The U.S. mainstream media is barely mentioning the fact that Hamas has been lobbing rockets into Israel for the better part of the day. Firing the missiles from Gaza, the terrorists have been targeting not just southern Israel, but cities as far away as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
 
We here in America have absolutely no reference point to relate to what it feels like to be jarred out of your daily routine as air-raid sirens start screeching. To drop everything you’re doing and head to the nearest bomb shelter. To suddenly be faced with the thought of your own mortality.
 
Here’s a taste of that reality (from Aussie Dave at IsraellyCool) ~

This Was Our Day. How Was Yours?
 
Things here in Israel have been a bit hectic, with over 100 rockets being fired at us since last night. Rockets hit Jerusalem (population approx 800,000) and Hadera (population approx 100,000), with others being shot down over Tel Aviv (population over 400,000) and other Israeli cities.
 
Israel has called up 40,000 reserves, and has hit terror sites in Gaza. And as Brian posted earlier, we vaporized five terrorists who landed on Israeli shores on a mission to murder.
 
Thanks to the Iron Dome and our bomb shelters, no-one has been significantly injured or killed.
 
On a personal note, I found myself in the hospital with my wife this evening, due to her spiking a fever. Given her precarious, post-chemo health situation, I had to take her to the emergency room. As she was being tended to by a nurse, the Code Red alert went off. Since we were already on a ‘safe’ floor of the hospital, we did not need to run off to a shelter.
 
But as the alert sounded, we looked at each other and with horror in our eyes, we both uttered the name of the city in which we live, and where our 3 of our 5 children were being looked after by our live-in help (a necessity for us due to my wife’s health situation). The nurse – who also happens to be from our city – got on the phone and confirmed that the Code Red had gone off there as well!
 
We frantically called our live-in’s cell phone, but no answer. So we called the home phone, and our 8-year-old son answered.
 
“Are you ok, Z?”
 
“Yes”
 
“You made it to the safe room?”
 
“Yes, me and B [our live-in] stayed down there. I am saying tehillim (Psalms)”
 
“What about E and H [our two youngest daughters]”
 
“They were in their beds”
 
“WHAT?! Please put B on the phone.”
 
It turns out that our live-in tried to wake up the two young girls during the siren, but they would not wake up, so she panicked and brought only my son down with her to the safe room. Thankfully, a rocket did not land in the vicinity of our our house.
 
I mention this story because when you read the news – especially if you live overseas – you might not really understand what we are going through. After all, no-one has been killed (so far).
 
And there are plenty of others who have their own stories to tell.
 
Like my close friend who was driving home from work, when he heard the siren go off. He got out of the car, hit the ground and watched as the Iron Dome shot the rocket out of the sky followed by a big boom.
 
This is not some apocalyptic movie. This is our current reality.
 
We are all being deliberately targeted by terrorists bent on our destruction.

 
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Related:
From Elder of Zion ~ WHAT REPORTERS NEED TO KNOW during Operation Protective Edge… if they care about the Truth.

A couple recent stories bolster the case against the climate alarmist movement.
 

Wind Turbines take terrible toll on animals ~
 
Not only are they an ugly assault on rural landscapes, windmills are proving to be seriously unhealthy for animals – and other carbon-based life forms. Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh at Canada Free Press reports on a mink farmer in Denmark who observed bizarre animal behaviors and a five-fold increase in miscarriages and fetal deformities after a nearby wind farm began operation ~

You could argue that we are not mink and should not worry that low-frequency vibrations created by wind turbines are harmful to humans. After all, green energy proponents keep reassuring us that wind and solar energy is harmless to the planet and to adjacent populations. When animals such as minks, cattle, sheep, goats, and horses, exposed to wind turbines 24/7, become aggressive, die en masse, abort their fetuses, some with developmental malformations, and attack their young, it is time to ask ourselves, what are wind turbines doing to the human body? The “wind turbine syndrome” is not just hypochondria as the wind industry and the environmental lobby explained.

 
Animal health issues have been reported world-wide including birth defects, and strange behaviors – even death – due to sleep deprivation. Humans aren’t faring much better ~

The low-frequency sound and the constant thump-thump have caused some people to abandon their homes located in the vicinity of wind farms. Health issues such as sleep disturbance, sleep deprivation, dizziness, tinnitus, and constant headaches in humans have been ignored by the main stream media who is eager to promote “clean” solar and wind energy generation.

 
We should view these problems as the proverbial canary in the coal mine – and dismantle the wind farms!
 
 
NYT: Scientists ‘Startled’ at Great Lakes’ Rise; Another Warmist Prediction Is Biting the Dust ~
 
If they scare the sheeple enough, the “settled science” crowd figures we’ll panic and buy what they’re selling (essentially, a return to the horse & buggy days), so they’re forever forecasting climate disasters right around the corner. One of the latest “threats from global warming” was that “Lake Erie water levels, already below average, could drop 4-5 feet by the end of this century, significantly altering shoreline habitat.” Gasp!
 
That hyperbolic prediction turns out to be just another faux alarm. (And this story is actually from the New York Times!) ~

… after reaching historic lows in 2013, water levels in the Great Lakes are now abruptly on the rise, a development that has startled scientists and thrilled just about everybody with a stake in the waterfront, including owners of beach houses, retailers in tourist areas and dockmasters who run marinas on the lakeshore.
 
 
Lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior are at least a foot higher than they were a year ago, and are expected to rise three more inches over the next month. Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are seven to nine inches higher than a year ago.
 
… Scientists say the reversal of fortunes for the lakes is partly a result of the most bone-chilling winter in memory for many Midwesterners. The thick and long-lasting ice cover on the lakes kept the water colder and slowed evaporation. Heavy snowfall and a rainy spring allowed the lakes to make even more gains.

 
Instead of issuing hysterical doomsday prophecies, wouldn’t it be nice if the alarmists would just settle down and wait for the weather to change?