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So what's wrong with clubbing seals?By Boris Johnson (Filed: 15/04/2004) I don't know who handles the PR for these Canadian seal-clubbers, but it must be a hell of a job. Can there be any group, on the entire planet, that so excites the hatred of the British public? Not the Korean dog-eaters, nor the Italian butterfly-shooters, nor the Spanish goat-headyankers no, not even the French, who, as we all know, eat our childrens ponies no one can match the Canadian fisherman for provoking the Briton to tears of rage; and one can see why. Here is a fellow who...

Canada unveils annual seal hunt, slams activists 22 Mar 2005 20:08:30 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds comments, background) By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, March 22 (Reuters) - Canada said on Tuesday it would allow 320,000 young seals to be killed this year and launched an unusually strong attack on activists who promise to boycott Canadian seafood products in a bid to stop the hunt. Ottawa says the hunt helps ensure the health of what it describes as a booming seal population. But pictures of hunters clubbing defenseless animals to death have turned the event into an annual public relations nightmare for the...

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE -- (AP) -- Five more F/A-22 Raptors landed Friday at this Florida Panhandle base where Gen. John P. Jumper, Air Force chief of staff, is among the first pilots being trained to fly the new stealth fighter. The five Raptors arrived from the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. plant in Marietta, Ga., a day after all F/A-22s were cleared to resume flying for the first time since a Dec. 20 crash at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The additional planes increased the number of Raptors at Tyndall to 18, more than half of the 33 now in...

Outrage at new mass slaughter of baby seals Images of cull return to haunt world again Mark Townsend Sunday April 11, 2004 The Observer Soon after dawn breaks above Newfoundland tomorrow, the ice sheets will be suffused with crimson as an army of hunters embark on the largest single cull of baby seals in more than half a century. Up to 10,000 animals are scheduled to be killed every hour during daylight. By nightfall on Tuesday, at least 140,000 young harp seals will have been shot, beaten or clubbed to death on the huge ice floes found among the seas...

<p>Canada Increases Baby Seal Hunting Quota to 350,000, NYT Says April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's federal government has lifted the quota on the culling of baby harp seals to 350,000, an increase of more than 100,000 from recent years, as demand for baby seal fur from countries such as Russia and Poland grows, the New York Times reported.</p>

<<Back Major Robert Garland (Sep. 1) -- The world's most advanced warplane has been cloaked in secrecy until now. The F-22 Raptor has been tested in the skies over southern Nevada to prepare for wars of the future. The Raptor pilots say that when that day finally comes, the F-22 will live up to it's billing as the most dominant warplane ever conceived. It's like a young Mike Tyson with wings -- the biggest, baddest bully on the block. The F-22 Raptor is already flying higher, faster, farther, and packing more firepower than any fighter plane ever conceived. It...

WASHINGTON – It's cruelty season in Canada - on the ice floes east of Newfoundland and Labrador, to be exact. The annual November-to-May clubbing, ice-picking, or shooting of harp and hooded seals will take a legal quota of up to 350,000 this year - 100,000 more than in recent years. Most of the seal-skin bounty is dispatched to international fashion industries, with side profits from meat, oil, and the sale of genitalia to Asian aphrodisiac markets. How many buyers of seal products are likely to reflect on the bloody origins of their stylish garb? Probably as few as the number...