{"id":2917,"date":"2008-04-29T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2008-04-29T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:07:05","slug":"piracy-pays-40k-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"Piracy Pays: $40K a year."},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to CNN’s top story<\/a> a modern day pirate can make up to $40,000 per year. \u00a0I’m assuming this is a low-level pirate not a First Mate<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0The article has some real gems such as these:<\/p>\n

Why Piracy?<\/p>\n

Since the days of Blackbeard, who sailed the seas in the early 18th century in a period known as the Golden Age of Piracy, countries with coastlines beefed up their navies and generally routed the robbers.<\/p>\n

Yet analysts say two recent trends have led to a rise in piracy: access and opportunity.<\/p>\n

As global commerce picks up, more and more of the world’s fuels, minerals and other crucial commodities travel by ship. Ninety-five percent of America’s foreign trade, for instance, moves by water, according to the U.S. Maritime Administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this:<\/p>\n

And although the motive is still money, today’s pirates are a far cry from the eye-patched, peg-legged swashbucklers of Hollywood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Awesome. \u00a0But there’s hope right? Loannis Michaletos, security analyst for Greece-based Research Institute for European and American Studies<\/a>\u00a0doesn’t think so:<\/p>\n

There’s a humanitarian crisis. There’s a food crisis, you have people who are desperate, and this is an easy way to supplement their income.<\/p>\n

I am not optimistic for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Either am I, Mr.\u00a0Michaletos… either am I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to CNN’s top story a modern day pirate can make up to $40,000 per year. \u00a0I’m assuming this is a low-level pirate not a First Mate. \u00a0 \u00a0The article has some real gems such as these: Why Piracy? Since the days of Blackbeard, who sailed the seas in the early 18th century in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vikingspirates","tag-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-L3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}