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Sunday, May 31, 2015

BETRAYAL - FEMINISTS STILL SILENT AT THE ONGOING VIOLENCE AGAINST GIRLS AND WOMEN LIVING UNDER ISLAM'S DOMINATION - Not even the thousands of girls enslaved and raped by Muslim ISIS and Boko Haram inspire them to speak out - Their targets instead are Western men and Israel.

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  • The following is a column by well-known author Giulio Meotti.  He denounces the degrading and violent treatment women suffer at the hands of ISIS and other Islamist groups, while feminists keep silent. 
  • But why stop with extreme Islamists?  Islam itself is an oppressive and misogynist ideology that treats women as chattel.  This ideology condones and even encourages abuse and violence against women.  
  • The  abuse against millions of women living under Muslim domination is well documented, and yet western feminists prefer to use their time and energy to denigrate western men, and even to support Muslim causes such as that of the Palestinians, notorious for their domestic violence.
  • Also we should keep in mind that the slave trade is an ongoing business in the Muslim world - and not just by jihadists but by well established Muslim countries now considered "moderate".
  • Researchers have shown that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by (Barbary Coast) North African Muslim pirates in between 1530 and 1780. (Sources further on this page.)
 
Twisted: A jihadi bride has justified Islamic State's kidnap and sexual abuse of slave girls captured in battle in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq (picture from ISIS social media channels purports to show one such market)
Women captured by ISIS 
 
Op-Ed: The West's "Ardent" Feminists Abandon Women to the Caliph

By Giulio Meotti

Not a word has been uttered by feminists in the face of the horrible mistreatment of captured women by ISIS and other Islamist groups.
After attacking a village, the Islamic State splits women from men and executes boys and men aged 14 and over. The women and mothers are separated; girls are stripped, tested for virginity and examined for breast size and prettiness.   
The youngest, and those considered the prettiest virgins fetch higher prices and are sent to Raqqa, the IS stronghold.  There is a hierarchy: sheikhs get first choice, then emirs, then fighters. They often take three or four girls each and keep them for a month or so, until they grow tired of a girl, when she goes back to market.  
At slave auctions, buyers haggle fiercely, driving down prices by disparaging girls as flat-chested or unattractive. We heard about one girl who was traded 22 times, and another, who had escaped, told us that the sheikh who had captured her wrote his name on the back of her hand to show that she was his "property.’
 
The above is an excerpt from the testimony of Zainab Bangura, the UN representative for sexual crimes in war, who denounced the atrocities of the Islamic state.
 
In the hands of Islamic State there are now 5,000 women, mostly belonging to the Yazidi syncretistic minority. If you change country and go to Nigeria, the situation is the same. Now it is the turn of “Chibok girls” who unleashed Twitter’s mobilization of the first lady, Michelle Obama. Most of these girls have been raped and are now pregnant.

Image result for feminists protest against israelEven the corrupt United Nations has spoken, while the Western feminists keep silent. This is the revolting double standard of Western feminists, who are always ready to denounce the “homophobic” Christians, sexism on the US campus, or the Israeli Ahava beauty creams. 
 
These feminists have been busy the past few months fighting for the Irish referendum which just approved gay marriage, while treating as heretics, criminals and sexual predators all the opponents of this vote against the natural family.   Feminists are also very busy in Israel in demonizing the traditional Orthodox Jewish families.
 
Read more and see links to articles on women and Islam

Friday, May 29, 2015

SOME SOCIAL BACTERIA COOPERATE TO REPAIR DAMAGED SIBLINGS, says study - It is not all Darwinian survival of the fittest. Cooperation is crucial in survival and evolution.

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Main points
  • Myxobacteria, a type of soil bacteria, can use their social behavior of outer membrane exchange to repair damaged cells and improve the fitness of the bacteria population as a whole, new research demonstrates.
  • This is the first evidence that a bacterium can use cell-content sharing to repair damaged siblings, the authors say.
  • Myxobacteria are unusual for bacteria in that they have a true multicellular life.
  • These social organisms benefit from group behavior that endows favorable fitness consequences among kin cells.
  • It is analogous to how a wound in your body can be healed. When your body is wounded, your cells can coordinate their functions to heal the damaged tissue.
  • The most direct applicability could be for antibiotic resistance. 
  • One strain of myxobacteria conferred antibiotic resistance to another strain.
  • Illustration -  Myxobacteria - Chondromyces crocatus - (Courtesy of Hans Reichenbach)
Chris Vassallo, of University of Wyoming,
 was lead author of a paper about
cell rejuvenation that was published in PNAS.
Full article:
 A University of Wyoming faculty member led a research team that discovered a certain type of soil bacteria can use their social behavior of outer membrane exchange (OME) to repair damaged cells and improve the fitness of the bacteria population as a whole.
 
Daniel Wall, a UW associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, and others were able to show that damaged sustained by the outer membrane (OM) of a myxobacteria cell population was repaired by a healthy population using the process of OME.
 
The research revealed that these social organisms benefit from group behavior that endows favorable fitness consequences among kin cells.
 
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ISLAM AND RADICAL LEFTISTS - IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?

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The following is an article from the Edgar Davidson's Blog:

Comparing Islamists and radical leftists

Following on from previous posts which looked at the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and what leftists really believe, it is also worth now looking at the difference between Islamists and radical leftists. As the following table shows (updated from last year) there is clearly nothing in common between these two groups.
 

What Radical Leftists believe
What Islamists believe
America is evil and its power must be destroyed
America is evil and its power must be destroyed
Capitalism is evil and must be eliminated
Capitalism is evil and must be eliminated
Zionism/Israel is evil and must be eliminated
Zionism/Israel is evil and must be eliminated
9/11 was an inside job
9/11 was an inside job
Palestinians are the world’s ultimate victims
Palestinians are the world’s ultimate victims
No ideology other than theirs can be tolerated
No ideology other than theirs can be tolerated
There can only be true peace in the world when every living person adheres to their ideology
There can only be true peace in the world when every living person adheres to their ideology
The idea of the nation state is flawed - a new single world order based on their ideology is inevitable
The idea of the nation state is flawed - a new single world order based on their ideology is inevitable
International borders are an unnecessary, artificial invention created by capitalists, imperialists and Zionists.
International borders are an unnecessary, artificial invention created by capitalists, imperialists and Zionists.
Their ideology (socialism) should control every aspect of your life
Their ideology (Islam/sharia) should control every aspect of your life
Americans, western imperialists and Zionists are the source of world inequality and division,  and the exploitation of all Muslims
Americans, western imperialists and Zionists are the source of world inequality and division,  and the exploitation of all Muslims
Colonialism – except when it means the spread of their ideology – is evil
Colonialism – except when it means the spread of their ideology – is evil
Muslim colonialism in the west will enable their ideology to win at the ballot box
Muslim colonialism in the west will enable their ideology to win at the ballot box
All forms of social stratification must be dismantled and all forms of hierarchy must be abolished. The exception is that the leaders of the revolution will provide ultimate guidance.
All forms of social stratification must be dismantled and all forms of hierarchy must be abolished. The exception is that the leading Imams will provide ultimate guidance.
Zionists control the world banking system, which must be replaced by one based on the principles of their ideology (socialism)
Zionists control the world banking system, which must be replaced by one based on the principles of their ideology (sharia)
Violence is necessary in order to enforce their ideology, and any non-believer is a legitimate target
Violence is necessary in order to enforce their ideology, and any non-believer is a legitimate target
Their ideology is the very definition of perfection and so cannot be challenged in any way. It is the only basis for correct human endeavour
Their ideology is the very definition of perfection and so cannot be challenged in any way. It is the only basis for correct human endeavour
Their ideology provides a complete blueprint for every aspect of how people should lead their lives and how societies should function
Their ideology provides a complete blueprint for every aspect of how people should lead their lives and how societies should function
Their ideology is based on communitarianism: all possessions must be shared by all - no man shall have more possessions than any other man (this is despite the fact that its most prominent advocates are among the most wealthy men in the world and fully enjoy their wealth)
Their ideology is based on communitarianism: all possessions must be shared by all - no man shall have more possessions than any other man (this is despite the fact that its most prominent advocates are among the most wealthy men in the world and fully enjoy their wealth)
Their ideology is spread by indoctrinating children and students with propaganda and lies.
Any views contrary to their ideology must be ruthlessly suppressed.
If you critise them you are a racist
Their ideology is spread by indoctrinating children and students with propaganda and lies. Any views contrary to their ideology must be ruthlessly suppressed.
If you critise them you are a racist 
Enemies and dissenters of their ideology must be intimidated, boycotted and ultimately ruthlessly eliminated
Enemies and dissenters of their ideology must be intimidated, boycotted and ultimately ruthlessly eliminated
Their ideology supersedes the notion of family. Loyalty to the ideology must always come above loyalty to family members.
Their ideology supersedes the notion of family. Loyalty to the ideology must always come above loyalty to family members.
Global warming fears can be used as a means for worldwide wealth redistribution to further their ideology
Global warming fears can be used as a means for worldwide wealth redistribution to further their ideology
Osama Bin Laden was a great hero for standing up to the Americans and Zionists
Osama Bin Laden was a great hero for standing up to the Americans and Zionists
George Galloway is simply a great hero
George Galloway is simply a great hero

 Source - Edgar Davidson's Blog
 
 
RELATED
 
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism - Is there a difference?  - By Edgar Davidson
 
SATIRE - A RECOVERING LIBERAL-HOLIC JEW ENTERS A "LIBERAL ANONYMOUS" MEETING - And confesses how he hit rock bottom in a gutter filled with ignorance, self-delusion, and a desperate need for acceptance by his fellow liberals
 
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SATIRE - A RECOVERING LIBERAL-HOLIC JEW ENTERS A "LIBERAL ANONYMOUS" MEETING - And confesses how he hit rock bottom in a gutter filled with ignorance, self-delusion, and a desperate need for acceptance by his fellow liberals

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  • Image result for barbra streisand with obamaThe following article is about one of the many terminally addicted liberal Jews - a liberal-holic -  unable to shake off his addiction to liberal causes, while not letting facts get in the way of his twisted thinking.
  • A liberal Jew like the ones who voted for Obama not once but twice, and who continue to support him, while financing other similar anti-Israel Democrat politicians and causes just because they are liberals like him. 
  • But this article also applies to non-Jewish liberals in general, such as the ones who denounce any criticism of Islam as Islamophobia, and who remain silent about the ongoing persecution of Christians in the Middle East - including in the Palestinian territories. 
  • It also applies to women's rights and gay rights advocates who side with Palestinians and Muslims in general, but viciously demonize Israel, the only country in the Mideast where women and gays are treated fairly.
Photo:  Barbra Streisand with Obama - She still thinks his policies are great.  Read more:
http://cnsnews.com/commentary/stephen-moore/barbra-streisand-thinks-obama-economy-great-what-she-s-missing


Excerpts
from the confessions of a liberal Jew at Liberal Anonymous meeting:
 
“Any sobering thought of reality and common sense was immediately tossed out of my head for fear that I would be either shunned by the welcoming liberal community around me, by my parents and their friends or by teachers and professors who I so much wanted acceptance from.
 
"I would sometimes have blackouts and not even remember what the purpose of a solidarity boycott stood for and what a liberal political candidate was even talking about.
 
"I would wake up on a street curb with a ‘Save the Dolphins’ brochure in my torn jeans’ pocket and lipstick stains on my collar left by Ralph Nader. Children would pass by and taunt me about how I was the cause of their grandchildren’s monetary deficit.
 
"Children, children, children was the magic mushroom that brought hallucinations of immediate self-satisfaction to my mind. Worry about the welfare of the children of terrorists, legalize drugs for our children, open the Arizona border for their children... as long as I put the word children in the serum I could stick the justification needle in my liberal arm and get high." 
 
LIBERAL ANONYMOUS
 
By Rabbi Dr. David Nesenoff

It's not easy to sober up and kick the habit - to it, you often need to hit rock-bottom...
 
"Hi, my name is Heshy; I’m a liberal-holic.” Everyone in the synagogue basement room, sitting on folding chairs, responds, “Hi Heshy!”
 
Heshy speaks: “I’m a little bit nervous to share my story. I guess I’ve always been a liberal-holic. Ever since I was a kid I can remember not really caring about anyone but wanting to make it look like I cared.” Moans of understanding emanate from the crowded room.
 
Heshy shares: “It became so easy as a teenager to promote such irresponsible thinking as I had no responsibilities and never read the paper or intelligent political writings or had any concept of fiscal stability or global insurgent threats.
 
"What made it worse was that everyone around me encouraged such behavior. It was the thing to do. Peer pressure dominated over sensibility. And then as I got older I learned to binge on the catch phrases ‘social justice this’ and ‘environmental that.’
 
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

CHAMP - ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) WEAPON THAT CAN DESTROY ELECTRONICS OF AN ENTIRE CITY - PENTAGON CONFIRMS IT HAS TERRIFYING NEW TECHNOLOGY - Who will have it next? - Are you prepared?

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If the US has it, so can other countries. 
And if other countries have it, anyone can buy it, including jihadis.  Are you prepared?

The Pentagon’s Counter-Electronics High-Power Advanced Microwave Project (CHAMP)
The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy. The energy causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react
The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy. The energy causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react 
  • Named counter-electronics high-powered microwave advanced missile
  • Weapon destroys electronic systems without hurting people or buildings
  • Champ is now an 'operational system already in [the] tactical air force' 
  • Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range has been chosen as the delivery vehicle
  • However, experts fear that the project could create an arms race, with countries scrambling to build their own electromagnetic pulse weapons.
  • The Sun could also produce the same catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect on the electric grid if any of its frequent major flares is directed straight to Earth's northern hemisphere

  • Continue reading, including related articles on Electromagnetic Pulse EMP events (weapons and solar flares), and how to prepare for a moment when nothing works because  our technological world is so reliant on computers - including transportation.  Who is going to bring food to the cities?  The post apocalyptic world after an EMP attack.

    Wednesday, May 27, 2015

    DOG CLIMBS 6ft CHAIN LINK FENCE TO VISIT HIS PAL - NOTHING CAN STOP A DOG'S FRIENDSHIP

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    Jailbreak! Owners catch their dog carefully climbing a 6ft chain-link gate so it can visit its four-legged friend next door.

    Dog climbs 6ft chain-link gate to visit friend next door in video

    See picture of both friends and watch video of the climb.