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Saturday, May 31, 2014

BLACK BEAR CAUGHT TAKING A NAP IN SOMEONE'S HAMMOCK IN THE BACK YARD

  • The bear was spotted in a neighborhood in Daytona Beach, Florida on Wednesday banging
    Photo - Rafael Torres - Daily Mail
    around trash cans
  • On Thursday, a photographer found the bear in the same neighborhood - taking a nap in a hammock in a person's backyard
  • Photographer Rafael Torres says the bear took a load off in the hammock for about 20 minutes before scampering back into the woods
  • In the last several years there have been several images and photos uploaded to the Internet of bears in hammocks, including 'Famous Amis' who was spotted napping in a backyard hammock in 2006

  • Read more and see additional pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644494/Time-snooze-Black-bear-photographed-taking-nap-persons-backyard-hammock.html

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    MERIAM IBRAHIM WILL BE FREED - World campaign for the freedom of Sudanese woman incarcerated and condemned to death for marrying a Christian worked. Sudan will free her in a few days.

    Sudanese woman facing 'barbaric' death sentence for marrying a Christian will be FREED after U-turn from authorities

    Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth in prison this week, was sentenced to death for abandoning Islam, but is now set to be released in a matter of days.
     
    The news comes after huge international pressure was piled on the Sudanese authorities.
     
    Read more:
     
    JUNE 1 UPDATE
     
    Family fears the Sudanese government is lying.
    A Sudan foreign ministry spokesman said there are no plans to release her 'before the ruling of an appeals court'
    Read more
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    More reports on Meriam Ibrahim on this blog

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    MERIAM IBRAHIM'S HUSBAND APPEALS FOR SUPPORT - Meriam has been condemned to 100 lashes and to be hanged for marrying a Christian in Sudan - She just gave birth in jail and is kept in shackles

    Daniel and Mariam - Daily Mail photo
    Daniel Wani says he hopes international outcry will lead to conviction of his wife Meriam Ibrahim being overturned

    The Guardian - The prime minister and other political leaders have added their voices to the campaign to lift the death sentence given to Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy.  (Meriam is a physician and Daniel is a biochemist with US citizenship.)
     
    Daniel & Maya - Daily Mail photo
    David Cameron's announcement came after Ibrahim's husband, Daniel Wani, appealed for global support to free his wife from death row, where she is being held with her two young children after giving birth in shackles this week.  Cameron said he was "absolutely appalled" when he heard of the decision.
     
    "The way she is being treated is barbaric and has no place in today's world. Religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right," he said. His words were echoed by Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Tony Blair. Blair said it was a "brutal and sickening distortion of faith".
     
    Wani, a US citizen since 2005, said mounting international pressure could have a significant impact on the Sudanese authorities, and he felt overwhelmed by "the way people have come together around the world" to protest against his wife's sentence. "I want to thank everyone for this stand. It's looking like it had an effect. Perhaps it will result in the judgment being overturned," he told CNN.

    MANHATTANENGE, OR MANHATTAN SOLSTICE, OCCURS WHEN THE SUN SETS IN ALIGNMENT WITH MANHATTAN'S GRID SYSTEM

    Manhattanhenge happens only four times a year and is when the sunset is perfectly aligned with the New York grid. 
     
    Thursday night clouds blocked the spectacle.  Friday night hundreds gathered to capture a photo of the rare occurrence.
     
    See more pictures of this occurrence
     
     
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    Friday, May 30, 2014

    VOLCANO GIANT ASH CLOUD 12 MILE HIGH - FROM MOUNT SANGEANG API IN INDONESIA - Photo taken by airplane passenger

    Photo Sofyan Efendi - Daily Mail
    The incredible moment when a huge volcano erupted in Indonesia sending ash spewing an estimated 12 miles into the sky.   The powerful explosion took place at Mount Sangeang Api in the Lesser Sunda Islands - an area that plays host to 129 active volcanoes - and sent a distinctive spaceship-shaped ring of pyroclastic smoke high into the air. 
     
    The photographs were taken by professional photographer Sofyan Efendi during a commercial flight from Bali to the fishing town of Labuan Bajo in West Nusa Tenggara province. Sangeang Api means Mountain of Spirits.
     
    Scores of farmers who work but do not live on the island were ordered to leave and not return until the volcano has finished erupting, said Muhammad Hendrasto, head of Indonesia's National Volcanology Agency. Authorities have had Mount Sangiang Api - which means 'Mountain of Spirits' in Balinese - on high alert for almost a year, he told China's Xinhua news agency.
     
    The volcano sits in Indonesia's notorious 'Ring of Fire' - an area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. It has 452 volcanoes - 75 per cent of the world's total.  Since Sangiang Api's first recorded eruption in 1512, it is believed to have erupted a total of 20 times.
     
    Read more and see impressive photographs
     
    More on volcanoes on this blog
     
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    SWAT TEAM THROWS GRENADE INTO TODDLER'S CRIB - BABY BURNED AND IN A COMA - The swat team were looking for drugs - Not clear if they found them

    Bou before attack - Daily Mail
    SWAT team throws a stun grenade into a toddler's CRIB during drugs raid leaving him in a coma with severe burns

  • Wisconsin mother Alecia Phonesavanh and her 19-month-old son, Bou, were visiting her sister-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia
  • They were all asleep when police raided the home early Wednesday
  • Phonesavanh said officers threw a grenade, which landed in her baby's crib and exploded in his face
  • The child was seriously injured and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital's burn unit where doctors placed him in a medically induced coma
  • Most photographs of the baby's burns are too graphic to show
  • Police said a multijurisdictional drug unit issued a warrant and organized the SWAT operation
  • It's not clear if any drugs were found in the home during the raid
  •  Read more and see photos of baby in a coma
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2643344/Horror-SWAT-team-throw-stun-grenade-toddlers-CRIB-drugs-raid-leaving-coma-severe-burns.html

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    MERIAM IBRAHIM IN JAIL - PHOTOS OF PHYSICIAN IN SHACKLES IN SUDAN FOR MARRYING A CHRISTIAN - Sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging once she finishes nursing her baby

    
    Meriam Ibrahim with Maya and son
    While the United States government has a new policy that allows entry to known Muslim terrorists (see report at bottom of page), it denies entry to a Christian physician who has been condemned by a Sudan court to 100 lashes and death by hanging for marrying a Christian biochemist, who also happens to have US citizenship.

    Daily Mail - Behind bars with her babies - death row mother, her toddler and the baby she gave birth to while IN SHACKLES in barbaric Sudanese jail. Now she faces 100 lashes before being hanged for marrying a U.S. Christian

    Thursday, May 29, 2014

    IRAQ WAR - AFTER THOUSANDS OF US AND UK MILITARY CASUALTIES - the British government hides documents that could explain why troops went to war

    Bush and Blair - Daily Mail photo
    Iraq war whitewash: Grieving families' fury as Cabinet Secretary cooks up shabby deal to keep letters and calls between Blair and Bush secret.

  • Agreement reached to publish 'gist and quotes' of notes between leaders
  • Material includes 25 notes and more than 130 records of conversations 

  • The Iraq War inquiry was condemned as a whitewash last night after more than 150 crucial messages from Tony Blair to George W Bush were censored.  Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has vetoed the release of the letters and phone calls in the run-up to the 2003 conflict, officials revealed.  In them, Mr Blair is said to have promised the US President: 'You know, George, whatever you decide to do, I'm with you.'  
     
    The official reason for the censorship is that publication would deter prime ministers from speaking freely in private.
     
    Read more
     
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    CARTOON - SHOW OF FORCE - US SENDS MARINES TO THE COAST OF LIBYA - A YEAR TOO LATE after the US ambassador's murder.

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    Jerrylaughs-vi
     
    See more cartoons and satire on this blog
     
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    QUICK OTTER ESCAPES JAGUAR ATTACK IN BRAZIL - VIDEO

    Photo David Jenkins - Daily Mail
    The incredible moment jaguar leaps from river bank in bid to catch giant otter swimming below - but the slippery creature escapes.

  • Predator is seen making its way across the top of an 26ft river bank
  • Fearless feline decided to make the most of its vantage point
  • Otter managed to slip beneath the mirky water of the Cuiaba River in Brazil
  • Images were taken by Irish photographer David Jenkins, 41

  • Read more, see pictures and video
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642854/Moment-jaguar-leaps-river-bank-bid-catch-giant-otter-swimming-below.html
     
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    A popular picture of fierce otters fighting for territory
     

  • Otters pictured battling it out in Gembira Loka Zoological Gardens, Indonesia
  • Photographer Monica Anantyowati took the pictures while on a trip 


  • Read more and see additional pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362578/Why-I-otter--Rivals-battle-river-war-food-territory.html



    More on otters on this blog
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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    GLASS FLOOR OF CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER'S VIEWING PLATFORM CRACKS UNDER TOURISTS' FEET at a height of 1,353 feet - Willis Tower spokesman says this has happened before and it's perfectly safe

    Photo Daily Mail - Getty
    Terror at 1,353ft: The truly horrifying moment Willis Tower's glass floor CRACKS under tourists' feet.

  • Family visiting from California evacuated from skyscraper 1,353ft above the streets of Chicago
  • Glass floor of The Ledge appeared to shatter beneath them
  • Attraction opened in 2009 and the three-inch thick glass is meant to withstand 5-tons
  • The Garibay family joked that staff told them the glass was unbreakable before they stepped on
  • Willis Tower spokesman said that although unusual, this has happened before and is perfectly safe

  • Read more and see pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642967/They-said-unbreakable-Tourists-shock-lives-glass-floor-Willis-Towers-Ledge-cracks-feet.html

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    OTTERS PRAYING - OTTER GIVES GOD THANKS FOR HIS MEAL - Or so it seems


    
    Photo Emmanuel Keller
    Paws for prayer:  Moment an Otter appears to thank God before tucking into meal
     
    With its hands clasped tightly together and its eyes closed, the otter appears to be deep in prayer shortly before it is given a fishy treat. 
     
    Pictured inside the Bois du Petit Château animal park in Switzerland, the cheeky animal couldn't hold back his excitement at the thought of some food. 
     
    After noticing the Oriental small-clawed otter pulling the amusing pose, Swiss photographer, Emmanuel Keller, couldn't resist catching the moment on camera. 

    Read more
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642625/Paws-prayer-Hilarious-moment-Otter-appears-thank-God-tucking-meal.html


    More photos of otters praying
    
     Photo Marac Andrev Kolodzinski

     


    
    Photo taken by photographer Marac Andrev Kolodzinski who spent two hours waiting in freezing cold weather at Whipsnade Zoo, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, to capture the divine moment.
     
    Read more and see additional pictures

    
    


    More on otters on this blog
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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    Wednesday, May 28, 2014

    STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL BRITISH LANDSCAPES CAPTURED BY TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS

    The photos are entries for the eighth annual Take A View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Award competition, which is open for submissions from now until July 11.  The brainchild of renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite, it is one of the world's most exciting photography competitions, but with an exclusive focus on the British landscape. 
     
    Left:  Fiery sky over the Isle of Arran, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, by Peter Ribbeck
     
    See more beautiful photographs
     
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    POPE IN ISRAEL - MORE OUTRAGE AT THE POPE'S ENDORSEMENT OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND TERROR - Writer Caroline Glick highlights some of the pope's dangerously offensive words and symbolic gestures

    POPE FRANCIS' UNFRIENDLY VISIT

    By Caroline Glick

    Yes, Pope Francis, Jesus spoke Hebrew.





    POPE IN ISRAEL - THIS CARTOON SAYS IT ALL - THE VATICAN'S HYPOCRISY AND ITS SUPPORT FOR ARAB TERRORISTS

    The pope visits Israel and lectures the PM against the protective wall

    POPE:  Why this wall in Israel?

    Israeli Prime Minister:  Why this bullet-proof glass in popemobile?



    Source:  http://www.israpundit.com/archives/63596824

    RELATED

    How dare the Pope condemn a barrier that’s meant to protect Jewish children! 
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/pope-in-israel-film-maker-simcha.html


    Pope prays at security wall filled with graffiti demonizing Jews.  You can see one that compares the wall with the Warsaw Ghetto.  The irony is that Nazis were murdering Jews at the Warsaw Ghetto, and then Muslim Nazis continued to murder Jews in Israel - hence the need for a protective security barrier for the Jews. 
     
    Not many people know that during the 1940s the Palestinian leader at that time, the Mufti of Jerusalem, lived in Berlin and had a key role in the design and the implementation of the Final Solution.  After the war he returned to the Middle East and indoctrinated a new generation of Arab leaders, among them Yassir Arafat and the current president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.  The Nazis never went away.  These days Hitler and Nazism are still very popular among Palestinians, and serve as their inspiration.

    Click on the following items for further information:

    THE NAZI ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT

     
    The pope has no intention to refute the Arab narrative.  The Church was indifferent to the mass genocide of Jews by German Nazis, helped Nazi criminals escape after the war, and has presented a consistent anti-Jewish stance from the its very beginning many centuries ago.  

    Once the Jewish survivors came home and reconstituted the state of Israel, the Vatican refused to officially recognize it for many decades, throwing all its support on Arab terrorists instead.  Pope John Paul II met twelve times with Yassir Arafat,  

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    THE VATICAN'S DISGRACEFUL HISTORY OF HATE AGAINST JEWS
     - And the Muslim-Christian Alliance forged for the destruction of Israel
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/pope-in-israel-vaticans-disgraceful.html

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    The Palestinian ongoing demonization of Jews and calls for their destruction - all paid for by the "moderate" Palestinian Authority - with funds provided by European and American taxpayers
    Read more  
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/03/american-and-european-tax-payers.html

    See for yourself - Palestinian Media Watch
    http://www.palwatch.org/

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    Tuesday, May 27, 2014

    POLITICIANS WHO RUIN YOUR COUNTRY, GET RICH, AND THEN LECTURE THE PUBLIC - THE CASE OF TONY BLAIR

    Daily Mail  - The rank hypocrisy of Tony Blair: He threw open Britain to millions of immigrants, but now sneers at right wing UKIP
     
    Mr Blair is a man who will gabble silkily for lucrative corporate bonding sessions or cosy media interviews.  But he will never utter what we actually want to hear from him - the faintest hint of contrition to those of us living in the country that he seems effectively to have abandoned.

    AWESOME OTTERS - THEY PLAY MUSIC ON THE KEYBOARD AND THEY LOVE IT - These intelligent creatures in captivity were given the instrument to enrich their environment

    Smithsonian Zoo Otters -  Huffington Post
    They would much rather be playing in freedom in the wild, but that's life.  Otters love to have fun, even in captivity.  They take things as they come and make the best of it.
     
    Huffington Post - Otters don't have to be the most musically talented sea creatures out there; they just have to be ridiculously cute.   In their 32-second musical debut, a cage of Asian small-clawed otters at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., attempt to master the keyboard. 
     
    According to the zoo's YouTube channel, the otters were given the choice of playing on the keyboard or just sitting back and enjoying the show. Either way, this is absolutely adorable.  As part of the zoo's #ZooEnrichment program, animals are taught to play with their creative sides, engaging in activities that challenge their sight, touch and hearing senses.
     
    Earlier today, the zoo posted another video of Bonnie the orangutan playing the xylophone like a pro — seriously, she's probably better than most human xylophone players.  Animal enrichment is also used to provide stimulating environments for animals to demonstrate their species' typical behaviour. And as cool as it may be to see zoo animals doing very "human things," all of these activities are meant to enhance their well-being.

    Watch video and listen to them play
    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/27/otters-playing-keyboard_n_5397978.html

    More articles on otters on this blog
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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    NORTH DAKOTA MAN CAPTURES AMAZING VIDEO LOOKING UP AT TORNADO

    CTV NEWS - Now this is a view of a tornado you don’t usually see – looking straight up as it violently twists overhead.
     
    The last time you may have seen something like this was in the movie Twister, but the video Dan Yorgason shot Monday at a trailer park in North Dakota is completely real. 

    Yorgason was at home when his friend and neighbour, Abram Schiff, texted him that a storm was coming.  “I checked outside to step under the rain – because I like summer rains – and I looked to the right to the east and didn’t see anything. Then I looked to the west and saw it coming,” he told the New York Daily News.
     
    No sirens alerted the workers at the trailer park that houses oil patch workers near Watford City.  “The tornado was coming down the hill along our only escape route,” Yorgason told The Associated Press. “There was nowhere for us to go. It was crazy.”
     
    Yorgason and Schiff weren’t wearing shoes and didn’t grab belongings as they rushed for their truck, thinking that was safer than the mobile home. But they realized the tornado’s path was in the way of the only road out of the park and there is no way to outrun a tornado.

    Read more and watch video
    http://knlive.ctvnews.ca/north-dakota-man-captures-amazing-video-looking-up-at-tornado-1.1841074

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    MARIAM IBRAHIM GIVES BIRTH TO BABY DAUGHER - She has spent months in shackles in Sudanese jail - This physician was condemned to receive 100 lashes and to be hanged for marrying a Christian

    Dr. Meriam Ibrahim and husband
    While the world clamors for the creation of ANOTHER Muslim state on Jewish land, the string of horrific assaults on human rights in Muslim states continues undisturbed. 

    Any words from the Pope?  From the White House?  From feminists everywhere?
     
    Mariam Ibrahim, the physician condemned to be hanged for marrying a Christian has given birth in jail to a baby girl. 
     
     
    Also see updated May 30 report with picture of mother and baby here:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/mariam-ibrahim-in-jail-photos-of.html

    POPE IN ISRAEL - FILM MAKER SIMCHA JACOBOVICI DISGUSTED - Pope should have expressed contrition for the Vatican's record of persecution of Jews, instead of lecturing Israelis and supporting Arabs terrorists

    Simcha Jacobovici
    Sucking Up to the Pope 
    By Simcha Jacobovici
    Producer of TV series The Naked Archaeologist
    and documentary The Tomb of Jesus.
     
    The Pope has left after his 24 hour whirlwind tour of Jerusalem. Not a second too soon, as far as I’m concerned. His visit here epitomizes everything that’s wrong with Israel’s relations with the non-Jewish world.   Don’t get me wrong, he seems like a nice enough guy from Argentina and he seems to be a soccer/football fan (since he’s from Argentina, how can he not be?), but he didn’t come to Israel representing himself.
     
    Pope Francis 
    He came to Israel representing the very same institution that brought us the Crusades and the Inquisition.
     
    Over 2,000 years, the Church forced Jews into ghettos and made Jews wear funny hats and yellow patches, forced Jews into conversion and hounded us to the ends of the earth.
     
    You would think that there would be a bit of contrition. You would think that with his tears in his eyes, the Pope would beg forgiveness from the Jewish people: “sorry about burning you at the stake, sorry about the forced conversions, sorry about the Inquisition, sorry about the inactivity during the Holocaust.”

    EXOSKELETON TURNS FIREMEN INTO SUPERMEN

    Photo Ken Chen - Daily Mail
    A radical new suit for the firefighter of the future has been revealed that could give them superhuman strength. 
     
    The exoskeleton would allow firefighters to easily rescue and carry people out of fires, or take heavy equipment up flights of stairs inside a burning building. 
     
    It can be fitted with a range of gadgets for different mission, including a high pressure water hose that simply clips onto the arm.
     
    Read more and see photos and design diagrams here
     
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    BEAUTIFUL PICTURES OF MAN FEEDING MANATEES UNDERWATER - Jeremy Wade is known for his River Monsters show.

    Manatee  - (Wikipedia photo)
    Dinner time with the gentle giants of the deep: River Monsters presenter Jeremy Wade dives to feed the manatees.

    He took on his own greatest fear when he hunted down a 200lb anaconda hiding out in the Amazon river.  But now Jeremy Wade has taken some time out beneath the waves with a gentler aquatic breed, this time a docile marine mammal.
     
    The River Monsters presenter is pictured here feeding the manatees at River Safari, Singapore.  Wade made a sell-out special appearance at the aquarium this afternoon to share stories and tips on how to catch monster fish.
     
    He swam among the manatees as well as captive arapaima, among the world's largest freshwater fish, at River Safari’s Amazon Flooded Forest – the world’s largest freshwater aquarium. 
     
    Read more and see pictures
     
    Photo Wikipedia
     
    Save the manatee
     
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    MUSLIM TERROR GROUPS VOW TO KILL ISRAELI MAYOR WHO IS FRIENDLY TO ARABS

    Mayor Avi Naim
    For the 'crime' of maintaining positive relations with neighboring Arabs,  Muslims 'sentence' Jewish mayor to death.
     
    Terrorist groups have sent death threats to Avi Naim, the local authority head of Beit Aryeh, located in western Samaria – because of his insistence on maintaining positive relations with the leaders of Arab villages in the vicinity of his town.

    Threats have been sent to Naim personally in the past, and this week fliers appeared in Arab towns and villages in the area saying that if Naim continued to hold meetings and conduct positive relations with the neighboring Arab village of Luban, “his blood should be considered free to spill.”
     
    The fliers listed the threats as coming from four terror groups – Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front, and Fatah.  "Moderate" Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, and key members of his government, belong to Fatah.
     
    Photo and article source
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181059#.U4Sj4JsU-M8

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    Arab violence against Jews is being fueled by Palestinian Authority incitement, particularly with ceaseless propaganda on PA-TV, where even children programs call for the killing of Jews.  Generations of Palestinians have now been indoctrinated with hatred and the notion that killing Jews is sanctioned by the Koran.
    Read more
    http://www.palwatch.org/

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    Monday, May 26, 2014

    HILARIOUS ANIMAL SELFIES - WEIRD BUT ADORABLE


     











    Today's selection of the five best animal selfies:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2639581/The-five-hilarious-animal-selfies-time-revealed-G-Adventures.html

    And some great cat selfies here
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429172/Social-pet-working-The-feline-divas-resist-selfie.html

    Photos - Daily Mail

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    POPE IN ISRAEL - VATICAN'S DISGRACEFUL HISTORY OF HATE AGAINST JEWS - And the Muslim-Christian Alliance forged for the destruction of Israel

    The pope and terrorist Mahmoud Abbas
    Pope Francis made a speech  in Israel in which he called the Holocaust "a tragedy".
    Merriam Webster - Tragedy:
    1) a very bad event that causes great sadness and often involves someone's death.
    2) : a very sad, unfortunate, or upsetting situation : something that causes strong feelings of sadness or regret.
     3) : a play, movie, etc., that is serious and has a sad ending (such as the death of the main character)
     
    A tragedy?  The Holocaust was a major crime, a genocide.  It was a crime with which the Vatican was heavily involved.  
     
    The following is Janet Levy's review of Giulio Meotti's book The Vatican against Israel.  What makes this review so good is that she deftly summarizes the shocking history of Vatican active involvement in the destruction of the Jews, focusing particularly in the past decades. 
     
    I have highlighted the main points and added subtitles for easier reading.

    Sunday, May 25, 2014

    EUROPEAN UNION VOTE - THE PREDICTABLE TURN TO THE FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE - The latest results and estimates

    There will be much outrage on the liberal media about the shift to the far right, and not enough honest introspection on what brought this about. 
     
    Many could have warned them that any excess brings an opposite reaction. 
    National Front Marie Le Pen
    What is happening in the European elections now is not the result of political fatigue.  It is instead a profound and ominous change that will grow stronger.
     
    Opportunistic post-war Europeans - without being particularly contrite about their crimes and complicity during World War II - used the horrors of that conflict to push their own agenda.  Thus you have seen an implementation of liberal and leftist social polities, and the weakening of whatever moral values were still left after the 20th century upheavals. 
     
    A strange type of liberal oppressiveness was instituted where dissenters are shunned and coerced to conform to the liberal agenda.  Any questioning of that doctrine is immediately slapped with the accusation of "intolerance".   The "tolerant left" became frighteningly intolerant.

    NEW BOOK EXPOSES FIDEL CASTRO AS A HYPOCRITE - HIS PEOPLE LIVE IN POVERTY WHILE HE INDULGES IN A BILLIONAIRE'S LIFE - His fortune is as big as that of the British Queen.

    Che Guevara & Fidel Castro
    Castro the commie hypocrite who lives like a billionaire: He's posed as a man of the people. But a new book reveals Cuba's leader has led a life of pampered hedonism and a fortune as big as the Queen's.

    In a new, 338-page memoir, titled The Hidden Life Of Fidel Castro (published in France by Michel Lafon and co-authored by Axel Gyldén), Sanchez, an employee of 20 years’ standing, lifts the lid on the luxurious excesses enjoyed by the autocrat and his inner circle.
    The book portrays a man obsessed with power and money, who styled himself as a hero of the working classes while living the opulent existence of a medieval potentate. 
     

    FISH FOLLOW THEIR LEADER EVEN IF HE'S DRUNK - Yes, this is the kind of experiment scientists get paid for

    Zebrafish - Photo Wikipedia
    By Elizabeth Preston, Inkfish blog, Discover Magazine

    It’s a good thing fish can’t operate a vehicle. Not only do drunk zebrafish swim extra fast, but they somehow get all the sober fish to follow them. Essentially, a drunk fish becomes the designated driver for the whole group.
     
    Although a fish is only marginally like a human, fish can be convenient subjects for scientists who want to study the effects of alcohol. That’s because to get a fish tipsy, you don’t have to force it to drink anything. You only have to put a small concentration of alcohol into its tank.* Maurizio Porfiri, an associate professor at the New York University Polytechnic Institute of Engineering, used this technique to show last year that drunk zebrafish don’t fear robotic predators.

    BEAUTIFUL CLOSE-UP PICTURES OF INSECTS AT WORK

    A series of amazing images show intricate details of hungry bees and tiny insects hovering above colourful flowers.
     
    The insects were brought to life in extraordinary detail showing a carpenter bee, fruit fly and dragonfly in mid-air approaching pollen-rich flower buds in search of food in Indonesia.
    In one picture a couple of bees hover above a flower and appear to stare into each others' eyes as they attempt to share the space on the flower.
    Each image was captured by photographer Yudy Sauw, 33, who stood just a couple of feet off the ground to catch a glimpse of the fascinating scenes in Banten, Indonesia
     
    Read more and see pictures here
     
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    POPE IN ISRAEL - POPE FRANCIS PRAYS AT SUICIDE BOMBER DEFENSE WALL

    Pope prays at defense wall against terrorists
    On Sunday, the Pope was photographed praying at a wall built to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from entering Jerusalem and blowing up restaurants and buses full of women and children. 

    One can simply imagine the horror the Pope must feel, knowing that this is one of the last lines of defense against Palestinian terrorists who would eagerly blow themselves up just to murder Jews.

     
    Palestinians honor Sbarro massacre terrorist
    Until this wall was put up, Israelis were murdered, maimed, and injured by citizens of the Palestinian Authority that he is currently visiting.

    Under Palestinian Authority control, the number of Christians living in Bethlehem dwindled to under 15% of the population, from approximately 50% when it was under Israeli rule. Most Arab Christians fled to safer areas due to Muslim and Palestinian Authority threats, harassment and terror.



    POPE VISIT TO ISRAEL - VATICAN WORDS DENY CATHOLICISM AND EMBRACE ISLAM - Is the Pope Catholic?

    IS THE POPE CATHOLIC?  
     
    Pope Francis continues in the grand Vatican tradition of denying Jews their right to their sacred heritage and embracing murderous enemies of the Jews.  The pope turned his back to the Nazi mass persecution and murder of Jews, and the Vatican later helped thousands of Nazi criminals escape with false papers and evade justice.  After the war popes have been active supporters of Arab terrorists, while refusing to acknowledge for many decades Jewish right to Israel.
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    Irene, who has written for EoZ before, and who is Irish Catholic, writes:
     
    The Pope’s Schedule from the official website of the Pilgrimage of His Holiness Francis in the Holy Land on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras (May 24 – 26, 2014) 
     
    Monday, May 26, 2014
    8:15     VISIT TO THE GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM in the building of the Great Council on the Esplanade of the Mosques.  Discourse of the Holy Father.

    Esplanade of the Mosques? 

    Esplanade of the Mosques? 

    The "Esplanade of the Mosques" is the TEMPLE MOUNT - where the Jewish Temple used to be.  Solomon's Temple. The temple the invading Romans destroyed, and where the invading Arabs from Arabia built their mosque, usurping this sacred Jewish site for themselves and renaming it Al Quds. (Blogger). 
     
    Shortly before the Romans came to haul him away, Jesus Christ predicted that Peter would deny him three times before the cock crowed twice.  After the Roman’s seized Jesus, Peter followed him at a distant to the high priest’s courtyard. 
     
    One of the high priest’s maids came along.  Seeing Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said, “You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” But he denied it, saying,” I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.”  So he went out into the outer court.  Then the cock crowed. [for the first time]  (Mark 14:66-68)
     
    So Pope Francis comes to Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior last preached.  He goes to the Mount where both of the Jewish Temples once stood. The Temples that are mentioned many, many times in both the Old and New Testaments, places of enormous significance in Christian theology.  It was a pilgrimage to the Temple that brought Jesus Christ to Jerusalem that fateful Passover.
     
    “Temple Mount?”  says the Pope.  “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.  I am up here on the Esplanade of the Mosques, schmoozing with the Grand Mufti.”
     
    Political correctness is one thing; denying that you are a follower of Jesus Christ is another.  For the Pope, the world’s most conspicuous Christian, to deny the Temple is beneath contempt.  What is next?  Calling his pilgrimage to Jerusalem a visit to Al Quds?
     
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    DOES ISLAM HAVE A TRUE CONNECTION TO JERUSALEM?
     
     MOHAMMED NEVER SET FOOT IN THAT CITY
     
    ISLAM IS THE REAL OCCUPIER
     
    Islam's tenuous connection to Jerusalem
    by Eli E. Hertz

    Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Quran and Mohammed never set foot on Its soil.

    Despite 1,300 years of Muslim Arab rule, Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab entity, nor was it ever mentioned in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s covenant until Israel regained control of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967.  Overall, the role of Jerusalem in Islam is best understood as the outcome of political exigencies impacting religious belief.
     
    Mohammed, who founded Islam in 622 CE, was born and raised in present-day Saudi Arabia and never set foot in Jerusalem. His connection to the city came years after his death when the Dome of the Rock shrine and the al-Aqsa mosque were built in 688 and 691, respectively, their construction spurred by political and religious rivalries.
     
    In 638 CE, the Caliph (or successor to Mohammed) Omar and his invading armies captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire.


    In 638 CE, the Caliph (or successor to Mohammed) Omar and his invading armies captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire.
     
    Kotel at sunrise
    One reason they wanted to erect a holy structure in Jerusalem was to proclaim Islam’s supremacy over Christianity and its most important shrine, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
     
    More important was the power struggle within Islam itself. The Damascus-based Umayyad Caliphs who controlled Jerusalem wanted to establish an alternative holy site if their rivals blocked access to Mecca.
     
    That was important because the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, was (and remains today) one of the Five Pillars of Islam. As a result, they built what became known as the Dome of the Rock shrine and the adjacent mosque.
     
    To enhance the prestige of the ‘substitute Mecca,’ the Jerusalem mosque was named al-Aqsa. It means ‘the furthest mosque’ in Arabic, but has far broader implications, since it is the same phrase used in a key passage of the Quran called “The Night Journey.”
     
    In that passage, Mohammed arrives at ‘al-Aqsa’ on a winged steed accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel; from there they ascend into heaven for a divine meeting with Allah, after which Mohammed returns to Mecca.
     
    Naming the Jerusalem mosque al-Aqsa was an attempt to say the Dome of the Rock was the very spot from which Mohammed ascended to heaven, thus tying Jerusalem to divine revelation in Islamic belief.
     
    The problem however, is that Mohammed died in the year 632, nearly 50 years before the first construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque was completed.
     
    Jerusalem never replaced the importance of Mecca in the Islamic world. When the Umayyad dynasty fell in 750, Jerusalem also fell into near obscurity for 350 years, until the Crusades. During those centuries, many Islamic sites in Jerusalem fell into disrepair and in 1016 the Dome of the Rock collapsed.
     
    Still, for 1,300 years, various Islamic dynasties (Syrian, Egyptian and Turkish) continued to govern Jerusalem as part of their overall control of the Land of Israel, disrupted only by the Crusaders.
     
    What is amazing is that over that period, not one Islamic dynasty ever made Jerusalem its capital. 
     
    By the 19th century Jerusalem had been so neglected by Islamic rulers that several prominent Western writers who visited Jerusalem were moved to write about it.
     
    French writer Gustav Flaubert, for example, found “ruins everywhere” during his visit in 1850 when it was part of the Turkish Empire (1516-1917).
     
    Seventeen years later Mark Twain wrote that Jerusalem had “become a pauper village.”
     
    Indeed, Jerusalem’s importance in the Islamic world only appears evident when non-Muslims (including the Crusaders, the British and the Jews) control or capture the city. Only at those points in history did Islamic leaders claim Jerusalem as their third most holy city after Mecca and Medina. 
     
    That was again the case in 1967, when Israel captured Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem (and the Old City) during the 1967 Six-Day War.
     
    Oddly, the PLO’s National Covenant, written in 1964, never mentioned Jerusalem.
     
    Only after Israel regained control of the entire city did the PLO ‘update’ its Covenant to include Jerusalem.
     
     
    Author Eli E. Hertz is the president of Myths and Facts, an organization devoted to research and publication of information regarding US interests in the world and particularly in the Middle East. Mr. Hertz served as Chairman of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting.
     
    His website -  http://www.mythsandfacts.org/

    Tags: Jerusalem Basic Law
     
    Source - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14878#.U1dsfJuPKM8

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    Recommended:  Short and factual video about the fundamental significance of Jerusalem and Temple Mount for Jews and its very weak link to Islam - in history and doctrine  
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9CauJP4Pg


    Muslims have no genuine religious respect for the sacredness of the site, which is routinely used as a soccer field and where Arab families go to picnic.
    Video of Arab youngsters playing soccer and using dirty language on the Temple Mount
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBv1ARu_8gA
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141657#.U1d5D5uPKM8

    Israel National News archive of Temple Mount reports
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Tag.aspx/493

    The Battle over Jerusalem and Temple Mount - Historical background
    http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=4&x_article=1404
     
    VIRTUAL TOUR of the ancient Jewish Temple of Jerusalem
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymffT1M5bg
     
    PICTURES OF JERUSALEM TODAY
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429244/Explore-ancient-mysteries-Jerusalem-Stunning-images-capture-breathtaking-history-enigmatic-beauty-Holy-Land.html

    Jerusalem - Temple Mount 



     
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