Posted on 03/27/2021 12:09:58 PM PDT by USA Conservative
Days after the Ever Given became lodged in the canal, its rudder has been freed and dredging is complete. Some salvagers hope it could be freed this weekend, but the wait for shipping to resume continues.
Egyptian authorities Wednesday were engaged in a complicated effort to dislodge a giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking all traffic on one of the world’s busiest shipping arteries.
The huge vessel got stuck in the canal sideways, with its bow wedged in one bank and its stern nearly touching the other, on Tuesday during a dust storm when wind speeds reached 40 knots, according to a person familiar with the incident.
When the Ever Given container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday, its bulk blocking shipping traffic through the key global thoroughfare, the world looked on, wondering how the authorities would manage to unstick the behemoth.
Days later, the vessel is still stuck, amid a frantic effort to free it, and fears over the cascading costs of the fallout. Already, shipping analysts estimated, the traffic jam has held up nearly $10 billion in trade each day.
Vessels packed with the world’s goods — including cars, oil, livestock and laptops — usually flow through the waterway with ease, supplying much of the globe as they transverse the quickest path from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and the East Coast of the United States.
Lots of conspiracies were told about the ship and it seems the news that we have from China will raise even more suspicion.
A photo on Weibo in mainland China went viral today (27). A truck carrying an "Evergreen container" was stuck on the highway, staged a road version of the "Evergreen" scene.
In the photo, it can be seen that the truck on the highway was photographed and downloaded with the "Evergreen Container". A squeezed SUV stuck on the edge of the road. The car from the rear was affected by the accident, and it was difficult to pass and nobody could move. According to the monitoring data, the accident occurred at about 9:55 this morning, and the accident site was on the Nanjing section of the Changchun-Shenzhen Expressway which is one of China's busiest highways.
Images below:
Long queues on the expressway due to car accidents are not very rare. But now that the Evergreen freighter is still blocking the Suez Canal, a similar accident is happening again, which inevitably makes everyone feel that the timing is too close, even it could be just a coincidence.
There were a lot of discussions.
People left messages saying, "Sea and land are blocked", "Awesome, monopolistic enterprise, in a physical sense", "Will Evergreen go to hell?", "Evergreen should pay more attention", " It’s exactly the same as the posture of a freighter going sideways.
What do you think?
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Cause you were on hand next to all the B-2's to make sure they weren't modified, right?
Good job, detective. You get around.
In case you're dull, I just told you that you don't know if they, or some, have been modified. You don't know and I don't know. But somebody knows. Maybe monkeywerx knows. I never read him, myself.
And please don't insult me by saying they can't have been modified. ThankQ.
What is Monkeywerx Special Ops experience?
I watched the episode where he talked about the B-52 [still] having tail guns. Pretty big miss.
The guy is a fraud.
Perhaps some of them have been modified. Or all of them.
Cause you were on hand next to all the B-2's to make sure they weren't modified, right?Yeah, yeah, yeah....maybe the modified B-52s are called B-2s now.
Your irrelevant post marks you as an aviation expert. Acknowledged, Maverick.
Now to the point. Using your obvious expertise, can a B-52 be modified with guns, which seems to be the bone of contention here re: monkeywerx.
That furry dude used the lack of guns on B-2s to attack monkeywerx' credibiity.
Lend the conversation something productive, Ice Man.
To remind. The question is 'modification'.
I don’t know.
He does at least 2 updates/week.
I suggest watching an episode or two — you can decide if he knows his stuff :)
He knows more than me! ;)
This started when Monkey Werx did a talk on B-52s. He gave the talk:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/L9RbbLN1TZxC/
and stated that B-52s have a tail gun. Which they don’t as they were de-installed in the early 1990s. I considered that a pretty big miss.
n.b. - I originally posted that MonkeyWerx stated that there is a tail gunner in the B-52 (they don’t anymore) and they were quad .50 cal guns (that was incorrect - H models (which is what he was showing on the screen) had a 20-mm six-barrel rotary cannon, so on me).
Articles on B-52 Defensive Aerial Gunner are here:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/10237/the-u-s-air-forces-last-tail-gunner-has-retired
and here:
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0112gunners/
You can see some of the obtuse comments about this in the thread. But no B-52 has tail guns installed any longer. No matter how much some people want to believe otherwise.
Monkey Werx know his stuff. My husband is a former pilot and worked at Boeing. He knows planes and he goes with what Monkey says for the most part.
Monkey Werx seems to follow these apps closely and so he is able to not only identify various aircraft, but more importantly (IMHO) he can point out what is usual vs. unusual activity.
I’ve never seen a good description of where his ‘expertise’ comes from. As far as I can tell, he may have worked MX on Special Ops helicopters.
But no B-52 has tail guns installed any longer. No matter how much some people want to believe otherwise.Correct. He also says that the TF-33 engines on the B-52H have water injection and that it's called a Stratofortress because it flies in the stratosphere. He also doesn't seem to know that SAC was deactivated in 1992.
He goes on to call T-6 Texans "T-37 Tweets" and T-38s "Law Darts."
He also doesn't recognize the location of Vance AFB.
He does use tacticool words like "exfil" though, so he's got that going for him.
I'll have to review that again. Seems out of his element.
I hated those takeoffs of G-models. Damn loud. And G-models doing a MITO? You could feel it in your bones. H-models were nice and "quiet". Haha!
It's OK, we're energy-independent now
Oh, wait...
lol
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