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Monday, October 19, 2015

GOATS WHO LOVE BERRIES DO THE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET TO THEM - See images of goats barely hanging on to argan tree branches in Morocco

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  • North African goats are huge fans of the argan fruit that grows on trees
  • The sure-footed animals scale the branches to nibble on the berries 
  • They leave the hard nuts in their droppings, which produce argan oil


  • Instead of waiting for the berries to fall on the ground, the goats scale the 16ft tree in herds and pick the olive-like fruit from the branches.

    Continue reading and see additional images 

    VOTING DAY IN CANADA - YES, YOU CAN VOTE WEARING A CLOWN MASK after Appeals Court's decision allows Muslim women to wear face covering at their citizenship swearing ceremony - Read about the alleged extreme Islam links of the woman who sued Canada to be allowed to become a Canadian while wearing a veil

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    THE CONTENDERS:
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     (left to right) Bloc Quebecois (Separatists) Gilles Duceppe, Conservative PM Stephen Harper, socialist NDP Paul Mulcair, Green Elizabeth May, leftist Liberal Justin Trudeau.   -  According to polls, Liberals are the most popular, followed by the Conservatives.
    Follow results here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics

    THE VOTERS:

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    "Sorry Sir but without ID you cannot vote"
    Caption:  You can't vote without ID card. (All the rest is OK)

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    See more images, and read about the alleged extreme Islam links of the Muslim woman who sued to have the right to wear face covering at her citizenship ceremony.  She is now a Canadian citizen.

    Sunday, October 18, 2015

    PALESTINIANS SET FIRE TO JOSEPH'S TOMB, a Jewish sacred shrine - Read history of ongoing Palestinian desecration of Jewish and Christian holy sites - When they took over the Church of the Nativity they defecated in it and used the bible as toilet paper - Jordanians used Jewish tombstones as latrines - Palestinian harassment and violence against Christians and terror against Jews

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    Palestinians have torched the Jewish holy site of Joseph's Tomb overnight in the West Bank city of Nablus, as religious tensions escalate

    ON THIS PAGE:

    • Latest Palestinian arson of Joseph's Tomb
    • What is Joseph's Tomb?
    • The October 2000 Arab arson and desecration of Joseph's Tomb
    • The 2011 murder of unarmed Jewish worshiper at Joseph Tomb by a Palestinian Authority policeman, armed with weapons by the USA.  One of several murders of Jews by Arabs at the site.
    • Link to Joseph's Tomb's news archive.
    • The September 2015 set fire to St Charbal's church in Bethlehem, a city under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
    • The May 2014 Palestinian attack on worshipers at a village church near Bethlehem. 
    • The 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Arabs desecrated the place, defecated in it, and used bibles as toilet paper. 
    • What the arson at Joseph's Tomb tell us about the Palestinians
    • When Jerusalem was under Jordanian occupation before 1967, the Arabs used Jewish tombs from Mount of Olives as latrines.
    • Palestinian persecution of Christian Arabs
    • Israeli Christian priest makes speech at the UN stating that Israel is the only safe place for Christians in the Middle East
    • Watch VIDEO of the latest fire set by Palestinians at the Joseph's Tomb compound.

    Continue reading, see additional images, and watch video

    Friday, October 16, 2015

    MIRAGE OR HIGH TECH EXPERIMENT? - SIGHTINGS OF A CITY FLOATING OVER CLOUDS IN CHINA - Captured on video - Not the first occurrence - Can be explained scientifically as a phenomenon called FATA MORGANA, but conspiracy theories went into overdrive

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    CHINESE TV news reports have told how thousands of residents in TWO areas reported separately seeing a huge city form in the skies.

    Thousands of people were said to be stunned by the apparition

    Onlookers, some who are said to have videoed the bizarre event, were said to be mesmerised  as a towering city of sky scrapers appeared from the clouds.

    Continue reading, see more images, and watch videos of this 2015 event, and of a similar sighting over Nigeria in 2011.

    Wednesday, October 14, 2015

    PALESTINIAN IMAM CALLS FOR KILLING JEWS AS MOHAMMED DID - The Religion of Peace has been massacring Jews since its founder MOHAMMED ordered the decapitation of ONE THOUSAND JEWS in only one day - Gaza Imam calls on Palestinians to form stabbing gangs to restrain Jews and cut them into body parts - Watch VIDEO - The myth of 'MODERATE' Islam

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    WATCH VIDEO
    Gaza Imam calls for genocide against Jews: 

     
    Articles:  http://www.memri.org/ 
    Excerpts:
    Brothers, this is why we recall today what Allah did to the Jews
    We recall what he did to them in Khaibar.  
    Today we realize why the Jews build walls.
    They do not do this to stop missiles
    but to prevent the slitting of their throats. 
    My brother in the West Bank:  STAB!
    Stab the myths of the Talmud in their minds.
    My brother in the West Bank: 
    Stab the myths about the Temple in their hearts.

    He goes on to call on more stabbings in order to keep Jews from going out of their homes, thus imposing a curfew on the Jews with daggers.  He says that Jews won't be expelled from Israel.  They will be slaughtered.

    The Islamic military court has made the divine ruling:
    You will get nothing in our land except for slaughtering of stabbing.
    Why? The world will say we are terrorists, that we incite.  Yes!
     
    He calls on Arabs to form stabbing squads, so that some attacker restrains the victim while others butcher him.

    Attack them in groups. 
    Cut them into body parts. 
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    The media have consistently whitewashed the long genocidal history of Islam.  Islam's founder, Mohammad, ordered the slaughter of one thousands Jews, who were living in Arabia at that time, in only one day.  Most of them were beheaded. 
     
    From "The Myths of Muhammad"
     The Religion of Peace:
     
    The Banu Qurayza Massacre of Jews
    

    Detail from miniature painting The Prophet, Ali, and the Companions at the Massacre of the Prisoners of the Jewish Tribe of Beni Qurayzah, illustration of a 19th-century text by Muhammad Rafi Bazil. Manuscript now in the British Library
     
    Muhammad and his band of immigrants arrived in Medina in 622 completely dependent on the hospitality of the three Jewish tribes that lived there alongside the Arabs. 
     
    In less than two years, two of the tribes that had welcomed him, the Banu Qaynuqa and the Banu Nadir would be evicted, losing their land and their wealth to the Muslims as soon as their guests gained the power to conquer and confiscate.  Muhammad accomplished this by deftly exploiting his opponents divisions.
     
    The last tribe to remain was the Banu Qurayza.  Like the others, the Qurayza were a peaceful community of farmers and tradesmen who eventually surrendered to Muhammad without a fight.  
     
    Although the prophet of Islam had been wise enough not to order the wholesale slaughter of the first two tribes following their defeat (which certainly would have stiffened the resistance of the Qurayza), there was no practical reason for Muhammad to repress his genocidal urges once the last tribe had surrendered their wealth and power.
     
    Over 800 surrendered men and boys (and at least one woman) from the Qurayza tribe were beheaded by the prophet of Islam in a bloodbath that is of acute embarrassment to today’s Muslim apologists. 

    Continue reading on the centuries-old Muslim custom of murdering Jews, and on recurrent massacres BEFORE there was a State of Israel.  Read about Islam's history of genocide, particularly in India and Africa. 

    Sunday, October 11, 2015

    GERMANY AND FRANCE RUSH TO TRADE WITH IRAN, whose government swears to destroy Israel while sending weapons and cash to Palestinian terrorists to finance their killing spree - The MYTH OF THE OCCUPATION and the history of Muslim carnage against Jews in the area long before there was an independent State of Israel

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    European industry reaped profits in Iran while Israeli Jews keep dying at the hands of Iran's allies in Israel - The Iran nuclear deal will unleash a major war in the Middle East and it is already triggering the Third Intifada.
    By Giulio Meotti 
    A group of German industrial firms from many sectors including oil and gas, chemicals, cars, health and construction such as Basf, Siemens and ThyssenKrupp, just returned from the second official German business trip to Iran in as many months. At each meeting, photos of the Supreme Leaders Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Komeini adorned the wall. 
     
    Iran and Germany's attitude regarding Israel
    The Iranian willing executioners were happy, since most Germans favor nuclear weapons for Iran, and employ Nazi terminology against Israel.  German public opinion contains once again elements that envision a world without the Jewish state.
     
    Photo:  Angela Merkel's warm greeting for terrorist Mahmoud Abbas, the financial mastermind of the Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes, and now chief of the Palestinian Authority and inciter of terror against Israeli Jews.  
     
    This encounter took place at the Paris anti-terror "Je-suis-Charlie" march where terrorist Abbas was one of the guests of honor.  Europe does not regard the Muslim killing of Jews as terror.  The march organizers had asked the Israeli PM not to attend because his presence would make them uncomfortable -  although the Muslim terror spree in Paris included the murder of several Jews at a Kosher deli.  The march was not about the murdered Jews, but about the "Charlie Hebdo" cartoonists massacred by Muslims.
     
    To Germany Israeli lives don't seem to matter

    Youngest victim in the Fogel
    family massacre - Throat slashed. 
    Muslim murderer said he was
     "proud" of what he did
    Germany’s State TV reported about the massacre in Israel of the Fogel family (parents and three small children) by Muslim Arabs, who slashed their throat and stabbed their heart - by writing: “Five dead after attack on settler family”.
     
    ("Settler" is a pejorative enemies of Israel use instead of  "sub-human".  -  BUT HOW can Jews be "settlers" when they have a history of thousands of years on that same land?)  
     
    The Basf chemical industry, which now is dribbling at the thought of returning to Teheran, was formed out of the assets of IG Farben in 1952, the same company that produced the pesticide Zyklon B for the gas chambers.

    French FM Fabius with
    Iranian FM - Let's trade
    France also eager to trade with Iran. 70 to 80 top executives of France’s largest companies also visited Iran in September.  Peugeot, France’s premier car company, will build cars with the Iranian auto company Khodro and transfer French technology. Can we resume the French past of traitorous Vichy for them? 
     
    During those very same days of trade talks success, Iran’s Khamenei proclaimed that Israel “won’t exist in 25 years” (and Iranian leaders have repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the map).
     
    Rabbi Eitam Henkin and Naama Henkin
    Murdered
    for being Jews
    Europe trades with Iran - Iran funds terror in Israel - A Hamas terror cell  recently killed Rabbi Eitan Henkins and his wife Naama near Itamar (in front of their four young children, who may not have been seen by the Muslim terrorists in their rush to escape).
     
    Israeli intelligence declared that Iran has been sending suitcases full of money over the past two months to the military wing of Hamas in Israel.
     
    Continue reading, including an in-depth article on how and why Europe is rushing to trade with Iran, a country advocating the genocide of Jews in Israel, and an article debunking the myth of Israeli occupation.  Also see links to the dark NAZI past of current German industries, when they profited from slave labor, and how Germany sold poison gas to Syria's Assad for use against its enemies, one of them being Israel.

    Friday, October 9, 2015

    HILARIOUS WILDLIFE clowning around or caught in very embarrassing moments - The 2015 COMEDIC WILDLIFE AWARDS - Who can get the funniest animal pictures

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  • The competition has received 1,502 entries from wildlife snappers based in 52 countries worldwide 
  • The victor will win a one-week photographic safari in southern Tanzania for them and a guest with return flights

  • An embarrassed seal, a dancing sifaka and a laughing goat: The short list for the Comedy


    How rude! This gorilla appears to be making an obscene gesture at the photographer, Gil Gofer. She captured the moment in Uganda's Kibale Forest 
    How rude! This gorilla appears to be making an obscene gesture at the photographer, Gil Gofer. She captured the moment in Uganda's Kibale Forest 

    The victor will win a one-week photographic safari in southern Tanzania for them and a guest with return flights, and a Nikon D750 camera
    KUNG FU DUCKLING - WATCH OUT!

    Continue reading and see more hilarious animal images

    HALLUCINATING WHILE IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT - Caused by heavy sedation and physical restraints, the devastating mental and physical effects of POST INTENSIVE CARE SYNDROME linger long after discharge from hospital. They include depression, false memories, fatigue, and mental impairment similar to early Alzheimer's

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    • Fotolia
      A large percentage of Canadian patients discharged from Intensive Care Unit (ICU) treatment experience something akin to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
    • Patients in ICU are routinely kept under heavy sedation to spare them pain, discomfort, and the subsequent memory of their difficult experience.
    • Heavy sedation also makes patients easier for the medical and nursing staff to handle.
    • But overuse of sedation and physical restraints make patients feel as if they’re being imprisoned or tortured, and the experience can unleash long-lasting psychological trauma and physical ailments.
    • Patients experience horrific hallucinations of violence and victimization, including rape, and these imagined episodes remain on their minds as false memories.
    • Post-Intensive Care Syndrome includes devastating muscle weakness, cognitive dysfunction similar to early Alzheimer’s disease or traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression and full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder.
    • While much money is being invested in ICU technology and care, once patients are discharged they are left to deal with their mental trauma on their own.
    • Read the case of one particular former patient, an academic, who has made it her life's work to speak to medical conferences around the world about this particular subject.
    Continue reading entire article

    Thursday, October 8, 2015

    HOUSE CAT "KIWI" REACTS WITH UTTER SHOCK WHEN HE GOES OUTSIDE FOR THE FIRST TIME

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     WHAT THE.... ?????
     
    Read more about Kiwi's first day outdoors, and see more images of this cat with an amazing personality.

    MUSLIM TERROR ONSLAUGHT AGAINST JEWS IN ISRAEL - Timeline of eight days of murder and widespread violence - Writer David Wilder denounces government policies that consistently allow Arabs to murder Jews

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    By Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva
    Israel National News

    Worse than Arab terror is the consistently appeasing attitude of the Israeli government that thinks that allowing Muslim terror gangs to run unimpeded in Jerusalem and all over the country - instead of arresting them - will prevent Arab violence from escalating even more.   
    Perfect for smashing car windshields
    and murdering Jews
    So as more innocent Jews are slaughtered, the government continues to make  repeated promises "to get tough" on terror, while in fact doing what only amounts to nothing but theatrics - token and temporary security measures to calm down the increasingly traumatized Jewish population.   
     
    Muslim terror in Israel has been going on for decades.  Babies, students, rabbis, men and women of all ages are wounded or murdered at the hands of Muslims by means of stabbings, gunshots, rocks, firebombs, or by being deliberately run over by a car.  In response to each attack the government repeats its promise to get tough on terror.

    But the government actual policy centers on appeasing Arabs while intimidating and silencing Jews who dare to object to terror, and even those who defend themselves from terror.
    Sh'ma on the Temple Mount
     WATCH VIDEO BY CLICKING HERE

    In addition, the government breaks the law by ordering the arrest of Jews who LEGALLY try to pray at their most sacred site, ancient Temple Mount, just because the Jewish presence  near a mosque built on the site by the Muslim conqueror offends Islamic sensitivities.  

    Photo on the right shows Israeli police pouncing within seconds on a Jew who stopped to quietly pray at Temple Mount.


    Temple Mount is the focus of violent Muslim attacks on Jewish worshipers and on police.  But if a Jew dares to pray, he or she gets immediately arrested. 

    UPDATE OCTOBER 9
    Jews peacefully march against terror.  Muslims attack and injure Jews.  Police arrest Jews for just being there, leaves Muslim aggressors alone.  Typical procedure.
    Four people - three adults and a 15 year-old - were arrested in Kiryat Arba on Friday afternoon, during a protest march over the stabbing attack earlier in the day in the area, according to legal rights group Honenu. 
    According to the report, at least one of the detainees was injured in a rock-throwing attack by Palestinian Arabs staging a counter-protest at the site. Israel Police apparently arrested Jewish protestors at the site, but not the Arab rock throwers.
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/201661
    http://honenu.org/
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    David Wilder is one of many writers and community leaders who denounce the Israeli government policy of appeasement.  He lives in the besieged community of Hebron, a town with a long Biblical history, now mostly under Palestinian Authority.  PM Netanyahu gifted this important part of the Jewish heartland to the Arabs.    Here is his abridged column.
     
     
    Why do Arabs keep killing Jews?
     
    By David Wilder
     
    The most probable answer to this seemingly ridiculous question is just as ridiculously easy. We continue to allow it to happen.  The logic is very difficult to defeat.
     
    Continue reading, including a compilation of the major Muslim terror attacks against Jews in the past eight days.

    SOUTH CAROLINA'S 1000 YEAR FLOOD - THE TRAGIC AFTERMATH IN IMAGES - The situation could get worse - Swollen rivers may bring more flooding - Cleaning up the mess inside people's homes - Children going to school on a boat

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    The $1billion flood: Devastating scenes in South Carolina as rain which killed 19 people finally relents revealing damage to homes, road and stores
  • The record-breaking downpours have subsided, but now thousands of people have to contend with the floods 
  • Initial estimates suggest the floods caused $1billion damage to homes, stores, and roads
  • Columbia mayor Steve Benjamin said: 'I believe that things will get worse before they get better' 
  • South Carolina governor Nikki Haley warned: 'This is not over', as residents try and pick up the pieces 
  • At least 19 people are confirmed dead - the two latest deaths occurred when a pickup drove past a barricade and plunged into water
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  • For dramatic photos taken during the flood, please go here:
    FLOODS OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS - 1,000 YEAR RECORD RAINFALL in South Carolina - But pet owners still take their DOGS out for a walk on flooded streets
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/10/floods-of-biblical-proportions-1000.html
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    Rankin Craig watches as friends and family remove belongings from her flooded home in Forest Acres in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday
    Rankin Craig watches as friends and family remove belongings from her flooded home in Forest Acres in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday

    See more images of the mess this flood left behind

    Tuesday, October 6, 2015

    AFGHANISTAN CLINIC NURSES CATS AND DOGS BACK TO HEALTH amid daily security threats - The charity was founded by an ex UK marine and is now run by a former UK soldier - Animals are then sent abroad for adoption

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    What is puzzling is why it costs so much - £4,000 - to transport each dog abroad.  Other charities doing similar pet rescues from war zones quote similar high costs for transport.  There has to be another way.  Perhaps persuading airlines or military planes to charge a lower fee in exchange for a little PR.  
  • Nowzad was founded by former British Royal Marine Pen FarthingFor a third time too, a land mine had to be defused by the Afghan Army after it was found near the entrance to the kennels although she does not believe they were the target
  • It currently houses 50 cats, 30 dogs and even an injured donkey
  • It costs over £10,000 a month to run the clinic and they accept all animals
  • Once nursed back to health, the animals are sent to new homes around the world, costing the charity £4,000 in transport costs per animal
  • Muslims consider dogs unclean, so they are routinely neglected and mistreated.
  • Afghans use dogs for their sport of dog fighting
  • Dog Atish arrived at the shelter with wounds from battery acid that had been poured on his back
  • The authorities in Kabul have undertaken a brutal operation of poisoning with 8,000 stray dogs on the streets
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  • Hidden behind an eight foot concrete blast wall and approached through a maze of heavily armed checkpoints, it has to be one of the most extraordinary animal clinics anywhere in the world. 
     
    Hero: Louise Hastie, a former British soldier, runs the UK-registered Nowzad charity in  Kabul, Afghanistan
    Louise Hastie with a friend
    But then as Louise Hastie, the former British soldier running the UK-registered Nowzad charity’s remarkable operations in the Afghan capital Kabul admits :
     
    ‘The security situation is deteriorating and it is the minimum necessary if we are going to continue to help the country’s dogs and cats both in their care and in finding new homes, often thousands of miles away in Britain, the United States and elsewhere around the world.’
     
    So many have been helped already - In the seven years it has been operating since being founded by ex-Royal Marine Commando Pen Farthing, Nowzad has helped send more than a 1,000 dogs – the majority to UK and the US – to live with service men and women who befriended them on remote bases, towns and cities across Afghanistan while fighting the Taliban.
     
    A further 1,000 have been transported across the world as far away as Australia, South Africa and Canada to be reunited with diplomats, aid workers and civilian contractors who found they could not leave the so-called dogs of war behind when they returned home. 
     In the seven years it has been operating since being founded by ex-Royal Marine Commando Pen Farthing, Nowzad has helped send more than a 1,000 dogs – the majority to UK and the US – to live with service men and women
    Most of the troops have long gone but Nowzad is busier than ever with its specially trained team of four local vets – two women – treating hundreds of animals at the clinic off a street behind the Afghan Parliament building.
     
    Continue reading and see additional images

    Monday, October 5, 2015

    FLOODS OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS - 1,000 YEAR RECORD RAINFALL in South Carolina - But pet owners still take their DOGS out for a walk on flooded streets

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    Catastrophe -  Six dead and hundreds stranded as dams break and cause 300 road collisions in ONE DAY during 1,000-year record rainfall across the Carolinas
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    For new images and an update on the aftermath of the flood, please go here:
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/10/south-carolinas-1000-year-flood-tragic.html
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    Authorities have warned residents not to venture out of their houses, even on foot, unless their property is being flooded. Hundreds more have been airlifted from their rooftops by helicopter
  • Emergency management officials in South Carolina sent a statewide alert telling people to stay off roads and remain indoors unless their homes were in danger of flooding 
  • Tens of thousands customers were without power, thousands have left their homes, and at least 8 deaths have been reported
  • Columbia was hit the worst on Sunday, with officials said 100 people had been rescued by midmorning from vehicles after trying to cross flooded roads - and there were another 200 rescue calls pending
  • South Carolina Highway Patrol responded to more than 300 collisions around the state in the 12 hours leading up to 6am Sunday - and it cleared nearly 140 trees from roads
  • More than 1,200 emergency calls were made as 600 National Guard were drafted in, with another 1,300 on standby
  • Dramatic images have emerged of a helicopter crew rescuing a mother and her 15-month-old baby from the flood
  • Authorities have warned that the repair effort may take months

  • Quinn Hurt looks across Atlantic Avenue as he attempts to cross the flooded street in Wachapreague, Virginia
    Quinn Hurt looks across Atlantic Avenue as he attempts to cross the flooded street in Wachapreague, Virginia

    See more dramatic images

    ADORABLE BABY MANATEE CHARMS VISITORS AT ITALIAN AQUARIUM - See pictures of these gentle but endangered creatures

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    Hungry chap: If mum is anything to go by, baby is going to need to eat a lot of vegetation to give him the energy for all that growing

  • Public appearance at the Genoa Aquarium was one of the baby's first, and proud mum didn't take her eyes off him
  • Manatees are endangered and the baby is the only newborn in the country, and only 10 zoos in Europe house them 
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    Sunday, October 4, 2015

    THE WORLD CLAMORS FOR THE CREATION OF A TERRORIST STATE ON JEWISH LAND - Writer Daniel Greenfield SARCASTICALLY calls the misnamed Palestine "TERRORSTINE" - The real agenda behind the move for the creation of an independent Islamic Palestine

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    You would think that there are some basic requirements for independent statehood.  Such as:

    (1)  That the land does not have a more ancient history of belonging to another nation that still resides on it.  In the case of Israel, the land has been Jewish for thousands of years - although under occupation by the Romans, and then by the Muslims, who invaded it in the 7th century - and there has always been a significant Jewish presence there, particularly in Jerusalem. 
     

    (2)  That they be a distinct culture from surrounding populations.  In fact the so-called "Palestinians" are not ethnically different from Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis, and so on.  They belong to exactly the same clans and families, and the large majority of them came to Israel in the early 20th century looking for work as Jews were draining the swamps and making the desert bloom. 

    It was the Romans that renamed JUDEA as Palestine after razing the Jewish Temple and expelling the Jews.  For centuries the word "Palestinian" referred to Jews, not to Muslims from Arabia that invaded the land in the 7th century. 


    WATCH VIDEO where a Palestinian leader acknowledges that there is no such thing as a separate Palestinian identity, that they are all Saudis, or Egyptians, or of other Arab nationalities.  
     
     
     
    (3)  That they don't already have a country of their own.  There is already a "Palestinian" state.  It is Jordan.  During the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, the British ILLEGALLY partitioned the land that had been recognized  for a Jewish state, and created a brand new Arab state they called Transjordan.  Most of the Jordanian population is Palestinian (the rest is Bedouin).  Even after the 1967 war Arabs now living in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) kept their Jordanian nationality.
     
    (4)  Readiness for statehood.  That even if overlooking their status as occupiers, Arabs might show a minimum of civilized behavior and readiness for statehood.  However both Gaza and the Palestinian Authority are ruled by corrupt and ruthless thugs who routinely and historically resort to terror and carnage to assert their will, and where the population has been thoroughly indoctrinated into believing that all of Israel belongs to them, and that they must massacre the Jews in order to liberate it.
    THE JEWISH-ARAB CONFLICT 4 BASIC FACTS
    The fact that the US and the European Union fund and encourage Palestinian terror is just another sign of anti-Semitism disguised as "humanitarianism" in the 2000 year old history of hate, violence, persecution, and genocide against the Jews.
     
    Map on the right:
    Ancient  and Biblical Jewish Israel. 
    Now the indigenous Jews are characterized as "occupiers" of their own land! while the Muslim invader gets recognition of ownership.
     
    The case of the Kurds -  You don't see any similar interest to give independent statehood to other populations in the world that truly deserve it.  We could just name the Kurds, 30 million of them without a country of their own, although they have a distinct language and ethnicity. 
     
    Kurds have historically been denied a state and the West does not even want to arm them to fight ISIS because it fears they might use those weapons against their oppressors.  The West would rather see Kurds be killed by ISIS than to upset the West's best friends in Arab countries, Turkey and Iran.  
     
    The real Western agenda - What is not always apparent is that this international effort and major expense (billions have been spent on the Palestinians) there is a semi-hidden motivation which is simply to deprive Jews of their land. 
     
    THE CHURCH'S CENTURIES OLD WAR AGAINST THE JEWS GOES ON TO THIS DAY - PART 1Even Christian churches, aware as they are of Muslim persecution and murder of Christians, side with Palestinians because they hate Jews more than they love their own victimized brethren. 
     
    Photo:  Pope John Paul met TWELVE times with his friend, terrorist and Jew killer Yasser Arafat, because of their shared hate against Jews and their desire to see them out of the ancient homeland.  The current pope maintains that same tradition of siding with terrorists and condemning Israel.
     
    Blinded by anti-Semitism, the West is oblivious to the fact that Palestinian demands are only part of a much larger and sinister plan.  Since the 7th century Muslims - who came out of Arabia in violent conquest - continue to invade, demand, impose, and establish dominance on lands all over the world, including European cities.   
     
    Expelled from Christian Europe centuries ago, Muslims have returned claiming to be asylum seekers and migrants.  There are now 52 million angry and often violent Muslims in Europe, and 1.5 BILLION of them all over the world.
     
    Here are some of the points that Daniel Greenfield makes on his fully sarcastic column.   
    • Trying to end terrorism by creating a terrorist state makes is like trying to put out a fire with more fire.
    • The productive, civilized Israelis, who have contributed to much to science and technology and the betterment of this world, must be thrown out of their homes to make way for a Palestinian terror state.
    • Palestinian contributions to humanity include airplane hijackings, suicide bombers, and a culture of hate and carnage. 
    • The creation of Palestine is a ruse for expelling or killing Israelis. Had the Arabs won in 1948 or 1967 or 1973, there would be no Israel and no Terroristine. The land would have become part of Syria, Egypt and Jordan and nobody would be calling for a "Palestinian state".    
     
    CLAMORING FOR THE CREATION
     OF A TERROR STATE
     
    A sarcastic column by Daniel Greenfield
     
    Do we need a terrorist state where the politicians are terrorists, the police are terrorists and even the men sitting at the desk when you come in to drop off a form are terrorists?

    There are states that support terrorists, and give safe harbor to them, but that's not good enough. We don't want another Pakistan or Iran.  What we want is the genuine article.

    Terrorists from the top down. Terrorists everywhere. A state where every branch of government and the entire country is nothing but terrorists.


    Palestinian statesmen giving a press conference in Gaza.
     
    Terroristine has been an ancient dream since 1973 or was it 1967. A generation of keffiyah draped thugs, KGB operatives and human rights activists have looked out into the darkness and called it into being.

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    Teaching them
    to hate Jews and
    to die killing Jews
    It is a vision of a country where everyone is a murderer and children are taught from a very young age that their purpose in life is to die killing people who don't share their religion.
     
    And now after decades of negotiations, treaties, suicide bombings, mutilations, billions of dollars in vanishing into Swiss bank accounts and the death of Yasser Arafat, its Egyptian born leader of AIDS.  Terroristine is closer than ever to coming into being.
     
    Mahmoud Abbas, its unelected dictator, who has struggled long and hard so that one of his sons might have his own cigarette monopoly in Gaza, has come to the UN to promise that Terroristine will have "will actively contribute to the achievement of economic, cultural, and humanitarian progress of civilization."
     
    And who can doubt him? Certainly not Terroristinians who don't have elections or a free press.
     
    Their cultural achievements - Terroristine, whose noble flag (that looks like nearly every other Arab flag) flies over the UN, has done wonders for civilization. Consider the airplane hijacking. The suicide bomber. Has there ever been a civilization that did as much for civilized living as the Terroristinians?  
    Every time you get groped at an airport, thank Terroristine. Without the Terroristinian contribution to civilization, you might actually be able to get on a plane in peace. Or visit the Twin Towers.
     
    The Terroristinian contribution to human progress is unquestionable. But only one thing stands in the way of it unleashing its full Terroristinian potential for all mankind.
     
    Their obstacle to statehood  -  Them. Those pesky Jews who live in that country that is always in the way. You know the ones, with too many Nobel prizes, newly invented tomatoes and microchips. They stand in the way of the great cultural contributions of Terroristine. They must die so that Terroristine may live.
     
    Jews must be thrown out of their homes, village by village and city by city, so that the noble Terroristinians can plant their rockets on the rubble of their houses, the charred remains of their fields, and point them at their cities.
     
    Trying to end terrorism by creating a terrorist state makes is like trying to put out a fire with more fire. It can't work, but we must try. So that we can say that we tried. Over and over again. We'll keep trying until we run out of land to try with. And people to try with.
     
    Until there's nothing left but Terroristines everywhere. Until all the world is Terroristine. The question is can we make it happen? Yes, we can. Oh sweet Allah, yes we can.

    The 1948 Auschwitz borders

    Israel must return to the 1967 borders, which are really the 1948 borders. Why are the borders of the 1948 war, so much better than the borders of the Six Day War? Because the Terroristinians came closer to winning that war. Came closer to driving the Jews into the sea and ululating over miles  of their corpses. 

    But the Arab dream failed. Jewish farmers armed with outdated rifles. Volunteer pilots from America and Canada. Refitted cargo ships filled with half-dead men, women and children straight from the camps. Used Czech artillery.

    They held off the armies of seven Terroristinian nations. Farm by farm, they stood off tanks and infantry. In Jerusalem, they fought for every house. And so the Zionist entity survived.  Jews survived.
     
    The new Arab attempt to win the war by diplomacy, propaganda, lies and terror 

    But now it's back to 1948 again. Every war undone. Every defeat turned to victory. Cut Jerusalem in two. Drive out the farmers. Burn their land. Dig up their graves. March the borders back to 1948. And fly the Terroristinian flag over dust and rubble.
     
    Had they won in 1948 or 1967 or 1973, there would be no Israel and no Terroristine. The land would have become part of Syria, Egypt and Jordan. And only when the mobs of the faithful would drive out the tyrants to replace them with Islamic states, would there finally be a Terroristine.
     
    Palestinian militia
    making the Nazi salute.
    Nazi ideas and Hitler are revered
    among Palestinians
    Watch video below on their
    participation in the Holocaust.
    But despite what Abbas says, there is still hope for a two state solution. And we must do everything in our power to salvage the two state solution so that there will be a state of civilization on one side and a state of terrorists on the other.

    Hospitals here, launching pads there. Schools here, bomb factories there. Life here, death here. We all know the story. Olive trees and bomb belts. Rocks and dead families in burning cars by the side of the road. Children with their throats cut. Parents shot dead with their four children cowering in the back of their car.
     
    A dream. A nightmare. Who even knows anymore.
     
    Why do we need Terroristine?

    Peace. There can be no peace without a terrorist state. Not a chance of it. The only way we'll ever have peace is to give the terrorists a country of their own. A country dedicated to terrorism. Only then will the Terroristinians finally give up on all the killing, and dedicate themselves to medical research, quantum mechanics and the arts. It hasn't happened yet. But it's bound to.

    After decades as an autonomous territory, spreading death and destruction, it's time for Terroristine to finally be recognized as an independent state. With contiguous borders cutting Israel in half.

     
    TWO STATES: 
    ISRAEL SPLIT IN TWO AND NINE MILES WIDE
     AT ITS NARROWEST POINT

    It is the only hope for peace in the region.   All conflicts will end once Terroristine gains independence.

    Would Sunnis and Shiites be killing each other from Yemen to Iraq? Assuredly not. The moment the flag of Terroristine rises above the wounded hills, and its peaceful anthem, "Palestine is My Revenge" is heard in the land, then a great echoing sigh will rise up from the mouths of one billion Muslims. And the violence will cease.
     
    Rocks and firebombs have seriously injured
    and killed Jewish adults and children
    The international community is impatient. They want Terroristine and they want it now.
     
    Whatever Israel has offered in the past, it isn't enough. It must offer more and more. Whatever it takes. We know the Terroristinians want their own state.

    Every time they walk out of negotiations or end them with a round of terrorist attacks, it shows their deep and abiding passion for a state. They want it so badly they aren't willing to make a single concession for it. Or even negotiate for it.
     
    That's how committed they are to realizing their great dream to Terroristine. And who can blame them? Have any people suffered the way the Terroristinians have? (Besides all the people the Terroristinians have killed over the last 1,400 years.)

    Palestinians making a point
    in their own traditional way
    Have any other people been wholly subsidized by a UN agency dedicated only to them? Have any other people inspired such a stylish fashion statement? No more excuses. The world demands Terroristine. Middle East peace demands Terroristine.
     
    How much longer can Israel expect to draw out the necessary concessions with weak justifications about terrorism.

    We know they're terrorists. That's why we're giving them a state. If they weren't terrorists, they could go to the back of the line with Kurds and Armenians.
     
    From one corner of the Muslim world to the other, a cry goes out. "We Are All Terroristinians." They cry it it Cairo and Damascus, in Tehran and Islamabad, in Dubai and Paris. They mosques go up, the asses go up and the bombs go off. And off to the peace negotiations we go.
     
    Everyone is impatient. Everyone is on fire. Especially the Terroristinians. Jewish store windows are smashed in London, Terroristinians butcher Rabbis in Jerusalem synagogues, fuming Terroristinians shoot up American recruiting centers. And the crowds cheer. "We Are All Terroristinians Now."
     
    It is a great day, I tell you. A great day for negotiating. ISIS impatiently beheads infidels to create its own Islamic Terroristine.

    In Afghanistan the word goes out, "We are the Taliban, we are the Afghan people, we are Terroristinians."

    In Egypt and Turkey, they cry, "Khaybar Ya Yahood". Churches burn. Soldiers die. The smoke rises to heaven. A man waits in line at the airport. His passport is Dutch, Welsh, German, American, it doesn't matter. He is a Terroristinian. Yallah.
     
    One day the borders of Terroristine will stretch from Spain to Pakistan. Or beyond.  Why settle for Jerusalem, when we can have London, Paris and Hamburg too.  We are all Terroristinians now. There is no other book on our shelves than the Koran. No law but Sharia in our hearts. And no nation but Terroristine.

    The ghost of Chamberlain stands outside No. 10 Downing Street promising peace. A Terroristinian refugee beheads him and holds up his spectral head to the cheers of the crowd. Rockets sail through the sky. The crowd cheers. Hip Hip Hooray. Three cheers for Terroristine.

     
    VIDEO -  THE INVENTION OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
    AND THE ORIGIN OF THE ARABS IN ISRAEL




     VIDEO - The Nazis and the Palestinian Movement
    The Palestinian active role in the Holocaust

     


    VIDEO - WHAT IS PALESTINE,
    WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS





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