'Brussels was just a warning': ISIS thug shoots 'spy' in grim execution video celebrating bombing

ISIS have released a nine-minute long propaganda video ending with the

 execution of an alleged spy.

ISIS have released a sick video of an alleged spy being executed to celebrate last week's bombings in Brussels.

The horrific footage shows Belgian terrorist Abu Hanifa al-Baljiki, also known as Hicham Chaib, shoot the man in the back of the head after gloating about the attacks that killed 31.

It comes amid reports ISIS have been driven from the ancient city of Palmyra by the Syrian military.

ISIS execute 'spy' in grim footage celebrating Brussels bombings

The prisoner, wearing an orange jumpsuit, was shot dead at point-blank range in the gruesome clip

In the original video, which is nine minutes long, news reports of the Brussels attacks are shown as jihadists make further threats against Europe.

Speaking in French, Flemish and Arabic, one declares the recent massacre was "just a warning" while another says the fighting will be brought to "homes, streets, schools, hospitals, public buildings and monuments".

As vile ISIS propaganda is shown on the screen, Hicham Chaib — an organiser of radical group Sharia4Belgium — blasts Europeans and the West for bombing Syria and vows: "We will kill your people."

He also declares the Brussels was "only a taste" of what is to come.

At the end of the clip he shoots an alleged spy, wearing an orange jumpsuit, in the back of the head in footage that is too horrific to publish.

After he is shot twice at point-blank range the prisoner is shown slumped on the floor with blood on his head and face.

A second clip, featuring an English-speaking jihadist, has also been released

Another clip, this time featuring an English-speaking jihadist, has also been released by ISIS.

In it a terrorist named Abou Umar Al-Muhajir says he is "very happy" about the recent attacks in Brussels and last November's Paris massacre, adding: "Allah will put them [the suicide bombers] in the highest place in Jannah (paradise)."

He also makes threats of further attacks, adding: "I want you to know, you kuffar (non-believers), that we have soldiers everywhere.

"As long as you continue to drop your bombs, we will continue to slaughter you on your streets. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

"You don't have a cure for the Islamic State. Each and every day we are expanding."

English-speaking IS jihadi threatens more bloodshed in the West

Syrian state forces have claimed they have recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra

 

The grim videos come as Syria claimed government forces had regained "complete control" over the ancient city of Palmyra.

According to state TV reports, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad recaptured the city — seized by ISIS last May — with the help of militia allies.

In a major symbolic victory against the terror group, the General Command of the Syrian army said it could confirm "security and stability" had been returned to Palmyra with the help of Russian and Syrian air forces.

It claimed it showed the "army and its friends" were the only combatants capable of fighting terrorism.

Reports have claimed the city was seized from ISIS control with the help of Russian and Syrian air forces

 

It is believed some 400 ISIS fighters have been killed in the siege

Rami Abdurrahman, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the bodies of more than 400 ISIS fighters were left behind in what he described as the biggest defeat for the death cult since it declared its caliphate in 2014.

ISIS had destroyed several ancient antiques and sites in the city, including a 2,000-year-old temple.

Antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters: "Palmyra has been liberated. This is the end of the destruction in Palmyra.

"How many times did we cry for Palmyra? How many times did we feel despair? But we did not lose hope."

Palmyra was seized by the terror group last May

Posturas de Yoga que te ayudarán a descansar más y mejor.

1. Comienza sentado, con las manos en anjali mudra.Esta es una gran forma de encontrarme a mi misma, conectar con mi respiración y dejar de lado lo que me haya ocurrido en el día. Me gusta empezar sentada en Vajrasana (de rodillas con las nalgas apoyadas en los talones). Si no estás cómodo así, entrecruza tus piernas. Puedes también, si quieres, sentarte sobre unzafú o un cojín de meditación para que tu espalda se estire más fácilmente.Junta las manos a la altura del pecho y siente el espacio que rodea el corazón. Piensa conscientemente en 3 cosas por las que estés agradecido y quédate pensando en ello durante 2 minutos o más.Muchas veces llegamos a casa agotados después de un duro día de trabajo, pero sin embargo, no conseguimos conciliar el sueño. O a veces, llegamos acelerados y también nos cuesta meternos en la cama aLo más importante para funcionar bien y rendir es el descanso, además de la alimentación y el ejercicio físico. ¿Sabes que si duermes 7- 8 horas te mantendrás en tu peso ideal, te pondrás enfermo con menos frecuencia, reducirás el riego de tener la presión alta y diabetes, disminuirá tu estrés, pensarás con más claridad y tomarás decisiones con más consciencia y seguridad?

Y ¿a quién no le gusta dormir? A nuestra yogui Lucía Liencres le encanta y tiene la capacidad de hacerlo durante muchas horas seguidas, pero, hay días que le cuesta mucho porque su cabeza quiere seguir activa pensando en nuevas ideas, intentando solucionar problemas, preocupándose por la lista de tareas pendientes que tiene, etc.

Las posturas de yoga que te ayudarán a dormir mejor

En definitiva, cuando dormimos bien, todo parece funcionar mejor.

Hoy nuestra yogui quiere compartir con nosotros una serie de posturas de yoga que le ayudan mucho cuando quiere conciliar el sueño. Ojalá te ayuden a ti también

Coloca las manos en anjali mudra

2. Marjaryasana- bitilasana o postura del gato y la vaca.

Nos apoyamos sobre las manos y las rodillas con la columna vertebral alineada. Los hombros están en línea con las muñecas y las rodillas en línea con los tobillos. Empieza a extender tu columna hacia el suelo, elevando la cabeza y las nalgas hacia el techo, muy despacio y con la ayuda de tu respiración. Después flexiona la columna hacia arriba llevando la cabeza hacia el ombligo. A mí me encanta hacerlo con los ojos cerrados dejando que la respiración guíe el movimiento de mi cuerpo, así voy notando cómo poco a poco libero tensión tanto de la espalda como de mi mente.

 

Foto: Lucía Liencres

Marjaryasana- bitilasana o postura del gato y la vaca.

 

Foto: Lucía Liencres.

Marjaryasana- bitilasana o postura del gato y la vaca.

3. Balasana o postura del embrión (10-15 respiraciones).

Esta postura se realiza casi siempre al final de cada serie de posturas de yoga para relajar todo el cuerpo, por eso es genial para preparar la mente y el cuerpo para el sueño.

Las rodillas pueden estar juntas o separadas, dependiendo de lo que tu cuerpo te pida en ese momento. A mí me encanta separarlas para que todo el tronco se relaje y vaya hacia el suelo. Los brazos llévalos hacia atrás y nota cómo tus hombros también se relajan. Respira de 10 a 15 veces y con cada exhalación deja que tu cuero vaya cayendo más y más hacia el suelo.

 

Foto: Lucía Liencres

Balasana o postura del embrión

4. Baddha Konasana o la mariposa.

Me siento y junto las plantas de los pies, flexiono mi espalda hacia delante sin forzar.

Dependiendo de la flexibilidad de cada uno la frente puede apoyarse en las manos. Esta postura realmente hace que mi mente se calme al estar con los ojos cerrados mirando hacia dentro. Con cada exhalación intento dejarme ir más y más.

Me quedo unos 3 minutos en esta postura.

 

Foto: Lucía Liencres

Baddha Konasana o la mariposa

5. Viparita Karani (entre 1-10 minutos), aunque algunas personas prefieren quedarse más tiempo.

Me voy hacia una pared y elevo las piernas en 90 grados. Esta postura es genial para terminar la serie para todos los que pasamos mucho tiempo de pie. Notas una sensación de calma increíble  después de unos segundos.

 

Foto: Lucía Liencres

Viparita Karani

Después de estos ejercicios me voy a la cama y me coloco en Savasana y dedico unos instantes a dar las gracias por el día.

 

Foto: Lucía Liencres

Savasana

Además, intenta irte a la cama a la misma hora, y no quedarte dormida en el sofá con la televisión encendida. Que tu hora del sueño se convierta en un ritual sagrado para que de verdad sea un sueño reparador y puedas descansar.

¡¡Que tengas felices sueños!!

Nos vemos la próxima semana con más cositas.

Olivia O'Leary.-Why, 100 years after the Easter Rising, are Irish women still fighting?

Itwas never just England. It was always Pagan England. When I was a small child at school in Ireland, that was the difference between us. England was pagan, and Ireland was holy. And Holy Ireland had no place for liberated women.

So what happened to the promise of equality in the Proclamation of the Irish Republic read out on Easter Monday 1916 by the poet and rebel leader Patrick Pearse, and addressed to “Irishmen and Irishwomen”? The proclamation declared an end to British rule but it also guaranteed religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities for all citizens. It made a commitment to universal suffrage, extraordinary for the time, and two years before women in Britain won the vote

 Constance Markievicz, the feminist and socialist who played a prominent role in the 1916 rising. 

So how did the document’s message become stifled by a conservative culture obsessed with female chastity and purity, and so terrified of glimpsing the outlines of a woman’s body that in the 1950s we were still condemned to conceal ourselves in voluminous cardigans? How did that dream of a radical, free Ireland give way in the succeeding years to Holy Ireland, where generations of women felt they had to hide themselves away?

Historians now tell us that there was a tussle to have women included so pointedly in the proclamation. It was a struggle won by James Connolly – socialist, trade union leader and head of the Irish Citizen Army – and by Constance Markievicz, the prominent feminist and socialist. But even two years later in the general election of 1918, when Sinn Féin swept the boards, it was clear that socialists and feminists had been pushed aside. Most of the dreamers and visionaries had been shot in 1916, and a more pragmatic and conservative leadership concentrated totally on the nationalist goal of separation from the UK. The Irish Labour movement decided to stand aside in 1918 so as not to split the nationalist vote, and the only woman elected was Markievicz.

However, the real change that occurred between 1916 and 1918 was that the Roman Catholic church had finally come on board to back the rebel cause. The church didn’t like radical movements, and individual senior church men actually condemned the 1916 Easter Rising. But anger at the execution of the rising’s leaders swung public opinion firmly behind the rebels, and the Catholic church, ever pragmatic, quietly changed its stance.

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The church was by far the largest and most powerful institution in the new Irish state that would emerge six years after the rebellion, and was determined to shape it. The first Free State government tried in its first constitution to reflect a pluralist state, but in Eamon de Valera’s 1937 constitution the church was given a special position, and its social teachings were enshrined. Contraception and divorce were expressly banned – and women were told to stay at home.

Article 41 of the constitution declared that the state shall “endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home”. This was used not to give state support to women who stayed at home, but to discriminate against women who went out to work. Women public servants – doctors, nurses, teachers, television producers – had to resign because of their positions on marriage. They might be re-employed in a temporary capacity but at a reduced salary. There were always lower rates of pay for women in the public and the private sector.

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 Dubliners inspect the devastation at the end of the Easter Rising. 

This continued right up into the 70s, and a male-dominated establishment – including the trade union movement – went along with it. I remember arguing about women’s right to equal pay with a prominent Irish union leader. “When men with families get a decent wage,” he said, “I’ll start to worry about equal pay for women.”

So as long as Ireland was isolated and inward-looking, women did badly. As soon as membership of the European Union opened Ireland up to a wider world, the lot of women improved. But what if Ireland had never achieved independence, had remained part of the British empire, had not become the confessional state it became after independence – would life have been better for Irish women?Women always had to wait. Even when the then EEC insisted on equal pay in 1975, a government that included the Irish Labour party put off implementing it. It was only when the civil rights lawyer Mary Robinson, who would much later be elected Ireland’s president, told us all to write to the European commission – and we did – that the government was shamed into implementing equal pay.

All I know is that Pagan England certainly spelled freedom for my two O’Leary aunts. They were nurses who joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Serviceduring the second world war. One served in field hospitals in France after the D-day landings; the other survived when the boat taking her to serve in India was torpedoed.

Both aunts went on to settle in England and lead lives that might well have been forbidden to Catholics in Ireland

They both went on to settle in England and lead lives that might well have been forbidden to them as Catholics in Ireland. One married an Anglican and converted to Anglicanism; the other married a divorcee. Their families in Ireland may have been shocked, but the aunts were able to lead the lives they wanted to.

England was where pregnant unmarried Irish girls could go and have their babies and not be judged; where women who had been enslaved in the Magdalene Laundries could start new lives and not be judged; where Irish women can have abortions today and not be judged. Pagan England has often offered Irish women a more Christian welcome than they would ever have got at home.

So did living in an independent Ireland make me as a woman less free? No. What it did mean was that we had a lot of battles to fight in order to feel like full citizens of the Irish republic. And I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, at a special event in Dublin to commemorate – for perhaps the first time – the Irish women who took part in the Easter Rising, and to honour the involvement of Irish women in the life of the state ever since.

This weekend marks the high point of the 1916 centenary commemorations in Dublin, but I’m deeply ambivalent about the Easter Rising. I admire the bravery of people like my own grandfather who was involved in both that rebellion and the war of independence. I also have to ask if 1916 created a precedent for armed republican violence in Northern Ireland during the troubles

So looking down at that audience of brilliant Irish women, I preferred to be inspired by the living, rather than the dead. We have a female chief justice, a female attorney general, afemale director of public prosecutions, a female head of the Garda Síochána (police), a female minister for justice, a female deputy prime minister, and a whole new crop of members of parliament to swell women’s numbers in the Dail. They all represent battles hard won. But there are more to be tackled, including a woman’s right to abortion.

The fight for Irish freedom goes on.

Mediterranean. Drone photographs incredible hobbit home.

The cliff-side dwelling of Nissim Kahlon is just one of many highlights for visitors to Apollonia National Park in Israel. (Photo: Jesse Peters/YouTube)

Apollonia National Park is home to many historical wonders and a unique cliffside dwelling

by Michael d'Estries  |

Are you ready for your own bird's-eye view of a seaside national park? In an effort to bring a new dimension to the beauty of Apollonia National Park in Israel, amateur drone pilot Jesse Peters sent his aerial quadcopter high above the crashing surf and limestone cliffs – exposing the historical ruins, natural beauty, and eclectic wonders that make up this treasured site on the Mediterranean.

Located only a few miles outside the city of Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv, Apollonia National Park is considered by some to be one of Israel's best-kept secrets. Like other coastal cities along the Mediterranean,the site features stunning sunset views and opportunities for hikes along the cliffs and sandy beaches. What really makes Apollonia stand out, however, is its history – featuring a 13th-century fortress and the remains of a Roman villa – and the cliffside hobbit home of artist Nissim Kahlon.

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Since 1970, Kahlon has been excavating a maze of tunnels and rooms into the limestone under Apollonia. Those walking the beach along the national park can witness firsthand his determination to literally carve out his own sprawling hobbit palace along the coast. You may even run into Kahlon himself, as he often roams the coast looking for seashells to decorate with.

Apollonia is one of nearly 50 national parks found throughout Israel. Everything from unique geology to dense forest trails and hikes through verdant, unending plains await those explorers looking to stir their sense of wonder. Interested in a place to start? Check out our list of the country's varied environmental wonders as a primer for your next visit.

Todo se vuelve bueno con los “Kimojis” de Semana Santa

No se pierdan los “Kimojis” de Semana Santa

Después de batir todos los récords con el lanzamiento de sus emojis personalizados, Kim Kardashian vuelve a la carga con la versión más religiosa de los populares dibujitos

El mismo día en que lanzó su aplicación "Kimoji" esta se convirtió al instante en la número 1 en la tienda Apple.

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La siempre polémica Kim Kardashian ha elegido la celebración de Semana Santa para avisar a sus seguidores de Instagram de que ya pueden disfrutar de sus nuevos emoticonos, esta vez con temática de inspiración de Pascua.

“¡Sorpresa! ¡Nuevos Kimojis de Semana Santa gratuitos! Si tienes iOS aparecerán solos en tu teclado. Si tienes Android simplemente actualiza la aplicación. ¡Descárgate Kimoji si todavía no la tienes! ¡Feliz Semana Santa!”, escribió en su Instagram junto a una imagen de los nuevos diseños: huevos de pascua, una cruz, vidrieras de iglesia con la imagen de Cristo, un conejito de chocolate, campanas y Kim con orejas de conejita.

Kim y su marido Kanye West son muy religiosos, no en vano su hijo se llama Saint y el rapero insiste en que su último disco, ‘Life of Pablo’, es un disco “góspel”.

“No es exactamente lo que se cuenta en la Biblia, pero es una historia sobre la idea de María Magdalena convertida en María”, explicó Kanye en la emisora Real 92.3.

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La independencia catalana está en coma profundo.

Que en política muchas veces hay sumas que en realidad restan lo vuelve a confirmar el guirigay perpetuo en el que lleva instalada Junts pel Sí desde la investidura in extremis de Carles Puigdemont como president de la Generalitat. La coalición que agrupa a Convergència, ERC y otras figuras independientes es tan heterogénea que no consigue disimular sus fricciones y luchas internas en cada debate en el Parlament. De hecho, lo único que ha evitado que la agrupación salte ya por los aires es su común objetivo independentista -a nivel municipal, sonora ha sido la ruptura en el Ayuntamiento de Girona-. A las tensiones internas se suman las constantes presiones de la CUP, la formación antisistema en cuyos brazos se lanzaron los convergentes para poder gobernar. Y aún más. Junts pel Sí no ha podido evitar fracturarse ya en varias votaciones sobre cuestiones sociales promovidas por partidos de izquierda, que han evidenciado las irreconciliables posturas de Convergència y sus socios republicanos en cuestiones que afectan al modelo económico y de sociedad. La gota que ha colmado el vaso ha sido una propuesta para eliminar las subvenciones a escuelas privadas del Opus Dei que ha distanciado todavía más a unos y otros diputados.

El resultado de todo ello es que la coalición independentista está ofreciendo una lamentable imagen de desunión, falta de liderazgo y de proyecto, que no hace sino engordar las perspectivas electorales de la marca catalana de Podemos, Catalunya Sí que es Pot. La encuesta del Centro de Estudios de Opinión de hace sólo unos días ha hecho saltar todas las alarmas en la cúpula de la antigua Convergència. De celebrarse ahora unas nuevas elecciones autonómicas, Junts pel Sí pasaría de los actuales 62 escaños a 56-58. Un retroceso que le dejaría sin mayoría absoluta aunque volviera a respaldarle la CUP. En cambio, Catalunya Sí que es Pot experimentaría una espectacular subida, doblando sus apoyos actuales hasta los 23 escaños -que le situarían como segunda fuerza en el Parlament, desplazando a Ciudadanos-.

Este auge se explica por la gran oportunidad que representa este escenario para la coalición de izquierdas para apropiarse de la bandera social, ya que a ERC le está pasando, como es lógico, una fuerte factura su incoherente alianza con Convergència -formación de centroderecha-. Tampoco entienden muchos de los seguidores de la CUP su investidura a Puigdemont, por más que los anticapitalistas se escuden en la hoja de ruta independentista. Máxime cuando a nadie se le escapa que el órdago al Estado está tan plagado de retórica como abocado al fracaso y que, sin embargo, genera un grave escenario de incertidumbre e inestabilidad política que impide aprobar las leyes y reformas necesarias para que Cataluña salga del marasmo económico en el que se encuentra.

En ese sentido, las fricciones en Junts pel Sí y su tensión con la CUP están teniendo efecto en las dificultades para tramitar los Presupuestos, cuya aprobación se convertirá en la primera gran prueba de fuego para la supervivencia de la alianza parlamentaria. Puigdemont ha advertido a los antisistema que las medidas sociales contenidas en el plan de choque económico que JxSí les ofreció a cambio de la investidura dependen de que se aprueben unos nuevos Presupuestos, dado que siguen prorrogados los de 2015. Pero el president trata de imponer el pragmatismo y busca avanzar en medidas realistas a lo largo de la legislatura. Una actitud que choca frontalmente con la de la formación anticapitalista, que no ha dudado en pisar el acelerador y en meter el dedo en el ojo al Govern con una moción para forzar un choque frontal con el Tribunal Constitucional. Es el último quebradero de cabeza para Puigdemont, quien no logra ocultar su incapacidad para coger las riendas en una situación tan semejante a una jaula de grillos.

En el mismo barómetro del CEO se reflejaba una bajada de los partidarios de la independencia hasta el 45,3%, en empate técnico con quienes la rechazan, un 45,5%. Es bochornoso que Cataluña sufra una auténtica parálisis política por culpa de unos dirigentes a los que sólo les une una ensoñación soberanista que no comparte ni la mitad de los catalanes.