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Carmen Miranda Banana is BACK! She was with us for April Fool’s Day, talking about Oturd Otard rule making.  Now, she’s on a rant of run-on sentences about unscientific science and yelling “Liar Liar Pants On Fire!” and singing “Oh Say Can’t You See?” and “the Twelve Ways of Not Christmas Wireless.” Frankly, I Don’t…

As Christmas approaches, nativity scenes depict the birth of a newborn child in a manger.  Catholics worldwide are observing the Advent season, with candles, wreaths, and prayers. In truth, centuries earlier, before the Church took the calendar away from Nature, communities would gather for the Winter Solstice.  In indigenous societies, human activities were organically intertwined…

“The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, (also known as the ‘Global Network‘ or the ‘GN’) is an international network of organizations and individuals [] concerned about the militarization and exploitation of space. In just a few decades outer space has become of the utmost importance for global commercial, political and military…

Technology, and Lack of Quietude, Lack of Community, and Lack of Reverence for Nature; “Time” for a Re-set When I was a child growing up in Southeast Asia, we visited Bali several times. Each day at sunset, islanders would stream down to the shore with small handmade altar rafts, crafted with flowers and fruit. The…

The U.S. military is famous for being the single largest consumer of petroleum products in the world and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its carbon emissions exceed those released by “more than 100 countries combined.” Now, with the Biden administration’s mandate to slash carbon emissions “at least in half by the end of the decade,” the Pentagon has committed to using all-electric…

Whales and other ocean mammals need to be protected from the adverse effects of sonar, which can cause brain hemorrhage and death.  Dr. Marsha Green, founder of Ocean Mammal Institute, has gained international recognition for her groundbreaking studies on the impact of human behavior on humpback whales and spinner dolphins. She demonstrated that sonar causes…

December 21 Solstice Event: An Ocean of Consciousness. Information and Registration here. “Our Healing Relationship with Nature” by Dr. Marsha Green  Reprinted with permission, Ocean Mammal Institute “Certainly the rapid degradation of our environment is forcing us to look within ourselves to find the root causes of our environmental problems. As we dare to look…

Whales Warned Us About Radar–Years Ago In 2014, the NRDC published, “U.S. Navy Implicated in New Mass Stranding of Whales.” [blockquote align=”left”] Yesterday afternoon, while the U.S. and other navies played war games somewhere offshore, Cuvier’s beaked whales began stranding along the southern coast of Crete. Those on the scene knew right away what they…

Whale Trust reports, “The humpback whale song is one of the most complex, non-human, acoustic displays in the animal kingdom. But why males sing is still a mystery. [ ] Whale Trust Maui researchers have been following, recording, and tracking humpback whales singers off the coast of Maui, Hawaii since the mid-70s. After decades of…

“Regulatory agencies should apply the Precautionary Principle when making decisions about acoustic activities to be conducted underwater.” In Part 1, we looked at the on-going colonization and exploitation of indigenous lands and peoples by the U.S., including military-occupied Guam. (While the U.S. is promoting its de-militarization of Okinawa and commitment to climate action, it is…

See part 1 here on colonialism persisting in the modern day, in great part due to the U.S. military’s planetary footprint. “Here’s the awful truth: even if every person, every automobile, and every factory suddenly emitted zero emissions, the Earth would still be headed head first and full speed towards total disaster for one major…