Posted on September 16, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment
– The EU is supposedly comprised of millions of voting citizens each of whom have a voice in what goes on and how their Europe is run. The reality is that there are just a few ‘elites’ named Junker and Tusk – who, along with their un-elected Commissioners; have total control over what really happens – an action or no action. The people of Europe have no say in the end game. EU citizens have their MEP’s, but they are just a list of names of people who in reality; have no final say or decisions in how the EU moves. It is all really a major cover up by the EU elite to make the people of Europe think they have a say; when in reality they have no say about anything.
It would appear from the following that the EU leadership has some kind of secret strategy to make exit so hard for the UK to leave the EU that it will give up the negotiations and remain a member state.
In June this year the British people voted to get out of the EU; and the British people will make sure that is what happens. The Brits are used to trouble and campaigns with Europe; we fought a few battles there in the past. To Brits this is just another battle; and one which they are determined to get success with. Other democratic nations and peoples around Western Europe are also now thinking the ‘Brexit’ way. Elections in Germany and France next year will show in reality just how the people feel about their ‘democratic’ EU.
Currently this week, EU meetings are taking place with all member states except – yes you have guessed it – the UK; an uninvited but still existing and very much financially contributing member state. At the moment the UK is still a full member state of the EU until it submits a formal ‘Article 50’ to leave. But the Junkers and Tusks are making sure the UK is not now invited to any EU Party; as it is a bad boy and must be punished. Who knows what the ‘masters of the EU’ are planning as retribution to the British people for speaking (and voting) out against them.
The people of the UK want the British government to introduce Article 50 as soon as possible; the formal submission which must be enforced to get exit negotiations under way. The Brit voters have elected to democratically get out and away from the political elites of the EU named Junker and Tusk.
The Brits want to do it as soon as possible – so lets get on and get Article 50 under way Mrs. May (UK Prime Minister).
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Senior figures in the EU believe that Britain will give up on Brexit if they make negotiations as tough as possible, The Telegraph understands.
One senior British official involved in the set-up for the coming negotiations said the EU elite “seem to think the game is to make us change our minds”.
Read more on this:
Comments very welcome for us to show and publish !
Just one reason for giving 2 fingers to the EU:
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Posted on September 8, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Ref link to our earlier post:
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 6/9/16. Breaking News and Pictures – Authorities Have Until 8/9 To Clean Up; Or We Then Take Further Action.
Further Update 8/9.
Dear all;
Despite saying that we will publish names and e mails at noon (GMT) today in our earlier post; we have held back on this as things have progressed during the day today.
Slavica has been working hard – and today the main Veterinary Inspector has written back to her and said that immediately after the charge by Slavica, the veterinary inspector will start immediately with controls, which is being treated as an urgent case. Most importantly, he stated that they will send a report of what they have done after the work has been completed.
The Ministry also confirmed that they will send copies of all the documentation that is requested in the formal charge.
Now Slavica / we are allowing 15 days for everything to be sorted and provided to us as per the charge sent. Slavica is in charge of this program, and we are working with her and on her advice. We have not had any response from the EU, but we cannot say for sure that despite not contacting us, they have not acted on our e mail of 7/9 and put extra pressure on the B&H Ministry.
So now we wait to see what happens and if promises are kept. We are ready to act in defence of the dogs at the shelter as we have done; and we will not hesitate to take further action should the Ministry not provide all the data within the time frame; and taken clean ups at the shelter as they have promised.
We will keep you all informed of any future news on this issue.
SAV.
Here is a copy of the letter sent by the Ministry to Slavica:
Poštovani,
Ocjenjujući hitnim Vaš zahtjev za poduzimanje mjera iz nadležnosti Inspektorata veterinarske inspekcije, koji je jučer 07.09.2016.godine dostavljen veterinarkoj inspekciji Kantonalne uprave za inspekcijske poslove KS, kantonalni veterinarski inspektori su istog dana izvršili inspekcijski nadzor na oklnosti navedene u dostavljenom zahtjevu. S obzirom da postupak inspekcijskog nadzora u predmetu koji se odnosi na Prihvatilište za napuštene pse Žunovnica u Općini Hadžići još nije okončan, poduzete su i dodatne radnje i aktivnosti koje imaju za cilj pravilno utvrđivanje činjenica,to u ovom momentu ne možemo otkrivati više detalja, posebno iz razloga što je po nalogu Tužilaštva KS u slučaj istovremeno uključen i Odsijek nadležne krim policije.
Također, potvrđujemo da smo danas zaprimili i Vaš Zahtjev za informacijama od javnog začaja, te s tim u vezi bićete blagovremeno obaviješteni po okončanju započetog inspekcijskog postupka.
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Posted on September 7, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The Sultan and his Harem
Every day we get news about animals, they have now exceeded the tolerance level of the patient.
The situation is this: we write and inform ignorant officials of the EU Commission on Crime and manure stalls in the livestock sector.
These well-paid Clueless are not chosen by us.
None of them, whom we address for years, sits in the Commission because I voted for him.
As we all know, the “Commissioners” are nominated by their governments, and their appointment is confirmed by the EU Parliament.
But in the EU Commission, the German dynasty under Merkel is in charge.
All other 27 countries, are just lackeys of Merkel.
For the past year, however, and because of the refugee policy of Merkel, Europe is controlled by the Sultan Erdogan.
His Harem include Merkel and the entire European Communities.
Can we expect from the Commissioners that they punish the crime and illegality in the transport of animals in the country of the Sultan Erdogan?
Not at all, they are only errand boys of the country’s bosses, and they belong to, as I said, the harem!!!
What Osmin cannot do, can Blonde and Konstanze even less. And a Belmonte is not in sight (“The Abduction from the Seraglio” 
).
The only thing that can save us (and by that I mean the animals), is a revolution in the harem of the Sultan Erdogan.
Withdrawals from the EU, new government elections, demonstrations against corrupt governments.
And perhaps, no longer talk to the Commissioners, but with their superiors.
“Do not talk to the monkey, but to the circus manager,” says the old proverb.
Venus
with many regards
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The future for EU animals under the current EU political system ?
- New members and even less control than there is now; and ‘now’ is bad !
Many thanks Venus for your comments
Strangely enough (?) I was just putting together a few points about Merkel; the Brexit etc.
I include it below and as with getting out of the EU, I feel that the UK has very much done the correct thing.
Here is what I was preparing – it is very basic but does give a few formal links to the press etc.
Regards – M.
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Looks as if Merkel is lining herself up for a top job at the EU Commission when the good German people get rid of her. She has the attributes – she talks a lot but will really do nothing. Maybe she could be put in charge of investigating and actually taking action on live animal exports from the EU to Turkey. After all, some of the animals that ended up in Turkey did originate in Germany.
EU spokesman, Alexander Winterstein, said: ”As all Member States do, Spain must submit its draft budget on 15 October. They should also inform that date about effective actions, in line with the decisions of the EU Council.”
SAV Comment – ‘Effective Actions’ – maybe Alexander Winterstein could talk to Mr Bernard Van Goethem – he knows nothing of EU ‘effective actions’.
“Conscious of the growing mood of resentment across Europe, the EU Commission chose not to impose a fine on Spain over its failure to hit Brussels deficit targets just last month”.
A growing mood of resentment ? – probably the biggest un truth of all time. It is growing yes; but it is here, now, already ! – EU citizens hate the EU; when will they (the EU) get the message if ever ?
They don’t do anything for the people as we have seen with the inactions of Van Goethem over live animal exports to Turkey. As long as he sits in his well paid job, doing very little for animal welfare, then he is no doubt very happy.
Thank God for Brexit – only the start of decent, animal caring nations and people eaving.
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Posted on September 6, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Update 8/9 – there is now further (and hopefully positive) updates to what has been happening during 8/9 – please go to the following for the latest news – Thank – SAV.
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Out original data is as follows:
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 6/9/16.
Update 8/9 – despite objections we have had no response from the B&H officials. Therefore later today (8/9) we will be publishing all their e mail addresses so that you can write to them directly – and flood their inbox.
Hi Mark,
this is our official Request to veterinary inspection , ask for copies of documentation by which we can see what they did do after our Urgent Charge with a proof.
Now , Cantonal veterinary inspection, Sarajevo has 15 days for sending to us a copies – evidences about what they did do. If they will not send , we will send an appeal to Commissioner for public information.
Regards
Slavica
DOPUNA Zahteva za info tačkom 3. Dostavite kopiju Programa kontrole i smanjenja broja neodgovornih držalaca pasa i mačaka u gradu Sarajevo, koji se može zvati i Program kontrole i smanjenja populacije napuštenih pasa i mačaka, ali su mere i sankcije usmerene na ljude: držaoce životinja ,jer životinje nisu aktivni pravni subjekti i nima propisi ne nalažu, nego njihovim držaocima i firmama koje se bave životinjama..
EPAR
SAV Comment – we have copies of this documentation.
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We have just had these pictures in. Hadzici is a community in Sarajevo city.
It would seem that these dogs are due to be killed as they are termed to be ‘aggressive’. We have very serious concerns once again about corruption taking power over animal welfare.
We need to see major changes to the situation by the authorities by the morning of 8/9; otherwise we will publish all the e mail contact details that we hold of the people concerned – and then they can be deluged by mails from you.
We wish to see all the dogs saved; fed a lot and the facility very much cleaned up from the disgusting state which it is in at this time; and which can be seen in the photographs. If we find any of the dogs have been killed we will be taking further action.
We are immediately sending this post and ALL the photographs to the Enlargement Commission of the EU, as it is clear from the photographs that B&H are not enforcing adequate animal welfare legislation, and as such are not worthy of becoming future members of the EU.
We will remind the EU Enlargement Commission of this. Good EU member states are now leaving the EU and they are being replaced by corrupt states as we have identified for years now. This situation is no different.
We are holding back on e mail contact details for now but unless we see major improvements by 8/9; and the photographic and other proof sent to our contacts, we will then release the contact info.
Just look at the conditions in the following pictures – and the state of the floor covered in excrement. Authorities have until 8/9 to clean up and feed all the animals or we will be taking the next stage of our action.
SAV.
Comment:
It must be noted that B&H is not a modern nation of Europe that recognises that sterilisation of animals is the way to reduce numbers. Like Serbian politicians, they only want to kill, with no overall long term view to reducing animal numbers.
B&H has a law which DOES allow the killing of healthy but unwanted dogs.
Sterilisation would not even produce these dogs in the first place; but B&H politicians don’t seem to understand the basics. Maybe they want to put the money elsewhere – it is called ‘corruption’ by a lot.
Mass animal killing by law is allowed in B&H. The EU must decide on accepting this type of policy and the massive backlash which it will get as a result.
We also understand that the EU does not care about animal welfare, as the last 6 year evidence given to the EU over live animals to Turkey has resulted in no action by them. If the EU does not care about food animals then it for sure does not care about stray cats and dogs.
We are sure that the EU will have a great time putting endless money into B&H when it becomes an EU member state. By the ‘EU’, we mean German, Dutch, Danish citizens etc. If the EU does not work for them, then you follow the Brits and you get out of Europe. Let the money going to Serbia and B&H come from other member states who cannot afford it anyway.
The EU is in a complete and utter mess due to its own making. With the likes of Serbia and B&H becoming members; the EU rules of law will never be applied and Europe will become a kind of wild west.
EU – you deserve it. You have never listened to the citizens. Now face the consequences.
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Posted on September 5, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear industry stakeholders involved in the trade of live animals from Europe to Turkey,
For the past six years,
Animal Welfare Foundation, Eyes on Animals, Tierschutzbund Zürich, Compassion in World Farming and Animals´Angels
have been complaining to the EU Commission and the Member State officials about continuous breaches of Regulation (EC) 1/2005 during transports from the EU to Turkey committed by industry stakeholders.
Our experience has sadly shown that too many officials are incompetent- either by ignorance or naivity or lack of motivation. They are approving live-animal export consignments to Turkey whereby the animals are overcrowded, some of the animals are unfit (too pregnant, too weak…) and the journey log is completely bogus (no reserved booking at a control post to guarantee offloading, unrealistic journey times, accepting false control post names such as Kapikule or Svilengrad, claiming temperatures within the max EU range…).
This poses really bad competition for those of you trying to abide by the law and show more respect to the animals, and sets a very bad example to the cheating players in the industry (that they can get away and even profit from their bad attitude and actions).
A few transport companies cleaned up their act by getting rid of some inexperienced or lazy drivers and giving additional training and payment to the ones driving on this complicated route. Some transport companies and organizations agreed to stop sending animals in July and August when the temperatures are known to be too high, but a couple have now taken back their word saying they need to stay in the competition because animal-exporters will just use other companies.
A few livestock-truck manufacturing companies have altered the designs to their water systems and partitions and access doors, to solve some of the problems we were seeing. But sadly we have heard very little from exporters, many of whom continue to send animals on this route, and pressure transporters to load high densities and even highly pregnant cows that end up giving birth on the trucks. And we hear very little back from transport companies that continuously create problems. Even despite us offering their drivers a training course.
But the point is that although we appreciate those of you that at least took some steps, not enough has been done. Not being able to rely very much on authorities, we can only hope that you industry players will finally take the necessary action to put an end to all the horrible and unnecessary suffering and clean up your acts as much as possible.
Become aware of the problems, do not let cheating colleagues get away with it (open your mouths and police yourselves a bit better ). As long as this trade is so ridden with so much suffering , cheating and incompetent people, we will continue to expose it to the media and call for a full suspension.
In late June 2016 our teams were again at the border, for one week and it was the worst we have documented to date. Many dead animals and pregnant heifers giving birth. On top of the usual suffering from heat stress and lack of sufficient water.
You can download our June 2016 report here:
and watch the video here:
Urgent action is needed!
Yours sincerely, on behalf of Eyes on Animals and Tierschutzbund Zuerich|Animal Welfare Foundation,
Lesley Moffat
— Lesley Moffat, MSc Ethology Eyes on Animals – Director
Above – the principal person failing to act – Bernard Van Goethem of the EU Commission;
– and yes, he claims to be a veterinarian !! – animal welfare and all that !
This below is what he considers to be ok and is failing to act on:
Utterly USELESS EU COMMISSION
We have sent a copy of this post to Mr Van Goethem
Your message
To: VAN GOETHEM Bernard (SANTE)
Subject:
Sent: 05 September 2016 17:08:18 (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris
was read on 05 September 2016 17:10:25 (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris.
– Like everything else with him, we expect no further action from the EU!
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Posted on September 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Please could you circulate this:
The cat in the image, named Yogi, went missing from his home in Raleigh Close, Gravesend, after climbing into the back of a Bensons for Beds delivery van on Thursday morning.
The van driver went on to Beltana Drive Gravesend, then Rochester and Dartford to make further deliveries, unaware that he had an extra passenger. (It was only after Yogi did not appear at home that the CCTV was checked and showed him jumping into the van.)
Yogi is microchipped and has a tag with his name on it.
He is 5 years old, a large silver-grey tabby with a white belly, chin and socks.
He is very friendly.
Anyone with information please call Mrs Gifford on 07412 502044
Thanks,
Beth xx
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Posted on September 1, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, September 1, 2016
CONTACTS:
Camilla Fox, Executive Director, Project Coyote – 415.690.0338; cfox@projectcoyote.org
Adrian Treves, Science Advisor, Project Coyote 608.890.1450;
treves@wisc.edu
Research Review Finds that Weak Science has Bolstered the U.S. Government’s Predator-Control Practices
Peer Reviewed Journal Article Vindicates Wildlife Advocates’ Claims against Lethal Predator Management
MILL VALLEY, Calif. Sept. 1, 2016 – From their review of the prevailing research into lethal and non-lethal predator control practices in North America and Europe, an international trio of environmental scientists has determined that the science behind the reviewed research is not very scientific. In fact, the authors of the review- titled “Predator Control Should Not be a Shot in the Dark”- call for a moratorium on lethal predator control policies until researchers adopt higher testing standards. The new findings are being hailed by wildlife conservation groups like Project Coyote, which have questioned traditional predator management policies and practices as carried out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program.
The authors of the peer-reviewed article, which appears in today’s edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a journal published by the Ecological Society of America, are Dr. Adrian Treves, a Harvard-trained associate professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dr. Miha Krofel, a assistant professor & wildlife researcher in the Department of Forestry at the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Jeannine McManus, a graduate student at the School of Animal Plants and Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
With little rigorous, scientific testing available, farmers and ranchers have historically relied upon taxpayer subsidized lethal predator control programs to protect their livestock. The authors’ research findings show that scientific studies that have proliferated since the 1970s have disproportionately supported lethal methods of predator management. In an effort to systematically evaluate the totality of the scientific research on lethal versus non-lethal predator management, the reviewers screened all of the relevant research – 500 discrete projects in all. Of those, only two experiments met the gold standard for reliability, as defined by the authors of the review. For their assessment, the reviewers adopted the gold standard currently in force for biomedical research, which requires random assignment to treatment and to control groups. This provides a guarantee against bias and increases the opportunity for strong inference – an essential component of good science.
“We expect backlash from those agencies and individuals who benefit from the status quo,” said Adrian Treves, Project Coyote Science Advisory Board Member and lead co-author of the paper. “Independent scientists serve the broad public interest when they scrutinize the science used to promote government policies.”
The authors point out that it is the research they rejected for non-random assignment, poor methods and other design flaws that has been used by government agencies to make lethal management policy. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services (USDA WS) program exterminated 796 bobcats, 322 wolves, 580 black bears, 305 cougars, 1,186 red foxes, and 61,702 coyotes. Wildlife Services reports that across the United States, it spent about $127 million in fiscal year 2014 to kill 2.7 million animals, including 322 wolves. For decades, wildlife conservationists and scientists have condemned the indiscriminate and lethal approach to predator management as carried out by state wildlife agencies and the USDA WS. However, the agencies have justified their actions by claiming that science supports the killing of hundreds of thousands of predators each year, largely at the behest of ranchers and agribusiness.
“This review shows that state and federal agencies are relying on bad science and bad research to justify their use of lethal predator control programs,” said Camilla Fox, Founder and Executive Director of Project Coyote, a national non-profit organization that aims to reform predator management and promote coexistence between people and native carnivores. “We have just received another piece of evidence that killing predators is unjustified ethically, economically and certainly ecologically.”
Read the journal article here.
Watch a video about the article findings here.
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