Horse Slaughter Ban Wins

The final vote on the Ensign/Byrd amendment was 68-29 in favor of ending horse slaughter by withholding funds for federal inspectors in horse slaughterhouses and at the borders! The House and Senate bills now go to committee to create a final law. Since we won by 2/3rds in both the House and Senate, and since the amendment to each bill was identical, the committee would have no grounds not to include it in the final budget. Since it is a budget bill it is only going to be in effect for one fiscal year beginning November 1, but we still have HR503 in the house which can be passed by next year to end the business for permanently!This victory is the direct result of hundreds of horse owners and lovers working tirelessly to get this issue in front of the public and to convince their representatives and senators to do the right thing.

GameZnFlix now live on 1UP Network

Rent now botton is now live. It's really kind of simple and hopefully effective. While gamers are browsing through reviews and previews on 1UP they are given an option to rent the game they are reading about by clicking on a "Rent Now" button which connects the reader to the GNFGames website where they are given the opportunity to become a member and rent the game. This should drive a lot of traffic to GNFGames.com and help to drive membership.

Nintendo Wii Shortages May Be Blessing In Disguise For Game Rental Firms, Says GameZnFlix CEO

12/15/2007 Franklin, KY – 12/15/07 -GameZnFlix, Inc. (OTCBB: GMFX), John Fleming, CEO of GameZnFlix, an online provider of video games and movies for rent or purchase, said today that unfilled demand for the Wii Video Game Console may result in increased business for the game rental industry.“The Wii is the hot ticket this Christmas and they’re just not out there to be had,” saidFleming. “It looks like a replay of Christmas 2006 when the Wii was commanding big premiums on Ebay while last minute shoppers were lining up at Gamestop or Best Buy and too often leaving empty-handed.” “My guess is that those who have their heart set on a Wii aren’t going to look instead to the XBox 360 or Playstation 3 which can cost double the price of a Wii or more,” Fleming continued. “They’re just different markets, and nobody’s going to want to invest in more games for their 1st gen Xbox or Playstation 2. What does make sense for them is to turn to a video game rental program while Wii supply catches up with Wii demand. It’s the perfect solution.”Industry sources say that Nintendo is leaving as much as a billion dollars on the table this season by not having enough consoles to meet demand. That equates to some five million machines. “We love the Wii,” says Fleming, “and when customers are lucky enough to get one we have the games to keep them happy, but if they don’t we’re ready and able to keep their old game platform well-supplied with great game titles until they get the Wii of their dreams.”

GameZnFlix, Inc. Signs Advertising Agreement With 1UP Network

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GameZnFlix, Inc. Signs Advertising Agreement With 1UP Network11/28/2007 GameZnFlix, Inc. (OTCBB: GMFX), an online provider of video games and movies for rent or purchase, announces today it will be the exclusive integrated retailer of "Rent Now" button on 1UP network found at www.1up.com. Along with the "Rent Now" button, Ziff Davis Game Group will also provide licensing rights to GameZnFlix for use on www.gnfgames.com. This content will include but not be limited to, game reviews, previews, screenshots, and cheats. "This one year exclusive agreement will allow us to continue to offer our members a rental experience that is second to none," said John Fleming, CEO of GameZnFlix. "The additions of the 'Rent Now' button and Ziff Davis Game Group's content on www.gnfgames.com are the final pieces in the re-launching of GameZnFlix. Our website will continue to grow with features for our members; however, this is a major step in completing the marketing plan designed by Moroch Advertising earlier in the year."

There's More to Video Gaming Than Bullets and Blood, Says GameZnFlix CEO

There's More to Video Gaming Than Bullets and Blood, Says GameZnFlix CEOJohn Fleming, CEO of GameZnFlix, Inc. (OTCBB: GMFX), an online provider of video games and movies for rent or purchase, said today that video gamers can't be stereotyped.
"Ask someone to picture a typical video game player," says Mr. Fleming, "And they'll imagine an 18-to-24-year-old male living on pizza and swilling Mountain Dew while shooting all manner of imaginary enemies in games such as 'Doom,' 'Halo,' 'Grand Theft Auto,' 'Street Fighter' and the like. The reality is, there's a lot more to video games than bullets and blood."
"Take the 'Final Fantasy' series as an example," says Mr. Fleming. "These games seem to be as popular with females as with the guys, yet two of that series have made GameFAQ's 'The 10 Best Games Ever.' And a majority of the popular Nintendo Wii titles seem to be enjoying success with all ages, yet have nothing in common with the shoot-em-ups."
Non-violent games such as "Guitar Hero," "Dance Revolution," and "Super Mario" remain top sellers according to industry sources. According to its publisher, the best selling game of all time, the life simulation game "The Sims" by Electronic Arts, is played by a predominately female audience.
"The other day," continued Mr. Fleming, "I was looking at one of the games we carry called 'Cooking Mama Cook Off.' It's kind of a cross between 'Super Mario' and TV's 'Iron Chef' with a bit of 'Speed Racer' graphics thrown in. You actually improve your culinary skills by creating meals from 10 different cuisines in order to score points. It's the furthest thing from violent video gaming, unless of course, you count the chopping of the vegetables."
About GameZnFlix, Inc.
GameZnFlix is primarily an online video game and movie rental service that also allows its subscribers to have access to VOD movies for purchase. With memberships starting as low as $8.99, subscribers can rent both video games and movies with no late fees or due dates. Membership for rental services is located on the Internet at www.gnfgames.com ; and VOD is located at www.gnfdigital.com. A subscriber can purchase titles at a discounted rate at www.gnfgames.com.

Support Wild Horses

Tell Congress to Keep Wild Horses

The American west has its own mythology and its own rich history in literature, film, and television—one that no other U.S. geographic region can ever hope to match. Can you imagine an entire section at a mall bookstore devoted to novels of, say, the Eastern shore?
And if any one animal symbolizes our own—or even the world’s—fascination with the American west, it is, without doubt, the horse. Many of these wild animals were tamed, and they, in turn, helped Americans tame the dusty frontier that lay west of the Mississippi. The horse, both wild and domestic, has earned its rightful place in American hearts and minds through the writings of Louis L’Amour and Larry McMurtry, the films of John Ford and Sergio Leone, and even through television dramas such as Bonanza and The Lone Ranger.
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Is it any wonder then that thousands of Americans and more than a dozen celebrities—people who were likely influenced by the same Western arts and culture that shaped us all—have been willing to step up and support The HSUS’s and other groups' efforts to restore protections for America’s wild horses and burros? According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), only about 35,000 of these wild animals forage on U.S. lands today. But thanks to an amendment quietly slipped last year into an appropriations bill that gutted a 34-year-old ban on selling wild horses and burros for slaughter, that number was recently decreased by 41 mustangs. (Another 52 horses were in line for slaughter, but were pulled before the captive bolt pistol was fired.)
America's Contradictory Relationship with Wild Horses
Wild horses have a long history with North America. Fossil records show they were living in North America millions of years ago, gradually spreading to Asia likely via the Bering land bridge before losing a battle to the elements and becoming extinct on this continent. In the early 16th century, European explorers reintroduced the horse to Mexico, and the animal eventually found its way north into territories controlled by Native Americans and Europeans. Many of these horses formed wild herds; by some estimates, there were more than a million wild horses roaming North America by the turn of the 20th century, likely because humans had killed many of the horse's natural predators.
The horse's main predator in the 20th century was man. By 1971, when Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Protection Act and President Nixon signed it into law, there were approximately only 60,000 wild horses left on U.S. lands, their numbers drastically reduced by wholesale roundups and massacres. The act, championed by a Nevada resident nicknamed Wild Horse Annie, was designed to halt the killings. Americans roundly supported the act, reportedly flooding Congress with letters, a volume of mail second only to the number of letters Congress received about the Vietnam War.
But the act created to protect wild horses has slowly been eroded by the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency that manages U.S. lands, under the theory that there are too many free-roaming horses and that they need to be managed. The BLM first created 303 herd management areas, but over the years, that number has been whittled down to 201. The BLM has also established "appropriate management levels," which allows the agency to round up horses by buzzing them with helicopters and corralling them into pens for eventual sale through the BLM's adoption program.
The underfunded adoption program, however, has been largely a bust, leading to crowded holding pens that don't give the BLM any wiggle room to round up more wild horses, which ranchers desperately want so that their beef cattle can graze without interference. The stealth amendment in last year's appropriations bill was the latest attempt to appease ranchers; the amendment requires the government to sell horses older than ten years or those who have not been adopted after three attempts. Guess who typically buys these older mustangs? Middlemen, or "killer buyers," who then sell the animals to one of the three foreign-owned slaughterhouses in the United States that process meat for overseas markets.
The losers in this game of backroom legislation are, of course, the horses. It has already cost the lives of 41 mustangs. It could cost thousands more.
The sad fact is that all of this is completely unnecessary—the covert legislation, the animal deaths, the hard feelings from horse lovers across the nation. The BLM could easily deal with America's wild horses without a drop of blood being spilled. The agency could reopen the 102 herd management areas that it has zeroed out; it could adopt immunocontraception programs to keep herds from becoming too large; it could funnel the money from its helicopter round-ups into a mass-marketing budget for its adoption programs; it could simply leave the horses alone, with an acknowledgment that Americans value their equine history as much, if not more, than their beef.