!    Good stories!

My old steel river-boat lost reverse in the IO at a funny time…so? No problemo! The dock was parallel to the current. It’s a river. Ease the blunt bow (more a small barge than anything else) ease her into the dock parallel to the current running up stream, ie stationary ground speed, hard over to starboard and throttle up slowly gaining lateral enertia on the aft hull moment, just at the right moment cut power and step onto the dock sprightly with both the port stern line and the port bow line in left hand…I’d done this before. It was about 3 AM and moonless…river like ink and nobody about…deserted marina. But this time the passenger delayed the matter, and I had to vault over the coaming. Right ankle swung against the port anchor. I limped for months. I suppose I broke it. Aboard I had MARSAT and COLREGS behind glass on the the “bridge”… nice boat too…and on the coaming in front of the steering station”LEFT” and RIGHT” were stenciled! Haze grey, black hull, chinese red bootstrip. I fixed the reverse problem. I had a wonderful time at the Coast Guard “Power Squadron” classes, still have the parallel ruler and compass and the class work. Navigation, believe it or not, can be a problem on rivers, fog. I did a DR plot entry at about 15 minute intervals when underway in the fog season. In the San Pablo and San Francisco Bay it gets very important, and grounding and submerged obstacle can happen. It’s quite easy, too, to take green water over the bow…wind waves build in some stretches of rivers.

Cap’n Ron> https://youtu.be/z68JxOamkNM   (Docking scene) Best! P

What is not said by our Chinese comrades is “what about production?”.

Ahbetcha production is 24-7… Ahbetcha China builds for herself now a vast multitude of drones, and they expect these to be very useful, too., speaking of the little matter of Taiwan and whatever is going to be left over from the defeat in the the Palestine zone.

Coup of BB wouldn’t change, would not stop, the war process, imho…maybe it might have done some time ago, but not now. That said, imho quite likely, possibly by his own hand, or made to seem so. No escape rat-line can save BB from his fate, though maybe he can fly away to the nazi HQ, still many people in zone nazi HQ get into “accidents”. I expect the zionists will be overrun. I suppose that’s a coup.

A little ouverture in UK https://www.rt.com/news/602098-anti-islam-protests-uk/

“Protesters clashed with police and left-wing demonstrators in Manchester, Liverpool, and dozens of other towns and cities”

“More than 30 protests were held on Saturday in cities including Liverpool, Nottingham, Leeds, Belfast, Stoke-on-Trent, Blackpool and Hull. The demonstrations came almost a week after riots broke out in the town of Southport following the alleged fatal stabbing of three children and wounding of ten others by Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year-old born in Britain”  Waaall, how about that! Divide to rule anybody, and about those 9 meals….

Yes, signals. But that’s a two way mechanism. Sell now, some capitalists calculate, because their assents will soon be worth nothing. That’s how I see the sell-offs. Contrawise, the nazis’ vain wish, and hope, is that by violence they can maintain power despite defeat and collapse – let us assume (oh I hope nobody gets hurt, I really do, but reason tells me that the fecal matter is headed for the fan) assume the senile feller “has a stroke” and the slut (any slut will do), becomes el presidente, whilst the Country suffers either a nuclear FF, or a real major attack (they always double..ok how do they double 911? and economic collapse. Two guesses, and one does not count) Civil disorder, (9 meals to riot, and let us not forget the “mostly peaceful riots”, torching of police stations, etc) …disorder and the “perfidious nuclear attack” (or whatever) “necessitates” “due to civil war” (recall Big Mike and Barry and their thrilling movie!) “postponement” sine die of elections…then the nazis rule by force and diktat.  The FF may even muder the clueless Orange feller…a “twofer”! Bloody Hillary salivates in lust for power…speaking of nazisluts. In zugzwang the last tactic is to pull out a piece, kick over the table, an’ start shootin’. They’re in zugzwang…that is the way of the universe….as they say Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.  Like the nazizonistas, mad. If it goes that-a-way we may think about what comes after that…as denazification is not a geographically constrained agenda, is it? Mothers’ prophecy, spoken softly back in 1964 (?) seems to be coming true… “the Country will go fascist”.  It’s almost there to-day. I wish a long and happy life for all, but it sure looks like a big storm is in the offing. Comrade Texas, bless his soul, spoke of visiting America aboard a Ruski APC… He’s gone.  His words echo. And Ruskie have a list of war criminals to arrest… No running away this time. No escape to Patagonia or rat lines to safe havens. Mr Bear never loses. Never surrenders. Never lies. Never bluffs, and is very upset! There are many Ruskie APC vehicles…

BB is afraid of jail, and poverty. Big motivations for a coward. 😉

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https://t.me/intelslava/64177

Use it or lose it moment seems to have arrived.

There has been a huge collapse in global stock markets over the past week.

The US Nasdaq 100 index, dominated by technology companies, has fallen more than 10% since its peak in mid-July. The Japanese Topix index lost double digits, and on August 2 fell immediately by 6%, which was the worst day since 2016.

As Britain’s The Economist reports, “panic has gripped markets” and Wall Street’s “fear gauge” – the VIX index, which measures expected price movements – has soared to its highest level since America’s regional banking crisis last year.

Also, “wild” moods reign in certain sectors – the index of semiconductors and shares of companies producing chips fell. For example, the price of processor manufacturers Intel and Arm fell by 25 and 40%, respectively.

The assets that investors “flee” to when they panic – gold, the Japanese yen and US treasury bonds – are also falling. Gold fell 2%.

The Economist names three reasons for the collapse.

1. Inflated expectations from artificial intelligence. The biggest swings in U.S. stock prices came from five tech giants that are active in AI – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft.

“The previous euphoria of investors about everything related to artificial intelligence is evaporating,” the publication writes.

What follows is a domino effect for chip and semiconductor manufacturers, who will lose some demand if AI investment falls.

Separately, adding to the instability of this industry is Trump’s statement that Taiwan, the largest chip manufacturer, will have to defend itself from China. And also Biden’s plans to introduce new restrictions on the export of chip production equipment to China.

2. Slowing US economic growth and weakening labor market. In America, on August 2, a report was released according to which unemployment rose to a three-year high of 4.3% in July, and the forecast for job growth failed.

The risk of a recession in the US has increased.

3. The third factor is the fastest strengthening of the Japanese yen in the last two decades after the central bank’s decision to raise the discount rate. Which automatically lowers the prices of Japanese stocks, since many of the large Japanese corporations earn money abroad in foreign currencies. That is, foreign trade will go into the negative.

This will force many investors to sell off assets, “which will increase instability in both the domestic and global markets.”

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Flee in panic time😉

Additional UK military units are being sent to the Middle East to support embassies in the region if required.

At the same time, transport aviation forces were put on high alert in case officials and diplomatic personnel had to evacuate at short notice.

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https://t.me/intelslava/64172

Dead in the water😉

(see graph)

“Near Stalling Of Production” – US Manufacturing Surveys Collapsed In July

🔸 S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI falls to 49.6 in July, dropping into contraction for the first time since Dec 2023.

🔸 ISM Manufacturing PMI plunged to 46.8 (48.8 exp) – weakest since Nov 2023 (near post-COVID lockdown lows).

🔗 Zero Hedge
ZeroHedge
“Near Stalling Of Production” – US Manufacturing Surveys Collapsed In July
“The manufacturing recovery moved into reverse in July…”

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Ready? They’re dreaming, bunchanazicowards.

https://theduran.locals.com/post/5952493/graham-biden-ready-for-war-budanov-crimea-bridge-gone-in-2024-ukraine-desperate-for-soldiers

mene mene tekel upharsin

Thought occurs to me that Iran is waiting while the entire resistance array marshalls for simultaneous action, this includes (but isn’t limited to) sweating the ubernazizionists in their bunkers, and ah suspicions, waiting for them to tire of bunker life and return to a more vulnerable set of positions…or perhaps conveine a large number of targeted zionists in one bunker –  big powwow – then send bigbig ‘sprise! As General Ripper noted, two can play at the game (of decapitation)… Somehow, unaccountably, it comes to mind that it may even be that Mr BB is on the special “do not resuscitate list” (gasp!). Hypersonic gizmos can penetrate a lot of concrete. In real life concrete isn’t very strong. Fire inside cookem. It’s too late for BB. FAFO…  Meantime sooner or later floating sea mines make bigbig bang. Sailors fear them, a lot. So far noone speaks of these, but they are terrifying…if even one goes off it changes things very much, even seeing one on the surface is terrifying. (That’s not a suggestion, I swear!) I do imagine that the locals know the currents and ways of the thermocline – the deep water flows different than the surface waters. And  the navy that almost rammed a lighthouse is ignorant as a hammer.

Presumed idiot zionists make stupid, good for a chuckle > https://youtu.be/4dsgQb3jkk4 Driving nazi car…then irritate resistance !    https://youtu.be/4dsgQb3jkk4  (Ignore the ad,  heels-up slut begging for money)