Whale wars: Watch Eco-pussies attack japanese whalers, and fail hilariously

hansvonaxion said:
The nature of the mass media today is such that the truth is irrelevant. What is true and what is right to the general public is what is defined as true and right by the mass media. Ronald Reagan understood that the facts are not relevant. The media reported what he said as fact. Follow-up investigation was ?old news.? A headline comment on Monday?s newspaper far outweighs the revelation of inaccuracy revealed in a small box inside the paper on Tuesday or Wednesday.

-Paul Watson.
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While I wholly agree with that position, it's troubling that Watson so readily takes advantage of it. It's sad how many people don't take the time to sift through his bullshit.

phuckingduck said:
You know when you see that guy in a big truck and you just go "Hmm, must have a tiny dick."? Anyone else feel the same about Putin recently? Or Russia in general? Lots of posturing, huffing and puffing.
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Putin is just trying to build a cult of personality around himself. It's like Russian Leader 101. While I'm sure a lot of people see through the act, he does currently have a 61% approval rating. And that's after the fires around Moscow (and all the bureaucratic ineptitude they exposed). I think his approval rating has been up around 90% in the past.

SpitfireMK461 said:
Putin seems fairly legit in what he does. He is former KGB afterall.
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He was just a KGB bureaucrat. Nothing glamorous. But that did get him where he is today ... fighting tigers, flying planes and shooting whales FOR THE MOTHERLAND.
 
phuckingduck said:
In the final episode it mentioned he [Bethune] has a wife and two kids - that's an incredibly understanding wife if you ask me.
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Truth.

tigger said:
While I wholly agree with that position, it's troubling that Watson so readily takes advantage of it. It's sad how many people don't take the time to sift through his bullshit.
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That's it. Watching how easily this dimwit goes out and proves that journalism is dead and that most people have lost the ability to think for themselves is disheartening.

hansvonaxion said:
Which countries reduced their takes for conservation porpoises and when?
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I guess I'll have to give you a clue: from the mid 60's to the mid 70's Australia basically doubled their catch while Japan halved theirs. The last 3 years before Australia stopped whaling (76-78) saw their catch reduced by about a third (while Japan halved theirs), but for those years they were taking more whales per capita than Japan - 170% more in the last year, 48 per million compared to 28 per million.
 
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What's the edible yield from killing a whale? Put another way, how much of the whale can you actually eat and what would be the weight, on average, of the components taken from a whale for consumption?

Just curious what these things actually produce - no political meaning to the questions.
 
Hard to calculate, when checking for a Minke's weight I see numbers anywhere from just over 5 tonne to nearly 14 tonne, size also differs from male to female and the blubber thickness (and in turn, the amount of by-product) of Antarctic Minkes is decreasing. The Japanese catches consist of various types of whale, so just dividing the incoming stock by number of whales caught doesn't really help, but I get figures around 8 tonnes per whale average from what I would guess is about a 10 tonne animal if that helps. It's pretty specialised, specific information you're asking for, that's the best I can do right now.
 
Hm, well if you call a serving 8oz you get 35,724 servings per whale. That's ~7,055,000 servings from 200 whales. Interesting.
 
phuckingduck said:
Hm, well if you call a serving 8oz you get 35,724 servings per whale. That's ~7,055,000 servings from 200 whales. Interesting.
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So what you're saying is that killing ~26000 whales would feed every malnourished human on the planet? hmm...
 
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^26,000 Whales or one Rush Limbaugh. . . sorry I had to.
 
phuckingduck said:
Hm, well if you call a serving 8oz you get 35,724 servings per whale. That's ~7,055,000 servings from 200 whales. Interesting.
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From 1,000 whales (about the current catch), 35 million serves, enough for 1 serve per year per person in Tokyo. I guess I've had my quota for this year.

Like I said, I used some guesswork and unscientificness.

LeVeL said:
~26000 whales would feel every malnourished human on the planet? hmm...
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Sexy cetaceans love the skinnies?
 
Now, Pete Bethune says he was ordered by Watson to guide the Ady Gil in front of the speeding Shonan Maru 2 and sink it wo win sympathy for their cause...

An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy.

Peter Bethune was captain of the hi-tech Ady Gil when its bow was shorn off in a collision with a Japanese whaler it was shadowing in January.

It sank two days later, but Mr Bethune now alleges he was ordered to scuttle it by Sea Shepherd head Paul Watson.

Mr Watson denies the claim - the latest twist in a bitter row between the two.

Commentators say the feud threatens to undermine the standing of the anti-whaling lobby in the publicity battle over Japan's whaling programme.
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Sauce

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Here's the BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11490958

An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy.
Peter Bethune was captain of the hi-tech Ady Gil when its bow was shorn off in a collision with a Japanese whaler it was shadowing in January.
It sank two days later, but Mr Bethune now alleges he was ordered to scuttle it by Sea Shepherd head Paul Watson. Mr Watson denies the claim - the latest twist in a bitter row between the two.
Commentators say the feud threatens to undermine the standing of the anti-whaling lobby in the publicity battle over Japan's whaling programme.
'Ashamed' Mr Bethune told New Zealand's National Radio he believed Mr Watson wanted the sinking to "garner sympathy with the public and to create better TV".


"Paul Watson was my admiral. He gave me an order and I carried it out," Mr Bethune said, according to Associated Press.
"I was ashamed of it at the time and I'm ashamed of it now."
But Mr Watson denied the allegations, saying Mr Bethune was bitter because he had fallen out with Sea Shepherd.
"No-one ordered him to scuttle it. Pete Bethune was captain of the Ady Gil, all decisions on the Ady Gil were his," he said, according to AFP news agency.
Sea Shepherd shot to prominence as the futuristic trimaran Ady Gil pursued the Japanese whaler Shonan Maru 2 through Antarctic waters in January - spawning coverage such as the TV show Whale Wars.
But it soon courted controversy as Mr Bethune boarded the Shonan Maru 2 to confront the captain over the collision which ended in the sinking of the Ady Gil.
He ended up spending five months in a Japanese jail awaiting trial and was finally given a suspended sentence after admitting obstructing commercial activities, trespass, vandalism and carrying a knife.
Sea Shepherd distanced itself from Mr Bethune during his detention - though it later claimed this was a ploy to gain a lenient sentence.
Mr Watson now reportedly says Mr Bethune was expelled from Sea Shepherd in October after it discovered the New Zealander had given false information to Japanese authorities about Mr Watson in exchange for leniency.
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It doesn't say that SS ordered the collision it alleges that SS ordered the Ady Gil scuttled after the collision.
 
Paul Watson; worlds biggest douche or ... worlds biggest douche?
 
As I think back to that episode, I seem to recall Watson being told by satellite phone that the Ady Gil was taking on water and would likely be un-towable by the end of the day. If my memory serves, he said that if it was going to go down they should just cut it loose. It would not surprise me if Bethume is pitching a fit over this.
 
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/22423/japanese+whalers+to+face+new+enemy+in+godzilla/

A controversial animal-rights group preparing to embark on its annual harassment campaign against Japanese whalers has stepped up its effort this season by enlisting the aid of ... Godzilla.

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The swift and ominous-looking interceptor vessel has the moniker Gojira, named after the ferocious monster in the legendary Japanese film, which in English means Godzilla.

The 115-foot boat was launched by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Monday in Fremantle, Australia, and has joined the larger vessels, Steve Irwin and Bob Barker, in Hobart. At midweek all three will begin their journey to Antarctic waters, where their crews will await the arrival of the Japanese whaling fleet.

Japan also means business. The whaling ships will carry armed members of the Japan Coast Guard to help prevent sabotage by the activists, according to the Japan Times.

These seasonal confrontations in the remote Southern Ocean have become increasingly tense, with occasional collisions underscoring the danger and controversial nature of some methods employed by Sea Shepherd, which has been criticized for risking human lives in its effort to save minke whales, which are not an endangered species.

Last season Sea Shepherd scuttled its interceptor vessel, the Ady Gil, after claiming it had been rammed and irreparably damaged by a whaling vessel. New Zealand investigators found both crews to have been at fault.

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Japan annually targets about 900 whales -- mostly minkes but also a handful of endangered fin whales -- during a three-month season that generally begins in early December.

Japan gets around a longstanding International Whaling Commission ban against commercial whaling by using a "research" loophole and designating the hunts -- which are considered an important part of Japanese culture and tradition -- scientific missions.

However, pressure to persuade the country to curtail whaling is mounting. The IWC last spring submitted a proposal calling for Japan to reduce its quota to about 200 over a 10-year period. Australia has used an international court to try to halt whaling in the Antarctic, where killing occurs within a designated whale sanctuary.

Last season the Japanese fleet killed 506 minke whales and one fin whale. Officials with Japan's Fisheries Agency and the Institute of Cetacean Research regard Sea Shepherd as an eco-terrorist organization that has successfully obstructed hunting. Though the whaling effort is termed scientific, whale meat is sold commercially throughout Japan.

Gojira, which can easily out-run the larger Japanese vessels, will be used to help locate the factory ship, which processes whales killed by crews aboard harpoon boats; to try to thwart harpooning, and to prevent delivery of harpooned whales to the factory ship.

"The factory ship is the one we're after and if we can find it, we can shut down whaling," Sea Shepherd spokesman Jeff Hansen told reporters in Australia. "We can save 10 to 12 whales a day by blocking the slipway on the factory ship, so really this vessel is going to play a huge part in shutting down the Japanese whaling fleet for the entire summer."

This will be Sea Shepherd's seventh campaign against Japanese whaling in the Antarctic during the Southern Hemisphere summer, and the fourth season with an Animal Planet crew aboard, filming for its popular "Whale Wars" series.
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Everything else aside, that ship is fucking incredible!

Also, according to their website Gojira flies an Australian flag, a first for Sea Sheppard.
 
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Fixed.
 
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