Uganda back in the News… Al Qaeda Terrorist arrested on the Border

Radical Muslims have been advancing on all fronts into Sub-Saharan and even Central Africa, from Nigeria, to northern Kenya, and even as far south as Tanzania. Now, solid proof of their increasing incursions into Uganda. (Uganda is located just south of the heavily Muslim Sudan where genocide against the Christian minority in the south by the Islamic Government has been standard policy). At least one Al Qaeda rebel has been captured in the troubled Central African nation.

From The UK Independent, April 2:

Security agents in Kampala arrested a suspected Somali Al Shabaab terrorist linked to the Al-Qaeda.

Hashi Hussein Farah and a dozen others were arrested by the Joint Anti-terrorism Taskforce (JATT) in Kisenyi slum in the capital Kampala on Thursday. He was paraded on television later in the evening. The terror suspects were taken away by the anti-terrorism squad for further interrogation.

It’s not clear where he is being detained. The Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba declined to comment, saying the police did not arrest Farah. She referred The Independent to JATT, a largely military intelligence squad, which carried out the arrest.

However the Army Spokesman Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye declined to divulge details about Hussein Farah, on account that it would jeopardise investigations. He said Farah’s arrest is part of a wider investigation. He did not say where Farah was being detained.

Farah, who has an Australian passport, was first arrested by the Kenyan police on March 13, 2010 as he was trying to cross Uganda’s Busia border into Kenya.

Last year, Muslim clerics in Uganda pushed legislation that would allow for the executiion of any Uganda citizens caught in a Homosexual act.

See our article from our sister site Worldwide Liberty, "Muslims push for Death Penalty for Homosexuals in Uganda," from Dec. 16.

More Madness from the World of Sharia Law

Outlawing of couples Kissing in Public

Two items:

From the BBC (h/t Jihad Watch) "Jailed Dubai kissing couple lose appeal over conviction":

A British couple jailed in Dubai for kissing in public have lost their appeal against their conviction.

Ayman Najafi, 24, and Charlotte Adams, 25, were sentenced to a month in prison with subsequent deportation and fined about £200 for drinking alcohol.

The couple were arrested in November after a local woman accused them of breaking the country's decency laws by kissing on the mouth in a restaurant.

No more Music on the Radio

And this from Google News "Islamists order Mogadishu radios to stop playing music":

MOGADISHU — A hardline Somali Islamist group issued a 10-day ultimatum Saturday to Mogadishu-based radio stations to stop playing all kinds of music or face unspecified penalties, an Islamist leader said.

The Hezb al-Islam group, which controls patches of the war-riven Somali capital, said playing music on radio stations was evil.

"We call on the local radio stations to stop broadcasting the songs and all music as well. We give them a 10-day deadline and any radio station found not complying with the orders... will face sharia action," said Moalim Hashi Mohamed Farah, a senior Hezb al-Islam official, referring to Islamic law.

Accomplice to Mass Genocide in Rwanda now a Registered Voter in small Alabama town

Has voted in American elections, including three Party Primaries

From Eric Dondero:

David L. Bosco of the Washington Post has an investigative piece "Rwanda's ex-U.N. ambassador, who vanished after genocide, resurfaces in Alabama" April 4. Bosco, after years of research, tracked Damascene Bizimana to a sleepy little town in northern Alabama, Opelika. The town's main claim to fame is that it was the subject of the 1970s Pro-Union movie "Norma Rae" starring Sally Fields.

From WaPo:

Sixteen years later, the Rwandan government is still investigating whether Bizimana supported the genocide in his capacity at the United Nations, according to Andrew Tusabe, a counselor at the Rwandan Embassy in Washington. "Bizimana has not been forgotten," he told me. But he said they had not been able to determine his whereabouts.

It seemed that the ambassador, along with his wife and two small children, had simply vanished -- until he turned up living quietly in the small town of Opelika, Ala., a few miles up the road from Auburn University. He's an American citizen now. He works for a plastics company. And he doesn't want to talk about genocide.

But buried in one of the final paragraphs of the three-page piece is this intriguing note:

Bizimana does not appear inclined to reckon with the past, and legally at least, he has no reason to do so. Opelika records show that he registered to vote in October 2004 and has cast ballots in primaries and general elections since then -- meaning he acquired U.S. citizenship. And as a citizen, he enjoys full due-process rights.

According to the Madison County, AL Register to Vote website, Alabama does not have registration by party. However, one must declare party affiliation to vote in primaries. From MadisonCounty.AL.com:

Registration is not by political party. Only in Primary Elections must you declare your party at the polls. In the November General Election you may vote for any candidate on the ballot - you can either vote a straight party ticket or a split ticket.

To be clear, to participate in a primary Bizimana would have had to declare a party affiliation. Sources reached by Libertarian Republican in Alabama could not disclose Bizimana's political affiliation or indicate if Bizimana voted in the Democrat primaries. The Opelika Clerk's office did confirm he was listed on the voter roll under a different first name.

Given the slant of the Washington Post, if there was any inkling Bizimana had participated in Republican primaries, there's little doubt this would be all over the media.

Is the United Nation's rep. for Rwanda 1994, during one of the worst mass human genocides in history - over 800,000 dead - now a US Democrat?

Note - later reports suggest Bizimana is now seeking political assylum in Ireland.

Mobile technologies will enable patient-centered care, PwC report says

By Neil Versel

Rising healthcare costs and prevalence of chronic disease are not merely American problems; they are affecting the delivery of care worldwide. The crunch, says a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report, will push millions upon millions of people to take more control over their own healthcare, often enabled by mobile technologies and the Internet.

"The overarching challenge for incumbent health systems will be to shift their internal focus from a siloed bureaucratic healthcare infrastructure to one that puts the patient at the center...and engages them to be active stakeholders in their health and the health system," the report reads.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency, David Chin, director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute says that the Internet and mobile technologies would help to break down some of the silos, empower patients and save money. He is particularly interested in the potential of mobile monitoring systems. "We're optimistic that the combination of a personalized approach and better technology will improve the health of the population, and start addressing the cost issue," Chin says.
"Of course the advantage to an insurance company or (healthcare) delivery system is that is costs less to deliver care over the Internet," he adds. "You're able to reach a wider audience for a lot less money."

For more details:
- see this PwC press release
- take a look at this Reuters story
- download the PwC Healthcast series of reports

Creation Myths: what the argument that the iPad’s not for creating content … – Huffington Post (blog)


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Looking for quackademic medicine in all the wrong places

One advantage of having a blog is that I can sometimes tap into the knowledge of my readers to help me out. As many readers know, a few of the SBM bloggers (myself included) will be appearing at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) on Saturday, April 17. Since the topic of our panel discussion is going to be the infiltration of quackademic medicine into medical academia, I thought that now would be a very good time for me to update my list of medical schools and academic medical centers in the U.S. and Canada that have embraced (or at least decided to tolerate) quackademic medicine in their midst. After all, the list is over two years old and hasn’t been updated.

My list is long past due for an update, and I want to post that update right here, either right before or right after NECSS. But I need your help. Please peruse the previous roll of shame. Then either post here in the comments or e-mail to me any examples of quackademic medical programs in the U.S. and Canada (I’ll leave Europe to others better qualified to deal with it) that I may have missed. Equally important, if there are programs I listed before that no longer peddle woo, let me know that too, so that I can investigate and decide if I should remove the program from my list.

I’m particularly interested in the most egregious examples (although your submitting all examples is greatly appreciated). Yoga and meditation don’t bother me that much, for example. Neither do dietary studies, because diet and exercise are science-based medicine that have all too often been coopted by purveyors of woo. Homeopathy and reiki, on the other hand, do bother me. A lot. I’m also particularly interested in educational programs in CAM that are funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).

Please help me construct the definitive list of academic programs in the U.S. and Canada that have adopted quackademic medicine.


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Your Own Private Island

dunbar-rockmsnbc recently published an article on how the average joe can get a luxury private island vacation on the treat. Here are some of the islands that they featured.

Dunbar Rock, Honduras
In the eastern corner of Honduras’s Bay Islands chain, the whitewashed, six-bedroom Villa at Dunbar Rock sits atop a 2,000-square-foot granite islet. Balconies encircle each of the three floors, and up to 12 guests can take in sweeping 20-mile views of the Caribbean on one side and, on the other, Guanaja island, an easy swim or 90-second boat ride away

Palagruza Island, Croatia
Two apartments in an 1875 lighthouse on an 104-acre island. Dinner is either something you bring over on the ferry or whatever the lighthouse keeper catches that day. Each apartment sleeps four. 011-385/1-2415-611, privateislandsonline.com, $233 per week.

Trinity Island, Ireland
A three-bedroom, solar-paneled lodge on a 150-acre island that’s a two-hour drive from Dublin. The island has the ruins of a 750-year-old monastery, as well as rowboats and canoes for guests to explore the interconnecting rivers and lakes of the island.

To see the full list of island that made it on the list visit msnbc

ReMix of Jon David’s Tea Party anthem – American Heart

“This should be our campaign theme song for 2010” - Andrew Breitbart

You've seen Jon David perform at the major Tea Party rallies, including Washington, DC and opening up for Sarah Palin in Nashville. Now, a new, updated version of Jon David's Monster Tea Party hit "American Heart" has just been released.

David is a diehard "Breitbartian" and writes a regular column for Bretibart's libertarian site BigGovernment.com.

From Jon's site:

It’s no secret that the majority of folks in the entertainment industry lean left. What is less well known is that Artists who don’t are often met with such contempt that their very livelihoods are threatened.

The industry responsible for setting the cultural tone in America, which keeps itself warm under the expansive blanket of free speech, has no issue attempting to silence the conservative voice within its ranks.

Hear the new Re-mix now at Jon's website AmericanHeart.com

You can also buy the song, and help a Soldier at the same time.

Editor's Note - Jon's song is the theme song for our occasional blog talk radio show "Libertarian Politics Live."

University of Michigan Medical School to be awarded largest grant ever – AnnArbor.com

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