Astronauts have reported funding strange microbial growths on walls and surfaces, and it has even clogged waterlines
Two instruments onboard will be used to analyse it in orbit
NASA is set to use a radical new 'tricorder' DNA sequencer to work out what a mysterious fungus found growing on the International Space Station is.
Astronauts have reported funding the strange microbial growths on walls and surfaces, and it has even clogged waterlines.
Now, two instruments onboard will be used to analyse it in orbit, allowing mission controllers to work out how to deal with it. Currently, the only way to identify contaminants is to take a sample and send it back to Earth.
While western feminists unleash their fury against white men for relatively minor issues, they insist on remaining silent about the horrors of female genital mutilation, honor killings, and child marriage that go on in Muslim communities in the USA, Europe, and the rest of the world. Our feminists would rather be complicit with these crimes than to risk offending the perpetrators.
The following post is based on articles byBNIand by authors Robert Spencer of Jihad WatchandDaniel Greenfield, as well as others referenced at the bottom of this page
Feminist icon Germaine Greer says genital mutilation "is not Islam', although she has probably never bothered to go to the source, Islam itself, and read how their sacred texts and their scholars advocate the practice to 1.7 billion Muslims across the world in the name of the prophet Mohammad and of preserving family honor.
In spite of western liberals' vociferous assertions to the contrary, female genital mutilation (FGM) is indeed sanctioned in Islam (as is child marriage).
“Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr ‘clitoris’ [this is called khufaadh ‘female circumcision’]).” — ‘Umdat al-Salik e4.3, translated by Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64
Why is it obligatory? Because Muhammad is held to have said so: “Abu al- Malih ibn Usama’s father relates that the Prophet said: ‘Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.’” — Ahmad Ibn Hanbal 5:75
“Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to her: ‘Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.’” — Abu Dawud 41:5251
The mainstream media is fully complicit, avoiding even mentioning that this problem exists at all, and when they do, making efforts to distance it from Islam.
Livonia, Michigan is known as Little Palestine. The Detroit suburb is famous for its anti-Israel meetings. You could go hear Mustafa Barghouthi, Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah without taking a long drive.
It’s also known for its shady doctors.
Dr. Murtaza Hussain was busted for letting unlicensed employees diagnose patients and write prescriptions. Dr. Waseem Alam and Dr. Hatem Ataya pleaded guilty in the nation’s largest Medicare fraud case totaling $712 million in false billings centering on Shahid Tahir, Muhammad Tariq and Manavar Javed’s Livonia medical firms.
But what was going on at one Livonia clinic was far worse than the theft of millions. Anyone passing by at the right time could hear the screams of little girls.
We think of horrors like female genital mutilation as a terrible thing that happens over “there.” But as the implacable tide of Muslim immigration swept across Europe, “there” became the United Kingdom.
England recorded 5,700 cases of FGM in less than a year.
Driven by cruelty, sadism, and greed, trappers are murdering otters all across the country.
Otters are coveted for their pelts, and also regarded as competition by fishermen.
Trappers resort to extremely cruel methods of capturing these wonderful creatures and dooming them to slow, painful deaths.
Otters are good for the environment. As they consume urchins, they allow for the growth of kelp forests, which in turn become habitat for many other ocean species.
Furry otters live along ocean coasts, but river otters (with smooth fur) make a living in both the ocean and the rivers.
They form close family units and are excellent and devoted parents.
Otters are known for being adorable and playful creatures who form tight social bonds — but what's less well known is how they are being killed. Recreational trappers are targeting North American river otters, and most people probably don't even realize that this is still legal in many places across the country.
"Otters are most commonly trapped with Conibear traps — full-body traps that slam down on the animal but don't necessarily kill them, so that they experience drawn-out agony," Place said. Other times, hunters set a cage trap right by an otter's home (usually a den abandoned by another animal, like beavers), and bait the animals with a piece of fish.
"Otter trapping is often justified on the basis of overpopulation or supposed damage to fish stocks, but the reality is that their fur is lucrative," Jennifer Place, trapping spokesperson for Born Free USA, told The Dodo.
The mountains contain large deposits of sulphur-rich lignite (brown coal) which ignite spontaneously when the hills erode and the mineral veins are exposed to the air.
The fumes they give off contain sulphur dioxide, sulphuric acid and steam, all of which has acidified the surrounding shallow pools creating a pocket of distinctive acidic biota, in contrast to the typically Arctic biota in adjacent alkaline ponds.
The Smoking Hills are believed to have been burning for centuries, and will do so for many more.
Muslim countries are ungovernable under democratic principles. Their only options are either a strong and ruthless authoritarian government, or chaos. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped topple several secular regimes, only to unleash the horrors of ISIS and other extremist groups, mass bloodshed, and the migrant crisis. Assad's opposition is not only divided, but it's even worse than the tyrant currently in power.
Disclaimer: Your blogger is not a 'white male' but a female with an olive complexion, and with family roots in the Mediterranean.
For years there has been an ongoing black-on-white campaign of violent assaults in the USA - fully ignored by the mainstream media because it does not fit their narrative of black victimization.
Now the verbal war on whites is ramping up on mainstream media.
Calls for the murder of whites are found "not to violate ethical standards" at sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Anti-white incitement and hate are becoming increasingly acceptable.
There is a disturbing political alliance of the left, Islam, black nationalism, and radical feminism - all of which have one goal in common: the undermining and eventual dismantlement of western society and values.
The rationale seems to be that if in spite of all efforts at forced diversity, affirmative action, and other policies that ignore personal merit, non-whites are still trailing, then whites, men, and overachieving groups such as Jews and Chinese must be forcibly removed from the playing field.
Anti-white discrimination is applied from the very top with mandatory affirmative action for non-white admissions to colleges and the workplace.
While mere criticism of Obama is still condemned as "racist," now it is acceptable to call for the murder of president Trump, and even the murder of whites for being white.
While the left characterizes Trump supporters as "Nazis" - it is the leftist rhetoric that increasingly reflects Nazi ideology - with the perpetrators being leftists and non-whites.
Anti-white rhetoric is ramping up on campuses across the nation.
Colleges are now places where whiteness is regarded as an ingrained flaw. White students are asked to apologize for their color and the history of their race.
The war against whites is particularly vicious when it targets white males. Masculinity is now characterized as "toxic" - and another ingrained flaw for which white male college students are expected to apologize.
The following story of a hoax perpetrated on the liberal Huffington Post painfully illustrates the degree to which American society is fragmenting along race and gender lines.
It also exposes the alarming extremes in anti-white racism and anti-straight-male bias which are now becoming acceptable in schools and media.
When a man posing as a South African radical feminist submitted an article demanding an end to white male voting right (or at least a 20 year moratorium) , the Huffington Post deemed such article and its racist premise to be worthy of publication. Not only that, but facing criticism, its editor strongly defended the article.
The column was eventually found to have been a hoax, and its author ended up losing his job. The Huffington Post's editor apparently kept hers.
If whites are to blame for everything, how come African countries have so much racism, inequality, poverty, tribal violence, genocide and corruption, in spite of billions of dollars in aid over many decades now?
VIDEO -Time to condemn racist "Black Nationalism"By Jay Fayza, Rebel Media
According to the FBI, 24.3 percent of people who committed hate crimes were Black. Considering that Blacks are just 13 per cent of the US population, that is a wildly disproportionate number. Black nationalism, especially in the form of anti-white propaganda and violence, is a serious problem in America. It’s just as much of a problem as white nationalism can be, if not more, since it’s widely accepted in our culture to be racist against whites.
For a distillation of the contemporary left’s worldview, one needn’t look any further than a blog post that was recently published at the Huffington Post: “Could it Be Time to Deny White Men the Franchise?”At least one could have turned to this post—until HuffPo took it down. But we’ll get to that shortly.
The author, a person going by the name of “Shelley Garland,” a self-declared South African and graduate student in philosophy, argued that it is morally necessary to temporarily deny the franchise to white men. Moreover, at least some of their resources should be repossessed and “redistributed” to others.
Garland explains her reasons. First, white men are bad for left-wing progressivism. “Some of the biggest blows to the progressive cause in the past year,” she writes, “have often been due to the votes of white men.” She gives examples.
“If white men were not allowed to vote, it is unlikely that the United Kingdom would be leaving the European Union, it is unlikely that Donald Trump would now be the President of the United States, and it is unlikely that the Democratic Alliance would now be governing four of South Africa’s biggest cities.” “If white men no longer had the vote,” Garland summarily states, “the progressive cause would be strengthened.”
She’s quick to underscore that she is proposing nothing more than “the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation),” for this is all that it would take to “go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world.”
Continue reading, including UPDATE(Huffingon Post editor forced to resign over charges of racism)
One of the arguments against a French exit from the European Union is that the EU has brought peace to Europe, preventing any more wars between European countries. HOWEVER, it is the EU itself that has brought violence, crime, and terror into the EU countries with its policy of open borders and limitless migration from countries where violence is endemic.
Reports suggest 'at least' two people were involved in the attack which took place as presidential candidates debated on a TV show nearby before Sunday's election. The Interior Ministry spokesman said on BFM the officers were deliberately targeted and the police union added that one of them was shot dead while sat in a car at a red light.
Officially, France prohibits any form of boycott against Israel. However, according to a reportrecently released by NGO Monitor, the French government continues to fund NGOs openly hostile to Israel and to fund NGOs that support and promote boycott campaigns against Israel.
While the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is officially claiming the necessity of peace and secure borders for Israel, it is discreetly financing organizations and NGOs openly hostile to Israel. NGO Monitor’s meticulous report reveals that France is no friend of Israel but more and more of a prime mover in the war against Israel to delegitimize it.
President Hollande warmly greets arch terrorist Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas
The masks already fell when French government supported the shameful UNESCO resolution to deny any tie between Jews and Jerusalem and the more than shameful UNESCO resolution saying that Western Wall of the Jerusalem’s Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE was “occupied territory.” Now it is clear, France is at war with the Jewish state. (Read more further down this page.)
Israeli PM's advice for French president
A few weeks ago the French government - while bloodied by recurrent acts of terror - organized an international conference aimed at IMPOSING the partition of Israel for the creation of terror Palestinian state on Biblical Jewish land.
As in many other western attempts at finding a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem in the Middle East, it did not reach its goal.
If the government's idea is to ingratiate itself with Muslims, it is failing miserably as the ever growing Muslim population of France is in open war against the French state, its culture, and innocent citizens.
The irony is that while France tries to partition and delegitimize Israel, the French people are losing sovereignty over their own territory, as sectors controlled by Muslim population (No-Go Zones) continue to expand.
Today Parisians and visitors were once again terrified at another act of Muslim violence, this time in the popular Champs Elysees, where two policemen were targeted and murdered by Muslim shooters.
Continue reading, see photos of Champs Elysees after the terror attack, read article in depth on the Islamization of France, by Soren Kern, and also an article on France's machinations to partition Israel
Guitarist Andrew Schulman's wife, Wendy, sat at the ICU watching as her husband's life slipped away from him. Everyone agreed he was just minutes away from dying.
Following pancreas surgery in 2009, Andrew Schulman had suffered a cardiovascular collapse and was not expected to survive.
In a desperate act to bring him back, or to ease his exit, she placed his iPod earphones in his ears and pressed PLAY.
The first item was an inspirational piece by J.S Bach.
Then a miracle occurred. Andrew slowly began to return to life. And he healed and survived.
Not only that, but he became a medical musician, visiting hospitals and playing music to terminally ill patients, and seeing them react positively to his music.
He is the author of Waking the Spirit: A Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul, about the healing power of music.
On this page read a summary of his moving ordeal, and then a transcript of an interview by Australia's ABC, with a link to the audio.
* Democrats and other leftists have lost the argument, so they resort to violence to silence their opponents. * For many months leftist and anarchist groups have routinely used threats and violence to disrupt and cancel legal demonstrations by Trump supporters, including rallies in which candidate Trump was scheduled to speak. * At some point Trump supporters decided to fight back. While not initiating violence, they came ready to defend themselves. This is the result.
A Trump supporter bleeds after being hit by a leftist protester. Dozens of police officers in riot gear stood idly by, except to arrest pro-Trump protestors.
A 'Patriots Day' rally was held in support of President Donald Trump in Berkeley, California Saturday
It coincided with thousands who marched across the country to pressure Trump to release his Tax returns
Anti-Trump mobs threw stones, lit fires, tossed explosives and tear gas and attacked with makeshift weapons. Their opponents responded with fist fights.
Police stood by through the violence, and only 15 people have been arrested, mostly pro-Trump demonstrators, although leftists used an arsenal of bricks, sticks, pepper spray, and more.
* On the following video by independent journalist, author, and pro-free-speech activist Lauren Southern, she tells how she came prepared for leftist violence by wearing a helmet and breathing apparatus, and bringing along a few male friends as bodyguards (she has been physically attacked by leftists in the past).
* She needed them, as leftists threw bricks, stones, and fireworks, and sprayed pepper spray into the pro-Trump crowds, while police mostly watched the scene from their cars.
* It seems that police only made arrests when pro-Trump demonstrators defended themselves. California leftist authorities apparently made police abandon their obligation to protect peaceful demonstrators as long as those committing violence were leftist mobs.
Next read Daniel Greenfield's essay on the terrorist nature of leftist mobs, and see many photos of violence on Berkeley streets, as leftists use makeshift weapons in an attempt to intimidate and silence their opponents. This situation is eerily reminiscent of the 1930s Brown Shirts, Hitler's own mob that attacked opponents' gatherings in order to silence them.
- Trump supporters charge against anti-Trump protestors amid smoke from a smoke bomb that was thrown into the crowd - Trump supporters feel are not defending the man himself, but the integrity of the republic against attacks on western values.
- They know that unless they fight back, the USA will slide into a situation similar to that of Sweden, France, and Germany, where the original population is under siege by millions of hostile migrants, while authorities fail to protect citizens.
Hundreds of leftists threw stones, lit fires, tossed explosives and tear gas and attacked pro-Trump supporters with makeshift weapons. They had to defend themselves as police stood idly by unless leftists got hurt.
BREITBART: AJ Alegria, 31, of Sacramento, told the Times he came to Berkeley to help defend Trump supporters and was surrounded by a dozen protesters in black masks who he said attacked him with sticks and pepper spray.
“These people create violence all the time… somebody has to stand up to them,” said Alegria, who was injured in the fight and treated by Trump supporters who bandaged his head, washed off the pepper spray and gave him encouragement, saying, “You’ve earned your stripes, bro.”
“I got hit in the back of the head with some sticks,” Bergquam told the San Francisco Chronicle as another activist wrapped gauze around his wound. “I don’t agree with everything Trump says, but I don’t agree with violence.”
With assistance from the Oakland Police Department, the Berkeley police fared better at keeping the peace than they did in February, when violent demonstrators set fires and destroyed more than $100,000 worth of property that forced the cancelation of a speech by then-Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley. The Chronicle reported that several liberal groups long-planned to disrupt the pro-Trump rally with the intent to shut it down.
CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA
“Resistance” Democrats are a terrorist party committed to overthrowing our government.
By Daniel Greenfield
Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center
He is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Some key points on Daniel Greenfield's column:
The left has declared that President Trump’s victory is illegitimate. The response is “Resistance.”
That covers violent anti-government protesters, states declaring that they are no longer bound to follow Federal immigration law and Senators obstructing for the sake of obstruction.
They have normalized the radical leftist position that our system is illegitimate. They have moved into the second phase of the left’s program of demonstrating that illegitimacy through confrontation.
The final phase is to overthrow the system through actions ranging from protests to terrorism.
The left’s endgame is a totalitarian state. Its “moderates” pursue one by peaceful means only so long as they are allowed to hijack the system.
When an election fails to go their way, the radicals brandish it as proof that the system has failed and that violent revolution is the only answer.
What was once the obscure behavior of a deranged political fringe has become the mainstream politics of the Democrats.
The Resistance theme shows that the radicals have won. The Democrats haven’t just fallen to the left.
They have fallen to the radical left which believes in overthrowing our system of government through conflict and confrontation rather than covertly engineering change.
An aerial view of the chaos in Berkeley shows how demonstrators left Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, where the fighting began, and walked along Berkeley streets closely followed by police
AUTHOR DANIEL GREENFIELD WRITES ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA:
What does #Resistance really mean? It means the overthrow of our government.
In this century, Democrats rejected the outcomes of two presidential elections won by Republicans. After Bush won, they settled for accusing him of being a thief, an idiot, a liar, a draft dodger and a mass murderer. They fantasized about his assassination and there was talk of impeachment. But elected officials gritted their teeth and tried to get things done. This time around it’s “radically” different. The official position, from the Senate to the streets, is “Resistance.” Leftist media outlets are feeding the faithful a fantasy that President Trump will be brought down. There is fevered speculation about the 25th Amendment, a coup or impeachment due to whatever scandal has been manufactured last.
This fantasy is part clickbait. Leftist media outlets are feeding the worst impulses of their readers. But there is a bigger and more disturbing radical endgame.
Those of you who remember the film "Alien" know it's bad news to find an uninvited guest on board a spacecraft. 
