Denmark: they are not sharks but a kind of delphins ( Grindwale in German, Calderón in Spanish,Pilot wahles) Traditionally they were hunted for food... and to proove the young men as they became adults too.
"Whale drives only take place when a school of pilot whales is sighted close to land, which is most often from a local fishing boat or ferry, and when sea and weather conditions make it possible. This can take place at any time of the year, but catches are most common in July and August when the days are long and the weather is more stable. Notice of the school is sent to the elected whaling officials and to the district sheriff, and is spread as widely and quickly as possible in the local community so that enough men and boats can join in the drive. Employers usually make allowances for members of their staff to take time off during drives. The boats gather in a wide semicircle behind the whales and slowly and quietly begin to drive them towards the chosen authorised bay. On the whaling foreman’s signal, stones attached to lines are thrown into the water behind the whales, driving them towards the beach where they become stranded. According to the regulations, any group of whales which cannot be beached in this manner must be driven out to sea again.
Men gather on the shore to kill the beached whales. Ideally, most of the whales will strand far enough up on shore that it is unnecessary to secure them. However, those remaining in the shallows must be secured and hauled closer. Traditionally, this is done by driving a steel hook, or gaff, with a rope attached to it into the back of the whale. A new blunt hook inserted into an airsac in the whale’s blowhole has now been widely tested in practice and it is hoped that this new equipment may eventually replace the traditional gaff as the standard method for securing whales. The whale is killed using a sharp knife to cut down to sever the spinal cord, which also severs the major blood supply to the brain, ensuring both the loss of consciousness and death within seconds."
From: http://www.whaling.fo/thepilot.htm
In the pics it seems to be quite different.... not seconds at all. They have not a chance to survive this.
http://arrebol.multiply.com/photos/album/545
China: the second one is a video I recived 3 or 4 days ago. It was taken to make it public all over the world.
There should be a way to stop this, don't you think so?
If you agree, please spread it out across your contacts, friends, and so on.
http://ladybegonia.multiply.com/video/item/112/Animal_Torture.
The photo I load here was found in Internet one year ago. I am against bullfights too. It does not matter where they are taking place: Spain, France, Mexico... In my opinion it is the same and it has a name: torture.
Economical or "cultural" reasons are not valid arguments to keep on practice this kind of barbarism.
On May 20, Iceland announced that it would allow 40 minke whales to be killed over the next six months. This is in open defiance of the commercial whaling ban that the International Whaling Commission implemented in 1986.
TAKE ACTION
The killing has already begun, with at least one minke confirmed dead in the first week. Please write to Iceland’s fisheries minister, Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson, and tell him to end Iceland's whale hunt once and for all.
Consequences of Iceland's Whaling
Iceland's return to commercial whaling in May 2008 presents an imminent threat to minke whales and with them, entire marine ecosystems. The ocean floor is a nutritional desert. Many animal species rely on whale carcasses to feed. Research by Craig Smith, a marine biologist at the University of Hawaii, has shown that deep-sea extinctions may have already occurred in the North Atlantic where populations of 13 species of whales were greatly diminished by commercial whaling in the 1800s. Whaling continued into the 1970s in the Southern Ocean, and extinctions there may still be occurring.
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/take_action/
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/iceland_whaling/iceland_and_whaling.html
Group Seeks to Mobilize Global Political Action Through Internet
By Nathan King Washington 28 April 2008
The Internet has transformed virtually everything from shopping to social networking and now global politics. Three of the world's most successful mobilizers of e-protest -- Moveon.org and Res Publica in the United States -- and GetUp.org.au in Australia -- pooled their resources last year to create an organization whose name means "voice" in Hindi, Urdu and Turkish. Avaaz.org is a global campaigning organization that says it acts as the voice for its members. Nathan King reports from New York
Pro-Tibet demonstrators in front of China's embassy in Washington, DC, 16 Mar 2008
Hundreds of people protested outside the White House in Washington after the recent crackdown in Tibet. The protest was part of an international day of action, and from this small New York office on the same day, Avaaz.org delivered a petition of 1.4 million signatures to Chinese Embassies and consulates around the world without taking to the streets. It called on China to open meaningful talks with the Dalai Lama.
Avaaz is harnessing the power of the Internet for global campaigns that it says most people everywhere want -- a world with stronger protections for the environment, greater respect for human rights and concerted efforts to end poverty, corruption and war.
Founder Ricken Patel says the idea is to bring together millions of people who care about global issues.
"It was an idea that there is this global community and that people everywhere feel this sense of being human being first and citizens of their country second and caring about people and that human life is precious, no matter what passport you carry," he said.
Like a social networking site, people sign up, they get e-mail alerts for campaigns and most importantly for Avaaz, it is the membership that essentially decides what issues to tackle.
As with a political campaign, members are polled over and over again. Using the language of the Internet, 10,000 members are blasted [contacted] each week, asking them what issues to address and what action to take. Action can be as simple as a global petition -- delivered to global leaders -- a call for mass demonstrations or a call for a fundraising benefit to help -- like the current drive to help human rights groups based in Tibet.
When issues really take off, Avaaz calls it "going viral."
Global advocacy on the Internet
"On Tibet, in three weeks our members told 12 million people about the campaign and that is just astonishing. It is a very exciting time when you really do feel like the world is coming together," Patel said.
Critics say given Avaaz.org's wide membership it can only address global issues in the broadest of terms and that Avaaz.org is empowering the already empowered -- those who have a computer, Internet access and are educated on global issues.
Avaaz says it has members in every country in the world and its e-mail list operates in 13 languages. As technology spreads to the developing world, Avaaz says, so will its membership there.
Patel says, "We still have a massive democratic deficit in the world today and the technology revolution that has been sweeping the globe has allowed people to connect across borders like never before and that is what we are doing. We are trying to connect up this huge global community to be able to take action rapidly and effectively when moments of opportunity on these issues present themselves."
Avaaz is also claiming successes. According to media in Tokyo, Avaaz's climate change campaign helped changed the Japanese governments stance at the Climate conference in Bali.
So far Avaaz has held back from asking its members for money, but it aims to be entirely member funded in the future and donate to causes the membership wants to back.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php
http://www.avaaz.org/en/report_back_1/
CONVENTION OF THOSE WOUNDED IN LOVE
General provisions:
A – Whereas the saying “all is fair in love and war” is absolutely correct;
B – Whereas for war we have the Geneva Convention, approved on 22 August 1864, which provides for those wounded in the battle field, but until now no convention has been signed concerning those wounded in love, who are far greater in number;
It is hereby decreed that:
Article 1 – All lovers, of any sex, are alerted that love, besides being a blessing, is also something extremely dangerous, unpredictable and capable of causing serious damage. Consequently, anyone planning to love should be aware that they are exposing their body and soul to various types of wounds, and that they shall not be able to blame their partner at any moment, since the risk is the same for both.
Article 2 – Once struck by a stray arrow fired from Cupid’s bow, they should immediately ask the archer to shoot the same arrow in the opposite direction, so as not to be afflicted by the wound known as “unrequited love”. Should Cupid refuse to perform such a gesture, the Convention now being promulgated demands that the wounded partner remove the arrow from his/her heart and throw it in the garbage. In order to guarantee this, those concerned should avoid telephone calls, messages over the Internet, sending flowers that are always returned, or each and every means of seduction, since these may yield results in the short run but always end up wrong after a while. The Convention decrees that the wounded person should immediately seek the company of other people and try to control the obsessive thought: “this person is worth fighting for”.
Article 3 – If the wound is caused by third parties, in other words if the loved one has become interested in someone not in the script previously drafted, vengeance is expressly forbidden. In this case, it is allowed to use tears until the eyes dry up, to punch walls or pillows, to insult the ex-partner in conversations with friends, to allege his/her complete lack of taste, but without offending their honor. The Convention determines that the rule contained in Article 2 be applied: seek the company of other persons, preferably in places different from those frequented by the other party.
Article 4 – In the case of light wounds, herein classified as small treacheries, fulminating passions that are short-lived, passing sexual disinterest, the medicine called Pardon should be applied generously and quickly. Once this medicine has been applied, one should never reconsider one's decision, not even once, and the theme must be completely forgotten and never used as an argument in a fight or in a moment of hatred.
Article 5 – In all definitive wounds, also known as “breaking up”, the only medicine capable of having an effect is called Time. It is no use seeking consolation from fortune-tellers (who always say that the lost lover will return), romantic books (which always have a happy ending), soap-operas on the television or other such things. One should suffer intensely, completely avoiding drugs, tranquilizers and praying to saints. Alcohol is only tolerated if kept to a maximum of two glasses of wine a day.
Final determination:
Those wounded in love, unlike those wounded in armed conflict, are neither victims nor torturers. They chose something that is part of life, and so they have to accept both the agony and the ecstasy of their choice.
And those who have never been wounded in love will never be able to say: “I have lived”. Because they haven’t.
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Copyright © 2007 by Paulo Coelho – Warrior of Light Online comes out twice a month, and may be distributed for free on the Internet and placed in pages whose content is free, as long as the source “Warrior of Light Online, published by HYPERLINK "http://www.paulocoelho.com.br/" \n _blankwww.paulocoelho.com.br” is quoted.
Translated from the Portuguese by James Mulholland.
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Spanish Version
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CONVENCION DE LOS HERIDOS DE AMOR
Disposiciones generales:
A – Considerando que el dicho de que “en el amor y en la guerra todo vale” es completamente verdadero;
B – Considerando que en lo relativo a la guerra contamos con la Convención de Ginebra, adoptada el 22 de agosto de 1864, que determina cómo debe tratarse a los heridos en el campo de batalla, mientras que hasta hoy no se ha promulgado ningún documento que regule la situación de los heridos de amor, muy superiores en número;
Se decreta que:
Art. 1 – todos los amantes, independientemente de cuál sea su sexo, quedan advertidos de que el amor, además de ser una bendición, también es algo extremadamente peligroso, imprevisible, que puede acarrear serios daños. Por lo tanto, quien tenga la intención de amar, debe ser consciente de que está exponiendo su cuerpo y su alma a heridas de muy diferentes tipos, sin poder culpar por ello a su pareja en ningún momento, puesto que ambos corren el mismo riesgo.
Art. 2 – Una vez alcanzado por una flecha del arco ciego de Cupido, debe solicitarse inmediatamente al arquero que dispare la misma flecha en la dirección opuesta, con el objeto de no sufrir la herida conocida como “amor no correspondido”. En el caso de que Cupido se niegue a hacerlo, la Convención que en estos momentos se promulga exige del herido que de manera inmediata se arranque la flecha del corazón y la tire a la basura. Para llevar esto a buen puerto, debe evitar llamadas telefónicas, mensajes de correo electrónico, envíos de flores (siempre rechazadas), o cualquier otra forma de seducción, pues semejantes medios, si bien pueden dar algún resultado positivo a corto plazo, no resisten el paso del tiempo. La Convención decreta asimismo que el herido debe buscar sin falta la compañía de otras personas, así como debe imponerse al pensamiento obsesivo que le dice “vale la pena luchar por esta persona”.
Art. 3 – En el caso de que la herida provenga de un tercero, es decir, que el ser amado se sienta atraído por alguien que no estaba a priori en el guión, queda expresamente prohibida la venganza. En este caso, se permite el uso de lágrimas hasta que los ojos se sequen, así como algunos puñetazos en la pared o en la almohada, o reuniones con amigos donde poder insultar a gusto al antiguo(a) compañero(a), incidiendo en su perfecta falta de gusto, pero sin llegar a difamar su honra. La Convención determina que también se aplique en este caso la regla del Art. 2 que mueve a buscar la compañía de otras amistades, sólo que evitando en la medida de lo posible los lugares que la otra persona frecuenta.
Art. 4 – En lesiones leves, clasificadas aquí como pequeñas traiciones, pasiones fulminantes que no duran mucho, o desinterés sexual pasajero, debe aplicarse con generosidad y rapidez el medicamento llamado Perdón. Una vez aplicada tal medicina, no se debe volver atrás bajo ninguna circunstancia, y el asunto debe ser definitivamente olvidado, no utilizándolo jamás como argumento en una discusión o en momento de odio.
Art. 5 – En todas las heridas definitivas, también conocidas como “rupturas”, el único medicamento que tiene algún efecto se llama Tiempo. De nada sirve buscar consuelo en cartomantes (que siempre prometen el regreso del amor perdido), leer libros románticos (que siempre acaban bien), engancharse a una telenovela o cosas por el estilo. Se debe sufrir con intensidad, evitando radicalmente las drogas, los calmantes o las oraciones a los santos. En cuanto al alcohol, sólo serán permitidos dos vasos de vino diarios.
Consideraciones finales:
Los heridos por el amor, al contrario de los heridos en conflictos armados, no son víctimas ni verdugos. Optaron por algo que forma parte de la vida, y deben asumir, por consiguiente, la agonía y el éxtasis de su elección.
Y los que jamás fueron heridos por el amor, nunca podrán decir: “he vivido”. Porque no vivieron.
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Traducido del portugués por Diego Chozas Ruiz Belloso.
El PPP ANUNCIARA HOY A SU CANDIDATO PARA OCUPAR EL CARGO DE PRIMER MINISTRO DE PAKISTAN
22/03/2008 09:31
ISLAMABAD, 22 (Reuters/EP)
"El Partido del Pueblo de Pakistán (PPP), que liderará el futuro Gobierno de coalición del país, hará público hoy el nombre de su candidato para ocupar el cargo de primer ministro, según informó un subsecretario general del partido, Raza Rabbani.
"El proceso de consulta ha concluído con la nominación del primer ministro, de acuerdo con con los encuentros realizados dentro del partido y con los socios de coalición", explicó Rabbani. "El presidente (del PPP) anunciará la decisión definitiva a última hora del día", explicó. El presidente del PPP es el hijo de la fallecida ex primera ministra paquistaní Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, quien ha regresado temporalmente a su país desde Reino Unido, donde estudia.
El líder del partido y viudo de Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, no puede ser elegido primer ministro ya que no es miembro del Parlamento. Circulan rumores sobre la posibilidad de que el PPP elija un primer ministro provisional para que luego Zardari lo sustituya, pero antes el viudo de Bhutto tendría que ganas unas elecciones parciales.
El nuevo primer ministro jurará su cargo el próximo martes.
Majdum Amin Fahim, ex asistente de Bhutto y 'número dos' de Zardari, era uno de los favoritos, pero sus posibilidades se redujeron cuando el partido de Sharif (Liga Musulmana de Pakistán-N) mostró su incomodidad por sus contactos con el presidente de Pakistán, Pervez Musharraf.
Otros posibles candidatos son Yousaf Raza Gilani, Chaudhry Ahmed Mujtar y Shah Mahmud Qureshi, todos ellos naturales de la provincia de Punyab. Gilani, vicepresidente del PPP, pasó cuatro años en prisión por realizar nombramientos oficiales ilegales. Mujtar derrotó en las elecciones al aliado de Musharraf y líder de la Liga Musulmana de Pakistán-Q, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. Qureshi, por su parte, es el presidente del PPP en Punyab."
Tomado de:
http://noticias.msn.es
Foto: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
"Die chinesische Regierung hat ihre Militärpräsenz in Tibet und den angrenzenden Regionen offenbar massiv verstärkt. Der deutsche Journalist Georg Blume berichtete von Militärkonvois mit tausenden Sicherheitskräften auf dem Weg nach Lhasa. Er habe einen Konvoi von mindestens 200 Armeefahrzeugen mit je 30 Soldaten gesehen - das seien rund 6000 Sicherheitkräfte, die binnen eines Tages in Lhasa unterwegs gewesen seien, sagte er der britischen BBC. Nach Angaben des Journalisten, der unter anderem für "Die Zeit" schreibt, gingen in Lhasa Sicherheitskräfte von Haus zu Haus.
Ein in West-China ansässiger BBC-Journalist berichtete zudem, er habe mehr als 400 Militärfahrzeuge gezählt, die in Konvois von rund 80 Fahrzeugen in Richtung Tibet unterwegs seien. Einige Soldaten seien mit automatischen Waffen ausgerüstet, andere trügen Kampfanzüge und Schutzschilde.
Blume und die ebenfalls deutschsprachige Kollegin Kristin Kupfer wurden unmittelbar nach seinem BBC-Gespräch aus Tibet ausgewiesen. Sie gehören zu den letzten ausländischen Korrespondenten, die Lhasa verlassen mussten.
TOURISMUS UNTERBUNDEN
Tibet wurde auch für Touristen bis auf Weiteres abgeriegelt. Die chinesischen Behörden hätten Anweisung gegeben, derzeit keine Reiseerlaubnisse zu bewilligen, sagten Reiseveranstalter der Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Touristen, die bereits eine Tibet-Tour gebucht hätten und dafür auch eine Erlaubnis hätten, könnten ihre Reise nicht antreten, sagte die Managerin eines Reisebüros in der südwestchinesischen Provinz Sichuan. Auch für Einzelreisende sei es "für einige Zeit" unmöglich, nach Tibet zu gelangen.
Die Tourismusbehörden in Lhasa bestätigten, dass die Ausstellung von Reiseerlaubnissen bis auf weiteres auf Eis gelegt worden sei. Frühestens Anfang Mai könnten wieder Reisen genehmigt werden. Neben der Chinesischen Mauer, der Terrakotta-Armee im zentralchinesischen Xian und Sehenswürdigkeiten in Peking ist Tibet eines der beliebtesten Ziele für Urlauber.
DALAI LAMA WILL SICH MIT HU JINTAO TREFFEN
Der Dalai Lama erklärte sich unterdessen zu einem Treffen mit dem chinesischen
Präsidenten Hu Jintao bereit, sollte es "konkrete Hinweise" für Gesprächsbereitschaft Pekings geben - nach dem Ende der Krise um Tibet "in ein paar Wochen, ein paar Monaten".
Chinas Regierungschef Wen Jiabao hatte sich am Dienstag ebenfalls gesprächsbereit gezeigt - allerdings nur, wenn der Dalai Lama seine Bemühungen um eine Unabhängigkeit des Tibet aufgebe. Das geistliche Oberhaupt der Tibeter hat immer wieder betont, ihm gehe es lediglich um mehr Autonomie. "Wir streben danach, die tibetische Kultur zu erhalten", sagte der Dalai Lama.
Erstmals machte China auch genauere Angaben über Demonstrationen außerhalb Tibets. Es habe seit Samstag in den Provinzen Sichuan und Gansu Unruhen gegeben, meldete die amtliche Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua. Mit Steinen und Benzinbomben bewaffnete Aufständische hätten öffentliche Gebäude gestürmt. Nach Angaben von Menschenrechtsgruppen gab es mindestens acht Todesopfer.
Jochen Graebert, ARD Peking
[Tagesschau 20:00 Uhr, 20.03.2008]
Weltweit finden Demonstrationen gegen die chinesische Führung statt.
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ECOOGLER
Google ha sacado un nuevo buscador para ayudar a repoblar el amazonas y los bosques de todo el mundo. Se llama www.ecoogler.com , funciona igual que el buscador google.com y cada vez que lo usemos se donará 1 hoja (muchas hacen un árbol).
ES MUY IMPORTANTE QUE LO PASES ya que no nos cuesta nada y AYUDAMOS MUCHO. ¡¡PÁSALO!!
http://www.ecooogler.com/
http://www.sos-usa.org
SOS Children Villages is an international organization which works in many countries all over the world ( 132 countries and territories) since many years.
This organisation was founded in 1949 in response to the needs of the many children left orphaned and abandoned after World War II. The original concept is still working today, over 55 years later, to provide children who have lost their parents or who are no longer able to live with them a loving home and a stable environment in which they can thrive.
This family-based child care model is formed by four basic principles: mother, brothers and sisters, house and village.
Each child is given an SOS MOTHER. She is the child's primary caretaker and lives in a house together with the children that she is looking after. Together with them she organizes the family's daily life.
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Every family has a HOUSE of its own.The familiar atmosphere of a home of their own encourages bonding within the families to give the children a feeling of belonging and shelter.
AN SOS Children's VILLAGE has between ten and fifteen family houses. The village provides the background for an extended family community. This supplies the children with cultural roots and gives them a feeling of belonging. At the same time, village life is an important bridge to the local community.
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