Dear Esclarmonde,
...just found a 'pearl' in the sea of in-formation:
Moving Leaders to Ships
I'm sure you remember George Bush's landing last year on an aircraft carrier off California. That was a publicity stunt, to be sure, but might there have been a different agenda? Perhaps. Let's suppose, for just a moment that something big really were going to happen and that world leaders would want a rapidly mobile platform to escape to - off land - just in case things got really bad following an impact event. Wouldn't a nuclear powered aircraft carrier be just the ticket?
If it was only GB-43, it might have been passed off as just a coincidence. But then we spied a BBC piece about how the Queen of England, was flown out to the British Carrier Invincible in late April of this year. In particular, the quote that jumped out of the BBC story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3662917.stm
that grabbed our attention was this:
"Captain Soar, who is leaving the ship on Friday after being promoted to Rear Admiral at the Ministry of Defence, said: "I can't recall the last time she's visited a ship at sea. I think it will surprise her to see us as a working ship and the best opportunity to do that is at sea. We are running a headquarters afloat really. "
Oh really? If the Queen was born in 1926, that would make her about 78 years old, an odd age to start wanting to go visiting ships at sea, or so it would seem to us. Moreover, the timing is interesting: It was in May of 2003 that George Bush did his oft parodied landing on the USS Lincoln...
More at: http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
Sorry for bothering you - it's a bit uncomfortable for me - but can you please help me out with an aircraft carrier on June, 21st ?? Even a small one would do. Unfortunately I did run out of my submarines lately...
;-)
Far Sight 3
