The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.
Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
Japan Testing World's Resolve with Humpback Whaling
Excerpt NY Times report "Japan Hunts the Humpback. Now Comes the Backlash. ":
There is some thought among foes of whaling that Japan picked this marquee species intentionally to test the resolve of anti-whaling nations and groups.
“If there’s no reaction to this, my suspicion is they’ll expand the hunt quickly,” said Roger Payne, one of the biologists who first documented the low, resonant, ocean-spanning song of the species, and who is president of a whale conservation group, Ocean Alliance.
The director general of Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research, Minoru Morimoto, has defended the program, saying, “Japan’s research is a long-term scientific program that is obtaining biological and ecosystem information required for proper management.”
(There is no ban or limit on such harvests, even though most of the meat is sold commercially in Japan.)
So what are we going to do? Don't wait for much action from our government. They are off playing that they are relevant in the Middle East after mucking up the war on Iraq to be bothered with much but mealy mouthed statements.
Are we ready to boycott Japan for the whales. Or are we going to let them die?
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