Kiev story is very discomforting. Sometimes in a moment everything changes, but it looks almost the same. An example being an earthquake that shatters but does not knock down, or a modest explosion, or an unexpected loss of income. A broken leg… it’s happened to most people that they know this surreal category of experience. Che wrote a line or two along these lines. One moment comrade Bob is alive, next he’s not. Everything is the same, but it’s not.

Because it’s a character feature of technical people, perhaps, it’s unnatural for us to grasp how (obviously) nontechnical men see the bomb. The claim that US destroyed the last mustard gas I thought rather odd, btw…and I see claim 404 got some that did not make it to the vat.

Let us hope that Heaven does not simply look on. History suggests many Stierlitz active. Last time the result of the bomb was the soviet bomb. This time, well, the rhyme may be that this time the result is that the “soviet” bombs get used.

I have cartoon> All nazi cadre enter shelter, with dope and whores and catamites. Giant steel doors clang closed. Two USMC MPs, an Asian girl and a bearish black man stand next to bulldozer as it rumbles to further block the massive entrance. The welders are busy aloft making seal-welds a shower of sparks falls. Both raise talkie-talkies to lips. Black spy> “Привет? Товарищ президент? Да, теперь все нацисты за решеткой. Миссия выполнена!” Asian spy> 喂？ 总统同志？ 是的，纳粹现在都被关起来了。 任务完成了！(yandex)

Perhaps I shall draw it for The New Yorker… right!

Best wishes my Friend! We shall know all about it soon enough, hot summer? Yes, Ah reckon so.

P

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

Mercouris at speed… is there a technical barrier to generate transcript…

There is for me due to not knowing details of use of computer programs.

I suspect it’s not difficult.

Transcripts go faster. I shall ask a fella I know slightly.

Best!

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nazi grain went to China! Very droll! What was the Plan in 1940, they plant, we reap? This time nazis feed the commies!

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Ooops! cop-o-tronics say “shots fired” @ the Coffee Shop… another quiet morning in Anoxia… quiet? Yeah, a .22 pistol. No worries! Free donuts, two cops are already there. Ok, there you are, in the bright lights of the place, gazing out into the blackness of the riverain chaparral….where, presumably, some cat is waving his piece, what a great job!

More deer, they say, are killed with .22’s than any other bullet.

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Awaiting shoe drop post nato whateveritwas.

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Speaking of submarines and ships and commodities… call me old timey, but the war last time at sea keeps rumbling in the back of mind. I keep expecting, not yet, but soon, the time-tested methods of economic coercion, blasting ports and sinking tonnage.

U31 surface transit video…https://youtu.be/1wvCwEeDOJo

Convoy night attack U 96 https://youtu.be/R4GjYgJMENk

I am thinking that the Sultan maybe made a boo boo…

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Best! P

Apology…it happened that I went walkabout, limping a little! All’s well. Garden’s quite pretty.

Medvedev and the fellas evident occupation with possibility of atomic funny business> Kostas Tispis in (yeah flaky even then) Scientific American (circa 1977 or so wrote (or was quoted in important aspects) to effect. Speaking of “footprints” of ruin I recall vaguely quote from esteemed boffin: “Worst possible effect of an atomic attack results from detonation on containment of operating NPS.” Core and waste storage vaporized in summer breezes…oh how jolly! Article had handy maps too. Note, these fellas all get paychecks…and bark like trained seals. Do not look for altruistic motives, or honesty, count the change.

Worst is understatement. It may be a small risk, but with an unimaginable very bad possibility. Proportionate anticipation makes sense to me. Again, placing coward pols and financiers in crosshairs may be a rational and practical method of teaching the FA>FO mechanism of discovery on these unfortunate and foolish delusionalists.

SciAm search was not productive. Need Readers Guide to Periodical Literature… Later maybe ride bike to Anoxia Library… we’ll see.

Explosive machines are very interesting to read about and understand. On paper. My take on the risk…it’s real. The nazis are nazis, after all.

To get it right it takes a major size bomb right in the containment, imho, as in punch through and then bang. No one says that more than one gadget is not realistic. Nor that more than one target may be attacked at a time. It could kill Russia as a major State, I think…and do that in a moment. Naturally the secondary after-effects might be other than desired by nazis.

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Speaking of nazis and the money and the design > “operation pike” adds context to Groves’ “the bomb is for Russia”. The occult threads of the Big W2 conspiracy do, probably, lie unpublished, in diaries and dusty back shelves…it’s been about Russia since they “invented” horses…. (and actually they sorta did! As many know…)   😉

Well, we invented dogs, and some say that dogs invented man…it’s a party and everybody brings gifts.

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Just a thought> The chatter about dumpwater Fukushima speaks only of H3, tritium. This clumsy rhetorical diversion is transparent. The other stuff is the stuff that’s going to haunt and accumulate and metamorphose from one nasty to another until the sun burns down.

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Best! P

Yeah… I was just watching them… meantime, geewhiz! Just like the old days, sorta.

Did you read Klemperer “I Shall Bear Witness”? Two volumes. Seems familiar.

der Horst Wessel Lied (ain’t the rodeo like vaudville?) https://youtu.be/o8oH3hnCXaQ

Me an’ Gandhi, we think democracy is a good idea. lection? ‘ C’mon man… (!) 😉

I’m thinking back to the Algerian war, I knew a kid from there, we both failed French…then they spoke of bicycle bombs and stuff. Didn’t we come in on this act?

Seriously, the Alex pair tell lurid story too.

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“Ok, that’ll 39.95 and 10% fer da gubner”

“Does he get cocaine too?”

“Yeah, Hunter hangs out with Newsum”

No kidding. Ordinary people are disgusted and cynical. I’m right ta’home.

Best! P

There sure are fine and interesting stories and ideas…and great images too! Brings smile, even against such Times.

The NY Times is sometimes a source of telegraph messages. https://archive.ph/f77tp

“Decades behind its initial schedule, the dangerous job of eliminating the world’s only remaining declared stockpile of lethal chemical munitions will be completed as soon as Friday.” Right….

Article is lengthy and rambling political rhetoric…but what does it really serve? Why put all the pretty lies and pictures in the eye of Joe Rube? Right.

“…Pentagon officials caution that chemical weapons have not been eradicated entirely. A few nations never signed the treaty, and some that did, notably Russia, appear to have retained undeclared stocks….” and of course claims Syria did it… follow check boxes in memo…

What would Isidor Stone say? No, don’t tell me…

Noting that there was mustard at Bari in W2 and a lottafellas died from exposure…and that they used even more diabolical weapons on Japan and Korea and China…and that when yerlosin’   well, then folks do some terrible stuff.

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Recalling Laurel Canyon sort of things, and a “school”..which was, I think, actually lateral to MI6…somewhere in the 1960’s and out west. Things click after a lifetime…some fellas made a big ‘speriment. Interesting people though. They produced some really nutty people. Maybe that’s the function of schools, ahdunno. I split.

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Corn’s >2m already.

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Evap AC along the lines of modern chillers and also along the lines of ancient ones, tend to accumulate salts. Birds tends to inoculate the pools with parasites and bacteria. In modern pumped systems there are feedback controls, chemical additives, and so on…how these tasks are done in the old ways is sometime I hope to learn.

I note that dissolved salts can form a waterproof cement lining… ! If you get things just right… Well, we know it’s doable already, that makes it easy.

Best! P

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Yes, it really is a complex and intricate “play”. Our little fella…and his mom. How wonderful! Nyet! Indeed. Very droll.

In a perhaps roguish path, here we’ll see a picture.

Now then…write captions…pretend you do not know the people, and be a bit cute too.

https://archive.ph/6XMO8

I have a pretty good idea what Stumpy would write. Of course he’s always tryin’ for a group discount.

(sorry, I just couldn’t help it!)

Best! P

The gas problem touches everything. Some are fairly common, like argon…(about 1% of air is argon) but getting it smooshed into a can at 3000psi is not a backyard project. The sexy gasses are much harder to capture and clean up…fractional distillation and probably catalysts too….mucho kilowatthours. Build machine to do this? Start with the foundry, casting pump casings and motor frames…takes several years, and that’s if you really care.

Pretty much can’t run a muffler shop without argon.

I think you’re right. De-industrialization. Some screwy female pol in US circus show said “we don’t need farms anymore since we have grocery stores”… Mrs P caught that one… But not everybody is bald stupid. It must be by design, some insane fantasy…”Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root. That takes the reason prisoner?”

Meantime Operation Anadyr, for the fellas reading along, has wiki> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anadyr

Evidently a false comrade, they say one Oleg Penkovsky blew the gag to MI6 and the fellas.

Naturally they say this saved the day. This is a tautological claim. It’s interesting to speculate as to how the operation would have worked if the treason had not screwed it up. The armament was very impressive.

It’s a mystery to me what modern complex “Oak” is, but VVP was quoted in Pravda…and now even one Corvette missile boat…

Best! P