'We now know who the Democratic Nominee Will Be.' - Tim Russert, on MSNBC, after the Indi
'We now know who the Democratic Nominee Will Be.' - Tim Russert, on MSNBC, after the Indiana and North Carolina Primaries.
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Aired: February 8, 2008
Unreported World exposes a dark side to Egypt that the authorit
Aired: February 8, 2008
Unreported World exposes a dark side to Egypt that the authorities don't want foreigners to see: a secretive society of around 40,000 people literally living in rubbish in a Cairo ghetto overrun by rats and disease.
Reporter Evan Williams and producer James Brabazon are some of the first journalists to film inside the ghetto where tens of thousands live with garbage stacked to the roofs of their multi-storey homes - eking out a living recycling the rubbish by hand. It's a sight rarely seen by outsiders, and almost definitely not by the million British Tourists who visit Egypt every year.
This group is unique for another reason. They're part of Muslim Egypt's Christian minority; a community claiming to be besieged by persecution, extremism and a creeping Islamisation in Egypt's security services.
The team highlights one the most sensitive issues faced by some of those in Egypt - their decision to convert to Christianity - a decision that some Muslims believe should be punishable by death under a strict interpretation of sharia religious law.
One convert, "Christine", tearfully claims that officers from the government's State Security Intelligence have threatened to torture those trying to convert, rape their daughters in front of them and jail them on false charges of prostitution.
"We are abused in the street, spat at, cigarettes are thrown at us, my young daughter who is eleven is hit by the teacher and told to wear the veil and taken to the Mosque to pray even though she doesn't know anything about the Islamic faith," she tells Williams.
Another Christian family tells the team that their 17-year-old daughter has been missing for five months. They believe she has been kidnapped and forced to marry a Muslim, yet claim that the police refuse to search for her because she is a Christian. The girl's father, Atef, claims that the police arrested him for two days and held him on a roof for six hours, handcuffed, in an effort to get him to stop looking for his daughter.
The team arranges a meeting with Gasser Abdul-Razak, of the Human Rights Watch group. He claims that for the last three or four years government officials have been illegally refusing to allow thousands of converts to register their new religion on their ID cards, a document vital for everyday life in Egypt.
Back at the Christian garbage collector's ghetto, Father Samaan, the chief Christian priest, tells Unreported World that Egyptian laws make it difficult to build new churches. Instead he had to excavate his church from the sheer rock of a mountain.
"If you can build a Mosque - which you can in Egypt - you should be able to build a church and you can't get that permission," he says. "That's not right. You should not be treated as Muslims Christians you should just be treated as citizens of Egypt."
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How to get complex results through simple steps. Solution: don't throw all the dice at onc
How to get complex results through simple steps. Solution: don't throw all the dice at once. Use gradual processes instead. Examples of gradual processes: evolution, erosion, deposition. This video is NOT claiming that inorganic processes such as erosion are part of evolution, merely that they are gradual processes.
The link to the dice simulator mentioned in this video is:
http://www.gisburne.com/pgdice.php
I originally wrote this as a blog, way back in June 2007:
http://www.gisburne.com/ngblog.php?id=2007-06-13a
UPDATE:
Sorry, the morons are getting way out of hand on this video's comments, so I'm putting a stop to it. Creationists are posting nonsensical, faith-based crap, and I am wasting half my evening replying to bullshitters who know FUCK ALL about evolution, and who bring in totally unconnected subjects such as the Big Bang and God. I say again: UNCONNECTED. So comments are now screened.
Creationists, I don't want to fucking know. Go pray to your invisible friends. You're not needed here. Your opinions are worthless. I do not talk to creationists.
I will be screening the comments once a day, probably when I wake up in the morning. That's it. If the YT comment system actually WORKED (ie make a post, see the post) I probably wouldn't be doing this at all, but there you are, YT shits on me again. If it takes 20 refreshes to see what someone has posted, you can bet your life I am NOT going to sit here clicking over and over, only to find it's from some Bible-licking, uneducated snot-sucker who thinks he can hear God with his 'heart's ear'. Yes, I mean YOU 2007kid:
http://www.gisburne.com/ngblog.php?id=2008-03-19b
Let's see how many say 'I've studied evolution... but we couldn't possibly come from apes or from dirt'. Word to the wise: 'study' does not mean 'I heard about it in church'. This video is NOT about the origins of the universe, so don't bring that up either. Everyone else, feed the trolls at your peril. Quotes from famous people are banned - see my response to a55a55inx. They add nothing to the discussion. And remember: creationism is stupid and will not be given a voice here. Go and blow God farts in your own channel - that's what it's there for, to make your OWN videos.
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