Masopher's Mind

The Honorable Jack Straw and some black chick

Not all my questionable insight comes from a crack smoking demon and happily its not from wikipedia either. I probably could or perhaps should spend more time using the other sources in my arsenal the most distinguished being Chatham House.

I came to know Chatham house for what is did wrong. I came to know it from a criticical paper written by Eli Kedourie an analyst and expert on middle eastern history and affairs. According to Kedourie Chatham House in its hey day as the Royal Institute of International Affairs and its “version” of how people and nations progress is at least partly to blame for the debacle that is Africa and the Middle East now.

I think everyone interested in this boring stuff knows by now how England infiltrated and broke the Ottoman empire apart from the inside, fell to fighting over the spoils and then sort of abandoned them to multinational Oil companies, despots, the French and Russians. The biggest achivements was the breaking apart of greater Syria into Lebanon and Syria and the creation of Israel on top of where a bunch of Arabs were already living. Yeah. Not exacly inconsequential blips in history. There was also the giving the cold shoulder to the French when they built the Suez Canal, a few fights with Afghanistan in which the non Soviet and then Soviet Russinans became involved, the breaking apart of greater India into India Pakistan Kashmir and Bangladesh…

Hmmmm from a certain point of view, Chatham is a hell of a lot more evil than Masopher could ever be…

Well the point is that actions and innaction have far reaching implications. Britain did not maintain its benevolent empire and so Africa and the middle east became the stomping ground of some really messed up ideology and ruthless men promoting same ideology. Now Britain is a second tier (at best) nation and a vassal of the United States, a country which does not have the trust, support or the intentions that Britain has.

Chatham house, like Britain is now in an uneasy retirment mode. Monthly they write some hair raising analysis about the latest troubles in parts of the world. Even though some of its agendas are very much pro-estabishment it no longer takes an active role in shaping the world. However world shapers do pop by to say “Hi”, to stump their books and agendas for those that want to know. I have met some very interesting people many of whom whould have me killed for revealing who they were. But I can safely say I am a more informed idiot because of Chatham.

A Korean owned ship the MT Ann and an Iraqi owned ship the MV Hounslow have been reported as being impounded for being connected with the cutting of the undersea internet cables reported earlier this year.
In The first few months of the year the undersea cable connecting the middle east to the rest of the world experience several breaks leading many to believe that there was sabotage or human error.
Both ships were located in Dubai. Whether the two are connected in unknown but it is noted that Korean-Iraqi boat traffic has risen 20 fold since the beginning of the Iraq war.

The prefixes of the Ann and Hounslow indicate that they are a motorized tanker and a motorized ship respectively. The Houslow is most likely diesel run.
It was reported that the owner of the Ann has admitted liability and was fined $60,000 (roughly £30,000)

So far Masopher has been unable to ascertain whether any of the sea men on Ann were discharged. She declined to comment.

In the January and early February 2008 as American elections and budget, tottering economies, Britney Spears, Amy Whinehouse and Nicolas Sarkozy dominated the news the Arab, Persian and  Asian world experienced something particularly strange. Ships were crashing into their internet/telephone lines![1][2]

A couple million people in the region went without telephony or had all their calls and data routed through Saudi Arabia and other places. Havok ensued as both stockmarkets and Warcraft raids was disrupted.

In five incidents which were reported to be unrelated, the fiberoptic link to and from middle eastern and Asian countries such as Egypt, Dubai, Iran, India, The United Arab Emirates and Quatar appear to have broken.[3]

The cables noted were: SEA-ME-WE 4, FLAG, FALCON, SEA-ME-WE.

At present speculators observably do not know what to make of this.
The West will blame China or Terrorists, Muslims will blame Zionists and crusaders, Africans will suspect colonialists, communists will suspect capitalists, capitalists will suspect underground economists or communists. Paranoid delusionists will suspect everyone from the NSA to the illuminati, officials will suspect undersea quakes and dragging anchors. The companies who laid them might suspect the rivals who are about to lay in their own cables, or even the satellite companies who were shafted by the cheapness of undersea wiring. [4] Even godzilla and sponge bob were implicated.

The truth is…if this isn’t a jihadist endgame strategy, we probably will never know. News like this is not reported because worse than the independent bloggers and conspiracy theorist the news corporations just would not know what to say. There is no fancy graphic or $200 an hour expert to drag infront of the camera to toe a political line.

The internet lines are private property belonging to large British and Asian national and multinational companies with no previous agenda or black marks against thier name.

As mentioned before while NSA subs have been suspect from as far back as 2001, this is unprecedented.

A jihadist end game strategy, operating out of Yemen Somalia and/or Pakistan could be a Nuclear bomb waiting for any investigators or simply a wish to isolate middle Asia from the evils of internet and telephone, bringing those countries crashing back into early 19th century communication methods. After watching 2 girls one cup I would want to swim down and gnaw the cables myself. One can only laugh at this amazing coincidence, misinformation or suspicious plot.
My 2 coins

Sources:
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSBOM8160120080205
2. http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/analysis/articles/20044-damage-fourth-undersea-cable-sparks-conspiracy-theories.htm
3. http://gizmodo.com/353284/five-undersea-cables-cut-so-far
4. http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/analysis/articles/20044-damage-fourth-undersea-cable-sparks-conspiracy-theories.htm
5. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February155.xml&section=theuae