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If we fail to save the great whales, we will fail to save ourselves! MySpace.com Blogs - Captain Paul Watson MySpace Blog Shared via AddThis

HIDDEN DANGERS OF ADDING APPS ON FACEBOOK!

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If you could use this tape to mark all dangerous plases on Facebook, Facebook would colour yellow! Dear friends! I use only one single Facebook app CAUSES do you want to know why? Because: Each time you add an application on your profile, your privacy setting resets. So it Un- checks the box, so that FB can share your information with a 3rd party. The only way to disable it is to remove the application. If you have been receiving lots of spam mail or excessive notifications lately, this might be the reason. This comes from FB safety precautions: Always follow these important safety tips when using Facebook: • Adjust your privacy settings to match your level of comfort, and review them often. ♥ IN THE NEWS (earlier this year): Facebook users have been victimized by a 2 separate rogue applications - several variants actually - that appears to have been designed to exploit interest in the controversy surrounding Facebook's terms of service. Put simply, these programmes harvested info

Iran stop the Crackdown

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Please sign to stop the Crackdown! http://www.avaaz.org/en/iran_stop_the_crackdown/?9133 Regardless of who won the election, the hearts and hopes of the world are with the democratic protesters of Iran as they face a violent crackdown. Top Iranian leaders are divided on using violence -- we urgently need a united international community, led by non aligned and Muslim countries, to speak with one voice against the crackdown. Sign the petition below, and forward this email to friends and family -- let's build a massive global outcry of 1 million voices against the crackdown: To the Organization of Islamic Conference, the Non-Aligned Movement, and all UN member states: As citizens of Iran and countries around the world united in common appeal, we call on you to condemn the violent crackdown on peaceful Iranian protesters, and withhold recognition of any new government until the Iranian people's rights to peaceful protest, justice and democratic process are protected. Hi, Millions

Sign the petition to support a safe future for whales

Dear friends! The 61st annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is coming up next week in Madeira, Portugal. Once again, pro-whaling nations and their supporters will be undermining hard-won conservation measures for whales. We need your help, as whales will be facing the very real risk of the return of commercial whaling. Humane Society International has been working for decades to secure protection for whales at IWC. Since the ban on commercial whaling was enacted by the IWC in 1986, whale populations have made a comeback -- after centuries of commercial whaling that threatened many species with extinction. However, they are still extremely vulnerable to environmental and man-made harms, including the continued whaling from countries that have found loopholes in or have decided to defy the IWC ban on commercial whaling. At the meeting of the IWC next week, countries such as Denmark and Switzerland are planning to show their support for a return to commercial whali

Sea Shepherd should have legal authority to police Japanese Whaling Ships

Should Sea Shepherd Have Legal Authority To Police Japanese Whaling Ships? The world charter for nature should give Sea Shepherd or the whaledefenders the legal authority to police Japanese whaling boats! In a few weeks the IWC meeting will discuss about the future of whaling not the future of the whales! Its about the money not about the whales! Its not about how to defend the whales! Its about how to defend the whaling rights! We definitely need a ocean police! So far Sea Shepherd is trying to do this job without the support of any nations! Does the world charter for nature give Sea Shepherd the legal authority to police Japanese whaling boats? Sea Shepherd is absolutely right in terms of emphasizing the importance of the World Charter for Nature, but it only gets them so far. It tells us that we should protect nature. It doesn't tell us how we protect nature, and it certainly doesn't tell us that we can do certain vigilante type actions on the high seas, or in any other wate

Call for the EU to reject whaling proposals at the IWC in June

The International Whaling Commission meets in June for its annual meeting. The EU now provides a further complication to the IWC decision making process. 85 countries are members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). 24 of these members are also members of the European Union (EU). IWC decisions are reached in two ways – either by consensus or by voting. For the passage of a resolution a simple majority of those voting is required. For a change to the Schedule of the IWC - its governing document - a ¾ majority of those voting is required. The decisions of EU members are therefore critical at the IWC, since they represent more than one-quarter of the votes. The European Commission has recently ruled that EU members of the IWC must have a common position at IWC meetings. Their collective vote can therefore make a difference to whether whales live or die. Within the EU there is some diversity of views, with the UK leading the pro-conservation and welfare agenda and others consider