials against a few corporate criminals.

An op-ed in the paper recently compared death sentences for corruption to fighting fire with fire. The preferred approach would be dousing corruption before it burns through public funds. “It is better to prevent corruption,” the paper opined, “than deal with it after the fact.”

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/vietnam/140402/vietnam-s-solution-corrupt-bankers-firing-squads

Source: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/vietnam/140402/vietnam-s-solution-corrupt-bankers-firing-squads

No more spying on citizens who are not suspected of a crime - Obama in 2007

Obama in 2007: No more spying on citizens who are not suspected of a crime

QUOTE; Created by President Truman in 1952, during the Korean War, the NSA is charged with protecting the United States from foreign security threats. The agency was considered so secret that for years the government refused to even confirm its existence. Government insiders used to joke that NSA stood for "No Such Agency."

QUOTE; PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007. (BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE)…

QUOTE; As the Nicene Church was establishing its official doctrines and replacing biblical Judaism with Catholicism ("Universalism"), it is a well known and easily established fact that they incorporated the teachings of many different religious systems. These early "church fathers" were attempting to establish a new and global political and religious authority in order to control every aspect of human life. (LONG BEFORE GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA WAS A WAKE-UP CALL)

 

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Jon Stewart slams Obamacare rollout: Democrats can’t ‘spin this turd’

Jon Stewart slams Obamacare rollout: Democrats can’t ‘spin this turd’


 

On his Monday night program, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” anchor Jon Stewart gave a scathing critique of the rollout of Obamacare, saying “Democrats can’t spin this turd.”

Stewart noted that following the government shutdown, which some circles have blamed on the GOP, the United States was poised to turn “bluer than a Smurf’s balls after dry humping a bottle of Windex,” but following the roll out of Obamacare, those possibilities have been hurt. Noting the number of people that have visited the site and their success ratio, the host unloaded:

“Oh my God, less than 10 percent?” Stewart said. “How bad is that? Twenty percent is the number of dentists who recommend sugared gum. How low is it? According to a recent poll, more of this country believes Obamacare has been repealed than have been able to sign up for Obamacare. The whole point of web sites is to design them so that it is nearly impossible to not sign up for something. Every time I go on Amazon there’s a 40 percent chance I’ll mistakenly overnight myself six seasons of ‘Night Court.’ It’s just the way it’s designed. ‘Are you sure you want to leave this page?’ Yes I am — oops, turns out I ordered something. So how are the Democrats going to spin this turd?”

Stewart played a clip from New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer from NBC’s “Meet the Press” over the weekend, who spun it as “huge” since 19 million people had visited the site.

“That’s huge,” Stewart said. “You’ve angered a lot of people.”

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China Cracks Down on 'American Idol'-style Shows

China cracks down on 'American Idol'-style shows

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are cracking down on how often broadcasters can air reality, dating and talent shows such as the Chinese versions of "American Idol" and "The Voice," which draw huge audiences.

Provincial broadcasters show such programs, which are cheap to produce and earn a lot of advertising revenue, on satellite channels seen around the country.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the "American Idol" kind of talent shows now need approval from the body that oversees broadcasting, which will license one such program per channel each quarter for prime-time viewing.

It also reported that new regulations require satellite channels to allocate no less than 30 percent of their weekly air time to topics including news, economics, culture and science from next year.

There have been repeated efforts to limit American-style reality TV and other light fare shown on satellite TV, or push them out of prime-time viewing, with stated reasons including the need to stop vulgar content and promote more efficient use of resources.

Repeated calls to the State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, which reportedly issued the latest regulations, rang unanswered.

Liu Shanying, a political scientist at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said he suspected the new regulations were because the satellite channels were taking too much audience away from the national broadcaster China Central Television.

The administration "is helping CCTV, the TV broadcaster that has the main task of carrying forward the government's message," said Liu, who used to work for CCTV. "The local stations have more freedom to attract audiences with entertainment shows. And that takes away too many viewers from CCTV and they are afraid that no one will pay attention to the government's tune."

The restrictions are expected to drive still more viewers online — where they can watch the same types of pre-recorded shows — and away from state TV.

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The National Park Service allows immigration rally on 'closed' National Mall: Closed to Vets

Park Service allows immigration rally on 'closed' National Mall

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(CNN) - Despite the closure of the National Mall and monuments during the partial government shutdown, immigration advocates are holding a rally and concert. And some conservatives are crying foul.

The protestors, who are holding a march in favor of comprehensive immigration reform Tuesday, which is stalled in a stalemated Congress, are allowed to rally on the closed mall under their First Amendment rights, the National Park Service told CNN.

"Under the same First Amendment rights that are allowing Honor Flight veterans and their families to visit the veterans memorials on the National Mall, other groups will be granted access to the park for First amendement activities," spokesman Michael Litterst said.

Conservative groups have voiced outrage that the rally is allowed to take place. They said there is a double standard as veterans were locked out of the World War II Memorial last week after the government shutdown.

"[T]he Democratic Administration looks immensely foolish and ham-handed in this one," Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, an anti-immigrant organization, said in a statement.

Republican members of Congress aided the veterans and removed the barriers to allow the veterans to enter.

The National Park Service has furloughed more than 20,000 employees around the country, including about 300 employees who work on the mall. The agency, however, says the U.S. Park Police, which is responsible for policing the event, are not affected by the shutdown and are working "at full capacity...to protect life and property."

The Camino Americano: Concert and March for Immigrant Dignity and Respect is hosted by local and national Latino groups and two major unions - the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO.

Honor Flight vets don't let barricades stop them at World War II Memorial

(Updated) GulfLive, (thanks to Bev Perlson)

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo, Sen. Roger Wicker and other lawmakers from around the country met Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight's World War II veterans this morning and moved the National Park Service barricades to let them into their memorial.

A bagpipe processional led the congressmen and veterans to the Mississippi section of the memorial, where veteran Donald Quinn laid the wreath with the help of Palazzo.

The barricades were erected in light of the government shutdown, which was prompted after lawmakers failed to reach a funding bill agreement last night.

"We cannot deprive our veterans of coming here," Palazzo said of moving the barricades. "This is their day."

Palazzo said 10 other Honor Flight groups from all over the nation will be coming to D.C. this week, so he and the other congressmen "took an informal vote" to move the barricade.

"Sometime it's better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission," he said with a smile.

"This is the best civil disobedience we've seen in Washington in a while," Congressman Bill Huizenga, of Michigan, added.

As the Mississippi veterans left the memorial to board their buses, a Freedom Flight group of veterans for Iowa arrived.

A parks service employee was stationed near the open barricade and told visitors the memorial was closed, but the public continued to pour in. Police officers also arrived on site.

Veteran Robert Meredith of Wiggins said, "I thought I was going to have to stand back when we first got here. I feel extremely lucky. This is really nice, a great honor."

Veteran Lem McCoy agreed.

"I'm thinking what a beautiful tribute this is," he said. McCoy was surprised by his son, Dillard McCoy, who came to D.C. to see the sites with his father.

"That's the real treat," the elder McCoy said.

When the 91 veterans arrived at Reagan National Airport earlier today, they were met with great applause and live jazz music. Like on previous trips, the jetway was also decorated to welcome the veterans.

Several veterans wiped tears from their eyes because of the warm welcome, while others appeared in shock of the crowd that had gathered to cheer and wave their American flags.

"For some reason, I just feel like royalty," said Navy and Air Force veteran Jim Ferencak, of Pascagoula, as he boarded his tour bus.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) showed up to address the “Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform” — an event that attracted controversy since the Park Service allowed it on the National Mall even though it’s technically closed due to the partial government shutdown.

Almost nothing Pelosi told the much-smaller-than-anticipated crowd Tuesday was a surprise…except for the chant she led that hearkened back to the glory days of President Obama’s 2008 campaign: “Yes…we…can! Yes…we…can!”

So what’s so eye-opening about that?

Pelosi led it in Spanish: “Si..se…puede!” “Si..se…puede!”

Turnout for the event was far below the organizers’ predictions of 100,000 attendees. Barriers were set up to accommodate only 35,000 people, the Daily Caller reports, but less than half the area was occupied.  (The Blaze)