Leon DiCaprio, Make Vaquitas, Not Wildlife Organization Enrichment, The Priority

      Dear Mr. Dicaprio, Before you continue with an alliance with certain wildlife organizations, be sure the money you encourage people to contribute helps animals. Be sure the money is not making rich animal organizations richer.
      It is unlikely the vaquitas will be saved from extinction, now that their numbers are thirty or less. 30 or less vaquitas spread over a large area fraught with danger lack genetic diversity. Even making their environment safer, no easy task, may not be enough to overcome the small gene pool left for these unfortunate porpoises. Nonetheless, the effort needs to be made. After all, when the last vaquita is gone, it is gone forever.
      An organization you encourage people to send money to listed the vaquita as one of their top conservation success stories in the year 2013. In 2013, vaquitas had a greater chance of being saved than now. Far too little was done, and no one should have been claiming success. It is a common story in the world of environmental and wildlife protection of far too little being done far too late. A number of wildlife and animal welfare organizations organization have grown incredibly rich since their inception, while overseeing a massive depopulation of wildlife worldwide coupled with a massive increase in animal cruelty.
     True wildlife protection, just like the protection of domestic animal species from cruelty, cannot be left in the hands of private nonprofit organizations that prove time and time again to be ineffective and even harmful. Organizations manipulate sentiment as the means of enriching themselves, while failing over and over to protect the very animals that bring them fortunes.
         
         
         
       

Erdogan And Turkey's Descent Into Islamization And Corruption, Using Israel And Al Aqsa As Diversions

     Protests were organized in Turkey against Israel's implementation of metal detectors at the Al Aqsa Mosque.
     Why, it is reasonable to ask, were the protests necessary when Israel already capitulated to Arab Muslim mobs and removed the metal detectors days ago?
      It is necessary because without the Jew, without Israel, how else can the Islamist dictator of Turkey keep people numbed and dumb?  How else can he divert attention away from himself? How else can he continue Turkey's descent into Islamist theocracy and away from democracy?
      Israel is the best thing the Islamist world has going for it. It allows them to remain corrupt, thieving, decadent, brutal, without ever being held responsible for anything because there is Israel to blame for everything.

Day Of Death And Suffering; Sunday's Election In Venezuela

    Today the fraudulent election in Venezuela, Maduro's effort to further consolidate power and turn Venezuela into a dictatorship, resulted in at least 16 unarmed protesters killed. Maduro cynically claimed, "Emperor Trump wanted to halt the Venezuelan people's right to vote." This has nothing to do with Trump. This has everything to do with Venezuela.
     Maduro and his corrupt, drug dealing Hezbollah affiliated vice president are killing people in order to stay in power. Like tyrants everywhere, they believe only their lives matter. They think they live forever and are never held accountable to a higher power.
     The death toll in Venezuela is now well over 100 unarmed protesters killed. The Venezuelan people want democracy, not dictatorship, and are dying for their effort.

Al Gore; Inconvenient Truths, Choosing Jihadism Over Environmentalism

     Al Gore was one of the owners of Current TV, a progressive media outlet that had a pro environmental tilt. Current TV was sold to Al Jazeera in January, 2013 for hundreds of millions of dollars. The reasons given to justify the sale included rationalizations about the good intentions of Al Jazeera and rhetoric that they would carry on the Current TV agenda, including being a voice for the  voiceless and speaking truth to power.

      It was reported that a right wing radio personality, Glenn Beck, wanted to buy the network but was refused for ideological reasons.

      Does Al Jazeera, wholly owned by Qatar, speak truth to power in Qatar? Does Al Jazeera speak for the voiceless foreign workers in Qatar, especially vulnerable foreign domestic women workers, many of whom have been subject to sexual and physical abuse, along with slave like labor conditions? Does Al Jazeera find absolutely nothing wrong in Qatar to report, an oil rich monarchy that is hardly a paradise for hundreds of thousands of foreign workers that do the work Qataris are too lazy to do? Is there nothing to report about the extreme materialism, decadence and affluence of Qatar's pampered royalty and ruling class?

        Qatar welcomes leaders of Hamas, the Taliban and other jihadist groups, that are more than happy to live the good life in Qatar. Regarding the millions of Muslim refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere; no room in oil rich Qatar for them.

          The Islamic jihadists gleefully killing all over the world like brainwashed sheep get funded from somewhere (Saudi, Qatar, Iran, etc).  Al Jazeera deflects the jihadist agenda with the pretend talk that the west buys regarding resistance and occupation. It is a way of ensuring Islamist Jihadists, like Hamas, never have to make peace and can keep fighting and killing endlessly.  Qatar, like Islamists everywhere, need someone to blame for all the failures in the Islamic world. They are incapable of responsibility, and need a scapegoat. (Guess who is their favorite?)

            Did oil rich Qatar open its doors to the Muslims fleeing Myanmar? What about the Yemenis who are starving and dying, caught between the Saudis and Iran and their proxy armies? 

             What about the black Muslims of Darfur, still being raped and slaughtered by Arab Muslims? Did Qatar open their doors? Are Darfur refugees welcome in Qatar? What about Palestinian Arabs? Of course not, they must be kept stateless, waiting for the days when they hope Islamic jihadists destroy Israel and commit genocide against its Jewish population. Did Al Jazeera even once talk about the millions of Jews that are the descendants of Jews driven out from Arab Muslim majority lands to the state of Israel, and that now form the majority population of Israel?   

               What about the black Muslim refugees in the Central African Republic? Are they welcome in Qatar? 

                 Did Qatar, flush with oil money, take in any refugees? Any surviving Yazidis? Any middle east Christians? Any Muslim refugees? 

                  Or are only the leaders of Islamic jihadi terrorist organizations welcome to live in Qatar's affluence and decadence?

             No, Al Gore, Qatar and its Al Jazeera did not pursue the environmental agenda that you could have pursued. You had Current TV, and since the time it was sold until now, you could have alerted the world to the serious environmental problems that are threatening mankind's existence by putting it front and center.

         It is not just global climate change that could have been kept center stage. Current TV could have delved deeply into how the plastic and oil based waste of mankind are killing the oceans and wiping out species. It could have delved deeply into the collapse of biodiversity, the loss of rainforest, coral reefs, and mangroves the world over. It could have delved deeply into countries where practically every river and body of water is a toxic dump. There is so much environmental damage and destruction to flora and fauna committed by mankind that could have and should have been exposed.

          But who will do it? You had your chance. You had the voice. You had the media outlet.

Instead, money dictated that the progressive and environmentally conscious Current TV media went to the jihadists, not the environmentalists. And ironically, a strong voice of environmentalism was lost to a fossil fuel rich nation. A nation whose oil contributes to global climate change. A nation that uses its oil wealth not to improve the world's environment, but to further jihadism.

           The liberal and leftist media want Al Gore to be the face of environmentalism and global climate change, but that may be doing more harm than good.

            Hopefully, people that are not fans of Al Gore will separate their feelings about him from their ability to be environmentally concerned. Protecting the environment does not need celebrity heroes. It needs everyday people's concern and involvement.

Mutilating Fish And Marine Wildlife And The Response By Humane, Against Cruelty Organizations

   It was in the news recently regarding several fishermen and their treatment of ocean wildlife. While there are some animal organizations that are involved in an infantile, nonsensical effort to stop fishing, there is no serious effort to stop the mistreatment of marine wildlife.
   Humans have relied on fish as a major source of food, protein and nutrition for thousands of years.  Serious efforts to establish humane practices in the treatment of fish and other marine wildlife are still lacking. There has been progress by some corporations regarding the humane handling and slaughter of fish. There are ways to handle and kill fish as painlessly as possible, and the implementation of these methods are to be applauded.
   There are many people that fish that are respectful of the life they are taking, and do what they can to minimize pain and suffering.
    But there are many others that have no regards for the fish they capture. For example, it is the practice by many to catch fish they consider junk, and then to cut off a third or so of the fish's body while it is alive, put the still living fish on a hook and use it to catch other fish. The mutilated fish can live for hours in this painful, mutilated condition.
    Fish out of water are completely vulnerable. Fish experience pain and suffering. The most humane thing people can do is inflict the least amount of suffering on these animals.
    Because fish are not dogs or cats or one of the few animals people care about, there is no serious advocacy to ensure their humane treatment. The humane, against cruelty type organizations go where the money is, and since money, not humane treatment, is their priority, marine wildlife remains without true advocates.
    Ensuring the humane treatment of fish and marine wildlife and their sustainability is not only ethical and ecologically important, but important for human survival.
   

American Gangs, MS-13, And Immigration

     The United States has an enormous gang problem. Gangs are in control of vast low income neighborhoods throughout the country. Gangs are in control of many public housing projects. Gangs are in schools. Gangs run many jails and prisons. Gangs make enormous sums of money from the drug trade. In many areas, gangs run the drug trade. Many gangs are well armed. Guns are an easy thing to get in the United States. There are gangs with arsenals that far exceed that of police departments. There are terrorist and extremist organizations that have alliances with certain gangs.There is a lot of money to be made from drugs and these alliances are lucrative.

      Many children and young people grow up in areas in the United States where gangs are a major, or the major, socializing influence. None of this is new information. Gangs have been around for a long time. 

       Politicians, police officials and others gain political points when they talk tough about gangs. This also has been going on for a long time. It gains them not only political points, but also good media coverage. Afterall, there is no one that will argue that gangs are a good thing or that gangs should be supported.

       The many years of ineffective approaches to gangs, the many years of tough talk and simplistic solutions, the many years of tough talk mixed with blind eyes to this dark underbelly of America, have assisted gangs in expanding and growing.

        When the government has aggressively pursued the destruction of one gang, scoring political points and publicity, what is not reported is who becomes the beneficiary of such action. Taking down one gang strengthens their rival(s). People might think one gang is less vicious than the next, but such is not the case. When the government aggressively pursues one gang's destruction, it is almost as if the government is on the payroll of that gang's enemies. 

         There are many things that can be done to weaken gangs, not just one gang (which requires a much lengthier discussion).   

          The government wants to blame gangs on illegal immigration. Once again, simplicity and scoring political points are pursued over reality.

          American gangs are a wholly owned American creation. Even the notorious MS-13 originated on the streets of Los Angeles. If instantly all of MS-13 disappeared, there would be no less of a gang problem in the United States. MS-13 did not invade the United States from Central America. MS-13 originated in the United States, and then spread the virulent disease of American gangs and American gang culture into several Central American countries.

          The United States should focus its immigration efforts on removing criminals that are illegally in the United States. But blaming immigrants for America's gang problem is counterproductive.

          The United States must also be aware that the spread of the pathological American gang culture to countries outside of the United States destroys other countries, and results in new waves of desperate people fleeing their native lands to escape the violence. 

           The irony is that deporting MS-13 and other gang members and criminals contributes to illegal immigration and the destruction of law and order in other countries. Therefore, all efforts to destroy MS-13 and other gangs cannot stop at the borders of the United States. Other countries need American assistance to combat the United States created gangs that are destroying their nations.

                  The United States must choose law and order over political grandstanding. Illegal immigration did not create the American gang problem. The American gang problem, now that it has spread outside of the United States, contributes to illegal immigration. Decent people do not want to live in neighborhoods, in communities, in cities and in countries controlled by gangs. American gangs and American gang culture is spreading, fueled by drug money, and there is still no serious effort to stop it.   

          

Venezuela's Effort To Legalize Dictatorship

      An election will be held on Sunday in Venezuela that is nothing but a charade to legalize dictatorship. The government has banned protests. People continue to protest, even as their death count rises, along with the number of people beaten and jailed. The government is brutally suppressing its own people.
       It is not enough that the Maduro/El Aissami regime have stolen billions of  dollars. It is not enough that poverty, unemployment and malnutrition have significantly increased. It is not enough that Vice President El Aissami has opened Venezuela up to Iranian/Hezbollah and drug dealing interests, not the interests of the Venezuelan people. It is not enough that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans are desperately fleeing the country, with most going to Colombia. It is not enough that people desperately lack food and medicine. The regime wants more. It wants unlimited power and wealth.