Muscle the dead fish?>> ^marinara:

i suspect a fishing rod and line were off camera, and the fisherman had to use his hand to muscle the fish after it was caught

i suspect a fishing rod and line were off camera, and the fisherman had to use his hand to muscle the fish after it was caught

Thanks for the promote! I thought it was a really great story too -- I've heard a few really positive and beautiful stories out of the tsunami, and they don't get enough attention.

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*promote This is why I have a high respect for the Japanese. I hate to single out nations for stereotypes, but I honestly think japan's history and law encourages the mindsets of respect, honor, and putting others before yourself. The fisherman said he did this because his island would be isolated and in trouble if he did not. Moreover I am not a boat expert, but he likely had enough fuel and resources to high-tail his way away for the disaster zones and go his way from there. Instead he turns around and starts doing everything he can to help. Then I find out he wasn't the only hero here, the store own gives all his goods away for free to help others.

*promote This is why I have a high respect for the Japanese. I hate to single out nations for stereotypes, but I honestly think japan's history and law encourages the mindsets of respect, honor, and putting others before yourself. The fisherman said he did this because his island would be isolated and in trouble if he did not. Moreover I am not a boat expert, but he likely had enough fuel and resources to high-tail his way away for the disaster zones and go his way from there. Instead he turns around and starts doing everything he can to help. Then I find out he wasn't the only hero here, the store own gives all his goods away for free to help others.

@ghark

Ok, so you are saying that Ron Paul is secretly working for the mainline Republican party? Interesting, I don't think he is doing a good job. Let us examine this. One, he has run as a third party candidate. This not only undermines the republican party entirely, logic dictates that his voter pool will come, by in large, from the republican pool... further undermining it.

And then you point out his voting record...the very evidence of him standing out against his party via decades of standing for his ideals. You twist that evidence to support a conclusion of indifference through effect. That, because what you are doing hasn't gotten the results you wanted, you have failed. In a certain since, this is true, but if it is the only fight you can fight, it is worth fighting for. That is an opinion of course, and one Dr. Paul obviously shares, as he has frequently said that he only ran for president because his pool of constituents said he should, he had no great desires to. Blaming Ron Paul for the 200 years of political development on capital hill is lunacy.

To me, it really seems like you have your heart set on hating Paul based in nothing, an irrational position based on emotion. If a man striving after his ideals for 20 years, never compromising, or throwing in the towel, and managing to come to moderate popularity against very entrenched powers working against you daily doesn't move you to sympathy, I don't know what will. Dennis Kucinich is such a man on the other side of the political equation from me, but I respect his purity. I don't understand how you can not. It seems sort of bigoted.

The reoccurring theme of your anger seems to be denoted at some of his comments on the oil spill. Here is a great interview of his giving his semi-support for Obama, like a true republican. He also talks about the moral hazard [government] created by totally dismissing the property rights of fisherman in the area, and the flaw of [government] limiting the liability of corporations responsible for the oil spill. From what I heard, he isn't defending BP anymore than he logically should for something that is, indeed, and accident. Do you think BP did the oil spill on purpose? Was this a plan by the Obama administration to have a great disaster to recover from.

His ideals have made HIM popular, not the republican mainstream. This is evident by republicans booing his victory in the CPAC during 2010 and 2011. While he might drive some to the republican party, they are people the main republican party doesn't like, he is causing a revolution within the party, changing the system from within. You asked how is this going to be fixed, this is how.

"If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!" - Robert Heinlein

>> ^desertdragon:

At least these folks fish the tuna sustainably, as evidenced by the fact that they've been doing it this way for nearly 2000 years. It's the giant commercial factory fishers that have decimated the tuna population over the last fifty years


No single group of fisherman can be said to fish sustainably if the rest are fishing to extinction. Sure it's traditional, but if everyone still hunts the blue fin, even if they all use this method, the practice is only sustainable if the total tuna fished in a year is less than or equal to the rate of reproduction in the species, no matter how long it takes the species to decline. In any case it's only in the past 150 years that industrial fishing has been making a dent on fish stocks, but most noticeably in the past 50 or so. So yeah, for 1800 years prior to that it didn't matter how you fished, it was sustainable because there weren't enough of us eating fish.

Apparently certain Japanese love blue fin so much that they are freezing it to build up stocks so that once it goes extinct they can sell it at extreme profit. Hurrah for capitalism!

Humor dude.

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Fareed Zakaria?

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Who was that Fareika on CNN guy?

Fareed Zakaria?

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Who was that Fareika on CNN guy?

Your video, Real Sad: Fisherman Shows Us His Oyster Bed. It's ruined., has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

There's no current threat of seals eating themselves to extinction. The seal population is booming because humans killed way too many sharks, their predators. And now fisherman feel they have to compete with the seals. Because we are over-fishing the sharks and fish now the solution is to kill the middle predator seals. Not really a well thought out long term solution. >> ^Skeeve:

There are lots of reasons to downvote this overly-simplistic video but I am doing it for the seal clubbing part because the only people who attack the seal hunt are people who haven't done their research.
As I have said before and I'll probably say again, the seals are eating themselves into extinction and the only thing that has kept the stupid (but cute) creatures from wiping out their own species is human culling of their numbers.
I could go on and on about other parts of the video but I'll leave it at that.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'survival, ocean, ice box' to 'survival, ocean, ice box, myanmar, burma, burmese, fisherman' - edited by kronosposeidon

That's simply because many of the people, even the average joes, idolise the all mighty dollar. The next time you see a manager take credit for one of their staff's work, or a colleague screw over another workmate to get ahead, convert that mentality to huge corporations. If anything, it would be easier as a corporate bigwig because they are insulated against the retribution they should rightly receive for their malfeasance (well, until they kill 11 people and create one of the biggest environmental disasters in history, I guess we'll see what happens).

You can't change the corporate macro culture if many citizens (particularly the ones that actually bother to vote or lobby their representatives) subscribe to the same values and ethics, that being making a buck first, everything else secondary.
>> ^blankfist:

quality idea. But I really think we could do without corporations period. They have proven government regulations and restrictions on business are simply shams to embolden and strengthen the corporations by giving special privileges to the rich and shrinking the small business sector.
But we can start with revoking their charter. But before we do that, I'd like to see those fisherman and other business owners personally affected by this sue for damages. Oh silly me, like they'll ever receive what they're owed. The politicians will make sure of that.
It's also hilarious that she links to this guy. If you remember him, he's the guy who said FUCK NOAM CHOMSKY. Just had to point that out. Ahem. Quietly exiting room now.

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I'd be interested to know what institution you would replace corporations with.>> ^blankfist:

quality idea. But I really think we could do without corporations period. They have proven government regulations and restrictions on business are simply shams to embolden and strengthen the corporations by giving special privileges to the rich and shrinking the small business sector.
But we can start with revoking their charter. But before we do that, I'd like to see those fisherman and other business owners personally affected by this sue for damages. Oh silly me, like they'll ever receive what they're owed. The politicians will make sure of that.
It's also hilarious that she links to this guy. If you remember him, he's the guy who said FUCK NOAM CHOMSKY. Just had to point that out. Ahem. Quietly exiting room now.

*quality idea. But I really think we could do without corporations period. They have proven government regulations and restrictions on business are simply shams to embolden and strengthen the corporations by giving special privileges to the rich and shrinking the small business sector.

But we can start with revoking their charter. But before we do that, I'd like to see those fisherman and other business owners personally affected by this sue for damages. Oh silly me, like they'll ever receive what they're owed. The politicians will make sure of that.

It's also hilarious that she links to this guy. If you remember him, he's the guy who said FUCK NOAM CHOMSKY. Just had to point that out. Ahem. Quietly exiting room now.

Geo321.... you're full of win.

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It worked when I watched it a few minutes after you posted it. oops just realized you discarded it. Anyway it was a good post. I was planning on coming back to quality it and it was dead. That shrimp fisherman was sharp as hell. He didn't minx any words and was right on.
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thx for the heads up i was sure it worked.

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"Error #2032"

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