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A Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of the Church of Greece is under fire for comments he posted publicly on his blog, lashing out against gays, muslims, jews and atheists. In an angry rant he encouraged his readers and followers to “spit on them” and “blacken them” with violence, stating that they are not humans.

Ambrosios is the Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia— a region in north central Peloponnese and ranks as the 8th in order of hierarchy and influence in the Church’s synod, or governing body. Numerous politicians, media and public figures have called for condemnation of the bishop’s comments.

His vitriolic blog post (in Greek) followed legislation set forth by the ruling government to extend domestic partnership status to same-sex couples, granting them similar rights to those who are married.

Justice Ministry’s general secretary for human rights, Costas Papaioannou said “The state recognizes that there are other forms of family life than that which we know as marriage,” to Kathimerini’s English language edition, adding that the European Court of Justice shares this stance. Adding that that laws should adapt to the existing state of affairs, noting that the fact there are children being raised by gay couples is “a very significant social fact.” The revised bill aims to give gay couples in Greece the same tax status and inheritance rights enjoyed by heterosexual married couples.

One cartoonist in a Greek newspaper depicted the bishop blessing a thug with a Golden Dawn (Greek Neo Nazi) tattoo for beating and spitting on those who support civil unions in Greece.

http://www.pappaspost.com/greek-orthodox-metropolitan-lashes-out-against-gays-spit-on-them-beat-them-up-they-are-not-human/

Thoughts?

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France is waging war against wasting food. Supermarkets, restaurants, and individuals are all being targeted in order to try to reduce how much food is thrown away each year.

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2015/12/10/les-deputes-unanimes-pour-lutter-contre-le-gaspillage-alimentaire_4828389_3244.html

« Jeter une baguette de pain, c’est laisser se vider une baignoire entière, jeter un kilo de viande de bœuf, c’est 15 000 litres d’eau gaspillés »

(i.e. throwing away a kilo of beef is wasting 15,000 litres)

>Les produits sous marque de distributeur qui seraient retournés au fournisseur pourront être donnés, alors qu’ils sont obligatoirement détruits actuellement. La lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire fera en outre partie de l’éducation à l’alimentation durant le parcours scolaire.

>teaching in school, not allowing supermarkets to just throw food away (but forcing to allow charities to get it), or using it for composting/biodiesel.

thoughts? I think this is a good move.

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The smiling, head-bobbing, saluting women of the Moranbong Band possess all the hallmarks of your typical K-pop group. Clad in mini-skirts and high heels, they perform under flashing lights on dramatic, larger-than-life sets. They infuse Western pop flavor with a Korean twist.

But the Moranbong ladies have a special honor that has been bestowed on none of the world’s most recognizable K-pop sensations, from Big Bang to Girls’ Generation. They exist in their own league, really, having each been hand-picked by North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un.

Started in 2012, the girl group is an incarnation of former leader Kim Jong-il’s Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble. According to the North Korean state news agency KCNA, “Since its birth the Band has creditably (sic) played its role as the first standard-bearer on the ideological and cultural front, arousing all the service personnel and people to the building of a thriving nation. . . .”

Moranbong will arrive in Beijing this weekend for “friendship performances” meant to bolster liaisons with China, a longstanding North Korean ally that has had strained relations with the authoritarian state since Kim Jong-un came to power in 2011.

The “worldwide stylish band,” in the words of KCNA, travels to Beijing at an opportune time: this week, the UN Security Council, of which China is a veto-wielding permanent member, is slated to address allegations of North Korea’s human rights abuses.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/north-koreas-latest-weapon-kim-jong-uns-hand-picked-girl-band

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/world/middleeast/iraqi-campaign-to-retake-ramadi-from-isis-makes-gains.html?_r=0

Iraqi Army and Sunni Tribal fighters with Coalition air-cover are in the process of taking Ramadi back for the IS Group.

The offensive has been going for a few days and it will continue for some time, but Daesh is running scared from the A-10 Warthogs and moral is high.

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On Friday, December 11, a fight broke out on the floor of the Ukrainian parliament. Oleg Barna, a deputy in President Poroshenko's bloc approached the speaker's podium, where Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was delivering an address. Handing him a bouquet of roses, Barna started shoving Yatsenyuk, then tried to carry him away, even grabbing him between the legs and lifting him into the air. Immediately, several other deputies intervened and a mass brawl began. Neither Yatsenyuk nor his roses took part.

Barna was responding to Yatsenyuk telling members of Poroshenko's bloc that they are welcome to direct questions about Ukraine's energy sector to "their own minister," Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Volodymyr Demchyshyn.

Commenting later on the incident, Yatsenyuk said, "Everything is fine, but there are a lot of morons here." The head of the Poroshenko bloc has apologized for Barna's behavior and excluded him from the faction.

Barna's awkward assault on Ukraine's prime minister has already inspired a myriad of edited photos online, many exploiting the homoeroticism of one man grabbing another in so nether a region.
https://meduza.io/en/lion/2015/12/11/democracy-by-the-balls-a-fight-breaks-out-on-the-floor-of-the-ukrainian-parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDF7ib66yY

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http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_32012.shtml?wap=0

Well how about that. The video is pretty funny to be honest family.

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>Swiss authorities arrested two Syrians in Geneva on Friday who had traces of explosives in their vehicle, according to Swiss media.

>The Tribune, Geneva’s daily newspaper, didn’t provide additional details on the men who were apprehended and said it was unclear whether it was connected to the heightened security alert authorities had called for.

>Geneva was placed on high alert this week after a CIA tip warning of a possible planned attack on the city. U.S. officials had urged Americans who were in Switzerland to be vigilant.

>According to NBC News, Switzerland's public prosecutor said authorities were looking for suspects linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

>“In light of the international and national investigation that followed the attacks in Paris, the Police Department in Geneva is actively searching for several individuals under the guidance of the Federal Intelligence Services,” the city’s security department said Thursday in a statement.

>Just last month, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for terror attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. The known pepetrators of those killings, however, were all citizens of European countries.


source: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/syrians-arrested-switzerland-explosives-216690

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A Catholic priest swiped collection-plate donations to pay for drug-fueled sex romps with a heavily muscled S&M “master,” a new lawsuit charges.

Parishioners claim the Rev. Peter Miqueli has stolen at least $1million since 2003 while leading churches on Roosevelt Island and in The Bronx, where he is currently pastor of St. Frances de Chantal in Throggs Neck.

Their suit alleges he used the money to act out unholy fantasies as a sexual “slave,” blowing $1,000 at a time on bondage-and-discipline sessions where a “homosexual sex ‘master’” — identified in court papers as Keith Crist — “would force Father Miqueli to drink Keith Crist’s urine.”

Miqueli also spent $60,000 in 2012 alone for “illicit and prescription drugs” he used with Crist, bought a $264,000 home in Brick, NJ, and paid $1,075.50 a month for his master’s East Harlem apartment, court papers say.

Plaintiffs’ lawyer Michael G. Dowd also said that Miqueli at one point had Crist living in the rectory at St. Frances de Chantal but that Crist had since been kicked out.

The suit, which was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday, also charges that the Archdiocese of New York and Cardinal Timothy Dolan knew about Miqueli’s “illegal scheme” and did nothing to keep it from growing into “the monster it is today.”

http://nypost.com/2015/12/10/priest-paid-his-male-sex-master-from-collection-plate-lawsuit/

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>"The administration did so when it bypassed Congress in negotiating the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was being held in Afghanistan"

>"The Obama administration has claimed that it side-stepped a mandated 30-day congressional notification period out of fear for Bergdahl's life, and that it had constitutional authority to do so. But the report finds the argument wanting."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/politics/taliban-5-bowe-bergdahl-congress-report/

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"Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Sinaloa cartel boss and world's most wanted drug lord, has threatened ISIS with retaliation if it continues to destroy his drug shipments to the Middle East that go through the terror group's "caliphate."

"I pity the next son of a whore who tries to interfere with the business of the Sinaloa cartel. I will have their hearts and tongues torn from them," El Chapo reportedly wrote ISIS in an e-mail leaked to a Mexican blogger with ties to the cartel.

The encrypted e-mail, was sent directly to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to cartelblog.com.

El Chapo has been in hiding since escaping Mexican jail earlier this year. It's believed he sent the message via his son, who helps run the Sinaloa cartel.

The Middle East, with its excessive oil wealth, is a hot market for cocaine, ecstasy and other party drugs. Several cartels are trying to establish footing there, including the feared Sinaloa cartel, the largest and most powerful in the Western Hemisphere.


And the group has been destroying all shipments found passing through the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.

That's apparently led to bad blood between the two violent groups.

"You (ISIS) are not soldiers. You are nothing but lowly pus----," reads the e-mail. "Your god cannot save you from the true terror that my men will levy at you if you continue to impact my operation ... My men will destroy you."

It's not likely an empty threat.

In 2010, the cartel recorded the beheading of 36-year-old Hugo Hernandez, whose face was then peeled off and stitched onto a soccer ball as a warning to rivals.

Hernandez' torso was found in one container; his skull, arms and legs were found in another.


http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/12/10/drug-lord-el-chapo-threatens-to-destroy-isis-in-e-mail

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http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/543991/the-growth-industry-helping-governments-hack-terrorists-criminals-and-political/
Shouldn't we be somewhat concerned about this?

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> "Nature will take care of itself — nature doesn't need people, people need nature to survive,"

> "The planet will be OK, there just won't be any damn people on it."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-09/harrison-ford-hits-out-at-global-inaction-on-climate-change/7015380

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Staying sober is a real struggle for alcoholics, and the protagonist of this sad story is no exception. 30-year-old Zhang Rui had been trying to kick the habit for a while, but when all his attempts failed, both he and his family got desperate. After what must have been a serious intervention, he agreed to let his mother chain him by the neck in a room, to prevent him from buying or stealing booze.

Zhang, who is still locked in his attic room in Bengbu, east China, told reporters that he couldn’t think of any other way to stop himself from harming others or drinking himself to death. Despite his poor living conditions, Zhang believes that confining himself is the only way to beat the addiction that has ruined his life. In fact, he wants to stay chained up and locked in there for at least six months, until he no longer feels the need to consume alcohol.

The tiny 10-square-meter space is sparsely furnished, with only a mattress for sleeping, a laptop and a small TV to keep him entertained. He doesn’t even have a toilet – just a bucket and a large bottle of water to keep himself clean. The chain around his neck is four meters long and weighs about 22 lbs, so he can hardly stand up on his own in his current state. It allows him to walk around the room as exercise, but not much else.

According to the reporters who visited him, Zhang used to be a kind and gentle person working as a truck driver, however, all that changed six months ago when he started drinking. He turned so violent and abusive that he lost both his job and his wife and children. Things got so bad at one point that he begged for money on the streets just to be able to buy cheap rice wine. Once drunk, he reportedly had no controls over his actions.

When his family left him, Zhang was devastated, and the misery drove him to the extreme decision of home imprisonment.

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/alcoholic-chains-himself-up-in-room-in-desperate-attempt-to-stop-drinking.html

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He's said it multiple times that he may not win, then he says this: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/10/donald-trump-to-postpone-israel-trip-until-after-i-become-president-of-the-us

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Imagine opening the door to your brand new home only to discover it's uninhabitable and a health hazard.

Well that's exactly what happened to a group of new homeowners from Xindeng town in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.

Their newly-built villas have wires and cables running straight through the middle of them after village committee and utility companies had failed to coordinate their activities, reports The People's Daily Online.
Incovinience: Homeowners were shocked to found a bunch of cables running all the way through the house
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Incovinience: Homeowners were shocked to found a bunch of cables running all the way through the house
Uninhabitable: The metal electric cables are visible through three rooms on one single floor in a new home

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Uninhabitable: The metal electric cables are visible through three rooms on one single floor in a new home

The electricity cables were built before the houses but after the plot was approved for residential development by a local committee.

Sadly the homeowners, most of whom spent their life savings on the villas, only realised the existence of the cables after the land was allocated to them.

They were left with no choice but to build the properties to fit with the cables, hoping the utility companies would remove the wires before the building works completed.

When the group of villagers moved into their new houses in July, they were surprised to see the cables were still existing and they run through the terraced row.

The metal cables run straight through the kitchens, corridors, staircases, the living room and the master bedrooms.

The wires are so thick - some with a diameter of six inches.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3352676/Homeowners-nightmare-Villagers-shocked-metal-cables-running-straight-MIDDLE-new-villas.html