jueves, 31 de julio de 2014
HOLY COW MAFIA, SEX APPEAL AND BIG BUSINESS IN INDIA
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| Holy cow mafia in India. Source: Occupy for Animals! |
By Gundhramns Hammer
It is estimated that the current population of India is 1.27 billion. That´s is a lot of people. This mass of human beings walking on India has an enormous economic potential.
In fact, India´s economy is booming. It is one of the newest ecovampires on the global block.
Keep in mind that more people consuming Earth´s resources means more waste and holes in the Biosphere´s fabric.
Not even cows have escaped this rise in consumption. A holy cow mafia has popped up in India.
As the middle class grows in India more and more people are on a diet transition. More and more people are developing a huge appetite for meat.
So holy cows are being trafficked and butchered in illegal slaughterhouses.
Some experts even claim that human meat is also sold in the black market in India. And they are not talking about the aghori sadhu.
This is not a surprise. It is common knowledge that members of any elite anywhere soon get bored and are willing to try anything to fill up their evergrowing inner holes.
Local mafias are making a kill not only with holy bovines but also with other kinds of animals and stuff with connections with other stuff in other lands where there is plenty of stuff for rich Indian people that are willing to pay good money for illegal stuff.
But crooks are not alone fishing in India´s unwatery markets.
Big businesses are getting their fucking fill too.
India´s now has its own truckload of new millionaires and billionaires, a bunch of greedy vampires sucking the blood from the veins of people and Earth and at the same time swimming in an ocean of hunger.
Sucking human cattle´s blood is legal all over the planet for the time being. It is euphemisticaly called "doing sound business", "globalisation", "strategic economic development" or other fancy names like "sustainable development", the latest one.
But how the fuck do big companies get people buying what they do not need in the first place?
They do it with sex.
As we all know sex sells. So big corporations are investing a lot of money in advertising neatly embedded with sexual subliminal messages (Video 1).
They do it with sex.
As we all know sex sells. So big corporations are investing a lot of money in advertising neatly embedded with sexual subliminal messages (Video 1).
Video 1. Subliminal advertising: Sexual embedding to sell crap.
They are targeting the new generation, of course. The ones whose gonads are boiling volcanoes.
And TV has become the vehicle to brainwash the kids and the not so kids.
Sex appeal is bursting in the advertising industry in India now.
To get you started on this matter, read the following article:
Viewers’ Perception of TV Ads: The Role of Sex Appeal by S. Thiyagarajan, P. Shanthi and G. Naresh (2012). Click here.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
India is undergoing a big transformation. It has major problems to face (e.g., water crisis) at the present time.
Regarding invasions, this is not the first time India has been invaded. Many strong armies have come to this subcontinent in the past. And India has survived them all.
The advertising and consumerism invasion going on now is another one in long row. However, this is more difficult to counterattack.
Let us hope India uses its ancient wisdom to avoid being swallowed by the vampiric economic tsunami that is sweeping the globe and threatening with extinction life itself on this planet.
But for now, we are signing off.
See you later alligators!
And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
India is undergoing a big transformation. It has major problems to face (e.g., water crisis) at the present time.
Regarding invasions, this is not the first time India has been invaded. Many strong armies have come to this subcontinent in the past. And India has survived them all.
The advertising and consumerism invasion going on now is another one in long row. However, this is more difficult to counterattack.
Let us hope India uses its ancient wisdom to avoid being swallowed by the vampiric economic tsunami that is sweeping the globe and threatening with extinction life itself on this planet.
But for now, we are signing off.
See you later alligators!
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR: AMAZING MUSICAL ART
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| Anoushka Shankar. Source: World Music Central.org. |
By Gundhramns Hammer
Each musical note played by Anoushka Shankar captures a
universe for an brief instant without keeping it enclosed or losing its unique fluidity
and suddenly she lets go of it. And she goes on and on until the result is an
amazing piece of musical art.
Bravo to Anoushka Shankar and her team!
Here is one of her pieces of musical art:
miércoles, 30 de julio de 2014
martes, 29 de julio de 2014
MYSTERY OF THE CARPATHIAN SPHINX: NEANDERTHALS´ SPIRITUAL GIFT
Now presenting fascinating new theories and discoveries about the
missing link of human evolution and the soul of man, as we explore the
Ancient Mystery of the Carpathian Sphinx and evidence of an intervening
leap in human evolution that occurred deep in our ancient past.
Featuring Dr. Robert Schoch and filmmaker Oana Ghiocel. [UFOTV]
FISHERS GO FISHING AND BAN SOME SOCIAL MEDIA AND GET FISHY
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| Source: The WP. |
By Gundhramns Hammer
July 29, 2014
Out of curiosity, last night we checked our blog´s hit counts and we noticed that there were (still are) some countries which were not been added to the sum total, with Turkey topping the list. On the 24 h stats there were no bars for these countries. This was according to our Revolver Maps´ counts.
Nevertheless, the hit trail could still be seen flashing on the revolving globe. How odd!
Nevertheless, the hit trail could still be seen flashing on the revolving globe. How odd!
Here is the list of countries that had no 24h stats bars on our blog:
- Turkey
- Greece
- China
- Colombia
- Australia
- Iran
- Switzerland
From the list above, Turkey is known for having banned some social media early in 2014. Twitter was been banned communication in this country.
In Asia, China is another country where social media bans are common. Wikipedia has provided a list of websites blocked in China. View it here.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has also internet censorship.
Mark Humphrey´s Blog has listed the websites that are banned in Iran including his own:
You can test if any website is blocked in Iran in real-time. Go here.
Our blog (http://e-rastrillo.blogspot.com) is not blocked in Iran. Not yet.
As for Greece, we all know what recently went on there: Political turmoil. Right now, Greece still is a place to do heavy duty bargain hunting.
So anything can be expected out of Plato´s homeland.
As far as Colombia is concerned, experts say that this country is sadly a boiling pot of mafia and "white powder" juice.
We only hope one day good Colombian folks can go about carrying on their life without any fear coming from hidden crooks.
What can we say of Australia?
Although on some global corruption indexes, Australia comes out amongst the least corrupted, there is some information that tells the opposite.
The Aussies´ land is in the midst of a corruption epidemic in the Federal Government, according to some reports.
And finally, how about Switzerland?
In 2013, the OECD still regarded Switzerland as a "tax haven".
In other word, this Alpine country is a "beautiful garden above but a cemetery below", as expressed by some hunters of corrupted money.
Conclusion
Anyway, as far as the odd stats on our blog yesterday and today and maybe tomorrow, we do not give a fucking damn about it.
But one this is for sure:
In Asia, China is another country where social media bans are common. Wikipedia has provided a list of websites blocked in China. View it here.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has also internet censorship.
Mark Humphrey´s Blog has listed the websites that are banned in Iran including his own:
- Jihad Watch
- Daniel Pipes
- Zombie
- Ace of Spades
- The Jawa Report
- Richard Dawkins
- Faith Freedom
- MarkHumphrys.com (My site is banned in Iran!)
- Fox News
- The Daily Mail
You can test if any website is blocked in Iran in real-time. Go here.
Our blog (http://e-rastrillo.blogspot.com) is not blocked in Iran. Not yet.
As for Greece, we all know what recently went on there: Political turmoil. Right now, Greece still is a place to do heavy duty bargain hunting.
So anything can be expected out of Plato´s homeland.
As far as Colombia is concerned, experts say that this country is sadly a boiling pot of mafia and "white powder" juice.
We only hope one day good Colombian folks can go about carrying on their life without any fear coming from hidden crooks.
What can we say of Australia?
Although on some global corruption indexes, Australia comes out amongst the least corrupted, there is some information that tells the opposite.
The Aussies´ land is in the midst of a corruption epidemic in the Federal Government, according to some reports.
And finally, how about Switzerland?
In 2013, the OECD still regarded Switzerland as a "tax haven".
In other word, this Alpine country is a "beautiful garden above but a cemetery below", as expressed by some hunters of corrupted money.
Conclusion
Anyway, as far as the odd stats on our blog yesterday and today and maybe tomorrow, we do not give a fucking damn about it.
But one this is for sure:
In
this world, nothing is what appears when they do not want you to see
what it is because they make it to appear what it seems it is but it is
not what it looks it is.
It is not surprinsing what this appears it is but it is not what it is.
lunes, 28 de julio de 2014
COCKFIGHTING MAFIA: BULL FESTIVALS, ANIMAL RIGHTS PROGRESS IN PANAMA & OTHER TASKS
They call it the "Festival del Toro Guapo" (the Handsome Bull Festival). It is celebrated the 15th October of each year in Anton, Panama.
In the past, a cow or a bull was brought in to suffer all kinds of abuse and violations and this was watched by many people that used to gather around the animal´s hell.
In the past, a cow or a bull was brought in to suffer all kinds of abuse and violations and this was watched by many people that used to gather around the animal´s hell.
From the Animal Rights point of view, this town festival as performed before was simply an excuse to torture, abuse and violate a cow or bull by a bunch of men who were usually high in alcohol, marihuana or cocaine (Video 1). We have to keep in mind that there was and still is drug trafficking going on in Panama.
Video 1. Cow violated by narcos, drunkards and wackos in Anton (Panama) in 2008.
In other words and put quite bluntly, up till recently poor animals were abused or violated by narcos, drunkards or wackos during festivals in Panama.
Applying a bird´s-eye historical view, the festival used to be basically a "cheap imitation", as expressed once by a Spaniard visiting the town of Anton, of another hell in Spain: Bullfights, "corridas" or "vaquillas".
But things have changed a bit in Panama now.
Panama is progressing at snail´s pace not only regarding the building of infrastructures (e.g., metro) or widening the Canal but also along the line of Animal Rights.
The latter is indeed good news.
According to the Panamanian Law 70, Articles 1 and 2, of the Protection of Domestic Animals of 2012, his kind of cruel treatment on domestic animals in spectacles is now history. It is prohibited.
So, what do Anton´s people use instead of the live animal now?
They have substituted the live animal for a colourful bovine-looking artifact that is worn over a person´s back and swung around chasing people to make them laugh (Video 2).
Video 2. The Toro Guapo Festival in Anton (Panama) in 2013.
An excellent idea and what better way to show the world there are many Panamanians who do indeed care about animals and love Nature.
Congratulations for that!
And congratulations to all Animal Rights advocates that have fought for this moment to happen in Panama.
It is a big step.
Furthermore, it is admirable to see young nations such as Panama to move in the right direction. Bravo!
However,
there are still some exceptions to the Animal Rights Law 70 in Panama.
So there is still a lot of work to do.
And we are not talking about the common incidents of bestiality and zoophilia in Panama. Such acts are severely punished in this nation now.
We are referring to something else.
And we are not talking about the common incidents of bestiality and zoophilia in Panama. Such acts are severely punished in this nation now.
We are referring to something else.
First, there are the famous cockfights, another relic from the Spanish Conquest in the Isthmus. They are
still allowed all over Panama.
Cockfights move a lot of money in bets (Video 3). Bets ("desafío bolsa") can go from US$100 to US$50.000 or more in Panama.
Cockfights move a lot of money in bets (Video 3). Bets ("desafío bolsa") can go from US$100 to US$50.000 or more in Panama.
Video 3. An expensive cockfight: US$30.000 in the bag.
Colombians, Puerto Ricans, Peruvians, Dominicans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Americans (Miami), Spanish, Brazilians and other people of different nationalities get together for cockfighting events in Panama.
Some national and international experts on organised crime indicate that cockfights are a perfect vehicle for criminal syndicates to launder drug money in Panama.
Gold, expensive jewelry, rough diamonds (smuggled from Africa), packs of pirated CDs, drugs, weapons, coltán (from Venezuela), bales of smuggled snuff and other stuff instead of money may be secretely used as cockfight bets by some people, mainly in Chiriqui, Colon, Darien and Cocle.
Amongst Panama´s provinces, Cocle is steeped in secrets that are no true secrets because even vendors selling ice cream on the streets can tell you what they call the "El Camino de la Montaña" (the Mountain Trail), meaning the Penonome+Chorrerita and/or Aguas Blancas+La Colorada (de Juan Diaz)+Valle de Anton+Cocle del Norte+Colon Axis, a notorious and old route used by the hush-hush local mafia for all sorts of trafficking and contraband since colonial times.
National and international authorities (DIJ, DEA, CIA, Interpol, etc.) should look into this obscure world going on in the cockfighting world and other underground worlds in Panama and explore deeply its roots and interconnections including bullfights beyond its beach.
Honest people in Panama would be quite happy to see all of the crooks that strut their stuff as untouchable cocks on the streets in the hinterland cities in Panama.
But this is stuff for the police where there should be police when the police sometimes does not want to police what they should police.
Some national and international experts on organised crime indicate that cockfights are a perfect vehicle for criminal syndicates to launder drug money in Panama.
Gold, expensive jewelry, rough diamonds (smuggled from Africa), packs of pirated CDs, drugs, weapons, coltán (from Venezuela), bales of smuggled snuff and other stuff instead of money may be secretely used as cockfight bets by some people, mainly in Chiriqui, Colon, Darien and Cocle.
Amongst Panama´s provinces, Cocle is steeped in secrets that are no true secrets because even vendors selling ice cream on the streets can tell you what they call the "El Camino de la Montaña" (the Mountain Trail), meaning the Penonome+Chorrerita and/or Aguas Blancas+La Colorada (de Juan Diaz)+Valle de Anton+Cocle del Norte+Colon Axis, a notorious and old route used by the hush-hush local mafia for all sorts of trafficking and contraband since colonial times.
National and international authorities (DIJ, DEA, CIA, Interpol, etc.) should look into this obscure world going on in the cockfighting world and other underground worlds in Panama and explore deeply its roots and interconnections including bullfights beyond its beach.
Honest people in Panama would be quite happy to see all of the crooks that strut their stuff as untouchable cocks on the streets in the hinterland cities in Panama.
But this is stuff for the police where there should be police when the police sometimes does not want to police what they should police.
All in all, there are many social and ethical reasons to abolish cockfights.
The "cultural" excuse so often mentioned and upheld by lovers of cock blood is bullshit.
According to experts on human behaviour and psychology, only psychologically disturbed, psychotic or sexually abused people or some incipient or hidden homosexuals enjoy blood "sports", especially the ones where daggers and swords are plunged into the body of a victim (animal).
Let us hope cockfights in Panama will be soon history too.
The "cultural" excuse so often mentioned and upheld by lovers of cock blood is bullshit.
According to experts on human behaviour and psychology, only psychologically disturbed, psychotic or sexually abused people or some incipient or hidden homosexuals enjoy blood "sports", especially the ones where daggers and swords are plunged into the body of a victim (animal).
Let us hope cockfights in Panama will be soon history too.
The second is the tough one. The toughest. Not just for Panama but also for every nation on Earth.
As things stand now, the next step will not be decided by any humans on their own. Someone else will do it for them in the near future whether they like it or not.
It will be imposed upon humans by Mother Nature alone, for Homo "sapiens" like any other species lives in a world of finite resources.
It has to do with the matter of raising animals whether in factory farms (e.g., chickens) (Video 4) or CAFOs (cattle) causing deterioration to the environment (e.g., soil, water and air pollution) or open range (e.g., cattle) which if done in the Tropics or anywhere involves cutting down the forests to expand the business, feeding them food crops (which should go to people) to fatten them up and killing them (Video 5) to eat them.
Video 4. Say NO to battery farming!
Video 5. inside a sausage supplier to Mississippi schools.
What this means is that meat eating at the present or higher scale is and will be not only ecological expensive but also anti-biospherical or anti-nature.
Thus, as a result and also as the human population grows, which means more and more great demands on Earth´s ecosystems, more and more people will have no other choice but to become vegetarian or vegan.
If humans want ot survive as a species they will have to change their consumption habits drastically. It is not only a matter of technology to solve the problems we have carved on our own. It is required more than that.
If people do not, they will be made to change their consumption habits by the Mother of all mothers: Mother Nature.
On these matters, despite of having other problems such as water crisis, a large population, for instance, India is way ahead of everyone in the world in other apects.
If people do not, they will be made to change their consumption habits by the Mother of all mothers: Mother Nature.
On these matters, despite of having other problems such as water crisis, a large population, for instance, India is way ahead of everyone in the world in other apects.
There are already millions of people whose diet is strictly plant based. Which is a good thing.
And not for being vegans and vegetarian Indians are not unhealthy. On the contrary, they sicken if they switch (transition nutrition) to a Western diet rich in meat and dairy products, i.e., over-meaty and over-greasy and unhealthy, and great amounts of processed or refined foods, consumed with every meal or all the time.
This is a pending task for the vast majority of humans.
As for ourselves, in case you are wondering, we have already become vegetarians. We did it a long time ago. Not for health reasons but because of a deeply ethical and empathic vision.
Where are you on this matter?
Are you still a prisoner of old programmes learned during childhood and ingrained in your brains so that you end up acting like a biological robot?
References
Colson R. (Ed.) (2009). Panama: Politics and Economics. Politics and Economics of Latin America Series. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, USA. 213 p.
Deshpande S. (2003). Contemporary India: A Sociological View. Viking, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, India. 213 p.
Dundes A. (Ed.) (1994). The Cockfight: A Casebook. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, USA. 302 p.
Are you still a prisoner of old programmes learned during childhood and ingrained in your brains so that you end up acting like a biological robot?
References
Colson R. (Ed.) (2009). Panama: Politics and Economics. Politics and Economics of Latin America Series. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, USA. 213 p.
Deshpande S. (2003). Contemporary India: A Sociological View. Viking, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, India. 213 p.
Dundes A. (Ed.) (1994). The Cockfight: A Casebook. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, USA. 302 p.
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