SATIRE - US GOVERNMENT TO MAINTAIN TIES WITH PALESTINIAN HAMAS BECAUSE JEWS ARE EXPENDABLE

Satire by PreOccupied Territories 

 

Washington, DC, June 14 – Officials at the State Department restated their intention to recognize and maintain dealings with the Palestinian unity government despite the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinians, explaining that by nature, the lives of Israelis carry less weight than those of other nationalities.

 

Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters today that at this early stage of its existence the Palestinian government could not be expected to exert total control over its constituent elements, which include Hamas, an organization the US itself designates as a terrorist group.

 

Moreover, she declared, the threats to Israelis are an unfortunate consequence of the unity deal, which does not call for Hamas to cease its efforts to harm them, but a tolerable one, since the diplomatic niceties of relations with that government trump such petty concerns as whether or not Jews are safe in their own land.

THE ISRAELI LEFT'S PERVERTED AND TREASONOUS NATURE - And how it undermines the security and the very existence of Israel

AFTER I POSTED an article about a leftist Israeli journalist who had uttered crude and offensive comments about Israel to the US Secretary of State, I realized some readers might be puzzled as to why some Jews side with Arabs who hate and kill Jews, and support, and sometimes even join in, their subversive activities. 

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

It all goes way back to the 19th century and early 20th century when persecuted European Jews were attempting to resettle in their ancient Jewish land, then occupied by the Muslim Ottomans, but they faced strong opposition from other European Jews.

But anti-Israel attitude among Jews mostly originates with German Jews from Nazi Germany who sought refuge in what was then the British Palestinian Mandate, and later Israel.  Many of them felt more German than Jews, and sympathized with the Arabs and not with their fellow Jews. (See links below. )  
 

Their SUICIDAL ideological perversion was passed on to their intellectual progeny, who continue to undermine Israel.

 

The original German Jews and their followers have been exerting influence at the highest institutions of the country, such as the Supreme Court,  parliament, art, journalism,  universities and public school education - and have molded political attitudes among the general public, while undermining the security of the country and citizens.

 

It was the world-venerated Martin Buber, an Israeli professor and philosopher, who along with his followers asked for clemency and pardon for Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem, and asked for the court to just sentence him to spend the rest of his life in an Israeli farm instead!  Adolf Eichmann - captured in Argentina and brought to justice in Israel - was a top Nazi who had been in charge of the murder of millions of Jews. 

 

That's how twisted these people' ideology is.  Their family loyalties were always with their European roots.  But fate, the Holocaust, and the devastation in its aftermath threw them into Israel.  It was not easy to escape to the United States or Britain at the time - all doors having been closed to Jews -  so they went to the only place where they had a chance of surviving:  The Palestinian Mandate and then Israel.  But their hearts were with European, not with Jewish culture, and they felt that by siding with the Arabs they would become a little less Jewish and pre-empt the development of a truly Jewish state. 

 

German Jews became the ruling elite during the pioneer years.  They were well educated so they grabbed jobs where even as a minority they could mold Jewish society in their own way. 

 

As university professors at Hebrew University they taught generations of Jews, who then went on to occupy positions of influence in the country.   

Although a minority, the intellectual progeny of those German Jewish professors continued to advocate for the same Arabs who were murdering Jews. 

Even today this influential Jewish pro-Arab minority has the country by the throat, through legislation, court decisions, media, and advocacy groups which continue to weaken Jewish rights and Israel. 

 

Pro-Palestinian advocacy among Jews in Israel and abroad is used as a bleaching cream - making them a little less Jewish.  

This pro-Arab attitude now common among 'progressive' American Jews springs from a desire to fit in with the non-Jewish majority, using their anti-Zionism as a sort of 'bleaching cream' that will remove at least a little bit of their Jewishness.  So they join crowds and organizations that demand the partition of Israel and the surrender of Biblical Judea and Samaria for the creation of an Arab terror state.

 

European countries that either killed millions of Jews or collaborated in their demise love these treasonous and suicidal Jews.  They honor them.  They finance them.

 

They pour millions of Euros on Israeli leftist organizations that cloak themselves with "humanitarian" or "pro-peace" names in order to engage in activities that in any other country would be considered TREASON.

 

Why aren't they charged?  Because many authorities themselves are often sympathetic with those groups and their goals, so they give them free rein to do as they please.  And when they are forced to arrest them and charge them - even in cases of outright treason - they only give them a slap on the wrist and send them on their way to engage in further treason.

MORE HILARIOUS PET SELFIES

Pet owners encouraged to snap a 'selfie' of their furry friends for online contest

Online retailer Buyagift is running competition in aid of Angels Animal Rescue and Wood Green, The Animal Shelter

Proud owners have already sent in a range of snaps, from a dog in a onesie to a pair of purr-fect Siamese cats

 




See more pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655515/Let-Pelfie-Now-animals-getting-snap-happy-dogs-cats-rabbits-Guinea-pigs-pose-pet-selfie.html

More links to animal selfies on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Selfies

An old favorite

THE WEST CHOOSING SIDES IN THE MIDDLE EAST - SHIITE VS SUNNI - OR ALIEN VS PREDATOR

Photo from
http://tundratabloids.com/2014/06/shiite-cleric-issues-fatwa-call-to-arms-against-sunni-isis.html

A rather civilized moment between those two

How about this?

'This is our football, it's made of skin #World Cup': After posting sickening beheading video of Iraqi policeman, ISIS boast of slaughtering 1,700 soldiers
Caution - graphic content
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656905/ISIS-jihadists-seize-two-towns-bear-Baghdad-U-S-tanks-helicopters-stolen-fleeing-western-trained-Iraqi-forces.html

 

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ANCIENT SUNNI VS SHIA HATREDS EXPLAINED

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-vicious-schism-between-sunni-and-shia-has-been-poisoning-islam-for-1400-years--and-its-getting-worse-9139525.html

And how it has exploded today in Irak and Syria

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656734/Ancient-hatreds-tearing-apart-Middle-East-How-1-400-year-old-feud-Shia-Sunni-Muslims-flared-life-fall-dictators-like-Gaddafi-Saddam-threatens-swallow-Iraq.html

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DOLPHINS HAVING FUN - WAITING FOR THE PERFECT WAVE TO SURF

Photo David Riggs - Daily Mail

Surf’s up! Watch this playful pod of dolphins wait patiently for the perfect wave off Australian beach... then surf their way to shore 

Filmmaker David Riggs sent his quadcopter over Western Australian beach

He captured incredible aerial footage of up to 150 bottlenose dolphins

Device has four rotors powered by electrical motor and fitted with a camera

Read more and see pictures and video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657660/Incredible-footage-captured-giant-pod-150-bottlenose-dolphins-catching-waves-Western-Australia.html

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LEFTIST ISRAELI JOURNALIST WHO ONCE URGED THE UNITED STATES TO 'RAPE ISRAEL' has been awarded the Order of the British Empire - DAVID LANDAU is former editor of Israeli newspaper Haaretz, part-owned by German family with Nazi connections



JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

TRADITIONAL BRITISH VALUES AT WORK
London-born Israeli journalist David Landau, a former managing editor of The Jerusalem Post who founded Haaretz’s English edition and was editor-in-chief of Haaretz from 2004-8, is to be awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire). 

Landau, who began his journalistic career in Israel as a 20-year-old in 1967, will be honored by Queen Elizabeth II in the upcoming Birthday Honors list, Haaretz reported Friday, for his services to peace and his contribution to UK-Israel ties.

Read more - http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-haaretz-editor-david-landau-to-get-obe/

This is the kind of Jew the British like

What the above report does not mention is that Mr Landau was forced to resign in disgrace after it became known that he had urged the US Secretary of State for the US to RAPE ISRAEL.

VAST OCEAN LIES UNDER THE EARTH'S SURFACE - Not in liquid form but bound within rocks deep in the Earth's mantle

A reservoir of water lying deep under the Earth’s surface may contain triple the volume of every one the world’s oceans and may even be the “wellspring” source of them, U.S. researchers say.

Although not in a liquid form most familiar to all of us — it is instead bound within rocks deep in the Earth’s mantle — it likely represents the largest reservoir of water on Earth, scientists at the University of New Mexico and Northwestern University say.

PUSS IN BOOTS FELINE LOOK-ALIKE - Real kitty named Dragon looks like the cute movie cartoon

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READ UPDATED REPORT from December 2014
on another Puss In Boots look alike named Marty here:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/12/meet-marty-real-cat-with-sad-eyes-that.html

 

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The real Puss In Boots! Drogon the kitten has the same enormous eyes as the Shrek character

Drogon the kitten born at Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania, in April

Born with the same trademark giant eyes as Shrek favourite Puss In Boots

The black-footed cat is now eight weeks old and weighs just 27 ounces

Famous for his adorably cute face, the cartoon character won legions of fans when he first appeared on the big screen in the movie Shrek 2.   But while the animated version may be based on the fairy tale of the same name - Drogon the kitten, born with the same trademark giant eyes, is in no way made-up.  The black-footed cat was born in April at Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania, and at eight weeks old weighs just 27 ounces.

 

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657035/The-real-Puss-In-Boots-Drogon-kitten-black-feet-just-like-Shrek-character-enormous-eyes.html

 

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GIVE THEM A STATE? - PALESTINIAN FACTION LINKED TO BRUTAL ISIS TERRORISTS KIDNAPS THREE JEWISH TEENS IN ISRAEL - The teens were religious students

 

This comes in the aftermath of the Palestinian Authority political union between Fatah and Hamas. 
The hitchhiking teenagers left their Yeshiva, or religious seminary, on Thursday night and had not been seen since.  Dawlat al-Islam, who have been linked to ISIS, distributed papers in Hebron claiming responsibility for the disappearances. 

Photo - The kidnapped teens

An Islamic extremist group called Dawlat al-Islam has reportedly claimed responsibility for the alleged kidnappings of three teenagers who went missing from the city of Hebron.   The organization, linked to ISIS, distributed pamphlets about the kidnappings in that city.  Israel security services are investigating the claims.

ISIS are the group of bloody-thirsty jihadists behind this week's Iraq insurgency.  Israeli soldiers searched the West Bank on Friday for the missing teenagers, who are also feared kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
UPDATE - IDENTITIES OF KIDNAPPED CHILDREN REVEALED
http://www.timesofisrael.com/yaalon-our-working-assumption-is-boys-still-alive/

ANOTHER PIG JUMPS OUT OF TRUCK ON THE WAY TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE



Escape in South America

A few days I posted a story of a pig in China in similar circumstances.  This news story is about a pig in South America.  Not the same pig and not the same truck, as you can see from pictures and video.

Read more and see pictures and video of South American escape
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656556/A-real-life-Babe-Brave-pig-leaps-moving-truck-way-slaughterhouse.html

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Previous story about the other Babe the Pig who made a successful escape out of truck in China, pictured above on the right:
Click here:
 http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/pig-in-china-jumps-for-her-life-out-of.html

RELATED

PIGS ARE SMARTER THAN ANY OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMAL
PBS Nature
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/the-joy-of-pigs/smart-clean-and-lean/2126/

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ORPHANED CHEETAH RAISED BY LOVING DOG MOTHER

The cheetah cub that thinks it's a puppy: Orphaned Ruuxa is raised with a canine best friend to learn how to interact with humans.

The young cheetah called Ruuxa is being raised at San Diego Zoo Safari Park

It was rejected by his mother and had to be hand raised by keepers

A seven-week-old Rhodesian ridgeback called Raina will be its companion

Raina will help Ruuxa learn how to remain calm around humans 

Read more and see additional pictures and video of Ruuxa and her canine mom and siblings
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656262/The-cheetah-cub-thinks-puppy-Orphaned-Ruuxa-raised-canine-best-friend-learn-interact-humans.html

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SLAVES HARVEST THE SEAFOOD ON YOUR TABLE - Men, women and children enslaved by Thailand-based fishing company

By Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com

 

Wal-Mart and Costco are selling shrimp linked to slavery

 

As many as 21 million men, women and children are victims of modern-day slavery, and a Guardian report reveals how that abuse reverberates throughout the global shrimp supply chain, down to the seafood sold by major retailers throughout Europe and the U.S.

 

Allegations of serious human rights abuses in the South Asian shrimping industry have surfaced before, but the Guardian claims that its six-month investigation more thoroughly traces the long chain of production involved. It begins by connecting fishing boats manned by slaves to Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, the world’s largest shrimp supplier.

"PALESTINE' OFFICIALLY THREATENS AUSTRALIA - over that country's refusal to call Jewish biblical Jerusalem "occupied".

The following article is from Elder of Ziyon website

Australia could face trade sanctions by Arab nations over its decision to stop using the term "occupied" when referring to East Jerusalem, the head of the Palestinian delegation to Canberra warned Friday.

Izzat Abdulhadi said Australia's new stance on East Jerusalem, which was annexed by Israel in a move never recognized by the international community, was a "substantial policy shift."

"We think that it's very provocative and unuseful, and it's not appropriate," Abdulhadi told AFP.

His comments came after 18 diplomats from countries including Indonesia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia protested to Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra on Thursday.

Australia said last week it would no longer refer to East Jerusalem as "occupied" because the term carries pejorative implications and was neither appropriate or useful.

US PUBLICLY DEMANDS ISRAEL - AND ONLY ISRAEL - SUPPORT ITS FOREIGN POLICY - OR ELSE - See record of support for the US by other world countries

I'VE GOT YOUR BACK BENJAMIN

THE US GOVERNMENT'S DECADES-LONG  SHAMEFUL BULLYING OF ISRAEL

 

The United States government knows that Israel is being besieged by the whole world through the United Nations, and threatened by all its Muslim neighbors, particularly Iran. 

 

But instead of doing the noble thing and stand by its ally, the US government continues with its decades-long tradition of bullying and humiliating Israel.

 

US AID TO ISRAEL AS A MEANS FOR CONTROL AND FOR AVERTING ISRAEL'S COMPETITION

DUE TO IGNORANCE OR DECEPTION WESTERN GOVERNMENTS STILL WANT TO IMPOSE THEIR WILL IN THE MIDDLE EAST - Arrogant and contemptuous they try to force Western values on inscrutable and terminally violent societies

Many Americans and their allies gave their lives in Middle East wars believing they were making the world safer for all of us and improving the lives of people in those areas.  They were deceived by their own governments.

ISIS overruns Iraq (photo AFP, Daily Mail)

Experts have written thousands of books on the Middle East and millions of articles.  It's one of the most talked about subjects in the world.  It even permeates US domestic politics.   And it's  always on the news, as gruesome violence erupts daily in the area -  too often spilling into Europe and North America. 

 

Don't confuse our leaders with the facts

We see pictures of contorted faces screaming with rage and hatred against the West.  We read about the brutalities they perpetrate on enemies, and even on their own women and children. 

 

That should make any reasonable Western leader pause for reflection and reassessment of attitudes and policies towards the region.  But no.

 

Our elites doggedly persist in telling us that peace, freedom, justice, prosperity, and the American way are possible in the Middle East - if only people are given a chance.  (There is irony in this, considering that even we have difficulty adhering to our own high political and social principles.)

 

The script goes like this:  if only those people had access to western education, free media, and free elections - they would certainly choose governments that would lead them to justice, freedom, peace and prosperity.

 

The ugly truth is that the Muslim world has been - and will continue to be - a cauldron of violence where everything in society, no matter how small, is ruled by religious and tribal passions. 



Cartoon - Israel Matzav blog

A thriving Palestinian economy will bring peace with Israel, they say. 

The latest US deception is that if Palestinians are helped to develop their economy - a society of peace and freedom will follow.

The economy does not drive those societies.  Ancient traditions, tribal divisions and religious factions do.

 

 

Disregarding reality - the US keeps plunging ahead

The list of US Middle East foreign policy disasters in our lifetime is shockingly long. 

 

If it were not for the issue of oil, the West would have turned its back on the area a very long time ago, oblivious to slaughter and tyranny. 

 
So, what motivates Western elites?
 

Our political elites are not interested in spreading justice, democracy, and the American way in the world.  If they were they would have prevented the horrors that are still occurring in Africa and other parts of Asia and Latin America. 

 

It's still not clear why the US and Britain pushed for military involvement in Iraq.  We know they used misinformation to get there.  But why?  It may all come down to that old dictum:  follow the money.

 

The present US administration has also shown a persistent support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere.

 

The Arab Spring

The Arab Spring didn't just happen.  It was initiated and choreographed from outside.  It did not bring freedom.  It only managed to stir a nest of vipers. 

 

The Egyptian military managed to shake off the backward Muslim Brotherhood. But the US government has turned against the new government, lamenting the previous coup that removed the "democratically elected" Muslim Brotherhood that was plunging the country into the darkness of orthodox Islam.  

 

All the while the US continues to arm jihadists in Syria. 

The obsession with Israel

 

Cartoon - Israel Matzav Blog

What is even more disconcerting is how the United States government persists in demanding Israel's partition to create an Arab terror state. 

 

They know that statehood per se can't  prevent violent strife and humanitarian disasters.   Just look at Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and so many other Middle Eastern states. 

If a tyrant is not brutally imposing order on the population, there is tribal slaughter.  All those countries bleeding right now are independent states. 

 

Western elites know that creating the Islamic state of Palestine won't bring peace to the Middle East, or even to the Palestinians themselves.  They know that it will bring terror and violence in the region, and quite possibly Israel's destruction.

 

But they persist.  Never mind that Israel is THE ONLY Middle Eastern country where Christians, Arabs, women and minorities enjoy peace and human rights. 

The White House,  Europe, Christian churches,  and 'progressives,' are all pathologically obsessed with partitioning Israel because of unspoken malevolent reasons.

 

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DAILY MAIL - Ancient hatreds tearing apart the Middle East: How 1,400-year-old feud between Shia and Sunni Muslims flared into life with the fall of dictators like Gaddafi and Saddam... and threatens to swallow Iraq

 

Sunni and Shia factions have been warring since 632AD disagreement over successor to prophet Muhammad

• ISIS militants - who are Sunni - have been stampeding through majority-Shia Iraq
• But the militants have stuck to Sunni heartlands, where residents are glad to be rid of Shia government forces
• Religious tensions are flaring again now that dictators such as Colonel Gadaffi and Saddam Hussein have fallen
• Rest of the world - and especially other Middle Eastern states - are watching nervously as the conflict intensifies

ANALYSIS by Michael Burleigh - Daily Mail
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656734/Ancient-hatreds-tearing-apart-Middle-East-How-1-400-year-old-feud-Shia-Sunni-Muslims-flared-life-fall-dictators-like-Gaddafi-Saddam-threatens-swallow-Iraq.html

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ISIS butchers leave 'roads lined with decapitated police and soldiers': Battle for Baghdad looms as thousands answer Iraqi government's call to arms and jihadists bear down on capital

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655977/ISIS-militants-march-Baghdad-trademark-bullet-head-gets-way-control-north.html

This is our football, ISIS soldiers say, with head of decapitated policeman
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656905/ISIS-jihadists-seize-two-towns-bear-Baghdad-U-S-tanks-helicopters-stolen-fleeing-western-trained-Iraqi-forces.html

 

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THE GREATEST GENOCIDES - Islam
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-greatest-genocides-in-history-islam.html

 

ISIS Terror Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Was Released By Obama from Camp Bucca in 2009

Read more - http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/isis-terror-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-was-released-by-obama-from-camp-bucca-in-2009/

 

 

ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, 'Slaughter' King Abdullah

Read more - http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4354/isis-jordan

 

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RUSSIAN BOMBERS FLY WITHIN 50 MILES OF THE CALIFORNIA COAST

Russian TU95 Bear - AP - Free Beacon

FREE BEACON - U.S. F-22, F-15 jets intercept four Bear H bombers near Alaska, Northern California

Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.

Read more
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-bombers-fly-within-50-miles-of-california-coast/

And here by the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2655977/ISIS-militants-march-Baghdad-trademark-bullet-head-gets-way-control-north.html

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NASA REVEALS STAR TREK SPACECRAFT DESIGNS FOR INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL

The 100 year Starship Project

A Nasa scientist in Houston worked with an artist to create the concept

The interstellar spacecraft builds on previous designs that theoretically allow distant travel by bending space-time

Called IXS Enterprise, it is similar to the Star Trek ship of the same name

Dr White said the spacecraft could reach Alpha Centauri in two weeks

Warp travel is the focus of Christopher Nolan's 2014 movie Interstellar

Pictured is an illustration of Dr White's IXS Enterprise, an interstellar ship drawn by artist Mark Rademaker that could be an accurate representation of what the first mission beyond the solar system will look like. The IXS Enterprise is a theory-fitting concept for a faster than light (FTL) ship - (Photo Mark Rademaker - Daily Mail)

Read more and see exciting pictures of this project, and the film designs that inspired them
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2655105/Engage-warp-drive-Nasa-reveals-latest-designs-Star-Trek-style-spacecraft-make-interstellar-travel-reality.html
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ADS VS REALITY - DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING - COMPARE HOW PRODUCTS APPEAR ON ADS AND ON REAL LIFE - Advertisers use shoe polish, hairspray, motor oil and other odd ingredients to make products look more appealing on the pictures

Ever wondered why your Big Mac looks so different from that McDonald's billboard? Or why your hotel pool seems overly small compared to its website picture?

A new inforgraphic from Finances Online reveals just how far companies will go to make their products seem more appealing - from replacing actual ice cream with mashed potato for a more solid appearance to using motor oil for honey or syrup.
 

One of the most common examples is advertised images of hamburgers, which show items between the bun to be larger are brighter than they really are, leading consumers to think the food is riper, fresher, and otherwise healthier than it really is.

 

Read more and see more pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2655351/The-art-deceptive-advertising-From-brown-shoe-polish-burgers-hairspray-brighter-ingredients-commercials-trick-buying-products.html

 

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35 ETIQUETTE TIPS FOR DOING BUSINESS ABROAD - Surprising customs even in Western countries

Financial Post - Picking up a sandwich with your hands during a business lunch in New York wouldn’t be a big deal. But in Rio de Janeiro, it could signify considerable disrespect. 

 

That’s because what’s considered “proper etiquette” or “good manners” varies greatly form country to country — and as a professional traveling overseas for work, if you don’t take the time to familiarize yourself with local social customs, you may appear rude and naïve, and you even run the risk of offending those you’re doing business with. 

Though specific social protocol sometimes differs between cities and regions, learning general cultural customs from different countries will help ensure that you’re polite and professional wherever your travels take you.

Examples: 

GERMANY - Humor is not appreciated in a business context

INDIA - Avoid saying no during business discussions.  Say instead "We'll see". "I will try",  "Possibly".

BRITAIN - The British seldom maintain eye contact during a conversation.

NEW ZEALAND -  Diners are for social interactions.  Lunch is for business discussions.

Read all 35 international etiquette tips here
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/11/35-etiquette-tips-for-doing-business-around-the-world/

 

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EXTRA:

MORE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ETIQUETTE TIPS FROM FORBES MAGAZINE

Example:

CHINA - Bring a small gift from your hometown or country to business meetings.Chinese businesspeople appreciate presents. One gift to avoid: clocks as they represent death. Also, do not use white, black or blue wrapping paper.

 

The Chinese will decline a gift three times before finally accepting, so as not to appear greedy. You will have to continue to insist. Once the gift is accepted, express gratitude. You will be expected to go through the same routine if you are offered a gift.

Read more
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/06/15/business-etiquette-tips-for-international-travel/

Useful website
http://businessculture.org/

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INSIDE THE HITLER YOUTH - Pictures taken by a former member

Revealed: Inside the Hitler Youth camps where youngsters were brainwashed to become Nazis, having their heads shaved and standing guard... as rare albums from one cadet go up for auction

Chilling photographs of Nazi group were taken by 15-year-old Friedhelm Huhn during 'Landjahr' in 1938

They show teenagers marching, having their heads shaved and gathering in front of swastika flags

Two photo albums are set to fetch £750 when they go up for auction in California later this month

The Hitler Youth ('Hitlerjugend' in German) were central to the Nazis' plan to create a nation of Aryan 'supermen' by indocrinating children into their twisted racist worldview from the age of 10.
 

The organisation was founded as early as 1922, but it was not until Hitler came to power in 1933 that the group took a prominent position in German society, as it became more or less obligatory for all teenagers to join.
 

Members would be educated in Nazi ideology, and had the genius of Hitler relentlessly drilled into them.
 

Activities such as the Landjahr, where teenagers would spend months working on a farm and practicing military discipline, helped members bond and shored up their belief in the Nazi cause.
 

After the start of the Second World War, the Hitler Youth was transformed into an auxiliary military force, initially attached to unites such as the fire brigade and postal service.
 

Later in the war, with Germany suffering increasingly devastating losses, teenagers began fighting on the front line as part of their own SS division.
 

Hundreds of boys as young as 12 helped form the last line of defence when Berlin was besieged by the Allied forces, and most were killed by the Soviet troops who entered the city.
 

Perhaps the best-known member of the Hitler Youth is Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who was forced to join the movement but refused to attend meetings due to his family's anti-Nazi views.

 

Read more and see additional pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558424/Inside-Hitler-Youth-camps-youngsters-brainwashed-Nazis.html

RELATED

Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, also belonged to the Hitler Youth
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/13/benedict-xvi-haunted-by-nazi-past/

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US ARCHBISHOP SAYS HE DID NOT KNOW THAT PRIESTS RAPING CHILDREN WAS ILLEGAL - And Pope Benedict said in 2010 that priests' sexual abuse of children was NOT an absolute evil

Archbishop Carlson (Wikimedia. Daily Mail)

Archbishop Robert Carlson was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul in the 1980s

He has been deposed as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit in Minnesota involving the archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona

In a testimony filmed last month he was asked whether he had known it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child in the 1980s

'I'm not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,' he responded

A St Louis archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal has claimed he didn’t know it was illegal for priests to have sex with children in the 1980s, according to a court deposition released on Monday.  

 

Archbishop Robert Carlson, who was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul at the time, was deposed as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit in Minnesota involving the archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona. 

 

In a testimony filmed last month and released by the St. Paul law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, the Catholic archbishop was asked whether he had known it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child.  

 

‘I’m not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,’ Carlson responded. ‘I understand today it’s a crime.’ When asked when he first realized it was a crime for an adult - including priests - to have sex with a child, Carlson, 69, shook his head. ‘I don’t remember,’ he testified. 

 

Yet according to other documents released by attorney Jeff Anderson, who is representing an alleged clergy abuse victim, Carlson showed clear knowledge that sexual abuse was a crime when discussing incidents with church officials during his time in Minnesota. 

 

In a 1984 document, for example, Carlson wrote to the then-archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis - John R. Roach - about one victim of sexual abuse and mentioned that the statute of limitations for filing a claim would not expire for more than two years. 

 

He also wrote that the parents of the victim were considering reporting the incident to the police.  Carlson’s role at the time was to investigate abuse claims. He admitted in his deposition that he never personally went to police, even when a clergy member admitted to inappropriate behavior.  

 

In the testimony, Carlson responded 193 times that he did not recall abuse-related conversations from the 1980s to mid-1990s.   Carlson also said that even in 1996 he did not know that pedophilia was a disorder that couldn’t be cured.  “I did not know that, but as a pastor, I was becoming increasingly concerned,” Carlson said.

 

Carlson left the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1994, and eventually became St. Louis archbishop in 2009.  The Archdiocese of St. Louis said in a statement on Monday that Carlson had given testimony ‘several times many years ago’ about the same allegations. 

 

‘In this most recent deposition, while not being able to recall his knowledge of the law exactly as it was many decades ago, the Archbishop did make clear that he knows child sex abuse is a crime today,’ the statement said.  ‘The question does not address the Archbishop’s moral stance on the sin of pedophilia, which has been that it is a most egregious offense.’  The trial against the Twin Cities archdiocese is set to begin in September.

 

Article source -  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654529/Archbishop-quizzed-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-claims-didnt-know-illegal-priests-sex-children-1980s.html

 

 

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December 2010 - Victims of clerical abuse reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s … (he) also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society. “It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than’. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

 

Read more – http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popersquos-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-15035449.html

 

Pope Benedict XVI was also a member of the Hitler Youth during the Nazi years.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/13/benedict-xvi-haunted-by-nazi-past/

 

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Vatican policies allowed priests to rape children  - http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-n-report-vatican-policies-allowed-priests-rape-children-n22531

 

United Nations scathing report on Vatican inaction and coverup of decades of priests abuse of children - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-scathing-report-against-vatican-for.html

 

United Nations committee on torture questions Vatican representative on clergy widespread abuse of children - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/vatican-delegate-questioned-by-united.html

 

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