News today that Laos is attempting to join the International Whaling Commission is getting coverage all over the world. According to the Associated Press report:
The landlocked nation of Laos has agreed to join the International Whaling Commission at Japan’s request and is highly likely to support Tokyo’s high-profile pro-whaling campaign, Japanese officials said Wednesday.
Japan is on a diplomatic drive to win support for its bid to overturn a moratorium on commercial whaling, but it was unclear if Laos could complete membership in time for the next commission meeting May 28-31 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh made the pledge Monday during talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who afterward announced new development aid of $1 million to Laos for the removal of buried unexploded bombs.
Why, in the first place, is an organisation such as the International Whalng Commission allowed to have member countries who have absolutley no possible connection with whaling? Just as, one might ask, how do nations with totalitarian governments and/or brutal dictatorships get appointed to the UN Commision on Human Rights? This is beyond farce simply because these people have no ability to see farce for what it is – and they don’t want us to see it either.
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