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Source: http://www.schnews.org.uk Issue 779, Friday 15th July 2011

C’MON BUNNY LIGHT MY FIRE

CAMPAIGN AND DIRECT ACTION SITE:
www.closehighgatefarm.com
The campaign against Highgate Farm, the Lincolnshire vivisection breeders, was ratcheted up a notch last Tuesday. A van on site was torched and the conservatory of the farmhouse set on fire.

Activists left the following threat “We will continue to watch you and you will never know when we will strike next. Rest assured, while you profit from this disgusting genocide, we will be there to make you experience just a tiny amount of the fear that you help to cause to those innocent, beautiful creatures. .. We will get more serious, we promise to make it our goal to stop you once and for all, don’t make the mistake of under-estimating us, we will not back down. Until the next visit… “ – The Provisional RSPCA.

Highgate Farm, which breeds ferrets and rabbits for the vivisection industry, has been the target of a sustained campaign since 2008 (see SchNEWS 735)

The tragic of being a girl in an islamic country:

“Instead of detonating the jacket, after getting out of the car, the child started shouting and running towards the paramilitary frontier corps soldiers stationed at the… post,” the officer said. Read the article on the CNN site.

Another such case happened today again, but this time in Afghanistan, and this time the child was killed:

Afghan Officials Say Girl Tricked Into Being Suicide Bomber
Insurgents reportedly gave 8-year-old bomb, detonated it remotely when she approached police. Read the article on the Slate site.

ok, now where is the outcry about human rights abuses from the islamic side? To expect that would be to expect an oxymoron to become even with itself I guess.

The RSPCA (Royal Society for the Protection of Animals) and their links to Huntingdon Life Sciences

Please contact th RSPCA WHO HAVE LINKS WITH AXA AND ANIMAL RESEARCH AT HLS, while the RSPCA states that they are opposed to all experiments or procedures which cause pain, suffering, distress or harm.

Axa continues to invest in animal abuse and death at HLS. Axa are one of the largest equity shareholders of the discredited AstraZeneca, a major current
customer of HLS. Axa hold over 55 million shares in AstraZeneca. Please politely ask them to reconsider investing in such an unethical company who pay for animal abuse at HLS, have been caught out suppressing test data, lying over the side effects of their drugs, overcharging doctors for their drugs, avoiding tax and were raided by the European Commission last December for alleged collusion to keep cheaper drugs off the market. AstraZeneca also paid out nearly $1 billion in fines and penalities for mis-marketting of their drugs and side effect compensation.

The Axa insurance group: AXA is a world leader in financial protection, insurance and wealth management, with major operations in Western Europe, North America and the Asia/Pacific area. Their headquarters are in Paris, France.

The RSPCA benefits directly from Axa (a major customer shareholder of AstraZeneca who continue to use the most exposed animal lab – HLS), through their partnership of the RSPCA’s pet insurance scheme and every Axa policy sold the RSPCA take a 20% commission. With Axa’s helping to promote the RSPCA’s
insurance scheme with training sessions for Axa and RSPCA staff and running a marketing campaign called ‘love me, protect me’.

—- Action you can take

Please contact the RSPCA over their involvement with Axa and ask them to stop being involved with Axa as one of the largest equity shareholders of
AstraZeneca (and therefore indirectly supporting cruel animal research at HLS). While on the one hand, the RSPCA campaign for the protection of lab animals
(See: http://www.giveanimalsavoice.org.uk/), they continuie to be involved with companies that fund and invest in the very same ‘research’ that causes cruelty, pain and death to thousands of animals a year!

http://www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/laboratory

Please contact the RSPCA about their involvement with Axa, an investor of animal research at HLS

RSPCA Pet Insurance Team
BDML Connect Ltd
The Connect Centre
Kingston Crescent
Northend
Portsmouth
0800 032 5951, 0300 123 0053 and the claims helpline 0870 850 6983 to complain

To contact the RSPCA’s headquarters:

RSPCA Enquiries Service
Wilberforce Way
Southwater
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 9RS
For advice and information: 0300 1234 555 and 0870 010 1181

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Note: If you are a member of the RSPCA, you may want to bring up this issue at
their AGM this month? The RSPCA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on
Saturday, 25th June 2011 at The Natural History Museum in London.

http://www.rspca.org.uk/media/news/story/-/article/EM_RSPCA_AGM_notice_May11

Emails:

press@rspca.org.uk, education@rspca.org.uk, emarketing@rspca.org.uk,
campaigns@rspca.org.uk, research_animals@rspca.org.uk

The EHEC HUS epidemic in Germany: It doesn’t take a scientist to notice how they try to totally rule out animal products as the culprit in peoples diets.  Despite the known history of the disease.

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)

How is EHEC spread?

E. coli O157:H7, and probably other strains of EHEC, are found naturally in the intestines of cattle. Direct or indirect contact with cattle feces can result in infection. Undercooked ground beef is an especially high-risk food item; hamburgers and other ground beef-containing foods should always be thoroughly cooked. Infection may also result from drinking contaminated raw milk, swimming in, or drinking contaminated water, or by consuming foods or mouthing objects that have been contaminated with feces of an infected person or animal. Person-to-person transmission can occur if infected persons do not wash their hands after using the toilet or after changing diapers.

Fruits and vegetables, including juice, can also become contaminated with EHEC bacteria during growing and post-harvest processing. However, cooking will destroy EHEC bacteria. All raw fruits and vegetables, and unpasteurized juices, should be considered potentially contaminated with bacteria. Sprouts, such as alfalfa sprouts and bean sprouts, may contain bacteria inside them which cannot be removed by washing. For this reason, it is advisable that children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems (such as those receiving cancer treatment, taking immunosupressive drugs or infected with HIV ) only eat cooked sprouts.

source: http://www.ok.gov/health/documents/E.%20Coli.2008.pdf

The media seems uncoordinated, no overview over the exact cases of those affected.

Sources of infection

Most available information relates to serotype O157:H7, since it is easily differentiated biochemically from other E. coli strains. The reservoir of this pathogen appears to be mainly cattle and other ruminants such as camels. It is transmitted to humans primarily through consumption of contaminated foods, such as raw or undercooked ground meat products and raw milk. Faecal contamination of water and other foods, as well as cross-contamination during food preparation (with beef and other meat products, contaminated surfaces and kitchen utensils), will also lead to infection. Examples of foods implicated in outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 include undercooked hamburgers, dried cured salami, unpasteurized fresh-pressed apple cider, yogurt, cheese and milk. An increasing number of outbreaks are associated with the consumption of fruits and vegetables (sprouts, lettuce, coleslaw, salad) whereby contamination may be due to contact with faeces from domestic or wild animals at some stage during cultivation or handling. EHEC has also been isolated from bodies of water (ponds, streams), wells and water troughs, and has been found to survive for months in manure and water-trough sediments. Waterborne transmission has been reported, both from contaminated drinking-water and from recreational waters.

Person-to-person contact is an important mode of transmission through the oral-faecal route. An asymptomatic carrier state has been reported, where individuals show no clinical signs of disease but are capable of infecting others. The duration of excretion of EHEC is about one week or less in adults, but can be longer in children. Visiting farms and other venues where the general public might come into direct contact with farm animals has also been identified as an important risk factor for EHEC infection.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs125/en/

The Vegan Society should release a press info or something, because this affects the very issues of why people will likely want to go vegan. Animal concerns, environmental problems, the “politics” of agribusiness is all at stake here. Nevertheless the Vegan Society stays quiet now and rather chit-chats about stuff we heard a hundred times. Vegan Society fail.

Some people might want to say: eating veggies is just not as good and safe as you might think. The thing is: it’s animal farming in the first place, animal derived fertilizer, environmental pollution through death farms via all ways that causes the bacteria to spread. The vegs themselves are not at fault just by being plants.

It’s the agribusinesses that involves nonhuman animals as their objects of exploitation and total abuse – on behalf of the customers – which creates these horrific types of diseases.

If you are one of the many who still eat animal products, then think twice about how your consumption behavior in regards to food is to blame for what’s wrong on this planet, because people like you stand for an anti-responsible behavior towards life, people like you want to propagate a fundamentally violent attitude by fostering self-centered attitudes on the basis of sacrificing individual animal lives.

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I assume we all know more or less who Oliver Cromwell was:

“Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known in England for his overthrow of the monarchy and temporarily turning England into a republican Commonwealth, and for his rule as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell )

I never knew that they posthumously desecrated his body:

“On 30 January 1661, (symbolically the 12th anniversary of the execution of Charles I), Oliver Cromwell’s body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, and was subjected to the ritual of a posthumous execution, as were the remains of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton. (The body of Cromwell’s daughter was allowed to remain buried in the Abbey.) His body was hanged in chains at Tyburn. Finally, his disinterred body was thrown into a pit, while his severed head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall until 1685.”

And this guy took over and restored the monarchy:

What a creepy history that is.

The question remains open how big of a role a religious understanding plays a role in upholding monarchy and aristocratic entitlements as a “natural” yet god given hierarchical societal order, or if it’s the plain interest of a conglomerated group to hold their interests in power in one hand, with one center of power.

check out: http://www.cveitch.org

“The monarchy for centuries has stood as a beacon of the status quo, at the apex of our society it represents and perpetuates the sheer inequality and wealth disparity in British society, and this wedding reinforces that view,” says Shepherd, a supporter of UK Uncut.

Huffington Post:  Jerry Seinfeld Slams Royal Wedding: Comedian Calls It ‘Circus Act,’ ‘Absurd ‘ , the interview referred to is in this video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vm6vHQeago

Even conservative CBS Face the Nation anchor Bob Schieffer subtly noted:

[...] But never mind, I’m a softy for weddings and I usually shed a tear but probably not this time. This time I’ll just be smiling because as it unfolds in all its glory, I will be reminded this is not OUR prince and princess, it’s theirs – the Brits’ – and they are paying for the whole thing.. Thank you, Thomas Jefferson. I’m really fine with that.

Came across this interesting finding by Prof. Marija Gimbutas on the meaning and origin of “Hulda” as in the tale “Mother Hulda”.

Marija Gimbutas names Hulda (or Holda, Holla, Holle) as having originally been an ancient Germanic supreme goddess who predates most of the German pantheon, including deities such as Odin, Thor, Freya and Loki, continuing traditions of pre-Indo-European Neolithic Europe. (Gimbutas, Marija, The Living Goddesses (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.)

What I find striking about specifically the tale “Mother Hulda” is that no princess and princesses play any role in it. Also there are no male protagonists, apart from that. The entire narrative is one happening amongst women and other entities and phenomena (the tree, the oven, the house, the snow, the well, the gold, the garden).

Anyway I checked out more info about Prof. Gimbutas and was amazed at her body of work and her approach of what she calls “archeomythology”.

Links:

http://www.marijagimbutas.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas

The titles that interest me most are:

The Language of the Goddess

The Living Goddesses

The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images

The Civilization of the Goddess

Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe

Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, 7000-3500 B.C.: Myths, Legends and Cult Images

Age of the Great Goddess: Ancient Roots of the Emerging Feminine Consciousness

http://www.amazon.com/Marija-Gimbutas/e/B000AP936C/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Image: http://www.skischule-frauholle.at

A hunger strike by 6 Iranian asylum seekers, five of whom have sewn theirmouths shut, is currently in progress in London. Three are camping outside Amnesty International’s offices in Clerkenwell, and three are at the Home Office in Croydon. The action mirrors a similar hunger strike in Greece last October, where seven Iranian men and women sewed their mouths closed in a demonstration of defiance against the Greek authorities’ lack ofrecognition of Iranian asylum seekers.

The protesters in London are members of Green Wave Voice, an organisationprotesting against the results of the Iranian presidential election in 2009, and haven’t eaten since 5th April. Two of the men were taken to hospital by the police but refused to let doctors remove the stitches. All 6 have recently had their asylum applications turned down and instructed toleave the UK immediately, despite overwhelming evidence that they would be almost certain to be imprisoned, and even executed, if forced to return to Iran.

source: http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news22-04-11.php

Refugees continue hunger strike in Croydon town centre

A former Iranian wrestling champion who fears death if he returns to his country began his eleventh day of a hunger strike in Croydon town centre this morning.

Keyvan Bahariz, who bears scars on his back from a savage beating at the hands of the Iranian authorities, has sewn his mouth closed to raise awareness of the lack of free speech and human rights in his homeland.

Mr Bahariz and five of his countrymen launched the hunger strike after being refused asylum by the UK Border Agency.

Fellow students Mehran Meyari, 19, and his 17-year-old brother Mahyar are also living on just water in the tent on Wellesley Road, within metres of the UKBA headquarters at Lunar House.

The older brother said: “They will kill us if we go back.

read the full article here

What do you think how one can best impact the world, positively or negatively. Would you prefer to impact things in a way that seems desirable to you, desirable to others?

It might seem useless to make any attempts to act by ones own, however you take your own responsibility for whatever small step you do or don’t want to do. So you affect things with you entire existence. This might make you feel hated, because you know “being yourself” is already in itself something basically political (actions and words affect and matter to your environment, etc.)

How do you tie your knots? Which things do you like to relate, to which conclusions do you get?

What is the resumé to get when one thinks about: “What shall I do now?”. What can I do at all within a societal “railway-path” type of system. I don’t want my actions and word to be boxed in into causes that seem incomplete to me. My viewpoints are general. What I do, matters. Even if at spots that are unpopular to stand on, because empty spots are due to be “developed”.

Keep spaces free. The universe might express it’s own complexity.