Africa in sight ...
the kidnapping of ships and their crew are reminded not to Iraq? ... Those soldiers and "civilians" who were kidnapped in Iraq many of whom were lying ... but continually pounded these images of bad very bad "insurgents" Iraqi ... anyway .. I think it is building (or building) a new enemy ... "Somali pirates" (sounds cool) ... to militarize the entire region of East Africa and developing new media and military struggles ... Blackwater (now Xe) and all mercenary companies are already in the area ... .. Ladies and Gentlemen, "the show must go on ".... by the way ... how many of these abductions are actually boat covers for arms trafficking, drugs and vetetuasaberquemas ...?
Friday, April 10, 2009
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Here I add a word about the business that represents for these mercenaries and the like, as in Iraq, are taking the law into their own hands. I make an interesting review of some of these companies "private security" that are using (or rather experiencing) nonlethal weapons.
The 'Dogs of War' is aimed to fight pirates (click for full story)
methods 'non-lethal'
Eos is one of the firms that have preferred to use the methods called "nonlethal" to defend the ships in which employees are working. Techniques as simple as greasing the cover for thieves are unable to stand, put barbed wire on the sides to prevent them access to the ship, install hose high pressure water to draw upon to block beams or powerful assault of light that dazzle. The above shipping
B + H Equimar revealed days ago that their 14 ships are placing mannequins in military uniforms and fake guns to deter potential attackers. But the NGO Ecoterra
warned at the same time that this particular crisis is serving for specialized companies try a whole range of "non-lethal weapons" last generation, whose effects are still unknown.
This organization specializes in piracy claims that U.S. ships used as a sonic weapon known as the Long Range Acoustic System (LRAD) that the military be extremely effective within a radius of between 100 and 200 meters and forcing the attackers to retreat before the deafening sound broadcasting. More advanced models have laser beams can temporarily blind the militia and can cost up to 96,000 euros.
Another of these inventions has been nicknamed the "pain ray, a beam of energy that is stuck in the skin and produces a feeling of unbearable heat.
U.S. Marines have even designed a "boat robot"-style drones that monitor the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan. "They have the ability to be our eyes and ears in the sea, but could also be our strength to protect the ports," said Captain Paul Siegrist, U.S. Navy. According
Ecoterra, Americans are already using the mini airplanes to monitor the Somali coast and to accommodate the increasingly media is taking this crisis have decided nicknames names such as Jack Sparrow, one of the stars of Pirates Caribbean.
"We need to establish performance standards for these tests are not performed during the operation in Somali waters," complained Ecoterra in December.
Another interesting article signed by Ernesto Carmona and extracted from the web Rebelion.org:
lie about "Somali pirates" Ernesto Carmona
Argenpress
The international press is lying about the so-called "pirates Somalis. " This is news of the 67 nominees for the annual selection of 25 stories is not disseminated through the mass media of Project Censored 2009/2010. The true nature of what is occurring in the Horn of Africa began to be known as a judge in New York decided to prosecute a juvenile arrested on April 12 by the U.S. on the coast of Somalia.
In his article "They're lying about the pirates," British journalist Johann Hari * threw enough light on the Huffington Post, January 4, 2009 - about the true nature of this conflict, provoked by Western ships illegally nuclear waste discharge and seafood caught in the impoverished African country with nearly 4,000 km of coastline.
Hari's article shows that the real pirates are rather large corporations powers found easy gains in the African country's unprotected waters. In fact, Somali patriots defending their seafood from the depredations of Americans and Europeans who accuse them of "pirates."
Somalis watch helplessly as their seas become a major nuclear waste dump that collects thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste left behind by larger carriers. Somalia is a country that for nearly two decades has no coast guard, since the civil wars (induced by the great powers) made its system of government collapse. The interference of the developed countries promoted civil wars in much of Africa in search of lucrative mineral, pretending to export "democracy" or a "civilizing zeal"
The war against the "pirates" of underdevelopment and poverty is becoming apparent substitute for the "war on terror" doctrine already exhausted for the purposes of the military industrial complex. The poorly dressed and poorly armed "pirates" have become a new military target out of their boredom with the Royal British Navy and naval forces idle twenty powerful nations from the U.S. to China, now engaged in fighting a handful of hungry people living in a delay similar to that of Haiti.
In Somalia, the daily struggle a serving of food gives meaning to the word "tomorrow." There are wooden legs and parrots to take over your shoulder. The next stage of this war Hollywood could be a massive landing to pursue the pirates on land, in a remake of Iraq and Afghanistan, but heroes like Errol Flint. This time not about oil but other types of wealth.
"Villains or heroes?
pirates were once stigmatized by power, but enjoyed popularity among the poor. Citamdo historian Marcus Rediker, Hari says that the pirates first worked as seamen on "wood floating hells" where cramped worked and received corporal punishment, often being cheated on their wages after months and years of work. But these "villains of all nations" were among the first to rebel against this world captains mutinied against tyrannical and created a different way to "work" in the seas, wrote Hari. "Once we were made of a ship, the pirates elected their captains and took all decisions collectively, or walked about" participatory democracy. " To Rediker implemented "one of the most egalitarian plans for resources anywhere in the 18 century" and even admitted escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. Clearly showed that hackers were able to operate subversive craft other than as oppressive and brutal form of service and commercial real navy. Perhaps for this reason they were popular, despite being pretty unproductive as thieves.
piracy in Somalia today is a desperate business of survival by collecting tolls and taxes to predators. "The government of this country in the Horn of Africa collapsed in 1991. Since then nine million people have been plunged into famine and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity for steal the food sources of supplies in the country and download our nuclear waste in their waters, "said Hari.
As soon as he left the government, on the coast of Somalia began to appear mysterious European ships unloading huge barrels in the ocean. The coastal population began to get sick. First suffered strange rashes, nausea and appeared malformed babies. And after the 2005 tsunami hundred barrels floated the waves washed on beaches. People began to suffer from diseases caused by radiation and killed more than 300 people.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, UN envoy to Somalia, told Johann Ari: "Someone nuclear material being downloaded here. There are also heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury. " Much of this material can be traced in hospitals and factories in Europe, where it is delivered to the Italian mafia to disappear at low prices. When asked Hari Ould-Abdallah Why did European governments about this, Lee responded with a sigh: "Nothing. There was no cleaning, no compensation or prevention. " Predation
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At the same time, other European ships have been plundering the biodiversity of its seas, its food. "We've destroyed our own fish with the over-exploitation and now we have to capture their own, "said the journalist. The value of each tuna exceeds $ 300. Trawlers fishing illegally in Somalia's unprotected seas have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars annually tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea life. Local fishermen lost their livelihoods and now suddenly hungry. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka, told Reuters: "If nothing is done soon we will not be any fish left in our coastal waters." Hari
explained that in this context came the men who have been calling "pirates." Everyone agrees that were previously ordinary Somali fishing, speedboats now got to try to dissuade the garbage dumpers and trawlers, or at least apply some tax. They call themselves "volunteers Somalia Coastguard" and it is hard to see why. One of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said his motive was "to stop illegal fishing and the discharge into our waters ... do not consider ourselves sea bandits. We believe [that are] sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump, dump trash in our waters and carry weapons in our seas. "
Joann Hari wrote: "No, this is not justifiable to hostage taking, and yes some are just gangsters, especially those who endured the help of the World Food Program. But the 'pirates' are the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somali news site WardherNews conducted the best research available on what are weighing ordinary Somalis and found that 70% strongly supported piracy as a form of national defense of the country's territorial waters. " During the U.S. Revolutionary War, George Washington and the founding fathers were paid to the pirates to protect the territorial waters of America, because they had no navy or coast guard themselves. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different? "
" Do you expect that the starving Somalis are fitted passively on its beaches, wallowing in our nuclear waste and see how they rob your fish to eat in restaurants in London, Paris and Rome? " asked Hari. "We have not acted in such crimes but when some of the fishermen responded by interrupting the traffic of 20% of world oil supply, began to scream about" evil. "If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop the root cause - our crimes "before sending gunboats to root out criminals in Somalia. " According
Hari, the history of the war of piracy in 2009 was best summed up by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought before Alexander the Great, he demanded to know "what they want to retain possession of the sea?" The pirate grinned and replied: "It means you are holding the whole earth, but what I do with a small ship, call me a thief, while he does have a large fleet call him Emperor. " Today, once again our great imperial fleets are in Somalia, but who is the thief?
The case of "child pirate
Democracy Now! reported that the only survivor of the kidnapping of an American freighter captain happened this month was a Somali child, who on April 21, was charged in a court in New York. The teenager, called The Abduhl Wal-i-Mushi, would have surrendered before the sniper of the U.S. Navy to his three companions killed in military action never clarified. Musi, who will be tried as an adult, she burst into tears during his appearance before the judge. Defense attorney Deirdre Von Dornum Musi described as "young and terrified." Deirdre Von Dornum
said: "It Judge Peck may have seemed that he is an adult, but as you can see is extremely young, injured and terrified. We are pleased to have the protection of the United States Constitution, and that the government has chosen him to appear at a public hearing and not in a secret prison or subject to any other form of non-public proceedings. "
The Coast Guard announced informal Somali revenge after two hostage rescues foreign forces killed at least five of his teammates. The last operation, which took place on Sunday 12 April, U.S. forces managed to free the American captain Richard Phillips, giving killed three companions Musi.
Recent events have raised fears of increased violence in the shipping lanes off the coast of the Horn of Africa, where brave pirate challenge every day patrols foreign naval forces. "The French and Americans will regret having started this massacre. We do not kill, but we only rescues. We will do anything to anyone we see as French or American now," said Hussein, a pirate in the area. "We can not know how they killed our friends in the lifeboat, but this does not prevent us from returning to kidnap," he said. The
gangs of pirates generally treat their hostages well, better to conclude negotiations for ransom. The most violent episodes have come from occasional groups. "We will take revenge," said another Aden pirate in Eyl village, a haven for pirates in Somalia's east coast.
Some experts now fear the reaction after these performances. "The pirates now know that anything can happen. The French are doing this and also Americans. Things will be more violent from now on," argued Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Program, based in Kenya. After a drop in activity earlier this year, hackers have struck back. Currently hold captured more than a dozen ships with some 260 hostages, including about 100 Filipinos. Johann Hari
said some readers seem surprising because the discharge of toxic and theft of fish would be happening at the same place, wondering "Is this not contaminate the fish?" The journalist said that the coast of Somalia is extensive, stretching to 3,300 km. "Imagine what it would be easy, without any guard or army-stealing fish in Florida and unload nuclear waste in California, and give you an idea," he said. "These events are happening in different places, but with the same horrible effect: death to the natives, and the appearance of piracy. There is no contradiction. "
Notes: *) Johann Hari, journalist British newspaper The Independent has coverage in Iraq, Israel / Palestine, Congo, Central African Republic, Venezuela, Peru and the United States and his journalism has appeared in publications worldwide. He was the youngest person nominated for the Orwell prize for political writing, in 2003 won the Young Journalist Award in the Press Gazette and in 2007 Amnesty International named Newspaper Journalist of the Year. Has worked as editor of Attitude magazine and published his first book, God Save the Queen? In 2003.
Sources: "You are Being Lied to about pirates" Johann Hari, Huffington Post, 1/4/2009-http: / / www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147 . html-http: / / www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/Estudiante Investigator: Christine academic WilsonEvaluador: Andre Bailey
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