The Vicious Babushka

Zionist Crop Circles: War Crime or Fauxtography?

A satellite photograph showing a 60-meter Star of David carved into a Palestinian field during the offensive against Hamas in Gaza last winter, slid under the army’s radar screen when it examined the Goldstone Report’s allegations of misconduct against the IDF.

When quizzed by The Jerusalem Post, the IDF said it was unfamiliar with the incident and said the Foreign Ministry should be contacted for an official comment.

The star can be seen in a satellite photograph provided to South African jurist Richard Goldstone by the United Nations last July.

According to a report by the UN Institute for Training and Research that accompanied the photograph, the satellite image was shot some time between January 3 and 10, 2009.

The UNITAR report states that the photograph of the Palestinian field showed “ground signatures” that “include tank tracks across cultivated fields and paved roads,” as well as a “Star of David measuring 60m. in diameter carved into the soil likely by IDF vehicles.”

It is posted on the UN Web site. UN satellite imagery is also referenced in the 575-page report published in September by the UN fact-finding mission into Israeli activity in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, which was chaired by Goldstone.

But no reference to the Star of David in the Palestinian field is made in the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel of possible war crimes in Gaza.

It has also not surfaced in any of the hundreds of stories written about the Goldstone document.

The photograph of the Star of David was first circulated last week on the Mondo Weiss blog, which belongs to US investigative journalist Philip Weiss, who describes himself as an anti-Zionist. In spring 2009 Weiss traveled to the Gaza Strip and joined a Code Pink: Women for Peace contingent.

Read more at Jerusalem Post.

 

Tricksy Zionist Assassins Used Irish Passports for Dubai "Hit Job"

 

Members of a hit squad who killed a top Hamas military commander used Irish passports to enter and leave Dubai, it's been claimed.

The suspected Israeli hit team, including at least one woman, entered the United Arab Emirates using Irish documents, police authorities said.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (50), held responsible by Israel for the abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers in 1989, died in mysterious circumstances on January 20 in a Dubai hotel room.

A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman told the Herald today: "We are aware of the media reports and we are in contact with authorities locally to try and determine the truth of the reports."

Al-Mabhouh was said to have been shocked with an electric weapon held to his legs and then suffocated or poisoned.

Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel for the killing, but Israeli news media claimed al-Mabhouh had many enemies and could have been killed by other Arab factions.

Up to seven people were said to have been involved in al-Mabhouh's killing, four of whom used Irish passports to enter Dubai and who later fled to a "European country" after the killing, according to policesources in Dubai.

Read more at Irish Herald. 

Because Canadian passports would have been too lame.

The "Kill Jews" Litterbug Strikes Again

In a stunning display of intolerance, Sixth Avenue in Park Slope was littered with strips of papers reading “KILL JEWS” in capital letters from Fourth to Ninth streets on Wednesday.

Nearly two dozen of the strips were picked up by Karen Guilbert, who had just finished walking her daughter to school.

“It’s so ignorant and hateful,” said Guilbert, who picked up a handful of the same slips back in October. “There are hundreds of kids that walk up and down this street.”

Before she turned the slips over to the police, Guilbert played amateur detective by turning the strips over and piecing them together. All that emerged was that the slips had been cut from a document from a taxi driving school. Yet there were no addresses or phone numbers on the strips that offered any further clues.

“Someone is trying to be a taxi driver,” Guilbert nervously joked. “I sure hope I don’t end up in his car.”

An officer from the 78th Precinct turned the notes over to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit, but the department offered no comment.

Most unsettling, this is not the first time the craven Anti-Semitic litterer has struck.

In addition to Guilbert’s Halloween discovery, last September, the same notes turned up in Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill and Clinton Hill.

To top it off, vandals struck two synagogues in Brooklyn Heights in 2007 and left the same message on car windshields.

The Brooklyn Paper.

The Real Palestinian Beauty Queen: The One Who Kills The Most Jews

Oh noes! Teh Juice iz Stealing Organz in Haiti!

'Israelis stealing organs in Haiti'

Even as IDF travels across world to extend hand to country in need, there are those who take opportunity to spread slander, blood libel against Jewish state. Seattle resident, who presents himself as black activist, explains incendiary video he uploaded to YouTube

WASHINGTON – Even when Israel  puts itself on the front lines of medical and humanitarian aid  sent to the ends of the earth and wins great praise for its professionalism in doing so, there are those who prefer to transform the act into an opportunity to spread hatred and lies at the expense of those suffering in Haiti.

An American resident of Seattle, Washington uploaded a video to YouTube on Tuesday accusing soldiers in the IDF delegation to the earthquake site in Haiti of being involved in stealing organs from their patients.

The man, who calls himself T. West, fronts a group called AfriSynergy Productions, whose declared goal is to empower the black man. The video purports to present something to think about while exploiting the horrible tragedy that has befallen Haiti to recycle false claims that IDF soldiers engage in organ trafficking.

The bizarre host of the video collected praises broadcast on television channels regarding the advanced equipment and treatment the Israeli teams are providing in Haiti. After about a minute and a half of such praise, the man looks straight into the camera and made the claim that there are people operating in Haiti who do not have a conscience and are members of the search-and-rescue teams, including, he claimed, the IDF.

Read more at YNet.

Aw jeez, not this shit again.

Turkey Demands Israeli Apology for Complaining about Turkish Anti-Semitic Film (WTF?)

JERUSALEM – Turkey rejected an Israeli attempt Wednesday to make amends for humiliating its ambassador, and threatened to bring its envoy home if Israel didn't deliver an apology by the evening.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon issued a statement criticizing his own undiplomatic behavior, which included forcing Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol to sit on a lower seat and not shaking his hand. But the statement fell short of an apology and failed to defuse a diplomatic feud that has further strained ties between the once-close allies.

"They have been given time until tonight, they either fix it or our ambassador will head for Turkey on the first flight tomorrow" for consultations, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said. "After that, we will make an evaluation."

Ayalon set off the diplomatic firestorm when he summoned Celikkol late Monday, ostensibly to complain about a Turkish TV drama that has been perceived as anti-Semitic. The show, "The Valley of the Wolves," depicts Israeli security forces as kidnapping children and shooting old men.

Ayalon invited Israeli TV crews to watch the meeting, and pointedly explained to the cameramen how he was snubbing the ambassador by placing him on a lower chair and refusing to shake his hand.

Celikkol later said he hadn't known what Ayalon was saying to the cameramen.

Read more at Associated Press.

My head hurts.

More Sick Grotesque Kids' Entertainment from Hamas

 

Hamas' terrorist TV channel -- which routinely indoctrinates kids by portraying Israelis as ghouls -- is launching a new cartoon series that depicts another enemy, the Palestinian Authority police.

A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood.

"You killed our children before my eyes," the officer says meekly. "I will respond with even more peace."

The grotesque six-minute pilot was a big hit when tested on Gaza Strip viewers this month by Hamas' video mouthpiece, Al Aqsa TV, and will be expanded next month, officials in Gaza City said.

 Al Aqsa TV is notorious for propaganda-filled kids' shows, such as a 2007 broadcast that showed Farfur, a Mickey Mouse-like character, vowing, "We will annihilate the Jews! I will commit martyrdom!"

In the final episode, an actor playing an Israeli agent tried to buy Farfur's land, and, when the mouse refused "to sell our lands to terrorists," he was beaten to death.

But the new Hamas series expands the hate-filled message by making monsters out of both the Israelis and the Palestinian security force, even though they have often clashed violently in the West Bank.

The pilot cartoon, called "A Special Mission," is built around Bahlul, a boot-licking police officer in the US-backed Palestinian Authority.

Read more at NY Post. 

Oliver Stone: "I've Walked in Hitler's Shoes and in Stalin's Shoes"

American director's upcoming Showtime documentary promises to put mass-murderers 'in context'. According to Stone, 'Stalin, Hitler, Mao and McCarthy have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history'

American director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass-murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context."

"Stalin, Hitler, Mao, (US Senator Joseph) McCarthy - these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history," Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.

"Stalin has a complete other story," Stone said. "Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any single person. We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good.'

"Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply. He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect ... People in America don't know the connection between World War I and World War II ...

"I've been able to walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes to understand their point of view. We're going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them. We want to move beyond opinions ... Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated."

The controversial director's 10-part documentary series for Showtime promises to focus on events that "at the time went under-reported, but crucially shaped America's unique and complex history of the last 60 years." An airdate has not yet been set.

Read more at YNet.

This is the guy who portrayed President Bush as a war criminal who deserved to be assassinated.
 

Israelis Cheer Tear Gas Attack on Bus Full of Jews

 

A woman who boarded a bus designated for religious passengers sprayed tear gas at an Orthodox man who demanded she move to the rear section last week in Ashdod.

The incident began on Friday, when an 18-year-old Orthodox man noticed the woman, 60, sitting at the front of the bus on a route on which men and women are segregated for purposes of religious modesty.

The man objected to the woman's seating location, and asked her to move to the back, police said, but she refused to budge.

The exchange quickly escalated into a confrontation, police said.

After being cursed at repeatedly, the woman told him to "shut up," adding, "What do you care where I sit? So what if this is a religious bus? Nothing will happen if I sit at the front," according to her police interrogation transcript.

The woman then sprayed tear gas "to scare the youth who was yelling at me," she told officers.

The bus driver stopped the vehicle, and opened the doors to air out the bus, while the young religious man called the police.

The woman was detained for questioning and released on bail. She is suspected of assault.

Jerusalem Post. 

While Babushka is no fan of these segregated bus lines, the "Macing Granny" deserves no medal either. If an Arab sprayed tear gas on a bus full of Jews, is that OK? How about if a feminist blows up a bus full of Haredi Jews, is that OK?

Book Granny for assault and give that "youth" a spanking for disrespecting an elder.

Doofus of the Day: Udi Aloni, Jealous of Neturei Karta's Media Success

I find it appropriate that the Israeli public be notified of the emerging movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel  (BDS), which has been growing at a breathtaking pace.

Following bewildered reports published by Yedioth Ahronoth journalist Sever Plocker, who noticed that BDS has moved from the circles of the radical western Left to the circles of the bourgeois centre, I can add that this is now true for Israel-loving Jews as well.

Obviously, this shift is taking place against the backdrop of Israel’s war on Gaza, waged one year ago, the publication of the Goldstone Report, and the local strain of apartheid policy nurtured by Israel, which differs from the old South African one in some aspects.

This policy has local makings and signature. It is not only an Israeli High Court of Justice ruling to evacuate Palestinian living in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah from their homes, applying a “right of return for Jews only” rule, while Palestinians, on the other hand, are being denied this right.

Read the rest of this nauseating drivel at YNet.

It should be noted that Udi Aloni is the son of Shulamit Aloni, Israel's oldest and ugliest Stalin groupie.

Our suggestion for Udi, if he wants more attention from his Jew-hating friends, he should grow payes, put on white socks and a Shtreimel and spend Shabbos in Gaza with Neturei Karta.

Look Who's A Secret Jew!

Jordanian demonstrators burn a picture of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a protest against the installation of an underground metal barrier at the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, in front the Egyptian embassy in Amman January 3, 2010. Egypt is installing a series of metal sheets submerged along the Gaza border to block tunnels used to smuggle weapons into the Palestinian territory. Reuters Photo.

Jordanian demonstrators? Isn't Jordan supposed to be "at peace" with Israel?

Spoiled Rotten Saudi Prince: "Israel is Like a Spoiled Child"

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi foreign minister on Saturday criticized Israel's settlement construction and said the country acts like a "spoiled child" because the international community is not tough enough in pressuring it to make concessions.

Prince Saud al-Faisal said Washington and other players in Mideast peace efforts should take a "firm and serious" stand to put an end to Israeli construction on land Palestinians want for a future state.

Israel's announcement Monday that it is building nearly 700 new apartments for Jews in east Jerusalem is "a source of worry, which we strongly condemn," he said.

The Palestinians want east Jerusalem as their capital and say each expansion of Jewish housing there is making partition as part of a future peace deal more difficult. The U.S., the Palestinians and the European Union condemned the new Israeli building plan.

Israeli-Palestinian talks broke off a year ago, and the Palestinians refuse to restart talks until all Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem is halted. The Palestinians rejected a partial Israeli settlement freeze as not enough.

The Saudi foreign minister said the international community needed to get tougher with Israel.

Read more at Associated Press.

Isn't that the pot calling the Corningware black?
 

Asshats of the Year: Neturei Karta Attention Queens

Ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewish men demonstrate with Palestinian and International activists during a protest calling for the end of the blockade on Gaza in Beit Hanoun, near the Erez Crossing between Gaza Strip and Israel, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. Hundreds of demonstrators rallied on opposite sides of a border crossing between Israel and Gaza on Thursday to protest the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the seaside territory. Israel and Egypt imposed a strict blockade on Gaza after the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007. AP Photo. 

The Neturei Karta Attention Queens have won Babushka's Doofus of the Day award more times than anyone else in 2009.

Now, please ignore them and they will go away.

Gaza Smugglers in Egypt: They Tkk Rrr Jrrbs!

 

 Thousands of young Egyptians earn a living from smuggling into Strip. Now Egypt's construction of steel wall along border is causing anger among Bedouins who fear loss of easy income

The steel wall Egypt is installing along the border of the Gaza Strip is provoking the rage of the Hamas leadership which exchanged harsh words with the government in Cairo. Hamas asserts that this steel bulwark is intended to serve the security interests of Israel.

However, apart from the political issue, the construction has significant economic implications, including a risk to profits for the tunnel smugglers from both sides. This point is causing anger against the construction at the Rafah border also among the Bedouin residents of the Sinai, who fear that they will lose an easy source of income they have enjoyed since Hamas came to power.

Egyptian newspaper al-Youm al-Sabe'a has spotlighted this issue and the negative economic implications expected to affect the Sinai Bedouins as a result of the Egyptian project.

According to evidence collected by the newspaper, in recent years thousands of young Egyptians have earned a living directly or indirectly through smuggling into Gaza, a trade valued at a little under a billion dollars.

Residents of Egyptian Rafah wonder at the reports of the Gaza siege, and claim that their situation isn’t much better. Unemployment rates are high and jobs are scarce, which has led thousands to work in jobs connected with the tunnel smuggling.

Read more at YNet.

Oh Noes! Israeli Arab Schools do not Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day

Report: Arab schools fail to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

House report to discuss minimal attention given by Arab schools to Holocaust studies, commemorative activities

The majority of Arab schools do not commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and the number of students taking part in any commemorative activities is minute, a Knesset report has found.

The data suggests that in 2008, only 1,595 students of the 134,672 taking part Holocaust commemorative activities were Arabs, and only 150 took part in the annual mission to Poland.

Holocaust teaching has been a controversial issue in the Israeli education system for years, with the main question being how to expose the student to information: through history lessons, ceremonies, tours, overseas mission etc. The methods used today calls for gradual exposure to the subject, especially when explaining it to the younger student body.

The Education Ministry has ordered mandatory 30 annual hours for Holocaust studies, but while Jewish schools start thoroughly exploring the subject from the sixth grade and on, sixth grade history lessons in the Arab sector focus on Arab heritage and history. Holocaust studies are given about 27 annual hours in ninth grade, but it is detached form the wider historical connotation of pre-WWII Nazism and the war's immediate implications. Grades 10-12 see just seven annual hours of Holocaust studies.

Ahmed Badran, the Education Ministry's Arab school supervisor in northern Israel, said that in general, Arab schools do not mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and that the matter is left to the teacher's discretion.

Read more at YNet.

Why should the Arabs observe Holocaust Memorial Day when they observe "Naqba Day" that the Holocaust did not succeed?

Many Haredi schools in Israel also do not observe the government-mandated "Yom Hashoah" preferring instead to include the Shoah on Tisha B'av.
 

Biased Christmas Photo of the Day

 
Palestinian children play on the ruins of houses destroyed during the three-week offensive Israel launched last year, in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Christmas Eve December 24, 2009. December 27 marks one year since the start of a three-week offensive Israel launched in Gaza during which more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed. Reuters.

They have been getting a lot of propaganda mileage out of the rubble. In a few days it will mark the anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead" which will mean a media orgy of pity.

Jimmy Carter Begs Jews for Forgiveness, While Continuing to Bash Israel

 

 Carter apologizes for 'stigmatizing Israel'

Former US president offers US Jewish community heartfelt apology for any contribution he may have had to Jewish nation's negative image

WASHINGTON – Former US President Jimmy Carter on Monday asked for the Jewish community's forgiveness for any negative stigma he may have caused Israel over the years.

Carter, who is not a popular character in Israel, enraged the American Jewish community's in the past with various statements made in his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."

In the book, Carter blamed Israel for impeding the Middle East peace process via settlement construction, further claiming such a policy will lead to apartheid.

The former president also accused Israel of interfering with US efforts to broker peace in the region.

"We must recognize Israel’s achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.

Read more at YNet.

Meanwhile, Jimmy has this to say over at The Guardian:

It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no Arab or Islamic nation will accept any comprehensive agreement while Israel retains control of East Jerusalem.

US objections have impeded Egyptian efforts to resolve differences between Hamas and Fatah that could lead to 2010 elections. With this stalemate, PLO leaders have decided that President Mahmoud Abbas will continue in power until elections can be held – a decision condemned by many Palestinians.

Even though Syria and Israel under the Olmert government had almost reached an agreement with Turkey's help, the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejects Turkey as a mediator on the Golan Heights. No apparent alternative is in the offing.

The UN general assembly approved a report issued by its human rights council that called on Israel and the Palestinians to investigate charges of war crimes during the recent Gaza war, but positive responses seem unlikely.

In summary: UN resolutions, Geneva conventions, previous agreements between Israelis and Palestinians, the Arab peace initiative, and official policies of the US and other nations are all being ignored. In the meantime, the demolition of Arab houses, expansion of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and Palestinian recalcitrance threaten any real prospect for peace.

Of more immediate concern, those under siege in Gaza face another winter of intense personal suffering. I visited Gaza after the devastating January war and observed homeless people huddling in makeshift tents, under plastic sheets, or in caves dug into the debris of their former homes. Despite offers by Palestinian leaders and international agencies to guarantee no use of imported materials for even defensive military purposes, cement, lumber, and panes of glass are not being permitted to pass entry points into Gaza. The US and other nations have accepted this abhorrent situation without forceful corrective action.

Read more at The Guardian. (h/t Elder of Ziyon)

EPIC FAIL: Brooklyn Naked Bike Ride Snowed Out

Snow 1, Naked Bikers, 0

"I want to see some boobs," shouted a lone NYPD officer (seen here) who pulled up to our photographer at Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, ironically blocking the former bike lane in the process. "I've been trying to find out online when this is happening and nobody had the start time! Did I miss it?" Minutes later, a group of 15-20 fully clothed cyclists pedaled by, trailed by almost twice as many photographers, TV news crews, and assorted media. The "topless" protest over the controversially removed bike lane was not the NC-17 provocation the media and others had hoped for. At one point, two men in a parked car near Division Street shouted at the cyclists, "We've been waiting for two hours! Where's the skin?"

Last weekend's rainy protest, organized by Times Up, attracted a heavy police presence, but only a couple NYPD vehicles trailed the bicyclists tonight. But it wasn't just the snow and cold weather that kept the protesters clothed. One of the ride's organizers, Heather Loop, had previously taken a confrontational stance toward the South Williamsburg Hasidic community, telling the Brooklyn Paper, "If you can't handle scantily clad women … live in a place where you can have your own sanctuary, like upstate." But tonight Loop and others backpedaled their provocation. "We're not trying to start a war, we're trying to save a bike lane," Loop told us.

"I'm tired of seeing ghost bikes," said protester Lyla Durden. "It can get really hectic and dangerous without bike lanes." And before the ride, Calisha Jenkins, standing in the snow with fake rubber breasts hanging outside her coat, told us, "I'm really clumsy, and without a bike lane I'm a sitting duck." The protest, officially organized by Candy Rain, began with a dedication to bicyclists who've been killed and injured in traffic accidents. Then it was off into the snow, with photographers, news trucks, and the NYPD on hand to catch any provocation. Ultimately, the neighborhood's Hasidic residents barely seemed to notice. 

Gothamist.com

"If you can't handle scantily clad women … live in a place where you can have your own sanctuary, like upstate."

Actually Heather, Williamsburg Jews do go upstate during the summer.

Egyptian Film Portrays Eeville Zionists as "Nazis"

Spy thriller from Bat Yam takes Egypt by storm

'Cousins' stars ugly, racist Israeli as Jewish state is depicted as arch enemy No. 1. Despite box office craze, some think script is bad and Tel Aviv is as glamorous as ever

The movie "Cousins" ("Welad Ela'am") has won huge popularity in Egypt. Even three weeks after its debut, it's nearly impossible to get tickets to the movie in Cairo and its surroundings. The spy thriller, which takes place in Tel Aviv and compares Israelis to Nazis, is a hot topic on talk shows and has its stars putting in many long hours of interviews with the Arab media.

Though the production studio is miffed that sales figures have been distorted in favor of the comedy "Amir the Sailor," the movie's main competitor on the charts. However, the company is proud of the record income of 14.4 million Egyptian liras (about $2.5 million) it raked in within just the first two weeks.

At the beginning of the movie, we see an Egyptian father taking his wife and two children sailing off the shores of Egypt. In the middle of the sailing trip, the true story comes forth. The father, Daniel (Sharif Munir), is a Mossad agent who decided to kidnap his wife Selwa (Mona Zaki) and two children to Israel. He injects his wife with sedatives and brings her and the children to Israel.

Read more at YNet.

Bear in mind that there are people who tout the wonderful "peace treaty" between Egypt and Israel as a shining example of the delightful "peace" that will prevail when Israel makes "peace" with the "peace loving" Palestinians.

Have a piece of peace!

PETA Porn Babes Return, Now That Eid Al-Adha is Over

Tel Aviv: Naked activists mark Animal Rights Day

Anonymous members covered in saran wrap to symbolize frozen meat remember 'victims of human tyranny', protest 'horrors' of egg, industrial meat industries. 'Our intelligence does not justify abusing other creatures,' exhibit's organizer says

An exhibit featuring naked activists covered in saran wrap was held in central Tel Aviv on Monday, as part of the 11th annual International Animal Rights Day events, during which activists across the world "remember the innocent nonhuman victims of human tyranny and call for the recognition of their basic moral rights."

International Animal Rights Day was officially marked on December 10.

The exhibit, in which the activists were bunched together to symbolize frozen meat, was organized by Anonymous for Animal Rights to protest the "horrors" of the egg and industrial meat industries.

A handcuffed female activist waved a sign reading, "The right to move freely" in protest of the confinement of egg laying hens in "battery cages", which, according to Anonymous, have already been banned in 30 countries and are expected to be entirely banned in the European Union by 2012.

Read more at YNet.