Clover Leaf Chronicles

Whales, Wind Farms, and the Search for Truth: Navigating the Sea of Controversy

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Speaker 2:

Thank you. Thank you, hello everybody. I'm a little early today and I hope everybody is watching. Today I have some news for you and some updates on the book I'm working on and some of the other books that I work on, and let's discuss what I do and who I am. For the people that are new to the groups, let me just take the chat here. I will have the chat for a little bit, but not not forever, okay, um, so if I get new comments, I get to see it on the screen. However, I don't know how well this is going to work out, okay, uh, sometimes, groups okay so, um, for the people that are new to the group, I am broadcasting to several channels.

Speaker 2:

I'm broadcasting to my own stream on the Lydia Lopinto. I'm also broadcasting to the new group, save the Humpback Whales from Windmills, which is brand new and it's growing, uh, quite well. And at the same time, I'm broadcasting to my publishing house, which is cloverleaf publications. So, uh, we have some great news about the trolls. As you know, I've been engaging the trolls. As you know, I've been engaging on a donkey of our whales, a tribute to all the dead whales. It's got poems, it's got stories about baby whales, it's got everything. It's got data. It also has two sides of every story the pro-wind people saying that it wasn't the windmills that did it and the activists saying it was the windmills that did it. So, for every whale, I showed the two sides of the story and you can decide which one you side with. But for my group, I know which side you're siding with with. But for my group, I know what side you're siding with. Okay, so it's going to be a few minutes before the time that I announced, which was 730. And it's been kind of an exciting week for me because, for some reason, somebody has paid for trolling, because the people that have been trolling me are not amateurs. These are people that know exactly what to say on a troll post.

Speaker 2:

I took some of their posts, which were huge. They post huge posts of things, post huge posts of things and I'm like who are these people and where do they get the time to post 300 words on a post about a book, about mourning our whales? I don't understand this. What is going on with these people? But they do. They also don't like this group saving the humpback whales from windmills. I really cannot even begin to fathom what kind of people see this group with all these dead whales in the picture, all these windmills in the back, and they come in and they put laughing emojis on it. I have to say that's pretty bizarre. Well, that's dark, that's really dark and cold. They're going to laugh at the dead whales.

Speaker 2:

I don't understand how these people operate, but I do. What I do is there are announcements for the group that I advertise and on this announcements, um, sometimes they post an emoji to show how unhappy they are. Except I don't think they understand that a haha emoji means you're laughing at it. I I don't know if these trolls are Americans, or they could be Chinese or Russian, because, as I posted in my group, there is a whole set of campaigns to astroturf the green energy power from windmills, and that has intensified since Mr Trump, or President Trump, is now going to be inaugurated and he will be president as of January 20th, I think, and I posted that he said on a news program that he was going to end the subsidies for the windmills. Now let me explain to you how important this statement he made is.

Speaker 2:

For every billion dollar windmill project that's out there and there are many uh, this means that they're going to lose all their jobs. They're not going to be able to build these things without a subsidy, because the subsidy amounts to 30% of the total project. That's no small amount. That means they're not going to have any kind of profit, because generally profit is about 30 percent. So the one, for example, that we're getting here at um atlantic shores, uh, which I just put in my public comment for by mr murphy or governor murphy, um, those people are very worried because, while the New Jersey state is all Democrat, the subsidies are coming from the federal government and so, without that money, if that Trump just cuts off the money. You know he's hiring Elon Musk to do the cutting. He's the man, is man, has got no soul. He'll do it. You know They'll just cut the subsidies. That means they're not getting a check, even though they might have had an agreement that they were going to do this and when they got done they were going to get a check. They're not getting a check, so who's going to pay for these windmills?

Speaker 2:

In addition to that, as things start changing in the local governments, more and more anti-wind people are going to be in there, and anti-wind there's not just Republicans, as you might think. Republicans, as you might think, anti-wind could be. Any number of environmentalists, could be Democrat or Republican, any number of people who are independents the independents are a big group and they would not be in favor of the wind generally and a lot of the people that are pro-wind, a lot of the people like the teachers and the ones that are real Democrats, that have always been Democrat, and they'll go along with whatever seems, whatever narrative the Democrats put out, no matter how bizarre it might be. Okay, so, pretty much knowing the market, I could tell you that in New Jersey we're having kind of a change, kind of a reset, and the Republicans may be much more in charge, but we're also talking not just Republicans, we're talking independents and we're talking Democrats who don't want the whales harmed, who don't think this is the right green energy that we should be pursuing. First of all, it's four times as expensive as windmills on the ground on land, and it is too many subsidies and with the subsidies being cut off, they're not going to be able to make a profit. So what will happen if Mr Trump decides I'm sorry, president Trump decides to cut off all the subsidies to these incoming windmills windmills? It's going to be disastrous for that industry. Of course they're desperate and they're trolling me, thinking that I'm going to do something to their business. I'm not.

Speaker 2:

What I am is an independent journalist. I research things scientifically, I go through and collect information and summarize it. I don't make up the stuff. I use AI to summarize the information. I go and grab information from local newspapers, because they're the last vestige of true journalism left in this country. Everything else is unfortunately compromised. Everything else is managed by the narrative of whoever wants to push a certain agenda. It could be Democrats, but it could be other people. It could be Democrats, but it could be other people. Okay.

Speaker 2:

So what I find is that many of the search engines are biased and I do actual scientific tests to show that something is biased. I use AI and other tools to determine if the listings that they put out are biased, to determine if the listings that they put out are biased, and that would actually detect the algorithm that they're using. And many of these search engines that are mainstream search engines, the ones that everybody uses, are going to be biased. So I have to skip those and go to other, lesser known but very good search engines. I mean, a lot of people don't realize that there are many, many, many search engines out there, including foreign ones, and they put out good information, because it's basically a data aggregator. It goes around trolling I don't know if I say trolling or scraping the information on the internet throughout the internet, summarizing it and listing it in some way that it can be searched. It's really an index. So a search engine is nothing out of this world. They existed years ago, before Google started, and they have many of these, these and they're very good. They do probably as good a job or better than Google, except a lot of them are not politically compromised. They don't take money from groups in order to prioritize the search engines data. Okay, so that's what I'm looking for Now, as far as the local journalists are the people that first see that whale, other than the people who found the whale.

Speaker 2:

That person who found the whale might call either the local police or the fire department and someone will tell the newspaper that this happened, and the newspaper from the local organization in that town because these are very small towns, you know will come over and take a picture, make a little report, find out anything they can find out about this whale from the people there. Now, if they want to do a necropsy, which is they have to figure out what killed this whale well, they have to pay for it. I don't think they're all free. Okay, so they have to get a hold of an organization that has a crop c? Uh group that can come in and figure out what's wrong with this, what, what happened to this. Well, well, in my databases I take the data. I find out that at least something like 50% or less are actually evaluated to see what hit them. Less than 50%.

Speaker 2:

The people that do the necropsy are very busy people and they don't get to every whale, so they'll pick and choose which whales they're going to report on and, of course, because they'll usually pick the ones that have been caught in a net or they think had been run over by a ship. You know, the ones that were not are usually just buried in the sand. And this I'm getting off from the articles. I don't, you know. I read the articles and find out what happened to the whale. Sometimes they let it float out to sea and leave it there to decompose, which is a hazard, a hazard to navigation. I don't know why they even do that, because this thing is huge and other times they simply bring in bulldozers and bury it deep in the sand and let it decompose by itself. Before, if there was no necropsy done, because they couldn't get a hold of the people that come and do it. It's too far sometimes, or maybe they don't have a service. Sometimes, if they're in Long Island, it also seems to be a service to do that. We have a service here in New Jersey, but not everywhere that I've seen.

Speaker 2:

The other thing I found out is that some of the whale watching clubs, they name these whales according to the tail markings. So in other words, when this whale dives, the tail is up from the markings on the tail, which would be like a pattern like my fingers. Okay, they can tell the binoculars what whale that was and they have little names for them to sort of track them. I'm not sure of how accurate this method of naming whales really is. Uh, they say that each marking could be like a fingerprint, but I've seen catalogs of these markings and I couldn't tell from adam which one was which I. I went on whaling trip. They give you. I went on a whaling trip and they give you these catalogs for you to look at and to see if they can identify. But I couldn't. And I looked at it and looked at it and couldn't tell. So I really don't know how accurate this identification really is.

Speaker 2:

But when the whales die, if the whale has not had their tail bitten off by a shark, which will always be the case the other animals, once the whale passes away, they'll come in and start biting at it and by the time it gets to shore, pieces of it are going to be gone and they end up on shore. Maybe not a whole whale, maybe it's just a piece of it. So going to be gone and they end up unsure. Maybe not a whole whale, maybe it's just a piece of it. So if the tail's not there, it's an unnamed whale and that is most of the cases. Most of the cases there's no name because they couldn't match that whale to the original catalog that the whale watch is used, and I think there are several uh around. So I don't know. I'm not sure that all these names are cataloged in a database where they can really exchange information and, as I said, it takes a good eye to really determine what the name of that particular whale was from the tail. If the tail's not there, you have no luck. So in order to, since part of my book is data, the other part is a little dramatization of what each whale went through before they died and who their family was, what their role in the pod is, because these are families and each has a role depending on the age, and we know the age of the whale, we know the species of the whale, we know how big it was, we know if they had a name or not, so we can get a lot of information from that data.

Speaker 2:

We also know what the journalists said about the whale when they published their local article. It could be a small press, a small independent newspaper that published it. It could be a little larger newspaper. This is before the mainstream media, as I call the national news, picks up on that. Now, for over 100 whales that I have cataloged, there's only a handful. Actually, these were picked up by the main media or the national media Very, very few.

Speaker 2:

They're not going to devote any time to a dead whale in a small town in Long Island or in New Jersey. They just won't. It's not national news. Okay, they have other stories to talk about, such as, you know, celebrities or whatever you know, whatever they talk about, that sells them newspapers and sells them advertising. They're not going to spend any time on a dead whale. They might mention it as like a tiny headline and they're definitely not going to give you all the information because there's no room and time for that. So, and they may pick this up only if the local news actually publishes this in some sort of digital network that will distribute that news. Not everybody does that because that costs money and they're not going to always do it. So if you're running a small newspaper or a small, sometimes the newspaper is advertising for the town, or it could be many, many types of newspapers, or it could just be a website that they run with the news. They may not have the money or time to really send information to the mainstream media because they're not in the business of distributing information. They're in the business of basically serving the local community. So there's no profit to be made by giving this information to NBC News, cbs News, any of those. Why should they? And the articles? As I know some people that have been working as independent journalists in these small towns.

Speaker 2:

A lot of newspapers get syndicated articles from routers and other places. It costs money to get those and to publish those. Or they may have a local reporter or a young person usually that goes out and does the light work and goes out and and takes a look at the whale and does everything that needs to be done. They file the article with the newspaper and they've made money. Okay, as a reporter. That reporter that's an independent reporter like Clark Kent. Okay, in Superman it's Clark Kent. He was a reporter although he worked for a publishing company. But they don't get news from Reuters. They don't get news from them and from many other syndicated journalists' copy they don't. So they may have some articles that they'll use to fill in, but mostly they try to publish articles that are for the community. Some small newspapers don't have a local reporter that they're paying, so they're maybe only publishing things that come in in the syndicated systems. Okay, so it depends on each town how they're going to report this whale.

Speaker 2:

Okay, now there are organizations throughout that have the job of compiling the data on the dead whale. They will do necropsies, they will identify them, they'll do any number of things and keep larger databases them. They'll do any number of things and keep larger databases. However, if something happens today, it's going to take a few weeks before the organization gets to that data and puts it on their website or actually analyzes it. They have many towns they're working with, so there's a big delay between the data being found by the reporter if there was a reporter and then the data being sent to an organization that catalogs that data, keeps it on spreadsheets and then publishes reports, keeps them spreadsheets and then publishes reports.

Speaker 2:

The other problem, of course, is these organizations need money to operate, to run their computers and run their spreadsheets and everything they're doing and the people do the necropsies. They need money, and where are they going to get the money? There's not that much money out there that will pay for their time from donations from activists. Activists don't have any money, so it's the companies trying to sell the windmills themselves that usually like to pay for these services, or the government. And if the government grant is going to be skewed because the government is pushing the windmill, so you can see that there's a little problem there. And who's funding the research? Okay, so you're going to see a lot of bias in the results and that you have to analyze each report and go through and determine if this report makes sense, which is not an easy task.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so, as a researcher, I rely on a number of numerous programs that go through the text and the data to determine these things, and I put this together into articles for each whale. And I and I have other articles in the book talking about or educating you about wind power, about how the government deals with it, about how the ships avoid the whales and any number of other things and information, so that it becomes sort of a reference as well as a nice book to honor each whale. So enough about this. I think I've talked about this book enough. I am only 30% done with it, which is frustrating me because I keep finding more whales and I want to give them all an equal chance. So it's going to take me several weeks to finalize this book. So let's move on to trying to several weeks to finalize this book, okay. So let's move on to trying to read you a piece of this book. And let me get to the notes. And, okay, the whale's name is Echo, okay. Okay. So the whale's name is Echo and each whale has a name.

Speaker 2:

And I describe the whale based on the age of the whale. We know what kind of role they had in their pod because they are a social animal. They are an intelligent animal. They are a self-aware animal, which rates them very high on the intelligence scale. Any animal that is self-aware and recognizes themselves in a mirror is highly intelligent. I believe chimpanzees and maybe gorillas can determine that this is them in the mirror and not somebody else. I'm not sure, but I know whales can and they've done tests about this and all of this. So, self-aware whales. I don't know if that means that we should care more about the whales, because they're self-aware, instead of caring equally about the dolphins. Okay, the dolphins, okay. So I think that.

Speaker 2:

Let me read to you this and and read to you one of the chapters, of many chapters, in this book. Okay, morning prayer for echo. Oh, morning Prayer for Echo. O gentle, spirit of the open sea, your journey ended too soon, too silently, with calls unanswered and pathways unclear. You left behind a tale we must hear. May your memory guide our way to protect you, your kin and oceans each day. Date of his death was November 7th, 2023.

Speaker 2:

Type of whale was a humpback whale. Location in New York, new Jersey, bight, and from the nearest wind farm to this whale was 55 miles from the South Park wind farm. Okay, the age of this juvenile was five years old. Now let me explain. A five-year-old whale, it's like a five-year-old child. Okay, in the whale world it's not an adult yet they live about 80 years, so this is quite a young animal.

Speaker 2:

Echo's story. Echo was a young and vibrant humpback whale just beginning to explore the vast ocean world. At five years old, she was at a critical stage of her development, learning the vital skills needed for survival, navigating the currents, finding food and understanding the calls of her pod. Born in the southern breeding grounds, she had already made several migrations with her family to the rich feeding waters of the north. So it's important to know that they migrate several times. He might have migrated five times already, but the whales of the New York, new Jersey, once haven for marine life, had become a treacherous environment. The constant hum of human activity, from vessels to underwater turbines, turned the ocean into a cacophony of noise. For echo, these disruptions created a barrier of confusion masking the sounds she relied on to locate her pod, find prey and avoid dangers.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so for those like the trolls who call me and tell me that I don't have evidence for this, all I can say is President Trump just said that the windmills drive all the whales crazy. A man has a way to really summarize it to the bare essentials, doesn't he? And it's true. It's true, it's driving them crazy. Okay. Pro-wind comments. I have a pro-wind and an anti-wind comments summar. I have a pro wind in an ante wind comments summarized for each whale, so they get the pro-wind. People get 100 entries of at least one or two paragraphs in this database, so they can't complain that I left them out, okay. Pro-wind comments.

Speaker 2:

Advocates for offshore wind energy dismissed connections of ECHO's death, attributing it instead to prey scarcity caused by climate change. They emphasize the magic word climate change. All right, let me stop here. Climate change, give me a break. Climate change, give me a break. Climate change. The wheels go from all the way up north, where it's cold, where it's frozen, all the way to the south in one year, where it's hot. Climate change will have absolutely nothing to do with their demise.

Speaker 2:

There is food everywhere, okay, the food that they eat can live in the cold, they can live in the warm, they can live in different places. So they have zero evidence, zero scientific evidence that shows that there is less food because of climate change. They don't have any temperature data. They don't have any fish counts. They don't have any information to verify that. This is just garbage. It's not scientific whatsoever. This is part of their narrative, okay, and I don't believe it. There's no climate change. Whales have been on this earth for millions of years, through hot periods, ice ages, all kinds of things, and now the climate change they've invented is going to change.

Speaker 2:

No, I'm pretty sure that those giant machines that make a lot of noise and have a lot of power and wires all over the place, I'm pretty sure those things have something to do with the dead whales. But they say I need scientific evidence, as if the numbers themselves, of which they keep piling up every month. There's more. Those are not evidence. I don't know what kind of evidence they have, but they have zero evidence that a sheep hurt this whale or that a net hurt the whale, because in the majority of cases there was no necropsy, because they either couldn't afford it, the people weren't available and they just buried the whale before it smelled too much and harmed people with decomposition. Of course, for health reasons, they have to bury it. So I don't blame the town for burying the whale. They have to. What are they going to do? It's decomposing. These people might not show up for weeks. They can't leave that whale there decomposing outside. They don't have a service for the necropsy, so they take advantage of the fact that necropsy services are unavailable and they say that that's why we don't have any evidence, while there's people observing the whale and people take notes and they tell you what it looks like. Oh, they don't accept that. So the pro-wind industry and the trolls are full of it. They just want to protect their industry. They don't want the money to stop. They think that by trolling people with information like myself, they're going to somehow save their industry.

Speaker 2:

And I'm not going to read the rest of this because I have too much other stuff to say. You can purchase the book when it's ready, but all I can tell you is the more whales I document, the more the patterns become very familiar. We're talking about original articles by the local newspapers. We're talking about organizations that catalog the data. We're talking about independent reports that talk about this and, yes, there are people that do believe that windmills are killing whales. I do believe that windmills are killing whales. There's been a recent documentary about it, showing you exactly what the noise is and what these whales have to deal with, and there's also books written about it. There's a lot of people that wrote about this, not just me know. Of course there are. I just have a different approach to how I'm documenting this, in a different research method.

Speaker 2:

But there are many people doing this work, but they're silenced constantly, silenced constantly, trolled constantly. They come in and they try to demoralize you, call your names, libel you all kinds of things that they're doing. I have posted in my group some of the posts on the trolls. It's getting so bad that I have to have AI analyze these posts to see if they're trolls enough and they are, and AI has no heart. It it's brutal. It'll tell you right away this is a troll. And not only that is he a troll, he's being paid to be a troll. Ai can recognize that from the text. It's amazing. It saved me so much time, because I used to read these things, this garbage, and now, instead of getting upset about it, I just cut and paste it into the AI and it tells me oh, don't worry about this, this is total garbage, this is just a troll, get rid of this and that's it.

Speaker 2:

So I really have to be careful about my time, because I'm working on a book and I have a couple of other books that I'm working on and so I don't have time for these trolls. But they are relentless. They come in and one of them begged me four times to get into the group so he can educate everybody about how this is a group that thinks that windmills are killing the whales. Everybody that comes in thinks that windmills are killing the whales, so comes in, thinks that windmills are killing the whale. So he asked me if he could come in and present the evidence that it's not true. I said I don't care about your evidence, I don't believe your evidence. Your only evidence is that we have no proof, and at the same time I could say that you have no proof. So where are we? There's no evidence here that you have. You have no evidence of anything. So I think we have evidence, we have data, and it doesn't matter if there's data or not.

Speaker 2:

If people perceive that these animals are dying because of the windmills and they know in their hearts that they've seen more and more deaths of these animals over the span of three years, I trust those people. They live there all their lives. If these people don't think these machines look good in front of their water, I don't care. I think they're right. They're still ruining the environment. If these people think that it's hurting the fish or hurting the marine life, they sure right. They're still ruining the environment. If these people think that it's hurting the fish or hurting the marine life, they sure do. They make a lot of noise. They're pollution. They have oil that leaks. And if these people think that these things should be dismantled now, before the companies run off and leave them to rust in the middle of the water to harm the wildlife, I tend to agree with them.

Speaker 2:

So I really don't care about the trolls' evidence, when they come in with an attitude of dismissing what we stand for, dismissing our evidence, and also insult me. He came in with an insulting approach, which AI identified, and then he asked me if he could join my group please. I said no, you're being nasty, go away. You know, come in with a better attitude. Maybe you can come in, but with this attitude of yours I don't think you're coming in. You know so, that was I. You're coming in. You know so that was I. Had, like, I think, two or three trolls today. They come in to troll me. I don't know what their problem is. You know, I really don't know. I think either.

Speaker 2:

I can't believe that these people are not paid to do their work because they're trolling me. During like work hours, two or three o'clock in the afternoon, they're trolling me. So what are they doing for a living? How are they working? They're not working. That is their job. That's why they're doing it. They sit in an office and they get paid to do this job. So that's why they're doing it and they have plenty of time because that's what they get paid to do this job. So that's why they're doing it and they have plenty of time because that's what they get paid for. If they were volunteers not getting paid to do this, they would have no time to do it. They'd be at McDonald's or Burger King flipping burgers. They would have no time to troll me, so they're getting paid to do it.

Speaker 2:

Now I exposed the three main companies that engage the trolls. And yes, there are major companies that are busy greenwashing and astroturfing environmental groups, and this is a big issue, and I summarized an article that appeared in a major publication. Summarize an article that appeared in a major publication. Yes, they astroturf because, you know, this is how they protect their business. Of course, they have to astroturf and they hire these people to go around. It's the equivalent of advertising the trolling. And the companies that offer these services, you know, claim that they get better results if they troll rather than they just put out an advertisement that they pay for per click. Okay, this is a business to troll, but there are three major companies. One is a Russian company, the other one is a Chinese company, is a Russian company, the other one is a Chinese company and the third one, I think, is Crowd. It's in my. You have to go into my website and find out. It's Crowd something.

Speaker 2:

It's basically they hire people to go to demonstrations to pretend that they have a lot of support to troll and do these kinds of things, so showing to you that this is all fake, that none of the stuff you see on television is real, that if somebody's demonstrating for something, they've been paid to do so and the company advertises this and you can go and buy yourself 100 people to show up if you want to, if you have enough money, whatever money you have, you can show up and demand 1,000 people and they have a network and they'll travel there and they'll each get paid for showing up. It's a very simple system. You make money that way. You might want to sign up, okay? So it's all fake. All of the stuff that you see on the news, all this it's fake.

Speaker 2:

There are companies that are paid to change narratives by advertising, by trolling, by showing up at demonstrations, and the government is trying to do something about it, but so far it hasn't gotten anywhere, because they use these services themselves when they run for elections, okay, so, yeah, we do have these trolling companies and I pretty much have identified them, and when they call me, I go. How's it going at that company where you work for. You know how much money are they spending on me and trolling me? I mean, I know they get paid a lot for each of these posts, a couple hundred dollars, I think. I said how do you think my book is that important that they're spending money on trolling me? I don't understand. So I didn't think my book, this, this one, is this important. Okay, I'm sorry, but it's not that important. It's a small book. I will sell it on Amazon and I'll have a few people buy it, but it's not going to be in the mainstream media. I don't write books like that, okay. So I don't know what they're afraid of, but they come to troll me. It's pathetic. They must be losing somehow. They're losing because they're desperate to troll somebody small instead of trolling. Trump, who is actually outright, said that he doesn't want the windmills. Okay, why don't they troll him? So it's really, really pathetic, in my opinion.

Speaker 2:

Before I end, I didn't go over the children's books. We didn't have time. I'll go over it another time. No, let's go over it now, because I'm tired of talking about this chat. So, oh, okay, I was supposed to talk about this. There's a book that I wrote several.

Speaker 2:

Climate change is really more of a political thing rather than a science-based thing, that the science is too buried in the politics. And so I wrote a book talking about the business of climate change and why it has become, instead of a science-based endeavor, it has become a political endeavor, and that, in reality, this whole panic is false and that the figures prove it. The chemistry proves it. Okay, it proves it. So I also have a database about a hundred scientists that have said that they don't agree with the climate change narrative and have done studies that disprove everything that they've done. Okay, so, anyway, as I say, I'm an aggregator of information. I take summaries from different types of articles and put them together into a book, like most writers do with books like this. Most writers do that they go and they look at references and they come to conclusions and they write a book. So I'm a book writer, okay, uh, but this book has taken off. This book is doing very well out there, so I'm surprised.

Speaker 2:

But being that this is the basis for the re, for having the windmills in the first place and spending more money on that energy than you would for other types of energy, then we're in trouble because the whole thing is based on a lie, okay, and if you read the book, you'll realize it's a lie and it's scientifically proven. It's a lie. It's just that, whatever data the scientists came up with, the politics twisted it to the point that they made a panic out of it and they created a whole business around it, because anytime there's a panic you can sell something to. And, according to them, if we just pay more taxes, the whole climate change will go away. They'll actually be able to stop it. Climate change is in the hands of politicians who tax you. The more taxes you pay, the more they can stop the climate change. Okay, when you say it like this, of course it sounds ridiculous, but that's how ridiculous it is.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so let's go back here, okay, okay, so I'm going to try to go to the children's books. So, unfortunately, the way this works, I'm going to try to go to the children's books. So, unfortunately, the way this works, I have to kind of search, replace, replace, replace. I don't know why it looks like this. Children's books, okay, so let's quickly go through the children's books. Okay, as you know, I own a publishing company called Cloverleaf Publications. I've had this for a long time. I had changed the name a while back because of a conflict with another publishing company, from Greenleaf Publications to Cloverleaf Publications. Okay, and I've been writing. I've been expanding my list of children's books and some of my best sellers are this this, this little guy here, lily the worry Monster, is one of them. And this guy, the Worry Monster, a story about childhood anxiety. This is one of my best sellers right now in the UK. I sell these everyday. Ok, it's about anxiety and kids do have a lot of anxiety and you know how to address that. Okay, this other book is also fairly popular. This is Licorice Inventors.

Speaker 2:

This is my dog and it talks about the wildlife in my little neighborhood. We have a little small forest in the back of our neighborhood. It's about five acres. It's very small but it has so many wild animals you wouldn't believe. And this is a story about my dog exploring the wildlife A fictional story. He never escaped through the forest, but I may believe he did. And the cat that he meets and it's a very cute story. It never escaped to the forest, but I may believe he did in the cat that he meets and it's a very cute story. It's very localized, it's about Little Lake Harbor, osborne Island, and there are recognizable characters because a lot of the people here they know these animals, they see them, they have names for them. This is how close the people living in an area like this become to the actual wild animals that live there. We know them by name, okay, we know who's who, and we cherish these animals. So this is another book that is very popular.

Speaker 2:

This one here, liquorice's Big Adventure Don't Patrol at Graveling Point Beach, little Lake Harbor, new Jersey, talks about the amazing cats of Little Lake Harbor. These are the condos, these are the dogs. This is a cute story and it's really local, but it actually sells overseas, believe it or not. Sells overseas, believe it or not. And this one also. It talks about Rutgers University and the wildlife over there, the wildlife that we're trying to protect. I'm not just trying to protect whales.

Speaker 2:

Each group protects a different animal and this is one of my favorites Leah and Spotty, the heartwarming rescue of a seal by a budding marine biologist. A paperback, and this is about a young girl who becomes attached to an animal, meets Spotty, this little spotted seal, and she plays with him and she, you know, plays ball with it and she helps him heal and wants to take him home and put him in the bathtub, as most kids would, wouldn't they? So, yeah, so that's what happens. And well, that's what happens. And kids become very attached to these animals and in this the picture in the front is Leah crying because she has to let go of her little puppy, her little spotted seal, which is like a puppy. They're really puppies. They're absolutely gorgeous and cute and everything and cuddly.

Speaker 2:

Okay, these animals, the spotted seals, are also part of the New Jersey wildlife and I am studying to see if these animals are getting and are being harmed by the windmills. I know of many dolphins that have been harmed by windmills and other things the fact that we have a lot of boats, a lot of recreational boats, and we see a lot of dead dolphins. So I am also studying the health effects of the nearby windmills on humans, because people have reported that they get earaches, their dogs get seizures, all kinds of things that I didn't know about. So the next book is going to study that, to see if people have been reporting these things and if they're being dismissed because of the wind industry. People have been reporting these things and if they're being dismissed because of the wind industry. So, of course, one of the big books that I'm going to be writing after this. One is called Beyond AstroTurfing because, as we explained, the narrative has been manipulated by industry in the woke movement, pushing out the garbage. And let me explain what happened to me today. So you know, okay. So you know what happened. All right, today.

Speaker 2:

Today, I was told by a troll that I was spreading this information. Have you heard that term before? I'm sure you have. And I said to him oh, so you're a fascist, because we were chatting, you know. I said you're a fascist. So who do you work for? Russia or China? I said because you know that that term is fascist term, right? He says no, it's not. I said yeah, when you say to somebody you're spreading disinformation, what you're saying is that you want to limit their freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and you want to ban my book because I'm saying something different than what your narrative is. So in America, I explained to him, we have freedom of the press. That means I can publish this book and I can say whatever I want in the book. And if it's not disinformation, it's information and you can decide to do whatever you want with it. As long as you pay for it. You can do what you want with it.

Speaker 2:

Lots of people publish all kinds of books and they are information or disinformation. You know whatever side you're in if they're information or disinformation. But disinformation is a fascist term. It's a term invented by the media to restrict our freedoms of speech and freedom of the press. What I am doing is independent journalism. Nobody has the right to come in and tell me I'm spreading disinformation. Nobody has that right, because this is America. I live in America.

Speaker 2:

If I wanted to live in Russia, I would be in Russia, but I'm not there. I would be in China. I'm not there because here I be in China. I'm not there because here I can publish my book and they can't do anything about it. They can, of course, troll me and spread lies about me and try to ruin my life and distract me, but they're not going to stop me from publishing the book. I will be publishing the book and if they don't let me publish it, I'll give it away. There's nothing they can do, so they should really stop bothering me because they're not going to win.

Speaker 2:

I've decided that I'm not going to let them win and I'm going to publish this beautiful book. It's really a beautiful, beautiful book. You're going to love it. You're going to love the stories about the whales. You're going to see them like you do your dog, like you do animals that you love. You'll see that the real animals that have families, that have intelligence, that they deserve better than what this wind industry is giving them Better. And the lies that are being told are so blatant and even the trolls are just kind of taking their masks off and showing who they really are that it's criminal. I think it's criminal what's happening to the whales.

Speaker 2:

I think these companies that have installed these because there are international regulations to protect whales, and none of these companies that installed these things quickly because they were getting the 30% money from the government really followed the rules or cared about international law. They didn't do enough studies, they didn't do enough research, they didn't do enough research, their permits were rushed through and now the whales are dying. Maybe if they had done things right and they had put these windmills in areas where these whales did not regularly travel for their yearly migrations, maybe it would have been okay. But because they didn't do any research and I'm not saying they didn't do any research because I don't know I downloaded the proposal from Atlantic Shores. I sent Mr Murphy my opinion. I didn't trust my own interpretation, so I fed the whole thing to AI and AI read it and said it was a piece of garbage. Okay, that's what AI says, that it's missing information. I wouldn't say it's a piece of garbage, but they strategically left out information such as the whale mortality rates, which are available free from their own funded organization. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center has the data but somehow is missing from the report.

Speaker 2:

So I think we've spoken enough. I think you guys know enough about what's going on. I think you're on the right track. I left you some articles about how you can make a difference. I know you think we're too few. We can't make a difference. There's too many trolls. There's too many industry people fighting us. No, that's not true. They hire a bunch of troll, rent-a-troll guys from Russia to troll you. There's not that many of them. There's just a handful who are manipulating the narrative in changing things. So it seems to you that you're alone. You're not alone. You're a powerful voice as members of this group, and what I suggest to you and I left you an article is write letters to the editor.

Speaker 2:

Every town has a small newspaper. Make a list of this and you can look them up online and send them each. Not a letter on the email, no, no, don't do that. Write it down by hand, if possible, and send it with a stamp. Trust me, that makes so much more of a difference than if you send it by email in just how it's processed. Okay, so do that. If you can't write a letter, you have problems writing, I suggest you go to chat GPT there's a free version of it and tell them what you want the letter to look like and it'll write it for you. Also, I think that google gmail has a writing tool right now so it can help you out. So if you don't know how to write for reason, or you can't see, well, whatever reason you may have you can get these tools to help you write it and you can write it. And if you take the time to write one of these letters every week, even more often, if you can write it. And if you take the time to write one of these letters every week, even more often, if you can, and send them to a different newspaper, you're going to see that if every person in this group does that 75 people so far. If you all do that, it's going to make a difference. Trust me, it makes a huge difference. So write these letters and that's part of your activism homework for today.

Speaker 2:

Don't listen to the trolls. Don't listen to these nasty people. They're a handful of hired hands, rented trolls. They're not the majority of Americans. Okay, you have to also that trolling works both ways. If you see their pages somewhere, you know you can also leave emojis or, you know, troll them if you have time. Okay, thank you very much. Bye, bye, everybody.