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"Focus is on Japan as vote to ease whaling ban nears; Hurdle remains on hunts located in the Antarctic" by Jay Alabaster, Associated Press | June 19, 2010
TOKYO — Nations will consider whether to sanction commercial whale hunts for the first time in a quarter-century next week...
“Japan holds the key, because Japan is the only country that is whaling in the southern ocean, the only country whaling in the sanctuary, the only country doing high-seas, long-distance whaling,’’ said Susan Lieberman, director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, which supports allowing some whaling....
Pew stinks.
I'm supposed to believe their polls now?
The frigid Antarctic has become the focus of the heated debate....
Frigid?
With global warmi.... sigh, I'm sick of typing the same shit refuting the same lies and insults over and over again, folks.
Each year in the Antarctic, Japan’s whalers clash among the ice floes with militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd.
Then they are terrorists.
On the hunt this year, the Sea Shepherd lost a catamaran in a collision and one member was arrested when he boarded a Japanese whaler at sea.
Antarctic whaling has also boiled over into diplomatic channels. Australia is taking Japan to the International Court of Justice, and the United States and a host of other countries have come out against the Antarctic hunts.
"No, we don't want to buy your bonds this week and would like to cash some holdings in, thank you." -- letter from Japanese Finance Ministry
Agreement within the whaling commission appears agonizingly close.
After being disappointed and stunned earlier, sigh.
See: Japan Rubs Globalists Raw
Honestly, I'm tired of the obfuscations and mischaracterizations.
Since a proposal was floated in April by the commission’s chairman, some from the anti-whaling side, including the US delegation, Greenpeace, the WWF, and the Pew Group have said they would consider voting to allow limited commercial hunts, and Japan has signaled it may accept taking less whales than it does now.
That's odd; I heard on the radio that the activists think this is a bad idea and the ban should have remained.
And was that the way it really happened, MSM?
But in the days leading up to the conference, the sticking point remains the southern sanctuary....
Also see: Starving Japanese Eating Grass
