Fracking - imminent threat to the Algarve (Algarve - ameaça ambiental grave na nossa costa) EN / PT

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Sim, já vi (ia dizer com horror, mas não, ultrapassa isso, ..com tristeza profunda, um litoral de mar, ou de lago gigante que o valha, o efeito de um derrame que seja.. :'(
Mesmo que se limpe, há coisas que não voltam, e coisas que mesmo que aparente estar limpo, noutro nível menos visível - devido do ocorrido, e mais a fundo - para mais com conexão a outros corpos de água, envenenando de forma lenta e dolorosa.....) - ► dizia

já vi, o efeito destas brincadeiras, mesmo apenas se ocorrer um derramezinho que seja..

Sabemos bem a importancia que o mar tem para nós e o que significa, para não falar das nossas praias e costa. 


Como sei que quem me ler dispensa a informação que dou mais abaixo em inglês, pois sobre o nosso país e sobre natureza da nossa costa, sabemos. 
Não será portanto, o que segue, uma tradução do que aqui em português digo, apenas coloco a ligação à petição, nela também estão os dois locais e respectivos horários, em Lisboa, onde ocorrerá a manifestação que está marcada para amanhã - dia 22. (frente à Assembleia da Republica / e à DGRM)
Infelizmente só tomei conhecimento agora da petição agora, há algumas horas, e por isso peço desculpa por só estar a dar este alerta neste momento, e é o último dia em que se pode assinar. 
Apenas é preciso depois confirmar a assinatura através do email (que é enviado após assinar, contendo uma ligação para tal). 

LIGAÇÂO (com petição, e informações úteis)

Agradeço quem aqui veio ler, 

e aproveito o monento para vos desejarum bom verão, com saúde e boa companhia.

Bem hajam.

image from here: LINK

(há um video desconcertante, para não dizer outra coisa, no fim deste artigo. Aliás, deixo dois. O segundo é referente a outro local, mas pertinent ao assunto. Ter em mente que na altura desse 2º video o governo, quer o federal, quer o ''provicial'' - por sufragio, mudou. Não sei como estarão os actuais a agir.) 
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This is a dangerous folly,
LINK
(please read the linked page)




We all unfortunately know all too well, the horrors that follow what is considered even a small oil spill, a tide of death.

And this particular type of oil prospecting is so foul a thing that it baffles the mind not only to be attempted, but the fact that anyone would insist on what has already (and unbelievably) been done, and at such a horrendous cost in more recent times in certain parts of the world, is truly flabbergasting.




Our coast has always been a haven for dolphins, among other animals (obviously ourselves included), and they've even returned to historic homes such as rivers such like the well known Tagus,  after a brief period when their absence was felt with sorrow.
They've fortunately never been absent (to my knowledge) from the Sado, for example.

People enjoy our beaches knowing full well that both sharks and they are safe from encountering each other for that very reason, dolphin dolphin population.



They, among other obvious fauna and sea life, are not to blame for the folly of a few, nor are the majority of us.

I know full well that whosoever reads this needs no explanation nor convincing of the need to put a stop to this.

No one needs a lecture on the environment and our planet, for the topic and the sad results therefrom are unfortunately too well known.


Please help us say no.
(and time is of the essence, unfortunately)


The petition in the above LINK closes today, June 21st
A protest will be held tomorrow, June 22nd, in Lisbon.
The following are the exact locations and timetable:

• from 12pm untill 2 pm - Parliament Building (São Bento)
• from 2pm untill 4:30pm - the DGRM (executive building for - the Bureau For National Resources and Maritime Service & Saftey)

We need you.


Thank you for reading,
and/or coming to Lisbon to protest this.
For those who can sign the petition - and do, bless you.
For those who can't, but wish they could - bless you too)

Wishing all a happy, safe, and as best a summer possible

Still on the subject of ''fracking'', though in another land, the following is very pertinent to the matter at hand. 
The government of the country spoken of in this following video-clip, and LINK bellow, has changed however (both Provicial and Federal), and I do not know not how the current rulers stand on the issue.
It is a land that I love, and I was so very sad (indeed in shock) to see this happen - there.

LINK - 2012 article from this blog, where the symptoms of the deed were already present... and almost simultaneously with a mass change in legislation that  occurred as never seen before, causing shock and surprise.  
When things happen, they can happen at unbelievable speed.

Apontamento provindo da terceira bola voadora em torno do Sol, escrito noutro idioma (e não sabem a sorte que têem, pois escrevo mal em todas as línguas) - goodnight.

Although he (the man speaking in the video-clip below) speaks of the world, and knowing he only mentions some of the european countries, Canada, the US, Australia, while leaving out countries in the middle and far east, the entire African and South American continents, nations such as Russia, India.. He, nevertheless, does make some valid points, but of course one must look at the small group he mentions and be knowledgeable of their great wealth, obtained from poaching (thus the rise in such activity these past few years, bringing about actual extinction or placing some on the brink of it as never before) and -

the incredible wealth obtained from the "bargain hunter sale" of petrol from wells taken over as terrain was conquered in parts of Irak..........as they simultaneously installed a cold-blooded civil war in Syria, probably with the excuse of finding a route for Qatar's natural Gas (if I'm not mistaken, in 2013 Qatar, so dear to SA, became the leading country for natural gas) to get to that nice juicy consumer - EU, by reaching Turkey (and for that it would have to go through Syria, right?).


So, there is a small, though well organized group of rich, spoiled, blood thirsty, cold blooded brats, who say they must assassinate -
(some crazy cults as we know do say they believe in God, and propose to represent such an entity, such as the KKK or ISIS, or Jim Jones.. and they're usually filthy rich and power crazed)
- for some reason or other..

 (excuses, excuses, always these half witted excuses.. I mean how can one ever portray all christians on the model of the KKK and forget a Martin Luther King,
or Mandela?

How can one Portray all Muslims based on the model of ISIS and forget - (goodness how memory is quick to forget someone still so young and so very amazing)
- the wonderful Malala Yousafai!
With regard to the North and South American indigenous peoples - doesn't Leonard Peltier, for instance, ring a bell?
I won't even bother to search other big religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism. Let us leave it at Gandhi, among others (for both religions, as a matter of fact), and not measure those religions by any small group of crazies there may ever occur therein.
As for the Jewish religion -
(yes, like the others there is a minority within that faith that are not recommendable , but,
Spinoza / Hannah Arendt / Gustav Mahler / Marc Chagall....... oh what was the name of that jewish friend of RabinathTagore? - ummmm, ah yes, Albert Einstein.. As I was saying.....
Oh, goodness me, age is taking its toll on my memory. Didn't I mention the fact that the jewish person still most spoken of - to this day - (and to my knowledge) is someone loved and important to Christians, yes, and to Muslims also?)


- should one forget the excuses that have fueled horribly sad deeds? )

(since facebook is so popular with some - a video from that social network - but the only thing weak in this small group of fanatics that remind me of KKK among other fundamentalist minor factions of large religions - is the number of fanatics, for they are strong in money, armament (literally seems to fall in their lap) and strategy, be it in their own terrain.. toppling local governments or creating civil war as they have in Irak and Syria - or wherever they seem to set their twisted little minds to)

https://www.facebook.com/theprojecttv/videos/10153243154568441/



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Ah yes, the religious subject at hand, the Muslim faith, so one should be afraid of and hurt Malala? Wait, someone remind me, who it was that shot her?




Who shot Dr. Martin Luther King, Malala?
Who sent Jesus to the cross, Spinoza? (.., Einstein? .., Tagore?)
Who shot Gandhi,  Mother Teresa?  ( .., Cat Stevens?  .., Saint Nicholas? .., Peter Gabriel? .., His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć - Pavle?  .., Olivier Messiaen? .. François Hardy, perhaps?)










I'm so confused.

Image from 

- Link

I know, I'll just stick to atheists. They're less confusing and I absolutely adore Mr. Hawking.
Now who was it that, ummmmm.. that passed a law (think it was in 2007 when that beauty came to surface) strictly prohibiting, any reincarnation whatsoever unless government approved?











What is wrong with the world, is something missing? - A little common sense, perhaps?
















I could mention a few, but for some reason I choose someone who speaks of religions..
Here: a renaissance philosopher http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pico-della-mirandola/


Some of his findings on free will - and regarding human dignity - http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/


He died far too young - on November 17, 1494 - perhaps for the crime of thinking

I just banned him from my facebook account, because I feared his profile image - the good thing is I just banned him from my account, I didn't shoot him "by mistake" and ask questions after.
The thing is - I have a problem with "collateral damage", it just always seems to rub me all wrong.
If some are so smart, elected even - to represent us, or hold on to guns in our armies and be run by whom we are told to believe are intelligent - why is it that there is so much collateral damage, and why are so many forced to flee for their lives?


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Dolphins,

...that's it. Those lovable ocean mammals, they're intelligent, sensitive, funny... socially functioning animals....  oh, wait.....
There is now and then, the rapist, murdering specimen, of baby and other adult dolphins (yes, they too, burdened with all that intelligence, as a species, have problems with the occasional psycho dolphin).

ok- Sharks, no longer dealing with mammals,
........but they have too many teeth, make me uncomfortable, and are terrified of all dolphins.. Piranhas? Nah, they're a nag..

Insects. The cockroach (oh yuck! Now I'm grossing myself out.. I'm sure they're important for the ecosystem but...)

I'll just look at the trees, hope one doesn't squish me.. or hurl a giant fig at me with the excuse of..,
saying:
"oh, it was the wind"

♥ goodnight