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:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644796/Sudanese-woman-facing-barbaric-death-sentence-marrying-Christian-FREED-U-turn-authorities.html

 

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645669/Is-Sudanese-government-LYING-promise-release-Meriam-Ibrahim-Family-fear-condemned-Christian-mother-danger.html

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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.

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

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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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.

 

Read more

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642888/Breakthrough-Iraq-War-Inquiry-Blairs-official-reaches-deal-hand-letters-former-PM-George-Bush.html

 

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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

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

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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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

• - Palestinian admiration for Hitler and Nazism - News Archive, Pal Media Watch
• - Palestinian official admits they supported Hitler during World War II
• - Photos & Documents - Minutes of meeting of Palestinian leader with Hitler, and photos of Muslim Nazi troops with their Palestinian leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem
• - Research Study - The Nazis and the Palestinian Movement
• - Video - 15 min - The Nazis and 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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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

 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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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

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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.

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

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

 

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

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