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NPR Reporter Wants Freed Hostage to Feel Guilty 

JihadWatch.org, 4/1/24, “NPR Reporter Wants to Make Hostage Freed by IDF on Feb. 12 Feel Guilty About Gazan Deaths That Day” [Excerpts]: In February, IDF special forces managed to raid a site in Gaza and free two hostages being held by Hamas—Luis Har and Fernando Marman. When NPR’s Daniel Estrin interviewed Har, a 71-year-old accountant, instead of sympathetically sharing in Har’s relief, he seemed peeved that Har did not criticize the IDF’s use of airstrikes as a diversion, while the special forces staged their raid, because of the casualties that resulted from those airstrikes.

Yes, an NPR journalist is asking a former hostage whether he thinks it is fair that he is free now because of the supposed death toll. Essentially, Estrin berated a senior citizen to make him feel guilty that his freedom is at the expense of women and children.

In providing its always exaggerated reports on casualties to the Ministry of Health (a Hamas mouthpiece), Hamas does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. It wants the world to believe that those killed and wounded are mostly “women and children.” Even if we were to accept those Hamas-generated figures—currently 32,000 people in Gaza are said to have been killed in the war, we would have to subtract from that number the 15,000 Hamas combatants that the IDF knows it has killed, which gives us a figure of 17,000 civilians killed.

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Mystery of Moths’ Warning Sound

ICR.org, 3/4/24, “Mystery of Moths’ Warning Sound” [Excerpts]: Insects of all types continue to amaze entomologists with their design and physiology. Cleveland Hickman, Jr., et al. stated, “insect ears are beautifully designed to detect the sound of a potential mate, a rival male, or a predator.” Agreed. The Master Designer has perfectly equipped insects with the ability to sense their predators through hearing or other methods so they know to escape.

This is certainly true of the moth, which has a remarkable ability to sense and evade its nemesis, the hungry bat. The moth detects ultrasonic frequencies emitted from the bat via specially designed cells so the moth knows to begin evasive maneuvers.

Researchers at the University of Bristol in England have discovered that moths of the genus Yponomeuta are designed with a unique acoustic defense against the bat. The mystery of how the moth produces its warning sound has finally been solved. Yponomeuta “produce[s] ultrasonic clicking sounds twice per wingbeat cycle using a minute corrugated membrane in their hindwing.” This is all the more amazing because the moths do not have hearing organs, and they are not able to control this defense mechanism.

A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article describes their efforts in researching Yponomeuta moths’ amazing ability: “The resulting bursts of clicks serve as an ultrasound protection mechanism against bats. Using detailed biological and mechanical characterization, we map the intricate morphology of aeroelastic tymbals and use simple models from structural engineering to describe the mechanics and acoustics of sequential, buckling-driven sound production.”

Although the researchers should be commended with their investigation and discovery of Yponomeuta’s exceptional acoustic defense, evolutionists are no closer to determining the origin of moths from a non-moth ancestor or how this specific clicking protection evolved.

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“Alahu Akbar”

FrontPageMag.com, 5/7/24, [Excerpts]: “‘Allahu Akbar’: Muslim Attacks Scottish Cop with Chainsaw”: A pair of police officers have been injured, and a man has been arrested, after authorities flocked to a street in Scotland to reports of a chainsaw-wielding man apparently chasing officers down a road in broad daylight.

Footage had circulated online of a police officer sprinting away down a street in Paisley, apparently being pursued by a man running with a chainsaw in his hands.

Later footage shows the individual apparently being arrested, with officers seen piling on to restrain an individual on the pavement by the side of the road as more police and members of the public rush to help.

Great Britain News understands Police in Scotland are not treating the incident as terror-related.

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