December 1st / µ

So, what happened in November in Denmark? Apart from the usual nonsense, it was revealed that a massive cyber-attack on the Danish infrastructure hit in May but was averted; from here followed that enemy powers could relatively easily take control of supplies of water, gas, electricity, and the internet, as in turn it all off; and it was made public that an MP dates a 15-year-old school girl!

However revolting it is, in Denmark, it is legal for an adult to have a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old, with a few exceptions listed in the Danish penal code § 223. The MP was kicked out of his political party and reported for grooming by private citizens.

Lots of Water, No Submarines

But however disturbing it is to live in a country where older men are allowed to have sexual relationships with school girls, the security situation in the oceans is even more alarming.

I like my internet, radiators, and electricity – but evidently, I shouldn’t get too comfortable because I live in a part of the world that, in its absurd belief that our security is other people’s problem, has ignored security beneath the sea, where the majority of supply lines are located.

The above cyber-attack was averted, but it followed that Denmark, which consists of 443 islands, one peninsula, and a lot of water surrounding all of this, no longer has its own submarines and is thus blind beneath the sea. So reaching supply lines in the North Sea that supply most of Europe with, e.g., gas, is relatively easy to do undetected for, for the sake of argument, Russia.

Yep, the supply lines, gas, electricity, internet, you name it, are located on the bottom of the sea, and the cut-down-to-the-bare-minimum Danish Navy is blind beneath the sea. But Russia, a nation that invests a lot in military equipment, can move around the North Sea and all the other seas in their fancy subs, more or less undetected by the Danish Navy.

I think a good investment tip for 2024 could be generators, stamps, and candles! You know, just in case someone – not naming any names here – decides it could be fun to turn off the gas, lights, and internet!

A Very Celebrated Birthday

So even the royal family’s celebration of another royal person reaching the age of 18, the future king of Denmark, on October 15th, lapped up by the state-subsidized media outlets, should leave us all with that happy and fuzzy feeling and pride in being Danish, because the state-paid Royal House, which costs the Danish state more than 400 million Danish Kroner every year, is so open and so modern by now, inviting ordinary human beings to the prince’s nationally televised birthday celebration, which shows what a great country Denmark is, so we can all forget the supply lines, and everything else, I for one would prefer submarines and national security that works to children’s birthday parties.

FYI: I don’t have a problem with a rich 18-year-old kid and his family, which is what the royal family is to this liberal republican, and no, I do not go to bed at night chanting Do You Hear the People Sing? / A La Volonté Du Peuple. But I do have a problem with an outdated institution founded on centuries of exploitation, being kept alive by political acceptance of inequality and inherited superiority, and a media circus that does not even question the validity of such a system in the 21st century.

Thanks for reading! I hope you found it valuable and worth your time! Until next time, remember to get your facts straight and that whatever good times you have will never come back as bad times,