{"id":57335,"date":"2013-08-09T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/dolphins-granted-personhood-by-government-of-india\/57335\/"},"modified":"2013-08-09T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T10:56:45","slug":"dolphins-granted-personhood-by-government-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/dolphins-granted-personhood-by-government-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins granted personhood by government of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Adams<br \/><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/041547_dolphins_personhood_intelligence.html\">Natural News<\/a><br \/>August 9, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins have been granted \u201cnon-human personhood\u201d status by the government of India, making India the first nation in the world to recognize the unique intelligence and\u00a0<i>self-awareness<\/i>\u00a0of the cetacean order (a class of aquatic mammals).<\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced by India\u2019s\u00a0<i>Minister of the Environment and Forests<\/i>\u00a0which also outlawed captive dolphin shows. The ministry added that dolphins \u201cshould have their own specific rights.\u201d (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/science\/earth\/05-08-2013\/125310-dolphins_india-0\/\">SOURCE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins are extremely intelligent mammals with a highly-developed social structure. Recent research shows that dolphins call each other by name and can\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/dolphins-can-recognize-calls-from-old-tank-mates-from-over-20-years-ago\/2013\/08\/06\/1b1d5ab8-feb3-11e2-bd97-676ec24f1f3f_story.html\">remember the unique name whistles from old \u201cfriends\u201d<\/a>\u00a0heard just one time 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins choose their own unique name \u2013 a series of complex whistles \u2013 before they reach one year of age. From that point forward, all the other dolphins in their social group call them by that unique name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dolphins use highly-complex grammatical communications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous research has shown that dolphins have human-like\u00a0<i>self awareness<\/i>\u00a0and engage in highly complex communications with other dolphins using grammatical sentence structure. Yes, dolphins have their own complete language, much like humans. (See the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphincommunicationproject.org\/about-dolphins\/dolphin-language.html\">Dolphin Communication Project<\/a>.) The main difference between dolphin language and human language is that dolphins aren\u2019t vaccinated as young children and injected with brain-damaging mercury. Therefore, dolphins grow up able to speak in fully coherent sentences while many humans now are cognitively deficient and unable to compose meaningful sentences. (They are literally brain damaged by vaccines, mercury fillings and toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and personal care products.<i>Idiocracy<\/i>\u00a0has arrived!)<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dolphin-institute.org\/our_research\/pdf\/Herman_and_Uyeyama1999.pdf\">this 1999 scientific paper on dolphin communication<\/a>\u00a0explains about a dolphin named \u201cAke:\u201d<!--  --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--  --><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2026the relation of thematic role to word order were firmly incorporated into Ake\u2019s concepts of the grammar of the language, strongly suggesting knowledge of argument number. Overall, this set of findings underscores the robustnesss of comprehension by Ake of her learned language\u2026 [the test] required an understanding of grammatical and semantic relations and of pragmatic issues deriving from the link between thematic role and syntactic position.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ake, in other words, is grammatically smarter than many adult humans as is evidenced by the fact that many human beings no longer have any ability to parse meaningful concepts from language and instead are nothing more than \u201chypnosis subjects\u201d who punch chads at the voting booths and live on Cheetos and Gatorade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I support the \u201cpersonhood\u201d of cetaceans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let the record show that I fully support non-human personhood status for dolphins and other cetaceans (whales, dolphins, purpoises). The idea of violently kidnapping these intelligent mammals from their wild habitat and forcing them to engage in parlor tricks for an audience of sunburned, nutrient-depleted vaccine-damaged ice cream-licking over-medicated drooling human children is wildly offensive to all intelligent beings (meaning the dolphins).<\/p>\n<p>It would be far more appropriate to tow a raft full of these \u201cflotation device\u201d human junk food slurpers into the ocean and let a group of intelligent dolphins observe them performing stupid human tricks for Pop-Tarts and aspartame-laced diet soda.<\/p>\n<p>See some of these stupid human tricks for yourself in these videos:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFork up nose\u201d<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZtEeP7n15o\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZtEeP7n15o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan folds himself into hide-a-bed\u201d<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tK8IJNvez6E\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tK8IJNvez6E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoman spits out gum and sucks it back in\u201d<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJPTEZjz-74\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJPTEZjz-74<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure any dolphin would pay good money to watch a few more. Perhaps they will kidnap human children off the street and force them to live on island cages in the middle of the ocean where they have to endlessly perform stupid human tricks with no hope of ever escaping their maddening confinement.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this part of the article is pure satire. (Any dolphin would have already known that.)<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I have far more faith in the intelligence of dolphins than I do the intelligence of humanity. Dolphins, after all, don\u2019t build nuclear bombs, radioactive power plants or GMOs, and they sure don\u2019t inject their own children with mercury and genetic fragments from diseased animals.\u00a0<b>Only humans are stupid enough to do that.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every animal on the planet instinctively protects its young\u2026\u00a0<i>except humans<\/i>. Human mothers actually turn their children over to insane doctors who inject them with methyl mercury (vaccines), an extremely toxic brain poison that \u201clobotomizes\u201d human brains and turns brilliant children into low-IQ future slave workers.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one day human scientists will finally be able to talk with dolphins. If so, I\u2019m sure one of the first questions we\u2019ll be asked by them is, \u201cWhy do you brain damage your own children and call it medicine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action item: Help fund the Dolphin Communication Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Help Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, Director of the Dolphin Communication Project (DCP) raise funds to conduct more research on dolphin social structure and language!<\/p>\n<p>Details at:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fundageek.com\/project\/detail\/853\/The-Science-of-Dolphin-Friendships-How-do-dolphins-choose-their-friends\">http:\/\/www.fundageek.com\/project\/detail\/853\/The-Science-of-Dolphin-Fr\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also\u00a0<b>adopt a wild dolphin<\/b>\u00a0and help raise money for important scientific research! See:<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adoptawilddolphin.com\/\">www.AdoptaWildDolphin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources for this story include:<\/b><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphincommunicationproject.org\/\">http:\/\/www.dolphincommunicationproject.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fundageek.com\/project\/detail\/853\/The-Science-of-Dolphin-Friendships-How-do-dolphins-choose-their-friends\">http:\/\/www.fundageek.com\/project\/detail\/853\/The-Science-of-Dolphin-Fr\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/dolphins-can-recognize-calls-from-old-tank-mates-from-over-20-years-ago\/2013\/08\/06\/1b1d5ab8-feb3-11e2-bd97-676ec24f1f3f_story.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/dolphins-can-re\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/science\/earth\/05-08-2013\/125310-dolphins_india-0\/\">http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/science\/earth\/05-08-2013\/125310-dolphins_ind\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Friday, August 9, 2013  at  5:29 am<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/foreign-affairs\/\" rel=\"tag\">foreign affairs<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">health<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/dolphins-granted-personhood-by-government-of-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmore\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Republished from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/dolphins-granted-personhood-by-government-of-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dolphins granted personhood by government of India\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike AdamsNatural NewsAugust 9, 2013 Dolphins have been granted \u201cnon-human personhood\u201d status by the government of India, making India the first nation in the world to recognize the unique intelligence and\u00a0self-awareness\u00a0of the cetacean order (a class of aquatic mammals). The decision was announced by India\u2019s\u00a0Minister of the Environment and Forests\u00a0which also outlawed captive dolphin shows. 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