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06 March 2005

"In more than a dozen instances dating back to the 1960s,
whales have stranded themselves on the beaches and
sometimes died at the time of naval training exercises
miles away using midfrequency active sonar. An unprecedented
stranding of 16 beaked and minke whales in the Bahamas in 2000
brought worldwide attention to military sonar. A NOAA investigation
concluded that a Navy testing maneuver using midfrequency sonar was
the likely cause. Necropsies found signs of brain hemorrhaging,
which is consistent with injury from sound."


-- San Francisco Chronicle, 12/13/04, front page

1) Whales, dolphins, now under attack - LFAS sonar blasts!
2) World News Crashing - late breaking details

- - Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails
- - Bush Gave CIA Expansive Interrogation Power-Paper
- - U.S. Adopts Preemptive Counterintelligence Strategy
- - Why did Eason Jordan 'resign?'
- - Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero
- - Member Of Congress Calls for Nuking Syria
- - Nuking Free Speech
- - ‘Senate skids have been greased for John Negroponte to be confirmed..'
3) Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plotting His Murder

Editor's Notes:


I welcome and deplore having to send this issue with more evidence of the Navy's brutality of sea life, with ear hemorrhaging sounds to dominate a cruelly-treated world for what? This, star wars, the world nuclear disorder, terror reigns, and we have inherited a mess, what are we to do? For one thing, you can check out this following link to a BioGems' campaign to help stop NATO from using LFAS sonar systems.

In item 2, if you look, you will discover more on how inbalanced the US government is over normalcy and principles in the US Constitution, human rights, and how that is impacting our world. The third item is on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's claims that the US is behind an assassination attempt on his life.

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1) Whales, dolphins, now under attack - LFAS sonar blasts!

Navy's Use of New Sonar Suspected in Mass Killings of Whales - Washington Post

In more than a dozen instances dating back to the 1960s, whales have stranded themselves on the beaches and sometimes died at the time of naval training exercises miles away using midfrequency active sonar. An unprecedented stranding of 16 beaked and minke whales in the Bahamas in 2000 brought worldwide attention to military sonar. A NOAA investigation concluded that a Navy testing maneuver using midfrequency sonar was the likely cause. Necropsies found signs of brain hemorrhaging, which is consistent with injury from sound.

-- San Francisco Chronicle, 12/13/04, front page

MSNBC.com
Nearly 20 stranded dolphins die
Rescuers to move 30 animals floundering in Fla. Keys

The Associated Press
Updated: 11:16 p.m. ET March 4, 2005


MARATHON, Fla. - Nineteen dolphins that became stranded off the Florida Keys have died, including 13 who were euthanized, officials said Friday.


More than 30 others will be moved to rehabilitation facilities Saturday.

The dolphins were euthanized after blood tests showed 13 of them were "not likely to recover at all and that they are suffering," said Laura Engleby, a biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service.

"Some were still not swimming on their own, and they couldn't hold themselves up," Denise Jackson of the Marine Mammal Rescue Team said.

More than 60 rough-tooth dolphins beached themselves Wednesday on flats and sandbars about a quarter mile off Marathon. Rescue teams moved the dolphins to a nearby canal where veterinarians have been conducting medical tests.

The remaining 31 live dolphins were being given Pedialyte — a drink normally given to dehydrated human babies — and fresh water, Jackson said.


Teams planned to move them by Saturday morning to rehabilitation facilities along the Keys or on the mainland, officials said.

Marine mammals may become stranded when they are sick, injured or disoriented, Engleby said. Scientists performing necropsies will take genetic samples to determine whether the dolphins all came from the same population.

Rough-tooth dolphins normally inhabit deep waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

Marathon, in the middle of the Florida Keys, is about 46 miles east of Key West.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7076315/

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TAKE ACTION!

We're taking our campaign to protect whales from deadly naval sonar to the doorstep of NATO -- and we need your help.

Please go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp

and send a message to the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to NATO ambassadors, urging their member countries to stop deploying high-powered sonar systems in sensitive whale habitats around the world.

Last month we began making our case directly to NATO officials. Now it's critically important that they hear a worldwide outcry from concerned citizens in support of our cause.

As the military alliance of 26 nations -- including the United States -- NATO includes the world's biggest users of lethal military sonar. In fact, several mass strandings of whales have been linked directly to joint NATO exercises, including strandings in the Canary Islands and along the coast of Greece.

There is no dispute that intense bursts of high-powered sonar can and do kill whales. The scientists of the International Whaling Commission have stated that the evidence linking such naval sonar to whale strandings appears "overwhelming."

The scientific journal "Nature" has reported that intense, active sonar may kill marine mammals by causing their internal organs to hemorrhage.

In the face of this alarming evidence, it's simply cruel and wrong to use high-powered sonar in routine training exercises without taking common-sense steps to protect whales, dolphins and other marine life. That's why a worldwide coalition of environmental groups, including NRDC, is pressuring NATO and its member countries to stop inflicting this needless suffering on marine mammals.

Please make your own voice heard in defense of whales
right now. Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp
and call on NATO to take immediate steps to protect marine mammals from deadly sonar.

Thank you for taking action.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

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FLORIDA KEYS - Dolphins' beaching closely followed sub's exercises

The Miami Herald

Posted on Sat, Mar. 05, 2005

FLORIDA KEYS
Dolphins' beaching closely followed sub's exercises
The U.S. Navy is looking into whether the activities of a submarine
using sonar off the Keys may have played a part in a massive dolphin
stranding this week off Marathon.
BY JENNIFER BABSON
jbabson@herald.com

KEY WEST - The U.S. Navy is investigating whether sonar used in the training activities of a submarine off the Florida Keys this week may have contributed to the mass stranding of more than 80 deep-water dolphins, at least 19 of which have died.

Groups of rough-toothed dolphins mysteriously began beaching off Marathon on Wednesday afternoon -- within 24 hours, and perhaps less, of exercises conducted off Key West by the USS Philadelphia, a submarine based in Connecticut.

A Navy spokeswoman said Friday she did not know if the sub was still in the area the day of the stranding or if the vessel was using active sonar -- considered by some scientists to be potentially harmful to marine mammals -- during its mission.

''This is absolutely high priority. We are looking into this. We want to be good stewards of the environment and anytime there are strandings of marine mammals, we look into the operations and locations of any ships that might have been operating in that area,'' said Lt. Cdr. Jensin Sommer, spokeswoman for Naval Submarine Forces, based in Virginia.

EVIDENCE

There's a growing body of evidence that active sonar sound waves may harm marine mammals such as dolphins and whales, injuring them in the ears and around the brain, disorienting them, and prompting them in some cases to strand. Marine mammals use sound for just about everything, from feeding to navigating to finding a mate.

Scientists surmise that sonars may disorient or scare the marine mammals, causing them to surface too quickly and creating the equivalent of what divers know as the bends -- when nitrogen is formed in tissue by sudden decompression, leading to hemorrhaging.

After a whale stranding in 2000 in the Bahamas, the Navy acknowledged in a report some marine mammal sensitivity to sonars, but has also argued at times that the extent of any cause-and-effect is scientifically vague.

Active sonar allows submarines and ships to spot targets and other vessels by emitting sound waves that bounce off objects, revealing distance and location.

Necropsies already underway on the dead dolphins in Marathon may shed some light on whether the animals suffered any damage to acoustic brain tissue, a potentially key indicator of sonar damage. But test results could take months.

NOTHING RULED OUT

''It's fair to say we will be looking at any potential contributing factors, and that's everything,'' said Laura Engleby, a biologist with NOAA Fisheries, which is coordinating the stranding response. ``We aren't ruling anything out.''

The Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, successfully sued the military in 2002 to limit use of new, low-frequency sonar believed by some to be particularly damaging because of its ability to travel extremely long distances. Some types of sonar can be extremely loud -- as much as 235 decibels at close quarters, equivalent to the noise made by a rocket on takeoff -- according to the council.

''Whenever naval exercises coincide with a mass stranding of marine mammals, the government has a responsibility to investigate the connection. We call on them to do that now,'' Michael Jasny, a senior policy consultant with the council, said Friday.

SOME RETURN TO SEA

About 20 of the initial group of stranded Keys dolphins made their way back to sea by early Thursday, while 14 were euthanized Friday because of their poor condition. More than 30 others remained in care of biologists and volunteers in a makeshift pen late Friday, from where they were expected to be transferred to rehabilitation facilities.

Whale and dolphin strandings are not uncommon in Florida and elsewhere. Various factors have been blamed -- from a few sick animals luring an entire pod toward land, to pollution and algae blooms.

But renewed attention has been focused lately on sonar as a potential cause.

''The more we look now, the more incidents we see,'' Jasny said. ''In recent years attention has been increasingly paid to the effect sonar is having on other species'' besides whales. ``We are only beginning to understand the impact.''

© 2005 Herald.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miami.com

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For more resources at flybynews.com see from homepage, or link to.
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2) World News Crashing - late breaking details

- - Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails
- - Bush Gave CIA Expansive Interrogation Power-Paper
- - U.S. Adopts Preemptive Counterintelligence Strategy
- - Why did Eason Jordan 'resign?'
- - Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero
- - Member Of Congress Calls for Nuking Syria
- - Nuking Free Speech
- - ‘Senate skids have been greased for John Negroponte to be confirmed..'


- - World News Crashing - late breaking details
Warning! Information will prove madness is in control, chaos following..

{Thanks to Citizens for A Legitimate Government for update digest links on breaking news.
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

And other key resource links posted @ FlybyNews.com.


- - Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails

The Bush regime's secret program to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign countries for interrogation has been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency under broad authority that has allowed it to act without case-by-case approval from the White House or the State or Justice Departments, according to current and former government officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/politics/06intel.html

- - Bush Gave CIA Expansive Interrogation Power-Paper

The Bush regime gave the CIA extensive authority to send terrorism suspects to foreign countries for interrogation just days after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/politics/06intel.html]
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7816923&src=rss/domesticNews

- - U.S. Adopts Preemptive Counterintelligence Strategy

The Bush regime has adopted a new counterintelligence strategy that calls for preemptive action against foreign intelligence services viewed as threats to national security, officials said Saturday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10397-2005Mar5.html

- - Why did Eason Jordan 'resign?'

US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate: companion -- http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38029

The companion of freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena on Saturday leveled serious accusations at US troops who fired at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad airport, saying the shooting had been deliberate. "The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming," Pier Scolari said on leaving Rome's Celio military hospital where Sgrena is to undergo surgery following her return home. "They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints." The shooting late Friday was witnessed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office which was on the phone with one of the secret service agents, said Scolari. "Then the US military silenced the cellphones," he charged. "Giuliana had information, and the US military did not want her to survive," he added.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38029

- - Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero

The Italian journalist kidnapped in Iraq arrived back in Rome yesterday as fury and confusion grew over the circumstances in which she was shot and one of her rescuers was killed by American soldiers... Italian reconstruction of the incident is significantly different. Giuliana Sgrena told colleagues the vehicle was not travelling fast and had already passed several checkpoints on its way to the airport. The Americans shone a flashlight at the car and then fired between 300 and 400 bullets at if from an armoured vehicle. Rather than calling immediately for assistance for the wounded Italians, the soldiers' first move was to confiscate their weapons and mobile phones and they were prevented from resuming contact with Rome for more than an hour.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1431436,00.html

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- - Member Of Congress Calls for Nuking Syria
By ADC

03/02/05 Washington, DC -- Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) has advocated for attacking Syria with nuclear weapons. Rep. Johnson was quoted telling a recent church gathering, "Syria is the problem. Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on 'em and I'll make one pass. We won't have to worry about Syria anymore." The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is outraged at Rep. Johnson's statement advocating for mass destruction and genocide and views this as a sad day in our country's tradition when an elected member of the United States Congress openly advocates for attacking another country with nuclear weapons.

http://207.44.245.159/article8194.htm

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- - Nuking Free Speech
by Sen. Robert Byrd, The Washington Post

The firebrand from West Virginia stands up for free speech and minority rights in Congress.
http://tompaine.com/opinion/#003964

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- - ‘Senate skids have been greased for John Negroponte to be confirmed..'

Who Now Will Read to the President in the Morning?
By Ray McGovern
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Saturday 05 March 2005

Senate skids have been greased for John Negroponte to be confirmed as the first director of national intelligence. Never mind that he deliberately misled Congress about serious human rights abuses in Honduras where he was ambassador from 1981 to 1985.

That dissembling enabled the White House to circumvent the congressional restrictions that would have denied use of Honduras as the primary base for the "Contras"-the counterrevolutionaries organized and armed by the US to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

Negroponte's opposite number in Washington during those rogue-elephant, Iran-Contra days, then-Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams, was convicted for lying to Congress but then promptly pardoned by George H. W. Bush, who explained that Abrams was motivated by "patriotism." No less "patriotic," Negroponte had simply been luckier, in that he was not required to testify as frequently to Congress.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030505A.shtml



3) Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plotting His Murder
Published March 5, 2005 by Reuters
Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plotting His Murder

NEW DELHI - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he had evidence that the United States was planning to assassinate him, an allegation the U.S. government earlier dismissed as "wild."

"We have enough evidence ... If anything happens to me, the person responsible will be the president of the United States," Chavez told reporters in New Delhi. He did not elaborate.

The exchange of accusations between the left-wing Chavez and U.S. officials has reached fever pitch in recent weeks, raising questions whether the multibillion-dollar energy relationship between Washington and one of its top oil suppliers is at risk.

Chavez said on Feb. 20 the United States was plotting to kill him, and his foreign minister said three days later that U.S. accusations against Chavez were a sign of an impending attack. Washington dismissed what it termed Chavez's "wild charges."

U.S. officials portray the former paratrooper, a virulent critic of President Bush, as an authoritarian menace. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has singled out self-proclaimed socialist Chavez as a "destabilizing influence" in Latin America.

They have also renewed charges that Chavez, a firebrand nationalist, shelters Colombian Marxist rebels and recently criticized Venezuelan purchases of Russian automatic rifles.

Chavez said in New Delhi he had no quarrel with the people of United States, only with its government. He cited U.S. action in Iraq and said the U.S. government was a threat to the entire world.

Venezuela's relations with the United States have been strained since leftist Chavez was elected in 1998. He has bolstered ties with anti-U.S. countries such as Cuba and alleged Washington was involved in a failed coup against him in 2002.

Many analysts see the rhetoric aimed at domestic political audiences and do not believe it heralds any imminent diplomatic or commercial rift. Although Chavez is exploring new oil markets like China, U.S. oil companies continue to negotiate major investments in Venezuela.

On Friday, Chavez said his country would not stop supplying oil to the United States unless "the U.S. government gets a little bit crazy and tries to hurt us."

© 2005 Reuters Ltd
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0305-04.htm



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