{"id":49709,"date":"2015-02-27T03:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/27\/the-power-of-destruction.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:12:51","slug":"the-power-of-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/27\/the-power-of-destruction.html","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The torturous human deaths ISIL have inflicted are certainly worse, but this is horrible in its own way.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Gnotic Pasta<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>first they kill tons of people for idiotic reasons, then the burn books in the Mosul library. now this. just sickening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/iraq-isis-take-sledgehammers-priceless-assyrian-artefacts-mosul-museum-video-1489616'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cbRWPbC-pndv2h8sx9czIa3Z1UTTuZqNDt0feMLvGlCx0QxowjsqJ_tB5YXN17x3ofm4f7fNm7mhyEPf7P-v2CFWyOFlsbFTY8W1HIb5TDREP_TOkeshkuUkD6p6H42TuumhQdRmKzBu8_SgfOu0m4iZRQ=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/iraq-isis-take-sledgehammers-priceless-assyrian-artefacts-mosul-museum-video-1489616'>Iraq: Isis take sledgehammers to priceless Assyrian artefacts at Mosul museum [VIDEO]<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nVideo shows IS militants dragging ancient Nineveh statues to the floor and smashing them with hammers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/R2PWMeg2jEf'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The torturous human deaths ISIL have inflicted are certainly worse, but this is horrible in its own way. Originally shared by +Gnotic Pasta: first they kill tons of people for idiotic reasons, then the burn books in the Mosul library. now this. just sickening. Iraq: Isis take sledgehammers to priceless Assyrian artefacts at Mosul museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/27\/the-power-of-destruction.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Power of Destruction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,66,10,108,378,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-art","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-history","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135415,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/religious-freedom-freedom-oppress-religious-opinions.html","url_meta":{"origin":49709,"position":0},"title":"When &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; is &#8220;freedom to oppress other religious opinions&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Nov-17 11:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, who is truly surprised that Donald Trump -- a man with few truly definable religious opinions -- is more than happy to garner political support by nominating a theocratic zany to the federal bench? 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