RACHEL CARSON

RACHEL CARSON

SPACESHIP EARTH

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."

ADLAI STEVENSON, 1964

Thursday, June 28, 2012

GINA RINEHART: 'THE MINING CHANNEL', NZ DAIRY TAKE-OVER






RINEHART STARTS 'THE MINING CHANNEL', POISED TO TAKE OVER NEW ZEALAND DAIRY INDUSTRY, 'JOB SECURITY FOR MY SISTERS!'
DAIRY COW REPLACES SHEEP AS 'NATIONAL ICON' OF NEW ZEALAND



How absurd all this is. The equation has now become, "Anyone who doesn't buy into 'climate change' and 'global warming' supports the mining and hyrdo-carbon extraction industries." Either way, the BIG MONEY people win, just to varying degrees. "Mining tax' and 'carbon tax' = BIG global banksters win biggest, no 'mining tax' and 'carbon tax' = BIG mining interests win biggest. Either way, the people and the Earth lose out.
I can't imagine how much faster Australia will flush itself down the toilet of history than by Rinehart taking control of what's left of Australia's media that Murdoch doesn't already control. Every other 'doco', 'public service announcement' and advert will be for 'environmental mining', 'clean and green coal', how exporting iron to China helps the Earth and puts $ in the pockets of Australians, how gold mining has a long and illustrious history, how uranium mining boosts 'national security' by strengthening super-powers who are allies of Australia AND enables 'clean and green' nuclear power to come to Australia, where sunlight is not readily available...due to chem-trails, of course.
All the same reasoning applies to New Zealand, as well, where marine sanctuaries, national parks and water-tables will reap enormous benefits from mining, off-shore exploration and fracking; 'environmental mining' practice will also help to destroy the habitat of the possum, who is BY FAR the BIGGEST environmental problem in New Zealand. Goldman Sachs will surely demand a huge increase in 1080 to reduce the possum population even more in order to get a better price for New Zealand's forests.
And in Peru, hundreds of thousands of destitute and isolated indigenous people will ADVANCE INTO PROSPERITY with the advent of THE MINING NETWORK, to educate them concerning the TRUE benefits to the Earth of having their lakes poisoned, the health advantages of fluoridated water, and the necessity of vital nutrients like lead, arsenic and mercury in their diets which are now sorely deficient in heavy metals and endocrine disruptors. The oil and mining interests might even want to GIVE TELEVISIONS to these people, after BUILDING SOME NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS to provide them with clean, green and safe electricity...so they can become 'civilized.'
And maybe Gina Rinehart will take over the booming New Zealand factory dairy cow business to provide 'job security' for her bovine sisters.

Friday, June 8, 2012

PERUVIAN MINING PROTEST THREATENS NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, SEISMIC TESTING, OFF-SHORE EXPLORATION


 PERUVIANS STOP NEWMONT GOLD MINE
 SAME REGION WHERE MASS DIE-OFFS OCCUR
 PERU IS A MAJOR EXPORTER OF MINERALS
 LAND AND SEA UNDER ATTACK
 OFF-SHORE EXPLORATION IS EXPLODING
 IN MANY WAYS!
 OIL AND WATER DO NOT MIX
 GOLD MINING CONTAMINATES WATER
 HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE
DID THIS TO YOUR BODY?
 "WE'RE HERE TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL RESOURCES"
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN PETITIONS
 A PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE
 TO CARE AND TO ACT ON THAT CONCERN
 TO PRESERVE THEIR LAND AND LIVES
 AND THEIR FELLOW BEINGS

A massive rebellion against the federal government involving hundreds of thousands of people is currently taking place in Peru.  These people are extremely angry at how their notoriously corrupt government is complicit in the destruction of their land, water, native country and lives, by allowing mining companies like Newmont, Xstrata and BPZ to do whatever they please.

President Humala just lost several of his Cabinet members and is facing violent protests against his mining policy.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303296604577450483242021866.html
 

Interestingly, this is the same part of Peru where massive dolphin strandings and die-offs of many other species have been on-going for the past several months.  Aware researchers have known all along that these strandings and die-offs are being caused by seismic testing from oil companies and/or military activities, but now CBS photographer-become-'environmental activist' Hardy Jones is telling us that

http://bluevoice.org

"Over the next eight years...according to the Obama administration's estimates ...seismic exploration would injure up to 138,000 marine mammals and disrupt marine mammal feeding, calving, breeding and other vital activities more than 13.5 million times.  This could be catastrophic for the dolphins and whales we all love.  It is vitally important that we continue our work in Peru and that we inject this new evidence to stop the seismic testing off the U.S. coast."

Jones is a little behind.  Aware researchers have known for DECADES that seismic testing and military activity are THE biggest threats to marine life.  This is NOTHING NEW.  Stopping it would be new.

Rosalind Peterson, who has balls TEN TIMES THE SIZE OF JONES (no offense, Rosalind!), has been telling us for years about the threats to marine mammals posed by the U.S. Navy.  Does Jones mention them?

http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/us-navy

 
Big organizations like the NRDC who command millions of dollars constantly give 'wrist slaps' to 'big oil', 'defense' departments and complicit administrations for slaughtering marine mammals and TELL them to stop doing it.  Does it ever make any difference?  No.  Do these organizations keep asking for your money?  Yes.

Like almost all other 'save the whales' organizations, Jones wants your money.  THIS will solve the problem, right?  Wrong.

ALL governments and most 'elected' officials in all countries WORK FOR 'BIG OIL' and the mining companies, period.  If they didn't, they wouldn't even BE in office.  NO  words, recommendations, or even that most powerful weapon of the Facebook generation, PETITIONS, are going to make any difference.

The ONLY thing that could make any real difference would be for people in general to STOP DRIVING so much, stop their stupid addiction to vehicles and hydro-carbon fuels.  EVERY TIME YOU GET IN YOUR CAR, EVERY TIME YOU FILL UP YOUR TANK, YOU ARE SUPPORTING OIL COMPANIES AND THE MILITARY WHO ARE THEIR HENCHMEN.  The public DEMANDS their products and is therefore complicit in the slaughter of cetaceans and other marine life.  The equation is simple:

DRIVING = MARINE LIFE MURDER


The 'grand transformation', the same destructive activities involving mining, seismic testing and oil-drilling that are destroying Peru are happening all over America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and done by the same companies.  Newmont is American but is very active in Australia, as is Switzerland-based Xstrata, who has poisoned the land around Mt. Isa with its lead mining.  

The land, waters, country and lives of people in all these countries are at equal or greater risk than in Peru, yet have we seen even a glimmer of 'rebellion' from the people of these countries?  NOT A CHANCE.  The BIGGEST activity that can be witnessed is on Facebook.  

A few hundred people are protesting the on-going gas plant in the Kimberley in Australia, but they all got their by driving their SUV's thousands of kilometers.  The Great Barrier Reef, which is a WORLD HERITAGE AREA, is being dredged for the construction of SIX NEW GAS HUBS.  Are the people of Australia up in arms over this?  Is the federal environment minister Tony Burke up in arms and in Gillard's office demanding that this be stopped?  NO WAY.  'Elected' officials and Environmental Ministers in general function as PR reps for 'big energy' and are more likely to be seen gutting environmental legislation and glorifying the 'new jobs' from mining and oil-drilling.  They are also doing this:


Ottawa launches Alberta counter-terrorism unit


"After labeling certain environmental and first nations groups as extremists and radicals, Canada’s federal government, along with the country’s top law enforcement and spy agencies, have set up a counterterrorism unit in Alberta in order to protect the province’s natural resources and infrastructure."

See, in northern Peru, the people are still REAL people.  Many of them are indigenous folks with direct ties to their land and to the spirit of life.  They grow their own food, drink water from the ground and rivers, they are spiritually alive and in touch with the Earth.  They don't own cars or over-sized houses; most of them probably don't even have electricity.  They aren't obsessed with 'looking out for number one.'  They are therefore capable of feeling anger in the face of blatant destruction of their home and lives, and they are capable of ACTING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

The people of America, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as a whole, on the other hand, are such over-fed, drug-addicted complacent consumers of whatever is spooned into their drooling mouths that they could never be bothered even to inform themselves about what is really going on in the world or their countries, or even in their own back yards, much less DO anything about it.  ARMED REBELLION?  VIOLENT PROTESTS?  You gotta be kidding...somebody might get hurt?  PLUS there's a BIG GAME on the tellie.

I kid you not...this is the macabre reality with which we are faced.  The people of northern Peru haven't been frying their brains with mobile phones and getting tranquilized from drinking fluoridated water;  they are STILL ALIVE AND PLAN TO STAY THAT WAY.

The only thing that would get Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders out in the streets and protesting would be if THEIR BEEF, ELECTRICITY AND PETROL SUPPLY WAS THREATENED.  On the day that happened we would see paraplegics with shot-guns rising from their wheel-chairs to DEMAND their products.

There you have it.  The Anglo-American empire has nothing to fear in the way of armed rebellion or violent protest.  The 'grand transformation' glorified by the president of Peru is taking place all around us while we stuff our faces and watch tv;  whales, dolphins and many other members of our 'family of life' suffer and die every day because they happen to live within range of weapons or in the vicinity of 'precious' minerals.  We, too, are succumbing to 'progress.'

The only form of 'precious' the western 'civilized' corn-fed mentality seems to know is 'MY precious', the gold ring of Golem, for which he was willing to murder his own brother, or so the story began...long ago but not so far away.

Things don't have to be or stay this way.  EACH of us has the ability to change how we think, live and relate to ourselves and our planet.  Why we are choosing NOT to make these changes is the biggest contradiction, the biggest mystery of mysteries that I can imagine.

"CETACEAN GENOCIDE SEALING THE FATE OF 'HOMO SAPIENS'" Jeff Phillips


JEFF PHILLIPS
GREAT BARRIER ISLAND
NEW ZEALAND 
JUNE 2012