The EU That Can Say No to Japan

 Japan Today:

The secretariat says bluefin tuna stock has declined more than 80 percent since data began to be taken 40 years ago.

The European Union also proposed the ban last year. But the proposal was rejected in September due to initial opposition from France and Italy.

The ban would only affect trade in bluefin tuna from the East Atlantic and Mediterranean. Its quota, set by the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, is 13,500 tons for this year, down from 20,000 tons for 2009. 

Japan asks EU to rethink proposed bluefin tuna trade ban

Go Australia!

Australia sets Nov deadline for Japan to end whaling in Antarctic waters › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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Japan hunts annually in what Australia calls the Southern Ocean, where it kills around 1,000 whales for scientific research purposes. The Japanese side claims it is doing so to better understand the life cycles of whales, their effect on the ecosystem and their population structure.

This is so full of shit! 1000 for scientific research? maybe researching them into food

I love Japan as much as the next guy, but this whaling shit gotta end

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Masayuki Komatsu, a former Japanese delegate to the International Whaling Commission who once described minke whales as ‘‘cockroaches of sea,’’ told the Australian Broadcasting Corp that he is ‘‘really confident that Japan will win over this litigation.’‘ Don Rothwell, a professor who teaches international law and maritime law at Australian National University, disagrees. He has advised the government that Australia has a strong legal argument against Japanese whaling.

I'm no political scientist, but it is Australian waters, am I right?

I'm glad Australia is taking action

Big Government vs. Big Corporate

A sign that hung in many Bell facilities in 1983 read:

There are two giant entities at work in our country, and they both have an amazing influence on our daily lives. . . one has given us radar, sonar, stereo, teletype, the transistor, hearing aids, artificial larynxes, talking movies, and the telephone. The other has given us the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, the Great Depression, the gasoline crisis, and the Watergate fiasco. Guess which one is now trying to tell the other one how to run its business?

Bell labs gave us:

• One-time pad cipher
• The transistor
• C
• Unix
• CCD sensor
• First 32-bit microprocessor
• WaveLAN
• more...

What did the US government give us?

DEFEAT THE WORLD