ISIS Executes Gay Men by Throwing Them Off Building
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has posted images on Twitter showing the executions of four men, and one woman.
Isis throws men to deaths in Nineveh, Iraq. (Twitter)
Isis stones a woman to death for allegedly committing adultery. (Twitter)
According to The Daily Beast:
ISIS-affiliated social media feeds began spreading the images Thursday. Those accounts linked to a justpasteit.com file attributed to the “Information Office of the mandate of Nineveh,” an apparent propaganda arm tied to Islamic state press releases. The public executions appear to have taken place in Mosul, the capital of the Islamic State and Iraq’s second largest city sits in Nineveh province.ISIS has used public executions to both enforce the group’s version of Sharia Law, and serve to scare or intimidate the locals and potential rivals.
To try and better understand these actions (as much as one can understand them), The Daily Beast posted an excerpt from “Profiling the Islamic State” by Charles Lister of the Brookings Institute’s Doha Center. He writes about ISIS’ version of Islamic governance:
“The implementation of a strict form of sharia law is clearly central to IS’s governance,” he writes. “This includes imposing the hudud (fixed Islamic punishments for serious crimes); enforcing attendance of the five daily prayers; banning drugs, alcohol, and tobacco; controlling personal appearance, including clothing; forbidding gambling, non-Islamic music, and gender mixing; and ordering the destruction of religious shrines, among other rules.” (PDF)
When her fiancé unexpectedly dumped her five days before their wedding on Nov. 1, Swink, 23, decided to commemorate the day with some unconventional — and colorful — wedding portraits.
"I knew that a pity party was the farthest thing from what I wanted or needed. A few people brought up the idea of trashing the dress, and at first it sounded crazy," Swink said in an e-mail.
The ingredients for a memorable "trash the dress": family, friends, celebratory cigars, champagne and paint — lots of it.
Wallowing was not invited to the party.
Via a phone call from her hometown of Memphis, Tenn., Swink tells USA TODAY Network the inside scoop: "Liz (Hoard, the photographer) wanted to make sure we wouldn't go all out and just throw all the paint in 15 minutes. She wanted to stage it, so it starts formally and everyone slowly loosens up. By the end, everyone is crazy and wild," she says.
The day of the shoot, Swink says, it was freezing. "We were wet with the paint and our fingers were numb, but it was so, so fun to just live in the moment."
Swink says that when her fiancé broke up with her, she felt "numb." They started dating in the beginning of 2011, moved in together in December 2013 and got engaged in March.
While the fame is unexpected, Swink is excited that the photos have empowered others in her situation. "So many people have contacted me telling their stories. I did the photo shoot for myself, not realizing that it would affect others," says Swink.
Her advice: "Everything happens for a reason and when life gives you something you can't handle, just face it head-on."
A two-year-old boy shot and killed his mother in a northern Idaho Walmart today. The woman was shopping with several children, and the toddler reportedly reached into her purse where he accidentally pulled the trigger of her concealed firearm.
KREM-TV reports that video surveillance in the store, as well as witnesses on the scene, helped deputies determine that the shooting was accidental. Hayden authorities said the deceased woman, whose identity has not been released, was in her late 20s and she had a permit for a concealed weapon. Lt. Stu Miller from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office says they’re waiting to notify the woman’s family before releasing any more information about her.
The shooting took place in the electronics department of the store, which is located in Hayden, Idaho, about 40 miles (64km) northeast of Spokane, Washington.
Walmart issued this statement Tuesday afternoon:
A very sad incident occurred at our store today involving the death of a female customer. We are fully cooperating with the Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputies as they investigate this matter.The company plans to reopen the Hayden location on Wednesday, December 31st.
According to the Associated Press, “Hayden is a politically conservative town of about 9,000 people just north of Coeur d’Alene in Idaho’s northern panhandle.”
Can you believe that it’s already December? This year has flown by in the blink of an eye and we’re on the verge of yet another year — a year full of possibility.
What you will accomplish next year greatly depends on the people you surround yourself with. Or, in other words, it greatly depends on which people you decide not to surround yourself with.
When bringing in the new year, be sure not to bring all your garbage with you. Leave these toxic individuals in 2014; you’ll feel much lighter, allowing you to get a great running start on the year to come.
1. The people who make your life more stressful.
Stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing — in fact, it’s what you make it out to be. If you believe stress is bad for you, then it will be bad for you. If you use stress as the motivator it is, to motivate you to act, then stress can actually be rather healthy.However, you should aim to only be stressed by situations and not by people. If you have people in your life who are constantly managing to stress you out, that’s your mind telling you — and trying to motivate you — to remove them from your life.
Life is stressful as it is. You don’t need someone making it more so.
2. The people who use you.
To be fair, everyone uses everyone — and usually it’s OK. We interact with others because we find that it will benefit us in some way. If we didn’t believe it would, then we wouldn’t find sufficient reason to interact with them.Sometimes we find people in our lives who use us in ways that end up hurting us. Most people will use us and by doing so, either maintain or improve our wellbeing.
Then you have those toxic individuals who use you and leave you worse off, sucking you dry and feeding off you like a parasite.
These sorts of people have no place in your life; don’t bring them into 2015.
3. The people who don’t respect you.
Every respectful person deserves to be respected in return; that’s how respect works. If you find that you have a person or people in your life who have difficulty giving you the respect you give them, tell them to buzz off.Have enough respect for yourself to never allow others to disrespect you and remain a part of your life.
4. The people who always manage to hurt you.
People can be silly sometimes. The people we keep a part of our lives are the people we care about — or at least, that ought to be the case. Some of these individuals, sadly, end up hurting us and causing us pain.The problem is that when others cause us pain, we’re reminded of how much those people mean to us. If they could hurt us emotionally, we must care for them and what they think of us a great deal — so we allow them to remain a part of our lives.
Often, we’ll even allow these individuals to take up more room. People hurt other people — it’s just the way the world works. But if you have someone in your life who can’t manage to stop hurting you, do yourself a favor and cut that person off.
Pain is only good if it teaches you a lesson. In this case, the lesson is to stop allowing others to use you as a punching bag.
5. The people who can’t seem to stop lying to you.
Everyone lies. In fact, within the first few minutes of meeting a new person, that person is likely to lie to you a handful of times. Most lies are harmless, but that all changes when the people who are lying to you are the people you trust.Fill your life with trustworthy people and you’ll be far better off. You can find lies just about anywhere. Finding the truth, on the other hand, is much more rare.
6. The people who smile to your face and then insult you behind your back.
These are the scum of the scum, cowards that don’t have the guts to speak their minds. These individuals enjoy pretending to be your friend while telling the rest of the world that you’re a piece of sh*t.These people will ruin your reputation and, as most of us now know, reputation matters a whole lot in the world we live in. Only idiots would start a new year with these sorts of individuals in their life.
7. The people who don’t care about you, but love to pretend they do.
We’ve all had people in our lives who act like our friends only when it’s convenient for them.These toxic individuals are “pseudo friends” — a lot of fun to hang out with, and more than willing to accept help, but when you need their help they’re miraculously nowhere to be found.
These individuals are especially toxic because they give you the illusion of a safety net. You think you can lean on them for support, but when you reach for their shoulder, you fall over and hit the ground.
8. The people who drag you back into your old lifestyle.
Life is only interesting and exciting if it’s constantly progressing. Only when we’re constantly moving forward, constantly improving ourselves and our surroundings, are we able to find contentment and happiness.Most people always manage to keep people in their lives who are holding on to the life you once had.
You have worked hard to progress and make changes, but these individuals prefer life the way it used to be, and do their best to bring you back to the cave you just crawled out of.
Be wary of these folks, they’re often difficult to pinpoint and always manage to revert the progress you worked so hard to make.
9. The people who hold you back.
There’s a fact to life that I’ve grown to accept over the past few years — a fact that isn’t especially pleasant, but nonetheless necessary to accept as truth: Many people in your life, the people you call friends, shouldn’t be a part of your life.As time passes, we change as individuals. Our hopes and goals change, often leaving the relationships we have in place outdated.
Many of the people in your life likely don’t want to live the life you’re building for yourself. Because they’re egocentric, they’ll do their best to create their version of their ideal life and drag you into it.
Most times, people fail to create the life of their dreams because they surround themselves with people aiming for something entirely different.
If your goals aren’t aligned, your lives aren’t either.
10. The people just taking up space.
Everything in life is limited. Resources are limited. Time is limited. Space is limited. What you can accomplish within a lifetime is limited. We can’t, and never will be able to, have it all.This is why you have to be very careful with not only what you choose to do, but with whom you choose to do it with.
You can only maintain a handful of strong relationships at any given time — you just don’t have the time, energy or mental focus to handle more.
If you’re filling your life with half-assed individuals, you’re bound to create a half-assed life. If someone isn’t adding to your life, then, by default, they’re taking away from it.
Leave them in 2014 and build a better inner circle.
Flagstaff, Ariz., officer Tyler Stewart, 24, who was shot in the face during a domestic violence call has died since this report aired. KPNX-TV, Phoenix
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's MetroTV station is reporting
that an AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard is missing after takeoff
from Indonesia on the way to Singapore.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
The News reports that firefighters were alerted to the blaze by an unusual report from a Dallas Fire-Rescue dispatcher:
"Got a rather tall cowboy with all his clothes burned off," the dispatcher said over the radio, according to the newspaper.
WFAA-TV says the structure was originally created as Santa Claus and was bought by the State Fair for $750 to become the hulking cowboy.
Bill Bragg, who provided Big Tex's voice live for the past 10 years from a nearby trailer, tells the News he was reading from his script and didn't see the fire until he glanced up. "He went down talking," Bragg, who watched with tears in his eyes, tells the News.
Mitchell Glieber, vice president of marketing for the fair, says it was likely an electrical short circuit in Big Tex's vocal equipment that caused the blaze.
"There's obviously some electronics inside of Big Tex that leads to the ability for his mouth to move when he speaks," Glieber tells WFAA-TV. "I believe there was an electrical short, but that hasn't been confirmed or investigated."
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
The News reports that firefighters were alerted to the blaze by an unusual report from a Dallas Fire-Rescue dispatcher:
"Got a rather tall cowboy with all his clothes burned off," the dispatcher said over the radio, according to the newspaper.
WFAA-TV says the structure was originally created as Santa Claus and was bought by the State Fair for $750 to become the hulking cowboy.
Bill Bragg, who provided Big Tex's voice live for the past 10 years from a nearby trailer, tells the News he was reading from his script and didn't see the fire until he glanced up. "He went down talking," Bragg, who watched with tears in his eyes, tells the News.
Mitchell Glieber, vice president of marketing for the fair, says it was likely an electrical short circuit in Big Tex's vocal equipment that caused the blaze.
"There's obviously some electronics inside of Big Tex that leads to the ability for his mouth to move when he speaks," Glieber tells WFAA-TV. "I believe there was an electrical short, but that hasn't been confirmed or investigated."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's MetroTV station is reporting that an AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard is missing after takeof... -
Can you believe that it’s already December? This year has flown by in the blink of an eye and we’re on the verge of yet another year —... -
A two-year-old boy shot and killed his mother in a northern Idaho Walmart today. The woman was shopping with several children, and the ... -
ISIS Executes Gay Men by Throwing Them Off Building The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has posted images on Twitter showing the exec... -
Shelby Swink has a powerful message: When life throws you a mess, make an even bigger mess. When her fiancé unexpectedly dumped her five...
Recent Comment