Posts Tagged ‘whale’

Whale shark found washed ashore in Tamil Nadu, India

     A whale shark was found washed ashore near Thoothukudi old port on Wednesday evening. Sources in Thoothukudi Wildlife Range, Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park, said while patrolling along the shore, the forest personnel found the carcass of the female whale shark. It weighed around 1.5 tonnes. The injuries on its body and near […]

Humpback whale dies off Port Macquarie, New South Wales

     A 12 metre, 18 tonne adult humpback whale rescued after being entangled in fishing rope off Shelly Beach on Sunday, September 17 has died. The whale struggled throughout the night to return out to sea after being freed but died and washed close to shore at Nobbys Beach on Monday morning. Marine Rescue Port […]

Resting Sea Shepherd: A Pause in the Whale War Saga

Dead sperm whale washes ashore in Grand Isle, Louisiana

     A whale washed ashore on the beach at Grand Isle near the high school Saturday. Baton Rouge resident Christopher LeCoq was there to cover the Ride the Bull Kayak Tournament when he heard about the dead whale. When he arrived around 1 p.m., he says about 20 people were standing around taking photos of […]

Dead whale shark found in Tamil Nadu, India

     A dead whale shark weighing nearly 3.5 tonne washed ashore on Pamban South Beach in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. On being alerted by fishermen, a team headed by Mandapam wildlife ranger S Sathish visited the spot and examined the carcass. According to wildlife officials, the whale shark is a protected species under schedule I […]

Dead minke found whale in Charlevoix, Quebec

     The carcass of a whale has been found on the strike in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, in Charlevoix, the end of last week. These are the people who have made the discovery. The Québec Network of emergency for the marine mammals, which has been notified, should come to get rid of the carcass this week. It would […]

Dead right whale discovered on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts

     The carcass of a decomposing right whale was recovered in Great Pond Tuesday and National Marine Fisheries Service officials are expected to perform a necropsy on the animal on Wednesday, said Edgartown Shellfish Constable Paul Bagnall. Residents had seen what was left of the roughly 25-foot whale floating by over the past few days; […]

Strange animal behaviour: Killer whale rams boat several times, grabs anchor line and moves vessel around near Sitka, Alaska

     Victor Littlefield, his 14-year-old son and two of his son’s friends were on his 33-foot aluminum boat Sunday as it lay anchored near Little Biorka Island when the boat suddenly lurched violently to one side. Littlefield’s first thought was that he was being attacked by a great white shark. “I had just watched ‘Jaws’ […]

Rescue teams: Something may be wrong with stranded pilot whale species found in Taylor and Dixie counties, Florida

     Last Thursday, WCTV reported about a 10-foot pilot whale found stranded on the coast in Taylor County. We’ve since learned it wasn’t the only one, and researchers are speculating why. Researches are starting to think there may be something wrong with the species. These animals travel in groups, and if their leader is sick, […]

Sailor Jumps From Deck of Fuel Tanker To Save Stricken Whale

The unusual rescue mission took place after the 220 metre-long (720 feet) Cheikh El Mokrani left port in Skikda, Algeria, and was sailing back into the Mediterranean Sea. In the footage, thought to be from April 19, the silver-coloured whale can be seen caught in a line between the tanker and an orange tug boat. […]

Congress passes $602bn NDAA defense bill in defiance of Obama’s veto threat

     The US Senate overwhelmingly approved a $602 billion annual defense bill, despite President Obama’s threat to veto it because of its impediments to closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill secured a strong victory on Tuesday with 85 senators in support and just 13 opposing. “It’s never been […]

Beyond Enlightenment understanding: Honoring the mystical in nature

     Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. Author and conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote these words in 1949, and they are all the more important today. As we enter the 21st century and today’s children look forward to living in the 22nd, […]

Mount Pelee ‘Day of doom’: Haunting images show power of 20th century’s deadliest volcanic eruption

     A century ago, the tranquil island of Martinique was violently interrupted by a massive volcanic eruption choking the foothills of Mount Pelee, wiping out a town and killing thousands. Life for the townspeople of Saint Pierre changed in an instant on the French-owned Lesser Antilles island after its neighboring volcano rained hellfire on May […]

Strange sounds recorded in Mexico City’s sky

     El miércoles 20 de Abril pasadas las 12 am en la Ciudad de Mexico estaba descansando y comencé a darme cuenta que afuera se empezaban a escuchar sonidos extraños, me levante y empece a grabar. El video dura poco mas de dos min. pero los sonidos según mi calculo duraron de 10 a 15 […]

Caring too much about what others think of you could be holding you back

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. – Virginia Woolf      Your mother has always said you are smart, but lack ambition. A former boss once praised you for your creativity, but said you were too unorganized. One of your college professors complimented you on your research skills, but criticized your “scatterbrained” […]

Idaho mother calls 9/11 to report missing son, cops show up, smash his face, break teeth

     On March 13, after not being able to find her 12-year-old son for an extended period, Amy Olzak called the Idaho Falls Police Department to report him missing. Instead of helping her son, however, according to Olzak and multiple witnesses, the officer who responded brutally attacked this young boy. “I just wanted them to […]

The Associated Press joins the honorable list of American institutions that collaborated with the Nazis

     According to a new and completely unsurprising academic study, the Associated Press published “material directly from Joseph Goebbels’s infamous propaganda machine” leading up to and during WWII, including anti-Soviet propaganda used to cover up some of worst crimes committed by Nazi Germany. German historian Harriet Scharnberg discovered that “instead of printing pictures of the […]

Bright green meteor fireball explodes over the Netherlands

     A bright green fireball was reported across the Netherlands on March 26, 2016, shortly after midnight. The burning meteor exploded after multiple-step disintegration. The fireball was also witnessed in Belgium and the United Kingdom. The bright meteor lasted about two seconds and ended in green / blue light. Apparently the fireball disintegrated into multiple […]

Mohammed El Senussi: New World Order’s "man who would be king" in Libya; ISIS paves the way

     A few weeks back NEO ran an article that revealed the doublespeak of western conflict resolution. A telling look at an NGO known as the International Crisis Group showed clearly the tangled web of control mechanisms in place to skew policy and to mislead the public. Today the “crisis” has migrated once again, from […]

Pentagon Points Finger At Russia & China Planning Space Attacks

The Pentagon needs to have external “threats” to justify its huge budget. U.S. Generals are looking beyond the planet and at the boundaries of outer space and the security of their space assets. They fear Russia and China might have plans to attack U.S. satellites. Sputnik reports: “Adversaries are developing kinetic, directed-energy, and cyber tools […]

Join the US military where you have to buy your own equipment

     US troops serving in elite units such as the Navy SEALs are increasingly forced to tap into their own money to buy crucial gear like helmets, GPS trackers and medical supplies as the service fails to supply them, a group complained to lawmakers. There may be a systemic problem in the supply chain, said […]

Join the US military where you have to buy your own equipment

     US troops serving in elite units such as the Navy SEALs are increasingly forced to tap into their own money to buy crucial gear like helmets, GPS trackers and medical supplies as the service fails to supply them, a group complained to lawmakers. There may be a systemic problem in the supply chain, said […]

Cell Phones Are Cooking Our Reproductive Organs And Causing An Epidemic Of Cancer

Is your cell phone keeping you from having kids and slowly killing you at the same time? Most people have no idea that one of the greatest threats to their health may be something that they are willingly carrying around with them all day long.  A brand new study has just come out that shows […]

Red rainbow photographed over the Netherlands

Rainbows are normally red, yellow, green and blue–in short, all the colors of a rainbow. But the towering rainbow Jan Koeman photographed from Kloetinge, the Netherlands, on Feb. 18th was simply red:      “I have never seen such a rainbow before,” says Koeman. “It appeared just a few minutes after a red sunrise.” What made […]

Kentucky lawmaker proposes law requiring men to have signed note from wife, swear on the Bible before buying Viagra

     In a mockery of the legal system, a Kentucky lawmaker has proposed an obnoxious piece of legislation that will require men to jump through several hoops prior to acquiring erectile dysfunction medication. HB396 16RS Erectile Dysfunction Drug Bill, was proposed last week by Rep. Mary Lou Marzian of Louisville. “I want to protect these […]

Mule deer attacks man in Draper backyard, Utah

     A mule deer attacked a Draper man in his backyard Monday, causing “significant wounds” to the man, as well as an injury to the family dog. The attack, which occurred around 8 a.m. in the SunCrest subdivision in the southeast area of the city, resulted in officers “putting the deer down” after subduing the […]

Woman with Asperger’s who touched millions of lives, gunned down by police

     Danielle Jacobs, 24, brought tears to the internet’s eyes last year after she posted a video of what she felt like with Asperger’s syndrome. In the video, Jacobs recorded herself during one of her ‘meltdowns,’ which showed her trying to punch herself, but being comforted by her Rottweiler instead. “This is what having Asperger’s […]

Lavrov: West’s criticism of Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are groundless

     Moscow is used to “unsubstantiated claims” coming from Western capitals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in a strong response to his British counterpart’s statement that Russia is undermining international peace efforts in Syria. “Concerning the statements from London and other Western capitals claiming that our Air Force operations in Syria are not […]

Young Boy Suffers Eyesight Damage From Imported Toy Laser Pen

A mother is urging a ban on laser pens after her eight-year-old son suffered eye damage playing with the concentrated light beam. They should naturally carry a warning label saying: Avoid contact with people and pilot’s eyes. Not recommended for young children or competing football fans. The Jewish Chronicle reports: Angela Marshall from Bushey Heath […]

Israel and House Republicans faced with news of damning wiretaps

     You’d think that there would be widespread outrage over the story everyone’s talking about today, the Wall Street Journal scoop that the Obama administration spied on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during the Iran Deal negotiations so as to counter his efforts to sink it. The wiretaps reveal that Israeli officials were up to their […]

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