<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aefd9604-cfd7-4412-81d7-d75c82911d86/47FD9F62-2745-4D32-BE77-7D2F925FA9D3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2" href="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><P>There's also another layer of complexity to the film. There's the political stuff. Commercial whaling was outlawed in 1986, but dolphins -- members of the same family -- aren't protected.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><P>The International Whaling Commission deems them "small cetaceans" and, apparently, therefore worthy of slaughter. Japan, which has tripled its dolphin killing since the ban, kills 23,000 dolphins each year, and thousands more are sold into captivity.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><P>The country is also trying to overturn the whaling ban, and as the film shows, it is offering financial support to small, bankrupt nations to get folks on their side.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><P><A href="http://www.thecovemovie.com/"><EM>The Cove</EM></A> shows that dolphin meat is sometimes passed off as whale meat -- and was even being served in school lunches in Taiji.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><P>And if so, <A href="http://www.takepart.com/thecove/">here's what you can do</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Learn more about <A href="http://www.takepart.com/learnaboutdolphinsincaptivity">dolphins in captivity</A>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Support the <A href="http://opsociety.worldsecuresystems.com/securedonation.htm">Ocean Preservation Society </A>with your donation.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/water/141767/%27the_cove%3A%27_japan_has_a_dark_secret_it_hopes_the_world_will_never_see_/?page=2"> <A href="http://thecovemovie.com/festivals/upcoming_screenings.htm">go see the film</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/47FD9F62-2745-4D32-BE77-7D2F925FA9D3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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