The Hearty Salon, 03 Sep 2024 … Open Thread

[AHH]

[AHH]

☝️ at the beginning, behind them are Genghis’s stoic personal guard! Lord have Mercy. Perhaps only the modern west raised more mountains of human skulls…

💠 “The German establishment is desperately clinging to power in defiance of democracy.”
☝️the crudity and sheer desperation in motion in the two leading countries of Rummy’s Olde Europe is astonishing! They are discrediting the very shell game of “democracy” they’ve plied for centuries! Perhaps they anticipate voting and civil society itself will soon cease to have meaning, or a place, given what the criminal elites plan to do

💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇩🇪 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described as “bitter” the results of Sunday’s two regional elections , in which the far-right AfD party won a strong victory and its coalition lost, and urged mainstream parties to form governments without “right-wing extremists.”

“The AfD’s results in Saxony and Thuringia are worrying,” Scholz said in a statement to Reuters.

He said he was speaking as a lawmaker for his centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD).

“Our country cannot and must not get used to this. The AfD is harming Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country’s reputation.”

With Germany’s national elections just a year away, Sunday’s results hurt Scholz’s struggling coalition, potentially deepening infighting.

The left-wing populist newcomer, the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), founded by a former member of the East German Communist Party, outperformed all three coalition partners in its first regional elections, coming in third.
[I do not think he got the memo about Germany’s “reputation”! It sunk lower than the Nordstreams…..]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🤡 We understand why the Ukrainian propagandists lie.

But why this washed up writer? And who are the people that believe him?
[I’ve been a neighbor of Maine for almost a dozen years! In fact New Hampshire is my favorite state, albeit i detest snow and the cold now. But the solitude and slow pace were special. Many from Maine are cool. Some like Stephen are so insular that a verse comes to mind, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.“]

[cronetoo]

Stephen King is a druggie, so grandson (who reads everything King writes) tells me …

which is how he writes what he does … (I am not a fan)

What do you think … would King and Poe been great mates?

 

 

[AHH]

I don’t think so. King is shallow and pretentious. All they share is New England..

I haven’t read 95% of his works, detesting pulp satanic horror. However his Dark Tower fantasy series, begun in 1970s or 80s were very interesting to a lad. The themes, and concepts, not the psychedelic and pedantic style. It concerns the AntiChrist archetype. He reminded me of Ursula Le Guin on LSD.. or a poor man’s version of my favorite Elizabeth Moon.. All bleak, without hope in retrospect. Pax America to which all belong sung a dirge to a dying Old Order…

This theme carries through so much of post-ww1 works of fiction. Little that’s uplifting or inspiring in positive sense. The Muses strung the right notes.. Pax Judaica requires the radioactive obliteration of the northern hemisphere and dramatic reduction and return of the known world to the Levant.. so they’ve worked assiduously to inculcate despair and intellectual and moral decay and dissolution. Quite evil works

Best fantasy since Tolkien in the english language. Ignore her sci-fi, or the fantasy written after early 1990s

[Mr P]

I’ll bite. (King (whom I have never read)and Poe)… It would depend on the dope. (Yes, that’s a pun)

………..

Seriously though, Larry J at Nap’s Place> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHVZ556P58   At about 16:55 Larry expresses his opinion “Russians have concluded that they are going to have to militarily defeat the west”. Think about the implications, and in light of learned Russian analysis of US Military Doctrine PGS… fwiw I should have thought that what Larry says was obvious in 1945. Not so very nice to hear it said though…

 

[Mr P]

Helmer> I have some general misgivings about Brother Helmer. Ah dunno. I’ve bought a few of his books, Skirpal stuff, and so forth. Just general misgivings.

Anyway, to-day he says stuff about telegram and the hostage feller whatizname.

PAVEL DUROV, PAUL DU ROVE – FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO PLAY FOOL, STOCK SPECULATOR, FRAUDSTER

Innarrestin history we witness. (FWIW I personally find the term “ponzi” offensive, Ponzi was not the inventor of the scheme called ponzi…which in modern times was invented in Philadelphia…and therein lies a story best left untold, except over beers on a long social evening.)

[amarynth]

Yeah, that fellow is not on my normal route of reading.

In that piece, there are so many inaccuracies that one can dish them out with a spoon.  Once someone that knows nothing about crypto, starts talking about crypto, it is a joke.  Btw, it is Toncoin.  It trades like a normal crypto on the normal crypto markets and that is the valuation used for all the valuation that he can only describe in supposed convoluted financial twists because he just does not know.   It has dropped severely over the past few weeks.  https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/toncoin

Toncoin is not owned by Durov, but it is managed by a fund specifically created for this, as crypto companies do.   Durov probably owns a ton of Toncoin.  I would not be surprised if Toncoin is used for some cross-border payments between Russia and suppliers or buyers.  The users own it as is normal for cryptos.  Crypto companies do not situate in the US because of the inane laws from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.  Texas has gone around those but I cannot say I know what has happened.  IPO for Telegram in the US?  Not on your nellie.

So Durov had a photo shoot with a theme.  Oh dear, what a venal or mortal sin.  It is not my interest but millions and I mean that, are ‘influencers’ on the internet, it is an alive business model, good ‘influencers’ get paid good money and in today’s world, it is another career.  Think of PewDiePie – who has now moved to Japan and was the most subscribed and most viewed ‘personality’ on youtube for about 10 years – Time magazine included him as one of the ‘world’s most influential people’, and he sold gaming software and collected money for charities and made millions.  Sure, he did themed photo shoots as well.  It is not my world but it exists.   The Chinese ‘influencers’ are superstars!  They sell everything – from bedroom slippers to vehicle accouterments and anything in between.  It is today’s method of marketing and taking over the late night shows on television – old marketing model.  Somehow people want those that they can emulate, that they can identify with.  They want their heroes.

Selling private bonds also does not spell anything nefarious.  It is a fine funding mechanism for privately owned companies.  A Bond is a repayable instrument and a good private and silent investment in that world.

Selling what Dances calls ‘collectibles’ and he does not know the name even .. NFT’s – non fungible tokens, which buys a formal identity on a blockchain.  Again, nothing new, only to those that do not understand the business.  Melania Trump made a fat bunch on making a blockchain and selling NFT’s.

His trip to Azerbaijan – of course, he was looking for a place to place servers.  It is not nefarious and Azerbaijan is friendly to crypto companies with friendly laws, has excellent power sources, and is close to the burgeoning cross-border trade.  I suggested this to one crypto, but they were too ‘Murray Rothbardish’ capitalists and would not mix with those people.

What else – Oh yes, Iran has banned Telegram.  What a piece of baloney and shifting of the situation.  All social media was banned in Iran at the time of some riots in 2018.  The ban was lifted in a matter of weeks.  I read some Iranian telegram news channels daily.

That is all I can remember and not going to read it again.  Paul Du Rove .. the guy explained the French passport name but The Dancer here did not read even a modicum of what is real and what is not.  I grant, there is a lot that we don’t know.

Thanks, Mr.P.  I keep looking for something positive but it is not exactly a good essay that portrays things as they are.  In the end there he gets maudlin though.  And now, he wants the man released.   Oy vey!   Let me go and have a coffee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[K]

Since when does the US prosecuting anyone bear any resemblance to actual crime or actual justice. Helmer is losing the plot by the day.  A really dumb take on Pavel. not to say his financial dealings are necessarily up front, but what has that got to do with the American ahem “Justice ” system?

[Mr P]

As I said, I have misgivings about Helmer. I think he’s a very poor essayist and writer. I am heartened that amarynth and K do too.  The US justice system can be fair, occasionally, like a broken clock. Prosecutions are mostly based on class and wealth and unstated political forces and agenda. Punishments, though, are grossly cruel and excessive. More interesting is when Federal Laws are openly broken, and nothing happens. The Helmer books I bought were disappointing. I do think that the writer in the Pavel example tells us more about his own agenda than about Pavel’s. Is that dumb? Unintentional, I suppose. Is it realistic to pretend that wealthy people don’t have legalistic hounds after them, like dissolute and greedy relatives? I assume Pavel’s not a saint. And not a major crook. Can a wealthy man enter Heaven ? They tell me that the ordinary Yank breaks three federal laws per day, and doesn’t know it, most of the time. When I was a boy the FBI had no power of arrest other than a citizen arrest, which in theory everyone has (don’t try it!), there were almost no federal laws past the Constitution, now they’re so convoluted and massive that no one knows what’s “legal” anymore, whatever they pretend. I say “legal”, because imho most of the Federal Code is unconstitutional. Withal, Helmer betrays, exposes, himself in the essay, not Pavel. Thanks y’all, for reading, and critiquing it, and the author!

[Mr P]

Some time ago, as the fellers throttled the straits over their objections to  the colonial crime and murder spree in Palestine, we discussed the likely consequences of re-routed traffic ’round the cape…very rough weather, ship stability concerns in bulk carriers (cargo can shift at 20+ roll, and that’s bad) etc etc. Thus here’s Cargo Losses Surge Off South African Coast Amid Red Sea Rerouting

(Gee whiz, whadda ‘sprise!) 

Cargo Losses Surge Off South African Coast Amid Red Sea Rerouting

My opinion takes it a bit deeper, no pun intended, honest! Big ships are flexible. In storms standing on deck the eye can see the ship flex, they roll and twist and yaw. This means that the structure is subject to fatigue and corrosion cracking, deterioration generally. That translates to a fatigue life, or just life-span, taking everything together. When that’s used up the cost of repairs increases, dry docking, patching, all sorts of spendy stuff. There’s a calculus to, approximately anyway, forecast the profitability of building and operating a ship, and the routes intended are a factor. Losing containers at the Cape implies out of design application, which means the ships are wearing out faster than the original calculus forecast. Thus far the process is in the beginning phase, but it will have an expensive effect as time goes by. Multi-year effects. We may also expect some actual disasters at an increased frequency, roll-overs, break ups, maybe spills, depending on how lucky they are and how carefully they’re operated. Of course it may also happen that a global atomic war will stop all traffic, and the ships will simply rust away as ghosts… time will tell.

[amarynth]

It is called the Cape of Storms.  I lived there for 13 years and if the black southeaster starts blowing, it lifts children up so that they float in the air and you have to grab ’em while you hang madly onto a lamppole or something like that.  It is also where two oceans meet – spectacularly beautiful, but not so sweet for big shipping.  They have to go out into the ocean and the journey just extends in time.  Lots of shipwrecks.

[AHH]

💠@Dugin:
⭕ Southeast Asia in a Multipolar World — Eastern Economic Forum (4.09.2024) |media|

In today’s world, where globalization and integration are becoming increasingly significant factors in the development of society, special attention is paid to regions that play a key role in the formation of the new world order. The Asia-Pacific has become a new centre of politics and economics, playing a key role in the modern geopolitical system. And no one can deny that the centre of global development has shifted to this region. Southeast Asia is a critical region for global politics, where complex political processes are unfolding, including territorial disputes and changing balances of power between various countries. How does the changing balance of power in the Asia-Pacific affect the global geopolitical situation? What external forces influence political processes in the Asia-Pacfic? How might the process of decoupling that is taking place between the United States and China change global political and economic relations? What are NATO’s interests in the Asia-Pacific in the context of the U.S.–China rivalry? Could Southeast Asia become the new global financial centre?

Moderator:

Alexander Dugin — Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Multipolarity Forum; Director, Ivan Ilyin Higher Political School

Speakers:

Connie Rahakundini Bakrie — Professor, Faculty of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University

Zhang Weiwei — Professor, Fudan University; Director of the Chinese Institute

Maria Zakharova — Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Vinay Kumar — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Konstantin Malofeev — Head, Tsargrad

Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela — Chairman, International Russophile Movement; Member of Parliament, Chairman of Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, National Assembly of South Africa

Pepe Escobar — Geopolitician, Journalist, Specialist in Global Economics and International Relations

So much turbulence in the aether.. the extra cruel seating arrangements (again). I feel the Disturbance in the Force, a continent away..

[AHH]

[AHH]

[cronetoo]

Russia is pounding Ukraine … and here, in the belly of the beast (EOL) … censorship has gone into overdrive (perhaps to cover up the loss of Ukr?)

Smoothie’s site was attacked last night (Andrei is considering options for a move) and Larry Johnson’s Sonar site was getting a message “Error Establishing a Database Connection” … now, nothing just the ‘death spiral’ …

ohh, and there’s something going on in the ‘marketplace’?

 

 

[Mr P]

Going to sonar21 (Larry Johnson) I get “Error establishing a database connection”

Yup! Skulduggery afoot.

[amarynth]

The necessaries have offers of decision support as to where to go and how.  Off-shore Yes.

I am going to redesign GlobalSouth.co to get rid of WordPress.  There are two ways to use it, either on the WordPress site, or as standalone software.  We have standalone, which should be fine, but I’ve suddenly stopped trusting the updates, and software need updates.

See why I am skreetching for a pair of technical hands!

[cronetoo]

… and “Biden’s not allowed in the Oval Office” ?

https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/31225

[Mr P]

Biden is not allowed in the Oval Office? Why make a video in a cardboard Studio? One of the best entertainments the world has seen in a long time! Seriously, could they find a smaller IKEA table? Classic, next level absurdity. Think Jim Carey.😂

This is a ritual of Biden humiliation, we are watching in real time as the curtain rises on the Democratic Party and the Deep State elites.

And the main slogan of this event is “Invest in America” ​​seriously?
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[Mr P]

The old guy is out of breath. Short of breath. I wonder what AHH might say about his heart? Not to imply that he has heart. Or rhythm.

[Mr P]

DD Geopolitics
ℹ️Why doesn’t Putin Declare War?: Domestic Balances and historical trauma

➡️One thing often asked online commenting in the chat and on other channels is why Putin doesn’t mobilize Russia fully and throw a million more men at the problem? This also would not work and we will set out why from a domestic point of view. We have set it out from a foreign policy standpoint.

➡️For a start, for good and for ill Russia is not the Soviet Union. The Soviet economy was effectively a war economy geared to social objectives through a comprehensive, but often adapted and never fully implemented, Five Year Plan and One Year Plan operational set of documents, decrees and laws. The Russian economy is a market economy with heavy state involvement but it also means that the administrative and political means to go to a war footing simply are not there to the extent they were in the Soviet Union. Furthermore such demands do not take into account Russian realities and yes Russian weaknesses, as well as the costs at all levels demands for further mobilization would entail.

➡️Since 1989 Russia’s birth rate has been very low and it’s death rate has been higher than its birth rate. This is due to the collapse of the Soviet socialist economy and system which tore apart the social fabric and institutions. This fabric has been mostly but by no means completely reconstituted under Putin. Income inequality has remained high and wages low. Despite various welfare measures people feel and are less secure than they were in Soviet times meaning they are more reluctant to have children – and this despite tighter restrictions on abortion, and greater religiousity so insisting on more of both will not necessarily lead to higher births. It also means every man killed is a man who cannot father a child and imposes great costs – even from this highly ‘bird’s eye’, strategic and ‘people as numbers’ calculation to say nothing of the incredible emotional pain their loss brings loved ones, friends and comrades.

➡️The SMO has dictated that Russia rely a lot less on external imports produce more of everything within its own borders and a triumphant return of the highly skills and technology intensive defense-industrial complex, much of which has been retained from Soviet times. This means wages at long last are beginning to rise and throughout Russia there is a construction boom of housing and industrial refurbishment that is putting money in people’s pockets. But with a war going on, this is not a likely time for people to want to have children due to anxieties, they will wait and see. But the economic resilience in the face of sanctions has created support for the war as it shows rather than suffering the government had prepared the country well for this eventuality and unlike almost any other war in Russian history this time Russia is so far fighting a rich man’s war like the Americans or British have, where war imposes sacrifices, higher taxes, but need not lead to economic destruction, dislocation or even reduced consumption and living standards.

➡️The Russian memory of war, especially in the 20th Century is of suffering and starvation on the home front, combined with incredible losses at the front. WWII is a source of great pride, but great trauma. No one is happy about how WWII especially from 1941-1943 was fought, not the army, not the Communist Party, not United Russia and certainly not the broader society. It is made even worse by the fact that two of the most recent major wars, the Afghanistan War and the First Chechen War are associated of times of decline, state abandonment, and in the case of the first Chechen War of being led by an elite completely indifferent to human life, suffering and who seemed to think they owed Russian people nothing and were happy to throw underresourced and untrained men at a problem. Putin does not want to do that as such practices are from Russia’s darkest days.
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DD Geopolitics
ℹ️ Why doesn’t Putin Declare War?: International Law and External considerations

➡️Throughout the SMO in online commenting in the chat and of course on other channels there is a hope that Putin will ‘upgrade the Special Military Operation’ to a war by declaring…
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DD Geopolitics
➡️These things: demographics, economic potential and historical trauma mean only so much is possible. With the economy at full employment, it means taking men and women out of the civilian workforce producing civilian goods to produce more war goods and more soldiers will lead to a fall in civilian output and with more money chasing fewer goods, higher inflation. Inflation is already running at a moderate level but if it increases the rise in living standards will be lost. Importing more immigrants, as the Crocus City Hall mass terror outrage demonstrates, is also highly problematic. This is not to denigrate immigrants – but it is a reality that earlier rounds of immigration were of either ethnic Russians or non-Russian people raised in the Soviet Union who did not really see Russia or Russians as foreign or their way of doing things as strange. After 33 years this is no longer the case and such sources have been exhausted.

➡️Mobilizing more men then raises the question: equip them and provision them how and with what? Any increase in the force must be met with an increase in output to provide the means for such soldiers to fight with proper resources. If that cannot be provided, there is no point, and Russia has neither the societal nor demographic space to tolerate grotesque casualties the way Ukraine does.

🐻 The means of war – human and material – come from somewhere and they don’t come when you snap your fingers.

🔴@DDGeopolitics

[Mr P]

About declaring war. There’s a legal reason too. Without UNSC approval war is prohibited in Law. Any declaration then without that permission would subject the waring state to all manner of troubles. She’d become, arguably, a pariah state. That said, Japan and Russia remain at war, there being no peace treaty. There may be other un-ended wars, ah dunno, maybe Korea too. Anyway it’d be stupid. Mr Bear is a not-stupid.

[AHH]

This is written by what we used to call “the Atlantic Integrationists” or some such lukewarm ahistorical westerner who doesn’t appreciate the Russian psyche, and wastes time using western metrics to judge non-western societies.. Many of the points are nonsense!

Yes, the legalistic reason for not declaring official “war” is as you say. It would have played into the western stratagem of isolating themselves. Indeed, this entire sordidness has dragged on for political reasons, chained down by consideration for the effete Global South. Now a huge benefit of the western move into Kursk is to really break these chains! Have you noticed the bounce in Putin’s step lately, since August 06?? The time for enforced doublethink is rapidly ending… God help the raving lunatics given what comes next…

Yes, there will be no general mobilization. I don’t think EVER. For one simple main reason: this is what Russia meant by “no more wars on our territory.” She has no reason to launch offensive wars of aggression OUTSIDE the Russian Mir — in any direction. She already has more lands than knows what to do with! And her nuclear doctrine deals with any serious sizable western horde combination which dares invade. Europe shall burn, and CONUS, long before the Heartland this time….

It remains an SMO for now as (1) they can handle it with minimum army they currently field, largely obtained from volunteers…. and (2) to give the zombie Anglo-American Empire sufficient time to come to its senses before being made one with the glowing ether..

I do not think economic potential nor MIC products are the issue at all. They’ve got Big Brothers at their back from ALL the other civilization states, including the rapidly sobering Indians..

And as to “historical trauma” – this only incentivizes to fight all the harder and to finally deepsix the supranational nazi alliance, which always had its mothership in the Anglo lands. None can also accuse the current Leningrader crew around Putin to be indifferent and callous elites.

The low birth rates have a lot to do with western lifestyles adopted by most, and stressors due to total economic siege and war stress – which really HAS NOT ABATED since Crimean War of 1850s (!!). It is unbelievable what Russians have faced from the demons, generation after generation, century after century. Almost every other society and nation has rapidly kneeled to Legion. But not Russia.

And as West is defeated, in quite short order, this live births issue afflicting all mankind should ameliorate. The world will rebalance. And if the West chooses to go out with a bang, the survivors will dramatically increase in fertility, as seen after WW2 and in all genocided societies today in Palestine and Yemen, for example. iow, much of low birth rate is artificial, maintained directly and indirectly due from the western direction and geopolitics (among reasons for Forever Wars, and forcing most mankind to adopt the Prussian education system which trains unimaginative obedient automatons), and should very soon, one way or the other, cease to have import.

The evil represented by the combined West is mindblowingly comprehensive. They are almost wholly responsible for billions failing to achieve their potential and leading lives of squalor, mired in despair and ugly thoughts. They are a deadweight on mankind as never experienced before — most of the evil done remotely, oceans away, through suggestion and mindwashing, sinking us all worlwide in invisible gilt cages — a true slavery as never existed since the Pharaoh of Moses!

And that is why the ending of this Abomination will be marked by a special event – Armageddon. And no Empire in history which was obliterated even a small fraction of the way the West is about to get obliterated has ever resuscitated. And the West was foretold to be the Last Satanic Empire, in the pedigree of the post-Great Flood sequence starting with Sumer and Babylon.. it really is game over in many ways. Decency and true civilizational impulses and norms of healthy traditions will resurrect on a wide scale.

IMO Russia has always known it will come down to nuking the bastards. 99% of the force planning is in this direction. Every maneuver and stratagem has been to give the deranged Legion a way out of their Annihilation. Time, space, precious warrior lives, some civilians (10 years+ in Novorossiya and now inside Russia too!), massive global alliances to impress on the lunatics that the civilizational states wield greater MIC, manpower, resources, economies, internal logistics, etc etc etc — that there is absolutely NO CHANCE the West has a chance, whether conventional or nonconventional.

But like lemmings to the Cliff, they march on, minds gone centuries ago. one trick warmongers. And Pharaoh too marched into the parted Red Sea and drowned, along with his hosts and wunderwaffe chariots

[Mr P]

Preparata in Chapter 2 Conjuring writes of this in the context of his discussion of the German Revolution of 1919. It’s is in his discussion of course not his focus, but incidental. Specifically that the destruction of as many Russians as possible was part of the reason for the “west” to first support the White forces and then leave them to their fate. It’s complicated. 😉 Zone west played both sides, all sides.

[cronetoo]

Very long pro-Palestine article at Naked Capitalism of all places …

Biden, Harris, and the Brutal Truth of Dead Hostages in Gaza

[Mr P]

Монголия опять объединит Китай и Россию – РИА Новости, 03.09.2024

Mongolia will unite China and Russia again

https://ria.ru/20240903/mongoliya-1970064986.html

Almost all of Vladimir Putin’s visits to Mongolia have one thing in common — they take place on the anniversary of the battle of Khalkhin Gol: the battles of two armies against Japanese troops in a situation that has not yet formally begun a world war. And now the 85th anniversary of the victory at Khalkhin Gol is being celebrated — and the same number of years since the beginning of World War II: and for the first time, the anniversary falls in wartime. In the 30s, the fire of World War II began in the east — and now what happened in China (at least since 1937) can be considered not just a harbinger, but also the real beginning of World War II. And if you look from this angle, then the victory of Zhukov and Choibalsan over the Japanese in 1939 was our first victory on the way to the Great Victory of 1945. And the Mongols, whose country we defended together, were our first ally.
In general, our countries are very much connected — and not only in the last hundred years. Eight centuries ago, Russia succumbed to the onslaught of Mongol cavalry and, like much of Eurasia, became part of the Mongol Empire. Then, in the XIII century, the Mongols thus “united” the Russians with the Chinese — but even after the collapse of the unified empire, fate did not separate the Mongols and Russians. We were destined to be neighbors — and a few centuries later we were neighbors again. Now the Russians were moving east, and a number of Mongol peoples (for example, the Buryats) became part of Russia, and Mongolia, which lived under the auspices of the Middle Kingdom, gained independence thanks to Russia. Together with us, it built socialism, was almost the closest ally of all the socialist countries — but even after the change of system, it did not forget about its Russian neighbors. And not only because “geography obliges” (only two neighbors, while China has its own Inner Mongolia) – but also because there is a memory (historical and human) and there are national interests.

[Mr P]

Garland, a hour. I bear in mind less the substance, what interests me is that he address an audience of the working class and lower portions of the bourgeoise, a class liable precarious lives these days and likely receptive to his approach and language. > https://www.rokfin.com/stream/52168/THE-CRIMINAL-RULING-ELITE–DIABOLICAL–MALICIOUS–AND-CORRUPT

Subtle title, eh? (I like Garland, he has a boat and likes to go fishin’)

[Mr P]

“Democrats like Biden have accused Russia of interfering in the last two presidential elections. During the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, US intelligence agencies repeatedly claimed that Moscow was deploying hackers and using “information warfare” to swing the vote in favor of Donald Trump.”

Ok, how come Biden “won” in 2020?

If seems the suppression of speech and press, which the US Government is prohibited from doing, is being done, so who’s breaking the law anyway? Oh! Wait! I know, it’s on the quiz!

https://www.rt.com/news/603521-biden-rt-election-disinformation/

The administration of US President Joe Biden is planning to accuse Russia of meddling in this year’s presidential election, and will announce “law enforcement action” against those supposedly responsible, CNN reported on Wednesday. RT will be the prime target of this action, the network stated.

The White House will accuse Russia on Wednesday of “a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US elections” by using “Kremlin-run media” to spread so-called “disinformation,” CNN reported, citing US government sources.

How very shocking! Another coincidence, along with Johnson and Smoothie and all.

[Mr P]

And, (gasp!) yet another astonishing random coincidence! At first I thought this was a joke.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

“Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Disinformation: Lessons for Future Conflict | RAND”

96 page full report>”Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Disinformation: Lessons for Future Conflict”

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2700/RRA2771-1/RAND_RRA2771-1.pdf

Short article> https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2771-1.html?project=

“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?” 

“Russia has disseminated large volumes of false content targeted at Ukrainians, those living in Russia, and global audiences, including those in the United States and Europe. Both Russia’s attempts to sow false narratives and the Ukrainian response during the war provide a unique laboratory for considering how nations can counter disinformation and propaganda during conflict. In this report, the authors seek to distill some of those lessons. They offer a broad case study of Ukraine’s information and counterdisinformation war and highlight key lessons that can help the U.S. national security establishment prepare for and counter disinformation during U.S. contingency operations.”

 

[Mr P]

Sonar21 explains, massive bot attack. https://sonar21.com/bot-attack/

[Mr P]

Comrade Galloway’s monologue is rather blunt> “Britain has gone to war with Russia” (and he predicted that it would within 6 months)

Evidently the specific factories, some, two, specific factories in Wales have been named by the Russians as constructing the missiles that recently exploded in Russia. (Gee whiz, I’d think about changing jobs fellas…remember the blitz? No? Ask mum, she does)

18  minutes

[Mr P]

USS Forrestal, the crew said, caught fire and came near to sinking, due to flyboy “Johnny Wet Start” in 1967. (Jet engines can be spun up and fed fuel excessively, then ignited – producing a “wet start”, which looks kinna cool, but it’s stupid as a hammer, and well, stuff can happen) Johnny Wet Start was what th’ other fellas called John McCain, who later on bombed Hanoi (hospitals they say) and as a POW made propaganda broadcasts for the Commies. (I’ve listened to them) Then later he was a Senator. So?, neh, just a story. Johnny boy was the son of an admiral. And maybe bad “luck” follows the name…

fyi> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal

RT> Speaking of “bad luck”

The captain of the destroyer USS John McCain, Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, has been relieved of his post several months after he was featured in a viral photo holding a rifle with a backwards-mounted scope, according to a Navy press release.

The embarrassing image was shared on the Navy’s social media back in April and showed Yaste in a firing stance gripping the rifle with the optics mounted in reverse. The picture was ridiculed online, including by the US Marine Corps which posted in response its own picture of a Marine firing a weapon with the caption “Clear Sight Picture.”

https://www.rt.com/news/603524-us-navy-commander-relieved/

Maybe he’ll have a new job as Captain of the USS Risible? The ‘scope optic is also covered.

 

[Mr P]

Y’kaint make this stuff up! 

DD Geopolitics
Forwarded from 🇦🇺AussieCossack🇷🇺
1:03
❗️Kamala Harris has been caught hiring fleets of buses with paid “supporters” to create the illusion of support at her US presidential campaign rallies.

🇺🇸Each Kamala Harris NPC gets $150, a bus ride there and home, free lunch and dinner at a fast food roadside restaurant.

🤣Imagine blaming Russia Today for influencing the US Elections when the Harris 2024 team are pulling stunts like this.

🎙Subscribe @AussieCossack

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Speaking of stunts>

DD Geopolitics
Forwarded from AZMEDIA1
‼️Urgent / US Secretary of justice: we will strongly counter any attempts by Russia, China or any other foreign party to interfere in our elections

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Urgent / US Secretary of justice: we will strongly counter any attempts by Russia, China or any other foreign party to interfere in our elections

Subscribe and join 👉https://t.me/azmedia01

 

[Mr P]

Three Questions to Tobias Billström, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden – YouTube

[AHH]

This made me sad. I lived a couple years in Stockholm in mid 1980s, during the tail end of their golden socialist age; I remember a pall over all as I walked by the still fresh flowers on the street where their Prime Minister Olof Palme had been gunned down, in an echo of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld for trespassing on imperial prerogatives.

The resurrected nazis are committed to the civilizational suicide. One cannot reason with such so divorced from Reality…

Essentially, as said by Younger Alex years ago, the Ukraine had set out to become the West but it is the West that became the Ukraine. Totally nazified, without further pretensions and masks. Proud in their naked savagery. And headed to the same bitter fate…

[Mr P]

Ahemnot a big fan of Col Davis. Here is speaks of the probably inevitable Gotterdammerung…unless it happens with Rus first, not that the process is actually divisible.

Will anybody know who begins the atomic war…as  Shute  phrased it?

Which way to the mineshaft?

It might be worth bearing in mind, considering that against ships, moving targets, even hypersonic rockets are not especially accurate. The capacity for the newly revealed Chinese hypersonic rockets expressly includes nuclear explosives. As we saw at the Biniki test series decades ago, even small primitive nuclear explosives can miss the target and still destroy it. This experience strongly implies, imho, that these rockets will have the necessary capacity, do have it right now.

If a China & America war went nuclear, who would win? Chas Freeman & Lyle Goldstein

For the old times> https://archive.org/details/on-the-beach

[Mr P]

RIA ru often has pictures that speak 1000 words.

[Mr P]

Rarely, as he’s frugal in frequency, and mature in the way of life, Comrade Victor writes letters, bulletins, from his perspective; both Harvard and Karl Marx Universities, after all, and a long life.

It’s free to get on his mailing list, and I recommend that. The Bulletins are gems, and rare. The general site is> https://victorgrossmansberlinbulletin.wordpress.com/

And he describes it as: “Thoughts on German events by an American in Berlin – Gedanken eines Amerikaners zur Politik in Deutschland” There one may read many past Bulletins.

Withal, his latest: East German Election Trimmings, Berlin Bulletin Nr 225

EAST GERMAN ELECTION TRIMMINGS

Which begins>

” “Shock!“ was a most common reaction.  Yet the two elections in eastern Germany were not all that  surprising, just somewhat better or worse than expected, depending on which side you were on.”

He goes into some detail in a long article, long for Victor anyway. I see no mention of the funny business with a “statistical correction”, but considerable detail, of which I was not aware, respecting the character and dynamic of what is obviously a German political area in stress. The stresses of end of epoch.

 

 

 

[Mr P]

https://judgenap.com/now-the-feds-are-spying-on-congress/

Napoliitano gives an opinion.

Begins> “The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war in contravention of the constitutional command that only Congress may do so. Congress itself has enacted legislation in areas that the drafters of the Constitution reserved to the states — and it has done so using some of the more absurd linguistic contortions thinkable.”

All that he writes is obviously true in the essay.

Interesting what he does not say, that every person involved, every elected person, every civil servant, every cop, is sworn to defend the Constitution, and their routine collective actions may reasonably be seen as treason to it. Not that this crime spree is particularly new. Lincoln’s crimes for example were in direct violation of the USC, and also Supreme Court rulings.

Like Bushie 43 said, “Just a goddamn piece of paper.”

 

 

[Mr P]

Evidently the grog, sodomy, and lash methods don’t work so very well these days. 

Royal Navy Helicopter Crash in Channel: One Dead, Two Rescued During HMS Queen Elizabeth Training

A member of the Royal Navy has died following the crash of a Merlin Mk4 helicopter in the Channel off Dorset during a night-flying exercise.

Two other crew members were rescued after the crash, which occurred during training with the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

The Merlin was involved in a test flying exercise as part of routine practice after HMS Queen Elizabeth departed port earlier this week. The aircraft carrier had recently finished upgrades and repairs to its starboard propeller shaft.

The helicopter remains unrecovered from the sea bed, and its retrieval is expected to be a prolonged process, according to naval sources.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics

[AHH]

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” an Empire of Lies and Illusions was born..

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ 🔸️C1: Does it mean that Mars is in Algeria ?
Seriously, does it mean they didn’t land into Mars ?
🔸️S51: Everything is possible with NASA
🔸️C2: Here the photo used seems to be a creation. Apart from the date which does not correspond to the first flight of Ingenuity, I do not see which machine is taking the photo. Most of the images are made by the Mars Perseverance Rover, available here https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/?af=NAVCAM_RIGHT#raw-images . These images are of limited quality by the way. In addition the size ratio between the rover and the drone/helicopter, even with the effect of the distance between the two seems bad to me, it is not possible to see a shadow under the Rover, which makes the effect doubtful especially since the helicopter does not make any shadow on the sand in relation to the shadows of the landscape and in the sense of the apparent brightness.
🔸️S51: We took the photograph as it was published by the sites that claim that US probes never went to Mars after noting a press article that wanted to deny this. We discovered that we had the photograph on the smartphone’s memory (recorded more than two weeks ago from an Italian site). Nothing was said about the unmanned Martian missions. On the other hand, the information on KBR was strictly confidential until October 2020.
⭕ In 2006, a team from the multinational Kellog Brown & Root Condor, now KBR, visited southern Algeria on a classified mission. At the time, there was talk of a contract to build a military base for the Algerian army, but these rumors were denied. In all likelihood, the project was linked to NASA’s extra-planetary exploration program.

The Algerian Sahara is made up of several deserts, not just one. One of these, the Tanezrouft desert, is the most desolate, flat, charred and astonishing desert on the planet. Other deserts, such as the Erg Oriental and the Tassili-Ahaggar, bear an uncanny resemblance to the geodesy found on Mars and even Venus.

It’s worth remembering that the Tunisian desert was used as a backdrop for the filming of Georges Lucas’ “Star Wars” in 1977.

[Mr P]

What an astonishing coincidence!

https://archive.org/details/mars-attacks-1996

https://archive.org/details/doctorwhoandthedaleks1965

 

[Mr P]

Raytheon feller visits the nazi base zone de

Operational line
The main American military Black citizen L. Austin arrived in Ramstein, Germany, to participate in the next NATO gatherings on the Ukrainian issue.
One of the main issues that will probably be discussed is the provision of long-range weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Tomorrow, too, Vladim Sanych promised to appear in the Hansov kingdom.

[Mr P]

The Kremlin endorsed the wrong person, well, maybe not…

[amarynth]

I think he mocking everyone.  Kamela’s laugh … Biden Gone … Trump has already babbled on, not knowing if he was insulted or not.

[Mr P]

So do I.

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In a sombre matter though, nazi do what nazis do>

https://x.com/dotconnectinga/status/1831715254591525181

Melissa Hallman on X: “The President of the Argentine Rural Society, Nicolás Pino, received two letter bombs, one of them was opened, the other is being deactivated by the Police Anti-Explosive Brigade Online reports indicate that one exploded in the face of the Secretary in Argentina 👇” / X

 

 

[Mr P]

Respecting the political turmoil in Mitteleuropa and specifically in Germany, in addition to Berlin Bulletin (spoken of above previously) we may discover more by means of  https://www.sahra-wagenknecht.de/de/topic/17.newsletter.html  Bear in mind that this newsletter is sent by email after providing registration. Anmeldung zum Team Sahra Newsletter and so forth.

I note that at end of epoch what some speak of a “the butterfly effect” becomes potent, if impossible to predict. Wagenknecht’s effect, I have a hunch, may become highly influential. imho it’s worthwhile to study the lady’s character and words. In this regard I would again propose reading Preparata’s Conjuring, especially the long introduction, as well as, generally, the works of Thorstein Veblen. Much of both authors is free to read online and download, including the entire text of Conjuring, the url to which I have posted previously.

as illustration this fragment from a long-ish newsletter in April of 2014>

11. April 2024

Dies ist der Newsletter von Sahra Wagenknecht, MdB. Darin informiere ich jede Woche über meine Aktivitäten und aktuelle politische Themen.
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Ich halte es für eine bedrohliche Einschränkung der Meinungs- und Wissenschaftsfreiheit, wenn eine renommierte jüdische US-Philosophin wie Prof. Fraser wegen ihrer kritischen Haltung zur israelischen Politik von einer deutschen Universität ausgeladen wird – zumal es sich hierbei nur um die Spitze eines Eisbergs handelt. Noch schlimmer finde ich allerdings, dass der Präsident des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz der Ansicht ist, dass die “Meinungsfreiheit kein Freibrief” sei und seine Behörde sich auch um Meinungsäußerungen kümmern müsse, die nicht strafbar und mit unserer demokratischen Verfassung unvereinbar sind. Demokratie braucht Meinungsvielfalt und eine offene Debattenkultur, keine übergriffige Cancel Culture und Gesinnungsschnüffelei! In diesem Sinne begrüße ich auch das Manifest für einen neuen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk, in dem Mitarbeiter von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio mehr Meinungs- und Informationsvielfalt einfordern.

[Mr P]

Several things that catch eye…

East Coast dock strike Oct 01 remains likely see Sal the Sailorman E108, fubar schedules. Sal remarked also that the Cape is no place for containerships in winter (duh!), three ships so far having lost containers over the side since the Strait closed, big insurance costs. Tanker no salvage, etc.

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Berletic essay astute> US Seeks “Super Weapons” to Reign as Sole Superpower (new eastern outlook from earlier this year> 3/9/24 ) Nice gun!

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Georgia kid set up chump>

“GPS data reveals that an FBI special agent, previously linked to multiple other shooters, was within 1,000 feet of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray on 11 separate occasions over a 14-month span.”

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Oldpeople whacked for numbers, or maybe for economies, you know, stock prices and profit?

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY : Tens of Thousands of Elderly Secretly Euthanized to Boost ‘Covid Deaths’  (Quite a claim, but it’s happened afore) https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-crime-of-the-century-tens-of

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Ukrainian MP Gorbenko admits that more than 80,000 cases of desertion during the conflict occurred in the AFU       @ukraine_watch  Beat feet fellas!

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Discussion> European irrationality in Ukraine – Michael von der Schulenburg, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen – YouTube

(also at Locals)

[AHH]

““GPS data reveals that an FBI special agent, previously linked to multiple other shooters, was within 1,000 feet of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray on 11 separate occasions over a 14-month span.”

MK-ULTRA…. reality is stranger than fiction.

[Mr P]

Call me old timey> Visitin’ 1962 and Angelia as the diabolical broad, poor little Ray…

https://archive.org/details/the.-manchurian.-candidate.-1962.720p.-blu-ray.x-264-yts.-am

 

[Mr P]

Georgia chump> HealthRanger on X: “And the breadcrumbs start to come out. Was the Georgia school shooter DIRECTED or influenced by the FBI? Seems to be a common thread in many shootings, including the attempt on Trump.” / X

https://x.com/HealthRanger/status/1831851236636946593

 

[Mr P]

Ahemformin’ the notion the French hostage Durov is going to get the Assange routine, extradition. There’s said to be now a US Federal warrant. Plot thickens. Narrative focus moved from zone Palestine/Gaza & zone 404 as well as, of course, the prospect of torture “rehabilitation” in the US Prisons, where there’s often murders and dietary difficulties.

[Mr P]

Free speech, B.J. Harris and Walter Sobjeck

FLASHBACK: Commie Kamala Harris Promises to Use DOJ to “Hold Social Media Platforms Responsible” for “Misinformation” as Defined by Those in Power (VIDEO)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1831677164372082751 (video, some might think she’s had a couple)

Kamala Harris: And we’ll put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice. We will double the Civil Rights Division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy. If you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community.

Walter, Cafe Scene Lebowski, prior restraint> https://youtu.be/UUNFjNXo6QM

 

[Mr P]

telegram very funny. maybe. ahdunno. I never send traffic. my secrets are actually, ah, secret, because they’re never said, anywhere, never written either. Somewhat dated see The Code Book, Simon Singh (PhD Physics) 1999 (yes, there’s a hidden message in there!) Seriously though, 😉 It’s vital to remember that what’s not said cannot be repeated, ask Rumpole.

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Two of my favorite Commies! https://youtu.be/SMxBHhi34UA

E 20 European Disaster Joji and Garland Fall of Imperialism (is that smoke?)

[Mr P]

Jus’ ‘memberin’ the dead. And bearing in mind the solid principle in war, never march on Moscow, it don’t work out.

Borodino 07 September 1812.

On the 7th, at 6 o’clock in the morning, the actual battle began.

https://statehistory.ru/books/Borodino-v-vospominaniyakh-sovremennikov/16

and there’s  CIA, er, “wikipedia” entry too.

https://archive.org/details/1812overture_202401

[Mr P]

Comrade Medvedev makes funnies…

https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/12582

Forwarded from Medvedev.

Out of spite for the current administration, Donald Trump has threatened to lift sanctions against Russia. But will he really do it if elected?

No, of course not. For all his apparent bravado as an ‘outsider’, Trump is ultimately an establishment insider. Yes, he is an eccentric narcissist, but he is also a pragmatist. As a businessman, Trump understands that sanctions harm the dollar’s dominance in the world. However, that’s insufficient reason to stage a revolution in the United States and go against the anti-Russian line of the notorious Deep State, which is much stronger than any Trump.

But what about Harris? You shouldn’t expect any surprises from her. She is inexperienced and, according to her enemies, just plain stupid. Beautiful meaningless speeches and boring ‘correct’ answers to questions will be prepared for her, which she will read off a teleprompter while laughing contagiously.

There were sanctions against the USSR throughout the 20th century, and they’ve returned on an unprecedented scale in the 21st. So, it’s sanctions forever. Or rather, until the US collapses during an imminent new civil war. After all, Hollywood makes films about this for a reason😂.

My bold. Actually the Comrade is mistaken, in the early 20th century there was a mix of western support, self-serving though it was in cunning ways, for the several factions in the civil war, and I have personally known Americans from Texas that helped develop the Soviet oil industry in the late 1920’s and 1930’s,, and also there was some support for the USSR in the W2 phase of the affair. We may perhaps also consider that when zone west made the bomb, they inadvertantly “contributed” to Soviet Physics and weapon programs. Nevertheless his general observation is, imho, valid, especially so his ultimate paragraph. 

[amarynth]

Maduro is not playing any longer. He just cut water to the Argentinian embassy that is under the control of Brazil, because he through Argentinians out. But Brazil (probably keeping the peace, or not?) kept asylum seekers in the Embassy. Venezuela revoked the Brazilian protection of the Argentinean Embassy, where various of members of the members of the Venezuelan opposition took asylum – this is what it looks like, but don’t take it to the bank.

I have no idea what is happening and will search it out during the day from reliable sources. I kept in touch with those guys on X, but now, oh boy, it is a mess. So I’ll have to search. They are there, but where?

[Mr P]

Wishin’ I could read Ruski and had the original, I did my poor best> see, FWIW>

A Russian Aerospace Forces’ Analysis of the US Military Doctrine “Prompt Global Strike”

 

[amarynth]

Mr P, OK .. I must be stupid this morning, I confess.

But what did you do?

A further point here which I think I picked up in one of Maryanov’s videos or writings – the Fuze thing is a real thing, but the problem is delivery systems, he says. That is what I understood. He went into distances and so on, but alas, things rolled downhill so fast, I did not grab this piece.

[Mr P]

I wrote comment #2>
Ok. Impressions:
Nowhere in the paper is robot torpedo “Poseidon” mentioned. Let’s recall that this machine is 100MT nuclear explosive. Results would vary according to depth and position and both submarine and terrestrial topography. The US population distribution makes this torpedo a destroyer of both most of the population and cities of relevance, as well as most US industrial capacity.

Postal mentions flying bomb Burevestnik. The Russian analysis does not, and of course if it did that would be off topic. I do not accept the claim that this machine can fly for “years”. My guess is closer to an engine life of less than 1,000 hours. 10,000 hours, maybe. I have worked with American engineers who described their own testing and development work on nuclear jet engines. And the Soviets actually flew some. They work, but not very well. Incremental improvements, no doubt, have taken place. But the limits are very challenging.

Bearing in mind the recent political statement from RF that the US and RF are “not in a condition of peace”, iirc the wording, and considering that the semantic value is equivalent to saying “at war” while avoiding the legal consequences of saying the latter, condition (above) 1.1 seems to have been satisfied. Condition 1.3 is frankly impossible. Preventing a Russian counterattack cannot be achieved.

Term “biogas plant” is unknown, presumably an artifact of translation. I have no idea what it means.

“Kessler effect” is the cascade of debris consequential to orbiting junk bashing into more orbiting junk until an orbit become uselessly filled with smaller and smaller bits of junk. This effect limits the efficacy of tactics of kinetic destruction of satellites, and the reason for doing so – as the orbit becomes its own destructor.

“Prompt Global Strike” (PGS) is a scheme based on surprise simultaneous attack by the US on the Russian Federation, with the goal of making a significant counter-attack ineffective. The assumption is that the RF will have 10 minutes or less to counter-attack. This this plan relies primarily on “cruise missiles” (CM) of various types launched from air, ground, and sea. Secondarily submarine and land-based silo rockets must also be launched. These must all strike more or less at the same time, but have a vast variance of range to target, as well as flight characteristics. Such coordination and guidance relies on integrated satellite to satellite and satellite to ground. Traffic analysis alone would alert the RF to a pending GS attack. The several assumptions implicit in the PGS scheme are unrealistic.

Nevertheless, it’s important to realize that men in position to order GS are poorly educated, particularly with respect to STEM subjects, and liable to believe that this foolish scheme can work. Further, the scheme is vast, and many of the machines use atomic explosives. There is risk of firing orders by miscommunication, unauthorized communication, and of firing weapons systems simply by accidents – all rise in probability exponentially. Moreover, satellites have accidents, misapprehension of the provenance of the destruction of a US satellite is a risk – rocks happen. And who can say if a “bird” failed due to a LASER or a cosmic ray?

At 2.6 we see the assumption a 12 hour to 2 day period to “full combat readiness” following a claimed destruction of a US satellite, presumed to have been the result of RF action, as well as a 12 hour later assessment of the “surprise” “disarming strike” (2.7) by the US. This seems totally observable in the first instance by RF, providing warning. I doubt that any reassessment would occur, or indeed by possible.

PGS makes no allowance for Chinese military abilities. This rather ruins the scheme altogether.

Withal, PGS seems to be an “organic” artifact of compartmentalistic incomprehension of various institutions inside the US military-political “animal”. It’s irrational and unrealistic, and if it continues along the pathway, it leads to the suicide of the supporting national state. Considering that on the geopolitical long scale the modus vivendi has been primarily plunder, and that this modus has become moribund, technically and politically obsolete and non-functional, it’s remarkable to realize that a proffered insane plan for dominance is precisely that, insane, delusional, a pathological dream. And the esthetic is congruent.

It is also worthwhile to note that the US may well attempt to do PGS, indeed seems to be preparing for that. It won’t work out.

[Mr P]

at gcaptain near the end of an article

German Warships Aim to Secure Sea Lanes in Indo-Pacific

“Last month Germany joined the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea that helps police the heavily fortified border with North Korea and has committed to defend the South in the event of a war.

North Korea and Russia signed a mutual defense pledge this year and the United States and its allies have accused Pyongyang of providing weapons used by Russia to strike targets in Ukraine.

“What happens in Russia, Ukraine directly affects South Korea,” German Ambassador to South Korea Georg Schmidt said. “What happens in North Korea directly affects Germany.” ”

“Directly” ?? Innerrestin’ 

Dogs’ barking affect the other doggies. No doubt Comrades Kim and Xi are losing sleep. 😉

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And about the DD McCain – more news>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-fired-captain-didnt-fix-steering-problem-near-miss-2024-9

“…Navy failed to fix an ongoing steering problem that had stymied [?] its own technical experts a month before the incident. The steering problems happened so regularly that the ship’s crew seemed to eventually overlook the potential severity, the investigation indicated.

This steering issue glitched at a dangerous moment — while the McCain was hooked up to a replenishment ship to refuel.

A Navy spokesperson declined to comment on the investigation, saying that it’s still ongoing. BI was unable to get comment from Yaste for this article.”

 

“…Navy failed to fix an ongoing steering problem that had stymied its own technical experts a month before the incident. The steering problems happened so regularly that the ship’s crew seemed to eventually overlook the potential severity, the investigation indicated.”

“…

According to the investigation BI obtained, the McCain experienced steering loss multiple times. These losses were caused by the uncontrolled shifting of the hydraulic power units that direct one of its two rudders.
After the destroyer lost steering in April, the McCain sent out a casualty report, or CASREP, requesting technical experts to visit the ship. These experts tried to troubleshoot the warship while it was pier-side in Bahrainin June.

The McCain’s crew experienced a series of steering problems in the two months before the near-miss.
The McCain’s leadership requested to go to sea to address these issues properly, but the technical personnel were not funded or authorized to set sail with the destroyer. The warship left Bahrain in early July and immediately experienced the same problems.”

12 foot ladder if you  like

Evidently in fueling the from another ship they came near to collision, and had a cable, maybe a hose, part. Probably a MARSAT spill violation, though not a lot of oil, and light oil at that. “glitch” is the wrong word when hydraulic machines are spewing oil. “Shifting” sounds like foundation bolts, the rams coming loose from the foundation. And it seems that the captain and officers concealed the problem, at least from the oiler’s captain. Very interesting is that the crew was unable to troubleshoot.  They’re not all that complicated, and they ought to have been schooled in rudder problem repair – rudders and rudder “engines” are basic stuff…and can be fatal to a ship and her crew…especially a warship… the enemy aims for rudders and the compartment above them because they’re vital.

Entering the rudder engine space at sea can be very dangerous even if things are shipshape, add a lot of oil and stuff banging around while the sea swishes the tiller arms and loose rams, a feller kin git torn apart as the ship rolls.

[Mr P]

Oskar Lafontaine über den «Dissens» zwischen AfD und BSW, die Brandmauer und die Wahlen im Osten

Oskar Lafontaine on the “disagreement” between AfD and BSW, the firewall and the elections in the East

German political eminence grise [Oskar Lafontaine]  lists three of them [the differences]  He is a former head of both SPD and Die Linke. He is also Sahra Wagenknecht’s husband. The interview is in German. Therefore, I am listing the 3 differences: BSW opposes (1) Israel’s Zionist policies, (2) increase in German defense spending, and (3) NATO expansion to the east. AfD supports all three.

[Mr P]

A refreshingly blunt Going Underground. The opening by Afshin Rattansi  is astonishing, and the guest similarly so. 

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/603603-lali-israel-gaza-west-imperialism/

‘Britain is a US LAPDOG, Gaza genocide is a reflection of Western imperialism’ (Fiona Lali)

from show notes>

National Campaigns Coordinator of the UK Revolutionary Communist Party who went viral after calling former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman a war criminal to her face on television. She discusses the protests outside the Israeli Embassy in London on Saturday and the widespread opposition to the British government’s support for Israel in its genocidal slaughter, why the British government’s support for the atrocities happening in Palestine is a reflection of Western imperialism and the capitalist system, the Labour and Conservative parties being one and the same when it comes to Palestine, Britain being a lapdog of American imperialism, and how British Labour politicians have shifted their positions to placate the US, the international pro-Palestine movement being symbolic of the divide between the ruling and the working classes, the British media’s constant covering for Israel amid the genocide and occupation of Palestine, and how it reflects British ruling class interests, Keir Starmer’s pledge to keep supporting Ukraine in the NATO proxy war against Russia, while the government continues to attack the poorest in society, the continual cultural and media propaganda around the Ukraine proxy war, and much more.

[Mr P]

Quality profit is job #1!

Big strike “looms”

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/as-strike-looms-boeing-pushes-777-jets-through-chaotic-production-in-everett/

Out of sequence, working outside under the sky, cannibalizing one to get parts for another…what will go wrong, what won’t go wrong?

A longtime 777 quality inspector in Everett — who, like the other employees quoted here, requested anonymity because he feared retaliation — said Boeing has moved new inspectors onto the assembly line who are unfamiliar with the work.

“They [inspectors, aka fall guys] are not being trained, just thrown to the wolves,” he said.

As part of a series of whirlwind introductory tours, Boeing’s new CEO Kelly Ortberg visited the Everett factory on Aug. 16 and was shown around by Jason Clark, vice president of the 777/777X program and Everett site leader.

While Ortberg was there, front-line workers held one of their raucous daily protest marches through the assembly building to loudly proclaim their contract demands and demonstrate their militancy.

Robert Ley and Goering would do…what? Quiz next week!

[cronetoo]

It’s The Trump Party Vs The Cheney Party

[Mr P]

They say Cheney has no heart, some sort of electric motor. Like the bunny, he keeps on, somehow. One does recall Faust…

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Naturally, I have no political opinion, since there is in the nazi zone no polis, only a “Free State” that follows its own delusional graft and greed with no connection to the welfare of the cattle it controls by violence and propaganda. Nevertheless I do have a sense of humor. Thus a highly amusing clip brought a wry grin. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/iGuevNruyH8   Gigglin’s Island 1:08 minutes of humor.

[cronetoo]

Mr P,

I really enjoyed the ‘Gigglin’s Island piece… very funny!

[Mr P]

I’m glad to hear it! Mrs P appreciated the humor also, as did I myself.

I want to proffer here an essay by Thorstein Veblen, a book review from 1920, and rare, it was difficult for me to locate.

It is: Review of John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

Keynes’ book can be found more easily. Veblen’s corpus, including his dissertation, are generally unavailable. He is represented in the canon in a distressingly disproportionate manner. We may ask why this is. It is claimed that the dissertation has not been seen since 1935. Remarkable!

The review, as the art of essay and of rhetoric is outstanding. If I were teaching… Withal, it bears well the thoughtful pencil and margin notes of the student, and in most example, at least, the teacher. I would assign students to precis the review. Naturally enough, the prerequisite to that would involve reading the Treaty of Versailles and Keynes’ book.

Following the successful composition of the precis, I would assign the aspiring student the task of an essay criticising the Treaty. What occult hands may be glimpsed, do these hands, or the hands of the “clubs” that may carry on to our time, present effects to-day? How so? Is the world conflict of our time in any way derivative? Naturally such questions are mere beginning, the student would be required to conceive additional questions of his own and present these in essay form, preferably in Veblen’s style.

Herewith, then> https://web.archive.org/web/20050419021632/http://cupid.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/het/keynes/vebrev.html

 

[Mr P]

Sal the Sailorman speaks of a near miss that was prevented by caution, skill, and luck. He attributes much generally to the industry loss of some 400.000 skilled experienced maritime professionals due to “covid”, actually the secondary effects, not the disease. Men quit.

His praise of the academy may be valid, I don’t know. I do know that a pal used to teach at Cal Maritime. He taught mathematics for deck officers. Under pressure to pass his students he was obliged to credit them with 10% for properly writing their names on the simple algebra exam papers.  He saw his student deck officers as not competent and liable to stay that way after graduation.  

Sal, on a loss of power at a critical moment, when the pilot called for engine astern> https://youtu.be/1o8jElTCk04  The pretty cautious pilot was able to manage with the tugs, under otherwise very favorable conditions.

This was a “near miss” event. Experience has shown that the frequency of near miss correlates to the frequency of actual “accidents”. They’re not accidents. They are consequences.

The diesel engines of which he speaks start by high pressure air fed into the cylinders. There’s actually a “distributer”, a rotating valve, with small control air tubes to a large manifold of high pressure air and a special air start valve in each cylinder. Unlike smaller engines, there is no starter motor. On typical 4 stroke engines the cam-shaft has to move longitudinally, while the engine is stopped, to the reverse cam lobes. Many are 2 stroke engines though. In either case the engine must stop first, as the fuel injectors go to zero, then rotate the other way on compressed air and then fuel injectors are again set at greater than zero. It’s not trivial to reverse big engines. I have overhauled ship diesels, including the air-start systems.  Experienced people are vital. There is a lot of pressure to “de-crew” ships and run them with minimum number of men. Thus many times the men are very hard worked, long days, and tired. Important tasks may not get done.

[AHH]

We have a toddler who started kindergarten. A considerate Egyptian colleague and friend sent us this recommendation on how to teach English. What do you think of the method?? Remember, when in Rome, DO AS THE ROMANS. Emphasis is comprehension with locals, LOL. But maybe I should teach them mandarin and russkie

[Mr P]

Well, first, I think they’re not teaching English, but reading it aloud, and by a pedagogical approach called, I think, “phonics”. English isn’t really an integrated language, broadly I believe it’s three, although that’s only generally true. There are bits from Sanskrit and Athabaskan, Latin, Greek – all sorts of “borrowed” words. This makes “phonics” of very limited value in teaching reading of English beyond a primitive level. What we might call “simple English” might be deciphered fairly well, albeit slowly, by “phonics”  – which is what we see in the video. Such an approach limits the student’s scope of future ability, and very much retards reading speed and comprehension. It’s somewhat useful in pronounciation of complex compound words, which may be unfamiliar, after the kid learns to read at a basic level.

Reading slowly but with continuity, aloud with the child, pointing to each word as it’s spoken, the child being constantly rewarded for following with her eyes, probably repeating, (as children tend to do) opens broader vistas and avoids the plodding odium of phonics. Pausing when the child shows curiosity about a word, pausing to explain meanings of unfamiliar “big words”. Children’s stories, which may be favorites previously or simultaneously read aloud, ought to be read in concert, as kids quickly learn the full story, and a game of leaving a word unspoken by the teacher making a “mistake” adds to the fun, the kid will spot the “error” and enjoy changing role: “you missed a word, Daddy!”. Pointing with the reader’s moving finger encourages first reading of whole words, not letters (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phonetic). As time and the student advances she’s liable to read lines at  a glance, or at least several words at a glance. This enables 1,000+ words per minute range of reading, while the video-shown method precludes it. Many times reading the newspaper, which of course consists of stories, works very well. Simply having the attention of the parent is a reward in being. Kids learn to do what the adult does, or better, what they see the adult do. It’s “species predictable behavior”.

Whole-word flash cards, recognized by the full word, in a set of perhaps 50 or 100 cards, which set may be expanded, read aloud in a game is also useful, a reward cue, which may be a simple eye contact with a smile (see Skinner), and, after a few minutes a light treat like a jelly bean, also makes a useful method of teaching a small basic vocabulary. Words such as “small”, “large”, “Dog’, “cat”, “house”, “and”, “go” “yes”, “no” can move toward word-cards such as “justice” or “tower”.  Past about 6 letters the cards get less valuable, they become awkward. You can spell thousands of words with 6, maybe 7 letters. If a kid can differentiate between faces she can tell whole words from one another, and name the “faces”.

If the kid’s not having fun, stop the game and do something fun, maybe a short walk or asking the kid to tell a made-up story. Above all avoid negative atmosphere or “discipline”. It’s poison. Positive feed-back is essential. In a sense, it’s a duality, the “student” actually instructs the teacher as to what’s “good”. Pay attention to the student’s “tells”, it’s your guide to success.

There is, and here I’m way into opinion, no particular value in teaching languages as separate. There’s no reason not to teach whole language at once. In a 3 hour interview Dr Wolff, speaking of his youth _ https://youtu.be/hQsIOcDemPc  learned three. My own was abbreviated but was English, German, and French with plenty of Latin, all mixed. Of course that greater-language had to be restricted in public, people’d get funny ideas an’ all that.

So, that’s what I think.  Good luck!

 

[Mr P]

It came to mind, and I’d add, that language and reading are in fact a subset of cryptography. As such, basic cryptographic strategies are useful. For example, a word frequency analysis of a given document, such as a favorite story, is a simple way to form a set of words to learn by eye recognition, and inform a flash card set. Modern computers make this easy to do. Recognizing a word is a reinforcement.

[Mr P]

Recommending a bucket of salt. Post from Locals, video from yandex search. Make what you will of it. I don’t want to watch the video. Maybe it’s true. I am sure that there are people crazy enough to do such things, that’s enough for me.

video> https://youtu.be/CAJBJvAFPMA

Post Text>

dear_stormy@dear_stormy 8 minutes ago

Wealthy Elite Insider Reveals Cult Rituals Where They Sacrificed Children

title of video:
Luciferians/Zionists, and sacrifice of children

my comments, George Eaton:
The entire video is about 39 minutes, in German, with English subtitles. (but start at 23 minutes in) A full transcript used to be available, but for some odd reason it was removed and is no longer available.

For the first 18 minutes he talks about how he was recruited to be a money man for them in high finance and corporations, then at the 18 minute mark he talks about the fact that the world is run by about 8,000 people in power.

At around 23:40 minute mark i have the video start because that is when he reveals the satanic rituals he saw, where they sacrificed children.
He also said if you read the Protocols of Zion you have an understanding on what is going on in the world.

After he discovered what they were doing behind the scenes, he had a complete break down, and was also tortured to make sure he never revealed who was involved in the dark activities he knew about. He went through hardships himself as a child and he simply could not tolerate children being harmed. This is the tip of the iceberg on what is going on behind the scenes.

If a person is interested in more info like this I discovered an E-book on Amazon by author: Dr. Michael Paladin, the book is: “Sex is Everything!” He went undercover on the internet to find out what is going on regarding widespread child abuse.

ENDE

[cronetoo]

[Mr P]

I think Greenwald is being naive. Possibly Dowd is too, but less so. The elections are almost entirely a ritual distraction function to pacify the multitude. To create and support the maintenance of illusion. The machine government seems to be guided primarily by internal procedure, every functionary has a procedure manual, and often a minder, while actual policy is determined by more occult institutions, such as secret “clubs” and financial agenda. These latter’s  “guiding” policy seems bent on dominating the earth. We know this by their actions over decades, since Wilson, or before. Since 1812 in my opinion. Approximately this is in the last 120 odd years derivative of Mackinder’s strategy of dominance. Presidents attempting to make policy toward the best interests of the people get trips to Dallas, or, if they’re clever and lucky, allowed to retire. These days Nixon looks pretty good. Not that he was a saint! When Dick suggested blackmail by mentioning the “whole Cuban thing” on what was not erased from the tapes, he may have saved his own life. I often think about, in Hegelian fashion, what was erased. What was not there. Dick may have been quite explicit in his muse, knowing he was on tape. A basic function of a President that obeys is more or less to serve as a pharmacos. If this goat goes the wrong way, he is removed. If he goes the right way, paradoxically, he survives, and is removed by the calender to a wealthy position in retirement. Perhaps on an island, maybe Martha’s Vineyard. Well fed, despite the coincidences of the cooks dying.

[cronetoo]

Alastair Crooke’s latest:

Enabling a “Brutus” to slay the Elon Musk “Caesar”

[Mr P]

The lady packs a wallop. https://youtu.be/fGat3ermsM0 Anya Parampil : US Disrupts What It Hates

at 21:35 …it almost seems as if it’s an intentional Ploy by our government it feels like they just want us to be unstable here at this point because I don’t see any other reason why they would go ahead with such a boneheaded policy we could…

Indeed, she’s right, and the title is too, thus we learn, or better, see, that the US hates itself, more precisely the deep state, the “free state” fears and hates the people. Of course Barry and Big Mike did produce a film, didn’t they?

Napolitano knows how to depose a witness, and this learned skill carries over to a fine interviewing style, good focus, clear questions, stays on the agenda.

[Mr P]

The often hysterical Hal made a cogent monologue about the prospects of nuclear weapons being either available by Ukrainian manufacture> https://halturnerradioshow.com/ (“Israel” threatens to send missiles to Ukraine.) or, in imho it’s possible that “Israel” will also supply atomic gizmos for these missiles. He reminded us that Putin ordered plans for relocation of state owned enterprises months ago. These are due for submission 01 October. Recalling as well that the nazi force always doubles, and is facing global defeat and economic disaster.

[cronetoo]

Yves is actually posting Michael Hudson’s issues with Nima’s headline title for a recent interview, which Hudson call “sensationalist’ … and there’s more from Hudson and Richard Wolff … much more, very long, however what I deem excellent material for sharing with the uninformed.

The Myth That the US is Rapidly Approaching Bankruptcy

[amarynth]

AHH was talking about teaching English as a home school addendum to unreal school.  This is not so easy.

https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1833103082101576026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1833103082101576026%7Ctwgr%5E605bfc99e22bc831e0f1420ddfa0a197646af572%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPicturesFoIder%2Fstatus%2F1833103082101576026

[Mr P]

Yes, that was my understanding. Both the video he proffered, and the one at your link are about “phonics”, the latter to adults. They are only somewhat related to learning to read, and almost unrelated to learning english. What I described was based on how my mother learned to both read and speak english, and also myself. It’s also how an old, now dead, colleague taught his sons to read and speak english. Mother could read since the age of 3. Evidently boys take a bit longer. About 5 or so. If you differentiate between two cats you can know whole words on sight, with “names” properly pronounced. Unfamiliar complex words in english have irregular pronounciation, one simply has to hear them said, and practice. I ought to have also written that copying text in longhand is a great help in both learning the language as spoken, reading it, and especially in learning composition and style. Mother, though a professor of law, was basically a writer. Newspaper work, short stories, legal writing, and finally poetry in retirement. Her pathway into and through the language seemed to work pretty well. Alas, my children were taught in school, and read and write the language rather poorly. And slowly, I’m sorry to say. Mother’s process of learning to read was, she said, effortless. Simply the joy of reading along with her father as he pointed at words and spoke them aloud while reading whatever he chose, newspapers, medical books, whatever interested him. As a second language, well, I wonder how Conrad learned to write english. From my eye, there’s one very big language with many dialects and styles of syntax and grammar.  I thought I gave good suggestions in reply to AHH’s question, which was  A considerate Egyptian colleague and friend sent us this recommendation on how to teach English. What do you think of the method?

And my opinion, well, observation, was: I think they’re not teaching English, but reading it aloud, and by a pedagogical approach called, I think, “phonics”.  After that I said more precisely what I thought, and something of what I know about ways to learn english. These are not exclusive. They apply just as well to Greek or Russian, etc. Behaviorist theory figures in the method, lots of positive reinforcement.

 

[Mr P]

At https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/603763-freedom-speech-right-russiagate/ Peter mis-stated the basic law of the US, insofar as the Constitution grants no right, but prohibits the Government from making laws that abridge pre-existing rights, such as the free speech that existed prior to the Constitution, the right to arms and militia, and so on. Peter, as he claims to be an historian, might be expected to know better. Napolitano, better qualified, has uttered explicit remarks in this matter. Explaining, for example, that the article the preceding free speech was inserted by Jefferson to make this differentiation clear and explicit.

The guests make, near the terminus of the show, predictions as to the expected “October Surprise”, one is the occurrence, creation, of an emergency as an excuse to cancel the election, and other is that the US will have by that time managed to “start” World War Three. I use “start” in protest, as in my view it’s already begun. Shall we then rather say “accelerate” or “heat up” the war to a very large extent? Presumably by getting people in the US killed, one way or another. One may be minded of Operation Northwoods, and “9-11”, two false flag “attacks”. However, a genuine attack may well take place. Not to imply that a genuine attack would be sui generis.

[Mr P]

Hal the hysterical cop fink is not always entirely full of it. Ah rekonz word’s got ’round…

“Switzerland is preparing for something big.” et sec…

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/swiss-government-announces-it-is-in-a-pre-war-phase-all-departments-planning-accordingly

William Tell Overture> https://archive.org/details/WilliamTellOverture

[Mr P]

Catchy title and stimulating topic…right?

(Napolitano  Streamed live 38 minutes ago)

Scott Ritter : US to Attack Russia (again)

[Mr P]

A little glimpse of history. https://youtu.be/X4e9USMWxzI  The Slaughter of the Yanks in 1918  (G2mil)

[Mr P]

Reagent chemicals call for observing every safety procedure rule!

Intel Slava Z

🇩🇪A major fire has broken out at a Grillo chemical plant in Duisburg, Germany.

The area of ​​the incident was covered in thick smoke; residents of nearby areas were advised not to open windows and doors.

This is not the first such incident at a chemical plant in Germany.
t.me/intelslava/66326
21.6KviewsSep 11 at 09:08

Geewhiz…somebody must have been careless, eh?

[Mr P]

This quote was discussed, mentioned, at the essay on Communism. It makes nice poster image.

 

[Mr P]

Kersplash!

Die Carolabrücke in Dresden ist teilweise eingestürzt. Der Teil mit den Straßenbahngleisen fiel in der Nacht zum Mittwoch in die Elbe. Verletzte soll es nicht gegeben haben. Die Ursachen des Einsturzes sind noch unklar. Die Feuerwehr ist im Großeinsatz.   trolly or tram tracked section

https://de.rt.com/inland/218780-dresden-carolabruecke-in-elbe-gestuerzt/

[AHH]

“Able was I ere I saw Elba“

Quite a Sign!

I’ve always dreaded this river and its famous connection(s). It was spoken of the Zelensky of a former era, the three-point hatted hero of the combined West.. Said of the island of Exile, but it equally applies after any retreat off Russkie lands and seeing the Elbe too, no?

All is lost at that point! Once attacked and riled so, the Bear always follows and finishes the fight. Most unpleasant days ahead for Germany and all who threw the dice..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Day

[Mr P]

Longtimeago I had a few, a very few, count ’em on one hand few, teachers who said true things. A German born sent to escape the nazi draft to live in the Dakotas with his grandparents, who taught history with rigor, with emphasis on the power of money, occult money, dark force money “clubs”, which drive events. Another from the Carolinas, who taught that walking in the woods when you come upon a still, turn ’round and go the other way, ’cause those boys have you in thar’ rifle sights. And best of all, when walking in the woods an’ ya’ come upon a smokin’ pile of bear chit, he’s lettin’ you know that if you go on, he’ll hunt you.

The bridge that fell seems to have been a stressed span, not a cantenary. I see no suspension cables. A stressed span of concrete is in internal compression by cast in place steel rods or cables. These of course are in very high tension, they are tightened with very powerful tensioning machine wrenches to a calculated stress, or stretch. The rods are actually functioning as very long stiff springs. It is possible, sometimes, to release the tension due to corrosion, or deliberately. Then the span fails. Perhaps not instantly, but the bottom of the span is in tension, and concrete is very weak when you pull on it. It’s strength in compression is very high. I’m saying that there is a possibility of sabotage. Think of a stack of dominoes held horizontally in a vise. Place a weight in mid span. Now slowly loosen the vise. That’s what happens. Not everybody in Germany is happy, and it is in East Germany, eh?

[Mr P]

5 minutes> When injustice becomes law rebellion becomes duty

Enjoy!

[Mr P]

It’s always interesting, sometimes worthwhile to ask, when an article is published, to consider why the editor chose to publish it…I suppose there’s internal factional pressure in the direction described, pressure on the Policy and on Putin. 

“Russia’s nuclear doctrine urgently needs to be revised to allow a nuclear response to any major military aggression against the country, former Kremlin adviser Sergey Karaganov stated on Wednesday.” and so on.

https://www.rt.com/russia/603875-russia-ready-use-nuclear-weapons/

[Mr P]

Пентагон смоделирует последствия ядерного взрыва в России и Европе – РИА Новости, 12.09.2024

https://ria.ru/20240912/pentagon-1972222302.html

The Pentagon will simulate the consequences of a nuclear explosion in Russia and Europe

WASHINGTON, September 12-RIA Novosti. The US military intends to study the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons for the agricultural sector of Eastern Europe, including Russia, according to Pentagon documents reviewed by RIA Novosti.

Why not simulate the consequences of nuclear explosions in Kansas, fellas? It might be more useful!

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