Greenpeace Japanaese Whaling Aims
June 22nd, 2010
23 June 2010, Auckland, NZ.
SAVE OUR WHALES
Today I received an email from Nick Young about the need to support Greenpeace in their bid to stop, or at least exercise some control, on the whaling industry in Japan.
Karli Thomas is representing Greenpeace right at this moment, at the annual International Whaling Commission being held at Agadir, in Morocco.
Karli has met her friend Junichi Sato, who is one of the two Japanese Greenpeace activists who 'whistleblew' on the extent and corruption of the Japanese whaling programme in 2008. Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are now facing an 18 month long jail sentence for their ...
Chemical Safety Lacking at Bhopal
June 22nd, 2010
22 June 2010, Auckland N.Z.
In the early hours this morning, on our BBC connection to Channel One television, Dr Mira Shiva was interviewed about a disaster which occurred in India in 1984.
This was the year when thousands of people died in Madhyra Pradesh, Bhopal, India, as a direct result of a chemical disaster at the chemical plant run by Union Carbide India Limited, later to be taken over by Dow chemicals, and the Indian Government.
Since early December 1984, when this accident happened, it has been estimated, according to the BBC, that 25,000 people have died as a result of the explosion at the Union Carbide ...
Cobalt
June 22nd, 2010
COBALT
Cobalt is added to agricultural fertilizers in many parts of the world to counteract deficiency of this mineral. New Zealand soils are deficient in Cobalt, as well as some other important minerals, such as zinc: this is why cobalt is a common component of New Zealand agriculture fertilizer.
Cobalt is a component of Vitamin B12. If you are deficient in Cobalt then your body might not be making enough Vitamin B12 in your intestines.
Lack of Cobalt can cause fatigue and impair the healthy growth of children. Children's growth may be stunted as a result of lack of cobalt/B12 in the diet.
Cobalt is necessary for ...
Free Tibet
June 18th, 2010
18th June 2010. On Freeing Tibet.
Yesterday, as I went about my business of playing piano at a couple of residences for the elderly, I was alarmed to see a great many Chinese people holding large red flags up in Symonds Street, Auckland New Zealand. I wondered whether they had bought the lovely old historic building which the Church of Scientology used to own. The fact that so many Chinese, obviously Chinese communist-nationalists, were to be seen in force in such a predominate spot, where city traffic joins the southern motorway, and just along from the university, bothered me, and it occurred to me that ...
