Healthy but Unwanted Giraffe Butchered for the Amusement of Children

It's difficult to say what is more disgusting and disturbing.

That the management of Copenhagen Zoo ignored a petition signed by thousands and the pleas of other zoos around the world, including Yorkshire Zoo (which has a state of the art giraffe house) to adopt the young giraffe called Marius which they were threatening to kill.

Or that once they had killed it, they decided to butcher it in front of, and presumably for the amusement of, a crowd of onlookers which included many young children.

Or that the onlookers seemed to enjoy the sight of a young animal being butchered in such a way that served no other purpose than to amuse them.

Or that the whole spectacle was broadcast worldwide live.

The footage is not easy to watch, even for a carnivore, so the video has not been embedded but it can be seen here:

Shocking footage of dead giraffe killed by zookeepers in Denmark

There is something in the amalgamation of the above factors which suggests that there was a determination to hack this unfortunate beast to pieces which transcended any trace of compassion in those who were responsible for its welfare. This is yet another example of how people end up in the wrong job.

This Man Should Be Unemployed: Bent Coppers at Barton Moss

This man is a proven liar as can be seen from the video below. He represents authority in the UK and, like the politicians he protects, exemplifies how lying has become an acceptable means of propulsion in today's world. How can this man, and many, if not most, of his colleagues have any position in a sector of society which aims to provide justice when they lie with impunity. He is acting as an industrial security guard paid for out of British taxes; a corporate agent.

This is the face of a bully and a coward, a man who without the backing of his uniformed gang or secret society brethren would not have the balls to lie in somebody's face. All bullies are cowards because they only abuse people who they know cannot or will not retaliate. His two colleagues are spineless collaborators in his power trip. Look at the arrogance in his face. He loves the power his uniform gives him and he loves the fact that he can lie and his gormless colleagues will either believe him or play along with his power game.

People who abuse their authority like this man are scum. There is no plausible justifiable excuse for their behaviour. Watch this video and decide if you would even  this man to give honest testimony. He is not fit to clean the urinals in a homeless shelter.

Thou Shalt Not Eat Other People's Waste

The global criminalisation of poverty stretches credibility. Making poverty history was a fashion statement not so man years ago but who would have thought that it would be being poor which became the crime not causing poverty by means of corporate greed.

And so, stories of well meaning people being arrested for feeding the poor become more and more common whilst people, who by virtue of their desperation, turn to desperate acts, are prosecuted for their hunger; one might argue that they are actually persecuted.

The BBC report today that:

Three accused of stealing food from Iceland store bins

Three men are to stand trial after allegedly taking cheese, tomatoes and cakes from bins behind an Iceland shop.

Paul May, William James and Jason Chan were arrested in Kentish Town, north London, in October. Iceland said its staff did not call the police.

At a court hearing in November, the men denied being found in or upon enclosed premises, contrary to section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.

They will next appear at Highbury Magistrates' Court on 3 February.

'Waste and austerity'
The items allegedly taken from the store's bins amounted to a total value of £33 and included tomatoes, mushrooms, cheese and Mr Kipling cakes.

Mr May, 35, Mr James, 23, and Mr Chan, 31, all of no fixed address, are expected to say they had been "skipping" - a term used for taking food that would otherwise go to waste from a bin or skip.

Mike Schwarz from law firm Bindmans, who is representing the men, said: "The prosecutor's view that there is a significant public interest in expending public money to prosecute 'skippers' at times of shortage, waste and austerity, seems at best short-sighted, at worst perverse and certainly disproportionate.

"The defendants will say that they were not acting dishonestly."

In a statement, Iceland said: "The store in question is next door to a police station. Iceland staff did not call the police, who attended on their own initiative.

"Nor did we instigate the resulting prosecution, of which we had no knowledge until the media reports of it appeared yesterday evening.

"We are currently trying to find out from the Crown Prosecution Service why they believe that it is in the public interest to pursue a case against these three individuals, and will comment further when we are more fully informed."

What is hugely significant is that the de facto owners of the food, Iceland, are not the ones prosecuting, it is the police from an adjacent police station who are pressing charges. Iceland seem totally bemused by the situation and, according to their statement, do not understand why the law so keen to prosecute.

No doubt the sight of people so hungry that they would eat from a skip upsets the appetite of the officers as they tuck into their takeaways between arbitrarily stopping ethnic minority individuals to search them and beating up innocent people in their cells.

It probably doesn't help that I just watched the film adaptation of Irving Welsh's Filth but the police do not do themselves any favours when they act like complete aresholes but it seems to be their nature.

UPDATE:

All credit to Iclend for speaking up.

Iceland food bin theft case dropped

The case against three men accused of stealing food from bins outside an Iceland store has been dropped by prosecutors.

Paul May, William James and Jason Chan were arrested in Kentish Town, north London, in October.

The men denied charges brought under the 1824 Vagrancy Act.

The Crown Prosecution Service said Iceland had made representations that "affected our assessment of the public interest in prosecuting".

NSA GCHQ use Angry Birds as a Trojan Horse

There is never likely to be more conclusive proof that the NSA's spying programme had little, if anything to do with defence or counter-terrorism than Edward Snowden's most recent revelation.

The liklihood of radicals from either end of the bogus political spectrum or the extremes of any religion are unlikely to be detectable within a boolean hoop as massive as the 1.7 billion players of Angry Birds. If your brain is jellied sufficiently to gain anything meaningful from playing the game, it is extremely unlikely that you are going to pose a threat to western civilisation but according to the latest leaks, that is not how intelligence gatherers see things.

US and British spies 'get personal data from Angry Birds'

That is, of course, unless those cartoon anarchists are practicing throwing their fizzing bowling ball bombs on their iPhones cunningly disguised with feathers.

The greatest sadness I feel here is that those most affected by this are the ones who will least give a shit. They will reside firmly in the 'if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide' camp. But it questions the role played by developers such as Rovio and manufacturers such as Apple play in producing and marketing extremely addictive Trojan Horses for the nefarious exploitation of government spies and the relationship between corporate and government power which has become increasingly nebulous.

Lord of War: Man of God Applauds Arms Trade

From The Blackpool Gazette 26th January 2014:

Bishop hails investment in BAE future

The Bishop of Blackburn has hailed the “huge investment” made by BAE Systems into its next generation of workers.

The Rt Rev Julian Henderson, who arrived as the head of the Anglican Diocese for Lancashire in October, visited the company’s sites in Warton and Samlesbury during a day-long visit which also took a look around the firm’s training centre in Preston.

He met some of the latest intake of apprentices who are spending the first 12 months of their training at the centre before visiting different parts of the business which employs more than 10,000 people.

The Bishop said: “Seeing the enthusiasm which the apprentices tackle their training was great to see.

“They get the opportunity to see the company from the bottom upwards and it seems to me this is a great way to get to know a profession. It is so important we continue to invest in our young people and for BAE Systems it is a huge investment in its future.”

During the visit, the Bishop attended the company’s site at Samlesbury before finishing his tour at Warton where he visited the Typhoon final assembly line and Hawk manufacturing facility to look at the aircraft which the RAF fly in frontline action and to train their pilots of the future.

That, of course, would be the Rt Rev Julian Henderson of BAe investors, the Church of England who, let us not forget have a vested interest in Armageddon.

I have always had a problem with Christian involvement in any aspect of war. It's a bit trite to say it but the fifth, sixth or seventh commandment, depending on which bit of the Bible is being referenced, states, 'thou shalt not kill' not 'thou shalt not kill but...' or, 'thou shalt not kill except...' It's amazing how flexible the clergy can be when interpreting the Word of God.

I used to work with a Christian whose equally Christian husband worked at this very same factory yet did not see any conflict of interest. When I started to reel off the atrocities which have been carried out using machinery which was manufactured by British Aerospace such as the napalming of villagers in East Timor by the Suharto regime of Indonesia in the 1980s which was regarded by many scholars as genocide, I was told that they had children and 'had to put food on the table'.

 Well, first of all, the woman was senior to me and therefore better paid than me. Secondly, it was during a period when things were very different to the current situation and there were other jobs with other companies which an engineer could easily have found. But thirdly, British Aerospace workers are paid extremely well, largely because of the contracts with very wealthy tyrannies around the globe - so one must wonder exactly what kind of food was being being put on what kind of table.

Do these people not have a fucking brain? Oh, yes, that's a very well made spigot, you have there. I can just visualise its purpose in the mechanism which efficiently releases the payload of lethal weaponry upon foreign brown people as they dig in the dirt foraging for food.

They disgust me. And no amount of repeated views of Major Barbara is going to make me think any differently even to grasp the irony. They are supposed to be the agents of our creator and are blessing the instruments of mass murder. It is hardly possible to escape the conclusion that hypocrisy is not something which concerns them.

Censorship: Suppressive Powers for the Masses

I think everybody who isn't fascinated by the arrest of Justin Bieber will be aware that the mainstream media manipulates the news and, more subtly, its coverage of the news to suit its agenda or that which it has been assigned. It's so obvious and well documented, it is almost a waste of a paragraph to even mention it but it has to be reiterated in order to make a point which is in danger of becoming as much of a truism because whilst it is unacceptable that the mainstream news media effectively lie (omission is a form of censorship and deception ergo a lie), it is accepted that they do. It is, by virtue of their stated remit, even less acceptable for the so-called alternative media to censor especially when they openly market themselves as an antedote to the homogenous diet of information which people are fed daily. It's common knowledge that Alex Jones will not tolerate any criticism of Israel. Indymedia, who are ostensibly diametrically opposed to Infowars also avoid, as much as possible, the Israel thing (except when it involves Palestinians) and comb out any posts which mention 9/11 (except when it endorses Keane and Hamilton), Freemasons, chemtrails or a multitude of other subjects which, for its own purposes, it deems inappropriate.

But what about our latest alternative outlet? A voice for the voiceless. Be part of the heard not the herd.

Well, that's all well and good but what if the voice does not agree with you? What if the mind behind the voice actually thinks you are not quite as virtuous as you make out? There is always censorship but that would not look too good, would it. It goes on within the alternative media and it subsidiaries and everybody knows about it but it is forbidden to mention it - that will result in further censorship. In not so extreme cases, this could lead to banning or, as mentioned previously, what one forum euphemistically calls, 'inactive' which suggests that the user has elected not to say anything for a while. Not unlike a police officer looking down upon a bloody beaten prisoner tied to a chair with gaffer tape over his mouth and saying, 'he's gone a bit quite'. It's the same fucking game, Sean. You are no different.

But what is (only slightly) more surprising is how easily the rest of the flock come around to that way of thinking - just like the liberal Obama supporters who overnight saw the merit and positive ethical aspects of drone strikes on foreign civilians.

Today, we have one David Icke forum member, 3point5 saying, 'I help run a pretty popular Facebook page. We kept having one or two members that were causing grief on the Facebook page. You know what we did? We blocked them. It solved the problem instantly, and it meant we didn't drag our own name through the mud by arguing with them publicly.'

Whilst forum moderator, scottishryan responds, 'You are completely correct, I find blocking out such disturbances works the best. I personally had to do it in my Youtube Channel too, there is a line that can be crossed when this is the best first option to take.'

Yeah, fucking hypocrites, right? That's what they are all saying on the forum at sanctumzone.co.uk - all the refugees from David Icke's forum who are disenchanted, suspended or ...er inactive have gathered at one of the relatively new so-called alternative (to) David Icke forums. All those self-congratulatory folk, not unlike the Obama types, who think they have found a life raft in the turbulent sea of censorship. Except that they haven't because sanctumzone.co.uk is guilty of censorship like the two previously mentioned strata of deception; whether intentionally or by neglect. Having experienced the digital Heath-Robinson of the sanctumzone.co.uk forum, I am willing to accept the possibility that there is some technical explanation for what I have witnessed but until I have received an explanation from whoever is responsible for the site's administration, I am going to assume the inevitable. And I am willing to wager that all the other alternative Icke sites are equally flawed in their ethics.

What is certain is that there is no such thing as free speech anywhere on the internet where there are people with administrative privileges acting as gatekeepers. I tried it once - the only posts I deleted were blatant spam with links to whatever was being flogged at the time. Ironically, one or two of the members didn't like free speech and at least one of them has spent the past eight or nine years bad mouthing me for all manner of ridiculous ills conjured up by their paranoid delusions. S/he is a moron. I could name them but why throw fireworks on the fire? Self-censorship? Maybe but I believe in the words of Henry Delaune, 'Think all you speak but speak not all you think;' and I assure you, some people don't know how grateful they might be for that. Unfortunately, in this digital world everybody who is counter-inclined has the indiscriminate power of a flamethrower.

Hypocrite Considers Throwing Persistent Internet Pirates in Jail [sic]

OK, so, it's only two days since I publicly announced that I was bored with it all but I wasn't expecting David Icke to throw me an irrisistable meaty chunk like this.

Anybody with any interest in free speech and who has observed the Stalinist censorship on David Icke's forum will know that any mention of certain words or phrases relating to BitTorrent will be redacted with a nice row of asterisks and links to torrent sites will consquently have thir URLs broken. The reason for this is supposed to be because it is illegal to mention BitTorrent or link to torrent sites, according to clueless Technical Adviser, 'i_am'. As pointed out previously here, that would put many major websites such as The Guardian, BBC, Wikipedia, Google and thousands of others on the wrong side of the law. The real reason, as is pretty evident when one has frequented some of the torrent sites in question, is that David Icke, via his sidekick, Sean Adl Tabatabai, has threatened those sites with legal action unless torrent of his 'message' are removed.

Before we go on to today's little gem, perhaps we should explore this facet of David Icke's persona for a moment. He proselytises that people should see through materialism because it is all an illusion, he never ceases preaching about how tirelessly he works to get 'material' out and at a very famous turning point in his life, claimed to be a son of the godhead.

Without wishing to make a direct comparison, just suppose that Jesus returned. Would it be reasonable of him to threaten people with legal action for sharing the message which he was so interested in spreading? However, that is what David Icke, who is regarded by many on his forum as a saviour, does, and does so to protect the income he makes from the sales of hard copies of his material. And he is quite happy for people with very little money to forego paying their rent in order to line his pockets. This is a man who quotes Gandhi and borrowed the words of Jesus for the title of one of his books, '...and the truth shall set you free'. Unfortunately, his disciples cannot see the truth of utter hypocrisy at every level of this man. Many have given money they can ill-afford to do without in order to fuel the latest vehicle for his ego in the belief that he will save them. They are stretching their cognitive dissonance to its limit yet still yearn to find another last penny to donate. But that's just the back end. Anybody with any objective detached reasoning can see what a phony, David Icke is, his integrity has the breaking strain of a Kit-Kat.

Professing that everything, including money, is an illusion whilst charging people to read and hear what you have to say on the matter shows about as much faith in one's own words as the Pope riding around in a bullet-proof Popemobile [nod to Bill Hicks] or the Church of England insuring its buildings against acts of God.

Bullshit!

Anyway, on today's David Icke headlines page, I saw this:

UK Considers Throwing Persistent Internet Pirates in Jail [sic]

‘During a debate on the UK’s Intellectual Property Bill, the Prime Minister’s Intellectual Property Adviser has again called for a tougher approach to online file-sharing. In addition to recommending “withdrawing Internet rights from lawbreakers”, Mike Weatherley MP significantly raised the bar by stating that the government must now consider “some sort of custodial sentence for persistent offenders.” Google also got a bashing – again.’

Which in turn, links to this on Torrent Freak:

UK Considers Throwing Persistent Internet Pirates in Jail [sic]

It may not be immediately apparent but here we see yet another dimension to David Icke's hypocrisy. He appears to be giving a display of support for internet freedom whilst taking his own stand against filesharers. But, not only that, he has posted a link to a site which is forbidden on his website forum. I wonder how 'sean', 'i_am', 'ex sheep' and 'zhiba' will explain the asterisks should anybody attempt to share David Icke's headline story on the forum.

I doubt that any of David Icke's lieutenants ever visit here but if they do and read this far, you are lost so far up your master's arsehole, you cannot tell shit from Sugar Puffs.