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Whales vs. Windmills: A Battle for Survival

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What if the very windmills meant to save our planet are instead harming its most majestic creatures? Join us as we welcome Lydia Lupinto, a pioneering technical writer and engineer, whose groundbreaking work challenges the mainstream narrative about renewable energy and marine life. Lydia's AI-powered search engine cuts through the clutter to deliver unfiltered academic insights, and her investigative work spotlights the overlooked link between offshore wind projects and whale mortality. Her latest book not only questions the effectiveness of windmill projects but also offers heartfelt stories and prayers for whales, urging us to rethink our environmental actions.

Lydia's journey uncovers a profound connection between humans and whales, likening their plight to that of our beloved pets. With an eye for both the ethical dilemmas and the economic costs, she poses a tough question: Are we ready to prioritize marine life over financial incentives? Through poignant narratives, like that of Saphir, the juvenile humpback whale, Lydia exposes the often-hidden impacts of noise pollution from wind farms. The episode offers a critical examination of the media's role and calls for greater transparency in documenting these tragic events.

Facing challenges from online trolls and detractors, Lydia's voice remains unwavering. Her upcoming educational whale book promises to engage readers of all ages with beautiful illustrations and compelling stories, aiming to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation for marine life. As Lydia prepares for its release, this episode serves as a powerful reminder of the need for informed decision-making amidst industrial challenges, highlighting the urgency of protecting our oceans' gentle giants.

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Hello everybody. Hello everybody, this is Lydia, and I'm here trying to fight. The internet is slow, so I'm going to remove the background. You will no longer see that simulated swimming pool. Instead, you'll just see, okay, so the virtual background. I'm going to put nothing, it'll just be the green curtain. So here's the green curtain. Okay, you can see me better now. Let me just move this over. That's my husband's little office. So this is Lydia Lupinto and, as you know, I write lots of different types of books and lately I've been involved in writing the investigative voices reports, which I do with the aid of my own concoction of a search engine using AI to dig through the propaganda, because we know that a lot of things are propaganda and it's difficult for us citizens to get to the truth.

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Meanwhile they keep spending our money. So us citizens to get to the truth. Meanwhile they keep spending our money. So we need to get to the truth. We can't just keep spending money on things that they lied to us about, right? So, um, I got uh, the last book I did was on, uh, the 50 windmill projects that were failures and that's been online and it's been successful in the UK. Apparently, they have these issues as well. So it turned out to be more internationally known and, of course, you know about my previous book on the climate change issue, debunking a lot of narratives that are scientifically incorrect and trying to put the entire thing into perspective. So we got that book, became extremely popular in the UK, selling a lot, and people really liked it because it really made it simple for you to understand where the science has been skewed and where the science is correct and what's really happening with the global climate change issue. So people bought it and as long as we also have eight other reports on all kinds of topics scientific topics, as you know, I'm a technical writer for 40 years.

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I have an engineering degree, a computer science degree and then now an expert on AI search engine using AI, so that I can really get through the lies that have been told to you by Google and Bing, because they're biased and the algorithms are biased. They suppress things they don't want you to know about and they bring to the top things that you don't want to know about. So that's been the case and I even tested it with AI, asked AI to evaluate each finding on the first page of a Google results and it told me that half of it was propaganda. Ai recognized it as propaganda because there are certain markers to propaganda and it can identify that. So it told me that Google was half propaganda and I couldn't use it anymore. We went to Bing same thing half propaganda. So now I'm using other search engines, but I have programmed my own search engine using AI coding so that it knows what to look for and where to look for it and what things to skip that might be propaganda.

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So things like Wikipedia we try to avoid. A lot of articles are okay on Wikipedia. I'm not going to put it down. It's a great product. But sometimes people will skew the results on Wikipedia. So there's a lot of information. We also have a now a new search engine that deals with academic papers and peer-reviewed academic papers. So a lot of the work I did for climate science I used academic papers Okay. So that has been a great help because now I'm getting real data from the source. A lot of times the articles will go to the source and then the journalist will write an article based on the source and it might be a little skewed depending on his interpretation of that article. So we're going directly to the article and in reviewing the information. We cross-reference things. So there's a lot of work involved in these books that I create A lot of technology for searching information and to translate the information into terms that people can understand People that may not be having a science background.

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They may have and, as you know, I have been a technical writer so I'm used to writing at a level that people can easily understand when it's highly technical. So this is kind of the gist of what I do within Investigative Voices, and this last book is a little different than my other Investig voices report, so I call it Lydia Lupinto and the investigative voices, because investigative voices is really a combination of AI, search engines and technology to get information fast in the right format, in the right language so people can really access it and understand it. It's a report. It's meant for executive report, for people that are making decisions and they want the data. It has all the references, it has the glossaries, it has everything you need to verify that information. But on Mourning Our Wh whales, I did a little something different. I have, at least right now, as of today, I have 100 data points for dead whales, starting in 2022 to as much as yesterday.

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Whales are dying all the time as a result, in my opinion, of wind farms. Other people might say they die from being run over by ships, but usually that does not hold water, because ships have all kinds of sophisticated equipment to avoid hitting things in the water. If they didn't, they'd be hitting stuff all the time. Whales are not the only thing floating around in the ocean. There's all kinds of things. There are boats that have been abandoned, there are logs, there are all kinds of things. So if they didn't have a way to avoid an object that is 30 foot long, they wouldn't make it from China to the USA. They wouldn't make it from Europe to the East Coast. They would hit things all the time. They would hit things all the time.

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So the stupidity of that argument shows how much they want to hide the fact that, yes, these windmills are affecting the hearing and the echolocation capabilities of the whales, because you know that whales communicate as a pod. The pod leaders are given information to the younger ones and they communicate by songs. The songs could last up to 30 minutes and these songs can be heard from long distances and these songs will tell the pod to come and get the food that they found. Okay, and other things come and make whatever information Okay. So if these songs don't get transmitted in the water, of course the pod is not getting the information about the food where to get it, because it's not available everywhere. It's only available in certain spots and some of the whales go around looking for this until the other whales come and get the food. They communicate right, the food they communicate right.

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But you can learn more about, uh, whales in general, how they behave. Um, they're very uh. Their humpback whales are said to be self-aware, um, and more intelligent than a dog and probably as intelligent as a human. Um, maybe in different ways, because they may use their intelligence to navigate the ocean, where I couldn't get around the ocean if I tried, but if I was a whale, I could probably figure out how to get from here to china by water, okay, which they can do. So, um, whales have an amazing ability to navigate waters and return to places they have been. While we humans need maps, they don't need maps. They figure it out.

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But when you put in their habitat where they used to eat all the time for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, the same habitat, the same location, and now you put a hundred windmills there and a bunch of electrical cables, all generating different types of vibrations. The windmills generate vibrations by rotating and, of course, it's an engine, so it makes noise. Okay. The cables, of course, generate electricity and they have a magnetic field around them. Okay, all of these things the whales are very sensitive to, because they communicate by sound and also they may have a way to use electromagnetic fields as a way to navigate the ocean.

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So when you put this large conglomerate of windmills in an area where they normally used to eat, in an area where they normally used to eat, this is going to be very confusing and they may end up hitting the posts. They may end up getting confused and losing their pod. They may end up like you would if you stood next to these windmills you'd probably get a headache and get disoriented as well, because they make a lot of noise and people have said that they live five or six miles from these things and and they're getting a lot of noise. They can even hear the noise six miles away and they're getting headaches and they're getting sick. Their dogs are having seizures.

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The stuff I'm reading about on these posts that I make. The people that talk about it are desperate. They want these things moved away from their home or they're going to have to move out of their home because they can't live with these windmills. And these are the people living six miles away. Imagine a creature whose whole brain is devoted to hearing and echolocation and now this loud bunch of 100 windmills rotating all the time, with the wind creating electricity, is right there where they normally hang out. How would that be for you if people six miles away cannot stand it, if dogs six miles away are getting seizures from the noise, the constant noise, because it's a humming noise. It's a regular rotating humming noise. It's a low frequency noise and, as you know or may not know, low frequency noises travel long distances, and you may know that, by the way, that maybe certain animals communicate in the jungle. If they use low frequency noises, they know they can communicate very far away. Okay, I think it's elephants, maybe even the lions. Numerous animals use low frequency sounds to communicate at long distances. So what happens is these windmills are producing this low frequency noise which travels far, and people as far as six miles away are telling me and several people already are telling me they hear it in their house, which is amazing. I never thought that you could hear something six miles away, but you can, apparently, if the frequency is the right frequency. So this book is a little sad, but also very inspiring.

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One of the things I learned was that whales are self-aware. They're conscious, like you and I. You know you exist, you look in the mirror, you know it's you. Well, a whale can do that. Well, if you put a cat in front of a mirror, he runs away, thinks it's another cat. If you put a dog in front of a mirror, he'll bark at it, but a whale knows it's him, he knows okay. How does he know I? I really don't know. This is god's creatures. I say god put creatures on this earth and how they, how they came to be this way, I don't know. They're very intelligent creatures and they have families, and they have families. They have family structures. They take care of their young. They do a lot of things. They're very loving. They're very curious this idea that they run into ships.

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One of the posters who responded to my post answered this question. I thought it's because the ships have ways to detect anything that will get in front of the ship and it could run over just to avoid getting damaged. Okay, I mean, how else could you take care of your ship if you don't have a way to check on obstacles? But what this man told me is that they do these whale trips and everything, and they do these fishing trips and in those fishing trips and whale trips they see whales, even humpback whales, all the time, which is amazing, and I wish I could be on them because I want to see those even more. I've seen them before, but I can't get enough of them.

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The whales come up to the ship curious and they don't run into the ship. They're aware of you. They even will look you in the eye. They're curious about you. They're listening to you. They're listening to you. They're not looking for treats like a dog. They're just as curious about you as you are about them. Okay, and it's a very mystical experience. I think the first time I went on a whale trip and saw this humongous animal looking at me with their eyes, I melted. I couldn't believe that this creature was so intelligent and looking at me as if it wants to say something to me, but it can't speak, but it's speaking with his eyes, okay, so everybody that's been on a whale watching trip is blown away when they see these creatures close to the ship and they never run into them. It's not true. Don't run into the ship. They will come close and they'll look around and then they'll leave and that's all they do. And they know when the ship is coming. You're not allowed to feed them. That would be a federal offense. You can't feed whales. You get a fine of thousands of dollars, I think, if you dare to feed a whale. So they don't come for them food. They know they're not going to get fish or anything from that ship. They're coming for the curiosity of it. They're coming to see us. Okay, they're as much watching us as we're watching them, as much watching us as we're watching them. So, knowing all of this and with all this information about whales, I just fell in love with these creatures.

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I have always been a fan of Star Trek 4. If you're not a Trekker, you don't know what I'm talking about, but in my family it's a cult movie. We watch it every year. It's the movie about the whales. Okay, in that movie in the future, humans have made whales, humpback whales, extinct. And years later in the future, aliens come looking for the humpback whales and when they can't find them, they threaten to destroy the Earth. So Spock and Captain Kirk have to go back to the past to find the humpback whales and bring them back to the future in a ship. As ridiculous as this may sound, this is a great movie. Okay, it's one of the classics out there and if you love whales or even humpback whales, you're going to love this movie. It's funny, it's just great. It's a great movie, so it's funny, but also it makes you aware of the whales. Okay, so let's get to the book.

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What I wanted to do with this book is different than investigative voices. I wanted to make you feel like a whale is almost like a dog you love or a pet you love, or something like. Have the same kind of love for this creature that you would have for your own dog, and I love my dog. So there's nothing more that I love than my dogs, and I think these creatures are more intelligent than a dog and they're better, nicer than humans. Definitely they're nicer than humans. So, um, I wrote this, uh, to try to give you an idea. I put the data in there about when they died. I have a hundred of these so you can pick and choose which ones you want to read and there's a story for each one. And there's a story for each one and there's a prayer for each one and there's information about when they died, how old they were when they died.

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Where was it found? What did the media do when it founded whale? What did they say? What did the activists say about the whale? How did they dispose of her body? Did they honor her body? What else did they do with the body? And many, many other details.

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I also tell you about that species of whales and how far can they swim. How far was the wind farm from the place they found her dead? Usually it's been about 20 miles, okay. I also tell you that humpback whales can easily swim a hundred miles in a day. It's, they're huge animals. They are very powerful. They can swim very fast, okay, so, yeah, they, yeah, they can definitely travel 100 miles in a day. That's no problem. Also, that a lot of these whales that they find are 12 years old, 14 years old. That's nothing. A humpback whale can live 80 years. No, they were not. Okay, they were not.

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This was not the case, and all the residents that I see on my posts say the same thing. This never happened before the windmills, because I was here before the windmills 2012,. I was here and the windmills, I think, went up 2016 in the area and I never heard of a dead whale. It was a very rare event and all the neighbors can tell you that it was rare and I think they finally admitted that this is not normal, that these whales are dying like this, and they have to admit that it was the windmills that did it, because that's the only difference and it's not climate change, for God's sake. The whales can travel from all the way up north into all the way down south, different temperatures in a year, and they do not care about hot and cold. Ok, the only thing that cares about hot and cold is the fish they eat, and, of course, there's going to be more of them in the south, where it's warmer, you know, in the krill.

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So all of these excuses are excuses made to say no, it wasn't our big, noisy machines that causing these poor whales to die. It's the ships, it's climate change, it's the tooth fairy Another guy came out with. It's a virus, you know, covid virus, I mean. Whatever. They'll make up absolutely anything. Right to not mention that it was the windmills.

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I'm sorry, the windmills were very expensive. The taxpayers have paid 30% of that project. It's coming out of my pocket. 30% of that project came out of my pocket because they cannot build a windmill on the ocean for anything less than $87 a kilowatt, even though on the land they could do it for 25 a kilowatt. Why are they building it on the ocean? I don't know. It's because they don't have the land. In this area. There's plenty of land. They could put it in other places.

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Okay, they're doing it because of government incentives and these projects are having issues already. Of course, they're having issues already with parts, with service, with all kinds of things. And I don't know what's going to happen with Trump taking over, because he had already said that there's going to be no more windmills, but I don't know if that means that they're going to close down the existing ones or if they're going to leave those be and just not build new ones. Ok, I don't know what's going to happen with that. We're hoping that they'll take them all down, because that means there will be less whales that will die. I hope they can take them all down. It's incredibly expensive to do that and already you've invested so much money into it, so it's a terrible thing to say we're going to take down the windmills because of the whales.

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Most people are going to say, well, it's just a bunch of whales, we don't care. 300 whales, 500 whales there's plenty of whales. There's 30,000 whales. It's not that much, but it's 500 or 600 whales a year. Okay, in 10 years that's 600 whales. Okay, in 10 years that's 600 whales. I mean, there's a lot of whales compared to the end of mortality, and those whales can't breed anymore once they're dead. So the the population starts declining to the point that it can't recover. Okay, 30,000 may be already beyond the level that it can recover.

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So are we going to make a sacrifice, as Americans, of saying we'll take down the windmills whatever the cost, to save the whales? Are we going to do that? I don't know if we have it in us to do that. The greed is too much, okay, but the only thing I can see happening here is that maybe these windmills will become so expensive to maintain because they each need to be oiled. They have to go out in the ocean to oil them, they have to change the oil, the electrical wires have to be maintained. The whole thing is a big maintenance headache out in the middle of the ocean and then there's storms and these blades end up breaking and shattering and going all over the beach. I don't see how they can keep up the maintenance, because I've worked in regular power plants where they make steam, you know, from fuel or from methane.

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I used to work in a power plant that was powered by. It was green because the methane came from the sewers, so the sewer material was made into methane, and this was in Long Island. By the way, talking about green energy, we've had green energy for years. You know I don't know what they're talking about, but I worked at a plant in Long Island where the sludge was converted into methane. The methane was collected and then it was fed and burned and steam was made from it and they could sell that steam for electricity, for heating or for running the plant. So that was green, and so green has been around for a long time.

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It's not something new, okay, and methane, there's nothing. I have a whole other book on methane. It's not a greenhouse, uh, greenhouse. Uh, that's all wrong. Uh, whatever they're telling you is wrong. There's only 1.7 per parts per million. That's two grains of red sand in a beach. That's how much methane is in the air. Okay, whatever they've told you about methane, I'm a chemical engineer. I can tell you it's disinformation, it's not right, it's not chemically correct. So why they're doing this? You know politics, of course, money, all of this.

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But let me get to the nitty-gritty of the book. I wanted to read you at least one story of the hundreds of stories of whales that are in this amazing book. First of all, this is a whale named Saphir, and I have a prayer for her. A gentle soul of the boundless sea, your love and grace touched your family with playful nudges in a swimmer's care. You shared your heart in the ocean's lair. May your spirit roam where currents are kind, forever embraced by those you left behind. Date of death of this whale Saphir and I named them, by the way, because I think they should have names. These are individuals. The type of whale it was August 12, 2023. And, by the way, this book covers up to 2025. Okay, type of whale humpback whale.

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Location Tannahassee Beach in Long Branch, new Jersey. Distance from the nearest wind farm approximately 25 miles from the South Fork Wind Farm. This is the detail you're getting in this book. Okay, and I do the. I research each and every whale. I do the. I research each and every whale 100 whales. I research each and every whale.

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Age was a juvenile, approximately three years old. Okay, so fear story. Sophia was a playful and curious juvenile humpback whale, just three years old, full of life and potential. Born in the warm southern waters, she had joined her mother and their pod on their annual migration to the nutrient-rich northern feeding grounds. Like any young whale, she was learning the intricacies of the ocean, how to hunt, communicate and navigate through its vast expanse. Zephir had a special bond with her mother in pod. Her days were filled with the breaching and swimming close to her family, learning their ways while offering her youthful energy to the group. She was vital to her pod, not just as a future breeder but as a beacon of hope for the community in continuity of their line.

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In the fragile balance of the humpback population, every juvenile represents decades of potential, life, breeding and leadership. But in the waters of Long Branch, new Jersey, saphir's world changed. The hum of the South Fork wind farm, located 25 miles away, created an invisible barrier of noise that disoriented her and masked the calls of her pod. For as young as Saphir, sound was critical for survival. It was how she stayed close to her mother, how she found food and how she understood her environment. The relentless noise turned the ocean into a maze of confusion. Separated from her pod and overwhelmed, sophia wandered closer to the shoreline, where the currents eventually carried her to the Tallahassee Beach.

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Her small, lifeless body was discovered on August 12, 2023, a stark reminder of the fragility of her species. A stark reminder of the fragility of her species. At just three years old, she should have had decades ahead of her, decades to grow, reproduce and lead her pod. Her death represents an irreplaceable loss, not just to her family, but to the delicate balance of the marine ecosystems, but to the delicate balance of the marine ecosystems. And now this is the part that I like about. And every single whale is represented this way, okay. Pro-wind comments.

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Wind energy advocates were quick to dismiss any connection between Sophia's death and the nearby wind farm. Instead, they attributed her death to entanglement, stress or pre-existing conditions, ignoring the broader context of frequent whale strandings in the area. Their narrative emphasized natural whale mortality as the cause, sidestepping any discussion of the impact of offshore turbines. Anti-wind comments. So I have both the wind and the pro-wind and the anti-wind. Anti-wind activists highlighted the disturbing pattern of strandings near wind farms and pointed to the increasing noise pollution as a significant factor. They argued that the disorientation caused by the turbines likely led to severe separation from her pod, a critical blow to a juvenile survival. Survival Activists decried the lack of transparency in necropsy reports and criticized the ongoing denial of industrial impacts on the marine life. So we're talking about 2023 and this stuff is still going on. Okay Disposal, and a lot of people never ask where they put the whales when they die. There's a hundred of these.

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Zafir's body was quietly buried at Tallahassee Beach with no public acknowledgement or memorial to mark her passing. Her death, like many others, was treated as an inconvenience rather than a tragedy. By burying her story along with her body, authorities effectively silenced local outrage and avoided deeper questions about the cumulative impact of offshore wind farms on marine life. Media coverage and I have this for every single whale Local news briefly covered Saphir's death, reporting vague theories about natural causes and entanglement stress. The coverage failed to mention the proximity of the South Fork wind farm or the growing evidence linking turbine noise to whale disorientation to whale disorientation. National outlets ignored the story entirely and search engines prioritized narratives supporting wind energy, burying dissenting voices. The lack of transparency and accountability only deepened the tragedy of the public, as the public was denied the chance to fully grasp the cost of offshore industrialization.

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The importance of juvenile whales to fear death is particularly heartbreaking because of her age. As a juvenile, she represents the future of her pod. Each young whale is critical to the survival of humpbacks as a species, especially in the face of declining populations and environmental threats. Juveniles not only ensure the continuity of their family lines, but also contribute to the stability of their pods, learning from older whales and eventually becoming leaders and breeders. Asaphia is just a loss of life. It's a loss of decades of potential.

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Okay, and then I give you, with each whale, all of the references where I got the articles, where I got the information that I used to put together this article. And so if you're going to be an activist and you want to fight a list, I mean this is if you go to the national excuse me, I have to look at this Okay, if you go to the Whale Stranding by Species in Marine Mammal Stranding Center, which is a local organization, you're going to get something like this and you're going to get a spreadsheet like that that I cannot read. From this spreadsheet. I was able to painstakingly take out each whale and then go into the articles that talked about her and put together this book for 100 whales. Okay, so this is what you get as data. This is the most horrible thing disgusting. It's as if they took your family and reduced it to a spreadsheet and said oh look, how sorry we are that your family died from COVID and they give you a spreadsheet about them and no memorial and no discussion of how you died or nothing about how you lived, of how you died or nothing about how you lived. This is what they think of whales as spreadsheet. Okay, this is, I would say, how would you say, dehumanizing, when it de-whalenizing, because these creatures are self-aware. These are individuals. You don't treat them with a spreadsheet. You have to honor them.

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They're important to the global climate. Each whale actually stores tons of carbon into their bodies. To stop climate change. You're worried about carbon, where the bodies of whales are storing the carbon for 80 years because they weigh thousands of tons. And if you kill it, guess what happens? All that carbon goes back into the air, okay, as it decomposes, and under the sand, wherever. And guess what? Methane is created when you kill the whale. Guess what? Methane is created when you kill the whale.

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So if you are a climate activist, killing whales is not good either. Your windmills are not helping. They're making things worse. Okay, on top of the fact that the windmills take a lot more carbon to produce because you need steel, you need concrete, you need electrical cables, you need power to to install them and to make those plastic to make those uh wind, uh windmill, um, those windmills all of this material costs carbon. You release carbon to make those materials for the energy. So overall, windmills are said to maybe offset the carbon by 20%, but a lot less with the maintenance. So it costs a lot more money, but in reality it's not that much better than the burning fuel right now.

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So it's really questionable whether it's worth the $87 per kilowatt hour that we're spending to install these things. It's questionable and definitely it's a no-brainer that if it's costing the lives of a species like humpback whales that is endangered, at any cost, no matter what it saves me in money, I don't want them. I'd rather pay to have them taken down than to kill those animals. Personally, I don't know what you think, if you feel that it's worth it for you to charge your phone with the electricity you're making from the wind over and that you don't care if the whales die. That's your opinion. In my opinion, I will prioritize the whales, okay, because I feel that that's something I want to leave for my grandchildren the ability to go on a whale trip and see this animal. If you kill them all, they'll never see them, okay. Well, by then they probably will have come out with some other form of electricity that you won't need windmills, you won't need anything. It'll just be a micro, small nuclear reactor. I understand this is happening and I'm going to write another report that you know.

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Windmills are going to become old hat anyway. They're going to go away because it's not high tech and, uh, there's gonna be other forms of energy. So it's better to take them down now, uh, and let the whales live for the future, because we're gonna find other ways to make energy, and there are many other ways to make energy right now. We just have to be led by the right people in Washington who understand technology. If you look at AI, for example, bill Gates is making windmills for his AI. Ai takes an enormous amount of energy to run. Ai requires computers that require cooling and a lot of energy. He's not using windmills for that, oh no, he's using small nuclear reactors Guess what? So if they're not using it, why should we? Okay, they can come up with new technologies when it comes to the money they got to make with AI, and those technologies are available. It's just that they're not going in that direction in Washington. They want to go in the direction that makes them more money.

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So, anyway, I've talked enough. I want to talk about one more thing before I go, and this has been a long one, before I go, and this has been a long one kind of a sad commentary on the state of things politically. Okay, and I'm going to show you the slide. Let me put the slide up. Okay, this is a list of people that have found when I posted that I had 30 whales that I had verified, double verified, that died as a result of whale um, of um, of wind, and that I was publishing a book.

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These are a list of people that trolled me in one of the supposedly anti-wind groups, and especially this lady here. I'm not going to say her name, but you can see her and there's this guy who supposedly is anti-wind. He shows up at meetings, whatever they called me every name in the book. They don't know me from Adam. They even called my husband names and they don't know me from Adam. They even called my husband names and they don't know him from Adam.

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They said that I was a fraud and a scammer, that I never did any research and it was all a lie. I was just trying to take money from people and there was no research. They went on my Amazon book and said look, your book has no information, because they downloaded the sample of the book and in the sample it shows you the table of contents of maybe the last two pages. So they said you see, your book has nothing in it, so you're a scammer. Okay, then they proceeded to tell everybody else that I was a scammer and a troll and that I was not genuine and I don't know. I didn't know any of this was going on. I got a call from the admin guy and he told me and showed me what was going on and I'm like what is going on with these people? Okay, so I told them off because I am not one to shut up. I wish I were, but I'm not one to shut up. So I told them all off and it wasn't pretty. And then I proceeded to block all of these people, including this lady who was the start of the mess. These two people were the I call the seed trolls. They're the people start of the mess. These two people were the I call the seed trolls. They're the people that start the mess.

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They first come in and they say you say there are 300 whales died. Can you show me a detailed list of those 300 whales? And I'm like, no, I got it out of a magazine. 300 whales is what they said oh, you must be a scammer. And I said can you send me the list? I said no, I don't have it. But if you want to buy the book, oh, you're a scammer. You're trying to take people for money by selling the book. Okay, okay, whatever, you know, bye-bye.

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And then this other guy comes in and he goes oh no, you are putting out all these AI cool videos. You're trying to get ahead. You're coming out of nowhere. Nobody knows you. What is your resume? I said to him my resume Lydia Lupinto. Can you Google? Just type my name. You'll find my resume. It's on LinkedIn, it's online, it's everywhere. I have lots of books. I don't know why are you having a problem finding me? Okay, so you can do better than this. You are not telling us who you are. I'm telling you who I am. My name is Lydia Lopinto. You can just Google me. I have a profile. It gives you all the links to everything that I have.

Speaker 1:

The other one, too, is saying that I'm a fraud. I didn't write anything ever, okay. Then they went ahead and told everybody that I was a fraud and a scammer and I've never written a book and I'm just going to take the money I don't know. So I blocked them, okay, blocked them, got out of the group and said bye-bye, all right, I thought that would be the end of it. Oh no, oh no. They told all their friends to go troll me at my profile.

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So now every time I post uh, a post saying I have now found 100 dead whales, this guy here I'm not going to mention his name, his name is bta okay. He puts a laughing sign like this is hysterical, that 100 whales have died. This is funny to him. So he puts that. And then two or three of these guys follow me around putting smileys or laughing things, emojis on everything, okay, and some of them still calling me fraud and telling everybody they can that I'm a fraud and a troll. All right, so I started doing some research, because that's what I do I do research, okay.

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So I found out that these people have very questionable profiles. They have a few posts of illegible maps of wherever these whales landed, and then some posts about cats and some posts about dogs and some other posts that are totally random and don't indicate in any way that these people are activists. They're posting a map once in a while. Okay, I've posted hundreds of maps and hundreds of videos and books and everything, and they post. In three years, they posted a little map that you can't read because it's too small. So that's the level of activism.

Speaker 1:

What does this tell me? That they attack me the minute they hear that I have a hundred whales that I verified and I'm writing a book. Who could they be working for? Could it be Mr Murphy? I don't know, but somebody's paying them to troll me. Okay, because why would they waste their time all day long trolling me around the internet when I go to so many sites and putting laughing things on all my little posts about dead whales? Like, who thinks that a dead whale is funny? Okay, nobody, except crazy people or trolls think that it's funny. So these people are being paid. Why are they being paid? Because someone that has this spreadsheet eligible of whales that died nobody cares about. They're an org. That organization, they don't have a voice, okay. But someone who's an author and who writes a 300 page book honoring 100 whales and already has nine books that are selling overseas about whales and all kinds of stuff, this person might be a problem. So we need to troll her. We need to bother her. We need to get her out of the groups. We need to threaten her Okay, threaten her. Okay. Threaten her with whatever. Okay, we need to bother her. We need to make her feel bad about herself so she'll quit, okay. So, okay, this is who they are.

Speaker 1:

I told these two that I'm filing a lawsuit for slander because they don't know me or my husband from Adam. They put my names down and said they were frauds. I have 40 years of experience. My husband has nothing to do with any of this. This is what's going on with Mr Murphy and his trolls and people who pretend to be activists, but I call them and I'm going to move this away here because that's it. I don't want it at the end of the video. All right, here we go.

Speaker 1:

This is what happens with people who pretend to be activists. I call them the activists. These are people that hang around on the internet. They form groups, they post illegible posts and memes and troll people and gossip about people and then get together and have beer together and they claim they're activists. But they haven't gone to a demonstration, they haven't done anything. Maybe they showed up to a meeting and they said something and now I'm an activist. Meanwhile, in the last three, four years that these people have been hanging around, we have had about 30 new wind projects go.

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In my area, where I live, two wind projects were stopped on their tracks by Mr Van Drew, our congressman, and I love him. He's such a good man and he stopped those projects, thank you God. Okay, that man is amazing and he stopped them, but nobody else was able to stop them. Why? Because we have these trolls that are really working for the opposition but pretending to be activists, but all they do is disrupt, divide, gossip, slander people and God knows what and act ridiculous, and they think they're going to take all of this nonsense that they cook up for themselves. I mean this insanity of looking at an Amazon's book it's just the beginning and the end of it and saying that I have written no book. There's nothing in there. Okay, this is the kind of people that are running your government. This is the kind of people they hire to stop you from listening to the truth. These are the kinds of people that work pretending to be activists but they are in reality, working for the opposition. All right, they're disruptors and they're corruptors. Disruptors, and they're really there to get rid of anybody that really has information that can help stop the project, and that's, unfortunately, me. Sadly, I think they have trolled the wrong Karen. I've been a Karen for years. I just don't let go, and these people are going to suffer dearly for having slandered me. They just don't know what's coming. It's coming. They just don't know what's coming. All right guys, thank you everybody and I hope you.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to price this book a lot less. My regular reports go for $25, but this one, I think I'm going to price it about half. I'm going to make less money, but I want more people. I want more people to read it. I'm going to make almost no money. Amazon takes most of the money. By the way, I don't make a lot of money off these things, but Amazon is making money, but I'm going to hopefully get you to read this book.

Speaker 1:

It's going to be a larger format and I use big fonts because I have trouble seeing, so I assume a lot of people have trouble seeing small fonts, so I make all my fonts big and easy to read and it's got nice illustrations of whales, which I think will be cute, and I think it's the kind of thing you could also read to a teenager or a child and teachers could use it. They could take one of the stories and tell it in the class pick a whale that they want. Maybe each one of the kids can read the one whale that they pick or something. You could do many things with this book. Okay, it has a lot of good information, it's educational and I think you'll like it, and I'll be finishing it up in another week. It's not done yet, but I have a big piece of it done. So thank you everybody and thank you for listening. Bye-bye.