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The Reva Situation

10,000 Birds

When Egret started a protest camp, blocking the lorries from entering the newly created dumping site, a few independent media covered the events, but the majority of state-subsidised (read: controlled) media remained deaf and blind. Did he hear the citizens?

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Recent Events Involving Our Public Lands Are Alarming

10,000 Birds

In case you missed the latest news cycle, the seven armed antigovernment protesters thugs pictured above were acquitted last Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges stemming from that takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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These people are overwhelmingly undereducated (and I don’t mean formal education) males, although occasionally you’ll find a comparable female going along for the ride (think Sarah Palin – no relation to Palenville, although for this particular event the nearly identical name is both handy and appropriate).

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Bull Gets Gored to Death in Spanish Festival

Critter News

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. Before the lancing began, a female protester sprayed an irritant at some of those taking part before being taken away by police, a witness to the event said. Disgusting.

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The Splendor of Birds and National Geographic: a Book Review

10,000 Birds

Its magazine began publication then, too, with the first photographs appearing (over the protests of some board members, who didn’t want their journal being turned into “a picture book”) in 1906. In any event, there’s a good amount of that in this book, as well. A: nothing.

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Why No Fuss About Michael Vick?

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I know plenty of people still detest Vick for what he did, but if there are protesters at his games or outside the Eagles’ training facility, I haven’t heard about them. Those are questions that, barring a dramatic change of events, will be answered in another city in another season. These are his thoughts.

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From the Animal Rights Action Network re: Greyhounds

Animal Person

During this week in Ireland, we are working on staging peaceful events outside of every possible greyhound stadium there is in North and South of the country but we desperately need people who are reading this email who say they care to hit the 'reply' button to get involved.