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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

WORLD OTTER DAY - MAY 31, 2017 - LET'S CELEBRATE OTTERS!

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Otters are wonderful creatures but they and their habitat are endangered in many places.

http://www.otterproject.org/

Otters are remarkable in their ability to have fun.
They are sociable animals and make excellent parents.

IT'S LEGAL TO TRAP AND DROWN OTTERS IN AMERICA - These cruel, murderous practicesare driven by greed

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.

Body-grip, leg-hold and foot-hold traps are used to catch many different kinds of wild animals who, once caught, can wait days before being found and killed. With otters the traps can be particularly terrifying, since trappers targeting otters sometimes set the devices underwater in what is called a "pocket set trap," so the otter caught in the device drowns as he tries to get free. This can last as long as eight agonizing minutes.

"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.

Continue reading, and see how you can help

ADORABLE OTTER PUP NAPS on mom's belly while she swims - OTTERS make wonderful and devoted moms

OTTERly devoted, this mom protects her adorable pup as they swim together

Nature photographer Suzi Eszterhas, 40, spotted the adorable pair

The southern sea otters were swimming in Monterey Bay, California

The mother lifted the pup out of the water and on to her belly

See one more picture of these lovable otters

IT'S SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK 2016 - California otters are recovering - Otters are good for the environment. OTTERS protect sea kelp forests by eating urchins, which allows a variety of other marine life to thrive

CELEBRATE OTTERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9pZqmn91CE

River otters can also live in the sea. Here on the Vancouver Island coast we see so-called river otters swimming in the ocean all the time. They just don't have that magnificent sea otter fur coat, but they are just as cute and intelligent.

2016 News: New California Sea Otter Census is out: Good news

For the first time, southern sea otters’ numbers have exceeded 3,090, which is the threshold that must be exceeded for three consecutive years in order for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider de-listing the species as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. However, localized population declines at the northern and southern ends of the range continue to be a cause for concern among resource management officials. Read more

Canada and Alaska Sea Otter News: The B.C. sea otter population was downlisted to threatened in 1996. Alaska’s Southwestern/Aleutian population is being considered for listing as threatened. http://www.vanaqua.org/learn/aquafacts/otters-and-pinnipeds/sea-otters

VIDEO - PUMPKIN'S STORY -

Pumpkin celebrates her birthday a year after being rescued as an underweight newborn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5ER2miIUU

The following is from past Sea Otter Awareness Week posts on this blog, including information on how good otters are for the environment - Worth revisiting these adorable creatures:

Pup 696 getting lots of TLC from Monterey Bay Aquarium staffers.

Sea otter mother and pup in the Great Tidepool at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Otters are excellent mothers to their adorable pups

Continue reading and see more images of these wonderful creatures

CHEEKY OTTER BITES CROCODILE'S TAIL - Just for fun - So, how does it feel being prey instead of predator for a change Mr Crocodile?

Startled crocodile is bitten on the tail and chased by a very cheeky otter

For a tiny animal, he clearly has a brave heart. The otter was pictured biting the croc's tail at the Jim Corbett National park in India before chasing him in circles. Despite the angry reptile's efforts to gobble him up, the otter proved elusive. Witness Raminder Singh said the otter 'certainly knew what he was doing'.

See more images of this unusual encounter

IT'S 2015 SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK - Otters are good for the environment. They protect sea kelp forests by eating urchins, which allows a variety of other marine life to thrive

Pup 696 getting lots of TLC from Monterey Bay Aquarium staffers.

Otters are excellent mothers to their adorable pups

Continue reading and see more images of these wonderful creatures

WHAT AN OTTER DISGRACE - UK Otter makes off with a 10 lb salmon stolen from a fishing boat - The fish is almost as big as the thief - Watch VIDEO

Fishermen watched on as crafty otter marches on to their boat, steals huge fish, then drags it up a flight of stairs
Despite weighing at least the same as the salmon, the hungry animal struggles across a pier before tucking in
Funny incident recorded in Lerwick, Shetland, where there's the highest density of otters anywhere in Europe

See more photos of this amazing thief and watch video

OTTERS CELEBRATE SPRING WITH A SLIDING PARTY

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Donna Dooley just wanted to see whether the ice on the Cameron River outside of Yellowknife had thawed when she, her daughter and her daughter's friend went to the Cameron Ramparts for a picnic on Easter Monday.

"We had the campfire going and we were starting to cook bannock and smokies and had sat down by the campfire and my daughter said, "Oh my God! There goes an otter!"

Dooley says she'd hung her camera on a tree branch and scrambled to get a shot as the animal disappeared over the bank. "I thought 'Oh that was so exciting but, aww... I just got a picture of its butt, oh well.'"

But the show wasn't over. Dooley says as they sat, looking out over the river, they saw three otters going in and out of a hole in the ice. Then they disappeared from sight.

"Next thing I know, they were coming up the trail behind us and sliding down!" she says.
For the next half hour, Dooley witnessed a group of otters running straight across the river ice and sliding down the hill into a hole.

"They were peeking at us, running across the snow, in and out and down the trail… It was amazing!" she says. "They were having a good time."

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SAVING BABY OTTER "OTTO" - The orphan had only hours to live when he was rescued by dogwalkers

Otter-ly delightful! Six-week-old baby mammal that was just hours from death after losing its mother is on the mend after being rescued by dogwalkers

Otter was unresponsive when it was rescued by father and son out walking

They took the tiny six-week-old mammal to nearby animal rescue centre

The pup, named Otto, will be released to the wild when he is fully recovered

This orphaned otter pup is on the mend after it was rescued by dogwalkers who found it lying unresponsive on the banks of a river. The six-week-old pup, named Otto, was discovered by the father and son when they heard its cries while walking in Duncombe Park, North Yorkshire, last week. It was taken to the Wildlife Haven Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, where staff will care for it until he is fully recovered and ready to be released back into the wild.

Continue reading and see more images of adorable Otto

BABY OTTER NAPS SAFELY IN THE WATER BY USING HIS MOM AS A RAFT

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Otter devotion: Pup uses mother as raft and has a nap as they float down the water.

Sea otters are an endangered species, and their numbers are declining due to hunting by greedy fishermen and by pollution of their habitat.

Otters are actually good for the environment, as they consume urchins. Urchins devastate kelp forests, thus ruining the habitat for countless other marine species. Wherever otters make it their home, aquatic life flourishes.

Pup seems to smile as he naps on his mom.

The cute family moment was captured by Geraldine Davies while on a sailing dingy in Monterey, California.

Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2926543/Otter-devotion-Pup-uses-mother-raft-nap-float-river.html

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

RESCUED BABY OTTER - Otterly adorable baby otter being cared for at the Monterey Aquarium

A California resident heard it crying while walking near Coastways Beach and immediately called local animal control authorities. The next day, workers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium found her hungry and thin, weighing in at a mere two pounds.

Upon arrival, Pup 681 (as she’s now called) was quickly given food and eventually transported to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, where she was assigned a team of veterinarians and scientists who are working to teach this otter, well, how to be an otter. And that’s no easy task, by the way.

They had to teach her how to float:

And how to swim:

See additional pictures and read updates on her progress - She now has a name and a new home. Also see link to the Monterey Aquarium otter live webcam.

ANTI-DEPRESANTS LEACHING INTO WATER SUPPLIES MAKE WILDLIFE SICK AND EVEN KILLS THEM - Otters with liver damage, starlings dying - Birth control pill ingredients causing severe hormonal disorders in fish

Are happy pills destroying our wildlife? Starlings dying. Otters with liver damage. Cuttlefish driven crazy. How anti-depressants leaching into water supplies are wreaking havoc.

Starlings lose interest in food and sex after being exposed to Prozac

And crayfish become more aggressive when exposed to the 'happy pills'

As many as one in six people in the UK take anti-depressants

While anti-inflammatory drugs are causing severe liver damage in otters

They are reckless, feckless, sexually useless and easy meat for predators. They are even at risk of liver damage.

No, not a new generation of drink and drug-addled youths. This is the wildlife of Britain, creatures whose brains and bodies are being sent haywire by the torrents of antidepressants, contraceptive pills and painkillers that we flush with our urine into the waterways every year.

The victims include starlings, otters, cuttlefish and crayfish. But scientists fear these animals represent only a few of the UK species being threatened by our pill-popping habits.

HELPFUL OTTER RETRIEVES TOURIST'S SMARTPHONE FROM THE WATER

A tech-savvy otter has been hailed a hero after retrieving an iPhone from a pool.

Starsky, an Asian short-clawed otter, dived into action after a tourist dropped the Apple smartphone into the murky depths of a pool at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek, fearing it was lost forever.

But the nine-year-old otter dived into the tank, hauled the brightly-coloured handset to the surface and calmly handed it to speechless animal care assistant Jenny Lewis.

Starsky arrived at the sanctuary in January 2009, along with his brother Hutch. His usual tricks include juggling stones and climbing up his enclosure - although he's normally too scared to come down by himself.

Source - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/tech-loving-otter-retrieves-iphone-pond-4328761

Via - http://www.otterjoy.com/otternews.html

More articles about otters on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

IT'S SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK - SEPTEMBER 21 TO 27, 2014

Sea Otter Awareness Week falls on the last week in September and is an annual recognition of the vital role that sea otters play in the nearshore ecosystem.

Each year, zoos, aquariums, natural history museums, marine institutions, filmmakers, researchers, academics, educators, and the public participate in various events and activities highlighting sea otters and their natural history and the various conservation issues sea otters are faced with.

List of events maybe at a place near you
http://www.seaotterweek.org/#!about1/c1sc4

BASIC FACTS ABOUT SEA OTTERS

The heaviest members of the weasel family, sea otters are also the second smallest marine mammals. Unlike other marine mammals, they do not have a layer of blubber to help them keep warm. Instead, sea otters have the densest fur in the animal kingdom, ranging from 250,000 to a million hairs per square inch, which insulates them.

Sea otters are good for the environment

Sea otters are a keystone species, meaning their role in their environment has a greater effect than other species. As predators, sea otters are critical to maintaining the balance of the near-shore kelp ecosystems.

Without sea otters, the undersea animals they prey on would devour the kelp forests off the coast that provide cover and food for many other marine animals. Additionally, sea otters indirectly help to reduce levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, a prevalent greenhouse gas, as kelp forests play an important role in capturing carbon in coastal ecosystems

Diet

Sea otters eat urchins, abalone, mussels, clams, crabs, snails and about 40 other marine species. Sea otters eat approximately 25% of their weight in food each day to support their high metabolism.

Population

Historically, sea otters numbered between several hundred thousand to more than a million. But due to the fur trade, worldwide numbers plummeted down to a total of 1,000-2,000 in the early 1900s. Today, there are estimated to be just over 106,000 worldwide, with just under 3,000 in California.

Habitat & Range

Sea otters live in shallow coastal waters off the northern Pacific. Their historic range stretched from Japan, along the coast of Siberia and the Aleutian Chain and down the Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California coast to Baja California. Currently sea otters can be found in Canada, Russia, Japan, California and Washington, but the majority of all wild sea otters are found in Alaskan waters. Recent reports of sea otter sightings have also occurred in Mexico.

In the U.S., there are two distinct sea otter subspecies, the Northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) and the Southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis). Northern sea otters are found in the Aleutian Islands, Southern Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington. Southern sea otters, also known as California sea otters, live in the waters along the California coastline and range from San Mateo County in the north to Santa Barbara County in the south.

Behavior

Sea otters spend much of their lives in the water and can dive up to 330 feet when foraging for food. They sometimes rest in coastal kelp forests, often draping the kelp over their bodies to keep from drifting away.

Sea otters are also one of the few mammals other than primates known to use tools. They use small rocks or other objects to pry shellfish from rocks and to hammer them open.

Reproduction

Mating Season: Throughout the year
Gestation: 6-8 months
Litter Size: Generally one pup, but sea otters can give birth to twins

Read more - http://www.defenders.org/sea-otter/basic-facts

SEA OTTER CAM AT THE MONTEREY AQUARIUM

Click here - http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-experiences/live-web-cams/sea-otter-cam

Photo Monterey Aquarium - Saving Sea Otters

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/conservation/research/saving-sea-otters

Monday, June 9, 2014

PETITION TO STOP THE OUT OF CONTROL MURDER OF ANIMALS BY USDA'S WILDLIFE SERVICES, which killed 4 MILLION ANIMALS last year - NO EXPLANATION for the numbers, the methods used, or the reasons behind it - They included 528 river otters, 419 black bears, 973 red-tailed hawks

By Darryl Fears, Washington Post

North Am. River Otters - Wikipedia photo

The massive toll of wild animals exterminated by the federal government as a service to everything from airports to ranches was up again last year.

The more than 4 million animals shot, poisoned, snared or trapped by the Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services in fiscal year 2013 included:

75,326 coyotes, 866 bobcats, 528 river otters, 3,700 foxes, 12,186 prairie dogs, 973 red-tailed hawks, and 419 black bears.

Though there’s a list of animals killed, there’s little data showing the cause for each killing, the methods used and the reasons behind mistakes that lead to massive kills of animals that aren’t targeted.

QUICK OTTER ESCAPES JAGUAR ATTACK IN BRAZIL - VIDEO

Photo David Jenkins - Daily Mail

The incredible moment jaguar leaps from river bank in bid to catch giant otter swimming below - but the slippery creature escapes.

Predator is seen making its way across the top of an 26ft river bank

Fearless feline decided to make the most of its vantage point

Otter managed to slip beneath the mirky water of the Cuiaba River in Brazil

Images were taken by Irish photographer David Jenkins, 41

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A popular picture of fierce otters fighting for territory

Otters pictured battling it out in Gembira Loka Zoological Gardens, Indonesia

Photographer Monica Anantyowati took the pictures while on a trip

Read more and see additional pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362578/Why-I-otter--Rivals-battle-river-war-food-territory.html

More on otters on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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OTTERS PRAYING - OTTER GIVES GOD THANKS FOR HIS MEAL - Or so it seems

Photo Emmanuel Keller

Paws for prayer: Moment an Otter appears to thank God before tucking into meal

With its hands clasped tightly together and its eyes closed, the otter appears to be deep in prayer shortly before it is given a fishy treat.

Pictured inside the Bois du Petit Château animal park in Switzerland, the cheeky animal couldn't hold back his excitement at the thought of some food.

After noticing the Oriental small-clawed otter pulling the amusing pose, Swiss photographer, Emmanuel Keller, couldn't resist catching the moment on camera.

More photos of otters praying

Photo Marac Andrev Kolodzinski

Photo taken by photographer Marac Andrev Kolodzinski who spent two hours waiting in freezing cold weather at Whipsnade Zoo, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, to capture the divine moment.

Read more and see additional pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102539/Dear-God-bring-fish-Otter-looks-heavens-prays-food.html

More on otters on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

AWESOME OTTERS - THEY PLAY MUSIC ON THE KEYBOARD AND THEY LOVE IT - These intelligent creatures in captivity were given the instrument to enrich their environment

Smithsonian Zoo Otters - Huffington Post

They would much rather be playing in freedom in the wild, but that's life. Otters love to have fun, even in captivity. They take things as they come and make the best of it.

Huffington Post - Otters don't have to be the most musically talented sea creatures out there; they just have to be ridiculously cute. In their 32-second musical debut, a cage of Asian small-clawed otters at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., attempt to master the keyboard.

According to the zoo's YouTube channel, the otters were given the choice of playing on the keyboard or just sitting back and enjoying the show. Either way, this is absolutely adorable. As part of the zoo's #ZooEnrichment program, animals are taught to play with their creative sides, engaging in activities that challenge their sight, touch and hearing senses.

Earlier today, the zoo posted another video of Bonnie the orangutan playing the xylophone like a pro — seriously, she's probably better than most human xylophone players. Animal enrichment is also used to provide stimulating environments for animals to demonstrate their species' typical behaviour. And as cool as it may be to see zoo animals doing very "human things," all of these activities are meant to enhance their well-being.

Watch video and listen to them play
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/05/27/otters-playing-keyboard_n_5397978.html

More articles on otters on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Otters

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Sunday, April 6, 2014

MOTHER OTTERS PLAY FIGHT WITH THEIR PUPS TO TEACH THEM HOW TO DEFEND THEMSELVES

You otter do as you're told! Mother fights son in playful attempt to toughen him up

Mother otter and her pup jokingly came to blows. Emmy and Franklyn pushed, prodded, strangled and scrapped in a bid to stay afloat and dunk the other and the whole raucous affair was caught on camera by photographer Sue Edwards, 51.

Read more and see pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597756/You-otter-told-Mother-fights-son-playful-attempt-toughen-up.html

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Friday, March 21, 2014

THE ENSLAVED OTTERS OF BANGLADESH - USED TO CHASE FISH INTO NETS

Free-spirited and highly intelligent otters enslaved and made to work for humans.

Bangladeshi tradition involves harnessing mammals up like reindeer as they chase fish into nets

Fishermen in Narail, 130 miles from capital Dhaka, use the otters to lure fish into their nets
In 25 years the number of families otter fishing has dropped from 500 to 150
Expert Mohammed Feeroz fears that if the trend continues otter fishing will be 'wiped out' within 20 years
The fishermen spend around half of their £150 earnings each month buying feed for the otters
Rivers in the area are now short of fish because of water pollution and overcatching

Read more and see pictures -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585932/Fishing-otters-Age-old-Bangladeshi-tradition-involves-harnessing-mammals-like-reindeer-chase-fish-nets.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