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  • Sea Shepherd Announces New Campaign

    Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 23:37 in , whaling

    Sea Shepherd has announced their new plan for stopping Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters. Called Operation Musashi, named after Japanese strategist Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi is famous for his stra...

  • Whaling Commision Meeting: Big Yawn

    Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 23:26 in

    I resisted the idea of doing some sort of in depth coverage of the Whaling Commission because I really didn't feel like reading about it every day. So, I thought I would do a summary at the very end....

  • Whaling Commission Meeting Next Week

    Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 23:18 in

    The International Whaling Commmission is meeting next week in Chile. That should be interesting. There have been all kinds of rumors that the Rudd Govt. in Austraia is going to backslide on the ban (...

  • Makah Tribe Decides Not To Prosecute Illegal Whalers

    Posted on Friday May 16th, 2008 at 09:24 in

    So can someone explain to me why they should be entrusted with legal whaling? They said they would prosecute them. Now they decide they can't figure out how to do that. Disgusting.A Makah tribal jud...

  • Cheney Targets Whales

    Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 14:21 in , whaling

    Does anyone think he wouldn't kick a puppy or small child if it would benefit industry? Or even just for fun?TPM has the latest from the Dark Lord.The latest contribution to good government from Vice...

  • Japanese Kill Less Whales Due to Activists

    Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 19:43 in

    The Japanese whaling fleet has returned to port, and has only killed about 60 percent of what they set out to kill.The mother ship of Japan's whaling fleet has returned to port with a catch of 551 - j...

  • Japan May Leave Whaling Commission

    Posted on Friday April 11th, 2008 at 22:19 in , whaling

    Japan is threatening to leave the International Whaling Commission if it doesn't straighten itself out. Meaning if it doesn't ultimately let Japan do what it wants.The Commission sounds screwed up an...

  • Iceland May Begin Whaling Soon

    Posted on Thursday March 13th, 2008 at 19:50 in

    Iceland said they may begin whaling soon. I hope it will be met with the same revulsion as when the Japanese do it. Iceland is likely to start whaling again this summer in a move certain to draw the ...

  • Australia Rejects Talk of Compromise on Commercial Mailing

    Posted on Sunday March 9th, 2008 at 13:30 in , whaling

    Australia has rejected any talk of allowing Japan to resume coastal whaling in return for discontinuing the discredited "Scientiffic Whaling" that Japan now currrently engages in. Other members of th...

  • Japan's Bizarre Whale "Research"

    Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 13:58 in , whaling

    Scientists in Australia have conducted a study on Japanese whaling "research" papers, and have found them to be both strange and essentially useless.Some of the experiments involved injecting dead min...