<head id="NEST_Speno.h1">Spekk, løgn og hvalfangst</head><head id="NEST_Spe_160en.h1">Blubber, lie and whaling</head>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s1">Det er gått ti år siden Norge vedtok å gjenoppta hvalfangsten.</s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s1">Ten years has passed since Norway agreed on a resumption of whale hunting.</s>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s2">Det skapte et rabalder uten like.</s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s2">It caused an unbelievable commotion.</s>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s3">Siden har Norge fanget stadig mer hval, til stadig svakere protester.</s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s3">Since then, Norway has hunted (down) more and more whales to lesser and lesser protests.</s>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s4">I dag er det bare propaganda, halvsannheter og enighet tilbake. </s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s4">Today there is only propaganda, falsities and consensus left. </s>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s5">Det var temperatur da Norge vedtok å gjenoppta den kommersielle hvalfangsten i 1992.</s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s5">It was a high temper when Norway decided to take up commercial whaling in 1992.</s>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s6">Invektivene nærmest haglet fra motstandere og tilhengere:</s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s6">The invective became more and more heated from both the opponents as well as the supporters.</s>
<s id="NEST_Speno.s7"> «Vågehvalen er havets rotte» uttalte daværende Utenriksminister Thorvald Stoltenberg i et avisintervju i 1992.</s><s id="NEST_Spe_160en.s7">The mink whale is