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Sunday, September 30, 2018

ADORABLE POLICE DOG PERFORMS CPR ON OFFICER - VIDEO

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WATCH VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUHTbSIT6g

ANIMAL LIVES MATTER - PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ABANDON THEIR ANIMALS DURING DISASTERS - There is NO preparation, NO plan for rescue, NOTHING - Animals are left to die

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Catastrophes happen several times a year,

but we have NO PLAN to save animals.

It happens with heartbreaking regularity. Whether floods or fires, people abandon their pets and other animals to their fate.
This year alone there have been several hurricanes and major wildfires, and yet, there is no national plan to deal with the most helpless victims: domestic animals.
If you live in a fire- or flood- or hurricane-prone zone, you know that the time may come when you'll only have seconds to get into your car and flee, not enough to get your pet or to release your horses and other animals.
You may have an evacuation plan for you and your loved ones, but animals are often not even listed on emergency lists.

While cats, dogs, and other small pets can be placed in carriers and taken along, larger animals face a more difficult challenge.
I don't know what the cattle industry or horse owners think would be the best way to give animals a chance for survival, but SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
Some have suggested a dedicated organization that would operate regionally to evacuate and relocate animals as a precaution long before the danger to rescuers becomes insurmountable.
They would have trucks and drivers available, with additional ones borrowed from non-affected regions, in order to transport the animals to safety.
In the case of pets left behind, there could also be a reliable organization that could be tasked with rescuing those left behind by their panicked owners.
Hundreds of horses and other domestic animals have died horrible deaths burning alive in these southern California fires because their owners left them locked in their barns. See the horrible aftermath in images by the Daily Mail.

Animal owners have the SACRED TASK of caring for animals in their charge.

ANIMALS LIVES MATTER

HORSES LEFT TO DIE AT PADILLA RANCH IN SYLMAR

The Padilla Ranch in Sylmar was torched by the Creek wildfire in the early hours of Tuesday morning

Almost half of the 60 horses which are boarded on the ranch perished as the flames took hold

The ranch owners live nearby but were forced to evacuate their homes and leave the area. The returned on Wednesday to find 29 carcasses and others which survived but were badly burned

Creek is just one of five devastating wildfires which continues to ravage Southern California

Continue reading, including PETA's tips for evacuating with pets

SEA LION DRAGS LITTLE GIRL INTO THE WATER - Saved by a man who promptly jumped in and brought her to safety - It was the sea lion's second attempt at grabbing that same little girl

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A male California sea lion grabbed a young girl by her dress and pulled her into the water off Steveston's docks on Saturday, May 20. Marine mammal experts say the animal most likely mistook the dress for food.

Family slammed for 'reckless behaviour' after sea lion drags girl into water in Richmond, B.C.

Port officials are lambasting the family of a young girl for "reckless behaviour" after she was dragged into the water by a sea lion off a dock at Steveston in Richmond, B.C.

Robert Kiesman, chair of the Steveston Harbour Authority, said there are several signs posted at the popular tourist destination warning people not to feed the sea mammals that frequent the area.

"You wouldn't go up to a grizzly bear in the bush and hand him a ham sandwich, so you shouldn't be handing a thousand-pound wild mammal in the water slices of bread," Kiesman said.

"And you certainly shouldn't be letting your little girl sit on the edge of the dock with her dress hanging down after the sea lion has already snapped at her once. Just totally reckless behaviour."

Continue reading and watch VIDEO of the incident

THE MAGICAL TINY CREATURES OF INDONESIA - SEE AMAZING PHOTOS OF CUTE FROGS. - Other little animals are portrayed as delicate paintings

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Tri Setyo Widodo is a nature and macro photographer based in Indonesia. Here are some of his beautiful photographs.

Macro Photography

See more photos of cute and wonderful small animals

HILARIOUS ANIMAL PICTURES IN THE COMEDY WILDLIFE PHOTO AWARDS competition 2016 - These are some of the funniest entries

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A puffin has some fun on the Farne Islands, looking like it's been trained at the Ministry of Silly Walks
Continue reading and see lots more funny pictures of wildlife

ANIMAL SURVIVORS FROM WORLD'S WORST ZOO IN GAZA ARE RESCUED by Four Paws UK animal charity - Almost a hundred animals were allowed to starve, their mummified carcases later put on display - Palestinian sadistic cruelty against animals documented

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Although demanding an Islamic state of their own, Palestinians haven't even cared for caged animals living in extremely abusive conditions at a zoo in Gaza. Almost a hundred animals have already died from starvation and other mistreatments at just one particular zoo.
Showing complete lack of empathy and brazen disregard for the welfare of animals, the zoo still sold tickets to the public to see the mummified remains of animals who had starved to death.
The Four Paws animal welfare organization engaged in protracted and difficult negotiations with Palestinians in order to save the survivors.
This wasn't easy, since those remaining animals were still a source of profit.
Four Paws characterized the Palestinian zoo at Khan Younis as the "WORST ZOO IN THE WORLD"
Khan Younis is not far from the border with Egypt.
Contrary to propaganda, there is no blockade of ordinary products going into Gaza.
Tiger LAZIZ rescued just in time

Israel blocks the importation of weaponry and of material that could be used to manufacture weapons. They don't blockade animal feed. Hundreds of trucks make it across from Israel every day.
In addition, the Raffa crossing into Egypt is open. Palestinians can freely travel to Egypt and shop.
There are also multiple smuggling tunnels across the border with Egypt, which is how precious wildlife got into Gaza in the first place. Two baby elephants died while being smuggled through a tunnel.
Gruesome: Owner sold tickets for
display of mummified animals
he had allowed to starve to death

The zoo, which opened in 2007, had more than one hundred animals on display at some point. Now there were only 15 survivors.
The owner did not feed them due to shortage of funds, and animal welfare laws are non-existent in Gaza.
There is no much concern for animals in Palestinian culture, so nothing could be done privately to save them. They just let them starve to death.
Muslim, and in particular Palestinian, cruelty and lack of empathy towards animals stem from two main sources:
Fun torturing and slaughtering
cattle during Gaza Muslim EID Festival

(1) The Koran itself, where animals are regarded with utter contempt. Pigs are of course banned. Animals such as dogs are regarded as impure, and often the subject of sadistic abuse.
(2) The systematic brutalization of children through indoctrination and also by desensitization to violence at all levels (especially within the family itself) which is reaching truly pathological levels.
Even little kids are indoctrinated to dehumanize their enemies, particularly the Jews.
Ritualistic eating of internal
organs of two young Israelis
they lynched in Ramallah
in 2000.

To Muslims Jews rank lower than animals, and whenever they have the chance to murder them, they engage in gruesome and sadistic acts that reveal a level of depravity that in other parts of the world fall into the category of psychopathy.
These acts have included torture, dismemberment, and ritual cannibalism. See related articles further on this page.
We hear about ISIS gruesome punishments. Similar acts perpetrated by "moderate" Arabs are covered up by the sympathetic media.
Palestinian abuse of animals is well documented.
Children burn dogs alive for entertainment, they weaponize animals by using them as remotely-controlled bombers.
They puncture cattle's eyes prior to slaughter in order to subdue them, and they inflict unimaginable cruelty on food animals, particularly during the yearly EID celebration when ordinary Palestinians butcher animals in sacrifice.
Muslims are not the only perpetrators of animal cruelty on the world, but animal rights organizations make efforts to cover up their depredations. You won't see Muslim - in particular Palestinian - animal cruelty exposed by major animal rights organization or the mainstream media.
Why aren't Palestinians boycotted, if only for their extreme abuse of wildlife and cattle?

VIDEO: PALESTINIANS sadistically torture captured hyena - The injured animal was rescued by Israeli soldiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGw22EV1XXk

VIDEO: PALESTINIANS CHASE AND LYNCH RARE STRIPPED HYENA

They stone to death a defenseless animal

and proudly post the video online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPetvhLy4tI

Palestinian men succeed in cornering the hyena - possibly striking it with a car as well - at which point they mercilessly pelt the helpless animal with boulders, rocks and other projectiles. After a long and agonizing ordeal, the animal finally lies dead or fatally injured on the ground. Striped hyenas are an endangered species in Israel, and hunting them is illegal.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198643

VIDEO - JIHAD AGAINST DOGS IN THE WEST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CGC9I1E3_I

More videos by Wild Bill for America

https://www.youtube.com/user/WildBillforAmerica/videos

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SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM

THE WORST ZOO IN THE WORLD

Mummified animals who were allowed to starve to death

- In display for profit at the Gaza Khan Yunis Zoo

"Khan Yunis Zoo has been known as the 'worst zoo in the world' since it became public last year that the zoo was crudely mummifying the animals that died in their care and displaying them," the UK charity Four Paws says on its website.

Continue reading and see images of the rescued animals, and those who were mummified and displayed by the Gaza Zoo, and other related articles

SMITHSONIAN WONDERS OF THE WORLD PHOTOS - See some of the best submitted to the 2016 contest

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There were over 46,000 submissions for this year's contest

The Smithsonian photo editors have chosen 70 finalists across seven categories - Here are some of them.

Voting is now open for the Readers Choice award, and all winners will be announced March 22

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IT'S NOT CLIMATE BUT HUMAN OVERPOPULATION THAT THREATENS LIFE ON EARTH - Pollution of air, soil and water, as well as SPECIES EXTINCTION, they are all due to OUT OF CONTROL demographic growth - We are a parasitic species trashing planet Earth. - Switching to wind power won't save us. - We need to encourage countries to limit human fertility.

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From 200,000 years ago until 1804 the human population rose to ONE billion.

Between 1804 to 1927 it rose to TWO billion.

By 1960 we were THREE billion.

In 2015 we are over SEVEN BILLION. http://www.census.gov/popclock/

Every new human will need food, water, housing, furniture, the farming of cattle and other animals for food, which in turn will have to be fed while they produce enormous amounts of waste.

Paying other countries to switch from fossil fuels to green energy won't do it. Paying them to restrain their demographic growth while taking care of seniors will.

Although Europe had managed to reach an actual slowdown in population growth, the EU elites decided that this was not good for the economy and have thrown their doors wide open to an influx of millions of migrants from the Middle East and other parts of the world where human reproduction is out of control.

RIGONCE, SLOVENIA - OCTOBER 26: Migrants are escorted by police through fields towards a holding camp in the village of Dobova on October 26, 2015 in Rigonce, Slovenia. Thousands of migrants marched across the border between Croatia into Slovenia as authorities intensify their efforts to attempt to cope with Europe's largest migration of people since World War II. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Migrants flooding Slovenia on their way to
Germany, Sweden, and other EU countries

Instead of helping other countries (such as Muslim nations, Mexico, and others) to slow down their population growth, the EU and the US are taking the pressure off those places by letting in millions of people who otherwise would be demanding jobs and services from their own governments.

Opening the doors to migrants is not a compassionate act in the long term. It is downright detrimental to the future of the planet.

Elephants massacred
for their ivory

No regard for the larger ecological picture. The prospects for many key animal, vegetal, and microscopic species are dismal. It's not only charismatic species such as tigers and elephants dying from poaching and destruction of habitat that we need to worry about. There is also the cutting down of world forests, and the destruction of whole ecosystems.

Most of the life on this planet is of microscopic size. We don't really know how human pollution and overconsumption of resources are affecting those creatures - most of whom are crucial for the existence of larger species like us.

Keep in mind that 90% of the cells in a mammal like us is bacterial. We look human because our cells are larger, that's all. But our gut, our skin, and just about every single part of us, are colonized by good bacteria that help keep us healthy and alive.

Brazilian forest's jaguar

And so is the case with the entire planet, its soils, air and water. There is a microscopic living web that keeps all other life thriving.

While we routinely highlight big animals as victims of human depredations, they are not the most important part of life on this planet: microbial life is.

And we have no idea how we humans - with our own parasitic lifestyle of devouring living things, and polluting everything in sight - will affect those invisible species that keep us alive.

While we tend to see plants and animals in a tropical forest, but the most important creatures in the web of life are invisible to the human eye.

So if you think that humankind can survive quite well in spite of the extinction of elephants, tigers and other megafauna, think again. We just don't know how we are modifying bacterial life.

Super bacteria immune to antibiotics make the headlines, but the whole planet is in fact a world filled with microscopic life. However, with out-of-control human population growth and severe technological modifications of nature, we may reach a fatal environmental tipping point sometime in the current century.

This picture is our present. Air pollution is so bad in China, that big cities such as Shenyang (shown here) and Peking are now almost unlivable.

But to illustrate the effects of human greed and cruelty, let's look at the most iconic animal species now on the verge of extinction.

The following article appeared on this blog on September 29, 2014:

THE BIG EXTINCTION - HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS HAVE DISAPPEARED IN THE LAST 40 YEARS due to human destruction of habitat, poaching, and other practices - Overpopulation has turned humans into a parasitic outbreak that is destroying life on Earth, say scientists

Murdered to make medicine for the Chinese

Mankind's need for land and resources, combined with hunting and poaching, are causing our wild animals to die out
Wildlife populations around the globe have declined by 52 per cent on average since 1970, a new report has found
The likes of forest elephants, African lions and tigers are under threat, as well as British harbour seals and birds
Lion numbers dropped 90 per cent in 40 years, tigers by 97 per cent in 100 years and elephants 60 per cent since 2002

Continue reading

ANIMALS ENJOYING AUTUMN - Beautiful landscapes, great photography, and adorable animals having fun - Take a break from everything and enjoy.

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These adorable critters can't seem to get enough of the season. Maybe it's because animals love playing in leaves just as much as we do? Or because the colors and smells demand investigation?

Serdiveal

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BOB, THE GOLDEN RETRIEVER WHO LOVES TO SNUGGLE UP WITH HIS ANIMAL FRIENDS, including birds and hamsters

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Dog-tor Doolittle: Pet pooch is friends with other animals…and loves nothing more than snuggling up to his hamster and bird pals

Luiz Higa Junior got Bob the golden retriever when he was four months old
Since then, he has been happy to snuggle up with other pets in his home
Pictures of the dog lounging around with his friends have been a hit online

Read more and see additional images of these animal friendships

BEST OF BRITISH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY with amazing pictures of the animals that surround us

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The wildlife that's in your garden! Photo contest highlights best of British nature from stoats and otters to cheeky red squirrels

Photo competition highlights the amazing variety of wildlife across Great Britain

Pictures submitted to British Wildlife Centre contest from nature-lovers aged from 12 to 72

Close-ups of owls, cheeky red squirrels and a bathing badger among the photo highlights

Adam Blackman - Breakdancing red squirrel

Kevin Brown - Fox and butterfly stare at each other

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THE ZOO IN OUTER SPACE - Experiment has placed 46 species outside the Space Station to observe radiation effects on life forms such as microbes and fungi

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46 species of bacteria, fungi and arthropods were delivered by a Progress supply ship to the Station in July

Could help solve the mystery of possible life on Mars.

Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev attached the package to the outside of the Zvezda module on 18 August

Some compartments recreate the Martian atmosphere by filtering some sunlight and retaining some pressure

Will remain for 18 months to study how they deal with space radiation

The Expose-2 experiment has special compartments that recreate the Martian atmosphere by filtering some sunlight and retaining some pressure.

SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING PHOTOS OF 2014

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A close up of a caracal lynx's face looking into a camera in January in Western Cape, South Africa. The nimble cat approached the lens after being released by a farmer who had earlier trapped it on his land. It was a lucky escape for the animal - a type of lynx - as many farmers blame them for killing livestock and shoot them on sight.

A dust storm rolls over the city of Phoenix at sunset on July 3 in Phoenix, Arizona. Avid storm chaser Mike Olbinksi, 39, captured this photo as he watched the wall of thick orange dust roll over the city with a population of 1.4 million
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BEAUTIFUL PICTURES SHORTLISTED FOR THE SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

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Photographer Andrew Suryono captured this amazing photo of an orangutan using a banana leaf to shield itself from the rain in Bali

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DELIGHTFUL ANIMAL FAMILY PORTRAITS

Animals (especially wild animals) don't have the vanity or the discipline to pose for organized family photos, but wildlife photographers will still do their best to capture photos that look like they could be corny family holiday post-cards. This list features some of the best animal family photos we've ever seen.

There are plenty of species throughout the animal kingdom that find life-long soulmates like we do (or try to), and quite a few of these happen to be birds – swans, barn owls, albatrosses and bald eagles are just a few of the many bird species that mate for life.

Vote for your favorite photos and, if you have one you'd like to share, go to the link to Bored Panda at the bottom of the page!

Thomas Kokta

George Veltchev

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TRAVEL TO PLACES WITH WILD ANIMALS - SICK OF THE HUMAN RACE? Go to tourist destinations where you can play with wild animals in beautiful settings

Bunnies in Okunoshima, Japan

An island where cats outnumber humans, swimming pigs in The Bahamas and a thriving colony of rabbits in Japan: Discover the amazing places around the world that animal lovers will adore.

Great Barrier Reef

From Africa to Australia, Asia to America, and even here in the UK, there are some incredible places around the world where tourists can see all creatures great and small.

Swimming pigs at Exuma, Bahamas

It's not unusual to see millions of different species underwater at the Great Barrier Reef but make your way to The Bahamas and it's not fish you'll see swimming in their crystal clear waters but pigs.

Go underwater in Palau, a small island in the Pacific, and swim with millions of friendly jellyfish that have lost their stings or stay on land and help with the conservation of the endangered orangutans in Borneo.

You may have one or two domestic pets at home but head to Japan and you can see your favourite fluffy friends in their hundreds. 'Breed like rabbits' is never a truer phrase than on the island of Okunoshima while cats outnumber humans on the island of Tashirojima.

Normally feared as being ferocious animals, the sharks near the Isle of Man are amiable plankton-eating basking sharks while in Burkina Faso the locals and crocodiles live so happily together you can even sit on them.

Kruger National Park, South Africa

Hundreds of horses have been living on the island of Assateague for centuries but you can only see the straw-coloured fruit bats, that migrate in the millions, in Zambia for three months of the year.

For the ultimate in animal adventure, and to see lots of these weird and wonderful animals in the same place, it's Kruger National Park you want to be heading to...

Read more and see additional pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2721940/An-island-cats-outnumber-humans-swimming-pigs-The-Bahamas-thriving-colony-rabbits-Japan-Discover-amazing-places-world-animal-lovers-adore.html

Baby Orangutans, Borneo

Jellyfish Lake, Palau

More about the swimming pigs previously reported on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-cute-swimming-pigs-of-bahamas.html

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DANGEROUS PET FOOD ALERT

2014 - JERKY PET TREATS ARE KILLING DOGS.

At least one thousand dogs have been killed and over 5000 made seriously ill. This has been going on for months. No action from FDA so far. Read more:
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/thousands-of-american-dogs-sickened-and.html
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Also check this website for the latest pet food recalls. Filter for either cat or dog products. (Please note that manufacturers often voluntarily recall products so they won't appear on this list.)
https://www.avma.org/news/issues/recalls-alerts/pages/pet-food-safety-recalls-alerts.aspx?fvalue=Cat
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If at all possible, try to feed your pet people food. The web has samples of pet food recipes and information on what is nutritionally best for dogs and cats. Giving them people food will save you money in the long run, with a healthier pet and fewer visits to the vet.

USA and EU GIVE BILLIONS TO PALESTINIANS, who use money to pay salaries TO TERRORISTS WHO KILL JEWS

ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO BE A BALLET DANCER ~~~ Hallel Jafa Ariel was only 13, and was sleeping in her home in Israel after a ballet public performance, when a Palestinian from a neighboring village stabbed her multiple times, killing her. ~~~ The terrorist's mother lauded her son as a HERO. ~~~ The Palestinian Authority now pays the terrorist's family a substantial salary for life as a reward, ~~~ The Palestinian Authority spends enormous amounts of money paying salaries to terrorists or their families. ~~~ AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS HAVE CONTRACTED OUT THE ARABS TO KILL JEWS IN ISRAEL ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read more about HALLEL and her tragic end

DO PLANTS HAVE INTELLIGENCE? Latest research indicates they do

Plants have between 15 and 20 senses, some of them analogous to our five senses. ~~~ Plants are able to sense and respond to light, water, gravity, temperature, soil structure, nutrients, toxins, microbes, herbivores, and chemical signals from other plants. This could not be done without an informational processing system. ~~~ They can form alliances with insects to use them as bodyguards, and when threatened by predators, they can summon them by using chemical signals. ~~~ They can get useful insects hooked on the drugs they make. ~~~ They use chemical warfare to fight enemies. ~~~ READ MORE fascinating facts about plant intelligence by clicking on these flowers..

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MENTAL ILLNESS AND ISLAM - What science says about it

The sciences of GENETICS and EPIGENTICS demonstrate that human EVOLUTION is still ongoing. ~~~ Changes in the human genome occur as a result of many factors in the physical and cultural environment. ~~~ Studies demonstrate that GENETIC CHANGES occur even during the lifetime of a person, and they can be inherited by their children. ~~~ In the case of ISLAM we have to consider 14 centuries of harsh indoctrination and cultural violence, repressed normal sexuality, and a lifestyle rooted in 7th century Arabia, in sharp conflict with 21st century science and culture. ~~~ MUSLIM UPBRINGING includes mental and physical abuse, and often sexual abuse of boys and girls as well. - The INBREEDING factor is also significant. Marriages to first cousins are very common, resulting too often in children with physical and mental disabilities. ~~~ The incidence of MENTAL ILLNESS and mental disability among Muslims has been all but ignored by countries that are importing millions of Muslim migrants. - This genetic factor may explain why second and third generation of Western Muslims have difficulty controliing emotions, and sometimes engage in actions of extreme violence. CLICK ON IMAGE TO READ MORE

IN PRAISE OF HEROES - Fighting wildfires or preventing a massacre on a French train

THE FEMINIST CULTURE denigrates men and ignores their heroic nature and their dignity. - It is MEN who we rely on to face the most life-threatening dangers and to save our lives and property.. - READ article on the men who gave up their lives fighting wildfires in Washington State, and the three US marines who stopped a Muslim from perpetrating a massacre on a French train. - READ article debunking the MYTH OF MALE PRIVILEGE. - In fact, men are mistreated by our society. WAR VETERANS languish without proper medical care, and are often homeless. - CLICK ON IMAGE to read articles

SKINNING AND OFTEN COOKING DOGS AND CATS ALIVE IN CHINA AND OTHER S.E. ASIAN COUNTRIES

It is disturbing that countries with thousands of years of civilization allow the torture of dogs and cats to be used for FOOD and the FUR INDUSTRY. - This is LEGAL in China and acceptable practice in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other S.E. Asian countries. - We have trade, diplomatic, and educational links with those nations, and in this way we are also indirectly COMPLICIT with this horror. - Hundreds of thousands of DOGS and CATS are tortured this way each year. - This PHOTO shows a puppy at a dog market in China (probably a stolen pet), lovingly pleading for attention. Later he was skinned alive. - CLICK on image to read more about this inhumane tradition, and to see related images, including those of dogs being boiled alive.

PRIONS FROM SICK DEER CAN PASS FROM DEER TO GRASS TO COW TO HUMAN - PRIONS CAUSE BRAIN DISEASES

PRIONS (tiny disease-causing agents) from SICK DEER's urine and feces can bind to PLANT roots and then travel to stem and leaves. - PRIONS are then consumed by grazing COWS, who can pass the prion infection on to HUMANS. - WHAT IS AMAZING about this is how cows can contract a serious animal disease by way of a plant. - Prions are responsible for several serious BRAIN DISEASES in animals and humans. PRIONS cause MAD COW, Creutzfeld-Jacob, and several other brain diseases, and have been linked to ALZHEIMER'S. CLICK ON IMAGE to read more.

EARTH GRAVITY WAVES RIPPLING THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE

The upper atmosphere is not only disturbed by SOLAR storms but by EARTH gravity waves as well - Gravity waves are born when air masses are pushed up or down by a thunderstorm, perhaps, or when wind is forced up and over a mountain range. When they reach the upper atmosphere these waves have built in amplitude and extent. They can dominate atmospheric processes sometimes threatening the reliability of Earth-based communication systems. - CLICK on image to read more and watch video of computer-generated model of gravity waves.

WHAT EARTHQUAKE AND OTHER DISASTER EXPERTS DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

READ ABOUT THE BIG ONE. Also, whether as a result of a mega-earthquake, large tsunami, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event (from a giant solar flare or from a terror attack that would fry the power grid), NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE VERY VULNERABLE TO MELTDOWN ~~~ A sustained electric power failure lasting several days would leave nuclear power plants unable to operate, unleashing a full meltdown.~~~~~ We already saw how a well-prepared country like JAPAN has been unable to bring its FUKUSHIMA nuclear power plant under control after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, leading to a meltdown. JAPAN will continue to dump millions of gallons of extremely radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean for at least the rest of this century. ~~~ READ ABOUT PREPAREDNESS for you and your PETS.~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read more

YELLOWSTONE ERUPTION OR NOT - BE PREPARED FOR ANY DISASTER - List of 50 PREPPER websites

A Yellowstone geologist stated that science can predict the MEGAVOLCANO behavior only as far as two weeks into the future - nothing more. Anything could happen beyond that time frame. ~~~ But Yellowstone is not the only threat on the horizon. ~~~ There are severe WEATHER EVENTS every year. ~~~ A SOLAR FLARE or a terror attack could unleash an electomagnetic pulse event (EMP) that would fry our grid and all electronics for a long time. ~~~ And then there are EARTHQUAKES ~~~ We have witnessed how incompetent all levels of government are to deal with these situations. We are on our own. So here is an article about the threat of the Yellowstone megavolcano. The article also provides preparedness tips for you, your family,and YOUR PETS for either evacuation or for hunkering down at home for an extended period of time ~~~ It includes a LIST of 50 PREPPER websites. ~~~ Illustration: Yellowstone magma pocket - by National Park Service ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read article.

WHY DO MUSLIMS HATE YOU?

A good Muslim follows the Koran and Hadith to the letter. Read how those Muslim scriptures order Muslims to DESPISE AND KILL THE INFIDEL. ~~~ Muslims regard western values as repugnant, and many see jihad as justified. ~~~ Islam is not compatible with western culture. There can be no assimilation. ~~~ Abandoning Islam, or APOSTASY, is punishable by death. ~~~ Muslims have been waging war against other people since the 7th century. ~~~ It was always CONVERT OR DIE. Countless indigenous cultures and religions across Asia and Africa have been obliterated, forced to submit to Islam. ~~~ According to conservative estimates, Islam has killed 270 MILLION non-Muslims during 14 centuries of conquest and tyranny. That makes it the biggest GENOCIDE in history. ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read why Islam hates you, in their own words, and learn more about the Muslim genocide

BRITISH TAXPAYERS OUTRAGED at EU spending their money building ILLEGAL ARAB SETTLEMENTS in Israel

FOR SEVEN YEARS ISRAELI AUTHORITIES HAVE DONE NOTHING to stop the EU building of illegal Arab settlements on Jewish land ~~~~~ While Israel has frozen construction across the Green Line, and razes the tiniest house addition or Jewish unauthorized outposts on the hills, Arabs keep building ILLEGAL SETLEMENTS with impunity, and with the funding and assistance of the European Union. Those settlements are in internationally-recognized Israeli land (Area C), thus the EU is not only violating Israeli sovereignty, but its own diplomatic rules of operation in foreign countries. - These illegal Arab settlements are meant to be FACTS ON THE GROUND for the eventual Muslim takeover of Jewish land - EUROPEANS DID NOT WANT JEWS IN EUROPE and murdered MILLIONS of them. Now they don't want Jews in their ancient homeland of ISRAEL either, call them "occupiers," and demand that the land be given to descendants of Muslims who invaded Israel in the 7th century. - The EU (inspired by the Nazi boycotts against Jews) already labels and boycotts products from the Jewish heartland - THE EU WAR AGAINST THE JEWS persists as they contract out the Arabs to continue Hitler's mission of killing Jews. Europe and the United States are the main funders of the Palestinian Authority, contributing to salaries paid to terrorists who murder innocent Israelis..CLICK ON IMAGE TO READ ARTICLE AND WATCH VIDEO

ISIS PLAN FOR INFILTRATING EUROPE AS REFUGEES

Along with Muslim refugees pouring into Europe there is a significant percentage of terrorists from ISIS and other Muslim factions. About 75% of those migrants are young men of military age. - This invasion follows ISIS threat earlier this year to flood Europe with HALF A MILLION MIGRANTS to unleash chaos. - The sudden spike in migration to Europe has been well orchestrated behind the scenes with the willing cooperation of Europeans. ~~~~~~~ Here we have a PERFECT STORM. (1) European leftist political elites need to expand their voting base with benefits-dependent migrants. (2) Business looks forward to cheap labor. (3) Leftists and media blatantly manipulate European shame for the Holocaust. Anyone opposed to this invasion is branded a RACIST.. - Basic math predicts an eventual demographic takeover of Europe by Islam. - The cartoon here has a an immigration officer asking jihadists "Anything to declare?" while they invade Europe - CLICK on image to read more

SATIRE - WHAT THE U.S. AND EU REALLY MEAN BY LAND FOR PEACE

Europe and the US commiserate for the loss of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. - But they obsessively demand that Israel be partitioned along borders only 9 miles wide at their narrowest point. - These borders and the creation of ANOTHER ARAB TERROR STATE under ISIS or Iran's influence will certainly lead to a Holocaust of 6 million Israeli Jews. - On this SATIRE White House aides promise that if the Arabs massacre the Jews in a shrunk Israel, Israelis should take comfort in the fact that the world will have an annual commemoration of their sacrifice for peace. - Image from Israel Matzav blog - CLICK on picture to read article.

THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION FOR FRANCE - AND NO-GO ZONES MAPS

CLICK on image to read details and satire by Prof. Stephen Plaut ~~~~~ And on a serious note, to read about the No-Go Zones or Muslim statelets already existing in Paris and rest of France ~~~~~ This poster, created by Daniel Pipes in the aftermath of the January 2015 Muslim attacks on French citizens in Paris, reflects the formula championed by France for the partition of Israel for the creation of a terror Palestinian state in the ancient Jewish heartland of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem ~~~~~ The poster reads: THIS ATTACK ONLY UNDERSCORES THE NEED FOR FRANCE TO IMMEDIATELY ENGAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRENCH MUSLIMS THAT WILL RESULT IN THE CREATION OF TWO STATES FOR TWO PEOPLES, LIVING SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE AND SECURITY, WITH PARIS AS A SHARED CAPITAL

HITLER, THE NUREMBERG NAZI PARADE GROUNDS, and the resurgence of Nazi ideas in the EU

HITLER is gone but the relics of his Third Reich still hold Europe under his spell. - See PHOTOS of the NUREMBERG NAZI PARADE GROUNDS, and read about the plans for their renovation. - HITLER's racist and genocidal ideas now loom ever larger in Europe, as NEO-NAZIS, anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian LEFTISTS, and genocidal EU MUSLIMS find common cause in their hatred against Jews. - Germany will republish MEIN KAMPF in 2016. - Germany and the EU fund and organize BOYCOTT ISRAEL campaigns inspired by Nazi boycotts of Jewish stores in the 1930s. - Jews are being persecuted and MURDERED in the EU, mostly at the hands of EU Muslims. - Anti-Semitic activities in Germany alone rose by 1,000% in 2014, mostly by EU Muslims. - The NAZI-MUSLIM ALLIANCE that dates back to the 1940s, when the Palestinian leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, joined Hitler in Berlin for the design and implementation of the Final Solution, and for the formation of a Bosnian Muslim SS Nazi division that perpetrated gruesome war crimes in Eastern Europe - CLICK on image to see Nuremberg then and now images, to read more, and watch VIDEO

IF JESUS LIVED IN JUDEA TODAY

Jesus would be called a "SETTLER" and Arabs would deny him access to Temple Mount (where Muslim conquerors erected a mosque), and to much of Judea and Samaria (West Bank), today under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) where no Jews are allowed. ~~~ Jews who have ventured into the PA have been LYNCHED. ~~~ Jesus would not be safe anywhere in Israel. He would be pelted with ROCKS or STABBED for being a "settler". Or he would be DECAPITATED, as Arabs did to four rabbis praying at a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014. ~~~ If Jesus were a child he would be BURNED BY FIREBOMBS (as Arabs did to a child in December 2014), or have his THROAT SLASHED in his own home, as Arabs did to the Fogel children. ~~~ CLICK on image to read more about the Muslim war against Jews and Christians in today's Judea and Samaria.

DECEPTION AND CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE IN ISRAEL

The insidious and wicked influence of the powerful pro-Arab Jewish left in Israel, promoting partition and/or the end of Jewish Israel. - WATCH EXCELLENT VIDEOS exposing the truth behind the Palestinian claim to Jewish land and the LAND FOR PEACE HOAX - This PHOTO by Oded Balilty won a Pulitzer Prize, and shows Nili, a teenager, defending her land against goons sent by the Israeli government. She was badly beaten in what is now known as THE AMONA POGROM: Israeli pollice brutally expelling Jews from their homes - READ about this, about the political conspiracy of silence about issues that are crucial for Israel's long-term survival, and about the political mediocrity that is irreparably harming Israel. CLICK on image to read article and watch videos

ONE ELEPHANT IS KILLED EVERY 15 MINUTES ON AVERAGE

Elephants will be EXTINCT in the wild in less than 10 years. PLEASE DEMAND that wild elephants be better protected. Although rescue and conservation organizations do their best, elephants are still being murdered. Organizations raise orphans only to release them to places where they will be killed for their tusks. ELEPHANTS NEED TRULY SAFE RESERVES that can be properly patrolled and defended from poachers. Current protection arrangements are not enough. CLICK on image for related news story about an elephant orphan.

SKINNED ALIVE FOR THEIR FUR in Asia - Millions tortured this way - BAN THE FUR TRADE

Puppies live only a few months inside cages before being slaughtered, gone INSANE from cruel treatment. ~~~ A few adult animals spend their entire lives inside cages breeding more puppies. ~~~ See photos of CHINESE WORKERS GRINNING as they immobilize puppies by ELECTROCUTION and then skin them alive. ~~~ After that the tortured animals are tossed on a pile to AGONIZE IN EXCRUTIATING PAIN. ~~~ This is all LEGAL in China. ~~~ In S.E. Asian countries with animal welfare laws, they are not enforced. ~~~ The West buys these furs because they are classified as belonging to "RACOON DOGS" (relatives of dogs) and not to dogs.. ~~~ PETITIONS are not enough. ~~~ The fur trade in the West must be stopped altogether. ~~~ CLICK ON IMAGE to read story and see heartbreaking photos and VIDEO from inside a Chinese fur farm.

THE MAGIC AND MYSTERY OF CAVES

IT ALL STARTED WITH A MEATBALL

Arthur was a stray dog who decided to join a European Peak Performance Team during their treck through the jungle in South America. It all started when one of the members gave him a meatball. From then on Arthur followed them through all kinds of challenges. In the end his loyalty, bravery and devotion paid off. He was first accepted as the fifth member of the team, and later adopted and flown to Sweden to live with a loving family in a forever home. CLICK on the image to read this moving and amazing story.

PLEASE PROTEST THE POACHING OF PRECIOUS WILDLIFE

HOW THE ISSUE OF ABORTION DEFINES OUR SOCIETY - Planned Parenthood caught selling baby body parts

In July 2015 a top physician with PLANNED PARENTHOOD was secretly filmed talking callously about crushing babies and illegally selling their body parts. - But it's not only P.P's. fault. US authorities and women rights defenders continue to support P.P. no matter what, and so far there has been no effort to charge them with an ILLEGAL ACT. - CLICK on photo to read about this scandal and other related articles, such as aborted babies, along with other medical waste, being burned as fuel to heat buildings in Oregon and in the UK. - Image of a newborn by Joanne Collins

PALESTINIAN ARABS - NAZIS THEN, NAZIS NOW

Their leader during the 1940s, the Mufti of Jerusalem, lived in Berlin and closely collaborated with Hitler and his henchmen in the design and implementation of the Holocaust. ~~~ He also created a Muslim Nazi SS Division guilty of gruesome crimes in Eastern Europe. ~~~ Later he trained Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas to kill Jews and destroy Israel. ~~~ Today Palestinian Arabs profess admiration for Hitler and widely support his genocidal ideology. ~~~ They often praise Hitler, do the Nazi salute during military and student rallies, and display Nazi flags. ~~~ Photo Jerusalem Arab university students rally making the Nazi salute. (Photo Tom Gross Media.) CLICK on image to read more