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  Sky October 20, 2013 at 5:35pm

  ...Its All Fooked Up Krish.....Human Beings Are A Crazy Bunch..........xx..
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  Michael October 20, 2013 at 1:30pm
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  Michael October 20, 2013 at 1:28pm

  Hellen dear~ give me just one example, just one, of an animal that destroyes its own environment. I bet anything that you can not come up with anything.

  I wish folks would wake up and stop sounding like making excuses.........................
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  Michael October 20, 2013 at 1:11pm

  
  

  The ocean is broken 

  By GREG RAY

  Oct. 18, 2013, 10 p.m.

  
  

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    Ivan Macfadyen aboard the Funnel Web

  IT was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it.

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  Not the absence of sound, exactly.

  The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.

  And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.

  What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.

  The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

  Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line.

  "There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled.

  But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.

  No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.

  "In years gone by I'd gotten used to all the birds and their noises," he said.

  "They'd be following the boat, sometimes resting on the mast before taking off again. You'd see flocks of them wheeling over the surface of the sea in the distance, feeding on pilchards."

  But in March and April this year, only silence and desolation surrounded his boat, Funnel Web, as it sped across the surface of a haunted ocean.

  North of the equator, up above New Guinea, the ocean-racers saw a big fishing boat working a reef in the distance.

  "All day it was there, trawling back and forth. It was a big ship, like a mother-ship," he said.

  And all night it worked too, under bright floodlights. And in the morning Macfadyen was awoken by his crewman calling out, urgently, that the ship had launched a speedboat.

  "Obviously I was worried. We were unarmed and pirates are a real worry in those waters. I thought, if these guys had weapons then we were in deep trouble."

  But they weren't pirates, not in the conventional sense, at least. The speedboat came alongside and the Melanesian men aboard offered gifts of fruit and jars of jam and preserves.

  "And they gave us five big sugar-bags full of fish," he said.

  "They were good, big fish, of all kinds. Some were fresh, but others had obviously been in the sun for a while.

  "We told them there was no way we could possibly use all those fish. There were just two of us, with no real place to store or keep them. They just shrugged and told us to tip them overboard. That's what they would have done with them anyway, they said.

  "They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing."

  Macfadyen felt sick to his heart. That was one fishing boat among countless more working unseen beyond the horizon, many of them doing exactly the same thing.

  No wonder the sea was dead. No wonder his baited lines caught nothing. There was nothing to catch.

  If that sounds depressing, it only got worse.

  The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear.

  "After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead," Macfadyen said.

  "We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.

  "I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen."

  In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.

  "Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look."

  Ivan's brother, Glenn, who boarded at Hawaii for the run into the United States, marvelled at the "thousands on thousands" of yellow plastic buoys. The huge tangles of synthetic rope, fishing lines and nets. Pieces of polystyrene foam by the million. And slicks of oil and petrol, everywhere.

  Countless hundreds of wooden power poles are out there, snapped off by the killer wave and still trailing their wires in the middle of the sea.

  "In years gone by, when you were becalmed by lack of wind, you'd just start your engine and motor on," Ivan said.

  Not this time.

  "In a lot of places we couldn't start our motor for fear of entangling the propeller in the mass of pieces of rope and cable. That's an unheard of situation, out in the ocean.

  "If we did decide to motor we couldn't do it at night, only in the daytime with a lookout on the bow, watching for rubbish.

  "On the bow, in the waters above Hawaii, you could see right down into the depths. I could see that the debris isn't just on the surface, it's all the way down. And it's all sizes, from a soft-drink bottle to pieces the size of a big car or truck.

  "We saw a factory chimney sticking out of the water, with some kind of boiler thing still attached below the surface. We saw a big container-type thing, just rolling over and over on the waves.

  "We were weaving around these pieces of debris. It was like sailing through a garbage tip.

  "Below decks you were constantly hearing things hitting against the hull, and you were constantly afraid of hitting something really big. As it was, the hull was scratched and dented all over the place from bits and pieces we never saw."

  Plastic was ubiquitous. Bottles, bags and every kind of throwaway domestic item you can imagine, from broken chairs to dustpans, toys and utensils.

  And something else. The boat's vivid yellow paint job, never faded by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way.

  BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with the shock and horror of the voyage.

  "The ocean is broken," he said, shaking his head in stunned disbelief.

  Recognising the problem is vast, and that no organisations or governments appear to have a particular interest in doing anything about it, Macfadyen is looking for ideas.

  He plans to lobby government ministers, hoping they might help.

  More immediately, he will approach the organisers of Australia's major ocean races, trying to enlist yachties into an international scheme that uses volunteer yachtsmen to monitor debris and marine life.

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  Macfadyen signed up to this scheme while he was in the US, responding to an approach by US academics who asked yachties to fill in daily survey forms and collect samples for radiation testing - a significant concern in the wake of the tsunami and consequent nuclear power station failure in Japan.

  "I asked them why don't we push for a fleet to go and clean up the mess," he said.

  "But they said they'd calculated that the environmental damage from burning the fuel to do that job would be worse than just leaving the debris there."

  
  

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  4dnaprotection,stop440hzmusic October 20, 2013 at 7:45am

  Can everyone please please take part in, and if possible share this meditation for Cetaceans on this planet?  . https://www.facebook.com/events/152491318293481  If you read the description of the event you will find info about several unusual yet powerful techniques that can be used to help them, such as dowsing. There are also several powerful affirmations listed we are using in this meditation to help them.  We did this last weekend too and I feel it is having a powerful effect.  This is going on tomorrow, but can also be done further in the future.   <3

  `GLOBAL MEDITATION (&/OR PRAYERS) for world peace, animals & the earth!!! <3
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  Krishna Kalki October 20, 2013 at 5:45am

  This has put me right off Peru so it is one place that will be in my hate list...it is happening in Peru by the Peruvians so those who are involved are barbaric butchers and those allowing this to happen without protesting are beings who do not have any compassion
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  Michael October 20, 2013 at 2:15am

  
  

  SAY NO TO PALM OIL!

  October 8th, 2013

  
  

  

  SAY NO TO PALM OIL! Did you know that most of us are fueling one of the world’s biggest ecological disasters and acts of primate genocide in history?
  Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of the world, yet they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the magnificent orangutan. These two South-East Asian islands are extremely rich in life, containing around 20,000 flowering plant species, 3,000 tree species, 300,000 animal species and thousands more being discovered each year. Despite this amazing biodiversity and delicate web of species, an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for the production of one vegetable oil. That’s 6 football fields destroyed each minute. This vegetable oil is called palm oil, and is found in hundreds of the everyday products, from baked goods and confectionery, to cosmetics and cleaning agents… many of which you buy in your weekly shopping.

  Due to the massive international demand for palm oil, palm oil plantations are rapidly replacing the rainforest habitat of the critically endangered orangutan; with over 90% of their habitat already destroyed in the last 20 years.

  Orangutans are some of our closest relatives, sharing approximately 97% of their DNA with humans. Orangutan means ‘Person of the jungle’ in the Indonesian language. It is estimated that 6 to 12 of these ‘jungle people’ are killed each day for palm oil. These gentle creatures are either killed in the deforestation process, when they wonder into a palm oil plantation looking for food, or in the illegal pet trade after they’ve been captured and kept as pets in extremely poor conditions and provided with extremely poor nutrition.

  Orangutans are considered as pests by the palm oil industry. In the deforestation process, workers are told that if wildlife gets in the way, they are to do whatever is necessary in order to dispose them, no matter how inhumane. Often orangutans are run over by logging machinery, beat to death, buried alive or set on fire… all in the name of palm oil.

  Government data has shown that over 50,000 orangutans have already died as a result of deforestation due to palm oil in the last two decades. Experts say that if this pattern of destruction and exploitation continues, these intelligent acrobats of the jungle will be extinct in the wild within 3 to 12 years (as early as 2015). It is also thought that their jungle habitat will be completely gone within 20 years (approximately 2033).

  Around 50 million tons of palm oil is produced annually; with almost all of that being non-sustainable palm oil, that replaces 12 million hectares of dense, bio-diverse rainforest. That’s the equivalent landmass of North Korea deforested each year for palm oil alone!

  Palm oil is also having a shocking impact on our planet. The production of this one vegetable oil is not only responsible for polluting rivers and causing land erosion, but when the plantation workers set fire to the remaining trees, shrubs and debris to make way for the oil palms, it produces immense amount of smoke pollution that is toxic to planet earth. This has been found to be the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas in the world.

  By purchasing products that contain crude palm oil, you are helping destroy ancient, pristine rainforest, wipe out species like the orangutan, and create a large-scale ecological disaster. Think of the consequences next time you do your weekly shopping; the consequences not only for orangutans and other animals, but for us as the human race; for we cannot survive without the rainforests either. We have a choice, orangutans do not.

  Read more: HTTP://WWW.SAYNOTOPALMOIL.COM/

  You can help end the cruelty by sharing the truth about animals’ abuse. If you agree that animals feel, suffer, love and the truth about their abuse should be exposed.
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  Michael October 20, 2013 at 12:49am

  
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  Krishna Kalki October 19, 2013 at 10:45pm

  Japan and now Peru and a few other countries are guilty of killing dolphins ...others should protest and boycott all products from guilty countries.
  The people involved are ruthless murderers and the only place for them is to locked up indefinitely