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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:04 PM Original message |
Analysis: Why Did Somalia Piracy Begin? Democracy Now 4/14/09 1 of 2 |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. Is that why they have destroyed their own people and have had a series of violent regimes? nt |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. As you can see in this Counterpunch article the U.S. has been responsible |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. What? Or you some sort of liberal? |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Weird huh? Being compassionate and looking beyond corporate propaganda |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. It's called cynicism |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Is suffering through a 20-yr long civil war a moral failing? |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-15-09 06:41 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. To think that the US is not connected to what happened/happens in Somalia is to deny reality. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-14-09 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. It started in the early nineteen nineties. Well before the fishing/dumping. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-15-09 01:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Italian mafiosi? |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:36 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I don't know about SIad's time, but Archair/Mob made their deals with warlords, not presidents |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 09:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Warlord, president |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:39 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I am guessing it was camorra (Napoli mafia), but I don't know that for a certainty. |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The dumping must logically preceed the washing up though, right? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. They didn't sell it to the mafia, they PAID the mafia to get rid of it. |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Sure. My mind must have been off writing that. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:51 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I think you're right. Right down to the Beltway analogy...! nt |
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