Repeating… history

One real big brainiac – who studied the matter so thoroughly he’s still quoted two centuries later – said that history always repeats itself:  first as tragedy, then as farce!! Well as your Eyewitness tooled around GT and the East Coast of Demerara on Monday into Tuesday mornin’ and saw the long, serpentine lines of vehicles inching to every gas-station on his way, all he could think was “This is one heck of a FARCE!!!” Now he’s sure the folks in the vehicles didn’t consider their search for gas funny – but then the original prophet hadn’t used the word “farce” as “ha-ha” funny!!
He used it mean an event or situation that’s so absurd it makes you throw up your hands and exclaim – “WHAT THE  F…!! This being a family newspaper, he leaves the ending of the exclamation to your (wild!) imagination!! Think of what happened. One reporter writes a story that a particular gas station’s out of gas and before you know it – your fellow Guyanese put “two and two together” and arrived at a MILLION!! He’d heard, of course, via his social media feeds that the Yanks were fighting the Iranians so that ships loaded with 20% of all the oil shipped in the world wouldn’t be blocked in a narrow waterway called the straits of Hormuz!! This had tightened gas supplies- into which oil is refined – and shortages were being experienced in the States!!
Well, if it’s happening Stateside, we’re NEXT, innit??  Hence the mad rush to the gas stations – not only to fo fill up their gas tanks – but any receptacle they could lay their hands on!! Your Eyewitness swears he saw one fella hand over a 2-litter empty coke bottle and had it filled up!! Now let’s pick sense from nonsense, shall we?? Every gas station in existence has an underground tank of a FINITE SIZE – to which its pumps are connected. And trust your Eyewitness, THEY aren’t connected to an infinite reservoir!!  So, if there’s a dramatic increase in the number of vehicles – creating mile-long lines demanding “FILL ’ER UP!!” – aren’t those tanks gonna be depleted?? And the resupply tankers we see ever so often on the highways can’t get to EVERY station in the franchise, can they?? So, BINGO!! Station’s out of gas!! But the Government insisted there’s enough gas in the country – and scheduled to arrive – to deal with our NORMAL demand!! So let’s all take a deep breath, shall we??
But what did your Eyewitness mean this had happened before as “tragedy”. Well, in 1963 the PNC and the west wanted to oust the PPP government – and blocked fuel imports creating long lines.
And it was CUBA that broke that blockade and rescued us!!

…the enemy’s tactics?
As your Eyewitness mentioned above, we’re all aware the Yanks have a number of reasons for taking on (out?) Iran.  Referring to Iran, Iraq and North Korea and their quest for “weapons of mass destruction”, George W. Bush had declared in 2002, “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world”!! Since then, Iraq’s gone for channa; N. Korea seems to’ve evaded censure for the A-bombs most concede they have – like Israel! It would seem that Iran’s turn has arrived for it to be defenestrated!!
But as your Eyewitness has explained before – like Little Jack Horner of yore –  the crafty Iranians have put in a finger – enriched uranium – but pulled out a plum of a weapon – blockading the Straits of Hormuz!! They’ve shown you really don’t need nukes to grab the world – by the shorts!!  Blockading’s the thing.
So no surprise the Yanks have paused their kinetic war – and started blockading Iran!!

…gossip
What’s going on with the Opposition’s defamatory assertion that a PPP official hadn’t been dealt with by the (long) arm of the law – even though she’d been allegedly caught with enough spliffs to make all Guyana high??
No courts??