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  • in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53868
    Mr P
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    Thanks y’all.

    Oh how stupid a poor memory can make one! I now recall the US system. It’s like this…it’s true that coming from the sea one keeps to the right, the starboard (so far as possible), and likewise going to the sea one keeps to the right (so far as possible). Noting that it’s sometimes necessary to pass oncoming traffic starboard to starboard, depending on for example the draft and depth. HOWEVER! The right and left banks are named as if the mariner was drifting down to the sea… thus the right bank is on the left, the portside, of a boat headed upstream, and the right bank is on the right side, the starboard side, sailing downstream. I actually have a certificate from the coast guard with perfect test results on this (from 1980?) …but old fellas disremember sometimes.  Withal, the red bouys are on the left side of the river, the green bouys on the right. And the mnemonic for the colors is that port wine is red…the danger side. When a river bifurcates it can get complicated, and in estuaries tide sometimes reverses the flow… 😉 which can if you don’t know you position by keeping a plot and if visibility is poor, result in thinking you’re on the correct side of a river. I never had a radar (but sure wanted one, majorly neat!), and found myself in such a situation. Dropped the hook and looked at the tide tables and the clock and the current. Yup, wrong side of the channel. And there was ship traffic on that river… so I called the coasties on the RT to find out if there was a ship in the channel. There wasn’t. I waited for the fog to lift, tooting the horn regularly while unseen fishermen made their irritation pretty plain.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53858
    Mr P
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    Rivers and left/right.

    The general rule is

    “As a general rule of thumb, when you’re heading from open water to inland water, or heading upstream in a river, you’ll want to keep the red markers to your right and the green ones to your left.
    So, when you’re heading from the ocean into a bay, or from a bay into a creek, harbor, or port, the red markers belong on your right side.
    Hence, the old saying “red right returning.” Sometimes you’ll see an aid to navigation that has horizontal bands of both red and green. These mark the junction between two channels. In this case, the color that’s highest on the marker indicated the preferred or primary channel.”

    The right side of a river is thus the mariner’s right when going up stream, his map 404 back to the sea.

    In this image above it seems that right is called left. I am confused about this in the terminology we get from zone 404….and since  the Black Sea is connected to the world ocean, the Rule red right would seem to apply, sometimes it seems as though left is right, so to say…

    Maybe the Russian conventions, which would be extensive I’m sure, with respect to river navigation, are different…

    I welcome comments. Perhaps the problem is between my ears 😉

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 13 March 2025 #53855
    Mr P
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    I’ll take with salt… Russia: reparations + peace: Details of the Russian peace plan.

    https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/russia-reparations-peace-details

    The capitulation agreement outline, the bitter pill, is to be found below the series of maps.

    from MoA and Locals…

    excerpt> In addition to the fact that all our constitutional territories are unequivocally not subject to any revision, and the organization and conduct of a Tribunal on the facts of war crimes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our interests also extend to the entire left-bank Ukraine, where there should be no Ukrainian troops, and the territories themselves should be under our protectorate. The same applies to the Odessa and Nikolaev regions, where our monitoring missions will operate. This effectively means the establishment of our bases there. The administration of these regions should be appointed from representatives loyal to us. And, of course, these regions, like the regions of left-bank Ukraine, should have the right to self-determination.

    The pill might go well with a double vodka…

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 13 March 2025 #53850
    Mr P
    Participant

    @ youtube use seachterm chinese invasion barges.

    The Chinese make preparations. Note that the barges put down “spuds” (temporary pilings) and then can be stable enough to extend bridgeworks well onto the shore.

    example one of several…

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53799
    Mr P
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    Seems the Brits doan believe VVP, or maybe they do….more blood for the devil…more meat for the Red Army, fresh targets…

     

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 13 March 2025 #53748
    Mr P
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    My understanding is that while the Ukrainians may surrender, the mercenaries will not be permitted to. That’s to say they’ll die. Probably immediately shot dead. One must set an example to foreigners who might harbor unwise ideas…

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53747
    Mr P
    Participant

    At – 8 minutes Uncle Ray quotes Ruski [of the Europeans] …“they have to change or we will have to defeat them”  There it is. Note minus 8, ie 8 minutes from end. Rus is beginning to utter plainly what the Fate is. And what seems pretty obvious. The Europeans insist on making war on Russia, and thus on their own “reformation”, to put it politely. We might say the same for Project Orange.

    INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern : Weekly Wrap

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53725
    Mr P
    Participant

    Indeed so! A subtle difference in perspective can be significant! Very droll!

    All the chatter about Orange making some kinna deal had me worried. the deal is, inho, achieved when zone 404 is kaputski, the surviving criminals in labor camps, and Transnistria returned to Russia, along with all of Novorossia, and probably with the Russian fleet anchored in ‘Frisco, and New York…like last time…

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53685
    Mr P
    Participant

    Speaking of Gotterdammerung … 😉   “Striving for Nuclear Armageddon” Ted Postol and Comrade Diesen having a chat… and the PDF he promises to send sounds fascinating…something to put on the bookshelf in the shelter, eh?

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53684
    Mr P
    Participant

    You will note that Gilbert reports from Belgium that the nonmilitaristic tradition, the mood, has given way under the propaganda of Die Bormann-Bruderschaft (aka the EU) of von der Lyin’ , given way to a marshall anti Ruskie passion, more or less. Even to supporting a draft! Mon Dieu!  

    I note that like zone 404, if the Europeans make war on Russia, then their apprehension that Russia will attack the EU, becomes fulfilled.  Calling General Zhukov...must the Red Army go all the way next time, all the way to the sea?  Is that the deeper lust in the psyche of Europe?

    Dovetailing to this report, Frau Sara’s newsletter from 13 March> It begins (yes double meaning!)

    “What is being negotiated today in the Bundestag is the most insane arms buildup package and the greatest electoral fraud in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Mr. Merz, of all people, who portrayed himself as the great guardian of public finances during the election campaign, is now presenting his voters with a boundless, debt-financed arms buildup. And the SPD, which just a few weeks ago was still portraying itself as a peace party, will now rush through unlimited war loans in order to continue the USA’s losing proxy wars on its own. In my speech in the Bundestag, I will explain why I find it audacious that the very parties that are carrying out this villainous act here seriously call themselves parties of the democratic center, and why we as the BSW clearly say: NO to these war loans!”

    full newsletter, use trans-late-o-tron>

    NEIN zu diesen Kriegskrediten!  (No to war loans)

    https://9o3q3.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/1t6AVsd2XFnIGKAEYftnxxqS6ZUOHt/IxL3_ws37mBj

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53670
    Mr P
    Participant

    Brother Gilbert… good chat with Napolitano

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53634
    Mr P
    Participant

    Microwave radiation and zapping drones… Remember the fella that made graphene in his home shop lab? He later did some microwave presentation that was cool, and dangerous… well he’s go a kool one here>

    in reply to: Chronicles of the Apocalypse – 06 March 2025 #53626
    Mr P
    Participant

    March 14, blood worm moon…visible in all of north america, aheemm. 😉

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53624
    Mr P
    Participant

    Omen? What omen?  Blood Worm Moon? Fiddlesticks! 

    Worm Moon: Full Moon in March 2025 | The Old Farmer’s Almanac

    https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-march

    Total lunar eclipse…

    The Moon will enter the penumbra at 11:56 P.M. EDT (8:56 P.M. PDT) on March 13 and the umbra at 1:09 A.M. EDT on March 14 (10:09 P.M. PDT, March 13). It will leave the umbra at 4:48 A.M. EDT (1:48 A.M. PDT) on March 14 and the penumbra at 6:02 A.M. EDT (3:02 A.M. PDT).

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon, 12 March 2025 … Open Thread #53619
    Mr P
    Participant

    Joke from Kraut zone>

    “Ich war heute in der Buchhandlung und habe die Verkäuferin gefragt, ob sie das neue Buch von Frau Weidel über die Abschiebung von Migranten hätten. Ihre Antwort war: „Verpiss dich und komm nicht wieder!“ Ich sagte: „Ja, genau das ist es!“ ”

    Yes, in somewhat poor taste…use trans-o-tron, as needed… 😉

    Interesting, Zelensky’s propaganda department in Langley might write the same joke about the Ruskies in 404, many possibilities. Gringos in Mexico, etc…

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