Japanese jeer dead dolphins

[Taro Toporific]

Dead Porpoises Disrupt Berlin Whaling Meeting
GERMANY: June 20, 2003 REUTERS
BERLIN - Greenpeace activists stretchered three dead porpoises to the site of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) yesterday, disrupting the meeting to highlight the threats marine mammals face....The demonstration was timed to coincide with a coffee break in the meeting. Some delegates booed when they saw the dead porpoises.

[Caustic Saint]

I'm sure they'd feel differently if they were in the position of these two guys.



Don't @#$% with the dolphins!!!

[Taro Toporific]

I'm sure they'd feel differently if they were in the position of these two guys.
Don't @#$% with the dolphins!!!

In my 40+ years with Hobbi Cats, surf kayaks, long boards (cedar, ha, ha), I NEVER had a dolphin touch/bump me even though MANY times* they were within arm's reach.



*As summer harbormaster in St Petersburg Fl, every trip out in my Hobbi Cat was bow surfed by dolphins except if a real bad storm was coming. If there were no dolphins leading me out, I would head back home to put up the storm shutters on my great aunt's bayside home. The dolphins were NEVER wrong about predicting storms all summer (they go to deep water during bad storms).

[Taro Toporific]

I'm sure they'd feel differently if they were in the position of these two guys. Don't @#$% with the dolphins!!!

Cartoon offends Japan's isle allies
THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 20
Environmentalists at a whaling conference in Berlin were accused yesterday of racism after publishing a cartoon depicting Caribbean countries as Japan's black "lap dog" for supporting its bid to resume commercial whaling..... The cartoon, published Wednesday in the newsletter Eco, showed a man with slanted eyes sitting with a black dog on his lap and symbols of yen above it.
The caption read: "His Excellency the lap dog. Millions of the master's yen buy many votes." ...
The newsletter "really insinuates that there is a slave-master relationship between the Japanese and Caribbean members,"

[Iambobo]

[Andocrates]

When I saw that image the music from the helicopters in "Apocalypse Now" popped into my head.

[American Oyaji]

I'm sure they'd feel differently if they were in the position of these two guys.



Don't @#$% with the dolphins!!!

Great pic, GREAT caption.

Makes me thinking of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

[jingai]

Washington Times complaining about racism? That's a first.

Caribbean nations were deeply distressed and offended by the racist editions of the extreme anti-whaling publication," said a joint statement by Caribbean whaling commissioners from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Nevis and Kitts, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Seems a little odd that this many non-whaling Carribean countries would take such a strong stand on this issue... unless something bigger than whaling were at stake. [/quote]

[Taro Toporific]

Cartoon offends Japan's isle allies
THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 20
Environmentalists at a whaling conference in Berlin were accused yesterday of racism after publishing a cartoon depicting Caribbean countries as Japan's black "lap dog" for supporting its bid to resume commercial whaling....."

[jez]

Dead Porpoises Disrupt Berlin Whaling Meeting
GERMANY: June 20, 2003 REUTERS
BERLIN - Greenpeace activists stretchered three dead porpoises to the site of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) yesterday, disrupting the meeting to highlight the threats marine mammals face....The demonstration was timed to coincide with a coffee break in the meeting. Some delegates booed when they saw the dead porpoises.

It didn't mention the nationality of those booing, did it? Whatever we think of Japanese interests on this issue, let's not distort the facts. It serves no porpoise.

[jez]

Is this racist?

[cstaylor]

No, that's funny...

[Taro Toporific]

[img] Dead Porpoises Disrupt Berlin Whaling Meeting
GERMANY: June 20, 2003 REUTERS
BERLIN - Greenpeace activists stretchered three dead porpoises to the site of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) yesterday, disrupting the meeting to highlight the threats marine mammals face....The demonstration was timed to coincide with a coffee break in the meeting. Some delegates booed when they saw the dead porpoises.

It didn't mention the nationality of those booing, did it? Whatever we think of Japanese interests on this issue, let's not distort the facts. It serves no porpoise.

Sure let's not serve any porpoise raw and at least have it cooked.




Actually I'm glad that SOMEONE came foward and called me on the smear of Japanese interests on this issue. Jeering would have been very unJapanese bahavior in that stiuation. ...bribery is much more Japanese of the chief delegate, Minoru Morimoto

[Andocrates]

That just looks like a run of the mill fish to me. Every fish in the sea will die someday, if they die to feed a human then good. If dolphins were really smart they wouldn't get caught in nets, they would sneak aboard Japanese fishing boats at night and slit throats, they would herd schools of stupid fish into the propelors of ships leaving japan and into the intake tubes of nuclear reactors, they would load cluster bombs into the belly's of blowfish.

Whales should be protected because they are endangered, but the sort of whales the Japanese want to hunt are not endangred, plentiful, taste good and are like really big run of the mill fish, so who gives a flip.

[cstaylor]

Whales should be protected because they are endangered, but the sort of whales the Japanese want to hunt are not endangred, plentiful, taste good and are like really big run of the mill fish, so who gives a flip.

Sentimental reflections aside, whales aren't fish. They're warm-blooded mammals, so don't confuse the issue with poor science.

[Andocrates]

I'm pretty sure everyone knows they are mammel, yes even me. Possums are Marsupial, but we call then animals. We aready eat mammals with great gusto, cows, pigs, etc. The whole deal comes down to some emotional people who value whales because whales are cute and really really big.

Since we have decamated the sperm, blue and some other species of whales we should protect them, but just until their numbers return so we can eat them again! (J/K) No really, since whale oil and whale blubber isn't much in demand anymore I think the whales are safe from hunting to extinction.

However minke whales are not endanagered, not all that smart and not all that cute. In fact tuna and sailfish are much cuter. No one really wants to eat whale anymore, it's much too fatty for modern tastes. I just don't think it's an issue (unless your a vengen) to get worked up about.

[ramchop]

NZ 55 Wales 3

[jez]

I'm pretty sure everyone knows they are mammel, yes even me. Possums are Marsupial, but we call then animals. We aready eat mammals with great gusto, cows, pigs, etc. The whole deal comes down to some emotional people who value whales because whales are cute and really really big.

So are you saying Greenpeace is only concerned with 'cute and really big' animals? Interesting view.

[ramchop]

So are you saying Greenpeace is only concerned with 'cute and really big' animals? Interesting view.

Greenpeace? Are their any PC/envornmental/socialist/gay groups out there that you don't support?

I hope you're still in your teens, it'd be sad to see someone in their 30s so seriously deluded.

Take a breather and find something that's right with the world, instead of constantly bitching about injustices. please.

[jez]

So are you saying Greenpeace is only concerned with 'cute and really big' animals? Interesting view.

Greenpeace? Are their any PC/envornmental/socialist/gay groups out there that you don't support?

I hope you're still in your teens, it'd be sad to see someone in their 30s so seriously deluded.

Take a breather and find something that's right with the world, instead of constantly bitching about injustices. please.

I asked a question, and all I got were insults. Try answering the question instead of hiding behind ad hominems.

[jez]

So are you saying Greenpeace is only concerned with 'cute and really big' animals? Interesting view.

Greenpeace? Are their any PC/envornmental/socialist/gay groups out there that you don't support?

Coincidental Correlation. How does my question prove that I support Greenpeace?

[ramchop]

Coincidental Correlation. How does my question prove that I support Greenpeace?

Patrick Moore, founder and past president of Greenpeace tells ABC News, the environmental movement has been hijacked by political activists. "They're using environmental rhetoric to cloak agendas like class warfare and anti-corporatism that, in fact, have almost nothing to do with ecology."

"agendas like class warfare and anti-corporatism"... Sounds pretty much like what you believe in. Am I wrong? :P

[jez]

Coincidental Correlation. How does my question prove that I support Greenpeace?

Patrick Moore, founder and past president of Greenpeace tells ABC News, the environmental movement has been hijacked by political activists. "They're using environmental rhetoric to cloak agendas like class warfare and anti-corporatism that, in fact, have almost nothing to do with ecology."

"agendas like class warfare and anti-corporatism"... Sounds pretty much like what you believe in. Am I wrong? :P

This sounds like yet another coincidental correlation. Even if your last question does describe my views, that would not be evidence that I support Greenpeace. In the meantime, I asked a question. Not to you, admittedely, but nonetheless a question to which no answer has been forthcoming.

[DJEB]

Did somebody say Patrick Moore?

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1997Q4/badpr.html

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q1/ddam.html

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q1/melchett.html

http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2001.html

http://www.prwatch.org/spin/January_2002.html

http://www.prwatch.org/prwv9n1.pdf

[Buraku]

Japan wins by one vote
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0606/S00376.htm

The day before, Ric had entered the building where the IWC meeting took place. He had a television screen on his chest and it was playing the DVD of the dolphin slaughter at Taiji, Japan. He did not say a word. He had just paraded before the delegates exposing them to the images of bloody slaughter at Taiji. The Japanese delegates were furious and called security to escort Ric from the building.

[otakuden]

[IkemenTommy]

This is kinda freaky shit..
Japanese researchers find dolphin with 'remains of legs'

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese researchers said Sunday a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, providing further evidence ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.

Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture in western Japan on Oct. 28 and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, said museum director Katsuki Hayashi.

[IkemenTommy]

Hello and welcome to...

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Dolphin may have 'remains' of legs
ASSOCIATED PRESS - November 4, 2006
...."I believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins' ancient ancestors lived on land ... this is an unprecedented discovery," Seiji Osumi, an adviser at Tokyo's Institute of Cetacean Research, said at a news conference televised Sunday.
The second set of fins - much smaller than the dolphin's front fins - are about the size of human hands and protrude from near the tail on the dolphin's underside. The dolphin measures 8.92 feet and is about five years old, according to the museum.
Hayashi said he could not tell from watching the dolphin swim in a musuem tank whether it used its back fins to maneuver....

[IkemenTommy]

Originally Posted by sleepy Taro late to the post


Dolphin may have 'remains' of legs
ASSOCIATED PRESS - November 4, 2006
...."I believe the fins may be remains from the time when dolphins' ancient ancestors lived on land ... this is an unprecedented discovery," Seiji Osumi, an adviser at Tokyo's Institute of Cetacean Research, said at a news conference televised Sunday.
The second set of fins - much smaller than the dolphin's front fins - are about the size of human hands and protrude from near the tail on the dolphin's underside. The dolphin measures 8.92 feet and is about five years old, according to the museum.
Hayashi said he could not tell from watching the dolphin swim in a musuem tank whether it used its back fins to maneuver....

More pictures..

[Catoneinutica]

Hmm...looks like Japan's dolphin "research" program has just locked up a few years' worth of national subsidies.

You know, whenever a Japanese points out the barbarity of Korean dog-eating, I make a wa-breaking nuisance of myself and say, well, Japanese eat dolphins, and they're kinda like dogs, cute and intelligent. And the Japanese to whom I've said this have professed to be unaware that Japanese fishermen kill dolphins, or that dolphin is even eaten in Japan! I wonder if it's a "kusai mono ni wa futa" thing...