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Christian convert from Islam beheaded on Egyptian national TV

http://www.examiner.com/article/egyptian-tv-airs-slow-beheading-of-tunisian-muslim-who-converted-to-christianity

As published by The Christian Post, a video was recently shown on Egyptian television reportedly depicting the literal carving-off of the head of a bound Tunisian man who had abandoned Islam and converted to Christianity.

A heavily edited version of the video (sans actual bloodshed) was also aired on Canadian TV’s political discussion program “The Arena” hosted by Michael Coren of Canada’s Sun News Network (please see video link, left).

Coren begins his segment by matter-of-factly stating:

“There is a video on the web right now showing a man having his head cut off slowly and agonizingly, essentially because he has converted to Christianity from Islam.”

While rolling the video, Coren went on to say:

“… various Islamic chants going on right now, and this goes on for some time before this poor man’s head is actually cut off.

They taunt him for the longest time, he’s completely unable to move or resist.

And finally, his head is cut off and held up for the camera.”

With Iranian Freedom Fighters, Roozbeh Farahanipour, Homayoun Mobasseri, and Nicole Kian Sadighi (Director of, and star in, “I Am Neda,”)

Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax03VW-k1CY
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Z5eVpit0w
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2Yi4nH2Vk&feature=youtu.be

MY E-PAL MICHAEL ORDMAN CATALOGS THE MYRIAD ACHIEVEMENTS OF ISRAEL….THE BOYCOTT AND DIVEST GROUPIES SHOULD BE DENIED ALL THE BENEFITS OF MEDICAL ADVANCES IN ISRAEL…..RSK
www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
Diabetes revolution in Israel. A new method for treating Diabetes is being developed by Israeli biotech Orgenesis whose Chief scientist is Dr Sarah Ferber, Director of Molecular Endocrinology at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. The therapy is called autologous cell replacement and uses a patient’s own cells.
http://unitedwithisrael.org/new-diabetes-treatment/

Israeli-Arab star. Nazareth based Alpha Omega has won the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce’s Eagle Star Award for its medical device to treat neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. The sophisticated microelectrode technology allows doctors to stimulate and record the brain’s natural electrical impulses.
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/25649/
http://vimeo.com/44057121

Detecting problems in pregnancy. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s OrSense, announced successful clinical trial results for anaemia screening and haemorrhage detection using its NBM200 device. The non-invasive blood monitor measures haemoglobin levels in pregnant women.
http://israel21c.org/news/orsense-detects-hemorrhage-anemia-during-pregnancy/

The first medical smartphone. Israel’s LifeWatch Technologies unveiled the LifeWatch V- a first of its kind medical smartphone that measures ECG, heart rate, body temperature, blood sugar levels, body fat percentages, blood oxygen saturation and an index for measuring stress. Your phone becomes “a life preserving apparatus”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157483
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UGYcX1RkA&feature=player_embedded

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Israeli scientists can control insects. (Thanks to NoCamels) A robotics professor and an aerospace engineering scientist at Israel’s Technion have decoded the movement of insects. Replaying the electronic signals makes the insects move. Known as Biomimicry, this can help produce small controlled vehicle
http://nocamels.com/2012/07/haifa-researchers-able-to-control-insects-movements/

Detecting problems in pregnancy. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s OrSense, announced successful clinical trial results for anaemia screening and haemorrhage detection using its NBM200 device. The non-invasive blood monitor measures haemoglobin levels in pregnant women.
http://israel21c.org/news/orsense-detects-hemorrhage-anemia-during-pregnancy/

ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL

150 years of the Hospital for Nazareth. Now an Israel Government Hospital, our friend and childbirth educator Wendy Blumfield sent us this write-up of the Nazareth Conference held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. The audience was Arab Moslem and Christian, Jewish secular and religious.
http://haifadiarist.blogspot.co.il/2012/06/nazareth-conference-apartheid.html

“Windows to the world” opens on the work of Herzog Hospital. A fascinating art composition by the Canadian Friends of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem has shone light on the wonderful work by the hospital for children with respiratory diseases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikWLcrhd4xo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.herzoghospital.ca/

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
· An Israeli company has produced a smartphone that constantly diagnoses your health
· An Israeli has controlled a robot-like machine 2000km distant using his thoughts.
· 14 Israeli scientists helped find the illusive Higgs boson sub-atomic particle.
· Israeli companies are securing systems at The Louvre and at British Telecom.
· Entrepreneur Richard Branson is marketing Israeli home water filters in the UK.
· Guns and Roses wowed their audience at their gig in Tel Aviv.
· A mosaic of Samson was excavated in a 1600-year-old synagogue in the lower Galilee.

While the French went on to bathe the nation in blood, beheadings and a reign of terror, the same year 1789, Americans elected George Washington our first and magnificent President who had been sworn in on April 30, 1789.

It was far from real “egalite” in America as only white men of property had been allowed to vote, but it was the embryo of what became the greatest democracy in history. Vive l’Amerique!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/gov_romney_please_meet_gov_coolidge.html

CAL COOLIDGE IS MY FAVORITE MODERN PRESIDENT…HOWEVER, HE WAS AN “ACCIDENTAL” PRESIDENT…LIKE TRUMAN….HE WAS ACTUALLY THE 29TH VICE PRESIDENT WHO BECAME THE 30TH PRESIDENT WHEN THE PRESIDENT WARREN G. HARDING DIED IN 1923. HE WAS ELECTED IN 1924 AND SERVED AS ONE OF AMERICA’S GREAT AND SUCCESSFUL CONSERVATIVES…..RSK

The American public may be about to do something it has not done in 88 years: elect a former governor of Massachusetts as president of the United States. In anticipation of this election, we can only hope that some of Governor Romney’s advisors will introduce him to his predecessor, Governor Calvin Coolidge.

Coolidge was one of the most popular presidents in U.S. history, but historians have tended to underestimate his importance. However, with the advent of Reagan and the revival of conservatism, Coolidge’s place in history has been re-appraised. Historian Paul Johnson has called Coolidge “[t]he most internally consistent and single minded of modern American presidents.” Amity Shlaes has written recently that Coolidge believed his first obligation was “to do no harm. His no harm rule came out of strength of character. By holding back, Coolidge believed he sustained stability, so that citizens knew what to expect from their government.” Perhaps one of Coolidge’s own supporters best summarized his record: “Coolidge never wasted any time, never wasted any words, and never wasted any public money.”

Before meeting his predecessor, Romney might well consider the following Coolidge administration accomplishments:

* Top marginal income tax rates were lowered from 73% to 24%.
* By the end of his term, 98% of the population paid no income tax at all.
* The federal budget was reduced by 35%.
* Per capita income increased over 30%.
* Unemployment averaged 3.3%.
* GNP grew at the fastest compound rate of any eight-year period in U.S. history.

There are some very important lessons that Mitt could learn from Silent Cal. First and foremost, Coolidge was a man of character who embodied the classic New England virtues upon which the Republic was founded: hard work, independent thinking (“common sense” as he called it), lack of pretense, sense of duty, perseverance, scrupulous honesty — in other words, the bedrock on which Coolidge had been raised in rural Vermont and on which he built his political career. The 1920s made for a decade of rapid social change, but Coolidge’s somewhat old-fashioned virtues resonated with the American public.

EDITORIAL: French follies
EDITORIAL: French follies
The Washington Times | When your president is a socialist, expect a lot of denial. So it is with France’s new leader, Francois Hollande, who wants more public-sector benefits, increased government expenditures and higher taxes as his country crumbles. Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz20b98ryJG

Md. governor blames outages on global warming
The Washington Examiner
Friday, July 13, 2012
News
Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley on Wednesday attributed the prolonged power outages that left hundreds of thousands of Marylanders in the dark to global warming, saying the state’s electricity grid could not handle stronger storms caused by climate change. Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz20b9YZ3sO
Feds foist chicken ID on frustrated farmers
Times247
Friday, July 13, 2012
Exclusive
Voter ID has gotten large amounts of media attention, but residents of rural areas are concerned about another identification issue that remains largely ignored: chicken ID. Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz20b9nuOhC
Pelosi gets her news from Colbert, Stewart
The Washington Examiner
Friday, July 13, 2012
Blogs
The Atlantic interviews Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for its “What I read” series, and it appears that in spite of her busy life as House minority leader, she has time to read a lot, citing over a dozen newspaper sources. Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz20bA2W28S

Obama says he failed at persuasion
Dave Boyer

President Obama, whose skills as an orator are credited with helping him win the presidency in 2008, said in an interview Thursday that he has failed in office to communicate effectively with the public. Read more…

GEEZ REMEMBER JIMMY CARTER’S “MALAISE” SPEECH…IS THIS A WHIFF OF DESPERATION/….RSK

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz20b8dfKBM

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4027

Campaign politics is all about pandering. You can’t expect a candidate to show up to talk anything but drivel when his survival is on the line.

But not always. Mitt Romney showed up this week in Houston to speak to the annual convention of the National Association of Colored People. Some people thought he was brave, others that he was merely foolish, and was wasting his time.

The stage was set for a Republican calamity. Earlier in the week, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder delivered a race-baiting speech that would have done a Demoractic pol in the Old South proud. He put the crowd surging into the aisles, howling their appreciation. He defended the Justice Department efforts to block laws in more than 30 states to require voters to show some sort of identification before getting a ballot. “The arc of American history has always moved toward expanding the electorate. It is what has made this nation exceptional.” More rafter-raising cheers from the delegates (who were required, by the way, to show ID to get into the hall).

The attorney general likened voter-identification requirements, enacted to prevent unqualified voters from stuffing ballot boxes with illegal votes, to the Jim Crow-era requirement in most Southern states to pay a poll tax (usually a dollar) to cast a ballot. Mr. Holder, a lawyer, was clearly basing his comparison on hearsay evidence. Voter-ID is required in many states a long way from Dixie, and it’s nothing like a poll tax. The usual forms of identification – a driver’s license, an employer’s identification – is all that is required in states with voter-ID laws, and, as in Texas, where the Justice Department is at the moment in court attacking the requirement, the states provide, free, an identification card. If the right to vote is, as the attorney general says, a citizen’s “most precious right,” it ought to be precious enough to take the trouble to get free and proper identification. Anyone who wants to drive a car, cash a check or buy a bottle of beer has to be prepared to go to such trouble.

Mitt Romney obviously knew he wouldn’t raise the rafters with anything approximating cheers, but showed up, anyway, to do what politicians, editorial writers and civics teachers say we all should do – address respectful arguments to those who disagree with us. Didn’t someone say that’s the American way? He paid the crowd the compliment of addressing them as grown-ups in a speech that was direct, assertive and dispassionate. He told them that he, not Barack Obama, was really the one they have been waiting for.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=277325

“Dershowitz’s latest two-state proposal is a masterpiece of logical inconsistency, with oxymorons being surpassed only by non-sequiturs.”

“A [Palestinian] state is liable to be an arrowhead directed at the very heart of Israel with all the force of the Arab world behind it…. this is the terrible danger involved in the establishment of a third independent sovereign state between us and the Jordan River – Amnon Rubinstein, former Meretz MK and education minister, Haaretz, 1976”

What is it about the Palestinian issue that induces the total eclipse of common sense in otherwise ostensibly intelligent people?

How long can two-staters cling to disastrously failed concepts? How long can they obdurately adhere to patently unfeasible policy proposals? How long can they continue to mouth meaningless mantras that fly in the face of painfully evident facts? How long can they go on resolutely ignoring reality – no matter how ruinous the consequences?

How long can they maintain the mendacious masquerade that their futile pursuit of fatal fantasy somehow validates their absurd claim to the moral and intellectual high ground?

How long will it take until intellectual integrity asserts itself and compels them to admit error?

These irksome questions keep pushing themselves into my mind whenever I encounter an new declaration of support for the two-state notion by people of the stature of Alan Dershowitz.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-cognitive-war-against-israel-in-the-settlement-debate/

“…..does anyone doubt that once the Palestinians, aided and abetted by mendacious Western elites, diplomats, and an anti-Israel international community of supporters, have purged Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem of all Jews, that new calls will then arise accusing Jews of “occupying” more “Arab” lands in Tel Aviv, Netanya, Tiberias, or Haifa?”

No sooner had retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy issued an 89-page legal opinion that seemed to confirm the legality of West Bank settlements, than the Obama administration chimed in with a well-worn criticism of the report’s findings, the long-held view that the presence of Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria violates international law. Levy’s committee had found that “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in the West Bank, and that claims that they exist in violation of international law are baseless.

But Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s office wanted no part of the report’s findings. “We do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity and we oppose any effort to legalize settlement outposts,” said her spokesman, Patrick Ventrell. And, he added, the State Department was “concerned about it, obviously.”

The problem with this defective diplomacy, as is often the case when Israel is concerned, is that operates in what Melanie Phillips has called “a world turned upside down,” where the perennial victim status of the long-suffering Palestinians trumps any sovereign rights of Israel regarding its borders, security, and even its survival in a sea of jihadist foes who yearn for its destruction. The settlement debate has also been hijacked by the Arab world and its Western apologists who, willingly blind to history, international law, and fact, continue to assign the blame for the absence of peace on the perceived offenses of occupation and Israeli truculence. Thus, Secretary Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, have both referred to the nuisance Israel causes by letting Jews live in the West Bank, against the wishes of the Palestinians who view that territory as once and forever theirs, as “unhelpful” in seeking a viable solution to Palestinian statehood.