[Amy SF]

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<div class="quote-block"><b>Japan buys votes to take control of whaling body</b><br><br>
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor<br><br>
Published: 14 June 2006<br><br><br><br>
Japan has succeeded in buying the votes that will give it control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) later this week, in a major step towards bringing back commercial hunting of whales.<br><br><br><br>
The pro-whaling nation has gained the support of three more small countries to give it a definite majority in the IWC, and so begin in earnest its attack on the international whaling moratorium which has been in force for 20 years.</div>
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<br><br><br><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article994083.ece" target="_blank">http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...icle994083.ece</a><br><br><br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/brood.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=":brood:"><br><br><br><br>
Save the whales.

 

[snownose]

Noooooooo.<br><br>
Who could ever kill a whale? <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/bigcry.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="">

 

[queenfluff]

maybe we should all stop buying japanese products to boycott? <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/mad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=""><br><br><br><br>
That would leave out most of the techie products.<br><br><br><br><br><br>
Hey this is funny link about Japanese products:<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.uniquedaily.com/articles/TMSPTCFJJ.html" target="_blank">http://www.uniquedaily.com/articles/TMSPTCFJJ.html</a><br><br><br><br>
They are all so ridiculous that there funny but the Nap Helmet takes the cake..Yeah, I really want to look like that on the subway.<br><br><br><br>
Won't have trouble boycotting any of those products.

 

[sorrowthepig]

Takeover failed:<br><br><a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_060616_2.html" target="_blank">http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_060616_2.html</a>

 

[Amy SF]

<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/surprised.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=":surprised"><br><br><br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/grin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=""> VERY good news indeed! For now, at least. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/sad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=""><br><br><br><br>
ETA: But let me ask a question and see if anybody can answer it: Japan is a very tradition-bound country and they seem bound and determined to hunt and kill whales for god-knows-what "traditional" and "cultural" reasons they can come up with.<br><br><br><br>
But what's Norway's excuse? <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/huh.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="">