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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention
law aimed at children.
What does Erin's Law do? With respect to the renewal of a Standard Teaching
Certificate, provides that continuing professional development activities
may include participating in or presenting at in-service training programs
on sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention.
Erin's Law final Task Force Report -
All it took was one night for my innocence to be stolen. From ages
6-8 1/2 and 11-13 two men molested and raped me. One a neighbor the other a
family member. I wasn't telling because nobody had educated me to tell. The
only message I was getting was from the men abusing me. These men told me they
would come get me, they knew where I lived, no one would believe me, I had no
proof, and I would destroy my family if I told our secret. There are children
across this world being told the same thing I was told and I have now made it
my mission to educate and empower every child with their voice through Erin's
Law. A law I am determined to get passed in all 50 states. Make sure to scroll
to the bottom of this page. Lots of information and videos on Erin's Law.
The mission ofErin's law
is to get education in all 50 states on the prevention of sexual abuse by
empowering children with their voice instead of allowing sex offenders to
silence them.
Education Program requires age-appropriate sexual abuse and
assault awareness and prevention education in grades Pre-kindergarten through 12 Effective immediately.
It should be passed in all 50
states. Common sense. It's as simple as that.
" Julianna Margulies
The Healing Food That's a Tasty Snack by Richard Foxx, MD
Not much is written about health
benefits of pistachios
–
[…]
almonds or peanuts.
[…]
Pistachios,
however, are quite nutritious, it turns out. A recent study has found this
healing food to be a nutrient-dense
nut with a heart-healthy fatty-acid profile, as well as protein, dietary
fiber, potassium, magnesium, vitamin K, tocopherols, and a number of
phytochemicals. That's quite a list!
For the last four months,
Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating
its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other
employees.
[…]
The timing of the attacks
coincided with the reporting for a Times investigation, published online on
Oct. 25, that found that the relatives of Wen Jiabao, China’s prime
minister, had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through
business dealings.
Tax dodging is a global scandal. Tax raises money to fund public
services, to fight poverty and to redistribute wealth in society. Yet for
many multinational companies like Amazon, Google and Starbucks, paying tax is
now often simply a matter of choic
[…]
Despite hitting the headlines by talking tough on tax, this government is
planning new changes to the UK’s tax laws to be introduced in the Budget in
March which would give a green light to big business to avoid billions in
tax.
The forcible expropriation of land from people by states and corporations –
‘land grabbing’ – is occurring on a phenomenal scale and affects every
continent and most countries of the ‘South’. Land grabs and the forced
displacement of populations, including through state and corporate violence,
have been justified through economic development, human development, the
extraction of natural resources, the use of land for economic growth, among
many other factors. Yet deforestation
[…]
Home, Garden & Food
40 handy lemon tips
4 March 2011
Cleaning solutions and beauty tips for natural (and cheap) recipes you
can try at home.
These tips have been contributed by volunteers from Sparked.com
Every single victory during the past year – from exposing horrific abuse of
ducks and geese on a French foie gras farm to helping to convince the UK
government to reject an appeal to build a facility in Yorkshire that would have
bred hundreds of dogs for use in deadly laboratory experiments – was achieved through
the generosity of our compassionate members.
But despite so many recent successes, animals are still being confined to tiny, filthy cages
on factory farms; electrocuted,
strangled and even skinned alive for "fashion"; cut open, poisoned and mutilated
in horrific experiments; and beaten and kept in chains in order to force them to
perform for human "entertainment".
Cause to celebrate: the Commission has told PETA that a ban on
the sale of all animal-tested cosmetics in the EU will come into force in
March. Read more.
Badgers across England are currently being
threatened: a planned cull will begin soon unless we can convince the
government to stop the slaughter. Read more.
C.ET: alleluia, as most of us, see only environmental issues
in terms of what might cause harm to humans directly.
Also people often says that we can well damage, the other
generations will invent somehow a means to reduce it. smote, smooth
smitten.To be as stupid to think that
consequences of producing poison, even if producing remedy (potion), could be
staunched. A bad will have as ultimate as impossible to divert effect. At least
for our ousted souls. Be the eternal re-conduce our essay.
One cannot wash away ‘one’s intentional (or avertable)
destruction, gross, gratuitous or not. A bad and one good cannot be convert
into one good.
It is almost the main current of thought of current politics
whatever environmentalist or human rights that say what suits to humans, as
human a little pests ready to eat everything like if mother earth and brothers
others were a cake for them to be prepared, his dining gooey.
human rights philosophy possibly human centred, to say don’t
do that because it will have an effect on us. Ok but this should be the little
print, amongst the explaination valid by their thousands, the idiot and eternal
rules of the boomerang, or the talion, or the communicant recipient, if you
harm you ll get it back from one or the other way- spiritually to begin and
finish with. When one is in fact harming, not him but others, then, harming
others, animals or resources, should be the prime reason for it to have to be
stopped.
Death threats to UK's top Muslim
MP who voted for gay marriage
[…]
Khan was among
400 MPs, five Muslim, who voted in favour of the bill
C.ET: thank you brother, even if that shows that depending
on the vote for a just decision striking tyrants is, as it is, undemocratic. Gay
marriage, just as being consensual marriage between adults, just like hetero
marriage, should not be voted. It should be without qualifications attributed.
Tribute and tribes.
I d like to be the one striking them with punishment over
that kinda fatwa issuing.
thank you brother.
I d like to be one part of your escorts, or secret army.
I chose my word, hypocrisy make us forget how people ruin
other people life, hip, hope and everything just through the issuance of law,
policies, practises and theories. Without forgetting stud pinned tradition and
its demonization, by the ones who pretend prudery pursuing whereas it is
torture of living- parasites imitation ammunition.
Amen.
By the way, Sodom is not gay.
Sodom is the sex pest that annihilate sexual orientation
choice, and make sex an institution rather than an intimacy.
Intime. Timide.
Intime = intimate in French. Opportune, not go-getter
opportunity.
Ask garden centres to
help bees
The rush to remove bee-harming products from shop shelves continues, but some
chains are dragging their heels.
[…]
@ Friends of the Earth
C.ET: PLEASE GO TO PETA AND FRIENDS OF EARTH SITE, FULL OF
INFO.
Take action today against one of the largest
traffickers of primates in the world, and save monkeys from a one-way ticket to
experimentation and death. Read more.
The actor takes a soaking in this new video
to highlight the agony and terror experienced by 6 billion fish each year. Read more.
[…]
snakes, alligators, lizards and
crocodiles in many places around the world, from the Philippines to the United
States to South Africa, are being painfully stripped of their skin – usually
while still alive –
[…]
nailed
to trees before being skinned alive and tossed onto a pile to die. They can suffer for days before
succumbing to shock or dehydration.
Alligators are kept crowded
together in filthy tanks on farms before being clubbed and skinned alive. A
PETA US investigation of an alligator farm documented gruesome slaughter
methods, including chiselling through an animal's spinal column with a pointed
instrument and hammer. It can take around two hours filled with intense
pain for an animal slaughtered this way to die.
[…]
Every day, these fascinating
forest and river animals are trapped and beaten and have their skin ripped from
their bodies simply to create a fashion look. PETA and our international
affiliates are the only organisations with a comprehensive approach to prevent
the suffering and deaths of snakes, seals, cats, dogs, cows, rabbits, foxes and
other animals used for their skin.
That’s
what’s happened to three-quarters of our turtle doves in the last 15 years.
The good news is that there’s an easy way for you to help...
[…]
Whilst
we’re already helping turtle doves by working with UK farmers to create areas
full of seed-rich plants – vital food during their breeding season – buying a
spring raffle ticket could help us do even more.
C.ET: look at what to wear and not to wear with a special
mention, trainers only for running, hard soles for the walkers, not easily
bend, and supple one when staying on one’s feet…
I AM not saying I know but try and read about footwear, very
important to health, just like, maybe not, surely not, flossing, mouth bathing,
and 3 mn 3 times a day teeth browsing, not browsing boy, brushing.
Cleric’s incitement to murder ignored in
cancellation decision
Muslim Society not rebuked for hosting a
murder-approving speaker
Reading University
cancels "kill gays" Islamist preacher
Feeble excuse:
fictitious threat of violent protests?
Cleric’s incitement to
murder ignored in cancellation decision
Muslim Society not
rebuked for hosting a murder-approving speaker
London - 28 February 2013
[…]
“Thahabi endorses the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up
their faith. He says women are deficient and encourages the beating of
little girls who refuse to wear the hijab,” said Peter Tatchell, Director
of the human rights lobby, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
“While this cancellation is welcome, the university’s reasons for the
cancellation appear to be bogus, feeble and unprincipled.
“The university authorities claim the Thahabi meeting was cancelled
because of serious threats of violent protest by extremist groups. I
challenge the university to name these groups and reveal the threats.
[…]
“Women, Muslim and LGBT students have a right to go to university without
being menaced and threatened by hate preachers.
“Disgracefully, the Vice Chancellor has failed to condemn the Muslim
Society for invitingThahabi.
[…]
A letter had been sent by the Peter Tatchell Foundation to the Vice
Chancellor of Reading University, David Bell, protesting at the
university's decision to host Abu Usamah at-Thahabi, on the grounds that
Thahabi had been filmed by Channel Four’s Dispatches programme justifying
the murder of gay people. Incitement to murder is a serious criminal
offence.
There won't be as many baby seals killed this
year, but the slaughter is still going forward. […]
Crude spiked clubs will crush
their still-soft skulls. For some, the skin will be ripped off their bloody
bodies while they're still conscious. All to satisfy a greedy, vain industry
that we are working hard to send the way of the dinosaurs.
More than 170,000 harp seals have been slaughtered on the ice floes off
Canada's east coast in recent years. Nearly all of them were less than 3 months old.
The seal pups yelp in terror as the sealers' spiked clubs slam into their
heads while other seals nearby can only watch and wail. Many infant seals are
bludgeoned before they even eat their first solid meal or learn how to swim.
After violently attacking these young pups, sealers routinely hook them in
the eye, cheek, or mouth – sometimes while they are still conscious – to
avoid damaging their pelts before dragging the animals across the ice to skin
them. They then leave them to die a slow, painful death.
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C.ET: if asked.
I found that search similar to “has wspa rescued zidi yet from
bear baiting” has been performed.
As I edited a wspa compaing about a bear torture for betting
game.
So,
has wspa rescued zidi yet from bear baiting, after us taking
plenty of photos.
Mind for one, these horrors has been recorder , record hof off
horror.
So?
What is worth recording others?
For it to become the norms, or the subject of another bet?
Superhomes Week
Do you want to transform your home into an eco home with lower bills?
Photo: Muslim
mobs attack a Christian area of Lahore after blasphemy allegation (M. Ali)
LAHORE,
Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslim mobs upset over an alleged
derogatory comment about the prophet of Islam burned down more than 180
Christian-owned houses and shops and at least two church buildings here on
Saturday (March 9) after authorities told police to “let them vent their grief
and anger,” officials said.
Lahore’s impoverished Joseph Colony looked like a war-ravaged town by
Saturday night. There were no reports of casualties, but the site was
reminiscent of the destruction in Gojra in 2009, when eight Christians were
burned alive, 100 houses looted and 50 homes set ablaze after a blasphemy
accusation.
C.ET: mind in this magazine I saw as well homophobic
comments, so as homos are the target of intolerant and warring society, as they
need to suppress holistic and natural feeling of love, what these so called, self-called
(cull and care for carving the baby lame lambs and calves) religious, would let
themselves using and abusing the name of god, be doing.
Bidding.
C.ET: As for the reasons, there is no reasons valid, as the
majority has (AS) the power to get things right and moral- if there is ounce of
that in their insanity but if any, nayni. And the reason of this kind of
blasphemy is a sing signing sign of extreme extremist comedy.
C.ET: religious like that offering rapes and familial as well as society
vulture down the cross and re-assemblymen, cross roads against the little
destructive power of their sanctuary = obey or you will be killed by the pedo
cure.
The Leviathan is mentioned six
times in the Tanakh,
with Job
41:1-34 being dedicated to describing him in detail:[1]
1 Can you pull in the leviathan with a
fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or
pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will
he speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will he make an agreement with you for
you to take him as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird or
put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they
divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or
his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will
remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Any hope of subduing him is false; the
mere sight of him is overpowering.
10 No-one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who
then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must
pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12 I will not fail to speak of his limbs,
his strength and his graceful form.
13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who
would approach him with a bridle?
14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth,
ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
15 His back has rows of shields tightly
sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next that no air
can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another; they
cling together and cannot be parted.
18 His snorting throws out flashes of light;
his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks
of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a
boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames
dart from his mouth.
22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes
before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are tightly
joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a
lower millstone.
25 When he rises up, the mighty are
terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches him has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron he treats like straw and bronze like
rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make him flee, sling stones
are like chaff to him.
29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw,
he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving
a trail in the mud like a threshing-sledge.
31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling
cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature
without fear.
34 He looks down on all that are haughty; he
is king over all that are proud.
Isaiah
27:1 he is called the "wriggling serpent" who will be killed at
the end of time.[2]
[…] Isaiah 27:1 uses
the first of these phrases to describe Leviathan (although in this case the
name "Leviathan" apparently refers to an unnamed historical/political
enemy of Israel rather than the original serpent-monster).[citation needed] In Psalm 104,
Leviathan is not described as harmful in any way, but simply as a creature of
the ocean, part of God's creation. It is possible that the authors of the Job
41:2-26, on the other hand, based the Leviathan on descriptions of Egyptian
animal mythology where the crocodile is the enemy of the solar deity Horus (and is subdued
either by Horus, or by the Pharaoh). This is in contrast to typical descriptions of the
sea monster trope in terms of mythological combat.[2]
his companion to the words of Job
xli. 18: "By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the
eyelids of the morning" (B. B. l.c.). However,
in spite of his supernatural strength, the leviathan is afraid of a small worm
called "kilbit", which clings to the gills of large fish and
kills them (Shab. 77b).[6]
The Leviathan of the Middle Ages
was used as an image of Satan, endangering both God's creatures—by attempting to eat
them—and God's creation—by threatening it with upheaval in the waters of Chaos.[7]St.
Thomas Aquinas described Leviathan as the demon of envy, first in
punishing the corresponding sinners. (Secunda Secundae Question 36) Leviathan
became associated with, and may originally have referred to, the visual motif
of the Hellmouth,
a monstrous animal into whose mouth the damned disappear at the Last
Judgement[…] [edit]
Leviathan
in Satanism
In LaVeyan
Satanism, according to the author of The Satanic Bible, Anton Szandor LaVey, Leviathan represents the
element of Water and the direction of West. The
element of Water in Satanism is associated with life and creation, and may be
represented by a Chalice during ritual.
[…]
C.ET: Leviathan
Leve a temps = rise in times.(Leave, lever, leaven, Levee, live)
Leve = elevate /temps = temporary = time.
Times like tap. ten and …
An oddity it is the monster of
the sea associated with the end of the world, i.e of humanity, as the seas are
rising, from ice melting.
The account of Jacob wrestling
with the angel is a story found in the Book
of Genesis, and referenced elsewhere such as Genesis 35:1-7
and Hosea
chapter 12. The account includes the renaming of Jacob as
"Israel", literally "He who struggles with God."
C.ET: the struggle with God, that
is religion, just the miserable fight that humans think they obtain.
Tain.
Taint,
Ain’t.
Candlelight Stories Home
Arabian Nights: The Story of
Sidi-Nouman
[…]
“Sidi-Nouman,” replied the
Caliph, “your story is indeed a strange one, and there is no excuse to be
offered for your wife. But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish
you to reflect how much she must suffer from being changed into an animal, and
I hope you will let that punishment be enough. I do not order you to insist upon
the young magician finding the means to restore your wife to her human shape,
because I know that when once women such as she begin to work evil they never
leave off, and I should only bring down on your head a vengeance far worse than
the one you have undergone already.”
Mohammed, along with Buraq and Gabriel, visit
Hell, and see a demon punishing "shameless women" who had exposed
their hair to strangers. For this crime of inciting lust in men, the women are
strung up by their hair and burned for eternity. Persian, 15th century.
Next, Mohammed sees women strung up by hooks thrust through their tongues by a
green demon. Their crimes were to "mock" their husbands and to leave
their homes without permission. Persian, 15th century.
Further on, Mohammed sees a red demon that is torturing women by hanging them
up by hooks through their breasts, as they are engulfed in flames. The women
are being punished for giving birth to illegitimate children whom they falsely
claimed were fathered by their husbands. Persian, 15th century.
Next, Mohammed sees women strung up by hooks
thrust through their tongues by a green demon. Their crimes were to
"mock" their husbands and to leave their homes without permission.
Persian, 15th century.
Further on, Mohammed sees a red demon that is
torturing women by hanging them up by hooks through their breasts, as they are
engulfed in flames. The women are being punished for giving birth to
illegitimate children whom they falsely claimed were fathered by their
husbands. Persian, 15th century.
God
the Father is the creator of Heaven, Hell, the World, and of everyone and
everything there is. He desires glory and praise from all his creations. He is
an all-powerful, all-knowing, infinitely good being who cannot be overthrown by
even the great army of angels Satan incites against him.
[…]
Leonard speculates that the
English Civil War interrupted Milton's earliest attempts to start his
"epic [poem] that would encompass all space and time."
The grimoire is […] describes
his journey from Germany
to Egypt and
reveals Abramelin's magical and Kabbalistic
secrets to his son […]Abraham recounts how he found Abramelin the Mage living
in the desert […]He discussed nothing but "the Fear of God", leading a well-regulated
life, and the evils of the "acquisition of riches and goods."
[…]After this, Abramelin gave
Abraham the "Divine Science" and "True Magic" embedded
within the two manuscripts, which he was to follow and give to only those whom
he knew well.
[…]
Once this is accomplished, the
magician must evoke the twelve Kings and Dukes of Hell (Lucifer, Satan,
Leviathan, Belial, etc.) and bind them. Thereby, the magician gains command of
them in his own mental universe, and removes their negative influence from his
life. […]
The magical goals for which the
demons can be employed are typical of those found in grimoires
[…]For example, a square
entitled "To walk under water for as long as you want" contains the
word MAIAM (מים or ماء),
the Hebrew and Arabic word for "water". […]
b.
Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust: wanton destruction.
3.
Unrestrainedly excessive: wanton
extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves.
[…]
[Middle
English wantowen : wan-, not, lacking (from
Old English; see eu- in
Indo-European roots) + towen, past participle of teen, to
bring up (from Old English ton, to lead, draw; see deuk- in
Indo-European roots).]
5.
extravagant or excessive: living in wanton luxury.
6.
luxuriant, as vegetation.
7.
Archaic.
a.
sportive or frolicsome, as children or young animals.
b.
having free play: wanton
breezes.
c.
cruelly playful; mischievous: wanton schoolboys.
n.
8.
a wanton or lascivious person, esp. a woman.
v.i.
9.
to behave in a wanton manner.
v.t.
10.
to squander (often fol. by away): to wanton away one's inheritance.
[1250–1300;
Middle English wantowen literally, undisciplined,
ill-reared, Old English wan- not + togen past participle of tēon to discipline, rear, c. German ziehen, Latin dūcere to lead; akin to tow1]
The Hebrew monster Leviathan
found in the Book of Job has given rise to many popular
incarnations. This article treats subjects with no direct connection to the
Ancient Middle East or Jewish origins.
In Steven
Brust's novel To Reign in Hell, Leviathan (female in this case) is one of seven elder inhabitants of Hell
who conspire to prevent Yahweh from creating the Earth as a sanctuary for
himself and those loyal to him.
Beelzebub was
a prince of the Seraphim, just below Lucifer. Beelzebub, along with Lucifer and
Leviathan, were the first three angels to fall. He tempts men with pride and is
opposed by St. Francis of Assisi.
Islamist haters blocked at East London
University University & student union fail to
publicly condemn preachers
London - 18 March 2013
The University of East London (UEL) blocked an Islamist meeting that was
due to be held on the Stratford campus last Friday, 15 March. The meeting
was billed as featuring hate preachers Khalid Yasin and Jalal Ibn Saeed.
The meeting was also advertised with “segregated seating”, where women
would be forced to sit separate from men.
The Peter Tatchell Foundation, LGBT Society at UEL and the Braki blog
lobbied for the meeting to be cancelled.
Khalid Yasin says homosexuality and lesbianism are “aberrations, they are
immoralities.” He endorses the execution of gay people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNjC-Ub0rI
He also insists that Muslims should not have non-Muslims as friends,
condemning non-Muslims using the derogatory term, kaffirs. He praises
public executions and amputations and claims AIDS is a western and World
Health Organisation conspiracy to kill Africans.
[…]
C.ET: and do not worry before killing the gays or whatever else to be more
specific, they sure would chuck people out, one by one, of the universities.
It is not believes but insanity growing out of desire to be god personified
(if not perfectionable, or purified) in the demon, since it is easier to mimic,
even though they are already sold to the world of facility.
Talking about the so called believes or opinions, not the person, they
ain’t more or less than person, but so called is the same than usurpations:
equal.
The Government
want to remove climate change from the geography curriculum for under 14s. We
think this will threaten the wellbeing of future generations and the
environment. Find out more and sign the petition.
“First,
the community’s spring narwhal hunt, which usually yields roughly 60 of the
tusked whales, produced only three. The sea ice was so thin that the Inuit
couldn’t safely stand on it and shoot the narwhal as they migrated into Arctic
Bay from Greenland through channels in the ice.”by ed struzik
narwhal whales
It's
Sensitive. Really. By William Broad
December, 13, 2005
New York Times, Science Times
“But a team of scientists from Harvard and the National
Institute of Standards and Technology has now made a startling discovery: the
tusk, it turns out, forms a sensory organ of exceptional size and
sensitivity, making the living appendage one of the planet's most remarkable,
and one that in some ways outdoes its own mythology.
The find came when the team turned an electron microscope on the tusk's
material and found new subtleties of dental anatomy. The close-ups showed
that 10 million nerve endings tunnel from the tusk's core toward its outer
surface, communicating with the outside world. The scientists say the nerves
can detect subtle changes of temperature, pressure, particle gradients and
probably much else, giving the animal unique insights.
"This whale is intent on understanding its environment," said Martin
T. Nweeia, the team's leader and a clinical instructor at the Harvard School of
Dental Medicine. Contrary to common views, he said, "The tusk is not about
guys duking it out with sticks and swords."By William Broad December, 13, 2005
New York Times, Science Times
http://www.narwhal.org/nyt.html
Challenges and threats
“Around 30,000 small whales, dolphins and
porpoises die each year as a result of becoming entangled in fishing gear and
drowning. Known as ‘bycatch,’ this accidental catch is one of the greatest
threats to cetaceans.
Whaling is another huge problem. Systematic over-exploitation has brought some
species close to extinction. In the Antarctic alone, more than two million
whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century. In 1986 the
International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling. However,
loopholes in the rules mean whales can still be hunted for “scientific
purposes”. This happens in countries such as Japan and Iceland.
Other threats facing whales include being struck by ships, chemical pollution
from industry, and disturbance by noise from navy operations and seismic
surveys, and depletion of prey as a result of over fishing”.(wwf)
C.ET: elephant
cuddling during pilates and chinese massaging.
Messaging.
Mess, messiah,
mecca.
Mishap.
Please go to Friends of the Earth
website, I do not wish to go on editing their data for fear of breach of
copyrights. Their sites is full of good tips and awareness necessity.
Ditto for
Peta, and others, in my opinion, that I cited or duplicated.
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SUMMARIES FROM ARTICLES I THOUGHT VERY INTERESTING TO READ.
WHEN I APPOSE
MY OWN COMMENTS, IT IS PRECEDED BY MY INITIAL- C.ET:
‘C.et’ is
my own writing, just for try to be clear on me not putting words in others’
items.
THE REST IS A
MAP OF IMPORTANT NOTIONS OR STORIES I FOUND IN THE NEWS EARLIER ON.
PLESE FOLLOW
THEIR WEBLINKS WHEN YOU WANT TO READ MORE. HOPING THAT COPYRIGHTS WILL NOT MIND
IT, AS THEY ARE RIGHTS AND SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A MONOPOLY OR AS IMPAIRMENT TO
DATA EXCHANGES AND DIFFUSION.
A scavenger collects plastic for recycling at a dump site on World
Environment Day in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, June 5, 2013.
REUTERS/Utpal Baruah
C.ET: I just were
wondering if any one would attack me for posting this picture. While the little
guy who is scavenging have been left (without the money produced by the
original article, for you to be reassure none I ll be making, I post it just as
a ‘reminding’) and even he would have received black economy pocket money, the
little boy just left there and on going.
I appreciate that
one cannot do everything and that taking a pic could be used as an act
purposing help for him- and the other guys and girls in his situation.
But what I recall
equally it is that in this realm, I have to ask myself if no one could
seriously try to sue me for doing this. So please note that I am absolutely not
the author, that I own no copyright and do not seek to earn any money. I just
try and do like any computer of search engine, give you my specific summarizing
and collection.