Take a look at this shocking picture above: it's of a horse called Xelim that was hit by a furious bull during a bullfight show!
Bullfights shows don't respect animal's rights: none of the animals envolved, the bulls and the horses.
Horses get in panic running away from the furious bulls and bulls bleed to death in the middle of the arena suffering with each sharp edge that penetrates their sensitive skin.
Bullfights are a decadent and horrifying show but amuse lots of people...and the persons who get amused seeing this torture shows are sick and idiot!
Bullfights should be illegal and people should refuse to attend this events.
Sometimes even the torturers like bullfighters realize the atrocities they do and give up doing this as the case of Alvaro Munera ex-bullfighetr that became an animal activist and now is against bullfights!
"This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro Munera's career. The colombian ex-bullfighter collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight. He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. (The look on this bull's face says it all for me. Even grievously wounded by picadors, he did not attack this man.) Torrero Munera is quoted as saying of this moment: "And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer - because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth." "Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures." - Thomas de Quincey" By: Carolyn Mabry Faith in Humanity?Restored! Read the interview with Alvaro Munera here
After my boring and useless classes at college today I went to a coffee house and then I did a little walk in Lisbon's streets on another sunny and warm day. So that's when I see a group of blonde and tall people with a leader raising a norwegian flag.First I thought: "this might be a a norwegian guide" ('cause when I went to Copenhagen there was a guide with an italien flag leading italien people) and I was about talking to them in norwegian (I had norwegian-classes) but then I thought "this seems too goofy and people must be scared hearing me and I even can say something wrong", so I didn't...but then I thought "What day is this? 17th May!". Yes it's 17th May, it's Norwegian's National Day! That's why that group was exhibiting a norwegian flag! So they were celebrating their national day even being in Lisbon...but I thought besides the nordic nobody understood why they were doing that and even I took some time to realize it!
So a year ago I was even more a bigger admirer of nordic countries (my favourite is Denmark and then Norway) so I wrote a post about that day it's the post congratulations-norway and it was the most readen post on my blogue with more than 2000 accessions! I even thought in deleting because it was not my idea to have so many visitors because of that and I almost don't say nothing in that post! Anyway maybe it's because of the bunad's pictures or fjord picture of the post which I "stole" from the internet as the majoity of the pictures here.
Norway and other nordic countries as Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden are very well developed countries and an example of how a society should be in terms of equality but let's not forget they were extreme poor countries a couple of years ago and nordic population even died of hunger and now they're rich and if they're rich is mostly because of oil that they export and avoid to use on their countries investing in renewable energies. I really would love to go to Norway because it's a country with preserved and estimated nature and people ride bikes too as in Denmark and I think it's lovely but taking advantage on this day I want to make and advice to norwegian people: show yourselves how developed and nature lovers you are and STOPhunting whales! Really it's shameless!
It's hard to believe but in Iceland they're hunting whales to sell meat to Japan and norwegian and japanese fishermen hunt whales to make meat! And then they write in the boats "hunting for scientifical proposes!". Making fool out of us! The rest of the world quited the whale hunting, even in Azores, Portugal where it was a bloody tradition! Time to move on, hunting whales is wickedness! My norwegian teacher says in supermarkets it's sold whale meat. Viking's Era is over so stop hunting and eating whales, ok? The day of 17th May is a symbol of norwegian pride but it shouldn't be very exacerbated because extreme nationalism never leads to good things.
So congratulations Norway! ;)
The Guinnes World Records recognizes that the biggest wave ever surfed is that one the hawaian Garret McNamara surfed in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, the height of the wave was 23,77 metres and exceeded the record before of Mike Parson that surfed a wave with 23, 47 metres in California.
Nazaré is located above an underwater canyon that is the world's biggest wave generator.
I told ya, if you wanna surf in Europe come to Portugal...and there's no sharks here!
(check it out in abcnews and inbbc.uk)
There's a new continent floating over the Pacific Ocean, it's the 7th continent now and it's made of rubbish specially of plastic waste. It's located somewhere in the middle of California and Japan and it's even called the "Pacific Island of Garbage" that has incredible terrifying dimensions. It's calculated that that island occupies between 1,7 and 3,4 million square metres..which means an area of 18 to 37 times bigger than Portugal!!!
The french explorer Patrick Deixonne lead an expediction to that island of rubbish at 2 May 2012 to alert the whole world for the danger of the massive production of waste and its disposal are causing in the marine ecosystems.
It's a tradition in Islands Faroé, Denmark, to hunt and kill whales and dolphins as a tradition that represents the initiation of adult life of the younger danish men.
Nobody misses the usual bloody celebration for not miss the 'fun' and 'thrill' of it. Everybody participates in this bloody massacre wheter killing, whether seeing, wheter supporting it as a spectator (some people even scream motivation words to the young killers).
It's important to mention that the dolphin Calderon, as almost all other species of dolphins, get closer to the men in a a friendly gesture! The innocent dolphins don't die instantaneously, they are penetrated repeatedly with sharp hooks and in these moments dolphins emite sounds very similar to those of a human baby crying! They suffer a lot and there is no compassion while the sweet being slowly bleeds to death and sufers with their tremendous wounds struggling to death in their own blood that tinge of red the waters.
Finally this'heroes' of the island, as what they're called, are considered adults now...they have demonstated their their 'maturity'!
Denmark is a nordic country that is said to be very evoluted but still have anachronistic practices that are called tradition.
I've been in Denmark and thought about moving there (I have serious doubts now but not just because of this), I love Denmark and this year I might go back to attend a danish course. Danish people have a environmental conscience so they use bikes instead of cars, they recycle and invest in green energies...so this is a paradox: killing whales and dolphins for fun as a tradition to initiate the adult life of the teenagers!?
Nordic countries are said to be very developed, maybe, because with the money of the oil they invested and distributed the wealth with the people, but they are not that so developed let me disagree: fisrt of all they are a very closed society to the outer world (not Denmark but more Norway and Filnland), then they are extreme nationalists, they don't look very nice people (not them all but some seem very grumpy) and then Norway hunts whale and sells it on supermarkets, and people eat it, nordic people eat seal meat too and a traditional dish from Finland is...bear meat!
They are descendents from the vikings so no wonder why they might have this barbaric behaviour sometimes (one thing is sure vikings don't like strangers, so do the nordics, they don't really like immigrants). So what kind of europeans are this people?STOP THIS!
"The unrealistic germanic intransigence threats to lead Europe to the chaos!
Germany proposed (and imposes) a prescription of austerity at all cost that starts being offensive by the contrast between the germanic situation and the european periphery!
While Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Italy pay high interest rates for their debts, Germany has become a beneficiary of the uneasiness amongst other europeans. Right now the germanic interest rate for ten years is about 1,7% since the forecats of inflation rate of the Euro Zone is about 2,4% this means that Germany has become a economy of refuge where the wealthy people from the endebted countries trannsfer their money from their national banks to put them at safe in Germany with a negative tax rate! This is not about investment but protection.
Germany gains with the panic that their «monetarism»that helps spreading.
And euro continues helping Germany mantaining their high trade surpluses that can be used to acquire assets in the struggling economies at bargain basement prices. While people from the peripheral countries see their incomes getting lower and lower and the unemployment rising, in Germany, the worker unions negotiate wage increases of 6%...
The germanic solution for the crisis only will intensify the abyssal diferences in competitiveness between european nations leading to a irreconciable conflict between creditor and debtor countries! So this could be the time of the german redemption saving Europe with a benevolent hegemony but it seems that, once again, Berlin left alone on their own will throw it all away."
(I translated this from a portuguese magazine called Visão 999 it was written, and very well written, by sir Viriato Marques)
"If the Euro zone collapses, this will be the third time in a century that Europe commits suicide, with Germany on the command post" Viriato Marques
I just checked that I exceeded the 20 000 visitors in my blogue!
Thank you readers! (Although i don't know if I have regular readers or not).
I love having visitors and comments too even those who disagree with what I write: all comments are welcome!
Everyone is welcome!
I write this blogue because I like to write (and I've been improving my english because of that but the stuffs I write must have mistakes, feel free to correct me too it would be helpful) but most of all I write this for people to read it, it's for them doesn't matter who they are or where they are from.
I have a succeeded blogue in portuguese (I'm portuguese by the way) but there were some things I would like to share with all the world so I started this blogue for more global issues to share with the whole world, my portuguese blogue is more about national issues in Portugal. Anyway I quite can't really define what is this blogue about, I don't speak about a particular issue it's all about what comes to my mind and sometimes I write about my life too and unburden and I can feel better after doing that, it's silly I know! Anyway my life is quite boring (really boring) so I speak about global issues.
I talk about of animals, nature and environment...I put here some petitions for people to sign but I don't want to be a slaccktivist! Anyway I just inform about what I think people should know (and some issues you won't find on regular media) and sometimes petitions make a change, but the biggest change comes inside of us!
Well I speak about economy and policy, I'm anti-war and anti-NATO, I belive in peace and that people can change (although they can break my heart with such madness...but I have to count with the good ones and they're my hope!). So although you can read some things that might look like anti-american, or even anti-german it's not true...I really don't want people to think like that (although you might think) but really some things are just really difficult to accept from those countries' behaviour! But if you look really close I criticize too Portugal, Canada, Europe, Brazil...you name it! I criticize what it's been doing wrong...no place on Earth is perfect it's only left to me to believe people can change for better.
But hey, I know how to write nice stuff too!
So it's not that I don't like americans it's just I really think they should change and I hope they do!
So checking my blogue I found out that the country who visits my blogue the most is USA (and how come I never got a negative message from them? really, negative comments are welcome too, bring it on!), on the second place Portugal, 3rd place UK; 4th place Brazil, 5th place India, 6th place Canada, 7th place Germany (!!), 8th place France, 9th place Russia, 10th Australia.
And on the top of searched words is Norway (!?), fat american, santa claus, bunad, world wide web, leave me alone, stupid (LOL? stupid?), le voyage dans la lune and george melies.
One more thing almost all the pictures from my blogue were taken from the internet so if some of them is yours and you don't want them here tell me I'll take them off. But the majority of pictures on the right side about Portugal were taken by me.
So thank you all for your visits don't matter who you are or come from you're all welcome! And as far I'm getting visits I'll manage a way to have a time to write here more stuff.
Greeks had enough of austerity and the lies of the two political parties who have been ruined their country for decades, they had enough of their lies, they had enough of humiliation from the germans (who even suggested greeks to sell them their islands, and their acropolis read it indailymail and the telegraph), enough of suicides because of the crisis, enough of imposed misery so just swept the two parties that agreed with the implemention of austerity. This is too a message to Germany: screw you! But greeks seem to want to remain in Europe Union and having the Euro...we just need another Europe to do it! Greek people used the power of their vote to get their revenge on the two political parties that during more than 30 years since the military dictatorship contributed to the calamitous state Greece is in...it's undestandable, who would vote on them again? But of the 9,9 registered electors only 34,91% voted...an historical record of abstention! Anyway greeks lead to a voter revolution which consequences are yet to ascertain.They are even under the risk o having to repeat the elections since there is no governable conditions. So the winner of the greek elections was the left handed political party Syriza which is the 2nd political power now, they propose "We won't pay!" also they propose the immediate cancelation of all austerity mesaures that impoverish the greek folk and don't respect their labour righsts, they propse also an investigation to the banks and the publication of the audit to the banking sector. But the greek's elections brought too to the parliament two political parties of xenophobic nature like the "independent greeks" and the neonazies "golden dawn", which priority is to make the lives of the immigrants in Greece a living hell, put mines next to the border with Turkey and take the right of vote and stop the access to public positions from all that even borned in Greece are not greek's sons! The slogna of the "golden dawn" party is, inclusively, "let's get this land rid of fouls", or something like that... In Germany too it's being sent invitations to german descendents to return to Germany... It's so ironic that a greek party that promisses to break with the dictates of of ECB (european central bank), IMF(international monetary fund), EC (european comission) that imposes the german interests is the same that is an afiliate of this german ideology that we thought that was extinct before all the war horrors that happened 7 decades ago... Unfortunatelly, the radical extremist right-handed parties are a rising political force all over the Europe, from France (where Le Penns and Sarkozy defended that there was "too many immigrants" and kick off gipsies and are clearly anti muslim immigrations), from Greece now, until the nordic countries which always had the fame of being extreme nationalists and don't like "mixtures"...in all nordic countries right-handed parties are rising: Finland has an anti-immigration assumed policy and the party "true finnish" was elected, Denmark, Sweden Norway the same! But the rising of radical righ-handed parties is something Mikis Theodorákis have been warning us:
"If the people from Europe don't uprise, the banks will bring back the fascism"
A new Europe is needed now! Europeans rise up we must avoid this tragedy!
François Hollande is new president of France and if he complies with what he said during his campaign this can be a relief for Europe asphyxiated in austerity under the absurd logic in which Germany put all Europe imposing (to the others) austerity up on austerity leaving the other's economies exhausted and this is applied to all not just for Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy but even the traditional rich countries as Austria and Netherlands.
And thinking that Sarkozy said that Hollande will bankrupt France when he, himself, did the most outrageous expenses with the french people's money! (read:Sarkozy the big spender).
So now the anti-immigration defender Nicolas Sarkozy is just an hungarian descendent, married with an italien descendent woman living in France...
Let's just hope that France do not stop under Germany for their own good and for the good of Europe. Adieu Merkozy, Europe turned the page!
Not only humans feel love for their offspring. All animals care very well of their babies and are willing to give their lives to protect them. People sure have a lot to learn from those beautiful, kind and gentle creatures called animals. They can love much more than people.
Happy mother's day to all!
Communication from Greenpeace:
"Following years of intense pressure from the agribusiness sector,
Brazil's parliament approved sweeping changes to the country's forest
protection law yesterday that spell destruction for the Amazon rainforest.
President Dilma has two weeks now to veto this hatchet job before it becomes the law. All eyes are on her now.
The changes to the Forest Code voted on Wednesday evening severely weaken protections for the Amazon rainforest and open up vast areas to destruction,
which would contribute to carbon emissions and climate change. It
leaves forest communities and Amazon wildlife even more at risk from the
very interests which have already destroyed 18 percent of the Amazon
rainforest." click here and tell Dilma: save Amazon, veto the new Forest Code Communication from Avaaz:
The Amazon is in serious danger. The lower house of the Brazilian
congress has approved a gutting of Brazil’s forest protection laws.
Unless we act now, vast tracts of our planet’s lungs could be opened up
to clear-cutting devastation.
The move has sparked widespread
anger and protests across the country. And tension is
rising - in the last few weeks, several prominent environmental
advocates have been murdered, purportedly by armed thugs hired by
illegal loggers. The timing is critical, they’re trying to silence
criticism just as the law is discussed in the Senate. But President
Dilma can veto the changes, if we can persuade her to overcome political
pressure and step onto the global stage as a leader.
79% of
Brazilians support Dilma's veto of the forest law changes, but their
voices are being challenged by logger lobbies. It’s now up to all of us
to raise the stakes and make Amazon protection a global issue. Let’s
come together now in a giant call to stop the murders and illegal
logging, and save the Amazon. Sign the petition below -- it’ll be
delivered to Dilma when we reach 500,000 signers: avaaz_save_the_amazon
People
love Brazil! The sun, the music, the dancing, the football, the nature - it’s a country that inspires millions around the world. This is why
Brazil is hosting the next World Cup, why Rio has the 2016 Olympics and
next year’s Earth Summit, a meeting to stop the slow death of our
planet.
Our love is not misplaced -- the Amazon Is vital to life
on earth - 20% of our oxygen and 60% of our freshwater comes from this
magnificent rainforest. That’s why it’s so crucial that we all protect
it.
But Brazil is also a rapidly developing country, battling to
lift tens of millions out of poverty, and the pressure to clear-cut and
mine for profit on its political leaders is intense. This is why they’re
dangerously close to buckling on environmental protections.
Local activists are being murdered, intimidated and silenced, it’s up to
Avaaz members across the world to stand with Brazilians and urge
Brazil’s politicians to be strong.
Many of us have seen in our
own countries how growth often comes at the expense of our natural
heritage, our waters and air get polluted, our forests die.
For
Brazil, there is an alternative. Dilma’s predecessor massively reduced
deforestation and cemented the country’s international reputation as an
environmental leader, while also enjoying huge economic growth. Let’s
come together now, and urge Dilma to follow in those footsteps!
In
the last 3 years, Brazilian Avaaz members have taken massive
leaps towards the world we all want: They won landmark anti-corruption
legislation, and have lobbied their government to play a leadership role
at the UN, protect human rights and intervene to support democracy in
the Middle East, and help protect human rights in Africa and beyond.
Now,
as brave Brazilian activists are being killed for protecting a critical
global resource, let’s come together, and build an international
movement to save the Amazon and herald Brazil as a true international
leader once more!
Eating dog meat is widely regarded as
uncivilized but asians are fucked up persons (not them all of course) who like to eat (is not just a matter of need, they rally like it) as much as disgusting things they find (from cats, to dogs, to scorpions, to snakes you anme it). Yes I've heard on TV chineses people living in Portugal that admitted that in China eating dog is like in Portugal eating goatling! I'm a vegetarian, I don't eat animals but eating dogs and cats? they're people's best friends! Their pets!
So I never go to any chinese, japanese or other asian restaurant (except indian restaurant that have vegetarian options). And people I know that love chinese food go in there and ask for grilled chicken and in the end they said "well I ate it but that was not chicken!". It was discovered even in Portugal that chineses kill stray cats and dogs and then whern I ask people "do you know what you're eating there?", they say "No I don't wanna know!", so what the hell? you can be eating dog or cat and you don't wanna know!!!!??
About the dogs that will be cooked and eaten in Vietname it shouldn't surprise us in asian countries like China, Vietname, Thailand it's committed the most outrageous cruel acts against animals (for example the tradition of cutting in two a pork with the most shocking violence you could ever imagine...and just for the fun of it).
In Thailand, northeastern smugglers Tae Rae export an
estimated 30,000 strays to Vietnam every month, at a price of $10 per
head. In Vietnam, grilled dog meat sells for three times the price of
pork.
Stray dogs are corralled daily and crammed into wire cages before
being smuggled through illegal river borders. Though most are exported
to Vietnam, a minority are butchered and sold as "meat" in Thai open
markets. Local residents complain about the disgusting practice.
According to Wit, the boss of a dog collecting crew, "We have to pay the
police to leave us alone."
Exporting strays for the dog meat trade or selling dog meat in local
markets is cruel, illegal and disturbing to most Thailand residents.
Please sign the petition to encourage Tae Rae authorities to crack down
on the dog meat trade.
And thinking that dogs were domesticated tens of thousands of years ago in Asia...
I don't know what this image is but it looks like rescued dogs.
How can not exist a single spark of kindness in some people's hearts?
Well Canada I thought we had solve this and seals were left alone in peace by now but that didn't happened because it's a traditional sport there killing harmless seals even knowing that the seal fur and other seal's products are now banned in EU, USA and Russia.
It's no wonder the United States, European Union and Russia have all
banned seal's products: the seal pelts from Canada come from baby seals
who have been brutally clubbed, just for their fur.
Canada's commercial seal hunt just doesn't make sense anymore. The price
of a seal pelt has dropped 80 percent in the last six years. The hunt
isn't economically viable because people don't want these products.
But yet ,the Canadian government is still subsidizing the industry so 400 000 baby seals can be killed every year!!!
On top of that, the government is planning to fight the EU's ban of seal products in the World Trade Organization.
It's ridiculous that Canada is putting such an incredible amount of
money and effort into killing seals. We need to stand up for these
defenseless animals.
Tell Canda loud and clear: WE DON'T NEED YOUR DEAD SEALS. END SEAL HUNT ONCE AND FOR ALL!
And by the number of signatures (62 000) that already exceeded the goal of 50 000 we can say that people want to put an end to this slaughter once and for all (but maybe not for bloody minded celebreties like Beyoncé).
So sign the petition clicking in: thepetitionsite
