ADDING LLOYD’S AND OTHER INSURERS TO THE TARGET LIST
You may have noticed gas prices at the pump beginning to spike upwards due to the Israeli-American aerial bombardment of Iran. After all, it's difficult to ship oil when the oil fields, the pumping stations, and refineries are being blown up, and when one or another party to the conflict shuts down the Straits of Hormuz through which those tankers must pass, or sinks ships at sea having anything to due with that regime. And higher energy costs means higher everything-else costs. One can only imagine what it is doing to the economy of China (or Japan), but at least the former has Russia to fall back on. From the geopolitical standpoint, the action appears to have been coldly calculated, no so much by Mr. Trump, but by the deep state faction controlling him, that faction which, I (and many others) believe, gave him the "phone call/intervention session" after the abortive assassination plot against him in Butler, Pennsylvania. We can imagine the substance: we will let you be president, but you must push the surveillance state, a "sovereign wealth fund" to include a klepto-currency component, you'll start to phase out cash (like the penny, nickel, and dime), and you'll let us run foreign policy."
Under that heading of foreign policy, about a decade and a half ago, on the Byte Show podcasts of Ms. George Ann Hughes, I opined that the power elite that runs the USSA and Europe would have to "reshore and retrench" back into their power base, North America, because the quest for a global order of free trade was not working. All the USSA and Western Europe had managed to do was ship their heavy industry and technology to bad actors, like Iran and China. And here we are: American covert operations have kidnapped former Venezuelan President Maduro, the American government is openly promoting the secession of a province of a significant ally (Alberta), and attempting yet another "regime change" operation in the Middle East. Such operations we might call "MOOs", not because of their bovine nature, but because they are "Multiple Objective Operations", and this one certainly seems to have more than just the objective of toppling the Islamist regime of Iran.
Another of those objectives appears to be a power play to wrest a major chunk of the world's international insurance market away from London, and its celebrated Lloyd's insurance. Lloyd's is, after all, by the best estimates, the single corporate source for a major percentage of the world's insurance underwriting of international cargo shipping. But by shutting down the Straits of Hormuz and torpedoing Iranian warships, the risk to Lloyd's and other underwriters to insure shipping through the Straits, through which much of the world's oil ships, has become too much, even for the insurance goliaths of the City of London.
On March 6, just a few days ago, Mr. Trump indicated that the US government itself would step in to fill the void left by the flight of corporate underwriters for the oil flows through the Hormuz Straits(our thanks to S.D. and many others for sharing this story):
What to know about the agency Trump says will insure ships in the Persian Gulf
Note the following:
The Trump administration has tapped the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, or DFC, for the job, with the president noting on Truth Social that the agency will provide political risk insurance to "all shipping lines."
And there is an added bonus that no corporate insurer can provide (at least, not as far as we know, though one has to wonder about some corporations!):
Mr. Trump also said the U.S. Navy would escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for global oil shipments, if necessary.
The decision comes as other global insurers have backed away from underwriting maritime trade activity in the Gulf amid concerns that vessels could become collateral damage in the Iran war. Insurers such as NorthStandard, the London P&I Club, and the American Club have issued notices in recent days that they are suspending insurance for ships traveling through Iranian waters and the Gulf due to escalating risks from the war. (Emphasis added)
That italicized portion of the statement is a key to the major play that is going on, because it is a hint that the tacit international order that has obtained until now - the US Navy backing and insuring the safe transit of goods on the high seas - is now no longer merely "tacit"; it is a matter of policy to the extent that the US government is now an insurance underwriter for certain crucial types of shipping. That arrangement is bound to become permanent and grow, and crowd out the private insurers, and it thus is a huge swipe of what remains of Great Britain's and the rest of Europe's influence in international economics and finance: insurance underwriting. One may even speculate that the move was necessitated in the cold calculus of American geopolitical thinking by the increasing Islamicization of Britain itself and the establishment of "sharia courts" for the adjudication of disputes. Does one want such courts potentially adjudicating insurance disputes and issues in the nation that gave the world admiralty law? Probably not. That alone should indicate that the step is likely intended to become a permanent feature of American financial geopolitics, or as I nicknamed this blend of geopolitics and finance in my book The Rialto in Richmond Reconstructed, "geopolifinance". But nicknames or not, this move was and is, in short, a calculated and deliberate objective of the operation from the outset. And there's a very simple reason for that: valuations and policies will be underwritten in U.S. dollars. And by doing so, the dollar's ongoing reserve currency status is buttressed.
This will eventually lead to "the next step," private shipping companies and insurance underwriters under other flags start arming their cargo ships, and then building their own warships, because they cannot bring themselves to trust the USSA. And with that step, we've managed to turn the clocks back about two hundred and fifty years, to the period of the East Indies companies of various nations becoming international sovereign actors in their own right, because China's Belt and Road program is now highly problematical...
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Some nations already have private militaries protecting their narcotic and illicit drug making operations!
Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador drug cartels all have private armies and militias protecting their drug operations.
Indeed, only a few weeks ago we witnessed this in action in Mexico with violence erupting in drug cartel strongholds like Puerto Vallarta.
Regarding the East India Company – Joseph you must be familiar with the opium wars?
https://retrospectjournal.com/2025/04/13/century-of-humiliation-the-opium-wars-and-the-legacy-of-british-imperialism-in-china/
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs/projects-exhibitions/opium-morally-indefensible-trade-horrible-drug/opium-captions
Lyndon LaRouche!
Assuming, that the East India Company never ceased to exist, and took over the USA, then today’s mafia goons, in the White House, are, presently, lobbying, for a Greater Israhell, as a new drug empire, in the Middle East, by bombing away.
It means, that the knuckledragger caveman, Pete Hegseth, is waging a new OPIUM WAR, high as kite, running on fumes, intoxicated, by bombing euphoria, while snorting toilet seats, between meetings, in the Department of War.
https://archive.org/details/DopeInc.LyndonLaRouche
The Monkey King, a.k.a. Sun Wukong, and the ‘Journey to the West’.
Pete Hegseth stands accused, for murdering a man’s family, so, that the man, now, is left with a graveyard candle.
Pete Hegseth can only make amends, by offering himself up, at the mercy of Iranian justice – which is the honourable thing to do.
Each man must own up, to his own puke, when he, as the Monkey King, faces up, to himself, in the Buddha’s hand.
Amongst saints and sinners, courage it is, to face oneself.
The Monkey King:
https://youtu.be/bf-BxofO-80
Well, what new forms of debt slavery are our elites rolling out to steal what little we have left?
Humanity clinches upon being covered with the sting of his foul vomit. “A very dangerous person: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
The White House releases a lurid, sophomoric propaganda video promoting “Justice the American way.” https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029741548791853331/mediaViewer?currentTweet=2029741548791853331¤tTweetUser=WhiteHouse
My litmus test for who is part of the Church, Mosque, and Synagogue of Satan is who’s hurting the children and who’s protecting those who are hurting the children. Christianity appears to be the most favored of God’s religions but we may be being punished for not protecting the children and punishing those who are hurting the children. Jesus was adamant about not tolerating crimes against children. Any politician, clergy, or rich person who hurts children or protects those who hurt children should not be tolerated and their father is Satan. Looking around the world today this is how you know who’s who and what team they are really on. If Christians continue to fail to protect the children they will likely remain out of grace. The people who are doing all the damage everywhere are the same people who are also hurting children in their countries regardless of what they claim to be. By protecting children we also cure the world from the worst actors currently behind all the corruption and destruction. Protecting Children is the Key to the world’s redemption. Clergy, politicians, royalty, billionaires, and others that prey on children or protect those who prey on children are the children of Satan and as the Epstein files are showing behind most of the world’s problems. Want to know which of our politicians and other world leaders are on the Great Satan or Enemies team, look whos hurting and protecting those who prey on children.
Man, outgrowing the two-legged project, leaves the flesh tent behind, which is a toast, to hell.
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
When Gulliver marooned into deep,
the giant rose out of sleep,
and found utopian
was Lilliputian,
in web of melancholic weep.
When Gulliver rose above cloud,
heaven’s field he ploughed,
by round table jig
of whirligig,
sweeping earthly crowd.
When Gulliver transcended vivid,
into vibrant planetary grid,
he became electric
and galactic,
as man-mountain Pyramid.
Seamus, the mischievous goat:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSVfubErqBogM-4pWXxfZenAZ-EBGsvkY
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
On the top of the world, the one-legged weathercock raises a cock-a-doodle-doo, every which way the wind blows – and – thus the Green Man draws his sword sprout, from a seed stone, in Avalon, the apple island, from where the fruit-fallen tumulus sprouts a world tree, with a Green Man’s crown – and – thus, out of the Lady of the Lake’s rainy puddle, the green grass grows, as the best of blades, in the bardic kingdom of cock-a-doodle-doo.
Ha-ha-ha!
In this day and age, Judeo-Christianity is exposed, as a false paradigm, and, the hypocritical prayer meeting, at the White House, with laying on of hands, is the same hysterical idolatry, that occurred, at the Salem witch trials.
Seamus, the mischievous goat, is releasing a new EP:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSVfubErqBogM-4pWXxfZenAZ-EBGsvkY
Professional alcoholism drinks all night long!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/49a1x337e9oc7je8s40yk/drunken-irish-bard.jpg?rlkey=us0s2c4brvzbhbwdufqg2iqx4&st=ejkwgxrd
Judeo-Christian values is an oxymoron. Judeo=Anti-Christs and Christianity=For Christ. They are two complete opposites. Judaism as it’s practiced today is not a Mosaic religion. Western values are supposed to be based off of Mosaic-Christian values. Mosaic Hebrewism didn’t marry their sisters and first cousins and have endless Rabbinic arguments creating many exceptions to okay breaking all of God’s 10 commandments.
A second, alternative URL link! Seamus, the mischievous goat, is releasing a new EP:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSVfubErqBogM-4pWXxfZenAZ-EBGsvkY
Judeo-Christianity is a 1st century Flavian psyop, that became a 4th century Constantine bureaucracy, that became a 5th century Vatican mafia, a crime syndicate.
Scythio-Christianity is the undiluted, original phenomenon, a Scythian war trophy, a skull cup toast, that was brought to Scandinavia, to kindle resistance, against the Roman Empire.
Scythian martial arts, that produced the horse archer, was, in the 6th century BC, brought to Asia, where Yahweh-Elohim became Yin-Yang, and, Odin’s sports became Ashtanga Yoga.
Today, Yahweh-Elohim is known, as the ‘scales of law’, which is quantum mechanical jurisprudence, that can be traced back, to Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia, in the Ukraine.
Buddha is Scythian Odin, in Asia, and, Odin’s two brothers are Yahweh-Elohim.
Another consideration many miss is in Genesis God promised his people(not Israel that didn’t exist at the time) would have from the Euphrates River to the Nile River. And today God’s people do occupy that entire region. Islam, Judaism, and Christians are all God’s people. Many Islamic in the region are descended from Jews that converted to Islam to get out of paying the tax. Many Christians in the region are descended from Jews that followed Christ. Being Anti-Islam and Anti-Christian in the region is Anti-Semitism too. All of these conflicts are breaking the 10 Commandments and are all anti-Semitism.
In the Bronze Age, across the big drink came ‘Tuatha Dé Danann’, and settled Ireland and Denmark, which is musical settlement, not territorial dominance!
Today, the idea of the ‘scales of law’ – as a symbol – is a mere trivial cliche, and, yet, it is also a high-flying metaphor, that weighs diametrical opposites, by balancing a superposition.
To recognise the famed ‘Yahweh-Elohim’, as, precisely, such a quantum mechanical construct, is a revolutionary epiphany, that, when first seen, can’t be unseen – which changes everything.
Reconstructing the original Scythio-Christianity, becomes a matter of converging Buddhist, and Taoist, thinking, with Norse mythological reminiscence, which is tracing the ‘ten tribes’, back, to the Scythian explosion.
Therefore, the ‘Last Supper’ is debunked, as a mere Scythian toast – a bardic song to high heaven – in commemoration of prior Scythian victory, against empire, in the 7th century BC.
Seamus, the mischievous, singing, and drinking goat:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSVfubErqBogM-4pWXxfZenAZ-EBGsvkY