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Posts tonen met het label seismische explosies. Alle posts tonen

zaterdag 3 juli 2021

De VS heeft een bom van meer dan 18.000 kilo in zee tot ontploffing gebracht en daarmee een enorm aantal zeedieren vermoord

Om te testen of een vliegdekschip klaar is om oorlog te voeren heeft de VS marine een bom van 18.000 kilo in een zeegebied voor de kust van Florida tot ontploffing gebracht, een gebied vol met zeeleven en daarmee deze dieren letterlijk in stukken gereten.....* Onder de vermoorde dieren dolfijnen en walvissen.....

Erger nog: jaarlijks doet de VS marine duizenden van deze explosieve en vernietigende proeven.....

Het Care2 team is een petitie gestart tegen deze schandelijk gang van zaken, e.e.a om de marine te bewegen biologen in dienst te nemen, die ten minste kunnen proberen om zoveel mogelijk dieren uit zo'n testgebied te verjagen en als dat niet kan de test ergens anders te doen....... Lijkt me zelfs nog te veel, immers er zijn al zoveel proeven gedaan dat men makkelijk computerprogramma's kan samenstellen waarmee men kan uitrekenen welke krachten een nieuw marineschip kan verdragen gezien de bouw, kwaliteit van gebruikt staal en de bepantsering in haar geheel..... Gelukkig vraagt het Care2 team de VS marine wel om te zoeken naar andere manieren om deze testen te doen....

'Maar goed', een poging om de VS marine te bewegen ten minste de dieren te verjagen of te zoeken naar een andere plek, voordat men weer een dergelijke proef doet is beter dan niets, dus lees en teken de petitie ajb en geeft het door, deze waanzin moet afgelopen zijn!! 

Tot slot nog het volgende: naast de marine van de VS, mogen de wereldvernietigende oliemaatschappijen onder water jaarlijks ook nog eens een groot aantal seismische explosies doen, waarbij uiteraard het zeeleven in de buurt van die explosies in stukken wordt geblazen, ofwel wordt vermoord........ Dit alles terwijl de zeeën worden leeggevist en worden vergiftigd met o.a olievervuiling, nucleaire vervuiling, plastic en andere chemische troep........

Tja, de mens 'is lekker bezig.....'

The U.S. dropped a 40,000 lb bomb on ocean wildlife

Kelsey B., Care2 Action Alerts actionalerts@care2.com

In a perfect example of U.S. priorities, the Navy detonated a 40,000 pound bomb off the coast of Florida in precious wildlife habitat, blasting it and the animals there to pieces in order to test to see if "its newest aircraft carrier...is ready for war." And this isn't even the last of what the Navy has planned. Every year they do thousands of these explosive, destructive tests, all to the detriment of our marine friends.

Sign the petition and demand that the Navy find another way to test their ships that doesn't kill incalculable amounts of wildlife like dolphins and whales!

The grim number of fatalities and the extent of the environmental destruction is hard to determine not just because this blast's size was particularly outrageous. It's also because the Navy literally doesn't employ trained biologists to monitor marine mammals that could be affected by their test bombs. Sign the petition and demand that the United States Navy stop needlessly killing marine animals — they must come up with new ways to test their ships!

Thank you

Kelsey
The Care2 Petitions Team

P.S. The U.S. Navy murdered countless marine animals without even trying to save them. Sign the petition to end this "testing."

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* Verder moet niet vergeten worden dat de VS marine met dit soort proeven en met oorlogsvoering de klimaatverandering extra aanjaagt..... Uit onderzoek blijkt dat oorlogsvoering een onevenredig grote aanjager is van de klimaatverandering, terwijl deze nooit wordt besproken (en meegerekend bij de oorzaken van klimaatverandering) op de meer dan lamme klimaattoppen, waar de grote vervuilers als oliemaatschappijen een oneindig grotere rol spelen dan milieugroepen, terwijl die laatsten de aarde echt willen bewaren voor de volgende generaties en bijvoorbeeld de oliemaatschappijen de aarde zoals wij die kennen in een noodtempo vernietigen, ondanks hun valse beloften (greenwashing)....... 

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Zie ook: 'VS marine mag 12 miljoen zeezoogdieren vermoorden voor onderwaterproeven.......' (een bericht van 19 mei 2016, ofwel onder 'vredesduif' Obama als president en Biden als vicepresident....)

'Walvissen: Japan mag geen walvissen meer jagen, De VS 'stapt in het gat': Obama geeft oliemaatschappijen toestemming om met seismische explosies 138.000 walvissen te vermoorden........' (een bericht van 14 april 2014)

'Joe Biden heeft alweer een verkiezingsbelofte gebroken: toch olieboringen in Alaska'

'BP's 'gang naar duurzaamheid': gaswinning in West-Afrika' (en zie de links in dat bericht!!

'Vanaf 2000 tot 2020 is er elk jaar 267 gigaton ijs van gletsjers gesmolten' (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

''Koninklijke Shell': ondanks 'groene beloften' blijft CO2 uitstoot van dit bedrijf stijgen' (en ja 'ons' koningshuis verdient aan de opwarming van de aarde en daarmee aan de luchtvervuiling die alleen in Nederland jaarlijks aan 18.000 mensen het leven kost en dat jaren eerder, meestal na een akelig ziekbed, dezelfde luchtvervuiling die ervoor zorgt dat jaarlijks een groot aantal kinderen long- en luchtwegklachten oploopt......)

'Halve graad opwarming van de aarde zal 150 miljoen mensen het leven kosten......' (vergelijk dat eens met de oversterfte door het Coronavirus of een andere heftige griepgolf.......)

'Shell houdt zich niet aan het klimaatakkoord: 8 bewijzen'

Voor meer berichten over dolfijnen, walvisachtigen, klimaatverandering, klimaattop, luchtvervuiling, oliemaatschappijen, greenwashing en/of plastic soep: klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

zondag 24 januari 2021

Beyond Vietnam: tijd om de stilte te doorbreken, een toespraak van Martin Luther King, een les ook voor de huidige tijd

Op 4 april 1967, opvallend* genoeg precies een jaar voor hij onder regie van de FBI werd vermoord, gaf Martin Luther King (MLK) een toespraak in de Riverside Church (New York) waarin hij de VS de grootste leverancier van geweld noemde op de toenmalige wereld.......

Hoe weinig is er veranderd sindsdien, sterker nog je kan nu zonder meer stellen dat de VS de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld is, de VS ook aangeduid als het Vierde Rijk, met haar meer dan 800 militaire bases over de wereld, de VS met haar voortdurende illegale oorlogsvoering (sinds het begin van de Obama administraties geen dag meer zonder oorlog...), de VS met haar geheime militaire acties waar het maar uitkomt en met haar moordprogramma uitgevoerd middels drones...... Alleen deze eeuw heeft de VS met hulp van haar oorlogshond NAVO al meer dan 5 miljoen mensen vermoord.....

Het is dan ook schunnig als je ziet dat de reguliere (westerse) media en politici het moorddadig optreden van de VS steunen zonder te spreken over het enorme aantal slachtoffers, terwijl ze tegelijkertijd Rusland, China en Iran durven te beschuldigen van agressie en het destabiliseren van de situatie in het Midden-Oosten, Azië en zelfs het westen, de laatste met leugens over cyberaanvallen, waarvoor geen flinter aan bewijs kan worden geleverd......

Het is juist ook nu van belang de stilte te doorbreken, de stilte over hoe mensen in massa's worden vermoord door militairen van de VS en haar NAVO-partners, de stilte over het nog steeds verdrukte gekleurde volk in de VS, zelfs na de gekleurde president Obama die dan ook maar weinig of niets voor de gekleurde bevolking heeft gedaan, de politie vermoordt ze nog steeds op grote schaal...., de stilte over het bloedige beleid van Israël tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk, mogelijk gemaakt door de VS, de stilte over de genocide in Jemen uitgevoerd door de Saoedische terreurcoalitie, politiek en militair gesteund door de VS, Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk (waar de laatste 2 hoofdzakelijk zorgen voor wapenleveranties aan Saoedi-Arabië en de training van soldaten), de stilte over de smerige spelletjes die de VS in veel landen speelt om de boel te destabiliseren en zelfs democratisch gekozen regeringen omver te werpen...... (waarna de VS een dictator aanstelt die braaf doet wat de VS verlangt...)

De stilte ook over de enorme vervuiling door het militaire apparaat, ook daarin is de VS de 'grootste....' (bovendien een fikse aanjager van de klimaatverandering, om over de vervuiling middels radioactieve munitie maar te zwijgen, de reden voor veel medische ellende nadat de VS is verdwenen**) De stilte over seismische proeven van de VS marine in de oceanen, die alles wat onderwater leeft in de nabijheid doet sterven en verder walvis- en dolfijnachtigen geheel in verwarring brengen, volgens deskundigen één van de redenen waarom zo nu en dan grote aantallen walvisachtigen stranden....... Tot slot de stilte in de reguliere westerse (massa-) media over de meeste van deze zaken (Black Liver Matter >> BLM is al lang weer vergeten....), een stilte die zelfs bewust wordt gehandhaafd door die media, zie ook hoe zogenaamde journalisten van die media, NB collega's van Julian Assange die hem hebben besmeurd, hem voor verrader en spion hebben uitgemaakt en hem zelfs een charlatan durfden te noemen, terwijl één van de eerste onthullingen op Wikileaks het neerschieten was van burgers door militairen van de VS vanuit een helikopter, waarbij 2 journalisten van Reuters werden vermoord...... Hoe kan je je als journalist keren tegen een collega die dit soort vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden openbaart...???

Oh vergeet ik nog een belangrijke: laten we de stilte doorbreken die wordt veroorzaakt door de hysterie over het Coronavirus en waarmee in korte tijd een groot aantal burgerrechten geweld werd en wordt aangedaan!!

Lees de toespraak van MLK en zie hoe weinig er is veranderd:

"Beyond Vietnam"

A Time to Break Silence

By Rev. Martin Luther King

By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967
Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.

The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.

Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation's history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.

Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.

In the light of such tragic misunderstandings, I deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly, and I trust concisely, why I believe that the path from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church -- the church in Montgomery, Alabama, where I began my pastorate -- leads clearly to this sanctuary tonight.

I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi or to the National Liberation Front. It is not addressed to China or to Russia.

Nor is it an attempt to overlook the ambiguity of the total situation and the need for a collective solution to the tragedy of Vietnam. Neither is it an attempt to make North Vietnam or the National Liberation Front paragons of virtue, nor to overlook the role they can play in a successful resolution of the problem. While they both may have justifiable reason to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never resolved without trustful give and take on both sides.

Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the NLF, but rather to my fellow Americans, who, with me, bear the greatest responsibility in ending a conflict that has exacted a heavy price on both continents.

The Importance of Vietnam
Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.

My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

For those who ask the question, "Aren't you a civil rights leader?" and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our motto: "To save the soul of America." We were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they still wear. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black bard of Harlem, who had written earlier:


O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.

As if the weight of such a commitment to the life and health of America were not enough, another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964; and I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission -- a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man." This is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances, but even if it were not present I would yet have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ. To me the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war. Could it be that they do not know that the good news was meant for all men -- for Communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them? What then can I say to the "Vietcong" or to Castro or to Mao as a faithful minister of this one? Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life?

Finally, as I try to delineate for you and for myself the road that leads from Montgomery to this place I would have offered all that was most valid if I simply said that I must be true to my conviction that I share with all men the calling to be a son of the living God. Beyond the calling of race or nation or creed is this vocation of sonship and brotherhood, and because I believe that the Father is deeply concerned especially for his suffering and helpless and outcast children, I come tonight to speak for them.

This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nation's self-defined goals and positions. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.

Strange Liberators
And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to understand and respond to compassion my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak now not of the soldiers of each side, not of the junta in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now. I think of them too because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution there until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries.

They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation, and before the Communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.

Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not "ready" for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. For the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives.

For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam.

Before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs. Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of the reckless action, but we did not. We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization.

After the French were defeated it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the Geneva agreements. But instead there came the United States, determined that Ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and the peasants watched again as we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators -- our chosen man, Premier Diem. The peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly routed out all opposition, supported their extortionist landlords and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. The peasants watched as all this was presided over by U.S. influence and then by increasing numbers of U.S. troops who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused. When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change -- especially in terms of their need for land and peace.

The only change came from America as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept and without popular support. All the while the people read our leaflets and received regular promises of peace and democracy -- and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us -- not their fellow Vietnamese --the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs. So they go -- primarily women and children and the aged.

They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals, with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one "Vietcong"-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them -- mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. They see the children, degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers.

What do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform? What do they think as we test our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? Where are the roots of the independent Vietnam we claim to be building? Is it among these voiceless ones?

We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only non-Communist revolutionary political force -- the unified Buddhist church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. What liberators?

Now there is little left to build on -- save bitterness. Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call fortified hamlets. The peasants may well wonder if we plan to build our new Vietnam on such grounds as these? Could we blame them for such thoughts? We must speak for them and raise the questions they cannot raise. These too are our brothers.

Perhaps the more difficult but no less necessary task is to speak for those who have been designated as our enemies. What of the National Liberation Front -- that strangely anonymous group we call VC or Communists? What must they think of us in America when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the south? What do they think of our condoning the violence which led to their own taking up of arms? How can they believe in our integrity when now we speak of "aggression from the north" as if there were nothing more essential to the war? How can they trust us when now we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of Diem and charge them with violence while we pour every new weapon of death into their land? Surely we must understand their feelings even if we do not condone their actions. Surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence. Surely we must see that our own computerized plans of destruction simply dwarf their greatest acts.

How do they judge us when our officials know that their membership is less than twenty-five percent Communist and yet insist on giving them the blanket name? What must they be thinking when they know that we are aware of their control of major sections of Vietnam and yet we appear ready to allow national elections in which this highly organized political parallel government will have no part? They ask how we can speak of free elections when the Saigon press is censored and controlled by the military junta. And they are surely right to wonder what kind of new government we plan to help form without them -- the only party in real touch with the peasants. They question our political goals and they deny the reality of a peace settlement from which they will be excluded. Their questions are frighteningly relevant. Is our nation planning to build on political myth again and then shore it up with the power of new violence?

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

So, too, with Hanoi. In the north, where our bombs now pummel the land, and our mines endanger the waterways, we are met by a deep but understandable mistrust. To speak for them is to explain this lack of confidence in Western words, and especially their distrust of American intentions now. In Hanoi are the men who led the nation to independence against the Japanese and the French, the men who sought membership in the French commonwealth and were betrayed by the weakness of Paris and the willfulness of the colonial armies. It was they who led a second struggle against French domination at tremendous costs, and then were persuaded to give up the land they controlled between the thirteenth and seventeenth parallel as a temporary measure at Geneva. After 1954 they watched us conspire with Diem to prevent elections which would have surely brought Ho Chi Minh to power over a united Vietnam, and they realized they had been betrayed again.

When we ask why they do not leap to negotiate, these things must be remembered. Also it must be clear that the leaders of Hanoi considered the presence of American troops in support of the Diem regime to have been the initial military breach of the Geneva agreements concerning foreign troops, and they remind us that they did not begin to send in any large number of supplies or men until American forces had moved into the tens of thousands.

Hanoi remembers how our leaders refused to tell us the truth about the earlier North Vietnamese overtures for peace, how the president claimed that none existed when they had clearly been made. Ho Chi Minh has watched as America has spoken of peace and built up its forces, and now he has surely heard of the increasing international rumors of American plans for an invasion of the north. He knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy. Perhaps only his sense of humor and of irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation of the world speaking of aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores.

At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless on Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called enemy, I am as deeply concerned about our troops there as anything else. For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved. Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy and the secure while we create hell for the poor.

This Madness Must Cease
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one of them wrote these words:

"Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism."

If we continue, there will be no doubt in my mind and in the mind of the world that we have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. It will become clear that our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and men will not refrain from thinking that our maximum hope is to goad China into a war so that we may bomb her nuclear installations. If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately the world will be left with no other alternative than to see this as some horribly clumsy and deadly game we have decided to play.

The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. It demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam, that we have been detrimental to the life of the Vietnamese people. The situation is one in which we must be ready to turn sharply from our present ways.

In order to atone for our sins and errors in Vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. I would like to suggest five concrete things that our government should do immediately to begin the long and difficult process of extricating ourselves from this nightmarish conflict:


End all bombing in North and South Vietnam.
Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation.
Take immediate steps to prevent other battlegrounds in Southeast Asia by curtailing our military buildup in Thailand and our interference in Laos.
Realistically accept the fact that the National Liberation Front has substantial support in South Vietnam and must thereby play a role in any meaningful negotiations and in any future Vietnam government.
Set a date that we will remove all foreign troops from Vietnam in accordance with the 1954 Geneva agreement.

Part of our ongoing commitment might well express itself in an offer to grant asylum to any Vietnamese who fears for his life under a new regime which included the Liberation Front. Then we must make what reparations we can for the damage we have done. We most provide the medical aid that is badly needed, making it available in this country if necessary.

Protesting The War
Meanwhile we in the churches and synagogues have a continuing task while we urge our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful commitment. We must continue to raise our voices if our nation persists in its perverse ways in Vietnam. We must be prepared to match actions with words by seeking out every creative means of protest possible.

As we counsel young men concerning military service we must clarify for them our nation's role in Vietnam and challenge them with the alternative of conscientious objection. I am pleased to say that this is the path now being chosen by more than seventy students at my own alma mater, Morehouse College, and I recommend it to all who find the American course in Vietnam a dishonorable and unjust one. Moreover I would encourage all ministers of draft age to give up their ministerial exemptions and seek status as conscientious objectors. These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

There is something seductively tempting about stopping there and sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter the struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy- and laymen-concerned committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. Such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God.

In 1957 a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which now has justified the presence of U.S. military "advisors" in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counter-revolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and why American napalm and green beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru. It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken -- the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. n the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.

This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. War is not the answer. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. Let us not join those who shout war and through their misguided passions urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations. These are days which demand wise restraint and calm reasonableness. We must not call everyone a Communist or an appeaser who advocates the seating of Red China in the United Nations and who recognizes that hate and hysteria are not the final answers to the problem of these turbulent days. We must not engage in a negative anti-communism, but rather in a positive thrust for democracy, realizing that our greatest defense against communism is to take offensive action in behalf of justice. We must with positive action seek to remove thosse conditions of poverty, insecurity and injustice which are the fertile soil in which the seed of communism grows and develops.

The People Are Important
These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." We in the West must support these revolutions. It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgement against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions we initiated. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. With this powerful commitment we shall boldly challenge the status quo and unjust mores and thereby speed the day when "every valley shall be exalted, and every moutain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain."

A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

This call for a world-wide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted concept -- so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force -- has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John:

Let us love one another; for love is God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day. We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. As Arnold Toynbee says : "Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word."

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The "tide in the affairs of men" does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out deperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on..." We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world -- a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter -- but beautiful -- struggle for a new world. This is the callling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.

As that noble bard of yesterday, James Russell Lowell, eloquently stated:

Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
Off'ring each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.

Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong:
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.

FBI ‘honors’ Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after plotting to ‘neutralize’ him

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*  Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat deze toespraak van Martin Luther King tevens zijn doodvonnis was, niet voor niets dat hij precies een jaar na deze toespraak werd vermoord door de FBI........ (hoe ongelofelijk cynisch, maar ja wat wil je: de FBI en dan ook nog eens in de 60er jaren, toen Hoover, de topgraaier van deze terreurrorganisatie, zich nog oppermachtig voelde, al werd er al flink aan z'n stoelpoten gezaagd)

** Wat doet denken aan het enorme aantal slachtoffers in Vietnam door het gebruik van Agent Orange door de VS in die smerige door de VS gevoerde illegale oorlog, nog steeds eist dat Agent Orange slachtoffers onder kinderen die een leven vol ellende wacht......

Zie ook: 'Joe Biden, de nieuwe VS president heeft een 'grote' racistische geschiedenis'

'Martin Luther King: vrede en gelijkheid is mogelijk

'Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: 8 wijze lessen!')

'Martin Luther King: de moord van 50 jaar geleden door de VS overheid uiterst beperkt herdacht'

'Als Martin Luther King nog zou leven was hij onderwerp van censuur en was zijn Facebook pagina verwijderd'

'NAVO, het grootste militaire verbond maakt zich schuldig aan grootschalige terreur i.p.v. de vrede te bewaren' (o.a. geluidsfragmenten met het protest van King tegen de oorlog in Vietnam)

'Thomas Merton >> een kritische rk geestelijke vermoord in hetzelfde jaar als Robert F. Kennedy en Martin Luther King'

'Fred Hampton 30 augustus 1948 – 4 december 1969 >> mensenrechtenactivist vermoord door FBI en Chicago politie'

'Martin Luther King: de moord van 50 jaar geleden door de VS overheid uiterst beperkt herdacht'

'Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter........'

'De langzame moord op de ideeën van Martin Luther King................. Ofwel: Dr. Martin Luther Kings lessen willens en wetens verzwegen....'

'De oorlog tegen het arme deel van de VS bevolking'

'Nam Kurt Cobain zijn eigen leven? Niet volgens een flink aantal mensen'

'Martin Luther King misbruikt door Radio1'

'Paul Scheffer, het media-orakel met een 'vlijmscherpe analyse' over het racistische optreden van de politie in de VS......... AUW!!!'

'Willem Post over de zegeningen van het zero tolerance beleid in de VS en ach, het is misschien ietsje doorgeschoten.......'  

Voor berichten over Julian Assange, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht.

donderdag 19 december 2019

Australië staat olieboringen toe in de Grote Australische Bocht, inclusief seismische ontploffingen

Terwijl het land zucht onder record temperaturen en Sydney bijna geheel is omsloten door bosbranden, die het leven in deze stad deels tot stilstand hebben gebracht, heeft de neoliberale regering van Australië olieboringen goedgekeurd in het belangrijke natuurgebied de Grote Australische Bocht..... Olieboringen die gepaard gaan met seismische ontploffingen die het uiterst belangrijke dierenleven in de kuststrook op grote schaal zal verstoren......

Onder andere walvissen zijn te vinden in dit natuurgebied, waar de kalveren van deze dieren door de enorme seismische knallen (alsof er een bom afgaat in je huis en dat om de 10 seconden) niet langer in staat zullen zijn te communiceren met hun moeder die zich in de buurt ophoudt..... Uiteraard zal dit het hele onderwaterleven in de Bocht verstoren en deels vernietigen, zo is bekend dat plankton op grote schaal sterft door deze ontploffingen...... Onderwaterleven dat zo belangrijk is ook voor de prooidieren die hier op af komen, zoals zeehonden.....

Hoe is het mogelijk dat een regering zo blind is dat het dit soort zaken toestaat, in 2016 maakte de Australische regering bekend dat het Grote Barrièrerif een extra beschermde status wil geven, echter nadat diezelfde regering toestemming gaf om de grootste kolenhaven ter wereld te bouwen, pal voor dat rif, waarvoor een kanaal t.b.v. zeeschepen dwars door het rif wordt aangelegd..... Steenkool dat door Australië en de VS massaal tegen dumpprijzen op de wereldmarkt wordt verkocht.... Niet voor niets ook dat in Nederland al jaren alle gascentrales zijn uitgeschakeld en de kolencentrales op volle toeren draaien....... Nogmaals: en dat in en door Australië dat ongemeen hard wordt getroffen door de klimaatverandering....

Onbegrijpelijk dat het Australische volk deze totaal onverantwoorde regering blijft steunen.......

Het volgende artikel en vraag om geld komt van de Australische tak van Greenpeace:

BREAKING: Equinor has just been approved by the Federal regulator to drill in the Great Australian Bight. 


A whale sanctuary destroyed. A habitat containing 85% unique species decimated. Australia’s coastlines at risk. 

Not if we can help it. We must act now.

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For whales and other marine mammals, life is a symphony of sound. They use sound to find food, mates, evade predators and generally navigate the vast ocean. 


The relationship a whale calf has with its mother is particularly special. Just like any other species the young rely on their mother’s protection and direction to navigate the wild.
What’s unique about whales is how they achieve this in such dark oceans with no sight. In a recent study from Aarhus University, Denmark (conducted in the Great Australian Bight) found that whale calves will “whisper” to their Mother. This helps them stay close, stay safe as they can’t be overheard by any predators.

“We discovered that the calves don’t make a lot of noise—they use very short and weak sounds. We think that it’s because they only intend for their mother to hear them,”
-Simone Videsen, research assistant at Aarhus University.
So what would happen if a mother could not hear her young? When a family of whales rely on noise to eat, speak, protect each other.

The noise of seismic blasting has been compared to a bomb repeatedly going off in their home every 10 seconds—a home they can’t flee. It’s not just whales that are affected; for fish, seismic blasting can be deadly, resulting in deafness. Even shellfish, like lobsters and scallops have their immune systems suppressed as a result of this. These blasts have been shown to cause massive mortality in plankton, the tiny organisms that form the base of all marine food chains.

Seismic blasting happens before oil drilling even commences. It happens at the research stage. With equinor’s drilling approved, we are only weeks away from this being a reality. That’s why we need your help today!


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Drone footage of Bunda Cliffs in the Great Australian Bight. It is a globally significant whale nursery, home to one of only two southern right whale calving grounds in the world, and a feeding area for blue whales, humpback whales, orcas and sea lions.

It breaks my heart to think oil drilling could take place in one of the largest whale sanctuaries in the world. Oil drilling must be stopped in the Bight, in Australia.

It’s amazing to think that it very easily can get worse. But all it takes is a spill. A spill means utter devastation. 9 years on from Deepwater Horizon, the world’s most infamous oil spill, has anything regenerated?

As one scientist recorded: “what we observed was a homogenous wasteland, in great contrast to the rich heterogeneity of life seen in a healthy deep sea. Crabs showed clearly visible physical abnormalities … Once these crustaceans reach the site, they may become too unhealthy to leave.”

And for what? Fossil fuels, a depleting resource that damages the planet and provokes extreme weather events.  

I don’t want to believe this is happening in Australia. It is deplorable to me that while our country is being ravaged by bushfires that the RFS and Bureau of Meteorology have linked to man made climate change. Our government has approved oil drilling for more fossil fuel. We must act now. 


As one of our supporters, you are likely aware that Greenpeace has a history of protecting oceans and saving whales. It’s what we do. You may not be aware that Greenpeace began in 1971 when a group of 8 protesters sailed into the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to force the US army to call off nuclear weapons testing in that area.

You might be asking yourself, ‘this is awful, but can Equinor really be stopped?’ In the past Greenpeace has infiltrated nuclear test sites, shielded whales from harpoons, protected fur seals from clubs and blocked ocean-going barges from dumping radioactive waste. We have also kicked 2 oil companies out of the Bight already and look forward to having your support to kick out another one. 

I want to thank you so much for your continued support in the past. As you probably know, Greenpeace is a fully independent entity meaning that we do not accept donations from governments, organisations or other large bodies. This is what makes us incorruptible and truly a voice of the people. People like you who understand how deadly oil is to the planet.

Thank you for everything you do,
Tom 


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'Oliemaatschappijen in Australië maken misbruik van de Coronacrisis om hun smerige wereldvernietigende agenda door te drukken'

'Australische autoriteit geeft toestemming voor dumpen van 1 miljoen ton giftig havenslib in Groot Barrièrerif (Werelderfgoed)

'Scott Morrison (premier Australië) moest bezoek aan door bosbrand getroffen gebied afbreken en vertrok met de staart tussen de benen'

'Australië: film 'Dirty Power: Burnt Country' maakt gehakt van regeringsbeleid en media misinformatie'

'Australië staat in brand terwijl de regering milieuactivisten straft voor het zich uitspreken tegen de oorzaken van de klimaatverandering'

'Filipijnen geen orkaanseizoen, maar het jaarrond tropische cyclonen'

'BP stelt in milieuplan dat een olieramp op zee goed is voor de lokale economie..........'

'Australië slaat alarm over koraalriffen........ AUW!!!'

'Australië geeft toestemming tot uitbaten enorm grote kolenmijn'

'Redt het Groot Barrièrerif, zet uw handtekening a.u.b.!'

'Het Groot Barrièrerif, dreigt te worden gesloopt voor een grote kolenhaven........'

'Australië heeft VN gedwongen een passage uit een klimaatrapportage te verwijderen...........'

'Leard Forest: grootste kolenmijn ooit dreigt gerealiseerd te worden in dit vele duizenden jaren oude Australisch bos......... '

'Australië exporteert dagelijks één miljoen ton steenkool, dit i.h.k.v. de klimaatverandering en de afgelopen klimaattop........' (daar wordt jaarlijks nog eens 10 miljoen ton aan toegevoegd....)

'Coca-Cola betaalt wetenschappers om haar producten te promoten en voor weerleggen kritiek......'

'Shell, ExxonMobil en andere oliemaatschappijen gaan 180 miljard dollar investeren in plasticproductie.........'

'Bas Heijne weet, geenszins 'onbehagelijk', niet wat te denken van de klimaatverandering....... OEI!!!'

'ExxonMobil vervolgd voor 'misleiding...' Nou zeg maar het op grote schaal bedonderen van de kluit!!'

'Shell was al in 1989 overtuigd van klimaatverandering.............'

'Exxon lobbyist (politicus) dagvaardt milieugroepen voor kennis bij Exxon over klimaatverandering.......'

Mijn excuus, het is tegenwoordiug blijkbaar hip om gepersonaliseerde oproepen te versturen, dus telkens met herhaling van je voornaam, dacht dat is ze allemaal had verwijderd, maar helaas, bij deze hersteld. (14.50 u.)

dinsdag 21 februari 2017

VS luchtmacht wil leefgebied walvissen middels militaire oefening bombarderen......

Kreeg gisteren een petitie toegestuurd van Care2, waarin de oproep te tekenen tegen het voornemen van de VS luchtmacht, als oefening een leefgebied van dolfijnen en walvissen bij Hawaï te bombarderen......

Te zot voor woorden, deze dieren hebben hun gehoor al zo hoognodig in de door herrie verscheurde stilte van de oceanen, dit door scheepsmotoren, olie- en gaswinning, seismische proeven t.b.v.: de (vooral) VS marine en nogmaals de oliemaffia.........

Het is zo, dat zelfs het leven van walvisachtigen afhangt van een uitstekend functionerend gehoor.......

Hier de petitie die iedereen kan tekenen. Lees en teken deze a.u.b. en geeft het door:

Stop the Air Force from Bombing Hundreds of Dolphins and Whales!

Doelwit: National Marine Fisheries Service: Jolie Harrison, Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, United States

The U.S. Air Force plans to drop 100 bombs, as large as 300 pounds each, on the waters north of Kauai, Hawaii, each year for the next five years. The Air Force has requested permission to harm 637 whales and dolphins in executing this endeavor. If this plan is approved by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA-Fisheries), it is estimated that dozens of marine mammals would be permanently deafened, and hundreds would suffer from temporary hearing loss and changes in natural behavior. Species that would be affected include the humpback whale, sei whale, minke whale, and Fraser dolphin.


The Air Force has proposed protecting dolphins and whales by looking for them on the surface of the water, a ridiculous strategy given that the waters in the area are more than 15,000 feet deep.

The negative impact of ocean noise on whales and dolphins has been well documented. Marine mammals depend upon sound to navigate, find mates, hunt, and communicate over hundreds of miles. Without the ability to hear, they are rendered unable to perform the most basic tasks necessary to their survival. Noise from military testing, as well as commercial shipping and oil and gas exploration, has caused trauma, deafness, and led to the mass beachings and deaths of dolphins and whales around the world.


As an animal lover, I am deeply saddened that beautiful, intelligent marine mammals around the world are suffering horrifically because of noise pollution caused by humanity. Collateral damage to innocent wildlife should not be considered an acceptable consequence of military testing. Please sign this petition urging NOAA-Fisheries to block plans by the U.S. Air Force that would cause harm to dolphins or whales. For marine mammals to survive and flourish, we must stop noise pollution in our oceans. Any testing plans by the military must give meaningful and effective protection to these magnificent beings.

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