SAVE THIS EARTH! I am not in A.L.F., I.L.F., E.L.F., Sea Shepherds nor any other group... but I believe, with every breath I take, that what the groups are doing IS THE WAY TO BE * TO HELP SAVE HUMANITY.
"I Am What I Am & That's All That I Am..."
... been doing BY MY CHOICE since 13/14 yrs ... I am now 108 {human 56years}( now 60 ;) . Many have died, human & non-human!
It would be so easy to "walk away & play..." yet, ;) Bah HumBug... "In Unity There is strength." {Am/IRISH trans of a wee bit of The Book of Kells.}
“I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals ~ and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy. ” ~ Captain Paul Watson
Thank You for your support ~ The SSS team is made up of many unique members who support Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Our goals are to educate others via special research projects, petitions, bulletins and teamwork with other groups of like minded ocean and marine life activists. Educating the public about whales and their ocean environment is part of our core mission of SSS. We believe that the first step towards conservation is the education of people both young and old, about whales and the environment they live in and about the problems they face because of - humans. It is only through education that we can gain support for conservation initiatives. It is only through education that we can gain support for conservation initiatives. It is solid research that education evolves and therefore allows us to work behind the scenes to see to it that better legislation is brought to the frontlines and passed, not only to protect the whales but one of our most important resources - our oceans, and marine life.
Stop The Horrific Slaughter Of Whales! Whale Death Facts
Myspace friends: We really need your help on this issue. Please sign this petition to stop the horrific slaughter of our whales. This issue is the most important thing you can do for the whales. Please take the time to read the below information and watch the video.. ( Just click on any of the pics to sign petition ) Thank You...
From The Sea Shepherd Support Team...
31 countries issued a protest to the Japanese Government, calling on the country to end it's scientific whaling program. But the United States of Amercia was a no show. Ask USA for their support: We will contact: The Honorable Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20230 and/or cgutierrez@doc.gov and Makoto Ishihara - Mr, Kunihiko Koike, and Yuji Igarashi with your vote on this petition. Nippon Suisan, Maruha and Kyokuyo are the Japanese seafood conglomerates who for the past 20 years, even after a global moratorium on the killing of whales, wholeheartedly supported the government of Japan's "scientific" whale hunt by purchasing, canning and selling whale products. 18 months ago, after letter writing efforts from supporters like you, these companies quietly divested their ownership in the Japanese whaling fleet. They now claim they are no longer responsible. These three companies owned and operated the whaling fleet when the Government of Japan announced plans to kill almost 1000 whales including 50 fin whales in an internationally recognized sanctuary, yet they now claim their hands are clean. Please urge the CEOs of these companies and their wholly-owned subsidiaries to tell the Government of Japan the world doesn't need to kill whales in the twenty-first century to study them.
CLICK ON THE PIC AND SIGN THE PETITION. THANK YOU
In signing this petition, your name will be on the following letter to the individuals below
Dear Honorable Carlos M. Gutierrez, Makoto Ishihara - Mr, Kunihiko Koike, and Yuji Igarashi I write to express my grave concern at your company's longstanding involvement in Japanese whaling and to respectfully request you take all possible steps to end Japan's ongoing whaling activities.
In response to Japan's escalating whaling program that now threatens to kill fin and humpback whales, Sea Shepherd Support Group recently sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos M.Gutierrez, asking him to initiate a process that would allow President Obama to impose trade sanctions against Japan for their large-scale whale hunting in blatant disregard for the international ban on commercial whaling. While Japan's whale hunting is allegedly conducted for scientific purposes, its whaling program is a de facto commercial operation since the meat is sold on the open market.
The United States is in a unique position among IWC member nations, because the Pelly Amendment provides the U.S. government with a legal mechanism to apply economic sanctions against offending countries like Japan. Though the United States has maintained a firm policy against all commercial and scientific whaling, the USA has failed to take a strong stand against it. Tell the USA to step up and place the Pelly Amendment in place.
Modern day whaling activities give rise to serious animal welfare concerns. A number of factors inherent in current whaling practices render it unlikely that truly humane standards could ever be achieved. On grounds of animal welfare alone, therefore, all whaling operations should be halted.
It is likely that whales suffer more prolonged deaths than the current data suggest, but until a scientifically proven means of determining death in cetaceans is established, individual whales may be declared dead while they are still alive. In some cases, it is possible they may even die while being winched aboard a processing vessel. It is also possible that an individual whale could be paralysed by the harpoon strike and may initiate a physiological dive response, in an attempt to escape this attack. Such an animal would then present as ‘motionless’ and not breathing.
The methods used by Japan, Iceland and Norway for killing whales are very similar. In each case, whalers use a penthrite grenade harpoon, which is fired from a cannon mounted on the prow of a ship, as the primary killing method. The harpoon is intended to penetrate to about a foot (approx 30cm) into the whale and then detonate, creating sufficient energy to kill the whale either by the trauma or laceration, or by the generation of shock waves, causing trauma to the brain. Upon impact, spring-loaded claws are released by the harpoon and embed in the surrounding flesh when the line comes under tension. If the whalers determine that the first harpoon has not killed the whale, either a second penthrite harpoon is deployed or a rifle (of minimum calibre 9.3mm) is used.
When assessing the welfare potential of whale killing methods using accepted principles of humane slaughter, it is clear that current whaling operations have a low welfare potential, and are therefore likely to cause severe pain and suffering to the hunted whales.
Recent history indicates that man’s impact upon marine mammals has ranged from what might be termed malign neglect to virtual genocide. These animals including whales, porpoises, seals, sea otters, polar bears, manatees and others, have not only rarely benefited from our interest; they have been shot, blown up, clubbed to death, run down by boats, poisoned and exposed to a multitude of other indignities, all in the interest of profit or recreation, with little or no consideration of the potential impact of these activities on the animal populations involved.
(US Congress 1971).
CONCERNS:
• The adaptations of cetaceans to the marine environment may have significant implications for their welfare during whaling operations. Adaptations for diving may make it difficult to determine when these animals are dead.
• The current IWC criteria for determining death in cetaceans are inadequate.
• In many cases, current killing methods are not adequately adapted for the species being killed. Differences between species may greatly increase the margin for error in killing methods and may influence the time to death (TTD) and associated suffering.
• There are significant differences in the efficiency reported from different hunts and even the best statistics indicate that at least 20 per cent of whales killed for commercial purposes do not die instantaneously. Furthermore, in a practical whaling situation, instantaneously is likely to equate to at least 45 minutes after the harpoon strike.
• Recent data show that, for commercial and scientific whale hunts, the average estimated time to death is well over an hour.
• Struck and lost whales represent a significant welfare problem. Struck and lost cetaceans may suffer significantly in both the short- and long-term as a result of exhaustion and their injuries.
• Whalers attempting to achieve a fatal shot, either with a harpoon or rifle, often must do so at considerable range, and need to overcome poor visibility, rough sea states and vessel motion. The accuracy of the gunner (or marksmanship) will also impact on the ability to kill a cetacean swiftly.
• The exertion imposed on whales during pursuit may fall outside the species’ adaptive range. Pursuit during whaling activities has the potential to induce stress, which may manifest as a series of lethal and sub-lethal pathologies. The effects of pursuit may also be significant for cetaceans that are struck and eventually killed as well as for those that evade capture.
We are the #1 support team for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is the most aggressive and most successful Whale-Saving organization in the world. Saving whales is what the SSCS do best and what they are most noted for. The approach has been simple and straight forward.
In 1977, Sea Shepherd was established by Captain Paul Watson as an organization to intervene and uphold international conservation regulations protecting marine wildlife. We do not protest whaling - we oppose illegal whaling activities.
Our opposition are criminals engaged in illegal behavior.
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----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Mom Two ♥ Date: Jan 10, 2009 8:51 PM
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Seal Hunt DFO Newfoundland Canada Date: Jan 10, 2009 8:40 AM
Banned Confiscated Video Canadian Killers Don't want You to See
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The Seal Killers of Newfoundland & the Government Department of Fisheries (DFO) in Canada have a lot to hide from the world.
Canadian Seal Killing extremists via the Canadian government passed a LAW that stops YOU from getting pictures of their crimes against nature. This video reveals multiple violations, and they attempted to confiscate it so that You out there in the world would never see it.
Scene 1: Killing taking 3 hits Seal Hunters often say they only kill in 1 hit. False.
Scene 2: 2 hits inserting hakapik into mouth Seal Hunters often deny they stick the bladed hakapik into seals mouths. Proof:
Scene 3: Seal hit in head, lost in ocean Sealers often say none suffer. This shows some are hit & then slip into the ocean and are lost. Still suffering from abuse & crushed tissue.
Scene 4: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 hits, drags seal still flipping around alive, standing there doing nothing, then steps on head leaves it. Seal Hunters often claim they kill quick & humane. There is even a law for it. This shows a sealer hitting 5 times & the seal is still alive. Then he stands there, letting it suffer. This is proof. And even worse, Sealers take their boots and step on seals necks, spine, and he steps on its head.
scene 5: Proof Hakapik takes multiple hits
Scene 6: pushes seal into ocean Sealer intentionally pushes a baby seal into the sea.
Scene 7: More evidence of multiple hits
Scene 8: throwing seal into ocean Sealers say they dont waste. Here is a sealer throwing a seal and meat into the water.
Scene 9: Hitting seal that still has portion of white coat.
Sealers say they dont kill babies. Or white coats. When whitecoats molt, they change from white to gray at only about 12 to 14 days old. Midway they still have partly white fur as they are molting. This shows a Sealer hitting seals with still partial white coat. Sealers & Seal hunting hurts the entire nation of Canada and its people.
The government spends millions of dollars to seal processing plants, takes vacations & trips to paris & australia to try to force people to buy their seal pelts which nobody wants.
They try to sell the meat which is contaminated, to Koreans, and sell seal penis's (yes, the seals genitals) to the black markets in china telling them its an aphrodisiac for men. And they try to sell the fur to Russians and other communist countries for elderly rich ladies in wealthy fashion shows. The money is taken from good canadians, via taxes to prop up the hunt which loses money for Canada.
Stop these Sealers and their crimes. Canada arrested NOT the people with weapons who were bashing skulls & stepping on animals heads & letting them suffer, Canada arrested the people merely holding a camera trying to get photographic proof of these crimes. And the charge? Canada Arrested people simply for being near them and taking these pictures for you & the world to see.
What you are watching is still happening now. In our midst.
Boycott Canadian seafood.
And support the EU seal hunt ban.
.. And Have you added Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd to your friends yet?
ADD Paul's and SeaShepherd's profiles as your friend on myspace and feature their icon in your TOP friends.
Making their icons visible, and any other posting you can do, such as in your blog and forwarding this bulletin, and posting to donate everywhere you can will help raise awareness.
Please also stop by One Earth ~ One People ~ One Chance and visit our groups; Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Stop Sarah Palin's Wolf Hunt Petition Save the American Wolves
With many voices joining forces with us maybe, just maybe we can stop this madness !!!!
FROM: Rodger Schlickeisen President Defenders of Wildlife
Sarah Palin is planning what could be the bloodiest aerial wolf killing season yet in Alaska..
Already this winter, aerial gunners in Alaska have slaughtered at least 47 wolves. More wolves were killed this past November than in any November in the past five years. And, under Governor Palin's out-of-control wolf-killing program, nearly 600 more wolves could die before this year's season is finished..
Wolves are dying right now, and we need your help to stop the killing..
Please watch our new video and make a year-end tax-deductible contribution of $5, $10, $50 or whatever you can afford will help us end aerial killing of wolves and protect other imperiled wildlife..
With new leadership in Washington and unprecedented awareness about Governor's Palin's senseless killing programs, we're now in a better position to stop this terrible, needless practice and save wolves..
With your support, we will…
* Forcefully oppose efforts by Governor Palin and her Board of Game to arbitrarily kill even more wolves just to boost game populations for out-of-state hunting interests; * Shine the national spotlight on Governor Palin's brutal wolf-killing programs and pressure her to end them; * Work with the incoming Obama/Biden Administration to close the loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act that Governor Palin is exploiting to continue Alaska's unfounded aerial wolf killing programs; and * Build support in Congress for the reintroduction and passage of the Protect America's Wildlife Act (PAW), federal legislation to end aerial killing of wolves once and for all..
We need to raise $150,000 before December 31st to launch our new campaign in January to stop Palin's planned wolf slaughter. Will you help?
Please make a year-end tax-deductible contribution of $5, $10, $50 or whatever amount you can afford today to help support these and other efforts to save wolves and other wildlife, and we'll put your year-end tax-deductible contribution to work right away..
With your help, I know we can succeed. Together, we were able to stop Governor Palin's ghastly $150 bounty for the severed paws of slaughtered wolves, block Palin's stealth campaign to stifle the voice of Alaska's citizens on wildlife issues and spotlight Palin's support for aerial killing and other anti-wildlife policies in the national media..
And, with the help of caring people like you, our sister organization Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund was able to help stop Palin from becoming our next Vice President and spreading her anti-wildlife politics across the country..
We can win, but we can't do it without you. Please make a tax-deductible contribution of whatever you can today to help us save wolves..
With Gratitude,
Rodger Schlickeisen President Defenders of Wildlife
PS Make a secure tax-deductible donation online today or call 1-800-385-9712 to donate over the phone....
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Vee Date: Jan 1, 2009 9:43 PM 2009 State of Emergency for Yellowstone National Park has had over 500 earthquakes in the last five days of 2008. Chris Sanders the President of The Gas Company who is also a geologist has been tracking the possible eruption of this super volcano for the last few months. Now January 1, 2009 Chris is advising that all people visiting and volunteering at Yellowstone National Park leave immediately. "I would rather be wrong than right on this one since it once ended life and should annihilate a radius over 300 square miles minimum when it goes off. Plus all of our technology in place is showing magma moving towards the surface causing movement and earthquakes everywhere" More information can be learned at www. usgs. gov or at http://www. worldwidewaterplan. com/yel..
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Lori Date: Jan 1, 2009 7:24 PM
2009 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK EARTHQUAKES AND SUPER VOLCANO ALERT
The Super Volcano at Yellowstone National Park might erupt early in 2009. USGS has reported over 500 earthquakes and the magma is on the rise according to Chris Sanders - Geologist. more information about the super volcano at: http://www. worldwidewaterplan. com/yellowstone. htm Come back when everything calms down! Leave ASAP!
TIME 2009c.e. To Save...The Innocence, The Wild & The Whales, The Homeless, & The Strays ...
ENTROPY
Now To Focus & To Save The Innocence, The Wild & The Whales, The Homeless, & The Strays.
The numbers build every day, and now so many are cold & hungry. We in Masques must be "seen". To Be Heard through "the fakery" is to involk V., For The Children {no matter the age} we are in need.
Now "Riddle Me This", "The Bane: What is the difference between what was said Then in the 60's, 70's, 80's COMPARED TO The SAME Rhetoric Now?"
I became FULLY aware by 13 years, that the DEMS were The Only Answer. By 14 I was "beating the streets" for the DEMS - by my young choice. I am on the younger side of 108 years {aka 55} now - also believing DEATH {a part of LIFE} can happen TO ANYONE {even me, teehee} in a BLINK of The Eye. In the 80's I was EF-LA leader & given by Captain Paul Watson, FOW {FRIENDS OF THE WOLF } -LA, which was the media central at the Time -- to stand also with the 3 WONDERFUL WOMEN-which headed International FOW {Frinds of The Wolf}, to JUMP into The WILD & SNOW, to save The Wolves; {THE THREE WOMEN HAVE THEIR OWN {HER}STORY To Perhaps One Day To Tell... ;}
TO NOW...:
The Decades have past, NOW THE CLARION CALL IS CALLING AGAIN ONLY WORSE. THE EARTH IS IN DIRE STRAIGHTS. WE ONLY HAD HANDFULS OF "WE FOLK" BACK THEN TO KEEP THE MESSAGE GOING, NOW WE NEED "ALL HANDS" -- and EVEN THE "NET" "TO WEAVE" The Message!
TEA {PARTY} CHEERS. MERRIE NEW YEAR 2009c.e. gotta "fly", for now, SEA-U, ;) *Poof*
