Sarah Palin - Predator from the North »
Posted By Spadecaller 9 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentThis music video contrasts the beauty of the Alaskan wolf and the brutal use of aerial hunting that is considered sport by Governor Sarah Palin, McCain’s running mate. Featuring Claude Debussy's "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair," the sounds of wolves, and visuals by Spadecaller.
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hurr1Comment removed: User banned.16 Replies
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BB649 months ago
Hold on lefty, would you rather have us build more roads and build a few hunting towns? Or is it more natural to permit them to starve to death? This is once again a left wing story about nothing. I'm surprised they didn't have Tina Fay reading this last Saturday with machine gun fire in the background. Oh that's right they're too busy pitching for Barry the "terrorists friend".
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Francisca9 months ago
What a potent video! What a marvellous and wonderful pictures of the Alaskan wolf: it helps us to meditate about our own savagery! Thanks Spadecaller.
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bubba29 months ago
I find it ironic that a woman who swears that all abortion is wrong because God says that all life should be protected is just fine with the ruthless slaughter of innocent animals that have done absolutely nothing to her and ARE living, sentient beings.
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The more I learn about her, the more I can see why she was selected - she could eventually match the evil of Cheney. -
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dunkirk9 months ago
Her statements viewed against that video give a biug insight into her mentality. We can't afford someone like her a heartbeat away.
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ADAGUY9 months ago
Yea, it has to be a leave of common sense!
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But check this out!
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Endoscopy8 months, 4 weeks ago
The nutcases are the ones here spouting ignorance. I have talked to some of the people in a couple of states that are part of the wildlife administrators for their states. These things are done very carefully with the best interest of all of the wildlife in the area. But spadecaller just likes to look at the "compassionate bleeding heart PETA" type of information. He can't believe that these people work for the best interest of all the animals in an area by issuing licenses to kill certain types of wildlife. That would not make a good story bashing Palin. Even Palin has no control over those licenses and how many they issue. However that does not make a good bash Palin story.
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The real game here is to bash Palin. There is really nothing she has to do with this program but what the heck they will bash her anyway. Typical of a spadecaller bash story. Lets ignore the facts and get on with the bashing. So what if it is a lie. That does not mean anything to spadecaller as I have seen in several of his stories.
What lie will you post nest with beautiful pictures and music with people having nothing to do with it in there from time to time.
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not2needy9 months ago
She's a barbarian. Cruel, unfeeling and mean spirited.
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Where's PETA, Where's World Wildlife, Where's North Shore and the ASPCA?? I have donated to all of these organizations at one point, and i am disgusted that they haven't taken a stronger stance and been more vocal about Sarah Palin.
That was a lovely presentation SC, as usual!! I get on a soapbox where animals are concerned!-
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Endoscopy9 months ago
What are you going to do with all of the excess wolves up there. Either you kill them or take them and put them somewhere. Would you foolish people like to take in a couple of packs of wolves?
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People have modified the habitats and caused the animals to have reduced areas. The natural balance has been altered. The wildlife conservationists monitor the amount of animals in an area and to keep the animals healthy they assign a number to trim the amount of them by. Then they issue hunting licenses for that number. Without doing that the population will grow too big for the territory and starvation will trim the amount of animals for them. The animals would then go into human areas for food. To avoid that confrontation and keep the animals healthy hunting is used to keep the populations in control.
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jordan118 months, 4 weeks ago
Where's PETA, Where's World Wildlife, Where's North Shore and the ASPCA?? I have donated to all of these organizations at one point, and i am disgusted that they haven't taken a stronger stance and been more vocal about Sarah Palin.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU=related
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not2needy9 months ago
Very true! Hadn't thought of that, and instead of making a donation, i may just email them and tell them WHY i am not making a donation at this time!! That should ruffle their feathers.
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jordan118 months, 4 weeks ago
I give to the WWF. They have made video's about this, but it isn't enough. They aren't reaching enough people.
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abntv9 months ago
Well I see the know nothings have gathered again...
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You people have no idea what you are talking about.
The only aerial hunting allowed in Alaska is for predator control and is done through the Alaska Deptartment of Fish and Game. Nobody in Alaska hunts from the air..you are not even allowed to hunt the same day you fly.-
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CRYMTYPHON9 months ago
All hunting in alaska is thru the Alaska Deptartment of Fish and Game;
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they issue hunting permits.
Hunting wolves from the air, is given the nice euphemism 'predator control'.
Private citizens can obtain a permit to 'assist' Fish and Game with aerial predator management.
Palin spent 400,000$ tax money to fight a ban on the practice.
No one whose profession is to preserve wildlife, would do this;
and no real hunters either.
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DaneL9 months ago
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You sure got that right. They know nothing about predator control. The wolf has no natural enemies and their numbers are only controled by their food source. The only problem is when the food source drops to a level where the wolf packs drop, the moose and caribou are at very low numbers. And remember moose and caribou are a very important food source for humans there. Not counting the economic stress that would be put on the state from losing out of state moose and caribou hunters. -
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protoham8 months, 4 weeks ago
They don't want to hear that, of course they are not hunters. They just want to bash Palin.
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abntv9 months ago
You can neg my comment all you like but the fact remains...The State of Alaska Dept of Fish and Game run predator control not the Governor..There was a ballot measure during the last primary that addressed the aerial hunting issue and the people of Alaska voted to allow the predator control program to continue.
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Spadecaller9 months ago
abntv
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"the know nothings" How typically arrogant and ignorant as well!
They also democratically elected Hamas to represent the Palestinian govenment; but they are still a terrorist organization too.
And no one twisted Palin's arm to participate in killing wolves by running them into the ground with single engine planes and helicopters; a brutal practice that only a sicko would consider sport. I guess that is your kind of people abntv. That is a cowardly and perverted way of killing God's creatures.-
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abntv9 months ago
Yet again you miss the point..you are to eager to demonize someone and overlook the facts.
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Nobody considers predator control a sport....you know nothing about the program or why it is in place. Maybe you should do a little reading and find out the truth. or are you to busy posting articles like this?
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cowboygrandpa9 months ago
Spadecaller:
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Being a hunter, I know what it is like to hunt, I hunt for food and use all of the parts of the food source I can.
But I have also hunted down coyotes who were attacking children in AZ, back in the 90's. It wasn't for food, but for protection.
That said I have never heard of a verified wolf attack on a human being.
Mountain lion, coyotes, bears yes. Wolves no.
Very well done, by the way I have heard the mournful howl of the wolves at night. Very chilling yet beautiful.-
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abntv9 months ago
When I was growing up I lived in the interior of Alaska..I remember many times in the winter sitting on my back step listening to the wolves out in the bush...
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I do not support nor does anyone I know support random killing of wolves. What I do support is a predator control program that address's the problem of high wolf populatons in areas that have low levels of moose and caribou. -
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SenorCoconut8 months, 3 weeks ago
Gramps,
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Hunting as you do for sustenance is natural and I have no problem with that.
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Endoscopy9 months ago
Truth and facts mean nothing to these people. Stories that are lies about Palin come on the site and these people go into an literary orgasm like in this story. Facts mean nothing to them at that point. Only a way to rant about how bad Palin is. Many of them still believe the lies.
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albionperfides9 months ago
WEll, you may say you are hunting wolves from the air, but, do you know they are immediately DEAD and not injured so that they die in pain?
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1basque19 months ago
Beautiful pictures and the music...does being a hunter make Palin more desirable to the voters ?
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lewby54-599 months ago
If you love animals you will love Christian the Lion, a true Love story!
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lewby54-599 months ago
If you love animals you will love Christian the Lion, a true Love story!
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Poulenc9 months ago
Beautiful visual-sonic rhythm, Spade.
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I'm always appalled, infuriated and astounded by those who kill animals for sport. Astounded that people consider this something to do.
The animals cannot hope to defend themselves; that Palin endorses and participates in bloodsport is yet another indication of her primitivism.-
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abntv9 months ago
These animals are not killed for sport....they are participateing in a predator control program set up by the State of Alaska Deptartment of Fish and Game...this program has been in effect for many years now. Palin has never participated in this program. The picture in the video is a fake.
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jovial9 months ago
The people doing this are private licensed hunters, flown in private planes by private pilots. They are not professional wildlife management or wildlife agency personnel. Numerous states "control" their wildlife, but they used trained wildlife management personnel to do so, which most wildlife organizations, including Defenders, does not object to. Only Alaska lets private hunters do this.
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• The private citizens doing this get to keep and sell the hides of the animals they kill.
• Many of the same hunters doing this now are the same ones who hunted wolves from airplanes when it was legal. They signed up for the program once it was reinstated.
• Numerous pictures are available of these so-called "predator control" hunters posing with the carcasses of the animals they take much in the same way a hunter would pose with a successful kill, complete with ear-to-ear grins.
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abntv9 months ago
Do you have any idea how many aircraft the State would have to buy and pilots they would have to pay to do this program on their own?? Only Alaska has a wolf control problem...Only Alaska has the huge expanses of territory that need to be covered. Just because one of these hunters is smiling does not mean they did not contribute to a valuable program..the amount of money they get by selling the hides no where near repays the cost of the flight time.
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jovial8 months, 4 weeks ago
Here are the bare facts: As a gubernatorial candidate, and since she was elected in 2006, Palin has promoted aerial wolf and bear shooting, which is usually done with a two-seat, fixed-wing Piper Super Cub in winter, when the animals can be tracked more easily. In March 2007, Palin's administration announced that it would offer $150 for the foreleg of each freshly killed wolf, in order to encourage hunters.
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Palin also proposed legislation in 2007 that would have allowed aerial shooting, under a "predator control" program, of wolverines as well as brown bears and wolves, and would have eased some of the requirements the state had to meet before approving airborne predator control in a given sector. The bill passed the House but died in Senate committee last spring; Palin has vowed to reintroduce it.
For more details got to factcheck.org. That's where i found the original rebuttal link.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/call_of_th...
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Spadecaller9 months ago
By the nature of the comments of those that defend this form of "sport" it is no surprise that Alaska has the highest rate of rape cases in the U.S. as well as the highest incidence of alcoholism. One would expect a drunken rapist to enjoy torturing an animal before putting it out of its misery. Palin's most avid supporters...
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abntv9 months ago
When you have nothing intelligent to say you call people names...Nowhere in any of this have I referred to the program as "sport"
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Telling these lies about how the program is run may go over with the some people ..however the more intelligent ones will do a little research and find out just what the truth is.
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