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The Suez Canal
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 29, 2021, 10:32 pm
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I am sure everyone has been following this recent exhibition of
grand incompetence:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction
So, which civilization is responsible for the Suez Canal
existing in the first place?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#History
[quote]In 1830, General Francis Chesney submitted a report to
the British government that stated that there was no difference
in elevation and that the Suez Canal was feasible
...
Linant de Bellefonds, a French explorer of Egypt, became chief
engineer of Egypt's Public Works. In addition to his normal
duties, he surveyed the Isthmus of Suez and made plans for the
Suez Canal. French Saint-Simonianists showed an interest in the
canal and in 1833, Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin tried to draw
Muhammad Ali's attention to the canal but was unsuccessful.
Alois Negrelli, the Italian-Austrian railroad pioneer, became
interested in the idea in 1836.
In 1846, Prosper Enfantin's Société d'Études du Canal de Suez
invited a number of experts, among them Robert Stephenson,
Negrelli and Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue to study the feasibility of
the Suez Canal (with the assistance of Linant de Bellefonds).
...
The Suez Canal Company (Compagnie universelle du canal maritime
de Suez) came into being on 15 December 1858[/quote]
Yep, the same one as was causing all the other problems in the
colonial era. And let's not forget:
[quote]with assistance from the Cattaui banking family, and
their relationship with James de Rothschild of the French House
of Rothschild bonds and shares were successfully promoted in
France and other parts of Europe.[55] All French shares were
quickly sold in France.
...
Although numerous technical, political, and financial problems
had been overcome, the final cost was more than double the
original estimate.
The Khedive, in particular, was able to overcome initial
reservations held by both British and French creditors by
enlisting the help of the Sursock family, whose deep connections
proved invaluable in securing much international support for the
project.[68][69][/quote]
Is anyone surprised? Everyone here knows the Rothschilds, but
the Cattauis and Sursocks may be less familar, so here is some
additional information:
HTML https://www.hsje.org/Egypt/TheHouse-ofYacoubCattaui.html
[quote]one of Cairo’s most powerful Jewish families.
...
In the wake of Egypt’s modernization, which started with the
reign of Mohammed Ali Pasha (r.1805-48), vast fortunes were
conceived in the form of trading houses, banks and real estate.
How, and the way in which they did it, shaped the lives of
certain families into the great dynasties they became. One such
clan was the Cattauis. From Master of the Mint under Viceroy
Abbas Hilmi I (r.1848-54) and saraf bashi under Viceroy Said
(r.1854-63) to minister of transport and finance under King
Fouad (r.1917-36), the Cattauis, deep rooted oriental Jews of
Egypt, held a most privileged place in the country’s politics,
commerce and society such as few other families in contemporary
history. Banking and real estate, formed the basis of their
dynastic fortune. Their power and prestige lasted unchallenged
well through the first quarter of the present century.
...
The founding fathers and early directors of the National Bank of
Egypt, which opened in June 1898, included a Cattaui (Moise
Pasha) a Menashe (Baron Jacques) two Rolos (Jacob and Sir
Robert) and three Suares (Felix, Raphael and Leon). These
gentlemen were either descendants of Yacoub Cattaui or related
to him by marriage.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursock_family
[quote]The Sursock family (also spelled Sursuq) is a Greek
Orthodox Christian family from Lebanon, and one of the most
important "Seven Families" of Beirut. Having originated in
Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire until 1453[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursock_family#Land_sales_to_early_Zionist_settlement
[quote]The Sursocks were absentee landlords in the vast Marj Ibn
`Amer (Jezreel Valley) in Northern Palestine. The Jewish
National Fund was founded in 1901 by funding from the Baron to
buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish
settlement.[65] The PLDC acquired land for the Jewish National
Fund (JNF). Official purchasing organizations such as the
Palestine Land Development Company focused on consummating the
transfer of some 65,000 dunams of land in the Jezreel Valley
owned by the Sursocks. On 18 December 1918, the PDLC concluded
an agreement with Nagib and Albert Sursock for the purchase of
71,356 dunams in the Jezreel Valley, including Tel Adashim, The
Ottomans tried to limit mass land acquisition and immigration,
but had their hands tied by European pressure and also
corruption and greed of officials and large landowners. The sale
of land in Marj ibn Amer is a noted case.[66][better source
needed][67] Hankin of the KKL transacted the final settlement of
purchase in 1921. Hankin originally worked for the PLDC and then
became the main land speculator for both agencies.[68][69] The
buyers demanded the existing settlers be relocated and as a
result, the Arab tenant farmers were evicted[/quote]
The good guys are always the good guys, and the bad guys are
always the bad guys. (And so many people still don't understand
why the Orthodox Church is our enemy.)
But the recent grand pileup is not even close to the worst
consequence of the Suez Canal. Let's look at what else happened:
[quote]The excavation took some 10 years, with forced labour
(corvée) being employed until 1864 to dig-out the canal.[57]
Some sources estimate that over 30,000 people were working on
the canal at any given period, that more than 1.5 million people
from various countries were employed[49][58], and that tens of
thousands of labourers died, many of them from cholera and
similar epidemics.
Estimates of the number of deaths varies widely with Gamal Abdel
Nasser famously citing 120,000 deaths upon nationalization of
the canal in a 26 July 1956 speech
...
The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on world trade.
Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed
six months earlier, it allowed the world to be circled in record
time. [b]It played an important role in increasing European
colonization of Africa.[/b] The construction of the canal was
one of the reasons for the Panic of 1873 in Great Britain,
because goods from the Far East had, until then, been carried in
sailing vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and stored in
British warehouses. An inability to pay his bank debts led Said
Pasha's successor, Isma'il Pasha, in 1875 to sell his 44% share
in the canal for £4,000,000 ($19.2 million), equivalent to £432
million to £456 million ($540 million to $570 million) in 2019,
to the government of the United Kingdom.[71] French shareholders
still held the majority.[72] Local unrest caused the British to
invade in 1882 and take full control
...
The European Mediterranean countries in particular benefited
economically from the Suez Canal, as they now had much faster
connections to Asia and East Africa than the North and West
European maritime trading nations such as Great Britain, the
Netherlands or Germany. The biggest beneficiary in the
Mediterranean was Austria-Hungary, which had participated in the
planning and construction of the canal. The largest Austrian
maritime trading company, Österreichischer Lloyd, experienced
rapid expansion after the canal was completed, as did the port
city of Trieste, then an Austrian possession. The company was a
partner in the Compagnie Universelle du Canal de Suez, whose
vice-president was the Lloyd co-founder Pasquale
Revoltella.[74][75][76][77][78]
...
On the same day that the canal was nationalized Nasser also
closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israeli ships.[81] This led
to the Suez Crisis in which the UK, France, and Israel invaded
Egypt. According to the pre-agreed war plans under the Protocol
of Sèvres, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula on 29 October,
forcing Egypt to engage them militarily, and allowing the
Anglo-French partnership to declare the resultant fighting a
threat to stability in the Middle East and enter the war –
officially to separate the two forces but in reality to regain
the Canal and bring down the Nasser
government.[82][83][84][/quote]
I repeat: the good guys are always the good guys, and the bad
guys are always the bad guys.
How much better would the world be if the Suez Canal had never
existed?
But back to the grand pileup, at fault is not just the Suez
Canal, but also the container ship that got stuck. So, which
civilization invented container ships?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship
[quote]The first ships designed to carry standardized load units
were used in the late 18th century in England. In 1766 James
Brindley designed the box boat "Starvationer" with 10 wooden
containers, to transport coal from Worsley Delph to Manchester
via the Bridgewater Canal.[9] Before the Second World War, the
first container ships were used to carry the baggage of the
luxury passenger train from London to Paris (Southern Railway's
Golden Arrow / La Flèche d'Or). These containers were loaded in
London or Paris, and carried to ports of Dover or Calais on flat
cars.[10] In February 1931, the first container ship in the
world was launched; the Autocarrier, owned by Southern Railway
UK. It had 21 slots for containers of Southern Railway. [9] [11]
The earliest container ships after the Second World War were
converted oil tankers, built up from surplus T2 tankers after
World War II. In 1951, the first purpose-built container vessels
began operating in Denmark, and between Seattle and Alaska. The
first commercially successful container ship was Ideal X,[12] a
T2 tanker, owned by Malcom McLean, which carried 58 metal
containers between Newark, New Jersey and Houston, Texas, on its
first voyage.[13] In 1955, McLean built his company, McLean
Trucking into one of the United States' biggest freighter
fleets. In 1955, he purchased the small Pan Atlantic Steamship
Company from Waterman Steamship and adapted its ships to carry
cargo in large uniform metal containers.[14] On April 26, 1956,
the first of these rebuilt container vessels, Ideal X, left the
Port Newark in New Jersey and a new revolution in modern
shipping resulted.[15][16]
MV Kooringa was the world's first fully cellular purpose-built
container ship and was built by Australian company, Associated
Steamships Pty. Ltd. in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn &
Co and commissioned in May 1964.[/quote]
Yep, the same one again!
All ships powered by anything more complicated than wind were
never supposed to exist. The whole world had been happily using
sails (which also meant much lighter ships) for thousands of
years, and then guess which civilization came along with their
fuel machines and ruined everything for everyone:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_propulsion#Reciprocating_steam_engines
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_propulsion#Reciprocating_diesel_engines
etc. etc.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE!
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Re: The Suez Canal
By: rp Date: March 29, 2021, 10:45 pm
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Also remember that the Zionist false flag known as the "Lavon
Affair" was orchestrated by the Israeli Mossad in order to take
control of the canal. I remember because this was the first part
of Missing Links.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
By: guest5 Date: May 4, 2021, 12:45 am
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Cargo shipping: Chokepoints, trade routes – and a sign of
excessive globalization?
[quote]Cargo shipping is basically the string that holds modern
capitalism together; 90 percent of traded goods are transported
over the water. But it mostly happens out of sight.
Throughout time, ships have gotten steadily bigger to
accommodate more containers, with the biggest coming in at
almost 24,000 TEU. Bigger ships carry more containers, which in
turn means fewer trips and lower fuel costs. Disruptions to the
global supply chain, whether as a result of a pandemic causing
chaos in supply and demand, or of a gigantic ship getting stuck
in a narrow but important canal, often call for a re-think.
Should ships be that big and travel that far? It's all about
ships, and where they’re headed, both literally and
figuratively. What will they look like? Where will they go? How
will they change?[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-2IumIMXuo
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