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Kleine panda #1
Image by jinterwas
Please feel free to take a look at more of my animal pictures in my "all creatures great & small"-collection. All photos are free to use, but I would appreciate credits :). All it takes is a link back to this page and/or a tag 'jinterwas' on your picture.
I´d also love to see the result of your creativity, so a link to your photo (or website you use this picture on) or a small size sample in the comment section would be great :)) !!
Please do not abuse the CC-licence by claiming anything in my photostream as your own, nor to sell it on a compilation CD and/or internet.
Thanks for looking at and/or using anything on my photostream. Any comment is much appreciated :) !!
Prairiehondjes
Image by jinterwas
Please feel free to take a look at more of my animal pictures in my "all creatures great & small"-collection. All photos are free to use, but I would appreciate credits :). All it takes is a link back to this page and/or a tag 'jinterwas' on your picture.
I´d also love to see the result of your creativity, so a link to your photo (or website you use this picture on) or a small size sample in the comment section would be great :)) !!
Please do not abuse the CC-licence by claiming anything in my photostream as your own, nor to sell it on a compilation CD and/or internet.
Thanks for looking at and/or using anything on my photostream. Any comment is much appreciated :) !!
Haaienjong (1)
Image by jinterwas
Please feel free to take a look at more of my animal pictures in my "all creatures great & small"-collection. All photos are free to use, but I would appreciate credits :). All it takes is a link back to this page and/or a tag 'jinterwas' on your picture.
I´d also love to see the result of your creativity, so a link to your photo (or website you use this picture on) or a small size sample in the comment section would be great :)) !!
Please do not abuse the CC-licence by claiming anything in my photostream as your own, nor to sell it on a compilation CD and/or internet.
Thanks for looking at and/or using anything on my photostream. Any comment is much appreciated :) !!
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
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Image by Le Flâneur
finally! evidence of Chupacabra! Cuba is FULL of stray dogs, only distinct from the very few "owned" dogs by the lack of a t-shirt. Collars are not used, instead the owners put a shirt on the dog to indicate it is a domesticated beast and shout not be kicked and abused quite as much as the rest of the stray animals. Cats and dogs in cuba are VERY skittish. Nonetheless, show the least bit of compassion by throwing one a scrap and you'll find yourself trailed by a dog possee for the rest of the night.
Garage
Image by vincelaconte
with spots for two vans. They use the vans for transportation from donating shelters / Animal Control, and for checking up on anonymous tips about abuse
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
Flickred
Image by Lst1984
Censrship:
We are the generation that will have to face one of the biggest problems for a democracy: Where´s the limit between the acceptable security and the hardly earned freedorms?
Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: “A people that values its priviledges above its principles soon loses both”
So: What is best? Allow everything including nudty, to protect our freedorm of expression, which costed lots of lives in the past, or protect our minds and our kids from disgusting content?
Maybe, the most of us will agree that showing a 6 years old girl been raped it´s definitively not art, but, even in the case that someone said it is, thats ilegal, so that can be removed from any site on the web.
But, would that be an abuse?
We, as every animal, born nude. Our parents made us having sex. Those are parts of our body as any others (well, I have some extra affection to that part of me, but that´s my case...). Arms are pornography? Feet? There´s people that get hot with feet... So lets ban photos containg feet because they can be used for Is a penis of an adult man into the vagina of an adult woman art? I don´t think so, but I wouldn´t aprove if somebody banned it.
Flickr should be a free site. There are millions of free porno webs in the internet where people can seek for those things. There´s no need of wasting a place like flickr with censorship just because some people abuse the limits of the freedorm of expression.
sexual purposes.
Let´s get serious.
There are thounds of masterpieces of art that show nudity. And I´m just talking about nudity because that´s the theme of the photo. Things such as deleting people´s accounts, preventing them from commenting, selling our democratic convictions just to get into the Chinese maket (and I don´t care if Google did it first) or stuff like that are just dreadful.
We like our freedorms. We like our rights that protect us from real abuse. We want magazines to write and read the opinions of other people, we want voting, to choose our representants, etc.
These are our principles. Sometimes it might looks easier to look in other direction while some of these principles are harassed, like what happened in many parts of the world after 9-11. Yes, we feel a little safer, but things like the US Patriot Act (I mention this one because it´ll be known be most of the people) or others, like the CCTV Cameras that “protect” us, make our world a little closer to Orwell´s nightmare (1984). That´s when we change our principles for priviledges. Freedorm for security, for tranquility. Until we wake up a day and we see that everything´s gone to the toilet and somebody you can´t complain to it´s flushing it.
So, don´t let the consorship get into a place like this. That´s supposed to be a place for photgraphers, to show their work for free, talk/write to other photographers and above all, learn and shared. We don´t get paid for this, except the satisfaction of seeing our work seen by others, commented, faved. Shown.
That´s the kind of place that censorship changes forever.
If it´s not ilegal, let it be.
Don´t allow censorship, flickr-guys.
Please.
Remember Eisenhower: “A people that values its priviledges above its principles soon loses both”
... soon loses both...
1824 Murder at The Tennis Court Inn, Warmley
Image by brizzle born and bred
The Tennis Court Inn, Deanery Road, Warmley, South Gloucestershire BS15 is still trading today.
See Same View 2010
During the evening of the 27 November 1824, James Caines in company with friends, was drinking at The Tennis Court Inn, Warmley. Also drinking at the bar was the local pound-keeper, Isaac Garden. Amongst James’ drinking companions was Francis Britton who started an argument with Garden over the cost of recovering a stray animal and, whilst the subject of the disagreement between these two had nothing whatsoever to do with James or the other friends, as so often happens in such circumstances, Britton’s friends became embroiled in the argument, and the disturbance grew.
As far as can be determined, the sum total of James’ involvement during the commotion appears to have been no worse than the throwing of bits of broken clay pipe in the general direction of Mr.Garden.
Being somewhat outnumbered, Garden left the Inn of his own freewill, and it is believed, without either injury or hindrance. The disturbance in the public house is therefore likely to have been no worse than verbal abuse, accompanied perhaps, by some pushing and shoving. Once outside, Garden appears to have been accosted and knocked or pushed to the ground, but by whom, is unfortunately not recorded. Whether or not Garden was hurt or just shaken, is also not recorded, but for reasons best known to himself, instead of trying to make his own way home, he returned to the bar of the Inn.
One can only guess at Garden’s intention of taking this particular course of action, possibly he was prevented from making his way home by either force or fear or perhaps just feeling unwell. He may possibly have felt more secure inside the hostelry where he may have had friends, or alternatively, he wanted a drink to settle his nerves before quietly returning home.
There may have been the need for a drink or two, to build up sufficient 'Dutch Courage' to follow Britton and to settle a score on a hoped for one-to-one basis. Whatever theories we put to Garden’s motives will never be more than pure speculation, for all that is certain is that Garden remained behind in the Inn, apparently free of any further argument or intimidation, until after James and his friends left the warmth and comfort of the hostelry.
With the Inn closed for the night, and the dank, still air of a late November night invading the surrounding countryside, a coal miner, on his way home from a long fourteen hour shift, stumbled across the battered body of Isaac Garden.
Once his body had been identified, the local constable began to make enquiries, and, soon the story of the previous evening’s altercation, involving Garden and a known group of seven young men in The Tennis Court Inn, became public knowledge.
In reporting his findings to the local magistrates, the constable confirmed that Garden had met his untimely end in a most unpleasant and brutal way. With the then limitations in medical science, and in particular, forensic science, the magistrates had to rely a great deal on their and the constable’s judgement, which was that Garden had been killed by being hit about the head with a blunt instrument, believed to be a clothes-post which had been found near the body.
Also near to where the body lay, was found a knife which was subsequently identified as belonging to a Robert England, already named as being one of the young men in the group of seven. In addition to the knife, the constable had come across a set of muddy footprints, and the imprint in the ground, of a mark where someone had obviously sat down. Rather importantly, there was within this imprint, the additional outline which represented the shape of a patch, where the owner’s trousers had at one time been mended.
By now the constable had the names of the men involved in the altercation with Garden and so, the hunt was on for Francis and Isaac Britton, James Bush (alias Caines), Thomas Wilmot, Mark Whitting, Samuel Peacock and Robert England.
Within a relatively short space of time, the constable had arrested most of the above and, upon checking the state of their trousers, he was soon to have no doubt that the person who had sat near the body was none other than Mark Whitting.
Having been kept in local custody for almost a week, six of the men were, on the 9 December 1824, transferred to Gloucester Gaol, charged on the oath of George Haskins, with suspicion of having, on the night of Saturday 27 November 1824, in the parish of Oldland, feloniously assaulted, killed and murdered, one Isaac Garden.
In the Felons Register, the hand written entries, for the 9 December 1824, describe Francis Britton as being a labourer, 5'2¾' tall, with a pale complexion and rather stout, he was unable to read or write.
Samuel Peacock was a 5'4' tall cordwainer, also with a pale complexion, a long face, with a large nose and a scar on his forehead, he could both read and write.
Mark Whitting was another labourer, just shorter than Peacock, with brown hair and brown eyes, he could read a little, but not write. Robert England was the shortest man, just 5’0¾' tall, a collier by trade, with an oval face, very much marked by the after effects of smallpox.
Whilst Thomas Wilmot is not described, James Caines is shown to be 5'4½' tall, with brown hair, grey eyes, a dark complexion, and a full face with several visible scars resulting from his employment as a collier, he also could neither read or write.
This just leaves Isaac Britton, who was to arrive at the gaol some four days later, having been similarly charged with Garden’s murder.
Almost 170 years after the event, it is difficult to make a sound judgement on the subsequent actions of the presiding magistrates or judge. There are, of course, decisions taken in today’s Court Rooms which are hard to understand, and we should perhaps put the decisions taken in this case into the same category. However there does seem to be strong grounds for believing that the decisions then taken, were, to say the very least, preposterous, if not somewhat prejudicial.
During the constable’s enquiries, he had discovered that whilst the argument had started over a disagreement between Francis Britton and Isaac Garden, and was originally just between those two, when the altercation began to encompass Britton’s friends, it had been Thomas Wilmot who was the first to physically assault Garden.
Following such evidence as this (presumably there were witnesses to the attack), it might have been expected that Wilmot would have become one of the prime suspects of the violence perpetrated upon Garden, but this was not to be so as, all charges in this case against Wilmot were dropped and, he walked free.
Francis Britton was the instigator of the argument, and no doubt, egged on by his son Isaac and, the demon drink, appears to have taken a leading roll in upsetting Garden’s evening. No specific evidence was put forward to suggest that they were involved with the subsequent murder, and they were also found not guilty. Similarly the charge against Samuel Peacock was also dropped.
It will of course be remembered, that a knife belonging to Robert England was found near Garden’s body. Whilst there was no evidence that Garden had suffered any knife wounds, the discovery of the knife would seem to indicate that England had been at the scene, either before the murder was committed, or not long afterwards. It is of course possible that the knife had either been borrowed from England. and dropped by the murderer or, had been deliberately placed there just to incriminate him. Whatever the reason, the judge was satisfied that England was not involved, and like the other four, he also was found not guilty, and walked free.
Undoubtedly, a murder had been committed and someone had to be punished. If the crime had not been perpetrated by five of those involved in the altercation then, it must have been carried out by the other two, and it should not be forgotten, that for one of those left, there was the damning evidence of the trouser seat imprint whilst the other was, after all, a member of that infamous Caines family.
The only other 'evidence' which was brought before the learned judge was that, in the opinion of the constable, the muddy footprints matched those of Caines.
It would therefore appear to have been an open and shut case against Caines and Whitting with undisputed, (as far as the law was concerned), evidence in the mud surrounding Garden’s body, plus the known fact that both men were part of a group of seven who argued with, and may have pushed and shoved the poor unfortunate victim in the presence of witnesses in the bar of The Tennis Court Inn. No evidence was brought forward by the prosecution that either of the two defendants had struck the fatal blow, or that they were anywhere near Garden when the blows were made.
Whether James, or indeed any of the seven drinking companions, were ever involved in the murder of Isaac Garden, will now never be known. For the young, unintelligent James, there was an unfortunate legacy which caused his continued plea of not guilty to fall on deaf ears, this being that he liked to use Caines as his surname and that he was, without doubt, part of the Caines dynasty.
The fact that both Caines and Whitting may have simply watched the beating or, had gone to Garden’s help, after he had been killed by persons unknown, or had visited the site of the murder out of some morbid curiosity, does not seem to have entered the minds of those who tried the case. Certainly there was no benefit of the doubt shown and, thus, no way of escaping the hangman’s noose, as both young men were found guilty and sentenced to death.
Like his Uncle Benjamin before him, 20 year old James Caines Bush was publicly hanged at Gloucester prison on the 11th April 1825.
The following day, to add to his mother’s grief and worry, James’ younger brother Francis, was brought to Gloucester Prison in chains, charged with highway robbery. Subsequently, Francis was to follow in his father’s footsteps when, as a result of this charge, he was sentenced to be transported to Australia.
Life had many different values in the early nineteenth century to those held today.
There was, for example, no welfare state to 'fall-back on', life was extremely hard and tough, producing very few pleasures, and where even a minor (in today’s terms) illness could cause a great deal of pain and suffering. Death was probably more easily accepted simply because it was much more visible than it is today, particularly with a high infant mortality rate. In addition there was a huge gap in wealth and living conditions between the ruling class and, the working class.
The majority of the crime which occurred during the dynasty of the Caines, was probably petty and totally unsophisticated. Almost certainly, a great amount of crime, both petty and serious, went unrecorded and unpunished, and much was probably of a domestic nature.
See Links Below for the history of The Cock Road Gang Kingswood and The Caines Family History
www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/3319337224/
www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2019209332/
www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2019209612/
www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/3319293364/
Hey Sheepy
Image by Sandra Regina
This sheep really, really wanted the grass on the other side. I think. From the Donkey Sanctuary in Guelph.
www.donkeysanctuary.ca
They take in donkeys and other neglected or abused farm animals (like sheep!) and give them a place to stay for the rest of the animals lives. They do not sell or breed them (and they don't buy them any more; they work with various humane societies instead). They sometimes foster out the animals they have to carefully screened farms.
On the 2nd Sunday in June, every year, people are encouraged to visit the Sanctuary and learn about donkeys, mules, and hinnies (including grooming them, what they eat, etc). They have entertainment, donkey rides, even a picnic lunch. It is possible to visit the Sanctuary at other times during the year, but check the website for "Open Days" since they're not open to the public all the time. Also, throughout the year, they offer a variety of educational programs and even a 'life skills' camp for kids.
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The Big Egg Hunt 2013 - Covent Garden, London
Image by Karen Roe
10. Equinox
by Barbie Harrison
Barbie Harrison has worked as an illustrator and decorator of children’s furniture for many years. She is used to painting on any surface, even having painted on eggs before, although never on one as big as this! More recently Barbie has begun to exhibit small paintings on reclaimed wood, using oil, enamel and gold leaf – her own personal icons – and using images of birds, flowers, animals and trees.
Barbie lives in rural East Sussex and takes her inspiration from the natural world. Here’s what the artist has to say about the design’s conception:
“When I heard about the Big Egg Hunt I researched Easter myths - one of the recurring and universal ones being the Easter Hare (and coincidentally I often use an image of the hare in my paintings). In past times it was thought that the hare laid eggs – in fact we now know that this came about by the habit of lapwings laying their eggs in the “form” or scrape in the ground that the hare uses as a resting place – hence the plover image.
“Hares are also associated with the spring and the moon, thus prompting me to conceive the design. On one side we see the hare at the cusp of winter – the autumn equinox- apprehensively looking up at an owl, and opposite, the spring equinox - a hare leaping over the sun , with associated images of flowers and swallows and the optimism they symbolize.
“Look carefully at the line of trees in the half-light and you will see the tiny silhouette of a running hound – a tribute to our wonderful old lurcher who died last year.” Barbie has painted furniture designs for children for many years, and wanted the imagery to be accessible to young people.
Lindt is proud to join
THE BIG EGG HUNT 2013
in support for Action For Children
Our fun family event starts in London, Covent Garden on Shrove Tuesday and promises to delight all; from the exciting egg-hunts and giant chocolate bunnies to the uniquely designed eggs by leading artists and celebrities, for all to awe at – and hopefully buy!
Most importantly it is a unique opportunity for us all to raise significant money to support vulnerable and neglected children in the UK.
Established in 1869, Action for Children is committed to helping the most vulnerable and neglected children in the UK. Working directly with more than 250,000 children, young people and their carers each year, we run over 600 services which tackle abuse, neglect, help young carers and provide fostering and adoption services.
Lindt believes in the magic of families, which is why the Lindt Gold Bunny is proud to join Action for Children in The Big Egg Hunt and support the great work they do to improve the lives of children & families in the UK.
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
Tony the tongue
Image by Eyesplash - the new slow way
I was out with my friend, Helene. She loves animals as much as I do. We talked to the owner of this boxer and got a lot of info. He is a rescue dog that was abused and took quite sometime to rehabilitate. He was gentle, friendly and very playful.
It makes me happy to hear of good stories.
Serval Intensity
Image by Genji A
Another photo from the California Photo Festival that I hadn't processed up until now. This was taken at Zoo to You in Paso Robles.
"Conservation Ambassadors is more than just a non-profit rescue zoo it’s a place where permanently injured, abandoned and abused wild and exotic animals get a second chance at life as ambassadors for their species through conservation education. Learners of all ages are inspired through our animal ambassadors." Zoo to You website
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Linus_school_v2
Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
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A few nice animal abuse images I found:
And thus begins my story....
Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
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Emergency Room 1
Image by brandsvig
My Friend's Cat, More Than 17 Years Of Age, Took Ill, So They Had To Go To The Hospital To End Her Life. He Called Me To Take Some Final Shots Of Her, So I Had To Take A Cab There So She Wouldn't Have To Suffer Too Long. Tough To Loose A Long Time Faithful Companion. She Was An Abused Cat That He Took Over From The Animal Protection, More Than 15 Years Ago. Goodbye Cat.
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This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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A few nice animal abuse images I found:
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Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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A few nice animal abuse images I found:
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Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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If you like this little guy go check him out on his blog : loving-linus.com
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Cool Toys Pic of the day - SOPA Countdown / Blackout SOPA / American Censorship
Image by rosefirerising
I'm all about freedom of speech, freedom of information, open
education, open science, transparency, etcetera. So the blackout
starts in a couple hours. I blogged about it yesterday so you'd all
have more warning than I can give you today.
Want to participate in the blackout or support it? Check out yesterday's
post or go to American Censorship.
American Censorship:
americancensorship.org/
Need an image to black out your Twitter or Facebook stream, or a
banner for your blog? Get them at BlackOut SOPA.
Blackout SOPA:
www.blackoutsopa.org/
When is this really happening? You can find that at the SOPA Countdown.
SOPA Countdown:
sopacountdown.com/
Or can you? Read on, things are changing, even as we speak.
The bill is on-again, off-again, but folks tracking it have already
pointed to some new bills with similar missions. What they say is
true. With the big guns behind this, like Disney and the MPAA behind
this idea, it won't go away. They'll keep proposing new bills. There
are more in the works even now. So here's a few little tidbits to
think about. While folks were gearing up for the tail end of the this
fight to preserve important freedoms, the White House responded to
petitions about SOPA, basically saying there are some real problems
with the current form of the legislation.
Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet
By Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt
wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/response/combating-onli...
"“We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression,
increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative
global Internet. ...
Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of
online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation
by our dynamic businesses large and small. ...
We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the
underlying architecture of the Internet. ...
We expect and encourage all private parties, including both content
creators and Internet platform providers working together, to adopt
voluntary measures and best practices to reduce online piracy."
Obama Administration Responds to We the People Petitions on SOPA and
Online Piracy:
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administration-r...
"The White House has responded to two petitions about legislative
approaches to combat online piracy. In their response, Victoria
Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of
Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer,
and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and
Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff stress that the
important task of protecting intellectual property online must not
threaten an open and innovative internet."
White House Says It Opposes Parts of Two Antipiracy Bills:
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/white-house-says-it-opposes...
"The bills currently under consideration in Congress were intended to
combat the theft of copyrighted materials by preventing American
search engines like Google and Yahoo from directing users to sites
that allow for the distribution of stolen materials. They would cut
off payment processors like PayPal that handle transactions.
The bills would also allow private citizens and companies to sue to
stop what they believed to be theft of protected content. Those and
other provisions set off fierce opposition among Internet companies,
technology investors and free speech advocates, who said the bills
would stifle online innovation, violate the First Amendment and even
compromise national security by undermining the integrity of the
Internet’s naming system."
What happened next? Well, Congress decided they better go back to the
drawing board and rethink this.
Controversial online piracy bill shelved until 'consensus' is found
thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-...
Putting SOPA on a shelf:
www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/puttin...
So, everything is good, right? The bill has been canceled. No one
needs to worry. It's gone. But the momentum is still going, and the
SOPA strike is still being planned, and more folk are signing up for
it all the time. Does that seem ... illogical? Is the strike still
needed? The folks who've been pushing for SOPA seem to think that
continuing with the strike is basically ill-mannered and ill-bred.
Danny Sullivan used stronger language to describe what their view was.
MPAA issues statement slamming SOPA/PIPA "blackout" protests as
"dangerous gimmick". By Xeni Jardin at 1:24 pm Tuesday, Jan 17:
boingboing.net/2012/01/17/mpaa-issues-statement-on-jan.html
Motion Picture Association of America:
mpaa.org/resources/c4c3712a-7b9f-4be8-bd70-25527d5dfad8.pdf
"It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely
on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of
power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace
today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms
that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to
incite their users in order to further their corporate interests."
Does this mean that the MPAA doesn't do things to further their
corporate interests?
OpenCongress: S.968 - PROTECT IP Act of 2011: Money:
www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/money
Oh. I guess someone is spending a lot of money to lobby! ,672,497 to
support SOPA vs. ,839,707 to oppose it, and that just mentions the
top recipients of donations. As Danny pointed out, does that mean buy
people's consent with money is OK, but inspiring action is not? Now,
where is the real passion here? I'm remembering a song I used to sing
way back when ... "'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life, for
youth cannot mate with age, and her beauty was sold for an old man's
gold ... She's a bird in a gilded cage." I don't know that I agree
with the ageism of the song's lyrics, but the idea that there is
something different between actions inspired by money and those
inspired by passion does seem to be relevant.
So back to the blackout. You'd be surprised how many people I've seen
who were ready to call it quits, and just let the big boys handle the
blackout. Then they read the MPAA document. Now, they are even
angrier, and even MORE people are joining the blackout. It is pretty
obvious that even if SOPA does die, this is just one skirmish. The
original mission of the blackout was to let people find out, in a very
small way, what life might feel like if this bill, or others like it,
pass. That might still be a useful and valuable lesson, you know. Just
maybe.
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
IMG_20120511_181051
Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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IMG_20120505_143427
Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
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I am The HSUS. I am Nebraska.
Image by humanesocietyoftheunitedstates
Michelle, Gretna, NE: Animals don't have a voice against violence and abuse. The HSUS is that voice and I stand with them. [Submit your own photo and stand with Nebraska animal lovers.]
I am The HSUS. I am Nebraska.
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Michelle, Omaha, NE: The animals don't have a voice against abuse and neglect. The HSUS is their voice and I stand behind them. [Submit your own photo and stand with Nebraska animal lovers.]
Wildhorse Rescue Ranch in AZ
Image by mariancall
Such a cool place! We did an evening concert here right out with the horses and cats, and lived at the ranch for a few nights.
Scott with less hair (sob) working hard in the gift shop.
Visit www.mudpony.com for more info about the ranch or the horses, or to make a tax-deductible donation. It costs them about 00 per month to feed & doctor abused horses, or animals that would go to the slaughterhouse. After rehabilitating the animals, they adopt them out to good owners.
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
Ernst Jünger in between David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler (4th September 1936, Berghof near Berchtesgarden)
Image by quapan
screenshot @ 1:35 / 9:50
Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, World War 2 in colour Part 2 from: 'Hitler in Colour' - Narrated by Brian Cox, Producer David Batty, TWI /Granada Television 2004 @youtube.com
David Lloyd George In den 1930er-Jahren gehörte er zu den Vertretern der Appeasement-Politik und versuchte im Auftrag der britischen Regierung zwischen England und Hitler-Deutschland zu vermitteln. So traf Lloyd George im September 1936 Adolf Hitler im Berghof in Berchtesgaden, um von Hitler über dessen außenpolitische Pläne Auskunft zu erhalten. Hitler überreichte Lloyd George ein signiertes Portrait und drückte seine Freude darüber aus "den Mann getroffen zu haben, der den Krieg gewonnen hatte". Lloyd George war von dieser Geste bewegt und antwortete, dass er sehr geehrt sei, solch ein Geschenk aus den Händen des "greatest living German". zu erhalten. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach England schrieb er am 17. September einen Artikel für den Daily Express, in dem er Hitler in den höchsten Tönen lobte und vermerkte: "The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again".
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According to fascist scribe Ernst Jünger, father figure and economic patron of the New
Right, “The ‘elemental,’ toward which we strive, is for the first time perceptible in the jaws of war. Only when the play of perpetual emptiness of normal life is swept away will what is natural and elemental within us — a genuinely primitive dimension that is otherwise hidden — erupt with blood and seed.” {16} Similarly, for Carl Schmitt, “The hallmark of authentic politics is the moment when the enemy emerges in concrete clarity as the enemy.”{17} According to the conservative revolutionary worldview, the nihilism and decadence of contemporary Europe are a direct result of the triumph of liberalism, whose political values — discussion, compromise, egalitarianism — are in essence effeminate. Only a renewed social Darwinist emphasis on virility and risk, guaranteed by a strong and well-armed state, might redeem Germany and Europe from a fate of liberal vacillation and indecision.
The German New Right is fond of characterizing itself as the “democratic right.” By strategically distancing themselves from the far right (e.g., neo-Nazis), its members are cleverly able to present themselves as intellectual and political moderates, thereby stealthily interjecting their revisionist views into cultural mainstream."
{16}. Ernst Jünger, “Der Kampf um das Reich,” cited in Pflüger, Deutschland driftet, 35–36.
{17}. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. G. Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 67; see also the German edition, Der Begriff des Politischen (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1963), 67: “Die Höhepunkte der grossen Politik sind zugleich die Augenblicke, in denen der Feind in konkreter Deutlichkeit als Feind erblickt wird.” The English translation omits the allusion Nietzsche’s concept of “great politics.”
SOURCE: 'Incertitudes Allemandes: Reflections on the German New Right' pp 129 - 150 with notes excerpted from: 'THE SEDUCTION OF UNREASON. THE INTELLECTUAL ROMANCE WITH FASCISM - FROM NIETZSCHE TO POSTMODERNISM.' written by Richard Wolin. © 2004 Princeton University Press.
www.scribd.com/doc/83682375/Reflections-on-the-German-New...
Nietzsche and the Fascist Dimension: The Case of Ernst Jünger, David Ohana. pages 263 -290
in: Nietzsche, godfather of fascism? on the uses and abuses of a philosophy. edited by Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich.
A Man for All Seasons
Ernst Jünger, born in Heidelberg in 1895, was the eldest of four sons in a typical German bourgeois family. In his early years, his family moved to Hanover, following the decision of his father, the owner of a chemical
factory, who was concerned for his children’s economic welfare. However, dissatisfaction with a comfortable bourgeois existence caused the seventeen-year-old Jünger to seek out a life of danger and adventure. He crossed the French frontier at Metz and burnt all the money in his possession
in order to sever his connection to the past. He then made his way to Africa where, like Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement, he discovered what he called “the promise of happiness.”
After he had stayed a few weeks at Sidi-Bal-Abbas in North Africa, his father brought him home, but he did not remain there for long. Later, Jünger described the reasons for his frequent flights from home: “We
grew up in the atmosphere of a materialistic epoch, and we all consequently had a taste for something out of the ordinary, for situations of great danger.”
In 1914, before the outbreak of war, he volunteered for the 73rd Hanover Fusilier Regiment, in which he served for four years. He began as a private, and a year later was appointed a junior officer. He did not volunteer for ideological or nationalistic reasons, but in the hope of finding in the army what he had sought in Africa: a life of existential significance, of danger, of spontaneity and vitality. He finally found his Africa in the fields of Flanders. The primitivism he longed for changed in content but not in essence, and his myth of Africa was now replaced by the myth of the war. In those years in which he dwelt in the trenches of northern France, Ju¨nger was in charge of platoons of commandos and was wounded seven times. Like Rommel, he received the highest decoration for valor in the German army. After the war, he returned to his defeated country, and began to take his first steps in civilian life. His sojourn in the trenches had given birth to an exhaustive battle diary documenting his experience in the war. The diary, which appeared in 1920 under the title Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel), won its author immediate fame and was an instant best-seller. Ju¨nger became the spokesman of the generation of the trenches that had sacrificed all without receiving anything in return.
From 1927 onward, Jünger lived in Berlin and imbibed the atmosphere of intrigue and machinations, clubs that spawned utopias, subversive agitation in beer cellars, violence in the streets, and corruption in high places. Ju¨nger declared in the spirit of that time (as Thomas Mann had done a dozen years previously) that all democratic regimes were in contradiction to the essentally tragic nature of the human destiny. His interest in botany and zoology was not scientific but metaphorical: he wished to study the sphere of animals and vegetation as a language of symbols for an understanding of the metaphysical essence of the world. In the 1930s, he traveled a great deal in Brazil, Morocco, Scandinavia, and France, and in his travel notes there was still a sense of nostalgia for the primitive and a feeling of hostility to the compromises and adjustments of the world in which he lived. In 1932, Jünger published Der Arbeiter (The Worker), a technological utopia of the modern world that was the high point of his intellectual achievement. Jünger took the “nihilistic-totalitarian syndrome” to its ultimate conclusions. He used the myth of the “masculine community” of the trenches and the public memory of the first mechanized war in order to construct a utopia in which technology directed, guided, and molded man and his role in the new hierarchical society. Indeed, the Jüngerian technological utopia would be prophetic of a new political form of totalitarian nihilism.
For Ju¨nger, the Second World War was a completely different experience from the first one. If the First World War was a hell in the trenches, the second was for Jünger a pleasurable experience in the streets of Paris. As an officer of the German occupation, he spent his time in the French capital in the company of “collaborationist” authors and cultural critics, visiting artists like Picasso and Braque and in frequenting literary clubs and cafés on the boulevards. All this is described in his wartime notes, the first part of which was published in 1942 under the title Gärten und Strassen (Gardens and Streets).25 Toward the end of the war (1943), his book Der Friede (The Peace) appeared and was popular among the young German soldiers on the western front. When the war ended, his books were banned in the British zone of occupation in Germany, but at the same time were freely available in London. In November 1944, when he lost his eighteen-year-old son Ernestal on the Italian front, he wrote that “the only true community of the war” was the community of the bereaved. His stay in Paris was interrupted by a sixweek journey to the Caucasian front, but the quiet places he visited there in no way recalled his experiences in Flanders. These landscapes were later described in his utopia Heliopolis (1949), which developed the theme of Auf den Marmorklippen in which the representatives of anarchy and the representatives of nihilism confront each other in the person of the hero, Lucio de Gir.26 After his commander General Heinrich von Stülpnagel was executed, Ju¨nger was sent back to Germany, and in October 1944 he was discharged from the army. His diary (1949), which covers the period of the Second World War in detail, ends with the entry of American tanks into a village near Hanover in April 1945. After the war, there was talk of him being placed on trial in Nuremberg. Seeking to preserve his honor, Jünger refused to be tried by the de-Nazification court, although clearance would have enabled him to publish his books freely. However, Ju¨nger lived on to become the most important cultural figure in Germany after Heidegger. His long life and his many books, which appeared in successive editions, caused the character of his youthful writings to be forgotten. In 1982, he received a dramatic rehabilitation when he was awarded the prestigious Goethe prize in a splendid ceremony in Frankfurt. Three years later, the chancellor Helmut Kohl made a pilgrimage to the village of Wilflingen, where Jünger lived, to congratulate him on his ninetieth birthday. He died in 1998, at the age of a hundred and three.
Queen of bears
Image by jinterwas
This bear looks as if he/she's waving to the crowd below. Reminds me of the way the Dutch queen waves to the public :).
Malayan sun bears (aka honey bears) at Burgers Zoo, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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Tonya, the toddler
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Tonya is about a year old in this picture. She's on her way to see Faya, her newborn halfsister.
Please feel free to take a look at more of my animal pictures in my "all creatures great & small"-collection. All photos are free to use, but I would appreciate credits :). All it takes is a link back to this page and/or a tag 'jinterwas' on your picture.
I´d also love to see the result of your creativity, so a link to your photo (or website you use this picture on) or a small size sample in the comment section would be great :)) !!
Please do not abuse the CC-licence by claiming anything in my photostream as your own, nor to sell it on a compilation CD, the internet or any other way.
Thanks for looking at and/or using anything on my photostream. Any comment is much appreciated :) !!
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
Garden Girl Fantasy
Image by Gita Rau
Original is here
www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3
Hi all you animal lovers.
This is pretty simple... Please tell ten people to each tell a further ten today!
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'.
This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Please pass it along. www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
Please tell 10 people!!
Copied and pasted from "Venks" stream.
¿Farm or sanctuary?
Image by ThinkVegan
Though at first sight it may seem as if there weren't to many differences between a farm and a sanctuary, the truth is that the only similarity between these places is that in them live non-human animals, because in reality the differences are fundamental.
At farms, non human animals (be them intensive or extensive farms) are seen as slaves, and this is exactly how they are treated. They are reared for human use, bought or/and sold, separated from their families, used and abused, hurt and finally murdered to be eaten, or assassinated when there owner considers them to be no longer "productive".
Farms exist because some humans consider non-human animals as “useful” tools to benefit from.
At sanctuaries, non human animals are considered human's equals, and this is exactly how they are treated, they were at some point rescued from some situation that threatened there interests and from then on treated fairly, allowed to live happy and peaceful lives, nurtured, taken care of, and there death pitied.
Sanctuaries exist because some humans consider other animals their equals, and dedicate there live to protecting them.
www.thinkvegan.net
Aunque a primera vista pudiera parecer que no hay demasiadas diferencias entre algunas granjas y un santuario, lo cierto es que la única similitud que hay entre estos lugares es que en ellos viven animales no humanos, porque lo cierto es que las diferencias son fundamentales.
En las granjas (sean extensivas o intensivas) viven individuos vistos como esclavas/os, y es exactamente de esta forma como se les trata. Se les cría, compra, vende, separa de sus familias, utiliza, hace daño, y finalmente cuando sus “dueñas/os” consideran oportuno se les asesina para comerles o por su falta de "productividad".
En una granja hay animales no humanos porque su explotación le resulta “útiles” para algún humana/o.
En un Santuario viven individuos vistos como iguales, y es exactamente de esta forma como se les trata. Después de ser rescatados de alguna situación que amenazaba sus intereses, se les tiene en cuenta de forma justa, se les deja vivir una vida tranquila y feliz, cuida, quiere y llora su muerte.
En un santuario hay animales no humanos porque hay quienes consideran a los demás animales sus iguales y dedican sus vidas a protegerles.
http.//www.thinkvegan.net/es
A few nice animal abuse images I found:
DSCF1084b
Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
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