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Megaship Blocks All Traffic In Suez Canal After Running Aground In Bizarre Incident
by Tyler Durden - Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021 - 06:35 PM
In what appears to be a freak accident, a Panama-flagged container ship called the Ever Given, owned by Evergreen Marine Corp., has run aground inside the Suez Canal, the critical artificially made shipping lane connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean.
Known as a critical chokepoint for the global oil trade, the Suez has become blocked in both directions thanks to the peculiar angle of what's been described as a "megaship".
The ship was traveling from a port in Egypt to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, one of the world's most active ports. It was due to arrive March 31.
Ships are already stuck in the water. In addition to weighing almost 200K tonnes, here's more info on the ship courtesy of Reuters.
The traffic jam has reportedly spread from the canal, back into the Red Sea and the Mediterannean.
At a time when shipping companies are already struggling to recover from the strains of the COVID pandemic, which required them to rejigger global shipping routes in fundamental ways. It's also presents risks to the inflation outlook, as the lingering containership shortage mentioned above is slowing down the pace of global trade at a time when Americans' demand for products foreign-made consumer products is surging.
It could take days for a major Dutch salvage company to ride to the rescue.
How soon till one of the big Dutch salvage companies shows up for an ultra-premium re-floating?
Also: forget #iceroadtruckers, marine salvage YouTube is where it's at.https://t.co/C2hzZWrGJQ
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 23, 2021
In the meantime, looks like we're in the midst of another Suez crisis…albeit one that lacks a political dimension.
A Suez crisis. https://t.co/dHHkXzZB8r
— ianVisits (@ianvisits) March 23, 2021
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/megaship-blocks-all-traffic-suez-canal-after-running-aground-bizarre-incident
Alleged Boulder Colorado Gunman ID’d as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa
''(NOT A WHITE GUY!)''
by AWR Hawkins - 23 Mar 2021
''The gunman who allegedly opened fire in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store on Monday has been identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa by the New York Times.''
The New York Post reports that Alissa was charged with “charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder” on Tuesday.
Boulder police chief Maris Harold noted that Alissa lived in Arvada, Colorado, and pointed out that his ten alleged victims were between the ages of 20 and 65 years of age.
NPR reports that the deceased included 51-year-old police officer Eric Talley, who had been with the Boulder Police Department since 2010.
The New York Daily News observed that police do not have a motive behind the Boulder attack. But Gov. Jarid Polis reacted by saying, “Today we saw the face of evil. I am grieving with my community and all Coloradans.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/23/alleged-boulder-colorado-gunman-ahmad-alissa/
Totally Awesome!
Malcolm Fle✘
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Seems Facebook Scrubbed the Boulder Colorado Shooter, Ahmad Al Issa's page.
But it also appears that he was a very big consumer of legacy media propaganda. Seems they may have helped radicalize this fellow.
https://twitter.com/Malcolm_fleX48/status/1374383419241631749
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1374388189633208323
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Here is the booking photo of #Boulder, Colo. mass shooting suspect, Ahmad al-Aliwi al-Issa.
Al-Issa is a 21-year-old man from Syria who is accused of murdering 10 people. His social media posts show a history of hatred for Trump and a devotion to Islam.
BREAKING: The suspect in the #Boulder, Colo. mass shooting where 10 were murdered has been identified as Ahmad al-Issa. He was first described as a white male. His social media, which is now deleted, show he was a religious Muslim who posted frequently about "Islamophobia."
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: FBI and DHS Attempt To Recruit Former Green Beret to Infiltrate and Spy on Oath Keepers, Proud Boys –But He Recorded The Conversation!
By Jim Hoft - Published March 23, 2021 at 9:04am
Jeremy Brown is a Green Beret and former Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 14th Congressional District. Brown served in the United States Army from 1992 to 2012 and reached the rank of Special Forces Master Sergeant.
Jeremy also attended the Stop the Steal protests in Washington DC on January 6. Jeremy joined the Oath Keepers in November and went to Washington DC to provide security at the many protests and rallies that week.
Earlier this month Jeremy Brown started speaking out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) contacted him and attempted to recruit him to spy on patriots and everyday Americans.
Jeremy released video surveillance of the FBI contacting him at his home. And Jeremy released an audio recording of his actual meetup with the FBI. Jeremy struggled for months about whether or not to go public with this information. But according to his Facebook page — “After listening to politicians and the FBI Director, Chris Wray, tell lie after bald-faced lie to the American People, he could not stay silent any longer.”
Jeremy decided his desire to protect and defend the American people and the TRUTH are more important than privacy or personal safety.
Earlier this month Jeremy joined Brandon Gray on Banned.TV to describe what happened to him after he joined the Oath Keepers in November.
Jeremy released video of his encounter with government officials when they came to his home. Jeremy also released audio of his meeting with the FBI at a local restaurant.
Jeremy explains in his recent video that the FBI called his cellphone and asked for a meeting after trying to contact him at his house. Jeremy then met with the FBI agents at a restaurant in Ybor City in December. He told Brandon Gray that 38 seconds into the intervew the FBI attempted to recruit him to spy on the Oath Keepers.
The Gateway Pundit spoke with Jeremy Brown last night. Jeremy is SAFE, but laying low and keeping on the move until he says he has “a full grasp on any fallout that is sure to result.”
Jeremy recorded his interview with the FBI in Florida. He recorded and released the entire conversation to BanThis.TV.
This is really shocking information. The FBI is working to infiltrate patriot groups of retired military personnel who take an oath to uphold the US Constitution.
''This is happening in America! And this took place BEFORE January 6th.''
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/caught-video-fbi-dhs-attempt-recruit-former-green-beret-infiltrate-spy-oath-keepers-proud-boys-recorded-conversation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVOv3Kt_WaY
"Everybody Needs To Know This" | Edward Snowden
__Suez Traffic To Resume As Blocking Ship Partially Moved
by Tyler Durden - Wednesday, Mar 24, 2021 - 09:00 AM
Update (0739 ET): Bloomberg reports the massive containership blocking the Suez Canal has been dislodged from the bank of the canal and moved to the side, potentially easing disruption to one of the world's most vital shipping lanes
Ahmed Mekawy, the deputy manager for the Suez Canal for Gulf Agency Company, expects the canal could resume today or tomorrow.
Mekawy said the containership is "expected to be re-floated shortly, then the Suez Canal Authority will work on resuming transit for all waiting ships."
The Suez Canal Authority has yet to comment on whether the ship has been moved.
''Update (0706 ET):'' The Gulf Agency Company in Egypt reports Suez Canal traffic could "resume soon."
''Update (0704 ET):'' The blockage of the Suez Canal by a massive container ship called the Ever Given, owned by Evergreen Marine Corp., could last for at least another day and send ripples of disruption through global supply chain networks, according to Bloomberg.
Eight tug boats have been working through Wednesday to free the 400m long container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday. The angle at which the Ever Given ran aground has completely blocked the canal. The canal is a chokepoint for the global oil trade as dozens of vessels are moored outside both entrances waiting for the container ship to get unstuck.
"The salvage operation with tugs is underway, and hopefully, the vessel will be freed soon, but it could last days," said Ralph Leszczynski, head of research at shipbroker Banchero Costa & Co.
An official with the Gulf Agency Company in Egypt told Bloomberg no progress had been made in clearing the canal. The mishap's cause is due to the vessel's loss of steering amid high winds and a dust storm, the Suez Canal Authority said in a statement.
Taiwan-based Evergreen Line told Bloomberg in an emailed statement that the vessel deviated"from its course due to suspected sudden strong wind."
Grounded Ever Given Chokes World's Most Vital Shipping Lane
The canal's blockage has led to a gridlock of vessels on either side of the canal's entrances.
After Tuesday's steep selloff, crude futures rebounded on Wednesday on the Suez Canal developments. Brent futures are up 2.48% to $62.30, and WTI trades around 59 handle, up more than 2%.
"It's all about the Suez, as well as people trying to get into oil again after the selloff," said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB AB. It appears lockdowns, mutations, and vaccination rollout delays are on the backburner for now.
In what appears to be a freak accident, a Panama-flagged container ship called the Ever Given, owned by Evergreen Marine Corp., has run aground inside the Suez Canal, the critical artificially made shipping lane connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean.
Known as a critical chokepoint for the global oil trade, the Suez has become blocked in both directions thanks to the peculiar angle of what's been described as a "megaship".
The ship was traveling from a port in Egypt to Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, one of the world's most active ports. It was due to arrive March 31.
Ships are already stuck in the water. In addition to weighing almost 200K tonnes, here's more info on the ship courtesy of Reuters.
The traffic jam has reportedly spread from the canal, back into the Red Sea and the Mediterannean.
At a time when shipping companies are already struggling to recover from the strains of the COVID pandemic, which required them to rejigger global shipping routes in fundamental ways. It's also presents risks to the inflation outlook, as the lingering containership shortage mentioned above is slowing down the pace of global trade at a time when Americans' demand for products foreign-made consumer products is surging.
It could take days for a major Dutch salvage company to ride to the rescue.
How soon till one of the big Dutch salvage companies shows up for an ultra-premium re-floating?
Also: forget #iceroadtruckers, marine salvage YouTube is where it's at.https://t.co/C2hzZWrGJQ
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 23, 2021
In the meantime, looks like we're in the midst of another Suez crisis…albeit one that lacks a political dimension.
A Suez crisis. https://t.co/dHHkXzZB8r
— ianVisits (@ianvisits) March 23, 2021
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/megaship-blocks-all-traffic-suez-canal-after-running-aground-bizarre-incident
Here We Go – FBI Knew Boulder, Colorado, Suspect Identity Prior to Shooting
March 23, 2021 | Sundance
Stop me when you have heard this before.The Boulder, Colorado, shooter was named as 21-year-old Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa earlier today. An then this gem from the New York Times:
(New York Times) “The suspect’s identity was known to the F.B.I. because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials.” (link)
A reminder…. 50 FBI agents were enlisted within the Trump-Russia investigation to push a narrative. 13 FBI agents were dispatched to Talladega speedway to investigate a garage pull-down rope and push a narrative. Thousands of FBI hours have been spent investigating the January 6th Washington DC protest… and once again another terrorist carries out a mass shooting where the FBI knew the suspect in advance.
''The FBI knew in advance the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians. The FBI knew in advance the Garland, Texas, shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi). The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan); and now the FBI knew in advance of Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa.''
Those are just off-the-top of my head… Anyone notice a pattern?
Meanwhile the political FBI agents chase the ghosts of mysteriously invisible white supremacists conducting random acts of unidentified racism.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/23/here-we-go-fbi-knew-boulder-colorado-suspect-identity-prior-to-shooting/
All 10 Boulder Colorado Victims Were White. It’s Time to End Anti-White Race Hate.
The following ten people perished in the recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado carried out by Ahmad Al-Issa. All of them appear to be white, but neither the media nor politicians have bothered to resurrect their anti-race-hate campaign that ensues when Black Lives Matter riot, or when Asians are murdered in Atlanta.
The victims include grocery store workers, local college graduates, medicare agents, a police officer, and an Orthodox Christian.
Today, The National Pulse calls on the political left and their media counterparts to stop the racial hatred they continue to perpetuate against white people, which doubtlessly led to these murders in Colorado.
Denny Strong, 20
Strong resided in Boulder, Colorado and had worked at the King Soopers grocery store since 2018. He described himself as a fan of planes, bikes, and motorcycles on social media and friends say he was training to be a pilot.
Rikki Olds, 25
Olds worked at the King Soopers grocery store. She went to high school in Lafayette, Colorado, and attended Front Range Community College.
‘We lost our beloved Rikki Olds to the monster who shot up the king soopers in Boulder CO yesterday may his rotten a** fry and burn in hell,’ her aunt Lori Olds said.
Tralona Bartkowiak, 49
Bartkowiak had recently gotten engaged and ran a small boutique focused on yoga and festival attire in Boulder.
Suzanne Fountain, 59
Fountain worked as a licensed Medicare agent and financial counselor.
Teri Leiker, 51
Leiker had worked at the store targetted in the attack for three decades, and her friends revealed working at the store was her “favorite thing to do.”
Since 2019, Leiker was dating a colleague, Clint, who survived the shooting.
“She loved going to work and enjoyed everything about being there,” friends added.
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/boulder-shooting-victims/
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All 10 Boulder Colorado Victims Were White. It’s Time to End Anti-White Race Hate.
Eric Talley, 51
The father of seven had served the Boulder Police Department since 2010.
“He loved his kids and his family more than anything,” said Talley’s father, Homer Talley.
“He was looking for a job to keep himself off of the front lines and was learning to be a drone operator. He didn’t want to put his family through something like this and he believed in Jesus Christ,” he added.
Kevin Mahoney, 61
Mahoney’s daughter revealed that her father had been killed in the shooting with a photo of him walking her down the aisle for her wedding with the caption “I am heartbroken to announce that my Dad, my hero, Kevin Mahoney, was killed in the King Soopers shooting in my hometown of Boulder, CO.”
‘My dad represents all things Love,” she added.
Lynn Murray, 62
Murray had two children and was a retired New York City magazine photo director whose clients included Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Glamour. She relocated to Colorado to raise her children.
Her family noted she was at the grocery store to fill an Instacart order at the time of the shooting.
“I just want her to be remembered as just as this amazing, amazing comet spending 62 years flying across the sky,” her husband John urged.
Jody Waters, 65
Waters was a mother, grandmother, and rescue dog owner. She describes herself as a hiker and creative entrepreneur.
Neven Stanisic, 23
A graduate of Alameda West High School, Stanisic and his family “fled Bosnia 20 years ago for a better life in America,” according to leaders at Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church in Lakewood.
“He was an amazing child,” said Ivana Petrovic, who along with her husband, Rev. Radovan Petrovic, have close ties with the family. “We’ve known the family ever since we became their spiritual father and mother here. He was a very good, shy, hardworking boy and one of those kiddos who listened to his parents the best.”
Stanisic’s Facebook showed him smiling with classmates and contained images of hand-drawn anime characters and the Assassin’s Creed video game series.
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/boulder-shooting-victims/
Judicial Supremacy to Judicial Lunacy? A Judge Challenges the Supreme Court’s Supreme Folly
by Selwyn Duke March 23, 2021
“Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820. “They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.” While this is true, one Judge Laurence Silberman may be an exception.
Silberman, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, emerged from relative obscurity recently when he penned a dissent in the case of Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc. In this case, which involved defamation, Silberman went far beyond disagreeing with how the majority applied a 1964 “landmark” Supreme Court opinion, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. He also challenged the very “notion of Supreme Court infallibility,” as one commentator put it.
In a nutshell, the ’64 opinion held that succeeding in a defamation claim required a plaintiff to prove not just that statements made publicly were false and damaging, but that they were motivated by malice (read more about the case here and here.) As a result, public officials basically stopped suing the media because, unlike in Britain, it’s now notoriously difficult to win a defamation case in the United States.
Silberman finds that troubling. But what bothers him even more is that, as he pointed out, “Justice Thomas has already persuasively demonstrated that New York Times was a policy-driven decision masquerading as constitutional law. As with the rest of the opinion, the actual malice requirement was simply cut from whole cloth.”
Unfortunately, this isn’t uncommon. For the SCOTUS has long been, it appears, buying cloth in bulk. Thus did Silberman not only complain that the ’64 opinion must be overturned as it’s “a threat to American Democracy,” but go further.
In fact, he “makes plain his disdain for Justice Kennedy’s contention that ‘criticism of the Court is tantamount to an attack on the Constitution,’” relates commentator Andrea Widburg. “Instead, ‘I readily admit that I have little regard for holdings of the Court that dress up policymaking in constitutional garb.’ It’s that kind of dissimulation that is ‘the real attack on the Constitution.’ Indeed, ‘[t]he notion that the Court should somehow act in a policy role as a Council of Revision is illegitimate.’”
Silberman is merely stating a simple fact: It isn’t the courts’ role to in essence “make law” by imposing their own extra- or un-constitutional biases from the bench. Yet generally ignored is that this problem of judicial adventurism cannot realistically be mitigated without first tackling judicial supremacy.
Judges’ “privilege of their corps,” which Jefferson warned about, was perfectly epitomized by Kennedy’s “criticism of the Court = an attack on the Constitution” line. We should just respond, “Nice try.”
It’s natural for individuals and institutions to want to place themselves beyond criticism, but this is worse than un-American (are the justices royalty?). It also smacks of self-deification. It has often been joked that the Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being, but only God is beyond criticism because only He is infallible in all facets. The rest of us require the iron that sharpens iron that is legitimate criticism.
https://thenewamerican.com/judicial-supremacy-to-judicial-lunacy-a-judge-challenges-the-supreme-courts-supreme-folly/
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Kennedy’s self-deification is also a quite bold attempt at flipping the script. The SCOTUS has essentially been attacking the Constitution for at least a century via its unconstitutional opinions. Now, to avoid being called out on this, Kennedy claims that criticizing this abuse (or any other SCOTUS trespass) is an attack on the Constitution! Talk about projection.
But let’s talk about protection — of the courts and from them. It’s no surprise that many justices may want to be beyond criticism, for they’ve long been beyond accountability and beyond control. Judicial supremacy will have this effect.
Long our status quo, judicial supremacy is the standard whereby court decisions will constrain not just the parties in a given case or even just (regarding SCOTUS decisions) the whole judicial branch, but the legislative and executive branches as well.
To fully grasp the problem with this, consider a warning from James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution.” He said that having the judicial, legislative, and executive powers all vested in one entity is the very definition of tyranny. Well, now consider what former ambassador and government affairs expert Alan Keyes once explained:
The courts obviously have their judicial power. Yet if they can strike down a law in contravention of lawmakers’ will — essentially making themselves a super-legislature of last resort — then they’ve arrogated to themselves the legislative power as well. Moreover, if they can tell the executive branch that it must or may not execute a given action, regardless of that branch’s convictions about the action’s constitutionality, they’ve also then arrogated to themselves the executive power.
Ergo, all three powers are then vested in one body, the courts. Goodbye, checks and balances.
Worse still, this tyrannical power (using Madison’s description) is wielded by the one governmental branch that’s beyond the people’s reach. The legislators are elected as is the president (the executive branch), so the people can hold them accountable at the ballot box. But federal judges are appointed — for life — meaning, they’re effectively shielded from accountability.
I wrote “effectively” because the Constitution does give Congress the power to impeach judges, eliminate rogue lower federal courts, and limit the appellate jurisdiction of the SCOTUS. Yet this power isn’t exercised, and it won’t be for a simple reason:
Legislators like it when the courts “settle” hot-button, controversial issues so they don’t actually have to take a stand. In other words, lawmakers are outsourcing decisions they should make — and be held accountable for — to the branch of government that cannot be held accountable. Nice con, huh?
Having unaccountable people make our laws is obviously dangerous, and this is why Jefferson warned that the judicial-supremacy standard would make our Constitution a felo de se, an “act of suicide.” But what can we do?
First realize that judicial supremacy is not “the law of the land.” It’s not in the Constitution. Rather, the courts granted their absolute power to themselves, most notably in the Marbury v. Madison decision (1803). It’s reminiscent of how San Franciscan Joshua Abraham Norton, disgusted with our political and legal systems (I can sympathize), declared himself “Emperor of these United States” in 1859. Only, nobody took him seriously.
https://thenewamerican.com/judicial-supremacy-to-judicial-lunacy-a-judge-challenges-the-supreme-courts-supreme-folly/
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So why do we take the judges who would be kings seriously? The Constitution does, of course, explicitly grant the SCOTUS (and lower courts created by Congress) the “judicial power.” But here’s the rub: It doesn’t specify precisely what this power is.
In fact, according to Alan Keyes, with whom I discussed this matter, the Founding Fathers didn’t elaborate on this anywhere. Thus does a simple conclusion suggest itself: They believed that what constituted the judicial power was self-explanatory. Yet it logically follows that if this is so, it’s only because that power already existed and was well understood.
What was the Founders’ understanding? They emerged from the British tradition, which had, of course, long included a legal system and judges. Here’s what it didn’t involve: ruling laws unconstitutional and then “striking them down.”
After all, Britain didn’t (and doesn’t) have a Constitution.
In other words, British judges could take issue with a law and free someone charged under it. But they could not eliminate the law itself. This was the default understanding of the judicial power.
Now, if the Founders meant to radically change this — if they’d intended to grant American judges the unprecedented power to strike down law — wouldn’t they have said so? Wouldn’t they have stated, “The courts have the ‘judicial power,’ and understand what this actually means now” and then elaborate? That they didn’t indicates that the “judicial power” was what it had always been.
That is, judges’ rulings constrain the plaintiff(s) and defendant(s) party to the case in question, but they constrain no one else and cannot alter law.
The bottom line is that judicial supremacy appears a fiction, an extra-constitutional power enjoyed by a governmental branch that has neither the police nor the military to enforce it — and at the pleasure of the other two branches.
Late Justice Antonin Scalia alluded to this reality when he warned his SCOTUS fellows in his Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) dissent, “With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them — with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the ‘reasoned judgment’ of a bare majority of this Court — we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.”
It’s high time the Court was reminded of its impotence. If we’re unwilling to issue that reminder, then it signals that we suffer an impotence running far, far deeper than law.
https://thenewamerican.com/judicial-supremacy-to-judicial-lunacy-a-judge-challenges-the-supreme-courts-supreme-folly/
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