I just watched the 'Cove" movie, I am absolutely appalled at the the killing of thousands of dolphins as shown in Japan.
One wonders about how a "civilized" society like Japan allows this to continue. The lies and propaganda that surrounds this situation is also evident in the lack of acknowledgment of the radiation that has leaked from the ****ishima plant.
The Japanese people are pawns in the corruption that seemingly is endemic in all levels of the system of Government, bravo to the people behind the making of that movie and exposing the failure of understanding and reason 
sickening...and it just doesn't make sense!!
Agree...bravo to the people who made the doco happen. We need more people like them in the world.
Very long bow calling the Japanese a civilised people.
Pretty brutal culture, ask a few diggers their opinion.
I spend a bit of time in PNG and the Phillipines and they are not the most popular bunch around for good reasons.
There are a couple of monuments in Puerto Princessa in the Phillipines detailing some of the **** they pulled in the war. Very ugly ****.
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I haven't seen that movie yet, but the dolphin slaughter in Japan has been going on for a very very long time. I remember first reading about it in the school library when I was about 13, some 25 years ago....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting
I was looking out over Corio Bay the other day, checking where to go for a distance SUp paddle. I was near Rippleside, and there is a guy doing about 70kph on his Ski (PWC), and then I notice 2 dolphins pop up just near him. He didn't see them at first.... 400m down, he turns around, and he's doing 70kph right back where he came from, back towards the dolphins that he didn't see. Then 1 surfaced just 20m ahead of him off to the left. So he backs off, turn around, and circles around them, just to watch the dolphins in nature.... But the clown just continued to circle them. I was pretty sure he was doing something illegal, so I rang the police. The police seemed to agree.... I told them I had to move on, they said fine. I said I didn't know where he launched from, and that he could move really quickly, and the girl said, "that's alright, they've just messaged back that they have a visual on him". Big Brother is always watching !!
NEVER................... believe your governments propaganda!!!!! 
Always FIGHT for your beliefs and a better world.............. [}:)]
Even Australia has been in a state of suspension for 40 years 
That kills the myth that dolphins are smart! if this has been going on for over 25 years why wouldn't they avoid the area?
Can't help to worry about the whaling fleet! Has it disappeared after the tsunami? Is it now moored in a rice field or maybe on the roof of one of the whaling factories?? Can only wish!
The Japs are very arrogant! Someone told me one day that they are the Germans of Asia (apologies to the Germans)!
In the movie, 'the cove' it was suggested that the dolphin meat sold, has a high mercury reading that makes the meat unsuitable for human consumption, that now will only be exacerbated by the toxic spills from the nuclear plant.
So I guess the old saying will be, "what goes round comes round" . Maybe apart from the dangers to health, the Japanese may become tourist attractions themselves, by their ability to glow in the dark, Am I being to harsh by saying its Karma? 
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Save a whale, kill a glow jap!
We should pressure them to stop all that sensless killing in exchange for the fund collected for the tsunami relieve. [}:)]
I'll play the devils advocate.
Whats the difference between slaughtering dolphins in that manner to queuing up the cows at the slaughter house.
If eating dolphin meat and whale meat is sustainable why don't we do it?
When you see 'earthlings' you kinda feel everything is fair game cute or not.
"As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer (Enemies, A Love Story)
Hey Guys,
here is "The Cove" full documentary in case you have missed it:
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dolphins are not endangered and whales can be hunted sustainably if the industry is regulated. it is far worse, ecologically speaking, to eat tuna, salmon, shark or crab.
dolphins and whales are 'cute' and this is somehow a basis for protection in the western world. to say they are 'intelligent' is just as flawed, why should an intelligent animal (as judged by a human) have more right to life than a less intelligent one?
I agree with that! that's why we should think about what we eat, what we consume and how we behave.
It's not just about the dolphins and it's not even about being vegy
We should think about how much plastic we use every day and where this goes after and how it impact with the enviroment ect ect...
But most of the people instead of face the problems and act, prefer not to think about that because it's too bad.
I'll play the devils advocate.
"Whats the difference between slaughtering dolphins in that manner to queuing up the cows at the slaughter house.
If eating dolphin meat and whale meat is sustainable why don't we do it?"
Simple really.
We haven't figured out a way to "farm" dolphins yet !!
And I can't see slaughtering whole pods of dolphins as sustainable.
I guess there is one plus though -- the consumers of the dolphin meat will possibly die out before the dolphins do due to the mercury contamination.....
