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Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “for history buffs!”
(1) more on ancient cooling systems. These home “air conditioners” are multiple thousands of years old, and still in use. They may come in handy if the crazies succeed in deindustrializing mankind..
(2) Are Romanians the Last Real Descendants of the Roman Empire in the Balkans? Interesting story and roots. Apparently Charles the Turd of Lil’ Britannia also claims descent from an ignoble Vampire from their Transylvania… (Vlad the Impaler?!)
(3) The last 800 years of Sino-Russian relations. very useful review!! A true treat. Brings a lot of color to history. Originally posted by Be Well a few months ago. Col’s recent link to Carl Zha’s “Chinese century of humiliation” reminded me to finish it. It goes fast at 2.0 x speed.
Zha actually cries at 59 min over the seminal year of 1937! This strong emotion bodes well for current Sino-Russian currents. The betrayals of Khrushchev and the late Romanoff imperialism notwithstanding, Sino-Russian relations since 1919 have been quite positive, informing current comfort and trust. Was Gorbachev actually useful for once? As Soviets helped end colonialism in Africa, they also helped evict it in China and end the century of humiliation…. excellent historical recap
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Yes, the madmen are outta gas, narrative and road for that matter. Can we hope they hang a few neocons and set most of our wrongs right? We can dream 😴😴😴
Serendipitous you mentioned Algeria! On my mind and the Russians’ too. At the recent SPIEF conference, their President was the key guest. Lavrov made a pointed remark to his Algerian counterpart about French viciousness in leaving behind mines and refusing to provide maps of locations (!!) And Algeria is expected to be one of three new BRICS members, perhaps next month?? Even the shot kid being used as excuse to detonate France is a third generation Algerian iirc.
Now the Russian Ministry of FA had this message today:
(click on TG link to see Che Guevara in Algiers)
Do you understand why the French are so despised in former French African colonies? This was typical behavior.. the spiteful Brits weren’t only ones poisoning wells on way out. And as between India & Russia or China & Russia, it also informs why Algerians and Russians remain all-weather friends to this day. The victory over French imperialism by the Algerians was a landmark world event, inspiring decolonization in rest of Africa and worldwide. Pontecorvo was brilliant in giving us the visual and emotional time capsule.
This is why the West hates Algeria and denigrates its expats in France, eventhough as the Colonel correctly notes, it’s a USUK operation to torch Europe and spread the flames from France. Macron, even in his waffling and inadequacy, is on the right trail by wanting to shut down USUK social media… The French know! They used the same social media tools in Africa and West Asia to fan the flames of social unrest, lol!
So it begs the question, if they do not activate this minimum precaution of shutting the instrumentalized parts of the internet (even practiced by Russia yesterday) as seen in many countries under western coups attempts such as Iran, Senegal, Kazakhstan, etc.. — are the French authorities complicit and part of the demolition job??
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Speaking metaphysically, reaction processes based on molecular reagents require that the reagent molecules come apart (at least a little) in order to find their new places and recombine. In nuclear detonation neutrons are present as a gas (!) (wholelotta psi too)… so? Similar in political “metal”, if it can’t deform, it breaks and reassembles different shape. Heating solution…or jus’ a smigeon of this salt… and le presto! Calling Doctor David Collum…
Speaking of pressure…
Of course French authorities are, but probably not well coordinated. Individual bureaucratic units find new stasis. Takes time. Loyalties become fluid. Plastic process, snap crackle pop…ahhhh! “And think, Comrades, of our pensions!” Incentives can be important.
Failure to make and keep accurate maps of minefields is a specific war crime. It is a continuing war crime as each kid or farmer or goat is maimed. This ongoing process, and the memories, keep ill-will alive for a very long time. Long time. My son has the correct law text, otherwise I’d cite it. He’s bad about borrowing my books…but it’s ok..I did worse.
Recalling Seven Days in May and “ECOMCON” https://youtu.be/R5nQgYYS-j4
Control may be expensive and even trigger more metastasis, but sure, net switch condition “off”? Inevitable, imho.
I do not really see that tinder and method and military junta outcome is not also present in latent form in all of westzone…
During Algerian War we knew very little, but the kid I knew was a crude racist about his African brothers…really offensive. And we held for the Algerians…after all, they were willing to fight for it, who were we to criticize? I had family that felt differently. In America then we were provincial in spirit, we thought. And the world seemed rather innocent, or at least we could pretend so. Recalling Kennedy @ American University speech… Before the coups… We were and remain abolitionist. European Frogs belong in Europe.
The selective throttlin’ of ‘net may not be terribly easy, dunno… I’d look ’round for a good shortwave receiver…do some reading about what capabilities… the may be digital modes that are pretty neat.
https://youtu.be/8PP2MjP84Gw (Bobby Hwy61)
Best! P
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No. It’s necessary.
ZZzzzzzzzz……………
Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “A return to Simplicity”
(1) The Black Forest spreads to cover all of Germany. As crazed post-truth and neoliberal Germans busy torching themselves and make their country a no-go zone, they prepare to return to that part of their proud history as scavengers, foragers, and raiders of the central dim forests of Europa…
(2) Russia preps its Great Firewall. A great bifurcation of the internet cometh. The Imperial Deep State will soon unleash a global Cyber Polygon (the WEF’s cyber pandemic)… Will VPN even work in such environments? As sad as may be, it is necessary for “informational hygiene” until the dastardly Hegemon finishes croaking.
(3) Poignant comparison of Russians’ acceptance of reality & suffering in this life vis-a-vis western group fragility and escapism and denial of it, leading to bottomless humiliation. (only 11 min @ 2.0 x speed) It may not be all due to wealth and false sense of security as she says. West is a traumatized society. Abused even in utero… placed under the nanny care of Tyranny from cradle to grave. marinated in Lies and full-spectrum Narrative and hopelessly stuck in hall of mirrors. The ongoing implosion and collapse has positive aspects – it deconstructs and blows open the Narrative, and from the ashes permits a more honest and hopeful future…
The deeper unasked question is WHY. All societies face trauma to a degree… why the West took this response? I am reminded of that young Cossack medic recently posted on main site. He volunteered at once for terrible war. His wife was pregnant and essentially alone with another young! But the courage, acceptance of duty/sacrifice/suffering even at such a young age. Russians have something few others appear to have worldwide…
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Leonid Slutsky, leading Duma member indicated Z-NPP terrorism remains on the table and is the Comedian’s last card before Vilnius. (Original TG post)
The Comedian is traveling outside the Ukraine. Bulgaria yesterday, Czechia today, Türkiye tomorrow.. a convenient itinerary taking him out of retaliatory reach in these last bitter days leading to the NATO dirge in Vilnius… is it too early to celebrate the saving of Z-NPP?
The issue is NATO lacks conventional wherewithal even if they blow it up. There is no win scenario even if they overcome the stout Russian defense of Z-NPP… Are they prepared to go nuclear?? It feels like another futile demented bluff — “don’t blow us all up Russia, when we launch tactical nukes in ‘retaliation’ for your blowing up your own NPP. Let us declare a victory and move on to China!”
One can see the Russian rage and determination building against these absolutely inadequate degenerates. Karaganov’s two musing letters may become quite quaint and best-case scenarios the way events are unfolding
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They will bring Ukraine into NATO in a few days. If the Brits can’t swing their preferred terrorism at the Z-NPP, this is Plan B. Rules mean nothing to the Exceptionals. Indeed the Liar-in-Chief messaged it was coming last week when he said the Ukraine couldn’t get into NATO, just after Stoltenberg had left DC. Whatever he says is the satanic reverse of planned mischief. And to give Eurovassals a sense of false security, before he yanks the rug from under them again. Erdogan is now mumbling something about Ukies deserving to get into NATO too…
This dares Russia. The entire SMO was launched in great part to push back NATO and block the Ukraine’s accession. Medvedev’s already responded today.
In a way it’s a clever move by the down-and-out weaker party, without any palatable option whatsoever. They cannot retreat, or they lose Empire. Advancing conventionally is futile. Russia’s dug into nigh impregnable defenses, with time, manpower, logistics, and industrial warfare advantages.
This is a passive move to force Russia to come forward in offense and hopefully violate NATO borders in anger. Macgregor’s almost frantic at the delay! Will they? Highly unlikely. Rather they should invite NATO further into the Ukie killing fields. Has a General Staff ever devised as diabolical a plan as the one currently luring all little globonazi mice into the grinder??
So the new narrative’s being set. And the Liar-in-Chief and his Seven Dwarves in Vilnius present a juicy False Flag opportunity.. a tidy way to deal with him before primary season too.
Vilnius, once a constituent of the USSR:
- 30 km to Belarus border (!!!)
- 160 km to Kaliningrad, closest Russian border
- 300 km to Ukraine border
- 650 km to St. Petersburg, Russia
What a site for perhaps the last NATO conference! To hold their wake at this location is itself a provocation. This is not merely sitting in the face of the Bear, but setting up camp inside his jaws on top of one of his inflamed tonsils. The crazed pine to be put outta their misery
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“…Then giving back control to Prigozhin?
It makes one wonder what the end of the SMO will give back. And that bad feeling is reinforced when we see Azov gets back its men from Turkey.
Putin is a man and leader full of wisdom. My simple mind cannot easily see that wisdom in some of his decisions.”
How do you convince the terminally crazed to keep feeding the efficient wood-chipper and not to escalate to regrettable levels?? To stay patient as they are attrited out of both men & machines, at a minimum fuss to one’s own side?
You feign weakness.. dithering, internal lack of decision and firmness of rule, coddling frank criminals.. it maintains their feverish hopes, ever seeking signs from a distance. Will they not interpret these events as outreach, using their agents as public messaging?
“War is deception”
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Erdogan, like his Muslim Brotherhood secret society ilk, has no honor. It is the worst form of hypocrisy to publicly break your solemn word. And such ingratitude to backstab Russians after how they saved his worthless life and so many other concessions and lifelines given.
Even if there were secret arrangements, which I suspect happened inspite of protestations he didn’t consult the Russians, it lowers the dignity of the Russian state. Perhaps Russians allowed it, to give that dying NATO an optical fig leaf heading into Vilnius, rather than a NPP or other regrettable British terrorism.. Permiting nazi prisoners to prance in Lvov is easier to take, and more responsible, than the irradiation of Russian soil requiring retaliation.
And those nazis have now foolishly come closer as dead men walking in a land at war. Their mien sure changed once they left the Turkish beaches for Uncle Surovikin’s tender mercies, lol. And was that a side benefit too, from the corrupt and fealty-less Sultan — to send unwanted guests to their death, like how he is busy culling ISIS in Idlib too, also at Russian hands, whether in Syria or the Ukraine??
Nevertheless, cold revenge will be served to the dastardly Turks. Their future is bleak. Not only will Russia soon control much of the Black Sea coasts, their Anglo liege lords of the last three centuries are being buried. And they have implacably hostile Slavs and Orthodox to the NW and angry Arabs to the South… They really are the odd men out in their region. They will suffer similar sociocultural and economic strangulation as the West…
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What are the odds Mr P, that the Russian MoD told a small fib?? It wasn’t S-200s missiles that were sent, but Storm Shadows and other western gadgets?? Perhaps less emotional decisions were made after Medvedev to deconflict and not apportion the true culprit? Give the demonic sods a way out?
The maximum range of updated S-200s appears 300km. The closest distance from the Ukie border to Kaluga is about 290km… but they would likely be launched further back in safer environs.. Smolensk is also about 290km in NW direction. And these are old and slower missiles, developed in the 1960s. The faster and lower skimming Storm Shadows, custom-built for offensive purposes, would have a better chance, no? S-200s may not even be able to reach either target.
Kaluga is even closer than Smolensk.. only 160km from Moscow as crow flies. Its name is apt for the sinking West: “the name comes from Old Russian kaluga – “bog, quagmire”.”
This is an area so rich in History. In 1812, the Old Kaluga Highway from Moscow “… offered Napoleon his favored escape route from the Moscow trap in the fall of 1812. But General Kutuzov repelled Napoleon’s advances in this direction and forced the retreating French army onto the old Smolensk road, previously devastated by the French during their invasion of Russia…
…In 1944, the Soviet Government used its local military buildings to intern hundreds of Polish prisoners of war — soldiers of the Polish underground Home Army — whom the advancing Soviet front had arrested in the area around Vilnius.”Every move, within or without Russia proper, is zugzwang. So why hold out? What gives Medvedev the fixation on the nuclear lately? Have decisions been made on the evil side too? Is it only Old Sleepy Joe?
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Where are the Poets? Why so shy? Everything ok? And Anomalous, “July” is spelled just so! Not even a courteous Hello?!
Ok I will try, eventhough half useless..
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“Eating Crow”
“How the defeated negotiate
without conceding a thing
darkly storm-shadows their fate;
while Ukies’ lives away pissing!Sorrowful Vilnius summits
face irreversible losses
by agonized Euro dipshits
Planned Russia plunder plummets!Dim to us at the moment
In this deceptive Fogh of War
how kneels the lying showmen;
except daggers and lightning
must burn those who war adore”
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on Monday as he was leaving for Vilnius, Erdogan told reporters:
“Türkiye has been waiting at the door of the European Union for over 50 years now, and almost all of the NATO member countries are now members of the European Union…. Come and open the way for Türkiye’s membership in the European Union. When you pave the way for Türkiye, we’ll pave the way for Sweden as we did for Finland.”
+ Stoltenberg denied Erdogan’s agreement for Swedish acceptance to NATO was tied to any quid pro quo on his EU membership.
OK. So this appears a done deal for Erdogan, eh?? Clever move by Empire. As they gave India EVERYTHING they wanted in terms of technology transfer, and the full courtship pageantry.. so the vanity of Turks was stroked. The spineless Euro vassals were forced to swallow the bitter pill of admitting the hated Turks…. LOL. And being agreement incapable Pirates, the deal can be unilaterally nixed later too. Doesn’t the Sultan deserve this company??
This has security implications for the now-expanding SMO to frank NATO war. A Russian senator spelled out the obvious: “Türkiye turning into ‘unfriendly country’.”
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I celebrated too early! Mercouris just posted another 1.25 hr session……. you know, once this SMO is over (or the planet incinerated), even more than Russia’s Victory, I will be celebrating the END of 30-45 min/night (@ 2.0x speed!) of Older Alex, lol. And I want my graduation degree, more painful than the medical one, for having survived him!
ZZzzzzzzzz……………
Flotsam from the Maelstrom – “smoking in hell”
(1) Cliff Notes on the River Nile. Yemenis told me, according to Islamic legend, two rivers on earth originate in the Heavens… the River Nile, and the Euphrates. Both are amongst cradles of civilization. The Nile provided among the longest lasting and stable empires, in the Early Times of History.
The Euphrates features prominently in the End Times. It currently forms the front between the occupying Hegemon & the Syrian-Russian-Iranian alliance. Most of the world’s key hydrocarbons are buried in its mouth, divvied up between Iraq, Iran & the GCC Oil-Sheikhs. The region of the Euphrates undergirds the Petrodollar currency regime, over which the Last Hegemon will bitterly fight to the last, thereby triggering Armageddon.
(2) Uncle Schwab’s original Nosferatu meets ‘Angel Eyes.’ Before Noah Harari there was Klaus Kinski… Not a good omen for the pedophiliac blood-sucking Globohomonazidom cabal.
(3) Macron reimagined by desultory French singers… “On July 6, Higelin spoke from a stage in the Mediterranean city of Beaulieu-sur-Mer about imagining Macron “hanged 20 meters above the ground like a giant human pinata” and surrounded by a crowd armed with “huge bats with spikes on them.”” Yes. France is approaching the furious point the kettle starts to sing too.
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The transcript may make for faster reading, but it leaves out a lot that makes Alexander special. His inflexion points and emphases, pregnant pauses he uses a lot to speak volumes – sometimes to find the words to get around censors but often to convey something the overton window does not permit him. And he’s a lawyer, and knows to say the truth but that all too often the truth should not be said by a public personality in his fallen society…
And I already miss too much by skipping videos. He has expressive eyebrow movements and faces he uses to embellish!
A rather varied and rich lecture with historical snippets ensues each night! Such cannot be done justice by a transcript…. Perhaps the ideal compromise would be a 2.5-3x speed. Is that available anyone?? My phone only goes to 2x speed, like YouTube. iirc Rumble goes to 4x but that is excessive and unintelligible, even for the slow and ponderous Alexander.
I agree about subs and SLOCs. The Pirates will use them…. Maybe that was on the itinerary of Lavrov and Wang Yi @ ASEAN today?? The Malacca Straits is in the heart of ASEAN. But when the criminals start those sea shenanigans, it will truly be Game Over for them. Not only are they out-numbered, the entire Afro-Asian coasts are being marshalled against them. Russians keep sending satellites up, and the Chinese plan 40,000 satellite starlink (!!) too. They will inaugurate a hunting season, with the Sea Pirates the game…. and they will be beaten back to CONUS, sea cables cut, eyes blind in the sky, out of lily-pads, no supply chains open on the seas – only what they can produce locally. It will be really ugly for a while, until there is the necessary change of elites.
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Sudhi, the Ritter video was an amazing find. 👍🏼🙏🏼 I had to slow it down from my usual fast speed to savor it. What professional production value! Where did he get the money or time or knowledge to connect so many crucial dots?! I am not saying it’s dishonest at all. I agree with what is apparent, and it’s consistent with the track record. And Scott’s sincere. But desperate times sure breed strange alliances.
However, does it not scream, “Nuke the Limeys, not us!!” ?? Thieves fall out, lol! But kinda late to disclaim complicity, when you’re neck deep in Russian blood and have been the hired muscle for well over a century.
I have a feeling the coming months will make tabloids or seamy sitcoms look tame. Alotta hollering and finger pointing and throwing under the bus is in the pipeline before the war crimes tribunals begin.
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Your trip in the 80’s sounds wonderful!
….yes. I too think it’s not agtiprop. In fact, longlongago I knew of a small machine shop that made a particular device that had been invented by the drunken eccentric “Uncle “Bob”. Every time Luckup Industries built a sub, they bought one of these machines. Each time the bill was 5 years overdue, and “Bob’s Machine and Pump” put up a memo at the shipping desk to get a certified check. I have been a guest aboard a diesel fleet US sub, and of course visited the museum boats. And I cotton to my navy friends… it’s all maintenance, and everything that’s happened in the US military, and civil environment, fubars maintenance. They’re calling back the retired… I think I said a long time ago that we’re in denouement… I was reading about the strategies for States that know they they shall lose. …
IIRC the ordinary submarine maintenance rotation is by thirds. 1/3 in drydock, 1/3 FA, 1/3 FO or something amusing along such lines… I wonder what 40% means…is that .4 of the boats that ought to be ready for sea?
Father once aspired to a commission in the Navy with an eye to submarines. In industrial situations sometimes the conditions are similar, deep inside giant machines and 100% dependent upon the reliability and character of others, including the guys who certified the steel 40 years ago…and air supply… I rather enjoyed the experience. Some do not.
In German Museum 1962 or so I longed to reach past the ropes and to touch U1, but then I was a disciplined boy.
Doing Agent Z video. Nice job! Thanks!
Das Boot is oft rewatched, and it helps me with my incompetent German…which is great fun.
One supposes, soon enough, mine by submarine, and the funnybusiness with the cables…man have you looked at the cable charts? And “beyond the brink… ”
Best! P
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I don’t think the reservists call up by the sinking Degeneracy Inc is serious. More like desultory rearrangement of the Titanic deck chairs, and even more importantly, a time waster to keep Eurocrazies strapped to the gurneys as the euthanasia drips in merrily. Every one needs to dream, even of now forlorn visions of raping and pillaging Rooskies, no? So it works to assuage the demented Eurocrazies that their benevolent Uncle from beyond the Pond, albeit senile and crass and ugly, is coming to the rescue. They are being soothed like Ukronazis:
The nazis of the Fourth Reich did learn one thing from the last glorious iteration: if 3+ million stormtroopers and the most potent offensive land army to date could not cut it against the Red Army, they would not try with the Navy and Air force-heavy sea pirates openly leading the charge this time. And they know they will not be permitted to sealift sufficient forces across the Pond to make a difference.
As Smoothie reminds us, they are absolutely nuclear-biased, and this was before the gutting in the Ukraine! So it appears the demented believe they can nuke their way through the slog, their last Wunderwaffe to be unfurled. We shall see. I have a feeling this cruel summer is gonna get much hotter for Degeneracy. Enter the Dragon! The agitprop by Indian media notwithstanding, it appears serious bad news is coming their way next month in South African BRICS conference. Or maybe earlier in Africa-Russia conference in just over a week? Collapse and internal instability can certainly be hastened creatively in non kinetic ways! What peace of mind can the dastardly have if they’re fending off pitchforks and worse on every block for the foreseeable future?? Yeah, those national guard training for brutal internal controls last month were not sent for contingencies or even the mid-term.. even the blind can see a few weeks ahead…
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Welcome dear HT!
Mr P, Mercouris yesterday had an interesting if fanciful theory about the current preferred crazies’ outcome for their Ukraine catastrophe. I am assuming, as he invariably has a good nose to the grapevine, that he correctly reads their feverish longing. He said they wish to utterly destroy it, a la Korea, call it a victory, and depart without giving Russia the satisfaction of a settlement.
This is patent nonsense. It may sway the mindwashed in the drugged and attention-challenged west, but will fool few in the 90% global majority… the ensuing fallout will be unsurvivable for the Hegemon’s worldwide reputation and fear-factor. Power, the way the fallen West has come to strut and bark loudly, requires demonstrable effectiveness. Or as Janet Jackson once sang, “What have you done for me lately?” (Lol)
And a destroyed Ukraine would not stay destroyed for long, the way Russia works — see the glorious rise of Mariupol from the ashes! So further humiliation would soon become visible.
Their mission in the Ukraine was foolishly and clearly predefined: defeat Russia militarily, implode and “de-sovereignize” her, then dismember her. Every parameter was a failure. No amount of lipstick and whistling past the graveyard will obscure this strategic defeat. And shifting goalposts mid-game doesn’t work for the lucid in the Rest of the World.
So the maddened will keep doubling down into infinity. The only remaining question is who will obliterate them first — a faction amongst their own triggering a modern rendition of Operation Valkyrie, i.e. those wishing to survive the Sarmats and Poseidons, or the owners of the said Sarmats and Poseidons.
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