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Saturday, May 14, 2016

MOTHER GOOSE INSISTENTLY PLEADS POLICE OFFICER FOR HELP - She kept pecking and pecking the officer. When he followed her, he found a baby goose tangled up in a balloon string. The officer freed the little gosling, who walked happily away with his mom

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When you’re in trouble, call the police. It’s something we’re all taught since childhood, but it seems even animals know to seek out the boys in blue when danger approaches.

Officer James Givens was on patrol in a parking lot when a distressed goose approached him and wouldn’t leave him alone.
 
“This goose came up and started pecking on the side of the car,” Givens told The Dodo.
 
“I threw some food out for her, but she didn’t take it. She just kept pecking and quacking.” The goose kept looking at Givens so he decided to follow her.
 
“She led me about 100 yards away to this grassy area near a creek. That’s when I saw one of her babies all tangled up in some string from a balloon. His little feet were kicking,” said Givens. “She led me straight to him.”
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Givens’s colleague officer Cecilia Charron, from the Cincinnati Police Department, volunteered to help with the trapped gosling and untangled the baby.
 
“The mother goose just watched, like she knew,” said Givens. Once free, the gosling was reunited with his mother.
The string was tied to a Mother’s Day balloon among some of the litter near Mill Creek.

Givens shot video on his cellphone. He and Specialist Cecilia Charron called the SPCA, but no one was immediately available to come out. So Charron took matters into her own hands.

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Friday, May 13, 2016

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL - OBAMA ADVISER BEN RHODES ADMITS THE WHITE HOUSE SOLD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC A PACK OF LIES - He also admits the US media acts as an "echo chamber" for the White House narrative


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Obama adviser admits public was 'misled'
 on Iran nuclear talks., and that the media acted as an echo chamber for the president

US policy on Israel is generally mired in invented narratives.  The hidden agenda behind the White House apparent pro-Israel rhetoric (for domestic consumption), is the eventual dismantlement of the Jewish state.  The way politicians, activists, and the lapdog media present the issue is full of fiction which - after being repeated for decades - has taken on the semblance of 'truth'.  

Empowering Iran - one of the White House's top priorities - serves those nefarious purposes, as Iranian leaders and their mobs openly say that they are determined to wipe Israel off the map - by means of a nuclear Holocaust if necessary.

 
The White House and Iran vilified
Israeli PM Netanyahu for his criticism of the deal. 
 
  • Ben Rhodes
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    Ben Rhodes, one of President Barack Obama's top advisers, has admitted that the administration lied about the dealings behind the nuclear agreement struck between Iran and world powers last summer.
  • Regarding the media's support for the deal, Rhodes admitted in the interview that “We created an echo chamber.”
  • Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said he believed at the time that Obama would not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.  Asked whether he would make that assessment now, Panetta answered, “Probably not.”
  • Rhodes dismisses all White House officials prior to Obama as "the Blob" - a bunch of unqualified and uneducated individuals who damaged the United States.  But then came Obama, the hero, to save the country.
  • Rhodes admits that while the American public was led to believe that negotiations between the West and the Islamic Republic took off after the election of President Hassan Rouhani, misrepresented as a “moderate,” in reality negotiations with hard-liners began much earlier.
  • He admits there is nothing moderate about Rouhani.
  • Shortly after Rouhani was elected in 2013, he and Obama exchanged letters, and Obama later publicly reached out to Iran in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
  • In November of that year, it was revealed that a preliminary deal between Iran and the West was made possible due to secret talks that the United States and Iran held for more than half a year and were authorized by Obama himself.
  • Those discussions were kept hidden even from America's closest friends, including its five negotiating partners and from Israel.
  •  The reason for the skewed presentation of the talks' timeline, said Rhodes on Sunday, was to enable the administration to sell the deal to a wider audience.  
  • But he couldn't.  The fact is that 840 U.S. rabbis, over 200 U.S. generals and admirals, and 56 leading US nuclear weapons, arms control and intelligence experts signed other letters opposing the Iran nuclear agreement. 
  • Barack Obama works on a speech with Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications.
    Rhodes and Obama
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    A majority of Congress voted against the Iran deal and when Congress voted on it last September, the American people opposed the agreement by a 2-1 margin and 64% believed President Obama and Secretary Kerry had misled the public about the deal.
  • In eight months, Ben Rhodes can get back to his former life — as he puts it, “drinking and smoking pot and hanging out in Central Park.” And presumably writing more fiction — this time perhaps the honest kind that does not pretend to be non-fiction. The entire world, except perhaps the world of fiction, will be better for it.
Poster - http://lidblog.com/obama-advisor-ben-rhodes-explains-hes-the-ventriloquist-to-mainstream-medias-dummies/

Continue reading, including NY Times interview with Ben Rhodes
And read May 16 update:  Citing "Executive Privilege" Obama won't let Ben Rhodes testify before the House of Representatives

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

HILARIOUS AND ADORABLE CAT EATING HER BIRTHDAY CAKE

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It's funny as a one-time indulgence, but sweets are not good for cats.  And please remember that chocolate is toxic for cats and dogs.
 
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BLUE SKIES AND BLUE FLOWERS - The enchantment of "baby blue eye" flower fields, also known as "nemophila harmony" in Japan

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Blooming beautiful: The park that's been turned so blue by a springtime sea of flowers that the ground blends with the sky 
Visitors flock to the park to see around 4.5million baby blue eye flowers blanketing the ground
 
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Monday, May 9, 2016

HOW THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT ENABLES PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT AND TERROR by allocating them radio and TV frequencies which they use to incite hate and genocide against Jews - Israeli legal organization is threatening to take the government to court

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  • BETRAYAL IN ISRAEL - There has been a trend among Israeli politicians for many decades to allow the undermining of Israeli security and sovereignty.  It would be nearly impossible to ascertain what is behind this. 
  • It is not only the Israeli left that openly advocates in favor of Arabs and against Jews.  Any politician or government official who reaches a certain degree of authority - big and small - seems to come under some kind of influence that makes him support policies that weaken Israel. Here are some examples.   
  • BRITISH TAXPAYERS OUTRAGED at EU spending their money building ILLEGAL ARAB SETTLEMENTS in IsraelThe Israeli government has turned a blind eye to the massive Arab illegal building in Israel on both sides of the Green Line for years!  Arabs build entire villages, the European Union builds Arab towns, all without government authorization and with complete impunity. 
  • But if a Jew dares to build an extension to his house in Judea, Samaria (West Bank) or Biblical Jerusalem, authorities raze it in a flash because, contrary to propaganda, there has been a freeze on Jewish construction for years in Judea and Samaria and parts of Jerusalem.
  • With very few exemptions, Jews don't get permits to own firearms in Israel.  That means that whenever they are attacked by Arabs in the streets or when driving on the road, they are completely helpless. 
  • However, some Arab towns, own actual arsenals.  There are weapon factories in the Palestinian Authority.  Arabs shoot in the air in celebration all the time.  The Israeli government looks the other way.   
  • Although the government will reiterate how sacred Jerusalem is to Israel, authorities have allowed Arabs to build illegally in Jerusalem and expand their control over the city -through construction and violence - to the extent that it is hardly an Israeli city anymore. 
  • Authorities also repeat that sacred Temple Mount - where the ancient Jewish Temple used to be before it was razed by the Romans - is Judaism most sacred site.  However, since Muslim invaders had built a mosque on top (as Muslim conquerors usually do), the Israeli government gave full control of the area to the Jordanians as a conciliation gesture after Israel's liberation of the site in 1967. 
  • Today, afraid of Arab riots, the government severely limits visits by Jews to Temple Mount, and arrests any Jew who seems to move his lips in prayer.   Photo on the right shows police arresting Jew who sat down to pray.
  • The Israeli government funds films, theatre, and various art forms that denigrate Israel and the Jews. 
  • The Israeli government has allowed anti-Semitic and anti-Israel non-governmental organizations (NGOs)  - usually funded by Europe - to operate freely in Israel, undermining the rule of law and inciting Arabs to riot and to attack Jews.
  • Although there is solid LEGAL and historical evidence for Israel's right to the disputed land of Judea and Samaria, successive Israeli governments have REFUSED to even mention this key documentation, or use it in any way to debunk claims that Arabs - the descendants of Muslim conquerors -  have any rights to it.
  • The list of betrayals is very long, and very tragic, because tiny Israel is the last refuge for Jews in a world that is erupting in a new wave of vicious and violent anti-Semitism. 
When you look aghast at the way Angela Merkel's open borders policy is systematically destroying the security and sovereignty of Germany and other European Union countries, you are seeing the approximate European equivalent of the Israeli betrayal of the people by their own governments.
 
Israeli border police officers carry a right wing protester after he attempted to block a road during a demonstrationSo why do Israeli politicians do this?  Some commentators have suggested that leftist Israeli authorities' ambiguous or passive-aggressive attitude against Jews is part of an insidious long-term plan.
 
They say that politicians know that partition and the outright mass surrender of land to Muslims would result in a popular revolt.   Most Israelis no longer believe in the Land-For-Peace hoax. 
 
So politicians cleverly allow the gradual erosion of sovereignty, the ongoing demonization of Jews by the Palestinian Authority, and the establishment of Arab facts on the ground, hoping that all those factors will some day reach a tipping point when Jews will no longer hold control of the situation, and Israel's defeat by a thousand cuts will be a fait accompli.  

This is why they don't seem to mind the massive Palestinian anti-Israel propaganda campaign abroad, and their indoctrination in hate and murder using TV and radio frequencies provided by State of Israel.
 
If you want to follow news of Israeli authorities' betrayal, here are two websites that will completely change your view of Israel, whether you are a critic or a supporter:
 
Israel National News - Arutz Sheva - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
Jewish Press - http://www.jewishpress.com/

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‘Israel, stop distributing TV and radio frequencies to Palestinians’
 
 
         
Shurat HaDin Legal Organization demand government to stop PA frequency allocation due to incitement to murder Israelis.
“It is inconceivable that the Israeli government will continue to allocate TV and Radio frequencies for Palestinians, who advocate killing Jews. In Rwanda, heads of television and radio which called for incitement to genocide were convicted of war crimes, but the Israeli government ignores this and does not take the obvious steps to prevent this,” 
The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, on Sunday addressed Prime Minister and Minister of Communications Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding an immediate stop to the allocation of radio and television frequencies for Palestinians, due to incitement to murder Israelis and Jews.
 
Nitsana Darshan-LeitnerAccording to a letter sent by Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner (photo on the right), director of Shurat HaDin, the Israeli government distributes said frequencies under the Oslo Accords.

However, radio and television broadcasts are used by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to encourage the current wave of terrorism and incitement to murder.

Incitement to murder is a violation of the PA’s commitments under the Oslo agreements, and incitement to genocide is an offense under international law. Shurat HaDin are threatening to take the government to the High Court (Supreme Court) if they do not stop allocating frequencies immediately.
 
The letter further stated that a significant portion of terror in the recent wave of attacks is being incited directly by official PA radio and television, with leaders encouraging such attacks.
 
This was illustrated when Murad Bader Abdullah Adais, the 16-year-old Arab terrorist who stabbed to death Dafna Meir at her home in Otniel, admitted that he was inspired to launch his murderous attack by Palestinian TV. 

 Breitbart
“It is inconceivable that the Israeli government will continue to allocate TV and Radio frequencies for Palestinians, who advocate killing Jews.

"In Rwanda, heads of television and radio which called for incitement to genocide were convicted of war crimes, but the Israeli government ignores this and does not take the obvious steps to prevent this,” said Darshan-Leitner.
 
“US and European Jewish communities successfully fought to close the Muslim propaganda broadcasts on radio and television (there), and only Israel lets it go. The government must adopt a zero tolerance policy for incitement to murder Jews and stop the allocation of frequencies immediately.”
 
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IDAHO IS A WORSE VOLCANIC THREAT THAN YELLOWSTONE say scientists, as they warn about the Snake River Plain in Idaho

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This entire cliff at Snake River Plain would have been formed as a result of a super eruption
 
Eruptions at Snake River Plain in Idaho were “significantly larger” than geologists had previously thought.
 
Scientists from the University of Leicester discovered there were a staggering 12 massive eruptions over the course of four million years, beginning 12 million years ago. 
 
The massive eruptions helped to form the 100 kilometre-wide Snake River Basin, with one of the most powerful eruptions occurring 8.1 million years ago. The eruption's volume exceeded 1,900 km3 and created a 1.3km thick caldera.volcano, growth, supervolcanoes
Yellowstone illustration by National Park Service  - LIVE SCIENCE
 
Furthermore, the Snake River Plain is situated on the Yellowstone Hotspot track, a region which spans from Nevada, through Oregon and Idaho and then to Wyoming where Yellowstone Volcano is located.
 
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ITS NAP TIME FOR A PRIDE OF LIONS - ATOP A TREE IN TANZANIA

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Time for a nap: Several of the members of the pride joined in the collective nap on the branches
It’s a family tree! Lions gather for a snooze amidst the branches at their favourite spot in Tanzania
  • A pride of more than a dozen lions spotted having a nap in the branches of a tree in Tanzania
  • The area in  the Lake Manyara National Park, central Serengeti, is known for its climbing lions
  • The amazing sight was captured n Lake Manyara National Park by photographer Gina Owen, 33, who is from Britain but now lives in Zanzibar.
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Saturday, May 7, 2016

NEWS IN CARTOONS - MAY 7, 2016 - HILLARY AND THE GOP AGAINST TRUMP

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Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy


Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

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Friday, May 6, 2016

ARE MUSLIMS THE NEW JEWS? - VIDEO - Why calling Muslims "the new Jews" is factually and morally wrong - In fact Muslims have a history of violent antisemitism and recurrent massacres of Jews, and were allies with Hitler during World War II

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More Rebel Media videos with lawyer and journalist Ezra Levant
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg?spfreload=5

WHY IT IS MORALLY WRONG
 TO COMPARE MUSLIMS TO JEWS:

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DOGS THAT WORK AS BARTENDERS

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Bartending dogs prove they really are man’s best friend
The service at this London pop-up pub
 is really going to the dogs!
 
Kronenbourg 1664 Bar D’Alsace-tian will have a pack of “professionally trained” German shepherds serving “ruff” draughts for three hours Friday night.
 
“Man’s best friend delivers one of man’s greatest achievements at Kronenbourg Bar D’Alsace-tian: the world’s first bar staffed by dogs,” the Soho bar said of the sold-out event.
 
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ISLAM'S HATRED FOR JEWS HAS POISONED MUSLIMS AND ISLAM SAYS EGYPTIAN-GERMAN SCHOLAR HAMED ABDEL SAMAD - Watch VIDEOS where he explains why Islam is incompatible with the modern world, and why ANGELA MERKEL was wrong in saying Islam belongs in Germany

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Hamed Abdel Samad is the son of an Egyptian Imam, an author and a political scientist.  His autobiography was entitled My Departure from Heaven.  A fatwa (death sentence) was issued against him in Egypt for criticizing Islam, and lives under police protection in Germany. 
 
samad_salim_600The following article appeared on the Bare Naked Islam website:

In a lecture posted on the Internet on March 21, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad said that the Prophet Muhammad had lowered the Jews to a “subhuman level, viewing them as animals,” and he compared the treatment of the Jews in the years following Muhammad’s death to that of the Nazis.
 
“This hatred is poisoning us” and “preventing us from dealing with our problems in a serious way,” said Abdel-Samad, adding that “instead of poisoning one generation after another with this hatred, we should let them learn something from humanity,” in order to enable them to “overcome the barrier of hatred and of fear of the other.” The lecture is titled “Islamic Fascism and the Jews.”
 
Today, Abdel-Samad lives in Munich, where he is married to a Danish woman and works for the Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. The title of the doctoral dissertation he is currently writing is: “The Portrayal of Jews in Egyptian Schoolbooks.”
 
 
Source
 
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AWESOME NATURE - GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER submissions to the Best Picture of the Year Contest

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Backdropped by sunlight, an enormous supercell forms over the town of Blackhawk, South Dakota - leading to flash flooding in the state
Backdropped by sunlight, an enormous supercell forms over the town of Blackhawk, South Dakota - leading to flash flooding in the state

A wooden shed is caught in winter's icy grip on a frigid night on the top of a hill in Lapland, Finland, as the Northern Lights appear
A wooden shed is caught in winter's icy grip on a frigid night on the top of a hill in Lapland, Finland, as the Northern Lights apper
 
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION'S SUICIDE - A baby boomer's lament - Europe, a place of both enchantment and horror - again chooses horror - How Europe's fate is regarded as poetic justice

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By Zbiegniew Zwgstkstwig

I grew up in the post World War II years.  We did not talk about that war during the fifties and sixties, so my view of faraway Europe was initially one of enchantment.  There were fairy tales, romantic cities, great classical music, stunning art, and good pop culture.   
 
Later on, as a visitor to western Europe, I enjoyed just about everything about it.  It seemed to have overcome its dark past of war, hate, and persecution.  Holocaust remembrance sites still lingered as a warning, more than an indictment.  After all, this was a  new generation of people:  peaceful, tolerant, optimistic, compassionate.  Or so it seemed to my youthful eyes. 
 
The other half of Europe was a victim under the Soviet yoke.  We felt sorry for them.  But then came their liberation.  The Soviet Union simply unravelled, not with a bang but with a whimper. 
The eastern and western parts of Germany were united once again, and Soviet block countries regained their independence.   (Ironically, now they want to build new walls to keep infiltrators out.) 
 
Everything was just like the happy ending of a fairy tale.  The evil characters had lost, and the people of Europe faced a bright future of freedom, friendship, and prosperity.
 
But it couldn't last.  The dark forces that have inflicted so much evil on the world were only laying in wait, not gone. 
 
Instead of armies, tanks, or hateful rhetoric, those forces tried honey instead.  Their sinister plan started with something called the European Union. 
 
It sounded so seductive.  Nations that had been at war for centuries now would become one big happy family.   Borders would come down.  There would be full freedom of movement.  Trade would flourish.  Notice the enticements:  freedom and wealth. 
 
And Europeans fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.  Individual countries gave up a considerable part of their sovereignty for the siren call of greater peace, freedom and wealth.
 
Fast forward to 2016.  Having had their male population decimated during two World Wars, Europeans did not get busy making babies.
 
On the contrary.  They saw their peace and prosperity as an opportunity for personal growth and hedonism.  Raising kids would only get in the way of fun and success, so population numbers further declined. 
 
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

DOGS' HEARTS BEAT IN SYNC WITH THEIR OWNERS' HEARTS says latest study on how having a dog companion is beneficial to your health - Being with your dog helps you relax and experience the loving bond that unites you

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Dogs' hearts beat in sync with their owners says latest study to show having a pet is good for keeping healthy
  • Australian researchers separated dogs from their owners for new study
  • They then reunited them and monitored their heart rates for patterns 
  • Both dog and human heart rates fell, and then began to mirror each other
  • Researchers were stunned by how much two heart beats came together
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FATHER LION TENDERLY CARES FOR HIS CUB WHO LOST HIS MOTHER

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Now father and cub have completed their transition into a family unit by starting to spend mealtimes together
  • Touching images show the unique bond between a lion cub and his father
  • Khari the cub's mother died in zoo when he was just seven months old
  • Wallace, his dad, took youngster under his wing and cares for him
  • In captivity male lions tend to keep their distance from one another but in the wild such father-son relationships are far more common 
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