Why This is the World's Pirate Capital
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I wish a Time-travel Industrialized Ancient Egypt
Africa would be a much better place
I cannot for the life of me figure out why you made this video. Is there some hidden subliminal message somewhere, is there a morale in any of it? Or is just one lengthy video filled with things i couldn't possibly care less about? Perhaps that is the subliminal message. Though i'm not sure whether most viewers will get it then.
morning brew sounds nice
Yarr!
I’ve heard a lot of you tubers talking about this for a while and honestly it sounds worth trying. You just reminded me about it so I’ll go ahead and try it out with your link.
You know your country is in a terrible situation when a terror group finds the place frustrating.
@@staticshockk that makes no sense
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear na
@@AxxLAfriku ok and?
it wasn't made clear here but the issue that al Qaeda was having was that Somalis while Muslim almost 100% care more about clan than some fight between religious sects this basically meant that the terrorists had to bend over backwards to do the dirty worker for the clans.
@@Vrangelrip just because it was American ally doesn’t make it less terrorist! They’ve killed bunch of civilians and changed the livelihood of the remaining ones.
If you don’t understand it for other reasons then my point was that terror groups find places frustrating without the country being in terrible situation
Polymatter, can you please make a video on the Sultan of Brunei and Brunei's oil wealth. Thank you very much.
For real i never got any brunei things in my recommendation, would also interested on that
@@agumon1605 here's something th-cam.com/video/5DeT5TS2_cs/w-d-xo.html
Smell something oily here
@A Z Bull sh*t. It is the biggest car collection in the world. Most of the cars are in good shape.
@CELINEe-35💎🗡️ lmao wtf
considering stories of how olden day piracy used to work, with paperwork and countries turning pirates into informal customs inspector, the story of the people during boring grunt work for pirates doesn't surprise me
@Neil Deep because they are hypocrites
@Neil Deep yeah sure white is bad. and yet all this is happening with what color of people?
@@NeostormXLMAX its not a coincidence that darker skinned countries are breeding ground for people like this
@@Blox117 No
@Neil Deep I mean sure there are alot of white people in the us ignoring the distinction between the where they came from all the nation's of Europe primarily the colonizers France Spain england and the Dutch
only 57 percent are white
as for Christian I guess
the current president says he's Catholic but disagrees with the pope and supports abortion which is considered murder by the Catholic Church so that doesn't exactly check out
and only 30% go to a church regularly (47% are members)
this is expected to go down as older people tend to be more religious and they'll die
~0:20 A Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged, Angolan-chartered oil tanker named after an Indian state. We're on so many layers of national confusion rn
We have yet to cover the crew…
seriously tho what is up with that? Maybe some weird tax-avoidance loophole?
@@thekrakenrises9040 That's definitely the reason why it would have a Liberian flag, Liberia is a go-to destination for tax avoidance in the shipping industry.
@@thekrakenrises9040 taxes, workers rights or pay avoidance etc...
@@thekrakenrises9040 yeah, I heard that 50% of all shipping ships are registered in 3 countries only
Fundamentally, stamping out piracy requires a strong local government with the means and willingness to enforce laws, plus very low poverty levels.
And such a government would, hopefully, prevent other countries from illegal fishing or dumping of chemicals, which was (is?) a problem in Somalia.
@@Fuhrerjehova and other governments not constantly buying and help finance corrupt warlords and terrorists like UAE and Saudi Arabia.
And what incentive would it had to do it?
@@abdiabdi3225 Countries like UAE or Saudi Arabia exist only thanks to oil.
Before they were just a backwater barren wastelands.
Few powerfull families benefits while milions must work for the comfort and luxurious life of the elites which are elites because they've been born by another elite.
Plus Saudia Arabia is strong on wahhabism - a very outdated, racist, aggressive and intolerant branch/sect of Islam - if you think about things like the "incidents" than it's probably wahhabism.
They litteraly have a religion which requires from you to live like an ordinary muslim from the 10th or 8th century.
"Real" islam consists of many branches and sects - some more or less conservative just like Christianity.
"The war on terrorism" isn't about all of the Islam but a few extremist branches.
I think the former is sufficient. There is no piracy in India & Pakistan despite the poverty.
“When you think of piracy, you think of Somalia.” No I think of Johnny Depp.
No I think of torrents
somalia is a good country
@@financeup5443 you sure bro?
No, i think of Eastern European Kids Downloading god know how much of god knows what on a Saturday Morning.
@@financeup5443 it really isn’t lmaooo
Poverty wasn’t the driver for Somali piracy. It was other countries ignoring Somalia’s maritime border and fishing in their waters and dumping garbage. The fisherman from around that area depended on those waters being clear and they went simply ignored. So Somali fishermen started patrolling their own waters with guns and soon figured out there were other ways to make money. Simply saying “they were poor” ignores the responsibility of other nations to respect maritime borders and the people who depend on it.
jokes aside. most beautiful comment about us. Thank You hahaha
@@somalipirates sorry that your country is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It's very bad there but I hope it gets better
In his other video on piracy, he explains how other nation’s fish thievery and illegal dumping takes away Somalia’s most important economic resource - th-cam.com/video/dZh0B8AYxac/w-d-xo.html
Him already covering that is probably why he didn’t talk about it in this video.
Thanks for pointing that out.
@@snowwonder9814 That doesn't make sense. He could have mentioned it and then pointed to the other video for further details.
Space pirates will definitely be a thing once asteroid mining becomes common place..
It already is a thing
Samus will save us
If space exploration would go in american capitalistic way - yes, sure it will be chaos. But if it would be done normally - with fully state control over it, orderly, sistematically, and planned - i.e. in a way of Soviet Union, "space pirates" will be non but a funny joke.
@@user-jr9wb7ev9e That doesn't address why piracy happens. Like Polymatter said in the video, piracy pops up whenever it is a viable business - that is to say, it pays better than other jobs and has relatively low risk and cost relative to the profit. Imposing a top-down command economy model on an economic sector (in this case, space mining) does nothing to address that.
On another note, neither American Capitalism nor Soviet Socialism is "normal". Normal implies the innate way people exchange goods and services. The closest thing to that "normal" is opportunistic bartering, theft/seizures, and a perpetual exchange of goods, favors, and services between members of a family/clan/tribe/village. Those things seem to be the go-to economic practices of tribal societies, and they have been documented across pretty much all of world history.
@@ante5544 In fact, this directly relates to this issue, since space flights, mining and other types of interstellar activities in that case are becoming not a "business" in which people are trying to benefit, but a matter of national importance that does not depend on "payback" and profitability. And even more so in this case, it is simply impossible for "unaccounted for" vessels that would be physically capable of carrying out this cosmic banditry. This is the whole purpose of control and planning - crime is simply not allowed to be born, and if it does, it is immediately crushed in the bud, without concluding any deals with it and without seeking benefits.
In the case of such an organized system, however, officials and performers on the ground will clearly appear, trying to improve their financial situation, organizing arrears and petty embezzlement, and this will have to be fought. So it's really obvious that every economic model has its drawbacks, but going back to the original topic - such measures will definitely effectively solve the problem of open banditry and piracy, which has been proven more than once by history (the entire early Soviet Union's struggle against banditry, homelessness and other aftermath of the civil war as an example will help you).
as an Indian I didn't even know it was possible to pronounce Kerala that way lol
first time for everything i guess.
How do you pronounce it then? I have a friend from Kerala
@@sambros2 Care-a-laa
I spat out my coffee hearing that XD
Feels nice to be from Kerala
The fishermen of Somalia began conducting piracy when fishing fleets illegally began to out fish somali waters due to the lack of any coast guard.
It was the only alternative.
I think the first cases where of fishing boats taken as hostage.
Which they found was pretty rewarding to ransom out in the first place.
Chinese and South Korean fishing boats regularly can be seen off of the coast of Somalia.
@@bojiden9470 Lol Chinese fishing boats can be found illegally fishing everywhere from Somalia, to Argentina, to Canada, to the Antarctic, to North Korea and South Korea.
@@Praisethesunson Correct, the Chinese have already totally depleted their coastal waters due to their insatiable greed, so now they've set out to deplete everyone else's.
@@ennui9745 Or you know, it takes a lot of squid to feed over a billion people. Hence they go wherever they can to get it.
@@Praisethesunson That doesn't make it right, does it now?
Typical Chinese apologist.
The Dangote refinery in Nigeria. It is set to end Nigerian oil imports and could have massive effects on Nigeria’s industrialisation and economy. A video on the topic could be interesting.
Also you consistently make some of the best videos on Africa.
If it is ever completed ...
@@11angells1A simple google search would have shown you that its already completed and set to begin production this year.
In the first results
S&P Global “Africa's largest refinery, Nigeria's Dangote, to start operations in H2 2022”
Marketwatch: “African Development Bank President Describes Dangote Refinery as 'Game Changing Initiative”
Quote:
“The refinery, with a capacity to process 650,000 barrels of crude oil a day, will be commissioned by the end of the year.
The refinery also has the capacity to meet all of Nigeria's requirements for refined products with a surplus for export and is the largest single train petroleum refinery in the world, said Aliko Dangote, president and chief executive of the Dangote Group.
It is estimated that by 2023, Nigeria will import zero petroleum oil products--down from approximately $50 billion current oil products imports a year, the African Development Bank said in a statement on Sunday.”
Why talk on something you know nothing about and have no interest in studying?
@@11angells1 I actually dont live too far from there in Lagos and I can tell you that it’s actually nearing completion. Although yes I know our country has a history of not finishing major infrastructure projects quickly enough 🤣
Hopefully the refinery doesn't end up like other Nigerian infrastructure projects that failed to be completed because of corruption.
Dangote refinery won't do shit. It'll fail like the rest.
2:13 Also many of the wealthier nations have large fishing ships that essentially empty their seas so they can no longer really catch enough. Sure outside thier EEZ, but the fish gets a lot less withint their EEZ because of it too. It all contributes to the desperateness and the...necessity of piracy to surive.
Or the polution in certain fishing areas caused by illegal chemical dumping from western and chinese companies.
By wealthier nations you mostly mean china right? Right?
@@HailAzathoth No we mean wealthier nations, europeans and Indians included in that
@@Anedoje wait a minute, Indian, Chinese and European boats come all the way to Africa to catch fish? Wow that's interesting. But why do they come so far?
@@thekrakenrises9040
A) Competition with their regional competitors or they have a large share of already and want more input resource
B) Specific type of fishes fetch different prices
C) Fewer eyes watching when it's in international water / less likely to run afoul of their own country's laws
D) Their country is interested in maintaining the local fishing population so they encourage their corporate fishing industry to fish elsewhere
So nice that you are updated on the fuel shortages up until this past couple of weeks
It has to be mentioned that the rise of piracy in Somalia was in fact due to commercial fishing industry which took over the sea around Somalia and deprived the fishermen of Somalia of their only way to live there by forcing them to become pirates to survive
I am from Kerala but not the ship but from an Indian state.
Did your state get hijacked by pirates?
@@flp322 wtf
@@flp322 no, by communists
@@flp322 nope...
Communists in Kerala :- GOV OF INDIA!!!! NUKE THAT F***ING SHIP
I wonder if the Piracy exchange also gets bubbles
In November 2009, pirates hijacked the Liberian-flagged Cancale Star off Benin and killed a Ukrainian officer. The following month, The Ghanaian Navy intercepted the hijacked oil tanker African Prince a week after it had been taken. The pirates escaped; they had killed the ship’s chef. In February 2013, a Filipino crew-member was killed during the hijacking of a Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker, Pyxis Delta (owned by the UAE). Finally, on 23 January 2021, one Azerbaijani sailor was killed during the attack on The M/V Mozart, a Turkish cargo ship sailing under a Liberian flag, approximately 98 nautical miles off the coast of Guinea.
did i ask?
@@yourunclejoe9500 No, but i did
@@yourunclejoe9500 idk but i sure did
@@yourunclejoe9500 cope harder kid go watch cocomelon this video doesn't fit your age range
@@monarch2387 cry about it
11:40 “When Al-Qaeda tried to set up shop in Somalia during the 90’s” love the way you phrase that
Nigeria sure has an... Interesting future!
i live here and its funny hearing westerners shit on our country when things could be a lot worse...
that being said things arent the best and could also be a lot better with better leadership
@@bababababababa6124
What I meant with that comment isn't that Nigeria will crash and burn, but that Nigeria has a ton of challenges and a ton of opportunities. Nigeria has a lot of potential and a lot of problems, lots of natural resources, and a very big, young, and still growing population. This century is predicted to be the African century, and Nigeria is one of the countries that this prediction rides on. Hence, Nigeria has an interesting future.
@@midimusicforever I agree 🙌🏾Nigeria will rise at some point, people just need to give it time
@@bababababababa6124
It won't happen by itself though. I think what you need to focus on beyond everything else is educating the young. I've read that the literacy rate in Nigeria is just 62%. A well educated population is a good foundation for solving other societal challenges.
@@midimusicforever exactly, people here aren’t educated enough to make change so they just accept their current situation when it can be much better
Although I know that some nigerian states are rapidly improving this with new legislation
The electricity situation needs to be solved too
And you included the current fuel shortage in Nigeria. Men, I love you man. Your channel is a goldmine.
It has added protein to your body la
2:02 Life expectancy = N does not at all mean "the average person lives N years" (if you expect a Somalian adult to die at 57 years old, you will be proven wrong no matter how many people you look at). Life expectancy says of _everybody who's been alive_, their life ends in N years *on average*. ("The average person" is someone who has survived childhood and has a much better chance to survive for longer.)
If this is impractical to work into the script concisely (as I've failed to do so in this comment), just say "the life expectancy is just 57 years". Concise, and doesn't confuse your viewers further about life expectancy.
Yeah the difference pretty much is because of infant deaths which is due to a lack of medical infrastructure
Yes this is absolutely true, but the point isn’t to say “most people you see living in Somalia won’t make it to 58”, it is more an indicator of availability of healthcare and by extension the overall welfare of the country
It would still confuse people. The average person still believes that the median death age of people in the middle ages were like 40 years. That's the thing though, we should really start to give out the median age instead, because poeple tend to assume that average is close to median, but this is not the case when you have high child mortality.
They don't use that number to compare people to, its to look at country at a whole and to have an actual number to look at.
I think the ship is named after a state in India. It’s pronounced like “Care-ahh-lah” like Shangri-La
nah it's not Named after Kerala the state
I know right...
Hi Polymatter, I'm a big fan of your entertaining and informative videos. I just have a humble request, could you please be considerate of your non-American viewers and be using also Metric units. This makes it easy to contextualise your information, which is hampered when you exclusively use Imperial units. Thanks in advance.
Freedom units 😎
I'm american and I would much prefer he use metric.
and say numbers and dates properly as well. Two thousand AND nine, a hundred AND!
Min 3:44
"Since 2018 [...]" but the chart stops at 2013
Another big problem with Nigeria is that it was designed to fail as a nation by the British, who drew borders that stuck three distinct main populations together who had no business being in the same country: the Igbo (mainly Christian), the Yoruba (mainly animist), and the Hausa (mainly Muslim). It worked in colonial times because of divide-and-rule, but it was a recipe for disaster in the long run.
True Nigeria is not meant to be a country
Nigeria itself didn't want to be divided after independence, they severely crushed both Biafra and Benin and a more efficient Nigeria would have been divided into at least 20 countries.
Yall better watch the Africans. Their numbers are growing bigger and bigger everyday. If they hijacking boats and shit, don't be too surprise if a bunch of Pirate kingdoms appear in Africa, in the future. Yall aint finding no fear in them yet, but it's being shown, birth numbers are down across the world but they still producing like wildfire.
@@-haclong2366 The Hausa need the more rich southern areas to stay afloat.
Yoruba are mostly Muslim but many are also Christian they are a mix religiously
My new favorite channel. Binge watching everything.
I love this channel.... It is hands down... No question the best TH-cam has to offer.
Cool stuff; wouldn't have thought governments would risk the wrath of larger nations and their shipping, but people will do anything for money
gotta do something to survive in all honesty.
Maybe the president wouldn't, he is busy putting tax money and oil company bribes in Swiss banks. But some local chief of police/mayor/whatever might very well be. Especially if the system is so corrupt that punishment is unlikely.
@@nevoyu But if you piss off the Chinese, Americans, Europeans, etc by doing so?
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ You just move somewhere else. You're a local gang leader that can strike, disappear, and strike somewhere else with quick turnaround. Not an institutionalized crime syndicate with deep roots and low agility.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The government already poisoned the water with the help of Shell and the British, and now an uptick in Chinese fishing has lead to today's piracy in the Niger Delta.
Why would the fishermen care what the government want when they watch whilst oil poisons half the water, whilst the rest is occupied by large foreign fishing trawlers. Got to do what you have to do.
Great, already know where Disney is setting their new HQ
Great video!
Your thumbnails just keep getting better
Always enjoy your videos ☺️☺️☺️
When I saw the thumbnail map near Nigeria, I figured this would be about online piracy. That might be an interesting topic on its own.
Thus, this is how Luffy's story begun.
These videos are so good!
Watched it on Nebula. Watchin' it again because the content is great.
It's interesting that Nigeria has managed to massively reduce piracy within its territorial waters. I wonder what gulf of guinea nation the piract concentration will now shift to because its definitely going to die off in the area
Great vid
You have the best explainer videos on earth.
0:23 the hell. that ships named after my home state.
Why does everyone miss pronounce Kerala lol
every malayali seeing this video will experience a sadness similar to a funeral
Much like in the 18th-century Atlantic, the best way to eliminate piracy is to eliminate the land bases that support piracy. Without places to outfit and repair their ships and markets to fence their stolen goods, pirates have little room in which to operate.
Thank you for this awesome work
A new polymatter video makes any day a good one
Fantastic video
Perfect Video
Because it's the 0°0'0'' point. Everyone ends up there if they forget to set their coordinates ;)
👍
We are all connected - if we deny any group of people a productive livelihood then our livelihood becomes compromised - and rightly so.
they can make a whole franchise out of this. Pirates of Africa
I thought it was about India because is an Indian State LoL 😅🤣
My Brain suddenly drained when ship had my state's name(*_*)
piracy is just a symptom of the larger issue of global poverty
Reminds me of that Jam album "This is the Modern World".
Didn't see a better crossover since the Boxer Rebellion
This reminded me of that one spongebob episode where mr. krab's pirate granddad came to visit him. fearing he'd be mad seeing him running a "weak-ass" restaurant instead of a pirate ship, mr. krabs tried to fake being an actual pirate in command of his own ship. The end, the grandfather discovers that it was really only restaurant. But then to his surprise his dad was actually happy seeing the prices of the burgers, saying something along the lines of "now that's real piracy".
come to think of it, what really is piracy, and who are the real pirates?
What episode is this?
@@abi_abdurrahman i don't remember the title sorryyy
Waiting the the continuation of the china series
"i am d captain now"
2:11 I'd love to go to Cote d'ivoiTe some day!
Isn't it time already for PolyMatter to start using metric measurements alongside the American imperial ones? Trying to be objective on one side, while on the other side sticking to a measuring system only a fragment of the world uses.
I guess he wants to focus on an American audience?
8:25 By this metric it would seem that the USA has more crude oil reserves than Saudi Arabia....
Can you do a video on the mafia cults of Nigeria? I think it would be an amazing video to see.
9:25 lol is that gas station really called "Chicken Republic"
No it's a fast food chain in Nigeria similar to KFC lol
Interesting. Comment added for algorithm 👍
Wow! Beautiful city!
8:49 Okay Venezuela, we need to talk about those prices.
Nice video.
Piracy in Somalia was a consequence of thieving foreign ships which were depriving fisherman of livelihood.
hm.. that's interesting.😄 video remind me that 11 years ago Somalia pirates arrested by our navy at the Aden bay while negotiating with regard a ransom of hostage and then transported to S. Korea for stand trial about a case on hijacking vessel. they were satisfaction on served food during detained and said don't wanna go back to their country. as it were, there's no villain by nature but poverty make it that
Somalia’s fishing license reminds me of the theory of stationary bandits
Snap off the transponders, and most ships would instantly disappear.
“Well, if pirates are bad,
And vampires are worse,
Then I pray that as long as I be
That though I sing of Vampirates
I never one shall see.
Yea, if pirates are danger
And vampires are death,
I'll extend my prayer for thee-
That thine eyes never see a Vampirate
...and they never lay a hand on thee”
― Justin Somper,
I hope that you find yourself in a lethal situation and don't make it out alive, thank you very much.
@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 why?
@@AeroTheVaporeon you too, but only in greater pain
@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 can you point me to who asked? i'm having trouble finding them
@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 technically he will, unless he's immortal
What does the text at 13:27 mean?
I have heard another reason for piracy aroud Somalia: foreign trawlers destroyed their fishing areas
Faz um vídeo sobre a economia do Brasil ou mesmo o setor de petróleo na economia, por favor.
Of course
Thinkso
Can't talk about pirates without mentioning Barbarossa.
8:59
In Venezuela the barrel has more value than the oil
I thought this video was about London, England
My treasure? You can have it. I left it all there.
Look at me. I am the captain now!
"Doing bookkeeping".. Wait what, you still have to do that stuff even as a pirate. WTF
I bet if the ships where required to all have bazookas piracy will drop quick .
......... Still the best channel on YT beautiful
The perfect place for a Pirate Party
Somalians were drawn to piracy because fisherman lost their jobs after the coastline of Somalia became a dumping ground of toxic waste from Italian and Swiss companies, as revealed in a landmark green peace study in the 80s.
1:40 nah ! when I hear the word ‘piracy’ Jack sparrow or Captain hook comes to mind !!
2:10 cote D'Ivoite
please do a video on German mittlestand
you should make a video about blackrock
Nice to find a literate TH-camr.
Not knowledgable; there are many of these.
But it's nice-just easier-to get information from a well-written video.
No filler, no purple prose, no malapropisms.
Thank you.
Jake Tran, Josh Brett on TH-cam
Kurzgesagt too
Current Venezuelan gas cost is 0.5$ per liter. It has been so since the last two to three years.
The thing is those ones ordering all those Piracies in Nigeria are probably some Instagram celebrity everyone is looking up as a role model without us even knowing their business
When I saw the title, I said "please don't be Nigeria"
Aye, matey it be where all the booty be hidden. A sea of gold doubloons awaits! Masters of the 7 seas we’ll be, lads and lassies! These skallywags can’t stop us!
@@Stevie-J lmao, be a funny comment day is never though
@@Stevie-J lol
Look at me! I am the captain now.
Maybe the real pirates was the friends we met along the way
The name kerala is also a state in India and i love that he pronounce kerala in a different way lol
He called it 'Corolla' like the car! So silly!
Like Shinzo Abe being pronounced like Abraham!
You mean wrong. It's not a Greek word, so likely to be named after the world famous Indian state.
Well that's good. I hope those guys/ countries get the rate they deserve for the product taken from there country.
Why not add guards to every ship?
I thought Madripoor was the pirate capital of the world.