NOTE FROM JEFF: Many thanks to Rosalind Peterson for being one of the very few people on the planet with enough love, awareness and BALLS to speak out about how the U.S. Navy, while not alone, is still the SINGLE GREATEST THREAT to life in the ocean and on the planet as a whole. In addition to the necro-copia of war-games, weapons, wastes and willful ecocide documented below, the U.S. Navy also 1) funds and thereby controls ALL marine biology research 2) operates and funds research into the further development of HAARP and other 'technetronic' weapons, which now relegate 'all things nuclear' to the domain of biological weapons, and 3) operates several hundred, probably between 500 and 1000 nuclear reactors for propulsion, research and weapons development. Citizens and tax-payers of the world are literally PAYING for the Navy and mic to destroy life on the only Mother Earth we have. That makes us ALL responsible; we already paying the price.
My friend Peter Eyre, a London-based investigative journalist, is another person with BALLS; please read his excellent and comprehensive post here:
"The Horrific New World Order Master Plan that has full UN approval"
"Our
oceans and land areas, in the
Pacific, Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico along with all
inhabitants, are to be
used as warfare test guinea pigs without public consent, debate,
U.S. Congressional
hearings or any public oversight...mid-and high frequency active sonar
sources and explosive detonations. These sonar and explosive
sources will be
utilized during Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) Tracking Exercises,
Mine Avoidance
Training, Extended Echo Ranging and Improved Extended Echo
Ranging (EER/IEER)
events, Missile Exercises, Gunnery Exercises, Bombing Exercises,
Sinking
Exercises, and Mine Warfare Training…Depleted
uranium, red and
white phosphorus, cadmium, lead, perchlorate, titanium oxide,
atmospheric
releases of aluminum oxide (from U.S. Navy C.A.R.E. Atmospheric
Experiments
over East Coast of U.S.) Chaff releases
(aluminum coated
fiberglass particulates), and a whole host of chemicals known to
be toxic not
only to man, but to marine life and fish, are being served up on
this
menu. In addition,
highly classified
weapons systems are also to be used during these 5-Year Warfare
Testing
Experiments."
U.S.
NAVY’S
TWELVE 5-YEAR WARFARE TESTING PROGRAMS &
THE INCREASING &
ONGOING THREAT TO THE GULF
OF MEXICO, ATLANTIC & PACIFIC OCEANS
HELP
SAVE OUR MARINE MAMMALS &
THEIR OCEAN HABITAT TODAY!
A
CALL TO TAKE ACTION
By
Rosalind
Peterson
May
1,
2012
USA
TODAY revealed bad news for our
oceans when they published a news story titled:
“Navy Plans Could Affect More Marine Mammals” on August
5, 2010 [1]. According to USA Today news
article, backed
up by federal documents from the U.S. Navy and NOAA: “…The
Navy plans to increase ocean warfare exercises, conduct more
sonar tests and
expand coastal training…activities that could injure hundreds of
thousands of
marine mammals or disturb their habitats…”
What
do
your Elected Officials Know
In a
letter to NOAA, dated June 19,
2009, several U.S. Senators, including U.S. Senator Feinstein
and U.S.
Congressman Henry Waxman, stated:
“...In
many regions, the Navy plans to increase the number of its
exercises or expand
the areas in which they may occur, and virtually every coastal
state will be
affected. Some exercises may occur in the nation's most
biologically sensitive
marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and
breeding habitat for
the endangered North Atlantic right whale. In all, the Navy anticipates more than 2.3 million takes
(significant
disruptions in marine mammal foraging, breeding, and other essential behaviors)
per year, or
11.7 million takes over the course of a five-year permit..."
[2]
National Oceanic
& Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The
NOAA Definition of “Take”: “Defined
under the MMPA (Marine Mammal
Protection Act), as "harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or
attempt to
harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect."
Defined under the ESA (Endangered Species Act) as "to
harass, harm,
pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or
to attempt to
engage in any such conduct…”[3]
On
January
19, 2010, NOAA (Dr. Jane Lubchenco), sent a letter to Ms. Nancy
Sutley,
Chair, Council on Environmental Quality that states: “…In the Environmental
Assessments, NMFS
(National Marine Fisheries Service-NOAA), also identified the
relevant
uncertainties regarding the impacts of the proposed training on
marine mammals. Two are
worth highlighting:
*
One
involves lack of knowledge about the
mechanism whereby some species of marine mammals…are adversely
affected by
mid-frequency sonar.
*
The other
concerns the difficulties of
limiting the impact of active sonar where the mitigation efforts
depend on
visual sighting of whales…”
Dr.
Jane
Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, shortly after approving the
“taking” of
marine mammals in the U.S. Navy’s NWTRC (Northern California,
Oregon,
Washington & Idaho), made this brief statement after
audience prompting, in
a Meeting in Ukiah, California on December 9, 2010: “…"also
an area where I have serious concerns. We are in active
discussions with the
Navy. There is a lot we don't know about the impact of sonar on
whales, and we
will continue to get the information we need to reach the best
possible
outcomes..." The answer
raises an
obvious question: “How
does NOAA approve
the “taking” of marine mammals when there are still unresolved
questions about
the impact of sonar on whales?”
With
respect to military readiness activities, the MMPA defines
‘‘harassment’’ as: “…(i)
any act that
injures or has the significant potential to injure a marine
mammal or marine
mammal stock in the wild [Level A Harassment]; or (ii) any act
that disturbs or
is likely to disturb a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in
the wild by
causing disruption of natural behavioral patterns, including,
but not limited
to, migration, surfacing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or
sheltering, to a point
where such behavioral patterns are abandoned or significantly
altered [Level B
Harassment]…training activities may expose some of the marine
mammals present
in the area to sound from various mid-frequency and
high-frequency active
tactical sonar sources or to pressure from underwater
detonations..” [3]
One
of
the most recent, and shocking, NOAA permits allowing for the
taking of
thousands of marine mammals by the U.S. Navy in the Southern
California Range
Complex [19]. Take
a look at the graphs on
this Navy document which lists the thousands of marine mammals
that the Navy
intends to “take” between 2012-2014.
U.S.
Warfare Training Range History & U.S. Cooperating
Agencies
Starting
under the Bush Administration
and continuing under the Obama Administration, twelve U.S. Navy
5-Year Warfare Testing
Range Complexes, initiated between 2008 and 2012, are in full
operation in the Gulf
of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. [7] The
tragic
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is still threatening local
economies,
human health, the fishing and tourism industry.
The oil and Corexit pollution has been threatening this
environment for
years.
Adding
to this ongoing problem in the
Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force, with
permits approval by
NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration), have
now started
another assault on this area using multifaceted warfare testing
experiments
that include bomb blasts, sonar use, missile exercises, and the
testing of new
weapons systems. NOAA
has issued permits
allowing the U.S. Navy to “take” marine mammals in the Gulf of
Mexico, the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans areas
[4-7].
NOAA
(U.S. Department of Commerce - National
Marine Fisheries Service), had previously approved the “taking”
of marine mammals
in the Gulf of Mexico. And
then NOAA, in
the first few months during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill,
admitted that they
knew little about the marine environment in this underwater
area. Now NOAA has
issued permits to the U.S. Navy
and Air Force for 5-Years of warfare testing in the Gulf of
Mexico (December
19, 2011 [4+6-7]),
and
in other areas, which may exacerbate the current environmental
problems in
the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. [4]
Using
the
Earth & Inhabitants as Test Subjects
Our
oceans and land areas, in the
Pacific, Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico along with all
inhabitants, are to be
used as warfare test guinea pigs without public consent, debate,
U.S. Congressional
hearings or any public oversight.
Drone
Weapons
Testing & Surveillance Over the United States
In
addition, the U.S. Navy is now
working to expand their drone operations over the United States. In Oregon, a new draft Navy
Environmental
Impact Statement is due out this spring for public comment [9]. Drones carrying and testing
bombs, new
weapons systems, testing new types of drones, and surveillance
over land and
ocean areas are planned for our future. Compounding this issue,
as reported by
The Guardian.co.uk on April 2, 2012, “…American
scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of
nuclear-powered drones
capable of flying over remote regions of the world for months on
end without
refueling…” [20]. In addition, there is increasing drone surveillance
leading to questions
over public privacy in the U.S.
Accidents are increasing as police departments in Texas
and other areas
are increasing drone usage [21-22].
Marine
Mammal
Mitigation Measures – Effective Only 9% of the Time
Mitigation
measures, to protect marine
mammals from sonar, are effective only 9% of the time according
to NOAA &
the U.S. Navy. Fish,
birds, ocean habitats,
feeding and breeding grounds, biologically sensitive areas, and
human health,
are not protected by any government agency in most areas of the
Gulf of Mexico
from military weapons testing. The U.S. Navy is using toxic
chemicals, sonar, missile
exercises, bomb blasts and other types of new weapons testing
which threaten
the Gulf of Mexico and many areas in the Atlantic Ocean.[7] U.S. Navy and Air Force
bomb blasts could
trigger earthquakes or create underwater fissures causing more
oil leaks in the
Gulf of Mexico. Fragile,
capped, oil wells in the
Gulf could be damaged and
start leaking as bomb blasts rock the Gulf during the next five
years of
warfare testing.
Ocean
Problems
= Dead Zones & Military Dumping of Old Toxic Arsenals
We
do
know that many toxic chemicals are found in all ocean areas
along with
numerous dead zones [12-13]. According to a New York
Times article on July
20, 2010: “…The Gulf’s
floor is littered
with bombs, chemical weapons and other ordnance dumped in the
middle of last
century, even in areas busy with drilling, and miles outside of
designated
dumping zones, according to experts who work on Deepwater hazard
surveys…”[14] In
many ocean areas, including the Gulf of Mexico, military dumping
of arsenals,
in the past, which now reside on ocean bottom areas and contain
toxic chemicals
which already may be leaking, could be disturbed by these bomb
blasts and other
warfare testing exercises [14].
Types
of
Warfare Testing to be Used in Our Oceans & Over Land Areas
The
Navy
Warfare Testing Program will, according to their E.I.S.
documents: “…utilize
mid- and high frequency active sonar
sources and explosive detonations. These sonar and explosive
sources will be
utilized during Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) Tracking Exercises,
Mine Avoidance
Training, Extended Echo Ranging and Improved Extended Echo
Ranging (EER/IEER)
events, Missile Exercises, Gunnery Exercises, Bombing Exercises,
Sinking
Exercises, and Mine Warfare Training…” (8)
U.S.
Navy
Warfare Chemical Menu
The
“Navy Warfare Chemical Menu” [6],
will contaminate air, water, the
ocean, and soil.
Their list of toxic chemicals is a long one as noted in various
Navy E.I.S
documents: Depleted
uranium, red and
white phosphorus, cadmium, lead, perchlorate, titanium oxide,
atmospheric
releases of aluminum oxide (from U.S. Navy C.A.R.E. Atmospheric
Experiments
over East Coast of U.S. [16-17]), Chaff releases
(aluminum coated
fiberglass particulates), and a whole host of chemicals known to
be toxic not
only to man, but to marine life and fish, are being served up on
this
menu. In addition,
highly classified
weapons systems are also to be used during these 5-Year Warfare
Testing
Experiments over both land and ocean areas in the Pacific,
Atlantic, and the
Gulf of Mexico.[7]
12
U.S. Navy 5-Year Warfare Ranges Now in Full Operation in
Pacific, Atlantic & Gulf of Mexico
Many of these 5-Year
Navy Warfare programs are to be
implemented in the near future and twelve have already been
approved by NOAA
and are underway in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Pacific
Ocean areas
including over land areas as new drones (carrying and testing
weapons – U.S.
Navy Boardman Range Complex), and surveillance systems are being
tested over
both land and ocean areas. [7-9]
Proposed
Expansions of
Existing Ranges & Proposed New Ranges
The
U.S.
Navy has just introduced two new very large 5-Year warfare
ranges complexes in
the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans which will both need permits
from NOAA to
“take” marine mammals [8]. Almost all of our elected representatives are
silent when it
comes to opposing these disastrous experiments and programs. The
major news
media, with only two known exceptions, has elected not to cover
this story
leaving coverage to a few small newspapers located in remote
areas. One of the first
television stations that has
covered this issue is KTVU
Channel
2 Investigation U.S. Navy Warfare Testing Program on May 18,
2009 [10]
No
U.S.
Congressional Hearing Held on this Issue & None Planned in
the Future
Our
U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House have refused, so
far, to postpone these disastrous “takings” or hold U.S.
Congressional Hearings
while pretending to be ocean environment friendly in their
re-election
speeches. In addition to
refusing to be
interviewed by the press with regard to this issue (only a few
exceptions), all
of our elected officials have steadfastly refused to hold U.S.
Congressional
hearings in order to protect our marine mammals, fish, birds,
endangered
species, and human health.
National
Cancer
Institute Report: “…The
military is a
major source of toxic occupational and environmental exposures
that can
increase cancer risk…”
The
U.S. Congress, NOAA,
and the U.S. Navy are ignoring Chapter 5 of the April 2010,
Report of the NATIONAL
CANCER
INSTITUTE – PRESIDENT’S CANCER PANEL
“Exposure
to Contaminants and Other Hazards from Military Sources”[11].
We do know that the U.S. Navy and the Air Force will be
using toxic
chemicals and other contaminants in the Gulf of Mexico and other
ocean areas. We
can’t afford to go forward with new forms of ocean and land
contamination from
these 5-Year Warfare Testing Experiments until these issues are
examined. Hearings
should be held by the U.S. Congress
in order to protect human and ocean health and the health of our
marine mammals
and our coastal fishing industry. It
is time for
all of us to step up and say “NO” to the U.S. Navy and Air Force
War on our
oceans.
TAKE
ACTION TODAY TO PROCTECT OUR OCEANS!
With
the recent Gulf of
Mexico oil spill and many areas still struggling with the
aftermath, all we
need now is to subject this area and the people who live there
to another
ecological disaster that began this year.
Expanding and initiating warfare testing in more areas of
the Pacific,
the Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico, will also spell disaster
for millions of
marine mammals, and fish, and their habitats.
We do not elect to be the guinea pigs for these
experiments or to have our
oceans used for massive warfare testing.
Say “no” today…Ask for U.S. Congressional Hearings to
protect human
health and our marine mammals. (Call
Your
Elected Officials in Washington, D.C. Toll Free: (1866) 220-0044)
Rosalind
Peterson
Agriculture
Defense
Coalition
Post
Office
Box 499
Redwood
Valley,
CA 95470
(707)
485-7520
Website
for more U.S. Navy & Air Force Warfare Testing
information in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic & Pacific. All documents, letters, and
other information
are located on the website below. Visit these links for the
latest in Maps and
Government Documents on U.S. Navy Warfare Testing:
1) USA
TODAY News: “Navy Plans
Could Affect
More Marine Mammals” August 5, 2010
2) Many U.S.
Navy, U.S. Air Force, Environmental Impact Statements, U.S.
Congressional
Letters, and NOAA Documents regarding these 5-Year Warfare
Testing programs are
located on the following website:
http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=us-navy
3) NOAA
Definition of “TAKE” and a listing of U.S. Navy & Air Force
requests for
permits to “take” marine mammals in the Atlantic, Pacific, and
the Gulf of
Mexico.
4) NOAA
Current Incidental “Take” Permit Requests & Authorizations –
NOAA Website:
5) Eglin Air
Force Base's NEODS
Training Operations LOA to NOAA - Gulf of Mexico:
6) Navy's Gulf of Mexico
Range Complex
Training Exercises LOA Application & NOAA Approval:
NOAA
issued LOA for the U.S. Navy to take Marine Mammals in the
Gulf of Mexico on March
17, 2011:
Annual Range Complex Reports-Atlantic Ranges 2011 and
2012:
Partial Listing of Toxic Chemicals of the hundreds used
in Navy Ranges: Depleted
Uranium, Red & White Phosphorus,
Chaff (Aluminum Coated Fiberglass Particles), Cadmium,
Chromium, Copper, Iron,
Lead, Mercury, Manganese, Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Benzene,
Toluene, Xylene,
Naphthalene, Barium Chromate, Hydrogen Cyanide, Potassium
Perchlorate, Jet
& Rocket Fuel Emissions, Titanium Compounds…and more.
Between January 2009 and May 2011, pursuant to
the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), (NOAA) NMFS (National Marine
Fisheries
Service) issued 5-year
warfare testing
final regulations to govern the taking of marine mammals
incidental to Navy
training and associated activities conducted in:
- Hawaii Range Complex (HRC) http://www.govsupport.us/navynepahawaii/hawaiirceis.aspx
- Southern California (SOCAL) Range Complex Southern
California Range Complex EIS/OEIS
- Atlantic Fleet Active Sonar Training Range
- Sonar Training (AFAST) Study Area
- Jacksonville (JAX) Range Complex
- Virginia Capes (VACAPES) Range Complex
- Cherry Point (CHPT) Range Complex
- Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City
Division (NSWC PCD)
- Mariana Islands Range Complex (MIRC)
- Northwest Training Range Complex (NWTRC –
Northern California, Oregon, Washington & Idaho
- Keyport Range Complex (NAVSEA NUWC)
Gulf of Mexico Range Complex Project Documents:
- Gulf of Alaska Temporary Maritime Activities
Area (GOA TMAA).
- Additionally, in February 2009, pursuant to
the MMPA, NMFS issued 5-year regulations to govern the taking
of marine mammals incidental to U.S. Air Force (USAF) space
vehicle and test flight activities from Vandenberg Air Force
Base (VAFB).
- U.S. Navy East Coast LOA May 2008: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/uswtr_loa.pdf
8,
U.S. NAVY is
expanding or
adding new 5-Year Warfare testing ranges at a staggering rate in
the Pacific,
Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico:
A) Proposed New U.S. Navy 5-Year Warfare
Testing Range Expansion include the NWTRC and the Alaska Range
Complexes: https://nwtteis.com/
The U.S. Navy
has introduced two new very large 5-Year warfare ranges
complexes in the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans which will both need permits
from NOAA to
“take” marine mammals:
B) The one in the Pacific Ocean will
connect the area between the ongoing Hawaii warfare range
complex and the
Southern California warfare range complex. This new U.S. Navy
5-Year Warfare
Hawaii-Southern California Range Complex Training & Testing
Environmental
Impact Statement Notice of Intent in the U.S. Federal Register
on July 15, 2010
U.S. Navy Website: http://hstteis.com/
C) The new one in the Atlantic (U.S.
Navy 5-Year Warfare Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing
Complex/Range is even
larger than the one in the Pacific... Notice of Intent in the
U.S. Federal
Register on July 15, 2010 – U.S. Navy Website: http://www.aftteis.com/
9) U.S.
Navy Boardman Range Complex Proposed
Drone Test Range Expansion:
REDUCING
ENVIRONMENTAL
CANCER RISK 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORTHISTORY
&
“WHAT WE CAN DO NOW”
NATIONAL
CANCER
INSTITUTE – PRESIDENT’S CANCER PANEL
See:
Chapter 5 Exposure
to Contaminants and Other
Hazards from Military Sources
Summary: “…The
military
is a major source of toxic occupational and environmental
exposures that can
increase cancer risk. Information is available about some military
activities that have
directly or indirectly exposed military and civilian personnel
to carcinogens
and contaminated soil and water in numerous locations in the
United States and
abroad…Nearly 900 Superfund sites are abandoned military
facilities or
facilities that produced materials and products for or
otherwise supported
military needs. Some of these sites and the areas surrounding
them became
heavily contaminated due to improper storage and disposal of
known or suspected
carcinogens including solvents, machining oils, metalworking
fluids, and
metals. In some cases, these contaminants have spread far
beyond their points
of origin because they have been transported by wind currents
or have leached
into drinking water supplies.
12) July
6, 2010 Arsenic Levels Rise in Gulf of Mexico Herald Sun News
13) Scientific American August 15, 2008 Oceanic Dead Zones
and Maps
14) The New York Times July 20,
2010 “The Gulf of Mexico
Has Long Been A
Dumping Site:
“…The
gulf’s floor is
littered with bombs, chemical weapons and other ordnance dumped
in the middle
of last century, even in areas busy with drilling, and miles
outside of
designated dumping zones, according to experts who work on
deepwater hazard
surveys…”
15) NOAA
2008 State of Coral Reefs Report & Information:
16) U.S.
Navy / NASA C.A.R.E. (Charged Aerosol Release Experiment),
September 19,
2009 Aluminum Oxide Dust Cloud Released
Over
the East Coast of the United States using a NASA Brandt Rocket: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/CARE.html
17) U.S.
Navy / NASA C.A.R.E. Experiment – “…CARE's principal investigator,
Paul Bernhardt of the
Naval Research Laboratory in Washington: "The
CARE
experiment could also pave the way for future launches that
would use the
uppermost part of Earth's atmosphere as a large physics
laboratory for studying
charged dust…Dusty plasmas, like those that will be created in
the CARE (aluminum
oxide dust cloud) experiment…” No
Congressional
or public oversight necessary for these types of programs.
(Note: Release of Aluminum
Oxide or Sulfur particles into the atmosphere to deflect direct
sunlight from
reaching the Earth was promoted in three U.S. House Science
& Technology
Congressional Hearings (2009-2010), and an AAAS Geoengineering
Presentation (2010),
by Geoengineering promoters David Keith & Ken Caldeira.)
18) Groups
Sue U.S. Navy Over Sonar Use off
Northwest Coast
By
GENE JOHNSON | Associated Press – January
26, 2012
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 26, 2012 2:45 PM
“…SEATTLE (AP) —
Conservationists and Native
American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar
in training
exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts,
saying the noise
can harass and kill whales and other marine life…” Earth Justice
19) U.S.
Navy Southern California Listing of Marine Mammals the want to
“take”
during operations in the Southern California 5-Year Warfare
Testing Range
between 2012-2014:
21) October 29, 2011
Drones in the News –
United States:
22) March
5, 2012 - Texas cops hit obstacles (and their own truck) testing
UAVs; drones
coming anyway - High maintenance costs, frequent errors and
crashes slow tests
in various Texas police agencies
23) Police departments
Wait for FAA Clearance
to Fly Drones – April 29, 2012 – McClatchy-Tribune News
)
