Sal the Sailor man speaks of port congestion> https://youtu.be/C_tVfck_sVY

CONGESTION: It is Back? | West Coast Ports, Much Like Other Global Ports, Are Seeing Backlogs

(an Eastcoast US port strike may be called in October, just for giggles)

https://youtu.be/SwVCx_nmcog               Brother Pepe and Napolitano, 13 August.

Pepe Escobar : Will China Help the Palestinians?

Conceivably, the logic is flawed, and conditions change over time, but … We hear to-day from VVP that Rus can’t, will not, negotiate with an  opponent that pursues a Policy of attacking civilian, in the instance, the rulers of zone 404. We bear in mind who rules in zone west. (much less so the inhabitants) Let us extrapolate. In the short form 404=zion= NATO (and the anglosaxons and generally Western Europe) = USA . The strong implication tends to conform to the observed lack of US/Rus negotiation. Thus we tentatively conclude that the war will continue to Gotterdammerung, to total victory for the arc of resistance, for Global South there will therefore be either total defeat or total victory. We recall Marx and Engels and Lenin’s understanding of the necessities inherent in the forms and actions and implications of Capitalism. These theoretical understandings are subject to revision, but the form creates the function, does it not? Moreover, the western contradictions internally suggest great weakness.

The old statement come to mind: “Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours.”

Recently, by the way, fragments of this have been uttered by the Russian soldiers. History’s echos indeed.

What a pity that the bomb worked.

ZAINABZEHRA

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BREAKING IRAN has unveiled its first domestically-made hypersonic missile. Named “Fatah,” it has a range of 1,400km and can travel at 15 times the speed of sound. Officials say it can bypass US and Israeli defense systems, including the Iron Dome. #LongLiveIran

Very sexy!

https://x.com/i/status/1822954342321971566

Chinese and Ruskie gung ho.  “Chinese troops have been spotted fighting for Russia against Ukraine for the first time.”

(That’s a nifty gun, an’ it ain’t no candyazz small bore sexed up M16 or AR 15, it’s a real nazi-stopper)

Overture from Arthur C. Clarke Childhood’s End>

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city – intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.” “But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind…or the beginning?”

“The virus must have entered his bloodstream: or else he was merely approaching second childhood more quickly than he had supposed…” (quote from text)

Film 1996> https://ok.ru/video/3601612475046  1:57:00 the prequel 

Without children the adults wasted one another in endless fighting, iirc see also https://rumble.com/v5ahyv9-professor-john-bell-exposes-covid-vaccines-mrna-was-designed-to-depopulate-.html     Rather blunt, if I may say so. So? who’s the would-be “Overlords” Space aliens? Or rabid end stage Capitalist nazi mass murdern’ finks with abnormal brains and terminal psychosis?

https://youtu.be/MLg83QMmlGs  (Katyusha)

Kursk affair, fire. While the cooling towers are concrete, and seem fire-proof at a glance, that’s not the way of things. Strictly speaking, the system in a “chiller” – a giant swamp cooler. Typically, for sound reasons, chillers are made of wood. Wood that’s not prone to rot. Cedar, redwood, and so on.  And, iirc concrete is damaged by temperatures about about 600 F. The fire was, evidently, a large wood fire inside a draft tube (the tower is a draft-tube) . The internal structures are mostly wood. It’s a better material when constantly washed by water sprays and splashes. The tower may not be repairable. It is also one of two heat-transfer units, “cooling towers” which use evaporation to atmosphere as ultimate heat sink – which is the air. Loss of ultimate heat sink while in operation was the cause of Fukushima explosions. Kursk is not running very hard, they say “in cold shutdown” .  That’s very good.