MARINE MAMMALS AND OTHER SEA LIFE TO BE DECIMATED

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In case no one is noticing, we are "weaponizing ourselves" into extinction. The insanity of military thought, "might is right", doesn't allow for the fact that we live in an interconnected web of life, in which all affect All. As I've said before, we are in a barrel, going over Niagra Falls. How it all turns out is anyone's guess...

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By lind August 11, 2009NewsWithViews.com

The United States Navy will be decimating millions of marine mammals and other aquatic life, each year, for the next five years, under their Warfare Testing Range Complex Expansions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS under NOAA), has already approved the “taking†of marine mammals in more than a dozen Navy Range Warfare Testing Complexes (6), and is preparing to issue another permit for 11.7 millions marine mammals (32 Separate Species), to be decimated along the Northern, California, Oregon and Washington areas of the Pacific Ocean (7).

U.S. Department of Commerce – NOAA (NMFS) Definition: “TAKE†Defined under the MMPA as "harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect." Defined under the ESA as "to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct." Definition: Incidental Taking: An unintentional, but not unexpected taking (12).

The total number of marine mammals that will be decimated in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico for the next five years is unknown. The NMFS approvals will have a devastating impact upon the marine mammal populations worldwide and this last Navy permit, which is expected to be issued in February 2010, for the “taking†of more than 11.7 million marine mammals in the Pacific will be the final nail in the coffin for any healthy populations of sea life to survive.

Now with ever-increasing numbers of permits being issued for sonar programs in more than twelve ranges in the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic regions of the United States, our marine mammals and other sea life are facing complete devastation. When you add bomb blasts to this list, warfare testing of all types, future war testing practice, and the toxic chemicals which are both airborne and to be used underwater, there is little chance that most marine life will survive in any significant numbers. Our U.S. Senators and U.S. Congressmen refuse to postpone these disastrous “takings†or hold U.S. Congressional Hearings while pretending to be ocean environment friendly in their re-election speeches.

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This is ridiculous! What can we do?

-Ricky

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> In case no one is noticing, we are " weaponizing ourselves " into extinction. 

The insanity of military thought, " might is right " , doesn't allow for the fact

that we live in an interconnected web of life, in which all affect All.  As

I've said before, we are in a barrel, going over Niagra Falls.  How it all

turns out is anyone's guess...

>  

> (Excerpt:)

>  

> By lind

> August 11, 2009

> NewsWithViews.com

>  

> The United States Navy will be decimating millions of marine mammals and other

aquatic life, each year, for the next five years, under their Warfare Testing

Range Complex Expansions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico. The

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS under NOAA), has already approved the

“taking†of marine mammals in more than a dozen Navy Range Warfare Testing

Complexes (6), and is preparing to issue another permit for 11.7 millions marine

mammals (32 Separate Species), to be decimated along the Northern, California,

Oregon and Washington areas of the Pacific Ocean (7).

>  

> U.S. Department of Commerce †" NOAA (NMFS) Definition: “TAKE†Defined

under the MMPA as " harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or attempt to harass,

hunt, capture, kill or collect. " Defined under the ESA as " to harass, harm,

pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to

engage in any such conduct. " Definition: Incidental Taking: An unintentional,

but not unexpected taking (12).

>  

> The total number of marine mammals that will be decimated in the Atlantic,

Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico for the next five years is unknown. The NMFS

approvals will have a devastating impact upon the marine mammal populations

worldwide and this last Navy permit, which is expected to be issued in February

2010, for the “taking†of more than 11.7 million marine mammals in the

Pacific will be the final nail in the coffin for any healthy populations of sea

life to survive.

>  

> Now with ever-increasing numbers of permits being issued for sonar programs in

more than twelve ranges in the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic regions

of the United States, our marine mammals and other sea life are facing complete

devastation. When you add bomb blasts to this list, warfare testing of all

types, future war testing practice, and the toxic chemicals which are both

airborne and to be used underwater, there is little chance that most marine life

will survive in any significant numbers. Our U.S. Senators and U.S. Congressmen

refuse to postpone these disastrous “takings†or hold U.S. Congressional

Hearings while pretending to be ocean environment friendly in their re-election

speeches.

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>  

> Full Story HERE:

>  

>  

> http://newswithviews.com//rosalind118.htm

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