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  • Thomas Paine’s Corner (TPC), founded on March 10, 2005 by Jason Miller, is dedicated to ending the unnecessary suffering of oppressed and exploited sentient beings and to the total liberation of human animals, nonhuman animals, and the Earth. While TPC is eclectic, holistic, and open to different perspectives, it approaches anti-capitalism and total liberation from an essentially anarcho-veganist position, as portrayed in the graphic above by the juxtaposition of the Boy Scout--a victim of one of the indoctrinating mechanisms for our imperialist, patriarchal, faux Christian, corporatist, statist, speciesist society--against the anarchist symbol, which represents democracy, decentralization, mutually respectful individual sovereignty, egalitarianism, direct action, and mutual aid.

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Anthony Marr’s 3 simple questions for global warming deniers…

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 9, 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010
By Anthony Marr

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Global warming deniers deny global warming, the climate change crisis and its human cause. I have 3 simple questions for them:

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Beware of LATENT HEAT – the real Hidden Dragon

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 9, 2010

By Anthony Marr
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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2 eggs in a pot of ice water on a hot stove. Question: When will the eggs begin to feel the heat? Answer: After all the ice has been melted. It take 334 joules to melt one gram of ice without raising the temperature, thus, Latent Heat. For as long as there is ice left to melt, the infused heat will go into melting the ice first, not raising the temperature. The latter will happen once the ice is gone.

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Controversial UTEP professor Steve Best risks much in fight for animal rights

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 8, 2010

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University of Texas at El Paso philosophy professor and activist…(Mark Lambie / El Paso Times)

By Adriana Gómez Licón

Simulposted with El Paso Times

2/8/2010

ANTHONY, N.M. — People have judged Steve Best many ways during his 30 years in academia.

Some have called him a troublemaker, a radical, and even a domestic and international terrorist because of his vocal and often confrontational stance on animal rights.

He said it is his tenured position that has kept him on the payroll as a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.

But even Best knows he is gambling with his career when he protests against the school’s environmental policies with a bullhorn outside UTEP President Diana Natalicio’s office, or when he openly supports a movement that undertakes criminal activities to save animals from research laboratories and slaughterhouses.

“Hey, if Martin Luther King was not afraid to lose his life, I shouldn’t be afraid to lose my job,” Best said.

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Posted in AETA, ALF, Academic Freedom, Animal Defense, Animal Liberation, Animal Rights, Animal Rights Activism, Animal Rights Movement, Anti-Speciesism, Anti-capitalists, Green Scare, Pathological Pacifism, Radicals, Speciesism, State Terrorism, Steve Best | 3 Comments »

WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND SERIAL-KILLING INDUSTRIES “TERRORIST” DIATRIBES: REBUTTAL TO FUR COMMISSION’S LIBELOUS PRESS RELEASE

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 8, 2010

Photo: This skinned mink was the victim of the truly violent, terroristic, murderous elements within our society—those who enable and carry out the nonhuman animal holocaust that tortures and murders 50 billion sentient beings per annum….

The analysis below the Fur Commission propaganda is by Brennan Browne

2/7/10

-Fur Commission USA Press Release-

[Libelous material within the article is CAPITALIZED]

TERRORIST SETS HIMSELF ABLAZE IN ATTEMPT TO TORCH SHOP AND THOSE INSIDE Jan. 29, 2010

On January 27, the day of President Obama’s “State of the Union”
address, a man set himself on fire in Portland, Oregon, a town with an unemployment rate of almost 12%.

While screaming about animals dying and the world ending, the flaming man pushed on the unlocked door of a cold-weather clothing shop that only carries natural fibers. Only that one must “pull to enter”
prevented this terrorist from setting the shop ablaze and injuring or killing all those inside.

When he couldn’t get the door open, he ignored a police officer’s direction to “stop, drop and roll” and ran down the street. A bystander threw his coat over him to extinguish the flames, while a Portland police officer mistakenly used pepper spray, instead of a fire extinguisher, on the man.

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Posted in Abject Cruelty, Animal Cruelty, Animal Exploitation, Animal Exploiters, Animal Industrial Complex, Animal Liberation, Animal Rights, Animal Slavery, Animal Suffering, Fur, Fur Industry, Green Scare, Green is the New Red, War on Animals | 3 Comments »

Anthony Marr’s loving tribute to Hypatia the Great

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 7, 2010

Having paid my respects to Giordano Bruno, I must now bow to the great Hypatia. Born in 370 CE, as a pagan, she became the First Woman of science, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and athletics. In short, she was a Renaissance Woman more than a millennium ahead of the Renaissance itself. And like those ahead of their time, she was frowned upon by the old guards, the worst being the Christian Bishop Cyril,

and jeered by the retarded among the young turks, though among them she also found her disciples.

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Presenting the Macabre Face of Murder….

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 7, 2010

Our purpose….

Journal Entry by Jason Miller

2/6/10

As we arrived in DeSoto for our demonstration against a local slaughterer and butcher, six Johnson County Sheriff’s cars descended upon us. Despite accosting us with such a large contingency (one officer for each of us), Sergeant Jeremy Campbell was quite respectful when he approached me to find out our intentions and to state theirs. They did not interfere with our protest, though three to four of them remained parked in the vicinity throughout our demo.

Today Bite Club of KC turned its attention to Steve’s Meat Market in DeSoto, KS for three reasons:

1. Steve’s ground the 313 innocent, defenseless, sentient deer slaughtered at Death Park (by JCPRD and Anthony DeNicola) into sausage, whilst pocketing $19,000.00 of our tax dollars….

2. We wanted to protest a “meat” processing facility to honor the memory of Jill Phipps, a UK animal rights activist whom the “meat” industry murdered on 2/1/95 when one of their trucks transporting veal calves to their execution ran over her as she protested factory farming. Phipps is a martyr and a hero of the animal rights movement.

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Posted in Abject Cruelty, Abolitionists, Animal Cruelty, Animal Exploitation, Animal Holocaust, Animal Industrial Complex, Animal Liberation, Animal Rights, Animal Rights Activism, Rotting Flesh Consumption, Shameless Carnivores, Speciesism, Veganism, War on Animals | 4 Comments »

‘HUNTING – THE “SPORT” OF COWARDS’

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 5, 2010

May I present Lori Anderson, the Lady of Honor of the first (of 50) Funeral Motorcade for the Animals in my 37- states- in-7-months Compassion for Animals Road Expedition (CARE-7). Lori is a well known and long time animal rights activist in the Vancouver area. This first motorcade will be on March 31 – my departure date on the CARE-7 tour. It will start in Downtown Vancouver at 11:30 a.m., and will send me off at the U.S./Canadian border by about 2:30 p.m., thus kick-starting the CARE-7 tour whose purpose is to forge and launch the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC).

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UCLA KILLS PRIMATES

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 5, 2010

Forwarded by See You in the Streets

2/4/10

To see pictures from the pickets click here.

RECENT UCLA PROTESTS WRAP UP! Activists gathered to protest two of the pro-vivisector ‘poster children’ who are a disgusting waste of human life. Two evil, monster vivisectors: Dario Ringach and David Jentsch.

Dario Ringach “claimed” several years ago that he had STOPPED doing primate vivisection. He had spent years restraining primates in horrible metal devices, then gluing coils to their eyes to conduct visual experiments. Now however, there is some controversy as to whether or not he is actually still doing primate vivisection. It appears that he is currently torturing and killing cats, and possibly primates as well.

Activists protested him and will continue to protest him because he has become a defacto leader of the pro-vivisection group ‘PRO-TEST‘ where he now speaks out to anyone who will listen regarding the need to torture and kill animals, especially primates. In fact, he is one of the speakers who will be at the “discussion” panel February 16th at UCLA’s Covel Commons.

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Sociopaths – They Prey on All of Us

Posted by thomaspainescorner on February 4, 2010

By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

1/21/10

He constantly asks for sympathy, takes risks, lies to you and when caught shows no remorse. It is unsettling, frightening. Somehow it is your own fault. But what or why would anyone do these things? There is an answer.

The terms, “psychopathy,” “sociopath,” “sociopath,” and others refer to individuals who look human but, in elemental ways, are not. They harbor a condition which cuts them off from us. Their automatic emotional reactions, foundational to limiting wrong behavior, do not exist. These individuals emulate compassion, concern, affection, kindness and love – only to further their purposes. They feel no compunction about stealing, lying, or committing crimes to achieve their goals. They consistently demand sympathy, knowing perfectly well they deserve none.

They do not want or need sympathy. But they do need you to feel sorry for them, to want to help them. It is all manipulation, emotions emulated to get what they want. They know we feel sorry for them and project the existence of emotions they never feel, just another lie.

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Posted in American Politicians, Banality of Evil, Ruling Class, Savage capitalism, Social Darwinism, Sociopaths, Sociopaths in Charge | 1 Comment »

Maybe this will serve as the catalyst for change….

Posted by thomaspainescorner on January 31, 2010

By Stacey Rakic

1/31/10

We recently learned of the tragic death of Mr. Daniel Shaull, who took his own life to demonstrate the stolen and killed ones of animals, and we all reacted in a similar manner: with shock, horror, sadness, and grief. It is difficult to contemplate one deliberately subjecting himself to such a cruel act, but we need to accept his behaviour and the subsequent message he delivered and continually share and expose the reason for it. It is with this thought that I read many critiques regarding Daniel’s actions and felt compelled to respond, for it is these selfish words that create a greater chasm and divert attention from the import of his sacrifice.

While many of us were trying to absorb and process Daniel’s actions absent any denunciation of him, they then rapidly came, criticizing him with self-righteous sermons distancing themselves from yet another tragic circumstance of animal exploitation. “He hurt the movement!”, and “it’s people like this who only hurt the movement!”, and “nobody takes us seriously when someone like this hurts the movement!”, screamed out from anonymous people publicly shaming Daniel. How incredibly egotistical and self-serving; when people have more inclination to cause disruption by censuring his acts rather than extending an empathetic gesture, their ONLY concern is revealed in their victimized assertions of self-preservation. Rather than accept him as a victim based on his own words, there are those whose primary response to this act is one of condemnation, in a self-serving manner to preclude being associated with a “crazy maniac” or being affiliated with a movement that lacks social and peer acceptance. Is this act of martyrdom too similar to terrorism, a kamikaze association bearing discomfort and fear? It is that discomfort and fear that is damaging the movement, and a subsequent servitude to the majority thought in acts of vindication by verbal detachment from Mr. Shaull’s actions. It is disgusting.

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Posted in Animal Cruelty, Animal Defense, Animal Exploitation, Animal Holocaust, Animal Liberation, Animal Rights, Animal Rights Movement, Anti-Hunting, Anti-Speciesism, Fur, Fur Industry, Ultimate Sacrifice, War on Animals | 19 Comments »