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Showing posts with label Europe - Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe - Spain. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

TORMENTED BULL FIGHTS BACK BY FLINGING ABUSER INTO THE AIR AT A SPANISH SHOW

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Taking the bull by the flaming horns: Shocking moment tormentor gets wiped out by charging beast at Spanish show 
  • The man is flung into the air and down a flight of stairs at a Spanish ring 
  • He had been taunting the animal who stares him down totally unamused  
  • Flaming torches have been attached to horns of the big black bull
Spanish daredevil gets wiped out by charging bull at show 
The moment the man is flung off his feet and down a flight of stairs after the raging beast slams into him head first. He is seen the taunting the beast which stares him down unamused. After a dramatic fall the man crashes head first into the stairs below and tumbles down unconscious. People swarm in to come to his aid as the bull prances round the edge of the ring in triumph.

Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3514048/Taking-bull-flaming-horns-Shocking-moment-daredevil-gets-wiped-charging-beast-Spanish-show.html
 
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

WILD WEATHER AND AMAZING SURF ON PORTUGAL'S COAST AND THE CANARY ISLANDS

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Thrill-seeking surfers ride huge Atlantic Ocean swell off Portuguese beach where daredevil set world record.
 
  • Surfers take on huge waves in northern Portugal where surfer Garrett McNamara set a world record in 2011
  • The site has become a shrine for thrillseeking boarders as large Atlantic swells create massive waves
  • Photos taken yesterday show a group of daredevils catching waves which could easily turn deadly
     

  • The surf is best in the winter when Atlantic winds pick up, creating giant waves along the Portugal coast north of Lisbon. Pictured yesterday is a surfer dropping straight down the face of a wave
     
    See additional images and read about the Canary Islands

    Thursday, November 20, 2014

    EUROPE REWARDS TERROR - Spain - of Inquisition fame - recognizes the terror state of Palestine right after the Jerusalem massacre of Jews - European and American taxpayers subsidizing terror in the Palestinian Authority

    The lower house of the Spanish parliament, the Congress of Deputies, passed a resolution Tuesday to recognize a Palestinian state. The vote came in the wake of a gruesome Palestinian terror attack Tuesday morning that targeted Jews praying at a synagogue in West Jerusalem, which drew widespread international condemnation.
    PA delegate to Spain, Musa Amer Odeh, celebrates vote in Spanish parliament
    The resolution received the support of all political parties.
     
    The support for Palestinian statehood follows similar resolutions in the UK, Sweden, and Ireland, and is conditional on a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.  
     
    Photo shows PA delegate to Spain, Musa Amer Odeh, as he celebrates the vote by the Spanish parliament/
     
    It is merely symbolic--but on a day of terror, is a potent symbol indeed.
     
    The nonbinding text approved by Spanish lawmakers urges Spanish government to recognize “Palestine” as a state, albeit only after Israel and the Palestinians reach a negotiated solution • Wording was watered down due to Jerusalem terrorist attack. 
     
    Still, the timing of the vote alone was brutally offensive.
     
    Spain has the high dishonor of having been the seat of the Inquisition, where thousands of Jews were tortured, murdered, burned alive. 

    Monday, November 17, 2014

    BULLS SET ON FIRE AT SPANISH FESTIVAL - Taunted and tormented, the terrified animal is then butchered. - They say it's tradition - Crowds love it - Police arrest animal rights activists

    Horror at Spanish festival where live animals are set on fire: Protesters clash with police in bid to stop cruel tradition.
     
  • The Joy of the Bull - or Toro de Jubilo - is one of the 'cultural' highlights of Medinaceli village, northeast of Madrid
  •  Every year a young bull is dragged into a ring before its body is covered with mud to protect it from burns
  •  Participants then strap wooden stakes doused in flammable chemicals to its horns, and set it on fire
  •  Fiercely hot sparks and embers drip from the burning torches onto the animal as men torment it to prove bravery

  • Entertainment: This is not some apocalyptic vision of medieval folklore, but the Spanish festival where live bulls are set on fire and sent to charge about a village's streets for entertainment

    Monday, November 3, 2014

    SHEEP TAKE OVER MADRID MAIN STREETS - In protest over loss of grassland and modern farming practices

    Baa-d traffic! Tourist captures bizarre footage as 2,000 sheep herded through Madrid to celebrate ancient farming routes
    A flock of 2,000 sheep are moved through the streets of Madrid as shepherds preserve ancient tradition

  • Farmers claim ancient rights to move their sheep where fields once were
  • 800-year-old grazing routes run through where Madrid now stands
  • 2,000 sheep walk through Puerta del Sol, Madrid's version of Times Square
  • Tourists and locals line streets as performers accompany the sheep
  • Thursday, May 22, 2014

    ISRAELIS WIN EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP - AND THEY ARE FLOODED WITH THOUSANDS OF ANTI-SEMITIC ONLINE MESSAGES - Maccabi-Tel Aviv victory celebration marred by venom of online hate


    Champions Maccabi-Tel Aviv
    Maccabi Tel Aviv released an official response Wednesday to the torrent of anti-Semitic tweets (particularly from Spain) aimed at their Sunday Euroleague victory, saying the team is "shocked" and "disappointed" at the stream of hate expressed in its aftermath.
     
    "Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball wishes to express its shock and disappointment at the hurtful discriminatory comments made on social media networks following Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Euroleague Championship win in Milan on Sunday," they stated.

    Saturday, May 10, 2014

    BROKEN ARROWS - WHEN THE UNITED STATES DROPPED H-BOMBS IN SPAIN - THE ONGOING COVERUP OF HEALTH EFFECTS - THE REFUSAL TO PROPERLY CLEAN UP

    Broken Arrow refers to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components, but which does not create the risk of nuclear war.
     
    How the US dropped H-bombs on a beach in Spain... and turned its back on hundreds of British expats who have been caught in the deadly nuclear fall-out zone.
    By Christopher Morris, Daily Mail

  • Two US Air Force planes - a B-52 and a tanker collided mid-air in 1966
  • B-52 carried four nuclear bombs, three fell over Palomares in Andalucia
  • Non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact
  • The explosion contaminated a 0.78 square mile area with plutonium
  • Sunday, April 13, 2014

    ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

    The following article was written under the name Sebastian Vilar (or Vivar) Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper a few years ago.  The name is a pseudonym, and there is no record of who the real writer was. 
    Barcelona Jewish Quarter


    I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth, Europe died in Auschwitz . . . 

    We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. 

    In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.  The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

    DESPERATE FOR TOURIST MONEY, IBERIA ENACTS JEWISH HOLIDAY CELEBRATION IN TOWNS WITH NO JEWS - THEY EXPELLED OR MURDERED THEM CENTURIES AGO

    Jewish-themed Passover celebrations are increasingly tourist draws in Iberian towns that have not had Jewish populations since the 1492 murders and expulsions.    
     
    In the center of the medieval Portugese town of Medelim, two newlyweds in Sephardic wedding clothes are serenaded by a musical ensemble performing Ladino (Sephardic language) music.  Nearby several members of the knights Templar march in white capes and chain mail while a harlequin on stilts prances around carrying a pole topped with a Star of David. 
     
    The scene may have been familiar to someone living in Medelim 500 years ago, when the town had a large population of Sephardic Jews. But today there are no Jews in Medelim, their memory evoked solely by actors hired to play period roles during the municipally organized “Jewish and Christian Passover,” an annual cultural event held for the second time last month.