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January 20, 2008

Help Stop Illegal Whaling: Women Warriors Need Help to Keep Whales from Slaughter (Jan. 20, 2008)

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From: Constantin & Lilly
To: count90210@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:09 AM
Subject: please boost and pray to save the whales from killings

http://thewomenwarriors.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=248

Whales are still in danger in Japan in the Southern Ocean. The SeaSheperd crew is trying to save the whales from Japanese whalers. Captain Paul Watson uses intuition to find whalers, so they can save the whales. The Australian government and Greenpeace know the location of the whalers but refuse to release the info to the seasheperd.

The interdimensional portal of healing was opened last year and the whales are one of the beings we can communicate with. For a week now, the whales keep sending me messages: they need our prayers and boosting. the SeaShepered crew needs our praying and boosting.

We’ll be in the women warriors chat tonight, Sunday January 20, at 6:00 pm Pacific time, so if you wish you can boost and pray with us (Sorry for the short notice - the women warriors members). Please, please, please, keep the boosting and prayers for a few days until the whales are saved, their survival is necessary to ensure a world in balance, supporting health and balance of the ecosystem.

Infinite blessings,

Lilly

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No More Whales Will Die This Season
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_070224_2.html

Finally, the burnt-out hulk of the whale killing floating factory called the Nisshin Maru is limping out of the Antarctic treaty zone, the stench of rotten whale meat lingering in its wake. The whale-killing fleet is now slowly heading north to Japan. There will be no stopping in New Zealand for repairs. A stop there will result in legal issues that could tie the ship up for years and the whale meat onboard would be confiscated.

The whaling fleet has a long way to go to reach Tokyo. The crew will be mourning the loss of one crewmember and remembering the opposition by Sea Shepherd that left their decks reeking of rotten butter and awash with the blood of the whales caused by Sea Shepherd crew sealing the bloody flensing deck outlet drains. It is a ship that reeks of death, burnt flesh, gore, and blood. It looks and smells like the Death Star that it is.

The image of the Nisshin Maru retreating from the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary is joyous news for all people who love whales. This ship is the single greatest whale-killing machine of all time and the only thing more pleasing to us would be to see its total destruction. Fortunately, this did not happen in the Whale Sanctuary, because the sinking of the ship would have been an ecological disaster.

Whaling is now officially ended for the 2006/2007 season and the unofficial final whale body count appears to be less than 500 whales of their 935 targeted piked whales. It is not known how many of the targeted fin whales were killed.

The Nisshin Maru is severely damaged. The main engine was started but electrical systems are barely functioning. The whale processing equipment is ruined. The winches used to haul up the whales are inoperable. The cargo of whale meat onboard has been partially if not completely spoiled by loss of refrigeration and intense heat. In addition, the whale meat has been contaminated by chemicals used to fight the blaze and spilt during the fire.

The disaster has highlighted the fact that the Nisshin Maru is an environmental disaster waiting to happen. This year, Antarctica’s wildlife was spared the tragedy of an oil and chemical spill that would have occurred if the 8,000 ton ship had sunk with hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil and an unknown amount of chemicals like ammonia and chlorine.

This is the second serious fire on the Nisshin Maru in 10 years. The whaling vessels are not ice-class. Japan has put their pride before any concern for the protection of Antarctic ecosystems and wildlife. Their lust to kill whales has become obsessive and blinds their common sense.

“What Japan has just demonstrated over the last 10 days,” said Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson, “is a total contempt for international concerns for the environmental protection of Antarctic wildlife. This whaling fleet is an ecological time-bomb. The potential for disaster is a real and ever present danger when they are down in the Whale Sanctuary illegally slaughtering endangered whales.”

The whaling fleet spotting vessel the Kaiko Maru is also heading home marked with the scars of their deliberate collision with the Sea Shepherd ship Robert Hunter. The Japanese crew on both the Nisshin Maru and the Kaiko Maru saw first hand the dedicated courage of our international volunteers in action during the confrontations. They were days they will not soon forget.

Sea Shepherd is already preparing to return to the coast of Antarctica in December 2007 to once again intervene against illegal Japanese whaling activities.

“We have discovered weaknesses with the Japanese ships that can be exploited given the right equipment. We learn more about these ruthless killing machines every year,” said Sea Shepherd flagship Farley Mowat’s Captain Alex Cornelissen. “Next year if they return to kill humpbacks and fins, we will have to take a more aggressive stand to stop these poachers.”

The targeting of 50 humpbacks and 50 fin whales for the 2007/2008 season is a line in the sand where Sea Shepherd is prepared to take a stand.

“We cannot abide, tolerate, or ignore such a blatant slaughter of the highly endangered humpbacks,” said Captain Watson. “The humpback is the symbol of our organization and a part of our logo. We will defend this species as aggressively as we can. Our position on the humpbacks and the fins is zero tolerance”

The 2006/2007 campaign is now officially over. The efforts of Sea Shepherd have highlighted the ongoing illegal activities of the Japanese whaling fleet. Our message was that the Japanese whalers were killing highly endangered whales in an international whale sanctuary in violation of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. Japan is engaged in numerous international crimes and they must be opposed and they must be shut down.

This year, call it fate, call it karma, or call it the will of God, {boosting works Wink ~Lilly} but whatever it is, the results have been wonderful for the whales. All of us at Sea Shepherd are extremely satisfied with the ignoble retreat of the ruthless killers of the gentle giants as their disgraced and damaged ships limping shamefully home stinking with the corpses of their innocent victims.

Our message to the Japanese whalers: “We hope your damages are so severe you will not be back next year but if you are, we will be there waiting for you and we will not be as polite as we were this year,” said Captain Watson.

The Sea Shepherd ships Robert Hunter and Farley Mowat are now docked in Melbourne. Preparations have already begun to outfit a campaign to intervene against the possibility of a return of the whaling fleet in December.
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Sea Shepherd E-Newsletter
Defending Ocean Wildlife Worldwide
May 15, 2007
Greetings!

Earlier this year, you helped us to successfully stop barbaric Japanese killers in the southernmost parts of the world from killing beautiful, defenseless whales during Operation Leviathan: Defending the Whales of Antarctica. Without your help, our volunteer crews could not have taken two ships and a helicopter into harm's way to tackle one of the greatest whale killing monsters on this planet.

Because of the amazing support we have recieved from you and our supporters around world, Sea Shepherd is pleased to announce that we will be taking on yet another of the great whale killing monsters on this planet - the rogue whaling nation of Iceland - in our next campaign, Operation Ragnarök: Iceland Whale Defense Campaign.

While launching this campaign, we are continuing to work around the world to protect animals in every ocean from greed and brutality. In this issue of the Sea Shepherd E-News you will read about the initial preparations for our upcoming campaign in Iceland as well as our work to bring new voices to the policy-making groups that create the conservation laws that Sea Shepherd enforces.

Operation Ragnarök: Iceland Whale Defense Campaign
Sea Shepherd Heads North to Protect Whales

In October 2006, after 20 years of compliance, Iceland began to violate the International Whaling Commission's global moratorium on whaling and gave only a one-day notice before killing a whale. In order to defend the beautiful whales that Iceland is targeting, Sea Shepherd crews are heading north towards Iceland with our vessel, the Farley Mowat, with the mission of stopping Iceland's brutal whaling fleet.

We are calling this campaign Operation Ragnarök. This is an old Nordic word that means "doom or destruction of the powers." We intend to take our intervention to the land of the Norse - straight to the coast of Iceland - for a confrontation with the outlaw Icelandic whaling operations.

Iceland has issued themselves a quota of 9 endangered fin whales and 30 piked (Minke) whales to brutally slaughter before August 31, 2007 - in addition to their bogus lethal "scientific research" program which targets another 39 piked whales.

Read more about Operation Ragnarök here
http://www.seashepherd.org/ragnarok/

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Ecuador Joins the International Whaling Commission
A New Voice Joins the Policy-Making Group

Reliable sources have confirmed to Sea Shepherd Galapagos Director of Operations Sean O'Hearn-Gimenez that Ecuador will be joining the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and will be attending their annual meetings held during May this year in Anchorage, Alaska, thereby demonstrating that the government of the President of the Republic of Ecuador, Economist Rafael Correa (pictured above with Lenyn Betamcourt, Sea Shepherd's Manager of Research & Education in the Galapagos Islands), is serious about the conservation of the world's environment.

Sea Shepherd has supported conservation efforts in the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador, since the year 2000 and has been advising the current administration, (through its allied Ecuadorian grassroots organization, Fundación Selva-Vida Sin Fronteras), of the need for Ecuador to join as member of the IWC and to send its delegate to the 59th International meeting of this intergovernmental organization. The IWC is responsible for whaling regulations on a global scale, and to date, consists of 70 different nations, including Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Chile.

What does this mean for the future of whaling?
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_070501_1.html

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http://www.seashepherd.org/whales/ The Whale's Navy In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) enacted a moratorium on all commercial whaling. Since then, three nations – Iceland, Norway, and Japan – have brutally slaughtered over 25,000 whales under the guise of scientific research and for commercial purposes. The IWC does not have the capacity to enforce the moratorium. Sea Shepherd, guided by the United Nations World Charter for Nature, is the only organization whose mission is to enforce these international conservation regulations on the high seas. credit Paul Taggart/World Picture News DEFENDING WHALES Whale Campaign Home Blog Antarctica SSCS History Saving Whales The Intelligent Whale Whaling Around the World Related Articles Video TAKE ACTION What You Can Do Australia Action Support Sea Shepherd Highlights from our past three decades include: Ramming and disabling the notorious pirate whaler, the Sierra Shutting down half of the Spanish whaling fleet  Documentation of whaling activities in the Faeroe Islands chronicled in the BBC documentary Black Harvest Scuttling half of the Icelandic whaling fleet and whale processing station Scuttling of the Norwegian whaling vessels Nybraena and Senet Confronting and opposing Japan's illegal whaling in Antarctica Sea Shepherd has gone on to end the careers of 9 illegal whaling vessels, saving thousands of whales. These campaigns and other Sea Shepherd efforts have kept the issue of whaling in the international spotlight for the past thirty years. Support Sea Shepherds unique efforts to safeguard whales around the world Sea Shepherd's mission is to end the destruction of habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately-balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations. bottom row credit Bob Talbot

P.O. Box 2616, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (USA) Tel: 360-370-5650 Fax: 360-370-5651 Copyright © 2008 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. All rights reserved.

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Comments

Subject: Whaling
From: stormwolf@wildspirit.net
Date: Mon, January 21, 2008
To: Editor

Hello everyone,

We must use every thing we have to stop these morons from killing the inocent. These beings are an important part of our ecology and our spiritual developement  Killing them for such dubious reasons is like killing your own family. We must ask our syphs to help if they wish to. They could create storms around these monsters to make them go back to port. We do not want any wishy washy fluffy bunny new age platitudes in dealing with this. If these evil ships can be damaged enough so they have to limp home DO IT DO IT DO IT

Leave our whales alone. May the force be with all those getting rid of these evil morons

Love Janet (Stormwolf)

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