Artist : Merzbow
Title : Bloody Sea
Genre : Noise
Year : 2006
Date : Jul-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 03
Label : vivo022CD
Source : CDDA
Length : 50:25 min
Size : 88,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01. Anti-Whaling Song Part. 1 28:47
02. Anti-Whaling Song Part. 2 08:16
03. Anti-Whaling Song Part. 3 13:22
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50:25 min
Protest-Noise music by Masami Akita.
Dedicated to anti-whaling activity.
Masami Akita - prepared acoustic guitar,handmade instruments,EMS
synthi 'A', computer & various effects.
Recorded & Mixed at Bedroom, Tokyo, April 2006
http://www.vivo.pl
Note:
In November, 2006 , the Japanese whaling fleet will set sail for
the icy waters of Antarctica. Their target - 50 Humpback Whales,
50 Fin Whales and almost l000 Minke Whales.
In the next l6 years, unless this obscene ' scientific whaling '
program, known as JARPA 2, is stopped, the Japanese whaling
fleet will slaughter l7,000 Minke Whales, 800 Humpbacks and 800
Fin Whales.
The murder of these beautiful creatures spells the end of the
global moratorium on the killing of whales as Japan's so-called
'scientific whaling' is nothing more than a commercial killing
operation. The Japanese Government subsidises its whaling
industry with thousands of dollars each year.
Japanese warehouses are piled high with mountains of unused
whale meat. School children are given whale hamburgers and
sausages in an attempt to turn them on to eating whale meat. The
truth is that the market for whale meat in Japan is almost
non-existent. Yet still the Japanese Government pursues its
deadly agenda of turning the world's oceans into a
slaughterhouse for whales.
Old whalers who worked in Antarctica in the fifties, when
thousands and thousands of whales were killed, cannot wipe the
memories of the hideous slaughter from their minds.
They say that whales suffer terribly, unable to lose
consciousness until the moment of death.
Whales cry, whales struggle to protect their young, their kin.
As the dreadful harpoon with its grenade head explodes as it
pierces living flesh, their agony is unendurable. In the last
whaling season just passed in Antarctica, Greenpeace and Sea
Shepherd reported that whales were deliberately drowned by
Japanese whalers.
Sometimes, the whalers use electric probes. Blood pours into the
ocean as the whales thrash in agony. In some cases the chase and
death take hours. Every minute must feel like a lifetime.
At the International Whaling Commission (IWC) where many nations
of the world meet each year to haggle over whether whales will
be killed or not, the global moratorium on the commercial
killing of whales which has held of whaling nations for 20 years
is close to ending.
The IWC has no powers of enforcement. It has no navy. The IWC
has no way to stop countries like Japan, Norway and Iceland from
killing whales . In the past, the US government has threatened
trade sanctions against these countries, and the threat has been
reasonably effective.
When George Bush became President of the United States, the
world's only super power and the strongest ally of the whales,
changed its policy. Japan has been able to get away with murder
because the Bush Administration has turned its back on the
whales so that the world's oceans can be raped in the name of
free trade.
The balance of power in the IWC has now changed. Japan has
bribed poor and undeveloped countries with massive aid money to
obtain their vote at the IWC. The anti whaling nations, USA, UK,
Australia and New Zealand have done little more than make media
statements and diplomatic protests.
Environmental groups have obtained legal opinions from some of
the best legal experts in the western world. It is very apparent
that Japan's obscene whaling program could be stopped in various
international courts.
But no nation will take Japan to court because the anti whaling
nations are members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and
they will not jeopardize free trade. So the equation is quite
simple - whales or trade. Unfortunately, trade is winning the
game unless the people of the world rise up and protest against
this deadly trade-off.
Oceans without whales are hard to imagine. But the grim reality
is that there is no whale population, no whale species that is
capable of withstanding slaughter. Millions of whales were
killed in the last two centuries, their deaths creating profound
impacts on marine ecosystems.
Many people ask why Japan persists in killing whales when there
is no market for the meat. Japan is the world's greatest
exploiter of the global marines. The Japanese appetite for fish,
insatiable. Many conservation groups believe that if Japan is
forced to stop whaling, the Japanese government believes that
their fishing practices will soon be exposed to global scrutiny
and their fishers forced to cut back.
It is also true that most Japanese people are completely unaware
of the extent of whaling by their government, or the appalling
cruelty involved - or the global protest as the Japanese media
does not report on the killing orgies.
If commercial whaling begins again in the 21st Century, humanity
will have taken a giant step backwards to the Dark Ages. People
find it hard to believe that the fight to save the whales has
begun again, and that unless there is massive global protest,
the whales will die.
In buying this CD, you have made your statement of concern for
the magnificent, highly intelligent whales. It is not enough.
You must write to your politicians, to the religious leaders in
your country, to newspapers and to radio and television stations
making your protest.
Tell your family, friends, workmates that the whales will die
unless we, the people act.
There is legal action which can be taken to stop the slaughter.
There is hope. Miracles can happen, but we must create the
magic.
The whales demand no less. The great mind in the waters is
calling on caring humans to ensure their survival.
This call is nothing less than the crossroads of our humanity,
our survival.
Do it ! / Sue Arnold /
australiansforanimals.org
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