Deresourcing or desimonization

Deresourcing or desimonization: In our previous entry, we discussed the portmanteau piraculation (or piraculate). The suggestion was that overpopulation pressures for declining resources (such as fish, and other marine and maritime resources) apparently resulted in the use of piracy by country-states such as Somalia. This appears to be directly contrary to the work of the late Julian Lincoln Simon, The Ultimate Resource.

Piraculate or Piraculation

Piraculate / Piraculation: A portmanteau of piracy and (over)population. We have almost all of us recently witnessed the rather thrilling climax of the siege of the Maersk Alabama and the dramatic rescue of Captain Richard Phillips. The derivation of this/these new word(s) comes about from the development of piracy in a country-state like Somalia faced with the need of an overpopulated world feeding off of their fishing and sea territories and thus forcing them to new - and illegal - ventures. Somalia and countries like Somalia are faced with the rather grim prospect of supporting themselves without their traditional and sovereign rights to making a livelihood off of their own coastline(s) and resources. We propose piraculation is one end result of this.

Definition: The descent into or reduction to an idea, notion, philosophy, state and/or activities associated with piracy as a consequence of deresourcing and/or desimonization.

For more see the BBC Article: Attenborough warns on population . And the Wikipedia Article: Overpopulation. More on piracy, see David Cordingly's rather excellent book: "Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates". (Note: We apologize for the Amazon ad, we had wanted to use Google Books, but our public IP address provider's use of SmartFilter prevented us from doing so).

More: See the Urban Dictionarys' definition of Piracracy.

Updated/Revised: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Obama Backpedals on Taxes? and The US Plan to Bankrupt GM? and More for Wednesday, April 1, 2009

This could be our last posting – or one of our last postings. No, this is not an April Fool’s posting. Most all of the links posted below are believed to be on the up-and-up.

Earth population 'exceeds limits'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7974995.stm

Nina Fedoroff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Fedoroff

N. Korea Vows To Shoot Down Spy Planes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/world/main4909234.shtml

North Korea launch will violate U.N. resolutions: officials

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/wl_nm/us_korea_north;_ylt=AgqJZARhGpVCrCv0nYI2U_IPLBIF

New RFID Technology Tracks And Monitors Nuclear Materials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324151951.htm

U.S. plans to ease GM into bankruptcy: report

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre530107-us-autos-report-sb/

U.S. plans key role in naming GM board

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29986112/

Airline grounds 60 jets for safety inspections

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/01/jets.grounded/index.html

CRJ200 planes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ200

Investors seek ouster of AIG compensation chief

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53016o-us-aig-compensation/

Police close off London financial district amid massive G20 protest

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/01/g20-protests-london034.html

'Death to Capitalism!' Frustration, Violence Boil Over at G-20 (…not an April Fool’s joke…)

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7226322&page=1

G20 call for action amid protests (…cries of “Abolish Money!” heard…a cry to anarchy?...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7975851.stm

Obama downplays G20 split on eve of summit

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l1932997-us-g20-obama/

Protesters attack London bank

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29987885/

Once-booming U.K. loses its swagger

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29960322/

Russia and US renew nuclear talks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7976875.stm

Obama seeks common fix to global problems

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29985932/

Obama nominee admits tax errors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7976299.stm

Kathleen Sebelius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Sebelius

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_tax_promise;_ylt=AjiPZsv2hSbv7BKwqzpl4Pis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlOWZnYzRtBHBvcwM3NARzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3BvbGl0aWNzBHNsawNwcm9taXNlc3Byb20-

Penn Jillette: Obama skidding or crashing?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/01/jillette.skid/index.html

GAO: Geithner Wrong, Only $32.6B in TARP

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/04/gao-says-geithn.html

Construction spending falls for 5th month

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29991120/

U.S. manufacturing activity shrank in March

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990970/

Honda Canada March sales slide 23%

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/04/01/auto-sales-march.html

Govt. Offers URL to Those Down and Out

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7222898&page=1

A Guide to Getting Through Tough Economic Times

http://www.samhsa.gov/economy/

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Sleep Problems May Have Suicide Link

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/wireStory?id=7223665


Israel FM rejects Palestinian deal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7977002.stm

Avigdor Lieberman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman

Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue (…was this an April Fools joke?...note the position of the er, ummm, ahhh, “exit wound”…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7976883.stm

Lenin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin

Deadly 'US drone strike' in Pakistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7975871.stm

Rio de Janeiro Plans to Wall in Slums

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7222727

Rio de Janeiro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro

Mass. charges Madoff ‘feeder fund’ with fraud

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992021/

Madoff's Yacht Seized In Florida

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/cbsnews_investigates/main4910316.shtml

Stanford denies wrongdoing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29989167/

Justice Department seeks to drop Stevens case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29988577/

Take steps to avoid April 1st computer virus

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29975229/

Worm attack chaos fails to strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7976099.stm

WATCH: Conficker Virus Is No Joke

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7226101

FDA cracks down on unapproved painkillers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978495/

Walgreens giving free care to jobless and uninsured

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/walgreen_clinics;_ylt=AlskHrHCEKLQdkP.mnP47ZsDW7oF

Stem Cell Breakthrough: 'Switch' Created That Turns Stem Cells Into Muscle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330154806.htm

Amniotic Fluid May Provide New Source Of Stem Cells For Future Therapies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112645.htm

Mechanism That Regulates Movement Of Blood-forming Stem Cells In The Body Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325142509.htm

Stem cell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

Amniotic fluid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniotic_fluid

Drug-resistant TB is a ‘time bomb,’ WHO says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990199/

Bill Gates, China Join Forces Against TB

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909669.shtml

Discovery Of Tuberculosis Bacterium Enzyme Paves Way For New TB Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327152401.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis

Salmonella Fear Prompts Mayonnaise Recall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909585.shtml

Raw pistachios may be the source of salmonella

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978103/

Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990231/

Ecologists Question Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401112448.htm

Climate change 'fans Nepal fires'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7968745.stm

Nitrate Stimulates Greenhouse Gas Production In Small Streams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111259.htm

Can 'biochar' save the planet?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/30/biochar.warming.energy/index.html

Biochar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar

Predicting Mosquito Outbreaks For Disease Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101757.htm

Anopheles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles



Satellite Snow Maps Help Reindeer Herders Adapt To A Changing Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401102938.htm

Arctic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic

Rangifer tarandus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer

Judge orders feds to reconsider help for jaguar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_us/jaguar_ruling;_ylt=Ai35qt29ThYexqSmivdSl0cPLBIF

Panthera onca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_Onca

Meet Florida's python catchers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7967587.stm

Pythonidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythonidae

If you can't afford it, grow it

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/01/recession.garden/index.html?iref=t2test_livingwed

Palm Oil Development May Threaten Amazon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101755.htm

Palm oil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil

'First Economical Process' For Making Biodiesel Fuel From Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325222006.htm

Biodiesel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel

Rocket Launches May Need Regulation To Prevent Ozone Depletion, Says Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331153014.htm

U.S. space programs need better oversight: group

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5300f9-us-space-spending/

U.S. space industry not yet seeing economic slowdown

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u8n5-us-space-outlook/

How Does the Internet Rate You?


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7222890&page=1

PersonRatings.com

http://www.personratings.com/

The dark side of vegetarianism

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090401/hl_hsn/thedarksideofvegetarianism;_ylt=Ap.hMc2Xwk.EVK34hfycShGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1cTRyMDQwBGFzc2V0A2hzbi8yMDA5MDQwMS90aGVkYXJrc2lkZW9mdmVnZXRhcmlhbmlzbQRjcG9zAzEwBHBvcwMyMARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawN0aGVkYXJrc2lkZW8-

Vegetarianism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism

Guantanamo 'fun' - Miss Universe (…this is an “April Fool’s Joke” right?...Isn’t it?...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7976207.stm

Dayana Mendoza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayana_Mendoza

Dayana-medoza.com

http://www.dayana-mendoza.com/

Postal Service launching "Simpsons" stamps

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/en_nm/us_simpsons;_ylt=Amcc2j6a.de6j0cP_zwGkuys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhcG40M3QxBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3Bvc3RhbHNlcnZpYw--

The Simpsons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons

Another sex scandal rocks Oprah's school

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/04/01/sbt.oprah.school.cnn

KHOU: Apology found next to hit-and-run victim

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou090331_tnt_hit-and-run.8ba2ee9e.html