Blog Heap of Links for the day 11 June 2015

Local government officials in towns near the Gaza border reported on Sunday receiving complaints from residents who say they hear digging underground. … “According to the complaints, the digging hasn’t stopped for a moment.” … Local residents believe that the next round of fighting is simply a matter of time. …

This report extensively details the networks of radical left non-profits, foundations, government agencies and the personalities behind them. Unbeknownst to most Americans they are using refugee resettlement as a pretext to import waves of immigrants from third-world nations as a key front in Obama’s strategy of “fundamentally transforming” America. These refugees have little interest in assimilating. Many are from Muslim countries, view immigration as “Hijra” i.e. a subversive means to invade a foreign nation, and have demonstrated a willingness to either support or engage in terrorism both in America and abroad.…

Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93 - latest reaction and tributes - Screen legend famous for roles in Hammer Horror films, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars dies in hospital after suffering heart and respiratory problems

…"We stumbled on these things completely by chance," says Susannah Maidment of Imperial College London, whose team was trying to study bone fossilisation by cutting out tiny fragments of fossils.

Instead, they found blood-like cells and collagen from 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils – 10 million years before T. rex appeared.

Although the cells are unlikely to contain DNA, those extracted from better preserved fossils using the same technique may do so, she says. …

A giant ring around Saturn is even larger than thought, spanning an area of space nearly 7,000 times larger than Saturn itself… “We knew it was the biggest ring, but know we find it’s even bigger than we thought, new and improved….”

…And so it is, just days after Commander-in-Chief Obama announced to the world ten months after first stating he did not have a strategy to combat ISIS, that he STILL doesn’t have a strategy, the White House announces it will send another 450 troops into Iraq as trainers.

No clear guidance was issued other than an intent to train more Iraqi troops. Sadly, we now have a little over 3,400 “trainers” in Iraq and only 2,598 Iraqi Soldiers in training. Of that number there are 800 Kurds and 1798 Shia, and no Sunnis are being trained. Do y’all see the laughable irony? We have more “trainers” in Iraq than those being trained.…

A culture-enriching “Australian” named Muhammet Velipasaoglu is being investigated by health authorities for practicing as an unlicensed “rogue” dentist for more than ten years. Mr. Velipasaoglu failed to follow proper hygienic procedures, and it is feared that he may have infected some of his patients with HIV or other blood-borne pathogens. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

In other news, the Norwegian government has agreed to take in its allotted share of 8,000 migrants currently awaiting resettlement in Italy.…

…On this day in 1776 the Continental Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence from Great Britain.…