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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

WHAT EARTHQUAKE EXPERTS DON'T LIKE TO TELL YOU - Although the West Coast would be obliterated in a mega-earthquake, experts never mention the subsequent MELTDOWN OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS from long-term electric power failure, which would kill the survivors - This nuclear scenario would also occur after a major EMP event caused by terror or a giant solar flare

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The following article fails to mention three important things.
 
1)  The most dangerous effect of a disaster will be the failure and meltdown of the several nuclear power plants in the area affected.   Power failure as a result of a major earthquake, or an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event caused by a major solar flare or by a deliberate terror attack, would fry the electric grid indefinitely.  A major EMP event, by the way, is also not just a matter of if, but when.  It's going to happen sometime.  It will take us back to the stone age. 
 
  Map of nuclear power plants:
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/u-s-nuclear-power-plants-safe-distance/
Never mind what an earthquake or an EMP event would do to society - considering the immediate lack of food, transportation, water, and other necessities.  After all, everything runs on computers these days. 
 
The worst part will be the meltdown of nuclear power plants as a result of long-term lack of electric power to run the machinery, contaminating large swaths of land and killing off the survivors.  This, for some obscure reason, is never mentioned.  Please see references for this nightmare scenario at the bottom of this page.
 
Fukushima on fire
Japan, one of the best prepared countries in the world for earthquakes and tsunamis, saw their FUKUSHIMA nuclear plant go into meltdown.  To this days, years after their disaster, they are still unable to take control of the situation, so they keep dumping heavily radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. 
 
And that was only one nuclear power plant.  Imagine how the US and Canada would be completely overwhelmed to even protect one of the many nuclear power plants in the region.   Nuclear waste storage areas such as the infamous Hanford, would simply spill their poison all over rivers, air and land.   
 
The East Coast is not safe either.  There are volcanoes in the Atlantic that are ticking bombs, such as El Hierro in the Canary Islands.  An eruption could unleash a major tsunami that would engulf the US/Canada East Coast - and their nuclear power plants.
 
Katrina survivors
2)  Be skeptical of all estimates of government help plans and timelines.  In this century alone we have witnessed at least two major failures to properly react to two manageable disasters:  the Katrina and Sandy hurricanes.  It took authorities many days, even weeks, to give basic assistance to survivors, and when they did, it was in grossly ineffective ways.  YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
 
3)  Aside from the usual list of necessities, a gun or two with plenty of ammunition would be very helpful to protect your family.  In cases of protracted crises all social norms tend to break down.  Bad people will behave badly, and good people will too, when hungry and scared.   US and Canada demographics are changing constantly.  You no longer know your neighbors.   
 
 
Scene from film "2012"
 
 
The Really Big One
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion
 of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
 
By Kathryn Schultz, The New Yorker Magazine 

Some key points:
  • When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west—losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.
  • Some of that shift will take place beneath the ocean, displacing a colossal quantity of seawater.
  • By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable.
  • When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America.

Continue reading, and see links to related articles on the risk of nuclear power plant meltdowns

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

KUDZU, THE FEARED INVASIVE PLANT THAT AGGRESSIVELY TAKES OVER BUILDINGS AND FIELDS IN THE US - JAPAN gave it to the United States as a gift. - Now Americans are in despair over KUDZU's rapid spread, its destruction of native plants, and its production of OZONE - Kudzu can grow up to 2 feet a day and is almost impossible to eradicate

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In the History Channel documentary series Life After People (for sale on DVD) there is a segment showing how in a world without people the Kudzu plant would rapidly take over large parts of the southern US destroying the native foliage and completely covering empty buildings and abandoned cars.

The killer climbing plant eating the South: Mysterious Chinese Kudzu species has engulfed parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina - and there's no way to stop it 
A North Carolina building
  • Pueraria lobate (also known as kudzu), is the world's most aggressive and invasive plant species
  • Kudzu mounts other plants and engulfs areas with darkness, killing all other greenery in its path.
  • Vines can grow as much as 2 feet (61cm) a day in summer months. Attaching to a tree, pole, fence or building, kudzu can grow up to 80 feet (24m) high.
  • Feature Shoot reports that the plant is originally from China but was given as a gift to the Americas from Japan at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
  • Horticulturists became fascinated by the beautiful plant and began growing it in their gardens near roads and railway tracks.
  • Kudzu contributes to the production of ozone.  It produces isoprene and nitric oxide, which, when combined with nitrogen in the air, form ozone, an air pollutant that causes significant health problems for humans and hinders the growth of many kinds of other plants, including crops.
  • Its spread is currently limited to vegetative expansion by runners and rhizomes and by vines that root at the nodes to form new plants.
  • Kudzu also spreads through seeds, which are contained in pods that mature in the fall.   

  • Continue reading about Kudzu, see more images, and watch brief VIDEO

    Monday, December 28, 2015

    DEVASTATING FLOODS IN BRITAIN, DEADLY TORNADOES IN THE US, FIRES IN AUSTRALIA - This is how 2015 ends - BRITISH GOVERNMENT does not protect its own people from floods, but sends BILLIONS in aid to corrupt and violent countries

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    Misery for the residents of towns swamped by flooding - but Britain still sends £1BILLION in aid to the world's most corrupt nations
  • There was outrage last night over Britain squandering cash on foreign aid
  • Around £12bn a year is spent on overseas aid, much on anti-flood schemes
  • This includes £1billion to 20 most corrupt nations, such as North Korea 
  • Flood-hit residents said money should be spent on those who earned it
  • British aid to the world's most corrupt countries hit record levels last year, despite fears much of it could be squandered, stolen or even diverted to terror groups
  • PM Cameron blames climate change for the disasters, evading blame on government ineptitude.

  • Dozens of homes were submerged in floodwater in York, as shown by these incredible aerial photographs - residents remain philosophical about the situationĀ 
    Streets in the city of York completely under water.  No money for the protection of the city.  In the meantime, Britain sends billions to corrupt governments, to burnish UK's image or perhaps in some cases to make those governments more welcoming to British business.


    Continue reading and see more images of these catastrophes

    Sunday, December 27, 2015

    IRAN TORTURES STRAY DOGS TO DEATH by injecting them with an acid that corrodes their insides while the animal is still alive - Muslim hatred of dogs endorsed by religious texts - Muslim animal abuse in Europe - Links to articles of Muslim abuse of animals for fun

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    Among the many living beings that Muslims hate, despise and abuse, dogs are among the top.  

     
    These people are just being good Muslims following the dictates of the Koran and the Hadith.   

    This attitude based on religious dogma does not change with their relocation into the West. 
     
    Have you tried to board a taxi with a dog or cat?  The driver, usually a Muslim, will tell you that he is "allergic" to animals and will take off, leaving you standing there with your pet.  It does not matter if the dog happens to be a service dog for a blind person.  No exceptions. 
     
    If you complain to the taxi company, they will tell you to phone ahead letting them know you have a pet with you so that they can send you a driver who is not "allergic".  You may have to wait for hours. 
     
    Then there are the continuous reports of animal decapitations and abuse in European cities, which have increased lately.  Wherever Muslims go, they take their hatred against animals, women, gays, and Jews with them.
     
    The following is a video that shows the way Iranian authorities are getting rid of stray dogs.  Instead of using a lethal method that will at least be humane, they choose the least expensive poison - an acid that will corrode the animals' guts while the dog is still alive. 
     
    We can see a dog crying in a way you have never heard before, such is the horrendous pain he experiences.  It takes him several minutes to die.  By then he has already been thrown into a pile of agonizing dogs.  The next one in line is just a puppy. 
     
    Continue reading and watch VIDEO

    Saturday, December 26, 2015

    JESUS WOULD BE CALLED A SETTLER IN ISRAEL, AND WOULD LIKELY BE MURDERED BY MUSLIM ARABS - The hypocrisy of Christian churches who worship Jesus, while agitating for the surrender of his land to the Muslim invader, indifferent to Christians being persecuted and slaughtered in Muslim countries

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    Thousands of Jews have been murdered by Muslims for being Jews.   Not only that, but there will be no Jews allowed in the Islamic State of Palestine, as envisioned by the Arabs, the White House, the EU, and the many organizations calling for the partition of the land of Israel to create a Muslim terror state.
     
    Christian priorities. Among those activist organizations, Christian churches have been notorious for ignoring human rights horrors now being perpetrated against Christians all over the Muslim world, to obsessively focus on Israel and what they call the "occupation".
     
    Christians effectively disown Jesus and their own doctrine.  Christians read, study, and quote from the Bible - which is in part the history of the Jewish people in the land of Israel - and with a straight face they declare that the land does not belong to the Jews but to the Muslim invader who conquered Jerusalem in the 7th century AD.  According to their view, Jesus would be a settler, an occupier, with no right to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other holy Jewish places in Israel. 
     
    It gets worse.  As Muslims oppress, persecute, and even murder Christians in countries ruled by Islam (see related articles further on this page), Churches in the West have closed their hearts to Christian suffering so as not to antagonize Islam.  In the meantime they are busy organizing lectures and conferences about the Israeli "occupation," and engaging in BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) against Israel - the only Mideast country where Christians are safe, respected, and enjoy full human rights.
     
    What could be behind this?  In a nutshell, Muslims are used as a tool for Christians to deprive Jews of their land.  They hope that Muslims will eventually take over the land, even by force, unleashing a second Holocaust.  They would much rather see Jerusalem under the Muslim yoke - inaccessible to Christians - than to tolerate Jews calling the city Israel's capital.  Since Crusaders can no longer slaughter Jews, Christians have contracted out genocidal Muslims to do the job, by supporting them morally and financially. 
     
    Pope John Paul met 12 times with his
    beloved friend, arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat
    Recent Popes have met numerous times with Muslim terrorists representing the Palestinians, and established warm relations with them because of their shared hatred against Jews and their shared plans for a Holy Land without Jews.
     
    Bear in mind that under the partition plan, Biblical Jerusalem would become part of the Islamic Palestinian State.
     
    A little history.  Before Israel liberated Jerusalem in the defensive war of 1967, it was Jordan that occupied the city.  Jordan could be considered one of the most moderate regimes in the Mideast.  The political forces now at work among Palestinians are much more extreme, so we can expect even harsher restrictions on Christian worship in the city were they to control it. 
     
    This is what the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem was like before its liberation by Israel in 1967 (or as Christian churches now call Israeli "occupation").
     
    Continue reading about this, about an incident of Christian apartheid in a Canadian city, and about the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world
    ALSO SEE UPDATES - Muslims greet Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in Bethlehem with a hail of stones.

    Friday, December 25, 2015

    IS THIS WHAT THE APOCALYPSE WOULD LOOK LIKE? Artist Steve McGhee offers some suggestions of Western cities being destroyed

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    What we are really afraid of:  Notice how conditioned we are to not offending Islam.  None of these images shows Muslim cities being destroyed by the Apocalypse. 
     
    Most disaster movies or illustrators take extra care not to show any Muslim cities or monuments crumbling down from fictional war or apocalypse.  You would not want to make Muslims angry.  So it's always the West, particularly the Statue of Liberty and NYC, that take the worst beating.  Of course, the almost apocalyptic Muslim-on-Muslim destruction goes on in the Middle East, but that's real war, (see what's left of the neighborhood of Jobar, in Damascus, Syria). 
     
    How the world might end, according to digital artist Steve McGhee:

    Mr McGhee has created a series of apocalyptic images that seem to cover every possible way that the world could come to an endĀ 

    See additional images of apocalypse

    Thursday, December 24, 2015

    INTELLIGENCE GENES REALLY EXIST - Scientists discover genes that determine intelligence - There are plans to manipulate them - Nicholas Wade's book A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE was pilloried for presenting links between genes, race and human development

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  • Scientists identify clusters of genes directly linked to human intelligence
  • Called M1 and M3, these so-called 'gene networks' appear to determine how smart a person is by controlling their processing speed and reasoning
  • These networks are likely to be under the control of 'master switches'
  • Earlier this year a team at King’s College London discovered that up to 65 per cent of the difference in pupil’s GCSE grades was down to genetics, after analysing genetic data from, 12,500 twins.
  • In contrast, shared environmental factors such as home and school contributed between 14 and 21 per cent. The rest was made up by individual external influences such as diseases or friends.
  • When these genes are mutated or in the wrong order, it can lead to dullness of thinking, or even serious cognitive impairments.
  • Researchers are now keen to identify these switches and manipulate them

  • ON THIS PAGE
    • Read more about the intelligence genes, and how the study was conducted.
    • The recent book A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE, by Nicholas Wade, unleashed a storm of criticism from liberal academics for presenting facts that link race, genes and intelligence. 
    • How the study of EPIGENETICS shows the influence of environment and emotions on a person's gene expression within his lifetime.  These genetic changes can then be passed on to his or her children. 

    Continue reading

    Wednesday, December 23, 2015

    SOME OF THE BEST NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PICTURES OF 2015 - They include a TERRIFYING PENGUIN, a woman swimming with jelly fish, aurora borealis, and luminescent plankton

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    You thought they were all cute and adorable, until you saw this penguin:
    Snack attack: A member of National Geographic's Your Shot community captured this photo with a GoPro on Antarctica's sea ice. 'I studied the movements of the penguins for weeks,' Berry writes. 'They walked in the same area almost every day. We would get maybe a dozen or less going by. The day this was taken there were over 60 penguins. It was a bit of luck involved too.'
    Snack attack: Clinton Berry, a member of National Geographic's Your Shot community, captured this photo with a GoPro on Antarctica's sea ice, about six miles from Casey Station after studying the moments of the penguins for several weeks to find where they walked

    See more amazing images of our beautiful planet

    Tuesday, December 22, 2015

    THE BIZARRE CROOKED TREES IN A POLISH FOREST surrounded by a woodland of perfect trees - What caused them to grow this way? - Read about the possible explanations.

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    In a small corner of western Poland, near the town of Gryfino, a strange and eerie woodland exists. This bizarre collection of curved trees, named the “Crooked Forest,” is shrouded in mystery and despite the numerous different theories that have been proposed over the years, no one truly knows what caused the trees to adopt this shape.
     
    Continue reading and see additional images

    Sunday, December 20, 2015

    DONKEY SMILES EAR TO EAR AFTER BEING RESCUED FROM FLOOD WATERS IN IRELAND


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    Donkey Smiles From Ear To Ear After Being Rescued From Flood In Ireland

    Early in December a donkey, desperately stranded in a flooded river, was spotted by Suzanne Gibbons in Kilorglin, Ireland. The woman shared a post on her Animal Heaven Animal Rescue (AHAR) Facebook page asking for help.
     
    Continue reading and see additional images of the rescued donkey smiling

    Friday, December 18, 2015

    UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT WANT CANADA TO RESETTLE DESCENDANTS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES - but demands that Canada continue to fund UNRWA, the UN refugee agency for Palestinians only, that has kept them stateless and in miserable conditions for decades, while UNHCR resettles all other non-Palestinian refugees

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    UNRWA doesn't want Syrian Palestinians to be resettled. But it does want more money to keep them stateless. (update)
    UNRWA has never done a poll or survey of the "refugees" under its mandate. But since the 1950s, it has claimed with great certainty that Palestinian refugees later, "refugees" had no desire to become citizens of other countries but would rather wait forever for a "political solution" which would mean that they all move to where Israel is now.
     

    The reality is that stateless Palestinians would much prefer to become full citizens anywhere than remain in limbo forever. Their actions when such a possibility emerges proves this to be the case.
     
    Yet UNRWA has always pushed the lie of how Palestinians do not want to become citizens of any state except Israel, which cruelly enforces the policies of every other state on earth to determine who is allowed to immigrate. 
     
     The Globe and Mail (Canada) writes about the situation of Syrian refugees whose ancestors once lived in British Mandate Palestine and shows that UNRWA continues to tell Palestinians under their mandate that they prefer cash to perpetuate the problem to a permanent solution:
     
    None of the war-weary Palestinians are likely to come to Canada under the Liberal government’s program to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. Canada is relying on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – which doesn’t deal with Palestinians – to help identify those most eligible for resettlement. UNRWA has no role in the program.
     
    UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness declined to comment on Canada’s resettlement program, but he said he hoped that Canada would resume the funding of the agency, which the previous Conservative government halted in 2012.  
    Canada was long a leading donor to UNRWA – providing $32.4-million in assistance in 2007 and another $28-million in 2008 – but sharply reduced that aid over the next few years to $14.6-million in 2012, before making no contribution at all over the three years since (under the now defeated Conservative Party).
     
    “Palestinians are finding it increasingly hard to sustain life for themselves and their children in the Middle East,” Mr. Gunness said in an e-mail interview. “It costs seven times more to deal with Palestinian refugees once they get to Europe and beyond than for UNRWA to deliver services to them in the region – which is where they would prefer to be. We are seeing a growing acceptance of this argument among our larger donors and we hope it resonates in Ottawa.”
    Gunness is lying, and he knows it. Palestinians are no different from the other Syrian refugees, and they want to have the chance to live normal lives anywhere rather than remain stuck in the limbo that UNRWA and Arab leaders keep them in.  But notice how Gunness is using the idea that paying UNRWA will keep a small percentage of refugees from Syria out of Western countries as a means to scare Western governments into spending a much higher percentage of their aid funds on Palestinians than on the 90% of refugees who aren't.

    And it is a lie, too. As the article mentions, Lebanon (and Jordan) have shut their doors to Syrian Palestinian refugees altogether. Lebanon does not allow anyone to build new houses in the camps. So UNRWA's aid is not helping any Palestinians outside of basic medical and social services. Of course many of them would still prefer to take their chances in Europe rather than live in Syria with UNRWA help.

    While other refugee populations are being resettled, the Palestinian refugees keep growing, generation after generation. 
     
    As you can see some populations suffer a spike, but then the number goes down.  Not the Palestinians, who keep growing due to the UN and those who fund UNRWA preventing them from resettling elsewhere.  They are being sacrificed and indoctrinated as a political tool against Israel. (blogger)
    Graph via:
    Read translation from a Norwegian article.
     
    If UNRWA cared about Palestinians, it would welcome the possibility of Palestinians finally finding a home in Canada. It would be lobbying Gulf states to take them in.
     
    But when Palestinians move out of Lebanon, Syria or Jordan, UNRWA loses a little bit of leverage to ask for funding. It prefers that they remain second-class citizens in areas of UNRWA's  mandate than to allow them the possibility of living happy lives outside.
     
    Astounding comparison between UNHCR that cares for ALL world refugees (except Palestinians), and the corrupt UNRWA, that has the exclusive task of maintaining Palestinians in refugee camps indefinitely or until Israel is wiped off the map.
     
    UPDATE: A relevant incident
    The commitment of anti-Zionists to maintaining Palestinians as refugees was highlighted when Prime Minister Jean ChrĆ©tien in April 2000 and Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley in January 2001 offered to resettle Palestinian refugees in Canada. PLO spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman rejected the Prime Minister's offer.  
    He said: "We reject any kind of settlement of refugees in Arab countries, or in Canada." Canadian FM Minister John Manley, in response to his offer, was burned in effigy near the West Bank city of Nablus. Hussum Khader, head of the largest Palestinian Fatah militia in Nablus, "If Canada is serious about resettlement you could expect military attacks in Ottawa or Montreal 
    Source
    http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/unrwa-doesnt-want-syrian-palestinians.html#.VnRPSMrSmM8

    VIDEO - WHAT IS PALESTINE, WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS

     
    Continue reading about UNRWA, the reasons why Palestinian refugees never get resettled, but have grown exponentially for decades.  READ ALSO about the Palestinian culture of violence against their own women and children, including the epidemic of children rape in Palestinian-ruled Gaza.

    SAUDI OFFICIAL ADMITS ISLAM IS A CULTURE IMMERSED IN HATRED - ISLAM is responsible for the greatest genocide in human history: 270 MILLION non-Muslims murdered by conquest and jihad since the 7th century, according to conservative estimates

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    The root of this hatred is in the words of the Koran, the very basis of Islam, the book that followers consider the sacred word of their god, Allah.  The real Islam is not peaceful.  It advocates violent conquest and the forced conversion or subjugation of non-Muslims.  The greatest genocide in the history of humankind is the one still being perpetrated by Islam:  270 MILLION non-Muslims murdered.
     
    To that we must add millions of Muslims killed by other Muslims in carnage between Shia and Sunni sects, like the one we are witnessing in the Middle East right now.  This violent conflict over the right of succession has been going on since the death of Muhammad.   
     
    Member of Saudi Arabian legislative council calls on Arab world to take responsibility for their violent and xenophobic culture.
     
    Ibrahim Al-Buleihi
    Ibrahim Al-Buleihi
    Violence pervades Arab culture, a Saudi Arabian politician declared earlier this month, and blamed that culture for encouraging terror attacks in Europe and around the world. 
     
    Ibrahim Al-Buleihi, a member of Riyadh's Shura Council - the formal advisory body to Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy, affirmed that Arab culture's "hatred of the other" is to blame for the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Paris, in a December 5 Al-Arabiya television broadcast.   His remarks were translated by the Middle Eastern Research Media Institute (MEMRI). 
     
    "We are immersed in this violence, because we are immersed in the hatred of the other, and we believe we are always in the right, and that the falsehood of the other is absolute," Al-Buleihi began. "This perspective makes us hate whoever does not agree with our thinking and our way of life." 
     
    "We still delude ourselves into believing that we are better than the others, and that therefore, we must not embrace anything from the experience of others," he continued. 
     
    Al-Buleihi rejected the host's argument that the Arab world "is being oppressed," noting that they "oppress others." 
     
    When asked whether the Arab world "should be held accountable" for the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Paris or the September 11, 2001 attacks, he declared that the Arab world should be held responsible not for the specific attacks, but for the culture behind them. 
     
    "We produce this kind of people [who carried out the Paris attacks and 9/11], this kind of hostility," he stressed. "The people in Paris or in America, for example, are innocent people who have nothing to do with politics."

    Source
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205114#.VnO4n5vSmM8


    WATCH VIDEO with translation


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fb3kjD_UNA&feature=player_embedded
     
    Video originally posted here:
    http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5218.htm

    More videos exposing the true nature of Islam - in their own voices
    http://www.memritv.org/

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    Continue reading, including the genocide of non-Muslims murdered by Islam, with a conservative estimate of 270 MILLION killed during jihad and conquest since the 7th century, particularly against Hindus and Africans.

    Thursday, December 17, 2015

    THE HILARIOUS MOMENT DOGS CATCH THAT SNACK YOU THROW TO THEM, captured in all its goofiness by photographer Christian Vieler

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    Having worked on perfecting the technique for his shots, he now gets bombarded with requests to take photographs for other pets

    See more images of dogs catching a snack, as well as cute pictures of dogs swimming underwater, and of soaking wet puppies dogs shaking to dry themselves off

    Wednesday, December 16, 2015

    UN CHIEF BAN KI-MOON ADMITS THE UN HAS BIAS AGAINST ISRAEL AND THE ISRAELI PEOPLE - Watch VIDEO with Ban Ki-Moon's own words. - Also see VIDEOS on UN CORRUPTION - The worst perpetrators of human rights abuses in the world, such as SAUDI ARABIA, sit at the UN Human Rights Council - UN issues 20 Resolutions against Israel, and only 3 against other countries.

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    GENEVA, November 25, 2015 – The U.N. General Assembly’s 2015 session is adopting 20 resolutions singling out Israel for criticism — and only 3 resolutions on the rest of the world combined.  The three that do not concern Israel are: one on Syria, a regime that has murdered more than 200,000 of its own people, one on Iran, and one on North Korea. http://www.unwatch.org/un-to-adopt-20-resolutions-against-israel-3-on-rest-of-the-world/

    Now for the first time we can see the UN chief Ban Ki-Moon admitting that yes, there is bias against Israel in the UN.  This won't stop him from continuing to repeatedly condemn Israel, while barely mentioning real horrors perpetrated by other countries. 
     
    UN Watch exposes never-before-seen footage of Ban Ki-Moon admitting 'bias against Israel, the Israeli people, and their government.'

    WATCH VIDEO - UN Chief Admits UN Bias
     and Discrimination against Israel

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon admitted that the UN is biased against Israel, UN Watch exposed Wednesday night, in never-before-seen footage of a 2013 session with students participating in Rishon Lezion College of Management’s Model UN program.
     
    "There is some bias against Israel, [the] Israeli people, and government," Ban stated.  "Israel is a member of the United Nations," he qualified. "Thus, Israel must be respected equally with all other 192 member states. Israel is 193."  
    Source
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205031

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    UN CORRUPTION IN A NUTSHELL
    Recommended video:

    The Truth about the UN
    A Theatre of the Absurd
    with diplomat and columnist Danny Ayalon


     
    Continue reading and see related videos explaining the UN deep-seated corruption and the Muslim alliance to officially condemn Israel while ignoring egregious abuses by other countries.