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Japan whalers in 'butter attack'
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| 03 Mar 2008
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Posted on 03/03/2008 2:59:58 AM PST by BGHater
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Whalers and activists have clashed several times

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Japan's whaling fleet in the waters off Antarctica has been attacked again by protesters, Tokyo officials have said.Activists from the Sea Shepherd group threw containers filled with a mild form of acid made from rotten butter at a Japanese ship. The group described it as "non-violent chemical warfare", but Tokyo condemned the actions as illegal and said several people were slightly injured. Activists and whalers have clashed several times since last November. The acid thrown at the whaling ship stings if it gets in people's eyes. Officials said two crew members and two Japanese coast guard officers on one of the whaling ships complained of pain after the attack. 'Slippery powder'
Japan described it as illegal and said it would lodge a protest with the Dutch authorities who license the activists' boat. But the Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson, aboard their vessel in the Antarctic, denied anyone had been hurt.
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I absolutely condemn actions by crew members of any vessel that cause injury
Stephen Smith Australian foreign minister
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He said bottles of butyric acid and envelopes containing "slippery powder" had been thrown at the Nisshin Maru vessel. "We filmed and photographed the entire thing. Not a single thing landed anywhere near their crew," he told Australia's AAP news agency.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, although a vocal opponent of Japan's whale hunt, strongly criticised the Sea Shepherd's butter attack. "I absolutely condemn actions by crew members of any vessel that cause injury - or have the potential to cause injury - to anyone on the high seas," he said in a statement. Japan had planned to kill up to 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales during the expedition. Tokyo says it carries out whaling for scientific research, but critics say the same data can be collected without killing the animals.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: butter; japan; whalers

Activists from the Sea Shepherd group throw bottles at the Japanese whaling fleet. (Image: AP/The Institute of Cetacean Research)
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:00:00 AM PST
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
May I be the first to ask....

was it "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" attack?
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:08:32 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: BGHater
Wait ‘till PETA learns of this-—A bunch of animal-hating thugs twisting cows’ nipples and stealing their butter.
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:22:39 AM PST
by
Rudder
(e)
To: Bender2
You have to ask?
To: BGHater
Give me the buttah!
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:37:11 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: Alas Babylon!
Yeah I did!
BTW your FR ID Alas Babylon is one of my all time favorite “What if we had that 1950s atomic war?” sci-fi novels.
I’ve always wished they’d have made a film of Pat Frank's 1959 work in the early 1960s, but nowadays, I wouldn’t want to see how today’s Hollywood libs would butcher it and make it all us Conservative White Folks fault!
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:38:27 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: BGHater
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:38:52 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: BGHater
Tokyo says it carries out whaling for scientific research, ...They're researching how many whales will fit in the hold.
(credit to Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman)
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:40:37 AM PST
by
nina0113
(If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
To: Rudder
Yet another strike by enviro-terrorists.
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:42:36 AM PST
by
TheBattman
(LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
To: Alas Babylon!
Opps, just discovered reading the
Alas, Babylon Wikipedia article I linked that "An adaptation of Alas, Babylon was broadcast on April 3, 1960 as the 131st episode of the Playhouse 90 dramatic television series. It starred Don Murray, Burt Reynolds, and Rita Moreno."
Missed that one but I bet it was enjoyable.
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posted on
03/03/2008 3:45:05 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: BGHater
chimpanzee minke whales? /obscure
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posted on
03/03/2008 4:06:54 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
To: Bender2
was it "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" attack?.....well, it had to be said....and your 'the one' to do it. :D
...aren't these Eco-Wacko/Marxist Terrorist, committing "an act of war / Piracy?"
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posted on
03/03/2008 4:13:46 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you...our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
To: skinkinthegrass
Re:
...aren't these Eco-Wacko/Marxist Terrorist, committing "an act of war / Piracy?" In this day and age, shrink, old sport...
only Right-Wing Conservative Republicans are guilty of acts of war or piracy.
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posted on
03/03/2008 4:22:28 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: BGHater
Always enjoy the openning scene in the movie ‘Armageddon’ where Bruce Willis is chipping golf balls from an oil platform onto the deck of a Green Peace ship.
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posted on
03/03/2008 4:33:45 AM PST
by
6SJ7
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