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by Amy Judd | April 22, 2009 at 04:45 pm
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Japan launched a new whaling mission today to catch 60 minke whales off the coast of their country, saying they needed them for research.
Greenpeace has condemned the move saying that they can research them without killing them, and citing evidence that Japanese ships just returned last month after catching 680 whales.
"It doesn't matter whether it's 60 or 680 whales, it's too many," said Greenpeace International spokesman Greg McNevin. "They can perfectly well study whales without killing them."
Japan hunts whales using a loophole in a 1986 international moratorium on commercial whaling that allows "lethal research" on the mammals, and makes no secret of the fact that the animals' meat is then served as food.
"The purpose of the research is to collect basic data for resuming sustainable commercial whaling in the future," Hiroko Furukawa, an official at Japan's Fisheries Agency, told AFP on Tuesday.
This whaling expedition will last until late May.
There is a new International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in June and it will discuss whetehr to allow Japan to take part in commercial whaling any more.
Japan says they are insulted that they would not be allowed to continue this tradition and has threatened to leave the Commission.
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at 18:19 on April 22nd, 2009
I find this Japanese rationale for killing the minke whales incredibly insulting in a civilized 21st Century world. Once again, it's not as if Japanese are starving as they've always conveniently used their anachronistic "tradition" excuse as the flimsiest justification to kill whales.
Source: fijitimes.com
at 18:58 on April 22nd, 2009
I am not in favour of whaling however it is part of Japan's culture and yes it should be abolished. However so should the consumption of Beef and Pork as well as Chicken in the US, even though a tradition, it is a major polluter and in a civilized 21s century an outdated practice that needs to be replaced with healthy environment friendly food sources.
How do you thing we will achieve that? The UN has already called for such and the Western Nations are not ready to even address the problem, however they are ready to gang up on Japan in order to distract from their own issues.
That being said, I am in favour of banning the whale hunt and reducing Fish consumption in order to give the Oceans a chance to recover and preserve our wild life, as well as reduce our pollution and negative impact on our environment.
I am waiting for the day the US or Canada or Germany will outlaw beef and pork since the farming of those causes major environmental problem and their consumption causes serious health problem.
at 05:28 on May 14th, 2009
ASSASSINS OF THE PLANET: STOP
at 18:37 on April 22nd, 2009
Sadly so, yes. I was hopping that it would give this up in view of the elections. Two Greenpeace activist are now being tried in court as well.
at 23:56 on April 23rd, 2009
sad that they left to slaughter whales in a blood bath, these creatures die a very painful death. Domestic cows and pigs are killed very quickly....
There's no comparison between killing whales and domestic farm animals as suggested by the above Editor?
Rice produces more methane than domestic farm animals, shall we ban that too? The Japanese would be very sad without rice.
at 05:07 on May 11th, 2009
is calling for all charges against Sato and Suzuki to be dropped, and
for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
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Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
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Que vergonha, Japão!
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at 05:09 on May 11th, 2009
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Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling_lies_coveru...
Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
Whaling
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It's sad that a great modern nation like Japan uses such ham fisted tactics to suppress legitimate dissent. Kudos to the brave members of Greenpeace Japan that place themselves at risk.
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Parabéns ao Greenpeace!
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Lugar de ladrão é na cadeia!
É HORA DE JULGAR OS CORRUPTOS DO JAPÃO...
BALEAÇÃO COMERCIAL NO JAPÃO...
QUE VERGONHA!
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at 05:12 on May 11th, 2009
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Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling_lies_coveru...
Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
Whaling
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Bravos Guerreiros!
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at 05:14 on May 11th, 2009
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Photo: Beautifully restored Icelandic fishing boats, now used for whale watching. The people of Iceland have chosen a new Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir. A well known opponent Iceland's whaling whaling, before the election, Ms Sigurdardottir's interim government made clear its opposition to Iceland’s whaling legacy.
In the coming month, while the Prime Minister and her colleagues are busy creating a new government and working to regenerate the nation’s economy, Iceland has a real chance to end decades of damaging policy, by becoming a world leader in whale conservation.
Click here to write to Iceland's Prime Minister now.
Please ask Ms Sigurdardottir to make the best of this important opportunity: by cancelling Iceland's five year commercial whaling quota, and ensuring that Iceland's representative at this year’s International Whaling Commission meeting votes for whale conservation, firmly establishing Iceland as an environmental model for other nations to follow.
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Esperança!
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at 05:26 on May 11th, 2009
JAPANESE WHALING FLEET IN SOUTHERN OCEAN
jre/Photo by Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
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Don't Shoot?
Posted by Sara onboard the Esperanza
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Permission to launch torpedoes Captain.
Permission granted!! Shoot!!
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at 05:37 on May 11th, 2009
The whale hunt continues Posted by Irene onboard the Esperanza
Two years ago: what they do not
want you and me to see.
©Greenpeace/Kate Davison
The Oceanic Viking reports that at least five whales have been killed in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. I am sad, angry and frustrated.
We chased the factory ship the Nisshin Maru over a distance of 4,300 nautical miles. During that time no whales were killed. When we had to leave the Australian surveillance vessel Oceanic Viking had arrived. If the whaling fleet have "only" killed five whales so far, it means that the whaling fleet didn't resume whaling immediately, but I guess they got desperate to try and fill their quota. It is very difficult to find anything positive to say today.
Media coverage and public discussion on the whaling issue has reached unprecedented levels in Japan, and Prime Minister Fukuda has been forced to discuss the whaling issue in Parliament.
Japanese taxpayers must be wondering why they are funding this scandalous fake research operation which produces no real science, whale meat that very few wants to eat, and brings their country into international disrepute.
The Japanese government wants to "normalise" the International Whaling Commission, and overthrow the moratorium on commercial whaling. Bloody pictures of whales being killed in the Southern Ocean do not serve this purpose.
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Therefore I post one from 2006 - this is what the Japanese government's science looks like.
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at 05:50 on May 11th, 2009
Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat
Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat
MIRIAM GODET 
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Tests on whalemeat on sale in Japan have revealed astonishing levels of mercury. While it has long been known that the animals accumulate heavy metals such as mercury in their tissues, the levels discovered have surprised even the experts.
Two of the 26 liver samples examined contained over 1970 micrograms of mercury per gram of liver. That is nearly 5000 times the Japanese government's limit for mercury contamination, 0.4 micrograms per gram.
At these concentrations, a 60-kilogram adult eating just 0.15 grams of liver would exceed the weekly mercury intake considered safe by the World Health Organization, say Tetsuya Endo, Koichi Haraguchi and Masakatsu Sakata at the University of Hokkaido, who carried out the research. "Acute intoxication could result from a single ingestion," they warn in a draft paper accepted for publication in The Science of the Total Environment.
The researchers call on the government to impose tighter regulations on the consumption of whale organs. In particular, they warn that pregnant women risk poisoning their unborn children. In the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of children around Japan's Minamata Bay were born with horrific birth defects after their mothers ate seafood contaminated with mercury compounds, which had been poured raw into the bay since the 1930s. Thousands more suffered brain damage.
Single mouthful
Even veteran researchers from the Minamata saga were shocked by the new figures. "Hirokatsu Akagi, a director of the National Institute for Minamata Disease, was very surprised," says Endo. "He'd never seen levels above 20 micrograms per gram."
On average, concentrations of mercury in whale and dolphin livers were 370 micrograms per gram, 900 times the government limit. Average levels in kidneys and lungs were also high, about 100 times the limit. None of the samples was below the limit.
In work not yet published, Endo's team has shown that rats suffered acute kidney poisoning after a single mouthful of the most highly contaminated liver. While levels were lower in muscle, Endo told New Scientist that on average it still contained 2.5 to 25 times the limit.
The samples came from small-toothed whales and dolphins, catches of which are not restricted by the International Whaling Commission, the international body that regulates whaling. Mercury becomes concentrated in their internal organs when they eat contaminated fish and squid.
Japan continues to campaign vigorously to be allowed to resume full-scale whaling of larger species. But an IWC meeting in May 2002 ended in deadlock.
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The War of the Whales
26 November 2007
Monday 26 November 2007 21:00-21:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Roz Kidman Cox looks at the continuing conflict over the pursuit of whales since the International Whaling Commission voted for a moratorium on commercial hunting in 1982.
Despite the 25-year ban, Japan continues to kill thousands of whales a year in the name of science while environmentalists complain that this is simply commercial whaling in a different guise. But does this apparent conflict actually suit both sides?
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Low carbon whale meat
High North News 04.03.2008
Eating whale meat is far better for the climate than eating other types of meat. That’s the conclusion of a new, groundbreaking study.
“People can eat whale meat with a good conscience,” says Rune Frovik of the High North Alliance, which has conducted the study.
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FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 2008) — Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic - as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.
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Source: "Marine Hunters: Whaling and Sealing in the North Atlantic," published by the High North Alliance, 1997.
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A people's diet, however, is not only about health. Dave Ramsden, Canadian North West Territories' deputy minister of health, says that, «If we start a stampede away from eating beluga or caribou we will have lost the people's culture.»50
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at 06:08 on May 11th, 2009
Scandal: Japan's whalers caught redhanded
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It's been a busy few days for the Defending Whales Team in Tokyo, Japan:
"Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan's government-backed, sham scientific whaling operation."
Read more here »
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at 06:12 on May 11th, 2009
Whaling and dealing: Tell the US to stop negotiating at the expense of whales - President Obama wants to stop Southern Ocean Whaling - now is your chance!
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o2105081 - 21st May 2008 - BERLIN, GERMANY.Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Japanese
embassy in Berlin demanding an end to whaling by showing a symbolic ‘twisted’ harpoon. Greenpeace has recently revealed a scandal by discovering large quantities of whale meat, from the whaling ships, had been Illegally sold by crewmembers in Japan. The Japanese Public Prosecutor is
currently investigating the scandal.
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Whale meat scandal: stop whaling, end subsidies
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Ending Japan's Southern Ocean Whaling
The Fisheries Agency of Japan's whaling fleet sails thousands of miles every year to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to hunt for a self-determined, constantly increasing quota of hundreds of whales.
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at 06:14 on May 11th, 2009
Activists from Greenpeace Japan meet the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru with a banner saying "FAILED" as it arrives in Tokyo, Japan to unload whale meat for sale.
Activists from Greenpeace Japan meet the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru with a banner saying "FAILED" as it arrives in Tokyo, Japan to unload whale meat for sale. The ship failed to meet its quota of 935 whales by nearly half, in part because the Greenpeace ship Esperanza stopped the entire whaling operation for 15 days as it chased the Nisshin Maru across the Southern Ocean, over a distance of 4300 miles.
©Greenpeace/Naomi Toyoda
GREENPEACE HANDOUT - NO RESALE - NO ARCHIVE - EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Congratulations
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at 06:18 on May 11th, 2009
Demonstration_Anti_Japan_Whale_Vessel_at_Surabay BOYCOTT JAPAN
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at 07:14 on May 11th, 2009
II - Japanes whaling ship Nisshin Maru arrives back in Japan
Japan, having just returned from its last so-called "scientific"
whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. It is now
one year since Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki first
exposed the embezzlement of whale meat from the fleet. They are still
on trial and facing up to ten years in prison, yet nothing has been
done to address the scandal and the real criminals behind the
embezzlement. Greenpeace is calling for all charges against Sato and
Suzuki to be dropped, and for an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop
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Justice for whales, justice for Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
Overreaction
The Tokyo Two gathered firm evidence that boxes of whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew and sold for personal gain.
www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whales-justice180209
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Bem feito, Japão, escândalo mundial!
QUE VERGONHA!
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Gostaram da recepção?
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at 04:28 on May 14th, 2009
The Yushin Maru catcher ship of the Japanese whaling fleet injures a whale with its first harpoon attempt, and takes a further three harpoon shots before finally killing the badly injured fleeing whale. Finally they drowned the mammal beneath the harpooon
The Yushin Maru catcher ship of the Japanese whaling fleet injures a whale with its first harpoon attempt, and takes a further three harpoon shots before finally killing the badly injured fleeing whale. Finally they drowned the mammal beneath the harpooon deck of the ship to kill it.
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Why do the human race prey on inoffensive creatures,
Surely the inhabitants of Planet Earth are a primitive species
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Todos malditos, matadores e perseguidores das baleias - WHALING...
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RETRATO DA DINAMARCA - ILHAS FAROÉ - CHAMAM ISSO DE SER HUMANO? ESTOU VENDO PSICOPATAS-Nature - Grindadráp í Syðragøtu, august 2006/Mynd: Janus Hansen
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"O homem recebeu o poder de conquistar o mundo inteiro e dominá-lo. Na terra, mar e ar, e foi conclamado a fazê-lo; esta foi sua tarefa.
Como esta 'conquista do mundo' deveria ser feita, e qual o propósito e verdadeiro significado disso?
Seria bom para nós darmos atenção ao conselho do Rei Shelomô, o mais sábio de todos os homens, quando escreveu ao final do Livro de Cohêlet: 'Em última análise, tudo se sabe; teme a Deus, e observa Seus mandamentos; pois este é todo o propósito do homem.'
Nas palavras de nossos Sábios, 'Eu fui criado com o único propósito de servir ao meu Criador."...
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at 04:32 on May 14th, 2009
Ontleden van 'Hvalfangst'
bloederige zaak
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Battered Japanese Whalers Return
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A DINAMARCA TEM RÓTULO DE SANGRIA E TERROR E SUAS ILHAS EXALAM SANGUE INOCENTE DE ANIMAIS INDEFESOS
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Target:Prime Minister Jannes Eidesgaard
A DINAMARCA NAO TOMA PROVIDENCIA E A BALEAÇAO CONTINUA NAS ILHAS FAROE DESTRUINDO PESSOAS E SERES MARINHOS.
petition overview | letter
End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands!
Target:Prime Minister Jannes Eidesgaard
Sponsored by: John Koehler
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Whales are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain. Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and other small cetaceans.
Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are eventually driven into the shallows. Here the bloodbath begins. The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living flesh of each whale until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column. Next the main blood vessels are severed. The blood-stained bay is soon filled with horribly mutilated and dying whales.
The Faroese celebrate the butchery of their victims in an carnival atmosphere of entertainment. Indoctrinated from an early age, children are often given a day off school to watch the fun. They run down to the bay and clamber over the carcasses of slaughtered whales.
Every year around 2,000 whales are driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it is known.
Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.
The drive hunt is a practice abandoned elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states. The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.
According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).
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End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands! -
www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-whale-dolphin-s
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VERGOGNA alle FAROE!!! Diffondere...
www.flickr.com/photos/adottami/2865131098/
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WARNING: Do not eat whale meat
www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e081130.html
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PROVIDENCIAS URGENTES:
picasaweb.google.com/colaborandocomanatureza/ DropBox#5288...
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YOU TUBE: br.youtube.com/simplesefeliz
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Verdade: VEJA QUE GALERIA:
www.faroenature.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?al bum=298
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RETRATO DA DINAMARCA - ILHAS FAROÉ - CHAMAM ISSO DE SER HUMANO? ESTOU VENDO PSICOPATAS-Nature - Grindadráp í Syðragøtu, august 2006/Mynd: Janus Hansen
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www.faroenature.net/gallery/displayimage.php? album=298&am...
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colaborandocomanatureza.blogspot.com/2009/01/ faroenature-...
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Verdade: MISERÁVEIS, ESTÚPIDOS, ASSASSINOS, PSICOPATAS, ABOMINÁVEIS, INSENSATOS, DESTRUIDORES, INDIVIDUOS DE ALTA PERICULOSIDADE...IRREPARÁVEIS E INSIGNIFICANTES!
MIRIAM GODET: APENAS INSIRA SEU E-MAIL E FAÇA UMA GRANDE AÇÃO - MASSACRE DAS BALEIAS -www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/whalesmassacre/
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* Galeria: www.flickr.com/photos/9183672/
* Perfil: www.flickr.com/people/9183672/
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WHALES MASSACRE:
www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/whalesmassacre/
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