Desperate Situations Call for Desperate Measures

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Somalia:   Warship Seizes Suspected Pirates
allAfrica.com
4 May 2009

As the European Union (EU) continues to boost its anti-piracy naval task force, a French warship has arrested more suspected pirates in the Indian Ocean between Kenya and the Seychelles.

Africa:   Global Coordination Can Stop Pirates
America.gov (Washington, DC)
1 May 2009

In a set of hearings on Capitol Hill, analysts testified that commercial ships traveling off the African coast should not be armed, despite increasingly brazen attacks on them by pirates.

Somalia:   Young Mariners Get Up-Close Lesson in Thwarting Pirates
America.gov (Washington, DC)
4 May 2009

In the 100 years the Massachusetts Maritime Academy has taught mariners to crew merchant ships, not once had pirates hijacked a U.S.-flagged vessel. Never had weapon-wielding sea bandits kidnapped an ...

Somalia:   Businessmen in Mogadishu Call for Pirates to Release Commercial Ship
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
3 May 2009

Ali Mohamed Siad known as (Ali Dere), a chairman of the businessmen of Bakara market in Mogadishu has called for the Somali pirates on Sunday to release a commercial ship that carries goods for the ...

Somalia:   Statement By Captain Richard Phillips for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States Senate (Washington, DC)
1 May 2009

The following is the statement as prepared by Richard Phillips, Captain of the Maersk Alabama, for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. Phillips ...

East Africa:   Desperate Situations Call for Desperate Measures
New Vision (Kampala)
30 April 2009

The pirate story on the coast of Somalia is as intriguing as any fiction that has the power to capture the imagination of mankind. It gets interesting when modern society recalls that the last pirate ...

Somalia:   Foreign Ministry Appeals Pirates to Be Convicted in Somalia
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
30 April 2009

Mohamed jama' Ali known as (MJ), a director of the Somali foreign ministry has held a press conference in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday and appealed the Somali pirates who are captured in ...

Nigeria:   The Flipside of the Hijack Coin
Daily Trust (Abuja)
29 April 2009

Two weeks ago I wrote on this page about the problems associated with the intensification of piracy off the coast of Somalia.


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Author: upliftdarace_144
Mon May 4 07:30:50 2009

Somali HipHop Artist K'Naan on Somali Pirates

THESE GUYS ARE LIKE THE U.S. PATRIOTS OF 1776.

THEY ARE PROTECTING THEIR COUNTRY FROM RADIOACTIVE WASTE

BEING DUMPED IN SOMALI WATERS.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTxJLlQCe4U]

[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child… [Read Full Text]

Author: upliftdarace_144
Tue May 5 19:46:16 2009

Somali HipHop Artist K'Naan on Somali Pirates

THESE GUYS ARE LIKE THE U.S. PATRIOTS OF 1776.

THEY ARE PROTECTING THEIR COUNTRY FROM RADIOACTIVE WASTE

BEING DUMPED IN SOMALI WATERS.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTxJLlQCe4U]

[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child… [Read Full Text]

Author: EthioMan
Wed May 6 00:20:17 2009

These pirates are a drain on the Somali people as are the fake govts that are nothing but clan based. One can only avoid blame for a period of time until reality knocks. And you know what, it is wake up time. It can not be anyone elses fault but the clan, islamists and the governments implanted by others. All this lawlessness must be stopped even if it means hitting the coast line where the pirates operate. Then the Somali people should take control of their destiny and build a nation based on law once these gangesters are eliminated.

Common… [Read Full Text]

Author: AFRICA MUST STOP LEASING, SELLING INVITING PARASITE NATIONS ON AFRICAN S
Wed May 6 06:13:13 2009

The solution to the piracy problem IS TO ESTABLISH A LARGE, MILITARY AND ECONOMICALLY STRONG, UNITED 'UNITED EAST AFRICAN STATES.'

The process to create such a SUPERSTATE, with a population of about 550 million people IS ALREADY UNDERWAY.

Africa has to create two SUPERPOWERS, one to oversea the Atlantic and one to oversea the Indian Ocean.

As for skilled personnel and technical help. Africa has in her DIASPORA, about 300 million African descent people in the Americas alone. Some of most Africanist, Nationalistic people anywhere who for the past 200 years (since Toussaint L'Overture saved 24 million in… [Read Full Text]

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