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Burak Erkin 2009-11-29 > Documentary: The Cove (2009). imdb, take part, official site, facebook, twitter.
Remember Flipper? Here is a documentary from the trainer of Flipper, Richard O'Barry and his friends at OPS (Ocean Preservation Society): "The Cove". I thought I was going to see something like "The Big Blue" when I saw the poster, but turned out to be quite the opposite. A must see.

In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. In Taiji, Japan, former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. In the 1960s, it was O'Barry who captured and trained the 5 dolphins who played the title character in the international television sensation "Flipper." One fateful day, a heartbroken Barry came to realize that these deeply sensitive, highly intelligent and self-aware creatures must never be subjected to human captivity again. This mission has brought him to Taiji, a town that appears to be devoted to the wonders and mysteries of the sleek, playful dolphins and whales that swim off their coast. But in a remote, glistening cove, surrounded by barbed wire and "Keep Out" signs, lies a dark reality. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji, driven by a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry and an underhanded market for mercury-tainted dolphin meat, engage in an unseen hunt. The nature of what they do is so chilling and the consequences are so dangerous to human health that they will go to great lengths to halt anyone from seeing it.

Taiji is a town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. In Taiji, Japan, tens of thousands of dolphins are slauthered every fall. The Cove (2009) exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. Seeing how the Japanese officials and people of Taiji handle the situation, it makes me wonder if Japan has been practicing the same kind of behaviour or attitude, ethics, etc. in the rest of of its trade and commerce. Think twice before you buy your next Sony, Seiko, Toshiba, Toyota, or plan your next visit to the Sea World with your kids.

Burak Erkin 2009-10-13 > Book: The Trial and Death of Socrates. wiki, audiobook.
"After all, gentlemen, that's just what the fear of death is: thinking we are wise, when we are not, since it's a claim to know, what we don't know." Socrates, 469 BC–399 BC.

Burak Erkin 2009-10-09 > Movie: Whatever Works (2009), imdb, .
Woody Allen. Brilliant. Again! Totally entertaining. Makes you want to recommend it before you reach the end of the movie, only, and ironically, you typically don't know many people to recommend it to. If a collection of such people could easily be populated, the movie would cease to make sense at all (and, it would be a better world to live in).

Burak Erkin 2009-10-02 > Book: Notes From Underground, Feodor Dostoyevsky. wiki, google books.
"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness ... Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881.

Burak Erkin 2009-08-24 > Burak Erkin on facebook! My new page on facebook. Note: it is not the same with my facebook profile page.

Burak Erkin 2009-07-09 > Google or Yahoo? Which search box will work best for my web sites?