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It is not "subsistence whaling" any more than it is here - they have perfectly modern grocery stores and first-world per-capita incomes - not to mention subsidized transport and no state taxes. And even if it was, would the whales be any less dead?

Third, the total amount of whales taken by nine tribes in the US: 40-60 whales per year.

Alaskans natives kill about 75 per year. Icelanders kill about 150. Not a huge difference, and there are a lot more icelanders than inuit and yupik. Plus the Inuit and Yupik eat a lot more per capita because the whales they kill are significantly larger. If you'd like we could switch to hunting larger whales so that fewer have to die, how does that sound? Maybe we should hunt blues? :P

Lastly, some people in the US have a problem with this whaling despite the low impact.

Then get the thorn out of your own damned eye before getting all high and mighty about someone else's.

So, to recap your argument, we have an industrialized nation with a modern whaling fleet that wants to use what amounts to a ship to ship missile to catch and harvest an endangered species about the rights granted to an aboriginal tribe that uses a row boat to catch one of the few food sources available.

Oh for god's sake, do you even read?

1) Alaskans eat as much whale per capita as Icelanders. Alaskans of native ancestry significantly more.

2) Alaskans also use modern equipment. It's a complete myth that they're out there in rowboats hunting whales with wooden spears - they're chasing them in motorboats, shooting them with huge caliber pistols and spearguns, and hauling them ashore with backhoes and carrying them around with forklifts.

3) Minke whales are not even remotely close to endangered species, they're "LC" (Least Concern).

4) They have perfectly modern grocery stores stocked with a wide range of food just like anywhere, and not only do they not have any state taxes, they get a regular stipend from the state government on top of their salaries. And Alaska is by far the biggest net-positive state in terms of per capita subsidy vs. tax paid federally as well.

You're living in a fantasy world if you're picturing Inuit and Yupic indians as being some sort of primitives out freezing in igloos. Or that the scene there is any less bloody than in the Faroes. But the latter are white devils trying to destroy the world and the former are just poor natives preserving the cultures, you see!

You know what would "blow my mind"? No "state" taxes, free money every year from government oil revenues and massive subsidies from the US government. "Less access to alternative foodstuffs"? Try again, here's a grocery store in Barrow. Stop the BS, these aren't some sort of impoverished people living in igloos, they're perfectly modern people, just like we are. Here's their football field for example - isn't "Whalers" such a nice touch? :P

And again: are the whales any less dead because they're killed in Alaska?

It's such rank hypocrisy.

China's apple growers are hand pollinating apples

https://www.chinadialogue.net/...

Pears: http://thebeephotographer.phot...

Great Britians bee loss

http://www.collective-evolutio...

And on and on, and on.

I keep writing about it, but seriously, Humans cannot defy nature or physics just because we feel like it. Bee death denials

The Nazis could easily have won the war, if Hitler wasn't insane and had settled for controlling mainland Europe west of Stalin. Only an idiot fights on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots invades Russia during the winter. If Hitler had not betrayed Stalin, he could have held mainland Europe indefinitely.

If Hitler had not betrayed Stalin, Stalin would've betrayed Hitler. The non-agression pact was, for Hitler, supposed to be a chance to take care of the West first before invading Russia, and for Stalin, a chance to rebuild and re-organize his armies before taking on Hitler while Hitler beat up the west (who had just given him a massive cold shoulder in the negotiations prior to WWII). This was even largely recognized at the time.

Don't think I've ever seen an apostrophe or a leaf on any timmys sign?
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/...

What part did i exaggerate? The caste system is there. Half the population doesnt have access to a toilet. Tha ganges river is polluted as all hell. The prostitution? Look up Bharatpur. "The Bedia caste in the Bharatpur region of Rajasthan traditionally sees its women enter the sex trade at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Caste-based prostitution has meant that there are no girls for the men to marry, for they can only marry virgins. To add to their problems, unemployment is rife. So the girls buy brides for their brothers and support the whole family by selling themselves 20 or 30 times a day until they are too old to attract custom. " http://felixfeatures.photoshelter.com/gallery/G0000oG.kvBZBcHM So how am i misinformed again?

Will also plant bombs for passport apparently. Tamerlan Tsarnaev seeks US Passport for "Olympics"

http://mattnager.photoshelter.com/image/I0000K_JoVscAlwc

A lady physics prof who looks like that at 50? Hotness indeed.

Thyroid cancer is treatable

http://gabrielabulisova.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Chernobyl-Revisited/G0000L1Q11Nk0tH0/I0000RsDOGWrwW9I

Unconstrained exponential growth at ~3% per year:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/kunzig-text

http://jirirezac.photoshelter.com/image/I0000.As2KdwWZVE

Now add an extra 4 billion people.
 

I just spent 6 weeks in Iran. The censorship blocking / unblocking happens in pretty close to real time. When a site is censored you can click to request to have it un-censored. Personally I used to do this a lot, and sometimes they would be un-censored, particularly if the subject was something technological, like free software sites. They also seem to keep a close eye on what people browse. I remember visiting sites that were open one day, and then censored the next.

If anyone is remotely interested I have some photos from Iran here