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    • #56518
      AHH
      Blocked

       

      A Yemeni artist draws the Heart of a Salafi headchopper

      Last Thread: #56517

    • #56519
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      brilliant lead, thank you!

       

       

      strategic culture

       

      In Hungary, Emmanuel Todd foresees the highly foreseeable doom of USA

    • #56524
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #56533
      Mr P
      Participant

      I think we can divide “stupid” into smaller kinds of stupids. for example functional stupidity, naivete, under the influence of a drug, uninformed, genuinely stupid, suspension of disbelief, and so on.

      In the trades, I can assure you, a stupid man is liable to cause great harm to the task or goal, the “job”…such as causing an explosion by oiling an oxygen connection, or a fire by syphoning gasoline and leaving an open container of it under a welding table… (both of which I have seen!, with awful burns and injuries resulting).

      Anyway a cartoon of  Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity

      https://archive.org/details/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity

      • #56546
        emersonreturn
        Participant

        a share, i’ve widely shared.  bless you.

    • #56547
      cronetoo
      Participant

      with Glenn Diesen

    • #56556
      Mr P
      Participant

      Remarkable coincidence.

      “Prince Andrew is reportedly putting together a multi-million dollar legal fund for a court bid to force Virginia Giuffre, a woman who has accused the Duke of York of raping and sexually abusing her, to retract her claims.” https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/prince-andrew-amassing-legal-war-chest-demand-accuser-retract-sex-abuse-claims

      Now she’s dead.

      https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/jeffrey-epstein-victim-virginia-giuffre-dies-suicide-41?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost

       

      • #56620
        HT
        Participant

        Remarkable indeed. Poor woman.

    • #56565
      Mr P
      Participant

      Let no one claim that the nazi have no sense of humor.

      SATAN program.

      https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1915735404696784951

      Pete says> “Researchers in the UK already tested a geo-engineering program where they released sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere back in 2023. The project is called satan (stratospheric aerosol transport and nucleation).”

      ..

      the dioxide reaction with water > (SO2 + H2O ⇌ HSO−3 + H+) or ” sulfurous acid” that’s not sulfuric acid, it’s weaker and not so nasty.

      Coming to your garden right now, or at least pretty soon.  The roses will like it. I don’t recall anybody asking permission though…

       

    • #56567
      Mr P
      Participant

      Stumpy tells ribald joke.

      The nazi press gang is chasing a young fella, He dodges ’round a corner and spies a nun. “Sister! Please! May I hide under your skirt.” “Yes, my son, you may” she replies. The press gang arrives and she sends them off with a gesture. Moments later the kid emerges and sheepishly says, “Sister, you have beautiful legs”. To which the nun says, “If you had looked up you wouldn’t say that”.

    • #56568
      Mr P
      Participant

      Some may have missed this. Maybe it’s been posted already. I think this particular bit is especially odious and damning>

      “Following the targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Iranian investigators accused G4S of providing intel to the Pentagon regarding his location prior to the drone strike. At the time, G4S was contracted to protect Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport.”

      (my bold)

      article > https://www.rt.com/news/616326-outsourcing-war-british-mercenaries/

      • #56574
        AHH
        Blocked

        If true, this was fatal error. China has same problem – trusting to Blackwater and derivatives INSIDE China itself. These slips are unfathomable. Hopefully, after seeing the totalen krieg, involving every agency of the UN, NGOs, media, mercs and associates brought from the four corners of Earth against the Russian MIR in the last three years, they will have gotten the message and stop trying to be cute and get so close to Legion.

        As Prouty noted, Murder Inc focuses on the kings, especially those who maintain the lives of the kings; in fact he was able to deduce much of what went down at Dealey Plaza by carefully reviewing the protocol (or lack thereof) of the SS (an apt acronym!) and what not followed by leaving open the rooftops, the open windows, the detour into the slower Dealey Plaza way below regulation speed, the inadequate number of coverage, and so many clues in photos such as the presence of [forget his name] one of top OSS operators in Asia casually strolling by the scene of the crime with his signature slouch-walk, fedora and ring finger…

    • #56578
      Mr P
      Participant

      Whether true that they set him up, or merely true that they blew the assignment…there’s the tell-tale (tail!) of the old “plausible deniability”.

      I hope you’ll kindly forgive the old quote>

      “I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed. Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. They are ready enough to be your soldiers whilst you do not make war, but if war comes they take themselves off or run from the foe; which I should have little trouble to prove, for the ruin of Italy has been caused by nothing else than by resting all her hopes for many years on mercenaries, and although they formerly made some display and appeared valiant amongst themselves, yet when the foreigners came they showed what they were. Thus it was that Charles, King of France, was allowed to seize Italy with chalk in hand; 1 and he who told us that our sins were the cause of it told the truth, but they were not the sins he imagined, but those which I have related. And as they were the sins of princes, it is the princes who have also suffered the penalty.”

      Speaking of subversion….

      10 Reasons Why Zionist Israel Assassinated President John F. Kennedy

      Have you seen this man? Armed and dangerous. Do not approach! 

      Israeli stooge JJA

      https://spartacus-educational.com/SSangleton.htm

      some thoughtful remarks from The Doctor

      https://www.azquotes.com/author/9242-Niccolo_Machiavelli

    • #56580
      Mr P
      Participant

      Empire ravels as doom looms dire…

      In Hungary, Emmanuel Todd foresees the highly foreseeable doom of USA

      Leo Szilard more or less forecast or implied this, based, I think, mostly on the remarkable scientific intuition he was gifted, or cursed, with. In Voice of the Dolphin...  Essentially that the USSR and the USA were actually dependant upon one another…thus when one collapsed, the collapse of the other would take place.  He did not take the logic further, to conclude that since in USSR geniuses outvoted idiots, it would be Russia (and China where wisdom abides) that would come to dominate following the collapse of the western empire.

      I wonder what Leo is thinking now…

       

    • #56582
      Mr P
      Participant

      Levity… enjoy…like Uncle Karl said, it’s cyclical boom/bust… also sick lick al.

      https://youtu.be/9h6ebLD2fZA?t=7

    • #56596
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • #56618
      Mr P
      Participant

      This image was, is, at locals…

      prisoner testament

       

    • #56624
      Mr P
      Participant

      Zone nazi (embassy) of zone 404…. some sorta game’s afoot…

      https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1916176286709334497

      QUOTE: US Secret Service just escorted a motorcade with what appears to be US military officials, including a US General, inside the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. Police and @SecretService
      just blocked off the road and sidewalk to the embassy entrance. This comes just hours after President Trump met with Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa
      this morning at the Vatican. @LoomerUnleashed
      is on the scene getting video footage.

      10:03 AM · Apr 26, 2025
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      ENDE

    • #56628
      Mr P
      Participant

    • #56629
      Mr P
      Participant

      Viva Fidel!

      A film I did not know…shot while el comandante was still fighting Batista…

      I remember that the Cuban Revolution was pretty popular until the fascist propaganda kicked in. I got in trouble for saying that Cuba was a democracy… one of my first political “sins”.

      (1959) aka CUBAN REBEL GIRLS. Errol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro’s cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.

       

    • #56638
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      PeterAU1 posted this link (on smoothie’s site) to patrick armstrong from 2018.   peter’s loved by many @ moa for good reason, his archive of the biolabs in 404 is a treasure.

      YES, PUTIN ONCE DREAMED THE AMERICAN DREAM

    • #56654
      Mr P
      Participant

      A brief clip from Candice showing David Melech Friedman (formerly ambassador) favoring arrest and deportation of US citizens for speech he does not like. Tucker Carlson for example. Friedman claims  the Orange gang “is doing [this] for the first time”

      (note, it is not the first time. https://spartacus-educational.com/USApalmerR.htm, additionally Lincoln with some success deported African American citizens, and planned to deport every one )

      I am recalling the German policy along such lines…

       

    • #56659
      Mr P
      Participant

      No doubt the Germans prefer to forget certain embarrassing events…

      Keine rote Fahne über der Krautstadt.
      Wollen sie eine weitere Demonstration?

      https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1915887538830500083

    • #56660
      Mr P
      Participant

      Water’s fer fightin’ (Twain)

      begins> “India’s Hindutva President, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty – a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the “terrorist attack”, most of whose victims were Muslim, has largely been accepted by Western governments without evidence.

      False flags abound nowadays. You may recall that we were told that the most deadly rocket ever fired by Hamas killed only Palestinians in a hospital compound, while the most deadly rocket ever fired by Hezbollah killed only Druze children. I have at present an open mind about what occurred in Kashmir.

      It is however certain that tearing up the Indus Waters Treaty is a long term Modi goal. The Indus supplies 80% of Pakistan’s agricultural water, and the supply is already insufficient, with disastrous salination of the lower reaches of the river as the sea creeps into the areas once occupied by the mighty flow. I visited the area of lower Sind five years ago and witnessed the fields encrused with white salt.”

      (My local Sikh friend summed it up… World War, he said. His subtlety of language is limited in English, so he’s generally quite blunt. He’s in constant communication with family in Punjab.)

      Kashmir and the Indus

    • #56661
      Mr P
      Participant

      Henry’s vile ghost words…”If we cannot get The Great Reset we might as well blow up the world.”

      from Locals> “the yt banned part2 of this segment follows part1 linked here, on Rumble”

      ‘Great Collapse’ To Send GOLD Parabolic in Catastrophic Monetary Reset: Francis Hunt

      (I think maybe “parabolic” isn’t accurate. “really ‘spensive” more like)

      part one 47 minutes…

       

       

      ……….

      innarrestin’

      Son of a CIA leader killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine

      https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/world-news/son-of-a-cia-leader-killed-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine-report/

       

    • #56681
      Mr P
      Participant

      Nima and Pepe…

    • #56694
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      Cuba becomes a BRICS member

       

       

      FairPlay for Cuba

       

      to the moon, alice!!!

    • #56705
      Mr P
      Participant

      “Guns of August” on X  Maybe so.

      https://x.com/DietHeartNews/status/1916484408187511052

      ……………………………

      One can ignore the images and simply listen at audiorate 1.75

      He makes some interesting statements…such as that VVP has made it plain that the nazi regime and coke-head are gunna be kaputski…

    • #56707
      Mr P
      Participant

      zone DPRK

      “Article 4 of the Russia-North Korea Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership says that if one of the parties comes under armed attack by another country or group of countries, the other party will immediately provide it with military and other assistance.”

      Well, now that blood’s been spent, the reciprocal obligation is cemented and assured, credible …so let no one doubt that an attack on the DPRK would bring Russia to the fight. The logistic reality is awesome. So is the military capacity. Checkmate for the nazi gang.

      https://tass.com/world/1950153

      ………………

      at audiorate 1.75 Across the Dnipro? 

    • #56711
      Mr P
      Participant

      Commies with guns!

      DPRK fellas

      https://t.me/intelslava/74645

      There’s more than one related post.

       

    • #56731
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      discussion concentrates on europe but also on burkina faso

       

    • #56733
      Mr P
      Participant

      comes soon> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brUQ6kwFRU    Smoothie on the DPRK rodeo

      Sal the Happy Sailor has a long interesting paper on the Vietnam Logistical affairs. I just began reading it. Not bad! (so far)

      https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/publications/publication-508-pdf/NHHC4thArmDefense_final_508.pdf

      fragment (Card was an aircraft carrier from WW2 being sailed by civilians to transport airplanes)

      Meanwhile, Card’s cooks, bakers, and stewards
      prepared the morning meal, the smells from the
      galley mixing with the odor of floating garbage,
      gasoline, and sewage emanating from the waters
      of the port. At approximately 0515 local time, just
      as a South Vietnamese police boat closed on the….

      ….boiler room, Fireman John McDonald stood under a
      vent blower, enjoying what relief he could find from
      the heat of the boiler and the tropical environment.
      The detonation sent a geyser of water over the top
      of the former carrier, knocking Arbon off his feet
      and drenching him. McDonald was hurled upward
      into the blower and then thrown back down on the
      engine room platform as the lights went out. Some
      veterans on board, who had sailed during World
      War II and faced German U-boats, thought the ship
      had been torpedoed.
      Card, the first of 11 U.S. merchant ships sunk
      by enemy action during the long Vietnam War,
      was an aircraft transport operated by the Military
      Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). The ship and
      three others like it delivered combat planes from the
      United States to the Republic of Vietnam in an effort
      to strengthen the country’s military, the Republic o
      vessel occupied by the pair of Viet Cong sappers,
      an explosion ripped into Card. Two bombs, each
      consisting of 88 pounds of C4 and TNT, detonated
      along the starboard side at the waterline and just aft
      of the quarterdeck. At that moment, Second Mate
      Raymond Arbon, a merchant mariner from New
      Orleans, was walking the quarterdeck. Down in the>>>

      (88 pounds! Twice!)

       

      • #56762
        Mr P
        Participant

        Sad Sal so deep in lies…such a pity. He wrote: .

        “In August 1964, three months after the
        attack on Card, North Vietnam’s navy attacked the
        destroyer Maddox (DD-731) in the Gulf of Tonkin,
        prompting President Johnson to order retaliatory
        carrier strikes on naval vessels and installations in
        North Vietnam. Of greater significance, Congress
        passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution …”

        That this story is a lie had long been proved. We shall enjoy his prose, and his stories…as the cunning fiction that it is. His tales skip from fact to delusion as a cast stone skips across a quiet pond.

         

    • #56748
      Mr P
      Participant

      The hint of a smirk on Garland’s face is exquisite.

      Smoothie bluntly states the obvious. Now that the DPRK army has fought and bled under Russian Army Command and control….any assault on DPRK will bring the entire Red, er, Russian, Army into the fight…into Korea … the nazis can fergitaboutit…

    • #56766
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      There are now reports on a gunpowder factory that has exploded in the Meymeh district of Isfahan, Iran.

      I don’t believe the Russian statements that the explosion in their munitions factory was human error or negligence.

      I don’t believe the Shahid Rajaee Port fires was human error or negligence.

      I don’t believe another munitions factory explosion is human error or negligence.

      The blackout in Europe? I look at the blackouts in Venezuela which was terrorism. Again, sure .. human error and negligence or some strange climatic phenomenon. But there were hands in that system or perhaps they plumb ran out of good Russian gas of some kind in the tanks.

      Sure, human error and negligence is involved, but that may be secondary reasons.

      • #56767
        Mr P
        Participant

        We think the same. I would ask what sigma such “coincidence”?

        I would remark that when a policy or a manager causes incompetence or negligence or larceny and that in turn results in system failure, it’s difficult to know what to call it. For example I know of a nuclear power station that had a policy of rewarding maintenance managers with large bonuses for not spending all of their budget. The 20 year design of the plant allowed these guys to fake essential maintenance and collect large bonus…they also (I know personally) stole the materials which would have been used – they sorta had to, if only to hide them.  The result was that they retired to their generous pensions after a few years, and shortly thereafter the plant was no longer reliable enough to operate economically. To-day it’s gone and the ratepayers are paying for it.

        Was this sabotage? I think so, they lit the fuse and walked away with the money. Some might call it capitalism.

    • #56779
      Mr P
      Participant

      Western, nazi, delusions about the PLA… Think China is a ‘nation that can’t fight’? Think again — RT World News

      https://www.rt.com/news/616495-myth-nation-that-cant-fight/

      key quote> “Beijing will not rush into war. It will act only under conditions it judges favorable and under circumstances it has painstakingly prepared. But make no mistake: when it acts, China will not be the passive, incompetent power that outdated stereotypes imagine.”   (note, when, not if)

      appear weak where you are strong….

    • #56809
      Sudhi
      Participant

      “The Stakes of Donald Trump’s Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran” by Thierry Meyssan https://www.voltairenet.org/article222165.html

      “The general public is completely unaware of the real stakes in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran. This article presents a situation in which lies have been piling up over three decades, making any progress particularly difficult. Contrary to popular belief, the nuclear issue in Iran is not whether Tehran will acquire an atomic bomb, but whether it will be able to help Palestine without resorting to weapons…

       

       

    • #56823
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      awakening richard

       

    • #56827
      Mr P
      Participant

      Nifty superfast boat, with nice rockets!

      https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2025/04/30/3302305/irgc-navy-makes-assault-craft-with-116-knot-speed

      (knot is equal to 1.852 kilometers per hour and 1.15078 miles per hour)

      • #56884
        Grieved
        Participant

        Wish they had a video of that boat in motion 😉 I like when military commanders come out with doctrinal lists, as in:

        “In remarks in February, IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami highlighted Iran’s boundless presence in seas, saying the fate of naval battles are determined by accuracy, velocity, depth of navigation, and range of weapons.”

        That seems like a seminar’s worth of strategy, operations and tactics right there. If this parses out true for a sea battle (and I don’t know), then one can assume that Iran has based its development path on these factors accordingly – ruthlessly eliminating all prior assumptions and building to these criteria.

        I now see another article that adds to this:

        “In an address to the event, Gen. Salami said the naval units of the force have significantly developed their capabilities.

        The IRGC’s plans for the expansion of air defense capabilities while operating at sea have now come to fruition, he said, adding that the force has acquired remarkable air defense capabilities to counter potential threats at sea.

        He highlighted Iran’s substantial presence in international waters, emphasizing that accuracy, velocity, depth of navigation, and range of weapons determine the fate of naval battles.

        The IRGC’s strategy entails the production of weapons and equipment that comply with its naval doctrine and criteria, Salami added.”

        So, Iran is building to its naval doctrine. One is only as good as one’s model of how things work in one’s field. If this is a good model – and it seems so – then one without these considerations built into one’s deployment would be a fool to take on Iran in its own local waters.

    • #56828
      Mr P
      Participant

      https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/what-is-really-going-to-change-the

      Experimental thorium reactor goes critical…

      To get some idea of how difficult fluidsalt reactors are to make..

      see

      https://fluidfuelreactors.com/1958-ffr-ch01-homogeneous-reactors-and-their-development.php

      ……………..

      To-day marks the Fall of Saigon 50 years ago…

    • #56829
      Mr P
      Participant

      DPRK/Russia highway project. (previously only rail linked the two)

      https://tass.com/politics/1951527

    • #56841
      Mr P
      Participant

       

      Captain Clueless…what a measure of delusion! And they need spelling lessons… Hormuz is not a “straight”

      https://x.com/polymarketinfo/status/1915472867736646136?t=1564

      Rational persons…

    • #56852
      Mr P
      Participant

      Bigbig claim from Locals. I’ll take the “unlimited range” bit as bs. atomic engines have a service life, maybe a few hundred hours is imho optimistic. There is no “global strategic stability” either. When did the US ever do “defense” anyway? All wot ah seen has been wars of aggression, mostly against poor people who can’t shoot back. Still, the nifty atomic missile is a great technical achievement. Long time ago I chatted with an American scientist who’d worked on the experimental stuff the yanks built…and the difficulties he sketched were seemingly insurmountable. My guess is that the Russians have developed metal and ceramic materials of astounding characteristics. Nice pictures anyway…  >

      ” Russia is on the verge of deploying an entirely new class of cruise missile that could fundamentally alter air defense paradigms: nuclear-powered, unlimited-range cruise missiles. Chief among them is the Burevestnik. It’s only logical that US missile defense planners are thinking ahead to such unconventional threats. Open-source intelligence researchers like MT_Anderson have recently shared satellite imagery revealing suspected construction of Burevestnik launch facilities near Vologda. If verified, this would mark the next phase in the deployment of a weapon capable of shaking the foundations of global strategic stability “.

      https://x.com/MT_Anderson/status/1909366999169585390

      atomic missile base

    • #56864
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      think Brics

       

      • #56877
        emersonreturn
        Participant

        ^^

        assuming Think Brics was aware of the mindset of the indian journalist the interview makes it fairly clear the ‘i’ in brics is Iran…followed by Indonesia.  the interview broadcasts to brics members & those waiting that it’s advisable to allow india (if it chooses) to stand in the front row for photo-ops but to limit their input into strategic scrums.

         

    • #56873
      Mr P
      Participant

      Evidently Agent Orange has managed to hizownself on the do not call list… Well, I would call him either. Who would?

      He might be on double secret probation…!!

    • #56882
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      China Restarts $60billion Railway Project with Brazil & Peru

       

    • #56885
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      What do you guys think?  Real or not Real?  AnsarAllah channel posted.  They’ve been saying to take photos of this side of the aircraft carrier for days now.

      They’ve also downed a plane.

      American balloons in the skies over Sana’a.

      On Wednesday, the sky of the Yemeni capital witnessed a new phenomenon, marking the first of its kind since the onset of confrontations with American forces nearly a year ago.

      Activists on social media circulated videos of thermal balloons launched by American aircraft in an attempt to evade a Yemeni surface-to-air missile. The footage captures the moment the Yemeni missile approaches the aircraft.

      Thermal balloons are used to confuse advanced air defense missiles.

      This is the first time American forces have utilized such a measure since the beginning of the war in Yemen in January 2024.

      The deployment of thermal balloons came just a day after the US acknowledged that Yemen had shot down an F-18 fighter jet.

      The release of thermal balloons during the American attempt to attack the capital underscores the reality that the American aircraft was downed by air defenses and reveals the level of fear among American pilots regarding Yemeni defenses.

      This all may be the reason for Hegseth’s bile …

      Message to IRAN: We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing. You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing.

      And Trump’s bile .. which I cannot find now but all about how they are decimating the Houthis.

       

      • #56887
        AHH
        Blocked

        this is AI generated carrier image. Impossible they would keep it around, even for optics, if struck so severely. And would likely have sunk if really struck that repeatedly. It would mean they exhausted air defenses and were floating ducks…

        IMO these floating tombs were left in the Red Sea precisely to be sunk so as to serve as casus beli (according to their deranged logic). And that the Resistance determined from day one NOT to bite, but to nibble, exhaust both their AD missiles and ammo and the nerve of the sailors many who are getting quite heavy doses of career-ending PTSD.

        And to drag it out to emphasize to the US Military that they serve unredeemable evil, both in defending the right of zionazis to commit a holocaust, and attacking Yemeni and other civilians throughout the region who will never kneel.

        And in the process of attriting the US Navy to the breaking point, they’ve also maintained their iron Gauntlet over the Bab El Mandeb, and kept hammering the bastards in Zion.

        It is these cumulative humiliations and exposure, rather than being sunk, or losing hardware junk such as Reaper drones, that informs the impotent rage of Temple Mount Hegseth & Gang. They realize, like UkroNazis in similar end-stage, they have precious little time left indeed! So they aim to complete the ritual suicide of the West against Persia, whilst they still have any forces left willing to fight for the demented cause. A “use it or lose it” moment

      • #56902
        Mr P
        Participant

        There are several aspects of the image that make it fake. That the ship has a wake so near a dock, or key is unrealistic. If the flight deck were pierced the hanger deck below would have caught fire. We may take the image as literary license, fiction, and as a sort of prediction, or as propaganda…same thing I suppose. As to PTSD… yewbetcha. Even sailing through mines and hearing the ship ahead hit one results in PTSD. USS Liberty after Israel attacked

        Liberty was an old Victory ship, as an example image that’s genuine.

        Forestall Carrier Vietnam  @ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/93731235979670464/ pictures of a real fubar on a carrier.

        The Yemeni fellas know their strategy very well. A careful modulated application of necessary force focused on a strategic goal. And sure, “recruitment” of happy sailor boys is difficult…as in Vietnam they’re lowering standards, which has an indirect effect perhaps worse than under-manning, as incompetent sailor make stupid errors.

        Indeed, The Red Sea in in the critical path to siege of Iran.

    • #56906
      Mr P
      Participant

      @ Anoxia keine rote fahne for May Day. But quite likely another small protest demo. And it’s hot. Probably 33C to-day.

      …………………….

      I’ll take the WSJ with a grain of salt, and I do also wonder why they say whatever they say, wall street being as crooked as a dog’s tail… Nevertheless> very interesting!

      https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/another-shocker-wsj-reveals-russia

      Ruskie evidently expects an attack from Europe. What else is new?

      ……………..

      From Locals. Mineral deals is bs.

      quote>

      To expand on the excellent @Alfred777 comments re: the rare earths’ deal with zelensky, here’s John Galtsky, in his comment to Simplicius:

      “I seriously doubt this myth of “Ukraine minerals””

      You’re right to doubt it. The “Ukrainian minerals” thing is propaganda for morons, just like the Ghost of Kiev and all the other total lies they generate on an industrial scale.

      In the case of the minerals lies, those literally are for morons because anybody who isn’t a functional moron can look up old Soviet maps of mineral resources in Ukraine and see there isn’t anything remotely like recent claims. Also, people who aren’t functional morons and really want to understand the matter can read up on exploration geology and know that the Soviets were extremely good at it, and that they explored the heck out of places like Ukraine that were immediately at hand and densely populated in the European part of the Union.

      Ukraine’s real mineral wealth is coal, with iron ore a distant second, and both of those are in the great formations that start around Donbass but which get far larger as they extend into Russia. That still means there’s a heck of a lot of coal in Donbass, now also in Russia.

      All the rare earths are no big deal, far exaggerated and not all that distinctive on a world scale basis. The cost of those is extracting them. Same with titanium, which is fairly abundant worldwide (lots of it in Florida, for example). It’s not having a source of titanium that’s hard, it’s having a source of low cost energy to refine metallic titanium that’s hard.

      The lithium claims are particularly a hoot, the usual lie proceeding by stating that lithium was a don’t care in earlier days but now it’s white gold given high tech and automotive requirements. But that’s an outrageous lie for anybody who’s bothered to educate themselves.

      In fact, lithium was far more valuable in the 1950’s because lithium is the key fuel input for thermonuclear weapons. It’s what made thermonuclear weapons practical, enabling stable, solid lithium deuteride fuel instead of having to build a small cryogenics factory to enable fueling a thermonuclear weapon with very low temperature liquid deuterium.

      Those weapons were such high value items that it actually would have been cost effective to use solid gold, a ton of it, as tamper material. So you bet the USSR explored every square inch of territory where lithium might be had, and their conclusion was that despite the stratospheric value of any bit of lithium the lithium deposits in Ukraine weren’t worth developing.

      And that was at a time when not only was lithium extremely valuable but also when the strategic value of self-sufficiency was priceless as well.

      So yes, the “minerals deal” is propaganda for morons just on the face of it, at least to the extent it trots out exotic rare earths, titanium, and lithium as a source of profit. It’s also a head fake for morons even on the basis of thinking that the US will be able to loot coal and iron from the Donbass, which is now Russian territory.

      Where it might not be total propaganda is what they don’t tell you, that it provides a great means of laundering money. US and EU “investments” in developing resources that don’t exist will provide a flow of funds that can be skimmed and redirected into payola for the supporters of corporations and Ukrainian government entities, including political parties and other beneficiaries of the “development” fund.

      ende

      …………..

      Happy May Day y’all!

       

       

    • #56914
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      From Cuba!

    • #56916
      cronetoo
      Participant

    • #56917
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      nima, michael & richard

       

       

       

      (michael’s read on the deal is that it’s not about rare earth but missiles & an escalation!  richard takes up the first half informing us about May Day.  if busy, scoot to michael.)

    • #56927
      Mr P
      Participant

      I am interested in what Napolitano says…not so much Mr Mac

      Alex the elder long talk> Russia Seeks Ukraine Victory, Deploys 2 New Armies; Gives Up On Talks; US Opts To Invest In Ukraine
      Russia Seeks Ukraine Victory, Deploys 2 New Armies; Gives Up On Talks; US Opts To Invest In Ukraine
      Topic 1532  (my bold)

      Judging Freedom>

    • #56933
      Mr P
      Participant

      Not fake. Drones and Kamikaze have similar effect. When the hanger deck of Truman etc looks like this… That’ll be an “escalation”.

      Sailors walk through the wrecked hangar deck of USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) following a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa. US Navy official photograph. The National WWII Museum, Gift of Thomas J. Hanlon, Accession #2013.495.412CV17 Okinawa 1945

      https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/okinawa-costs-victory-last-battle

      A close friend, now sadly dead, was in this battle. His ship took, iirc, 158 men dead.

    • #56934
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      godfree roberts

       

      Xi the Merciful

      the fate of china’s worst enemy lies in xi jinping’s hands

       

      https://herecomeschina.substack.com/p/xi-the-merciful

       

    • #56940
      Mr P
      Participant

      Airplane splash…

      CVN Flight Hangar Deck Natops

      https://doksi.net/en/get.php?lid=34085

      see 7.4.3 “Aircraft Movement”

      the aircraft has a man in the cockpit to ride the brakes

      page 206

      I cannot copy the document. It would be nice though…

      Presumably both the tractor driver and the fella inside the airplane went over the side.

      adding> (see page 86)

      https://aviation-assets.info/wp-content/uploads/fm-1-564-shipboard-operations.pdf

      “6-5. AIRCRAFT MOVEMENT
      The minimum deck crew for aircraft movement on the flight deck or hangar deck is two safety observers, a
      qualified plane director, and two chock handlers or tie-down men. With AH-1, UH-1, or OH-58D(I)
      helicopters, one handler also must be on the tail skid. A pilot, plane captain, or qualified brake rider will man
      the cockpit. The duties and safety rules for moving aircraft on flight decks and hangar decks are discussed
      below.”

      The latter url document is copy-able.

    • #56941
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      wartime cafe

       

    • #56945
      Mr P
      Participant

      Subsequent to minute 13 Wilkerson opines”no doubt” Israel did the big explosion…Bandar Abbas

       

    • #56975
      cronetoo
      Participant

      ZeroHedge is filled with headlines of  ‘China considering trade talks’ … quotes from Rubio … nada from China and more lies … with regard to payrolls etc.

       

       

    • #56977
      Mr P
      Participant

      https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/05/trump-tops-tariffs-on-china-with-sanctions.html#comments

      ……………………..

      AfD under pressure… more like threat

      8 minutes with english subtitles.

      …….

      Orange prohibits China from buying oil from Iran… ok lemme stop laughing… and these are “rules” that anybody that buys stuff from China, which “flouts the Orange Oil Rule” is also prohibited. Like Carlin said, a seat up front at the freak show…

       

       

    • #56992
      Mr P
      Participant

      Andy, Larry, and Uncle Ray…

    • #56994
      Mr P
      Participant

      I doubt “reverse engineer” and imagine a more accurate “better understand vulnerabilities” or “learn how to more easily destroy”…though of course there may be a few bits to copy and improve on. And this stuff will be nice in parades of enemy weapons for many years to come.

      Patrick>

    • #56999
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      strategic culture

       

      India, Pakistan & Kashmir

      Raphael Machado

       

      India, Pakistan & Kashmir

    • #57000
      Nico Cost
      Participant

      The stupid are all around us: they are in every place, in every class, ready to cause damage to others and naturally to themselves. The stupid form the most dangerous category of human beings. Woe betide those who underestimate them.

      Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

      Why Stupid People are Destroying Society – The Laws of Human Stupidity

      • #57004
        Mr P
        Participant

        “In west two idiots outvote 1 genius”, Szilard

    • #57001
      Nico Cost
      Participant

      Nothing Really Happens in WWE Politics

      RFK, Jr. is doing some good things. I think. He directly accused the Biden administration, through HHS, of engaging in child sex trafficking. I’m pretty sure that’s the most serious allegation ever made by an American public official. He has ordered a study examining the links between autism and vaccines. And I think, again it’s unclear, that something bad has been removed from our foods. Or water. Or will be soon. Maybe two weeks. If anything good comes out of this Trumpenstein 2.0, it will come from RFK, Jr. Meanwhile, Yemen is probably still being nonsensically bombed. Trump is looking for a “deal” with every country. What does that mean? I suppose he wants to live up to the title of his book. What about a “deal” with the People? I’ll keep following this stuff, like a heroin addict. Knowing it’s all a show, but still faithfully chronicling my war with those who run this world, for those who care.

      Nico: “When we dare to question everything, even our selves, we can live in freedom of thought.”

      https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/nothing-really-happens-in-wwe-politics

    • #57012
      Mr P
      Participant

      A cogent examination of the deeper workings of the anglosaxon elite in the 1930’s, 1940’s and yes, even to to-day will show that the “allied landings” worked not to destroy the nazis but to rescue them from the Red Armies and Red Partisans…thus we see to-day that having been used throughout the so-called “cold war” they are now used openly and generously financed and equipped, and celebrated, even applauded, in parliaments and congress.

      As before, they are used to attack and weaken Russia.

      And so to-day the nazis celebrate their rescue by the anglosaxon cryptonazis … with a parade!

      NAZIS TO CELEBRATE ‘VICTORY IN EUROPE’ DAY IN UK
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/03/ukrainian-armed-forces-join-uk-ve-day-parade/

      in uk nazis celebrate their rescue

       

    • #57019
      Mr P
      Participant

      Speaking of really weird people, people so strage, crazy, really…

      Jack Parsons?

      Never heard of the cat? Me neither. So? Some very strange stories…

      two sequential videos about him… “Jack Parsons: Magician of the Nuclear Age │Part one – YouTube” also part two…

      wiki> Jack Parsons – Wikipedia

      The Untold Truth Of Jack Parsons >

      https://www.grunge.com/865002/the-untold-truth-of-jack-parsons/

      Cat blew hizzelf up in the lab, probably…

      The story is bizarre.

    • #57029
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      not long ago, many bemoaned china’s reticence to engage in directing narrative.  imo this channel & a few other AI driven sites drive china’s news stream directed to the west.

      many points in this video are noteworthy, one i found interesting was that the uae is now asking india to pay in Yuan not rupees.  unlike russia @ the beginning of the smo.  is it possible some within brics are hoping to ensure india’s ties are growing ever deeper to brics, not only oil, but with a significant holding of yuan rather than $?  another point was that germany, australia, the uae all trade more with china than america.

       

    • #57030
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      2019…covid & huawai

    • #57031
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      think brics

       

      worthwhile listen:  mongolia’s relations re: russia, china, india, asean, the stans.  not mentioned is africa.

       

    • #57041
      AHH
      Blocked

      The Teknologia the satans use to mesmerize and destroy most men are prepped generations in advance. How did Uncle Stanley, under the guidance of Muses, know of the coming tsunami of handheld Poison, which today pins the rapt into NPCs watching live-streamed universal holocaust? Gaza is merely first in the ritual. All follow into Horror

      Note the monolith is a Screen. Of same video dimensions as most smartphones. We are mocked as the monkeys, lead by the nose into abattoirs, time and again. The scene of the instigated monkey killing is removed. They were courteous, once, to carve in writing our fate on other monoliths — the Georgia Guidestones

    • #57043
      Mr P
      Participant

      Pravda says>

      https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/05/03/1293966.html

      Replica Reichstag! A wee reminder for the nazis…

      cool video!

      ……………

      A little story about Comrade Zhirinovsky , who predicted 1995 a few things …If it wasn’t for us 50 years ago, you wouldn’t be here, you scoundrels! We saved you! There would have been an “Auschwitz” here too. Who saved you? Maybe you Germans? Stay here! Or are you French? If it wasn’t for our army, you would all be in camps. We saved the whole world and Europe! And you can clap for the traitors here today. And you should clap for Russia and our army!

      https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/05/03/1294248.html

      …………………..

      Plan B for 404 No more “Mister Nice Guy”

      https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/05/04/1294387.html

       

    • #57046
      Mr P
      Participant

      Vovan and Lexus have now caught beltway parasite (and chump) Paul Massaro in their web. He made quite a few revealing (stupid) statements, which convey the (nazi) mood inside the halls of Washington.

      https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1917549402132209786

      https://x.com/i/status/1917549402132209786

      Includes audio!

      Some may form the opinion that this Massaro guy belongs in a zoo.

    • #57047
      Mr P
      Participant

      Grid fubar zone Bali, zone Indonesia.

      It is true that the magnetic field is increasingly heterogeneous and thus provides essentially weakened protection from solar processes. Electro-dudes may be right…

      https://electrogenesis.substack.com/p/3rd-solar-storm-blackout-in-a-row

      • #57052
        Grieved
        Participant

        I’m leaning that way too (about them being right). Your clip is Ben Davidson, probably the most notable electro-dude.

        Kim Iversen just interviewed him – the mood was very somber after he got finished, but he makes a strong case:

        ps..look for his interview with Bret Weinstein about a year ago also (called “Apocalypse When?”)

        pps..tie that in with what Catherine Austin Fitts told Tucker Carlson this week about all the missing money in the US and how it went to build a vast connected network of underground cities for the rich – who are prepping for catastrophe.

         

         

        • #57053
          AHH
          Blocked

          Yes agreed with both of you about the massive solar changes informing climate change. There are prophesies involving the arabian peninsula, which is largely under a sea of sand for millennia – returning to lush verdant with forests and streaming rivers, as in the youth of mankind. Much of the affliction currently besetting them is due to a wicked Yemeni empire that was literally buried alive in the mother of all sandstorms. One of their cities had a reported 10,000 gates (!) Even the occult modern western satanists mourn the passing of this supremely evil precursor of Babylon, and the lost magick and dark arts. They dig to this day in Oman and NE Yemen and SE Saudi, trying to regain the lost lore.

          I used to listen to CAF for years .. even subscribed to her solari report for a while. A brilliant defector from the Big Club who taught me much. However we each, being human, have blind spots. Hers, and it’s perhaps a feature of her hopeful generation of the Jetsons and Unimpeded Progress, at the least involve the longing to see “aliens” or UFOs and what she calls “breakaway civilizations” or parallel ones through which the elite have poured untold trillions over the decades.

          She cannot possibly imagine that the entire sordid story, as since Babylonia, is limited to Malice, Miserliness, Hate of Others, and seeking to Immiserate. That some live to bring all down, to better manage them like abject slaves. And that the elites themselves are conned — as we saw with the planned AI transference of their conscious to new body-clones. (!!)

          All those underground cities are unviable. Russkie has carefully noted them for decades, understanding the task of the Great Patriotic War was unfinished, and could not be finished, until the ratline survivors and new cadre were dealt with. These underground caves cannot be moved. Their sheer size and contents emit signatures visible from space, including radar sats than penetrate mountains. They do not even need to be nuked to disable; just their oxygen inlets and entrances need to be sealed or turned into glass – then they effectively serve as tombs.

          So all this is raving delusion. There is no escape for either side. It remains M.A.D. – maybe not for Russkie now, given how advanced AD has become and that Providence always tips the scales at such moments, but certainly for the nazi side

          PS – an old audio of Prouty remains vivid decades later. He noted when the CIA breached Moscow in early 1990s rape of Russia, they were shocked to discover the astonishing detail of Russian maps of CONUS. They had never achieved such accuracy themselves. I forget of which cities, but assume most relevant areas .

          What does that say?? 

          The mappers knew they would be needed one day. Targeting solutions material. Continuously updated. The ww2 generation and until MAD was achieved lacked means of retaliation at the head of the snake, but they put in their work in the generational civilizational effort.

          So no underground city “escape” avenue is possible. It is a pipe dream. They are already toast. Whether in CONUS or the South Seas or among the penguins of Antarctica

    • #57051
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      indi.ca

      The Two Contradictions of Nacism

       

      https://indi.ca/the-two-contradictions-of-nacism/

    • #57077
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      For all things solar, take a look at Valentina Zharkova. She is a Ukrainian Physicist. Do a YouTube search for her older work, as she was forced in Canada to start attending DEI seminars around 2020 or perhaps a little later. And then she stopped working because of the SMO and one cannot say if her comments were truthful because she was overrun with journalists, or if they were not.

      • #57081
        emersonreturn
        Participant

        i used to follow her studies on global warming/global winter.

    • #57083
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      must watch:  if you’d like to feel good about the future of our world:

      (undoubtedly environmental grps, greenpeace & ngos will have a great deal to oppose—this  is sci-fi fairytale land come true & could miraculously change global hunger.)

       

    • #57088
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • #57089
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      (60) Chinese Youth and the West (Part One) by Simone Pieranni

       

      https://substack.com/home/post/p-162296859

    • #57105
      Mr P
      Participant

      Just interesting… A steam blow.

      When boilers are built they’re not clean inside, there’s all sorts of scale and cigarette butts and stuff. So part of the process is to bring the boiler up to significant pressure and simply slowly open the steam valves through temporary pipes to the atmosphere. It’s really noisy! And the steam can create a draft strong enough to tear the sheetmetal that covers the boiler building right off…which sometimes launches aloft and bangs into the fellas’ cars in the employee parking lot. (I have personally seen that!)  In this old video the pressure is only moderate. You’ll notice that the steam is grey – that’s probably iron oxide scale, aka “mill scale”… The boiler  is later going to connect to a turbine…and those are precision machines that the miscellaneous crud they’re blowing in the video would otherwise damage…in a blow like this there are occasionally large bits, lost wrenches, nuts and bolts, somebody’s hammer… It’s lots of fun! About 3 1/2 minutes. Enjoy!

    • #57108
      Mr P
      Participant

      I am, or was, of the view that the diary was stolen after the lady was murdered, stolen and destroyed. In this video it is claimed or implied that the diary has surfaced. If so, it would be very interesting to read. Moreover, it seems that, from the video, that JFK’s diary has become public, whether in part or in whole. That also would be interesting to read. I can’t find a copy of either.

      video> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7d4jaO7cTw

    • #57111
      Mr P
      Participant

      Rather wonderful interview. Reason DPRK helping Russia today goes back to 1950s – Korean War veterans head Andrey Shin — RT Interview

      I reason that the alliance has far deeper causes than mere reciprocity. 

      https://www.rt.com/shows/rt-interview/616707-korean-war-veterans-head-shin/

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