Tuesday 28 April 2009

Jak se ze Somálců stali piráti

Via Tomdispatch: John Feffer, The Piracy Problem
Most of the pirates are former fisherman dislodged from their traditional source of income by much larger pirates, namely transnational fishing conglomerates. When a crippled Somali government proved incapable of securing its own coastline, those fishing companies moved in to suck up the rich catch in local waters. "To make matters worse," Katie Stuhldreher writes in The Christian Science Monitor, "there were reports that some foreign ships even dumped waste in Somali waters. That prompted local fishermen to attack foreign fishing vessels and demand compensation. The success of these early raids in the mid-1990s persuaded many young men to hang up their nets in favor of AK-47s."
Pro námořnictvo, které na rozdíl od armády, letectva, mariňáků a CIA postrádá raison d'être v podobě (islámských) teroristů, jsou piráti darem z nebes:
Pirates are the perfect threat. They've been around forever. They directly interfere with the bottom line, so the business community is on board. Unlike China, they don't hold any U.S. Treasury Bonds. Indeed, since they're non-state actors, we can bring virtually every country onto our side against them.

Saturday 25 April 2009

V Patagonii

Ledovec Spegazzini v argentinskem parku Los Glaciers
Kra z ledovce Upsala
Podzimni barvicky
Na ceste do Torres del Paine
Liska v TdP

Friday 17 April 2009

Výluka

Možná jste si všimli že jsem toho během posledních pár týdnů nenapsal. Mám totiž prázdniny a jsem na cestách. Ještě tak dva, možná tři týdny. Ale odpálení severokorejské rakety nemůžu přejít bez komentáře. Kim Yong-min z Kyunghyang shinmoon to nakreslil za mě:
A forlorn Kim Jong-il of North Korea alongside a grossly caricatured Japanese wartime figure who complains, “I was worried that you might not go ahead with the launch,” while his rocket bears the inscriptions “Self Defense Forces” and “Constitutional Revision.” The US rocket says “Expand Missile Defense” while the suitcase is inscribed “Military Industries.”
Via Japanfocus.