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Bull Gets Gored to Death in Spanish Festival

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I've read some pretty disgusting stuff in writing this blog, but this just pisses me off. Lance-wielding Spanish townspeople speared a huge fighting bull to the death Tuesday, defying a lone protester who sprayed some of them with an irritant. It's a "cultural asset." Disgusting. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette.

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Greenpeace Activists Threatened with Terrorism Charges

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These people are protesters, not terrorists. From the New York Times' Green Blog. Lesley Hill Peters, suggested that the protesters could also face terrorism-related charges. It's bullshit and there is no way this can stand, but the fact that it's even been threatened is ridiculous.

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Animal Enterprise Terrorism Something to Be Concerned About

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Here's a short analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which makes me wonder if what we do on this blog could be construed as falling under it. If you and a friend GO ON THE WEB AND RESEARCH THE COMPANY whose practices you plan to protest, you may have just become a terrorist.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

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says a commenter on the journalist's blog). Peaceful protests were ignored, as well. Home protests were ignored also. We wouldn't use a brain-damaged human, right? There have been peaceful efforts to dialogue about what's going on in the laboratories and look at alternatives, but they have been ignored.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 2)

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” But of course, with this slight adaptation, it also works for blog posts and their writers, and allows me to plug another nice song by this underrated artist, before switching to birds. ” is not what The Reds, Pinks & Purples ask in one of their songs – rather, it is “Did you put up your song today?

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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According to Wikipedia, “A l owl ife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community” The local Nanhui shrikes are well aware that the word “lowlife” has an owl hidden inside, and mark the appearance of owls in their territory with harsh protests. Not this one though.

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