Yarrrr/Banzai! All you
"Talk like a pirate day" keyboard swashbucklers take heed: The
Sea Shepherd Society's flagship Farley Mowat
is now officialy a pirate vessel after Canada, Britain, and Belize revoked their registration. As the Japanese winter Antarctic whale hunting season begins
(previously), the M/V Farley Mowat is setting sail to meet them, armed with a
hydraulic "can opener" battering ram, a
pie cannon, and
moral conviction. With the Japanese whaling fleet now
majority owned by the Japanese government, a subject of international
diplomatic intrigue, and after last year's
confrontations,
this could get ugly!
posted by anthill
on Jan 14, 2007 -
54 comments
(Knock, knock) "Candygram!" We don't know if ZDF has shown early SNL
skits (nostalgic photo
here), but German Greenpeace made a dramatic delivery to the Japanese Embassy in Berlin: a 55-foot-long fin whale that had been stranded in the Baltic. The dramatic gesture underscored the organization's contention that Japan's whaling, long defended as research, is in fact unnecessary: sufficient numbers of beached whales are available for research. The leviathan — 20 tonnes of blubber — was craned onto a truck and driven 150 miles from Rostock-Warnemünde to Berlin, and was due to be returned to the coast for study. (German-language stories on Greenpeace.de website
here,
here, and
here, including logistical details for those curious about arranging their own special deliveries.)
posted by rob511
on Jan 22, 2006 -
12 comments
