Are we going to need a "General Discussion: Pirates" - the other GD:P

[DS1]

then that forum can split into

General Discussion: Pirates: Being Lied To

and

General Discussion: Pirates: Not Being Lied To

and

General Discussion: Pirates: They're Actually Fishermen

[meegbear]

1. What's Really Happening In Somalia

What The International Media Aren't Telling You About Somalia Pirates
By Susie Madrak Sunday Apr 12, 2009 6:30am
Johann Hari from The Independent:

In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died.

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation – and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."

This is the context in which the "pirates" have emerged...

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/what-international-media-isnt-telling

[DS1]

7. sssssssssss

ahhhhhhhh

[Renew Deal]

10. Your post reminds me of grovelbot

And Adbot

[tekisui]

2. There is no land so small it cannot be divided.

I am always amazed at how DU is able to passionately disagree on EVERY issue.

[Posteritatis]

13. No you aren't.

;)

[Starry Messenger]

3. Only if the worshippers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster get a Group.

Long have we suffered. Besides if the Pirates get a forum, then next the Ninjas will be clamoring. You know what they're like.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Other.

General Discussion: Aaaaarrrgghh!!

General Discussion: Ahoy There, Matey!

General Discussion: Avast, Ye Landlubbers!

[Uben]

5. I was hoping for.....

... a "pirates that are anywhere but Somalia" forum! ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH, me matey!

[tammywammy]

6. LOL! n/t

[NNN0LHI]

8. Relax and think back when the entire board was about schools of sharks and bird flu

Those were the good old days.

Don

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. We need to find those sharks to kill the pirates

Then ahve the birds drop their flu infected poop on them.

[scheming daemons]

9. General Discussion: Pirates: No winning seasons since 1992

Oh... you meant SOMALI Pirates.


Being from Pittsburgh, you can understand my confusion here.

[Renew Deal]

11. Have the pirates been getting booed on the road?

:D

[LaurenG]

14. Holy sh**!

:rofl: We may need to subgroup them, after all some of the fisher-pirates may really be fishing for souls, like apostles or saints ya know..