GREED

Think of yourself as whale. In nature this immense mammal travels with a lot of companions. Other whales, baby whales of course, but the whale is followed by all kinds of fish. Some even glue themselves on you and so do mussels and sponges. Some organisms travel inside the whale and come out when needed. Some never come out. This caravan travels the traditional routes for ages and is in essence immortal. This whale-pack communicates between each other and whales sing their songs, which are heard around the globe. Pretty picture, until man started exploiting the seas. Our fellow-country men killed whales by the thousands and earned a lot of money by it. Some-one has to do the dirty work and the Dutch are good at this. The whaling decimated these sea creatures and the caravan routes became silent and empty. But even to this moment Norway, Iceland and Japan are hunting whales. Not for scientific research, not for the meat, but for the “amber”, a unique substance used in cosmetics and regeneration attempts. The Elite cannot do without, so the whaling goes on. The song of the seas it not dead though. Numbers of whales and dolphins are rising. But now a new danger is emerging. In recent years large groups of whales and dolphins swam to a certain death, when they beached themselves. How could this be possible? The routes they follow, though dangerous, are imprinted in their genes. Some scientists, who did autopsies on the corpses, found out that the whales were bleeding from their ears and that the hearing-system was damaged. It looked as if the animals were confronted by an immense underwater blast. Their fingers are pointing to the US Navy. Their submarines are experimenting with new sonar/sonic weapons. Hughes blasts are projected at an enemy sub, with aim to destroy it from the inside. The whales were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Collateral damage so to say. Officially the weapon does not exist, which make these “mass involuntary suicides” a natural mystery.

In the Netherlands thinking in terms of profit, always gets the upper hand. Profit means trade and trade means mobility. There where some natural obstacle. One was the “Zuiderzee”, a big inland part of the North Sea. As ever fear was used. This time for heavy storms and flooding. An enormous dam was build from Holland to Friesland 32 kilometers long and this part of the North Sea was turned into a sweet water lake.

Nobody realized, or thought it important that the engineers had created an ecological disaster. A disaster, that went both ways. The herring could not reach their spawning ground anymore. They literally beached by the millions in the years after the closing of the “Afsluitdijk”. Then they simply disappeared. So did the eel. They had to leave the Netherlands, swim half-way across the Atlantic to lay their eggs. The young fish swim back to the Netherlands. But because of this dike, eels cannot get in or out. Fishermen are desperately seeking for solutions. One suggestion was to import young eel from Madagascar. But they cannot get out either and if they do, they disappear to Africa.