ANTARCTICA JUST BECAME EVEN STRANGER…
Just
when you thought it was safe to revisit the subject of Antarctica, or
perhaps, even thought it was the one safe place on Earth to vacation -
perhaps lounge on the shore and throw in your fishing line, or have a
nice leisurely ski vacation, or maybe just to sit by the fire, enjoying a
good book and a brandy and cigar - the place seems to defy sense. It
refuses to go away or walk quietly off the stage. Just when you think
the curtain has gone down on all the high strangeness there, strangeness
struts onstage again.
But this one may be even stranger than strange.
Yes,
that's right, stranger than the strangeness of people associated with
the place. Stranger than Hermann Goering, Patriarch Kiril III of Moscow,
John Kerry. Even stranger than Apollo astronaut Buz Aldrin.
In fact, it's so
stranger that when people sent me various articles about it, I didn't
believe it. But then I found something that confirmed the wild articles
people were sending me on a government website. But when I read the
website, I not only said "You're kidding," but I made an exact print out
of it, to make a picture, so I can post it here along with the link,
should said government decide to live down to its reputation as perfide Albion
and remove its posting. To use the colloquialism, I was gobsmacked when
I read it. So, with a big "thank you" to all of you who found this
story, without further ado, the link:
And here's the pictures:
Now,
a simple search through the website reveals what is just routine
boilerplate: How to get married in Antarctica, and so on. Easily
programmed by any competent programmer tasked with the monstrous job of
programming a government website: "How to get married in [fill in the
blank here]; contact the [Fill in the appropriate bureaucracy here]."
Hence, when we come to the lines advising "Take out comprehensive travel
and medical insurance (the appropriate UK.gov link follows), specifying
Antarctica, before you travel," one can be fairly certain that
the entire sentence was simple standard programmed boilerplate, and
that "Antarctica" is the variable here.
So in that context, consider this line:
"Although there's no recent history of terrorism in the British Antarctic Territory, attack's can't be ruled out."
And then follows yet another helpful link to aid you in planning your fun-filled family vacation to New Brighton-on-the-ice.
Now,
98% of me thinks the line is just standard, pre-programmed boilerplate,
the usual bland "we're your government and we're here to pretend we're
being helpful" sort of thing. After all, access to Antarctica is
strictly controlled; in fact, it's the one place on earth where borders are
strictly controlled, and so far, the controllers don't seem too
interested in setting up cells of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Daesh, the Irish
Republican Army, Irgun, Bakhuninites, or whatever its current
"approved-name-of-the-month" happens to be.
It's that remaining 2% that bothers me (as you probably guessed), for suppose that the "travel alert" is not
standard boiler plate. High octane speculation? To be sure. But
suppose, for a moment, it's not boiler plate. That would mean, in turn,
that the door has been cracked, just a bit, to reveal that the southern
polar continent is a place of violence, not global warming, not
increasing ozone holes, not melting icecaps, not oddly and unusually
warm weather, but a place of human violence. A place where some sort of war is being waged. A place where the stakes are high enough that terrorism is a viable strategy.
I read that line, and I cannot help but think of the three part article that appeared in Nexus
magazine in late 2005 and early 2006, recounting via the usual
"anonymous whistleblower" a story of SIS commandos fighting it out on
the southern polar ice with "polar men." I cannot help but think of last
year's trip of US Secretary of State John Kerry to the continent; I
cannot help but think of the Patriarch of Moscow's visit, of Buzz
Aldrin's visit, of Hermann Goering's sponsorship of a Nazi expedition
there. And when I put the announcement in that context, that slim 2% would seem, in my opinion, to grow...
While you're contemplating all that, consider this article from RT:
That's right... those reactors down there could be snatched up by terrorists posing as tourists... or... perhaps someone else left "dirty bomb parts" down there... https://gizadeathstar.com/2017/05/antarctica-just-became-even-stranger/
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