Monday, April 30, 2012

WAR REALLY IS HELL

 
 
There are no good guys in war.
Everyone is fighting for survival.
And greedy, sadistic,
Mentally defective extremists,
Make life hell for everyone else.
 
Where are the heroes ?

Friday, April 27, 2012

THE HORROR OF CHILD ABUSE - BUT WHO CARES ?

 
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April 27, 2012
 
Ange Richmond shared Fighters Against Child Abuse's photo.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150769845749732&set=a.10150117180204732.287129.373779709731&type=1&ref=nf
As a society, we will speak out about gas prices, bitch about traffic, complain ...about a meal or a cup of coffee, and post our asses off by the thousands on facebook about a favorite contestant being voted off a reality show. On Monday this newborn baby was beaten to death...and you know what, the family knew the mother was suffering from depression because of an unwanted pregnancy! She complained about it, and made mention of not wanting this child! You know how long this little angel got to spend on this earth as a result of people not reporting or paying attention to this mom? An hour! One freaking hour! They found this child hidden in a box in the house with her husband. after the mom went to the hospital with heavy bleeding! They forced the pregnancy, then beat the child to death! People, the silence has to end, or we will never put a dent in this pandemic! We cannot ignore what we know, suspect or what the signs may tell us! This could have been avoided, this child could have been saved. But, people will continue to bitch about trivial meaningless bull ! So yes, take to the net because your fave was voted off Idol, gripe about your less than scalding coffee, or because you waited in the drive through to long...and lets let innocent lives be lost everyday! Why get mad at something meaningful...I mean it would only safe a life, right? Oh, don't forget to complain about this picture either! I am at my boiling point today! ~Joey
 
 
 

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

CANADA - A PARADISE FOR NAZIS

 
 
Accused Nazi living as Quebec beekeeper
 
Vladimir Katriuk, at his honeybee farm in Ormstown, Que., on Wednesday is alleged to be one of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals. 

Vladimir Katriuk, at his honeybee farm in Ormstown, Que., on Wednesday is alleged to be one of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals.

Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Andy Blatchford The Canadian Press

ORMSTOWN, QUE.—Propped up by a shovel that acts as his cane, Vladimir Katriuk putters about his wooded lot in rural Quebec, caring for his bees and appearing to have few worries other than this season's honey yield.

But a prominent Jewish human-rights organization insists there's much more to the cordial 91-year-old beekeeper — whom they allege is of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center recently ranked Katriuk No. 4 on its Top 10 list of suspected former Nazis, after a new study alleged he was a key participant in a village massacre during World War II.

An academic article alleged that, in 1943, a man with his name lay in wait outside a barn that had been set ablaze, operating a stationary machine gun and firing on civilians as they tried to escape. The same article said the man took a watch, bracelet and gun from the body of a woman found nearby.

Katriuk spoke with The Canadian Press this week at his small farm in Ormstown, just under an hour's drive from Montreal.

He has denied any involvement in war crimes in the past. This week he repeatedly refused to discuss anything about himself — other than his passion: the honey bees.

"I have nothing to say," Katriuk said of the accusations, after putting down a beekeeper's smoker and replacing a mesh veil for a floppy ball cap.

"When we talk about bees, that's different. When we talk about my own affairs, that's something else. I'm sorry."

Asked how he felt about having his name on the list of worst surviving Nazis, Katriuk paused. He reached into a box and pulled out a piece of a beehive: "You see?" he said. "Here they have started to make the royal cell (for a queen bee)."

The otherwise chatty Ukrainian-Canadian, who moved to Canada in 1951, claimed he wasn't aware his name was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list.

When pressed again about the allegations, he replied: "Let people talk."

Katriuk has faced accusations that he was a Nazi collaborator before, but this week Katriuk seemed fixated only on his bees, and their well-being.

Katriuk had an operation on his left knee three years ago and needs another one on his right, so he hobbles while moving between the close to 20 beehives that sit in rows on his land.

Despite the aches, he appears sturdy for his age.

"It's thanks to the bees that I'm still alive and that I can still move around," Katriuk said over the constant background hum of the insects.

Katriuk, who lives in a small house on the property with his wife, has been raising bees since 1959 and he insists he has only been stung a few times.

"I'm not scared of bees," said Katriuk, who sells honey off from his property for about $1.75 per pound. "You have to go softly, you can't agitate them."

A neighbour described Katriuk as a quiet man who keeps to himself in the sparsely populated area, only a few kilometres from the U.S. border.

"He's a quiet guy. I don't think he mixes in the community ever," said the man, who did not want to be named.

The neighbour acknowledged that locals are aware of the allegations about Katriuk, which have made many news headlines over the years.

The Federal Court ruled in 1999 that Katriuk lied about his voluntary service for German authorities during World War II in order to obtain Canadian citizenship.

The court concluded Katriuk had been a member of a Ukrainian battalion implicated in numerous atrocities in Ukraine — including the deaths of thousands of Jews in Belorussia between 1941 and 1944.

But in 2007 the Canadian government overturned an earlier decision to revoke Katriuk's citizenship, due to a lack of evidence.

Groups that have long been calling on the government to strip Katriuk of his citizenship now hope that fresh details published in a recent journal article will help change Ottawa's mind.

The article alleges Katriuk was directly involved in the March 1943 massacre that "annihilated" the German-occupied village of Khatyn in Belorussia, which is now Belarus.

Soldiers allegedly herded villagers into a barn and lit the roof on fire with a torch, according to witness testimony published in the article titled, "The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited."

"One witness stated that Volodymyr Katriuk was a particularly active participant in the atrocity: he reportedly lay behind the stationary machine gun, firing rounds on anyone attempting to escape the flames," said the article, authored by Lund University historian Per Anders Rudling.

Rudling, whose research was published in the spring 2012 issue of Holocaust Genocide Studies, attributed these details to KGB interrogations released for the first time in 2008.

After these new allegations surfaced, B'nai Brith Canada urged the Canadian government in a letter to reconsider its position on Katriuk.

David Matas, the organization's senior legal counsel, said Katriuk's case could also be raised Thursday with Stephen Harper during a scheduled B'nai Brith meeting with the prime minister.

Before the meeting with Harper, Matas said Canada's history in dealing with suspected war criminals has been "bleak."

"It was easier after (World War II) to get into Canada if you were a Nazi war criminal, than if you were a Jewish refugee," Matas said.

A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the Harper government "remains committed to identifying and removing people involved in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide from Canada, including revisiting new evidence on previously examined cases."

Ana Curic also said Kenney had "a fruitful discussion" with Holocaust survivors earlier this week, reassuring them that the government remains committed to the Katriuk case.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's so-called "Chief Nazi-Hunter" alleges the new "hard evidence" in Rudling's article will change everything in Katriuk's case.

Efraim Zuroff, co-ordinator of the organization's Nazi war crimes research project, said the most-wanted list also includes another Canadian: Helmut Oberlander, who's ranked at No. 10.

Oberlander's case is also in limbo, the group says.

Zuroff said the biggest problem in bringing suspected Nazis to justice is not finding them or the evidence — but a lack of political will in many countries to see that they're prosecuted.

"What's the chance of a 90-year-old Nazi war criminal committing murder again? Zero," Zuroff said in a phone interview from the Jerusalem area.

"All they have to do is wait it out. People are going to die soon anyway and they'll spare themselves the expense, the embarrassment and the problems — logistically or whatever — of prosecuting one of their own (citizens)."

Katriuk thought his own time was up last fall, when an ulcer burst in his stomach.

"I was almost finished," said Katriuk.

He added that he received five litres of blood during his two-week stay in hospital.

He hinted that one day he might tell his story — but he didn't say when.

"When it's time to talk, I will talk," he said. "Right now is not the time for me to talk."

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1169041--accused-nazi-living-as-quebec-beekeeper

FORGIVING OUR ENEMIES - CRIMINALS DELIGHTED BY OUR LAWS

 
We in North America are a namby-pamby society based on the New Testament command to love our enemies and to forgive them their trespasses "seventy times seven times". That means we forgive criminals of all kinds again and again and again.
 
Our legal systems find endless ways of letting criminals enjoy the good life for years, decades, while their victims are scorned, delayed, insulted, denied, and must suffer like Christ with the hope of reward in heaven - unless, of course, they are already dead and trying out first hand the promises about "heaven".
 
From the time little bullies are toddlers, we forgive and forgive, and they tear the wings off butterflies and set living cats aflame - a shocking sight I witnessed with my own eyes early one evening on a residential street a few years ago - and they grow up robbing corner stores and beating up women and children and smashing windows and burning cars. And we are told to forgive.
 
Until we have had enough pain and bloodshed, there will be no end to the tyranny commanded by the bible. Maybe when the children of politicians bleed, someone might reconsider the laws and their applications. But it would take more committees and more debates and more years of suffering, more robberies, more rapes, more beatings and more death - while "good" people thump their bibles.
 
Meanwhile, crime victims suffer day and night, year after year, some to the point of despair and desperate acts, including suicide.
 
Some raised to a state of uncontrollable rage and a thirst for revenge.
 
A few, sucking in the rage and expressing our revulsion for all the world to see, while our families and our health are destroyed from within.
 
And the police stand by eating donuts, or - as in my own case - physically helping the criminals.
 
Their hands, the police tell me, are tied by the law.
 
But who cares ?
 
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Now with more than 50,000 readers around the world,
and still no justice in Quebec.
 
I find it interesting that many people in Russia are showing an interest in these reports.
 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

DID THE NAZIS SUPPORT A SEPARATE QUEBEC ?

 
During World War II, Montreal Mayor Camilien Houde went to jail because he did not want Quebec to fight the Nazis.
 
Anti-Semitism has always been strong in Quebec. But nobody wants to talk about it - as if by pretending it isn't there, it will disappear. And so the game continues over the decades as politicians and wimps try to compromise with those who have no intention of ever compromising.
 
Only the Suburban Weekly, the award-winning Quebec English language newspaper, reports the reality of Quebec's nasty underbelly - a movement that is always striving to smother the rights and the voices and any evidence of the presence - the very existence - of people who are not pur-laine - that is those with pure French roots.
 
Imagine Canada with a separate Quebec. Think about it. Think about Quebec's citizens who are not pure enough. People who have lived in, and laboured and served and contributed and sacrificed for this land for more than a hundred years - not only Jewish people, but also aboriginal people - and so many others the separatists menacingly call "the ethnics" - do not qualify as "pur-laine" by the separatists.
 
Denying it, ignoring it, gives the extremists time to plan. It can't happen here?
 
The Jewish citizens of Europe were such highly esteemed, educated, cultured, industrious people, so much a part of European society, they did not imagine where those freight cars were taking them.
 
Wake up !
 
 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

PAKISTANI MEN GET AWAY WITH MURDER - WOMEN SCARRED FOR LIFE OR DEATH

 
Pakistani women's lives destroyed by acid attacks
 
Shama in hospital with her child Many acid attack victims are so traumatised by their experience that they end up committing suicide
 
Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year. An Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary has put the crime under the spotlight, but it is estimated that more than 150 women have acid thrown on them every year - usually by husbands or in-laws - and many never get justice. The BBC's Orla Guerin reports.

Her name is Shama, meaning "candle", and she says her husband burnt her flesh as if it was a candlewick.

The young mother of four has just joined the ranks of Pakistani women doused in acid. She is scarred for life, with burns on 15% of her body. Her crime was her beauty.

"My husband and I often had arguments in the house," she said, in her hospital bed. "On that day before going to sleep he said 'you take too much pride in your beauty'. Then in the middle of the night he threw acid on me, and ran away."

When her husband fled, he took her mobile phone with him, so she could not call for help.

Scorched cheeks

Shama shows me a picture taken at a children's party four months ago. It is a snapshot of an attractive young woman, with immaculate make-up, wearing an orange outfit flecked with gold.

Shama with her child before the attack Shama had every reason to take pride in her beauty before the attack

Her hair is swept back to reveal dangling earnings. But acid has erased that confident, composed Shama.

"I feel pain at what I was, and what I have become," she said, with tears coursing down her scorched cheeks.

"All the colours have gone from my life. I feel like I'm a living corpse, even worse than a living corpse. I think I have no right to live."

Shama now lies in Ward 10a of the burns unit in Nishtar Hospital in Multan in Pakistan's Punjab province.

It is a monument to neglect. The plaster is peeling off the walls and there is a leaking pipe hanging from the ceiling. When patients need transfusions, their relatives are despatched to buy pints of blood.

But the doctors here are expert at treating women disfigured by acid - they see one or two new victims every week.

At morning rounds they gather at Shama's bed, asking if she is eating, and is keeping her burns covered with cream. They try to relieve her pain, but cannot ease her despair.

"I can't say anything about the future," she says, "maybe I won't be alive. I will try - for my kids - to get back to how I was. I have to work to build a future for them.

"If I can't I'll do what one or two other girls have done.

"They killed themselves."

Shunned victims

Fakhra Younis, a former dancing girl in Karachi, was one such woman, who ended her life to escape suffering.

Acid attack victim Masqood Many attack victims are not optimistic about the chances of getting justice

It has been said of Fakhra that she died twice - once when she was drenched in acid 13 years ago, and again when she committed suicide in Italy last month.

Before taking her own life, she had endured almost 40 surgeries.

Supporters say Fakhra had given up hope of getting justice. Her former husband, who comes from a powerful political family, was acquitted of the attack.

He continues to protest his innocence.

Fakhra's death made the headlines here, but activists say many victims are shunned and silenced.

"Only about 10% of cases are getting to court," said Zohra Yusuf, the chair of Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.

"Even in high-profile cases like Fakhra's there are poor prosecutions. Most of the time, victims can't get a case registered by police."

Offenders now face a tougher sentence - between 14 years and life imprisonment - under a law passed last year. But most attackers still get off scott free, according to Marvi Memon, the former MP who sponsored the new law.

"Even if he [the attacker] gets caught, he'll pay police off and he'll get away with it in most parts of Pakistan," she said.

"It's the easiest way to punish a woman. You can just throw acid and destroy her entire life in one second."

'Multiple surgical procedures'

Marvi Memon blames a lack of political will to implement the law.

Quote

"I want the severest punishment for him," she said. "That would make anyone think a thousand times before committing such a crime.""

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"It's very difficult to get the police to co-operate with the women," she said, "because they are under no pressure to do so."

The government admits it needs to do more for acid victims, and says implementing the new law is a major challenge.

"Passing the legislation was a first step," said Shahnaz Wazir Ali, a goverment adviser, "but how do cases get to trial speedily? That's the part we still need to work on. We need to sensitise the police, the lower courts and even the legal community."

Back in Ward 10a, there's a new arrival. A woman named Maqsood is wheeled in, still wearing clothing eaten away by the acid.

Beneath her cream shawl the skin on her face is singed and mottled, and her right eye is sealed shut.

"My son-in-law came in the night, and threw acid on me," Maqsood said "after a small family dispute. He broke in through the roof. There was no power in our area, so we could not catch him."

But he was caught later, and he at least is now in custody.

A plastic surgeon, Dr Bilal Saeed, rushes to assess the new patient. He has treated hundreds of women like Maqsood in recent years. He admits to being depressed by his work.

"On average we do multiple surgical and cosmetic procedures on these patients," he said. "But whatever we do, we are not getting their smile back."

Many commit suicide, according to Dr Saeed, in spite of his best efforts.

He says others are forced to return to the in-laws or husbands who attacked them because of social pressure or money problems.

A few beds away, Shama's children come to visit, crowding around her bed.

She reaches out a burnt arm to stroke their anxious faces, and asks for her youngest, Noor, to be placed on her chest.

"Do pray for Mummy," she tells them, "ask God to make me get better quickly."

Shama's husband remains at large. If he is ever caught she wants acid thrown on his face.

"I want the severest punishment for him," she said. "That would make anyone think a thousand times before committing such a crime."

As the children prepare to leave, Shama cannot hold back her tears. For their sake, she says she will try to keep going.

But like Fakhra Younis before her, she is not expecting justice.

Related Stories

New laws to tackle acid attacks
Acid attack on Pakistan sisters
Iran acid attack man 'pardoned'
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17676542
 

WORLD SUICIDE BY GREED - CLIMATE CHANGE MELTING GLACIERS RAPIDLY

 

Photographing Climate Change

By David Levin
NOVA
 
In this audio slide show, James Balog shares the stories behind startling images from his Extreme Ice Survey, a three-year photographic study which documented the unprecedented melting of the world's glaciers and ice sheets. Balog considers himself a modern hunter-gatherer, collecting arresting visual evidence of climate change, which many scientists agree is proof of human-caused global warming.
 
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Acclaimed photographer James Balog describes his Extreme Ice Survey, a photographic record of arctic and alpine melting

 
JAMES BALOG:
 
My name's James Balog. I've been a nature photographer for 30 years. I work primarily for National Geographic. I was originally trained as a geologist early in my life, and I've been an avid mountaineer for my entire life. And the photography and the geology and the mountaineering have all come together in this enormous multi-year project I'm working on called The Extreme Ice Survey.

The Extreme Ice Survey, which we refer to as EIS, is a collaborative project involving leading glaciologists, atmospheric scientists and image makers. What we're trying to do is make a visual record, collecting evidence of the changes that are happening to glaciers and ice sheets around the world, and bring that evidence home and show the immediacy and reality of climate change. 

 
 ICELAND
This a glacier called the Solheimjökull, which is still sort of a bad English rendition of the word, but it means sun-house glacier in Icelandic. In this picture, I looked at the terminus of a glacier and I thought, "Oh my god. This thing is dying. It's collapsing." You could see it just fading into the river. I made this first triptych in March of 2005 for The New Yorker. And then in October of 2006 I went back and made the second picture from exactly the same place. And you can see the glacier is basically almost vanished. It's in the far background and it's receding up-valley. And that's continued to go on. That glacier is not even in this picture at all anymore. And we don't know how far it will go up the valley before it stops.

This is on the southeastern coast of Iceland where an immense ice field called Vatnajökull dumps all these huge icebergs into the ocean, they float out to sea, and they get pounded in the waves. And on the high tides, these chunks of ice get washed up on the beach, and block, by block, by block, this melting ice is the physical living process of global sea level rise.

This is an image of what we've come to call an ice diamond. As these blocks of glacier that are getting shattered get washed up on the beach, they assume these fantastic, gorgeous shapes. It's just like when you walk through some fantastic museum full of the hope diamond and all these wonderful sapphires, and emeralds, and rubies, and whatever. That's what nature is producing on this beach except that they exist only for this one rising of the tide, and when the tide comes back in again, it's going to carry it away, and then, poof, they're gone, and that glacier is gone with it. So it's a very special, very spiritual, very transitory kind of place where you really feel time and mortality passing.

GREENLAND
What is known very clearly, from very, very, very precise satellite measurements that are done is that the Greenland ice sheet is losing a huge amount of ice every single year. In this picture we're out at the end of the fjord of what's called The Ilulissat Glacier. And this one glacier puts more ice into the global ocean than all the other glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere put together. And this is a huge ice island that's broken off from that glacier and is in the process of floating out to sea. The local folklore has it that the iceberg that sank the Titanic came from this glacier, and just by the statistical odds of just how much ice this glacier produces, that quite possibly could be true.

In this image I'm down in a boat looking at these 'bergs and I was just struck by the delicacy of that touch. And internally in the office we refer to this picture as "The Kissing Icebergs" because there is just this illusion that they're gently nuzzling each other here. But I just love the shapes, you know, the lights and the shapes were so magical. And for whatever reason it seems like one of the central pictures of the series.
This feature is called a moulin, M-O-U-L-I-N. And The man who's standing down there is a geologist who was with me when we went out there with a helicopter to photograph these features. These melt water rivers take the melting snow from the surface of the Greenland ice sheet and they collect it into these rivers which flow along until they find some weakness in a crevasse in the ice, and they scour a hole eventually down to the bottom of the ice sheet 3,000 feet below on the bedrock. And there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them carrying the melt of Greenland out to sea.

There's thousands of these lakes painted across the surface of the ice. As melt is running off in the spring and summer it pools up in these lakes for a while, and then it'll run off into a channel perhaps or sometimes we've been discovering there will be these crevasses that will open up in the floor of these lakes. And all of a sudden, you'll have a huge lake that'll just, poof, just vanish, just drain right down through the ice in a matter of an hour or two or three or three or four.

When these melt lakes and the Moulins drain down to the bottom of the ice sheet, they're carrying heat down into the bottom of the ice. You know, water is warmer than ice, right? And what is apparently happening is that parts of the base of the sheet that had been frozen are getting thawed out by having this liquid water carrying heat moving past them. So, this is part of a cycle of warming up the ice and speeding up its flow out into the ocean.

SHRINKING GLACIERS WORLDWIDE
The Mer de Glace literally translates as sea of ice. It's a huge glacier in the alps, and the loss of ice has been really dramatic. Just in the past 20 years there's been this vertical deflation of basically 150 feet. That's a lot of ice lost! And in this particular shot you see where a sidewalk is constructed going down the granite wall of the Mer de Glace trough, the drainage that it comes down. Well, at the top of that where the red line is, is where that glacier was 20 years ago. And they had built a sidewalk so that tourists could walk out on the surface of the glacier. And as it drained down they had to keep building that sidewalk ever more downward so that people could still reach the glacier. So in its own strange way, these little sidewalk layers are like tree rings marking the old position of the glacier as it was shrinking. And in the yellow circle you can see person standing on one of those landings to give you a ittle bit of the sense of scale.

That's at the Columbia Glacier in Alaska. What I've done in this picture is something that no intelligent, self-respecting photographer would ever do and that is to put a cheesy illustration over his shot. But anyway, it's useful for trying to tell what's happening. At the top of the Empire State building here you see the high water mark of the glacier in 1984. And ever since then, it's been deflating. And the amount of ice that's lost is equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building. And if you've ever stood on 34th Street in New York and looked up at the top of that building, that is a long way up. So you can start to get a little sense for how much ice has disappeared.
Chacaltaya is in the Bolivian Andes outside La Paz. And this site was the site of the world's highest ski area originally. That summit is 17,200 feet, and the entire scene here was covered with a glacier in 1940. Now that glacier is all but vanished. In August of 2008, the glacier and had shrunken down to one last little scrap that's about six or seven feet high. And we expect that last little dwindling scrap of the glacier to be gone either next summer or the summer before, and poof, there will be no more Chacaltaya Glacier.

THE TAKEAWAY
This material is obviously a snapshot. It's a short-term snapshot of something that has been going on for a long time. Ever since there have been glaciers there have been retreating glaciers. But the big, big, big, big difference right now is that these glaciers are retreating at much faster rates than glaciers have in the known geologic past and it's very well-documented that the retreat rates have sped up significantly since the mid-1970s almost everywhere.

There's a tremendous amount of confusion in this society about what's going on with climate change. People have heard so many stories that a lot of people are sort of giving up and saying, "It's all just natural variation." I'm here to tell you it is not natural variation. And that is very, very, very well-documented in the scientific record.
And through these pictures, and through the EIS, and through what you're doing with books, and films, and TV shows, we can get the story out there in a way that we can't if we simply publish professional papers and speak to the specialists in the field. So I think science and art both have something to say to the public about what's going on. And that's what motivates me; I think with these tools we have a mechanism for telling the truth and bringing the evidence to the public.

VIDEO
This is the Columbia Glacier in Alaska and it's retreated over a 11 miles since the mid-1980s. And here you can see where it was in June, then in May, then in October of 2007. And then we begin our time-lapse and you can see the glacier flowing in from the right at the same time the terminus is retreating pulling back up the valley. And even in the winter time the glacier is for the most part retreating. Then it eventually catches up to itself, starts to advance for the summer. And, you know, you really have to look at this 10 or 15 times and watch all the amazing little details. These crevasses form on the right side, and all of a sudden a huge ice island will break off. But then by the time we got to June the glacier had retreated so far it was almost back out of the frame again.

So we pivoted the camera and then turned it back on and watched it rolling down the valley again. This glacier is—I would bet the cost of my daughter's college education on the fact that this glacier will retreat out of this frame within a year and a half maximum. And over the next 10 to 15 years it will retreat another 5 or 6 miles up to the right before it finally gets grounded back on land and stops retreating. And so eventually, at the end of this, we pull back so you can see the cycle of what's happened just in the past few years at the Columbia Glacier. The total retreat in the few years is one and quarter miles, and the retreat in that period has been equivalent to 165 school buses lined up nose to tail. It's a long distance.
 
Related Links
 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/extreme-ice.html

Extreme Ice

An acclaimed photographer teams up with scientists to document the runaway melting of arctic glaciers.

Posted 02.01.09

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/photographing-earths-melting-ice.htm

REMEMBERING PINOCCHIO IN A WORLD WALLOWING IN LIES

 
 
 
What would happen if everyone had to tell the truth ?
 

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

HE BUTCHERED HIS CHILDREN. GUY TURCOTTE NOT GUILTY.

 
THE STREETS ARE ALIVE
WITH THE SOUNDS OF OUTRAGE !
 
 
If anyone ever needed evidence that Quebec's and Canada's "justice system" is sick and corrupt, this case blares the truth. No one is safe because those who govern us, who make and apply our laws, those who have authority over our lives, are sick and are corrupt.
 
When we read that a psychiatrist has found Guy Turcotte no longer a danger, should not all rational people believe that, at least this psychiatrist, is unfit to practice? Was it not enough that Turcotte butchered his own two little children? Now the rest of us must protect ourselves because those we pay to protect us have failed miserably.
 
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ?
 
Where can we turn but to the people? Clearly, we will have to take action to protect ourselves, each according to his or her ability, skills, knowledge and level of integrity and courage.
 
The streets are alive with the sound of outrage !
 
Phyllis Carter
 
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SOCIETY'S IRRESPONSIBILITY ? THE GANG.
 
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July 5, 2011
 
Guy Turcotte has been declared not criminally responsible for killing his two children. The verdict came after the jury had deliberated for five-and-a-half days. We'll have more on this between 3-6
 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000343040806 
Phyllis Carter   No one is safe anymore. This is an outrage. It seems to me that the only way we will be able to protect ourselves from crime in Canada is if we start to take the law into our own hands. I am too old and sick to join a vigilante group, but I would not be surprised if others start to get serious about it.
 
GUY TURCOTTE - APRIL, 2012
 
15 Mar 2012 ... There is no reason, either medical or in terms of the danger he poses, that he should stay in hospital," said Dr. Louis Morrissette, who is ...
news.nationalpost.com/2012/.../guy-turcotte-who-killed-his-two-children-in-2009-has-changed-and-should-be-released-psychiatrist-testifies/
 
12 Jan 2012 ... Guy Turcotte, the former Quebec cardiologist found not criminally responsible for killing his children, tells a mental health review board that he ...

Child killer Turcotte 'ideal candidate' for release - Montreal - CBC ...

15 Mar 2012 ... Last Updated: Mar 15, 2012 11:41 PM ET. Guy Turcotte was found not criminally responsible last July in the deaths of his two children.
 
15 Mar 2012 ... MONTREAL - A psychiatrist says a man who fatally stabbed his children dozens of times in 2009 is fit to be released from a mental hospital. www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/.../guy-turcotte-release_n_1349266.html
 
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE
 
Now with almost 50,000 readers around the world
And still no justice in Quebec
 

THE NAZIS AND THE HOLOCAUST - THE WHOLE TRUTH IS SICKENING

 
As I strive to seek out and report truth in the face of a world that wallows in lies, I sometimes come upon reports like this one. I was looking for reports about the sinking of the refugee ship Sturmer during WWII, betrayed by the British who would not let the refugees come to safety in Israel, cut loose in the ocean and sunk by the Russians, leaving one sole survivor out of thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis. 
 
But what are we to make of this report I just found on the Internet in April, 2012? Nazi propaganda in the 21st century? No doubt. But I no longer have faith that "our side" are good guys, pure and noble and true. The lies continue all day long, every day, from every side, and it is painful and frightening to see the world as it is.
 
Phyllis Carter
 
 
Jewish Refugee Ships sunk by Jews and Their Western allied in May 1945.
The New Stürmer
 
Year 2003
 
Is every Abraham, Isaac, Ruth and Judith responsible for the suffering of the world? Yes, they have not protested against the evil their Jewish leaders do to us. We must hold all Jews responsible since none of them have said: "Do not attack these people!"
 
Dear kindred and fellow Aryans
 
This article I have had some help from good friends among whom is Dave Riviere.
In the late 1930's the Cap Arcona was Germany's most luxurious passenger liner that travelled the Europe-Sth America route.
 
Saving the Jews
 
In 1945 Allied Troops had encircled Germany and were advancing on all fronts. Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler was informed that the concentration camps were overflowing with prisoners and many of them were very ill with Typhus and other illnesses.
 
He ordered that around 15,000 Prisoners from the Concentration Camps in the north of Germany, namely Neuengamme, Belsen etc be put onto two ships lying in Bay of Luebeck, the CAP ARCONA and the slightly smaller ship the THIELBEK. The Prisoners were put on board these two luxurious ships and they were to be looked after by German Medical personnel. They were for all intents and purposes, Hospital Ships.
 
On May 3rd 1945, only 5 days before the war ended, a number of British Bombers attacked and sank the two ships, despite the fact that weather was clear and both ships were bearing Red Crosses, as signs they were Hospital ships. More than 7000 prisoners as well as many hundreds of German medical personnel died, either burnt to death or drowned. For weeks bodies of the victims were washed up on the shores of Luebeck Bay. I have posed a picture of some of the victims on my web-site under New Sturmer 2003 Edition. You should look at that picture.
 
This incident could has been put down to chaos of the last days of the war. But British Armour was only hours from rolling into the City of Luebeck and the war was obviously over, and where were these ships going to escape to anyway? They were unarmed and of no danger whatsoever to Allied troops. So it looked like just a major military BLUNDER if it hadn't been part of a sinister pattern.
 
During World War One. Great Britain had given Jewish Zionists the rights to Palestine and so, shortly after Adolf Hitler took power he decided to repatriate all Jews within his area of control back to Palestine and with the full co-operation of the Jewish IRGUN ZWAI LE'UMI he started deporting Jews from Germany to Palestine (now known as Israel. To the Arabs (Palestinians) however this was not a good idea and they threatened Great Britain that if they continued to let shiploads of Jews arrive in Palestine, they would cut off Great Britains OIL supply. Shortly thereafter the British Navy blockaded the English Channel and effectively stopped the flow. (You can reread about Hitler's pack with the Zionists on my web-site under 2002 Edition and "The Pact Between Hitler and The Zionists". I urge you to read that article.)
 
However both the Jews and Hitler were determined the Exodus should continue so they started sending off refugee ships full of Jews, from other European ports.
There is now a Museum in the Israeli town of Haifa dedicated to the 26 ships that took tens of thousands of Jews from Europe to Palestine. The Museum is also dedicated to the thousands of Jews that died during these voyages and that brings us to the six ships mentioned above, all of which shared a common fate.
 
All Ships were sunken either by Jews themselves or their Allies
 
The MEFKURA and the STURMA were sunk by Soviet submarines in the Black Sea.
 
The PATRIA was sunk by a Jewish Haganah Sabotage Team as it sat in Haifa Harbour.
 
The LILY, The CAP ARCONA and the THIELBEK were sunk by the British Royal Airforce.
 
Why is this not part of the Zionist/Jewish Holocaust history?
 
The sinking of six ships full with Jewish refugees from German concentration camps sunk by Jews saboteurs and Soviet should according to my understandings had been among the story the Jewish holocaust historians.
 
Beside being a crime against the Jews from side of Soviet, the Jewish Haganag Sabotage Team and Great Britain as they killed Jewish refugees, the things I have told in this article is also crime of war, a crime it is high time someone is held responsible for.
 
Crimes of war
 
The three ships bombed at Luebeck Bay had all Red Crosses painted all over the ships as signs they were Hospital ships. Still the British Royal Airforce bombed them.
When it come to the two ships sunk in the Black Sea they were also marked with Red Crosses on the side and top, and had a Red Cross flag showing the ship were carrying people under protection of the International Red Cross Organisation.
 
Even the two ships sunk by Jewish Haganah Sabotage Team were marked with Red Crosses and had Red Cross flags. Jewish groups knew the Germans had allowed Jews to emigrate to Palestine on board those ships.
 
None of these crimes have been taken up after WWII, neither have the international community condemned the crimes. Could the missing interest to condemn these war crimes be that it would show Germany had no Intention to kill any Jews during WWII?
 
Why did the International Red Cross not condemn the killing?? IRC was aware of the ships cargo - Jewish immigrants. Were IRC also afraid of the Jews after WWII??
German medical Personnel
 
Onboard the ships were a large number of German medical personnel - a personnel Germany could have used at home taking care of wounded Germans, but still the German leadership found it correct to send medical personnel to help Jews who emigrated from Germany to Palestine. The German personnel were protected by the laws of war according to the Hague Conference of 1907 and the the Geneva Conference. Why did the International Red Cross not act on behalf of the medical personnel??? Because they were Germans?
 
Does such a behaviour, sending ships with Jews away from Germany at the end of the war, from side of the German leadership indicate that they intended to kill Jews? I look upon you as intelligent enough to answer that question without any help from me.
Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler visiting Lodz ghetto
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We have all heard the Jews saying how the Germans hated Jews before and during WWII. If you go to my web-site under New Sturmer 2003 edition and this article you can find a picture of Reichsfuehrer Himmler's visiting with the Jewish leader Chaim Rumkowski at the ghetto in Lodz on June 6, 1941. The photo can be seen if you visit the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
 
I have problem understanding how Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler would visit the ghetto in Lodz if he hated the Jews and wanted to kill them. If any of you understand please tell me.
 
To me this photo and the story I just have told you are pieces in the chain of evidence that the Germans never carried out any killing or gassing of Jews either before nor during WWII.
 
We should start asking the Jews for proofs - proofs that will hold out in a free court of law - for their allegations that the Germans gassed Jews in any camp during WWII or of all the other cockeyed allegations the Jews have said.
 
In the face of Chutzpah, Jewish audacity and swindle, resistance must be a national duty.
 
Heil og sael
 
 

Sunday, April 15, 2012

WHO IS THIS RUSSIAN SOLDIER ?

 
 
I see that I have a considerable following in Russia.
Can anyone give me information about this soldier ?
 
 
 
Can you translate the lettering in the picture ?
 
 

STOLEN SONGS OF AFRICA - SOLOMON LINDA'S, THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT

 
 
 
While the American entertainment industry wallows in wealth, the originators of some of the most beautiful music "adopted" by the western industry live in shacks and struggle with AIDS. The Zulu composers and musicians have been royally ripped off by western lawyers and money-grabbing colonialist commercial interests. SHAME !
 

Mbube: Linda's Lion sleeps at last

Mary Alexander

This is a story about numbers: 10 shillings, US$15-million, 70 years, over 160 covers and three centuries of continuous radio air play. It's the story of a song we all know, the impoverished Zulu migrant worker who wrote it, the musicians and record companies who raked in millions for it, and the almost 70 years it has taken for his family to see justice done.

The song is Mbube, produced by Zulu musician Solomon Linda in 1939. It's estimated that Linda received a total of 10 shillings for the song. Yet the tune went on to become Pete Seeger's runaway hit Wimoweh, then the Tokens' The Lion Sleeps Tonight, on to at least 160 covers, before ending up in the voices of Timon and Pumbaa, the meerkat and warthog characters in Disney's classic movie and Broadway hit The Lion King.

Along the way, it is said to have earned some US$15-million (R90-million) in royalties - but not for Linda. The musician died in 1962 with less than R100 in his bank account. His widow couldn't afford a headstone for his grave.

Solomon Linda and the Evening Bird
Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds in 1941. From left, Solomon Linda (soprano), Gilbert Madondo (alto), Boy Sibiya (tenor), Samuel Mlangeni (bass) and Owen Skakane (bass). (Image: The International Library of African Music at Rhodes University and Veit Erlmann )

In February 2006, Linda's legacy finally received some justice. After a six-year battle his surviving daughters Delphi, Elizabeth and Fildah, who had claimed almost R10-million from copyright holder Abilene Music, settled their dispute for an undisclosed sum. The settlement involves back payment of royalties to the family and the right to receive future payments for worldwide use.

The basis for the family's case was the Dickens Provision, which stipulates that 25 years after a creator's death, all rights should revert to the heirs, who would then be entitled to renegotiate deals and secure better royalty terms.

The Dickens Provision was inserted into the Copyright Act of Great Britain - and its former colonies - in the early 20th century after outrage that the works of Charles Dickens were generating huge profits for publishing companies while his family was destitute.

Enter Rolling Stone

"The settlement came about as a result of pressure from various sectors of society, both in South Africa and overseas," family lawyer Hanro Friedrich told Business Day at the time of the settlement.

It's unlikely that this pressure would have come to bear if it hadn't been for Rian Malan, South African journalist and author of the bestselling My Traitor's Heart.

In 2000 Malan delved deep into the story of Solomon Linda and his remarkable song for Rolling Stone magazine, producing a four-part expose that brought world attention to the song and the injustice done to Linda and his family.

It was Malan who, after consulting widely with experts on music copyright, came up with the $15-million royalties estimate.

"It is the most famous melody ever to emerge from Africa," Malan says of Mbube, "a tune that has penetrated so deep into the human consciousness over so many generations that one can truly say, here is a song the whole world knows.

"[I]t mutated into a truly immortal pop epiphany that soared to the top of the charts here and then everywhere, again and again, returning every decade or so under different names and guises.

"Navajo Indians sing it at pow-wows. Japanese teenagers know it as TK … It has been recorded by artists as diverse as REM and Glen Campbell, Brian Eno and Chet Atkins, the Nylons and schlockmeister Bert Kaempfert. The New Zealand army band turned it into a march. England's 1986 World Cup soccer squad turned it into a joke. Hollywood put it in Ace Ventura Pet Detective.

"It has logged nearly three centuries of continuous radio air play in the US alone."

Syncopated Zulu music in Msinga

Solomon Linda grew up in the Msinga in the heartland of rural Zululand. A typical rural kid of the time, he herded cattle and attended the Gordon Memorial mission school. But he was also strongly influenced by the new syncopated music that had swept across South Africa from the US since the 1880s, working it into the Zulu songs he and his friends sang at weddings and feasts.

In the 1930s Linda joined the stream of young African men who left their homesteads to find menial work in Johannesburg, a sprawling gold-mining town hungry for cheap labour.

"Life is initially very perplexing," Malan says. "Solly keeps his eyes open and transmutes what he sees into songs that he and his home boys perform a capella on weekends.

"He has songs about work, songs about crime, songs about how banks rob you by giving you paper in exchange for real money, songs about how rudely the whites treat you when you go to get your pass stamped. People like the music."

How much was ten shillings?

How much was ten shillings? One shilling was 12 pence and 10 shillings half a pound. In 1939, the year Mbube was recorded, the government estimated a black urban family needed at least 37 shillings and sixpence a week simply to survive. So Solomon Linda was paid roughly one quarter of what one black family needed to survive for one week in Joburg in 1939 - for a song that earned others $15-million.

 

Linda's popularity grew, and in 1938 he and his band the Evening Birds - "a very cool urban act that wears pinstriped suits, bowler hats and dandy two-tone shoes" - were spotted by a talent scout. They were taken to sub-Saharan Africa's only recording studio - owned by Italian Eric Gallo, the founder of Gallo Records - to cut a number of songs.

Visited by angels

In 1939, during the band's second recording session, Linda was "visited by angels", Malan says. He opened his mouth and produced a three-chord song with lyrics something like "Lion! Ha! You're a lion!", inspired by boyhood memories of chasing lions stalking the family cattle. The song was called Mbube, Zulu for "lion".

"The third take was the great one," Malan writes of that recording session, "but it achieved immortality only in its dying seconds, when Solly took a deep breath, opened his mouth and improvised the melody that the world now associates with these words:

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."

At the time, payment for record deals was primitive. Unknown acts signed no contracts and received no royalties. They were given what the record company determined their work was worth and that was it. Malan estimates that Linda was paid about 10 shillings for the song. All the subsequent income Mbube derived - in its first incarnation - went straight into the pockets of Eric Gallo.

The song did pretty well for itself. Released on 10-inch 78rpm records, it went on sale as Hitler invaded Poland, and slowly picked up a sizeable following. By 1948 Mbube had sold some 100 000 copies in South Africa, requiring so many pressings that the master eventually disintegrated.

Solomon Linda became a local superstar in the world of Zulu migrants. "He was the Elvis Presley of his time and place," Malan says, "a shy, gangly 30-year-old, so tall that he had to stoop as he passed through doorways." Working at a menial job in Gallo's packing plant, he continued to perform until he collapsed on stage in 1959, struck down by kidney disease. He grew so sick he had to stop performing, and died on 8 October 1962 aged 53.

The proto-hippie and Senator McCarthy

At the time of Linda's death, his song had already made it to the top of the US charts in two different incarnations: Wimoweh by Pete Seeger, and The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens.

But how did Mbube make it from the obscure black urban ghettoes of South Africa to the ears of hip American youth? The story goes that Pete Seeger's friend Alan Lomax, the father of world music, rescued a package of 78 records brought from Africa that were about to be thrown away, thinking "God, Pete's the man for these."

Pete Seeger, the son of wealthy New York radicals, was "a proto-hippie", Malan says - "save that he didn't smoke reefer or even drink beer". He was a socialist, a pacifist - until Hitler invaded Russia - and a folk musician who sang songs championing the common people. When Lomax brought him the records Seeger put the one with Mbube on the label on his old Victrola. "Golly," he said. "I can sing that."

"He was fascinated," Malan writes. "There was something catchy about the underlying chant, and that wild, skirling falsetto was amazing."

Seeger transcribed the song, but of course he couldn't understand the Zulu coming from the hissing disk. So Linda's line uyimbube - Zulu for "you're the lion" and roughly pronounced "oo-yim-boo-beh" - came out the end of Seeger's pen as "wimoweh".

Wimoweh was recorded in 1951 by Seeger and his band the Weavers, in a version faithful to the Zulu original - apart from the lyrics, of course. "The true test lay in the singing," Malan says, "and here Seeger passed with flying colours, bawling and howling his heart out, tearing his vocal chords so badly that by the time he reached 75 he was almost mute."

Wimoweh was a hit, named a pick of the week by Billboard and reaching number six on the charts. Variety called it "terrific!" Seeger himself said it became "just about my favourite song to sing over the next 40 years".

But this was the era of McCarthy witch hunts, and Seeger's politics made him an inevitable quarry of the commie-chasing House Un-American Affairs Committee. In Febuary 1952, just as Wimoweh made its chart debut, a former trade union colleague of Seeger's named Harvey Matusow denounced the musician to the committee.

In "one of the looniest tales of the entire McCarthy era", Malan says, Matusow testified that communists were "preying on the sexual weakness of American youth". And he was willing to give names - one of which was Seeger.

The public reaction was immediate. The press went wild, Weavers' shows and television appearances were cancelled, radio stations banned their records and Wimoweh tumbled off the charts.

Eating lions with the Tokens

But Solomon Linda's song was too good to disappear. Throughout the 1950s it steadily accumulated covers - one by jazz legend Jimmy Dorsey - until pretty much everyone in the US knew the basic tune. Including up-and-coming Brooklyn boy-band the Tokens, who had secured a record deal with RCS Victor.

According to Malan they had been told by "some joker" at the South African consulate that the song was a Zulu hunting song with lyrics that translated as, "Hush, hush. If everyone's quiet, we'll have lion meat to eat tonight." That wouldn't work for a boy-band song, so the record company gave it to Juilliard-trained George Weiss for a rework.

Weiss "dismantled the song, excised all the hollering and screaming, and put the rest back together in a new way," Malan writes. "The chant remained unchanged, but the melody - Solomon Linda's miracle melody - moved to centre stage, becoming the tune itself, to which the new words were sung: 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle …

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight was a reworking of Wimoweh, which was a copy of Mbube. Solomon Linda was buried under several layers of pop-rock stylings, but you could still see him beneath the new song's slick surface, like a mastodon entombed in a block of clear ice."

There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for the song, and it was released as the B side of a mundane song called Tina, which went nowhere. But The Lion Sleeps Tonight was a hit, reaching number one in November 1961, and is the only song for which the Tokens are remembered.

From that moment, there was no stopping Mbube. By April 1962 it was topping the charts all over the world. South African exile Miriam Makeba sang it at John F Kennedy's last birthday party. Apollo astronauts listened to it at Cape Canaveral.

"It was covered by the Springfields, the Spinners, the Tremeloes and Glen Campbell," Malan writes. "In 1972 it returned to the charts … in a version by Robert John. Brian Eno recorded it in 1975. In 1982 it was back at number one in the UK, this time performed by Tight Fit.

"REM did it, as did the Nylons and They Might Be Giants. Manu Dibango did a twist version. Some Germans turned it into heavy metal. A sample cropped up on a rap epic titled "Mash up da Nation". Disney used the song in "The Lion King …

"It's more than sixty years old, and still it's everywhere."

Show me the money

Mbube is now edging towards the 70-year-old mark, and only now is Solomon Linda's family seeing any real financial benefit. But how much has it earned over all those years, all those covers, for other people?

"I put the question to lawyers around the world, and they scratched their heads," Malan says. "Around 160 recordings of three versions? Thirteen movies? Half a dozen TV commercials and a hit play? Number Seven on Val Pak's semi-authoritative ranking of the most-beloved golden oldies, and ceaseless radio airplay in every corner of the planet?

"It was impossible to accurately calculate, to be sure, but no one blanched at $15 million. Some said 10, some said 20, but most felt that $15 million was in the ball park."

It's unlikely that Solomon Linda's daughters will be seeing anything like that, but at least some justice has now been done. The court settlement means they will be able to escape the dire poverty under which the family has lived since their father's death. The money will go into a trust, to be administered by SA Music Rights CEO Nick Motsatsi.

Linda wasn't bitter that his song brought success to others. "He was happy," his daughter Fildah told Malan. "He didn't know he was supposed to get something."

SAinfo reporter

 

 

Folk musician and 'proto-hippie' Pete Seeger, who in 1952 produced Wimoweh, the second version of Mbube, and introduced Linda's song to the rest of the world (Image: 3rd Ear Music)
 

On 17 February 2006 Solomon Linda's surviving daughters Delphi, Elizabeth and Fildah, who had claimed almost R10-million from copyright holder Abilene Music, finally settled their dispute over royalties for Mbube for an undisclosed sum.



http://www.southafrica.info/about/arts/mbube-210206.htm#ixzz1s7WoTWE6

Thursday, April 12, 2012

A MAN WHO HITS A WOMAN IS A CRIMINAL

 
 
 
A man that hits a woman is not a man.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=83310&catid=8.

Update due to Victim's own request !

St. Petersburg, Florida — Stephanie Rockfield, 19, says she was punched in the face while riding her bike on the Pinellas Trail through St. Petersburg. And the two suspects got away with just one dollar.

Rockfield said she had just worked out at the YMCA on 5th Avenue South and was riding her bike home. She was passed by two men on bikes who were going the opposite direction. But then, she says they turned around, passed her and blocked the path in front of her.

"I swerved around him, and I was like, 'Excuse me.' And he said, 'No.' And he hit me off my bike," Rockfield explained. The punch left her with a blue knot over her right eye and minor head trauma.

When she was on the ground, Rockfield said the two men grabbed her sports bag and hit the side of her head until she dropped it. Inside, Rockfield had her wallet, IDs, house keys and one dollar.

The men eventually rode away and Rockfield managed to ride her bike home. Because the men made off with her ID and house keys, Rockfield's family had to change their door locks.

Both suspects are described as black, 18 to 19 years old, between 5'8" and 5'9" and weighing about 120 pounds. A witness told police he saw one of the men dispose of a maroon-colored beach cruiser bicycle after the attack.

If you have any information, you're asked to call St. Petersburg Police at (727) 893-7780 .

The attack happened just a few blocks away from where police say two people mugged a man in a wheelchair on Tuesday.

Janie Porter, Tampa Bay's 10 News
THINK CRAZY !!!

TYRANTS ABUSE GOD

 
 
 
 
Wicked people who crave power
Use the fear of God
To control the minds of  the weak,
And the naive,
Stealing their freedom,
Their innate righteousness,
And their self respect.
 
If you believe there is a God,
Do not let any human being
Become your god.