Comments on: Modern Piracy – No One Say Arrr http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/07/23/modern-piracy-no-one-say-arrr/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: finance_today http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/07/23/modern-piracy-no-one-say-arrr/comment-page-1/#comment-118148 finance_today Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:18:55 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=10884#comment-118148 Most probably, the pirates are not attacking ships belonging to richer countries, keeping in mind that they've changed their routes from Asia to Africa. They were just attacking some ships with donations. For those who pay some money for donations, it's quite sad: <a href="http://www.financialcrisistoday.org/forum/Taxes/Do-you-pay-tax-on-donations-374167.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.financialcrisistoday.org/forum/Taxes/D...</a> Most probably, the pirates are not attacking ships belonging to richer countries, keeping in mind that they've changed their routes from Asia to Africa. They were just attacking some ships with donations. For those who pay some money for donations, it's quite sad: http://www.financialcrisistoday.org/forum/Taxes/D…

]]> By: Dave Bevan http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/07/23/modern-piracy-no-one-say-arrr/comment-page-1/#comment-12902 Dave Bevan Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:46:37 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=10884#comment-12902 This is a fascinating tidbit. Is there qny chqnce you (or anyone else at GlobalDashboard) could help explain why, if piracy isn't getting worse, it's getting more press coverage? Is it that more of the ships getting attacked are from rich countries? Or that the attacks on ships carrying food aid supplies (rightly) opened our eyes to a wider problem? This is a fascinating tidbit. Is there qny chqnce you (or anyone else at GlobalDashboard) could help explain why, if piracy isn’t getting worse, it’s getting more press coverage?

Is it that more of the ships getting attacked are from rich countries? Or that the attacks on ships carrying food aid supplies (rightly) opened our eyes to a wider problem?

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