The Cruel Cages That Are Now Illegal. click to enlarge.
For 12-years the UK egg industry assured the Government and a concerned public that they would comply with the European-wide ban on barren battery cages. These cages are too small, barren of litter and have nowhere for the hens to perch.
These cruelly imprisoned chickens are just a live egg-laying machine to the capitalists who still continue to operate illegal factory farms despite it being illegal since January 1, 2012. There are according to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) thirty such criminal farmers flouting the law.
The Government should impose hefty fines on these egg producers and force immediate compliance. The Government should also make it clear to retailers that under the EU Egg Marketing Regulation it would be illegal for them to sell eggs from these non-compliant producers.
Please TAKE ACTION. Click through to the CIWF web site and send a letter to Jim Paice, the Minister of State at Defra, to take immediate action against the 30 producers involved – and to additionally ensure that none of the illegal eggs enter the UK food chain.
The UK, along with our European partners have taken a very important step in the fight to stop cruelty in food production. Don’t let these 30 arrogant operators continue to stick their fingers up at the law.
The situation is much worse in countries outside the EU though and I hope the CIWF will provide evidence and further campaigns to stop the unnecessary abuse in the food industry.
Staying on a farm close to the city of Espera Feliz, Minas Gerais, Brazil has certainly kept me quiet. On the farm itself there is no Internet or for that matter a fixed-line phone.
Back in the city there a few ‘Lan Houses’, public Internet shops, where locals and travellers go to connect. There is fixed-line Internet available but it’s expensive and slow. My friends don’t have it.
The other alternative is a USB modem (a dongle as it is known in the UK) using the cellular phone system. It is not only slow but expensive.
The entire Brazilian mobile telephone and Internet service reminds me of how it was in the bad old days before regulation of the industry in Great Britain. The bigger cities provide faster Internet but not by much.
Now, I am not blaming my lack of posts on the TheDuckShoot entirely on the Brazilian telephone industry. But along with it and enjoying the wonderful scenery (and the partying), sitting down and writing about the woes of the world is like trying to run through water in welly boots.
Innocent Eddie Gilfoyle gagged - click to enlarge.
In July 1993, Liverpool Crown Court jailed Eddie Gilfoyle for killing his eight-and-a-half months pregnant wife Paula Gilfoyle. The 32 year-old was found hanged in a garage attached to the home they shared in Upton, Wirral. Eddie Gilfoyle was jailed for 25 years.
Liverpool and Wirral come under the jurisdiction of the Merseyside Police Authority. Remember them? You won’t forget if I can help it. These are the bunch of criminally inept and corrupt cops that attempted, and partially succeeded, to censor this blog. These are the same cops who won’t let the public see a photo of (alleged) pedo police constable Simon Ferns.
Mr Gilfoyle has at been released following the revelation that the Merseyside police deliberately hid notes from the investigation. They hid them from the trial judge, the jury and the public who historically have the right that “justice be seen to be done”.
Last year new evidence was unearthed which cast doubt on his historic murder. Police notes from the time surfaced suggested that Gilfoyle was at work when his wife died. It transpires that these notes confirm that Eddie Gilfoyle was at work when the “murder” was committed. Except it wasn’t murder, there is strong evidence that Paula Gifoyle committed suicide.
Now after 18 years of his life wasted he has been released by the parole board. Unusually, they released him on his first application, but then gagged him. He is prohibited from talking about his ordeal and even pleading his case in public.
On release he made this statement, “I am not able to provide a response because the Parole Board has imposed a condition on my life licence that prohibits me contacting the media either directly or indirectly whether this is regarding my release or my appeal. This is a matter that I will be challenging through the courts but until that time I cannot comment”.
In other words they know he is innocent but because these toe-rags are part of the same corrupt system that put him in jail in the first place they pile on more injustice on injustice. To gag a man who has suffered incarceration due to police corruption is just plain wrong.
Eddie Gilfoyle was wrongly accused, wrongly convicted, wrongly jailed for 18 years and now with evidence piling up against the Merseyside Police he has wrongly been gagged. Well they won’t gag me! More on this failed police force is on it’s way.
Suspended police officer Simon Ferns has been charged the child sex offence of grooming. His trial continues in February, if it ever does continue.
I am always suspicious of cop trials they usually end up with aquittal. Cops that kill, rape, assault and rob have got off scot free. So it won’t surprise me if Ferns gets away with this.
TheDuckShoot.com believes it knows the address of this cop and would like confirmation. At this stage I will not give the full address but Ferns lives in Birkenhead and a photo of his street is shown below. Can you confirm which is his house? If you can provide a verifiable photo of him I’d appreciate it too.
Incidentally, I got my information from both publicly accessible records, some of them official and provided by the government. That fact will probably make the Merseyside cops seethe with anger but tough shit TheDuckshoot is here to expose them and all other dodgy cops.
During the period 1990 to 2000 Alberto Fujimori, the then president, and his government enacted a program of compulsory birth-control. Almost 350,000 Peruvian women were forced or coerced into being sterilised.
The BBC reports that the women did not always consent and others were misinformed, not fully understanding what was happening to them. Police and medical staff used aggression and force to deny the women’s choice in the matter.
It’s a pity Fujimori’s mother didn’t choose to be sterilised before he was born, so that beautiful Peru was saved from the barbarism of this monster.
As always the police were used to help enforce this abuse of human rights, yet again proving that police forces are tools of governments throughout the world. Don’t trust them!
Egyptian Military Police Brutaly Beat and Humiliate a Woman Protester
The ruling Egyptian regime has consistently lied to it’s people and the world about the extent force is used against demonstrators and activists. The world in general wasn’t fooled. There are enough pictures and videos finding their way to the world’s media to know the truth.
Some Egyptians, however, were fooled. A significant number of the general public thought the latest protests unnecessary and even criminal. Some still do, but it’s not the protesters who are the criminals. The criminals are those in power from the Prime Minister all the way down to the military thugs on the street.
Unlike Syria, the Egyptian media have not been totally locked down. There exists a relatively free press that does sometimes report truth. Splashed across the front page of Al-Tahrir, a liberal Egyptian daily, a photo of a semi-naked woman shocked the nation. The blunt red headline read “Liars”, the paper described the use of overwhelming force against protesters. But the Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri continued to deny it.
It resulted in wide coverage inside Egypt, which then spread across the world. An amateur video shows up to ten of Egypt’s military police partly stripping and viciously clubbing a woman. They exposed her torso and blue bra, something shameful to an Egyptian woman. While she lay on the street a group of military thugs kicked her in the head and stamped on her chest.
Pictures of a woman being beaten and humiliated have reminded people that the revolution in February was about ridding Egypt of judicial brutality and a regime that existed by it. Has anything really changed? Watch the video.
Front line rail workers in the United Kingdom face abuse every day, mostly verbal, but sometimes a serious incident like this occurs. It belies the claim, often made by rail companies, that rail travel is becoming safer.
The ticket inspector, on a C2C train at East Tilbury, Essex, caught two young men without tickets. When told to leave the train their response was to stab the inspector. He was taken to Basildon University Hospital where his wounds were treated. He received three stitches.
Police want to interview the two men pictured above; they were caught on CCTV. Do you know them?
Bob Crow the leader of the RMT union who rejects train company’s safety claims had this to say. “Once again it shows the dangers that transport staff face every day and particularly over the Christmas and new year period. The perpetrators of this vicious and cowardly assault must be caught, and the authorities need to show that those who attack public service workers will be severely punished.”
The incident occurred just before 9pm on Friday on the 8.20pm c2c service from Southend Central to Fenchurch Street in London. If you have any information, please report it to a rail staff member or police. Remember, the thugs that did this are dangerous, you could be next.
Merry Christmas to the poor in the world, let’s work to end poverty.
Merry Christmas to the illegally held prisoners in Guantanamo.
Merry Christmas to all political prisoners including Bradley Manning.
Merry Christmas to the tortured, may your suffering soon end.
Merry Christmas to the religious many including those that don’t celebrate it.
Merry Christmas to all military personnel, bring peace now, lay down your arms.
Merry Christmas to atheists, agnostics and all those I haven’t mentioned.
A special Merry Christmas to my family and friends throughout the world.
Whether you are a believer or not it’s a time to reflect, let’s make peace.
Sgt Mark Andrews Woman-Beater has friends in high places
YES people this is a RANT!
The OBVIOUSLY GUILTY woman-beater Sgt. Mark Andrews who deliberately threw Ms Somerville onto a concrete cell floor and smashed her face got the sack from Wiltshire police. Now Mr Bean has reinstated him. Not the world-famous Mr Bean played by Rowan Atkinson the film and TV actor but a much more sinister Mr Justice Bean.
Mr Justice Bean is a judge who deludes himself into believing that the police can do no wrong.
Mr Justice Bean is blind to evidence, video evidence, that clearly shows victim Andrews pushing Ms Somerville into the cell and onto the floor.
Mr Justice Bean is deaf to the evidence of cop-thug Andrews’ colleagues who bravely reported him and testified to his thuggery.
Mr Justice Bean has betrayed the justice system, all decent cops, Ms Somerville and the public.
I did not think British justice could get this screwed. In fact, one wonders whether this stupid judge is in the pay of the police. Has he been caught in a compromising situation and now owes the cops a favour? Have the cops covered up some crime committed by blind-to-evidence Judge Bean? To get to the position in the judiciary, judge Bean has to be intelligent. So such a stupid decision beggars belief.
They hid a vast amount of the recorded evidence from the public by editing or non-disclosure. Did judge Bean ask to see the complete recordings? I doubt it. Would he take notice? I doubt that too.
This corrupt judge chose to ignore Sgt Andrews’ aggression demonstrated at the initial confrontation in the charge room. Nor did he notice Andrews’ initial assault on Ms Somerville, who posed no threat to him, by grabbing her and dragging her across the room. He ignored the testimony of the brave police woman who reported this piece of shit. Congratulations Beany Bastard I hope your bowls work like your brain, all bunged up and painful.
Judge Bean just loves to let off woman beaters. Click to enlarge.
The Wiltshire PBD (Police Brutality Division), and every other police force, is now free to beat-up innocent men, women and even children in the knowledge that they will get away with it. Apart from the inconvenience of a phony arrest, a trial, tea and biscuits with the governor of a prison, winning an appeal, getting sacked and sitting at home for a few months, every cop-thug now knows that he will get his/her job back and full back pay.
Expect Andrews at demonstrations directing his fellow thugs-in-uniform to beat up innocent protesters. That will part of his brown nosing duty to the elite and privileged 1%! The rich and powerful have won again – for now. The whole fucking justice system in Britain is skewed towards the rich and privileged. Roll on the Revolution!
Here, is the original video that shows Andrews’ thuggery:
He can't see the success of the public sector strikes but, boy, with his eyes open he's scary.
Blinded by his own self-importance Britain’s Prime Minister, Tory tosser David Cameron, couldn’t see that yesterdays public sector was a resounding success.
Schools were shut, non-essential operations were postponed, flights were cancelled. This included my flight to Brazil. Courts, jobcentres, and museums closed as well, and government departments were disrupted.
The papers claim two million went on strike. That means there were more because the capitalist run press always down-play working-class success.
So what did the arrogant Tory-tosser say about the strike? He called it a “damp squib”! No mate, the coalition government that you lead is the “damp squib”.
If you stopped all your toffee-nosed mates from stealing from the nation, we wouldn’t have deficits and banking crises. Then we could have a more equal and fair Britain.
TheDuckShoot congratulates the strikers, and they are assured of continued support from this blog.
This racist woman is remanded in custody after appearing in court accused of racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment.
The video shows Emma West abusing ethnic minority people on a south London tram. She had a child on her lap and according to another concerned passenger there were other children on board.
The clip, viewed now more than five million times since being uploaded to YouTube on Sunday, shows a woman sitting with a child, shouting at fellow passengers.
The 34-year-old, of New Addington, Croydon, was remanded in custody while reports are prepared and is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on December 6.
As I write, the YouTube clip of the incident has had 5,975,815 views.
Banks are like “Government-Sponsored Mafias” says Nomi Prins in an interview with Lauren Lyster of RTAmerica. In this episode of Capital Account, Lyster speaks with author and former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins.
They discuss revelations from the Bank for International Settlements that notional OTC derivatives have now reached all-time highs of 708 trillion dollars. This is over 100 trillion dollars more than the notional amount 6 months ago.
Prins is also asked about recent revelations that former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson provided inside information about the nature of the government’s intended intervention in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to a select group of hedge fund managers and friends.
Take this with the ever unfolding scandal of Jon Corzine and the missing billions from MF Global, and you have more signs of crony capitalism, fraud, embezzlement and insider trading everywhere.
Are any of these criminals going to jail? Silly question! These Mafia-style crooks will continue to enjoy their ill-gotten gains while that other group of capitalist cronies, the police, abuse, batter, Taze, pepper spray and arrest the hero ‘Occupy’ ant-capitalist protesters.
British grandmother Linda Carty was wrongfully sentenced to death by a Texan court and is now dangerously close to execution. She is the victim of a catastrophically flawed trial.
All the evidence against her was circumstantial, and the men who admitted to the robbery and kidnap did a deal with the prosecution. They then claimed Linda did the murder. The confessors received jail sentences instead of the death penalty because of that deal.
The deal they did is called plea bargaining or to turn state’s evidence. It stinks and allows criminals to get reduced sentences, as in this case, or immunity from prosecution. They have a vested interest in lying.
How to save Linda Carty
Linda’s life is now in the hands of the Republican Governor of Texas, Rick Perry. Since succeeding George Bush nine years ago, Governor Perry has only granted clemency to one death row inmate – Kenneth Foster in 2007.
It is time to get very worried about Linda. She needs all the support she can get – here are some of the ways you can help: www.Reprive.org
Interview by Mary Fitzgerald, for Prospect magazine 2010
Find out more: www.Reprieve.org.uk
Over the weekend, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accepted the award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2011 Walkley Award in Australia, an honor akin to the Pulitzer Prize in the United States.
Democracy Now! airs an excerpt from Assange’s acceptance speech and gets reaction from constitutional law attorney and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald. Today also marks the one-year anniversary of “Cable Gate,” when WikiLeaks began publishing a trove of more than 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department cables.
In related news, the U.S. Army recently scheduled a Dec. 16 pretrial hearing for Army Private Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of providing the cables to WikiLeaks. Manning “faces life in prison, possibly the death penalty, for what was an act of conscience,” says Greenwald.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe. Click to enlarge. Copyright Met Police.
The Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe is trying to make a name for himself. He is throwing caution to wind by ignoring the evidence against Taser guns by seeking to have Tasers available to his whole force.
The Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May MP is almost certain to authorise this dangerous course of action. Her incompetence over her handing of border controls and the civil servant Brodie Clark has to be overshadowed somehow.
So between them, the dangerous duo Hogan-Howe and May, will authorise the proliferation of killer Tasers in the capital. Innocent people will die.
Home Secretary Theresa May MP. Click to enlarge.
Once the Metropolitan police (Met) get their hands on thousands more of these implements of torture, all the other police authorities in the UK will get them.
All I ask, dear reader, is get-clued-up. Don’t accept the lies that Tasers are a safe alternative to firearms; they are not. Tasers kill and if you need proof refer to the mountains of evidence From the test-bed of the Taser – the United States of America.
The Evidence:
In my opinion this site is the World Authority on Taser truth, Excited-Delirium.
This video is quite old now, but it demonstrates how these thugs in uniform behave towards members of the public. It is not known why the man is being arrested and he is not threatening the cops. He is clearly not a danger to them. But they Tasered him anyway. They Tasered him a second time, and he was expected to comply despite being in agony. Then one the thugs punched him several times.
The Taser makes you lose control so how can someone then comply? All those cops got away with this assault of course. That’s normal. Expect more of it people if the Met get their way.
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