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Random Thoughts about the World Situation

Roger Mitchell1 Comment

https://www.slow-journalism.com/delayed-gratification-magazine/eight-years-stuck-on-the-suez-canal

Remember the Ever Given? The massive cargo carrier, which became stuck on a sand bar in the Suez Canal in the spring of 2021, completely blocked traffic through the canal and forced other carriers to make the long trek around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, adding thousands of miles to their journey, driving shipping costs sharply higher, and causing considerable discomfort among the shopping public in Europe.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ever-given-container-ship-set-leave-suez-canal-2021-07-07/

Here’s a little bit of speculation.

Full Disclosure: This is nothing more than a consideration of the possibility of such an event and is not an endorsement, encouragement, instruction, incitement, nor support. It is only speculation which may get me into trouble for exercising my right to free speech. Heck, I wouldn’t even know where to start to bring that about and don’t have the necessary funds to make it happen. If I am investigated and prosecuted for mentioning this potential, well, it is what it is, and I will consider it an honor to be persecuted for speaking the truth.

Just suppose that, during the Fog of War in the conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US, another very large cargo carrier (or even an oil tanker) was suddenly and without warning struck by a missile and sunk in the narrowest portion of the canal. Not damaged, not disabled, sunk. Deep-sixed. Sent to Davy Jone’s locker. Considering that it took six days of strenuous effort by an army of workers to refloat the Ever Given, it would be reasonable to expect at least six months to clear the wreckage, during which time all ship traffic through the canal would be halted. That is, ALL traffic. For an unknown period of time.

How does anyone protect against that?

It has also been bandied about that the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, will be hit by an errant missile, destroying it. Situated on the so-called Temple Mount, supposedly the location where Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrificial offering to Yahweh and, also supposedly the location where the prophet Mohammed was translated into Heaven. In other words, a very holy place in the minds of millions of people.

This has a high chance of happening, whether by an errant missile or by design–coordinates or false flag. It doesn’t matter. What is important is that the State of Israel ought to be everything it can to protect the site, to the detriment of the rest of the country because, if the mosque is destroyed, then nothing stands in the way of building a new third temple–except 1 billion upset, angry, and raging Muslims, many of them willing to die “martyr’s” deaths for the cause of their ideology.

Think about it. One percent of one billion Muslims is ten million persons, far more than the entire population of the entire state of Israel, including the non-Jewish part.

There’s more of them than there are of them. This is an existential problem for Israel.

Think about it. How do you get around that?

If, and I stress if, Donald Trump loses this war and has to retreat to the White House to lick his wounds, how would he react? My guess: Shift direction and beat up someone else who simply does not have the means to defend themselves, namely, Cuba. 90 miles off the southern tip of Florida, in our own back yard, emaciated and devastated by decades of socialist rule and suffocating sanctions, Cuba would be a cake walk compared to Iran. Land 100,000 Marines on its shores and let them do their worst. Marco Rubio would be issuing Executive Orders from the presidential palace within a week and Trump’s reputation would (might) experience a significant rebound.

Or, perhaps, initiate a military tyranny over the citizens of the US itself. “You didn’t like what I was doing there and didn’t support me, so we lost. Well, you’re going to pay, and pay dearly. Take that, you ungrateful wretch.”

China. OMG, we have completely forgotten about China!! How would the US Empire react to a Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan, the primary source of high-tech computer chips upon which the rest of the world depends. Imagine a scenario where any ship or air traffic from Taiwan is blocked. Total stoppage. No exceptions.

Darling, in my wildest dreams…1

And, at the end of it all, the Epstein Files. Still there, still relevant, still a threat.

  1. Who ever decided that Pat Benatar was classic rock? ↩︎

A Mealy-mouthed Admission of Guilt

Roger Mitchell2 Comments

According to an article in Zero Hedge, the state of Florida is taking steps to remove all the imposed mandates concerning the Covid so-called “vaccines”. Yes, that’s right, all of them. To which I can only say, “It’s about time. They never should have ordered them in the first place.” But, credit where credit is due, and this is a positive development.

That being said, I am not pleased with Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s philosophical argument in his announcement as he fudges what the real issue is.

“Who am I, as a government, or anyone else, or who am I as a man standing here now to tell you what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?

“I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your Body and your God.”

Ladapo manages in just a few short sentences to shift the argument from one of imposed mandates by a power-grabbing, totalitarian wanna-be State to one more to the liking of “libertarians” everywhere, namely, the sovereignty an individual has over his or her own body. Indeed, who is Ladapo (or anyone else, for that matter) to tell anyone at all how they SHALL treat themselves? Isn’t the base principle of libertarianism the concept that everyone can decide for themselves how they live? With respect to this, he is saying nothing new and, really, nothing at all.

The point that he avoids, however, is not one of individual, sovereign choice but the fact that injecting the shots has not been voluntary, but forced on people by the very same government which Ladapo is a part of. If he was entirely truthful, his words would have looked like this: “Who am I, as a government,…to tell you what you WILL put into your body?” No, no, even that is not correct. Let’s try again. “Who am I, as a government,…to tell you what someone else WILL put into your body, completely overriding any objection you might have?” Furthermore, “Who am I to tell you what your child WILL have injected into their body, against their (and your) will and consent?”

This has nothing to do with bodily autonomy or personal freedom and everything with understanding that the anti-Covid tide is running strong against TPTB and the scam which was foisted on the world. In some areas, it still has life but the monstrous beast which destroyed liberty over the course of a few years can be seen struggling and thrashing about, trying to maintain its viability. Ladapo recognizes the trend and is trying to get ahead of the curve by throwing out a bone, but I am willing to bet that if the Establishment had won the battle, we would never hear anything like this…from anyone. Instead, the only thing which would have been voiced is the injunction to–“Get Your Booster!”, and the giddy, gleeful (or not) pronouncements by the Bought and Paid For “news media” that Donald “Cap’n Warp Speed” Trump has won again.

I’m glad to see the state of Florida taking the lead on this issue but, please, please don’t muddy the waters. Either individual people are secure in their own rights or the State can tell them what they will do. There are no other alternatives. There is no other option.