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“Bait dogs” are docile victims to some pit bull advocates, “urban legend” to others

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Jun 252012
 


From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012:

Many of the 216 surviving pit bulls seized in a December 2, 2011 dogfighting raid in Indang, Cavite province, the Philippines, “are not in need of rehabbing, as they were bait dogs,” Island Rescue Organization founder Nena Hernandez asserted in an April 4, 2012 e-mail to 25 other dog rescuers.

But the Animal Farm Foundation, of rural Dutchess County, New York, involved in pit bull rescue and advocacy for nearly 30 years, on January 16, 2012 appealed to pit bull advocates to “stop using the term ‘bait dog.’” Said the Animal Farm Foundation, “The dogfighting investigators we’ve consulted overwhelmingly agree that ‘bait dogs’ are mostly an urban legend.”

Both Hernandez and the Animal Farm Foundation, funded chiefly by literary agent Jane Rotrosen Berkey, sought to improve the image of pit bulls. To Hernandez, however, the term “bait dog” appeared to connote a non-threatening victim. To the Animal Farm

Foundation, “bait dog” appeared to connote instability and risk. Continue reading »

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Obama’s War on Democracy

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Jun 252012
 

by Stephen Lendman

Fernando Lugo: Ousted on orders from “El Norte”.

In June 2009, Obama orchestrated Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster. A US supported fascist despot replaced him.  For good reason, Honduras is called the murder capital of the world. Independent journalists are killed. So are protesters for democratic change.  [While the media pays scant attention to any of this.—Eds]

After its calamitous January 2010 earthquake, Obama militarized Haiti, plundered it freely, opposed Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return, orchestrated the nation’s rigged elections, and prohibited the emergence of democracy. Continue reading »

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Our poor in uniform killing “their” poor —world terrorism for the benefit of the few

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Jun 252012
 
NOW APPEARING ON YouTube

The Video the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see!   

Editorial suggestion and intro deck by Jenelle Green, LWL
Thank you, Jenelle.

Pathetically brainwashed people: They think they’re supporting the troops, but they’re supporting a global criminal enterprise. Ask Kissinger, or any of the cynical billionaires or Wall Street manipulators, or prostituted creatures in Congress and White House, what they really think about our wars “for freedom” and “democracy”. If they told the truth, which would be miraculous, and such truth was repeated sufficiently for the distracted, ignorant American public to “hear” the message, the empire of privilege would unravel.  But don’t hold your breath. Manufactured imbecility and ignorance will keep this sinister and supremely hypocritical empire going for a long time.—Eds


“The U.S. Military is an institution that is corrupt [and] whose foundation is predicated on spreading death. They get congratulations for “first kill”, rapes, suicides, planted “evidence”, blatant racism….The U.S. Military are TERRORISTS for the empire’s elite and their quest for control of the world’s resources. Our taxes fund these terrorists.”   [Watch video below]
NOTE: Besides the human victims, don’t miss the puppy being tossed to his death just for the fun of it, with snickering soldiers celebrating the act. Continue reading »

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