ADDING THE SEAS TO SPACE: SEIZING THE SHELVES

Besides the mad scramble to space, there's another, much quieter scramble going on, a scramble that we in the west have been duly conditioned by our "objective" propatainment media to believe is confined to China and its "claim" of the South China Sea to be in its territorial waters. To emphasize that the body of water belongs to the Politburo, they've constructed several small artificial islands (of dubious quality) to emphasize the point (which emphasis seems to be lost because some of those islands are already crumbling due to the poor construction standards). But the scramble to claim the ocean shallows of continental shelves is not confined to China. In case you hadn't noticed, the USSA is doing the same thing (article shared courtesy of K.M.):

The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers

Here's the "public version" of the motivation for this territory seizure:

In a historic move, the United States has officially expanded its geographical territory by one million square kilometers — an area nearly 60 percent the size of Alaska. The catalyst for this territory expansion lies in the redefinition of the U.S. continental shelf boundaries.

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The concept of the Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) is pivotal in understanding this expansion.

Under international law, coastal nations can claim these extended shelves, along with the right to manage and exploit their resources.

With this territory expansion move, the U.S. joins over 75 countries that have defined their ECS limits, which extend beyond 200 nautical miles from their coasts.

The journey to this announcement began in 2003, involving a multi-agency collaboration led by the U.S. State Department, NOAA, and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The mission was to gather comprehensive geological data to determine the outer limits of the U.S. continental shelf.

This extensive effort ended on December 19, 2023, with the State Department revealing the new geographic coordinates that mark the U.S. ECS.

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“It’s not quite the Louisiana Purchase. It’s not quite the purchase of Alaska, but the new area of land and subsurface resources under the land controlled by the United States is two Californias larger.”

Needless to say, I have much high octane speculation to advance here about what may really be going on. Obviously, a scramble for resources is certainly afoot, nor am I suggesting this resource scramble is just a "cover". It is not, it is entirely real and legitimate. The reader may even recall that longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was heavily involved in ocean-floor ventures, and again, the control of resources and environmental concerns were mentioned as the chief motivations.  But the areas claimed by the United States in their "continental shelf" claims are nevertheless an intriguing  list suggestive of other and deeper agendas:

The areas encompassed in this claim include the Arctic, the east coast Atlantic, the Bering Sea, the west coast Pacific, the Mariana Islands, and two regions in the Gulf of Mexico.

The addition of this vast territory, equivalent in size to double the state of California, significantly strengthens the nation’s control over marine resources.

And it also significantly strengthens the USA's control over any potential underwater archaeological sites and any associated technologies, and with that we have, I submit, a potential hidden motive for the acquisition, for if one looks at that list carefully, one will see that each of the components is also a region with considerable underwater archaeological interest: the so-called Bimini road and pyramids on on the eastern Atlantic continental shelf of the USA, Bahamas, and Cuba; the Bering Strait is, of course, the home of the hypothesized "land bridge" that supposedly enabled tribal migrations from east Asia to North America (and, just for the record, while that theory is indeed the standard theory, it is not a theory I subscribe to). As for the Pacific island archipelagoes, many people believe, with good supporting archaeological reasons,  that they are the remains of a larger civilization that sank beneath the waves, a kind of Pacific version of Atlantis called Mu or alternatively, Lemuria.

In other words, just as the late 1950s Brookings Report on space exploration opined, that the space race was as much about the potential discovery of ancient civilizations (and the potential recovery of their technologies ) as about economic benefits, so too the scramble for the continental shelves may be as much about the archaeological and technological benefits as about the economic development of resources. With respect to the Chinese expansion into Latin America, the recent Cuban economic woes, and now the expansion of the continental shelf claims of the USA and the real (resources) and hidden (archaeology) motivations for it, it does make one think there are hidden motivations and agendas afoot in Mr. Trump's nomination of Cuban-American Senator Rubio to be his secretary of State.

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