I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
Ringling Bros. Circus Abuses Animals
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I’m ordinarily that last person to promote anything that PETA does, but for once, I’m on their side of an argument. The undercover video of Ringling Bros. Circus animals being abused for no reason goes entirely beyond the pale and shows behavior that is disgusting and reprehensible. Quite frankly, it makes me want to boycott circuses from now on, as I refuse to give any money to support such inhumane behavior.
In this video, you can clearly see the pain inflicted on the animals, as the huge elephants flinch and bellow with the blows of the bull hook. You can also clearly see that some of this is done for absolutely no apparent reason and, even worse, is sometimes apparently done entirely out of sheer malice (accompanied by vulgar insults).
It’s really sad to see and makes me really question the whole idea of a circus and makes me really wonder what kind of activities go into making so many otherwise-wild animals ‘trained’ and ‘domesticated’.
[...] second time in just 4 months I am actually agreeing with an issue PETA has raised! (See my post on Ringling Bros. Circus Abuse for the first such [...]