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iPhone developer to donate Japanese App Store profits to anti-whaling organisation
SlotZ Racer and Flick Sports Fishing to help Sea Shepherd save the whales |
Product: SlotZ Racer
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In protest at the Japanese government’s sponsorship of illegal whaling in the Antarctic sanctuary, iPhone developer Strange Flavour (creator of
SlotZ Racing and
Flick Sports Fishing) tells us it will be donating all the proceeds from the Japanese App Store to sea life conservationist charity,
Sea Shepherd.
Strange Flavour says it can no longer trade in a country where the tax money from its games is used to subsidise the illegal extermination of an endangered species.
“While donating our proceeds from the Japanese App Store is very minor in the scheme of things, we’d like the Japanese government to see that the antics of its illegal whaling industry are both embarrassing Japan and its people and causing it to lose face in a world where modern nations are realising the need to protect the environment and work together to avoid the extinction of critical species,” says Strange Flavour managing director Aaron Fothergill.
The decision has been fully supported by Strange Flavour’s publisher Freeverse, as its president Ian Lynch confirms: “Our development partner Strange Flavour's passion for games is only matched by their ardent concern for our planet. Freeverse respects their decision and joins them in urging an immediate end to all illegal whaling."
Apparently, Sea Shepherd has met with considerable antagonism in Japanese waters, with acoustic weaponry and metal projectiles having been fired upon the society’s helicopter, and attempts to ram it’s ship from the whaling waters.
“All we can do is show our disgust at the illegal whalers and the government that wastes its tax payer’s money in propping up their loss making industry,” Fothergill continues. “We hold our Japanese gamers in the highest respect, so we decided to do this rather than penalise them by removing our games from sale in Japan.”
Good work, fellas. For more info on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, head on over to its
official site right here.
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Paul Whatson | 19:04 - 3 March 2009
Bribery and vote buying is exactly how the 1986 PAUSE in whaling came about. The US bribed the Japanese with fishing rights and then reneged on the offer. You’ll notice Iceland and Norway have legally gone back to commercial whaling but Watson keeps clear of these countries now because he likes his freedom and ships intact. In 1994 the SSCS ship Whales Forever was severely damaged in her engagement with the Norwegian Navy the damage was so bad that it was sold as scrap. Japan, Norway and Iceland follow the IWC rules to the letter that is why they are all still members in good standing. The SSCS on the other hand lost its official IWC observers status long ago and has been unanimously condemned by the IWC every year since then.
Since the PAUSE in whaling 23 years ago the Japanese have done research on less than 8000 whales in the Antarctic and yes every whale is utilized because article VIII of the IWC dictates that this must happen. The simple fact of the matter is Anti-whaling nations are trying to subvert the original purpose of the IWC all that is going to do is dissolve the IWC. Once the IWC collapses it won’t be long before whaling reverts back to totally unregulated culls.
The terrorist that is on his way to retirement is Watson the SSCS ship Farley Mowat has been confiscated by Canada and at this very moment they are looking for a buyer. Two of his key crewmembers are due for trial in April on charges connected with the ship’s confiscation they face 1 year in jail and a $100,000 fine if convicted. Watson just ended his operation Musashi one month earlier than last year’s operation Migaloo. All this after challenging the Japanese to “arrest me for terrorism or shut up” they called his bluff so he ran like a Nancyboi to Australia one month early than normal only to be served a search and seizure warrant upon arrival. I don’t want to hear that the Japanese are controlling the Australian government either. As a signatory to every major piece of International admiralty law the Aussies are bound to investigate any ship officially accused of criminal activity that makes port there. If they find sufficient evidence of wrongdoing they must prosecute or pass the case to a country that will.
If you want to donate to the SSCS just throw you money into the sea it will be just as effective but less polluting.
japan the eco terrorist | 16:35 - 3 March 2009
Bribing and vote buying at the IWC, not recognising conversation rules the rest of the world agrees. Terrorist must retire.
Since the moratorium on commercial whaling was put in place in 1986, more than 30,000 whales have been killed for culinary research purposes and often ended up in Japanese stomachs.
Keep the rules!(from Japanese) | 00:52 - 3 March 2009
Sea shepherd is a terrorist. Because he appeals for the opinion conflicting by violence and tell a lie. Please do not offer the terrorist the capital!
Paul Watson | 18:34 - 2 March 2009
@ Ann
The Antarctic Australian Whale Sanctuary only binds AU citizens the ATS precludes any nation from exerting control over anyone but their own citizens. The Japanese are not going against the IWC on the contrary it is anti-whaling nations that are trying to illegally change the basic tenets of the IWC Convention through political obstruction of the systems original mission and intent. The IWC should bar anti-whaling nations from membership because its stated conservation goals are institutionally only in the interest of future commercial whaling interest, which is incompatible with anti-whaling. More than one legal scholar has pointed out that the IWC doesn’t have the power to change its basic mission and attempts to do so only weaken the IWC authority.
Watson is breaking the law by interfering with legal research he was forced to break off his confrontation one month (not 4 days) earlier than last year’s operation Migloo. That stems from the fact that he knew ships were being dispatched to board him to collect evidence and possibly arrest him after his empty challenge for them to do so. He ran to a friendly port in Australia and was surprised to be served a search and seizure warrant. The Japanese on the other hand are still conducting their research unmolested. Australia wants more than Japan’s money, they also want crimes against their ships to be investigated by other countries so they comply with International conventions regarding the execution of Admiralty law against possible criminal infractions.
All of everything is endangered! 99.9% of all the creatures that have lived on the planet have gone extinct and there is no reason to think we or the whales will be an exception. Out of all the risks you list facing whales human culling accounts for a very minor fraction of the danger. Global warming is a much greater danger to the entire ecosystem top to bottom but Watson is more than happy to add to the problem by wasting fuel and forcing the researchers to do the same. As a matter of fact all the hot air Watson spouts kills more whale and krill than the worlds whaling/krill fleets combined.
SeaShepherd_must_die | 10:31 - 2 March 2009
Sea Shepherd is just only bunch of criminals.
So, it seems that that developer is trying some kind of flame marketing for getting attention to increase revenue of his/her products.
Paul Whatson | 04:17 - 1 March 2009
It is Australia who is breaking the ATS by trying to claim Antarctic territory only 4 other nations recognize the Aussie claim and these supporters have their own erroneous claims to Antarctic territory. The ATS precludes any nations claims of sovereignty over another in the AT.
Norway Iceland and Japan lodged their objections to CITES which legally exempts them from its obligations. CCAMLR only applies to commercial operations not research. According to the ATS Australian court ruling only apply to Australian citizens within Antarctic territory. It took years of violent attacks by the SSCS for the Japanese to defend their research vessels. Smashing 100 glass bottles all over a ships decks and then applying a persistent slicking agent like methocellulose is a violent illegal action. If you don’t think so try it on someone’s house in you neighborhood and see how that works out for you.
@Miley
Didn’t I tell you about fibbing! You know darn well the Japanese are still conducting their important research in the Southern Ocean and your Uncle Paul is wondering if he’s going to jail. We’ve been over this, if the films were being used by Australia to convict the Japanese they wouldn’t have confiscated them with a warrant. Remember how Uncle Pauly told us the warrant stems from his illegal ramming of research vessels and his illegal attempts to deploy prop fouling devices? Remember the letter he wrote you explaining it? Here’s the beginning of it maybe it will jog your memory.
By Captain Paul “Crunch” Watson:
“The Japanese government has requested that the Australian government pursue charges against my self, my crew and our ship the Steve Irwin. Japan has accused us of deploying a propeller entanglement system to shut down their harpoon boats and is accusing us of deliberately colliding with the harpoon vessel Yushin Maru #3.
For this reason, the Steve Irwin was met by Australian Federal Police with a warrant to seize our logbook and hundreds of video tapes. This despite the fact that none of the documentation recorded was obtained in Australian territory or on an Australian vessel.
No arrests were made but the question now is where is this going to go? Will I, or any other Steve Irwin crew be arrested and by whom and for what exactly? Will we get our property back, or will it be sent to Japan from where it will never return? Will any of us be sent to Japan from which we may never return - at least anytime soon thereafter”?
I know you love your criminally insane Uncle honey but you know it’s his fondest wish to die penniless in a Japanese prison.
Leo | 02:28 - 28 February 2009
So when did Japan start this so called cultural tradition of culling whales in the Southern Ocean?
-Soon after Japan denounced claims to Antarctica.
So why did Japan start this so called cultural tradition of culling whales in the Southern Ocean?
-To be able to argue that they have a legitimate claim because of a continuous exploitation of whales in the southern ocean.
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MattyLion | 18:45 - 27 February 2009
Is Paul Whatson (above) a play on Paul Watson, or is it actually the latter, co-founder of GreenPeace and founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society?!
I suspect the former!
Ann | 18:04 - 27 February 2009
The Japanese are ABSOLUTELY committing an illegal action by killing whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary. They are also lying to the public by saying it is for research, when it is not. They are going against the International Whaling Commission like criminals, and they are going against world opinion that wants whaling ended and has wanted it to end since the 1950s. Japan is acting like mass murders of cetaceans with no concern except for money.
Captain Watson is doing what the Australian government could and should do, except Australia wants Japanese money and does not want to do anything that will offend the Japanese. Meanwhile the Japanese offend all Australians by killing these whales.
ALL whales are endangered. The European Union wants to make all whaling for any reason illegal, (except for native communities). Pollution, depletion of fish in the ocean and our lack of knowledge of the effects of changing environment and increased pressures on whales, make it necessary to protect all whales, even Minke.
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Spanner | 16:14 - 27 February 2009
Certainly Paul seems pretty clued up on the whale situation and offers some very interesting counterarguments, though the info in the news item came from seemingly knowledgeable sources too, so I guess much of Strange Flavour’s decision comes down to personal opinion.
For me, it resonates with the fox hunting argument. I can see how there’s a genuine social and economic importance that’s built up around the practice and that a simple ban often doesn’t address the real issue. But all I know is that I feel bad for the actual fox, or, in this case, for the whales.
Then again, Steve Irwin made a living out of antagonising endangered animals just for TV ratings, so it doesn’t bode all that well for Sea Shepherd that they’ve got a ship named after him.
