A few nice animal welfare images I found:
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For People?s Welfare!
People’s Money for People’s Welfare.
The Life Insurance Corporation of India has been a nation builder since its
formation n 1956. True to the objective of nationalization, the LIC has mobilized
the funds invested by the people in the life insurance for the benefit of the
community at large.
LIC has deployed the funds to the best advantage of the policy holders as well as
the community as the whole, true to the spirit of nationalization. National
priorities and obligation of reasonable returns to the policyholders are the main
criteria of their investments.
The total funds, so invested for the benefit of the community at large accumulated
to Rs. 815484 crore as on 31st March 2009. The Investment of the LIC’s funds is
governed by Section 27A of the Insurance Act, 1938 subsequent
guidelines/instructions issued thereunder by the Government of India from time to
time and the IRDA by way of regulations. As per the prescribed investment pattern
approved by IRDA, the controlled funds are invested as follows:
Not less than 50% is invested in Government securities or other approved
investments.
Not less than 15% is invested in infrastructural and social sector investments.
Not less than 35% in other investments, to be governed by exposure prudential
norms.
Amount in crores.
01. Central Government Securities 272498 297943 318673
02.
Govt. guaranteed marketable securities 64285 89234 110697
03. Housing & Infrastructure Investment
(a) Housing 22451 24325 34185
(b)) Power 37881 41120 48090
( c) Irrigation/Water Supply & Sewerage 7500 6649 6022
(d) Roads, Ports & Bridges 1516 1154 7218
( e) Others (including Railways) 4398 8774 5274
B 73746 82022 100789
Total A+B 410529 469199 530159
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Get Involved in Animal Welfare
I will be the first to tell you that that state of animal treatment in the United States and the world is poor at best. There are just too many bad cases and troubled situations for one person or one group to deal with. That is absolutely correct. Nothing will change without a movement. Action by ordinary people on the grassroots level. We cannot depend on government bureaucracy and underpaid law enforcement officials to take the lead on animal welfare issues.
We can all start very small. Start by making sure your friends and family are taking proper care of their animals. I never understood why people would adopt a dog then stick it in a tiny pen on the far corner of the property. Only to interact with the dog once a day to fill its bowl with food. We believe that pets are family! Both sides lose in these types of scenarios. The people do not get the full benefit of quality time and play with an unconditionally loving pet. The pet is doomed to live out its life in a cage purgatory where it gets only minimal social stimulation.
The next steps are to donate, volunteer, community awareness. Donate to your local no kill animal shelter, Spay/Neuter organizations, and the like. These organizations work diligently in your community everyday to make the lives of animals better. The real beneficiaries of these organizations are the people of the community. Sadly most do not receive any government funding. They rely solely on donations of people like you and me and the occasional grant.
Volunteer at a no kill animal shelter or other animal welfare organization. The only resource these places need more than money is volunteers. They need help taking dogs to adoption events on the weekends, walking dogs in the kennels so they become used to human contact and do not jump all over a perspective adopter because they are never let out of their pens.
They need help gathering evidence in animal abuse and neglect cases. Local law enforcement seldom acts. If they do it is almost always too late for the animals.The last and most important is awareness. Just keeping your eyes open to possible abuse cases. If you drive by a house with a dog in bad shape, contact the authorities and your local humane society. Talk to your friends about it. Awareness leads to education. The more we know the better we can be. We owe that to our furry friends. Contact us and tell us your ideas to help animals.
Devon Krusich
http://www.PetSupplyDirect.net
This presentation is by Dr. David Fraser, University of British Columbia, from Washington State University's Farm Animal Welfare Symposium, September 15, 201...
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Horse Racing Welfare
Human beings have a natural instinct for speed, as do horses. So they love races. If you watch the developments occurring in various fields closely, you can find out that the aspiration for more speed was there behind every invention.
Even in sports also the swift moves were always catching attention of the viewers. Thus in a fast world, speed has become the symbol of life. The love for speed helped to carve out many sports. One among them is horse race. It has been considered as a sport of elite class people. It involves a lot of money and is affordable for the rich people only. But many ordinary people are living on this sport. The horse keepers, trainers, helpers etc are making a lively hood on this sport. But the most important figure in this sport is horse itself. Keeping a horse in good healthy condition is not so easy. Regular medical checkups and application of horse wormers are necessary for that. Wormers are given to kill the intestinal worms and certain other parasites which live on the food consumed by the horses.
Horses meant for race should be kept in good conditions. It should be protected from the extreme climatic conditions and also from the scorching sun in the summer and also from the rains. So the sheds meant to keep race horses should be well constructed. Besides, the food also should be of good quality. It should contain all necessary nutrients to keep them fit and also to develop a natural immunity power. Besides a regular medical check up is required to see whether there are any problems that may affect the health of those horses. A regular use of horse wormers is advisable.
Wormers will help to eradicate all affected worms and parasites from the body of the horse.Horse racing is really an interesting sporting event. But it’s good to point out about the pain behind the bringing up of horses. Experts are required to do this perfectly. A lot of care should be taken while giving training also. So more than a sporting event, it is a good profession which helps thousands of people to live on it. A horse has been mingled with several people. So there are a lot of chances to get affected. As in the case of most of the pets, horses too mainly affected with digestive problems. This is mainly because of the food it takes. It is not possible to be vigil always about the food it takes. A number of worms and other parasites may enter the body through these foods. So it is better to apply horse wormers regularly. It will help you to keep the horses in healthy conditions to some extent. Wormers are really playing an important role in taking care of horse races.
Stephen Berry is author of of this article and writes article on topics like Animals and Pets since a long time. For further details about gun spares and animal medicine please visit the website.
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Embarking Upon a Career in Animal Welfare
If you wish to embark upon a career in animal welfare then you must be prepared for hard work and continuous dedication. This particular field of work has always been popular and certainly seems to be an attractive prospect in the sometimes gloomy job market.
This author had worked in the animal welfare sector for several years and I finished my career as an RSPCA animal collection officer. How I got there was through hard work and flexibility.
When starting out, one of the best things that you can do is to volunteer. Animal welfare hospitals or centres always need volunteers due to the financial demands that they have. From dog walking to cleaning out kennels to volunteering to drive animals to veterinary surgeons, there are a whole host of volunteering opportunities available. Do not forget the all important charity shops that fund many centres. These shops always need volunteers, and although not glamorous it is exactly how I started my career. To work in this way, without pay at first, is a good indication of your dedication. It will also allow you to see the not so glamorous sides of animal welfare.
One must be flexible as well. Even though I wanted hands on experience with the animals I was offered my first paid job in animal welfare as a charity shop manager. This allowed me to see the behind the scenes working of the charity and also put me in contact with inspectors and animal collection officers who became valuable in my further career. Always remember the ultimate goal is to serve animal welfare and being part of it in any capacity should inspire and uplift you.
As for qualifications, who you are is more important than what you know.
Obviously any animal welfare qualifications or certificates that you gain will be invaluable, yet it is also important to generate "people skills" and so being able to present yourself to the public professionally and in control is a vital skill. Courses that involve conflict management are extremely useful and will show future employers how you will be able to deal with problems efficiently and calmly.The emotional side of animal welfare is one that must be taken into consideration. Unfortunately there will be times when difficult decisions will need to be made for the ultimate welfare of the animal and exposure to this side is important early on to prepare you for the future. You could perhaps offer to volunteer in an veterinary centre or animal clinic.
Another most valuable attitude is one of positivity and expectation. Do not allow others to put you off from your goals. Ultimately it is YOU who decide your fate and it will be your dedication, enthusiasm and hard work that will pay off in the long run.
John Hewitt is a full time freelance writer. I have worked in many fields including music, the restaurant industry, film work and as an RSPCA animal welfare officer. If you would like to see more of my articles and poetry then please visit http://www.john-hewitt.com and feel free to sign up to the RSS feed.
Animal Farm - 2009
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." George Orwell - Animal Farm
The United States has gradually degenerated from a Republic based on individual liberties to a socialized oligarchy run by an exclusive few. The country was founded upon the platform of individual rights. We declared our independence from Great Britain because of excessive regulation and taxation. Americans fought for the right to live their lives free from the subjugation of an overbearing governmental body. The Founding Fathers declared our independence with these immortal words:
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States has gone from taking personal responsibility for our own lives to dependence on government to make all decisions in our lives. There are 306 million Americans and we have defaulted on our responsibility for governing this nation to 535 corrupt politicians, 10 "too big to fail" banks, a secretive Central Bank, 17,000 corporate lobbyists, and thousands of government bureaucrats. Essentially 306 million citizens are managed by a few thousand elitist rulers. George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm was inspired by the a scene he witnessed:
"I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat."
Orwell wrote the novel during World War II and published it in 1945. It was a contemptuous indictment of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. He recognized that propaganda and abuse of language could smoothly control the opinions of enlightened intellectuals in democratic countries. He saw through the prism of Soviet propaganda to the true evil of Stalin and his KGB Dogs. Intellectuals in Great Britain's Ministry of Information attempted to censor his right to publish the book because it would offend their supposed ally Joseph Stalin. He knew the truth, while intellectuals were horribly wrong. Stalin murdered 700,000 Russian citizens during the Great Purge of the 1930s.
The plot of Orwell's Animal Farm is quite simple. It follows the Russian Revolution from 1917 through 1944. Three pigs-Snowball (Leon Trotsky), Napoleon (Joseph Stalin), and Squealer (Vyacheslav Molotov) formulate Old Major's (Vladimir Lenon) principles into a philosophy called Animalism. The animals defeat the farmer Mr. Jones (Czar Nicholas II) in a battle, running him off the land. They rename the property Animal Farm (Soviet Union). The cart-horse Boxer (Russian working class) devotes himself to the cause with particular passion, committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm and adopting as a personal axiom the affirmation "I will work harder." Napoleon (Stalin) and Snowball (Trotsky) increasingly argue over the future of the farm, and they begin to struggle with each other for power and influence among the other animals. After a speech, nine attack dogs (KGB) burst into the barn and chase Snowball (Trotsky) from the farm.
Napoleon (Stalin) assumes leadership of Animal Farm (Soviet Union) and declares that there will be no more meetings. From that point on, he stresses, the pigs alone will make all of the decisions for the good of every animal (Workers). Napoleon (Stalin) begins expanding his powers, rewriting history to make Snowball (Trotsky) a villain. Napoleon (Stalin) also begins to act more and more like a human being-sleeping in a bed, drinking whiskey, and engaging in trade with neighboring farmers. The original Animalist principles strictly forbade such activities, but Squealer (Molotov), Napoleon's propagandist, justifies every action to the other animals, convincing them that Napoleon (Stalin) is a great leader and is making things better for everyone despite the fact that the common animals are cold, hungry, and overworked. Looking in at the party of Pigs and Farmers through the farmhouse window, the common animals can no longer tell which are the Pigs and which are the human beings.
The perversion of founding principles is not limited to communist countries. On the farm there were the Seven Original Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are created equal.
All of the Seven Commandments are eventually broken by the pigs for their own gain. Squealer (Molotov) constantly changes the Commandments to the pigs' benefit, taking advantage of the other animals. Through the manipulation of language, the Pigs accumulate more power and privileges:
No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets
No animal shall drink alcohol to excess
No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.
Ultimately, all the commandments are boiled down to one commandment: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Could this degeneration of founding principles happen in the United States? The distressing answer is that it already has. It has accelerated at a breakneck pace since 2000. Orwell's themes are as true today as they were in 1944.
Corruption
"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
Our elected officials are supposed to represent the wishes of the citizens that elected them. They derive their just powers from the governed. In the early days of our Republic, citizens could freely enter the White House without hesitation. Federalist Papers 55 and 56 explicitly promised, without qualification, that there would be one Representative for every thirty-thousand inhabitants. The framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights intended that the total population of Congressional districts never exceed 50,000 to 60,000.
Currently, the average population size of the districts is nearly 700,000 and, consequently, the principle of proportionally equitable representation has been abandoned. Our elected officials no longer represent the people. They represent the 17,000 corporate lobbyists who spend $ 3.3 billion per year to "persuade" them what is best for their special interests. This is why a Congressperson can receive 9 to 1 calls from their constituents against a $ 700 billion banker bailout bill and still vote for the bill. The ideals of our fledgling Republic have been corrupted by politicians who have sold their souls to corporate and banking interests.
The corruption became more insidious with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the institution of the Federal income tax in 1913. The levers of money printing and raising taxes gave the select few (Pigs) the wherewithal to control and manipulate the working class population. Debt and taxes are the friends of a corrupt politician. The Cabal of bankers who control the Federal Reserve has been printing money for 96 years to such an extent that the U.S. dollar has lost 96% of its purchasing power versus gold. But, with Orwellian irony our government leaders proclaim a "strong dollar policy". This is a lie.
The only way out of the current colossal debt dilemma is by allowing our currency to depreciate even more so that the debt becomes less burdensome in dollar terms. The National Debt is now $ 11.6 trillion. The National Debt in 1913 was $ 2.9 billion. Therefore, the National Debt has gone up by 400,000% in 96 years. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND PERCENT! I had to go back and check my calculation three times. The people we elected to Congress have spent $ 11.6 trillion more than the government has generated in revenues, with $ 10 trillion of it accumulated since 1981.
Despite this "investment" spending by our elected officials, the country's infrastructure is crumbling, we import 66% of our energy supplies versus 28% in 1982, our public education system is on par with a Third World country, our health care system is bloated, expensive and corrupt, and we have racked up another $ 56 trillion of future liabilities for unfulfillable promises made by our myopic leaders. The Bills passed by Congress (written by lobbyists) exceed 1,000 pages, with payoffs and pork to constituents, corporate contributors and other influential allies. These Bills are not even read by our leaders before being passed. Hundreds of pages of amendments are added at 3:00 am. As the ruling pigs in Animal Farm are slowly corrupted, they take the spoils while the working class proletariat toil for nothing. Congress and the bankers are the ruling Pigs, we are the overworked common animals. Talk is cheap and lies are expensive.
Do as I say not as I do because
The shit so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart ass but I'm playing dumb
Standards set and broken all the time
Control the chaos behind a gun
Call it as I see it even if
I was born deaf, blind and dumb
Losers winning big on the lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I'm a victim of a catch 22
Green Day - Walking Contradiction
Class Oppression
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. - George Orwell
The American Revolution was fought for the ideals that "All men are created equal" and we had the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". The Russian Revolution of 1917 was based upon Karl Marx' idealistic Communist Manifesto which pitted the oppressors against the oppressed. Communism was supposed to be a system in which goods were owned in common and available to all as needed. The ten conditions for a transition to Communism are:
* Abolition of property in land application of all rents of land to public purposes.
* A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
* Abolition of all right of inheritance.
* Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
* Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a National Bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
* Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
* Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
* Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
* Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equal distribution of the population over the country.
* Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm were biting condemnations of the Soviet Union, its perversion of the revolution's ideals and class tyranny that ultimately widened in its society. The American Republic was constructed upon the individual and their freedom and liberty. After reading the above list of conditions, the United States is at least 50% of the way to a perverted form of communism as our leaders have instituted a progressive income tax, restricted the right of inheritance through taxes, centralized credit in the hands of the State, allowed corporate farms to dominate agriculture along with providing tax breaks and protective tariffs, gotten into bed with the Military Industrial Complex, banking industry, and auto industry, provide free public education to the working classes while they send their privileged children to private schools.
By satiating the poor working classes with bread and circuses like welfare programs, easy credit, no income taxes, cable TV, fast food, cheap liquor, and drugs, the ruling classes are able to reap obscene riches through the systematic raping of the American public through the use of inflation and taxes on the middle class.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. - George Orwell
The success of any system of government is ultimately dependent upon the integrity, honesty and honor of its leaders. If they become corrupted by power and money, the system will ultimately collapse. It may be a natural progression in all societies that intellectuals with superior intelligence will take advantage of those who perform physical labor. The intelligentsia in Animal Farm is the Pigs, who learn to walk on two legs, wear clothes, sleep in beds, drink alcohol and consider animals that walk on four legs as their inferiors. They perverted the founding principles of the revolution.
The intelligentsia of the United States has perverted the founding principles that all men are created equal and we are each entitled to our individual liberty. The ruling elite constitute the 1% richest Americans and the politicians they have bought. The top 1% own 35% of all the net worth in the country. They own as much as the bottom 90% of Americans. They "earn" 22% of the income and pay 40% of the taxes in the U.S. I would contend that the majority of the intelligentsia has utilized their private education, Washington and Wall Street connections and ability to manipulate the financial and political system to further enrich themselves at the expense of the average American. (Source: CNN Money)
Gullible Working Class
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. - George Orwell
The definition of democracy is: government by the people. Today, the United States is democratic in name only. The political class, which supposedly represents the citizens, has perverted the original concept of a representative democracy. Our representatives were supposed to personally sacrifice by taking time off from their everyday professions to do what was best for the country. After performing this noble duty they would go back to their original vocations.
Instead 40% of Congress is lawyers, their goal is to make a career in Washington DC and after leaving Congress they seek riches as lobbyists. Once elected, they utilize the power and money gained from the position to maintain that position permanently. This is why incumbents win elections 95% of the time. In 2004, incumbents spent $ 700 million to get re-elected, while challengers spent $ 200 million. These obscene sums of money have perverted the original intention of the Founders.
Candidate Status
U.S. House
U.S. Senate
Incumbents
$ 456,859,509
$ 223,964,295
Challengers
$ 112,498,172
$ 79,852,117
Open-Seat Candidates
$ 127,051,491
$ 238,890,389
TOTAL
$ 696,409,172
$ 542,706,801
(SOURCE: Federal Election Commission)
The combination of a permanent political class with an undereducated, uninterested, gullible, naïve electorate has permitted the few to wield immense power over the majority. In Animal Farm, the working class is represented by Boxer the workhorse. He is a hard working non-thinking animal that repeats over and over that "Napoleon (Stalin) is always right". He is representative of those who believe everything that Barack Obama says is gospel. Ultimately, Boxer is sacrificed so that the Pigs can live more luxuriously.
A highly educated involved electorate would be dangerous to those in power. An atrocious public education system is actually beneficial to the Pigs. There are 34 million Americans without a high school degree, constituting 15% of those over 18 years old. Another 112 million have graduated high school without progressing any further with their education. Many of these people are functionally illiterate, can't add, can't spell, don't know when World War II happened, or who is the Vice President.
Only 69% of entering 9th graders in the public school system graduate high school. The graduation rates and educational achievements of minorities are dramatically worse than these numbers. Only 26% of the population has a bachelor's degree, with only 6% possessing a master's degree. (Source: Wikipedia)
The proliferation of drugs among the poor keeps them dazed and sedated. Various welfare programs and easy credit keep them from rioting as they can "purchase" luxury cars and electronic gadgets enjoyed by the upper classes. The bad debts are picked up by the taxpayers. As a further control, those in power have put 2.3 million people in prisons, most of whom are poor and 60% who are minorities. By distracting the majority of people in the country with cable TV entertainment, the internet, Twitter, cell phones, sports, movies, and shopping malls, the Pigs who run the show are able to oppress and control the masses.
The highly educated use the idiocy and naivete of the oppressed to their advantage by using the rigged financial system to generate ever more riches for themselves. The banker gods peddled fraudulent mortgage schemes throughout the world in order to enrich themselves. When it blew up in their faces, they turned to their government co-conspirators (Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and most of Congress) to keep their riches. Their Congressional benefactors have obliged by stealing trillions from the taxpaying classes and redistributed it to the Pigs running Goldman Sachs, Citicorp, and Bank of America.
Abuse of Language
George Orwell's most pointed criticism of political leaders was their misuse of language to further their wicked agendas. He exposes the outrageous abuse of words in 1984 and Animal Farm. The ruling elite manipulate the language as an instrument of control over the masses.
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." - George Orwell
The intelligentsia understands that the masses can be manipulated with convincing talking points and misleading slogans. Politicians never tell their constituents they are doing some pork barrel spending. Every dollar of new spending is spun as "investment spending". We have evidently made $ 11.6 trillion of "investments" in our National Debt. Somehow we enacted "campaign finance reform" and still manage to spend $ 1.3 billion on political campaigns. Our beloved numbskull Vice President Joe Biden said last week, "We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt".
President Bush said, "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free market system". President Obama insisted that the only way to save our country from catastrophe caused by excessive debt was to borrow $ 700 billion and spend it on infrastructure projects, of which only 3.5% was allocated to our crumbling infrastructure. During the Vietnam War a U.S. Major declared, "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." In 1947 the government changed the name of the Department of War to the Department of Defense, as we today have garrisons of 100,000 troops in 117 foreign countries. The Department of Homeland Security, Patriot Act, and War on Terror are all deceptive titles and slogans purposely meant to hoodwink Boobus Americanus.
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history." - George Orwell
President Obama and his cronies hammer away that 47 million Americans are uninsured. It is a lie, but that does not deter them from continuing to make the claim. The latest Census report says that within the borders of the United States as of 2007 there were 45.65 million people without health insurance. But this number included 9.73 million foreigners, leaving only 35.92 million Americans who were uninsured.
Among the uninsured in the United States there were also 9.1 million people making more than $ 75,000 per year who did not choose to purchase health insurance. Therefore, we are imposing a trillion dollar solution for 28 million people who are poor and uninsured. That is $ 36,000 per person while imposing a huge invasive bureaucracy on the lives of the other 278 million Americans. The masses believe the lies.
Green Extremists have convinced children and dullards that global warming is destroying the planet. They state their position as fact, when their thesis does not meet the scientific method criteria as fact. Their contentions are based on computer models. Our financial system was also based on financial models that said that worthless mortgages were really gold. We know how that worked out.
The facts are that the earth has warmed prior to the industrial revolution and has cooled. The sun, water vapor, earth's orbit, volcanoes, interstellar clouds, cosmic rays, tectonic plates, land use, CO2, sunspots, gravitational pulls, ocean currents and solar flares all impact earth. It is far too complex to declare that we know what is happening. Let's get tomorrow's weather forecast right first. Men plan and God laughs.
Must have been a lot of cows farting in the 1400s
The Orwellian language of Big Government turns people into pliable subjects. It lulls us into passively accepting ever-increasing taxes while encouraging our reliance on an embedded and mutating bureaucracy administered by corrupt career politicians and backed by corporate sugar daddies. Wall Street shysters have mastered the art or twisting and distorting reality to benefit themselves. Subprime loans, which triggered the worldwide financial crisis, were called "nonprime".
The billions of worthless toxic loans that still sit on the books of our biggest banks at original cost are now referred to as "legacy loans". How quaint. The lowest rated bonds of the worst companies are referred to as "high yield debt", not junk bonds. We describe our economy as "free market". There is nothing further from the truth. Bailouts for corporate failures and rewarding the excess risk takers are not hallmarks of free market capitalism.
Government takeovers of banks, insurance companies, and auto companies are not free market capitalism. It is a warped form of corporate fascism - the intermingling of the State and corporations for the benefit of a few. Kevin Depew from Minyanville.com described the Orwellian lies of Hank Paulson as he sat before Congress explaining his criminal actions last Fall:
"Paulson asserted throughout his testimony that he, almost single-handedly, averted an "economic collapse" and, moreover, that we should actually be thanking him for it. The ugly assemblage of half-truths, obfuscations, smarmy evasiveness and prickly showboating would have embarrassed Bernie Madoff. But it wasn't Bernie Madoff. It was a former United States Treasury Secretary." - Myopia
"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility." - George Orwell
Animal Farm represents any human society whether it be capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. Leaders are capable of being corrupted by power within any form of government. The myopic thinking of the Pigs in Animal Farm will eventually destroy the farm. Orwell ends the novel with the animals watching the Pigs mingling with farmers through a window. They couldn't tell the difference between the supposed revolutionaries and those they had fought against. If he had looked into the future he would have seen that the Soviet Union would decay from the inside as the corrupt few eventually came to believe their own lies and propaganda.
It collapsed 44 years later as a corrupt, bankrupt, shell of a country. The combination of myopia, greed, wickedness, ignorance and indifference are a brew that are leading the United States down the same path. As the Pigs in our society have enriched themselves, the average American has seen their real standard of living stagnate over the last 40 years. The Pigs have manipulated government inflation statistics so the masses think they are getting ahead.
The myopia of our politicians has put the country into a predicament that we can't escape without tremendous pain and suffering. In order to keep their positions of power they have passed bills for decades that promise trillions more in goodies than we can possibly pay for. They have paid no thought to the long-term consequences of their actions because they don't care. Future generations are of no concern to gluttonous power hungry Pigs. During the eight years of the Bush presidency the ruling class used fear tactics and propaganda to ram through laws which allow Government to monitor the movements and communications of every American.
Liberties have been stripped and freedoms have been restricted. Now President Obama is attempting to take control over the few aspects of our lives that remain relatively free. The Orwellian phrase "Cap & Trade" sounds much more innocuous than an energy tax of $ 1,500 on every household in America that will drive manufacturers out of the country, along with millions of jobs. "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" is the Orwellian name for a bill that will create a massive new bureaucracy, cost at least $ 1 trillion, cost small businesses billions more in health costs, give government the final decision on whether you are worth saving, and provide more freebies to poor Americans. This will keep the poor sedated and less likely to cause trouble for the ruling class.
Bill of Frights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances except when the Department of Homeland Security determines that you are a domestic terrorist who is a member of the Libertarian Party and attend Tax Day Tea Parties.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed except when the government fears you will use those arms against them.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized unless we suspect that you are a terrorist or anti-government activist.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation unless politicians decide that a shopping mall would be a better use for your private property.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense unless we classify you as a non-combatant and put you in prison for two years without charging you or providing counsel.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law after you wait for two years for your speedy trial.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted unless approved by Dick Cheney.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people unless activist judges determine otherwise.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people except that all these powers have been usurped by the Federal government.
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
As we look through the window at the raucous party between the Pigs and the farmers it is impossible to distinguish between the imperial monarchists who taxed the colonies to such an extreme that it caused a revolution and the revolutionaries that have adopted the same characteristics and traits of those they revolted against. The American people are like sheep being led to slaughter.
Our Founding Fathers declared that the common people were in control. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. The time has come to abolish the corrupt system and institute a new Government.
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Why Chiller Hire for County Shows is Essential to Animal Welfare
Cattle farmers sometimes hire chillers (large, powerful cooling machines) to keep their saleable produce stored at the right temperature. In spring and summer, organisers of agricultural events, such as big county shows and smaller regional shows, also rent chillers, to keep valuable cattle cool in the holding pens and the main arena. It’s not that surprising when in the UK, individual cattle can be worth over £1,000, depending upon the cow’s breed, age and productivity and prime breeding cows reach six figure sums (according to the Livestock Auctioneers Association.).
Agricultural events – ‘shop windows’ for cattle farmers
In the UK the agricultural shows and events calendar gets busier each year. The Devon County Show, The Royal Cornwall Show, The Great Yorkshire Show, The Royal Norfolk County Show (and many others) is where the business of farming is showcased. Each show is a shop window for the county's locally produced food and drink.
Along with thousands of members of the public; farmers, herdsmen, retailers and other professionals use the shows as an opportunity to see the best dairy and beef livestock, equipment, products and services available in the UK market. Farmers promote their own businesses there: showing their cattle, seeking to impress, to network and make connections in the industry. All this can often result in sales on the day and boosted trade later.
It is essential, therefore, that their cattle look and feel healthy. One of the biggest threats to this is heat stress.
How cows can be affected by heat
Whilst cattle do have a fairly large ideal environmental temperature range, cows that are simply too hot can:
be unable to produce milk (high-producing cows are most sensitive to heat stress because of their high feed intake)
have difficulty in becoming pregnant
be susceptible to heat stroke, which can sometimes cause death. While cattle dying from heat stress is more common in the USA and South America than in the UK, it is still a threat here every summer [particularly in more enclosed spaces], and something farmers need to protect their cattle from
With all this, it is understandable that hiring chillers from a good chiller hire company, to keep livestock cool, is an option that agricultural event organisers (and the cattle farmers themselves) are grateful for.
About chiller specialists
Rented chillers are basically massive air-conditioning units – incredibly powerful cooling machines that provide volumes of cool air that air conditioning units simply cannot. Some chillers possess the capacity to cool large-sized buildings, such as huge office blocks and high-production dairies, etc. What is good about portable chillers is that they can be rented temporarily (for both indoor and outdoor use).
So, at a county or regional show, organisers can cost-effectively lease chillers for the event’s duration only, without having to heavily invest in chiller units that will basically be unused for a great part of the year (creating an additional problem of where to store them in between events and the event season, which runs from May to September).
The best chiller rental specialists have depots all over the country (stocked with a full range of modern chiller models). This means agricultural event organisers anywhere in the country can have the most suitable chiller units they need delivered quickly, from a local supplier.
Farmers must have confidence in event organisers
UK cattle farmers are already among the most efficient in the European Union, with breeding, feeding and management improvements seeing average milk yield per cow increasing year-on-year over the past decade, according to industry trade publication, The Farmers Guardian. The dairy and beef industry is still highly competitive, however. County and regional shows are an essential part of every cattle farmer’s business. But if there is a risk of heat stress to their herds at the shows, farmers will understandably be reluctant to attend.
For event organisers being able to source temporary chillers from a good chiller hire company quickly, easily (and surprisingly affordably) means they can virtually guarantee that the right environmental conditions for livestock will be provided on site.
Article submitted by Carl Webb, Specialist Hire Director at Andrews Sykes. Andrews Sykes is the UK's largest specialist in chiller rental services to the agriculture and events hire industries. Andrews Sykes provide chillers to virtually all industry sectors using machinery sourced from the world’s top manufacturers.
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Alternative Spring Break: Effective Step towards Society?s Welfare
Alternative spring break allows the students this remarkable opportunity to give back their significant contributions to the society without comprising on their fun filled vacations. The phrase generally refers to volunteering during the spring break where the young school and colleges students choose to work for a certain social cause and make best efforts to convince others for cooperation.
Though school breaks are the best time to dawn the role of an alternative spring break volunteer, students can also enjoy it during weekends, winter season or on any extended holiday where they may devote their time completely towards the benefit of society. Each of their trips emphasize on a particular social cause that may include helping out the needful, imparting education to poor children, making the people aware of the dire consequences of consumption of drugs, alcohol, cigarette and so on.
The break is a welcome move on the part of students who are keen to do something exceptional to make the most of their vacation. This also provides them with a lifetime opportunity to perform something effectual for the betterment of humankind ahead of enjoying regular spring break parties in South Padre Island, Cancun and other parts of the world. In the process, they get the chance to interact with the local non-profit bodies and be engaged in weeklong assignments that leave them with exceptional peace of mind.
A number of organizations come to the support of students to help them choose the befitting destination to spend their alternative spring break. They have a variety of jobs to offer for the enthusiastic young fellows, these may include:
Helping the victims of a natural calamity within the country or somewhere abroad
Doing something significant to conserve the wild life or extinct animals
Making efforts to conserve the drying up water source
Providing the ailing refugees of impoverished nations with food supply and appropriate medical aid
Acting as volunteers in hospitals and outpatient clinics to make the patients feel at ease and comfortable
Working in rehabilitation centers to help the people part ways with their bad drinking or smoking habits
Talking about US, non-government bodies have been playing effective role in enabling the students to make the most of their alternative spring break.
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Animal Attractions in Cornwall
To keep all of the kids happy and entertained for the duration of summer holidays you will be kept on your toes and stressing to find something new for them to do. Well stress no more. This article will highlight three of the best places to take your kids that will satisfy their need for entertainment and those kids who love animals will be smiling for days.
The first stop is the Monkey Sanctuary. Aimed at promoting the welfare, conservation and survival of primates this is a great place to learn more about these wonderful creatures. You can learn a vast amount of how these creatures are treated from their time in the primate trade and in captivity, their natural habits and sustainable living. The sanctuary is situated in a beautiful part of Cornwall and is a great place for the kids to see and learn more about monkeys.
Blue Reef Aquarium is option two and offers a great deal for kids to see and do for their time there. Focused on the attractions and wonders of the sea this is a great way to explore the depths of the ocean with out getting wet. Located in Newquay in Cornwall you can see the fantastic array of fish and sea creatures that grace the ocean. Giant crabs, lobsters, seahorses and sharks to name a few. Featuring a coral reef and hundreds of exotic fish you will find loads of stunning creatures.
Newquay Zoo is option number three and provides a great place to see a whole host of different animals without having to leave the area of Cornwall. With 130 different species, open rainforest, oriental gardens and recently opened exhibitions you will find that there is more than enough to keep your children entertained. The zoo also offers a tarzan trail, childrens play area, an animal encounters area as well as face painting so they can go around as their favorite animal.
With so much on offer you really won't know where to start. The zoo highlights all of the feeding times for that day so you can see the animals being fed which is a treat that you won't want to miss.There we go three options for the kids and the family to go and do and make the most of the time together. Why stay at home and be stuck with nothing to do why you have all of this at your door step?
This article was written by Tom Sangers on behalf of Olde House who offer North Cornwall Holidays and a great range of Self Catering Cornwall cottage for couples and families.
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The Facts of Animal Testing
Alternatives to Animal Testing
As per Animal Welfare Act, the research scientists involved in animal testing are required to consider the alternative to testing on animals before beginning a research project. They must search the available literature for any alternatives, and submit their findings and search history to their concerned department.
Many people argue that as animals are less intellectually advanced (which is false statement to begin with anyway), and hence can be used to find cures for HIV, cancer or other life-threatening diseases. However, it is inhumane to take the animals out of their natural habitat, and use them for any kind of research. In US alone, more than 70m animals are blinded, maimed, hurt, killed, scalded, genetically manipulated or force-fed chemicals in the name of household products, science, educational institutes and government agencies. The animal testing is not required by the law, but is done by the companies to protect themselves from consumer lawsuits.
Testing on animals costs billions of dollars annually. To measure the severe burn on live tissue, and animal is burned alive till the flesh is charred and can be easily removed in the large pieces, while the animal is still alive. Animal's eyelids are sewn shut, and the protein levels are measured to demonstrate that there is no difference in the levels of protein in the eyes of sight deprived. Studies on head trauma include strapping down the head of the animal, and giving high impact blows to it, resulting in severe brain damage.
Animals and humans are different, and many drugs that have been based on the animal testing had to be taken off the market due to the side-effects, that were not shown during animal studies, but proved fatal for human. There are many drugs that have passed the animal testing, but end up harming or killing the humans. Rats do not have gall bladder, dogs have different circulation system as they walk on all fours, and cats do not have enzymes that can metabolize ibuprofen.
More than half of the animal tests conducted by the cosmetic companies, and most of these studies are flawed, resulting in incorrect scientific investigations that waste money, resources and time. More than 25 billion animals are unnecessarily killed in the labs each year. In one study, the baby monkeys were taken away from mothers, and were abused. The conclusions were drawn that neglect and abuse leads to social maladjustment and psychological damage. Such animal testing does not justify the suffering of millions of animals, and wasting billions of dollars. It is a cruel act of violence forced upon those that cannot speak up or protect themselves from the slavery that some humans seem to believe is still okay in our modern world.
There is however a possibility of using the more reliable and less expensive alternatives to animal testing. For Draize eye test, sophisticated computer models or corneas from eye banks can be used instead of using the live rabbits. Other more suitable tests include tissue culture system, chemical assay tests, human skin patches, organ and cell cultures, cloned human skin cells and computer and mathematical models.
Researchers argue that when the human life is in danger, it is better to experiment on the guinea pigs than to let people suffer or die. However, it must be kept in mind that animal testing is unjust and unethical, and there must be law enforcement to use the alternative methods.
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Attend Animal Workshop To Learn Animal Welfare And Healing Ethics
Usually, people speak a lot about human welfare, and insist on the need to provide primary healthcare facility to all the individuals, even if he is serving the jail terms for doing some criminal act. However, the time has come when the elite class of people have to become equally aware towards the welfare of animals, who share the space with us. If, you want to develop better understanding about needs of animal, then you must not miss a chance to attend the animal workshop arranged by any reputable organisation. Remember, the mankind used to be largely depended upon the livestock and agriculture, and we still cannot imagine the world without domestic and wild animals. Therefore, it becomes essential for all of us to be sympathetic towards the other living beings, as they cannot express their pain through words.
It is pathetic that the domestic animals have learned to understand the language of humans, and they react accordingly, but many individuals still lack in developing proper communication with their pets. It is an agreeable fact that we generally fail to understand the mock gestures of animals, when they are in distress. If, you want to learn the tricks of animal healing, it will be advisable to join some animal courses that provide details about animal behaviour, their adaptability towards changes environment, their food habits, hormonal imbalances, and the change in energy levels. Attending animal workshop will be yet another way to gain unique experience, as you will be able to learn the right ways of working with the animals.
You must have seen many movies, or read some true stories in which the pets saved the lives of their masters, and protected their families from some unexpected threats. If, you are receptive towards them, they try to show their affection from time to time, without expecting anything from you. Therefore, it will be interesting to learn few techniques to understand those felling that are conveyed by your pets through simple actions. There can be different purposes for attending animal workshop, but it will definitely help you to explore the needs and requirements of animals, and their role in improving the quality of your life. Obviously, you cannot expect a horse to show his power without taking care of its health and nutritional needs.
Have a look on some advantages of attending specially designed animal workshop for providing the fundamental knowledge of animal healing techniques:
It allows you to learn the right ways of assisting the animals during trauma and crisis.
Helps developing the skills of intuitive communication that helps in finding different ways to deal with the frightened animal, and help it to overcome the memory of traumatic experiences of the past life.
Some people attend animal workshop to learn the issues that affects the well being of animals.
It also allows the individuals to differentiate between the signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, energy imbalances, and general infections.
You will be able to counsel the people regarding animal care, at the time of need.
The article author likes to be a part of the community that cares for the well being of animals, and he insists on attending an animal workshop because he considers it to be an easy way to learn the basics of animal healing.
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