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Somalia Pirates or Volunteer Coast Guard of Somalian ocean?

April 13, 2009 by Daizy

I have read four rather disturbing articles on the 'Pirates' in Somalia. I will just start to make one thing clear I am not defending the acts of the Somalians just trying to show their point of view. Firstly a little bit of history and geography on Somalia.

The government of Somalia collapsed in 1991 and since then the people have been starving. Lets go back a little bit further - 1 July 1960 the Italian 'owned' half of Somalia gains it's independence; 26 June 1960 the British 'owned' half of Somalia gained it's independence. So basically until 1960 Somalia was split in two and then was formed as an democratic republic.

Since then it has had one failed government after the other until 1991 it completely collapsed leaving the people destitute. There is said to be an Islamic government but it's more forced on the people and most Somalians has fled. Somalia is situated in the Horn of Africa that is just by after the passage from the red sea to the Indian ocean right next to Ethiopia. Their coastline stretches over a length of 3,3000 kilometers.

That means the most of the country is along the coast and it's a long coast line. Since the collapse of the government other countries has seen this as a opportunity to loot the country of its main food supply, sea life.

The looting has become to such an extent that the people hardly catch any fish so they have resorted to patrolling the sea taxing the people who come fish from other countries. But this is not the worst part, the worst part is that some countries has decided they are going to use Somalia as an dump site for their nuclear waste. After the 2005 Tsunami there washed up barrels of nuclear waste on the beaches and 300 people died of radio active exposure. If you think I am sucking this out of my thumb go read this article at BBC news.

 

It gives all the facts of the waste found and the side effects and who they think dumped it. (I read the comments on some of the articles I read on this topic and people where very skeptical about the facts. But here is it believe it or not) So the locals decided enough is enough they took their fishing boats and are patrolling the seas cashing away people who are dumping stuff and demanding 'tax' from those fishing.

I think it's unnecessary for them to be so violent but what would you do if it was your country? Yes, there are rebels and robbers there too who are just plain thieves of the ocean. For instance the ones that took the oil rig, they where robbers.

But here is where the problem lies the British navy has send ships over to take care of the 'Pirate' problem. Which pirates? I am pretty sure they won't catch the real criminals but rather the ex-fisherman and they would bear the brunt of it. Who is really to blame? When I started this article I was outraged that something like this could happen.

 

Who is dumb enough to dump nuclear waste in the ocean? Anyway, now all I can think is how can this vicious cycle end. The first world country screws the little people then when the little people want to take back, they become criminals.

I found this map of reported attacks from the pirates the red line is Somalia's border. More than half off the attacks take place in it and then most of them take place on the Indian ocean side not the Gulf of Aden where ships must past to get to the rest of the ocean. You can click on the image for full size. Remember this is just my take on things. I do not condone violence just I do not think it's fair that richer countries can strip and destroy their sea and they cannot retaliate in some way.

Al Quaeda blames Barack Obama for Israel-Gaza conflict

January 7, 2009 by Daizy

rocket_into_israelSeeing that the conflict goes back to 1960 I cannot fathom why they can blame him. Apparently they believe it's Obama's present to Israel. Huh?! Ok how can a war that was started by Hamas even remotely be blamed on Obama or America.The way the Muslims continue to think that the world revolves around hating them, is seriously clouding their judgment. Hamas continual rocket fire into Israel started this current battle, not Obama. Then they people argue put Hamas has the right to be angry because they live in a segregated community. Now flashback to when the border was made and the Israeli's was forcefully removed from their homes to give it to the Palestinians, all the Arab countries agreed upon the boundaries. Actually everyone was happy to force Israel into giving Gaza to the Palestinians. What a mistake. The Israeli's created and oasis where there was desert. They built all the hospitals and schools they had flourishing greenhouses. Where is all those things? Destroyed by Hamas for some inexplicable reason. Their hate so much stronger than their common sense. I saw on tv how the Israeli settlers cried over they're homes and farms as they where being forced from their homes. Back then it was green and beautiful now it's becoming desert again.

Green houses before Palestinians took over Gaza

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They burned them all 14$million worth greenhouses destroyed for arms smuggling tunnels.

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The point is the Israeli's gave in once just to be attacked again. Now the whole world is screaming for Israel to stop the fighting but what of Hamas? Should they not carry some of the burden, most of them are cowards who think if they shoot a rocket while between homes of families with children they would get away with it. That is why so many children are getting hurt because Hamas is sheltering themselves behind them. I am all worked up now because watching on the news how they concentrate on children being carried into the hospital very view ask the question why was the Israeli's shooting where there are civilians. It's because the rocket fire is coming from there.

War between Israel and Gaza

December 28, 2008 by Daizy

hamas_rocketsI do not understand why everyone is concentrating on the fact that Israel attacked Gaza. Think carefully if this was for example the United states of America and Mexico kept shooting missiles over the border and sending in suicide bombers, there would be a wall up in a week and they would declare war on Mexico. Same could be said for any country. So why is Israel being blamed for trying to defend it's people? Hamas do not want to share Israel, they want it under Muslim rule, they want to own the whole country. It's not like they give Israelis a choice. Hamas will not stop they are determined that Israel must once again be a Muslim nation. And that can never be done because if that would happen the whole of Israel would be destroyed. Think about what happened to those Buddhist statues that was blown up because according to Muslim law such things should be destroyed. Israel will defend itself until the last Israeli and Hamas would do the same Hamas's law prohibit that they share the land with Jews and Christians, this is not about Gaza being sectioned of from Israel. They where separated because they kept blowing up people and bringing terror into Israel. Not because Israel is racist and mean. There would be no peace in that part of the world for a long time, the rest of the world should just leave it be.

No work next year for many

December 23, 2008 by evl

I guess one could see that coming for a while. First they said the global economic crash wont touch South Africa and we have nothing to be afraid of. Then they said no it will just hit South Africa lightly and now they are saying jobs will be flying. Seems like they were wrong.

I think we will see many strikes next year as Cosatu already said

Cosatu has warned employers in several industries, including mining and motor vehicle manufacturing, which planned retrenchments that it would defend those workers rights ahead of next year

The original 16 December

December 18, 2008 by evl

I thought about the celebration of the original 16 december. What really made South Africa when the boers fought against the zulus. I found a really great article from Praag.co.uk This talks about 16 December 1838 and what happened on that great day
Today is a holiday in South Africa, the Day of the Covenant celebrating the Afrikaners' miraculous victory over the Zulu forces of Dingane during the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838. Whereas the new black-nationalist government of South Africa erased most holidays celebrated by white South Africans and was at one time even considering abolishing Christmas as being "Eurocentric", it has kept December 16, albeit under a new name, so-called "Reconcilition Day". In the Newspeak of the New South Africa, "reconciliation" normally means accepting black racial domination and aggression. For example, as part of ongoing attempts to obfuscate the horrific crime and racial violence that characterise South Africa today, various liberal and left-wing groups have advocated that white victims of black violence should get reconciled with their aggressors. A white female rape victim, for example, might pray together with her black male rapist in prison - if ever he did go to prison as most such crimes go unpunished in South Africa - and will foregive him so as to be reconciled with him. Within the sick mentality of our society, this type of travesty is seen as the new ethical ideal, often embraced by mainstream churches and religious leaders. The South African pathology of "reconciliation" derives from traditional African justice where the harmony of the tribe took precedence over individual rights. Even murder was easily forgiven after paying a few head of cattle to the victim's relatives, something which occurs to this day in South Africa, even in urban areas. However, whatever the TV news will say tonight about the many ways in which whites may prostrate and humiliate themselves as part of getting officially "reconciled", tens of thousands of white Afrikaners in towns and cities all over the country will be participating in a very different type of patriotic and religious ceremony. Like their forebears did 170 years ago on the eve of that great battle in which 450 whites defeated an army of at least 13 000 Zulus without any losses in their ranks, they will recite the famous oath: "My brothers and fellow citizens, here we stand in the presence of the Holy God, creator of heaven and earth, to make a vow unto Him, that if His protection shall be with us and He give our enemy into our hand so that we might be victorious over him, that this day and date every year shall be spent as a memorial and a day of thanksgiving, just as a Sabbath is spent and that we shall erect a temple to His honor wherever it will be pleasing to Him and that we shall also instruct our children that they must also share in it, as well as for our generations yet to come. Because the Honor of His name shall thereby be glorified and the glory and honor of the victory shall be given Him." South Africa's ANC regime has been trying to erase the Covenant and the Battle of Blood River from the history books in a way that reminds one of the constantly changing past in George Orwell's 1984. The hero of that book, Winston Smith, is employed in the Records department of the Ministry of Truth where the falsification of history is his official job. As Orwell puts it: "Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." Despite the suppression of Afrikaner history in schools, as well as the changing of Afrikaner place names to eradicate all evidence of the founders of their towns and cities, the Day of the Covenant has remained like a glaring anomaly beyond the formidable reach of the Ministry of Truth. Not only do most Afrikaner leaders deliver a vast number of speeches on that day, but English-speaking whites are increasingly becoming intersted in joining the annual commemoration and are seeing great significance in the event. As one of them, Peter Hammond, has recently commented: "It is remarkable that, despite the treachery that the Boers had endured at the hands of the Zulu, and the massacres of so many unsuspecting women and children on the banks of the Blaauwkrans River, that no atrocities were committed by the Boers in retaliation. Instead, the Biblical injunction to love their enemies was fulfilled by the vigorous missionary work which was established by the Reformed Church in Zululand, establishing schools, hospitals, churches and orphanages, even within sight of where Piet Retief and his followers were so brutally murdered. In the century and a half since that original Day of the Covenant, many millions of Zulus have come to Christ and Zululand has been blessed by Revival. In a very real sense all of that began with the Covenant proposed by Sarel Cilliers, and enthusiastically adopted by the Wencommando." Today the Battle of Blood River has become an allegory of the impending struggle for survival to be fought by Western man on a global scale. In places like South Africa where whites are already a minority of less than ten percent it is a real physical struggle with members of the surrounding African horde attacking us at random every day. Not only have South African blacks benefited from quadrupling and even quintupling their population since 1950, but the ANC's open-border policy has allowed illegal immigrants from other African countries to stream across our borders, adding to the numbers already present. Elsewhere in the West, in North America and Europe, however, it is a moral and ideological fight that is no less intense. Whereas the strategic threats posed by China and a resurgent Islam are universally recognised by Western commentators, the leading role played by blacks from Africa in the moral assault on our civilisation is not. White guilt is after all not defined by the history of Western interaction with China or the Middle East, but by American slavery and European colonialism in Africa. Africans and their apologists are in the forefront of the accusation of "racism!" levelled not only at every white person somewhere in his or her lifetime, but more fundamentally at Western culture and history itself. Black radical thinkers from WEB Dubois onwards, through Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Thabo Mbeki and, I daresay, Barack Obama, have been unanimous in their condemnation of the West and its history as evil and rotten to the core. The Chinese and Middle-Easterners will no doubt stay at home. But the 800 million Africans who will rise to just under 2 billion in the next few decades, will descend on the ageing Western world like they are overwhelming the formerly European cities and towns of South Africa, appropriating everything in their path with the self-righteous violence that has become the African way. The United States, lest we forget, already has an African American as president. The election of Barack Obama was seen as a milestone in Africa's claim, based on her growing population numbers, to a greater share of world resources which will be provided by Europe and North America. While Mugabe is wrecking Zimbabwe, the US is pumping in aid money to keep the country's population alive, demonstrating that the inhabitants of Zimbabwe have as much of a claim on US resources as the American taxpayer. White demography is plummeting and we all know it. Among the many pronouncements of John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist, the following is the least quoted: "The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists." Keynes ascribed both the First World War and the Russian Revolution to rapid population growth in Germany and Russia, respectively. Thermopylae and Poitiers are often seen as two critical battles that saved white, Western culture from extinction in their times. However, as a symbol of the shrinking global European population facing the barbarians at the gate, especially from Africa, Blood River has become far more apposite. In this dark hour when it seems that, apart from the corporate oil wars of the Bush administration, the West has lost its will to stand up for itself, we need to be reminded of the Gideon-like triumph of Andries Pretorius and his men over the Zulu army on 16 December 1838. Outnumbered thirty to one and armed only with antique muskets that took 30 to 40 seconds to reload, they fought bravely and won, against all odds. Only a superhuman effort of the same order could save us here in South Africa today from being driven from our land like the white Zimbabweans were from theirs. Very soon, our kin all over the Western world who are like sleeping babes before the impending peril will face the same predicament - of being a racial minority surrounded by a hostile and aggressive majority. The Day of the Covenant should be internationally celebrated among all those who believe that our Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian civilisation is still worth fighting for.

Congress of the people releases their policies

December 8, 2008 by evl

Congress of the people, here to stay

November 21, 2008 by evl

The bullying ANC is not stopping their attacks on the Congress of the people but they refuse to be moved. Today was the last day they had to stop using the name Congress of the people but they refused. While the general election is coming closer they still have not even started what a party really should do to win a election but hey, at least the ANC has some competition now and they are starting to worry.

Lekota says he wont be stopped

October 26, 2008 by evl

Lekota said that they wont be intimidated in Bloemfontein next week. After last week when they held a meeting and it was disrupted by the ANC they are still standing and sticking by their story. Whether or not there will come more attacks from the ANC is not even a question, we all know when election time comes they march and sing for their promised houses, free popcorn and movies.

He also said the ANC has ran out of answer

Here is a piece from News24:

He also accused senior ANC leaders such as Jeff Radebe of trying to use "bullying" tactics against him instead of answering his questions.

"They have run out of answers, they try to intimidate me and threaten (with expulsion). Do not intimidate me, answer me," Lekota said.

Other national and provincial convention organisers such as Willy Madisha and Charlotte Lobe also criticised ANC Women's League president Angie Motshekga?s recent "dogs" statements.

Motshekga in referring to dissidents led by Terror Lekota and Mluleki George said: "Now that the dogs are leaving, there will be peace and we will be stronger. The dogs arrived in the ANC and they have left."

Madisha said those coming to the national convention should come with "respect".