Limited edition poster available!

Renowned artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey has created a portrait of Captain Paul Watson to support Sea Shepherd. Fairey is regarded as one of the most well known and most influential street artists today. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His work made headlines last year with the widely distributed Barack Obama “HOPE” poster during the presidential campaign.

Fairey became involved with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society this past summer by participating in an art benefit in Riverside, California called “Sea No Evil.” The event helped raise critical funds for Sea Shepherd’s direct action campaigns.

When asked why he supports Sea Shepherd, Fairey responded, “I am opposed to injustice in any form and I am an environmental advocate. The delicate balance of eco-systems needs to be maintained to protect all species, including humans. The mission of Sea Shepherd and founder Paul Watson to protect the oceans and their species is noble and inspiring. Any important movement requires a great leader to galvanize and motivate. Captain Watson is a leader who I wanted to celebrate with my art and hopefully have the art benefit the mission of Sea Shepherd.”

Limited edition prints are available online for purchase; a portion of the proceeds will benefit Sea Shepherd. The print comes in two different colorways: Light Blue and Dark Blue.  Both are limited editions of 450, 18 x 24 inches, and are signed and numbered by Shepard and Captain Watson.

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paul watson

what is your name?
Paul Watson

how would you describe what you do?

Up until recently I worked primarily in collage and assemblage, but now I’m working with Artist’s Books – using the book as a sculptural form.

what are you currently working on?

The Book of the Erinyes is my current project – http://www.bookoftheerinyes.com/ – it’s a handbound limited edition (30 copies) artist’s book containing lino-prints, photographs (some digitally manipulated), and hand-set letterpress printing.

Essentially it’s a limited edition collection of pieces of artwork, bound together in the form of a book (itself a form of Book Art).

The text, which I’ve described elsewhere as “written in the style of a late 19th century description of pursuit by the Erinyes transcribed by an opium addict” presents an incomplete narrative giving tantalising insights into the artwork. All the text is printed with hand-set movable lead type (letterpress printing).

As well as the book itself, I’m going to be releasing a number of postcards of the artwork, and I have plans for a print-on-demand paperback version as well as a free ebook version.

what has had the greatest influence on your work?

Over the years I’ve been influenced by many artists – Francis Bacon, Robert Rauschenberg, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Jasper Johns…

With regards to the Book of the Erinyes, the influences have been wide and varied – due in no small part to the variety of media being used.  Artists like William Blake are a strong influence (although not so much with regards to his visual style – more his working methodologies).

Book Artists like Mia Leijonstedt (http://www.leijonstedt.com/) are a great influence and inspiration with regards to the actual binding and sculptural form of the books.

what is the greatest misconception about you or your work?

I’m not aware of any.

what do you see as the main strengths and weaknesses of the medium you work in?

With regards to Book Arts, the strengths are that the form of the book is so immediately recognisable to people that they feel an immediate connection with it. Books are full of mystery and wonders (or, at least, they should be, and they always are to children).

Weaknesses – well, the very familiarity of the book format means that sometimes people don’t realise that creating a handmade artist’s book can take hundreds of hours of work – which means they are frequently undervalued.

how has technology impacted upon the work you do?

Enormously.  In my day job I’m the Web Manager for a Publishers, and prior to that I’ve worked as a web designer/developer for over 15 years.  While my artwork mainly uses technologies that are many hundreds of years old (letterpress printing, bookbinding, relief printing) the marketing and promotion of the artwork mainly uses the internet.

In recent years I’ve increasingly eschewed more traditional ways of promoting and selling artwork (gallery exhibitions etc) and concentrated on my online presence.

I have started using a bit of digital manipulation of images in my artwork more recently, but it’s a minor element compared to the larger part of the artistic process.

The most interesting aspects of the internet are free access to global audiences and the ability to infinitely reproduce digital goods at effectively no cost. The second of those aspects is causing a lot of problems to old media companies who refuse to change their business models, but that’s because of their inertia and blindness.  I see these aspects of the internet as massive opportunities.

what’s the greatest piece of advice you would like to pass on?

The best advice I can think of is: keep producing artwork, don’t stop, don’t delay, keep doing it.

where can we find you online?

My main site is the Lazarus Corporation – http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/ – which has been online for the past 13 years. I’ve also opened a branch office on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lazaruscorporation
The Book of the Erinyes has its own website at http://www.bookoftheerinyes.com/

And I’m on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lazcorp

what are you reading at the moment?

I’m currently reading City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer

what are you listening to at the moment?

I tend to listen to a lot of alternative music originating in the 80s and 90s – The Sisters of Mercy, Godflesh, Swans, Psychedelic Furs.  But I’ve also been listening to a variety of newer music such as Godspeed You Black Emperor and the Dresden Dolls.

anything else we should know?

The Interstitial Arts Foundation have just featured me on their front page  – http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=146 – please have a look at leave them a comment

Over the last few years we have observed the conflict of conservation ships on the deep seas and the conducts towards interaction with international shipping and whaling.

Through this unpermitted war on international fishing and shipping via the Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace numerous attempts have been made in intercepting, trying to board or have boarded (attach to and unpermitted flag), interfering via misconduct and deliberately navigating towards and/or in the path of these international ships and their navigational lane ways.

Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warriors and Irwin’s Sea Shepherd conservation and research ships are non-government organization ships directly related the conversation of the environment. These ships legally do not have the right in interfere in international shipping and are not contracted via the Navy nor Customs of any country.

Conservation ships in the past have been fined for numerous violations including $7,000 USD for damaging the Tubbataha reef, conservation ships have been also known to interfere with the navigation and/or interference of single-hull oil tankers and cargo ships that may have been the cause of disasters in the past not contributed to the weather or human error.

Rather than submitting to organisations such as AMSA etc and dealing with these ships on land, these conversation companies have taken it on them self’s not only not observed sea safety but demonstrated acts of piracy according to United Nations Law of the Sea.

The definition of piracy on the sea means any illegal acts committed for private ends by the crew or passengers of a private ship or air craft on the high-seas against another ship or air craft against persons or property of that ship or aircraft.

Ships which are entitled to be seized on the account of piracy may be carried out only by military that can be identified as being on a government service and authorized to that effect. The right to pursuit may be exercised only by ships identifiable as being a government service and authorized to that effect.

Japan started whaling via netting in the early 12^th century (1101-1200) in which in this time dragged these whales onto land, they progressed in 1510 to the use of open boats; Norway started in the middle ages. Europeans settled in Australia in 1788 prior to this aboriginals hunted whales off the shores via netting as in the way Japan and Asian countries did all those centuries ago.

The current population of Japan is 128 million & Norway is 4.8 million rounded, whale catches each year according to this populous ratio indicate over the last 10 years would suggest that Norway is catching an estimated of 135 more on average per year then Japan and that Japan is catching under their permitted amount by around 200+ working off IWC.

Yet knowing these facts Senator Siewert from the Australian Greens has stated that Japan are estimated to catch 1000+ this year when for the last 20 years they have not taken any more the under their permitted seasonal catch.

Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd has quoted in saying “our intention is to bankrupt the fleet like we have been doing for the past three years, our intension is to block loading operations” “collisions may happen!” In stating such facts Mr Watson is stating that his ship and crew have every intention in not only to intrude on permitted operations of an international industry but also to endanger his own crew and the crews of the ships involved, also in these quotes direct to media confessed to the intention of espionage of an international corporate industry in-past and present.

Such conservation companies pursuing such courses of action directed purely at Japan is a clear indication of bulling via the use of underhandedness and disorientation to draw vessels into conservation areas only to singling out an individual country for the purpose of defamation of an industry.

In relation to whaling and the reproduction of each, the Humpback Whale produces 6-8 young per year after the age of 10 it is estimated that there are 10,000-15,000 worldwide, a Minke Whale gives birth to 1 per year after the age of 2 it is estimated that there are 800.000 worldwide and Sperm Whale produce 7-10 per year after 10 years of age it is estimated that there are 200,000 worldwide.

The average hunted is 2 Sperm, 535 Minke and very little of anything else per average year by Japan for the last 20 years where  in comparison Norway just for Minke alone was almost 500-600 est. per year for the last 10 years.

Regards

Brett J Hutton

http://www.bretthutton.bravehost.com.au

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?

London Telegraph
November 24, 2009

But if the Hadley CRU scandal is true,it’s a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility which is never likely to recover.

From Their Own Mouths: Global Warming is a Fraud

Information Liberation
November 10, 2009

“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” – David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

Florianópolis, 28 e 29 de novembro, curso: Ações para Salvar Animais Marinhos em Derrames de Petróleo

Professor: Wendell Estol, diretor técnico voluntário do Instituto Sea Shepherd Brasil.

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Porto Alegre, 3 de dezembro: “Sea Shepherd: 10 anos no Brasil”. Com Wendell Estol.

Porto Alegre 4 de dezembro: “Sea Shepherd Brasil e a defesa judicial dos tubarões: uma luta pela vida”. Com Cristiano Pacheco, diretor jurídico voluntário do ISSB e líder AVINA.

Confira também a palestra da recordista mundial Karol Meyer e embaixadora do mar pelo Instituto Sea Shepherd sobre “Mergulho Livre – Aventuras No Limits”. Palestras gratuitas no 3º Salão Náutico do Mercosul.

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A few weeks ago I was catching up on my DVR’d tv shows and I came across the Southpark episode “Whale Whores.” It was their spoof on the tv show Whale Wars which airs on Animal Planet and chronicles a group of people who harass Japanese whaling in the Ross Sea. It’s kind of an interesting show.. So i’m watching this episode of Southpark and up pops a picture of Whale Wars Capt. Paul Watson that looked very similar to a picture I made of him a few weeks before the episode aired. I paused the show and busted out my laptop and what do you know, the picture used on Southpark was mine. I don’t really get excited anymore when I see one of my pictures in print but this was a whole different story. Southpark has long been one of my favorite tv shows and to see one of my pictures get the Southpark treatment was awesome. In fact i’m still riding the high from seeing my work on that show.

Dans la série des petits jeux sans prétentions qui traitent de façon humoristique d’un thème environnemental, Harpooned (gratuit sur PC et MAC) s’intéresse aux baleines. Et il le fait sous la forme d’un petit shoot em up. Sauf que cette fois, on ne joue pas le rôle de Paul Watson, mais des pêcheurs de baleines. Le jeu se présente lui-même comme un simulateur «  de recherches scientifiques japonaises sur les cétacés ». Le but est simple, harponner les baleines pour les tuer et ainsi récolter de la viande euh des échantillons pour le recherche. À la fin du tableau, une somme d’argent gratifie votre chasse.

Sur le papier, remporter l’argent  semble facile, il suffit d’éliminer les cétacés, mais c’est sans compter sur les icebergs et les militants anti-pêche à la baleine. Tout contact avec eux endommage votre navire et en conséquences vous retire des fonds. La partie est perdue lorsque l’argent vient à manquer, que les objectifs de capture ne sont pas atteint ou que le bateau est détruit.

Voilà pour les bases du jeu, après tout est simple à jouer des touches pour bouger le bateau, qui du fait de sa longueur semble un peu lourd à manier, sentiment renforcé par la taille du sprite plus verticale qu’horizontal. Une touche pour tirer et ainsi saigner les baleines. C e qui se traduit à l’écran par une marre de sang assez impressionnante, surtout que plusieurs coups sont requis pour mettre à mort la bête.

Le décor marin reste le même durant tout le jeu, la même boucle qui se répète, mais cela participe à l’esprit du message du jeu. Entre chaque level, des écrans-textes qui expliquent le contexte, invitent à chasser toujours plus. Car, il faut le finir pour comprendre la logique de surexploitation continue d’une ressource et ses effets. Un jeu militant à essayer au moins une fois. Pour voir comment les échantillons deviennent des conserves de viande au nom de la science, une belle démonstration du cynisme et de l’hypocrisie autour de  l’activité de la chasse à la baleine.

Le site des développeurs pour télécharger gratuitement ce jeu pour PC et MAC

Toutes les images présentes dans cet article proviennet du site des développeurs.

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And The Wiremen (Brooklyn/Richmond) played at Balliceaux on Thursday evening during the torrential rain storms.

A very comfortable room to hear music And The Wiremen sounded great!

This Tuesday, November 17, at 9pm, Marty McCavitt with Brian Jones will perform at the Camel, later, at 10:15 the Brian Jones “New Trio” will take the stage.

I Fell asleep early Sunday night and missed Loversville! Maybe Thursday at Bottoms Up I can catch them!

It is time to renew your musical passport, there is plenty happening around town this week.

We have a unique opportunity to hear: AND THE WIREMEN, this Thursday 9:00, at Balliceaux, 203 N. Lombardy (old Bogart’s location).

“Brooklyn, NY based AND THE WIREMEN perform the songs of Bee and Flower (former Cordero) guitarist Lynn Wright. Their music combines images of a gothic Deep South with the rhythms of South America and the grainier elements of barroom jazz and avant-pop.”

AND THE WIREMEN in a rare Richmond performance:

LYNN WRIGHT-singing, guitar (Bee and Flower, Cordero)
PAUL WATSON-cornet, singing (Orthotonics, Sparklehorse, Michael Hurley)
TONY MAIMONE-bass ( Pere Ubu, Frank Black, Book of Knots)
PIPPIN BARNETT-drums (Happy Lucky Combo, Curlew)

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Also this Sunday you can see the revamped Buttercup, renamed: LOVERSVILLE.

Loversville will be playing this Sunday, November 15th at the Commercial Taphouse, 111 North Robinson St. They will start at about 9:30 – no cover! Loversville is Buttercup minus Octavia on bass who has retired to the ranch.

Still country! still real!

Loversville has landed!

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And if that is not enough you can catch Roger Carroll with the Roger Carroll Trio at Emilio’s on Wednesday 7:30, Veteran’s Day, and with Chez Roue’ on Thursday, November 12th at Bogarts, 9:00.

I wish I could see everything!

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, November 6, 2009

The Empire strikes back – right when when public support for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan sinks to all time lows, an anti-war Islamic extremist with links to suicide bombers goes on a shooting rampage at a U.S. army base, reinvigorating support for the war on terror and demonizing opposition to it as anti-American extremism. The scam would be believable if it wasn’t so perfectly staged.
Without getting into convoluted conspiracy theories about mind control and whatever else, not that they aren’t without merit, the facts we already know about Hasan and his behavior prior to the deadly shootings just screams out “patsy” and “set-up” and almost exactly mirrors other terror scams the Empire has run in the past.
Just like the would-be liquid bombers that were supposedly planning on bringing down multiple airliners in August 2006, who were caught on CCTV buying bulk supplies of cake in the very hours before the plot, Hasan’s pre-shooting behavior contradicts completely the idea that he was preparing for a deadly rampage.
Shortly before the massacre, Hasan was caught on camera shopping at the convenience store located on the army base – laughing and joking. Is this the behavior of a man psychologically readying himself for the high-intensity horror of gunning down dozens of his colleagues, or someone unaware of what was to follow?
We learn that Hasan “Showed no signs of worry or stress when he stopped at 7-Eleven for his daily breakfast of hash browns, said Jeannie Strickland, the store’s manager.” ” He came in (Thursday) morning just like normal,” she said, “nothing weird, nothing out of the ordinary.”
CNN feverishly seized upon the CCTV footage and began broadcasting it relentlessly because Hasan is seen wearing Arab garb and Muslim headdress, fitting the carefully pre-arranged stereotype perfectly.

The Smiling Assassin? Hasan’s pre-rampage behavior is completely at odds with the idea of him preparing to massacre more than a dozen of his colleagues.
Just like the 7/7 bombing patsies who were filmed laughing and joking, getting into arguments and generally doing everything a terrorist would want to avoid, Hasan’s pre-attack behavior should set alarm bells ringing.
Just like the 7/7 bombing patsies and the liquid bombing patsies, the description of Hasan by those reinforcing the official characterization of him as a vengeful jihadist is completely at odds with how his own family members described him.
Hasan’s cousin laughed when an interviewer asked him if the shooter was “violent.”
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“He was just normal, loved sports, never got into trouble.” He said his family was “shocked and baffled” by the incident.
“His parents didn’t want him to go into the military,” Mr. Hasan said. “He said, ‘No, I was born and raised here, I’m going to do my duty to the country.’ ”
The backdrop behind Hasan’s alleged motive for the rampage also represents an inch-perfect staging for subsequent characterization of those opposed to the war on terror as lunatics, crackpots and extremists.
In the hours after the event, we were told that Hasan was upset about being deployed to Iraq at the end of the month. This then mutated into the notion that Hasan was “anti-war” and later we were informed that he was “facing an FBI investigation for expressing sympathy with suicide bombers.” The fact that this was known by authorities six months ago and still Hasan was not only allowed to remain at the Army base, but also invited to participate in Homeland Security exercises only raises more red flags.
Then the lurid details really began to pour in to reinforce the Islamic terrorist stereotype – Hasan screamed “Allah Akbar!” before opening fire, he made “outlandish comments concerning U.S. foreign policy.”
As Michael Yaki highlights, the media characterization of Hasan as a Muslim terrorist was assumed by default, and almost from the first moment it seemed as though news anchors were reading from a script prepared well in advance.
“Once the name of the protagonist was established, the blogs lit up and the talking heads immediately turned to the “terrorist” word. Anderson Cooper repeatedly referred to Hasan as an “American Muslim.” I somehow don’t see Cooper referring to the Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris as “American Protestants.” Yet, front and center, the media began their speculation on whether Hasan was a “recent convert” to Islam, what websites he visited, and whether “outside influences” — code words for Imams and terrorist recruiters — had compelled him to walk onto the base and begin his shooting rampage. Indeed, the media was playing {and replaying} up the fact that he was shown wearing “traditional” Arab garb earlier in the day as he bought some coffee, although other footage from the day before showed him wearing hospital scrubs — which thus far has never made the endless loop on CNN.”
Pointing out the fact that every other killer in U.S. history was described as a “mass murderer” and not a terrorist, Yaki slams the media’s contrived and “implied presumption (that) Hasan appears to be terrorist unless proven otherwise.”
Why were initial reports of three shooters reversed? Why were two alleged shooters taken into custody but quickly released? Was Hasan framed?
When the dust settles on yesterday’s tragic events at Fort Hood it may indeed turn out to be the case that Nidal Malik Hasan was a lone nut seeking to exact revenge for what he saw as perpetual war crimes being carried out against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. If that is the case, it doesn’t make such crimes acceptable nor does it mean all people who oppose the war on terror are likely to go on a shooting rampage.
However, from all the evidence that has emerged thus far, and in comparing it with other terror scams in the past where patsies have been deliberately groomed and set up to be the fall guys for false flag attacks, everything we know about yesterday’s events suggests that there is infinitely more to the story of Nidal Malik Hasan than meets the eye.

Cartman Covers Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face“

It’s The Japanese!!

When someone says he wants to protect Mother Nature, the first thing he does is plant a tree or try recycling but there are those that get into the extremes. Such is the crew of Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as they board MV Steve Irwin. The crew struggles to stop Japanese ships that hunt minke and fin whales off the coast of Antarctica. It’s a thrill ride as the Sea shepherds fends off Japanese ships by throwing bottles of butyric acid on Japanese vessels.

Because of the controversial run through of the show, Animal Planet puts on a disclaimer:

“The following program contains commentary and opinions that do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Animal Planet.”

The show premiered last November 7, 2008 and is currently having their 2^nd season.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, October 26, 2009

Police in Britain have defined political activism as “domestic extremism” and are treating people who attend demonstrations as criminals, cataloguing them on multiple national databases as well as tracking their vehicle license plates to enable them to be targeted for stop and search harassment.

People of any political persuasion protesting any cause whatsoever, right or left-wing, are having their details stored on a network of nationwide intelligence databases overseen by three national police units exclusively devoted to spying on those who are even mildly politically active in Britain.

“The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor “domestic extremists”, reports the London Guardian. “Detailed information about the political activities of campaigners is being stored on a number of overlapping IT systems, even if they have not committed a crime.”

The police units in control of the system are headed up by the “terrorism and allied matters” committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), illustrating once again that the British government equates peaceful protest with domestic terrorism.

“Vehicles associated with protesters are being tracked via a nationwide system of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras,” reports the Guardian. “One man, who has no criminal record, was stopped more than 25 times in less than three years after a “protest” marker was placed against his car after he attended a small protest against duck and pheasant shooting. ANPR “interceptor teams” are being deployed on roads leading to protests to monitor attendance.”

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The system, funded to the tune of £9 billion by the taxpayer, also employs spies to infiltrate and inform on protest groups.

The following Orwellian statement is the the government’s response to criticism that the databases contain vast numbers of people who have no criminal record.

“Just because you have no criminal record does not mean that you are not of interest to the police,” said Anton Setchell, national co-ordinator for domestic extremism for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). “Everyone who has got a criminal record did not have one once.”

In other words, everyone who attends a protest, criminal record or not, is on the database and is regarded as a “domestic extremist” by the government.

Superintendent Steve Pearl, the front man for one of the units within Acpo tasked with surveilling protesters told the Guardian that the system was set up after intense pressure from big business, particularly pharmaceutical giants, as well as banks, who demanded that demonstrators be targeted after a minority of animal rights activists engaged in criminal acts.

As another Guardian report on the story explains, just like their counterparts across the pond, British authorities have rebranded lawful protests as “domestic extremism” and now treat any attempt to further a campaign, change legislation or domestic policy as probable cause for criminal surveillance.

Police are provided with mug shots of protesters, known as “spotter cards,” (see above) enabling them to identify key members of protest groups, despite the fact that these individuals have no criminal records.

As comedian Mark Thomas discusses today in his Guardian piece, despite the fact that he was merely attending an arms fair for the purpose of researching for a book, his mug shot is featured on the “police spotter card,” while companies inside the fair who were openly selling illegal torture devices were completely ignored by the government and the police.

“The very phrase “domestic extremist” defines protesters in the eyes of the police as the problem, the enemy. Spying on entire groups and organisations, and targeting the innocent, undermines not only our rights but the law – frightfully silly of me to drag this into an argument about policing, I know,” writes Thomas.

“Protest is part of the democratic process. It wasn’t the goodwill of politicians that led them to cancel developing countries’ debt, but the protests and campaigning of millions of ordinary people around the world. The political leaders were merely the rubber stamp in the democratic process. Thus any targeting and treatment of demonstrators (at the G20 for example) that creates a “chilling effect” – deterring those who may wish to exercise their right to protest – is profoundly undemocratic.”

This is what spying on and treating protesters as extremists and criminals is all about. The government has created a chilling atmosphere where people are scared to exercise their rights because of the fear they will be targeted by the authorities. This is an end run around freedom as it is just as good as outlawing protest altogether. This is how tyranny throughout history always begins – first the state demonizes protesters as extremists and discourages anyone from joining their ranks through fear and intimidation. Once the number of dissidents has been reduced to a tiny minority, the authorities then have free reign to stamp the boot down and eliminate free speech altogether.

The only way to counter this is to shake off the psychological shackles of intimidation, get past our fear and be more vocal than ever in exercising free speech and our right to protest – because the alternative and what it may entail is nightmarish to even consider. If you care about living in anything like a free society with any modicum of free speech whatsoever, then the message is simple – use it or lose it.

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AVETE MAI SENTITO PARLARE DI QUESTA STRAGE?

Gli abitanti delle Isole Feroe (Danimarca) dicono che la mattanza dei delfini balena (specie Globicephala melas) è una tradizione che risale a 1200 anni fa. Secoli fa c’era la santa inquisizione, venivano bruciate le donne definite streghe, si squartavano i popoli nel nome di un dio etc etc…non sempre quello che succedeva secoli fa è da mantenere in vita.

Gli abitanti dicono che la mattanza è determinante per la loro sussistenza. Le isole Feroe hanno un reddito procapite molto alto, gli allevamenti garantiscono carne e latte a sufficienza per il loro fabbisogno interno. Inoltre la carne dei delfini è ricca di mercurio che è molto dannoso alla salute.

Gli abitanti dicono che i delfini balena impoveriscono i mari di pesce. Vivendo nel mare mangiano pesce e non verdura, seguendo e mantenendo un naturale ecosistema.

Da noi esistono le tonnare, quindi cosa rende intollerabile questa pesca-strage?


Le balene pilota (chiamati anche così perchè più che rassomigliare a dei delfini sono simili alle balene) appartenenti alla famiglia dei Delphinidae, conosciuti in lingua spagnola come calderones, sono delle creature molto pacifiche che amano vivere in branchi composti per lo più da femmine con i loro piccoli.
Raggiungono i 5-7 m di lunghezza ed un peso di oltre 2t e vivono mediamente 50 anni.
Hanno un carattere molto mansueto, sono socievoli tanto che si avvicinano tranquillamente alle barche ed alle persone senza alcuna riserva.
Insomma loro credono nell’amicizia dell’uomo e l’uomo li massacra a colpi di macete.
Per capirci, è come radunare tutti i cani ed i gatti della città per poi ammazzarli in un mare di sangue.
Questa è la realtà e difronte a questa realtà non possono esistere ragioni di alcun tipo.

Ecco due filmati che vi parlano di questi animali.

I delfini balena si lasciano avvicinare con molta facilità…

Noi li avviciniamo…… ma per trattarli così… dicono sia una prova di virilità….

Una grossa denuncia su questa situazione viene fatta dalla Sea Shepherd Conservation Society la società fondata nel 1977 dal Capitano Paul Watson, a suo tempo, cofondatore di Greenpeace, da sempre in primo piano per cercare di fermare queste atrocità che intitola l’articolo “Vi è qualcosa di molto marcio in Danimarca” di cui riportiamo alcuni passaggi tradotti dall’inglese:

“L’orribile macellazione annuale di migliaia di balene pilota indifese ogni anno nelle isole Feroe, in lingua danese Isole Fær Øer, è altrettanto crudele come la macellazione del delfino effettuata dai giapponesi nelle Taiji. Ho visto le baie delle isole Færøer tinte di rosso dal sangue e ho sentito le urla delle balene pilota ferite mortalmente che urlavano per la propria vita mentre bagnavano i volti avinazzati dei loro massacratori con il loro sangue caldo, ridendo mentre le stupravano con le loro lame. E’ uno spettacolo mostruoso ed è una oscenità abbracciata completamente dal governo danese e da molta gente danese. (…)”

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DANIMARCA ISOLE FEROE: MATTANZA DEI DELFINI – FERMIAMO QUESTI PAZZI ESIBIZIONISTI

De Sea Shepherds. Wie kent ze niet. Paul Watson en zijn miljoenen volgelingen. Na twee seizoenen Whale Wars op Discovery Channel lijken ze ongekend populair te zijn: Paul Watson en zijn bemanning. Ze jagen in het  jachtseizoen van walvissen. Maar niet op de walvissen, nee op de Japanners. De jappen willen wat walvissen vangen, omdat ze die daar graag eten. De anarchisten van Sea Shepherd zijn het hier niet mee eens, en doen er dan ook alles aan de jacht op walvissen te voorkomen. En dit gaat er soms nog vrij heftig aan toe. De organisatie van Watson lijkt meer en meer aanhangers te krijgen. Een groot deel van de westerse bevolking schaart zich achter hen. Ik ben het hier niet mee eens, met die hele organisatie niet. Dat hele rommeltje is eigenlijk maar quasi-idealistisch tuig. Hieronder leest u waarom.

Bedreigd?

De walvis is bedreigd. Welke walvis? En wanneer is een dier eigenlijk bedreigd? De narrow-minded militanten houden hier niet zo’n rekening mee. Maar ik zal het u, beste lezer, wel even wat makkelijker maken. Onder de walvisachtigen behoren ook bijvoorbeeld orka’s en dolfijnen. Echter wordt in de volksmond met de term ‘walvissen’ de baardwalvissen genoemd: geen (grote) tanden, eten plankton enzeauw. Sea Shepherd roept graag dat al deze baardwalvissen bedreigd worden. Maar aangezien Japan (de aartsvijand van Watson) alleen op dwergvinvissen en gewone vinvissen jaagt, vallen de andere walvissoorten in feite dus niet meer onder de term bedreigde diersoorten.

Dan de aantallen. Japan wil 850 zuidelijke dwergvinvissen, en 50 gewone vinvissen vangen. Als we dan even naar de statistieken kijken, zien we dat er zo’n driekwart miljoen zuidelijke dwergvinvissen zijn. En de gewone vinvissen, waar de samoeraistrijders er 50 van willen, zijn er een stuk of tachtigduizend. Dat is 80,000. In hoeverre deze dieren dan nog met uitsterven bedreigd worden? Ga dat vooral zelf na..

Relevantie

Maar nee, volgens de agressieve boomknuffelaars is het schandalig dat Japan dit doet. Want er zijn internationale regels opgesteld, die Japan in hun ogen keihard schijnt te overtreden. En dus komen ze maar in actie.

Internationale regels. 189 landen op deze wereld hebben toegestemd actief mee te zullen helpen de millenniumdoelen te halen. Vervolgens houden slechts vijf landen (waaronder Nederland) zich aan de VN-doelstelling. Dit krijgt helemaal niet zoveel aandacht. Mensen vinden het schijnbaar een stuk vreselijker dat er jaarlijks een paar walvisjes worden gedood, omdat ze in Japan nu eenmaal graag walvis eten.

Internationale regels. In de Universele Verklaring voor de Rechten van de Mens zijn mensenrechten opgesteld. Mensenrechten die voornamelijk in China keihard worden overtreden. Dertien-jarige meisjes die 16 uur lang (inclusief een half uurtje pauze) onze broeken aan het naaien zijn tegen een hongerloontje. Maar nee, nog steeds zijn er schijnbaar miljoenen mensen die zich toch echt actiever inzetten voor walvissen dan voor deze jonge chinezen.

En de mensen die wél voor achtergestelde positie van de vrouw op de wereld opkomen (millenniumdoelen), of die wél voor die Chinese meisjes opkomen, hebben het fatsoen dit geweldloos te doen. Ik heb nog nooit een lid van Oxfam Novib een flashbang naar het witte huis zien gooien, om maar wat te noemen.

Sea Shepherd mag wel eens gaan nadenken over de toegevoegde waarde van  haar acties aan de maatschappij. En bedenken of er misschien niet ergere dingen zijn op deze wereld, welke misschien wél een (geweldloos) verzet waard zouden zijn. Tot die tijd blijft het quasi-idealistisch tuig: doen alsof je vol idealen zit door de walvisvaarders met harde hand aan te pakken, maar de essentie geheel laat varen. Figuurlijk, dan.