Harambe was fatally shot after a four-year-old boy crawled past the railing and fell 15ft into the gorilla exhibit moat at the Cincinnati zoo.
But witnesses said the gorilla was 'acting protectively' and zoo director confirmed the boy was not under attack
Video shows boy reaching for Harambe's arm, and they briefly held hands
Many have blamed the boy's parents for 17-year-old Harambe's death
They released a statement on Sunday saying their boy is doing 'just fine'
Zoo director said Harambe was 'disoriented' (but not aggressive in any way) and tranquilizer would have taken too long with the possibility of agitating the animal even more
Harambe died due to human actions and miscalculations.
The zoo enclosure was obviously inadequate, and a tragedy waiting to happen.
Cincinnati Zoo is being investigated by police and faces calls for full-scale federal probe into 'safety lapses' - including letting polar bears escape from their enclosure
Mom and dad: Deonne Dickerson and Michelle Gregg are the parents of the four-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure of Harambe on Saturday at Cincinnati Zoo
These are the parents of the four-year-old boy whose fall into the gorilla exhibit moat in Cincinnati Zoo resulted in the death of 17-year-old silverback gorilla, Harambe.
Seen here for the first time Michelle Gregg, 32, has four children by Deonne Dickerson, 36, a man who, Daily Mail Online can disclose, has a lengthy criminal history.
Criminal filings against Dickerson stretch over a decade and include burglary, firearms offences, drug trafficking, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and kidnap. In 2006 he was sentenced to one year behind bars for a drug trafficking conviction.
Disfiguring disease currently ravaging the Middle East spread across Syria after ISIS turn the streets into a filthy wasteland and it is now eating its way across refugee camps
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a disease transmitted mostly by bites from sand flies
But there are 20 other parasites that can act as vectors, so it could spread to non-tropical areas.
It creates open sores on the skin, nosebleeds and difficulties breathing and swallowing.
The disease can kill if left untreated, and survivors are often left with horrific scars.
It had been contained to Syria, particularly ISIS-held regions
But it has now spread further as millions have fled to neighbouring countries
Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Easter Libya and Yemen have reported thousands of cases.
in 2013 there were 1,033 cases in Lebanon alone, of which 96 per cent occurred among the displaced Syrian refugees, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
When people are bitten by sand flies – which are tiny and smaller than a mosquito – it can take anything between two to six months to have the infection.
Someone might have picked it up in Syria but then they may have fled into Lebanon or Turkey, or even into Europe as they seek refuge.
Scientific Journal PLOS denounces the media for covering up the fact that migrants have been also spreading polio, tuberculosis, hepatitis, measles, and other diseases that have been under control in the west.
Devout Muslims are not allowed to use toilet paper. They use their hands instead. This is a practice that exacerbates the transmission of disease.
See images of the effects of this flesh eating disease at the very bottom of this page. You will be warned before you scroll further down.
SUMMARY: WHAT IS LEISHMANIASIS
AND HOW IS THIS DEADLY DISEASE SPREAD?
According to the World Health Organisation, there are three main forms of the disease and are spread by more than 20 parasites:
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: This is the most common form of the disease and causes ulcers on exposed parts of the body. It can also lead to disfigurement, permanent scarring, stigma and disability.
Visceral Leishmaniasis: This is the most severe form of the disease and can be fatal if left untreated. The disease targets the major organs and causes irregular bouts of fever, weight loss as well as enlargement of the liver and spleen.
Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis: This is the most destructive form of the disease, eating away at the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth and throat
The disease had been contained to Syria, particularly to regions under ISIS control such as Raqqa, Deir al-Zour and Hasakah. The civil war has devastated the country's medical facilities, seen thousands of health workers killed and hospitals destroyed.
Along with the chronic lack of water and bombed out buildings, this created a ripe breeding ground for the sand flies and allowed the disease to thrive.
UPDATE - Media hiding how Syrian migrants are also spreading polio - tuberculosis - measles - hepatitis - and more, according to science journal PLOS Continue readingthe Daily Mail and Breitbart reports, the new update, and see images of the devastating effects of this disease
Palestinians send their children to stab Israelis, knowing that they may be killed in the process.
They indoctrinate them from early childhood to hate and kill Jews, and to yearn for martyrdom.
What kind of state can the world expect these people to establish?
And why have they become the most pampered insurgents on the planet?
Why do they get more aid money per-capita than any other group in the world?
The answer is that Palestinian Arabs have become agents for the destruction of Israel
This compels western governments and so-called humanitarian organizations to support them, no matter who and what these Palestinian really are.
The White House's pro-Israel rhetoric is meant to pacify the mostly pro-Israel American voter. The US political elite is essentially anti-Semitic.
Three times the armies of several Arab states ganged up on Israel intent on committing genocide. Western powers sat to watch the expected tragedy to unfold, and refused to help Israel.
The Jews defended their country against impossible odds and were victorious. So, since Israel cannot be defeated militarily, the West has encouraged a campaign to destroy it by funding a vicious propaganda, diplomatic maneuvers and even terror.
Palestinians are a knife in the heart of Israel, proxies for the anti-Semitic West.
The West hopes that they will succeed in dismantling the state after it gets partitioned down to indefensible borders - The so-called Two States Final Solution.
In simple terms, the world has contracted out the Arabs to dismantle the state of Israel, through genocide, if necessary.
During World War II the Palestinians were Hitler's partners.
Their chief, the Mufti of Jerusalem, lived in Berlin and met with Hitler (photo on the right) and his cohorts, agitating for genocide not only against European Jews, but against all Mideast Jews as well.
The Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem also organized a Muslim SS Nazi army division (with mostly Bosnian Muslim soldiers) that committed crimes against humanity in eastern Europe.
The greatest irony of the Holocaust is that while Germany had to pay reparations to Israel, the Palestinians, who were active partners in the Holocaust, are to be rewarded with historically Jewish land for the creation of another Arab terror state.
November 22, 2015
Abbas admits:
'I rejected Israeli offer of PA state'
This was an extremely generous offer that included almost all of Judea and Samaria (West Bank), and Biblical Jerusalem as its capital, as well as a connection to Gaza. REJECTED.
Abbas tells Israel TV that he turned down flat an offer by Olmert for a state on the equivalent of 99.5% of Judea and Samaria.
For the first time, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has admitted that he rejected "out of hand" an Israeli offer for a PA state on nearly 95% of Judea and Samaria.
In 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to agree to the creation of an independent PA state including all of Gaza, nearly all of Judea/Samaria, and parts of Israel – a total area equal to 99.5% of the size of Judea and Samaria.
In addition, a tunnel would connect Judea/Samaria to Gaza, and the PA state would have its capital in eastern Jerusalem. Not only that: Olmert also agreed to the return of 5,000 Arab refugees from the 1948 War of Independence over five years.
Abbas never publicly admitted that he turned down this offer – until this past week. In an interview on Israel's Channel 10, Abbas said that in September of 2008, Olmert presented him with a map that delineated the borders of the proposed PA state.
The Channel 10 interviewer asked, "In the map that Olmert presented you, Israel would annex 6.3 percent [of Judea/Samaria] and compensate the Palestinians with 5.8 percent [taken from pre-1967 Israel]. What did you propose in return?"
Abbas replied, "I did not agree ... I rejected it out of hand." Abbas in fact did not initial the map, and the PA never officially responded to the Olmert offer.
This jibes with Olmert's report of the meeting. Olmert has said that Abbas said at the time, "I am not in a marketplace or a bazaar. I came to demarcate the borders of Palestine - the June 4, 1967 borders - without detracting a single inch, and without detracting a single stone from Jerusalem, or from the holy Christian and Muslim places. This is why the Palestinian negotiators did not sign."
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein said, "The ZOA has exposed numerous times the falsity of the claim that Abbas and Fatah, the party he leads, have accepted Israel's legitimacy and permanence. For years, we have been drawing attention to the duplicity of Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah."
Klein noted that Abbas has "made it clear that he does not accept a Jewish state [and] insists on the racist policy of excluding all Jews from any future Palestinian state... The PA engages daily in anti-peace, pro-terror acts of incitement, misinformation and propaganda -- it clearly is not seeking a peace settlement with Israel, not even one it intends to break."
"Mahmoud Abbas has merely admitted what is -- or should have been -- long known to any informed observer," the ZOA concluded.
Palestinian Official: Palestinians Will Win Because They Love Death More Than Life
The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Presidency delivered a speech this week on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas extolling the Palestinian people for “loving death more than life” and promising that the Israeli “tyrants” and “aggressors will end up in the trash bin of history.”
Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim was addressing a group of Palestinian National Security Forces at a ceremony on Sunday celebrating their silver medal victory in the international 8th Annual Warrior Competition which took place in Jordan earlier this month.
Abd Al-Rahim said their win highlighted the fact that the Palestinian people were one step closer to establishing statehood, and emphasized that Palestinians would never compromise on their vision of that state.
“We will not grow soft or deviate towards personal interests for the sake of dubious goals such as establishing a state or an emirate in Gaza, or establishing a state with temporary borders in the West Bank,” Abd Al-Rahim said, noting that with every generation, the desire of young Palestinians to achieve the goals that martyrs have died for only strengthens.
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Ready to go nuts... Enter the kung-fu squirrels! Warring rodents execute perfect punches and kicks during scrap
Scrapping squirrels appear to channel their inner Bruce Lee in showdown
Photos show mammals throwing perfectly-executed punches and kicks
The rodent rage was captured by software engineer Aleksandr Khizgilov near his home in San Francisco Bay.
Leaping in mid-air with their legs lashing out, these scrapping squirrels look like they’re taking a leaf out of Bruce Lee in his film Enter The Dragon
These stunning shots may look like alien landscapes but they were actually taken in the deserts of south-western USA.
British photographer David Clapp travelled to Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico to capture landscapes for a photographic series on 'otherworldly' locations across the world.
And as these images reveal, it can be a remote and barren land.
An infrared image taken at dusk of strange clay formations in Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness in Farmington, New Mexico, is just one of the many bizarre landscapes photographed by David Clapp
The White House keeps importing thousands of Muslim migrants. So the government spends your tax money to bring them in, and then spends even more when they turn to terror and crime. Wouldn't it make more sense to spend those billions of dollars helping the American homeless, instead, and war veterans, children, seniors, and so many other worthy Americans in need?
While some people are quick to condemn Israel for having checkpoints in areas with high incidence of Muslim terror, they forget to connect Muslim terror in America with extreme delays and degrading body searches the innocent public has to suffer at airport security. They choose to blame TSA mismanagement instead.
Let's not forget that it was Palestinian terrorists who initiated terror against airlines several decades ago, with hijackings and killings in the name of their political cause.
Their tactics have been copied and refined by Muslims everywhere, not just because of their hate against Israel, but their hate against the West in general.
Palestinian failed suicide bomber
The risk associated with bringing in tens of thousands of Muslims - whose ideology celebrates and encourages martyrdom - to add to the already existing Muslim population in America, does not make any sense from the security point of view.
The Class B drugs were dumped in a quiet Welsh village and eaten by flock
Locals say the sheep have been 'roaming the village' causing havoc
Councillor: 'One even entered a bungalow and left a mess in the bedroom'
The remains of an illegal cannabis factory were fly-tipped in the quiet village of Rhydypandy in the Swansea valley in South Wales, and worried locals fear the sheep have been munching the herbs after they exhibited some very odd behaviour.
Continue reading and see additional images of sheep gone berserk.
Police arrest two Arabs, and hunt for a third, after they videotaped themselves committing horrific rape of mentally disabled girl while shouting racist slurs.
The victim of the horrendous rape has been left in a difficult psychological state due to the traumatic assault, and she currently requires treatment.
The three Arab attackers - one of whom is an Israeli citizen while the other two hail from Judea-Samaria - acted out of "nationalistic motives," according to police, and are seen on the video shouting racist slurs during the attack.
The gang rape occurred in southern Tel Aviv, a working class area
Member of the Knesset Nava Boker shocked at the crime itself, and at the police cover up, and is calling for an investigation of police conduct.
Israeli police have frequently covered up serious Arab crimes against Jews in the past.
Israeli police are, however, are fixated on persecuting nationalistic Jews for thought crimes and minor vandalism. (Read more on this further down this page.)
Two Arab residents of Judea and Samaria as well as an Arab citizen of Israel are suspected of raping a 20-year-old mentally delayed Jewish girl two weeks ago for "nationalistic" motives, as was revealed on Wednesday when a media gag order on the case was lifted.
All three were documented in footage they filmed two weeks ago raping the mentally handicapped girl in a motel in southern Tel Aviv, humiliating her and spitting on her while shouting racist slurs and threatening to harm her family.
Police hid the case from the public for ten days out of concerns it would spark clashes between Jews and Arabs. "Nationalistic motives" is a term used in describing terror attacks, as opposed to criminal motives.
Continue reading on the rape of disabled girl, including article on past police cover ups of Muslim terror, and see quotes from the Hadith, the Muslim sacred text, where Muhammad sanctions the rape of non-Muslim women.
Ollie the Collie, ten, of Portland, became paralyzed after a camping trip
The cause was a mystery, so his owners agreed to have him put down
However, a student vet found a tick behind his ear while comforting him
Once it was removed, the dog made a full recovery
Neurotoxins in the tick's saliva had caused 'tick paralysis'
The vet said the condition was rare
The dog’s tick collar didn’t stop the bug from burying itself underneath Ollie’s fur.
Though completely curable, it can kill the animal if untreated
Tick paralysis is caused when the tick’s saliva infects the host’s bloodstream.
Prolonged effects can cause neurological problems and paralysis.
A 10-year-old dog named Ollie is alive today thanks to a Portland, Oregon-based DoveLewis Animal Hospital intern who found a tick hidden in his ear, moments before the veterinarian was to euthanize the sick dog.
Ollie’s owners, Al and Joelle, decided to put the dog to sleep after noticing his rapidly failing health after returning home from a trip to the Umpqua River, according to a statement from DoveLewis Animal Hospital.
“We were at a complete loss,” said Al, the dog’s owner. “What do you do in that situation? He is part of our family, and we’ve always tried to provide the best care we can for him.”
Continue reading, see additional images, read more about tick paralysis, and watch VIDEO
20 years in the making, a new $28 million Palestinian museum of national heritage opened on ancient Jewish land now occupied by the Palestinian Authority – with no exhibits.
As history demonstrates, the people today known as “Palestinian” Arabs bear no distinction from the Arabs living in neighboring nations that only gained their current borders and distinct nationalities in the past century.
A large majority of them are descendants from Muslim conquerors who invaded in the 7th century
These descendants arrived in Israel looking for work early in the 20th century, as the Jews were draining the swamps and cultivating in what until then had been desert.
There is no distinct “Palestinian” history or culture.
And, so, it was absolutely fitting that The Palestinian Museum of Art, History and Culture opened its doors with NO EXHIBITS.
The 43,000 square foot building will employ 40 staff.
Museum of Palestinian culture - Photo EPA
This is the essence of Palestinian culture. If there were no Jews, they would turn on each other - as Muslims do all over the Middle East
Salah Kuwar, 20, an electrician in charge of the sound and lighting for the inauguration, said the museum was “a lovely idea, but it’s strange that we have millions for a museum of the Palestinians, but little help for the Palestinians themselves, to give them institutions, or to help with finding them jobs.
" No, there’s no time for the past. We are fed up, we need an intifada (uprising),” Kuwar said, adding that he didn’t get “the point” of any of it.
Exhibits were delayed partly because the museum’s director resigned last December over disputes with the museum’s management. He took with him the first exhibit, “Never Part,” which was to showcase personal items of Palestinian refugees.
A source close to the project told AFP that the museum’s inauguration without exhibits was a disappointment, as it will “not live up to its declared vision of telling the Palestinian people’s story to the world.”
By Daniel Greenfield Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, author is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
150 years ago, Mark Twain visited Muslim-occupied Israel and wrote of “unpeopled deserts” and “mounds of barrenness,” of “forlorn” and “untenanted” cities.
Palestine is “desolate,” he concluded. “One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings.”
The same is true of the Palestinian Museum which opened with much fanfare and one slight problem. While admission is free, there’s nothing inside for any of the visitors to see except the bare walls.
Or they could their new museum halls with
these artifacts of typical Palestinian culture
The Palestinian Museum had been in the works since 1998, but has no exhibits. The museum cost $24 million. All it has to show for it are a few low sloping sandy buildings indistinguishable from the dirt and a “garden” of scraggly bushes and shrubs. The Palestinian Museum is open, but there’s nothing inside.
It’s hard to think of a better metaphor for Palestine than a bunch of empty buildings designed by Irish and Chinese architects whose non-existent exhibits were the brainchild of its former Armenian-American director. It’s as Palestinian as bagels and cream cheese. Or skiing, hot cocoa and fjords.
Over the Palestinian Museum flies the proud flag of Palestine, which was originally the flag of the Iraqi-Jordanian Federation before the PLO “borrowed” it, and visitors might be greeted by the Palestinian anthem composed by Greek Communist Mikis Theodorakis.
If it sounds anything like the soundtrack from Zorba the Greek, that’s because they both share the same composer.
VIDEO - WHAT IS PALESTINE, WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS
All of Palestine is so authentically Palestinian that it might as well be made in China. At least that’s where the stained Keffiyahs worn by the stone throwers hurling rocks at passing Jewish families while posing heroically for Norwegian, Canadian and Chilean photojournalists are made.
Palestine is an empty building with nothing in it. It’s a political Potemkin village. There’s a flag, an anthem, a museum and all the trappings of a country. But if you look closer, there’s nothing inside.
Continue reading this and other related articles, and watch more videos
The VERY odd couple: A young elephant seal pup and a penguin chick look like good friends sharing a joke
While on holidays, French Canadian teacher Jean-Francois Hic took these photos of a Gentoo penguin and his buddy, the elephant seal. The images were taken on Livingston Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula
Frederik The Great, a breathtakingly beautiful Friesian stallion from the United States, may just be the world's most handsome horse. Sharing his name with the ruler of Prussia from 1740-1786, the highly acclaimed horse has a muscular build, striking black features and flowing mane.
Continue reading and see more pictures of Frederik. See also this blogger's favorite pictures of horses: the horses of Camargue , France - (right)
