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[AssassinsMace]

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The irony is animal rights organizations always used pictures of cute animals to get people to give them money. Anyone remember the ape a while ago that took a selfie of itself when it took a photographer's camera?



Well PETA is suing the photographer claiming the money he's making from the ape selfie belong to the ape since by law whoever takes the picture, owns it.

 

[broadsword]

PC aside, the picture of the ape is priceless. It is not easy to take a clear portrait of an ape, much less one with a smile and sleepy eyes.

 

[no_name]

It almost looks like the ape knew what he is doing.

Well PETA is suing the photographer claiming the money he's making from the ape selfie belong to the ape since by law whoever takes the picture, owns it.

What's the ape gonna do with the money? Eat it?
Ideologically brain damaged stance.

 

[AssassinsMace]

It almost looks like the ape knew what he is doing.



What's the ape gonna do with the money? Eat it?
Ideologically brain damaged stance.

Well PETA of course becomes administrator of the ape's estate and they will decide what to do with the money. The question is where was the picture taken? If it wasn't in the US then the law they're using is irrelevant. Hence why PETA is only about publicity for itself.

 

[plawolf]

Sometimes charities and other such obstenciably not for profit organisations can behave in the most arrogant and obnoxious manners because they think their mission and mandate is no good, almost any means is justifiable in the pursuit of them.

 

[siegecrossbow]

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The group euthanized 2,454 of its 3,369 cats, dogs and other animals, the vast majority of which were "owner surrenders," meaning that they'd been relinquished to the group voluntarily. Just 23 dogs and 16 cats were adopted.

Nuff said.

 

[AssassinsMace]

Several years ago members of PETA were caught outside Sacramento near UC Davis dumping the dead dogs they euthanized in some business' garbage bin. Obviously trying to hide what they normally do as practice. Also probably trying to throw people off by dumping them near a university to make it look they were responsible and not them.

 

[siegecrossbow]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A former senior member of the exiled Tibetan government in India and one-time biographer for the Dalai Lama has returned to live in China, where he had visited several times in recent years, a Chinese government-run news website said.
Tibet.cn said late on Saturday that Achok Rinpoche had returned in May and was now living permanently in Ngaba, a heavily Tibetan part of the southwestern province of Sichuan that is traditionally strongly defiant of Chinese rule.

"I've now really become a Chinese citizen," he was quoted as telling senior Sichuan government official Cui Baohua last week.

The website showed a picture of the two of them walking around a temple in Ngaba surrounded by Tibetan Buddhist monks.

According to the website of the Austria-based Tibet Centre Institute, where Achok Rinpoche is listed as a teacher, he had been working on compiling a list of teachings of the Dalai Lama and had once been his official biographer.

He also lived in Beijing for a year in 1987 at the request of the Dalai Lama and the late Panchen Lama, working at a school for reincarnated lamas, the center said.

China has ruled Tibet with an iron fist since the People's Liberation Army "peacefully liberated" it in 1950.

Achok Rinpoche and Cui, who heads the United Front Work Department in Sichuan, which is in charge of co-opting religious groups and ethnic minorities, are "old friends", the Chinese report said.

Achok Rinpoche, who was born in Sichuan in 1944 and left in 1959 after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, first came back to China in 1982 as part of an effort by Beijing to engage with exiled Tibetans, the Chinese website said.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled at the same time. China reviles him as a separatist, although he says he merely wants genuine autonomy for Tibet.

Achok Rinpoche had headed a Tibetan hospital and worked as a senior librarian in exile, the Chinese website said.

He fell and injured himself while in Nepal in December 2014 and asked to be taken to China for treatment, which Cui organized, the report said.

During each trip Achok Rinpoche could see with his own eyes China's amazing development, and that religious and ethnic groups were well-treated, the website said.

"The motherland and home are the best. The motherland is the warmest," it said.

Although he was invited to the Dalai Lama's birthday celebrations in July, what he wanted to do more was come home and settle down, the website said.

It was not immediately possible to reach him for comment.

 

[broadsword]

Tibetan yak milk and butter are hard to find in the West.

 

[Blackstone]

Now that Abenomics failed in spectacular fashion, the man of the hour tries to make nice with China. Is the overture just what the doctor ordered, or is it too little, too late?

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that

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needed to develop a stable and amicable relationship with China.

"Already we have gone through several rounds of summit meetings and we are steadfastly moving to further develop a mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests," Abe said at Bloomberg headquarters in New York.

Asked by Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg how Japan would deal with China's economic slowdown, Abe said:

"Certainly we export a lot, we invest a lot in China. Therefore the economic relationship between Japan and China is very close in the field of trade and investment. And therefore there is a need, we have to watch very carefully the path of the Chinese economy."

Abe has tried to improve relations with China, but progress has been slow over Japan's perceived failure to atone for its wartime aggression and China's increasingly assertive tone in territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas.

Ties have thawed slightly since Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping met at international gatherings in April and last November, but the diplomatic relationship between Asia's two biggest economic powers is far from friendly.

"We need to develop our amicable relationship, a stable relationship, between Japan and

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. I think both countries should make efforts to that end," said Abe, who is New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly.

Abe said Japan's economic fundamentals were "rock solid," and added:

"In the event that due to external factors, if our economy is going to experience major confusions, then we will have a flexible economic management policy in place so that we will be prepared."