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April 4, 2016

Guinea Will Vaccinate Contacts With Ebola Survivor



A billboard with a message about Ebola is seen on a street in Conakry, Guinea in this October 26, 2014 
File photo. REUTERS/Michelle Nichols

[From article]
Guinea will soon vaccinate people who have come into contact with more than 500 men who have recovered from Ebola, a senior health official said, the first time it has vaccinated the contacts of survivors.
The decision reflects research that indicates Ebola can remain in the bodily fluids of survivors for months. The contacts will include but will not be limited to sexual partners, said Fode Tass Sylla, the spokesman for the West African nation's centre for the fight against Ebola.
"We know the virus can stay in the sperm of a healed patient for a certain period of time," Sylla said. "That's why we want to vaccinate the circles of 501 men, to avoid all risk of spreading the disease."
The vaccinations will begin in the next few days, Sylla said. The centre also plans an awareness campaign to warn mothers who have recovered from the virus against breastfeeding their newborns, he said.
One of three countries at the epicentre of the world's worst recorded Ebola outbreak, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone, Guinea was declared free of active transmissions of the virus in December 2015. But it announced eight new cases last month.
There are 10,000 survivors of the deadly hemorrhagic fever in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organisation.
The WHO said 800 possible contacts of people suffering from Ebola had been vaccinated against the virus in the so-called "ring vaccination" method. That means swiftly vaccinating anyone who has come into contact with an Ebola sufferer and contacts of theirs. More than 1,000 people were under observation.
Guinea will soon vaccinate people who have come into contact with more than 500 men who have recovered from Ebola, a senior health official said, the first time it has vaccinated the contacts of survivors.
The decision reflects research that indicates Ebola can remain in the bodily fluids of survivors for months. The contacts will include but will not be limited to sexual partners, said Fode Tass Sylla, the spokesman for the West African nation's centre for the fight against Ebola.
"We know the virus can stay in the sperm of a healed patient for a certain period of time," Sylla said. "That's why we want to vaccinate the circles of 501 men, to avoid all risk of spreading the disease."
The vaccinations will begin in the next few days, Sylla said. The centre also plans an awareness campaign to warn mothers who have recovered from the virus against breastfeeding their newborns, he said.
One of three countries at the epicentre of the world's worst recorded Ebola outbreak, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone, Guinea was declared free of active transmissions of the virus in December 2015. But it announced eight new cases last month.
There are 10,000 survivors of the deadly hemorrhagic fever in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organisation.
The WHO said 800 possible contacts of people suffering from Ebola had been vaccinated against the virus in the so-called "ring vaccination" method. That means swiftly vaccinating anyone who has come into contact with an Ebola sufferer and contacts of theirs. More than 1,000 people were under observation.
[. . .]
The World Health Organisation announced earlier this week that Ebola was no longer considered to be a public health emergency.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ebola-flares-guinea-plans-vaccinate-contacts-survivors-124902115.html
As Ebola flares up, Guinea plans to vaccinate contacts of survivors
By Saliou Samb and James Harding Giahyue
(Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Larry King)Yahoo News
April 2, 2016

March 31, 2016

Europeans Ignore Numerous Books About Threats to Cultural Survival



Winston Churchill

[From article]
While England Slept is the title of Winston Churchill’s 1938 book documenting the failure of England to counter Germany’s rearmament. Despite the gruesome price paid for ignoring Churchill’s warnings, postwar Europe has slumbered for decades while its cultural dysfunctions have nurtured the jihadist violence erupting across Europe. Last week’s attacks in Brussels, coming four months after the Paris attacks that killed 130, suggests there are more attacks to come. According to AP, 400-600 ISIS-trained terrorists are making their way to Europe.
Europe can’t say it wasn’t warned. In 2002 Oriana Fallaci published The Rage and the Pride, a passionate defense of Western civilization and an indictment of those who appease Islamic illiberalism. Ten years ago Bruce Bawer’s While Europe Slept gave first-hand reports of Europe’s feckless immigration policies that fostered and appeased Muslim radicalism and violence. A year later Claire Berlinski’s Menace in Europe and Melanie Phillips’ Londonistan sounded the same alarms. And there are the dystopian novels of Michel Houellebecq like Platform and last year’s Submission, which link Europe’s cultural and spiritual exhaustion to the rise of homegrown jihadism and Islamization.
An even more important prophet is Bat Ye’or, whose Eurabia (2005) documented “Europe’s evolution from a Judeo-Christian civilization, with important post-Enlightenment secular elements, into a post-Judeo-Christian civilization that is subservient to the ideology of jihad and the Islamic powers that propagate it.” The result is the dhimmi mentality of Europe’s elites, which manifests in word and deed Western inferiority to Islam, and guilt over alleged crimes against the Muslim world.
[. . .]
Islam’s nature, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna wrote, is “to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations, and extend its power to the entire planet.” Fellow Muslim Brother Sayyid Qutb concurred: “Islam has a right to remove all those obstacles which are in its path.” The Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution, agreed: “The great prophet of Islam carried in one hand the Koran and in the other a sword; the sword is for crushing the traitor and the Koran for guidance . . . Islam is a religion of blood for infidels but a religion of guidance for other people.”
[. . .]
As such, the jihadist imperative, despite anticolonial and nationalist rhetoric, was the foundational motivation for the military attacks on Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, and today it still drives the terror campaigns against Israel waged by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PLO. Jihad in the name of Allah sparked the Iranian Revolution of 1979,
[. . .]
Nor has the West been spared. Jihad lay at the heart of al Qaeda’s serial attacks on the U.S. and its military in 1993 (first World Trade Center bombing), 1996 (Khobar Towers), 1998 (East African embassies), 2000 (U.S.S. Cole), and the spectacular carnage of September 11, 2001, as well as inspiring the terrorist murders in Madrid (2004), London (2005), Fort Hood (2013), Boston (2013), San Bernardino (2015), Paris (January and November, 2015), and now Brussels. And don’t forget the torture, rape, and murders perpetrated by ISIS, the latest and most successful example of modern jihadism inspired by traditional Islamic doctrine.
We know the terrorists’ Islamic bona fides because they continually tell us why they want to kill us, in speeches, internet videos, and writings filled with Koranic verses and precedents from the life of Mohammed. Yet despite this evidence, elites in Europe and the U.S. refuse to confront the religious origins of jihadism, settling for the stale environmental and psychological causes dear to the materialist mentality. Thus they continue to chant the “nothing to do with Islam” mantra, as our president did in response to the Brussels attack. “ISIL is not ‘Islamic,’” the president asserted. “No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.” The first two clauses are patently false to Koranic commands and Islamic history, and the third is a non sequitur.
But the most powerful refutation of this common delusion is the scarcity of public protests by observant Muslims against the “extremists” who allegedly have “hijacked” their faith. After each jihadist atrocity there is typically more celebratory ululation and cries of “Allahu Akbar” in the Muslim world than marches against terrorism by heretical “extremists.” There are no “million Muslim marches,” no “not in our name movements,” no large scale Muslim attendance at memorial services for the victims. Yet perceived insults to Islam or Mohammed will produce violent mobs and lethal rampages.
Nor should this surprise us, when poll after poll registers significant pluralities and majorities of Muslims who approve of violence against infidels, and support the implementation of illiberal shari’a law. The latest evidence for such support from “moderate Muslims” comes from Brussels, where the planner of the Paris and Brussels attacks, Salah Abdeslam, was hiding in plain sight in the Muslim-dominant district of Molenbeek. Yet it still took four months for Belgian police to find him, and when they moved in for the arrest, they were met with rocks and bottles from residents who knew he was there and never tipped off the authorities.
That is the reality everyone knows who wants to know. But too many in the West do not want to know, just as those enamored of Soviet communism did not want to know about the gulags and show-trials and engineered famines that killed at least 20 million. Like yesterday’s communist sympathizers, today the sleepwalkers of Europe are trapped in their ideological fever-dreams––fashionable self-loathing, guilt for colonialism and imperialism, sentimental one-worldism, and noble-savage multicultural fantasies. Worst of all, they are crippled by a refusal to appreciate and defend their political and cultural inheritance––prosperity, human rights, freedom, consensual government, and tolerance––created by their ancestors.
The character of Michel in Houellebecq’s Platform (2001) articulates the failure of civilizational nerve that has paved the way for metastasizing jihadist violence. Europe’s forbears, the jaded hedonist Michel muses, “believed in the superiority of their civilization,” and “invented dreams, progress, utopia, the future.” But their “civilizing mission,” their “innocent sense of their natural right to dominate the world and direct the path of history had disappeared.” All that is left is the dwindling cultural capital being squandered by their descendants, who have lost “those qualities of intelligence and determination,” and who exist only for the present and its material pleasures. Like like Michel, they are “decadent” and “given over entirely to selfishness.”
But at least Michel, unlike the sleepwalking European elite, recognizes that this is cultural suicide: “I was aware, however, that such a situation was barely tenable, that people like me were incapable of ensuring the survival of a society. Perhaps, more simply, we were unworthy of life.”
The terrorists of Paris and Brussels agree.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262318/europe-still-sleeps-and-europeans-still-die-bruce-thornton

EUROPE STILL SLEEPS, AND EUROPEANS STILL DIE
And Europe can’t say it wasn’t warned.
March 30, 2016

March 21, 2016

Film Review, Ex-Machina. Will Humans Survive AI?




[From article
Ex Machina, released in 2015 and now available on DVD and BluRay, may be the best movie about artificial intelligence to come along in years. It gives an outstanding portrayal of a possible A.I. revolution in all of its ethical and philosophical dimensions, not to mention what it might actually look like. What I found to be one of the many excellent themes to the movie is how it examines that question as to what is real and what is not with the emerging A.I. technologies.
It shows how the line between the two are becoming blurred and what will happen once that line is destroyed forever. The movie displays in another underlying narrative the role humans are playing in their possible slow-motion suicide by playing God with technology through the advancing sophistication of artificial intelligence.
[. . .]
Nathan feels he needs a third-party to interact with Ava in order to determine if she meets the criteria for being true artificial intelligence by using the Turing Test (named after the father of the modern computer, Alan Turing), in which “inputs from machines and other humans and then having the human try to determine which inputs are coming from a machine and which are coming from a human.”
[. . .]
It points to the underlying theme about the real danger artificial intelligence poses that plays itself out in the movie. In our world of evolving technical “progress,” science is moving to a new form of potential self-destruction after having already created atomic and nuclear weapons.
[. . .]
It is the Hegelian dialectic that’s replaced Christian eschatology, that is, the misplaced idea that man can manipulate the material world in order to make it a better and more perfect one (the yearning for a utopian heaven on earth) rather than living an ethical life in a broken temporal world for salvation in a perfect eternal afterlife. And all of the real and lethal dangers that come with the hubris of ‘man playing God, especially when moral considerations are left out of the equation.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/emex_machinaem__a_review.html

March 21, 2016
Ex Machina -- A Review
By Tim Jones

February 18, 2016

Massachusetts State Senator Warns of Flooded Cities and Towns



Is this the future of Cambridge, MA?

Is now the time for accelerated survival of the fittest? Not to worry. Humans who develop gills and adapt to living under water will survive. Others will perish. One solution is soon available from cutting edge genetic editors. Alterations of the genetic structure of humans, allows adding genes from other species. Would you like a gill on your left side, right side or both?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20160218/NEWS/160216480/?Start=1

Guest column: Planning for more flooding in Cambridge, Allston, Belmont
By Sen. Will Brownsberger
Posted Feb. 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

February 6, 2016

National Survival Requires Restricting Migrants To Genuine Victims of Persecution




[From article]
Everyone recognizes the need for humanitarian assistance to a reasonable degree for those trying to escape from the horrors of the brutality of the war in Syria and the barbarous Islamist terrorism.
While recognizing the moral problem involved, the countries of Europe are confronted with the pragmatic problem of responding in the context of 4.6 million Middle East refugees seeking asylum and 13.5 million people needing assistance inside Syria.
[. . .]
There are three factors involved. The first is the unwelcome straightforward issue of the number of would-be migrants, genuine refugees, from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somali, and Eritrea, who can realistically be accepted by European countries and, to a lesser extent, by the United States. A second is whether those migrants, mostly Muslim, can be satisfactorily integrated into Western democratic societies. Already in 2015 more than 1 million people came to Europe by sea, and another 34,000 by land. A third problem is the fear that some of them may be Islamists or jihadists prepared to cause harm, rather than genuine refugees.
[. . .]
the President of Finland Sauli Niinisto said that migration into European by people, almost all Muslims, was a serious threat to Western values, culture, and identity. It is now clear that a considerable number of those seeking asylum are not genuine refugees fleeing war.
[. . .]



The West should try to some extent to help those refugees who are in distress or who are being persecuted but not those people who are not really in need.
[. . .]
after peace talks in Geneva on Syria had failed and been suspended, the London Conference agreed to raise more than $10 billion,
[. . .]
thirty governors have declared their states would not accept any of the 10,000 Syrians that President Barack Obama had suggested could enter the country, while some of the presidential candidates have suggested admitting only Christian Syrians.
The debate is even more heated among the European countries,
[. . .]
One is that it is simply not feasible for European societies now encountering economic difficulties, to manage to incorporate a large influx of foreigners that would be a burden on resources. The other is the reasonable expectation that the nature of their society would be changed for the worse.
[. . .]
Germany, which has taken disproportionate numbers, was to take 17,000, and France 12,000, but the UK opted out of this quota proposal.
[. . .]
Instead it built walls around the entrance of the Channel Tunnel to prevent migrants camped in Calais from entering it to get to Britain.
One fear has been that refugee camps in European countries may become breeding grounds for jihadists. That has come true [. . .] in Austria [where] young people have apparently become radicalized because of immigration difficulties and their unwillingness to become integrated into Austrian society.
Austria, with a population of 9 million, received 90,000 asylum claims, but many of the claims were by economic, not political, migrants. The Austrian government deported 12,500, and argued that the European Union should stop giving aid to those Middle East countries that refuse to take back nationals whose asylum claims were rejected.
All the European countries recognize that the influx of migrants has caused difficulties in their social, economic, and political systems.
[. . .]



Politically, many of the countries have witnessed the rise of far right and nationalist political parties who call for limits on immigration, especially by those of Muslim culture and religion, who they argue are difficult to integrate into the existing system or even worse may be hostile to it as has been shown by the Islamist violence in Malmo, Sweden.
[. . .]
The [parties] have changed the landscape in European politics.
[. . .]
two factors are relevant. It is not racist to suggest that for practical reasons reasonable limits be put on those attempting to immigrate.
[. . .]
the native population of Europe is aging and declining.
[. . .]
The question is not one of discrimination, but of real differences: educational levels, cultural behavior, religious, and political views.
The Finnish president Niinisto on February 3, 2016 asked the question, “We have to ask ourselves whether we aim to protect European values and people …or inflexibly stick to the letter of our international obligation with no regard for the consequences.” If Western democracies are to survive the answer is obvious.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/realism_about_immigration.html

February 6, 2016
Realism about Immigration
By Michael Curtis

January 29, 2016

Rational Argument On Global Climate Change, Etc.




[From article]
This article is based on a Heartland Panel talk [Dec7, 2015, at Hotel California, Paris].
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations. The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines.
Burden of proof
Climate change has been going on for millions of years -- long before humans existed on this planet. Obviously, the causes were all of natural origin and not anthropogenic. There is no reason to think that these natural causes have suddenly stopped. For example, volcanic eruptions, various types of solar influences, and atmosphere-ocean oscillations all continue today. We cannot model these natural climate-forcings precisely and therefore cannot anticipate what they will be in the future.

But let’s call this the “Null hypothesis.” Logically therefore, the burden of proof falls upon alarmists to demonstrate that this null hypothesis is not adequate to account for empirical climate data. In other words, alarmists must provide convincing observational evidence for anthropogenic climate change (ACC). They must do this by detailed comparison of the data with climate models. This is of course extremely difficult and virtually impossible since one cannot specify these natural influences precisely.
[. . .]
Anyway, any warming observed during the past century appears to be trivially small and most likely economically beneficial overall.

I therefore regard the absence of any significant GH warming as settled; note my emphasis on the word “significant.” Policies to limit CO2 emissions are wasting resources that could better be used for genuine societal problems like public health. They are also counter-productive since CO2 promotes plant growth and crop yields, as shown by dozens of agricultural publications.
I am much more concerned by a cooling climate -- as predicted by many climate scientists -- with its adverse effects on ecology and severe consequences for humanity.
[. . .]
At the same time, assuming that our scheme does not work perfectly, we need to prepare for adaptation to a colder climate, with special attention to supply of food and sustainable water and energy.
The outlook for such adaptation appears promising – provided there is adequate preparation. However, the coming cold period will test the survivability of our technological civilization.
I dedicate this essay to the memory of Prof “Bob” Carter, my fellow-panelist, NIPCC co-author, and travel companion in Western and Eastern Europe, China, and all around the USA. "He died with his boots on."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/climate_change_the_burden_of_proof.html


January 29, 2016
Climate Change: The Burden of Proof
By S. Fred Singer

December 11, 2015

Sole 8-year-old Girl Survivor of Arson Fire Wants To Receive Christmas Cards



Safyre Terry was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames. Below she is pictured in November, 2015 and the above image is before the fire.



[From article]
A sweet little girl in New York has only one wish for Christmas this year and is asking people to help make it more merrier.
Two years ago in Schenectady, New York, Safyre Terry, her father, 32-year-old David Terry, and three younger siblings, three-year-old Layah, two-year-old Michael and 11-month-old Donavon, were in a house fire caused by arson.
She was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames.
The arson still remains unsolved, even though a federal jury convicted one man in November for lying to a grand jury investigating the fire, according to the Daily Gazette.
[. . .]
The 8-year-old girl suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body.
Her aunt, Liz Dodler, told BuzzFeed that her niece, who she has sole custody over, has had numerous surgeries.
'Safyre has had multiply operations, over 50. She had lost her right hand, three months after the fire and lost her left foot in March,' Dodler told BuzzFeed.
'She continues to have problem with her mouth due to the scar tissue tightening up. Her next operation is on January 5th.'
A family friend started a YouCaring Compassionate Crowdfunding campaign to raise money to help assist her aunt with the cost of Safyre's medical care.
More than $13,700 has been raised of the $15,000 that is requested.
Dodler, who is already the mother to four young children with her husband Mike, shared that she bought a tree to hang Christmas cards on for this holiday season, and that Safyre instantly got excited when she saw it.
[. . .]
Since posting the request December 3, hundreds of people have shared in the comments that they will send the little girl a card.
Dodler shared a heartwarming photo Monday of a happy looking Safyre holding a pile of cards that she received in the mail.
'Can someone say GLOWING...Safyre got mail today,' the caption on the post reads.

Christmas cards for Safyre Terry can be sent to: P.O. Box 6126 Schenectady, NY 12306, USA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3351386/Severely-burned-girl-5-lost-entire-family-act-arson-wants-cards-Christmas.html

Severely burned girl, 8, who lost her entire family in an act of arson just wants cards for Christmas
Safyre Terry, 8, is asking people to help make her Christmas this year more merrier by sending her cards
Two years ago she suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body from a New York house fire caused by arson
Her father and three younger siblings all died as she was found next to her father who used his body to shield her from flames
Since her aunt posted the request for cards on Facebook December 3, Safyre has already started receiving cards to hang on her card tree
By Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:29 EST, 8 December 2015 | Updated: 12:15 EST, 10 December 2015


October 18, 2015

Conjoined Brazilian Twin Girls Separated Successfully



Look at us now! The twins sit on the knees of their young parents, from left, Caique Santana and Denise Borges.

[From article]
The twin baby girls, Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda Santana, from Salvador, were born in May this year sharing an abdomen and liver
[. . .]
Now, such is the success of their life-transforming operation, which was led by pediatric surgeon Zacharias Calil, it's hard to differentiate them from any other doting young family with twins.
[. . .]
The latest photographs, taken on the 23rd September, show the chubby-cheeked twins, now five months old, dressed in pretty outfits with clips in their hair. In one shot, baby Maria Clara, who is still receiving medical care in hospital, is gently fed a bottle of milk by her mother. Another pose shows the doctors and nurses who are caring for the twins and includes one of Maria Clara preparing for an x-ray to check on her recovery.
[. . .]
Conjoined twins occur about once in every 200,000 live births and their survival is 'anything but assured' according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
It claims 40 to 60 per cent of conjoined twins arrive stillborn and tragically, about 35 per cent only survive for a single day.
The are genetically rare and always the same sex because they develop from the same fertilised egg and share the same placenta.
'Twinning' occurs either when a woman releases two eggs instead of one or she produces an egg that divides after it has been fertilised.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3253209/Incredible-photos-conjoined-Brazilian-baby-twins-just-days-successful-six-hour-operation-separate-them.html

Incredible photos show conjoined Brazilian baby twins just days after successful six-hour operation to separate them
Twins Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda Santana were born sharing a liver and an abdomen earlier this year
The baby girls, now five months old, were born to a poor family from Salvador and were separated on September 9th
The operation to part them took six hours and involved 15 medical professionals
Photographer Mateus André travelled 260km by public transport to make sure he could snap them again
Conjoined twins occur about once in every 200,000 live births
By JO TWEEDY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:31 EST, 29 September 2015 | UPDATED: 09:45 EST, 29 September 2015

March 3, 2015

Assessing Threat From EMP Attack



empcommission.org

[From article]
Federal agencies that regulate nuclear power stations are rushing to address a potential threat from an electromagnetic pulse attack on the U.S. electric grid: nuclear power plant meltdowns.
The good news is that the issue and proposed fix are easy. The bad news is that there is growing concern that an EMP attack, either from a North Korean nuclear bomb or a solar storm, will occur first.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nuke-plants-face-emp-disaster-as-feds-scramble-for-quick-fix/article/2559982

Nuke plants face EMP disaster as feds scramble for quick fix
BY PAUL BEDARD
FEBRUARY 9, 2015 | 2:22 PM

January 21, 2015

Men Organize For Protection and Survival



Controversial: The online retailer Teespring.com sells two shirts that show support for 'meninism', a movement that opposes feminism



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2918591/Hundreds-anti-feminist-men-wear-controversial-meninist-T-shirts-highlight-difficulties-man-21st-century.html

Hundreds of anti-feminist men wear controversial 'meninist' T-shirts to highlight the 'difficulties of being a man' in the 21st century
Online retailer Teespring.com has sold more than 600 'meninist' shirts in two different styles
The meninist movement is 'a channel for men to express the difficulties of being a man in the 21st century'
By ERIN CLEMENTS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 13:14 EST, 20 January 2015 | UPDATED: 14:47 EST, 20 January 2015

January 17, 2015

Woman Gives Birth, Survives Having No Pulse




[From article]
Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro had gone 45 minutes without a pulse when doctors called her family into the operating room and told them there was nothing more they could do.
A team of more than a dozen doctors and nurses had been working desperately to revive her. But now they'd lost hope that the 40-year-old Deerfield Beach woman, whose heart had given out without warning after a routine C-section at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was going to make it.
Devastated, Graupera-Cassimiro's husband, mother and sister said goodbye to her just hours after they'd welcomed a healthy baby girl. The medical team stopped all lifesaving procedures. They watched a heart monitor, preparing to record a time of death.
And then the impossible happened: A blip of a heartbeat showed up. Then another, and another.
Within a few hours, Graupera-Cassimiro, a human resources manager and now a mother of two, was tugging at the breathing tube on her face and scribbling notes to family.
[. . .]
Graupera-Cassimiro returned to the hospital Tuesday for a tearful reunion with the medical team that fought to save her. She hugged the doctors and nurses -- who cooed over her daughter, dressed head to toe in pink -- and thanked them.
"God had the right people in the right place," Graupera-Cassimiro said as she cradled the sleeping baby, named Taily.
Woman who had no pulse for 45 minutes makes fully recovery; doctors call miraculous
Sun Sentinel, Distributed by MCT Information Services
4:15 PM, Nov 7, 2014

December 27, 2014

Jewish Parable From Bunny


Posted October 20, 2014 8:04 PM ET; Last updated December 27, 2014 1:14 PM ET



Jewish parable from Bunny

http://playsbyjanetstiger.com/Jews_on_Moon.html

[The writer of this brilliant piece contacted me on December 27, 2014 to take credit for this essay. It was posted to a blog on the internet ... 18 June 2009.]

May We Please Have the Moon?
By Janet S. Tiger
          

© 11/15/03 rights reserved


[First few paragraphs]
The Jews settled the moon in 2053, just about five years after the end of the Islamic Wars of the 40s, where the Middle East, and Israel, of course, had been obliterated by nuclear weapons.
The two million Jews remaining throughout the rest of the world – less than 100,000 total in all the Islamic countries- banded together and purchased the dark side of the moon, which no other companies or people wished to colonize.
Great transports were arranged via the 62,000 mile space elevator and the Space Shuttle and every Jew on Earth – including anyone who claimed any Jewish heritage whatsoever – left to go to a place where no one could blame them for anything. The Earth rejoiced – happily rid of all Jews. All friends of the Jews had 'disappeared' and there were huge parties throughout all of Sweden and the rest of Europe, Africa, Asia South America, and North America. (Now known as the Northern Alliance of Islamic States after the United States was taken over peacefully in the elections of 2040 by a predominantly Muslim Congress and President, who immediately passed amendments making Islam the main religion of the United States and the world.)

[. . .]

September 14, 2014

Clueless Politicians Danger To Survival Of Nation


[From article]
The West today is infected with a psychic parasite, the parasite of the radical Left that rose to power starting in the 1960s. Simultaneously, media ownership in the US has become concentrated in a handful of Big Corporations with no visible love or loyalty to the United States.
After politically primitive Persian Gulf nations became obscenely rich starting in the 1970s with the OPEC oil monopoly, the parasite of Islamic reactionary indoctrination combined with radical leftism into a new “Red Black” alliance, so that Europe imported what are now 44 million Muslims from backward political cultures to serve as welfare-dependency votes for the Left.
Recent media exposures show that Pakistani Muslims in the UK also imported criminal habits like massive child sexual abuse, “honor killings,” and ethnic hatreds that the West has not seen since the Nazis. For years the most prestigious “news organ” in the world, the BBC, was literally run by a politically powerful child-abuse ring, led by children’s program presenter Jimmy Savile -- but by no means only him. Estimates of the number of sexually abused children at the BBC range above a thousand. That is only possible in a closed culture that operates by secrecy and blackmail to maintain its power. For years, Hollywood was run by a similar pedophile-and-blackmail network.
New exposures in the English town of Rotherham show another Pakistani child abuse ring with 1,400 young victims. The London Parliament has not been immune to this Black Plague either.
[. . .]
Domestically, “multiculturalism” imposed a massive taboo on the American people, who were no longer allowed to be critical of media-boosted “victim” groups.
[. . .]
African-American string puppets covered up the basic truth that African slaves were kidnapped by native chiefs and sold to (white) Arab slave traders in the thousands, to be shipped across the Atlantic. Black slavery in Africa has always been run by Muslim raiders and traders, just as the Islamist gang Boko Haram in Nigeria today specializes in kidnapping hundreds of children from their homes to sell into sexual slavery. African Americans can see on their television screens precisely what happened to their ancestors -- and nobody seems to say a word about it.
[. . .]
Carter, the Clintons and Obama were in tacit collusion with radical Islam, notably Khomeini in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. It was the Ikhwan that assassinated President Anwar Sadat, an extraordinary patriot and the greatest peacemaker in history between Arabs and Israel. Sadat’s successor President Hosni Mubarak was finally brought low by the Ikhwan, with the active and pernicious assistance of the Obama administration.
[. . .]
The United States is therefore saddled with a double near-lethal political infection: The America-hating left, and their Islamofascist allies. These forces are so strong that they hardly bother to lie about their intentions any more.
[. . .]
Constitutional government in the world is only two centuries old, and the US Constitution is the longest-lasting and most benevolent one in existence. Lincoln truly did not know “whether any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” In 1860 the Constitution was only seven decades old.
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Unlike the Founding generation, the generation of Lincoln, and the Greatest Generation of World War 2 our people today are steeped in folly and self-indulgence.
[. . .]
Today we must mobilize our resources for another life-and-death struggle or give in to the forces of barbarism.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/09/the_utter_failure_of_our_political_class_to_respond_to_mortal_danger.html

September 13, 2014
The utter failure of our political class to respond to mortal danger
By James Lewis

May 23, 2014

Tributes To Jews




Winston S. Churchill: "Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."

John F. Kennedy: Israel was not created in order to disappear- Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

David Ben Gurion: "In Israel , in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: "Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth..."

John Adams: "I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations... They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews."

Leo Tolstoy: "What is the Jew?...What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish. What is this Jew whom they have never succeeded in enticing with all the enticements in the world, whose oppressors and persecutors only suggest ed that he deny (and disown) his religion and cast aside the faithfulness of his ancestors?! The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity."

Eric Hoffer: "The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world."

Mark Twain: "...If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and had done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it.

The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

January 3, 2013

Man Survives Fall Into Cement Mixer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254342/Builders-miracle-recovery-pulled-cement-mixer-ripped-chest-open.html

Builder’s miracle recovery after being sucked into a CEMENT MIXER
which ripped his chest open
Shaukei Oliveira, 47, working on building site in Windsor, Canada
Jumper caught on machine and instantly pulling him in, ripping open chest
Suffered broken ribs, collapsed lung and nerve damage
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 14:58 EST, 28 December 2012 | UPDATED: 14:59 EST, 28 December 2012

September 27, 2012

AZ Woman Survives Decapitation in Car Crash

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208351/Amazing-survival-woman-suffered-internal-decapitation-car-crash.html

Extraordinary survival of the woman who suffered INTERNAL decapitation after her skull was torn from her spine in car crash
By ANNA EDWARDS
PUBLISHED: 10:00 EST, 25 September 2012 | UPDATED: 13:18 EST, 25 September 2012