US Endorses lifting ban on whaling.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040723a4.htm

SORRENTO, Italy (AP) A meeting on global whaling headed into its final day amid controversy Thursday as the United States threw its support behind a proposal on how to manage whale hunting if a 1986 ban on commercial whaling were lifted.

The U.S. proposed a resolution to endorse the measures late Wednesday at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Sorrento, a sea resort in southern Italy.

The resolution, which Japan and Iceland of the prowhaling bloc also back, was to be voted upon Thursday. It requires a simple majority to be approved.

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The move by the U.S., traditionally an antiwhaling country, alarmed some environmentalists. A statement by the Humane Society of the United States, which is a member of an antiwhaling umbrella coalition called Whalewatch, and other organizations called the move "inexplicable."

Another reason minibrain needs to be kicked to the curb.

[BattyDem]

1. Why wouldn't they endorse it?

They're killing people and trees and every other living thing on land. Time to start on the sea! :eyes: :mad:

[hatrack]

2. Un - FUCKING -believable

Just when you think this confederacy of whores can't sink any lower, they come along and surprise you.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. And just why isnt this being reported here?

liberal media, my ass! :grr:

[sui generis]

4. it's not inexplicable at all

we put captains of the beef industry in charge of FDA beef inspections, captains of the lumber industry in charge of forest and national park protections, and legislators with track records of reducing pollution controls in charge of the EPA.

Our government is diseased, and the cancer has metastasized. It's going to take some serious pruning and rehabilitation of the administration for our environment to survive the depredations of Bush & Co.