“Researchers” Panic When They Are Exposed

November 9, 2009 — Negotiation Is Over

NIO Editorial Note: It is not animal rights activists that vivisectors fear, it is exposure. To illustrate this indisputable fact, the Star Tribune published the following report in response to a post on NIO last week, Pro-Vivisection Activism: Promoting Violence Against Animals

Simulposted with The Star Tribune: Group targets U animal scientist (by Jim Spencer)

The school raised security around one of its researchers after an animal activist group singled him out on its website.

University of Minnesota police have increased patrols near the home of a Medical School animal researcher after a posting on an animal activist website displayed his name and photograph and noted that “… we should not be surprised when the unconscionable violence inflicted upon animals is justifiably visited upon their tormentors.”

The Internet posting went up late last week on the website NegotiationIsOver.com in reaction to a Star Tribune story about a multimillion-dollar national campaign by biomedical researchers, including U Prof. Dick Bianco, to increase lagging support for medical and scientific tests using animals.

Who Owns Ya, Baby?

By Vi Ransel

10/28/09

Corporations are “inhuman entities” (Jon Faulkner) whose single, and legally mandated purpose, is to turn the Earth, and all its resources, including human resources, into profit for its shareholders – as long as they stay within the law (that they have written). Ask Milton Friedman.

And when human beings surround themselves with the mantle of these entities, 3-pound cheeseburger in hand as they talk into a Blue Tooth while driving an SUV; when human beings are owned by them by reason of debt for resin gnomes made in China, for McMansions made of pressed sawdust patties, for education that mis-educates, for healthcare/insurance that “lives” off the diabetes, heart disease, obesity and cancers created by the producers of food-like products polluted with the same poisonous organophosphates developed to gas soldiers in World War I and refined for use on Jews in World War II and mainline its media like junkies; when human beings prostrate themselves before these entities, willing to call the choice from among thousands of shiny, branded commodities freedom, they trade their identity, their soul, their “selves” for these poisonous, quality-less “products,” which are nothing more than a means to relieve them of the money they received for the work of creating all the wealth that made the production of those tawdry trinkets possible in the first place.

Pro-Vivisection Activism: Promoting Violence Against Animals

“In still a further sign of desperation, vivisectionists have also erected billboards claiming the Los Angeles populace is free of, get this, leprosy, because of animal experimentation. There were 91 cases of leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease, in the entire United States in 2000; treatment has been effective since at least the 1940’s, with new drug regimens in place to counter resistance to the causative bacterium since the 1980’s. Implying that the continued killing of animals in the 21st century is a “necessary evil” to prevent leprosy is just another attempt to keep UCLA rolling in research grant money, most of it taxpayer funds wasted on addicting non-human primates to methamphetamines and other utterly ridiculous, useless and cruel experiments.”

November 5, 2009 — Negotiation Is Over

by Camille Marino

According to an article published on Wednesday, November 4, in the Star Tribune, a decline in public support for sadistic animal experimentation has prompted an aggressive $1 million propaganda campaign by the Foundation for Biomedical Research.

Sinking equally as low as UCLA Pro-Test did with their full-page advertisement in the L.A. Times, 15 billboards in the Twin Cities employ empty rhetoric bereft of any scientific merit in an attempt to mislead the public:

“Ever had leprosy? Thanks to animal research, you won’t.“

The North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO) recently addressed this nonsensical claim:

“In still a further sign of desperation, vivisectionists have also erected billboards claiming the Los Angeles populace is free of, get this, leprosy, because of animal experimentation. There were 91 cases of leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease, in the entire United States in 2000; treatment has been effective since at least the 1940’s, with new drug regimens in place to counter resistance to the causative bacterium since the 1980’s. Implying that the continued killing of animals in the 21st century is a “necessary evil” to prevent leprosy is just another attempt to keep UCLA rolling in research grant money, most of it taxpayer funds wasted on addicting non-human primates to methamphetamines and other utterly ridiculous, useless and cruel experiments.”

Frankie Trull is founder and president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research. She is also president of the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR), the nation’s leading lobby advocating exploitation of helpless animals. Trull is a vocal cheerleader for regimented torture which she euphemistically refers to as “biomedical research and testing.“ I can only imagine that Tom Holder hopes to one day fill her skirt.

[Frankie Trull, Founder & President of FBR: 818 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 900, Washington DC 20006 Tel: (202) 457-0654 Fax: (202) 457- 0659 email: info@fbresearch.org]

HUNTING – the war on wildlife

Simulposted with Animal Rights Africa

Hunters are killers, plain and simple. Let us not mince words. Hunters try to justify their violent pastime, but whatever they say to the contrary, hunting is the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of innocent animals.
The object of the hunt is to kill animals. Hunters argue that it is not just about killing. They claim that the camaraderie, nature appreciation, exercise, nature education, and so-called conservation benefits are just as important a part of the hunt as the actual killing or attempted killing of the target animal.

But most people can appreciate and learn about nature and also contribute to nature conservation efforts without having to kill animals, and by doing their shooting with a camera instead of a gun or bow.

Do hunters really care?

It is ludicrous to believe that someone who actively sets out to kill a healthy animal for fun, trophy or profit really cares about wild animals specifically or nature in general. Photographs of smiling hunters posing with their dead victims hardly reflect the kind of “caring” that most normal people relate to. If hunters are the “true” conservationists they claim to be, and really do care about animals, they would pursue every humane, non-lethal possibility or means of caring for wild animals and the environment. Instead, their solution to any perceived problem with animals is to reach for the gun. Why is it that hunters, as so-called conservationists, are interested only in those animals that are most attractive as trophies, most enjoyable to eat or most “challenging” to hunt?

Stop Killing Deer

By Anthony Marr

Simulposted by Heal Our Planet Earth

Without a doubt, the biggest and hottest wildlife issue concerns deer “management”. Biggest because well over 10 million deer were killed by hunters in 2006, plus another 1 million died in deer-vehicle accidents (DVAs) which also involve human fatalities, plus the fact that massive culling of urban and suburban deer is spreading like wildfire across the land. And hottest because the 30-states-in-5-months (July-December) Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #5 (CARE-5 or Deer Tour) of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) is making it so.

The first point I make here can cause wide-spread controversy and confrontation between hunters and anti-hunters. Hunters blame deer overpopulation for causing the DVAs as justification for the massive killing of deer in the eyes of the non-hunting yet safety-conscious public, but I contend that the DVAs are at least in part deliberately caused by none other than the hunters themselves.

Although only 6% of the American public hunt, they still amount to millions of deer hunters. To ensure themselves of enough deer to hunt, they use feed plots in the wild to artificially boost the deer population to “overpopulation” levels, which then causes high DVA rates.

What it really takes to emancipate a planet from the fetters of industrial enslavement

Clarifying Any Loose Ends: Addressing the total implications latent in my polemic on carrying capacity through a response to an unwittingly myopic critic, viz. what it really takes to emancipate a planet from the fetters of industrial enslavement.

By Frank Joseph Smecker

10/21/09

(This exchange relates to Smecker’s The Polemics of Carrying Capacity: Thomas Malthus and his legacy of euphemistic extermination programs)

LS’ Critical Comment:

Frankly this article is pointless. It talks in the abstract, as if we had any of the choices and alternatives he mentions below.

He ignores the fact that we are in the middle of the stream already, not just starting to cross it. We already have over 6 billion people on earth, and are committed to 9 billion within another thirty years. This is inevitable and unavoidable due to the age distribution of people in and nearing their reproductive years, and to the number of young children already born.

It is too late for the kinds of solutions he proposes. These have been proposed by environmentalists, bioregionalists, decentralists for forty years, to no avail. Remember the Blueprint for Survival? The Limits to Growth? No one listened; no one believed them. Almost all, if not all, of the crises we face are PRE EXISTING ones that are being exacerbated by climate change: loss of biodiversity, desertification, overpumping of aquifers, death of coral reefs, overfishing, habitat destruction, loss of wetlands and estuaries, spread of infectious disease. And not least OVERPOPULATION.

The only direct new impacts of global warming are sea level rise, ocean acidification, melting of permafrost and mountain glaciers, loss of sea ice and ice shelves and sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica, intensification of pre-existing weather patterns (floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves). These ocean- and land-based conditions are causing positive feedback and enhancing all of the pre-existing problems and conditions.

One may well ask just why, only now when climate change is irreversible, and forty years after the first Earth Day, people are all of a sudden in a panic about all of this, even though the scientific research and evidence for all of the above already existed and have been published extensively in both the scientific and general media. Every major national environmental group that exists today has worked on these issues since 1970. Every one. All of these had journals and campaigns. Many people were members and got their journals. How come they didn’t start worrying then?

We were warned by Rachel Carson about pesticides and their effect on birds and animals. We saw the slaughter of whales, baby seals and gorillas in journals and on TV. Divers and fishermen have witnessed the huge diminution in fish species for decades. We have watched the uncontrolled destruction of tropical rainforests in Asia and South America. Before Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast, we knew that the channelization of the Mississippi River and construction of levees to facilitate industrial access to the Gulf had destroyed the extensive wetlands that had protected the coast and prevented the build-up of the coastal area from silt carried south by the river. We knew that logging of old growth forests was causing local flooding and loss of habitat and therefore of endemic species (Spotted Owl, Marbled Murrelet, among others). We knew that replacing forests and soils with concrete and asphalt caused (and still causes) extensive surface flooding. We knew that filling wetlands destroyed the nurseries of fish and shellfish.

Death Park: “The Deer Democide of 2009″

Above: A glimpse into the future of DEATH PARK!

Susan Bennett’s 10/27/09 email to the deer slaughterers:

To: Randy PRKKnight (Randy.Knight@jocogov.org); Governor@ks.gov; Michael PRKMeadors (Michael.Meadors@jocogov.org); clee@ksu.edu; lloydf@wp.state.ks.us; BOCC-Staff (BOCC-Staff@jocogov.org); BOCC-Commissioners (BOCC-Commissioners@jocogov.org);

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As I am sure you are aware, a traffic incident occurred on October 4th at the Park entrance in which I was a pedestrian and struck by a motor vehicle causing injury.

Shawnee Mission Park police department demonstrated gross negligence in failing to perform their sworn duties.

1. Failure to render aid or medical attention to a pedestrian victim.

2. Failure to stop and detain the driver leaving the scene of the accident, obtain identification, proof of insurance and determine if he may have been driving under the influence. Because of this most serious negligent act, we will never know if the driver was operating his vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It’s too late. He was not detained at the accident scene. He took off when there were numerous police officers standing in the immediate area. He drove into the park and there was ample opportunity to detain him.

3. Failure to initiate a police report at that time so it may be as accurate as possible.

4. Failure to obtain witness statements and follow proper police procedure according to Kansas State law.

Instead, the burden and responsibility was on the injured party to contact Park Police to initiate a police report. Park Police did not perform this duty, nor did the driver of the vehicle, owned by Daniel Taylor.

The Johnson County District Attorney’s office advised the Park Police also have a duty and an obligation to provide their office with a copy of the police report.

The KBI advised if Park Police and/or the BOCC fail to follow the law I may take the issue to the Kansas Attorney General for further investigation and determination.

I also trust no further errors or oversights will occur, and the Board will assuredly see that the District Attorney’s office receives a copy of the police report. The individual I spoke with at the DA’s office expressed concern the driver may cause harm to someone else. He did not follow officers’ directions to reverse his vehicle. He struck me, mouthing obscenities, and showed no hesitation or remorse for his actions.

Incendiary attack at a Burger King. Mexico City

Received anonymously:
October 19, 2009

Simulposted with NAALPO

On Friday, October 16, around 3 in the morning, we, comrades from the cell of milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A) [incendiary militia for animal liberation] , were ready to again hit one of the most anthropocentrist, earth-destroying multinationals, McDonald’s. Unfortunately, upon arriving at our target we realized that police officers were guarding the site, at both entrances of the establishment. But we did not let that stop us from attacking the murderer capitalism. Armed with all our anti-anthropocentrist anger and assisted by 10 liters of gasoline we turned to another equally exploitive multinational, this time the target was a Burger King located in the south of the city. Upon arriving at the place, a considerable amount of gasoline was sprayed around and some bottles with more gasoline and incendiary devices were also left. After leaving all this we withdrew into the darkness waiting for the devices to do their job and the sky could be seen illuminated by the beautiful abolitionist and anti-anthropocentric fire.

The action was planned that day against McDonald’s. We want to make it clear that we will not accept any reform or laws to protect and ensure a better murder of our non-human comrades in the slaughterhouse, because we do not fight for the ‘rights of animals’ as the reformist groups do. We are fighting for animal liberation and against anthropocentric, speciesist and dominating attitudes and we will not rest until all the cages and the bars of the prisons fall and until the exploiters are destroyed, and while a being continues suffering because of this capitalist society, we will continue attacking.

Let’s turn these words into action.

Milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A)

Spanish:

Ataque incendiario a un burger King. México d,f

Por la madrugada del pasado viernes 16 de octubre al rededor de las 3 de la mañana. Lxs compañerxs de la celula de la milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A) nos dispusimos a darle un golpe mas a una de las multinacionales mas antropocentristas y destructoras de la tierra nos referimos a un mc donalds. Lamentablemente al llegar a nuestro objetivo nos percatamos que unos policías resguardaban el lugar ubicándose en ambas entradas de dicho establecimiento. Pero no dejamos que eso nos impidiera dar un golpe al capitalismo asesino, así que armados de toda nuestra rabia anti-antropocentrista y ayudados de 10 litros de gasolina nos dirijamos hacia otra multinacional igualmente explotadora, esta ves el objetivo fue un burger King ubicado al sur de la ciudad, al llegar al lugar se roció una cantidad considerable de gasolina también se dejaron algunas botellas con mas gasolina y algunos dispositivos incendiarios. Después de dejar todo esto nos retiramos en la obscuridad esperando a que los dispositivos hicieran su trabajo y así el cielo se viera iluminado por el hermoso fuego abolicionista y anti-antropocentrista.

Esta acción fue planeada por el día contra mc donalds. Queremos aclarar que nosotros no aceptaremos ninguna reforma o leyes que protejan y aseguren un mejor asesinato en los mataderos hacia nuestros compañeros no humanos ya que nosotros no luchamos por los “derechos de los animales” como lo hacen grupos reformistas, si no que luchamos por la liberación animal y estamos en contra de actitudes antropocentristas, especistas y de dominación y no descansaremos hasta no ver todas las jaulas y los barrotes de la prisiones caer, hasta no ver a lxs explotadorxs destruidos y mientras un ser siga sufriendo por esta sociedad capitalista seguiremos atacando.

Convirtamos esas palabras en acción.

Milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A)

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Exxon-led Global Warming Denial Machine: PUBLIC ENEMY #1!

By Anthony Marr

10/26/09

Politicians are puppets, even the president of the United States. Their puppet-masters are the major corporations, the top-most of which being Exxon. Its Global Warming Denial Machine intentionally aims at sacrificing the long term future of our children and all life on Earth for its short term profit. If Exxon has its way, it will lead our children into a hell on Earth.

The EXXON-led Global Warming Denial Machine

Watch the video HERE!

EXXON: Executor of Progenocide! Targeting the Human Progeny

EXXON: Precipitator of Global Holocaust – displacing and starving hundreds of millions

EXXON: Dealer in Mass Extinction – potentially 80% of all species

EXXON: PUBLIC ENEMY #1!

How a single bullet killed 25 lions

By Anthony Marr

10/14/09

It is the dream of every ginger (male) kitty to be the king of beasts, but if the dream comes true, it could become a nightmare.

To be a king of beasts, you must first be a lion cub, and that, to begin with, is tough. The lions’ infant mortality rate, due to predators, parasites, disease, starvation, and other lions, is two-thirds within the first year, so chances are that you won’t live past your princehood. But assuming that you can reach 3 years of age, unlike your sisters, who will continue living in the pride for life, you and your brothers and male cousins will be summarily evicted from the pride.