Minister of Silly Talk

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success. ~ Joseph Goebbels

Not surprisingly, after outing yet another alias on Yahoo last Friday, old Jim McManus isn't showing his face over at Yahoo. Nor are any of his multiple aliases yapping either. Yet.

But he's at it again already with his nonsensical ravings on the HHI website. You'd think someone over there would say, "Listen Doc, you've just made a right serious ass of yourself over at Yahoo, and embarrassed us again, so why don't you just go sleep this one off for awhile?" But that's not how the Twit Minor rolls. If he can't be posting lies and distortions about Odyssey, his life has zero meaning.

Doc: "We know for a fact that the 'Ocean Alert' has been under detention by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the UK for almost a whole year. In my opinion this detention signals an end to British co-operation and the Sussex contract. Incidentally Odyssey shall lose a sizable non-refundable bond if they lose this contract."

Here's what we know for a fact about the Alert: It has been directly explained by Odyssey, both in public press releases and in correspondence with investors, that the Alert has been undergoing a major overhaul with significant upgrades and will not be "released" by the UK until these are complete and test runs have been successfully conducted. Odyssey also mentioned understandable delays, given the serious nature of the work, and also missing ship's paperwork that was apparently taken by the Spanish during its illegal seizure of the vessel (what irony, eh?). Yet, the HHI minions, both on their website and on Yahoo, have relentlessly beat this dead horse trying to give the impression the vessel has been "seized" or forcibly detained by the UK for more sinister causes.

What's more, they use this distortion to argue another lie: that there has been a rupture in the relationship between the company and the UK and that the Sussex project has thus been scuttled. Nothing has been publicly reported to indicate such a split, nor has the MOD formally announced the end of the project.

This is the essence of Joseph Goebbels' "big lie," so effectively used by the Nazis. This UK nonsense is pure speculative garbage and the constant repeating of it is clearly intended to damage Odyssey's reputation and ultimately it's share price. One might think an idiot being sued for libel, whose trial is about to begin, would refrain from these kinds of salacious charges, but again, that's not how Doc Doofus rolls. He's as blissfully arrogant in his hatred as the Queen Bee.

Perhaps HHI should give Doc the title he deserves, one that Goebbels possessed: Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

More amusingly, Doc ends his numerous posts on HHI today begging for assistance to answer a profoundly simple question regarding international waters near the English Channel. A sixth grader with an Internet connection could have easily answered the question in minutes, but this was apparently too much for Doc's limited imagination.

Remind us again why he refers to himself as a "nautical researcher."

P.S. Doc's six (6) posts today officially pushed HHI's one actual amateur archaeology project right off the website's front page. Those folks must be absolutely thrilled.