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Jail term upheld for faulty breast implants company boss
The founder of a company that made faulty breast implants has had a four-year jail sentence upheld by a French appeals court.
Jean-Claude Mas, 76, was also fined 75,000 euros and was banned for life from working in medical services or running a company. He was allowed to go free pending another appeal.
The scandal over abnormally high rupture rates in PIP implants emerged five years ago, affecting hundreds of thousands of women in dozens of countries.
President Putin has approved a law giving Russians free land in the country's far east.
It's one of a number of moves aimed at boosting the population and the economy in the vast remote region.
All Russians will be able to apply for up to one hectare of land, free of rent, tax or any other payment for five years - on condition they put the land to good use.
#Russians Given Free Land in Country's Far East https://t.co/V3byys6suQ #news- The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) 2 May 2016
The plane Solar Impulse 2 took off from San Francisco early on Monday heading for Phoenix, Arizona - the latest leg of its trip around the world to promote clean energy.
The plane, which runs on solar-powered batteries, had stranded by high winds in California for several days after flying from Hawaii.
After crossing the US it is due to head for Europe.
BREAKING NEWS andreborschberg just took off from San Francisco, direction Phoenix 720
Philadelphia, PA - On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 1:36 am, The complainants, a 32 and 37
year-old males, pulled into a BP gas station located at 1840 Ridge Avenue. While at the station the 32 year-old complainant entered the station to make a purchase when he was approached from behind by an unknown male who stuck his fingers into his back to simulate a firearm stating, "Give me everything you got." After taking $130 from the complainant he fled on foot and was last seen south on 19th Street.
Suspect Description: Black male, mid to late 20 years-of-age, 5'10", light complected, short hair, wearing a red t-shirt underneath a black button down shirt, and black pants.
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To submit a tip via telephone, dial 215.686.TIPS (8477) or text a tip to PPD TIP or 773847.
A churchgoer shot a fellow parishioner in a Pennsylvania church after a fight broke out over a seat in the sanctuary on Sunday, authorities say.
The argument started when a churchgoer told Robert Braxton III, 27, he was sitting in seats reserved for two other church members during Sunday service at the Keystone Fellowship Church, district attorney Kevin Steele said.
He yelled "don't f---ing touch me" after a church member tapped him on the shoulders to let him know he was in someone else's seat, an affidavit obtained by NBC Philadelphia said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/churchgoer-killed-fight-seat-sunday-service-article-1.2618098
Russia: Icebreakers Festival kicks off in St. Petersburg
The third Icebreakers Festival took place in the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg on Monday.
Locals gathered near the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment and the English Embankment to watch various icebreaker ships in action.
Among the vessels that took part in the festival were the legendary 1917 Krassin boat icebreaker.
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Police explains the circumstances of the accident, which took place in Sosnowiec. 42-year-old entered the oncoming tram. The woman was taken to hospital. Terrifying film, showing this event, recorded camera placed in the car of one of the witnesses. Silesian police recording publishes a warning. The incident took place on Tuesday morning on the street. Polish army. 42-year-old woman with unknown reasons, entered into an oncoming tram. The event registered a camera placed in the car of one of the witnesses.According to the police, the woman deducted - conscious and communicative - was taken to hospital. The recording will help investigators determine the cause of the accident. The police also decided to make public the video as a warning.
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Three bombs have been detonated around the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing as many as 25 people and wounding scores.
A number of those killed were Shi'ite Muslims on an annual pilgrimage to the city.
Shiite pilgrims among 14 killed in fresh Baghdad blasts https://t.co/WhCZUhcw4O #news #World pic.twitter.com/NzWlL301Kc- Indian 24 News (indian24news) May 2, 2016
The biggest explosion happened when a car bomb was detonated in the Saydiya district of southern Baghdad, which left 11 dead.
Three bomb blasts kill at least 14 in Baghdadhttps://t.co/y53QtOKxsG pic.twitter.com/i8nExcm9Lg- TRT World (trtworld) May 2, 2016
ISIL has claimed responsibility for the bloodshed.
The latest explosions came two days after at least 23 people lost their lives and dozens of others sustained injuries in a car bomb attack that targeted a group of Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad's southeastern neighborhood of Nahrawan on Saturday morning.
Here we see GoPro footage of a scuba diver diving through the famous and popular Sea Viking shipwreck in Nassau, The Bahamas.
Was Mona Lisa's smile based on a man's?
An Italian art detective claims that Leonardo da Vinci used both a female and a male model to create the face of one of the world's most famous paintings, the 'Mona Lisa'.
He says the first model was Lisa Gherardini, known as Mona Lisa del Giocondo, and his second model was his long-time apprentice and lover, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as Salai.
Silvano Vinceti, head of the research group the National Committee for Cultural Heritage, based his findings on infra-red examinations of the Mona Lisa.
"There is one indisputable element of proof which can be seen, with the use of infrared technology, in the first layer of the painting of Mona Lisa," he explains. "In that layer we can see that she was not smiling and joyful but looked melancholic and sad."
Story has it that Gherardini looked sad at the sittings and her husband, a Florentine silk merchant who had commissioned the painting, hired clowns to try to make her smile. His efforts failed and Leonardo had to use another model to satisfy her husband's requests. The investigative team compared Salai's features from other Leonardo paintings to those of the Mona Lisa.
"We have used all the paintings in which Leonardo used Salai as a model and compared them to the Mona Lisa and certain details correspond perfectly," says Silvano Vinceti. "So, he used two models and then added creative details, that came from his own imagination. I believe that this goes with a long-time fascination of Leonardo's, which was the subject of androgyny. In other words, for Leonardo, the perfect person was a combination of a man and a woman."
What's believed to be the remains of Lisa Gherardini were discovered last year by researchers excavating under a centuries-old convent in Florence. The bones, which included a femur, are believed to date back to around the time she died, in July 1542, at the age of 63.
Long queues form outside Departures
Some flights had resumed
Temporary check-in tent was in use
There have been long queues at the departures hall at Brussels Airport.
The airport authorities re-opened the area to the public on Sunday, for the first time since a double suicide bombing six weeks ago.
Today we're welcoming the first passengers back into the main #brusselsairport departures ... https://t.co/onhhpo9VjZ pic.twitter.com/e3TmJJjMP3- Brussels Airport (@BrusselsAirport) May 1, 2016
32 people died in the March 22 attacks at the airport and on the Brussels metro.
Tight security
.BrusselsAirport departures terminal reopens today under many layers of security pic.twitter.com/95Shtn7sT4- Teri Schultz (terischultz) May 2, 2016
Security is the tightest it has ever been.
Extra checks have been brought in, leading some passengers to complain about the long queues outside the terminal.
"It is ok at the moment," said one woman,"everyone understands because of what happened. But in the future, it has to be faster."
"When you come into the terminal, you can see things have changed," another passenger told reporters. "It is a bit shocking for me because it is the first time I have been here since the attacks. It is heartbreaking."
But hadn't flight departures already resumed?
Yes.
However, passengers have been using a temporary check-in tent because of the extensive damage to the departure hall.
Greenpeace has released leaked secret TTIP negotiation documents that show the US is applying pressure on the EU to weaken European protection laws on the environment and public health.
#TTIPleak - we are very grateful to Greenpeace for the leak but it underlines our fears on the EU-US #TTIP talks pic.twitter.com/A6Tb75y83G- Greens in the EP (GreensEP) May 2, 2016
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is an attempt to create the world's biggest free trade zone between the US and European Union.
Jorgo Riss is Greenpeace EU director.
"The EU in relation to environment protection, public health and product standards that are relevant for consumers is a fairly bad position and the United States is much worse. So the prospect of having a final agreement that is between bad and worse is not a encouraging one."
35,000 Protest #TTIP in Hannover
Only 1/5 Germans favour proposed EU-US Trade Deal. https://t.co/Iveo9Z1ClB pic.twitter.com/aiI5mKZpx0- LEAVE.EU (LeaveEUOfficial) April 24, 2016
The European Commission has vowed to protect environmental laws and defend international standards.
Greenpeace insists that "TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business."
The top EU negotiator Ignacio Garcia says the leaks are not helpful:"Does the the leak bother us? Yes, of course, it's not good for trust in the process that such a document is leaked. But there you go, that's all I can say for the moment. Thank you."
The US trade representative said the interpretation of the leaked documents "appear to be misleading at best and flat out wrong at worst.''
Greenpeace has been quick to maximise access to the documents setting up mobile reading stations in Berlin and projecting the text onto the Bundestag.
Greenpeace published about half of the confidential deal on website https://t.co/volUGjQXJr: https://t.co/MVPtnI6O6e pic.twitter.com/c1ic7gzeR0- Reuters World (ReutersWorld) May 2, 2016
Democracy Needs Transparency! Greenpeace activists project #TTIPleaks documents on the Berlin Reichstag. pic.twitter.com/pWVkpSTMzt- Greenpeace e.V. (@greenpeace_de) May 2, 2016
The number of people facing hunger in Zimbabwe due to drought has risen from three to four million, according to estimates.
The UN children's agency UNICEF says the poor southern African country is experiencing the worst drought in two decades - induced by a powerful effect from El Nino.
Earlier this year UNICEF warned that malnutrition was taking hold, with nearly one million children in eastern and southern Africa in need of treatment for acute malnutrition.
Water is also scarce in Zimbabwe. Women - the main care givers in many families - have to walk for long distances in search of supplies.
"The distance we have to cover to get to water is great. Sometimes we are carrying babies on our backs. I have had to leave my three-month-old baby at home. Look how dirty I am! There is a big water problem here," said one young mother, Mollen Jongwe.
#Zimbabwe: Thanks to USAID WFP continues to provide relief for those effected by #ElNino : https://t.co/TXTibrmDAn pic.twitter.com/wxkW5ExTVs- World Food Programme (WFP) 30 April 2016
In one screening exercise, health workers weigh children in Mwenezi in southern Zimbabwe, one of the worst hit regions.
The number being treated for malnutrition at the local hospital rose from four in January to 25 in March.
One mother, Solvine Chipenyu, brought her baby girl for treatment after she was diagnosed with kwashiorkor - a form of malnutrition common in developing parts of the world.
"When she first fell ill she shad stomach problems, then her feet started to swell so I took her to hospital," she said.
Aid agencies warn the lack of water may result in the spread of diseases like diarrhoea.
UNICEF is screening children in six of Zimbabwe's 33 districts, where they continue to record increasing malnutrition cases.
Drought and low mineral commodity prices taking their toll on the economy. The government has issued licences to private millers to import grain, while organisations such as the United Nations' World Food Programme are feeding one million people.
Earlier this year Zimbabwe's government declared a state of national disaster and appealed for 1.4 billion euros in food aid.
#BUSINESS : Climate change to cause 38pc decline in agric income - https://t.co/d6fLsdFIEW pic.twitter.com/kDfHDYa0Ow- The Herald (@HeraldZimbabwe) May 2, 2016
Camel lifted on top of a building
It just raises too many questions
Trump 2016!
DemocRAT cucks call it unthinkable.
Euro-pee-ons cucks call it tyranny
Conservicucks call it trickery and hype...
Free men all over the world call it "The Uncuckening!"
Trump 41%, Clinton 39%
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Last week, Rasmussen Reports gave voters the option of staying home on Election Day if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the big party nominees ,
and six percent (6%) said that's what they intend to do for now.
Clinton and Trump were tied with 38% support each; 16% said they would
vote for some other candidate, and two percent (2%) were undecided.
But Trump edges slightly ahead if the stay-at-home option is removed.
Trump also now does twice as well among Democrats as Clinton does among
Republicans.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters
finds Trump with 41% support to Clinton's 39%. Fifteen percent (15%)
prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. (To
see survey question wording, click here .)
This is the first time Trump has led the matchup since last October . Clinton held a 41% to 36% advantage in early March .
Trump now has the support of 73% of Republicans, while 77% of Democrats
back Clinton. But Trump picks up 15% of Democrats, while just eight
percent (8%) of GOP voters prefer Clinton, given this matchup.
Republicans are twice as likely to prefer another candidate.
Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump leads 37% to
31%, but 23% like another candidate. Nine percent (9%) are undecided.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 27-28, 2016 by
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points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen
Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Democrats now say Clinton is likely to be their party's nominee. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans see Trump as the likely GOP nominee .
Trump leads 48% to 35% among men but trails Clinton by a similar 44% to 34% among women.
Clinton's narrow 38% to 32% lead among those under 40, traditionally a
reliable Democratic group, suggests that younger voters will be a big
target in the upcoming campaigning. Twenty-five percent (25%) of these
voters like another candidate for now, and five percent (5%) are
decided. Trump has a small advantage among older voters.
Clinton earns 71% of the black vote, 45% support among other minority
voters but just 33% of whites. Trump gets only nine percent (9%) of
blacks, 33% of other minorities and 48% of white voters.
Here's the latest delegate count going into tomorrow's Indiana primaries . For Bernie Sanders and the #Never Trump forces on the Republican side, Indiana is likely to be their last stand.
Following Trump's bg win in last Tuesday's primaries, it's moment of truth time for the #Never Trump crowd : Do they want four years of Clinton in the White House or a Republican president they strongly disagree with?
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters
finds Trump with 41% support to Clinton's 39%. Fifteen percent (15%)
prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
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The Free Syrian Army militant group has refused to recognize partial ceasefires and stated that if the UN-backed truce is not implemented in full, the militant group can claim a right to withdraw from the Geneva talks and respond to attacks. The shaky coalition of militant groups, united under the US-backed umbrella organization dubbed the FSA, issued an official statement on May.1. The FSA also rejected the US and Russia-brokered "regime of silence" which is currently in place in parts of the provinces of Damascus and Latakia since the midnight on Friday. The regime of silence was expected to last for 72 hours. FSA militants accused Damascus of violating the ceasefire in Syria and said they "appreciate the position of the High Negotiations Committee on suspension of the Geneva-3 talks and support it."
We remember, the Geneva-3 talks were, de-facto, sabotaged by representatives of the HNC, which promote interests of the Turkish-Saudi block. The Salafi militants of Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar ash-Sham, which represented on the talks, played a crucial role in this sabotage, making attempts to advance in the Latakia province and shelling residential areas of Aleppo City and Damascus. The so-called Syrian opposition, mainly a diverse range of rebranded Islamist militants, is dissatisfied that Al Nusra, the main striking force of the Salafists in Syria, was recognized as a terrorist group and excluded from the negotiations.
Meanwhile, Al Nusra remains in alliance with the internationally recognized oppositioneers as Ahrar ash-Sham, via the joint operational room, called Jaish al-Fatah. In turn, Ahrar ash-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam and the FSA set a joint operational room, called Rad al-Mazalem, in order to coordinate military actions in Aleppo. Indeed, it's hardly possible to divide the so-called "opposition" from the terrorists in Northern and Central Syria.
Countering military provocations of terrorists, the Syrian government is pushed to conduct counter-terrorism operations. The HNC argue these operations violate the ceasefire. For example, on May 1, Syria's forces continued operations in the areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies took control of the village of al-Rukabiyah following a day of clashes with the Islamists. Hezbollah fighters reportedly supported the SAA units in this operation. The al-Rukabiyah village had been under the control of Al Nusra and Jaish al-Islam. Some units of these groups are still operating in the nearby areas. Thus, the close cooperation of different armed opposition groups with the terrorist undermines the idea of the peaceful solution of the conflict.
May Day protests in Seattle turned violent on Sunday with officials saying demonstrators
threw rocks and Molotov cocktails. Police said at least nine people
were arrested, and five officers injured. The pro-immigration marches
were held in cities across the country over the weekend, with some, like
the march in Los Angeles, having a decidedly anti-Trump message
First cruise in decades departs from US to Cuba
The first US cruise ship bound for Cuba in decades can be seen from the island as it heads toward the first stop in its historic voyage. Restarting the cruises was an important element of US President Barack Obama's bid to increase tourism to Cuba after the 2014 decision to restore diplomatic relations.
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Exclusive video footage for Al-Masdar News, filmed by Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers, shows 7 Russian Choppers on their way to pound ISIS in Shaer Oilfield.
Recent information from the battlefield confirms that 'Shaer oilfield' which is located in the eastern countryside of Homs, is under a huge ISIS attack, while the garrison troops are in need of massive help.
The Russian helicopters took off from the T4 airbase, and is now attacking ISIS in order to assist the SAA forces.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/exclusive-footage-7-russian-choppers-way-striking-isis-shaer-oilfield/
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) launched a powerful offensive at the Al-Sha'ar Gas Fields on Monday morning that targeted wells 101, 103, and 105 under the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) control.
ISIS began the assault by launching their usual VBIED (vehicle borne improvised explosive device) at the Syrian Arab Army's defenses in the vicinity of Well 105; this terrorist attack was halted before it could reach its intended target.
Following the VBIED attack, ISIS stormed the southern perimeter of the Al-Sha'ar Gas Fields, resulting in a fierce battle with the Syrian Arab Army. The Syrian Armed Forces were able to drive back the terrorist forces after the latter failed to infiltrate their positions on Monday.
According to a military source at the T-4 Military Airport, the Syrian Armed Forces killed a confirmed 19 ISIS terrorists, including a handful of foreign terrorists.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-beats-back-isis-al-shaar-gas-fields/
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Leo's cat loves to dance. Ever since he was a young kitten and first heard music, he couldn't resist stretching his paws and having a boogie. Leo just had to capture his moves on camera! Credit: YouTube/Leo Caulton
Comedy actor and writer Peter Gilroy is a dab hand at impressions. Here he does Owen Wilson, lighting some incense in honor of an ant he just stepped on - hilarious and right on character! Credit: YouTube/Bath Boys Extra Stuff
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I'm not a Cruz fan, but he handled this Soros/Clinton protestor's child like a pro. Which may have been planned.
Greenpeace leaks secret TTIP documents as US-EU trade talks spark protest
Greenpeace has released leaked secret TTIP negotiation documents that show the US is applying pressure on the EU to weaken European protection laws on the environment and public health.
#TTIPleak - we are very grateful to Greenpeace for the leak but it underlines our fears on the EU-US #TTIP talks pic.twitter.com/A6Tb75y83G- Greens in the EP (GreensEP) May 2, 2016
The as yet to be concluded Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is an attempt to create the world's biggest free trade zone between the US and European Union.
Greenpeace projected the leaks on the Bundestag to make public the content of the talks, which are being conducted in secret.
Brilliant move against TTIP - thanks greenpeace_de for #ttipleaks! pic.twitter.com/S34grxLo0V- Lemonaid (_LemonAid) May 2, 2016
The NGO says that 800 million people will affected by the TTIP deal and claims "TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business."
TTIP leaks: US undermining EU standards, says Greenpeace https://t.co/Gz95LFhNgE via euobs #EUpol pic.twitter.com/2ZRQ9KZbp7- EUwatch (EUWatchers) May 2, 2016
Both Brussels and Washington believe TTIP will provided and major boost to both economies.
Greenpeace discloses secret papers on #TTIP https://t.co/s5st6DUitt via EuranetplusDE pic.twitter.com/jGMMuhh62P- Euranet Plus (EuranetPlus) April 22, 2016
But opposition is growing with millions signing an on-line petition as street protests gather momentum.
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ivitacampomarano is a small village
in the province of Campobasso with just 400 souls, mainly elderly. In
this village, rich in folk traditions, the Internet is a partially
unknown world: mobile phones have difficulty working and a data
connection is practically nonexistent.
The provocative idea is to show that these virtual functions,
considered by the vast majority of the population as necessary and
essential to everyday life, also exist in the country, where the
connection is hard to reach: this is a sort of Internet "in real life,"
able to demonstrate that in traditions and popular culture these
instruments, in other ways, have always existed and have allowed people
and families to have cultural exchanges, meeting at the bar and living
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According to State Dept Rep Kirby, AL-Nusra control of Aleppo is better option than Syrian army "liberation" of Aleppo.
Colonel Steve Warren, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman.
Department Defense Press Briefing via Teleconference from Baghdad: Apr.20.2016
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Mark Toner, State Department Deputy Spokesperson.
U.S. Department of State - Daily Briefing: Apr.27.2016
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Palestinian leaders have condemned the Eurovision Song Contest for its decision to prevent their flag from being flown during the annual event later this month.
The European Broadcast Union, which organises the contest, published a list of banned flags last week.
That included the Palestinian flag, as well as those of Northern Cyprus, Kosovo and the flag of ISIL.
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat urgently demanded the head of the EBU reverse the decision.
"We call upon Jean-Paul Philippot to revoke his decision immediately and to apologise to the 11 million Palestinians of this grave, unacceptable, despicable mistake."
In a statement, Eurovision's organisers apologised for any offence caused, insisting the examples given on the banned list were not aimed at specific territories, however it did not say whether the current policy will be changed.
The Palestinians do not compete in the annual singing contest, which will be held this year in Stockholm from May 14.
Some of the banned flags (from top left): Basque, Crimea, People's Republic of Donetsk, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabah, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Scotland, Transnistria.
45-year-old driver of the car Mitsubishi Pajero while intoxicated made collision with a motorcycle Kawasaki. As a result of the accident the driver of the motorcycle 29 years old, died from his injuries on the spot.
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A recently rediscovered document in the American Archives
reveals that around 10 million Iranians died as a result of widespread
famine between 1917-1919.
The
Iranian famine is barely mentioned by Western media or in the history
books, probably due to the fact that it was caused by the British
presence in Iran after World War I.
Khamenei.ir reports:
After
the Russian Revolution of 1917, Britain became the main foreign power
in Iran and this famine or-more accurately-'genocide' was committed by
the British. The document in the American Archives, reporting the
widespread famine and spread of epidemic disease in Iran, estimates the
number of the deceased due to the famine to be about 8-10 million during
1917-19, making this the greatest genocide of the 20th century and Iran
the biggest victim of World War I.
It should be noted that Iran
had been one of the main suppliers of food grains to the British forces
stationed in the empire's South Asian colonies. Although bad harvest
during these two years made the situation worse, it was by no means the
main reason why the Great Famine occurred. Prof. Gholi Majd of Princeton
University writes in his book, The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia,
that American documents show that the British prevented imports of
wheat and other food grains into Iran from Mesopotamia, Asia, and also
the USA, and that ships loaded with wheat were not allowed to unload at
the port of Bushehr in the Persian Gulf. Professor Majd argues that
Great Britain intentionally created genocide conditions to destroy Iran,
and to effectively control the country for its own purposes. Major
Donohoe describes Iran of that time as a "land of desolation and death".
But this event soon became the subject of a British cover up.
Britain
has a long record of its several attempts to conceal history and
rewrite it in their own favor. The pages are filled with conspiracies
that were covered up by the British government to hide its involvement
in different episodes that would tarnish the country's image. One of the
clear examples is the "Jameson Raid"; a failed coup against Paul
Kruger's government in South Africa. This raid was planned and executed
directly by the British government of Joseph Chamberlain under the
orders of Queen Victoria. In 2002, Sir Graham Bower's memoirs were
published in South Africa, revealing these involvements that had been
covered up for more than a century, focusing attention on Bower as a
scapegoat for the incident.
The records that were destroyed to
cover up British crimes around the globe, or were kept in secret Foreign
Office archives, so as to, not only protect the United Kingdom's
reputation, but also to shield the government from litigation, are
indicative of the attempts made by the British to evade the consequences
of their crimes. The papers at Hanslope Park also include the reports
on the "elimination" of the colonial authority's enemies in 1950s
Malaya; records that show ministers in London knew of the torture and
murder of Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya and roasting them alive. These
records may include those related to Iran's Great Famine. Why were these
records that cover the darkest secrets of the British Empire destroyed
or kept secret? Simply because they might 'embarrass' Her Majesty's
government.
A
famine occurred in Ireland from 1845 until 1852 which killed one fourth
of the Irish population. This famine was caused by British policies and
faced a large cover up attempt by the British government and crown to
blame it on 'potatoes'. The famine, even today, is famous in the world
as the "potato famine" when, in reality, it was a result of a planned
food shortage and thus a deliberate genocide by the British government.
The
true face of this famine as a genocide has been proven by historian Tim
Pat Coogan in his book The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's
Greatest Tragedy published by Palgrave MacMillan. A ceremony was planned
to take place in the US to unveil Coogan's book in America, but he was
denied a visa by the American embassy in Dublin.
Therefore it
becomes obvious that Britain's role in Iran's Great famine, which killed
nearly half of Iran's population, was not unprecedented. The documents
published by the British government overlook the genocide, and
consequently, the tragedy underwent an attempted cover-up by the British
government. The Foreign Office "handbook on Iran" of 1919 mentioned
nothing related to the Great Famine.
Julian Bharier, a scholar who
studied Iran's population, built his "backward projection" estimation
of Iran's population based on reports from this "handbook" and, as a
result, ignored the effect of the Great Famine on Iran's population in
1917. Bharier's estimations were used by some authors to deny the
occurrence of the Great Famine or to underestimate its impacts.
By
ignoring Iran's Great Famine in his estimations, Bharier's work faces
four scientific deficiencies. Bharier does not consider the loss of
population caused by the famine in his calculations; he needs to
'adjust' the figure of the official census in 1956 from 18.97 million to
20.37 million, and this is despite the fact that he uses 1956 census as
his primary building block for his "backward projection" model. He also
ignores the official growth rates and uses his personal assumptions in
this regard, which is far lower than other estimates. Finally, although
Bharier frequently cites Amani's estimates, in the end Bharier's
findings contradict that of Amani's; notably Bharier's population
estimate for 1911 is 12.19 million while Amani put this figure at 10.94
million.
Despite deficiencies in the population estimates offered
by Bharier for the period of the Famine and its earlier period, his
article offers useful data for the post-Famine period; this is because
these figures are generated from 1956 backward. That is to say, numbers
generated from 1956 to 1919 are thus credible because they do not
include the period of famine. Moreover, this portion of Bharier's data
are also true to that of the American Legation. For example, Caldwell
and Sykes estimate the 1919 population at 10 million, which is
comparitive to Bharier's figure of 11 million.
Gholi Majd was not
the first author to refute Bharier's figures for this period. Gad G.
Gilbar, in his 1976 article on demographic developments during the
second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th
century, also considers Bharier's estimates inaccurate for the period.
In
an apparently biased review of Majd's work, Willem Floor confirms
Bharier's model, despite its apparent deficiencies, and takes a mocking
tone toward the well- documented work of Gholi Majd to undermine the
devastation caused by the British-instigated famine in Iran, to the
point of total denial of the existence of such a genocide. Floor also
offers inaccurate or untrue information to oppose the fact that the
British deprived Iranians from honey and caviar in the north, as he
argues caviar was haram (religiously prohibited), while no such fatwa
has ever existed in Shia jurisprudence and all available decrees assert
that caviar is halal or permissible under the Islamic law. There was a
rumor made up by Russians at the time, saying that Caviar was haram and
Britain made full use of this rumor.
Another criticism made by
Floor was to question why Majd's work does not use British archival
sources. A more important question is why Majd should have used these
sources when they totally ignore the occurrence of the famine in Iran.
The fact that Majd used mainly US sources seems to be reasonable on the
grounds that the US was neutral toward the state of affairs in Iran at
the time, and made efforts to help by feeding them.
http://yournewswire.com/report-british-government-killed-10-million-iranians-in-1919/
Spanish speaking warehouse worker allegedly causes $70 million in damages
Forklift operator Ruben Antonio Ochoa Cruz had just been confronted about
missing work at a Woodridge furniture warehouse and decided he needed
to do something to relieve the stress he was feeling, according to
federal prosecutors.
...
The April 21 fire quickly raged out of control as flames that could be
seen for miles swept through the 325,000-square-foot building in the
2500 block of Internationale Parkway. It took more than 100 firefighters
about seven hours to get the blaze under control, authorities said.
Officials estimated the damages at $70 million.
Cruz, 20, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez on
Friday charged with one count of intentionally damaging property by
fire, a charge that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years
in prison if he is convicted.
Dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, Cruz, of Joliet, listened to the proceedings through a Spanish
interpreter. He was ordered held in custody pending a detention hearing Wednesday.
Full Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsLtppdGg8
2 May 2016 - European courts appear to be going easy on the UK in the run up to the Brexit referendum because they are scared of provoking voters into choosing to leave the European Union (EU).
The number of human rights cases against the British government has dropped by a third since the referendum was called, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has also sided with Britain in a variety of disputes.
The court, based in Strasbourg, heard 1,702 cases against Britain in 2012, but that number dropped to 908 in 2013, after Prime Minister David Cameron announced there would be an EU referendum within four years.
That total fell again to 720 in 2014 and then 575 last year - a drop of 66 per cent from 2012.
The Daily Mail reports that a number of major judgements also went in Britain's favour during this period, compared to previous years where EU judges condemned the country on issues such as the detention of Al Qaeda militant Abu Qatada, or the shooting of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar.
A spokesman for the court denied they were going easy, saying: "The statistics refer to the number of applications allocated to a judicial formation.
"The decrease coincides with the ECHR's new stricter approach to what constitutes an application. Stricter conditions for lodging an application have been applied since January 1, 2014."
However, UK Defence Minister Julian Brazier said: "The European institutions are going easy on Britain until they see the outcome of the referendum.
"The judges are afraid of the restoration of parliamentary sovereignty and control of our own laws."
David Campbell Bannerman, who is one of the minority of Conservative MEPs to back Brexit, added: "They have turned the tap off for political reasons. The danger is they will turn it back on again, and if we vote to remain there will be a flood of new court rulings against Britain."
Although the ECHR is not run by the EU, obedience to its rulings is a key requirement for member states, and its actions are often seen as part the wider interference in British life by Europe-wide institutions.
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At least five police officers have been injured and nine people arrested during violent May Day protests in the U.S. city of Seattle.
There were ugly scenes in Seattle's downtown district as anti-capitalist demonstrators through rocks and other projectiles at police, including Molotov cocktails.
One officer reportedly suffered a gash to the head.
A large deployment of riot police, both on foot and bicycle, quickly moved in to control the crowd.
The annual May Day demonstration in Seattle has frequently been the scene of violent unrest in the past.
Republican presidential nominee in waiting Donald Trump takes a 15 point lead into Tuesday's Indiana primary, according to opinion polls.
Donald Trump up big in Indiana in latest polls. Tuesday is going to be a big day. #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/FD7PzPqxHF- We Need Trump (@WeNeedTrump) May 1, 2016
Billionaire Trump believes its the end of the road for his Republican rivals:
"If we win Indiana, it's over ok. If we win Indiana it's over. It's over. And we are going to get there, and I shouldn't say this because it takes away your incentive, we're going to get there anyway. But if we win Indiana most people think the others will quit the race and then we can focus on crooked Hillary. Please let's focus on Hillary,"
he told supporters.
Speaking in Detroit to a largely African-American crowd Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton praised the work of outgoing president Barack Obama:
"It was a tremendous honour to serve in President Obama's administration. Now America is deciding who will succeed him. The leading Republican contender is the man who led the insidious birther movement to discredit the president's citizenship."
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses Detroit NAACP Dinner. #detnaacp pic.twitter.com/v14s2dULn1- Chuck Stokes (CStokesWXYZ) May 2, 2016
In Los Angeles a traditional May Day march turned into an anti-Trump demonstration as the country gears up for potentially for the most devisive US presidential election in decades.
May Day rally in LA hoists effigy of Trump with KKK hood as crowd trashes him https://t.co/p0ymHNSKhM pic.twitter.com/SiLbYvqTq0- R Joseph (rjoseph7777) May 2, 2016
2 May 2016 - Police evacuated more than one thousand people from a makeshift migrant camp near a Paris metro station on Monday, the third time the camp has been cleared in as many months.
Shortly after 6am, people who had been staying in the tightly packed tents under an elevated section of the Stalingrad station in the north of Paris began boarding buses to take them to reception centres.
The evacuation passed off largely without incident, authorities said.
Although only around 500 people had been counted at the camp the night before, police said around 1,350 people had gathered there Monday to be re-located to accommodation centres, suggesting that migrants from other parts of Paris had swelled their numbers.
Around 150 police officers were involved in the operation to relocate the migrants, mostly from Sudan and Afghanistan.
"We're happy to leave," said Moustafa, a 24-year-old Afghan who had been at the camp for a month.
"There were fights every night at the camp."
Another Afghan, Abdullah, said he hoped to stay in Paris long-term. "That is where the rest of the community is and there is work here."
He said he had given up hope of reaching Britain, the country which many of his compatriots try to reach from France.
"It's a good country here," he said.
Flimsy tents were packed into a small area around the station and the overflowing rubbish bins and piles of mattresses indicated that conditions at the camp had deteriorated in recent weeks.
Jean-Francois Carenco, the prefect of the Ile de France area that includes Paris, said he expected the migrants to request asylum.
"Those who do not request asylum or who behave badly will be expelled," he said. "France is not a place for disorder and chaos."
Nearly 80,000 people applied for asylum in France in 2015, but it has been affected less than its European neighbours by the mass influx of migrants over the last 18 months.
The main migrant camp in France, the so-called "Jungle" in the northern port of Calais, now holds around 5,000 people, according to charity workers, but the government says that figure is vastly inflated.
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Teen stabbed in Auckland when Tinder date goes wrong
Two teenagers have been charged after a Tinder date ended with a 28-year-old man being stabbed in the chest in West Auckland.
A 15-year-old girl has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent to rob following the incident on Friday night.
The victim is alleged to have been stabbed in the chest as he sat in a car with the girl, who he'd met on social media dating app Tinder.
The victim remains in hospital in a stable condition.
The boy has also been charged with being a party to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to rob.
He is expected to appear in the Waitakere District Court tomorrow.
The victim is believed to have collected a young woman from an address in Massey on Friday night.
He was later seen collapsed in the middle of a roundabout at the corner of Triangle Rd and Huruhuru Rd clutching his chest, where people tried to help him.
A police spokesman said emergency services arrived on the scene at 11.50pm and the man was taken to Waitakere Hospital by ambulance with a deep cut just below his collar bone.
It is understood the man also suffered a collapsed lung.
A man who lives near the roundabout said he was woken by a knock on his door by a police officer about 1am but by the time he got up, the officer had walked away.
From his window, he could see a number of police cars with their lights flashing and a cordon at the roundabout.
Another woman who lived near the scene also woke to police cars but didn't know what happened.
"That's scary. Nothing like that has happened near here before."
my lovely pet
migrants culturally enrich German girls at a public school, Mayor could care less.
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Emergency teams in the U.S. capital have successfully sealed a leak on a freight train after it derailed on Sunday.
Fourteen wagons on the CSX train overturned in Washington D.C. spilling hazardous liquid, including sodium hydroxide.
No evacuation orders were issued and nobody was injured in the accident.
The cause of the derailment is still unclear.
New photographs of Princess Charlotte have been released to mark her first birthday.
The images of Britain's youngest royal, who turns one-year-old on Monday, were taken by her mother the Duchess of Cambridge last month in Norfolk.
Not seen in public since her Christening last July, Charlotte is fourth in line to the British throne
Hooligans of Antwerp FC caused riots in the Bosuil area in Antwerp last night, after their football team missed the league title in the second division - and the promotion to the top flight.Result: 12 policemen injured, 13 police vans damaged.
(vtm, deredactie)
Filmed by Eyad Al-Hosain,
At least 100 people got killed and more than 1000 injured after thousands of "hell cannon" bombs got fired at Aleppo last week by Al Nusra "moderate! headchoppes....Absolute silence from the mainstream media and human right organizations...and If any "Einstein" writes again this is "russian propaganda" this bombing/killing happened in part of Aleppo which is under SAA control....
The "Shoebill" Is A Scary Looking Bird!....
WTF... I've never even heard of this bird before and now I'm glad I'm not young enough to get nightmares from watching this thing
No big deal but the comments on his youtube vids (DSPGaming) are funny as fuck.
as above
You can see the truck firing before getting blasted.
Source : US Mod
I think he shit himself too
Meanwhile, At Walgreens Parking Lot
This is the moment she realized she was being recorded... LOL's! - Credit to Juxtaposition
It looks like she is a true Space Cadet!
The entire back half of the field came to a halt.
Strange behavior of a boy after awakening from anesthesia
Shoebill - a bird that looks creepy
Shoebill is a type of bird that cannot be easily classified. The reason lays in the fact that
shoebill has features that are characteristic for genetically unrelated types of birds such as
storks, pelicans, hamerkop and herons. Shoebill is also known as Whale-head or Shoe-billed Stork.
Shoebill - a bird that looks creepy
Chinese Davy Jones eating octopus.
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An illegal alien from El Salvador, Mauricio Morales-Caceres,
faces life in prison without parole after being convicted of stabbing
acquaintance Oscar Navarro, father of two, "at least" 89 times with a
15-inch butcher knife and tearing out his liver with his bare hands -
but no comments on this shocking murder by a foreign national, who
smiled cheerfully in his mugshot, are allowed, according to the Washington Post.
Illegal alien Morales-Caceres, 24, started by stabbing Navarro in the
back before stabbing him in the face, then his head, and then his
chest, according to prosecutors.
Standing before an image of the extremely gruesome murder scene,
prosecutor Douglas Wink said Morales-Caceres sawed through his victim's
body to tear out his liver and place it on his chest.
"The defendant took the knife and sawed," he said. "This man reached
in with his bare hands and took out his liver. He probably thought it
was his heart. He ripped out his liver and left it on his chest for the
police to see."
The Washington Post buried the fact that Morales-Caceresis is an illegal alien.
Nice of WaPo to share this detail at Paragraphs 37 and 38. Too interesting! @kausmickey https://t.co/ex7dDXMK8i pic.twitter.com/CzRMIPUZHO
- tedfrank (@tedfrank) May 1, 2016
They also shut down the comments section, explaining: "We turn off
the comments on stories dealing with personal loss, tragedies or other
sensitive topics."
The murder took place in December 2014.
"Should -Morales-Caceres ever get out of prison, every indication is that he would be deported to his native El Salvador," The Washington Post reports in
an aside. "Prosecutors earlier said he entered the United States
illegally. And since his stay at the Montgomery County jail, immigration
officials have lodged a detainer on him, an indication they would move
to have him deported at the end of a prison sentence."
If El Salvador decides they won't take Morales-Caceres back, should
he ever be released, the U.S. would likely turn him loose onto American
streets - thanks to the overreaching Supreme Court ruling, Zadvydas v. Davis (2001). As the Center for Immigration Studies writes:
In order to eliminate what it considered the
"constitutional threat" of the potentially indefinite detention of
deportable aliens, the Court held that "once removal is no longer
reasonably foreseeable, continued detention is no longer authorized by
statute." The Court then arbitrarily decided that six months was all
that was necessary for determining an alien's deportability... Put simply,
a reviewing court's definition of "reasonably foreseeable" now
determines the release of deportable aliens back onto the streets.
So, should Morales-Caceres be freed from prison before his life
sentence concludes and El Salvador refuses to welcome him back, it's
only six months until he's free to haunt American neighborhoods once
more.
One-fifth of the entire population of El Salvador currently resides in America, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Colombia police have handed over an alleged Peruvian drug lord to the Peruvian authorities.
Gerson Galvez, known as Caracol or The Snail, and who has been described as Peru's most wanted man, was deported on Sunday.
Primeras im'agenes del traslado Gerson G'alvez alias #Caracol a Bogot'a https://t.co/LQiEB271TH pic.twitter.com/kKopUz1rGT- Canal N (@canalN_) May 1, 2016
He is accused of running a powerful cocaine-trafficking gang in the Peruvian port of Callao.
His criminal group has also been linked to numerous murders in the area.
Galvez has protested his innocence.
The alleged drug trafficker who is thought to be Peru's biggest exporter of cocaine, was arrested on Saturday in a restaurant in the Colombian city of Medellin.
It's believed Police from Peru and Colombia worked closely together for the capture.
Both countries are the world's main growers of coca leaves - the raw ingredient for cocaine.
According to new reports, the militant gaystapo sex perverts enforcing Homo-Sharia on everyone at a libtard British Columbia University in Vancouver were flying the offensive homo sex perversion flag in place of the University flag on campus. I guess they just can't seem to keep their sex perversions to themselves now they must fly a flag that says "we like butt sex, G.R.I.D.S., Shigellosis and Gay Related Bowel Syndrome!
In the aftermath of the incident, all the usual deranged libtard Homo-Sharia converts said how sad they were and how obviously mean and hateful and bigoted the person was who had done it.
Turns out, the culprit is a self-described transsexual and UBC student named Brooklyn Fink who says he did it because the flag's presence on campus offended him and that the LGBTQPNCZ community didn't include him enough. Oh, you poor dainty little flower....freak!
His reasoning is that because the pride flag replaced the university's flag, suddenly he isn't represented by a flag flying on the school's campus And he doesn't feel represented by the hateful rainbow sex perversion flag because the "T" in "LGBTQZCNP (lesbian, gay, bisexual trangender, queer, zoophile, coprohile, necrophile, pedophile) stands for transgender rather that
transsexual.
"As a media artist, I intended in burning the flag only to illustrate my displeasure at the university's failure to come to an agreement on the fact of the flag's offensiveness."
" was met with hate and prejudice rather than critical self-reflection, so this has been a learning experience for me."
"The university's flag ... is the flag of inclusion of the whole university. And when you take it down and you put up an exclusive flag that only represents of the population, then you are sharing your hegemony over the university," she said.
Pscyho queer Fink said the rising awareness about transgender people has made life
more difficult for her, something she finds "really emotional, really stressful" to talk about.
"Ten, 12 years ago I was just a tall woman and nobody thought anything of it," he said.
"But because these gender nonconformers are being so loud and proud ...now everybody looks and they can see oh, that tall woman with a deep voice, maybe she's a dude."
What makes this absolutely hilarious is that the mentall ill homosexua pervert chair of the Vancouver Trans Alliance Society, Morgane Oger, still called the flag burning "an act of hatred," even though Fink continues to say that he did it because she didn't feel included in the LGBTQZCNP community.
And here I sit thinking - isn't the point of saying you're
whatever-sexual/gender/trans/pedo-necro rainbow-sparkle-unicorn is that you're a
super-duper unique individual that has special FEEEEEELINGS and nobody
understands you and you want all this attention for being a
poor-picked-on-victim of mainstream society caveman? Where the crap did this
"inclusion" thing come from? Do you want to be special or do you want to
be part of am autonomous collective?
Either way, it's funny when the different sect offshoots of those practicing Homo-Sharia start attacking each other for no discernible reason. It's like, they've gotten their all-important acceptance into society, but they don't know how to cope without having some big-mean-terrible-awful hateful bogeyman to cry about in their safe spaces. So they invent new ones, which usually means the people who they were allied with in the fight against supposed "bigotry" and all the other scripted epithets the cock jihadist zealots spew and thump from their homo-Agenda bible.
Homosexual sex freaks and other mentally ill sex deviant Stone Age cavemen are on the wrong side of history. Trigger Warning: Look out for that comet!
Had to dodge this one!
Sniper Rifle Shoots Watermelon in SLOW MOTION
video by @GY6slowmo http://www.youtube.com/GY6slowmo
Driver escapes after erratic chase across San Diego
They need to get back to the present...
Road Rage Towards a Cyclist
Chiang Rai. The tour bus ran a red light! No information about the injuries.
Last Ringling Circus Elephant has left the building
The final Ringling Bros show with elephants just finished in Providence, Rhode Island . One of the reasons for the retirement of the elephants was local bans on bullhooks such as the one in los angeles.This is the pole with a metal hook on the end to jab and hit the animal with. Without this bullhook the trainers have no way to control the elephant and effectively blocking the circus from operating in that area.
While it is great they will not be used in the Circus anymore ,Ringling chose to retire them to their 200 acre florida property instead of a true sanctuary like the 2000 acre Paws Facility in California. At the florida facility the elephants stay chained at night and sleep in a caged area. At Paws in California ,where most zoos have chosen to retire their elephants they can roam free over hills and food is trucked out to them. They have no handlers,no chains and no bullhooks. Ringing has made a deal with a cancer research company to experiment on the elephants and they will continue to breed them.
Ringling will still continue to use other animals in their shows such as tigers.
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I know this occurred in 2010 but it is an AMAZING story, one I'll never forget!
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In early 2010, a German Shepherd called Buddy was hailed a hero for guiding an Alaskan State Trooper through winding and remote back roads to a fire at his owner's workshop.
Alaskan State Trooper , Terrence Shanigan, was led to the incident by Buddy after his GPS failed. The incident was recorded on Terrence's patrol car dashboard camera, which shows exactly how Buddy managed to help.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska State Troopers are presenting a special award to Buddy, a German Shepherd that led authorities to a fire at his owners' property near Willow.
Buddy will receive the engraved silver-plated dog bowl Friday afternoon in Anchorage.
Troopers say Buddy and his owner, 23-year-old Ben Heinrichs, were in the family workshop on the Caswell Lakes property April 4 when a heater ignited chemicals
.Heinrichs, who sustained minor flash burns on his face, dashed out as the fire grew. He then told Buddy "we need to get help."
The dog took off and eventually found a trooper responding to a call about the fire. Buddy led the officer through winding back roads to the house and the trooper guided firefighters to the scene.
The workshop was destroyed, but only some window trim on the house was damaged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN4svy6iGT4
Watch Tuffy jump for joy in his first days outside after being rescued
from a bear bile farm where he'd spent years of torture in a tiny cage.
Court says the camp is unconstitutional.
YourSay Rant About "Street Preachers"
In case I didn't make it clear in the video, I don't want to give the impression that you SHOULD or MUST help someone in need. It's more directed to the "street preacher" who believes you're going to hell for not helping people, but then refuses to help someone in need himself.
Rant Video
"Street Preacher"
Episode 2 is almost here! We're watching Jeffrey Paul and Pudge Fernandez in this segment.
Hey guys this is my first your say so ts obviously less than perfect but the meat and potatoes is there. Just to be clear I may have not made my point correctly about the your say part being where you put your original content. Try to get over it.
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Carly fiorina fell down while playing make believe with the Goldman Sachs CRUZader Lyin Ted
The Self centered egotistical maniac Lyin lucifer Cruz family ignores it like they ignore their dropping polls.
Germany's AfD party adopts anti-Islam manifesto
The German ant-immigration party, 'Alternative for Germany', has adopted an anti-Islam manifesto on the second day of its two-day conference in Stuttgart.
Members voted to include a ban on minarets, the call to prayer and the full-face veil.
Co-leader J"org Meuthen said after the vote Islam was not part of Germany:
"Sharia on German soil cannot be allowed. Also the treatment of women, as it is described in the Koran, in our point of view is not compatible with the German constitution. Still, this does not mean that we turn against Muslims who are integrated and live peacefully here."
Anti-immigrant AfD says Muslims not welcome in Germany https://t.co/cM7Y2i58NS pic.twitter.com/KT5a3XEI02- Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 1, 2016
On Saturday up to 2,000 left-wing demonstrators chaled with police as they tried to break up the AfD's conference. About 500 people were briefly detained and 10 officers were slightly injured.
#MassArrests follow violent clashes at AfD_Bund conference https://t.co/YXrVRs1Elm pic.twitter.com/8BQpFetzMT- Sputnik (SputnikInt) April 30, 2016
AfD has no lawmakers in the federal parliament in Berlin but has members in half of Germany's 16 regional state assemblies.
Set up three years ago, its has attracted support on the back of Europe's migrant crisis, presenting a growing challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and other established parties ahead of the 2017 federal election.
Germany is home to nearly four million Muslims, about five percent of the total population. Many of the longer established Muslim community in Germany came from Turkey to find work, but those who have arrived over the past year (more than one million) have mostly been fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
I couldn't embed the video so bear with me! Thanks.
http://ktla.com/2016/05/01/video-shows-firefighters-deputies-coaxing-small-bear-out-of-colorado-apartment/
An apparently hungry bear somehow made its way into a second-floor apartment in Avon, Colorado, early Saturday morning, prompting a response from sheriff's deputies and firefighters.
The Eagle River Fire Protection District's Engine 7 was dispatched to the home after the small intruder was reported to be rummaging through a refrigerator about 4:45 a.m., according to post on the agency's Facebook page.
A brief video released by the fire department shows four firefighters and two Eagle County deputies in a hallway, slowly approaching the entrance to the apartment.
The resident had locked himself in his bedroom "until the bruin could be encouraged to vacate the premises," according to the video's caption.
"Go on, buddy," the deputies and firefighters say in the footage, as they stand near the front door. "Come on, come on."
The bear then pokes his head out and scurries down the hall. The responders follow behind, chuckling.
"Is he alone? Make sure," one says.
"I hope mom's not around," says another.
Neither the bear nor any humans were injured, according to the fire department.
The agency reminded residents to keep their windows and doors locked, and ensure that garbage and pet food are not left where they might attract bears.
"Remember, a fed bear is a dead bear," the Facebook post said.
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Pochodzi on ze strony http://bit.ly/1WAQEID
Tw'orca jest Kevin Caldwell (proxy)
Klip powstal w 1999r
I'm not the author of this clip.
It comes from the http://bit.ly/1WxUnqi
The creator Kevin Caldwell (proxy)
The video was created in 1999
Where the fuck were all the protesters when Barry promised to bankrupt the coal industry?
Oh I forgot, they voted for him.
Bill Clinton was repeatedly interrupted by protesters during a rally for Hillary Clinton in Logan, West Virginia Sunday before the state's primary on May 10.
The group booed the former president and confronted him about Hillary Clinton's promise to destroy coal jobs, a long-standing staple of West Virginia's economy.
During the rally, Clinton recounted that he had asked his wife to send him to "any place in America that feels left out and left behind." The protesters then began shouting at the former president, to which he reacted with disdain.
"This is where they start screaming because they don't want to hear this," Clinton said with his hand raised. The crowd applauded and stood up to face the protesters, who continued booing and were ushered out.
"The difference between us and them is that we listen to them," Clinton said.
Prior to Clinton's appearance in Logan, city officials emailed Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) attempting to prevent his visit, according to WVNS-TV.
"Bill and Hillary Clinton are simply not welcome in our town," their email stated. "Mrs. Clinton's anti-coal messages are the last thing our suffering town needs at this point. The policies that have been championed by people like Mrs. Clinton have all but devastated our fair town, and honestly, enough is enough."
http://freebeacon.com/politics/bill-clinton-met-with-confrontation-hostility-in-west-virginia/ Obama has done every thing he can to destroy the economy of West Virginia and Hillary has vowed to double down on the destruction
DNC dumped the "red neck vile coal mine" voters as expendable after the 2008 election. many continued to lock step in 2012,. now they are out of jobs and blame "evil BIG COAL".
Now they want their votes(D) after they gave them the shaft twice . yes, yes you CAN get those union bosses to lock step the remaining employed rank and file to vote (D)
Trump supporter simply yelled illegals are going home a few times , after she approached his partner in a threaten manner,she thought they would cowar but they simply just voiced their opinion on a law vital to our security being broke.
Nobody saw it Coming
Ouch
Are you still thinking of voting for Hillary Clinton but just not sure?
This might help you finally decide.
Just an awesome video of an extreme occupation. I'm sure I've seen it before but its worth a revisit. The last line he's says is bloody great. Vote and share if you like it. Enjoy XD
Twin car bomb blasts in the Shia-dominated southern Iraqi city of Samawa have left at least 38 people dead and at least 75 injured.
Police say several children are among those killed and the death toll is likely to rise. Officials say a car packed with explosives went off near government offices in the center of Samawa. Minutes later, another car bomb exploded at a bus station some 60 meters away. Daesh has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks. According to UN estimates, violence in Iraq has claimed the lives of more than 740 people in April, most of them civilians. Nearly 14-hundred people were also injured in the same month.
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Russia cracks down LGBT on May Day
Gay rights are still not protected in Russia.
They criticize capitalism and claim Cuba will remain a leftist progressive socialist country.
Down in Quineitra Governorate, a small number of Syrian patriots are defying the US and Jordanian efforts to protect the assad crime dynasty.
Here a handful of shells are fired from a recently liberated special farces 2S1, towards the communists in Ba'ath City.
Until a year ago, Syrian patriots spoke genuinely of an intention to attempt to reclaim the area of Quneitra Governorate which forms the UN administered de-militarised zone between Syria and zionist occupied Palestine.
This land was lost by the first head of the assad crime dynasty in 1973, although his soldiers fought with a great deal more elan and bravery than the militias the current assad crime dynasty boss 'commands'
However, the zionists have said they want the assad crime dynasty to endure, and so the Jordanians and Americans are working to secure that goal.
Given the fact the current assad crime dynasty boss has ordered a grand total of zero attacks against zionist occupied Palestine in his sixteen years on the throne, the zionist's demands are understandable.
To that end, the americans have formed a unit called the 'New Syrian Army', which is only permitted/paid to attack IS, not Iranian puppet forces in the Governorate.
The town of Quneitra was destroyed by crazed zionist invaders in 1974.
China claims sovereignty over all islands in South China Sea.
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Protesters in Baghdad have left the Iraqi capital's Green Zone after invading the heavily-fortified district to stage a 24-hour rally against paralysis in tackling corruption.
But they have pledged to return by the end of the week to keep up the pressure.
The move by supporters of prominent Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr follows months of political wrangling over the prime minister's attempts to replace partisan ministers with technocrats as part of an anti-corruption drive.
Powerful parties have resisted the changes, fearing the dismantling of patronage networks that sustain their wealth and influence.
"We will come back to demand the reforms and to fight against corruption and the corrupted. If our demands are not met, the people will use every legitimate means. At the very least we would take over the headquarters of the three governing powers," protest spokeswoman Ikhlas al Obeidi told the demonstrators.
Celebrations Square right now#Baghdad #Iraq
pic by Ali AlJazairy pic.twitter.com/YsInIJdlbM- Hayder Al-Shakeri (@HayderSH) 1 May 2016
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi toured the Green Zone on Saturday.
He has warned that the months-long crisis prompted by his attempts to overhaul the Cabinet could hamper the fight against ISIL.
Parliament's failure to approve the changes - and end the political quota system blamed for rampant corruption - prompted the protesters to take over the building on Saturday, where they danced, waved Iraqi flags and chanted pro-Sadr slogans.
The initial breach was mostly peaceful, but around sunset security forces fired tear gas and bullets into the air to stop more protesters from entering. Police sources said about a dozen people were wounded.
a proud woman sits on a piece of blast wall #GreenZone #Baghdad #Upbeat pic.twitter.com/rwPiEL0eo4- UPBEAT (@Upbeat_book) 1 May 2016
The Green Zone, a 10-square kilometre district on the banks of the River Tigris which also houses many foreign embassies, has been off-limits to most Iraqis since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Among the demonstrators who breached the barriers on Saturday, there was shock at the contrast between the poverty in which most Iraqis live and the comparative luxury inside the fortified area.
"There is electricity and street lighting, there is more water here than I expected. Even the plants are different," one said.
Another added that he wanted the country's top officials removed. "They have done nothing good for Iraq, only destruction, sectarian wars, hunger and no services," he said.
Cook County Deputy Accused Of Excessive Force
Chicago, IL - Recently obtained footage from a surveillance camera inside Cook County Jail shows a burly guard repeatedly punching and kicking a prisoner in the head, even after the prisoner is knocked to the ground and curls up on the floor.
But nearly three years after the incident, the officer, Branden Norise, is still on the job, with a taxpayer-funded salary of $57,000 a year.
And he was never charged with a crime even though his boss, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, referred the case to Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, and his office said a crime was likely committed by Norise.
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First up is the Titletown U.S.A 150 foot long x 49 foot wide with 5600HP and the second one is the large Sally Archer 186 foot long x 50 foot wide pushing with 8400HP. Does John Hartford say what I think he says around the 3:12 mark LOL.
Just out and about in S"odermalm, Stockholm 2016-04-30 like some kind of damn youtuber.
Today in downtown Budapest 3 planes flew under the Chainbridge in formation. It almost turned into tragedy as turbulance pushed one of the planes toward the surface of the Danube river making the landing gear to touch the water at a speed of more than 200km/h.
Video of the incident: https://youtu.be/TkXhvUKZbDw
Happened in South of France.
Before TRUMP there was .....
the late Gerry Red Wilson died 1998
Vladimir thinks putting his fingers in the dam will hold back the tide the Professor tells how in the end Mother Russia will Knell before Islam.
A local Pakistani man setting 40 feet distance target from his backside and trying to shoot it with help of Stone in his Ring. (If you not understand what i am saying then watch it for yourself) lol
Kentucky Confederate Monument Removed After 120 Years
Louisville, KY - A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a
Confederate soldier.
"It's time for us to move this monument to a more appropriate place," Ramsey said while standing in front of the stone memorial, which sits next to the university's gleaming Speed Art museum that just completed a $60 million renovation.
Governments and universities across the country have re-evaluated displays of Confederate symbols following the racially motivated slayings last summer of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The tall, obelisk-style monument will be disassembled and cleaned while it is in storage awaiting a new location, which has not been determined. It was given to the city by the Kentucky Woman's Monument Association.
Ricky Jones, a professor of Pan-African studies at the university, said he has been pushing for
removal of the statue since he arrived at the university in the late 1990s.
"I can't tell you how happy I am," Jones said after the announcement Friday. "I think this statue being on the campus is somewhat akin to flying the Confederate flag over the (university's)
administration building."
Jones wrote in a newspaper opinion piece last week that the statue is a "towering granite and bronze eyesore glorifying the nadir of America's past."
Morning Joe Ridicules Lyin' Ted Cruz for Calling Trump a Sore Loser
Ted Cruz was on with Glenn Beck Radio Show this morning for a sit down interview, where he blasted Trump as a very sore loser and one who wakes up in the middle of the night in cold sweats worried that people will call him losin' Donald.
Who's the real loser?
A video show the moment al-Quds hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed in an airstrike, killing 55 civilians and wounding many more.
The hospital, which was supported by Doctors Without Borders, was bombed on Thursday, as a fragile ceasefire crumbled and the city erupted in a new wave of violence that has killed at least 250 people over the past nine days. The US and others have pointed the finger of blame at the Syrian government for the attack.
it purports to show the final moments of Dr. Mohammad Moaz, the hospital's only pediatrician, as he leaves the facility's intensive-care unit.
The man shown leaving the unit does appear to be Dr. Moaz, whose photo was released on Facebook by the hospital's director in a tribute to the 36-year-old pediatrician after he was killed.
PASSIVE AND ACTIVE CRUELTY
There are two kinds of animal cruelty inherent
across the spectrum of animal abuse. ACTIVE CRUELTY, which is cruelty
inflicted (with deliberate intent to harm an animal creating immediate
pain and suffering), and PASSIVE CRUELTY (harm inflicted via willful
neglect creating prolonged suffering). One or both types are inherent
cruelty to companion animals, animals used for research, industrial
factory farmed animal cruelty, animals used for sport and ritual,
hoarding, animals killed for their fur, skins and body parts and mass
market puppy mill production.
Regardless of the arguments that it may be the
"custom" to ritually slaughter an animal for its fur or skin, or eat the
animals we call our companions, cruelty is cruelty and cannot be
disguised. All animals killed in these practices are "SENTIENT." They
feel excruciating pain, fear and terror. This fact cannot be
disregarded. While no regard is paid to this fact in many other
countries, as a European and North American society we have a choice and
must choose not to support and to condemn this absence of regard.
Animal cruelty is no longer a simple issue and
categorically cannot be ignored. Animal cruelty issues long considered a
peripheral concern are no longer on the outskirts of our society.
Clinicians, veterinarians and scientists are starting to see a shift in
that mentality now. Animal cruelty is now recognized as signature
pathology.
The precious animals we see in the media so
badly abused are the publicized victim of a phenomenon that a growing
number of professionals including police officers, prosecutors,
psychologists, social workers, animal-control officers, veterinarians
and dogcatchers are now addressing with a newfound vigor: wanton cruelty
toward animals.
PERPETRATORS OF ANIMAL ABUSE
ACTIVE CRUELTY (Acts of Commission)
The Link Between Animal Cruelty (Domestic and Other Forms of Violence)
This
little cat who was named DUTCH was found hanging upside down, nailed by
one back leg to a utility post. He had also been beaten on the head and
suffered blunt force trauma. Despite an out pouring of outrage and
love for him and expert medical attention at the local veterinary
clinic, he died two days after he was found.
Animal abusers are five times more likely to
commit violent crimes against people. Deviant behaviors such as animal
abuse generally originate from a traumatic childhood. The American
Psychiatric Association considers animal cruelty as one of the
diagnostic criteria of conduct disorder. The fourth edition of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines
conduct disorder as "a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in
which the basic rights of others or major age appropriate societal norms
or rules are violated." Conduct disorder is found in those who abuse
animals and abuse people.
Clinical evidence indicates that animal
cruelty is one of the symptoms usually seen at the earliest stages of
conduct disorder, often by the age of eight. This information has only
recently been included in the DSM so some psychologists, psychiatrists,
and social workers are just now becoming aware of it.
Many psychological, sociological and
criminology studies in recent decades have clearly shown that violent
offenders have adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal
cruelty. The F.B.I. has analyzed the lives of serial killers and their
findings suggest that most serial killers have killed or tortured
animals as children. Further research has shown consistent patterns of
animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of abuse such as:
child abuse, spouse abuse and elder abuse.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Allen Brantley
was quoted as saying, "Animal cruelty is not a harmless venting of
emotion in a healthy individual; This is a warning sign." There are deep
psychological issues that lead to violent crimes against people
This
puppy had his ears cut off as prank! He has recovered and is now
adopted into a loving home. Photo Courtesy of Queen Waldorf Fights Back.
Jason Baker, Director of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia said, "We believe that cruelty
to animals is not inherent, but learned. That being said, teaching
kindness and respect for animals - in our schools and homes - will
foster empathy, the ability to understand what someone else feels." He
added, "Incorporating the simple concepts of kindness and respect into
our daily lives and teaching our children to respect and protect even
the smallest and most despised among us will help kids value one
another."
The link between animal abuse and
interpersonal violence is becoming so well established that many U.S.
communities now cross-train social-service and animal-control agencies
in how to recognize signs of animal abuse as possible indicators of
other abusive behaviors
MOTIVATIONS
In 1985, researchers Stephen Kellert and Alan
Felthous extensively studied the animal abuse phenomenon. They
discovered several motivations that helped to characterize animal
cruelty in adults, many of which are applicable to youth who abuse
animals. Some motivations are:
To enhance one's own aggressiveness. To shock people for amusement. Controlling an animal through
inflicting pain as a result of the sense of loss of full control in
one's own life. (Physically abused by parents.) Retaliation against a person by hurting their pet. To experience sadism (the suffering experienced by the animal).
Case reports and a youth interview study
conducted by researchers Frank Ascione, T. Thompson and T. Black suggest
a number of developmentally related motivations such as:
Peer pressure Mood enhancement (e.g. animal abuse is used to relieve boredom). Sexual gratification (bestiality). Forced abuse (child is forced into animal abuse by a more powerful individual). Animal phobias. Post-traumatic play (reenacting violent episodes with an animal victim.) Imitation (copying a parent's or other adult's abusive "discipline" of animals).
Rescued
puppy mill dog Classic. Yorkshire Terrier used over and over again for
breeding, starving barely able to walk and suffering from near
blindness from untreated eye infections.
Kellert and Felthous found that family
violence, particularly alcoholism and paternal abuse, were significantly
more common among aggressive criminals with a history of childhood
cruelty toward animals. This connects with statistical information from
animal control agencies in the United States. They say that in 80% of
homes in which animal control agencies found abused pets, there had been
investigations by child welfare agencies due to reports of physical
abuse and neglect.
Dr. Randall Lockwood, who earned a doctorate
in psychology and is senior vice president for anti-cruelty and training
for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says
that children and adolescents who are abusive to animals are often
acting out violence experienced or witnessed in their home. Aggressive
individuals usually become that way because of a real or perceived
injustice.
Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berowitz, Ted Bundy,
all sadistically tortured animals in their childhood. Brenda Spencer,
who opened fire at a San Diego school, killed two students and injured
nine other children. When she was young, she had repeatedly abused cats
and dogs, often by setting their tails on fire.
The American Humane Association has compiled
research showing the link between violent acts toward animals and
violence toward people. Here's a sampling of the results that involve
children:
Children exposed to domestic violence were
three times more likely to be cruel to animals than children from
nonviolent households.
In a Wisconsin study, 75 percent of battered
women reported that pets had been abused in front of children.
One
of the puppies from the Gull Lake Manitoba Canada Hoarding Chernekie
hoarding case that could not be saved, as he was in such severe
distress.
A New Jersey study found, in pet-owning
families being investigated for child abuse, that one-third of the
children had abused animals, using them as scapegoats for their anger.
Sexually abused children were five times
more likely to abuse animals, and 20 percent of children who sexually
abused other children had histories of sexually abusing animals.
The FBI identifies animal cruelty as one of
the juvenile behaviors associated with increasingly violent behavior.
Fifty percent of school shooters have histories of animal cruelty.
An abundance of research shows the close
link between violent behavior toward animals and violent behavior toward
people. They reveal the insidious and calculated motives for harming or
killing another person's beloved pet, and the heartrending
repercussions for the abused partners, their pets and their children.
Up to 75 percent of domestic violence victims report that their partners threatened or killed family pets. Women seeking safety at domestic
violence shelters are nearly 11 times more likely to report that their
partner has hurt or killed pets than women who have not experienced
domestic violence. 48 percent of respondents reported that animal abuse had occurred "often" during the past 12 months. 30 percent reported the abuse occurred "almost always." 51 percent reported that animal abuse incidents coincided with violent outbursts against human family members. 85 percent of the 50 largest shelters
for battered women in the United States said clients discussed incidence
of pet abuse in the family. Overall, 71 percent of women and 63
percent of children entering the shelters reported that animals had been
the target of violence.
Very sick Cocker spaniel rescue form filthy puppy mill. She did recover.
Pet abuse is listed as a form of
intimidation in the "power and control wheel," a landmark chart
developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, the first
multi-disciplinary program designed to address the issue of domestic
violence.
Threats of harm to family pets may be used
to coerce women who are battered into committing illegal acts at the
behest of the batterer. A survey of 1,283 female pet owners found that
domestic batterers who abuse pets use more forms of violence and
demonstrate greater use of controlling behaviors over human victims than
batterers who do not abuse their pets.
Thirty-two percent of battered women report their children had hurt or killed animals.
Children exposed to domestic violence are
three times more likely to be cruel to animals than children living in
nonviolent households.
Approximately 60% of college students who
witnessed or perpetrated animal cruelty as children also reported
experiences with child maltreatment or domestic violence.
OUR SOCIETY
As a society we need to be deeply concerned
about this issue. A 2009 US study of 14,000 college students found that
today's young people are 40 percent less empathetic than college kids
from 30 years ago. The research was presented at the annual meeting of
Association for Psychological Science. According to one of the lead
researchers, Ed O'Brien, "It's harder for today's college
student to empathize with others because so much of their social lives
is done through a computer and not through real life interaction." With
the rapid growth of social media, young adults are saturated with a
social life rooted in technology! Feeling compassion and expressing
empathy are just not a part of their daily interactions. This is a real
threat to the well being of our young people
Recently a teacher reported students who had
tortured some baby raccoons. She was rermanded for reporting an issue
that was not really "school related." This was a serious mistake on
behalf of the school board.
Dubbed
the Kitten Killer of Hang Zhou China this woman was filmed playing
with this kitten then crushing it to death with her shoes. She has
been identified but under China laws, she has done noting illegal !
Facebook animal lovers identified her and her location from background
scenery etc and have ensured her name was made very public. She has
since resigned from her job and now lives in hiding. This CRUSH video
was previously for sale on the web, but is no longer. New Legislation
very recently passed in the United States has now banned the sale of
CRUSH videos.
Animal cruelty is becoming more and more
publicized in the media and the abuse more heinous. For example, dousing
a dog in gasoline and setting it alight, nailing a cat to telegraph
pole, microwaving a pet hamster, and the evolution of CRUSH videos.
CRUSH videos are the filming of small animals like kittens, mice,
hamsters and rabbits being systematically tortured by nail guns, sliced
with knives, burned and finally stamped on by a woman in high heels or
bare feet. The market for this sick and vile product is prodominantly in
the United States.
The cost to our society from animal cruelty
is incalculable and our Canadian criminal code totally inadequate to
deal with it. Enforcement and social services agencies have to deal with
the abused human victims. Safe houses and counseling have to be made
available. Families are torn apart and children traumatized. In almost
70% of the domestic violence incidents the family pets were killed or
tortured in front of a family member prior to that family member being
abused.
Almost exlusively, no one paid any attention to the animal abuse!
It can now be said that when an animal is
abused humans are at risk. The media, our government justice sytem,
enforcement and social sevice agencies, schools and the public must now
pay strict and prompt attention.
PREVENTION
If you see an act of violence against any
animal, report it to both the local S.P.C.A. and to the police. If you
know of or suspect there is violence in a neighbor's home or a child is
being abused, the perpetrator could be a future violent criminal. It's a
moral and civic duty to report these situations to local child welfare
agencies.
Please click on the link to see the reality
and nature of animal cruelty cases across Canada and the US: Queen Waldorf Fights Back!
ANIMAL HOARDING
CLASSIC PASSIVE CRUELTY (Acts of Omission)
Regardless of the henious act of animal
cruelty, the nature of the act falls into one or other of two distinct
categories, active by commission (willful intent, deliberate malice
towards animals); or by an act of omission, the willful neglect to care
for an animal. Animal hoarders are guilty of passive cruelty and come
with their own profile and pathology, The typical animal hoarder is
female, 60 plus and will typically "hoard" dogs or cats. Cats are more
commonly hoarded than dogs.
What is an Animal Hoarder?
Puppy mill kennel after dogs have all been rescued, note the filth and debris!
According to a Tufts University
ground-breaking study, Animal Hoarding "involves a compulsive need to
obtain and control animals, coupled with a failure to recognize their
suffering... (Rescue-Hoarders) obtain animals through actively seeking
unwanted pets... from animal shelters or via the Internet...
misrepresenting (themselves) as a legitimate rescue, shelter, or pet
hospice."
Why Do People Hoard Animals?
It is not clearly understood why people
become animal hoarders. Early research pointed toward a variant of
obsessive-compulsive disorders, but new studies and theories are leading
toward attachment disorders in conjunction with personality disorders,
paranoia, delusional thinking, depression and other mental illnesses.
Some animal hoarders began collecting after a traumatic event or loss,
while others see themselves as "rescuers" who save animals from a life
on the street.
One of the most perplexing facets of animal
hoarding is that in the face of professed love and desire to care for
animals, there can be tremendous animal neglect and suffering....
(Hoarders will) deny adverse events as obvious as starvation, severe
illness and death... a desire to continue accumulation despite
deteriorating conditions, is almost universal..." They have a
"...resistance to adopt out animals they have "saved"... (and) the true
reality of the animals' situation... boredom, fear, starvation, illness,
and death... (is) met with denial or defensiveness."
Hoarder's dogs generally live a life of
misery, often confined in stacked cages, enclosures, or runs, 24/7, no
exercise, human affection, and often living in filthy conditions.
Rescue-Hoarders may claim that their dogs have problems that prevent
them from being adopted out, and solicit donations for the lifetime care
of these "un-adoptable" dogs in their "sanctuary." The hoarders
wrongfully believe they are helping the animals by keeping them indoors.
In their mind, the cats and dogs are much better off with them than if
they were unclaimed outdoors.
Puppy rescued from Puppy mill covered in his own feces and urine , being bathed and on his way to a new forever home.
The problem is that the animals, because of
their sheer number, lack proper socialization skills. In short, they're
feral. Between the lack of sociability and the fact that these animals
are not house-broken (defecating and urinating on the floors and
furniture), the possibility of any of these animals being a candidate
for adoption after rescue is nil. "It is likely that up to a quarter
million animals - 250,000 a year - are victims.
What explains behavior like this? Is there
cruel intent behind it or is it simply a case of well-meaning people who
took on too much responsibility? Are there psychological issues at
play? Animal hoarding is a complex and intricate issue with far-reaching
effects that encompass mental health, animal welfare and public safety
concerns. Those "collected" range in species from cats and dogs to
reptiles, rodents, birds, exotics and even farm animals.
The following criteria are used to define animal hoarding:
More than the typical number of companion animals. Inability to provide even minimal
standards of nutrition, sanitation, shelter and veterinary care, with
this neglect often resulting in starvation, illness and death. Individual insists all animals are happy and healthy - even when there are clear signs of distress and illness. They have numerous animals and may not know the total number of animals in their care. Their home is deteriorated (i.e., dirty windows, broken furniture, holes in wall and floor, extreme clutter). There is a strong smell of ammonia, and floors may be covered with dried feces, urine, vomit, etc. Animals are emaciated, lethargic and not well socialized. Fleas and vermin are present. Individual is isolated from community
and appears to be in neglect himself. Denial of the inability to provide
this minimum care and the impact of that failure on the animals, the
household and human occupants of the dwelling. A person has more than a typical (often illegal) number of animals. The animals are kept indoors or inside cages in the back yard. Homes where animal hoarders live give off a very offensive odor.
It's important to note that not everyone
who has multiple animals is an animal hoarder. A person may have a dozen
animals, and all are spayed and neutered and provided with regular
veterinary care and a sanitary environment. This person would not be an
animal hoarder. Even rescuers who occasionally become overwhelmed are
not considered hoarders if they are actively trying to modify the
situation.
According to the ASPCA, there is a dire
need for coordinating efforts between animal control, mental health and
social workers, and public health organizations to help combat the
problem of animal hoarding. This problem also requires the assistance of
family members and neighbors to step up and. report suspicions of
animal hoarding.
Should Hoarders Be Prosecuted?
Dog with an embedded collar to the point it is that it is having difficulty breathing.
In most cases, criminal prosecution of
animal hoarding can be a difficult process and may not be the most
effective route. Such cases are difficult to successfully prosecute and,
once released, the hoarder is likely to resume collecting an excessive
number of animals unless closely monitored.
Some say prosecution isn't the answer
because hoarders are often emotionally troubled rather than criminally
inclined. "Like many psychological conditions, the causes of animal
hoarding are probably multiple and, therefore, assessment of emotions,
behavior and thoughts must be multifaceted to point the way toward
successful treatment," says the ASPCA's Dr. LaFarge. In some cases
judges can impose conditions that actually help the hoarder. They can
require counseling, for instance, or ban the person from having animals.
What is clear is that prosecution alone
rarely alters the behavior. "It is essential that key community agencies
work together to prevent animal hoarders from harming the large number
of animals they gain control over," says LaFarge. "Social service
agencies must collaborate with animal shelters and law enforcement to
intervene to save the animals and then follow up with years of
monitoring to prevent a recurrence. The general public needs to be
educated to realize that the hoarder is not just a nice little old lady
who 'loves too much!"
The most recent hoarding in case in Canada
was reported by the Winnipeg Humane Society, in which 61 dogs taken
from the Judy and Peter Chernecki Gull Lake property, 90 kilometers
north of Winnipeg Manitoba. Over half of the dogs seized from the filthy
Gull Lake-area house that was the site of one the worst animal hoarding
cases in the provinces recent memory, had to be put down.
If you are a veterinarian, a social worker,
animal care rescue shelter worker or a neighbor and you suspect someone
is "hoarding" please report your suspicions. Take photographs if you
are able to safely do so, talk to your local animal shelter, humane
society, MP, MLA, the local town council, local police, your local pound
or animal control officer. You could be saving the lives of both the
hoarders and the animals they have.
WILLFUL NEGLECT
Lucien
left tied up to starve to death! He was near death when found but has
recovered and is adopted into a d forever loving home.
Passive Cruelty (Acts of Omission)
The dictionary definition of the term
willful is "an act that is undertaken that is of your own free will or
design; done by choice; not forced or compelled."
Unless someone has been diagnosed with
Alzheimer's or is suffering from a mental disorder, it is not possible
that an individual cannot "literally" have any knowledge or recollection
of the act of bringing an animal into their care and custody and
consequently just "forgetting "about them. At some point or another the
recollection that there is an animal outside in the yard, tied up in
pen, restrained in any manner, or kept in a room in their house, will
surface.
Any individual of sound reason knows full
well that a sentient being (animal) requires care. Whether that care is
minimal, the awareness that the animal requires food water and shelter
is intermittently present. The act of choosing to ignore that awareness
is an act of willfulness and therefore willful neglect.
The most common situations of willful
neglect are found in the thousands of animals who are bought or adopted
out to individuals who take them home and then categorically ignore them
and their needs. This act of passive cruelty is nowhere more evident
that the thousands of dogs who are just tied up and left outside.
Frequently they are left with no food or water and relatively little, if
any shelter.
Common signs of passive cruelty are listed below:
Embedded collars Long overgrown claws or nails Chronic dental and eye infections Untreated broken bones (in any animal) Chronic tick, flea and parasite infestations (in any animal) Severe mange (in any animal) Untreated and open wounds on the body (in any animal) Patches of missing hair (in any animal) Extremely thin, starving animal (in any animal) Limping (in any animal) Dogs who are repeatedly left alone without food and water, and often chained in a yard Dogs, cats or other animals who have been hit by cars or injured in any way and have not been taken to a veterinarian Dogs or other animals (horses rabbits, etc.) who are kept outside without shelter in extreme weather conditions Animals who cower in fear or act aggressively when approached by their owners
These
are dogs on crown land in Churchill Manitoba belonging to Churchill
resident Brian Ladoon. The dogs are chained out on lines with NO shelter
NO water and fed every 2-3 days The are subject to -50 below
temperatures on occasion ,polar bear and wolf attacks and eat snow for
hydration. There are reportedly 200 dogs and they are there month in
month out, year round ! The dogs have NO exercise and rarely any human
contact. Dead dogs have been photographed on this property. This is one
of the worst cases of CLASSIC passive cruelty currently existing in
Canada.
Other - just as common - acts of passive
cruelty are committed by those individuals who have an animal and leave
their place of residence, leaving the animal behind locked in a room.
The long drawn out and painful suffering of
any animal from willful neglect (passive cruelty) by omission is just
as heinous a crime as a direct action taken to intentionally harm an
animal (active cruelty) by commission.
The Canadian Criminal Code that addresses
animal cruelty, while pitifully out dated and inadequate, states under
the section:
WILLFUL ACTS AGAIN CERTAIN AND FORBIDDEN PROPERTY
Cruelty to Animals
Causing unnecessary suffering
446. (1) Everyone commits an offense who:
(a) willfully causes or, being the owner,
willfully permits to be caused unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to
an animal or a bird
One of the key reasons that Canada only has
only a 1% animal cruelty case conviction rate, is that along with the
totally inadequate legislation, lawyers do not have the required skills
to determine and present active and/or passive animal cruelty case
motions to the court. Judges have no idea as to how to determine a legal
definition of the term willful.
"To inflict cruelties on defenseless
creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets
of a civilized society - reverence for life." - Dr. Jon Evans
Research, photos and some text courtesy of
Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, TUFTS, Hoarding of Animals
Research Consortium, Humane Society of United States and the RSPCA
Massive protest in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on sea environment
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