"Export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected" by Michael Casey, AP Environmental Writer | March 18, 2010
DOHA, Qatar --Fishing nations won a victory over environmentalists Thursday when a U.S.-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna was overwhelmingly rejected at a U.N. wildlife meeting.
The END of GLOBAL GOVERNMENT!
Japan won over scores of poorer nations with a campaign that played on fears that a ban would devastate their economies.
But it is OKAY when an AmeriKan NEWSPAPER BLARES LIES for WARS!!!
You can see why I am sick of them.
Tokyo also raised doubts that such a radical move was scientifically sound. In another blow to conservationists, a proposal at the meeting to ban the international sale of polar bear skins failed to pass.
With stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna down 75 percent due to the rapacious appetites of Japanese sushi lovers, the defeat of the proposal was a stunning setback for the Americans, Europeans and their conservationist allies who had hoped the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, would protect the fish.
Getting the TONE, readers?
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Japanese Starving For Sushi
Hey, the JAPANESE HAVE TO EAT SOMETHING!!
This is their DIET!
How would you like YOUR HAMBURGER (that they are torching rain forest for, a REAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM , not this pffft!) taken away, Mad Cow 'murkn?
"Let's take science and throw it out the door," Susan Lieberman, director of international policy with the Pew Environment Group in Washington, said sarcastically.
Why not?
The HIDE the DECLINE crowd ALREADY RUINED IT for ALL OF YOU!!!
"It's pretty irresponsible of the governments to hear the science and ignore the science," she said. "Clearly, there was pressure from the fishing interests. The fish is too valuable for its own good."
I think I'm getting sick, and it is not because of the fish because I rarely eat fish.
See:
Yeah, that's why.
Japan, which imports 80 percent of the tuna, had lobbied delegates hard to kill the proposal. They even held a reception Wednesday night for uncertain delegates that included plenty of bluefin sushi. When Monaco introduced its proposal Thursday, the gallery was filled with critics who ignored a plea to save the once-abundant species that roams across vast stretches of the Atlantic Ocean and grows as big as 1,500 pounds.
Yeah, the INDUSTRIAL DRIFT NETS that are MILES LONG have NOT HELPED!
There is an increasing demand for raw tuna for traditional dishes such as sushi and sashimi. The bluefin variety -- called "hon-maguro" in Japan -- is particularly prized, with a 440-pound Pacific bluefin tuna fetching a record $220,000 last year.
"This exploitation is no longer exploitation by traditional fishing people to meet regional needs," Monaco's Patrick Van Klaveren told delegates. "Industrial fishing of species is having a severe effect on numbers of this species and its capacity to recover. We are facing a real ecosystem collapse."
Yeah, THEY DIDN'T DO THIS and yet THEY WILL BE the ONES PUNISHED!
Related: Lunch at the U.N.
Yeah, the U.N. REALLY CARES about WORLD HUNGER and FOOD SUPPLIES, sure!
When are PEOPLE GOING TO LEARN that place is an EVIL INSTITUTION that MAKES THINGS WORSE WHEREVER IT GOES!!!
But it became clear that the proposal had little support. Only the United States, Norway and Kenya supported the proposal outright. The European Union asked that its implementation be delayed until May 2011 to give authorities time to respond to concerns about overfishing.
Oh, EVEN the GLOBALIST EU is BAILING, huh?
Yeah, the collapse of their currency is their main problem right now!
Fishing nations from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean complained that any ban would damage their fishing communities and that fears of the stock's collapse were overstated.
Well, they lied about the global warming so what makes you think they are not lying about this, the globalist scum?
MORE for THEM and LESS for EVERYONE ELSE!
Libya, in a rambling defense of its position, went so far as to accuse Monaco of lying and trying to mislead delegates before calling for the vote.
Related: Crazy Khadafy
Around Africa: The U.S.' Libyan Libel
The MSM 's tone also gives their biases away.
Under CITES rules, a country can attempt to bring a proposal back to a vote, but Monaco said it wouldn't.
Japan acknowledged the stocks were in trouble but echoed a growing consensus at the meeting that CITES should have no role in regulating tuna and other marine species. It expressed a willingness to accept lower quotas for bluefin tuna but wanted those to come from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT, which currently regulates the trade....
The tuna defeat came hours after delegates rejected a U.S. proposal to ban the international sale of polar bear skins and parts, suggesting that economic interests at the meeting were trumping conservation....
Yeah, and that is only okay when it comes to the globalists and their agenda.
That is where my paper cut it.
The Americans argued that the sale of polar bears skins is compounding the loss of the animals' sea ice habitat due to climate change. There are projections that the bear's numbers, which are estimated at 20,000 to 25,000, could decline by two-thirds due by 2050 due to habitat loss in the Arctic.
Yeah, about the "declining" polar bear population:
Also see: Continuing the ClimateGate Lies
Had enough of the LIES yet?
But Canada, Greenland and several indigenous communities argued the trade had little impact on the white bears' population and would adversely affect their economies.
I would rather the polar bear not be killed at all, but....
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"Asian nations impede efforts to protect dwindling shark species" by Associated Press | March 24, 2010
Are there any fish left in the sea at all?
DOHA, Qatar — Asian nations yesterday blocked US-backed proposals to protect the heavily fished hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks on concerns that regulating the booming trade in fins could hurt poor nations.
Are you GETTING the MESSAGE, Americans?
It is WE who are ISOLATED!!!!
A committee at the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, however, approved regulating the trade in the porbeagle shark, which is prized mostly by Europe for its high-valued meat.
They also like horse meat.
Controls on the spiny dogfish shark, a key ingredient in fish and chips in Europe, however, were defeated because opponents felt stocks were recovering in many regions. Japan, which successfully campaigned against an export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna and regulations on the coral trade, led the opposition to the hammerhead and oceanic whitetip shark proposal at CITES....
Yes, bad, bad Japan!
China, Indonesia, and other nations that benefit from the trade in shark fins joined the opposition to the proposals, arguing that restrictions were not the answer and would be difficult to apply....
I'm kind of sick of the insulting journalism, folks.
Also see: Indonesia Indicates U.S. Isolation
How many times do you have to turn around alone and see you are alone (except for "friend" Israel), 'murka?
But the United States, supported by Europe, Australia, and many Arab countries, argued that....
WHO CARES WHAT THEY SAY?!!!
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Any other fish in the sea the MSM can beat Japan with?
"Japan indicts antiwhaling activist" by Associated Press | April 3, 2010
TOKYO — Prosecutors yesterday indicted an antiwhaling activist from New Zealand on charges that could lead to a yearslong prison term after he boarded a Japanese harpoon boat to protest the ship’s whale-hunting expedition in Antarctic seas.
Related: Japanese Kill Willie
Peter Bethune had jumped aboard the Shonan Maru 2 in February during the annual face-off between whalers and their opponents with the stated goal of making a citizen’s arrest of the captain, while handing over a $3 million bill for the destruction of a Sea Shepherd protest ship a month earlier.
The 44-year-old was held on board and arrested March 12 immediately after the ship returned to Japan. He has been in custody in Tokyo. Yesterday, The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office charged Bethune, of the US-based group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, with five criminal counts: assault, illegal possession of a knife, destruction of property, obstruction of business, and trespassing....
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Around Asia: Bullying Japan
Empire More Important Than Earthquakes
Update:
"Shuttle Discovery, 7 astronauts have predawn liftoff; Launch helps set record for most women in space" by Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | April 6, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Japan celebrated its own space feat with Discovery’s liftoff. Two of its astronauts were circling Earth at the same time, one on the shuttle and the other on the station. More than 300 Japanese journalists and space program officials crowded the launch site. The roads leading to the Kennedy Space Center also were jammed with Easter vacationers and spring breakers eager to see one of the few remaining shuttle flights.
NASA officials noted three small pieces of insulating foam flying off Discovery’s fuel tank, too late in the flight to pose a safety concern. The astronauts will survey their ship Tuesday.... In the meantime, the astronauts will have to watch the survey carefully from television monitors inside the shuttle to make sure there are no problems with the vehicle’s protective thermal tiles.
They just said it was no concern, arrrrgh!!
We don't need another Challenger or Colombia!
Normally, the video images would be sent in real time to engineers in Houston. Only three shuttle missions remain after this one. NASA intends to retire its fleet by the end of September, but is unsure what will follow for human spaceflight....
Good. Then they can STOP BELCHING GREENHOUSES GASSES into the air, right?
In a rare treat, the space station passed over the launch site 15 minutes before Discovery blasted off and was easily visible, resembling a big, brilliant star in the clear morning sky with the moon as a backdrop. There was a chorus of “ooooh’’ from spectators.
Hey, if the agenda-pushers would lay off the lies I wouldn't be so sarcastic.
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And look, readers, I am a STAR WARS and CLASSIC STAR TREK FAN, so YOU KNOW I LOVE STRIVING for the STARS!
Let's END the WARS DOWN HERE FIRST!!!
