Otters and Science News: May 2014

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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.

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'

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More reports on Meriam Ibrahim on this blog

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Africa%20-%20Sudan%20-%20Meriam%20Ibrahim

JUNE 5 UPDATE

Her brother says she deserves to be executed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649719/Brother-Sudanese-woman-facing-death-penalty-abandoning-Islamic-faith-marrying-Christian-says-deserves-executed-X.html

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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.

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644521/New-York-watches-enthusiastically-biggest-star-sets-second-time-perfect-alignment-city-grid-cloudy-skies-blocked-sunset-Manhattanhenge-night-before.html

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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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644253/Incredible-moment-huge-volcano-erupts-Indonesia-sending-ash-spewing-thousands-feet-sky.html

June 1 - More pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645799/Eruption-Mountain-Spirits-More-stunning-images-emerge-menacing-12-mile-high-ash-cloud-looming-Indonesian-island.html

More on volcanoes on this blog

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Volcanoes

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Volcanoes%20-%20Yellowstone

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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

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.

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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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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

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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.

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102539/Dear-God-bring-fish-Otter-looks-heavens-prays-food.html

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2641896/Breathtaking-beauty-Britain-Landscape-photographs-taken-UK-reveal-stunning-wild-countryside.html

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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.

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

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.”

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2639939/Super-fireman-The-hi-tech-exoskeleton-firefighters-superhuman-abilities.html

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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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638868/Oh-huge-manatees-River-Monsters-presenter-Jeremy-Wade-takes-deep-feed-river-mammals.html

Photo Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee

Save the manatee

http://www.savethemanatee.org/manfcts.htm

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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.

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.

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.

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638103/Amazing-close-images-capture-moment-two-bees-hover-pollen-rich-flower.html

More articles on insects and spiders on this blog

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Insects%20and%20spiders

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DANGEROUS PET FOOD ALERT

2014 - JERKY PET TREATS ARE KILLING DOGS.

At least one thousand dogs have been killed and over 5000 made seriously ill. This has been going on for months. No action from FDA so far. Read more:
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/thousands-of-american-dogs-sickened-and.html
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Also check this website for the latest pet food recalls. Filter for either cat or dog products. (Please note that manufacturers often voluntarily recall products so they won't appear on this list.)
https://www.avma.org/news/issues/recalls-alerts/pages/pet-food-safety-recalls-alerts.aspx?fvalue=Cat
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If at all possible, try to feed your pet people food. The web has samples of pet food recipes and information on what is nutritionally best for dogs and cats. Giving them people food will save you money in the long run, with a healthier pet and fewer visits to the vet.

USA and EU GIVE BILLIONS TO PALESTINIANS, who use money to pay salaries TO TERRORISTS WHO KILL JEWS

ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO BE A BALLET DANCER ~~~ Hallel Jafa Ariel was only 13, and was sleeping in her home in Israel after a ballet public performance, when a Palestinian from a neighboring village stabbed her multiple times, killing her. ~~~ The terrorist's mother lauded her son as a HERO. ~~~ The Palestinian Authority now pays the terrorist's family a substantial salary for life as a reward, ~~~ The Palestinian Authority spends enormous amounts of money paying salaries to terrorists or their families. ~~~ AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS HAVE CONTRACTED OUT THE ARABS TO KILL JEWS IN ISRAEL ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read more about HALLEL and her tragic end

DO PLANTS HAVE INTELLIGENCE? Latest research indicates they do

Plants have between 15 and 20 senses, some of them analogous to our five senses. ~~~ Plants are able to sense and respond to light, water, gravity, temperature, soil structure, nutrients, toxins, microbes, herbivores, and chemical signals from other plants. This could not be done without an informational processing system. ~~~ They can form alliances with insects to use them as bodyguards, and when threatened by predators, they can summon them by using chemical signals. ~~~ They can get useful insects hooked on the drugs they make. ~~~ They use chemical warfare to fight enemies. ~~~ READ MORE fascinating facts about plant intelligence by clicking on these flowers..

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MENTAL ILLNESS AND ISLAM - What science says about it

The sciences of GENETICS and EPIGENTICS demonstrate that human EVOLUTION is still ongoing. ~~~ Changes in the human genome occur as a result of many factors in the physical and cultural environment. ~~~ Studies demonstrate that GENETIC CHANGES occur even during the lifetime of a person, and they can be inherited by their children. ~~~ In the case of ISLAM we have to consider 14 centuries of harsh indoctrination and cultural violence, repressed normal sexuality, and a lifestyle rooted in 7th century Arabia, in sharp conflict with 21st century science and culture. ~~~ MUSLIM UPBRINGING includes mental and physical abuse, and often sexual abuse of boys and girls as well. - The INBREEDING factor is also significant. Marriages to first cousins are very common, resulting too often in children with physical and mental disabilities. ~~~ The incidence of MENTAL ILLNESS and mental disability among Muslims has been all but ignored by countries that are importing millions of Muslim migrants. - This genetic factor may explain why second and third generation of Western Muslims have difficulty controliing emotions, and sometimes engage in actions of extreme violence. CLICK ON IMAGE TO READ MORE

IN PRAISE OF HEROES - Fighting wildfires or preventing a massacre on a French train

THE FEMINIST CULTURE denigrates men and ignores their heroic nature and their dignity. - It is MEN who we rely on to face the most life-threatening dangers and to save our lives and property.. - READ article on the men who gave up their lives fighting wildfires in Washington State, and the three US marines who stopped a Muslim from perpetrating a massacre on a French train. - READ article debunking the MYTH OF MALE PRIVILEGE. - In fact, men are mistreated by our society. WAR VETERANS languish without proper medical care, and are often homeless. - CLICK ON IMAGE to read articles

SKINNING AND OFTEN COOKING DOGS AND CATS ALIVE IN CHINA AND OTHER S.E. ASIAN COUNTRIES

It is disturbing that countries with thousands of years of civilization allow the torture of dogs and cats to be used for FOOD and the FUR INDUSTRY. - This is LEGAL in China and acceptable practice in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other S.E. Asian countries. - We have trade, diplomatic, and educational links with those nations, and in this way we are also indirectly COMPLICIT with this horror. - Hundreds of thousands of DOGS and CATS are tortured this way each year. - This PHOTO shows a puppy at a dog market in China (probably a stolen pet), lovingly pleading for attention. Later he was skinned alive. - CLICK on image to read more about this inhumane tradition, and to see related images, including those of dogs being boiled alive.

PRIONS FROM SICK DEER CAN PASS FROM DEER TO GRASS TO COW TO HUMAN - PRIONS CAUSE BRAIN DISEASES

PRIONS (tiny disease-causing agents) from SICK DEER's urine and feces can bind to PLANT roots and then travel to stem and leaves. - PRIONS are then consumed by grazing COWS, who can pass the prion infection on to HUMANS. - WHAT IS AMAZING about this is how cows can contract a serious animal disease by way of a plant. - Prions are responsible for several serious BRAIN DISEASES in animals and humans. PRIONS cause MAD COW, Creutzfeld-Jacob, and several other brain diseases, and have been linked to ALZHEIMER'S. CLICK ON IMAGE to read more.

EARTH GRAVITY WAVES RIPPLING THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE

The upper atmosphere is not only disturbed by SOLAR storms but by EARTH gravity waves as well - Gravity waves are born when air masses are pushed up or down by a thunderstorm, perhaps, or when wind is forced up and over a mountain range. When they reach the upper atmosphere these waves have built in amplitude and extent. They can dominate atmospheric processes sometimes threatening the reliability of Earth-based communication systems. - CLICK on image to read more and watch video of computer-generated model of gravity waves.

WHAT EARTHQUAKE AND OTHER DISASTER EXPERTS DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

READ ABOUT THE BIG ONE. Also, whether as a result of a mega-earthquake, large tsunami, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event (from a giant solar flare or from a terror attack that would fry the power grid), NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE VERY VULNERABLE TO MELTDOWN ~~~ A sustained electric power failure lasting several days would leave nuclear power plants unable to operate, unleashing a full meltdown.~~~~~ We already saw how a well-prepared country like JAPAN has been unable to bring its FUKUSHIMA nuclear power plant under control after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, leading to a meltdown. JAPAN will continue to dump millions of gallons of extremely radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean for at least the rest of this century. ~~~ READ ABOUT PREPAREDNESS for you and your PETS.~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read more

YELLOWSTONE ERUPTION OR NOT - BE PREPARED FOR ANY DISASTER - List of 50 PREPPER websites

A Yellowstone geologist stated that science can predict the MEGAVOLCANO behavior only as far as two weeks into the future - nothing more. Anything could happen beyond that time frame. ~~~ But Yellowstone is not the only threat on the horizon. ~~~ There are severe WEATHER EVENTS every year. ~~~ A SOLAR FLARE or a terror attack could unleash an electomagnetic pulse event (EMP) that would fry our grid and all electronics for a long time. ~~~ And then there are EARTHQUAKES ~~~ We have witnessed how incompetent all levels of government are to deal with these situations. We are on our own. So here is an article about the threat of the Yellowstone megavolcano. The article also provides preparedness tips for you, your family,and YOUR PETS for either evacuation or for hunkering down at home for an extended period of time ~~~ It includes a LIST of 50 PREPPER websites. ~~~ Illustration: Yellowstone magma pocket - by National Park Service ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read article.

WHY DO MUSLIMS HATE YOU?

A good Muslim follows the Koran and Hadith to the letter. Read how those Muslim scriptures order Muslims to DESPISE AND KILL THE INFIDEL. ~~~ Muslims regard western values as repugnant, and many see jihad as justified. ~~~ Islam is not compatible with western culture. There can be no assimilation. ~~~ Abandoning Islam, or APOSTASY, is punishable by death. ~~~ Muslims have been waging war against other people since the 7th century. ~~~ It was always CONVERT OR DIE. Countless indigenous cultures and religions across Asia and Africa have been obliterated, forced to submit to Islam. ~~~ According to conservative estimates, Islam has killed 270 MILLION non-Muslims during 14 centuries of conquest and tyranny. That makes it the biggest GENOCIDE in history. ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read why Islam hates you, in their own words, and learn more about the Muslim genocide

BRITISH TAXPAYERS OUTRAGED at EU spending their money building ILLEGAL ARAB SETTLEMENTS in Israel

FOR SEVEN YEARS ISRAELI AUTHORITIES HAVE DONE NOTHING to stop the EU building of illegal Arab settlements on Jewish land ~~~~~ While Israel has frozen construction across the Green Line, and razes the tiniest house addition or Jewish unauthorized outposts on the hills, Arabs keep building ILLEGAL SETLEMENTS with impunity, and with the funding and assistance of the European Union. Those settlements are in internationally-recognized Israeli land (Area C), thus the EU is not only violating Israeli sovereignty, but its own diplomatic rules of operation in foreign countries. - These illegal Arab settlements are meant to be FACTS ON THE GROUND for the eventual Muslim takeover of Jewish land - EUROPEANS DID NOT WANT JEWS IN EUROPE and murdered MILLIONS of them. Now they don't want Jews in their ancient homeland of ISRAEL either, call them "occupiers," and demand that the land be given to descendants of Muslims who invaded Israel in the 7th century. - The EU (inspired by the Nazi boycotts against Jews) already labels and boycotts products from the Jewish heartland - THE EU WAR AGAINST THE JEWS persists as they contract out the Arabs to continue Hitler's mission of killing Jews. Europe and the United States are the main funders of the Palestinian Authority, contributing to salaries paid to terrorists who murder innocent Israelis..CLICK ON IMAGE TO READ ARTICLE AND WATCH VIDEO

ISIS PLAN FOR INFILTRATING EUROPE AS REFUGEES

Along with Muslim refugees pouring into Europe there is a significant percentage of terrorists from ISIS and other Muslim factions. About 75% of those migrants are young men of military age. - This invasion follows ISIS threat earlier this year to flood Europe with HALF A MILLION MIGRANTS to unleash chaos. - The sudden spike in migration to Europe has been well orchestrated behind the scenes with the willing cooperation of Europeans. ~~~~~~~ Here we have a PERFECT STORM. (1) European leftist political elites need to expand their voting base with benefits-dependent migrants. (2) Business looks forward to cheap labor. (3) Leftists and media blatantly manipulate European shame for the Holocaust. Anyone opposed to this invasion is branded a RACIST.. - Basic math predicts an eventual demographic takeover of Europe by Islam. - The cartoon here has a an immigration officer asking jihadists "Anything to declare?" while they invade Europe - CLICK on image to read more

SATIRE - WHAT THE U.S. AND EU REALLY MEAN BY LAND FOR PEACE

Europe and the US commiserate for the loss of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. - But they obsessively demand that Israel be partitioned along borders only 9 miles wide at their narrowest point. - These borders and the creation of ANOTHER ARAB TERROR STATE under ISIS or Iran's influence will certainly lead to a Holocaust of 6 million Israeli Jews. - On this SATIRE White House aides promise that if the Arabs massacre the Jews in a shrunk Israel, Israelis should take comfort in the fact that the world will have an annual commemoration of their sacrifice for peace. - Image from Israel Matzav blog - CLICK on picture to read article.

THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION FOR FRANCE - AND NO-GO ZONES MAPS

CLICK on image to read details and satire by Prof. Stephen Plaut ~~~~~ And on a serious note, to read about the No-Go Zones or Muslim statelets already existing in Paris and rest of France ~~~~~ This poster, created by Daniel Pipes in the aftermath of the January 2015 Muslim attacks on French citizens in Paris, reflects the formula championed by France for the partition of Israel for the creation of a terror Palestinian state in the ancient Jewish heartland of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem ~~~~~ The poster reads: THIS ATTACK ONLY UNDERSCORES THE NEED FOR FRANCE TO IMMEDIATELY ENGAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRENCH MUSLIMS THAT WILL RESULT IN THE CREATION OF TWO STATES FOR TWO PEOPLES, LIVING SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE AND SECURITY, WITH PARIS AS A SHARED CAPITAL

HITLER, THE NUREMBERG NAZI PARADE GROUNDS, and the resurgence of Nazi ideas in the EU

HITLER is gone but the relics of his Third Reich still hold Europe under his spell. - See PHOTOS of the NUREMBERG NAZI PARADE GROUNDS, and read about the plans for their renovation. - HITLER's racist and genocidal ideas now loom ever larger in Europe, as NEO-NAZIS, anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian LEFTISTS, and genocidal EU MUSLIMS find common cause in their hatred against Jews. - Germany will republish MEIN KAMPF in 2016. - Germany and the EU fund and organize BOYCOTT ISRAEL campaigns inspired by Nazi boycotts of Jewish stores in the 1930s. - Jews are being persecuted and MURDERED in the EU, mostly at the hands of EU Muslims. - Anti-Semitic activities in Germany alone rose by 1,000% in 2014, mostly by EU Muslims. - The NAZI-MUSLIM ALLIANCE that dates back to the 1940s, when the Palestinian leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, joined Hitler in Berlin for the design and implementation of the Final Solution, and for the formation of a Bosnian Muslim SS Nazi division that perpetrated gruesome war crimes in Eastern Europe - CLICK on image to see Nuremberg then and now images, to read more, and watch VIDEO

IF JESUS LIVED IN JUDEA TODAY

Jesus would be called a "SETTLER" and Arabs would deny him access to Temple Mount (where Muslim conquerors erected a mosque), and to much of Judea and Samaria (West Bank), today under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) where no Jews are allowed. ~~~ Jews who have ventured into the PA have been LYNCHED. ~~~ Jesus would not be safe anywhere in Israel. He would be pelted with ROCKS or STABBED for being a "settler". Or he would be DECAPITATED, as Arabs did to four rabbis praying at a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014. ~~~ If Jesus were a child he would be BURNED BY FIREBOMBS (as Arabs did to a child in December 2014), or have his THROAT SLASHED in his own home, as Arabs did to the Fogel children. ~~~ CLICK on image to read more about the Muslim war against Jews and Christians in today's Judea and Samaria.

DECEPTION AND CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE IN ISRAEL

The insidious and wicked influence of the powerful pro-Arab Jewish left in Israel, promoting partition and/or the end of Jewish Israel. - WATCH EXCELLENT VIDEOS exposing the truth behind the Palestinian claim to Jewish land and the LAND FOR PEACE HOAX - This PHOTO by Oded Balilty won a Pulitzer Prize, and shows Nili, a teenager, defending her land against goons sent by the Israeli government. She was badly beaten in what is now known as THE AMONA POGROM: Israeli pollice brutally expelling Jews from their homes - READ about this, about the political conspiracy of silence about issues that are crucial for Israel's long-term survival, and about the political mediocrity that is irreparably harming Israel. CLICK on image to read article and watch videos

ONE ELEPHANT IS KILLED EVERY 15 MINUTES ON AVERAGE

Elephants will be EXTINCT in the wild in less than 10 years. PLEASE DEMAND that wild elephants be better protected. Although rescue and conservation organizations do their best, elephants are still being murdered. Organizations raise orphans only to release them to places where they will be killed for their tusks. ELEPHANTS NEED TRULY SAFE RESERVES that can be properly patrolled and defended from poachers. Current protection arrangements are not enough. CLICK on image for related news story about an elephant orphan.

SKINNED ALIVE FOR THEIR FUR in Asia - Millions tortured this way - BAN THE FUR TRADE

Puppies live only a few months inside cages before being slaughtered, gone INSANE from cruel treatment. ~~~ A few adult animals spend their entire lives inside cages breeding more puppies. ~~~ See photos of CHINESE WORKERS GRINNING as they immobilize puppies by ELECTROCUTION and then skin them alive. ~~~ After that the tortured animals are tossed on a pile to AGONIZE IN EXCRUTIATING PAIN. ~~~ This is all LEGAL in China. ~~~ In S.E. Asian countries with animal welfare laws, they are not enforced. ~~~ The West buys these furs because they are classified as belonging to "RACOON DOGS" (relatives of dogs) and not to dogs.. ~~~ PETITIONS are not enough. ~~~ The fur trade in the West must be stopped altogether. ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read story and see heartbreaking photos and VIDEO from inside a Chinese fur farm.

THE MAGIC AND MYSTERY OF CAVES

IT ALL STARTED WITH A MEATBALL

Arthur was a stray dog who decided to join a European Peak Performance Team during their treck through the jungle in South America. It all started when one of the members gave him a meatball. From then on Arthur followed them through all kinds of challenges. In the end his loyalty, bravery and devotion paid off. He was first accepted as the fifth member of the team, and later adopted and flown to Sweden to live with a loving family in a forever home. CLICK on the image to read this moving and amazing story.

PLEASE PROTEST THE POACHING OF PRECIOUS WILDLIFE

HOW THE ISSUE OF ABORTION DEFINES OUR SOCIETY - Planned Parenthood caught selling baby body parts

In July 2015 a top physician with PLANNED PARENTHOOD was secretly filmed talking callously about crushing babies and illegally selling their body parts. - But it's not only P.P's. fault. US authorities and women rights defenders continue to support P.P. no matter what, and so far there has been no effort to charge them with an ILLEGAL ACT. - CLICK on photo to read about this scandal and other related articles, such as aborted babies, along with other medical waste, being burned as fuel to heat buildings in Oregon and in the UK. - Image of a newborn by Joanne Collins

PALESTINIAN ARABS - NAZIS THEN, NAZIS NOW

Their leader during the 1940s, the Mufti of Jerusalem, lived in Berlin and closely collaborated with Hitler and his henchmen in the design and implementation of the Holocaust. ~~~ He also created a Muslim Nazi SS Division guilty of gruesome crimes in Eastern Europe. ~~~ Later he trained Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas to kill Jews and destroy Israel. ~~~ Today Palestinian Arabs profess admiration for Hitler and widely support his genocidal ideology. ~~~ They often praise Hitler, do the Nazi salute during military and student rallies, and display Nazi flags. ~~~ Photo Jerusalem Arab university students rally making the Nazi salute. (Photo Tom Gross Media.) CLICK on image to read more