Dr. Darlene Ketten's ear exams on stranded whales
bleeding from their eyes have provided the link between whale strandings
and Navy sonar tests, long suspected by environmentalists and
non-government scientists.
In view of persistent government failure to provide
autopsies that would reveal whether or not stranded mammals had suffered
the tissue, lung, and ear explosion symptoms predicted by the Marine
Mammal Commission to be the result of sonar exposure, these tests were
facilitated by an interesting source.
The whales, who often swim great distances in order to
strand before us on our shores and reveal their struggle beneath the
sea, came this time to a beach fronting the home of Dr. Ken Balcomb, a
caring marine biologist who made sure they received timely and
appropriate autopsies.
Now that the suspected link has been firmly established,
it offers new clues to the "mysterious" deaths of other cetaceans and
marine mammals with similar symptoms stranding by the thousands all over
the world. As a result, continued efforts to ignore and deny such
serious problems with this risky technology will no longer slip by the
American public and press with the same ease previously enjoyed.
Non government scientists and environmentalists have
been trying to warn of the immense and lethal force of these new sonar
devices being secretly tried throughout the world in preparation for
full deployment in 80% of our oceans. Government studies on their
results have been secret, swift, and shoddy and have provided more
evidence for dire concerns than the assurances of safety they had hoped
to produce.
Now, the key is for the American public to sleep with
one eye open until all pressure to press forward has stopped. Clearly
let your congressional representatives know that you want this new brand
of sonar out of the water in order to keep our oceans safe and preserve
life on earth as we know it.
If we unite in both action and prayer to preserve our
beautiful blue oceans and the wondrous marine life within them, we will
become a better humanity who can look our own souls in the eye.
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