gloridiamonds says: they are mad because he wants to kill a turkey? correct me if im wrong but this is so damn stupid. Animals are here for us to eat. WE are higher than them on the food chain so plz
» SFB says: Actually, that wasn’t my point at all. The issue is that this ceremonial pardon gets way more attention and consideration than the actual presidential pardons, which the president isn’t doing very many of. Doing it on Facebook makes the whole thing even more flip. I don’t care if you eat turkey — really, I don’t think anyone should give a flip about what’s on anyone’s table tomorrow. This, however, is just a weird tradition. — Ernie @ SFB
(Source: cbsnews.com)
Wikileaks is dumping 5 million emails from Stratfor. This series is about Coke trying to get some info on PETA. Fascinating.
Interesting, thanks Fred.
Fred Burton wrote:
The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I’ll see what
I can uncover.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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From: “scott stewart”
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:01:30 -0400
To: ‘bart mongoven’
Subject: RE: Public Policy Question for Coca-Cola
Yeah, I’m not sure how that works now either. Bart, is this something
you guys can still help with?———————————————————————————————————
From: Anya Alfano [mailto:anya.alfano@stratfor.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:56 AM
To: Fred Burton; scott stewart
Subject: Public Policy Question for Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola just sent me a long list of questions regarding PETA/Animal
Activism and the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver—I’ve pasted the
questions below. I’m not entirely clear on how much we can task the
public policy group at this point—is there any guidance you can give me
on that front? Coke has asked for a short teleconference with one of
our analysts to discuss this issue—is that something I could ask Kathy,
Bart or Joe to do, or would that be off the table at this point? Stick,
are these questions something that you have a handle on, if we aren’t
able to get info from the policy folks?
Any thoughts or guidance would be helpful. Thanks, Anya
Questions—-
— How many PETA supporters are there in Canada?
— How many of these are inclined toward activism?
— To what extent will US-based PETA supporters travel to Canada to
support activism?
— What is PETA’s methodology for planning and executing activism?
(Understanding this better would certainly help us to recognize
indicators should they appear.)
— To what extent is PETA in Canada linked to PETA in the US or
elsewhere?
— To what extent are the actions of PETA in one country controlled by
an oversight board/governing body?
— To what extent could non-PETA hangers-on (such as anarchists or ALF
supporters) get involved in any protest activity?
A fascinating story that exposes a major private intelligence firm. It’s extremely interesting that Anonymous gave these files to Wikileaks — Anonymous hacked Stratfor late last year. Wikileaks has numerous media partners around the world for this story, with McClatchy and Rolling Stone representing the U.S., and activist group The Yes Men helping as well. We’ll check more of this stuff out later tonight.
So, once you get past the fact that PETA’s Mario riff is disgusting, the game is actually kind of fun. We admit to spending far too long trying to beat it.
So, Mario pulls a suit out of his closet that he hasn’t worn in over 20 years, and all of a sudden PETA thinks it’s worthy of making a bloody video game parody (not safe for stomach) over? Really? What, is the style police going to go after Kuribo’s Shoe next?
[San Francisco] deserves a neighborhood named after a delicious cruelty-free food instead of the flesh of an abused animal.PETA’s Tracy Reiman • Regarding the city’s notorious Tenderloin district. The TL, as some call it, is a notoriously rough area near San Francisco’s financial district; according to local lore, it’s named after the preferred cut of meat for neighborhood cops overflowing with bribe money. PETA is offended at this carnivore-centric nomenclature, and wants to rename the neighborhood “The Tempeh,” after the soy product. Once again, PETA really ought to consider picking their battles more carefully. Besides, renaming it “The Tempeh” might imply that the corrupt cops preferred cruelty-free food. And we don’t want to glorify corrupt cops, do we? source (via • follow)
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