THE SEA GYPSY PHILOSOPHER: GO AWAY, DR. STRANGELOVE!

THE SEA GYPSY PHILOSOPHER: GO AWAY, DR. STRANGELOVE!

When I receive emails from anonymous strangers asking me where I am located, my usual response is, “AVENTURA is 30 miles west of Somewhere.”  This cautious approach is because my essays have undoubtedly earned me a spot on various governmental “person of interest” lists. After all, one cannot gleefully describe the folks in charge of the modern world as Malignant Overlords, without aggravating them.  But my impact is probably so puny that I am less of a nuisance than a sardine to a supertanker.

            There is only one factor that dominates my personal choice of location.  I always try to keep my little ship close enough to the Panama Canal so that I can sail there in a few days.  That’s because of all of the various Armageddon scenarios a nuclear war is the one that worries me the most.  To survive it, AVENTURA needs to get through that canal and into the Southern Hemisphere.  This concern is not just the ranting of a lunatic screaming, “The sky is falling - the sky is falling - and it’s full of plutonium.”  No, this fear is based on a mounting body of disturbing evidence, which I will now share with you.

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            In January 2015, the Doomsday Clock was adjusted to 3 minutes before midnight.  Only one time in the clock’s 68 year history has it been set in a more dangerous position.   That was in 1953 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. first tested hydrogen bombs, which are enormously more destructive than atomic bombs.  And in 2015, the scientists who position the hands of the clock - and this includes 17 Noble Prize laureates – are so concerned that they issued a cautionary statement that concludes with these words:

            “The probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken very soon.”

            The two main concerns of these atomic scientists are the fact that both Russia and the U.S. have begun modernizing their nuclear weapons and also that they have ceased negotiating reductions to the existing stockpiles.  Although these developments are critical, they are not what have me so concerned.

            I am frightened because the Washington chapter of The Malignant Overlords has decided that they will demonize Russia and commence a new Cold War.  Even though the Mainstream Media seems incapable of asking the most obvious question, I will gladly raise it.

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