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The MV Steve Irwin is on its way to Antarctica:
- Protest ship hunts Japanese whalers
- Japan Says It Will Arrest Sea Shepherd Members This Year
- Sea Shepherd Captain Battles More Than High Seas for Conservation
(interview with Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson)
As long as Sea Shepherd is out there making itself useful, let’s take a quick look at what PETA’s been up to:
Well. Anyway…
India, Japan and China are now circling the moon with their respective spacecraft – to be joined next year by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Then there’s the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel some 1,640 feet (500 meters) and transmit video, images and data back to Earth.
The legal profession sees a brief in the making.
- New pirate raids expose international efforts to secure trade routes
- International Conference on Piracy Opens in Nairobi
- US plan calls for hunting pirates by land and air
The United States on Wednesday circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the issue. It proposes that all nations and regional groups cooperating with Somalia’s government in the fight against piracy and armed robbery “may take all necessary measures ashore in Somalia.”
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It proposes that for a year, nations “may take all necessary measures ashore in Somalia, including in its airspace, to interdict those who are using Somali territory to plan, facilitate or undertake acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea and to otherwise prevent those activities.”
The US isn’t volunteering any more ships, though. We may spare some resources from Iraq or Afghanistan here and there, definitely throw down some intel and a few cruise missiles, but I think we’re counting on the Europeans doing most of the dirty work. Seems like another program a Clinton State Department could get behind.
