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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:23 am
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| No. People desperate to make a living move to where there are jobs, swallow their pride and take jobs below their abilities, take multiple jobs if they can. Just what multiple jobs would you have these people take? This isn't Canada, but a shit poor country where fishing would have been the only li... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:20 am
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| No. People desperate to make a living move to where there are jobs, swallow their pride and take jobs below their abilities, take multiple jobs if they can. People who resort to violent criminality against innocents (and remember, the crews of the ships taken hostage are themselves, just trying to ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:11 am
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| No. People desperate to make a living move to where there are jobs, swallow their pride and take jobs below their abilities, take multiple jobs if they can. Just what multiple jobs would you have these people take? This isn't Canada, but a shit poor country where fishing would have been the only li... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:02 am
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EyeBrock EyeBrock: Giving them some education and a bit of community spirit Hurley.
$1: http://www.india-defence.com/reports-4854#
Thanks. In short, not taking any shit and taking the fight to the pirates. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:00 am
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| They attempted to use violence and failed just as we are. A heavy handed approach to piracy seems to be destined to fail just as much as the war on drugs. Except there's a bit of a difference between carrying a toke and taking hostage the crew of a cargo ship. Not when you factor in the economics o... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:51 am
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| Infographic from the article: http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01094/nw-somali-pirates-_1094563a.jpg That void between India and the attacks (attempted and actual) looks very much like the 200NM limit of territorial waters. What's India doing that keeps the pirates... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:41 am
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DerbyX DerbyX: They attempted to use violence and failed just as we are. A heavy handed approach to piracy seems to be destined to fail just as much as the war on drugs.
Except there's a bit of a difference between carrying a toke and taking hostage the crew of a cargo ship. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:38 am
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| It has very little to do with that specific incident, and much more to do with the political climate in Somalia that led to it happening, mixed with several countries dumping toxic waste on Somalia's shore. With the cod fishery demolished, the Newfs have taken over Fort Mac. These pirates used to b... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:36 am
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| Why didn't their approach work in Afghanistan? Because they invaded Afghanistan with the intent to make a socialist paradise out of the place. What they ran up against was a bunch of clods who are far more interested in their own personal and tribal vendettas than in making a nation out of the plac... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:25 am
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DerbyX DerbyX: Why didn't their approach work in Afghanistan?
Because nothing works in Afghanistan. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:22 am
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| The of course there is your failure back in 1993 Right. When Bill Clinton was President and he was micro-managing the military and trying to use them as a humanitarian aid organization. And then there's the debate on whether or not actual humanitarian aid is a net positive or a net negative for pea... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Shipping veteran on pirate problem: �Sink their boats with all hands' |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:21 am
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BartSimpson BartSimpson: romanP romanP: Ah yes, colonialism has always worked SO well!  Go bitch at the Italians. Somalia was their making, not ours.
And in defence of Alberta public education, we were actually taught that in grade 12. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: PM should ask Oda to resign over document: Ignatieff |
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:48 am
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| Of course Iggy has to say Harper should turf her, but I hope he doesn't. I hope he circles the wagons and keeps her in her post until whenever the next election is. If he ditches her, the problem goes away. If he keeps her, the opposition has a lock on a major issue (which will only grow with time).... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Spending balloons under Harper power |
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:26 pm
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| Hell, anyone can do that when they don't pay their bills. The Liberals didn't give us a surplus, YOU and ME gave Canada a surplus by having less to spend on ourselves because of increased taxes at the municipal level to make up for the shortfall in federal transfer payments! My property taxes on my... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Spending balloons under Harper power |
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:15 pm
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| And everyone will engage in a massive collective suppression of cognitive dissonance and go on believing that the Conservatives are good fiscal managers and can do no wrong. |
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