If You Believe The Chao Drowning Story Then I Have A Baltimore Bridge To Sell You
A few forays into a "real domain of power"
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If you look closely you’ll notice that there have been a series of strange occurrences with our transport infrastructure.
The most recent example is Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore which collapsed early Tuesday morning.
You can watch the Singaporean-flagged DALI lose power and then regain power and then lose power and then regain power. It’s something to see.
The loss of power description is altogether similar to what happened aboard several of the 737 MAXes where the pilots reported losing power. That the first 737 MAXes to crash did so in Ethiopia and Indonesia — two areas which had hostility toward Israel and were moving into the Chinese sphere — is worth paying attention to. Of course no one does.
Baltimore, for those who are paying attention, is also the place from whereby lots of aid packages come to Gaza or Ukraine. It’s also the place where lots of petroleum products are disbursed. Could this attack be a way of driving up global oil prices ahead of the 2024 election? I wonder…
The ability of anyone to reach out to anyone at anytime through the cyber world is not well understood or well considered by our policymakers. It needs to be.
When interest rates change so, too, do contracts governing global shipping, and so does global maritime insurance. You should think seriously about insurance magnate Evan Greenberg, son of Hank Greenberg, and how he secured Donald Trump's $91.6M appeal bond.
As capital becomes more scarce you can expect that a lot of ports will start to suffer. There are, after all, two groups that care a lot about logistics — shipping magnates and smugglers.
Be wary of anyone claiming to be in the shipping business. A friend of mine recently quit working at a shipping logistics company because he felt that the firm he was worked for was more interested in the bottom line than in making sure that fentanyl didn’t come into the country.
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There’s this curious detail which I noticed when reading about the strange death of Angela Chao, who drowned when her Tesla (naturally) careened into a Texas pond.
Supposedly Chao was drunk but she had the wherewithal to call her friend Amber Keinan, the proprietor of the DAN Hotels, and spoke to her calmly for eight or nine minutes before she died. Keinan is married to Tal Keinan, a “tech investor” and key part of the Netanyahu effort to compromise the American tech sector. Mr. Keinan served in the Israel Air Force for 18 years, piloting the Lockheed Martin F-16 Viper in combat and as an Air Combat Instructor. Today he owns a number of private jet hangers around the world. He was discussed quite a bit in the Paul Singer funded Start-up Nation op.
If you think a family that’s involved with private jets and hotels is on the up and up… well.. and then there’s this detail.
Am I cynical enough to think that maybe there’s something fishy going on here? That it’s awfully convenient that Keinan is a grief counselor?
This Keinan friendship, like Chao’s strange marriage to the first investor in Facebook, Jim Breyer, is what Chisrael looks like and the death of Chao is a tell that these things can be fatal.
You might recall that I had called for an investigation of Tesla’s self driving schemes way early in the Trump Administration and how I had worked with the FBI to stop Musk from transferring billions to Igor Kurganov, a Russian poker backed by the Chinese mob and promoter of the effective altruism cult.
My appeals for an inquiry into Tesla purportedly went all the way to Derek Kan, who served as under secretary of transportation for policy in the Department of Transportation. Naturally Kan, who had invested in self-driving car businesses, did not see a need for an investigation. Nor did Secretary Chao, whose sister is now dead.
For the uninitiated the Chao is extremely powerful when it comes to shipping in the South China Sea and indeed around the world.
I once attended a lecture at Harvard Business School’s Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, so named for the matriarch of the Chao clan.
As Israel becomes more and more of a pariah you can expect it to lash out more and more internationally. This’ll create more of a demand for insurance.
You can expect it to lash out by using terrorism, terrorist activities and cyberterrorism in particular. Embattled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is particularly fond of cyber and has called it a “real domain of power.” It seems obvious that he would push his country’s cyber capabilities particularly in a moment where they are so embattled.
You should also expect lots of talk about a “Black Swan” or major terrorist event. Such talk will be delivered by the Likud assets in the social media sphere.
In my discussion of Alex Jones about conspiracy theorists I talked about how foreign intelligence services often launder information about their impending attacks through nutty or fringe characters before they undertake them.
Queue up Andrew Tate, who is facing jail time for human trafficking.
Andrew Tate is clearly being set up as a martyr. But by who?
We’ve discussed this before.
It’s time to take this stuff more seriously.
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