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from the whaling commission ....
Meanwhile in the Deep Blue Sea - too tainted of red blood from the dead:
'What about reasoning with them?' said one whale.
'Humans do not listen to reason, they're addicted to greed!' said another.
'Pity we don't have nukular weapons!' joked a sea cow.
Some whales laughed...
Some booed...
'That's not the way to save the planet...' muttered a few.
'The main problem is they don't understand our language. although some of them listen to our 'songs'' argue a minke.
'We don't sing, we talk!...
We babble on!...' answered a young one.
'We know that, but most humans are ignoramus beyond ignorance... except a few' said the old humpback who remembered when Einstein sailed along her.
'Peter Garrett is on our side!' grunted a minke with a grin.
'Suicide is not an option...' repartee-d the blue whale.
'That's not fair. He's doing what he can...' 'just joking...
''The hour is too serious to joke about it...
'Thus a wise killer whale proposed: 'We need to talk to a butterfly in the Amazon forest... Butterflies, there, are said to have the power to destroy the Gulf of Mexico.
Then storm the entire Atlantic...
''How do we do that?' asked a passing endangered white pointer shark.
'I know a dolphin who knows a river porpoise who knows a turtle who knows a monkey who knows a little bird who knows one butterfly there. His name is Harry Aristotle...'
One southern whale, who had graduated from law school years ago lamented:'Pity it had to come to this but we have no choice...
No more choice...
'Thus the leader stood up and announced:'Plan 'Aristotleflight' will be activated tonight at 19:00 hours... let's synchronize our bubbles...'
"...and may Neptune be with us..." She added with a tear that was not seen because of the watery conditions...
- By Gus Leonisky at 27 Jun 2008 - 11:34pm
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flippers...
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has come under fire from the opposition and Greenpeace for failing to make a dent in Japan's scientific whaling program at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual conference.
He was "a whale of a flop" at the meeting, in Santiago, Chile, which ended yesterday, says Opposition Environment spokesman Greg Hunt.
Anti-whale hunting nations spearheaded by Australia expressed deep concern at Japan's skirting of a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling by hunting hundreds of whales each year in the name of scientific research.
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Gus: no surprises here. Anyone thinking that Australia's devotion to protecting the whales of this planet would dent Japan's addiction to killing them — scientific purposes or not. And I can understand Japan's position although I do not support it. To kill whales or not is a position that actually transcends our lives on this Earth. It is part of our will to acknowledge lives of the wild that are different from our ours — not superior not inferior...
On the subject of whales, humility to gauge these animals in humanity is still a difficult step for some. Peter Garrett was no more a "flop" than previous ministers who "flopped" as well. The Japanese have a tight narrow mind set on this subject and not even Superman would make them budge without some nasty arm twisting.
bloody harvest...
The Sea Shepherd activists' anti-whaling ship, the Steve Irwin, has collided with Japan's Yushin Maru 2 harpoon vessel in Antarctic waters.
Japan condemned the collision as an "unforgiveable act of violence". The activists said it had been unavoidable.
Damage occurred to the ship's railing but no injuries have been reported.
The radical anti-whaling group has been pursuing the Japanese whalers since December and confrontations have increased in recent days.
Japan is allowed by the International Whaling Commission to harvest 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales this season for research purposes.
Activists say Japan kills the whales for commerce, not science.
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One day, the japanese fleet will be hunted by a large pod of minke whales and sunk... see toon at top. And please note : one cannot harvest what one has not sowed...