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BEIRUT, Lebanon — The top United Nations human rights official warned opposition fighters in Syria on Monday that they would not be immune from prosecution for atrocities, as videos from the Syrian city of Aleppo appeared to show a mass execution by rebel fighters of bound and blindfolded Syrian government soldiers.

One of the videos, first publicized on Monday on the Brown Moses blog, which curates and analyzes video evidence from Syria, showed at least 20 corpses lying in a crooked row on a bloodstained street curb. The victims wore fatigues but no shoes. Several appeared to have been shot in the head.

U.N. Warns Syrian Rebels Over Atrocities – NYTimes.com

During the Iraq War, over a quarter-million Iraqi Christians fled Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator but his government was secular and therefore relatively safe for Christians. Christians, however, feared the Shiite government that we helped put in place after Saddam, and they fled in droves.

Where did these Christians go? They headed mostly for Syria, joining the over one million Syrians who have lived as Christians since the time of Christ.

Now, the senate is attempting to arm the rebel forces in syria, many of whom are al quaeda or affiliates.   they do so out of a miguided attempt to stop the violence in syria.

Instead their actions will bring more violence and more persecution of Christians, who have long been protected in Syria.

Rand Paul’s Message To Evangelicals: “There is a war on Christianity”

Ellsberg, who rose to fame in 1971 when he turned over the infamous Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, pulled no punches. He said that Edward Snowden’s recent leak — which revealed that the National Security Agency has been collecting Americans’ data for years — is the most important in United States history, and that the government’s sweeping access to our metadata leaves us “a turnkey away from tyranny.”

Daniel Ellsberg on PRISM: We’re “a Turnkey Away from Tyranny” | Politics and Breaking News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California | Seven Days

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

– Ben Franklin

” … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.“

– George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380

h/t to Dave G

Climate change is the only problem in history which has a time limit. If we are too late it’s irreversible, it’s a race. It’s my generation’s responsibility to fight climate change. It’s a threat that can lead to the collapse of human civilization.

‘It’s my generation’s responsibility to fight climate change’ | Environment | DW.DE | 12.06.2013

Amazing. An increase of 0.0001 mole fraction of an odorless, colorless, largely inert gas will destroy civilization.

These nut jobs make Harold Camping seem like a serious individual.

The MSM is reporting that the fire today is the worst in Colorado history. This is patently absurd, it isn’t even in the same league as some of the fires from the 1890s..

The 1890 fire is responsible for the spectacular Aspen groves along the Sangre de Cristo mountains today.

Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle June 25, 1890

This is what that the burn looks like 120 years later, just above Santa Fe.

Bill Clinton urges more forceful U.S. response on Syria – report | Reuters

Saddam used chemical weapons against the Kurds, and Bill Clinton “forcefully responded” by killing half a million Iraqi children, according to his Secretary of State.

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All of these homes burned up today.

They were doomed from the day they were built. Pine forests burn every dozen years or so – it is an essential part of the forest cycle.

1. We have to molest you at the airport because of Islamic terrorists
2. We have to spy on you because of Islamic terrorists
3. We have to give DHS 1.6 billion rounds of ammo because of Islamic terrorists
4. We won’t spy on Islamic terrorists, because it offends them
5. We have to give money and weapons to Islamic terrorists in Syria

Got it?