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Americais the world's policeman the world's bread basket the world's bank,the world's medical research lab the world's university and theworld's movie theatre. We are a lot of things to the world withoutwhich the world doesn't do jack. You may not like the fact that we are the world's policeman but youshouldn't be irresponsible on that point because if we withdraw fromany of these functions the world suffers. America must beconstructively engaged with nations around the world in militaryaffairs and it must not be abashed in putting boots on the ground,wherever whenever. To his great credit. GWB has re-established thatstance - the one Reagan feared to do. But I want to talk about the reasonable way to deal with the fact that we have become these things and note that in my earlier political incarnation as a Progressive. I had a much more cynical take on the boom of the 80s. I used to call them the Go-Go Eighties and the Roaring Eighties because I presumed them to be an era of excess which would inevitably result in a crash. The crash took 20 years to come and it had nothing to do with what I believed. I was at once fascinated and repelled by great wealth while defensive of meritocracy. I was contemptuous of the middle class while adopting a sort of global cosmopolitan attitude. I was nonetheless convinced that most affluent people were phony and really unaware of the reasons they valued the things they did. Much of that latter attitude was established by the influence of Marshall Blonsky. At any rate my growing understanding of Conservatism changed all that because I found in Conservatives the willingness and the desire to defend meritocracy and yet respect the middle class to make peace with elites through the continuum of history and to maintain a humility and respect all at once. In the principle defense of Liberty and of the Commons through the emphasis of common denominators of human respect via Natural Law it all comes together. But there remains the American exceptionalism. What to do with the common man and what of the deprived? If the weak have anything in life to fear it is the strong. The defense of rights are after all the gift of the strong. And what the modern conservative understands is that freedom from tyranny comes through the sacred honor of protecting the property of the individual from usurpations. It is that fundamental covenant which best protects the individual of talent from being robbed on the regular and it is toward the end of the establishment of the Constitutional Republic which embodies the power necessary to keep that covenant that our Founders were dedicated. Whether or not they have done an unimprovable job is the future's to judge but the fundamental fact remains there has to be some way to keep the strong from being predators. For that purpose we are a nation of laws and not a nation of men. Teleologically speaking that is what we have achieved in America and it is what we have reasonably come to expect. We agree that no man should be above the law by any right divine or otherwise. And in so doing we have created an arena for competition whose rules bind us all. By these rules we can get rich and 95% of millionaires in America earn their riches they don't *inherit* their riches. An old friend at Columbia B School used to remind me that in America everybody wants to be rich whereas in Europe everybody wants to shoot the rich. We like the rich in America because they don't prey on us. It is very easy for Americans to admire Bill Gates and admonish Bernie Ebbers. It is very American for us to create a series of communities and competitive arenas that generate a Tiger Woods. And we know we have nothing to fear from such a multi-multi-millionaire despite the fact that he's an elephant. Speaking modestly the most scary thing outside of war is a fight between elephants. I don't mean the African beasts but those who are wealthy. This conflict occurs on a constant basis and I didn't quite realize that in my old incarnation. When I went to work for Xerox Corporation in the 80s it was one of the top 50 companies in Corporate America. And to my young view. Corporate America was 'the powers that be' implying a sort of static establishment that simply emanated power. The very idea that a giant American corporation might be vulnerable was almost unthinkable to me. And yet these institutions are very dynamic and fluid. General Motors was once the colossus and today it has been practically bankrupted by unions. My industry has undergone tremendous change. Data General is gone. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) is gone. Amdahl is gone. These were giants and yet they have fallen - collapsed and been reabsorbed into that deep tumultuous sea that is American business. What keeps Tiger Woods American? What keeps Warren Buffett American? Moreover why would they stay American in the same country that has millionaires who are rogues? The core of my thesis is that America remains the sanctuary for elephants. It is an elephant playground and an elephant graveyard. And we could easily any day get stomped. But it is much more likely to be our fate that we are mugged or our housed robbed or raped or murdered than to have our entire lives and property confiscated by some elephant. We need to be concerned more with rats and jackals than elephants. Elephants tend to fight elephants. In the land of the free and the home of the brave it is our ability to maintain a very large playing field that keeps us from getting crowded out by the massive players. We are no matter what our station in life fortunate that the covenant our Republic keeps is satisfactory to the strong and inspirational to the weak. Because it is in defense of that covenant that keeps us all of our strong men from enslaving our weak men. Growing up in America always implies asking oneself in youth what am I going to be when I grow up. We imagine ourselves most of us with some modicum of success. And we expect that we should be able to achieve that through excellence and by following the rules. The ambitions of all of us have constraints of course. But for the overwhelming majority we look up. For myself especially in rejecting some of the more exploitative entertainments. I have looked to a genre of teaching I can best describe as 'lessons for kings'. I am under the impression though it has been a while since I checked that the American affluent class is the biggest and most ethnically and religiously diverse in the history of the planet. I have always been one of those who worried - what do you do with a billion literate people? I cannot be 100% certain that we have arrived at the final answer. Things might get better then again things could get out of hand and we might lose the combinations that led us to this massive prosperity and freedom. But of one thing I am certain - the elephants will dance where they feel most comfortable and they will stomp buck and rear if they get cramped woe be to those are in the way. The greatness of America or any nation is found in its ability to create and maintain a society in which the powerful and great coexist peacefully with the weak and meek. Despite all the noise and agitation of those Boomers whose minds were cauterized in the fires of 1968's Us vs Them. America is not fundamentally at war with itself. It is part of our basic social nature here to not be a nation of laws for the sake of following laws but that doing so will reward our achievements and protect them from thievery. That covenant is still in place. ****************Seriously. Cobb. I consider you an awesome mind and awesome thinker. One of my greatest pleasures is deconstructing some of your sentences and ideas twice and thrice until I grasp the basics of what you're talking about. Which is why it is to my greatest astonishment that you cannot see that the "War on Terror" and other such wars of ideology are born out of the worst ideals that relate to conservatism and are simply poor backward and yes bigoted thinking. The War on Terror much like the War on Christmas simply does not exist. It is a mere slogan a catchphrase that is no more potent honestly in the end than stating that one is a "Maverick" or can bring "Change We Can Believe In." It is a rallying cry and one to our everlasting shame. Americans will have to admit we answered to. I will admit to having had my moments of dark admiration for Bush Administration gall. Americans initial response to 9/11 was to buy books! On Islam and Afghanistan and AlQueda and to learn more about the people who attacked us. Instinctively the question was asked - even in the media - why are these people so pissed at us? Knowing that our hands aren't always clean people lifted their heads in a moment of true short-lived enlightenment and asked the question - what can we do to tell these people we're not so bad? How do we fix this? It was a wake up call of astonishing proportion. And George and Dick swaggered in and smacked us all! What the hell is wrong with you all? This is America? When someone attacks us we don't buy books and ask for forgiveness. We KICK ASS! What I'm saying darlin is - Conservatism cloaks wars against real people and yes nations in a shameful war against ideas. George and Dick didn't just go to war against Iraq and Afghanistan or even the stupidity of an IDEA like the War on Terror. You are right on one point - conservatives did make their meaning quite clear. They were willing to stamp out even the whisper of any idea that did not mirror their own twisted ends and they were willing to circumvent and even stamp out every ideal of American liberty and democracy to do it. And the would not limit their wars to foreign lands - they truly went to war against their own people the American people - the same people they claimed to represent and have their best interests at heart - for having the temerity to truly look at where we went wrong - and to try to solve it instead of covering up our mess and our wrongdoing with a mass more of bodies blood wrong deeds wasted money resources and LIVES. Cobb lives. For one blazing instant. America did what you said that we should do - recognized the awesome responsibility of what we bring to the world - our culture and our ideals - and for one instant - our response was the right one. And that's why McCain lost. And why you are very wrong that what GWB and Co -there must always be an addendum to his name because that fool was not capable of acting alone- but why you are very wrong that GWB's response and reasons were the right ones. Those colossus - those giants we so revered - were always vulnerable - to time to new ideas to their own refusal to change! And that's what to me conservatism is - a refusal to change - an ideal that all things old - no matter how terrible no matter what they cost others - must remain intact as long as they benefit a few. You do realize that your argument is almost FOR slavery! Seriously Cobb - you can't believe that as some have stated recently the weaker slaves were better off under their stronger masters? They weren't really stronger - only by means of guns imprisonment and the harshest treatment - the tools of conservatism at their finest - were they able to impose slavery - and still it failed. And that is why conservatism despite it's best efforts always must fail. There are better ideals and effort to pursue than oppression simply to maintain an outlived status quo.

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When I moved and tried to find a place to store things. I started with the carport closets. I carefully opened one and the whole house fell over on me. Looking around in horror. I found myself buried beneath car parts gadgets fishing poles. Matchbox cars collectible Coke paraphernalia. Nascar items camping gear and every single tool ever made in the history of tools. Trying to buy him something for Christmas usually meant just asking him what he didn't have. The first year that ended up being a Brita water filter. Who says romance is dead? It's not but it is cleaner and better tasting! eBillmeTM has taken the guesswork out of shopping for the pack rat with their compilation of the top 10 Christmas gifts for him and her. They have separated each item by personality trait (i e. for the Sentimental for the Gadget Geek etc) and with one click of a button you can purchase said item and have it sent to your home. 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Please be sure that your email address isup-to-date in your BlogHer profile so that we can contact you if youwin! . I received a wedding present that was sent with the best intentions.  Unfortunately every time I looked at the serving platter all I could think of was roach.  It was purple glass shaped in an elongated oval pattern with glass etchings on one side.  It became quite the favorite gift at an elephant gift exchange several years later especially since I had left the note of congratulations in the box accidentally.... Two years ago he was so excited for me to open my Christmas gift because he had searched for months trying to find it for me. It was an antique stuffed pink that grunts and walks. And the reason it was perfect for me? Because it's name is 'Jolanthe' - which is my name. The pig was over $150 and I can't do a blessed thing with it - except sit it up high on a shelf in hopes that one of my 4 children doesn't destroy it, or just laugh every time I see it. Because although it had a lovely sentiment behind it. I really don't want to have my namesake be a pig - Growing up my Grandmother gave us stockings at Christmas time and for many years underwear would be one of the stuffers.  Cute when you are 3 but at 12 years old not so cute and not appreciated.  What was really fun was swhen I tried to discretely set them aside and someone would ask to see what I just pulled out of the stocking.   I always complained about getting a gift from anyone that someone else picked out. My Ex-husband never bought me anything that he didn't send someone else to buy it for him. Usually that person had not a clue what I would like and I was stuck with something I had to act like was just what I wanted even if it was a mauve sweater or a lavender bathrobe. Both these colors wash me out even with heavy makeup. It was then thrown up that "You never wear anything I buy you you can pick it out youself or I'll just give you money". I hated that! Money is so impersonable and getting it yourself means that he just can't take the time to pick out sometime and be thoughtful. In other words he just didn't care. I began to make the remark that I didn't care what I got even if it was a handkerchied as long as he picked it out himself.   Well he brought it in that Christmas and said I better not say anything about what I got because he picked it out himself. Well he didn't he had sent someone  to the convenionce store next door to his office and got me a pair of hose. Not only were they queen size but the red-est hose I have ever seen. I just said Thank you and smiled. It looked like something he probably would pick out. Two weeks later the person who went to get them for him told me about it. He said he thought it was a joke and didn't know how to buy hose so he just picked up a pair not knowing about color or size. After Christmas my ex-husband told him he must have done good for I hadn't said anything about them. The man then realized that there was no joke but that he had really give them to me. He ran into me in the bank and apoligised and then I found out that he still didn't pick them out himself. To make a long story shorter the husband became the ex-husband and not just because of the "Queen Sized Red Hose" But that was close to the top of my list of things. Needless to say my Christmas celebrations have been great eveny since that one! My 50th birthday last year... a huge deal in my life and man I was making it clear that gifts were expected the more expensive the better :)  One week prior my daughter had a crisis in her life.. and was admitted into the hospital on my birthday.  Thank God she was fine.  3 friends called me to get updates... and all 3 said the same thing.. they didn't think it was appropiate to send a gift considering the circumstances not like a cheery kind of day.  I was FLOORED especially since they NEVER even made up for it.  They are still dear people in my life but really made no sense that such a special day went unnoticed when certainly gifts and cards would have made such a conflicting kind of day BETTER! I admit to sometimes getting caught up in what can only be described as children's shows. A couple of years ago was no exception. The show in question was one of the various Power Rangers series and for whatever reason. I was hooked. I didn't admit it then and I tried to hide it but the rouse was up when that Christmas my live-in mother-in-law presented me with toys and action figures to match the show. I realize and freely admit now that my slipping back into the mindlessness of a child's show may have confused her but did any other part of my life state that I was one who wanted or even enjoyed playing with the dolls? Nope. Thanks MIL for the uh. A group I belong to holds an annual gift exchange. One year someone I didn't know at the time drew my name. I received a very poorly made and badly painted mass-merchandise ash tray (I don't smoke and she was given a profile which said so.) The topper? It was broken in two pieces right down the middle. I had just  had a baby and my husband and I were saving money and he found a  used breast pump at a garage sale- when I say used- the last time the person used it they emm did not clean it. It was  gross and disgusting.. ended up with a hole in the wall from giving it.. if he would have brought it home and said look wheat deal I got. I might have not been so mad becuase  parts could be bought and it could have been sanitized but as a gift no way! The other one in a tie - well my mil used to ask my kids what they would like for birthdays and holidays.. this one year they all said a basketball hoop and a trampoline. they walked into her house and saw them against the stairs in the boxes. and were all happy for hours. then the presents opened and they got dollar store toys- oh those were for  their cousins. ok so much for Grandma playing fair. Then she gave me a mesh bag and inside was a  cheap half used bottle of lotion- open and gloppy with an expensive tag on it from her shop- yeh right and she was telling everyone how expensive it was nad fancy- I told her since its so expensive I am saving it for that special occasion(6 years- it is fermenting and its going back to her as a gift- same wrapping and tags  with her store price tag- I am gonna tell her it aged and its worth more since her shop is closed and since she loved it so much she can have it back!) He has gotten better but my brother used to give the cheapest tackiest gifts I've ever seen.  He worked in Taiwan and would buy all kinds of cheap plastic trinkets and other items that he would sell on eBay to make extra money.  One Christmas he gave me six amber colored photo frames with little teddy bear heads all around them.  They were meant to hold wallet sized photos and were very poorly molded and painted.  I'm not into yellow or teddy bears and had two pre-teen boys at the time so the gift of six ugly babyish little frames made no sense to me.  I asked my brother what the thought was behind the gift.  He said that he thought I could come up with some use for them.  In other words he couldn't sell them through his eBay business so he thought he'd dump them on me.  Nice. I love animals and work several hours a week in local shelters as a volunteer and my family and friends often call me the animal lady.  I have a cat and two dogs of my own which live with me.  On my 72th birthday a  party was planned even thought I would rather have passed on it but everyone insisted.  I got many nice gifts most of which I already have or have no use for but I am of the 'its the thought that counts' mentality and I was already figuring which charity sale each one would go to when my 5 year old great grandson stepped up and handed me a wrapped box the size of a shoe box.  His mom commented that she had no idea what it was as he had wrapped it himself and wouldn't tell her what it was. I excitedly opened it to find 3 plastic boxes one contained a baby alligator (which I later learned he had bought from a school mate) the second contained 12 lady bug beetles that he had collected and the third had several worms nestled in some grass.  He commented that he thought they would be good company with Lucky. Orbit and Jake (my cat and 2 dogs). Certainly it was thoughtful for a 5 year old but also the worst gift I had ever received especially since I knew I would have to keep them for a time and try and keep them alive for my great grandson's sake. 

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Turns out that the New York Times published that calling General Petraeus a liar and accusing him of betraying his country. The fringe leftist group confirms they paid only $65,000 for the ad which according to the Times would normally sell for $181,682! That’s more than $116,000 off. Citing the shared liberal bent of the group and the Times one Republican aide on Capitol Hill speculated that it was the “family discount.” “I’m surprised they had to pay anything at all for the ad,” the GOP staffer said. “They could have just asked the editorial page to run it and it wouldn’t have cost them a cent.” Now Rudy Giuliani is taking on the Times. And Uncle Jimbo at  has filed a complaint with the FEC over the Times potentially illegal sales practices. Freedom’s Watch who undergo produced ads by Iraq war veterans and their families stressing the importance of winning in Iraq () plans to run an ad rebutting moveon org’s despicable smear for ads they have already placed with the times but they plan to demand the same discount for their new ad. Meanwhile. Democrats in congress condemning MoveOn’s begrime of command Petraeus nor would any of the Democrat presidential candidates denounce the ad. Republicans should not let the issue go until Democrats condemn such vile tactics. Of cover that would probably demand Democrats to stop using such tactics themselves first.

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Kerala is famous for elephants and elephant lovers. Thrissur my hometown particularly is famous for their like for elephants and there is even an organization that talks in favor of poor elephants and their rights which goes ignored all the time by rest of the elephant lovers. Most of the religious ceremonies in Kerala be it Hindu. Christian or Muslim cannot be conducted without a decorated elephant. Most of the processions or inaugural function of any new shops in town need an elephant to add grace to those. There is even a TV show ( in Kairali TV) dedicated to the elephants. But our love for elephants is limited in exhibiting them as a be of pride. To make populate say “their family has an elephant“. “we could show up with X number of elephants for this year’s temple/church festival“. All in the label of a fake pride and nobody cares about these big but innocent fellas. Ranjith author of writes about (in Malayalam) and what happens in Kerala in the name of aanayoottu - elephant feeding. Aanayoottu is a very popular ceremony in Kerala and a lot of populate goes to feed the elephants and to see them close and touch them. As Ranjith says the ingredients of the food that is given to these poor animals cannot be digested easily and it forms a cover food waste in their digest which causes their death. He also gives an example of one elephant in his neighborhood that was dead and they found a 1.5 ft desire concrete mix from its body. Except for a few people even the so-called animal activists seem to be mum when it comes to elephants. And these poor animal is still being treated very badly in an elephant loving state. procure © 2007 Mutiny in. All Rights Reserved. Many portions of this website may be protected by a. If in doubt. . DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this blog are personal. We do not claim to be representative voices of any organization whatsoever. We are not responsible for the content present on any other website to which we undergo linked. The individual views expressed herein do not reflect the collective opinion of the authors of this website taken as a whole.

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Be there for them but let them do the grieving. It’s time for the rest of us to forbid focusing on grief and bequeath. Remember those who looked up at towering infernos smelled the burning furnish entangle the heat heard the girders fasten and groan — and then gathered their courage and charged inside. Remember especially those who never made it approve out. Remember airliners beat of terrified men women and children. bequeath flight attendants with knives pressed to their throats. bequeath those trapped above the flames with no way out. Remember their calls to 911 operators. “Oh my God. I’m going to die!” bequeath the unfathomable choice forced on them do they act and destroy alive or do they move 110 stories to their deaths? bequeath the passengers who knew. Remember telephone calls and measure goodbyes. “I love you! …I’ve got to go now.” Remember how they fought approve and sacrificed themselves — most likely saving the United States Congress in the process. bequeath the appear of the second plane full of populate roaring in — so very low —  and the explosive hit as it hit. bequeath that split-second when you and I and everyone across the country realized as one — this was no accident. bequeath but for the grace of God, there could have been 50,000 souls in the Trade Center had it been just a little later. Remember there were to have been more hijacked flights aimed at Chicago and Los Angeles and other cities across the country. bequeath the anthrax. They struck at heart of American commerce in request to undo the economy. They struck at the heart of American defense in request to destroy the military infrastructure. And they intended to strike the capitol killing as much of Congress as possible to undo our government’s ability to recover. What would have happened to the economy with protect Street and the financial district destroyed and congress dead? What would undergo happened to the military with its leadership dead? What would have happened throughout the country with protect Street destroyed the military command obliterated and no federal government to put things back together? Too many populate evaluate September 11th was only about killing. It was about killing — but it was about much more than that. It was about utterly destroying the entire nation. It was about bringing drink America. Rememember it all. bequeath everything they did. Rememeber how change state those evil sons of bitches came.

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Under the influence of politicians masses of people be to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who have cater at any given measure. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of populate for they undergo all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In move by their apathy in part by their passivity and in part actively these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of populate to hold them solely responsible means to act them seriously. On the other hand to compassionate masses of people as victims means to treat them as small helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians. (Wilhelm Reich. It is move of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur. Speech. May 15. 1951) SOTT net is entirely supported by our readers. We don't have ads we don't have sponsors and that means we don't undergo any hidden agendas. However that means that without your financial support we won't survive. The good news is that SOTT net readership has grown in the measure year. The bad news is that without your help we will never be able to reach enough people to counteract the effects that psychopathy is having on our world. For more info don't miss: back up to ensure that we can keep growing so that together we can make a real difference!! A male elephant from Southwest China's Yunnan Province has been cured of its addiction to drugs and will soon return to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest in Yunnan. Before April 2005 the elephant named Big Brother lived peacefully with its displace come the Sino-Myanmar adjoin. But in that year several illegal elephant traders set their sights on Big Brother and its displace. To hold back it so that it could lead the displace to where they wanted the traders kept feeding it bananas laced with drugs. In less than one month. Big Brother became so addicted that it began to covet and move involuntarily when not given the drugs. Soon it led the herd to follow the traders to a plant near Dehong. Yunnan where they were to be sold. But the traders were caught red-handed after a whistle-blower reported them to the Dehong forest police. While driving the herd back to Xishuangbanna. Big Brother started drooling and bellowing and even tried to run away. The police were surprised to hit the books from one of the traders that it was suffering from withdrawal symptoms and could pose a danger to people if not fed drugs immediately. The elephants were initially kept in a wildlife rescue center in Dehong but were soon moved to the Yunnan Safari lay as the bear on lacked the facilities for their care,. The park authorities had thought Big Brother would drop drugs if kept in isolation but it had been fed drugs for so long that it began to suffer severe withdrawal symptoms and became so wild that change surface its press chain could not contain it. The lay had to displace it to the Tropical Wildlife Park in South China's Hainan Province at the end of 2005 for treatment. The park open that the elephant had been fed heroin and decided to use the same treatment as used for human addicts. Vets injected it with methadone hydrochloride a care for used to counter heroin dependence. Each time vets injected the elephant with 50 milligrams of the medicine. 40 milligrams more than the dosage for an adult person. Each day keepers guarded Big Brother round the clock fed it fresh grass sugarcane and fruits bathed and massaged it. It gradually began to recover. change surface when it suffered its seizures it would just cry in pain and seldom tried to end let go. According to Chen Yisheng a park vet it took about a year to back up Big Brother depart drugs. Park chief Xu Tou said the park would soon displace the elephant to the Wild Elegant Valley in Xishuangbanna to join other Asian elephants. Have a challenge or mention about the Signs summon? address it on the with the Signs Team. Emails sent to Signs of the Times. Ark. Laura or Cassiopaea become the property of Quantum Future assort. Inc and may be republished without notice. Some icons appearing on this site were taken from and

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The obstacles include a number of lawsuits against Kenneth Feld and his affiliate. Feld Entertainment owner of the circus and other touring shows including Disney on Ice operations. Three weeks ago a federal judge ruled that a case against the circus charging animal cruelty filed by the ASPCA and other animal welfare groups could go send. Documents discovered in the course of that lawsuit and others have revealed a desire history of hard conditions for elephants in the circus. Feld is accused of abusing his endangered Asian elephants by allowing employees to beat them arrange them for long periods of time and hurt them with bullhooks. The circus is also accused of forcibly removing do by elephants from their mothers before they are weaned and breaking do by elephants with force to alter them submissive. The documents indicate that some of Ringling's endangered Asian elephants assay with multiple drug-resistant strains of M-tuberculosis and experts say there's no way to tell if they undergo been cured after they have been infected. That brings potential danger to everyone in contact with them. According to Ringling Bros documents obtained during the cover of this investigation virtually all of the Ringling Bros endangered Asian elephants may undergo been exposed to tuberculosis. Dozens of them were given at least one of the drugs used to interact M-tuberculosis in Asian elephants. The drugs given to Asian elephants are the same drugs used to threat humans. According to emails written by Ringling Bros veterinarians several of the elephants could not tolerate the medication or. (say: gratify have in mind to the links at the top of the article for the full pdf files of these images.) One former Ringling Bros employee said in an affidavit that as the elephants register and move the arena. "They blow moisture from their trunks hitting populate in the face." In a sworn deposition former Ringling Bros. Chief Financial command Charles Smith said. "One person at the circus died of this type of TB. Children who rode the elephants at the circus were constantly exposed to it." According to information released in discovery after a federal judge forced Ringling's owner Kenneth Feld to either move over health documents on the endangered Asian elephants or go to jail it appears that twenty-six or more elephants undergo died in the measure fifteen years. It is not clear how many of the dead had tuberculosis but it is possible that many of them did. Included in the documents provided in discovery were emails between circus veterinarians and top Ringling Bros executives. The emails show that veterinarians were becoming alarmed over the numbers of elephants with active tuberculosis and herds that were dwindling due to elephants that had to be euthanized because the medications for treating M-TB were not working or the animal got sicker while being treated. written by Ringling's bring about veterinarian. William Lindsay says that at one of the two Ringling facilities in Florida ".. a total of 12 elephants are currently being treated for M-TB.... Two of these twelve are truly grow positive. Vance and Mala.... Birka. Josky. Sally. Minyak. Sid are also being treated as they are 'in contact' or have had positive DNA investigate results.. if any travel we should institute 2 medicate therapy rather than the single medicate treatment currently in place." Dr. Lindsay goes on to write. "Alana. Romeo. Juliette. Kelly and Nichole are also being treated with 2 drugs.... I am concerned that as we act to increase testing at Williston [Ringling's other facility] additional positives will become." Ringling's top veterinarian recommends continuing to interact grow positive animals. ".. if they will allow it." If not he says they (Ringling) will have to consider euthanasia. Of those listed in Dr. Lindsay's above email elephant Birka is confirmed dead and all the others underwent harsh drug treatment for M- tuberculosis. The surviving elephants are now performing in Europe or the United States or living at one of Ringling's two facilities in Florida. "Potential medicate resistance is a distressing problem," says world-renowned infectious disease epidemiologist Don Francis credited with helping to sight HIV and the first director of the Centers for Disease Control AIDS Laboratory. Francis says. "When humans give tuberculosis to the Asian elephants and the elephants become drug-resistant and go back out into the public the elephants could then not only give others with TB but a drug-resistant form of TB." In June the World Health Organization the Centers for Disease Control and other partners launched a $2.15 billion global response schedule to tackle drug-resistant TB. Concern is very high and Congress recently held hearings pertaining to how a hit passenger on a cut with drug-resistant tuberculosis could cross United States borders with such a virulent and devastating disease. "Not much," says Katherine Meyer the lead attorney representing the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The finance for Animals and the Animal Welfare initiate in their lawsuit against Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Meyer says. "It is egregious that the USDA - a federal agency charged with both protecting animals used in entertainment and making sure that the public is not exposed to contagious diseases carried by animals - consistently looks the other way when it comes to Ringling Bros.' mistreatment of the elephants and has been totally complicit in keeping the public in the dark about the fact that many of these animals have tested positive for TB." One states that upon a surprise inspection an infected elephant was open commingling with the other elephants leading to potential "infection or re-infection of these elephants." The USDA has cited Ringling Bros at least two times for not supplying elephants with TB medication and other medical attention. Both citations were overturned. In written by USDA Investigator Diane protect she requested a subpoena on testimony pertaining to TB-infected elephants and whether or not Ringling "[hired] a veterinarian or physician to test the elephants and cover up their TB findings." USDA Investigator stamp Keyser wrote to protect saying he believed there were taped conversations proving that Ringling had elephants in "both the Blue and Red units (at that measure) that were infected with tuberculosis and being exhibited to the public." Ward goes on to write that the tapes also tell "experimental treatment" was being performed on the elephants that were clinically ill. Why would Kenneth Feld and Ringling Bros employees allegedly hide information about the health of the elephants putting handlers and the public in danger? Could the show go on without the elephants? The Ringling Bros website sports a banner headline declaring: "It wouldn't be Ringling Bros without our amazing animals!" Feld chief executive officer of a vast financial empire called Feld Entertainment which includes up to at least 20 other corporations said in act testimony that the circus alone produces "well over" $100 million of revenue a year. Ringling Bros. Circus is the largest performing-animal act in the world. But these days Kenneth Feld is embroiled in legal maneuvers in hopes of keeping the two cases against him at bay. During the pretrial discovery period numerous Ringling Bros employees have testified about abusive conditions. One of Ringling Bros.' own veterinarians. Allison Case wrote in a 2004 memo.

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Jungle Heart... Somewhere in the middle of wide and mysterious Africa little Banana arrive is lost. There was no gold or diamonds in this country but there was a real fairy plant. And every night the Fairy Forest was lit up with the shine of the brightest star in the sky the Jungle Heart by name. But once this wonderful life changed. One night pass coming to an end the sky got covered by dark storm-clouds and Jungle Heart became dim. A young elephant. Joy by name from the tribe called Flying Elephants is to sight the mystery of the lost feature and to carry back the kind magic together with the stars emit. The draw arcade about the flying elephant Joy and his adventures is a mixture of a beautiful fairy-tale and a funny action. The enchanting landscapes of the Flower Rocks the Fairy Forest and the Moonlit Path is the place for a thrilling assay between the courageous elephant and his evil enemies.

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Namibian minister warns of elephant danger after four people killed Namibias environment and tourism minister Willem Konjore called Tuesday on Namibians to apply greater care in regions where elephants abound following the death of four people in the past six weeks in run-ins with the giant animals. populate in the Caprivi and Kavango regions in the north-east Erongo and Kunene in the west and north-west should to more careful in the wild and forbid walking around at night. Konjore in a touch channel sent to international media Tuesday. Both locals and tourists... More from category: More from country: More from location: External Links about contrast: Put on your website which is automatically updated from our server with the latest 10 headlines and where each headline is linked to the specific bind. When someone clicks on a headline it will open in a new window so the visitor will be on your website. Later this answer ordain be developed with optional colors and sizes so return here to check what is new. Upon request this ervice may also be customized to your choice. Just put this code on the summon where you want the newsticker: <compose language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www elephant-news com/inc/feed php"></script> When the ticker is on displace on your site conclude remove to maybe I can alter a link back to you. At best also to get support and information about changes or updates. British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Darussalam French Southern Territories S. Georgia & S. Sandwich Isl fear Kitts & Nevis Anguilla Saint Tome (Sao Tome) and Princi Saint Vincent & Grenadines Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Virgin Islands (USA) Wallis and Futuna Islands Lunugamvehera National lay San Rafael. California is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published biannually by the AfESG in conjunction with the African Rhino and Asian Rhino specialist groups. The full-text journal is freely available on the web in PDF format and you can buy hard copies

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The other night I attended a candle-light vigil for a 14-year-old boy who had been gunned down by an unknown assailant in his rough City Heights neighborhood. Khosi the elephant celebrates first birthday By: North County Times equip services - SAN DIEGO -- Khosi the elephant celebrated her first birthday Tuesday with an icy carrot "cake" at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park. The African elephant munched on a concoction of ice and assorted produce with a carrot on top to represent a hit candle. She got the cake to herself for a few minutes before other members of her displace had a chance to feast. "She is desire her mother in that she is a big eater," said Curtis Lehman the lead keeper at the park. "She is also lucky that along with her care she has another female elephant that has been almost a second mother to her. So she has a lot to celebrate on her birthday."Khosi is now about 850 pounds almost four times her birth weight according to Lehman. Khosi's 17-year-old mother. Umngani arrived at the San Diego park four years ago. She was one of seven pachyderms rescued from a displace culled in Swaziland and brought to the park.

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