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New "social networking" site aimed at vegetarians and vegan:

http://vegppl.com/

It looks similar to Facebook.

 SHAC-Letter from Heather Nicholson VM 4859 serving 11 years for animal

rescue

 From Heather Nicholson, VM 4859, HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road,Ashford,

Ashford, Middx, TW15 3JZ

 Dear Friends,

 I am very grateful for your support. Words can never adequately express

what it means to me and how much you have helped me. Your support for me

means that you support the

 animals and that brings me some comfort.

 I spoke up for the animals in court while I was being questioned fornearly

4 whole days. It was frustarting though & I came out feeling as if I had

said about 1% of what i had intended to say. I am heartbroken as always for

the animals

 still suffereing at the hands of the cowards at HLS. It makes me cry to

think that they (the animals) have no idea that anyone cares. It is

frighteneing that they have so many powerful enemies.

 I predicted that there would be no justice & that the media would bevile &

untruthful. I was right. Any attack on us is an attack on the animals. I

don't mind if the truth is reported as long as it is relevant but the news

has been massively distorted, to say the least (especially calling me

"mastermind"!) The press were only in court at the start & veryend of the

three-month trial so what they reported was

 fed to them by the police plus what they made up (see Daily Mail!!!).

 *

 Full article on:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422623.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-bell-the-iiosi-diary-1761500.html

Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary

Prepared to sort things out over a White House beerSunday, 26 July 2009 Griff Rhys Jones is in hot water with the fishingcommunity after encouraging us all to get in our canoes to disturb as manyfishermen as possible.

His incendiary comments have proved a brilliant way ofpromoting his new series Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones, starting on BBC1tonight. But I can reveal that he should not have been making the programme at all.

The concept for the show, which has him exploring Britain's forgotten rivers by boat, was dreamed up by angler and writer CharlesRangeley- Wilson. Three years ago his hit BBC show called The Accidental Anglersaw him travel the world in pursuit of weird and wonderful fish. I'm told hepitched his idea to the BBC but wasn't considered famous enough bycelebrity-obsessed producers – and Rhys Jones was drafted in. "The ironyis that Charles is a keen fisherman, but the BBC brought in someone who istotally anti- them," whispers my mole with the maggot tin.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html

Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine FluVaccines

(NaturalNews) To most people,vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say thedoctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in thosevaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really inthose vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them.

Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (likesqualene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines(including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseasedflesh of African Green Monkeys. This is revealed in U.S. patent No. 5911998- Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidneycell line. (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5...)

As this patent readily explains, ingredients used in the vaccine are derivedfrom the kidneys of African Green Monkeys who are first infected with thevirus, then allowed to fester the disease, and then are killed so that theirdiseased organs can be used make vaccine ingredients. This is done in a cruel,inhumane "flesh factory" environment where the monkeys are subjectedto a process that includes "incubating said inoculated cell line to permitproliferation of said virus." Then: "harvesting the virus resultingfrom step (c); and... (ii) preparing a vaccine from the harvested virus."

Aside from the outrageous cruelty taking place with all this("incubating" the virus in the kidneys of living monkeys, for example),there's another disturbing fact that has surfaced in all this: The patentfor this process is held not just by the National Institutes of Health, but byanother private corporation known as DynCorp.

This, of course, brings up the obvious question: Who is Dyncorp? And why dothey hold a patent on live attenuated vaccine production using African GreenMonkeys?

What you probably didn't want to know about DyncorpDynCorp, it turns out, is a oneof the top private military contractors working for the U.S. government.In addition to allegedly trafficking in under-age sex slaves in Bosnia (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.ph...) andpoisoning rural farmers in Ecuador with its aerial spraying of Colombian cocacrops (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.ph...),Dyncorp just happens to be paid big dollars by the U.S. government to patrolthe U.S. / Mexico border, near where the H1N1 first swine flu virus wasoriginally detected.

DynCorp also happens to be in a position to receive tremendous financialrewards from its patents covering attenuated live viral vaccine harvestingmethods, as described in four key patents jointly held by DynCorp and theNational Institutes of Health:

(6025182) Method for producing a virus from an African green monkey kidney cellline

(6117667) Method for producing an adapted virus population from an Africangreen monkey kidney cell line (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6...)

(5911998) Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkeykidney cell line

(5646033) African green monkey kidney cell lines useful for maintaining virusesand for preparation of viral vaccines

Government collusion?One of the key inventors inthese patents now held by DynCorp was Dr. Robert H. Purcell. Who is Dr.Robert Purcell? He's one of the co-chiefs of the Laboratory of InfectiousDiseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseasesoperating under the National Institutes of Health of the U.S.government. (http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/abou...)

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KB

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ANIMAL RIGHTS CENTRAL

http://www.animal-rights-central.com/

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93510

Garda B16 does not know a "document" whenhe serves it

At a hearing in Dublin District Court today, Judge McMahon dismissed the case against two animal rights activists arrested outsideBarnardo’s fur shop on Lower Grafton Street in Dublin on 22 May this year.

Robert Sevik was charged undersection 24 of the Public Order Act (refusing to give his name and address), and Edmond Long was charged under section 19 of the same act (obstruction of apeace officer).

Proceedings were instituted by Garda Paul Tallon, B16, of Harcourt Streetstation. The two men defended themselves. Seán Ryan acted as a McKenzie friendto both co-defendants.

The case was first adjourned to another court to permit viewing of videoevidence, but the defendants promptly brought a motion for dismissal, arguingthat Garda Tallon had broken District Court rules by delivering video evidenceto them in person. Order 10 states: "A member of the Garda Síochána shallnot serve a document in any proceedings in which such member is the personinstituting the proceedings."

Garda Tallon responded that ”it was a video recording, not a document” -apparently unaware that a video recording may also be a legal document.

Mr. Long had taken the video recording in question on the day of thedemonstration and Garda Tallon had confiscated it from him under the CriminalLaw Act.

Garda Tallon said that he had subsequently met Mr. Sevik at his home and hadgiven him the video recording, as per a court order of 27 July. Mr. Sevik hadinitially refused to acknowledge him but recorded him with a video recorder.Garda Tallon had then asked Mr. Sevik to call Mr. Long to take receipt of theconfiscated video recording. He did not do so. Garda Tallon had left the videowith Mr. Sevik.

Mr. Sevik complained that Garda Tallon had refused to step back out of thedoorway when requested.

The judge asked Mr. Sevik why he should object to the garda's behaviour."Is this not just obstruction?" he asked.

"I don't trust this man," replied Mr. Sevik. "I think that thiscase is a fabrication."

The judge asked Mr. Sevik what motion he was making. Dismissal.

And what motion was Mr. Long making, if the recording had not been served tohim? Also dismissal, as he lived at the same address.

Having checked the rule book, the judge advised Garda Tallon: "There'sclearly a flaw in the matter."

Garda Tallon then admitted that he was not aware of the rule and requested ashort remand to seek advice from the State Solicitor.

Judge McMahon refused, saying that the rule was quite clear.

”Rules are rules. Dismissed both matters.”

Mr. Long faces charges under the Public Order Act again on 14 September, havingbeen arrested by Garda Tallon at a demonstration in the same place on 20 June.

"Thousands of mice are being poisoned to death inbrutal and unnecessary safety tests for anti-wrinkle drug Botox."

http://www.people.co.uk/news/news/tm_method=full%26objectID=21600035%26siteID=93463-name_page.html

"Direct Action Movie (working title) aims to takethe viewer on a journey from the inception and early history of animal andearth liberation groups up to their present-day role as a powerful,controversial movement whose primary goal has pitted them against an equallycommitted array of foes, including a wide variety of corporate interests, themedical research industry, and a host of government agencies.  Ultimately, this film will seek to answer thequestion that arises whenever ordinary people choose to do extraordinarythings:

Why?"

See the trailer: http://www.directactionmovie.com/dam/Trailer.html