Friday, December 26, 2014

12-26-14 Thursday

This should really be a surprise to no one at all. 

ISIS is turning Christian churches into torture chambers where it forces believers to convert to Islam… and funding its terror mission by selling stripped artefacts to Western collectors 

  • Christian churches are reportedly being turned into torture chambers

  • Artefacts worth millions have been stolen and sold to western collectors

  • Experts say the fanatics goal is to 'wipe out' Christianity 

Islamic State militants are turning Christian churches into torture chambers where they force attendees to convert to Islam, it has been reported.
The fanatics are also said to be stripping the former places of worship of ancient relics, which they are smuggling to Western collectors to help fund their terrorist activity.
Christians were reportedly being held captive in make-shift torture chambers set up in raided churches in Qaraqosh, Iraq.

ISIS fighters are reportedly turning Christian churches into torture chambers where they forces attendees to covert to Islam
ISIS fighters are reportedly turning Christian churches into torture chambers where they forces attendees to covert to Islam
An expert told the Jerusalem Post that the terror organisation's goal was to 'wipe out Christianity.' 
'This is why they are crucifying Christians — which includes children — destroying churches and selling artifacts,' he told the newspaper.
'The reality is, this group will stop at practically nothing to raise funds for its terrorist mission.'
 Jihadists have pocketed around £23million from the sale of stolen artefacts in Nabaq, Syria, according to the Christian Post.
It was not known what relics had been stolen during the raid on churches. 
The news comes as it has been revealed that militants captured a Jordanian pilot after his warplane crashed while conducting airstrikes over Syria 
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2886308/ISIS-turning-Christian-churches-torture-chambers-forces-believers-convert-Islam.html


It is worse here imo, but the news people will not print the truth

Russian Inflation Exceeds 10% in December on Ruble’s Decline

Russian inflation exceeded 10 percent for the first time in more than five years spurred by sanctions and the worst ruble collapse since 1998.
Сonsumer prices increased 10.4 percent this year through Dec. 22, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said today in an e-mailed statement. Prices grew 0.9 percent in the week through that date, the most since April 2008, when the service started to provide weekly data.
The rout of the ruble, the world’s worst-performing currency in the past three months, is raising the price of imported goods. Price growth, compounded by the effect of a ban on imports of some foods imposed by President Vladimir Putin in retaliation for the sanctions the U.S. and its allies enacted over Russia’s policy in Ukraine, has raced past a revised central-bank forecast of 10.1 percent.
Accelerating inflation is logical, according to Dmitry Polevoy, chief economist for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States at ING Groep NV in Moscow. Companies are saying “everybody is raising prices and so will I, especially when people start panic-buying not only electronics and cars but also everyday goods,” he said by e-mail.
Annual consumer-price growth has also reached 10.4 percent from a year earlier, in reaction to the exchange rate, devaluation and inflation expectations, Polevoy said.
Inflation may reach 11.5 percent next quarter before it begins to decelerate, according to the Bank of Russia’s base-case forecast published last week. Policy makers postponed their 4 percent target to the end of 2017, after failing to meet their goal for more than two years.
Consumer spending may contract 6.3 percent to 6.5 percent next year, while fixed-capital investment will probably shrink 10.1 percent to 10.3 percent, according to the central bank’s stress scenario.
“That’s clearly negative for the economy, as accelerating inflation will strongly undermine consumer demand in the first quarter,” Vladimir Osakovskiy, the chief economist for Russia at Bank of America Corp. in Moscow, said in an e-mailed note. “Policy and market implications will be limited, as it is already fully priced in by the massive 650 basis points hike last week.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-24/russian-inflation-exceeds-10-percent-in-december-on-ruble-s-decline

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