- How Muslim Countries Treat Homosexuals
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
The left wingers are spouting gibberish about this having nothing to do with Islam or Muslim beliefs. Bullshit. Muslims hate gays and think they should die for their lifestyles. It’s their law.
10 nations where the penalty for gay sex is death
By Colin Stewart
Ten nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity.
Only a few actually impose the death sentence. Exactly how many is a difficult question.
The 2016 State-Sponsored Homophobia report from ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, lists 13-14 places that threaten the death penalty for homosexuality, including the basic 10 plus several specific variations:
- One where executions occur — and go unpunished — despite the fact that there is no death-penalty law (Iraq);
- One that has approved a death-penalty provision but has not yet incorporated it into the nation’s laws (Brunei);
- One that conducts executions but is not recognized as a nation (the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL);
- One where, in theory, a particular interpretation of its laws would provide for the death penalty but, in practice, no executions have been reported (United Arab Emirates)
The ILGA list is quite similar to this blog’s list of those 14 countries, printed below:
A best-information-available list of countries/regions where executions for homosexual activity are carried out or are provided by current or future law:
Nations with such laws on the books; executions have been carried out
Nations with such laws on the books; no recent executions reported
Nations with such laws on the books in part of the country; no verified executions for homosexual activity
Nations with such laws on the books; no executions reported
7. Afghanistan
8. Mauritania
9. Pakistan
10. QatarThose are the “ten nations with large Muslim populations” mentioned in this article’s first paragraph.” In addition, executions and possible executions are an issue in four other places:
Nation with no such a law on the books; executions are carried out by militias and others
Not recognized as a nation; carries out executions
12. Daesh/the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)
The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah
Nation where such a law was scheduled to take effect in 2016 (but might not)
Nation where some interpretations of existing law would provide for the death penalty, but no executions have been reported
News coverage in all of those nations is unreliable at best, so specific evidence of executions for same-sex intimacy is rare. What’s known about some specific countries is cited below.
In Somalia, a gay teenager was reportedly stoned to death in 2013, but those reports have not been verified.
In Nigeria, the BBC reported in 2007, “More than a dozen Nigerian Muslims have been sentenced to death by stoning and for sexual offences ranging from adultery and homosexuality. But none of these death sentences have actually been carried out as they were either thrown out on appeal or commuted to prison terms as a result of pressure from human rights groups.”
In Sudan, the death penalty is in frequent use, but there are no recent reports of executions for same-sex intimacy. In 2014, Sudan ranked at No. 6 worldwide in number of executions (23+) for various offenses, just below the United States, with 35, according to Amnesty International.
Similarly, Yemen is No. 7 in frequency of executions overall, but the death penalty apparently has not been imposed recently for homosexual activity. Researchers for Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board reported more than 10 years ago, “Information on whether such sentences have been carried out was not found.” More recently an article on Yemen’s gay community in The Tower magazine stated, “Traditionally, that death penalty is not enforced, but citizens have been imprisoned for their sexual orientation.”
Saudi Arabia is No. 3 among the world’s most avid executioners, with 90+ in 2014. At least in the past, beheadings were imposed for homosexual behavior, including three men in 2002. Imprisonment and lashings are a more common punishment for same-sex activity.
Iran is No. 2 in the world for frequency of executions, behind China. Those include executions for homosexual activity, although the facts are often unclear or misrepresented in such cases. (See, for example, “Bogus hanging in Iran, bogus tweets in Egypt” and “Series of public hangings in Iran, including 2 for sodomy.”)
Evidence is a bit clearer about two war-torn areas — Iraq and the territory controlled by Daesh/the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The ILGA report of 2015 noted that “Iraq, although [the death penalty is] not in the civil code, clearly has judges and militias throughout the country that issue the death sentence for same-sex sexual behaviours. … We are also aware that in the Daesh(ISIS/ISIL)-held areas the death penalty is implemented (although a non-State actor, it is listed in the report). ” For examples, see:
- Iraq has become a death trap for gay men (September 2012)
- ‘Islamic State’ has reported 15 LGBTI executions (May 2015)
In some nations, the death penalty is on the books but is not imposed. ILGA in 2015 stated:
Brunei Darussalam is due to activate the death penalty for same-sex sexual acts in 2016, but it seems likely that like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Qatar although it is on the statute, it will not be implemented.
ILGA reported in 2016 about Brunei: “there is no sign that the threatened death penalty is to be implemented.”
According to the U.S. Department of State, Mauritania belongs in this category too. A U.S. Department of State cable from 2009, released by WikiLeaks in 2011, indicated that Mauritania has never imposed the death penalty for homosexual activity or any other crime.
ILGA reported in 2016 that “although is understood that the United Arab Emirates has not implemented [the death penalty] under the Sharia code, it remains a possibility under interpretations current in the Emirates.”
- 17 Facts About The Orlando Shooter That Every American Should Know
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
America is in shock. On Sunday, a 29-year-old Islamic terrorist named Omar Mateen shot 102 people at a gay club known as Pulse in the heart of Orlando, Florida. 49 of those that were shot died, and 53 were wounded. So how in the world did this happen?
Well, when you combine radical political correctness with extreme government incompetence and the dramatic growth of radical Islam inside the United States, you create an environment which is absolutely primed for Islamic terror.
The truth is that the FBI knew about this guy well in advance. In fact, they had even interviewed him three separate times over the years. And at one point the government had been investigating the mosque that he had been attending, but that investigation was shut down by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Mateen had told the FBI that he hoped to be a martyr someday, and those were not just idle words. His twisted ideology fueled his actions, and so the choices that he ultimately made should not have come as a surprise to law enforcement authorities. But now that this has happened, will it change the way that the government approaches Islamic terror?
The following are 17 facts about the Orlando shooter that every American should know…
#1 According to the Director of the FBI, Mateen had “links to al-Qaida, Hezbollah, and the Islamic State“.
#2 Mateen’s father has openly expressed support for the Taliban on YouTube.
#3 Despite those links to terror organizations, Mateen was allowed to work “as a security guard at a local courthouse“.
#4 Mateen wasn’t directly hired by the courthouse. Instead, he was officially an employee of the largest security services company in the world…
The Orlando nightclub terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS worked almost a decade for a major Department of Homeland Security contractor, raising alarms that ISIS sympathizers and agents have infiltrated the federal agency set up after 9/11 to combat terrorists.
Officials say Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, an Afghan-American who held two firearms licenses and a security officer license, was employed by the security firm G4S Secure Solutions USA Inc. since Sept. 10, 2007. The Jupiter, Fla.-based company merged with the Wackenhut Corp. after 9/11 and assumed federal contracts.
#5 It turns out that this U.S. subsidiary of G4S is a company that works very closely with “the Department of Homeland Security, the US Army, and federal and local law enforcement.”
#6 Mateen’s ex-wife says that he would repeatedly beat her while they were married.
#7 He started to become radicalized after separating from his first wife. While they were together, she said that he didn’t show much interest in religion.
#8 He made pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012.
#9 He claimed to personally know the Boston Marathon Bombers.
#10 According to the FBI, Mateen has “been on the radar before“, he was interviewed by them three separate times, and they conducted a 10 month investigation of his activities in 2013.
#11 He is being described as “unhinged and unstable” by his former coworkers.
#12 Mateen once declared that he hoped to martyr himself someday, and the FBI knew all about this.
#13 Despite everything that the federal government knew about Mateen, he was still permitted to legally buy guns just last week.
#14 In an odd twist, it also turns out that Mateen was a registered Democrat.
#15 A respected Islamic scholar was urging Muslims in Orlando to “get rid” of homosexuals just a couple of months before this shooting took place…
Farrokh Sekaleshfar – a British-born doctor and Muslim scholar – has gained a following by urging Muslims to ‘get rid of’ homosexuals.
And in April, he took his speech titled ‘How to deal with the phenomenon of homosexuality’ to the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, just outside Orlando, Florida.
Two months later, 29-year-old Omar Mateen carried out the worst massacre in US history by opening fire on a gay club in the same city.
#16 Hillary Clinton’s State Department shut down an investigation of the mosque that Mateen attends because it “unfairly singled out Muslims“.
#17 Just moments before the attack, Mateen reportedly called 911 to swear his allegiance to ISIS.
When is it going to finally sink in for our politically correct politicians that Islamic terror is a major threat?
There are lots of other Omar Mateens out there. And as radical Islam continues to spread both inside and outside this country, the threat is only going to get a lot worse.
Barack Obama is a perfect example of just how clueless many of our top politicians are about all of this. During his speech to the nation, he did not connect this act of terror with radical Islam in any way, shape or form. But the only reason why Mateen did what he did was because of his worldview. He felt perfectly justified in picking up a weapon and gunning down dozens of people, and martyrdom was a reward in his eyes. If he had not been immersed in the world of radical Islam for years, he never would have done such a thing.
Wrong beliefs lead to wrong actions. We see this in action all around us every day, but most of the time the consequences are not as dramatic as we just witnessed in Orlando.
As I have been warning about for some time now, Islamic terror attacks inside the United States are going to continue to get worse.
If you think what happened in Orlando was bad, just wait until these terrorists get their hands on chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The detonation of a single weapon of mass destruction in one of our major cities would instantly change life as we know it for every man, woman and child in this entire nation.
The ideology that fuels these terrorists continues to grow, and over time it is inevitable that they will acquire increasingly more powerful weapons.
So yes, gunning down dozens of people in a crowded nightclub is an atrocity that is so evil that it is hard to find words to describe it.
But someday we will see far, far worse in this nation, and at this point we are completely unprepared to deal with that reality.
- Multiple Suspects On The Loose In Orlando – Why The Media Blackout Of Eyewitness Accounts?
Submitted by Shepard Ambellas via Intellihub.com,
According to heavily censored eyewitness reports, totally suppressed from the mainstream, there were likely several other radicalized perpetrators involved with Saturday night’s terror attack, which led deaths of 49 club-goers at Pulse and over 50 others being injured.
One eyewitness to the attack, who was inside the nightclub when it happened, was giving his testimony to the attack, after being trapped inside the club, live on-air, to a mainstream news source when he was abruptly cut off after providing a crucial detail. The eyewitness said that during the attack “there was a guy there that was trying to […] hold the door closed so that we couldn’t exit,” as pointed out by an investigative reporter on YouTube.
Additionally, there were reports that police could be seen quietly conducting an “active search” for accomplices who may have already exited the nightclub after the attack.
Another eyewitness that was inside Pulse when the attack occurred told reporters, “I’m pretty sure it was more than one person, you know, like I said, I heard two guns going at the same time.” The eyewitness said that the event lasted “like eight minutes.”
Another crucial detail that the press is leaving out is that the shooter or shooters were initiating “rapid fire;” which means that the weapons used were likely fully automatic, as depicted by the same eyewitness when he made an animated machine gun-like sound with his mouth for the press to hear.
The witness said that he could smell the gun smoke in the air and that the attackers were “working together.”
“It was not one shot at a time,” but rather from a machine gun,” another witness said, who eventually made it out of the club into the “alleyway.”
Raw footage from the scene also reveals that officers may have been engaging an additional perpetrator outside of the nightclub, backing up other reports.
It has also been reported that both FBI and police, around the country, are increasing their security protocols, dispatching undercover officers and specifically beefing up security measures at the annual Gay Pride Parade which is still currently underway in Los Angeles.
Moreover, officials also are concerned that there is a ‘gaping hole’ in the nation’s security net and that more attacks may occur.
Authorities and even the President of the United States, Barack Obama, are currently downplaying the fact that there is a definite radicalized Islamic ideological connection to the attack and again, are covering up the fact that multiple suspects are likely still on the loose.
- No More "$1,000 Dinners & Champagne" For "Above The Law" Bankers At Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters is fighting the battle to right the ship at the bank on two fronts. First, Winters needs to figure out a way to deal with plunging revenues and billions in NPLs. On the other front, the CEO is working to change a culture in which he is finding many bankers consider themselves "above the law."
Since taking over as CEO in the middle of 2015, Winters has replaced much of the senior executive team and initiated a probe into employee conduct and ethics. The result of the probe into misconduct has led Winters to add significant firepower to the bank's internal investigation team, including former detectives from the FBI, Scotland Yard, Hong Kong police and the New Zealand intelligence agency Bloomberg reports.
Winters said that he has encountered "a looseness" in the way the bank was managed since coming in as CEO, and said he's uncovered a culture where senior managers felt they were "above the law." In a memo to employees titled #knowtherules, Winters wrote "I am concerned that a small number of employees, including some senior managers, have willfully disregarded our policies – sometimes for personal gain – and set a poor example for their peers and teams. I am deeply disappointed and angry at some of the examples we are finding."
Still licking its wounds from a 2012 deferred prosecution agreement in which the bank was fined $667 million for violating US sanctions by engaging in $250 billion in transactions with Iran, Winters is on high alert when it comes to ethics violations and employee misconduct because as Bloomberg notes, the bank could potentially lose its US banking license if it slips up again.
In one memo, Winters described a culture where managers felt they were "above the law" and was very clear on the fact that there would be a zero tolerance policy going forward for anyone not taking bank policies seriously.
"I want this to be clearly understood – we have zero tolerance for any employee that deliberately flouts and circumvents our rules and policies, without regard for their seniority or role."
At the moment, it appears as though Winters is putting some bite behind the bark. In the memos, Winters is providing real examples of rule breaking, and what has happened to those employees. One memo cites three senior employees who didn't disclose their investment in an unlicensed money lender that charged high interest rates, and they were all subsequently dismissed.
The risk and controls committee will dock bonus if compliance or risk officers report that policies aren't being taken seriously enough, and General Counsel David Fein who is heading the effort has made sure that the new rules have been communicated clearly to the staff of 84,000 and excuses such as "I didn't know what the policy was" will no longer fly. "They are not going to have the same mitigating factors, that stuff's gone." Fein said.
Everything is being scrutinized at the bank, along with the big things, "smaller" things such as expense reports are now being controlled more diligently. Pam Walkden, new HR chief says "we've done a lot of training around what is the right way to submit your expenses and what are legitimate expenses. You cannot go and spend $1,000 on a fancy dinner with champagne. If you accidentally charge an orange juice from the mini bar, that's not the end of the world. But if you take out 20 people and make the most junior person pay for it, that's big trouble."
Winters has a lot of ground to make up in order to make shareholders happy. The bank spent $243 million on regulatory costs alone in Q1 of this year, which is 10.8% of the entire operating costs of the bank, and the effort is something that Winters feels important, even as the bank trades at a significant discount to book value according to Bloomberg.
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While we are skeptical that any bank CEO is truly cleaning house, on the surface it appears as though Winters is actually trying to so so, which is a positive. However as usual, its a deeds not words type of thing, so whether or not the CEO can get the misconduct under control remains to be seen. One final observation, and most importantly, how are bankers supposed to survive if they're unable to spend $1,000 on fancy dinner and champagne?
- Former CIA Agent To Americans: Time To Talk About What's Really Causing Terrorism
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
In the wake of yet another terrorist attack, a former CIA counterterrorism agent has shared her insight into what causes such tragic, intentional carnage. Amaryllis Fox spoke for the first time publicly with Al Jazeera Plus (AJ+) about terrorism, misguided narratives on why it happens, and the underlying motivators driving it — ultimately urging Americans and those in power to adopt a different approach in comabating the ongoing violence.
“If I learned one lesson from my time with the CIA, it is this: everybody believes they are the good guy,” says Fox, who is currently “in the process of getting her CIA cover rolled back,” AJ+ reports. She is now a peace activist and runs Mulu, “an e-commerce company supporting at-risk communities around the world.”
Fox worked as a counterterrorism and intelligence official for the clandestine services during the 2000s. In her first public statement on her time there, she discussed the limitations on the American public’s perception of the war on terror:
“The conversation that’s going on in the United States right now about ISIS and about the United States overseas is more oversimplified than ever. Ask most Americans whether ISIS poses an existential threat to this country and they’ll say yes. That’s where the conversation stops.”
Indeed, while a majority of Americans fear terrorism, reaching a consensus on how to tackle ISIS has proved contentious. Fox explained the simplicity of the way the conflicts are viewed on both sides:
“If you’re walking down the street in Iraq or Syria and ask anybody why America dropped bombs, you get: ‘They were waging war on Islam.’”
In America, the question is: “Why were we attacked on 9/11?”
Fox says if you pose this question, “You get: they hate us because we’re free.”
However, she contests the validity of these assumptions, pointing to the powerful forces that drive conflict in the first place:
“Those are stories manufactured by a really small number of people on both sides who amass a great deal of power and wealth by convincing the rest of us to keep killing each other.”
Indeed, both sides of the conflict expend significant effort campaigning to prove their crusades are justified. In the United States, after decades of prolonged conflict, the populace is largely desensitized to war and often ignorant of its current manifestations.
Fox challenges this paradigm:
“I think the question we need to be asking, as Americans examining our foreign policy, is whether or not we’re pouring kerosene on a candle. The only real way to disarm your enemy is to listen to them. If you hear them out, if you’re brave enough to really listen to their story, you can see that more often than not, you might have made some of the same choices if you’d lived their life instead of yours.”
Of course, as Americans mourn the most recent mass shooting, it is doubtful many citizens are well-versed in the U.S. foreign policy that provokes such terrorism. Rather, they focus, understandably, on the wrong done to their nation. But Fox offered a unique perspective that lends insight to the “enemy.”
“An Al-Qaeda fighter made a point once during debriefing,” she recounted. “He said all these movies that America makes — like Independence Day, and the Hunger Games, and Star Wars — they’re all about a small scrappy band of rebels who will do anything in their power with the limited resources available to them to expel an outside, technological advanced invader. ‘And what you don’t realize,’ he said, ‘is that to us, to the rest of the world, you are the empire, and we are Luke and Han. You are the aliens and we are Will Smith.’”
However, she also challenged the Al-Qaeda fighter’s take, arguing that on both sides of conflict, those fighting on the ground often provide the same reasons for doing so:
“But the truth is that when you talk to people who are really fighting on the ground, on both sides, and ask them why they’re there, they answer with hopes for their children, specific policies that they think are cruel or unfair,” she says.
“And while it may be easier to dismiss your enemy as evil, hearing them out on policy concerns is actually an amazing thing, because as long as your enemy is a subhuman psychopath that’s gonna attack you no matter what you do, this never ends. But if your enemy is a policy, however complicated — that we can work with.”
As terror attacks become an increasingly normal occurrence in the West — and as Western intervention trudges ahead unabated — hearing out enemies’ concerns may, at this point, be the most effective counterterrorism gesture the United States can make; that is, if it is truly determined to bring an end to the violence.
- Arrest Of Accomplice Of "Lone Wolf" Orlando Shooter Expected Soon
As we reported first thing this morning, contrary to media reports that Omar Mateen had acted as a “lone wolf” when he singlehandedly killed 49 and injured over 50 – a monumental task outside of video games and Hollywood – something about this story just did not make sense, especially since according to eyewitness reports, suppressed from the mainstream, there were likely several other perpetrators involved with Saturday night’s terror attack.
As it turns out, the police and the FBI may have to “adjust” the narrative, because according to WFTV, an arrest of an alleged accomplice of Mateen will be “made soon.”
@KRayWFTV reporting on law enforcement angle of #pulseshooting #wftv pic.twitter.com/bfw7bgEAT2
— Daralene Jones (@DJonesWFTV) June 13, 2016
#BREAKING: Arrest to be made soon of alleged accomplice in #PulseShooting #WFTV @KRayWFTV pic.twitter.com/bNS5UEGYW2
— WFTV Eyewitness News (@WFTV) June 13, 2016
As WFTV further reports, “sources told Channel 9 Monday that law enforcement could possibly make an arrest in the next few days of someone who allegedly helped the Orlando gunman carryout the mass shooting inside Pulse nightclub that killed 49 people on Sunday.”
However, the station adds, citing US Attorney Lee Bentley, “We have no reason to believe that anyone connected to this crime is placing the public in imminent danger at this time.” Unless, of course, there is a “reason to believe” that the narrative that had been peddled all along about a lone-wolf style killing, when in fact there was at least two or more perpetrators, was a glaring lie.
For now, however, the authorities are scrambling to create the new story, and as WCVB adds, a US government official said that no arrest is imminent.
A US Government Official briefed on the Orlando case tells us no arrest is imminent #wcvb #5investigates
— Karen Anderson (@karenreports) June 14, 2016
It’s almost as if the government itself can no longer keep its official story straight.
- Thanks America: Spending On Military Weapons Saw Its Largest Yearly Increase In A Decade
For those who who thrive on conflict (ie: countries with a strong military industrial complex – read: United States), 2015 was a year to be proud of.
The world defense market climbed to $65 billion in 2015, up by $6.6 billion from 2014 the consulting company IHS Inc said in its Global Defence Trade Report. That's the largest yearly increase in the past decade, led by Saudi purchases which jumped about 50% to $9.3 billion in 2015 according to Bloomberg.
As it continues its conflict in Yemen, and with an eye on countering Iran, Saudi Arabia's purchases consisted of Eurofighter Typhoon jets, F-15 warplanes and Apache helicopters, as well as precision-guided weapons, drones and surveillance equipment according to Ben Moores, a senior defense analyst at IHS Aerospace, Defence & Security who wrote the report.
Egypt became the world's fourth-biggest weapon's importer, spending almost $2.3 billion in 2015, ramping up from spending $1 billion or less before 2013. Moores says the higher spending by Egypt is being underwritten by France and other Gulf Arab states.
Iraq spent nearly as much as Egypt as it shifts money from operations and personnel toward procurement, IHS said. The country is battling Islamic State militants in the Anbar province and is preparing for the eventual battle to retake the northern city of Mosal.
Moores says that the IHS doesn't foresee oil prices recovering beyond current levels for another three years, which means oil exporters may have to cut back on procurement in the future – (or the US can just offer a discount for "slightly used" equipment, one or the other).
Another interesting point from the reports, as Bloomberg notes, is that states bordering the South China Sea increased defense spending by 71% since 2009 in attempt to deter China. Those purchases were for items such as aircraft and anti-ship missiles the IHS added.
From an export perspective, everyone will be shocked to learn that the United States was the top weapons exporter in 2015, supplying almost $23 billion in goods and equipment, of which $8.8 billion went to the Middle East.
"Going forward, the total may exceed $30 billion as deliveries of the F-35 begin to ramp up" the report said, referring to the next-generation fighter aircraft built by Lockheed Martin.
Russia came in at the world's No. 2 exporter, and is likely to increase its trade with Iran as the country begins to replace its aging air force equipment, a massive undertaking that could cost $40 to $60 billion according to Moores.
France is poised to further its exports as well, as it builds a $39 billion submarine order it won from Australia earlier this year.
As we previously noted, the global arms trade is absolutely huge, and is continuing to grow as exporters stir up conflict in order to grow GDP look to help keep the peace with global arms sales. Remember this information the next time we hear about the imminent threat Russia poses, or about how the US just needs to make sure it sticks its nose into the South China Sea disputes.
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Bonus:
Here is a graphic (more here) showing the global arms trade between 2011-2015, with the usual suspects exporting and the Middle East significantly increasing imports.
- How A Venezuela Food Protest Turned Into A Deadly Police Gunfight
After last week’s first reported casualty during a Venezuela looting, things have, as expected, gotten exponentially worse and according to Reuters, the recent wave of lootings and food riots in crisis-hit Venezuela has left another three people dead in just the past few days. The state prosecutor’s office is investigating the deaths of a 21-year-old man in eastern Sucre state on Saturday, another 21-year-old man in the Caracas slum of Petare on Thursday, and a 42-year-old woman in the western state of Tachira last Monday.
All three suffered gunshot wounds during chaotic scenes outside supermarkets, which have become a flashpoint for violence and looting amid scarcities of basics across the South American OPEC member country, according to local rights group Provea. A policeman has been arrested over the Tachira death, which as we reported was most likely the result of police gunshots.
With basics such as flour and rice running short, crowds chanting “We want food!” are thronging supermarkets daily, presenting a major problem for the struggling leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro.
More than 10 incidents of looting are occurring daily, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a local monitoring group.
Meanwhile, here is a video of just how deadly Venezuela has become: what started as a food protest in the Caracas parish of La Vega last Friday, quickly tuned into a gunfight with several wounded police officers and who knows how many shot protesters.
- Dramatic Footage Emerges From Inside Orlando Nightclub During Deadly Shooting
As the world continues to learn more about the tragic events that occurred over the weekend at a gay nightclub in Orlando, in what ultimately was the deadliest mass shooting in US history, a dramatic video has emerged that captures the very moment the shooting began that fateful evening.
Amanda Alvear, a 25 year old nursing student, was streaming footage on snapchat showing club goers enjoying themselves just as a hail of gunfire rang out in the club. The brief clip was posted on Facebook by Amanda's brother Brian according to the Daily Mail.
The Mail reports that Brian indicated on his Facebook account that Amanda received and answered one call after the video. Sadly, the last thing he had heard about his sister was that she was hiding in the bathroom before learning of her death.
Here is the snapchat video – Warning: May be disturbing for some viewers.
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