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Albino girl, 11, killed and beheaded in Swaziland ’for witchcraft’
Telegraph ^ | 8/20/10 | Aislinn Laing

Posted on 08/22/2010 11:52:06 AM PDT by LibWhacker

An 11-year-old albino girl from Swaziland was shot dead in front of her friends and then beheaded in what police believe was a ritual murder.

The child had been washing clothes and bathing at a river with friends and was returning home when she was grabbed by a man wearing a balaclava.

As her friends looked on, the man shot her in the back before dragging her away. Her headless body was found upriver a short time later.

The murder is the latest in a series of albino killings in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sufferers of the rare skin pigmentation condition are concentrated.

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KEYWORDS: africa; albino; balaclava; beheaded; child; girl; murder; ritualmurder; subsaharanafrica; swaziland; witchcraft
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To: wagglebee; metmom; little jeremiah; All
From Wikipedia: John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced /ˈkeɪnz/; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments. He identified the causes of business cycles, and advocated the use of fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions and depressions. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots.

In the 1930s, Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking, overturning the older ideas of neoclassical economics that held that free markets would automatically provide full employment as long as workers were flexible in their wage demands. Keynes instead argued that aggregate demand determined the overall level of economic activity, and that inadequate aggregate demand could lead to prolonged periods of high unemployment. Following the outbreak of World War II, Keynes's ideas concerning economic policy were adopted by leading Western economies. During the 1950s and 1960s, the success of Keynesian economics resulted in almost all capitalist governments adopting its policy recommendations, promoting the cause of social liberalism.

Keynes's influence waned in the 1970s, partly as a result of problems that began to afflict the Anglo-American economies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques from Milton Friedman and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments to regulate the business cycle with fiscal policy.[1] However, the advent of the global financial crisis in 2007 has caused a resurgence in Keynesian thought. Keynesian economics has provided the theoretical underpinning for the economic policies of President Barack Obama of the United States, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, and other global leaders to ease the late 2000s economic recession.[2]

201 posted on 08/26/2010 6:05:06 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I see there’s still no response to any of this.


202 posted on 08/26/2010 7:43:12 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Yes. Ah, well.


203 posted on 08/26/2010 10:55:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Hank Kerchief

You said it, not me. It’s a free country, believe whatever you want to believe. It’s not what I believe.

sure it is, you are an average, not great, devil’s advocate, and you carry on a fair arguement but your insincerity is quite apparent. No sane human being could ever condone abortion unless it is 100% necessary to save the life of the mother.


204 posted on 08/28/2010 9:51:19 PM PDT by terycarl (sstrations)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
Great stand on this thread, you.  !
205 posted on 09/02/2010 12:23:52 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Salem

Thank you.


206 posted on 09/02/2010 3:12:53 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: Aria

mooselimbs picked and chose the black people they would send off as slaves and the black people they woulld keep in Africa. After a few generations, we now see what moosleimbs prefer, and we see how those descended from those sent off in slavery have prospered in Western cultures. The mooselimbs chose to keep the dull and herdable ...


207 posted on 09/02/2010 3:24:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
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