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American Style Environmentalism Is Destroying The Environment Part 2 (Misguided Perceptions)

American Style Environmentalism Part 2 (Misguided Perceptions) This article is part 2. Click here for part 1    People that care about the environment don't want to do it great harm but our misguided perceptions about our world cause us to do so anyway. For many during  …

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American Style Environmentalism is Destroying The Environment Part 1

American Style Environmentalism is Destroying The Environment  This is the first of a series of articles exploring the failing model of American Environmentalism. In the series I will be outlining the results of considerable investigation and study of the persons and organiz …

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What's wrong with Newsvine?

 I tried seeding a link, writing an article, and none of it shows up on my column. I wanted to cover the topic of the Obama administration plan to bomb the ocean off of New Jersey and it's impact on Marine wildlife but can't get through the morass of failures in the website  …

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Cape Cod Times Gives Up All Pretense of Credibility and Prints Random Lies To Bash Fishermen

   If you are in need of a place to print an angry rant full of falsehoods the Cape Cod Times is the place to publish. No need to worry about facts or truth you can make those up to suit your arguments without worrying. Let's take a look at a case in point...  An a …

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I Took A Ride Past Your House The Other Night and I Have Pictures

 Air stalking, it's a problem.  This is from the same trip as my other article,  How To Avoid Getting Felt Up And Stared At Naked At The Airport

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How To Avoid Getting Groped, Fondled, and Stared at Naked At the Airport

  I flew across the US today and even though I do that often, things had changed since my last flight. Air travel has become so convenient that if you haven't flown lately it is in many ways changed. I bought my ticket online and checked in over the internet. After I printe …

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Should Wal-Mart Sell Seal Meat?

Somewhere off Cape Cod a gillnet lies in the ocean . It's monofilament strands of thin plastic impossible to see, negating thousands of years of evolution that have given marine mammals an edge through intelligence, excellent sight, hearing, and the ability to hold their breath f …

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Old Newsvine is Just a Little Bit Slow (Publishing Fewer Articles Myself)

  Hello Friends, Readers and especially all of you new readers from the Forage Fish fight. I wanted to jot a quick note to say that I haven't forgotten to write articles. I have been working on several articles with lots of grahics and it has been rather time consuming.  …

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Help Wanted: Third Reich Style Propagandist Needed To Crush Small Group of Fishermen ~~with original NV cartoon~~actual job available

 Help Wanted: Third Reich Style Propagandist Needed To Crush Small Group of Fishermen...(boy do I feel sorry for those guys.) Wait a minute, it says, "Restore herring stocks to healthy levels." Ahh damn that means they are hiring another person to beat up on the he …

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National Geographic Enquirer's Wicked Pissah Tuna Edition (Only Available Here On Newsvine)

 It's time for Wicked Pissah Tuna and here in Gloucester we are very excited to see our local fishermen turned celebrities on the tv. Unfortunately one group of fishermen have been left behind during all of the fun.... the herring fishermen. Accused for over a dec …

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Do the Poor Deserve to Starve?

   A billion people go to bed hungry every night. Half of the population of our world lives on 2 dollars a day. High birth rates, lack of education and birth control, tribalism, war, lack of medical care and development of food resources, the list of reasons for this is …

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The Top Ten Reasons You Should Support the Mid-Water Herring Industry

   The Top Ten Reasons You Should Support the Mid-Water Herring Industry   The mid-water herring fishers are under relentless attack by a campaign of never ending regulation all proposed by wealth foundations and fishermen who fish for endangered and over-fished s …

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Pictures of Fishing Vessel Osprey (and some of her crew) Late Friday Images

   I have been writing a few activist articles lately and working late so I missed my chance to publish Friday Images. Better late than never these images of Osprey taken during our last trip are hot off the card. Since I am no longer the engineer of Osprey this is m …

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Herring Fishermen Told To Go Back To Ireland By Herring Campaigners

  Herring Fishermen Told To Go Back To Ireland By Herring Campaigners  Traveling to Fairhaven Massachusetts to speak at the Public comment meeting for Herring Amendment 5 of the Herring Management plan on Monday my thoughts were all about what I would say and how nervou …

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And Now A Word From My New Sponsor

 Life is tough in America these days. Small businesses are folding up daily and all of the ownership, commerce, money, and power is collecting into a few hands on Wall Street. My opinion still hasn't changed and I promise you I will never sell out..

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A Photo For Friday From Fishing

 I took this picture while we were out fishing on the back deck of the Western Venture. The sun is rising on a new day.

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Bitter Harvest (The Truth About Marine Mammals Being Killed In The New England Fisheries)

Bitter Harvest The Truth About Marine Mammals Being Killed In The New England Fisheries  Every year thousands of marine mammals are accidentally caught by fishing gear. The tragic result of these events is often grevious injury usually followed by death. In this article I br …

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Self Picture (:

 The first picture is from yesterday and is a self taken picture. Mig welding is considered to be an easy welding discipline and as you can see I was able to take a picture of myself doing it (so it can't be that difficult).

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A Winter's Trip To The Ocean To See The Waves

 The winter waves were crashing over the breakwater here in Gloucester so I decided to see what it was like out there. The boats haven't gone out because of a bad stretch of weather that has gone on for almost a week.

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Baby Dog Part 2 ( Little Dre Strikes Back) Mighty Friday Photo's

  Little Dre grew up and is the big dog now. But when Reina and Sophie insist he still lets them be the boss dogs. He is the bottomless pit to have around and is helping Sophie with her treat addiction by scarfing up all of the ones she tries to hide.

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Oh Damn!! They Frickin Banned Me ): An Article For An Uncertain Future

The wind gusts across a lonely mountain top overlooking the sea blowing moisture from the trees left there by torrential rains. The skies had opened up raining giant droplets for most of the day but finally wept themselves out just before the appointed hour.

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Mighty Fotos for Friday Are Back!! Where We Are Going Who Needs Roads?

 This is a collection of some of the photo subjects I have been working on. I couldn't provide images from everything I have been doing in one article so call this a teaser. The dolphins and stuff that I have really been working on will be a ways into the future.

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Fishing Vessel Plan B Sinks Off The Coast of Maine

   Fishing Vessel Plan B Sinks Off The Coast of Maine  When Captain Danny Fill and crewmember David Jones Jr.

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