This is Barchiel…sweet Pup needs Rescue/Foster/Adopt ASAP! Edinburg, TX URGENT! NEEDS RESCUE OUT OF THE VALLEY***PLEASE TAG AND SHARE! This is Barchiel, named by his rescue angels found living on a mattress in Pharr, Tx. Read his story here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200816348120496&set=t.558655784&type=1&theater see Barchiel’s video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftZJhyUFipo
I’m about to be tossed into Twitter Jail.. so taking a short break from the RTweetage.
Oops too late…already banned…… oh well, time for dinner anyway :)
Humanity as a whole will pay the price for the cruelty & death we have inflicted upon the animal world. This cruelty is a cancer, spreading at an alarming rate. Every animal abused or killed out of neglect, sadism, greed.. is another innocent being. Every death is another black mark on the soul of humanity. In the end… the ‘meek’ shall inherit the earth….not humanity.. we don’t deserve it!
This is the face of Dogfighting……take it seriously ……this poor soul is just 1 of millions of dogs suffering at the hands of these vicious and dangerous criminals!THIS MUST STOP….PLEASE FIGHT FOR THE INNOCENT DOGS WHO ARE FORCED TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
Noodle (3 photos)
SHUT DOWN THIS PAGE-PROMOTING DOG FIGHTING - REPORT TO FB-NEEDS TO BE STOPPED, SHUT DOWN, BURNED TO THE GROUND…NOW!
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www.youtube.comWe modified his wheelchair so he was using his back legs to move on December 2
ChipIn: Buddy’s physical therapy
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Pls someone Adopt this little fella, paralyzed, in shelter in TX, U know what happens to ‘special needs’ pups…. usually not adopted… and usually first to be put down. Don’t let him die
Help shut down Puppy Mills… Don’t Buy Dogs from Pet Shops ..help spread the message about ‘Oscar’s Law’ http://t.co/JTkm5yt4
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Please boycott Macy’s, Bloomingdales and any other stores that sell FUR. They are knowingly promoting the cruel and many time illegal Fur Trade. FUR belongs on the Animals it comes from.. not on Humans.
No FUR Coat, Jacket, Hat, Gloves or Boots are made without the torture and killing of innocent animals. This applies to Leather as well….. it does not fall from trees. It is stripped from animals (many still alive and crying out fear and agony), if they have not been killed previously, in order to keep the skin ‘fresh & soft’.. this is both horrifying and disgusting.
Please remember that these animals have no voice, no choice, no chance, unless we, the consumers step up and say NO to the barbaric use of animal skins & fur for the sake of fashion.
To my Twitter & Tumblr Friends & Fellow Animal Lovers….pls read & donate a $ to help get Buddi on his feet again soon. His therapy is crucial to him improvement but it’s very pricey. EHR Rescue & Buddy’s foster mom are doing a great job with him, let’s help them out.
Buddy’s Chipin page:
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Buddy is a 1 year old dog who was attacked by another when he was only a puppy 6 months ago. He was left paralyzed. When the owner refused to treat him, animal control took him and shortly after, someone contacted our organization to see if we could help him.
Eleventh Hour Rescue brought Buddy up from Georgia to see what all could be done to give him a chance at living a normal life. Buddy is currently in foster. He recently received a wheelchair with funds that were raised for him.
Buddy now needs extensive physical therapy which includes laser therapy, ultrasound, and whirlpool with electrotherapy. At a minimum, we are hoping that he will build strength in his legs to push his wheelchair around and have no constraints. At best, we are hoping that he will be able to run and play with his canine siblings and not left to lay on the floor and watch them have all the fun.
Buddy is a happy, sweet, loving little boy. He has the best spirit and determination. He never gives up, and now we can’t give up on him.
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The REAL Thanksgiving Story…… Is it any wonder so many TDay family dinners end a fight over the last piece of pie? GREED…CRUELTY…HYPOCRISY…..LIES….
The Real Thanksgiving
Quoted from: The Hidden History of Massachusetts
Much of America’s understanding of the early relationship between the Indian and the European is conveyed through the story of Thanksgiving. Proclaimed a holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, this fairy tale of a feast was allowed to exist in the American imagination pretty much untouched until 1970, the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. That is when Frank B. James, president of the Federated Eastern Indian League, prepared a speech for a Plymouth banquet that exposed the Pilgrims for having committed, among other crimes, the robbery of the graves of the Wampanoags. He wrote:
“We welcomed you, the white man, with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end; that before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a free people.”
But white Massachusetts officials told him he could not deliver such a speech and offered to write him another. Instead, James declined to speak, and on Thanksgiving Day hundreds of Indians from around the country came to protest. It was the first National Day of Mourning, a day to mark the losses Native Americans suffered as the early settlers prospered. This true story of “Thanksgiving” is what whites did not want Mr. James to tell.
What Really Happened in Plymouth in 1621?
According to a single-paragraph account in the writings of one Pilgrim, a harvest feast did take place in Plymouth in 1621, probably in mid-October, but the Indians who attended were not even invited. Though it later became known as “Thanksgiving,” the Pilgrims never called it that. And amidst the imagery of a picnic of interracial harmony is some of the most terrifying bloodshed in New World history.
The Pilgrim crop had failed miserably that year, but the agricultural expertise of the Indians had produced twenty acres of corn, without which the Pilgrims would have surely perished. The Indians often brought food to the Pilgrims, who came from England ridiculously unprepared to survive and hence relied almost exclusively on handouts from the overly generous Indians-thus making the Pilgrims the western hemisphere’s first class of welfare recipients. The Pilgrims invited the Indian sachem Massasoit to their feast, and it was Massasoit, engaging in the tribal tradition of equal sharing, who then invited ninety or more of his Indian brothers and sisters-to the annoyance of the 50 or so ungrateful Europeans. No turkey, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie was served; they likely ate duck or geese and the venison from the 5 deer brought by Massasoit. In fact, most, if notall, of the food was most likely brought and prepared by the Indians, whose 10,000-year familiarity with the cuisine of the region had kept the whites alive up to that point.
The Pilgrims wore no black hats or buckled shoes-these were the silly inventions of artists hundreds of years since that time. These lower-class Englishmen wore brightly colored clothing, with one of their church leaders recording among his possessions “1 paire of greene drawers.” Contrary to the fabricated lore of storytellers generations since, no Pilgrims prayed at the meal, and the supposed good cheer and fellowship must have dissipated quickly once the Pilgrims brandished their weaponry in a primitive display of intimidation. What’s more, the Pilgrims consumed a good deal of home brew. In fact, each Pilgrim drank at least a half gallon of beer a day, which they preferred even to water. This daily inebriation led their governor, William Bradford, to comment on his people’s “notorious sin,” which included their “drunkenness and uncleanliness” and rampant “sodomy”…
The Pilgrims of Plymouth, The Original Scalpers
Contrary to popular mythology the Pilgrims were no friends to the local Indians. They were engaged in a ruthless war of extermination against their hosts, even as they falsely posed as friends. Just days before the alleged Thanksgiving love-fest, a company of Pilgrims led by Myles Standish actively sought to chop off the head of a local chief. They deliberately caused a rivalry between two friendly Indians, pitting one against the other in an attempt to obtain “better intelligence and make them both more diligent.” An 11-foot-high wall was erected around the entire settlement for the purpose of keeping the Indians out.
Any Indian who came within the vicinity of the Pilgrim settlement was subject to robbery, enslavement, or even murder. The Pilgrims further advertised their evil intentions and white racial hostility, when they mounted five cannons on a hill around their settlement, constructed a platform for artillery, and then organized their soldiers into four companies-all in preparation for the military destruction of their friends the Indians.
Pilgrim Myles Standish eventually got his bloody prize. He went to the Indians, pretended to be a trader, then beheaded an Indian man named Wituwamat. He brought the head to Plymouth, where it was displayed on a wooden spike for many years, according to Gary B. Nash, “as a symbol of white power.” Standish had the Indian man’s young brother hanged from the rafters for good measure. From that time on, the whites were known to the Indians of Massachusetts by the name “Wotowquenange,” which in their tongue meant cutthroats and stabbers.
Who Were the “Savages”?
The myth of the fierce, ruthless Indian savage lusting after the blood of innocent Europeans must be vigorously dispelled at this point. In actuality, the historical record shows that the very opposite was true.
Once the European settlements stabilized, the whites turned on their hosts in a brutal way. The once amicable relationship was breeched again and again by the whites, who lusted over the riches of Indian land. A combination of the Pilgrims’ demonization of the Indians, the concocted mythology of Eurocentric historians, and standard Hollywood propaganda has served to paint the gentle Indian as a tomahawk-swinging savage endlessly on the warpath, lusting for the blood of the God-fearing whites.
But the Pilgrims’ own testimony obliterates that fallacy. The Indians engaged each other in military contests from time to time, but the causes of “war,” the methods, and the resulting damage differed profoundly from the European variety:
o Indian “wars” were largely symbolic and were about honor, not about territory or extermination.
o “Wars” were fought as domestic correction for a specific act and were ended when correction was achieved. Such action might better be described as internal policing. The conquest or destruction of whole territories was a European concept.
o Indian “wars” were often engaged in by family groups, not by whole tribal groups, and would involve only the family members.
o A lengthy negotiation was engaged in between the aggrieved parties before escalation to physical confrontation would be sanctioned. Surprise attacks were unknown to the Indians.
o It was regarded as evidence of bravery for a man to go into “battle” carrying no weapon that would do any harm at a distance-not even bows and arrows. The bravest act in war in some Indian cultures was to touch their adversary and escape before he could do physical harm.
o The targeting of non-combatants like women, children, and the elderly was never contemplated. Indians expressed shock and repugnance when the Europeans told, and then showed, them that they considered women and children fair game in their style of warfare.
o A major Indian “war” might end with less than a dozen casualties on both sides. Often, when the arrows had been expended the “war” would be halted. The European practice of wiping out whole nations in bloody massacres was incomprehensible to the Indian.
According to one scholar, “The most notable feature of Indian warfare was its relative innocuity.” European observers of Indian wars often expressed surprise at how little harm they actually inflicted. “Their wars are far less bloody and devouring than the cruel wars of Europe,” commented settler Roger Williams in 1643. Even Puritan warmonger and professional soldier Capt. John Mason scoffed at Indian warfare: “[Their] feeble manner…did hardly deserve the name of fighting.” Fellow warmonger John Underhill spoke of the Narragansetts, after having spent a day “burning and spoiling” their country: “no Indians would come near us, but run from us, as the deer from the dogs.” He concluded that the Indians might fight seven years and not kill seven men. Their fighting style, he wrote, “is more for pastime, than to conquer and subdue enemies.”
All this describes a people for whom war is a deeply regrettable last resort. An agrarian people, the American Indians had devised a civilization that provided dozens of options all designed to avoid conflict—the very opposite of Europeans, for whom all-out war, a ferocious bloodlust, and systematic genocide are their apparent life force. Thomas Jefferson—who himself advocated the physical extermination of the American Indian—said of Europe, “They [Europeans] are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of labor, property and lives of their people.”
Puritan Holocaust
By the mid 1630s, a new group of 700 even holier Europeans calling themselves Puritans had arrived on 11 ships and settled in Boston-which only served to accelerate the brutality against the Indians.
In one incident around 1637, a force of whites trapped some seven hundred Pequot Indians, mostly women, children, and the elderly, near the mouth of the Mystic River. Englishman John Mason attacked the Indian camp with “fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk.” Only a handful escaped and few prisoners were taken-to the apparent delight of the Europeans:
To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God.
This event marked the first actual Thanksgiving. In just 10 years 12,000 whites had invaded New England, and as their numbers grew they pressed for all-out extermination of the Indian. Euro-diseases had reduced the population of the Massachusett nation from over 24,000 to less than 750; meanwhile, the number of European settlers in Massachusetts rose to more than 20,000 by 1646.
By 1675, the Massachusetts Englishmen were in a full-scale war with the great Indian chief of the Wampanoags, Metacomet. Renamed “King Philip” by the white man, Metacomet watched the steady erosion of the lifestyle and culture of his people as European-imposed laws and values engulfed them.
In 1671, the white man had ordered Metacomet to come to Plymouth to enforce upon him a new treaty, which included the humiliating rule that he could no longer sell his own land without prior approval from whites. They also demanded that he turn in his community’s firearms. Marked for extermination by the merciless power of a distant king and his ruthless subjects, Metacomet retaliated in 1675 with raids on several isolated frontier towns. Eventually, the Indians attacked 52 of the 90 New England towns, destroying 13 of them. The Englishmen ultimately regrouped, and after much bloodletting defeated the great Indian nation, just half a century after their arrival on Massachusetts soil. Historian Douglas Edward Leach describes the bitter end:
The ruthless executions, the cruel sentences…were all aimed at the same goal-unchallengeable white supremacy in southern New England. That the program succeeded is convincingly demonstrated by the almost complete docility of the local native ever since.
When Captain Benjamin Church tracked down and murdered Metacomet in 1676, his body was quartered and parts were “left for the wolves.” The great Indian chief’s hands were cut off and sent to Boston and his head went to Plymouth, where it was set upon a pole on the real first “day of public Thanksgiving for the beginning of revenge upon the enemy.” Metacomet’s nine-year-old son was destined for execution because, the whites reasoned, the offspring of the devil must pay for the sins of their father. The child was instead shipped to the Caribbean to spend his life in slavery.
As the Holocaust continued, several official Thanksgiving Days were proclaimed. Governor Joseph Dudley declared in 1704 a “General Thanksgiving”-not in celebration of the brotherhood of man-but for [God’s] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors…In defeating and disappointing… the Expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands…
Just two years later one could reap a ££50 reward in Massachusetts for the scalp of an Indian-demonstrating that the practice of scalping was a European tradition. According to one scholar, “Hunting redskins became…a popular sport in New England, especially since prisoners were worth good money…”
References in The Hidden History of Massachusetts: A Guide for Black Folks ©© DR. TINGBA APIDTA, ; ISBN 0-9714462-0-2
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As an ETSY Seller I find this unacceptable. It is Offensive and possibly illegal.
As an Animal Advocate and Defender of both Domestic and Wild Animals, and as someone dedicated to preventing Animal Abuse in All of it’s insidious forms, I feel compelled to report this to the Etsy management .
If these ‘paws’ are not real and are some sort of ‘faux’ bones, it is still in very bad taste and encourages the practice of killing of animals for ‘fashion’ , therefore it may not be technically illegal, but it is most definitely offensive.
I would hope that ETSY would promote a a ‘cruelty free’ culture and that such atrocities would be dealt with swiftly and permanently.
If ETSY allows vendors to continue to sell such examples of blantant animal abuse and exploitation I will close my shop immediately and I am not the only one. There is currently a petition being distributed to both Esty Sellers and Buyers. Once the signature target has been reached I’ m sure the pettition will be formally presented to ETSY management. I trust that you will take this complaint seriously and take action against any Sellers who offer such merchandise in their Etsy shops.
Thank you.
