Justice is really blind, now that a U.S. Federal Court Judge, Richard A. Jones, is willing to listen to a frivilous lawsuit filed by the Japanese to stop the Sea Shepherd from its activities to hinder the Japanese from their so called "scientific research".

In a recent Associated Press release, The Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean (Whale) Research along with a few other countries are seeking to get a U.S. federal court to order the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to cease disrupting its whaling activities in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.

What is amazing to me that a U.S. federal judge is willing to hear Japan’s whaling argument or even allow it into the federal court system. Why? Consider the fact that our own President was supposed to take the side of anti-whaling, based on his initial campaign promises.

But, as we have seen, no sanctions – other than a letter – have been written and authorized by the President – and sent to the Faroe Islands, which somehow is supposed to tell them to “stop whaling”.

It is kind of like the recent spy plane recovery. A several trillion dollar spy plane is downed in Iran. Instead of destroying or recovering it, Obama felt that we could just get it back by asking for it. Well, it will be returned – in pieces!

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The onslaught of endangered whales continues, while Japan ignores the real truth

It is time once again for Paul Watson and his group of merry men (and women) to brave the Antarctic seas in an attempt to disrupt and delay the extinction of a race.

I am talking about whales.

The Japanese to date have fabricated the need for whale meat, when giant frozen stores lie untouched in Japan. Why? Because less than two per cent of the Japanese population eat whale meat. Some don’t even know it is still being sold.

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A frrustrated IWC board member

In an en-masse walkout orchestrated by Japan, the attempt to create a southern whale sanctuary has been put off another year.

That means more whales to be hunted and killed. It also means that the small band of recalcitrants, Watson and his band of merry men (and women), must once again single-handedly battle the Japanese.

At the meeting, one of the top Japanese officials commented that this could herald a return to the fractious days of the past, and walked out in an attempt to bring the meeting below the quorum needed for votes to count.

“We fear that the fact of voting will probably damage the very good atmosphere we have established, and might trigger a landslide of many votes for next year which might disrupt the progress we have made,” said Japan’s alternate (or deputy) commissioner Joji Morishita.

The Japanese insist they have done nothing wrong, although they have twisted language to make themselves right. And then the very countries that walk out are the very countries Japan has given financial aid to or bought whale meat from. Many if these countries have been turned recently to the side of pro-whaling, date coincident with Japanese financial support.

Yet, the Japanese state they have “done nothing wrong”.

The truth is that the Japanese government  never is willing to hold themselves accountable. For over fifteen years, the government battled their own countrymen in denying that their toxic incinerators had harmed anything. Incinerators that are probabaly the largest refuse burning facilities in the world, and burn 24/7. Yet people were dying and children deformed.

Additionally Japanese officials denying they bribe and take bribes for their over- fishing. Yet this very past year they were caught bribing Russian inspectors to look the other way when fishing counts were far above agreed upon quotas.

It doesn’t stop there. The Japanese government, when alerted to the fact that officials had been bribed in a recent whale meat scandal,  jailed the people that blew the whistle on their underhanded dealings. Publicly only two Japanese governmental employees were chastised, when it was known more than just two government employees participated. The solution was to have the two men bow there heads on Japan National Television and say they were sorry. Nothing else was done to these people. Moving to the usage of the word “research”, well the truth is that Japanese officials sought out a loophole in wording ( a twist and misuse of the English language) as a means to then catch whales that are then sold into the public market.

It is the same for the recent Toyota debacle, where many Americans lost their lives to faulty automotive Japanese equipment. Japanese automakers have cried “foul” and went to the extent of paying hush money to the key witnesses. In all of that, Japanese officials claim no wrong doing!

But no Japanese official claims or is willing to take any responsibility for their actions. “Gods” can’t be responsible for anything and can do anything they please, anywhere!

Why do I say “Gods”? Remember that the emperors of Japan were considered Gods (although they bleed and were completely human, frail to all human traits and avarice), but they could do no wrong, no matter who they killed or laws they imposed on the people. And the people to this day don’t dare to speak out, simply because the contagion of aberration has been impressed on them for so long, that they have forgotten their own freedoms.

And those self same officials have certified their own “official” documents saying that minke whales, for example can be hunted because their numbers are sustainable. Well, after you have read the above, how much do you really trust those documents? I don’t!

So when the pro-whaling group of Japanese, Iceland and African nations walked out of the meetings, they can say that they have done nothing wrong by paying and buying off those countries, I can actually understand why they feel they have and never will,  done anything wrong.

After all, they are “gods” and accountable to no one.

And when the seas are finally laid bare, mark my words. Japan will only stand up on television (after years of denial) and then say “we so sorry”. And that will be that. The whales and all other sea life will be pillaged.

Is that the planet you wish to live in?

Author Atsushi Ishii. ATSUSHI ISHII PHOTO

ATSUSHI ISHIIA, a Japanese author “mugwump” (bird that sits on a fence, with his “mug” on one side and his “wump” on the other) has just published a book in Japan “Anatomy of the Whaling Debate”; Shinhyoron, stating that the anti-whalers should just stop their harassment of Japanese whalers.

His argument is that anti-whalers only fuel more consumption of whale meat. But he also states that the Japanese government is hiding its costs to maintain its whaling fleet and that there is a lot of graft in the government.

Really?

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Resources is a term used by all men on this tiny blue planet. And it’s concept is what is destroying our planet.

Really?

Well, take a look at the word – the concept – of what resources really mean. Per Encarta’s definition, resource means “ the nation’s natural, economic, or military asset enjoyed by a nation, e.g., mineral wealth, labor, capital…” The word is taken from Latin, “surgere”, literally to “rise up from below”.

If we look deeper into the actual concept of the word, however, it is a bit dark. I say that because there is nothing in its description that says “replenish” or “care for”. Understand that this word has been used for hundreds of years in the English language.

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What is left of the Fukishima Reactors in the aftermath of the recent earthquake

In today’s JAPAN TODAY newspaper, Fukushima plant operators stated that dumping the radioactive water from the recent nuclear meltdown had less effect on the environment.

As stated in the article:

“The operator, which earlier projected that the readings could reach 170 billion bequerels, said it had not detected any substantial changes in the levels of radioactive materials in seawater sampled off the plant’s shore and farther offshore since the release.”

“OK,  science class students, let’s do an experiment. Let’s take a cup of radioactive materials (make sure you have your HazMat suit on…) and then pour it into the ocean. Now lets go off shore about five miles and “see” if we can detect the radiation.”

Little Hiyuko raises her hand.

“Yes, Hiyuko?”

“Teacher, because the sea is so big and a little cup of radioactivity so small, wouldn’t the water disperse the radioactivity?”

“Yes, that’s true, Hiyuko.”

“But it’s still radioactive! What about the fish and all the marine life? And don’t people eat fish and crabs and stuff?”

“Well, yes, they do. But they can go other places to get it. And Hiyuko, it’s such a small amount of radioactive material. You’d have to eat a lot of fish to get poisoned. Besides that, Hiyuko, some day you are going to die anyway!”

That is the way it is being communicated in Japan. I know several teachers and students of teachers who have been told this by school administrators. With over 10,393 tons of contaminated water poured into the Pacific Ocean (and continuing), dispersed radioactive materials, like an infected open sore, are being poured into the Pacific Ocean daily.

I can see the officials saying:

“Well, it’s a big ocean. And anyway, it’s OUR ocean. We can do what we want and NOBODY has the right to tell us what to do. Besides, where else do we put it? We have to put it somewhere.”

Remember, that type of thinking is the same used about harvesting whales. Let the Japanese do this for another year and they will be saying “it’s tradition!”

What about everyone else whose country borders on the Pacific Ocean?

“The release of contaminated water sparked concern among such countries as China, South Korea and Russia over the possible impact on marine life and the environment, with Seoul complaining that it had not been notified in advance.”

Well the Japanese reporting agency “TEPCO” dismissed this:

“…its latest release of contaminated water could pose an immediate risk to health, saying the level of radiation a person would be exposed to by eating seafood caught in nearby waters every day for a year would amount to 0.6 millisievert, which is still lower than the annual exposure limit of 1 millisievert for ordinary people.”

This is the same way that government officials played down the initial havoc caused by the recent earthquake with the Japanese Nuclear Reactors. In fact, it was not until recent pressures by noted nuclear physicists that Japanese officials finally admitted that the situation will not resolve for some time, upgraded the size of the actual earthquake, and increased the radioactive perimeter for human safety.

It is a mess, no doubt.

But the real insidious gesture, as the article states:

“TEPCO threw three sandbags each containing 100 kilograms of zeolite, a mineral that absorbs radioactive materials, into the sea near the plant on Friday to reduce the levels of contamination.”

Well, that’s nice. Three sandbags to handle 10,000 tons of contaminated sea water? The sandbags are supposed to gather radioactive material. Absorbing the radioactive material they become “seamines (landmines underwater)” due to the fact that the radioactive concentration increases hundreds if not thousand folds in each bag and now just sits on the surface of the ocean bottom.

Notice the article never even mentions collecting these sandbags. They are just going to leave them there.

And, well, if you don’t see it, who cares?

And friends, it is not just limited to Japan. Currently unmarked US planes are flying over the Gulf pouring oil dispersant to hide the fact that the oil spill has not been handled.

It is unfortunate that so many people and creatures continue to be plagued and affected by a country who wants you to only obey and be a pawn in their game. We will all play into it unless something is done to stop the insanity.

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11

With the recent nuclear debacle resulting from the recent tsunami that hit Japan, it seems that our Japanese friends, once again, are not being honest with us.

A nuclear physicist sent me this message. It affects you and me and our whale friends:

My Thoughts  on the Fukushima Reactors

Dr. Aharon  Friedman PhD.

Monday,  March 29, 2011

I am writing this commentary as I feel that I would be  neglecting my duties as a citizen of this planet and as a Physicist, if I do not  take the time to enlighten as many people as I can reach regarding the ongoing nuclear crisis and the happenings in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »