Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The recent Suez canal blockage has brought the ‘canal grifters’ out of the woodwork, starting with hugely expensive new alternatives that would line the pockets of those finding other pockets to fleece. Egpyt already had two new giant dredgers in production, which are a quicker and more afforable solution to a traffic jam problem if a ship goes aground, which was the case in the recent incident. The cause of that one can easily be fixed by not letting supersized container ships into the canal. The one involved in the incident was so high that cross winds simply pushed it into the eastern embankment of the canal.