The crimes of corporations have consequences...

The film 'The Corperation' reveals how the world health organization treated corperations like mental patients. The diagnosis: psychotic!

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this is a good story. and i knew somethings about this. a main staging area is djibuti. how do i know? unfortunately my pops who i dont talk to works for a corp tied in with the US gov thats doing this shit!

he is an "engineer" but never did any engineering in his life......im in law school and one day hope to have a movie about my life because im sure ill be killed trying to do shit about stuff like this!

great find.

It might be all true, it might not be. CS monitor acknowledge it, but then goes on to say it then fell into hands of crime syndicates, warlords and so on. And of course they have to blame the "terrorists" as well.
With the BS cover ups worldwide anymore it's darn tough to know who is telling the truth and who is lying. I figure it started out this way, but once the gangs and warring factions got wind of it then it became the domain of the bad asses. Who knows?

Great post, I always wanted to be a Pirate.

"Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't?"--Ill tell you why. Because nowadays we're all too busy watching TV, playing video games, or blogging to actually care about anyone else beside ourselves.

Ok, LMAO. After reading the article, I found this to be hilarious--some European countries are dumping nuclear waste off the coast of Somalia while other European countries are busy looting the area of all its fish. Have a great meal assholes!!! I hope you ALL get a bite.

Ever since corporation's were given person hood they have had more rights then citizens. The funny thing is this was a clerical error when a clerk made a note on top of the page of a judicial decision. When is the last time a corporations CEO has gotten the death sentence after his corporations product killed lets say 10 people? Never they have more rights then you or me. Change is coming.

Maybe you should take a look at the after market vehicle industry in the United States. If you live in the City, just step out on the streets and you will hear them coming from distance. No laws, no enforcement, nothing.

Gee no shit.
I'm getting sick of this "All large corporations are pure evil" mentality on current. It is nothing more than a generalization, and all generalizations are wrong.

ROBOMARX MUST DESTROY CAPITALISM!!!

8.5 trillion dollars went missing my dear friend from the bail out, already.

Remember, pirates were "privateers" before they were pirates. Privateers worked for the crown. When the crown no longer needed them, they became pirates. Today, we call them cops. They are ruled by the same set of Admiralty and Maritime Laws that applied to the privateers. They perform the same tasks. They collect tarriffs.

You know we are just aware, but watch it just gets interesting when we have to fight these cooperation hand to hand, the time is 2012 we will realize this and all will go to hell. Maybe perhaps we can fix this but i highly doubt you like to give shady monstrous liars a second chance. I believe in teaching them a lesson. perhaps some real labor work experience then handling money. These people are worse then Drug Dealers or maybe so they are everything we despise just look at the community stilling money.

Corrupt legislators gave special status to corporations, which in turn gave the corrupt psychopaths who run them, board members and major stock holders to get away with murder - literally and figuratively.

Doing so was a statement to the people of the United States that you are of less value than the means by which some people obtained and maintained their wealth.

Legislators to US citizens: Wealth for the limited few > citizens of the United States.

They should make a TV show called “Social Democrats say the darnedest things.” The only problem is it as funny as it would be scary. Armed robbery is not cool, under any circumstance, and Somali pirates are not humanitarian freedom fighters. If they were they would actually stop ships from dumping toxic waste instead of just robbing them.

I thought the white washed history of pirates was also a beautiful display of junk logic. Racially tolerant pirates are our friends?! Seriously, just because someone dude or group happens to not be racist that by no means legitimizes their aggressive actions toward everyone who is not a F&$%*#@ pirate!

Ricky84 - you've missed the point of this post and article.

What it communicates is that our misplaced values er, corrupt value system manifests in negative ways. The article points out the parallel between pirates of the past, many of who did what they did (at least initially) purely to survive with the present day conditions in their country and the Bush family's destructive legacy on democracy, civil rights, humanitarian issues and all else world wide.

Don't you get it? Corrupt legislators, or I should say legislators with corrupted value systems spend billions and billions on tools of destruction and only an insignificant token amount on humanitarian issues and policies which would have prevented the conditions which create pirates and terrorists in the first place.

Let's face it, humanity for the most part is a wasteland of human ignorance and stupidity. But this only applies to those who would seek to rule others as they are the ones who seek to garner destructive power over the rest. It is a rare man who possesses the capacity to maintain a "constructive purpose" with so much corruption and temptation justifying itself in their presence.

Humans, willfully ignorant of themselves expend great amounts of energy to destroy what is natural and perfect only to attack the monster they create while attributing what they deem bad to evil or those who oppose their desires. Case in point: Israel and the Palestinians.

Why is the picture full of high rise condos? It would probably have been better to show high rise office buildings.

So the world has gone from worse to bad...

The optimist might say "the glass is half full". Improvement?

The pessimist might say "the glass is half empty". Improvement?

I say, why isn't the glass all the way full?
Improvement?

I'm impressed to see a fleet of multi-national ships as I envisioned can exist when needed to fight a common, perceived worthwhile threat.

Now then, we just need to psychoanalyze the pirates to find out the depths of their souls, then post them on Facebook next to everyone else, then I'll make my distant judgments much less believe what conflicting sides tell me.

Bullshit times a hundred! This article is trying to legitimize violence plain and simple. No matter how you try to interpret it THIS is a clear sign of misplaced values.

“The article points out the parallel between pirates of the past, many of who did what they did (at least initially) purely to survive with the present day conditions in their country and the Bush family's destructive legacy on democracy, civil rights, humanitarian issues and all else world wide.”

Ok first off drawing parallels means little if anything . Even if it did in this particular situation the author fails to make that case. Do you honestly expect everyone to accept his claim without a shred of supportive evidence? The only source he offers is an account on the breadth of the Somali coast.

As for the evil Bush legacy, wow, way to white wash another piece of history. I don’t like the Bush administration either but at the same time I’m not going to ignore the little bit of good they actually tried to do. Ignoring facts and details is what gets you in trouble. Remember we’re talking about an article outlining the evil practices of the EU.

You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Politically the Bush administration (Jr) and the EU are on completely different sides of the field when it comes to policy. Conversely the EU and the Bush administration (both) have spent a fair deal of money on humanitarian aid to Somalia.

“Don't you get it? Corrupt legislators, or I should say legislators with corrupted value systems spend billions and billions on tools of destruction and only an insignificant token amount on humanitarian issues and policies which would have prevented the conditions which create pirates and terrorists in the first place.”

Ok so Somali’s spending what little they have on speed boats and arms is somehow any different? We also spend billions and billions on bailout packages when we could easily use less to completely stop world hunger, malnutrition and weak third world economies combined, but I don’t hear anyone in power say so.

How do you expect me to take you serious when the only critique you have of the government is focused on Bush?

In the end all I can say is Gandhi. If you need a freedom fighter to idolize, idolize Gandhi. But please spare me this weak, Bush made them argument to justify bloodshed. Yes I know governments play a significant role in creating terrorists and even “pirates,” but that does not mean we should somehow defend the actions of pirates and terrorists.

No one is justifying anything. The article explains the conditions which have lead to the re-emergence of piracy, that's all. There is no attempt to "justify", only explain.

This is reality, not a discussion of a hypothetical.

Unfortunately Ricky84, you are seeing the situation in a very black and white manner, from a purely "right and wrong" perspective. Doing so does not make you smarter nor provide greater understanding of yourself or the world you live in. In your Bushevelian perspective, the only response is to attack and kill or in some way punish the wrong doer - because he / she is wrong. Because that is how you see it and that is the depth of your humanity and compassion for the human condition and fellow humans.

You are in good company though. That is the mentality of most Judges, prosecutors and our broken down justice system which sustains itself (just as a criminal does) while perpetrating the illusion that your black and white mentality is all there is thereby justifying itself.

Sorry, I don't mean to make it sound degrading to you or a personal attack. You are good rhetorically (and that probably impresses your peers and many older people) but your words are hollow and meaningless - in reality. Why? You didn't ask, but I'll explain any way; because what we (the collective "we") do can either improve the human condition, not for a limited number of people, but for all, it can maintain or degrade the human condition.

Your position, from what I can make of it in your scattered response could only contribute to the problem.

Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh....Ahoy there matey!

Calling my opinion of pirates Bushevelian does not constitute a fair or rational train of thought. Furthermore attributing the condemnation of violence and theft to the ideology of a single man is a hollow statement. That’s like saying I’m Hilterevelian because I like to warm shit up in an oven.

By accusing me of being uncompassionate because I do not share your positive viewpoint of Somali pirates you’re advocating Bush’s, “you’re either with us or against us” policy. Never mind the fact that I’m actually arguing for a non-violent solution to a problem. All in all you’re acting just like the great Satan; instead of offering relevant information to the issue you decide to call me uncompassionate for not only bemoaning your interpretation of world events but denouncing murder and theft perpetrated by your celebrated freedom fighters.

If the reasoning expressed in this article was actually worth a damn they would have a lot better things to say about the EU, or maybe even the US depending on what fucked up thought wagon you decided to jump on. That’s because the actions of the Somali pirates has a lot less to do with EU vessels as it does with the Somali government(s). Last time I checked dumping trash in the ocean was less of a cause of world hunger the, oh I don’t know, oppressive regimes.

Once you consider that issue it might be of significance to actually think about who backs what government. Either way you slice it the Somali’s lack a fair government, constrained by the rule of law and not of men. So comparing Somali pirates to a colonial fleet is kind of a poor comparison because in the end you’re obviously left backing a fucked up totalitarian state that pays no mind to fundamental human rights.

In the end the best policy toward correcting the problems of the third world are already in the works. Humanitarian aid, trade liberalization and education; that’s the solution. Grumbling over evil multinational corporations is just plain silly. Corporations are simply the products of a system of voluntary trade. Without a representative government no one has rights, much less the ability for a group to act as a single entity without persecution.

everything is fine ... these are not the corporations you are looking for.. move along..