Watched  it. Between the two States were now have the doomsday machine running as a random number generator. If it outputs the “special number” it goes off. When it outputs the “special number” it goes off. The machine may however develop a flaw before the number outputs. It is possible, for example, that a CME or a comet might damage the machine.

Shoigu arrived on a visit to Iran, where he will meet with the president, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and the head of the General Staff, the Russian Security Council reports.

(Intel Slava 04:19) )

Agreed! The ruling class will now “crack down”, but that was always the goal. Physical and cultural differentials within the proletariat are easy for the fascists to exploit. But even in racially homogeneous groups, it’s not very hard to do. An Oxford raised red-headed ex SAS fella, an electrician, expressed very ardently why he left the UK Army… they told him he’d not be free in Ireland, to shoot and torture “Paddy”…so he quit and went to…get this! America (where I worked with him) . Wars, industrial war, and racism generally pit the workers all against one another, those enticed to the armies literally murdering each other. We’re on the same page dear. I note that the Communists understand this completely.

Elon says> https://www.rt.com/news/602111-uk-civil-war-inevitable-musk/   Well, it’s happened afore…and the bosses pit the working class against itself…divide to dominate… Lenin must be groaning at the irony…see  “State and Revolution”, V.I. Lenin          and also recent Joti Brar with Comrade Nixon, and at The Communists, and at Proletarian TV.

and Smoothie is having fun too>  Quoting the amazing Ms Z  > https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/08/ouch.html  Ms Z taunts the UK ruling class >

“…….We remind you that citizens have every right to express disagreement with the policies of the authorities. In this regard, we call on London to refrain from unjustified and disproportionate use of violence against protesters and to ensure that the right of the British people to freedom of assembly is respected…..”

And with very little surprise (to me or him) he notes that VTOL Soviet airplane research was stopped, but not lost…and the well educated Ruski airplane builders (probably) have a nifty new machine purty-near testing. Yakovlev Design , with direct orders from VVP.., no less, 6 years ago… “creation of a newest prototype for VTOVL aircraft was issued by Putin personally and that first flight expected in 7 to 10 years”  Maybe a bit ahead of schedule, Comrades?

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-issues-of-stovl.html

Enjoy!

I read a paper on the hydrology of the regolith of Palestine, interested in the water table and so on. In zone Gaza most, maybe all, is hard compacted soils. Near the sea its water is pretty salty, overdrawn wells bring in the sea salt, and nasty, sewage leaching. Bunkers, being excavations that are surface work, may be known locations under or not far from the entry excavation, unlike secret tunnels. If I had to chose a place to hide, chose between the two, I’d chose the tunnels. Focusing the zionazis in bunkers makes these targets. Their locations are discoverable. There may be antennas, radio communication, these are surface features and for technical reasons must be near the transmitters…though there are ways to use transmitters by remote control – some hams do that – And no doubt, air vents and power generators emitting heat “signatures” , power lines feeding in electricity. The fellas in the tunnels are dispersed and they’re accustomed experts…the nazi pols on the other hand, must be amateurs…sweating in terror.  My first choice for hiding would follow Fidel and Che…never sleep twice in the same place and never in a house. Grouping in a bunker may be necessary for control purposes, but it makes a bull’s eye target. After all the many months of general bombing, some with very large ground-detonations, the tunnels seem to have weathered the bombs. Soils are pretty energy-damping materials. Concrete, on the other hand is, iirc, about 10% as strong as granite, and it “spalls” and does not damp major kinetic assault…spalling means that on the inside it shatters and jagged fragments fly – of course you have to hit it hard, and there’s steel reinforcing, but it still spalls. (so does steel armor). The bunker did not save Hitler (but maybe Allen Dulles did) If they can, I expect BB and the fellas will run away to Maryland or DC. Meantime iiuc, most concrete work, physical work, was done by the native workers, supervised by zionists…I knew a guy who ran concrete silo construction in Palestine…boy did have stories! The Jews would not work, he said, but the Palestinians were good solid hands, and they did all the laboring. From this little bit I reason that the precise location of all the bunkers is known to Hamas and all their trusted pals. Radio direction and heat analysis ought to give a good idea of which ones are “special”. Drones probably can do this. BB may be realizing he’s trapped like a rat, trapped himself, the ultimate fate of the hustler. I would remark that as time goes by, BB may be murdered by his own “friends”, though it may look like suicide. It would depend on the wounds. The entire population is trapped too. Then there are pitchforks. Withal, imho the fellows in the tunnels are pretty safe, damp but safe. Probably moving up ammo and oiling weapons.

Jordanian FM in Tehran is bug-eyed by whatever was whispered. Calls for humourous captions!

!    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