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Europussys knuckle under to pirates AGAIN

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Somali pirates free Spanish boat

Somali pirates have released a Spanish fishing boat and its crew after holding it for six weeks, Spain’s prime minister has confirmed.  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the pirates had abandoned the Alakrana tuna boat and that all 36 crew on board were “safe and sound”.  The pirates earlier told reporters they were leaving the ship after being promised a ransom of $3.5m (£2.1m).  full story

NSL supports the policy of summary execution at sea for those caught in the act of piracy.

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day (part II)

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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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Just one day left

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till Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Yarrrrr….

SWASHBUCKLE – Cruise Ship Terror


German metal pirates take over schooner, abduct female passenger, proclaim their prize to be Das Partei Boot.  Yo ho!

Somalian Pirates We

In an episode entitled “Fatbeard,” the South Park boys travel the high seas recruiting Somalian pirates to be more pirate-y. The boys start a pirate club at school, but when Cartman actually comes face to face with real life ones, he’s disappointed by their lack of stereotypical piratocity. In the following clip he convinces them of the life they should be living, in song!

Yar.  See the full episode here.

Real pirates map

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That is, a map of where the real pirates are.  Hang ‘em all, sez I.

http://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=219

Why is the rum gone?


A remix.

Rustmonster releases The Flight of the Filthy Vicar

Pirate-core band RUSTMONSTER has released their second album, The Flight of the Filthy Vicar, to the great delight of fans of their first offering, the brilliant concept-album  Last Voyage of the Black Betty.  The jazz-funk/beat poetry jam “The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor” from the earlier release is one of my very favorites of the genre.

What would Caribbean pirates sing if they were alive today? The Flight of the Filthy Vicar is the definitive example of classic pirate music dragged, kicking and screaming, into the modern age. From the tribal beating-to-death of garbage cans and other invented percussion instruments to funky rhythm guitar and accordion solos, if you are a pirate fan, you will not be disappointed.

Click on the image and turn up your speakers to enjoy their rendering of “Bully in the Alley” from the new album, then swagger (or stagger) over to CD BABY to buy the whole bloody thing.

Today’s lucky pirate

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I hate this guy.

Today’s mermaid

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Pirates Seek $35 Million for Ship

Breaking news on real-world piracy…

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Stolen cargo . . . pirates have seized a Ukrainian freighter off Somalia carrying 33 T-72 tanks, similar to those in this photograph.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates in a hijacked ship carrying more than 30 battle tanks were steaming toward a notorious pirate den on Saturday, and they vowed not to release the ship until a $35 million ransom was paid, Somali and Kenyan officials said.

According to Mohamed Osman Aden, a Somali diplomat in Kenya, the Ukrainian-owned vessel was headed to Xarardheere, on the barren Somali coast. Xarardheere is an isolated fishing village that has thrived on organized crime and has frequently been used as a pirate hide-out.

Mr. Mohamed said that while the cargo in this case was extremely unusual — 33 Soviet-designed T-72 tanks and a large supply of ammunition and grenade launchers, all intended for the Kenyan military — the tactics were pretty typical.

“These guys just want the money,” he said.

He predicted that the pirates would reduce their ransom demand to $1 million to $2 million, though Ukrainian officials have not said whether they will pay any ransom at all.

The Kenyan government said in a statement on Saturday that it “does not and will not negotiate with international criminals, pirates and terrorists and will endeavor to recover the hijacked ship and military cargo.”

American warships in the Indian Ocean were closely tracking the ship, and a Russian frigate, the Dauntless, was on its way.

Diplomats in Kenya said Saturday that military operations involving several countries were being discussed but that the plan was to wait a few days before considering a strike.

The hijacked ship’s crew is mostly Ukrainian, and already worried family members have contacted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry asking what they can do.

The hijacking occurred on Thursday evening when pirates in three speedboats attacked the Ukrainian cargo ship, the Faina, which was in Somali waters about 200 miles from shore, en route to Kenya.

 full story at NYT

Don’t they know it’s TLAP Day?

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The front yard of a house in a tony British Columbia neighborhood is a little less welcoming for pirates now.

Architect Andrew Dewberry and a crew of friends spent Saturday dismantling the pirate ship tree house he’s had in his Vancouver yard for two years. He said he had no choice after a court ordered it to be removed for not complying with city bylaws.

Dewberry had to explain the situation to his sons Jack, 9, and Sam, 7, before the tree house came down. He said, “They’ve had a lot of joy with the tree fort.”

Jack, who stood with a friend and watched the dismantling, said, “We wanted to sleep in it over the summer one time, but we didn’t get around to it and now we can’t.”

In July, the judge in the case admired the workmanship of the ship, complete with plastic cannons, in a perch 6 feet up a large, leafy tree in front of the family’s home. But the judge said its merits were irrelevant to whether the tree house violated city bylaws.

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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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Arrrrr…..

Talk Like a Pirate Day is here, and ye may lay to that!

Bus pirates