Lego is just another corporation making money. Why is a relationship with Shell any different than their other corporate relationships? (The Simpsons, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, The Hobbit, DC Comics, Disney, Marvel, Indiana Jones etc). Because it's good publicity... people don't like "dirty" energy. Shell may be a bunch of assholes, but if you're going to slam the industry Greenpeace, make sure you don't drive a car to work, and you might want to reassess how far you look down your nose at companies like Shell when you send a pollution spewing, fuel sucking Sea Shepherd out to make a TV show, surrounded all day long by polymer materials made mostly from the gas and oil that make your life easier and less costly. Hypocritical bunch of bullying asshats that will fuck anyone over for some publicity.

I don't really agree with this video because they state a lot of ideas and situations as facts. Also, Paul Watson is over-the-top with his methods. (Dubbed a "violent extremist/eco-terrorist" by Greenpeace)

>> ^Farhad2000:
Definately watch the Cove to understand the issue.
Japan basically side steps international whaling restrictions by saying they are doing research, which is bullshit.
Anti-whalers try to document these actions and press for changes, the Japanese don't like it so they do intimidating shit like this.
The protestors never do anything illegal because that would mean the Japanese won and they can legally get rid of them.


Ah-ha! Caught myself. You are talking about The Cove movie or documentary, and not the Sea Shepard.
Throwing stink bombs onto their deck, and trying to run a large rope through their propellers is, and has been considered an attack. So the "protesters" are legally culpable just as much as the Japanese.

Your video, Sea Shepherd ship rammed and sunk by Japanese whaling ship., has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Good.

Folks love to see things mishaps.

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
Found video of that ship collision, after all

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sea-Shepherd-Ship-Collides-With-Japanese-Whaler-Damaged

When two ships meet at sea they dont play chicken until theyve determined the comparative tonnages.

It doesn't take a very close eye to tell the difference between a seadoo, a medium sized powered boat and a large ocean vessel. It's pretty safe to say in this case both sides were aware of the significant differences.

The give-way vessel (whalers) must take early and substantial action to keep well clear.
The stand-on vessel (trimaran) may take action to avoid collision if it becomes clear that the give-way vessel is not taking appropriate action.

And from this clip we have no idea what early action the whalers took. I made it through one episode of the show following the Sea Shepherd crew, and if that was any indication at all you can be certain that the trimaran did everything in it's power to get directly in the way of the whalers ship. They are the ones who's entire method IS based on playing chicken with the whalers vessels. They call their small boats like this their 'attack' craft for pity sake.

When you've got a small agile craft trying to collide and otherwise mess with a ship this much larger, the blame for what happens is entirely on the smaller agile ship, the larger ship couldn't avoid a collision without going to full stop and waiting for the trimaran to go away. Experience shows that even if they do full stop the trimaran's crew will then try to board them. I don't blame them for not going to full stop every time these guys try to attack and threaten them.

Wow, for a site that seems to favour rational scepticism, you don't really believe in research, do you?

The Ady Gil is a former Earthrace boat that was donated to Sea Shepherd. They didn't build or buy it themselves. But then again, if you fail at spelling "ton" or "little", I guess I can't expect much in the way of intelligent thought.

It's true that such videos raise awareness, but not in a good way for the Sea Shepherds, it just makes them look like asses.

>> ^schomg:
So in your world non-human animals are only eligible for life and dignity if they're endangered? Do you consider killing animals an act of harvesting a resource, and if the resource isn't running out it's all good?
>> ^TheFreak:
The Japanese are catching Minke whales in Antarctica. This whale is nowhere near endangered by anyone's estimation.



No, if they are delicious and not endangered it's all good.

The corollary is that if they are cute then they should also be spared. The only moral dilemma is when an animal is both delicious and cute, then you have to weigh the two against each other. For example, baby chicks can be cute, but, they grow up.

And endangering human life like the Sea Shepherd crew does is an automatic nomination for a ticket out of the gene pool IMHO.

Kinda reminds me of the old "Nelson Mandala freedom fighter or terrorist" chestnut.

Except replacing substituting white men for Japanese(works) and black Africans for whales(fail)...

The Japanese are skirting international law to harvest animals, which is bad. The Sea Shepherd, through antics like this and others, is actively endangering human lives. The endanger not only their own lives and anyone sent to rescue them, but those of the other ships around them that they choose to attack. That is much, much worse and the only way to cut it any different is to value human and other animal life equally. This shows in who does and does not support these loons.

Press this bad might very well end up being hippies 10 - Japan 0 in the end.

>> ^lavoll:
acid throwing, laser and noise gun wielding hippies 0 - japan 1

"Thanks to a $1 million donation from its namesake, US multi-millionaire Ady Gil, formerly known as Earthrace, the Ady Gil has become the latest addition to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's protest fleet". I quote Linda Carel: "(do you) you support the Japanese fisherman illegally shooting pregnant mother whales with spear guns that explode inside of them…in an area named a sanctuary by the IWC, which Japan refuses to abide by? Why would they? It serves them to refuse to recognize this sanctuary… the fish are so plentiful - they come to what they think is their safe haven to give birth to their calves." Whaling is wrong - especially in protected waters - so these people should be applauded for braving the harsh conditions and putting up a fight. >> ^westy:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
1.5m dollars on a boat...the true spirit of the modern conservationist movement.

lol yah if they had any brains they would have gotten say 20 cheep boats that way they could scare whales of from all the whalers.

>> ^Mcboinkens:
How is whaling still legal? This is sickening.
Commercial whaling IS illegal.
Japanese don't call it whaling!
All of their ships have huge RESEARCH letters painted on them. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Nisshin_Maru.jpg
The Japanese fleet consists of a factory ship, two spotter vessels, and three harpoon boats. The whalers say that lethal research is needed to accurately measure the whale population, health, and response to global warming and is essential for the sustainable management of the world's cetacean stocks. Australia and New Zealand have started a non-lethal whale research program to show that the Japanese lethal research program is no longer necessary. Sea Shepherd and other environmental groups dispute the Japanese statement of research "as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned." Meat from the hunt is available at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market and Japanese restaurants.

Don't forget to spay and neuter your pets!

>> ^geo321:
The Sea Shepherd ship looks like something built for Batman. It's too bad they do good work. Apparently they were picked up by a new five million dollar ship payed for and named after Bob Barker. promote

This is a dupe. Is it just me or are there more dupes in the last few days. I duped this video myself as well and I also saw two others later. Is it normal for the titles of other videos not to come up in the search engine. Other multiple recent videos recently were the parkour paper reel video and the sea shepherd one. I'm not sure if it's a search engine fail or if it's just me spending too much time on VS and nitpicking. anyway.