3 News Items on Humans Two Best Friends

Two on dogs and the last on a dolphin

(While the first one may be of interst to some, the last two are
amazing!)

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1. BOW DAMN WOW!

Ok People,

Here Is A Chance To Show Off Your Doggie!

(And for me to go BARK! Maybe I get a job from it.)

: - )

Old Navy Brings Canine Casting Call to LA (and NY) In Search of Top Dogs
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For information, click on link at the very end of this. (No, not my
"jerky" one.)

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2. AN AMAZING DOG!

Methinks I will call them and tell them about the bow wow who arranges
her toys in geometric patterns, or by type (like all frogs with frogs)
all face up or all face down, puts one arm around another in a hug and
other neat things

This dog was NOT trained to do this!!!!

She (I think) is a rescued dog how had been mistreated. It took the
lady who saved it a while (weeks? months? I don't know if they said) to
get the dog to the point were she could hug it.

THE NEXT DAY she finds one of the dolls with her arm around another doll
in a hug!

This dog is being video taped and studied
by professor at a university.

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3. AND A TRULY AWESOME DOLPHIN

On the news today is a story about some people in Australia who had
spent hours trying to get two stranded whales back in to deeper water.
It had gotten to the point where shooting them to save them from a slow
more painful death was being considered.

The a Dolphin who frequents the same ban and cavorts with the locals
showed up. After spending some time with the two whales, she led them
back into deeper water!!

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You know how racial and other prejudice
is the result of ignorance and stupidity?

In my view, the same is true for the ALL those who insist animals do not
have feelings or empathy or team work or knowledge of self or death or
of other things humans have. They are wrong as the proof is there and
more is discovered
all the time.

(Just like Iraq.).

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Please, Take Care!

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NCR Says

NCR Says check this out -
http://www.russia.com/forums/russian-politics/20803-freedom-press-russia-what-joke.html


Press Freedom in Russia Vanishing
Phil Brennan
Monday, April 23, 2001
Freedom of the press in Russia has begun to resemble freedom of the press under Communist rule: Journalists once again are expected to follow the party line, only this time it's President Vladimir Putin's line and not some Soviet commissar's.
And keeping a tight rein on the media isn't a routine practiced solely by Putin and his coterie of ex-KGB agents and military brass hats. Out in the sticks local officials can be – and most are – just as intolerant of press freedom.

All across the vast Eurasian expanse that encompasses the Russian Federation, journalists recognize that whatever freedom they enjoy is entirely dependent upon the whims and caprices of government, both national and local.

"There are 89 different political regimes in Russia," says Igor Yakovenko, secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists. "Some of them are harsh dictatorships that crush press freedom, others have leaders that let some pluralism exist. But the signal coming out of Moscow today is telling regional authorities they can deal with the media as they like."

Newsweek's Christian Caryl notes: "What's happening in Russia today resembles … the old Soviet Union. A little over a year after Putin's election Russia is undergoing an extraordinary revival of Soviet-era habits, reflexes and rhetoric.

"What's being selectively salvaged from Soviet days is the idea of an authoritarian state with leaders who decide what's "best" for the people – a state whose interests seem to take precedence over pluralism and press freedom."

Incredibly, all this sits well with the majority of the Russian people. A recent poll revealed that 57 percent said they approved of restoring censorship.

Approval of the government keeping the media in line goes deep into the nation's past, according to Denis Popov, a reporter with Volskaya Zarya. "People think democracy means the majority is right, and holding other viewpoints is therefore wrong," he says.

As a consequence of this public attitude, Putin and the local satraps are free to hobble the media without fear of a hostile public reaction.

Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal Yabloko Party, told Newsweek, "Putin is creating a bureaucratic police state." If so, Newsweek notes, "he's doing it with public consent: His popularity ratings still hover at around 70 percent, higher than George W. Bush's."

In Moscow most of the foreign media's attention recently has been focused on the sudden takeover of NTV, the nation's only independent TV operation. Earlier this month Gazprom-Media, a branch of Russia's state-dominated gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MO)(GAZPq.L), seized the flagship station of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-Most empire in a boardroom coup, claiming he owed it up to $300 million.

The move drew a strong reaction from officials at the U.S. State Department.

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