JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cleo
That makes organ transplants impossible, then. Or at least illegal?
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cleo
Or, "Get a cat of your own!"
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cleo
If the man had been brain-dead for 7 years, then it's the father and other family members that suffered. I cannot imagine how I would feel if it were one of mine in that situation. It's hard enough to accept a loss when the loved one is obviously dead, but when the heart is still beating and the body still warm......hell for all concerned.
But is it legally possible to murder a person who is brain-dead?
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cleo
I agree with Greapper1. All I got was shaken up and a few things falling to the floor and breaking, but I was still shaking and far from 100% days later. Not being able to contact the family (phones down) had me in a panic. It was a major effort to clear up the broken glass and china in the kitchen, don't think I would have fared very well if I'd had to deal with anything more serious or dangerous.
The point wasn't that the workers on the ground didn't get it right first time - the point is that it was a mistake to build a nuclear plant in the first place, especially in a place where earthquakes and tsunami are frequent occurrences, and assume that nothing could go wrong. And obvious lies from the government about safety in the early days meant that people are unwilling to accept what the government says now about radiation, food safety, etc.
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cleo
＞Are you really above the law?
Wow! When did disabling one's own property to prevent it being used in a crime become a crime?
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cleo
＞I suppose if I blew up your car while it was parked because I personally don't like what your doing it would be perfectly ok?
If it were being used to chase animals to exhaustion, shoot them and drag them around the streets spilling blood and guts until they finally expired, you wouldn't need to. I'd disable it myself.
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cleo
People were hurt when the SM2 deliberately rammed the Ady Gil. Obviously that is not OK. The ships SS have sunk were in port and their sinking inflicted nothing but monetary damage. Huge difference.
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cleo
'The whales are endangered' has never been my argument. Neither has 'the whales are cute'. I object to the way they are killed; it's impossible to ensure a quick, clean death on the open sea, and in my book, if you cannot kill an animal without inflicting suffering, the blindingly obvious way to go is not to kill the animal at all.
But concerned about the economy? When it's my tax yen that is being used to finance this fiasco to the tune of thousands of millions of yen? And Noda wants me to pay more to reconstruct Tohoku/pay pensions to freeloading shufu who never paid a brass yen in/keep the amakudari barcodes in clover? Darn right I'm concerned about the economy.
I see the unanimously adopted resolution by the IWC Scientific Committee is still not forthcoming. I don't expect it to me.
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cleo
Dotobock - I'll take that as a No, you can't provide a link to the unanimously adopted resolution by the IWC Scientific Committee that whales should be hunted in the Southern Sanctuary. :-)
So......Let me get this straight, Japanese culture that involves blowing holes in marine mammals is sacred and should be preserved, but other cultures that object to barbarity/cruelty/barefaced lies/dubious data need to back up their claims with scientific reasoning? OK, here's a bit of scientific reasoning for you to slap on your Japanese culture argument, based on the science of economics. Whaling can't survive without massive injections of taxpayer money. What scientific basis is there for continuing to pump into a dead industry unlimited amounts of cash (3,000 million yen, 600% up on last year), in these straitened times when the government says there is no money and it wants to raise taxes?
I don't think Mr cleo and Mrs Smash are in the minority.
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cleo
lol I just asked my Japanese hubby if he'd be willing to live in a homeless shelter in exchange for the protection of Japanese culture in the form of whaling, and he looked at me as if I'd gone crazy. He answered with a question (お前、どかしたんじゃない？) which I think translates as No Way.
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cleo
Japan is the only one hunting there.
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cleo
Dotobock, can you provide a link to this unanimously adopted resolution by the IWC Scientific Committee that whales should be hunted in the Southern Sanctuary?
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cleo
Japan states plainly that the aim is to show that commercial whaling can be sustained, not to determine whether or not it can (with the implied possibility that the data might in fact show that it cannot be sustained)
But they aren't complaining about some ultimate goal that they might be able to achieve in the future, they're talking about now. If this year's 'research' is being carried out for the purpose of boosting the food supply, then they're not simply making use of 'by-product', they're hunting for the table, which is a violation of the moratorium. The 'food supply' was cut off in 1986 when the moratorium came into effect.
It isn't my reasoning that's out of the window, Nessie. (Actually it isn't the whalers', either. They reason that the loophole is there to be exploited, and that's what they're doing. It's just that their excuses are so transparent they insult the intelligence.)
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cleo
You're confusing the sanctuary with the moratorium. The Southern Ocean Sanctuary was established in 1994 and reviewed in 2004 when Japan proposed that the sanctuary be removed, but failed to reach the 75% majority required (25 in favour, 30 against, 2 abstentions). Japan ignores the Sanctuary.
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cleo
I don't think cristoba1@aol.com is claiming that Japanese grandparents are kinder than any other nationality of grandparents (at least I hope not), just pointing out that the girl has extended family in Japan, while the father is an immigrant whose extended family is in Nicaragua and so unable to participate first-hand in raising the girl.
I understand his/her concerns about a single father raising a girl through the difficult years of puberty. Word has it though that Garcia has now remarried and started a new family, so Karina will be living not with a single Dad, but with a new mum and a new sister. If Karina's real mum is as unstable as Garcia claims, then she's going to have a very hard time living close by and watching Karina become part of another family.
I don't think we've reached the end of this story yet.
Posted in: Girl reunited with father in U.S. 4 years after being taken to Japan by mother
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cleo
The pro-whalers wax lyrical about how 'scientific research' is legal, all above board, they're doing it for the data .....and then one of them puts a size nine in it by declaring, They are trying to cut off a nation's food supply. So it isn't all about the data, the whales are being killed for their meat, the meat isn't an unavoidable by-product of the research, it's the central purpose of the hunt. Oops, what a giveaway.
Nice bit of Orwellian word-craft there. The US uses drones to kill civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan, so by association SS must be intending to use their drones to - what? Launch air to surface missiles or tactical nuclear weapons? Some people need to grow up and/or stop smoking wakky weed.
The bottom line is that SS has outsmarted the whalers again by this time using tiny unmanned aircraft that are not affected by LRAD, can keep an eye on the whaling ships from a safe distance and keep SS informed of where the ships are. Now all they have to do is sit the Bob Barker behind the factory ship, and this year's whale wars are over before they begin, and without any violence - unless Japan wants footage of its coast guard clobbering peaceful protesters beamed around the world from unmanned drones.
Sweet.
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cleo
I don't think it's the case that US courts are 'racist against the Japanese'. It's just that they seem to assume that living in the US is of necessity so much more in the best interests of the child than living anywhere else. I'm pretty sure that if Dr. Garcia had wanted to take his daughter back to Nicaragua and his wife had wanted her to stay in America, the court would have sided with the mother.
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cleo
More likely it's the stress of being separated from her Mum and being told that her Dad has put her Mum in prison that brought on the weight loss, poor lamb.
Nicky, do you have any links to that apart from what the father says? If she had really been told for 4 years how evil her father is, I very much doubt she would have settled as easily and as quickly as the father says she has.
"She's nervous in the beginning. She told me she was overwhelmed from the, so many people around. But now, with me and my sister, she is actually sleeping. So she's doing OK," .......Karina's dad said she is already asking about when school starts and wants to play with neighborhood friends.
< http://www.wisn.com/news/30065745/detail.html#ixzz1hWgvEj51>
From the same link - It's important that she has choices But not the choice to stay in Japan?
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cleo
Foxie, that's so sweet! Thank you! ♥
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cleo
Not a good idea. Leaving aside the problem of the mountain areas being mostly covered in trees and so not really 'empty', and also being ---er, mountainous, and so not easily accessible for huge trucks loaded with tons of debris...pile all the debris up on elevated land and leave it there over time, and the contamination (oil, asbestos, heaven only knows what else - radiation isn't the only problem) will get washed into the ground every time it rains, to accumulate in the water table and gradually trickle down to lower-lying urban areas. It needs to be sorted and properly disposed of as quickly as possible, both to clear the ground for rebuilding and to keep pollution to a minimum.
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