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Anti-gay hate preacher accidentally tweets 4,000 followers cartoon clip of him 'confessing' to be a 'homosexual sodomite'

A controversial anti-gay hate preacher has mistakenly tweeted a satirical cartoon mash-up that sees him confessing to being a “homosexual sodomite”.

New York pastor James David Manning, leader of the ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem, appears to have shared Adam Reake’s video with his 4,215 followers accidentally – or at least without actually watching the entire clip.

Mr Reake’s mash-up has the anti-gay hate preacher, who most recently urged his followers to boycott Starbuck because – according to him – the global chain has been using the “sodomites’ semen” to flavour their lattes, confess to being a “homosexual sodomite”.

He then goes on to say in the video: “Now I know why I go to Starbucks.”

The video continues in a similar vein for the rest of the three minutes and it has already clocked up over 2,000 views since being published earlier this week.

It seems unlikely Manning, who in an interview earlier this year said he regards homosexuality as a “detestable, abominable, diseased practise”, is aware of the full content of the cartoon.

He first came to America’s attention in 2008 when he accused then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s mother of being “white trash” for sleeping with a black man and since then has become embroiled in various other unsavoury campaigns.

These include, but are not limited to, accusing President Obama of “using gay people to wipe out the black community”, claiming that Starbucks is “ground zero” for Ebola and calling on Harlem residents to boycott all shops thus halting gentrification and returning the neighbourhood to the black community, who he perceives are the sole rightful owners.

ATLAH, All The Land Anointed Holy, Church was founded by Reverend Millard Alexander Stanley in 1957. In 1981 Manning replaced Stanley as chief pastor.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/antigay-hate-preacher-accidentally-tweets-4000-followers-cartoon-clip-of-him-confessing-to-be-a-homosexual-sodomite-9877512.html

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Can someone do this for Tony Hotpants

by fulltimestudent in

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why can't someone do a send-up on tony tightpants, like this:.

from a web-site that specialises in sending up krazy kristians.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duovpv_cv0a&list=uugvqqc-ghau1v88figojl9g.

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fulltimestudent

Why can't someone do a send-up on Tony tightpants, like this:

From a web-site that specialises in sending up Krazy Kristians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOvpV_Cv0A&list=UUGvqqC-gHau1v88FiGOjl9g

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John 14:14

by InChristAlone in

john 14:14, in most translations, says something to the effect of, "if you ask me anything in my name, i will do it.

" (my emphasis on "me") the kjv (and relative translations) and the nwt do not have "me" in it.

most of the translations that keep the word were based on the westcott and hort which has the greek "me", however the kjv doesn't because it was based on the textus receptus which does not have the greek "me".

fulltimestudent

Generally, it is often difficult to know what the original author may have written.

Yahweh does a bloody lousey job of preserving his "truth."

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Poverty in China in 2014.

by fulltimestudent in

china daily recently published this overview of poverty in china: reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-10/16/content_18755643.htm.

under the general heading of, behind the glamour.. .

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fulltimestudent

Here's another Chinese perspective on the above report.

It's from the Chinese Economic Review, a more serious look at Chinese economics, and takes the line, which seems logical, the the problem is smaller but tougher. In the sense, I assume, that there will be in any society, a core of 'poor' people, who for one reason or another, can't make the grade in any society. The ones, I guess, that may have been who the author of the John gospel had in mind when he placed the words, "your will always have the poor with you." (John 12:8)

Link: http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/poverty-china-smaller-tougher

For those who think that nothing stated in the Chinese press is true, this article quotes Ulrich Schmitt of the World Bank:

The standard in China for determining whether a rural household is poor was raised in 2011 to an annual per capita income of RMB2,300 by the state council’s leading group in charge of poverty alleviation and development - an amount equivalent to just over US$1 a day. In its last report on poverty in China from 2009, the World Bank called the country’s rural poverty line excessively rigid.

However, Ulrich Schmitt, the bank’s program leader for sustainability and resilience, said that is largely no longer the case.

“There’s a pretty consistent story between what the government has and what our figures tell us,” Schmitt said. By revising its official standard in late 2011, Beijing added 128 million people to the ranks of China’s officially recognized poor. In 2008, the number of poor based on the World Bank’s standard of US$1.25 a day stood at 173 million. By that same standard, though, 662 million had actually moved out of poverty, Schmitt said, adding that Xinhua’s figure of about 80 million still in poverty also seemed about right in light of substantial progress in poverty reduction here over the last five years.

Here's the full report:

Poverty in China: Smaller, but tougher
Friday, October 24, 2014
Late last week Xinhua published a retrospective on poverty alleviation in China in which it claimed that the country had lifted 660 million people out of poverty in the years from 1978-2010, with 80 million remaining impoverished today. The figure, which the agency said was in line with international standards, is an increase over previous claims. It may also be more accurate.

The standard in China for determining whether a rural household is poor was raised in 2011 to an annual per capita income of RMB2,300 by the state council’s leading group in charge of poverty alleviation and development - an amount equivalent to just over US$1 a day. In its last report on poverty in China from 2009, the World Bank called the country’s rural poverty line excessively rigid. However, Ulrich Schmitt, the bank’s program leader for sustainability and resilience, said that is largely no longer the case.

“There’s a pretty consistent story between what the government has and what our figures tell us,” Schmitt said. By revising its official standard in late 2011, Beijing added 128 million people to the ranks of China’s officially recognized poor. In 2008, the number of poor based on the World Bank’s standard of US$1.25 a day stood at 173 million. By that same standard, though, 662 million had actually moved out of poverty, Schmitt said, adding that Xinhua’s figure of about 80 million still in poverty also seemed about right in light of substantial progress in poverty reduction here over the last five years.

However, he added that the challenges facing China outlined by the bank in 2009 had remained essentially the same. For example, the remaining poor have become increasingly dispersed, and economic growth has become less effective in reducing poverty. In some areas the need for action had become more urgent, he said, as in the case of rural-urban integration. With China still in the first third of its latest decade-long anti-poverty plan, the route out of impoverishment for many from the countryside remains uncertain.

One of the two major additions in the latest plan, adopted in 2011, is the targeting of regional poverty on top of already recognized poor counties and villages. The effectiveness of this new regional layer of organization is hard to evaluate only three years into its implementation. This lack of information is further compounded by the difficulty of assessing per capita income for families with members who have become migrant workers.

“I think what these figures really mask is enormous migration and the role of remittances from people that work off the farm in further away provinces,” Schmitt said. How much of a family’s income is generated in urban and coastal areas and then sent back to members who remain in an area officially classified as poor may not be captured by current collection methods, and increased migration within provinces and counties has further complicated the picture as more move to find jobs away from (but still closer) to home.

There is also tension in the latest phase of anti-poverty policy thanks to the push to urbanize rural residents. People from the most impoverished counties are being moved from the land they occupy, which itself is ostensibly owned by the collective in which they are all members. Not all are willing to be uprooted, and it’s not clear if the strategy will help push people out of poverty. The move also seems set to weaken the collective land system in the countryside which some are loathe to see undone.

While the collective system currently keeps rural Chinese from selling their plots off and is subject to land grabs from hungry officials (see our full report on hukou and land reform), it seems to have helped act as an unemployment buffer in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. When foreign demand dropped and factory output slowed, many laid-off migrant workers in China - particularly in Guangdong province - returned to their plots in the countryside when they couldn’t find work. In so doing they found interim employment and may have helped dilute dissatisfaction that could’ve congregated and led to greater unrest.

However, land de-collectivization could help spur the integration of many people into cities. It could also, Schmitt suggested, help lead to the establishment of farmer cooperatives able to achieve a greater scale of production that is impossible when so many migrant workers are still holding on to small, individual plots as a sort of insurance.

If fairly implemented, professional cooperatives could free farmers from the land while also granting them a stake in the fruits of their former fields. But they would need some sort of social security system waiting for them, which current policy discourages by giving the most prosperous cities incentive to bar the door once their populations reach a certain size. As with many issues central to China’s future, progress on one front demands just as much on many others.

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Pay your subway fare in NY city - or ELSE!

by fulltimestudent in

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/11/22/12/10/nypd-cop-filmed-splitting-man-s-head-open-with-baton.

footage has emerged of an new york city police officer striking an alleged fare-evader's head with a baton, sending the man stumbling and spraying bystanders with his blood.. the video shows the officer approach 20-year-old donovan lawson at bushwick train station in brooklyn yesterday shortly before 8pm.. graphic warning: viewers may find the contents of this video shocking.

lawson was sitting on a wooden bench and holding his hands up when the unnamed officer started throwing punches.. witness michelle anas was on her way home from work when she stumbled across the scene.. she said she went to call 911 just as the officer pulled out his truncheon and cracked lawson over the head, sending him reeling across the platform as blood poured from his skull.. "it was one of the most awful things i've ever seen," witness michelle anas told new york daily news.

fulltimestudent

Simon: Fortunately, the cop was black too otherwise it would have been because of his color (sarcasm).

One of the reasons I decided to post this.

I've noticed that sometimes the policeman involved in a violent incident against a colored person.(hate this word usage - we are all 'colored' most of English descent, (Europeans) are a sort of pale pinky grey a description once used by a Vietnamese acquaintance).

It seems an extreme attack considering the offence. Though I've seen, in Sydney, a 15 minute wrestling match between a railway policeman and a youth without a ticket. It soon drew a crowd, cheering for the kid. Then other rail police descended on the fracas and ended the afternoon's entertainment.

The other point, is witness Michele Anas, who is she? Is there a connection between her and the victim and his girlfriend? The young victim had a girlfriend also, who is described as trying to intervene when the victim is first arrested.

From the report there seem to be two videoed accounts of the arrest.

No doubt it will come out in court, but by then most media will consider it OLD news, not worth reporting.

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Pay your subway fare in NY city - or ELSE!

by fulltimestudent in

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/11/22/12/10/nypd-cop-filmed-splitting-man-s-head-open-with-baton.

footage has emerged of an new york city police officer striking an alleged fare-evader's head with a baton, sending the man stumbling and spraying bystanders with his blood.. the video shows the officer approach 20-year-old donovan lawson at bushwick train station in brooklyn yesterday shortly before 8pm.. graphic warning: viewers may find the contents of this video shocking.

lawson was sitting on a wooden bench and holding his hands up when the unnamed officer started throwing punches.. witness michelle anas was on her way home from work when she stumbled across the scene.. she said she went to call 911 just as the officer pulled out his truncheon and cracked lawson over the head, sending him reeling across the platform as blood poured from his skull.. "it was one of the most awful things i've ever seen," witness michelle anas told new york daily news.

fulltimestudent

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/11/22/12/10/nypd-cop-filmed-splitting-man-s-head-open-with-baton

Footage has emerged of an New York City police officer striking an alleged fare-evader's head with a baton, sending the man stumbling and spraying bystanders with his blood.

The video shows the officer approach 20-year-old Donovan Lawson at Bushwick train station in Brooklyn yesterday shortly before 8pm.

Graphic warning: Viewers may find the contents of this video shocking

Lawson was sitting on a wooden bench and holding his hands up when the unnamed officer started throwing punches.

Witness Michelle Anas was on her way home from work when she stumbled across the scene.

She said she went to call 911 just as the officer pulled out his truncheon and cracked Lawson over the head, sending him reeling across the platform as blood poured from his skull.

"It was one of the most awful things I've ever seen," witness Michelle Anas told New York Daily News. "I have blood all over my jeans.

"It looked like his head exploded. I couldn't believe I was seeing it happen."

Another, clip, first obtained by PIX 11, captures bystanders, including the victim's girlfriend, try to intervene as the officer arrests the man.

"Everyone was horrified. There were at least 30 or 40 people that gathered," Ms Anas said.

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/11/22/12/10/nypd-cop-filmed-splitting-man-s-head-open-with-baton#GHzu8IZGobjFajmU.99