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An introduction to Anthroposophy (A modern day educational & spiritual pathway)
4 weekly meetings
Starting on Thursday 14th August
6.30 pm – 9.00 pm
for parents, staff and friends of CBSS
and the wider community
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Thumping the Tub . . . |
6-Jan-2007 - Whales and the Japanese |
It's hard to
be objective here.
The Japanese seem not to
inhabit the
same planet as us.
They've shown this time and
time again - with their appalling conduct in China before the
Second World War,
with their unspeakable treatment of the
prisoners-of-war during the
Second World War (my Father suffered under their hands,
oh how he suffered),
with their one-sided attitude to
the peoples who dragged them out of the
mess of their own making in 1945,
and
put them back on their feet.
So of the
latter years,
when the
Japanese have been truculently one of the
major economies,
we see that they have gone back to
their co-prosperity spheres.
They were unable to
win world-wide approval for slaughter of the
magnificent beasts which inhabit the
southern oceans (remember that the
Japanese live - if that's the
word - in the
northern oceans).
And having failed to
win that approval by fair means,
they do it by foul means.
They do it by corrupting the
little nations,
who have a hard enough row to
hoe at the
best of times,
to
get their vote.
What do we have now? Australia and
New Zealand are once again standing against the
Japanese,
not this time to
save the
menfolk of their lands,
but to
save the
whales from extinction.
Australia has a group called the
Sea Shepherd,
which is supported by John Singleton's Australian brewery,
of all things.
Well,
more power to
him.
I for one can do without Lion Nathan (a New Zealand brand of beer owned by the
Japanese) and
many other Japanese-owned products,
good though some of them undoubtedly are.
And this is another reason to
buy Australian (or New Zealand,
or American,
if that's where you are) because while nothing happens overnight,
it takes but a few working in concert to
make a very large difference.
And that's what I'm all about.
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