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Nations Against Whaling
Animals  (tags: whaling, nations, world, wildlife )

Claudia
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 20 days ago - worldagainstwhaling.webs.com
Nations that are united in the diplomatic protest against whaling .
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Battleship Antarctica Film Review By Captain Paul Watson
Animals  (tags: conservation, Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace, Whales )

Claudia
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- 9 hours ago - seashepherd.org
finally got a chance to view the documentary Battleship Antarctica and it was indeed an educational experience. This is a documentary about the Greenpeace voyage to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in 2006 and 2007. I highly recommend it.
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Are Whales Eating All the Fish?
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, whales, fish, excuses )

Claudia
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 22 days ago - hsus.org
In recent years, two separate agendas--one to promote commercial whaling and the other to protect fisheries from over-exploitation--have been misleadingly brought together to promote whaling interests.
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U.S. Seafood Giant Gorton's Has a "Whale" of a Problem
Animals  (tags: wildanimals, seafood, whales )

Claudia
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 21 days ago - hsus.org
Gorton's has been serving seafood to American families for more than 100 years, growing from a small operation in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to small part of a giant multinational conglomerate.
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The World of 2108 Commentary By Captain Paul Watson
World  (tags: world, sea shepherd, paul watson, whales, seals, oceans )

Claudia
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 9 hours ago - seashepherd.org
I was asked recently what I thought the world would be like in 100 years. The question was meant to solicit if I am an optimist or a pessimist.
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Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, society, psychology )

Scarlett
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 3 days ago - nytimes.com
Some of psychology's most famous experiments are those that expose the skull beneath the skin, the apparent cowardice or depravity pooling in almost every heart.
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With the World's Highest Drug Use Rates, Our Fraudulent Drug Policy Is Fully Exposed
Society & Culture  (tags: drug, Drug Policy, drug abuse, USA, marijuana, crime )

Scarlett
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - stopthedrugwar.org
"...it's striking that the lifetime marijuana use rate in the U.S. (42.4 percent) is more than twice as high as the rate in the Netherlands (19.8 percent), despite the latter country's famously tolerant cannabis policies.
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Penguins A Threatened Ecotourism Treasure
Environment  (tags: Penguins, climatechange, climate, conservation, ecosystems, animals, nature, protection, wildlife, ecotourism, environment )

Scarlett
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - treehugger.com
Penguin populations have been declining and shifting globally as a result of oil pollution, overfishing, guano mining and increased coastal development, according to research by Dee Boersma...published in the July-August edition of the journal BioScience
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Another One Bites the Dust: University Closes Observatory, Evicts Famous Astronomer
Society & Culture  (tags: university, observatory, astronomy, science, society, sadness )

Scarlett
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - treehugger.com
Tom Bolton discovered the first black hole using the 75 inch reflector at the David Dunlap Observatory just north of Toronto; how sad to see him sitting on the steps, crying, as the University of Toronto kicks him out and shuts it down...
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Sam Harris: The Boundaries of Belief
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, culture, society, pew survey, sam harris, atheist )

Scarlett
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - newsweek.washingtonpost.com
According to a recent Pew survey...21 % of atheists in the United States believe in "God," and 8 % are "absolutely certain" that such a Being exists. One wonders if they were also "absolutely certain" they understood the meaning of the term "atheist"...
 
 
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