Dogs Dying In Cold Left Behind By Animal Organizations And Police

     If a dog is left out in the cold without adequate shelter to the point that its life is in jeopardy, then that constitutes a crime. There is in place a million plus people across the United States that are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, to respond to crimes. They are called the police.

     Non police entities, including animal organizations, have no business responding to crimes. If dogs are left out in the cold to the point where it is life threatening, it requires a police response. The argument that police do not respond appropriately to animal abuse related crimes has long been used as the justification for animal organizations to fill the shoes of the police, no matter how deficient, harmful, inadequate and ineffective this has proven to be.
      If police responded appropriately to animal cruelty, would there be a need for animal organizations to advertise that they rescue dogs left out in the cold or that suffer from other forms of animal cruelty?  Animal organizations prefer the existing, dysfunctional status quo because it is major source for their fundraising. As long as the public believes animal organizations, not the police, are the answer to animal cruelty, money will keep pouring in to these organizations.
       Animal organizations should be advocates to ensure police respond appropriately to animal cruelty. This is what anti domestic violence and anti drunk driving organizations did for domestic violence and drunk driving. The only reason animal organizations have failed to do for animal cruelty what organizations did for those other crimes comes down to one single thing- greed. And because animals cannot speak the way people can, animal organizations get away with their exploitation.
       When people see the commercials of animals suffering out in the cold, and they hear an animal organization claim to be the rescuer, they may reach for their checkbooks. If only they would turn their heads in disgust at the blatant exploitation. At least they should think hard about the message the animal organization is selling and ask - how can an animal organization, or all the animal organizations combined, ever respond to animal cruelty in all but the most minimal way, even if every animal organization has complete police powers? Only public law enforcement is capable of responding to crimes 24 hours a day, every day of the year, across the United States.
        Dogs left dying in the cold, animals that are the victims of animal cruelty, deserve a broad based, widespread police response. Not the highly deficient, spotty, inefficient response that animal organizations provide. Token police teams that some police departments field to address animal cruelty, (or when police powers are granted to an animal organization) are ineffective public relations gimmicks that enable law enforcement to continue to minimally respond to animal related crimes. For every animal that is rescued from dying out in the cold, thousands of animals will not be as fortunate. As long as law enforcement continues to do little to nothing in regards to animal cruelty and dog fighting, and as long as animal organizations are the enablers that allow this to continue, few dogs dying out in the cold ever stand a chance.
       
          

Iranian Protesters Resist Unrevolutionary Clerical Regime

     A regime run by clerics is not revolutionary, no matter how frequent the mullahs and their lackeys use the term. The shah was a reactionary dictator, but what took his place, rule by an ayatollah and mullahs, is far more ruthless and reactionary. Rule by an ayatollah and mullahs, as with all clerical ruled regimes, use religion - God or Allah- as the justification for having unchecked and unlimited power.  By invoking themselves as the representatives for Allah or God, they delegitimize everyone who would think otherwise. Afterall, if they are in power because of God or Allah, then that means any opposition to them goes against God or Allah itself.

      Every ayatollah, every mullah, every priest, every minister, every rabbi, every imam, every single religious figure or leader is a human being and nothing more. They are not God. They are not Gods. They are not Allah. 

      Clerics in power use religion, God or Allah as the cover behind which they and/or their lackeys rob a country blind. They oppress all opposition on the pretense the opposition goes against God or Allah. 

       Clerical regimes are reactionary. They are throwbacks to the dark ages. In the darkness, untold numbers of people that oppose the regime, or are members of religions that are deemed undesirable, or that are not mindless slaves to their clerical masters, suffer greatly with many tortured and murdered.  

       Adults are not children. They must be allowed their freedom, which includes religious freedom. Religious freedom includes the right to reject or not choose religion. 

       All over the world, the countries that are most prosperous separate church or mosque from state. Clerical regimes are consistently corrupt, oppressive, and export throughout the world their hatred, bigotry and thirst for violence.

         

Unseen Plastic Microfiber Nightmare For Wildlife And Human Health

     Clothing, cleaning cloths, other textiles and materials made from petrochemical derived synthetic materials (including nylon, polyester and more) are a major reason there are now microfibers inside the bodies of many animal species, including humans. A single wash of clothing containing synthetic materials can release hundreds of thousands of non biodegradable microfibers into the environment.
      Microfibers contaminate fish and other marine life. Microfibers cannot be filtered out, and are  known to be present in many tap and bottled waters.
       As alarming as it is to visually see the enormous amounts of plastics and other non biodegradable waste along many of the world's coasts or in the world's oceans, it must be understood that this is but the tip of the iceberg. Plastics, styrofoam and other oil based materials break down into smaller pieces that do not degrade. The world is drowning in trillions of plastic microbeads, plastic particles, and  non biodegradable microfibers.
       It is not only what we see that is killing wildlife and ourselves, it is also that which we cannot see.
       As far down as the Mariana Trench, the ocean's' deepest point, animals have synthetic microfibers in their bodies.
       No one knows how many microfibers, plastic strands and beads are inside of our bodies, and at what point they cause disease.
        Plastic and other oil based contaminants are killing wildlife. The toll that unseen synthetic microfibers exact is far greater than imagined.
        Keep things as they are, and this will kill the oceans and ultimately mankind. Or change and reduce the way plastics and other petrochemicals are used (including styrofoam and plastics used in the fast food industry, synthetic materials used in clothing and other textiles, plastic and other oil based materials used to wrap foods and for packaging, and much more).

Plastic: Harming Animals From The Mariana Trench To Honduras and Everywhere Else

       A large garbage patch of plastic and other non biodegradable trash has accumulated around the island of Roatan, Honduras. It is believed that the trash originated from the Montagua River in nearby Guatemala. All over the world, thousands upon thousands of tons of plastic and other non biodegradable waste makes its way daily into the oceans of the world. The enormous amounts of plastics, styrofoam and other oil based nonbiodegradable contaminants do not leave any part of the oceans unaffected.
       Plastics and other non biodegradable contaminants enter the oceans by a number of ways. Most of it originates from land based sources. Much of the waste enters waterways which lead into the oceans. Trash from many coastal communities and coastal cities often go directly into the oceans.
       The failure to stop plastic and other non biodegradable contaminants from poisoning the oceans will ultimately doom mankind itself.
       100 percent of marine life recovered by scientists from the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean, were found to contain plastic particles and other synthetic materials in their bodies, including, "Rayon, Lyocell, Ramie, as well as textiles such as Nylon, polyethylene and polyvinyl".
       Over 90 per cent of the world's seabirds have plastic particles inside of their bodies. No one knows to what degree plastics and other synthetic contaminants now reside inside of the bodies of fish, sea turtles, cetaceans, other marine life and animals. A high number of humans have plastic particles, fibres and other synthetic materials inside of their bodies - materials that are virtually indestructible . No one knows at what point these materials sufficiently accumulate to start causing diseases, including cancers.

Failure To Protect Oceans And Our Future From Plastic

In the video below, the garbage from one small coastal community located near the habitat of a highly endangered coastal dolphin species can be seen. Everyday worldwide, thousands of tons of plastics, styrofoam, oil based food wrappers and so forth pour into the oceans. Almost all of it breaks down into smaller pieces nearly impossible to capture that disperse throughout the oceans and that are virtually indestructible. Hardly any of it reaches the ocean garbage patches, where people foolishly imagine that technology can capture most of it. It is destroying wildlife, the health of the oceans, and is now consumed by humans in the water that we drink, in the air that we breathe, and in the food that we consume. This enormously understated threat to human health and existence is already causing the collapse of biodiversity and the death and suffering of millions of seabirds, turtles, dolphins, whales, fish and other wildlife. 

Comparing Anti Drunk Driving, Anti Domestic Violence And Anti Animal Cruelty Organizations

     Anti drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations obtained a widespread police response to domestic violence and driving under the influence crimes that animal organizations never achieved in regards to dog fighting and animal cruelty. The only reason that many animal organizations continue to do little to nothing, or even that which is harmful, is that animals cannot verbalize in the way that humans can. Therefore, many animal organizations continue with ineffective programs, harmful programs, shameless propaganda about their alleged accomplishments, all on the backs of suffering animals, while the police response to animal cruelty and dog fighting continues to be  minimal.

Poor Police Response To Animal Cruelty Supported By Animal Organizations

         It was brought to the attention of a number of animal organizations, including their executives and other officials, regarding the poor police response to animal cruelty and dog fighting. This was not hypothetical information. To a person, they feigned interest at best, and did nothing.

         Anti drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations would never stand idly by and allow for a poor police response to those crimes. Unfortunately, when it comes to animals, many animal organizations have found it lucrative to keep the illusion going that they are the voice for animals, no matter how untrue this might be.

         If anyone is interested, which unfortunately seems not to be the case, the police response to animal cruelty and dog fighting can be accessed. All calls to 911 are recorded. In one large city alone, of the thousands upon thousands of calls made to 911 regarding dog fighting and animal cruelty, hardly a single call results in police action. No report taken, no animal recovered, no one arrested. 

         There are reasons why crimes are not addressed by ineffective token police teams. There are reasons why crimes are not addressed by non police entities or organizations, even if some of these organizations are granted police powers. There are reasons why humane investigators are often ineffective or harmful, including in the way their "investigations" are frequently opportunities (or early warning systems) for dog fighters and animal abusers to move their animals to other locations.

         There are reasons why the only effective way to combat crime is to have a widespread, consistent law enforcement response. This will never happen in regards to animal cruelty and dog fighting as long as animal organizations continue exploiting animals for their own gain, and continue in their failure to change how both they and the police respond to these crimes. 

         

Losing The Pristine

There are fewer pristine places left as people relentlessly pollute, trash, overdevelop, overpopulate and destroy this planet. Also, religious imperialism continues to be ignored as millions of people believe it is their obligation to ram their religious beliefs down the throats of others, no matter how many must die, suffer, be enslaved, raped, murdered and tortured in the process.

Wildlife With No Place To Go

   Loss of habitat and overpopulation continues to decimate wildlife. When animals seek mates or to expand their range, they often find themselves with no place to go. Traffic ends the life of many. 

  Too often religions teach that people can breed endlessly without consequences.They think this world does not matter, and that all that counts is their imagined paradises. Wildlife/conservation/animal welfare organizations will not touch overpopulation or anything controversial, as their focus is on making money.

Catching Wild Parrots

Poverty and overpopulation helps drive wildlife decimation. These people would give the shirts off their backs to help a stranger, but in their desperate attempt to escape poverty, they paid no attention to how their wild parrot capture operation ensured the loss of parrots. It certainly was not a sustainable operation. As wildlife continues to be decimated by the capture or killing of wildlife and by the development and destruction of the rainforest, many species teeter that much nearer to extinction.

      

A Simple Act Of Kindness China Can Provide North Korean Escapees

      It was recently reported that China may set up refugee camps along its border with North Korea and no longer return fleeing North Koreans back to North Korea.
      The world knows that returning a North Korean to North Korea is a death sentence. North Korea routinely practices torture, murder and rape against its own population. While the leader eats imported European wine and cheeses, many North Koreans are starving, with many eating grass, frogs and rats.
       No North Korean that escapes that hellhole should ever have to return. China knew that sending back North Korean refugees fleeing that hellhole was a certain death sentence. It is the right thing for China to reverse that policy.
     

A Bakery And Racial Politics In Oberlin

       A small bakery in Oberlin, Ohio has been in the news. It was reported that the bakery is harmed financially from the fallout of an incident in which a store employee tried to stop a shoplifter that attends Oberlin College, and was then beaten for his effort. Three students from the college were arrested.

      Maybe because the lives of students and pampered professors at American colleges and universities are far too often one of self indulgence and hedonistic excess, a choice was made to turn a criminal incident into something it never as - a racial matter. College campuses are becoming notorious homes for social warrior hysteria, groupthink and mob rule

       Excusing, condoning, ignoring, explaining away or outright support for criminal and bad behavior is the surest way to guarantee an escalation of such behavior. 

Trump And The Misuse Of The Mentally Ill Label

      Plenty of people are mentally ill. Even mentally healthy people may experience periods of mental illness in the course of their lives. Accusations of mental illness have been used as a way to stigmatize and diminish people. The Soviet communists were notorious in their misuse of psychiatry and psychology in order to crush dissidents.
      It is fair game to criticize Trump for his politics, his policies, his behavior and for his personality. People that enter politics open themselves up for such criticism. But going down the mentally ill road in order to go after Trump is the misuse and further stigmatization of what mental illness really means. Furthermore, plenty of mentally ill people are moral and ethical. Plenty of people considered mentally healthy are not. Mental illness in and of itself is not a determiner of a person's propensity towards violence, cruelty, and so forth. People brainwashed into believing, or that choose to believe in violent ideologies or religious ideas are a threat. Mental illness is a far different matter. Disease, whether physical or mental, is something many people have to treat if possible, or learn to live with. The stigmatization of disease or using it as an insult to diminish another human being, president or not, is misguided and harmful.

Plastic Peril To The Oceans Survival

     There is no amount of science and technology that can counteract the damage people are doing to the oceans. Added to the following threats - overfishing, coral reef destruction, mangrove destruction, seabed destruction, seagrass destruction, trawlers daily scraping enormous areas of the seabed floor, the loss of enormous amounts of marine life and biodiversity, ocean acidification, ocean poisoning by toxic chemicals, the destruction of coral reefs and islands for military bases (think South China Sea), and more - is the daily entry of thousands upon thousands of tons of plastics and other non biodegradable oil based contaminants and waste.  Why this massive threat to the survival of the oceans and mankind itself continues to be ignored or underestimated is beyond comprehension.

 

     

What Racism And Hate Provides

     Racism and hate provides an easy way out from worrying about complex issues, problems and perils. Hate provides the luxury of not having to worry about anything at all except how to destroy the object of hate. Such things as mankind's destruction of the environment, plastic and toxic poisoning of the oceans, poverty, nuclear proliferation, disease and so forth are ignored by weak minded people that are lost without their hate crutch.

Self Indulgent Racism

       Black racists and those that pander to them use the tired excuse that only whites are privileged and only privileged people can be racist. This is an evasion of responsibility and self indulgent. Furthermore, not all whites are privileged and not all blacks are without privilege.
       In many third world countries many people live without running water, no access to clean water, without electricity, without homes, barely able to scrape together enough food to ward off starvation, without any dental or medical care, without any opportunity for an education, decent job or a better life. They do not luxuriate in hatreds. America, the land of  many spoiled people of all races, is luxuriating in hatred by far too many.                                                                                                                Racism in all its forms must be resisted. People should count the blessings that they have, do their best to make this world a better, more humane place, and stop devoting so much time and energy going at each other's' throats.

New York Times: Pandering To Black Racism

      Recently the New York Times ran an editorial written by a black law professor about the racism he wants to teach his children. It is not worth the time or energy getting into the details about what this educated, privileged black law professor wrote. It is troubling enough that he is a professor influencing young people. It is even more troubling that the New York Times chose to give him a platform.
      White racism has for decades been the excuse to ignore or condone black racism. Black racists are no better than their white racist counterparts. They both teach ignorance. They both evade responsibility by blaming or scapegoating someone else. Even though they despise each other, often they have a shared hatred for the Jew - their favorite scapegoat and object of hate. One black racist leader that is a multimillionaire from a career of hatred, preaches black self reliance when in fact hate is a crutch that ensures reliance on him and his ignorant hate religion.
       Black racism contributes to dependency and failure. Rage, misguided and poorly directed anger and resentment are not recipes for success. Racism is a business that has made many a lazy white and black person rich.
       The whites that pander to black racism do so perhaps because it makes them feel self righteous. It makes them feel good about themselves for some perverted reason. It makes them feel like they are holier than those that do not share their corrosive beliefs. It also makes them look weak and foolish, but they are too self righteous to ever see that.
        A man that was badly bullied by blacks when he was a student related why his parents did not do anything - they believed blacks were victims and could do no wrong. Weak people will sacrifice even their own children in order to pander to their beliefs.
        The nonsense that only whites can be racist because of white privilege and the power that some whites hold is evasive garbage. Plenty of blacks are born to privilege, or have privilege handed to them. Plenty of whites are born to nothing. Some spoiled whites that are born with silver spoons in their mouths, including many white racist leaders, try to manipulate and speak for millions of whites  that do not have silver spoons in their mouths.
        There are many situations where blacks hold power over white and non black people, and where that power is abused. This includes in a number of schools and other institutions where poorly disciplined blacks terrorize weaker, less assertive whites, blacks and others. Often adults who should intervene do nothing out of fear or out of fear of being called racist. Other adults are incapable of any action other than patronizing those they see as downtrodden, even if this means tolerating abusive behavior.
        Standing up to bullies, standing up to racism, means standing up against all racists and bullies. This means not resisting one form of racism while pandering to another. Only weaklings, just like racists and other hate mongers, do that.
       

New Tax Bill; Deficits And Special Interests

        Tax reform is needed. Simplicity and reform, not special interests, should be the driver. Instead, the United States ends up with a 479 page document that few have read or reviewed. Interesting how many senators and congressmen assert the tax bill will grow the economy when they themselves have not read it.

        Why the urgent rush to pass the tax bill? Because the Republicans and Trump need a legislative victory, so the reasoning goes. A simple, sensible reformed tax code has been left behind in favor of political posturing, deficits and special interests. Two opportunistic political parties govern the United States, and both pander to special interests.

        The Dow is happy, removed as usual from reality. The Dow is not a living being. It is not a forward thinking indicator. It merely reflects if more money goes into it than what is taken out. And for now money continues to pour into it as the euphoria continues, and as governments worldwide keep making sure stock markets are the only game in town. (Real wealth, a healthy sustainable environment, continues to collapse. Today, for example, the oceans will not welcome, but will receive thousands upon thousands of tons of plastics and other human generated non biodegradable garbage, just as they have been for years. Almost all of this garbage will break down into smaller, virtually indestructible but highly destructive pieces that are impossible to ever remove. The amount of waste entering daily is only increasing.)

         Even if corporate tax rates go to zero, most corporations that have already gone overseas in search of cheap labor and low environmental and labor standards are not coming back with jobs. The new tax bill will not bring back well paying jobs. Some new jobs will be created, while others will be lost.

         Haste makes waste. This 479 tax bill should be released to the public, and there should be time for public discourse and debate before it is passed. 

New Tax Bill; Bigger Deficits And Arctic Drilling

      A massive tax bill has been passed that most senators and congressmen have not read. According to Senator Ron Johnson, Republican from Wisconsin, "You really don't read this kind of legislation."

      Even though this tax bill will add significantly to the already enormous national debt, fiscally irresponsible Republicans wishfully declare the tax cuts will stimulate the economy enough to make up for the shortfall. Passing one piece of major legislation, no matter how flawed, is more important to them than continuing to demonstrate they are as incompetent and beholden to special interests as the Democrats.

       In 2013, House Speaker Paul Ryan warned that deficits, "weigh the country down like an anchor. In short, we are on the verge of a debt crisis." Only one Republican, Senator Bob Corker, remained true to his fiscally conservative beliefs regarding deficits, and opposed the bill.

       The United States will incur massive new debt by this new, read by only a few, poorly thought out legislation. Furthermore, when interests rates go up, which will happen inevitably, it will be that much harder to service the national debt.

       The tax bill will create jobs, some argue. It is true some jobs will be created, but other jobs will be lost. More importantly, reduced taxes on corporations and the wealthy will not result in a massive influx of jobs. Corporations will continue to seek places that have the cheapest labor along with the lowest environmental and workplace standards.

       The tax bill will not be a job creator. It will not sufficiently grow the economy to make up for the more than trillion or trillions of dollars of new debt it will create. 

       The new tax bill will continue America's destruction of the middle class. It will continue America's slide into oligarchy or aristocracy. It will fuel the stock market euphoria so the bubble gets even bigger. Except this time when it bursts, a massively in debt nation with already excessively low interest rates will have no ammunition left to get out of the hole it created.

        Meanwhile, military spending will continue unchecked, paid for by deficit spending. All the new gifts to the wealthy, to corporations, to Republican special interests, will be paid for by deficits, which means an unwanted gift to future generations.

         Senator Flake of Arizona, one of the few that opposed the new tax bill, capitulated on some kind of flimsy promise that DACA will be addressed. He cares about DACA, but not about the fiscal well being and health of the nation as a whole. DACA should have had nothing to do with his unprincipled capitulation. In exchange for his selling out, he did not even receive a pledge that DACA safeguards will be implemented again.

         The new tax bill will help kill the Affordable Care Act (without putting anything better in place), ensuring millions of new uninsured and underinsured Americans, which will add significantly to the national debt.

         Sneaked into the new tax bill is authorization for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Afterall, what good is a new tax bill that does not include special interest agendas?  

      

Chicago, Ensuring No Control For Cats And Dogs

     A man in Chicago made the news several days ago after trapping more than 40 cats that he brought into the city animal care and control facility. He allegedly complained that he trapped the cats because the city animal care and control department is not doing its job. City animal care and control, under the control of powerful, incredibly lucrative money making local based animal organizations that take in fortunes pretending to be the voice for animals, want animals on the streets, not in their facility. In this way, the lucrative animal organizations and the city animal control can pretend the city is becoming no kill - which means less and less dogs and cats are humanely euthanized. The euthanasia rate goes down, which makes the adherents of the mythical no kill movement feel better, when in reality what really happens is that dogs and cats die out on the streets out of sight, out of mind, suffering greatly in the process. Meanwhile, wildlife populations, including songbirds, continue to be wiped out from the lethalness of outdoor cats.
     There is no such thing as a no kill movement (disregarding for the moment that animals have to be killed in order to feed dogs and cats). There is only a choice that some so called animal lovers have made regarding where cats and dogs will die - out on the streets out of sight, out of mind, (which means that great numbers of birds and other wildlife also are killed) - or painlessly and humanely in the city facility. By giving little to no priority to animal control, the city animal care and control department, controlled by animal organizations that care about money, not animals, harms dogs, cats, wildlife, and jeopardizes human safety.