Sea Shepherd reportedly rammed by whaling ship
By Rebecca Quilliam
Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says one of its ships has been rammed by a Japanese whaling vessel.
The Bob Barker was hit by the harpoon vessel, the Yushin Maru 2, when it crossed in front of its bow in sub-Antarctic waters just before 9am (NZT), the group said …
New Zealand Herald – 7:39 PM Sunday Feb 2, 2014
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/…
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Opinion: Real Tragedy of Taiji Is Our Inhumanity Toward Animals
Researchers are learning that animals exhibit empathy, altruism, and other emotions we used to call “human.”
By Virginia Morell
for National Geographic
The ongoing capture and slaughter of dolphins at Taiji, Japan—five more mass killings ( www.seashepherd.org/news-and-m… ) have taken place since the bottlenose hunt last week ( news.nationalgeographic.com/ne… )—troubles us not only because it is cruel but also because of what it says about us as a species …
National Geographic – PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2, 2014
news.nationalgeographic.com/ne…
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Stanford prison experiment
This is a provocative eye opener on how people can change and modify their behavior – this is often detected in livestock farmers, slaughterhouses, animal housing for experiments and local government enclosures for unwanted animals, to name a few places where this occurs. Therefore, there is a great desire to introduce CCTV monitoring in these places – CCTV for ALL Slaughterhouses. The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoneror prison guard. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14 to August 20, 1971, by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. It was funded by the US Office of Naval Research and was of interest to both the US Navy and Marine Corps as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners. Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards …read more:
www.esdaw.eu/stanford-prison-e…
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SHAME SHAME SHAME
German Environment Ministry Official in Elephant Killing Scandal
Udo W. (German law prohibits the release of his full name) is a high official in the environment ministry of the German county of Thuringia and actually still holds a leading function in the wildlife species protection department.
Just days before Botswana closed trophy “hunting” on 31. December 2013, achieving that since first of January now all such sport-killing is prohibited in the African country, the civil servant went on a trophy hunt in Botswana and bragged himself now to have killed a 40 year old, middle aged bull.
Though it apparently was a legal big-game safari in old colonial style, the case has raised a storm of protest in Germany and calls – e.g. by the Green Party – for the immediate dismissal of the civil servant from his post.
The biggest shame, however, has not yet become a viral twitter storm and that is given by the fact that Botswana actually permitted such colonial style killing for money of an elephant by a foreign trophy hunter, while at the same time and under the helm and often enough at the hands of the same Botswana officials, members of the First Nation in Botswana, the San bushmen, are tortured, killed, raped, alienated from their wildlife resources and expropriated from their wildlands. All these atrocities against the San must be seen as what they are: Outright genocide.
While peoples the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures are driven to extinction, the kill-for-money psychopaths are allowed to continue their shameful acts in other African countries.
The leaked photos from the kill:
media401.zgt.de.cdn.thueringer…
media101.zgt.de.cdn.thueringer…
Read also the background to these atrocities against the San:
groundreport.com/tswana-atroci…
groundreport.com/5058632/
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ECOTERRA Intl.
SURVIVAL & FREEDOM for PEOPLE & NATURE
www.ecop.info/
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ECOTERRA Intl. (Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:04)
office@ecoterra-international….
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