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2010/02/19 21:59:02
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
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Sydney - Australia's prime minister on Friday set a November deadline for Japan to stop its research whaling programme that kills hundreds of whales a year in Antarctic waters, or else face international legal action.
Australia, a staunch anti-whaling nation, has long threatened international legal action. Two years ago, it sent a ship to Antarctic waters to follow the Japanese whaling fleet and collect videos and photographs it said might be used as evidence in an international forum.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Australia would prefer to use diplomatic means to persuade Japan to end its hunt.
"If that fails, then we will initiate court action before the commencement of the whaling season in November 2010," he told the Seven Network. "That's the bottom line and we're very clear to the Japanese, that's what we intend to do."
Japan hunts hundreds of mostly minke whales - which are not an endangered species - in Antarctic waters each year under its whaling research programme, an allowed exception to the International Whaling Commission's 1986 ban on commercial whaling.
Real reason
Whale meat not used for study is sold for consumption in Japan, which critics say is the real reason for the hunts.
Rudd's threat came on the eve of a visit to Australia by Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. Whaling is expected to be a key topic of conversation when Okada meets with Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith this weekend. Japanese officials did not immediately have any comment ahead of the visit.
Australia has said it could argue that Japan's whaling is illegal before the International Court of Justice at The Hague or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany.
The whaling is conducted in international waters, but usually within the huge patch of ocean that is designated Australia's maritime rescue zone and that Canberra considers a whale sanctuary.
Don Rothwell, a professor of international law at the Australian National University, was commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 2005 to explore Australia's legal options in its fight to end whaling. His report was later presented to both the Australian and New Zealand governments.
Rothwell said Australia could request the courts grant an immediate injunction requiring Japan to stop whaling. Either court would almost certainly grant the injunction, which would remain in place until the case was resolved, he said.
On Wednesday, a group of conservationists clashed with Japanese whalers in the Antarctic Ocean, the most recent in a string of increasingly aggressive confrontations between US-based activist group Sea Shepherd and the whaling fleet.
Charges
Sea Shepherd activists threw bottles of butyric acid at Japanese whalers and blasted their ship with paint, while the Japanese returned fire with water cannons. No one was injured, but Japan condemned the conservationists' actions as dangerous and violent. Sea Shepherd officials said they are simply doing what is necessary to protect whales.
Earlier this month, Japan claimed three crew members on one of its whaling vessels suffered face and eye injuries from an acid attack.
On Monday, Sea Shepherd activist Peter Bethune jumped aboard the Shonan Maru II from a Jet Ski with the stated goal of making a citizen's arrest of the ship's captain and presenting him with a $3m bill for the destruction of the Ady Gil.
He was taken into custody by the whalers and will face charges in Japan of trespassing and assault.
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said officials had spoken with Bethune by telephone on Thursday and were assured he was being treated properly. Bethune indicated he was happy to remain on board the Shonan Maru II and return to Japan with the vessel, McCully said.
On February 6, Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided, causing minor damage to both vessels. And in January, a Japanese whaler struck Sea Shepherd's high-tech speedboat Ady Gil, which sank a day later. No one was seriously injured in those incidents.
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2010/02/19 22:09:32
Subject: Re:Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
I think the only real question is, can the Aussies deploy their prototype white shark transported, rocket assist launched Drop Bears in time?
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2010/02/19 22:16:16
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
Emperors Faithful wrote:
However, perhaps we should first initiate the infiltration phase?
They already have.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2010/02/19 22:22:13
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
I dont't buy the concern over whales. If they're not endangered, then who cares if the Japanese hunt them? The Chinese farm cats and dogs, and we eat lots of chickens. More power to them as far as I'm concerned.
2010/02/19 22:59:26
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
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I think it's more the fact that they're doing this in what Australia views as an Australian Whale Sanctuary. It makes the Rudd Government look bad if they do nothing, especially since they promised to take action in the elctions.
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2010/02/19 23:11:53
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
personally I am appalled that anyone would want to hunt whales. I can't see why one would want to kill such a majestic creature, but then some people don't find anything but money to be beautiful.
2010/02/19 23:13:38
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
Majestic? It's a big fish. (yeah I know its a mammal, but aesthetically speaking). And even then, like I said, people eat cats and dogs in China. They eat seals in Iceland. I always thought ducks were rather cute, and they get scoffed as well.
I say we farm 'em. Plenty to go around then.
2010/02/19 23:23:03
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
Ketara wrote:Majestic? It's a big fish. (yeah I know its a mammal, but aesthetically speaking). And even then, like I said, people eat cats and dogs in China. They eat seals in Iceland. I always thought ducks were rather cute, and they get scoffed as well.
I say we farm 'em. Plenty to go around then.
You sir are a man after my hearth! I agree totaly with you.
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2010/02/19 23:53:38
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
What most people don't realize is that the whole save the whales thing is really just a plot to keep the Japanese short and scrawny since without delicious, nutricious whale meat their only option is to eat mad cow infected American beef.
My girlfriend explained this to me.
2010/02/20 03:15:31
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
Whales aren't cute; they're so ugly they have to cover their faces with barnacles. Someone got it into their head that they "sing", when really they just make annoying moaning noises. Bleating goats are more musical. Plus, most of them don't even work, they just go around filter feeding our shrimp up all day, and they still think they deserve government handouts?!
VUCK YOU WHAAAAAAAAAAALLLEE!!!!!!!!
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
2010/02/20 05:31:37
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
H.B.M.C. wrote:Yes, the immediate follow-up headline to that is:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd backs down because he's a useless limp-wristed politician clinging to symbolism and spin rather than actual action.
Hey, it's better than having Tony Abbot in power.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
2010/02/20 09:19:28
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
Mean aussies! Those Japanese vessels are carrying out important WHALE RESEARCH. For example, one Japanese Ph.D. student has just one chapter left to write on his dissertation, An Inquiry Concerning the Use of Grenade-Enhanced Harpoons.
PROSECUTOR: By now, there have been 34 casualties.
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2010/02/20 09:44:01
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
Frazzled wrote:I think the only real question is, can the Aussies deploy their prototype white shark transported, rocket assist launched Drop Bears in time?
Come on Fraz. White Sharks are endangered now. They can no longer use them to defend the home land.
This leaves a gaping hole in their defenses. One step closer to Canadas invasion of Australia!
2010/02/20 13:47:47
Subject: Australia tells Japan to stop it or the bombers fly at midnight
-to many points to bother to count.
