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Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Strike against war,
for without you no battles can be fought!
Strike against manufacturing shrapnel,
and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!
Strike against preparedness,
that means death and misery to millions of human beings!
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction!
Be heroes in an army of construction."
- - Helen Keller
RHINO HERE:
On 8/23/02 the blog dealt with shrub & company's "Assault on the Oceans".
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207/2002/08/23.html
Just days from now, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) attorneys will appear in U.S. Federal Court and seek to stop the U.S. Navy from operating a new and extremely dangerous sonar system that would blast hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean habitat with noise so intense it can maim, deafen or even kill whales at close range.
Shrub and company has recently approved their plan to have the Navy deploy their Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar system across 75 % of the world's oceans. Worse, the Navy intends to begin as early as November 1st!
If you'd like to help the NRDC fight this critical legal battle, go to
https://www.nrdc.org/joinGive/join/lfa2.asp
There's tons of other great information at the NRDC web site...
http://www.nrdc.org
... like for instance, that the White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) is in fact not white, but dark gray. Its misleading name is based on a bad translation of the Afrikaans word "weit" meaning "wide." 90% of Africa's 10,500 white rhinos live in southern Africa. They are the second largest land animal after elephants. White rhinos weigh in at 4,000 - 6,000 lbs. -- twice the size of the black rhinos of north-central Africa -- and live from 40 to 60 years. While all rhino populations are badly threatened by horn-seeking poachers, the white rhino is the most secure of all African rhinos.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/southern/southern_animals_lo.html
CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM
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President, Natural Resources Defense Council, 10/23/02
... Marine scientists are warning that this sonar system may threaten the very survival of entire populations of whales, some already teetering on the brink of extinction.
As opposed to traditional "passive" sonar, which locates submarines by listening for sound in the water, the new "active" sonar uses underwater loudspeakers to blast the ocean with an effective noise level of 235 decibels and then waits for a response. At close range, the shock waves are so intense they can destroy whales' eardrums, cause their lungs to hemorrhage, and even kill. Further from the source, LFA noise still can result in permanent hearing loss in marine mammals after a single transmission, and cause whales to swerve from their migration paths.
The dangers are hardly theoretical. Two years ago, the mere testing of high-intensity Navy sonar in mid-frequency range caused a mass stranding of whales in the Bahamas. Whales from at least three different species died, their inner ears bleeding from the explosive power of the sonar signal.
Does the Navy have the right to conduct a giant uncontrolled experiment on our oceans and every living creature in them? The Bush administration seems to think so. It has issued a permit that exempts the Navy from having to obey the Marine Mammal Protection Act, in effect giving the military a blank check to harass and injure whales and dolphins at will.
We think that's unconscionable and illegal. But we must have your immediate help if we are to prevail in court. We urgently need to raise significant new funds in order to cover litigation expenses and stop the imminent deployment of deadly, noise-producing sonar.
Again, I urge you to help by going to
https://www.nrdc.org/joinGive/join/lfa2.asp
right now and making an online emergency contribution.
Please join us in stopping the U.S. Navy before it unleashes this technological menace on the world's oceans. With your help, we can make sure that no more whales have to suffer and die from high-power sonar. Thank you.
Sincerely,
John H. Adams, President, Natural Resources Defense Council
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