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Japan will dispatch a whaling fleet to the Antarctic on Tuesday after a one year suspension, the government said, defying international criticism and a UN legal ruling that the "research" expedition is a commercial hunt in disguise.
"The research ships will depart for new whale research in the Antarctic on December 1, 2015," the Fisheries Agency said Monday in a statement on its website.
Tokyo has for years come under intense global pressure to stop hunts that opponents decry as inhumane but that Japan says are an inherent part of its traditional culture.
The United Nations' top legal body judged last year that Japan's so-called scientific whaling activity in the Southern Ocean was a disguise for commercial hunts.
It's for scientific research. Tasty, tasty research.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:29AM
Nuke the whales! [wikia.com]
Stop plate tectonics! [wimble.org]
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:51AM
Nuke the whales!
Almost correct.
"Nuke the gay baby whales" to which is often added "for Jesus". Not being a Christian, I fail to see what the "for Jesus" adds to the sentiment. But as someone explained to me way back before the actual end of the cold war, once people start saying silly things like this, the actual probability of an actual nuclear exchange between the super-powers has gone way down. And of course, here we are today, not nuking whales! Except Japan is unintentionally nuking whales, and all other marine life, with outflow from the Fukushima plants. Irony, doth thou know no Godzilla?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Tuesday December 01 2015, @08:12AM
"Nuke the gay baby whales" to which is often added "for Jesus".
I never heard that, but I didn't grow up around those sort of folks, and not being a christian myself, I also don't know what Jesus has to do with anything.
Although my brother does like to compare himself to the mythical figure by (correctly) claiming to be a "loud-mouthed Jewish carpenter." And if Jesus was anything like my brother, I feel sorry for the folks he hung out with.
As an atheist myself, I find that sort of stuff amusing, though. In all fairness, I did find Jesus Christ, Superstar to be quite entertaining.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:01AM
> I did find Jesus Christ, Superstar to be quite entertaining.
In that case, I suspect you will be more than quite entertained by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1pq8uT1xA [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:01AM
"nuke a gay whale for jesus" .... "I fail to see what jesus adds..."
The point is that so many adherents of the other religion of peace, are into nuking things and other war, gay bashing, against any sort of environmental protection, and do it all in the name jesus. It's an obvious dig at right wing conservative evangelicals.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 01 2015, @12:05PM
"Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus" is one of my favorite bumper stickers, right after "Too Bad Ignorance Isn't Painful" and just ahead of "Gun Control Mean Hitting Your Target."
Washington DC delenda est.