{"id":47081,"date":"2019-07-05T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47081"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:57:12","slug":"the-winds-are-shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47081","title":{"rendered":"The Winds are Shifting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2019\/07\/the-winds-are-shifting\/\">The Winds are Shifting<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/odilon-redon\/the-birth-of-venus\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3r8md7174doo44lgpk3kou79-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/OdilonRedonBirthOfVenus1910.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Odilon Redon\u00a0<strong>The Birth of Venus II\u00a0<\/strong>c.1910<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldn\u2019t call the west \u2018terrorists\u2019 per se, but \u2018we\u2019 are certainly spreading terror and terrorizing very large groups of people. Yeah, bring on the tanks and parade them around town. Add a marching band that plays some war tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u2018official\u2019 storyline : at the request of the US, Gibraltar police and UK marines have seized an oil tanker in Gibraltar. The super-tanker, 1000 feet (330 meters) long, carrying 2 million barrels, had stopped there after sailing all around the Cape of Good Hope instead of taking the Suez canal on its way, ostensibly, from Iran to Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, according to the storyline as presented to and in the western press, because the EU still has sanctions on Iran, the British seized the ship. Another little detail I really appreciate is that Spain\u2019s acting foreign minister, Josep Borrell, said Madrid was looking into the seizure and how it may affect Spanish sovereignty since Spain does not recognize the waters around Gibraltar as British.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That Borrell guy is the newly picked EU foreign policy czar, and according to some sources he\u2019s supportive of Iran and critical of Israel. Them\u2019s the webs we weave. He\u2019s certainly in favor of Palestinian statehood. But we\u2019re wandering\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did the tanker take that giant detour along the African coastline? Because potential problems were anticipated in the Suez canal. But also: why dock in Gibraltar? Because no problems were anticipated there. However, the US had been following the ship all along, and set this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winds are Shifting How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldn\u2019t call the west \u2018terrorists\u2019 per se, but \u2018we\u2019 are certainly spreading terror and terrorizing very large groups of people. Yeah, bring on the tanks and parade them around town. 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