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From now on, nature and the living are subjects of law, able to go to court to be protected.
In 1972, Christopher Stone, a law teacher in California, caused a stir by writing an item called ‘Should Trees Have Standing? In order to prevent Walt Disney company from building a winter sports resort in the Mineral King Valley, a region well-known for its sequoias, he proposed to bestow the legal capacity of subjects of law to natural entities, in this case trees, thus giving the trees the possibility to plead in their own right before the court.
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The Sierra Club, a famous environmental NGO, sued Walt Disney over its project but the California Court of Appeal rejected the claim saying that the organisation could not have legal standing since its members have not been personally adversely affected and did not suffer damage or individual loss. US Supreme Court was about to begin deliberations when Christopher Stone intervened. His idea- it is true that the personal lives of the Sierra Club’s members will not be affected directly by the Walt Disney project, however the same thing cannot be said about the trees the lives of which are threatened. Also, if the trees’ cause was personally defended in court by an appointed representative, they could win, and the project then would be stopped.
Overall, the strategy that served me the most, even more so at the beginning of the exercise, was to read texts directly related to the primary text in question this helped me a lot to grasp the main concepts used and to see how authors would compare, contrast and link them.
As some of the vocabulary is from the legal domain, one will easily face two main difficulties. On one hand this is a specialised text, and it may be the case that at times to translate in a professional way is only possible for a specialist. One the other hand, it might be impossible, for specialists of comparative law themselves, to find exact equivalents, and therefore being left with no other options than to resort to translation technics such as cultural equivalence (Vinay, and Darbelnet, 1958/1977) since the French and American or English (if they are taken as source and target cultures) legal systems do not have always themselves strict equivalents terms (Gémar, 1982) as they are different systems with different laws, infrastructures, organizations, historical, legal, and social references that do not match.
The primary challenge translating this text, was that the interest in law for this status change is very recent (Regad, 2018). It has been therefore several times difficult to find similar expressions coined in other texts (even expressions from the original French item to translate). One will have to then research not very used neologisms in context and jargon not yet entirely stabilised (Fournel, 2012), or concepts that remain very evolutive, changing or not very largely settled or represented. To solve lack in similarity in different cultures and also the challenge of the novelty in recent cultural stance, I often chose an explanatory approach, or explicitness change (Chesterman, 1997), sometimes using several words, instead of one, translate a word twice in order to erase ambiguity and frame the original idea further, and explaining or exemplifying further the concept.
One of the biggest translation dilemmas was on the topical sentence. The French text proclaims : ‘La parole est à la défense ‘. Numerous instances of this saying which is linked to court processes can be found. In English the translation I chose is ‘the defence may now speak’ that is a literal translation (Chesterman, 1997) of the French text. I did find a few texts using this expression, however it did not seem to be used by the judges in English jargon; phrases such as ‘you may proceed’, ‘Please present your case’, ‘Present your opening statement’ (Oneida County Youth Court, 2019) being spoken instead. After searching for alternative phrases, I finally opted for the literal version. What motivated my decision is that the ability to speak has historically and presently being taken into account in the granting of legal rights. If nature needs a representative to articulate its rights, one of the most notable injustice of the psychiatric and legal world had been to consider the inability of some human beings to speak as evidence of their mental and intellectual disabilities (Colley, 1999) (Harvey, 1857) (Crowley, 2018), these scientific or medical assessments in turn instrumentalised in determining these people diminished legal status
Nerhot, P. (2018) ‘Méditations philosophiques : Responsabilité juridique et sciences expérimentales sur le vivant’, Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, Volume 4, January–March 2018, Pages 65-71 [Online]. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2018.01.002 (Accessed 10 January 2019).
Sands, P. (2011) ‘should Trees Have Standing?’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 3 J. Hum. Rts. & Env’t. 2 (2012), pp.2-3 [Online]. Available https://heinonline-org.lib ezproxy.open.ac.uk/HOL/Print?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/jhre3&id=170 (Accessed 10 January 2019).
Tignino, M and Turley, L. (2018) Granting Legal Rights to Rivers: Is International Law Ready? The Revelator [Online]. Available https://therevelator.org/rivers-legal-rights/ (Accessed 10 January 2019).
Université de Genève : Faculté de Droit – Université de Genève Master en Droit du vivant –Présentation (2019) YouTube video, added by Université de Genève [Online]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH-1SauUDHE (Accessed 10 January 2019).
Zivi, K. (2006) ‘Cultivating Character: John Stuart Mill and the Subject of Rights’, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 2006), pp. 49-61 [Online]. Available at https://www-jstor-org.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/stable/3694256 (Accessed 10 January 2019).
Environmental tort; standing (locus standi); environmental justice; private nuisance; convergence of human rights and tort; human rights and environmental justice; European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence; statute and standing.
The debate regarding the role of civil liability as a means of environmental protection has been running for many years and shows no signs of running its course, as certain States press ahead with environmental liability regimes and the European Community continually shifts position. One of the central themes that has yet to be fully resolved concerns which parties should be in a position to take action in respect of environmental harm. Existing private-law mechanisms focus on individual loss, be it in the form of personal injuries or damage to property. This immediately limits the class of persons who may claim and focuses attention on the individual loss rather than the wider environmental harm. For example, members of the family home, other than the person enjoying title to the property, may be excluded from the protection afforded by the property torts, such as private and public nuisance, and trespass to land due to their lack of title. This theme links into a broader debate in that, beyond the family home, there is clearly limited capacity for individuals, or other interested parties, to seek remedies in respect of damage to the wider environment.
Legal capacity in Law To be a subject of law In order to have ability to acquire rights and take obligations and responsibility, ONE should have this capacity which is called legal capacity. Only subjects of law have a legal capacity, and those who have a legal capacity are the subjects of law. Legal capacity Issue of liability or responsibility, is strictly connected with possession of legal capacity.
The capacity of subject of law of individuals at challenging the rights of the states is a recent right in international law, enabling people’s rights not to remained subservient to the ones of the states’ or even at ‘being prior and standing above’ to the rights of the states or other organization.
In Zivi, the subjects of rights is used in a very relevant manner to the text as it is about the subjects able and responsible for claiming their rights while linking rights with activism.
Last year, four rivers were granted legal rights: the Whanganui in New Zealand, Rio Atrato in Colombia, and the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in India. These four cases present powerful examples of the increasing relevance of rights-centered environmental protection. Like corporations, which have legal rights in many jurisdictions, these rivers are rights-bearing entities whose rights can be enforced by local communities and individuals in court. But unlike corporations, these rights are not yet recognized in international treaties. Which raises the question: what are the implications of rights for nature for international environmental law?
[…] recognizes the importance of protecting water resources, but views them entirely as natural resources belonging to states.
In contrast to international law, some countries have granted rights to the nature, and specifically to rivers, in their national laws. In 2008, Ecuador recognized the constitutional right of Mother Earth and, in 2010, Bolivia adopted the Laws on the Rights of Mother Earth, which gives legal standing to nature and establishes an ombudsman for the protection of its rights. And in May 2017, Colombia’s Constitutional Court recognized the Atrato River as a legal person.
More recently, the Parliament of New Zealand granted the country’s third-longest river, the Whanganui, the legal rights of a person, after a 140-year campaign by the Whanganui Iwi tribe.
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India’s Ganges River and one of its main tributaries, the Yamuna River were granted these same rights. The high court in the northern state of Uttarakhand — not the national government, as in New Zealand, Ecuador, and Bolivia—issued the order, citing the case of the Whanganui in establishing that that the Ganges and the Yamuna should be accorded the status of living human entities.
These rivers now have the right to representation in the form of “guardians” or “allies” in legal proceedings against threats to their wellbeing, such as degradation. […]
The Whanganui River is a relatively pristine ecosystem — especially in contrast to the heavily polluted Yamuna and Ganges rivers. Each day, 1.5 billion liters of untreated sewage enters the Ganges River, and many attempts to clean up the river have failed over the years. Will the river’s legal […]
New Zealand’s Parliament has just passed a bill to enable the Whanganui River to be recognised as a legal person. It will now be represented by two nominees: one appointed by the Maori community (or Iwi), and another appointed by the government. […]
Chris Finlayson, New Zealand’s attorney general and minister for treaty negotiations described the move as “unprecedented” but also emphasised that it was equivalent to assigning legal personality to companies.
As a result of this development, the river will have its own legal standing with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. This is the first instance anywhere of extending legal personality to a natural entity
Implications
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This change provides a mechanism for the natural object to be proactively protected, rather than reactively addressed through seeking to clean up any degradation in the condition of such natural object.
Given the impact of climate change on the wider environment, we can expect increased pressure for legal systems (globally) to adopt equally innovative steps in order to confer legal personality to significant natural objects.
This post was prepared with the assistance of Ei Nge Htut in the London office of Latham & Watkins.
Should trees have standing? Towards legal rights for natural objects (C. Stone).
January 11, 2014 Anna Leave a comment
Author
Christopher Stone
Keywords
Development of rights, development of children’s rights, standing for ‘natural objects’.
Abstract
This article, from the era when the birth of modern environmentalism and conservationism arguably emanated, is an abstract but serious attempt to propose that forests, oceans and rivers, in fact the entire natural environment, should be afforded legal rights. The piece explains that the granting of new rights involves two aspects; first, legal-operational aspects and second psychic and socio-psychic aspects. The author argues that it would be seemingly ridiculous to state that ‘natural objects’ should have no rights to seek legal redress merely because they cannot speak up for themselves. It is considered normal for corporations, who cannot speak, to employ lawyers to act on their behalf; the same can be said for states, estates, children etc. The mentally incompetent or any person that is incapable of managing their own affairs is provided, by the courts, with someone who can whilst a business entity that has become ‘incompetent’ is, for example, appointed a trustee in bankruptcy; conceivably someone could apply to the courts to be the ‘guardian’ of a natural object that is perceived to be in danger. https://gnhre.org/2014/01/11/should-trees-have-standing-towards-legal-rights-for-natural-objects-c-stone/
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More secondary corpus related to the concepts linked to the overall translation but not necessarily to the glossary or more loosely connected.
Should Trees Have Standing
Over three decades ago, as a professor at the University of Southern California, Christopher Stone challenged the historic legal premise that nature and trees are treated as objects in the eyes of the law and therefore without rights. He recognized that for nature to have rights under the law, the fundamental basis of our legal systems would need to be rewritten.
Should Trees Have Standing? became a rallying point for the new environmental movement and food for a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights. The debate reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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This enduring work continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights, so that the voiceless elements in nature are protected for future generations.
C.ET: You know when one sees something like that, hard-core corrupted occurring, in fact occurring many times and times again, to make money, and it is none of your business, then it is logical one loses faith, loses respect for everything.
Onto sometimes loose self-esteem or sadism for sexual kick and the impression in vain to retain power (on their scale of shame, scheme and haine (phonetic ‘hen’, hatred in French).
C.ET: I don’t agree at all with the last part of this documentary. Breeding humanely towards death is the most hypocritical human lies. In fact more than hypocrisy at the final it is deceit.
I all the same propose to you to watch the video as it is an excellent documentary.
Please, we beg you, don’t eat meat = cooked murdered cadavers and since it is still legal under your own order.
PS: I hope the little girl won’t be finally paid by the farming industry to sell the lies of them being caring. let’s go on be caring that way, and like all dairy cows we will finish euthanatized just like some of these little new (but well-bred generally) students would recommend ‘out of compassionate care’ anyway. Or start selecting what they want for their barbies dolls convoluting the buttocks buttox later needed (responsible in mass for animal testing).
C.ET: that just shows the infinite torture during breeding and slaughter. However, whose fault is it, and above all there is no worse torture to be de kept alive to be used as food, whatever the methods. It is the filthy fault of meat-eaters.
C.ET: that is the effect of denying the holiness of religion. I am not saying that there are plenty. However, denying one of them and we d become lifeless.
Not very distressful video, as I think we ve(t) lost the heart necessary to understand these types of cruelty, and therefore stop acknowledging a live of suffering, or our live permitting to lie, to breed and kill.
Heed, hill. Climate will change.
= think we ve lost the hear, think we ve lost the heart.
Think we ve lost the mind.
Deem.
Think we ve lost the vie.
Example of the perversion of negative rights and state laissez-faire.
Obviously state could endorse these experiments but are we citizens from the dead land of inferno, infer.
And when you think you have to design under cover to know 5 mn about these tortures.
Mind 5 mn of that should have been sufficient to close all the existing lab.
C.ET: Indigenous should obviously not be exempted of law against cruelty, that is typical of Australia sense of paternalism, which also is about letting people do just like if they were their child, no able to follow grown rules. but you know what is the just rational for that. is that any tribes, nations, etc, are still allowed to kill animals.
It is the human species that should be endangered.
Stop animal cruelty: say no to cosmetics tested on animals
C.ET: a video also reminding people that little mammals or little rodents, any animals, must be free and might be pet. That also lead to another big problem, are domestic animals free? Often is a ‘nep’. In a pen, without other companions, enough space to do and move, without mates or spaces. Any how noah where the environment. In-vitro.
Abattoir made in France – Alès (English subtitles)
Des peines encourues dérisoires
La peine maximale ici encourue pour plus de 60 infractions est de 6 000 €… Tellement peu au regard des souffrances supplémentaires endurées par les animaux dans ces lieux déjà violents et cruels par essence. Peut-on imaginer que cette sanction dissuadera les abattoirs d’enfreindre la réglementation ?
C.ET: SHORT TRANSLATION : AFTER THIS ORGANISATION REVEALING, 60 ILLEGAL ACTS BY ALL PROFESSIONALS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, VETS!!! MAXIMUM FOR ALL OF THEM FINES OF 6000 EUROS.
TO ANSWER a famous French songwriter: no, this human world is nothing near serious.
This is the case, what procurers think they have to do, in general. No wonder about how well Vichy could have thriven. (with English whose royals are of german origin, and the german that have been historically in pairs with the ottoman empire, and some branches now of islam that are pro-nazis) they were right the risk is that no more wars after that, is it a risk though, nature would say differently as ultimately the human plots is to leave her a barren stone, if any.
Granting Legal Rights to Rivers: Is International Law Ready?
Four rivers around the world now have legal rights. But what are the implications of rights for nature for international environmental law?
Essays
August 6, 2018 – by Mara Tignino and Laura E. Turley
Last year, four rivers were granted legal rights: the Whanganui in New Zealand, Rio Atrato in Colombia, and the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in India.
Granting Rights to a River: Enhancing a Right-Based Approach
In contrast to international law, some countries have granted rights to the nature, and specifically to rivers, in their national laws. In 2008, Ecuador recognized the constitutional right of Mother Earth and, in 2010, Bolivia adopted the Laws on the Rights of Mother Earth, which gives legal standing to nature and establishes an ombudsman for the protection of its rights. And in May 2017, Colombia’s Constitutional Court recognized the Atrato River as a legal person.
More recently, the Parliament of New Zealand granted the country’s third-longest river, the Whanganui, the legal rights of a person, after a 140-year campaign by the Whanganui Iwi tribe. In addition to compensating the Whanganui Iwi for grievances, the move seeks to preserve the river for future generations of Whanganui Iwi and all New Zealanders. As such, the river gains its legal personality not from an abstract legal entity, but from the people that are connected with the river.
India’s Ganges River and one of its main tributaries, the Yamuna River were granted these same rights. The high court in the northern state of Uttarakhand — not the national government, as in New Zealand, Ecuador, and Bolivia—issued the order, citing the case of the Whanganui in establishing that that the Ganges and the Yamuna should be accorded the status of living human entities.
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Environment: The Concept of Legal Personality – From Companies to Natural Entities?
By Latham & Watkins LLP on April 4, 2017 Posted in Environment
By Paul Davies and Michael Green
New Zealand’s Parliament has just passed a bill to enable the Whanganui River to be recognised as a legal person. It will now be represented by two nominees: one appointed by the Maori community (or Iwi), and another appointed by the government.
from peta website: “Experimenters at the University of Utah purchased an orange-and-white tabby cat named Robert from a local animal shelter, drilled holes in his head, cut open his skull and attached electrodes to his brain. Sadly, Robert is not alone. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, experimenters intentionally deafened a gentle cat named Double Trouble, […] http:// peta.org.uk
An excellent film about the gathering of evidence and legal fight against one of the most powerful energy corporation on earth. The actual film showing both horrors of environmental industrial ACTIONS causing direct (visible, no need for a chemical kit- and invisible of course) environmental degradation, and the parody of justice, in fact even the travesty of the existence of a simple legal system going on and on.
C.ET: This person (THIS HERO) just won a terrible case, (just watch the film, it is telling,) and the corporations are suing him for basically bringing the burden of proof to the for years reluctant authorities that I guessed bent because, thanks to the awareness campaign generated.
How utterly disgusting.
wikipedia
“Chevron has obtained an injunction from U.S. District Court against enforcement of the Ecuadorian verdict.[18]”
“Despite these many setbacks, the Ecuadorian victims of Chevron’s pollution that Donziger helps to represent continue to attempt to enforce the judgment in Ontario, Canada.[19] Actions are also being pursued in Colombia and Argentina where, unlike in Ecuador, Chevron still has major assets.[20] Pursuant to these efforts, Chevron has already had assets frozen in Argentina, including bank deposits and its stake in a pipeline company.[21] These developments followed Donziger’s successful appeal before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals of Judge Kaplan’s worldwide injunction against the enforcement of the Ecuadorian judgment on the basis of Chevron’s allegations of judicial malfeasance in Ecuador.”
C.ET: An excellent lecture on global warming, the abomination of industrialisation and our takings cabs less often than plane.
An Inconvenient Truth (1/10) Movie CLIP – Science of Global Warming
Former Vice president of the United States film at the origins of his being awarded a Nobel Prize.
Very good, both films changed literally my standard data on environmentalist emergencies, fatalities and the fatal re-actions or complete (complot) passivity (amorphous) of the authorities and businesses’ ethics, as businesses are now the only ones left authorised to speak about ethics with some sort of authorities. Though I am no fatalist.
THIS POST IS SUMMARIES FROM ARTICLES I THOUGHT VERY INTERESTING TO READ.
WHEN I APPOSE MY OWN COMMENTS, IT IS PRECEDED BY MY INITIAL- C.ET:
Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin
The Latest Health Breakthroughs From The Doctors You Can Trust
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Why This Potato Is Better for You Than That Potato
by Victor Marchione, MD
Here’s some health news out of Washington, DC.ET: organic potatoes may contain more nutrients than conventional potatoes. […]
RECOMMENDED: Pesticides Associated with Cancer Risk
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The Healing Food That’s a Tasty Snack
by Richard Foxx, MD
Not much is written about health benefits of pistachios –
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almonds or peanuts.
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Pistachios, however, are quite nutritious, it turns out. A recent study has found this healing food to be a nutrient-dense nut with a heart-healthy fatty-acid profile, as well as protein, dietary fiber, potassium, magnesium, vitamin K, tocopherols, and a number of phytochemicals. That’s quite a list!
C.ET: it is because pistachio is more expensive.
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BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:30 PM EST
Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
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The timing of the attacks coincided with the reporting for a Times investigation, published online on Oct. 25, that found that the relatives of Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.
Tax dodging is a global scandal. Tax raises money to fund public services, to fight poverty and to redistribute wealth in society. Yet for many multinational companies like Amazon, Google and Starbucks, paying tax is now often simply a matter of choic
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Despite hitting the headlines by talking tough on tax, this government is planning new changes to the UK’s tax laws to be introduced in the Budget in March which would give a green light to big business to avoid billions in tax.
The Global Theft of Land: Human Rights, Dispossession and Destruction
Wednesday 6 February 2013, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building,
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE
Speakers: Megan MacInnes, Fred Pearce, Subir Sinha
The forcible expropriation of land from people by states and corporations – ‘land grabbing’ – is occurring on a phenomenal scale and affects every continent and most countries of the ‘South’. Land grabs and the forced displacement of populations, including through state and corporate violence, have been justified through economic development, human development, the extraction of natural resources, the use of land for economic growth, among many other factors. Yet deforestation
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Home, Garden & Food
40 handy lemon tips
4 March 2011
Cleaning solutions and beauty tips for natural (and cheap) recipes you can try at home.
These tips have been contributed by volunteers from Sparked.com
Every single victory during the past year – from exposing horrific abuse of ducks and geese on a French foie gras farm to helping to convince the UK government to reject an appeal to build a facility in Yorkshire that would have bred hundreds of dogs for use in deadly laboratory experiments – was achieved through the generosity of our compassionate members.
But despite so many recent successes, animals are still being confined to tiny, filthy cages on factory farms; electrocuted, strangled and even skinned alive for “fashion”; cut open, poisoned and mutilated in horrific experiments; and beaten and kept in chains in order to force them to perform for human “entertainment”.
Watch ‘Runway Reversal’ and Speak Out Against Stolen Skins
Fur and other skins look best on their original owners. Help us take action to end the fur trade. Read more.
Victory! EU Cosmetics Testing Ban to Go Ahead
Cause to celebrate: the Commission has told PETA that a ban on the sale of all animal-tested cosmetics in the EU will come into force in March. Read more.
PETA UK Vegan Fashion Awards 2013
Lacey Banghard: Too Much Sex Can Be Deadly
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– safe sex for cats and dogs! Read more.
Cruelty Beneath the Covers?
The production of down-filled duvets and jackets causes immense suffering. Go down-free with Alicia Silverstone. Read more.
‘The Hobbit’: Unexpected Cruelty
Abuse and neglect during the production of The Hobbit led to alleged animal deaths in the name of entertainment. Read more.
Stay Firm and Fresh
Gyrating fruit and veggies take the spotlight in new PETA video for World Vegan Day. Read more.
Shocking Footage Exposes Cruelty and Abuse on Farms Supplying Fortnum & Mason Foie Gras Distributor
Watch the shocking video and ask Fortnum & Mason to stop selling foie gras. Read more.
PETA Supports Team Badger
Badgers across England are currently being threatened: a planned cull will begin soon unless we can convince the government to stop the slaughter. Read more.
Urge Cardiff to Stop Blinding Animals in Experiments
Read more.
PETA and Animals Rights
PETAUK “These practices may be legal but that doesn’t make them right” Do you know what happens to horses in slaughterhouses? bit.ly/12o7Rub 3 hours ago • reply • retweet • favorite
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Save Hundreds of Beagles From Horrific Animal Tests
February 15, 2013 | News covering the UN and the world
Security Council is studying climate change’s link to security
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to meet today about the effects of climate change on global security.
Bloomberg (2/14)
C.ET: alleluia, as most of us, see only environmental issues in terms of what might cause harm to humans directly.
Also people often says that we can well damage, the other generations will invent somehow a means to reduce it. smote, smooth smitten. To be as stupid to think that consequences of producing poison, even if producing remedy (potion), could be staunched. A bad will have as ultimate as impossible to divert effect. At least for our ousted souls. Be the eternal re-conduce our essay.
One cannot wash away ‘one’s intentional (or avertable) destruction, gross, gratuitous or not. A bad and one good cannot be convert into one good.
It is almost the main current of thought of current politics whatever environmentalist or human rights that say what suits to humans, as human a little pests ready to eat everything like if mother earth and brothers others were a cake for them to be prepared, his dining gooey.
human rights philosophy possibly human centred, to say don’t do that because it will have an effect on us. Ok but this should be the little print, amongst the explaination valid by their thousands, the idiot and eternal rules of the boomerang, or the talion, or the communicant recipient, if you harm you ll get it back from one or the other way- spiritually to begin and finish with. When one is in fact harming, not him but others, then, harming others, animals or resources, should be the prime reason for it to have to be stopped.
Death threats to UK’s top Muslim MP who voted for gay marriage
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Khan was among 400 MPs, five Muslim, who voted in favour of the bill
By Abul Taher
PUBLISHED: 22:14, 16 February 2013 | UPDATED: 01:40, 17 February 2013
Britain’s most senior Muslim MP has received death threats after voting in favour of gay marriage.
C.ET: thank you brother, even if that shows that depending on the vote for a just decision striking tyrants is, as it is, undemocratic. Gay marriage, just as being consensual marriage between adults, just like hetero marriage, should not be voted. It should be without qualifications attributed. Tribute and tribes.
I d like to be the one striking them with punishment over that kinda fatwa issuing.
thank you brother.
I d like to be one part of your escorts, or secret army.
I chose my word, hypocrisy make us forget how people ruin other people life, hip, hope and everything just through the issuance of law, policies, practises and theories. Without forgetting stud pinned tradition and its demonization, by the ones who pretend prudery pursuing whereas it is torture of living- parasites imitation ammunition.
Amen.
By the way, Sodom is not gay.
Sodom is the sex pest that annihilate sexual orientation choice, and make sex an institution rather than an intimacy.
Intime. Timide.
Intime = intimate in French. Opportune, not go-getter opportunity.
Ask garden centres to help bees
The rush to remove bee-harming products from shop shelves continues, but some chains are dragging their heels.
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@ Friends of the Earth
C.ET: PLEASE GO TO PETA AND FRIENDS OF EARTH SITE, FULL OF INFO.
Animal Writes: PETA UK’s Blog
Victoria Silvstedt’s Plea for the AstraZeneca Beagles
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Pamela Anderson to WTO: Save Seals, Uphold EU Seal-Fur Import Ban
Slaughterhouse Secrets
Be My Vegan Valentine
Hurray! Council Chucks Cruel Chicken Factory Plans
Stop Air France From Shipping Monkeys to Their Deaths in Cruel Labs!
Take action today against one of the largest traffickers of primates in the world, and save monkeys from a one-way ticket to experimentation and death. Read more.
Joaquin Phoenix: Fish Have Feelings, Too
The actor takes a soaking in this new video to highlight the agony and terror experienced by 6 billion fish each year. Read more.
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snakes, alligators, lizards and crocodiles in many places around the world, from the Philippines to the United States to South Africa, are being painfully stripped of their skin – usually while still alive –
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nailed to trees before being skinned alive and tossed onto a pile to die. They can suffer for days before succumbing to shock or dehydration.
Alligators are kept crowded together in filthy tanks on farms before being clubbed and skinned alive. A PETA US investigation of an alligator farm documented gruesome slaughter methods, including chiselling through an animal’s spinal column with a pointed instrument and hammer. It can take around two hours filled with intense pain for an animal slaughtered this way to die.
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Every day, these fascinating forest and river animals are trapped and beaten and have their skin ripped from their bodies simply to create a fashion look. PETA and our international affiliates are the only organisations with a comprehensive approach to prevent the suffering and deaths of snakes, seals, cats, dogs, cows, rabbits, foxes and other animals used for their skin.
That’s what’s happened to three-quarters of our turtle doves in the last 15 years. The good news is that there’s an easy way for you to help…
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Whilst we’re already helping turtle doves by working with UK farmers to create areas full of seed-rich plants – vital food during their breeding season – buying a spring raffle ticket could help us do even more.
C.ET: look at what to wear and not to wear with a special mention, trainers only for running, hard soles for the walkers, not easily bend, and supple one when staying on one’s feet…
I AM not saying I know but try and read about footwear, very important to health, just like, maybe not, surely not, flossing, mouth bathing, and 3 mn 3 times a day teeth browsing, not browsing boy, brushing.
Cleric’s incitement to murder ignored in cancellation decision
Muslim Society not rebuked for hosting a murder-approving speaker
Reading University cancels “kill gays” Islamist preacher
Feeble excuse: fictitious threat of violent protests?
Cleric’s incitement to murder ignored in cancellation decision
Muslim Society not rebuked for hosting a murder-approving speaker
London – 28 February 2013
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“Thahabi endorses the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith. He says women are deficient and encourages the beating of little girls who refuse to wear the hijab,” said Peter Tatchell, Director of the human rights lobby, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
“While this cancellation is welcome, the university’s reasons for the cancellation appear to be bogus, feeble and unprincipled.
“The university authorities claim the Thahabi meeting was cancelled because of serious threats of violent protest by extremist groups. I challenge the university to name these groups and reveal the threats.
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“Women, Muslim and LGBT students have a right to go to university without being menaced and threatened by hate preachers.
“Disgracefully, the Vice Chancellor has failed to condemn the Muslim Society for invitingThahabi.
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A letter had been sent by the Peter Tatchell Foundation to the Vice Chancellor of Reading University, David Bell, protesting at the university’s decision to host Abu Usamah at-Thahabi, on the grounds that Thahabi had been filmed by Channel Four’s Dispatches programme justifying the murder of gay people. Incitement to murder is a serious criminal offence.
There won’t be as many baby seals killed this year, but the slaughter is still going forward.
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Crude spiked clubs will crush their still-soft skulls. For some, the skin will be ripped off their bloody bodies while they’re still conscious. All to satisfy a greedy, vain industry that we are working hard to send the way of the dinosaurs.
Please donate now and help us stop the senseless slaughter of seals and other innocent animals.
More than 170,000 harp seals have been slaughtered on the ice floes off Canada’s east coast in recent years. Nearly all of them were less than 3 months old. The seal pups yelp in terror as the sealers’ spiked clubs slam into their heads while other seals nearby can only watch and wail. Many infant seals are bludgeoned before they even eat their first solid meal or learn how to swim.
After violently attacking these young pups, sealers routinely hook them in the eye, cheek, or mouth – sometimes while they are still conscious – to avoid damaging their pelts before dragging the animals across the ice to skin them. They then leave them to die a slow, painful death.
Unless something changes, without more help from animal heroes like you, this horror will occur again. Please donate today so we can ramp up our campaign to stop the slaughter.
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I found that search similar to “has wspa rescued zidi yet from bear baiting” has been performed.
As I edited a wspa compaing about a bear torture for betting game.
So,
has wspa rescued zidi yet from bear baiting, after us taking plenty of photos.
Mind for one, these horrors has been recorder , record hof off horror.
So?
What is worth recording others?
For it to become the norms, or the subject of another bet?
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Babe like ball, babble an babel.
Morning Star News
Photo: Muslim mobs attack a Christian area of Lahore after blasphemy allegation (M. Ali)
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslim mobs upset over an alleged derogatory comment about the prophet of Islam burned down more than 180 Christian-owned houses and shops and at least two church buildings here on Saturday (March 9) after authorities told police to “let them vent their grief and anger,” officials said.
Lahore’s impoverished Joseph Colony looked like a war-ravaged town by Saturday night. There were no reports of casualties, but the site was reminiscent of the destruction in Gojra in 2009, when eight Christians were burned alive, 100 houses looted and 50 homes set ablaze after a blasphemy accusation.
C.ET: mind in this magazine I saw as well homophobic comments, so as homos are the target of intolerant and warring society, as they need to suppress holistic and natural feeling of love, what these so called, self-called (cull and care for carving the baby lame lambs and calves) religious, would let themselves using and abusing the name of god, be doing.
Bidding.
C.ET: As for the reasons, there is no reasons valid, as the majority has (AS) the power to get things right and moral- if there is ounce of that in their insanity but if any, nayni. And the reason of this kind of blasphemy is a sing signing sign of extreme extremist comedy.
C.ET: religious like that offering rapes and familial as well as society vulture down the cross and re-assemblymen, cross roads against the little destructive power of their sanctuary = obey or you will be killed by the pedo cure.
Leviathan
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This article is about the biblical creature. For the book by Thomas Hobbes, see Leviathan (book). For other uses, see Leviathan (disambiguation).
“Destruction of Leviathan”. 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré
C.ET: could be a lightning. Beautiful animal. And paint. Anyway it’s French.
Leviathan (/lɨˈvaɪ.əθən/; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, Modern Livyatan Tiberian Liwyāṯān ; “twisted, coiled”) is a sea monster referenced in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament.
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The Leviathan is mentioned six times in the Tanakh, with Job 41:1-34 being dedicated to describing him in detail:[1]
1 Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
10 No-one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12 I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
15 His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make him flee, sling stones are like chaff to him.
29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw, he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing-sledge.
31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature without fear.
34 He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud.
Isaiah 27:1 he is called the “wriggling serpent” who will be killed at the end of time.[2]
[…] Isaiah 27:1 uses the first of these phrases to describe Leviathan (although in this case the name “Leviathan” apparently refers to an unnamed historical/political enemy of Israel rather than the original serpent-monster).[citation needed] In Psalm 104, Leviathan is not described as harmful in any way, but simply as a creature of the ocean, part of God’s creation. It is possible that the authors of the Job 41:2-26, on the other hand, based the Leviathan on descriptions of Egyptian animal mythology where the crocodile is the enemy of the solar deity Horus (and is subdued either by Horus, or by the Pharaoh). This is in contrast to typical descriptions of the sea monster trope in terms of mythological combat.[2]
[edit] In later Jewish literature
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his companion to the words of Job xli. 18: “By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning” (B. B. l.c.). However, in spite of his supernatural strength, the leviathan is afraid of a small worm called “kilbit”, which clings to the gills of large fish and kills them (Shab. 77b).[6]
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[edit] Christianity
The Leviathan of the Middle Ages was used as an image of Satan, endangering both God’s creatures—by attempting to eat them—and God’s creation—by threatening it with upheaval in the waters of Chaos.[7] St. Thomas Aquinas described Leviathan as the demon of envy, first in punishing the corresponding sinners. (Secunda Secundae Question 36) Leviathan became associated with, and may originally have referred to, the visual motif of the Hellmouth, a monstrous animal into whose mouth the damned disappear at the Last Judgement[…] [edit]
Leviathan in Satanism
In LaVeyan Satanism, according to the author of The Satanic Bible, Anton Szandor LaVey, Leviathan represents the element of Water and the direction of West. The element of Water in Satanism is associated with life and creation, and may be represented by a Chalice during ritual.
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C.ET: Leviathan
Leve a temps = rise in times. (Leave, lever, leaven, Levee, live)
Leve = elevate / temps = temporary = time.
Times like tap. ten and …
An oddity it is the monster of the sea associated with the end of the world, i.e of humanity, as the seas are rising, from ice melting.
Jacob wrestling with the angel
Gustave Doré, Jacob Wrestling the Angel (1855)
The account of Jacob wrestling with the angel is a story found in the Book of Genesis, and referenced elsewhere such as Genesis 35:1-7 and Hosea chapter 12. The account includes the renaming of Jacob as “Israel”, literally “He who struggles with God.”
C.ET: the struggle with God, that is religion, just the miserable fight that humans think they obtain.
Tain.
Taint,
Ain’t.
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Arabian Nights: The Story of Sidi-Nouman
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“Sidi-Nouman,” replied the Caliph, “your story is indeed a strange one, and there is no excuse to be offered for your wife. But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish you to reflect how much she must suffer from being changed into an animal, and I hope you will let that punishment be enough. I do not order you to insist upon the young magician finding the means to restore your wife to her human shape, because I know that when once women such as she begin to work evil they never leave off, and I should only bring down on your head a vengeance far worse than the one you have undergone already.”
C.ET: a goule, une french, in French, mean (mine) = figure, face.
Death on a Pale Horse
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John the Evangelist at 6:1-8. The chapter tells of a “‘book’, or ‘scroll’, in God’s right hand that is sealed with seven seals”. The Lamb of God, or Lion of Judah (Jesus Christ), opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons forth four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Although some interpretations differ, in most accounts, the four riders are seen as symbolizing Conquest,[1] War,[2] Famine,[3] and Death, respectively. The Christian apocalyptic vision is that the four horsemen are to set a divine apocalypse upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment.[1
Mohammed, along with Buraq and Gabriel, visit Hell, and see a demon punishing “shameless women” who had exposed their hair to strangers. For this crime of inciting lust in men, the women are strung up by their hair and burned for eternity. Persian, 15th century.
Next, Mohammed sees women strung up by hooks thrust through their tongues by a green demon. Their crimes were to “mock” their husbands and to leave their homes without permission. Persian, 15th century.
Further on, Mohammed sees a red demon that is torturing women by hanging them up by hooks through their breasts, as they are engulfed in flames. The women are being punished for giving birth to illegitimate children whom they falsely claimed were fathered by their husbands. Persian, 15th century.
Next, Mohammed sees women strung up by hooks thrust through their tongues by a green demon. Their crimes were to “mock” their husbands and to leave their homes without permission. Persian, 15th century.
Further on, Mohammed sees a red demon that is torturing women by hanging them up by hooks through their breasts, as they are engulfed in flames. The women are being punished for giving birth to illegitimate children whom they falsely claimed were fathered by their husbands. Persian, 15th century.
Algol (Beta Per, β Persei, β Per), known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright star in the constellation Perseus.
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Historically, the star has received a strong association with bloody violence across a wide variety[which?] of cultures.
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associated with death by decapitation: a theme which mirrors the myth of the hero Perseus’ victory over the snake-headed Gorgon Medusa.[28] Astrologically,[clarification needed] Algol is considered one of the unluckiest stars in the sky
God the Father is the creator of Heaven, Hell, the World, and of everyone and everything there is. He desires glory and praise from all his creations. He is an all-powerful, all-knowing, infinitely good being who cannot be overthrown by even the great army of angels Satan incites against him.
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Leonard speculates that the English Civil War interrupted Milton’s earliest attempts to start his “epic [poem] that would encompass all space and time.”
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Idolatry
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The Book of Abramelin
Structure [edit]
The grimoire is […] describes his journey from Germany to Egypt and reveals Abramelin’s magical and Kabbalistic secrets to his son […]Abraham recounts how he found Abramelin the Mage living in the desert […]He discussed nothing but “the Fear of God”, leading a well-regulated life, and the evils of the “acquisition of riches and goods.”
[…]After this, Abramelin gave Abraham the “Divine Science” and “True Magic” embedded within the two manuscripts, which he was to follow and give to only those whom he knew well.
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Once this is accomplished, the magician must evoke the twelve Kings and Dukes of Hell (Lucifer, Satan, Leviathan, Belial, etc.) and bind them. Thereby, the magician gains command of them in his own mental universe, and removes their negative influence from his life. […]
The magical goals for which the demons can be employed are typical of those found in grimoires
[…]For example, a square entitled “To walk under water for as long as you want” contains the word MAIAM (מים or ماء), the Hebrew and Arabic word for “water”. […]
b. Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust: wanton destruction.
3. Unrestrainedly excessive: wanton extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves.
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[Middle English wantowen : wan-, not, lacking (from Old English; see eu – in Indo-European roots) + towen, past participle of teen, to bring up (from Old English t on, to lead, draw; see deuk- in Indo-European roots).]
5. extravagant or excessive: living in wanton luxury.
6. luxuriant, as vegetation.
7. Archaic.
a. sportive or frolicsome, as children or young animals.
b. having free play: wanton breezes.
c. cruelly playful; mischievous: wanton schoolboys.
n.
8. a wanton or lascivious person, esp. a woman.
v.i.
9. to behave in a wanton manner.
v.t.
10. to squander (often fol. by away): to wanton away one’s inheritance.
[1250–1300; Middle English wantowen literally, undisciplined, ill-reared, Old English wan- not + togen past participle of tēon to discipline, rear, c. German ziehen, Latin dūcere to lead; akin to tow1]
chat up, coquet, coquette, flirt, mash, philander, romance, dally, butterfly – talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; “The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries”; “My husband never flirts with other women”
6. wanton – behave extremely cruelly and brutally
Adj. 1. wanton – occurring without motivation or provocation; “motiveless malignity”; “unprovoked and dastardly attack”- F.D.Roosevelt
motiveless, unprovoked
unmotivated – without motivation
2. wanton – casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; “her easy virtue”; “he was told to avoid loose (or light) women”; “wanton behavior”
2. promiscuous, immoral, shameless, licentious, fast, wild, abandoned, loose, dissipated, lewd, profligate, debauched, lustful, lecherous, dissolute, libertine, libidinous, of easy virtue, unchaste Women behaving with the same sexual freedom as men are considered wanton.
slut, tart, whore, slag (Brit. slang), swinger (informal), harlot, slapper (Brit. slang), loose woman, scrubber (Brit. & Austral. slang), strumpet, trollop, woman of easy virtue His wife had shown herself to be a shameless wanton.
William Blake’s painting The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan, in which the monster is a symbol of military sea-power controlled by Nelson
See Leviathan (disambiguation)
The Hebrew monster Leviathan found in the Book of Job has given rise to many popular incarnations. This article treats subjects with no direct connection to the Ancient Middle East or Jewish origins.
[edit] Literature
Leviathan is the title of Thomas Hobbes’ 1651 work on the social contract and the origins of creation of an ideal state, and his proper name for the Commonwealth.
In Paradise Lost, Milton uses the term Leviathan to describe the size and power of Satan, the ruler of many kingdoms.
The Leviathan appears in the last book of the 1975 The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson as a colossal, intelligent sea creature in the shape of a tentacled pyramid.
In Steven Brust’s novel To Reign in Hell, Leviathan (female in this case) is one of seven elder inhabitants of Hell who conspire to prevent Yahweh from creating the Earth as a sanctuary for himself and those loyal to him.
Beelzebub was a prince of the Seraphim, just below Lucifer. Beelzebub, along with Lucifer and Leviathan, were the first three angels to fall. He tempts men with pride and is opposed by St. Francis of Assisi.
University & student union fail to publicly condemn preachers
London – 18 March 2013
The University of East London (UEL) blocked an Islamist meeting that was due to be held on the Stratford campus last Friday, 15 March. The meeting was billed as featuring hate preachers Khalid Yasin and Jalal Ibn Saeed.
The meeting was also advertised with “segregated seating”, where women would be forced to sit separate from men.
The Peter Tatchell Foundation, LGBT Society at UEL and the Braki blog lobbied for the meeting to be cancelled.
Khalid Yasin says homosexuality and lesbianism are “aberrations, they are immoralities.” He endorses the execution of gay people.
He also insists that Muslims should not have non-Muslims as friends, condemning non-Muslims using the derogatory term, kaffirs. He praises public executions and amputations and claims AIDS is a western and World Health Organisation conspiracy to kill Africans.
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C.ET: and do not worry before killing the gays or whatever else to be more specific, they sure would chuck people out, one by one, of the universities.
It is not believes but insanity growing out of desire to be god personified (if not perfectionable, or purified) in the demon, since it is easier to mimic, even though they are already sold to the world of facility.
Talking about the so called believes or opinions, not the person, they ain’t more or less than person, but so called is the same than usurpations: equal.
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“First, the community’s spring narwhal hunt, which usually yields roughly 60 of the tusked whales, produced only three. The sea ice was so thin that the Inuit couldn’t safely stand on it and shoot the narwhal as they migrated into Arctic Bay from Greenland through channels in the ice.” BY ED STRUZIK
narwhal whales
It’s Sensitive. Really. By William Broad
December, 13, 2005
New York Times, Science Times
“But a team of scientists from Harvard and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has now made a startling discovery: the tusk, it turns out, forms a sensory organ of exceptional size and sensitivity, making the living appendage one of the planet’s most remarkable, and one that in some ways outdoes its own mythology.
The find came when the team turned an electron microscope on the tusk’s material and found new subtleties of dental anatomy. The close-ups showed that 10 million nerve endings tunnel from the tusk’s core toward its outer surface, communicating with the outside world. The scientists say the nerves can detect subtle changes of temperature, pressure, particle gradients and probably much else, giving the animal unique insights.
“This whale is intent on understanding its environment,” said Martin T. Nweeia, the team’s leader and a clinical instructor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Contrary to common views, he said, “The tusk is not about guys duking it out with sticks and swords.” By William Broad December, 13, 2005
“Around 30,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises die each year as a result of becoming entangled in fishing gear and drowning. Known as ‘bycatch,’ this accidental catch is one of the greatest threats to cetaceans.
Whaling is another huge problem. Systematic over-exploitation has brought some species close to extinction. In the Antarctic alone, more than two million whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century. In 1986 the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling. However, loopholes in the rules mean whales can still be hunted for “scientific purposes”. This happens in countries such as Japan and Iceland.
Other threats facing whales include being struck by ships, chemical pollution from industry, and disturbance by noise from navy operations and seismic surveys, and depletion of prey as a result of over fishing”. (wwf)
C.ET: elephant cuddling during pilates and chinese massaging.
Messaging.
Mess, messiah, mecca.
Mishap.
Please go to Friends of the Earth website, I do not wish to go on editing their data for fear of breach of copyrights. Their sites is full of good tips and awareness necessity.
Ditto for Peta, and others, in my opinion, that I cited or duplicated.
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A scavenger collects plastic for recycling at a dump site on World Environment Day in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, June 5, 2013. REUTERS/Utpal Baruah
C.ET: I just were wondering if any one would attack me for posting this picture. While the little guy who is scavenging have been left (without the money produced by the original article, for you to be reassure none I ll be making, I post it just as a ‘reminding’) and even he would have received black economy pocket money, the little boy just left there and on going.
I appreciate that one cannot do everything and that taking a pic could be used as an act purposing help for him- and the other guys and girls in his situation.
But what I recall equally it is that in this realm, I have to ask myself if no one could seriously try to sue me for doing this. So please note that I am absolutely not the author, that I own no copyright and do not seek to earn any money. I just try and do like any computer of search engine, give you my specific summarizing and collection.
Aisha, “married” to the “prophet” Mohammed, “consumption” “marriage” on her ninth year.
In preaching Islam, some back the live of ‘their’ spokesperson or representative, preaching worse than imaginable, but children married to adult and old men. pre—aching more than paedophilia but act of torture that ought to be punished by severe stay in prison in this world all beyond rotten and moribund. It is happening in schools, and all this starting (being official) in the U.K.
Please check on the net by typing anything like ‘age of aisha, mohammed, islam’ and you will see that paedophilic enforced torture way of life is a grande classic of muslim literature.
Ps: It is not of any unbiased thesis that paedophiliac attitude is more east-centred. as for proof how on earth come that a very little proportion of the population is not aware of this, though screwed to their journals and TV.
Because of a culture that is incestuous and sexist, and slavist in the west as much. and how many of men and women, white if spare when the coming back of Malthus, are longing to be lingering near harems, brothels or others. Or at home, just like the under coverage of sexual exploitation within ‘job positions’ and ‘family’, ‘enforced prostitution via unemployment running and citizenship payday (pederast) is an help at supporting innocent and ingénue disarmament, for the strengthening of all perversity.
With the west helping depravity, as more anxious to satisfy their control and detainment or denouncement sexual and sentimental over homosexuality, than stopping job for lust and the shortage of opportunity.
Just like purist, polishing their lines of toleration, hiding by any means, that puritans were just that much decadent.
Talking virginity deforming up to their own virtuosity.
West con-sensus, census.
Sense common to the coerced, imprisoned by nothing less than censorship that will leave us senseless, ready to eat and seasoned.
◾Cost of combating warming keeps rising
To halt global temperature rise, countries will need to commit an additional estimated $700 billion each year for renewable energy and other low-carbon and high-efficiency technologies, according to a report for the World Economic Forum. The World Bank projects warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century. Bloomberg (1/21), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (1/21) LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email this Story
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little UN looking like if depending on media release to trace its own stance; if it is.
When The Hobbit is released in December, audiences will see an adventure story set in a fantasy world. For the animals involved in the filming, however, the abuse and neglect that they experienced were far too real. In all, five horses, 12 chickens, a pony and several goats and sheep were allegedly maimed or killed.
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A horse named Shanghai was hobbled (his legs were tied together so that he couldn’t move) and left on the ground for three hours because he was too energetic for his rider. Afterward, in order to hide his rope burns for filming, his legs were covered with make-up and hair. Hobbling is an outright violation of guidelines from the American Humane Association (AHA), which was monitoring the production.
More alleged abuse took place where the animals were housed. One horse was killed and another horse was injured after being placed with two high-strung geldings, despite concerns that the geldings would be too aggressive. Another horse was killed after falling off an embankment in a severely crowded paddock. When the horses were moved to the stables, another horse died, probably from colic, an extremely painful illness, after being fed large amounts of food that he wasn’t used to. When the horses were moved back to the paddocks after this incident, another horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn away by wire fencing. Several goats and sheep died from worm infestations and from falling into the sinkholes that covered the farm, and 12 chickens were mauled and killed by unsupervised dogs or trampled by other animals when left unprotected.
How can something like this happen when the unit production manager was warned and the production was monitored by the AHA? Furthermore, this movie was directed by Peter Jackson, a master of computer-generated imagery (CGI). In a movie that features CGI dragons, ogres, and hobbits, CGI animals would have fit in perfectly. Jackson could have made The Hobbit without using a single animal—and he should have.
Send a message to filmmakers that hurting and killing animals for a film is unacceptable and refuse to see movies that do. Urge Peter Jackson to hold himself and his crew responsible when it comes to animal safety on film sets. Send him a message now!
c: I DON’T AGREE WITH NOT USING ANIMALS, IT COULD BE GOOD FUN. BUT THIS….
WE ARE USED TOO, WE ARE A WORLD.
BUT THIS IS WHY USE IS ALL WHAT IS DETESTABLE ABOUT THE CONVERGENT NOTION OF WORK.
Who Is the Person of the Year?
FacebookTwitterBrian May is the champion! The talented musician had an excellent year as a spokesperson for “Team Badger”, a coalition of groups opposed to the ill-advised badger cull.
70 Beagles Rescued From Tests
FacebookTwitterThanks to your support, beagles intended for use in laboratory tests were saved and homes are now being found for them.
The House of Lords is Foie Gras–Free
FacebookTwitterPETA joins with peers to rid Parliament of foie gras, a product so vile that it is illegal to produce in the UK.
Could Russia Go Fur-Free?
FacebookTwitterPETA takes its campaign against fur to the country that buys more of it than any other in the world – Russia.
Further Suffering Averted
FacebookTwitterLast year, it looked like even the meagre legal protection that animals in labs currently have was under threat. Thankfully, PETA pressure has helped prevent the weakening of UK regulations.
‘Homeland’ Creator Speaks Out
FacebookTwitterGideon Raff penned a letter to Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond urging him to switch to high-tech human simulators to teach life-saving skills.
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The United Nations is taking leadership in the fight to end discrimination against lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender, or LGBT, individuals.
At an historic meeting on the 11th of December, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, human rights defenders, politicians and international entertainers all voiced their support for the LGBT community.
Story of having to read about vegetarianism to realize it is super healthy. Dozens of hundreds of professionals thesis and summaries now available on internet.
I wanted to do a summary about vegetarian diet, but now with looking up on the net it is so easy that I decide to leave this to myriads of true dieticians, cooks, or all persons of certain amount of knowledge.
I am a vegan now, just cause I was thinking to cows or goats and sheep that are used years in years, over used and deformed, their breast distended (dissent) to the floor in repugnant condition (condiment) of hygiene even when they are deemed to be free…to what? To be put down when they start being a granny. Grain.
In London, of all cities, so many different foods coming from everywhere, and a lot about vegetarian thanks to some sects of the Hindus (hindus aren’t all vegetarians) .
as a vegetarian I even stopped being one following old myth (distort) and fearing I did not have protein enough when my jobs became somewhat and sometimes harder physically.
The real reason, the one determinant is that it was 10 years ago and that I did not have internet access. One day, though, I went to one of the biggest public library in Europe, in paris. I was erring inside (well many days like this) and just bumped into the vegetarian shelves. I knew I could become vegetarian again without any risks as information were at hands. Working in transportation at the time, and at several occasions and in fact regularly I could see from far and all the way the cows, pigs, sheeps, fowl, oh folk, trying to take deep breath through the aperture of the trucks driving them to slaughter houses.
As I was watching them, I recognised yes, eyes, nostrils, muses, lips, mouths, and beards (wired), hip hails, ail, hairs, flesh, silky under, pelt, skin then leather. I am so ashamed, rather (rate) not to say, even to myself, as I knew since the start of my life that these are animals, that they are vest best friends, that they are us, that they cuddle, think, feel, live, laugh, cry and smile for the ones that have listened to their heart. Heart beat just the way one take breath after breath, for live to enter, even though we gonna be slaughtered by the very same that bred them. I don’t know I had to say to myself, you have to become vegetarian back, I don’t know how dozens, hundreds, thousands times, since repeated and sever, sieve, siezed or served, in my mind or conscience rather, looking att these animals that you can attribute with comprehension enough to know, or sense of course more, the fact that they are driven (to, certain, ascertain, certitude, attitude of not in-human HAM) to their meat, death without human braver to defy the holocaust of all ages, and animal like human expires. And what about what one would say, crate, treat trait, ingloriously ignominiously like that, back to their creator?
To stop when you have read the 10th good book on vegetarianism. And swer to everything you got- life content and awarness of that- while you got that one gaze is one more, less for one’s paradise path, if one’s own is not up to that, appreciate a beast same content. Con-tent. The same home the same sky. As far as the / the shelter don’t dry dust or allow defloration, deforestation by sadness or inundations. Radiation, radiator.
And now the ashes are dying. “Don’t it always seem to go,” sang Joni Mitchell in her fey, sexy, Canadian way, “that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” She was right.
Ordinarily – don’t you find? – it is interesting and even exhilarating to see a tree cut down. Its insides, so clean and beautifully structured, are as appetising as any tray of dressed honeycomb tripe or scrubbed pigs’ feet piled on the butcher’s counter in the market. But a diseased tree, turned to dead timber, is as repellent as a side of beef with BSE.
Some people take tree-felling harder. “The ash tree growing in the corner of the garden was felled,” wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins one April Tuesday in Lancashire, when he was still in his twenties. “I heard the sound and, looking out and seeing it maimed, there came at that moment a great pang and I wished to die and not to see the inscapes of the world destroyed any more.”
By inscape, a word he had invented about five years earlier, the poet meant “individually-distinctive beauty”. I’m not sure whether his intuition of “thisness” (on which inscape relies) is intellectually coherent. Never mind. What he did do was see and feel, and since there have already been 100,000 ash trees cut down to counter this new-found fungal disease, Chalara fraxinea, their loss should cause many a pang.
It’s not just Hopkins, but before leaving him, it’s worth borrowing his eyes for a moment. “On a December day and furled fast,” he wrote in a poem on ash boughs, “they in clammyish lashtender combs creep / Apart wide and new-nestle at heaven most high. / They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep / The smouldering enormous winter welkin.”
That is simply true. By lashtender I suppose he means “soft as eyelashes”, and their boughs’ ends do sweep and beat upon the sky as on a tabour. It’s the “clammyish” aspect, though, that has weighed against the ash in my experience: their clusters of seeds or keys hang soggily and their fallen leaves lie slimily on the dewy grass. That is very different from the crisp, copper leaf litter of the beech. But then we are used to seeing ashes in damp hedgerows.
They have thriven in hedges where once the elms were dominant. The loss of 25 million elms in Britain from Dutch elm disease since the Sixties has utterly transformed the landscape. It is not merely the number of trees now missing, but the lost character that they gave the places where they grew – a cricket field, say, where rooks cawed from a row of elms beyond the boundary.
It was just such a rookery of elms to which David Copperfield (Dickens in not much disguise) first opened his eyes. Their wind-tossed boughs prophesied bad times ahead. “As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weatherbeaten ragged old rooks’ nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.”
For today’s readers this picture of elms means nothing, or next to nothing, since we no longer know elms and their characteristic shape. Is it soon to be the same with ashes?
Kipling tried to give the ash tree a place in an invented mythology for England in Puck of Pook’s Hill. His triad of English trees discounted the yew, or beech, or elm, and he swore instead by oak, ash and thorn. “Thorn of the Down saw New Troy Town / (From which was London born) / Witness hereby the ancientry/ Of Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.” He meant that the ash stood guard when Brutus, the descendant of Aeneas, settled in Britain at about the time that the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant from the Israelites. A likely story.
Still, Kipling was on to something when he made the ash part of a forgotten mythology. He was really writing about England, rather than Britain, and the English cannot help sharing in the myths of their Germanic forebears that seem so unconvincing on stage in Wagner.
Yet, as the Eddas tell us, the ash tree Yggdrasil is the noblest of trees (though the Norsemen at last learnt of a nobler). It embraces the world. On this tree Odin himself was hanged and sacrificed himself. Only when the tree is set on fire will the world end. “Smoke wreathes up around the ash Yggdrasil, the high flames play against the heavens, the graves of the gods, of the giants and of men are swallowed up by the sea. This is Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods.”
In England now, instead of the pyres that burnt cattle during the foot-and-mouth plague (their legs dark against the sky), we see the smoke of the ash trees. It’s not the end of the world, of course. Or is it…?
Remove limescale from taps by taking half a lemon and rub around the end of your taps, or leave slices around the base. Leave for an hour, or overnight if they’re bad, then rub with an old toothrush or cloth and rinse. Lemon juice shouldn’t be used on plated taps.
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Wash veggies in a bowl, rather than under a running tap. Then pour the water on your houseplants afterwards rather than see it gurgle down the plughole.
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Gay or not gay, hetero or not hetero, whatever lifes and politics makd of us.
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Brother,
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Broth.
Aan the orangutan recovering after being shot 100 times with airgun
The orangutan, thought to be around 15 years old, was rescued by conservation workers who found a staggering 104 pellets lodged in her vital organs, eyes and ears.
Yahoo! News – Aan is treated by conservation workers who rescued her after she was shot more than 30 times in the head (SWNS)
A brave orangutan is on the miraculous road to recovery after she was cruelly shot more than 100 times with an airgun.
Aan the great ape was repeatedly attacked by callous yobs who objected to her roaming around an oil plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.
The orangutan, thought to be around 15 years old, was rescued by conservation workers who found a staggering 104 pellets lodged in her vital organs, eyes and ears.
Horrifying x-rays show the extent of her cruel treatment, after which vets performed vital surgery to remove 37 pellets from her head and a further 67 from the rest of her body.
Horrific: An x-ray shows more than 30 pellets lodged in Aan’s head (SWNS)
The endangered ape – left blind by the repeated attacks – underwent a three-hour procedure to treat the airgun wounds and is now making a remarkable recovery.
Dr Zulfiqri, a veterinarian from the British-based Orangutan Foundation, removed 32 of the pellets lodged in her body and head during a three-hour surgery at the BKSDA-Kalteng office in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan.
Aan is now recovering at the Orangutan Foundation Veterinary Facility where she is taking food and water and “showing an incredible resilience against all she has undergone”.
But Aan is now blind with scans showing a dozen pellets lodged in and around her eyes – meaning food and water must be touched or placed in her hands.
The foundation says it is now unlikely Aan will ever be released back into the wild because she will be an easy target for hunters and angry farmers who view orangutans as pests.
Her story is another tragic example of the plight faced by orangutans in the wild as they have their habitat destroyed.
Aan, 15, pictured before she received vital surgery (SWNS)
Despite being protected by law, orangutans live in rainforests which are being destroyed through logging and conversion to oil-palm plantations.
It is hoped her experience will help raise awareness of the cruel situation suffered by orangutans in the wild – and encourage tough punishments on those who hunt and kill the endangered animals.
Earlier this year four men were sent to jail for eight months for shooting and beating to death three orangutans and long-nosed monkeys in East Kalimantan.
Mr Bambang Hartono, head of the local conservation agency, said: “I hope that Aan will now feel more comfortable being in the forest living in a large holding cage.
“We will work together with the Orangutan Foundation to find the best way so that Aan can continue to live.”
Ashley Leiman OBE, director of the Orangutan Foundation added: “We have worked in Borneo over 20 years and have never had to rescue three orangutans in four days.
“The reasons for the increase could be due to the rapid loss of orangutan habitat or it could be because more people are reporting orangutans to the wildlife department whereas before they would have killed
them.”
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Fake news is a real problem in dealing with articles, and it happened to me at least once to have redistributed an article that had all the signs of being genuine but was in fact fabricated- hundreds of thousands people thought it was genuine and had been widely distributed-mind came after a genuine scandal of the same nature.
By the way, I still have an item that raises concern, I kept it as organ trafficking particularly on very poor populations in several countries and also on migrants and on refugees is a reality. I currently kept an article on organ trafficking by several ex-member of the Greek parliament, but if apparently the subjects may have been treated by the Greek media (I cannot read Greek), only one paper (that I thought peer-reviewed) talking about it has been released in English…so I wonder.
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