Your right of course, but money is the world's religion. A person willing to do anything to feed a starving family because money enslave people, counts as a form of brainwashing. In the end though, these 2 organizations are just pawns of a bigger organization...

freediver wrote on Feb 20^th, 2010 at 4:19pm:


Global Corporatocracy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy

It is annoying when they equate environmentalists with animal libbers. It would still be a great victory for the environment, because the whales were brought back from the brink of extinction. It would just be a blow for animal libbers, who had finally been in a position to tell people what they can and cannot eat.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/7273258/Japan-gets-the-nod-to-kill-whales-again.html

Commercial whaling may soon resume, after being banned for nearly a quarter of a century. Secret talks, to be held in Florida at the beginning of next month, look like finalising a deal to allow Japan to begin killing the leviathans for gain once more. The deal would go to the International Whaling Commission for approval in June.

World governments agreed to a moratorium on hunting in 1982, after species after species had been driven to the brink of extinction. The halt began five years later, but Japan has exploited a loophole that allows "scientific" whaling, ostensibly for research. It kills about 1,000 great whales around Antarctica annually.

The deal remains under wraps, but is expected to allow the country to whale in its coastal waters. In return, Japan would slightly scale back its Antarctic hunt, but – in another victory for its government – that hunt might be legitimised. Iceland, which also conducts scientific whaling, and Norway, which legally exempted itself from the ban, may also agree to scale back their very much smaller operations.

The idea is that fewer whales would be killed and an anarchic state of affairs brought under control. But conservationists fear that – apart from conceding a principle that represents one of their greatest international victories – the agreement would lead to other countries starting hunts in their coastal waters, and to a worldwide revival of officially sanctioned whaling.

I like whales, and dolphins, and would prefer if japanese people chose something else to eat.

My preference in meat is for it to emanate from the dumb end of the food chain, so naturally I have right wing conservatives as my primary protein source.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1017431/rudd-govt-urges-end-to-whaling/?r...2/26/2010.

Japan has described an Australian proposal calling for an end to commercial whaling as "extremely regrettable", while maintaining its annual whale hunt is for scientific research.

The Rudd government has presented a proposal to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) calling for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean within five years.

The proposal also calls for the practice of so-called scientific whaling to be abolished by bringing all whaling under the control of the commission.

But Japanese officials responded to the Australian proposal by stressing the legitimacy of their research, conducted using a loophole in an international moratorium.

"It is extremely regrettable that such a proposal was made," State Secretary of Foreign Affairs Koichi Takemasa said.

There are also concerns the tension over whaling could harm diplomatic relations.

Last week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would take international legal action against Japan if it did not agree, by November, to end whaling in the Southern Ocean.

Japanese Senior Vice-Minister of Agriculture Akira Gunji defended the annual hunt for whales as "a legitimate activity based on an international treaty".

"We have to work hard so that the whaling issue will not affect the friendly Japan-Australia relations."

The Rudd government's proposal says ending scientific whaling remains a "major priority".

"Australia needs to see an immediate end to unilateral so-called scientific whaling," the proposal said.

Currently, commercial whaling is banned but countries can hunt whales in the name of science. Up to 1900 whales are killed each year.

The proposal also calls for all other whaling, other than aboriginal subsistence whaling, to be phased out and that no new whaling be permitted on species or populations not currently hunted.

It also calls for an immediate end to the hunting of vulnerable species and that no whaling take place in sanctuaries.

"Australia will continue to argue vigorously that whaling should be phased down to zero, with total and permanent elimination of all whaling (other than current aboriginal subsistence whaling), within a reasonable timeframe," the proposal said.

"However, the government recognises the significant difficulties to be overcome to meet this outcome and acknowledges that it may not be possible to achieve these goals immediately."

Australian officials will push their case at a meeting of an IWC working group in the United States next week.

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No not at all. I'm probably just being a bit negative about how the statement may be perceived and how I perceive it. Nothing would be worse than people not saying what they think or believe.

I don't really agree with Mandella's statement either. Give an individual some instant power and see how they will weild the axe. They will embrace power, they will love it, because they have always craved it.
Nope, I don't think that people are scared of being top of the heap, they just don't want to take the risk of failing, myself included of course.

If I had the power, I would save the whales from the japs. In fact, I'd gun down any jap vessel that comes uninvited within 1000 kooees of our shores. Didn't we sort that lot out in the world wars? Obviously not.
Keep those Nipon densoes away. They have already displayed their propensity for destruction and nothing has really changed except for the laws that they have been forced to live by.
They'd hunt the majestic whales to extinction if they had their way.  They're a stuffed up unempathetic lot those japs.

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I'm pretty sure they'd prefer to hunt them forever.