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The Diary of Daedalus
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lol
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1499037873961639940
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
ha!
Thx, bunk
a dense read
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-opening-salvos-thrown-what-are-putins-next-steps-ukraine
lots going on there
morning. not awake yet
How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia’s ‘stalled’ 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine
Trent Telenko, a retired Pentagon staff specialist and military history blogger, suggests another big reason may be Russia’s tires, as he explained in a long, illustrated Twitter thread based on photos of deserted Russian Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile systems and his own experience as a U.S. Army vehicle auditor. “When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end,” the sidewalls get brittle in the sun and fail like the tires on the Pantsir-SR, he wrote. “No one exercised that vehicle for one year.”
Karl Muth, an economist, government adviser, and self-described “tire expert,” jumped in, agreeing with Telenko but adding some details about the tires.
https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1010857/how-cheap-chinese-tires-might-explain-russias-stalled-40-mile-long
Bit of a tire expert here. Those aren’t Soviet-era heavy truck radials. Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20. This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan; it’s a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design.
https://twitter.com/KarlMuth/status/1499185800172474371
If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.
How the Finns Deter Russian Invasion
If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.
The strategist Edward N. Luttwak has proposed that countries aligned with NATO shift in this direction preemptively, as a matter of policy. Instead of buying heavy, technologically advanced equipment, Luttwak told me, they should adopt the Finnish model. In Finland, adolescent males report for a short and intense period of military training, followed by shorter refreshers for most of their adult life. The training is not, as in the Israeli model, a few years of dedicated service. Nor does it emphasize military discipline, such as keeping one’s bunk tidy and shoes polished, or the Prussian-style transformation of citizen-recruit into fighting machine. Instead, it prepares civilians to be ready to join their unit and harass and kill invaders. A country of Finland’s size can rapidly field nearly 1 million trained soldiers. “Ukraine could have done this,” Luttwak said, “and they should have.”
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“Wait for them to enter your country. Once the tank stops rolling forward, let the soldiers come out to cook or to pee, and then kill them.” Finland suffered during the invasion and conceded territory in the peace treaty that ended the war three months later. But the Soviets lost about seven times as many men, and when they withdrew, they knew that occupying Finland again would mean frostbite, fear, and the chance of getting shot dead in the snow with your pants down.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/finlands-model-resisting-russian-aggression/623334/
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m 5 paras in and I’m already terrified
Gold is still under it’s all-time high, which is just hilarious.
@ coldwarrior:
So, what are Putin’s real goals? Like I said at the outset, nothing less than breaking the back of Davos and their agents in the US/UK who have tormented Russia for more than a century.
ok, I know who I’m rooting for
Gold will soar as China seeks US dollar alternatives
The seizure of Russian sovereign assets has no precedent in postwar history, and sets a precedent for similar action against China in the event of hostilities over Taiwan.
“It’s an absolutely radical measure to try to freeze assets at a major central bank. It’s a break-the-glass moment,” said Rogoff, now a professor at Harvard University.
“It’s a major thing,” Rogoff added. “I mean, if you want to look at the long-run picture of dollar dominance in the global economy, believe me, China’s looking at this. They have, I don’t know, $3 trillion in dollar reserves.
“And someday they may well do a similar thing in Taiwan. And they’re thinking about how to shield themselves. And it could have very big, longer-term ramifications for the global economy, for dollar dominance.”
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How to respond to sanctions is the subject of intense debate in the Chinese media. “The United States and Europe should realise that sanctions are a double-edged sword,” economist Gao Desheng wrote on March 1 in the “Observer” (guancha.cn) website, a Shanghai-based news and opinion group that often reflects deliberations in China’s State Council.
“While hitting the Russian economy, sanctions will also harm Europe’s interests and weaken the independence and credibility of international organisations, including SWIFT,” the global messaging service for international bank transfers, Gao wrote. “For the United States, the frequent use of the financial sanctions weapon will accelerate the process of de-dollarisation of the world, which is tantamount to digging a grave for dollar hegemony.”
The obvious response, Gao added, “is to aggressively reduce holdings of US debt in international reserves and increase gold reserves. By November 2021, Russia’s holdings of US Treasuries had fallen from $176.3 billion at the 2010 peak, to just $2.409 billion, accounting for less than 1.4 percent of total reserves, an insignificant proportion.”
Meanwhile, Gao added, “The Russian central bank’s gold purchases reached 46.5 tonnes in 2020 and increased by 3 tonnes in 2021. At present, the Russian central bank’s gold reserves have risen to 2,300 tonnes.”
https://www.intellasia.net/gold-will-soar-as-china-seeks-us-dollar-alternatives-1024480
@ eaglesoars:
Chinese tires dominate the RV industry in the US. Virtually all RV manufacturers install them as factory equipment.
Most end up being replaced within a year or two.
coldwarrior wrote:
NP. I consider it to be reparations for Mr. Possum for being suspended by someone who no longer works here. Here’s more on artist Nina Paley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Paley
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/us-army-announces-mandatory-training-pronouns-gender-dysphoria-russia-invades-ukraine-surrounds-kiev/
yep.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m at a loss. Any oversight committees worth the powder to blow them to hell?
Sounds better than any plan I’ve heard so far:
eaglesoars wrote:
the most level headed and neutral opinion / prediction that i have seen yet
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
She seems nice. /s
In reality, she seems really creepy and someone who has some deep-seated problems.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is still around? Shouldn’t they be extinct by now?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/arming-taliban-terrorists-80-billion-us-arms-biden-regime-lifts-bans-112-top-officials-iranian-terrorist-regime/
What did Joe get as kickback
coldwarrior wrote:
10% aka the usual
I don’t read the NYT so I didn’t know this. It comes via email from The Brownstone Institute
The New York Times this morning reports that the Surgeon General has “demanded information from [big tech] platforms about the major sources of Covid-19 misinformation. Companies have until May 2, 2022, to submit the data.”
The SG has exactly zero authority to do any such thing and even if it did, I’d tell whoever it is to fuck right off
AZfederalist wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
I didn’t get that she was creepy at all, just a leftist who designs some pretty cool graphics. And quilts. She does the digital designs and a digital seamstress cranks them out. I’d seen her .gif work years ago, didn’t know that she was well known (in some circles).
My eyeballs are a pair of black frisbees – I could barely see well enough to drive home from the optometrist’s office.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Free Possum
darkwords wrote:
lol.
I vaguely remember the episode. Mr. Possum spoke the truth, some here didn’t like it and complained to the manager.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I think that’s for AZ Federalist.
But I think she’s creepy too. I mean, the Human Voluntary Extinction Movement? Srsly?
Russia stops oil supplies to United States
https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/150550-russia_usa_oil/
There are no good guys here
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/why-would-the-ukrainian-president-cite-justin-trudeau-as-an-inspiration/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/ukraine-reality/
The Wisconsin Office of Special Counsel interim report on the election has some real zingers on issues the press, cable news, and politicians have heretofore declared to have been thoroughly debunked. Here’s a summary of one of the preliminary findings regarding Dominion Voting:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499140219077021704.html
@ eaglesoars:
And China has all the food. I’m essentially pro kid in all of this. I want the outcome that is best for kids in those areas. And I’d include Yemen. The west values kids more. But where we start sinking into oil tit for tat then everyone’s welfare goes down.
@ eaglesoars:
Trudeau dislikes fake nazis in Canada and likes real nazis in Ukraine.
Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
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5h
NYC’s Mayor Eric Adams is EXTENDING school mask mandate for AGES 5 & UNDER — THE GROUP MOST IN NEED OF LEARNING SOCIAL-
EMOTIONAL CUES, etc. THIS IS ABUSE! STOP VIRTUE SIGNALING THRU CHILDREN!!
** these maskers are mentally ill. imo. Should be slapped with restraining orders to stay away from kids.
Interesting take
I believe Putin is sick and tired of hearing Biden and America’s politicians lecture him about “Russia’s corruption.” Putin knows Biden is filthy and dirty. Putin knows the Biden crime family has taken kickbacks and payoffs all over the world. He knows Biden is “the Big Guy” who expects a piece of every deal. Biden lecturing others about corruption is like the Mafia lecturing about extortion.
Putin knows the center of Biden’s corruption was in Ukraine. Biden and his family intimidated, extorted and assaulted Ukraine. A little birdie tells me this is the big bonus for Putin after he invades and conquers Ukraine. He will capture and torture everyone involved in shady deals with Biden in order to unearth the secrets of Biden’s filthy corruption.
Then Putin has two juicy options. Behind door No. 1: Expose Biden’s massive crime wave in Ukraine, shock the world, make Biden step down, embarrass and demoralize the United States and paralyze America’s government. This makes Russia the new big, bad sheriff in town.
Behind door No. 2: Putin can blackmail Biden and hold his secrets over his head in order to get whatever Putin wants. Suddenly Biden is Putin’s flunky: the same relationship China already has with Biden. China has the goods on Biden. They clearly own Biden lock, stock and barrel. Now it’s Putin’s turn.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/03/heres-shocking-reason-why-putin-invading-ukraine-wayne-allyn-root/
darkwords wrote:
hardly. China can’t feed its own population
darkwords wrote:
He also likes real Nazis in his cabinet, see Chrystia Freeland
Fast heart day. Annoying. 7 months since the vax shot. Seemed better last month. Have to channel it for toughness.
@ eaglesoars:
Bannon national populist is my way to go. He should make it trend on twitter.
Crenshawtx and kinzinger have fallen repeatedly for war propaganda and suborned their efforts to big money politics. I still like Crenshaw but he seems to be McCain 2.0 without the scandals.
@ darkwords:
And I was a full McCain voter and GWB voter. But now in favor of neither in the present day. They served their time and the country moved on.
That cow Letitia James loses a fat one
Judge Rules New York Attorney General Can’t Dissolve the NRA
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/judge-rules-new-york-attorney-general-cant-dissolve-the-nra/
darkwords wrote:
might want to re-think that one. He doesn’t believe the election was stolen, etc.
BREAKING – Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine is on fire, says mayor of local town
https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1499535843207389186
eaglesoars wrote:
this says it’s a live stream but I can’t verify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUT36YGOh8
darkwords wrote:
ummmm, no.
time to go see a cardiologist.
@ coldwarrior:
did you see my email? I bought gold today
eaglesoars wrote:
just checked
i dont have yinzs email….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/chinas-dirty-work-joe-biden-weighs-sanctions-us-ally-india-russian-military-stockpiles/
it should be the US, India, and Russia against china…
i guess Russia and India don’t kick back and bribe our traitorous politicians well enough
coldwarrior wrote:
I will resend…
coldwarrior wrote:
I will resend…eaglesoars wrote:
still at comcast?
I’m having a hard time believing Russia targeted that nuclear plant. Wouldn’t Putin want it intact? Sabotage or a fuck up? Or….??
@ eaglesoars:
yep
This is great.
Where’s Fauci?
I had to dig pretty deep to find some of his recent media appearances, but I didn’t want to let you all down, so I persevered through the interwebs to find evidence of Fauci’s existence.
He recently appeared on an online streaming show called “Woke AF” (As F**K), in which he expressed his disdain for the unvaccinated. In a clip featured by the show host on Twitter, Fauci rants that the unvaccinated have no respect for greater society. Fauci, who comes off as a broken man, channeled plenty of his regular pseudoscience, claiming that the unvaccinated “give the virus the opportunity to circulate among us.”
more at the link
https://dossier.substack.com/p/wheres-fauci-infamous-bureaucrat?utm_source=twitter&s=r
coldwarrior wrote:
ok, it’s resent
eaglesoars wrote:
Me Too Eagles
Me Too.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Artillery strike on the admin buildings and the Russian local troops on the ground have denied the local fire brigards access, to put the fires out. So far the reactors are still operating OK, producing power and are NOT leaking. The previous reports of airstrikes appear to be fake news.
eaglesoars wrote:
Where does one find Chechen hit squads when needed?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
And I’m really tired of people portraying the Ukie gov’t as some helpless, innocent lover of democracy and freedom.
When Putin talks about ‘de-Nazifying’ Ukraine, he has a point. If Mexico wanted to join the USSR would any sane U.S. gov’t put up with it?
No. Putin is not mentally compromised, he is not stupid and there is an argument to be made that he is legitimately fed up.
Not to mention that his intel svcs probably know everything about how compromised the Bidens are vis a vis the Ukraine and I just wish he’d release that stuff. Now is probably not the time tho and it would be discounted at Russia propaganda.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Previous commitments, please leave your name, number and the dates on which you require their services, someone will get back to you at the earliest opportunity
The Russian forces are using Baofeng (China) UV-5R dual-band 2m/70cm (440 Mhz) ham radios that sell on Amazon for $25 to $60. It’s a great radio for the money, and lots of hams I know have them, along with the separate clip-on mic/speaker so the radio can stay on the hip.
Except for jamming and lack of encryption, and the fact that amateur radio operators in all countries already frequent those bands, it’s an extremely good choice for an army under budget.
And of course these hand-helds also scan the bands, and this of course makes intercepting Russian radio communications a snap.
That is apparently providing a trove of information, and showing just how bad the state of the invasion force is. Screaming, crying, bitching, confusion, rebellion, shock at what the mission is, and anger at the abysmal supply and food situation.
Over a week in, with what purports to be a near-peer highly mechanized military, and they haven’t managed to take over two cities that are 15 miles from the Russian border, nor slightly more distant Kiev. It more resembles the Italian invasion of Greece than Operation Barbarossa, and Operation Barbarossa was mainly a horse-drawn wagon assault. Only the Russians could turn mechanized warfare into something that’s slower than Roman legions walking on foot.
http://www.transterrestrial.com/2022/03/02/the-state-of-putin-and-the-world/#comment-491131
Finally somebody talking about this
Large-Scale Solar Installations Can Threaten Natural Landscapes, Species, Habitats
https://www.theepochtimes.com/large-scale-solar-installations-can-threaten-natural-landscapes-species-habitats_4307125.html
@ eaglesoars:
got it, email werent getting to my phone
@ coldwarrior:
replied
@ eaglesoars:
Her paternal grandfather was a Nazi sympathizer. Worked closely with them against Jewish people in the region. Stole his newspaper infrastructure from a Jewish owner who was lately killed in a camp. She wants to not address it.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/27/chrystia-freeland-family-record-nazi-war-murder-cracow-jews/
darkwords wrote:
no ‘sympathizer’ escape. He was a flat out Nazi
eaglesoars wrote:
That and a skull quilt for little kids to sleep under? That’s creepy
eaglesoars wrote:
… and the reason Soros wants the US to protect Ukraine now becomes clear
AZfederalist wrote:
oh yeah.
eaglesoars wrote:
Putin doesn’t care. He wants a buffer between Russia and Europe. If it’s a desolate uninhabitable wasteland that’s actually good for his objective.
Mark Zuckerberg needs an intervention. He is clinically insane.
No Zuck-in way! Mark Zuckerberg claims we will all ‘live’ in the metaverse in the future and leave reality behind for a virtual world of our own creation
‘A lot of people think that the metaverse is about a place, but one definition of this is it’s about a time when basically immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we live our lives and spend our time,’ Zuckerberg told Fridman.
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He said in future, for people to start to carry out every day activities in VR, they need to feel fully present, to keep up the illusion of immersion.
‘In the real world you have feelings of temperature, olfactory and touch. We are working on haptic gloves. All of these things will be critical to keeping up the illusion you are fully present in the world, and these building blocks will happen in 10 years.’
‘One of the things we’ve found with hand presence, …. what’s the right way to represent them? When I look in the physical world I see just an arm and it would be super weird to see just a hand, but it turns out not to be the case.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10573907/Mark-Zuckerberg-claims-live-metaverse-future.html
Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
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Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?
The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country – and the world – a great service.
** unwise…. gloves come off of Russians if that happens. The reason we can’t have a diplomatic peace is that the diplomats have no skills.
AZfederalist wrote:
I get that he wants the buffer. But a wasteland is alternative Z on the scale of ‘best outcomes’.
darkwords wrote:
oh shut up Miss Lindsey
We’re saved!!!
White House discussing sending Harris to Warsaw, Bucharest
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/596761-white-house-discussing-sending-harris-to-warsaw-bucharest
@ eaglesoars:
Are they including her in the discussions?
coldwarrior wrote:
I used to be of the opinion that MacGregor was way past his prime, based on some stuff I actually knew a bit about and on which MacGregor was commenting. I’m now of the opinion that he has actually got a reasonable handle on what lays behind the fighting in Ukraine. Perhaps he was straying outside his area of expertese, when I drew my first impression of his comments.
eaglesoars wrote:
Which was to the nuclear fallout shelters?
🙂
@ Possum:
From downstairs:
We’re involved with TNR.
We keep saying “we’ll take this cat in, get it fixed, socialize it, then take it to the Humane Society.” Everything happens except that last step. How else would we end up with 20 cats? Plus an outdoor stray (very well fed and friendly) and a feral.
At our old house, we put a cat flap in the garage door so that the stray and ferals could get in out of the bad weather.
Yes, we’re nuts.
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe we can get a cheap job lot and include Miss Lindsey in the target description.
🙂
right_wing2 wrote:
!!!!!
lobo91 wrote:
not if they have an IQ above room temp
I’m going to bed. I am of the opinion that this is Zelensky’s fault. I think he knowingly provoked this by bleating about joining NATO and the EU knowing it would provoke Putin. Putin’s reaction was totally predictable. This is all BS.
Ukraine’s gov’t is one of the most corrupt on the planet and because they have the receipts on Biden they bet they could get away with it.
Looks like they were right.
nite
@ eaglesoars:
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/5873-thank-you-george-ukrainian-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-director-credits-soros
You can smell Soros’ stench from here on the whole Ukie enterprise.
🙂
Buck Sexton on Megyn Kelly podcast says the reality is that Russia will probably cut Ukraine in half. He refers to Putin destroying Chechyna. Leveled Grozny. Says the same will occur in Kiev unless Zalensky gets a 3rd party to broker the peace.
@ Aussie Infidel:
There are two sides to every conflict, and at the moment we’re only getting one. Doesn’t it seem odd that in the age of the Internet there’s a media blackout on the Russian side of this fiasco? Zelensky’s out there every day on Fox and CNN telling us what’s up, and Putin is silent? Why?
Soros pet project is the Ukraine.
eaglesoars wrote:
… and now Zelensky is begging NATO to secure a Free Fly Zone, especially over Western Ukraine knowing full well that that will spark a reaction from Putin where NATO forces and Russian forces clash. Zelinsky thinks that Putin hasn’t the balls to use tactical nukes. He’s wrong on so many fronts. This tempts the ‘gods of war’ and a nuclear exchange in Europe and possibly globally. Zelinsky doesn’t care as that feeds right into the overall plan of the Great Reset and New World Order to depopulate. China will just stand on the sidelines and clap, as the world around it disintegrates, leaving China as the sole World Power
darkwords wrote:
… and the Biden crime family is the creation of Soros’ Open Society Satanic abomination.
@ darkwords:
This is in no wat to forgive Putin’s ‘thugocracy’ that keeps the Russian people under his corrupt thumb.
There are NO angels in this sorry tale, just wicked people and the average people who make up the innocent and manipulated extras in this sad play.
AZfederalist wrote:
I made that part up. Relax. It’s just artwork.
@ darkwords:
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/young-man-kicked-off-live-aussie-tv-show-for-supporting-russia/
the mass blackout on news from the ‘unapproved’ side and misinformation is absurd…i mean, people might just start to talk about our politicians and their ties to corruption in ukieland.
this was MUCH easier to do without the internet, now it’s simple.
most peeps see through it tho, i hope
putin must be right over the target
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/03/on-putin-lindsey-graham-calls-for-russian-brutus-to-take-this-guy-out/
what’s got ya so worried, lindsey?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/fire-erupts-ukrainian-nuclear-power-plant-elevated-levels-radiation-detected-video/
looks like the report of a reactor fire and leak was total made-up propaganda bullshit
more heavy reading
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/america-defeats-germany-third-time-century-mic-bare-ogam-conquer-nato
ummmm…Janet Yellin just gave Putin $18B out of the SDR?
John Kennedy pitches a fit…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqa6seWSeA
eaglesoars wrote:
mostly paid for by us
@ coldwarrior:
of course
coldwarrior wrote:
that’s a good piece
Cool sunrise.
Red in the morning sailors do stuff.
woooot!
my new (factory refurbed) kitchen aid profession 7q stand mixer jut got here! my 25 yr old old 4.5q classic still runs great, but just can’t do the large batches.
time to make some bread!
@ coldwarrior:
Ha! See ya tomorrow!
huh
BACK ON DEATH ROW: Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence for Boston Bomber
https://hannity.com/media-room/back-on-death-row-supreme-court-reinstates-death-sentence-for-boston-bomber/
Hey all.
So I’m just checked into a hotel in St. Clairsville OH just off of I 70
Crap. Phone issues.
Anyway…
I’m in this hotel this am arrived from points north (Williamsport) as we are fracking like crazy.
There has been a trucker convoy billing itself “Freedom Convoy 2022” going past here with Manu onlookers on overpasses and off ramps waving flags and FJB/LGB signs.
To give you a scope of the size, it’s been going by at about 40mph for an hour and a half.
Not that anyone in the media will report on it…
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
there’s a 2nd convoy, the People’s convoy who are right now just outside Hagerstown MD. They are warning truckers who want to join up to avoid the Freedom convoy because the organizer failed to organize something or other.
FWIW
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
excellent!
keep us posted!
eaglesoars wrote:
this is really nice!
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
THAT’S good news
WTF???? my phone just went off and my cricket app sez:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/australia/shane-warne-dies-death-age-cause-of-death-australia-legend-passes-away-in-thailand-of-suspected-heart-attack/news-story/2871d970df662a247709703aa287ce84
he’s 52!!!!!’heart attacks’ don’t happen to 52 year old world class athletes.
this is a very sad day for cricket.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Freedom Convoy came through Montana and donated a ton of food and supplies to our local charities. It was pretty cool of them, even the press had a hard time painting them as evil.
@ coldwarrior:
he was a renowned party animal
and he could do this:
@ coldwarrior:
I will.
@ eaglesoars:
Well, I saw trucks carrying banners for both so…I think that ship has sailed.
Hopefully they don’t get in a jam. There’s a lot of them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/so-many-holes-swift-sanctions-russia-they-are-useless
ha
“What this means is that the Swift ban falls into the SINO category: sanctions in name only. The EU is cheering on the Ukrainian side from a safe distance, watching from warm living rooms, heated by Russian gas.”
@ coldwarrior:
Please refer to my earlier ramblings LOL
Saw that one coming…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/04/turn-down-thermostats-to-fight-the-ruskies-europeans-told/
yeah! that’ll show those pesky ruskies a thing or two!
@ Possum:
yep
@ coldwarrior:
It’s all over the Daily Mail. Nobody is saying the word ‘vaxed’, probably because he smoked, drank, and was overweight
FAST FIVE: Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately (Update 1:25pm ET) – Those who have it, are no longer giving it away, and those that don’t will soon find themselves in the middle of an epic food crisis.
Just hours after we reported that Russia effectively banned exports of fertilizers, moments ago Hungary – one of Europe’s most grain rich nations – has circled the wagons and realizing which way the wind is blowing, just announced that it will banning all grain exports effective immediately, in a statement .
Expect wheat prices, already at record highs, to promptly double from here in the next few weeks as the world realizes the extent of the global food crisis that is coming.
And unfortunately, we can now confidently predict that the coming food crisis will strike every country that is using food fertilizer – which is all – because moments ago, Russian Interfax reported that as part of Moscow’s countersanctions, Russia has recommended fertilizer makers to halt exports, a move which will sent not only fertilizer prices orbitally higher, but all food prices will soon follow.
https://nwostop.com/2022/03/04/fast-five-food-crisis-imminent-hungary-bans-all-grains-exports-effective-immediately/
From the Galaxy Brain that wants to tax unrealized capital gains
Yellen: “the link between greater equity and stronger growth is one of the reasons the Biden-Harris Administration’s economic agenda embraces racial equity as a core component.”
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1499838784149594124
eaglesoars wrote:
One way ticket? That would be helpful to the US. Not sure Warsaw or Bucharest would appreciate that though.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
As soon as I saw that Soros was pushing for the world to defend Ukraine, my whole outlook on this affair changed. Anything, and I mean anything, that Soros supports is the wrong side. My go to for this is the Evan Sayett principles of liberalism, the first of which is that liberals get it wrong, not most of the time, but every time.
coldwarrior wrote:
Not sure that I agree with many of the premises in this article and it definitely seems more progressive than free-market. When it is taking the view that one of the “Oligarchies” is the Oil and Gas and mining industry that want resources developed and spewed into the atmosphere, I ask what the motive is. That sounds way more zero-carbon environmentalist than pragmatic use of available resources.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh yum. Nothing like fresh baked bread. With big slabs of butter.
/dang, now I’m hungry
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey, maybe Jimmy Carter can give a 68 degree speech while advocating wearing sweaters. After all, our economy, energy, and geopolitical landscapes seem to have all returned to Jimmy Carter era levels.
eaglesoars wrote:
Huh? I read that three times and still don’t understand that word salad. These people act like we have never had strong economic growth or a healthy thriving economy. These people are evil and somehow think the rest of us are idiots.
@ AZfederalist:
Oh, and get that word “equity”, it’s not about equal opportunity or even preferences, it’s about taking from those who have and giving to those who don’t. Reparations, just using a different word.
@ AZfederalist:
And according to John Kennedy, she just gave $18B to Putin out of the SDR. Who the fuck oversees that? I think it’s the IMF???
Oops!
State of Kentucky’s Teachers Retirement System was the second-largest shareholder for Sberbank of Russia (The largest bank in Russia).
Their position dropped 95% in value from $13MM to $778K
https://twitter.com/mkt_sentiment/status/1499585220001304576
@ eaglesoars:
apparently they sold after this, taking only a 25% loss
ok then
gah
WISCONSIN ELECTION 2020
⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️
“The OSC learned that all machines in Green Bay were connected to a secret, hidden Wi-Fi access point at the Grand Hyatt hotel”
Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel (March 1, 2022)
Report:
https://legis.wisconsin.gov/assembly/22/brandtjen/media/1552/osc-second-interim-report.pdf…
https://twitter.com/SMCosta6/status/1499835885499686922
I don’t know how you ‘hide’ an access point…
hey y’all
the girl is popping in this weekend and next weekend is the start of spring break
yeah, I missed my girl
@ rain of lead:
say hello for us.
@ rain of lead:
when i was working my way through school i’d spring break by taking time off work to watch march madness.
great fun…well, i’m off with a surgical shoulder, so…
need to buy more beer and get into championship week.
yeah, yeah, yeah….panem et circenses. whatever. i watch sports because the self flagellation of being serious and political all the time seems like some sort of masochistic nightmare created by cromwell and his ilk.
@ coldwarrior:
Hear Hear!!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Putins probably got another 10 years in him. Soros? I would think people will be looking for his scalp. He is the Johnny Appleseed of resetting countries through destruction.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Gave the two year old niece a Punisher top. Tired mom thought it was ok.
@ coldwarrior:
Lindsay must have bank accounts and secret lovers there. Only reason I can see for him to get assassination emotional.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Maybe once they gridlock DC. The media will be in a hurry to frame them.
darkwords wrote:
He spawned. They’re just like him.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m following some pro China social media. There is a lot of memes in it about the folly of Biden, America being the worst bomber of kids in the world, and now advocating Sino-Soviet-India trade pacts with banking.
Everyone is noting the financial rugpulling the west is doing on anyone they don’t like. Even the Chinese don’t like the over woke in the west. That is their game.
@ eaglesoars:
You would set it out to not broadcast its network name. Then its mostly only accessible to people that know the name.
A leased line or dial up would be easier but it is probably more trackable.
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
FACEBOOK WILL TEMPORARILY allow its billions of users to praise the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi military unit previously banned from being freely discussed under the company’s Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, The Intercept has learned.
** these are the good Nazis.
@ darkwords:
Apparently the Ukraine is one country where organized Nazis are a real problem.
US TREASURY SECRETARY YELLEN: I BELIEVE THE FED CAN REDUCE INFLATION WITHOUT CAUSING A RECESSION.
https://twitter.com/Financialjuice1/status/1499847870974988298
No she doesn’t
darkwords wrote:
And the Azov brigade is right up there. The last time around, they burned people alive. Orcs
I prefer pirates.
Pirates > Communists > Nazis. I am pro pirate.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t think there is anyone in the Biden admin smart enough to manage a payroll office much less an economy. Their solution is to just throw money at a problem then cheer that they solved it. Whether they did or not. No accountability.
darkwords wrote:
Oh, they’ve actually adopted an entire economic theory that maintains all you have to do is print more money and it doesn’t cause inflation, no siree…I forget what it’s called, it’s so stupid my brain hurt and I couldn’t get past it.
jrpg in the crosswalk
https://twitter.com/MichaelWarbur17/status/1498940639249145857
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Abbey Road
um…
New research suggests a causal link between blood group and severe COVID-19
The analysis identified that an enzyme (ABO) that determines blood group was causally associated with both an increased risk of hospitalization and a requirement for respiratory support. This supports previous findings around the association of blood group with higher likelihood of death. Taken together with previous research showing that the proportion of group A is higher in COVID-19 positive individuals, this suggests blood group A is candidate for follow-up studies.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-causal-link-blood-group-severe.html
I do recall that way back at the beginning somebody noticed people with o+ blood type weren’t dying
eaglesoars wrote:
I didn’t want to spoil it.
Beat the Meatles.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
you didn’t. I remember.
@RealCandaceO
January 6th protesters must be in awe of twitter’s apparent redefining of “inciting violence”,
This week you can call for the assasination of a President plus drop maps of how to make Molotov cocktails without having your account deleted.
As long as you’re pro-Ukraine!
Walk out of the line at the Capitol on Jan 6 and go to jail for 1 year if you are a MAGA.
Threaten to kill a foreign leader in your role at the Capitol and get a mean tweet or two.
Hubby gassed up his car today. Up a dollar in 2 weeks
Visegrád 24@visegrad24·4hLogistics win wars. Diesel fuels victory.
HUNTSMAN @man_integrated · 8hBullets and bandages are all well and good.
But if the West were serious about helping Ukraine, it would be doing all it could to get supplies of diesel into the country and safely distributed.
Abandoned tanks and APC’s, backup diesel generators, trucks, etc. are all thirsty.338195HUNTSMAN
RetweetedCatherine Wen@CatherineWenNTD
China Changed Supply Chain Strategy With Russia 3 Months Ahead of Ukraine Invasion, Suggesting It Had Foreknowledge: Analyst
@ eaglesoars:
UP 50 cent here this week. $4.50 per gallon
HUNTSMAN @man_integrated·
If we are at point zero, and decline to -10, the return to zero is called a “recovery”, not a boom.
It seems that Hashtag Math is just as effective as Hashtag Diplomacy.
re Biden job boom.
darkwords wrote:
I have no idea what that means. going to bed. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
shadow stats
darkwords wrote:
no sir!
you, sir, do not understand the importance of PIRATES!
https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/pirates-and-global-warming/
aye!
coldwarrior wrote:
The MSM including daytime Fox was full of moronic talking head idiots screaming global winter over the Russian attack on the reactor sites. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with GLOBAL WINTER but obvious these shrill talking heads have no idea what their scripts are telling them to say.
One gets radiation leaks from reactors that leak , which these particular reactors didn’t, but Global Winter is NOT about reactors. It’s about dirt thrown up into the atmosphere by a few thousand nuke warheads.
Yet there were these idiots in the full glare of the ‘free press’ raving on about nuclear winter.
These morons are a danger to themselves and definitely to the rest of us.
SPIT
@ Aussie Infidel:
dad was a nuke professional.
i get this stuff at a level that 99.5% of the public could never understand
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually worse. Especially his bastard son!
coldwarrior wrote:
One of my best mates who ended up a 2 Star in the US Reserve, was when wearing his civilian hat was the director of the Hawaii Nuclear facility, at Pearl Harbor. What he didn’t know about naval reactor tech just wasn’t worth knowing. Not that he shared much of it with me! He was actually born in Shanghai and arrived in the states in 1948 after the Chinese revolution as a 6 month old.
🙂
🙂
My old ‘beach’ Apple finally gave up the ghost a few weeks back and I need a replacement. This time I’ll make it a laptop with a decent screen size. This one that I’m using now is way too small
@ Aussie Infidel:
warne is dead.
wtf…
he’s my age
coldwarrior wrote:
I know. The 6 o’clock news is on now and they are showing clips of Warney in full spin mode. I think he pushed waaaay too much white powder up his nose during his life and screwed his heart.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
hp makes a nice 17″….
mrs coldwarior went for it. not too fast, i5….but big touch screen
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i hope it was that.
even from over here, the man defined ‘dude’ and ‘bloke’
and, i enjoyed listening to him on broadcasts here. always a bit over the top
coldwarrior wrote:
Nah I’m an Apple person. I like the new 16 inch laptop. I was going to replace the old ‘beach’ desktop with a 24 ” desktop but Mrs A I says it takes up too much space and wants to take a laptop to bed and watch Netflicks. I like the new table top and they are not too heavy like the old 27 ” desktops
@ Aussie Infidel:
i saw an interview on indian tv with verat kholi, he was crushed. in tears.
@ coldwarrior:
We’ve been dogsitting for our daughter. I woke up at 0400 this morning with a toy sized dog draped over the top of my head on the back half of my pillows. Miss dog has now returned to Auckland and I don’t have to open the garden door to let her ‘go pee’ at 0700 every morning. Be grateful for small mercies.
coldwarrior wrote:
Liz Herley will be upset to. She and Warne were a n item for years. They separated but remained best buds!
@ Aussie Infidel:
we arent apple peeps, but.
gave up on the old workstaion models and are now laptop.
that said, i do miss my 35″ HEortho display…but…
i got a high end HP i7/iris laptop and , if needed, cast to the stupid big TV.
its not as big as my old beloved 17″ pavillion, but…15 is ok.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
not a bad one to have on one’s arm
The sun has another 10 degrees to hit the horizon and is shaping up as a cracked of a sunset. Setting behind the mountains with the whole Firth of Thames and islands in front. The tide is flowing and the water in front of us is just 30 meters away and warm! Heaps of fishermen along the coastal road when I did a coffee run into town. We ran out of COFFEE. MAJOR emergency at 0730 this morning.
coldwarrior wrote:
A stunner and a smart one as well.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
i cant sleep in the normal bed. cant do flat sleep yet. so, i’m sleeping in the bar (bottom floor out onto the deck) on the couch propped up.
phoebe the blob dog, all 50 lbs of her, thinks that i am in danger and has decided to sleep ON me most nights.
im getting no sleep.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
YE GODS MAN!
night yinz…
i shot a prayer over to the icons for shane.
@ coldwarrior:
Chicken and vege pie has arrived. The veges are all out of the garden. Mrs A I
is looking after me well! Dessert is my concoction built from whatever I found growing around the house. The last apples off the Granny Smith tree. The last of the peaches off the hybrid apricot tree that changed into a peach tree after I cut it of at ground level with a chain saw for not producing last season, and boyenberries from the bush under the bedroom window. They are getting past their best so I did a large pick yesterday and we have two large bags of berries in the freezer for future pies and crumbles. Almost self sufficient….
coldwarrior wrote:
Tell me about it. Mrs. A I was NOT impressed. She needs her 3 shots every morning to get going. The local dairy stocked only freeze dried shit coffee so I drove into Thames and found a corner store that opens at 0700 and found some beans.
Mrs. A I is happy and when she is happy Moi is happy!
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Just found out my baby brother ( the mining engineer) has an aggressive pancreatic cancer. Matastized to his liver. He’s pretty shocked as he’s 10 years younger than me. Remember him in your prayers mate. He’s named Chris.
@ coldwarrior:
G’nite Cold
@ Aussie Infidel:
But wouldn’t a nuclear winter stop global warming?
///////
uhhh…guys
as part of Moscow’s countersanctions, Russia has recommended fertilizer makers to halt exports, a move which will sent not only fertilizer prices orbitally higher, but all food prices will soon follow.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/russia-recommends-fertilizer-makers-halt-all-exports
@ Aussie Infidel:
oh no.
@ rain of lead:
isnt globalization the most wonderful thing evah!!!!
these bastards need to be made addicts and then go cold turkey…rot in hell
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/sacklers-reach-6-billion-deal-over-purdue-pharma-oxycontin-lawsuits
They also said, “they sincerely regret that OxyContin … unexpectedly became part of an opioid crisis that has brought grief and loss to far too many families and communities.”
BULLSHIT!!!! UNEXPECTEDLY?????
@ Aussie Infidel:
Prayers.
Yikes. My sister said she doesn’t think she’ll have to evac but she’s getting a lot of smoke in her condo
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/state-of-emergency-in-florida-homes-evacuated-due-to-wildfire
When hurricane Michael came thru a lot of trees were downed in now they’re fueling this
rain of lead wrote:
I posted some stuff upthread yesterday. I think there was something from Pravda about stopping their oil shipments too.
Putin knows he’s looking at regime change so I don’t think there’s much that will stop him.
Jonathan Turley who is usually pretty good
Tech Trojan Horse: How the Senate is poised to codify censorship of social media
Liberal groups like Public Knowledge which support the bill also openly discuss its real purpose, declaring that it will halt “the promotion of misinformation” and develop new avenues “to reduce the spread of misinformation.” Klobuchar has repeated such descriptions in support of the bill.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/596913-tech-trojan-horse-how-the-senate-is-poised-to-codify-censorship-of-social
Ministry of Truth bullshit
BOMBSHELL: Owner of Ottawa’s Iconic Cafe – ‘Police’ Intruders in Viral Video Are Not Canadian
Mr. Kuhn provided his perspective about the police abuse exclusively to RAIR Foundation USA. He said that there was no “emergency” despite the Trudeau regime’s invocation of the “Emergencies Act.” Kuhn also stated that some of the “police” officers were from other countries and could not speak English. Further, he told RAIR that the truckers were not blocking streets. The police, however, were blocking streets.
https://rairfoundation.com/bombshell-owner-of-ottawas-iconic-cafe-police-intruders-in-viral-video-are-not-canadian-video/
I bet the Ukie Nazi Chick knows who they are.
Oh, and she’s got a piece in the Financial Times today or Yesterday “The Ukranians Are Fighting For All of Us”
Including those truckers she put in jail I suppose
During the ABC show Q&A, pro-Russia man Sasha Gillies-Lekakis, a 22-year-old Spanish and Latin American Studies student from the University of Melbourne, criticized the networks reporting about Ukraine. Presenter Stan Grant then ordered the man to leave the studio.
“There are many Russians here and around the world who support Putin’s actions in Ukraine, including me,” said Gillies-Lekakis, who is part of the Russian community in Australia. “I am outraged by the narrative created by our media that portrays the Ukrainians as the good guys and the Russians as the bad guys.”
So he got kicked off the air
https://rairfoundation.com/globalists-send-warning-do-not-question-our-support-of-ukraine/
No worries, tho, the Ukrainians fucked up. They trusted the West. They’re being hung out to dry.
Yes!
https://freebeacon.com/elections/free-beacon-poll-mccormick-overtakes-oz-in-pa-primary/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/05/nolte-ukraine-war-fever-could-kill-gop-midterm-chances/
Bingo.
coldwarrior wrote:
I wouldn’t be too sure of that Cold given what has transpired these last 2 years. Frighten people enough and you can drive the them anyway you choose.
Alas
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup.
Never ever believe your own propaganda lest it will come back and bite you in the arse.
There was no way that the West was going to enforce a no fly Zone over Ukraine but the Ukies convinced themselves that it’d happen. Even though this would mean NATO shooting down Russian airforce aircraft and being shot down by Russian S-400s AAA. That’s why I don’t believe ANY security ‘guarantees’ that assume that the US or NATO will sacrifice their cities to protect someone else’s territory. Are you listening Taiwan and Australia?
darkwords wrote:
Thanks Darkwoods. Appreciated!
coldwarrior wrote:
We’ll know the prognosis Wednesday but it looks bad. Chris seems OK but that’s just Chris being stoic . Trying to support him from here but I am forbidden to travel by the dumb Covid rules that PM Cindi has enforced.
right_wing2 wrote:
HEH!
There’s always a Joker in the pack.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Ole’ Joe wrapping himself in the flag as a ‘wartime’ president!
SPIT
He was part of the cause however. No don’t look there. Look over here at this shiny object!
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup I feel your pain mate.
Shoulders are a real bitch and you can’t get comfortable as they are always in the way. Those slings don’t help with getting into a sleeping position either. All things pass however mate and it does get better.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Shane Warne was the quintessential ‘larrikan’ Aussie. A party animal and a master of his trade with the spinning ball that confused the best batsmen in the world.
Will me much missed
@ Aussie Infidel:
i dont need to tell you how dire the prognosis is going to be
coldwarrior wrote:
that’s a garbage headline. First of all nobody listens to the moron Kinzinger and everybody knows all Lindsey is good for is running his mouth.
No. Nobody forgets Afghanistan or the economy. That’s on Joe.
if the ukies are kicking the inept russians asses…welll…
why is zalinsky demanding a no fly zone?
an interesting read
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/03/no_author/ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-yes-really/
@ coldwarrior:
It sounds plausible but I’m not sure how reliable George Webb is
nap time. later.
coldwarrior wrote:
I know mate. It just tears the heart out of me not being able to go see him off, because of these covid restrictions.
Bastards
I’ll never forgive the current NZ Labour government for their perfidity.
@ Aussie Infidel:
How far away are you?
This is just the headline, it’s paywalled. I don’t know what to make of it
US works with Poland to provide Ukraine with fighter jets
https://www.ft.com/content/2f1f0944-ceab-4042-93bd-63c2d863a75f
Guess who just went back into business to get in on the grift?
The Clinton Foundation
gah
FCK TRUDEAU flags are now banned on Parliament Hill.
Today, police hand protesters a piece of paper that says the flag that they’re carrying is offensive and must leave.
You think this is bad? Wait until Bill C36 and Bill C11
https://twitter.com/LeighStewy/status/1500153323495866372
The hacker collective Anonymous International has blocked the website of the Russian FSB
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1500260055094120453
University of Georgia scientists have released a study saying our new eight-legged residents are about to become even more prolific in Georgia and spread up and down the entire East Coast.
“No predators, it doesn’t have anything that’s controlling its population size in the new habitat, but it has perfect conditions to spread,” said Benjamin Frick, co-author of the study and an undergraduate at Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia.
Originally from Japan, the 3-inch long Joro Spider made its way first to Georgia, but it has begun to slowly spread out.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2022/03/04/big-invasive-parachuting-spiders-will-begin-to-cover-entire-east-coast-experts-say/
3 INCHES?? RUN AWAY!!
@ eaglesoars:
murder hornets
@ eaglesoars:
Bannon National Populists won’t have a voting issue. I wonder about Kinzinger. Is he being paid to talk like this or is he just crazy. But by any solid measurement its time to Graham also. He is not a good rep.
darkwords wrote:
Frankly I’m really amazed he is still consuming oxygen given the things he has done and the countries he has destroyed. Apparently the assassins aren’t very good because I can think of at least 3 or 4 countries that would like to see him on the other side of the lawn.
eaglesoars wrote:
You think she wants a recession? That may certainly be the case, it does give them more opportunity to exploit a crisis. I think they are capable of believing anything they want to believe and that, by the nature of them believing it, they think it will come to pass. What was that that got posted the other day about humanity now being “godlike”; I think this bunch actually believes it.
@ darkwords:
Kinzinger is just an asshole
AZfederalist wrote:
All they do is lie. They want us reduced to poverty stricken peasants so we are totally dependent on the gov’t.
@ eaglesoars:
Tell me again why she released $18B from the SDR and gave it to Putin?
@ coldwarrior:
I’m following some war lists on twitter. One by @naval.
All are pro Ukrainian. Narrative is posted that the Russians are losing about 8 pieces of armor a day and the Ukranians lose none. People complain about the propaganda but some say it is good for Ukrainian morale.
Unless something significant happens it looks to me like Ukraine is going to be split into two. The sooner that happens the better. Putin will be peacefully gone in 10 years. Modern communications is going to open up most countries.
@ darkwords:
I think Russia is pulling its punches to avoid NATO. NATO does need to be strong here. China is watching. A divided Ukraine is not good for Taiwan.
In my limited travels the areas I ran into the most obstinate low brow natives were Central China and the Lyons area of France. In those two places the residents were confrontive and combative about the ill effects western culture was having on their lives.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Will definitely keep him in my prayers. So sorry to hear this.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’d like to say the Supreme Court will stomp on that violation of the First Amendment right quick, but then I remember Benedict Roberts and the liberal justices he supports.
eaglesoars wrote:
… and if this Ukrainian stuff pushes gasoline prices and food prices even higher, people are going to take that out on the party in power. Especially if the GOP is smart (OK, who am i kidding) and incessantly points out how the administration has strangled the US ability to be energy independent.
@ coldwarrior:
I gave lew rockwell another read there. Had him registered in my mind as a crazy guy. But with all propaganda and cancel culture I kinda think my mind was persuaded to view him that way.
There are a lot of takedowns out there regarding the Bidens and Ukraine. the problem with our political elite is that they don’t want to fight entrenched money. More MTG’s are needed.
@ darkwords:
And if you just click the link then the Rockwell stats will show an interest coming from blogmockracy.com If you like someone click the link into their traffic. Their metrics will be boosted. It’s sort of like a trucker convoy in the digital world.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I feel someone needs to keep hitlists on the mask perps. Find a way to isolate them and remove them from politics. Sorry to hear of your troubles.
darkwords wrote:
And Matt Gaetz
@ eaglesoars:
Mixed feelings about this. What do they eat?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichonephila_clavata
Now if they were munching their way through the bee and other pollenating insects population and killing animals and humans then they may be a problem.
Current wildlife ecosystem in my apartment is stable. There is a lizard or maybe more who are eating roaches and spiders I think. The spiders are also spinning webs along the flat surfaces of walls, not catching flies but roaches that run up and down the walls.
The roaches are eating any food I accidentally spill on the floor.
The team of four cats seem to ignore all this wildlife except occasionally they will chase a roach, or a spider or play ” hunt the lizard ”
It may sound horrific and crazy but now I do not use any insecticide or them bug bombs here. I used to spend over $30+ a month in various sprays.
@ Possum:
Also I no longer get any visitors….
@ Possum:
that wiki article was quite interesting
maybe we should import them. They are very colorful
Also I HATE mosquitoes
umm…
Elon Musk says SpaceX focusing on cyber defense after Starlink signals jammed near Ukraine conflict areas
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-cyber-defense-ukraine-invasion
@ Possum:
Clove leaves and keeping surfaces clean will do away with most of the pests. Roaches hard to get rid of in an apartment building. Every apartment is a fast food joint to them. Tuesdays are Possum day specials to them.
@ eaglesoars:
He can probably roll out updates faster than a government actor can impede his satellites.
A lot of people don’t like Musk. I see him as a person who can move through the crap quickly. My one issue was him manipulating the DOGE crypto coin with his influencing tweets. I lost a few hundred dollars by that.
I’d give him a tax free status for a few decades if he can keep his innovation pace up.
He recently said we could power the whole country if we used a 100 sq mile section of Nevada to run solar. unverified if that is feasible..
darkwords wrote:
You are correct. Getting rid of roaches is a building issue. No individual apartment can do it alone.
In my apartment they get in via the ground hole in the power sockets and the electric breaker panel in the closet. And like I am going to spray those places with with water based sprays!
Also these roaches have wings. They fly in through open windows and crawl in around the gaps in the outside door.
You live in Texas, you going to have roaches.
@ darkwords:
I saw studies where solar in the Sahara desert could power the whole world.
The issue is distributing that electricity.
As we can see with the current issue in Europe where the flow of natural gas through the Ukraine may be an issue and Nord Stream 2 which runs alongside Nord Stream 1 is cancelled.
@ Possum:
I wonder if someone will invent a wind turbine with solar cells built into it. I keep thinking electricity needs a battery to make it efficient but read the other day that wasn’t so.
@ darkwords:
I have problems with musk. Not least because the mining of minerals in Congo for his batteries was using 4 year olds. I have HUGE problems with that.
But there are some people in every generation that outrun us normies and Musk can do a lot of good. I think he WANTS to but I think he’s wrong on a lot of fronts. The transhumanism issue is a biggie.
There’s a vision he has for the evolution of human culture but he is utterly lacking in empathy for the individual condition.
I will say this tho – even if misguided, so far I see him valuing human freedom. I may be proved wrong about that so not arguing for it right now.
Fascinating guy tho. If I could have one of those dinners where you invite 3 people from anytime in history, dead or alive, one version …I would have Musk, Soros, and…Martin Armstrong
Possum wrote:
Solar farms are an avian abattoir. Kill off the birds and watch what happens to the environment.
I dropped the Audubon Society because they supported wind turbines and they are far less destructive that solar
Megyn kelly podcasted Rod Blagojevich yesterday. Interesting. Part of the Chicago machine. As Gov He ruled against his father inlaw(ward boss) and the FIL turned him over to the feds on a false charge. But the feds wouldn’t let go of the phone wiretaps. They caught him saying he wanted to trade Obama’s vacated senate seat for value. Blago said it was for political favors. Which is common with all pols. Feds said it was for money which is illegal. the money was never proven and that charge was thrown out. But a Rezko deal got him convicted. Obama had the exact same exposure as Rezko was his man and not Blagos. But Obama and co were able to hang the Rezko problems on Blago.
I came away thinking he was mostly innocent and just fell do to the feds moving a goalpost. Could have taken a plea deal but didn’t.
@ eaglesoars:
Soros? I don’t think you’re allowed to kill any of the guests…
@ darkwords:
I fell in love with the pump storage systems. They are not very efficient, they use a lot of electricity but are ideal for producing electricity during a short term surge in demand.
First one I visited was Dinorwig Power Station in Wales and stop laughing, they had TVs in the control room tuned to the three British TV stations that were available at that time. ( BBC1 BBC2 and ITV No cable, no satellite )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
Reason for TVs?
@ eaglesoars:
Nuclear is the way to go. Thorium cycle.
And dig fucking big and deep holes to get rid of the waste.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m skeptical that the qualities of the soul can be attached to a machine. Result would be a frankensteins monster. IMO.
Machines are tools like a Microscope or a pace maker or a car that extend human capabilities. We might well see something of an AI assistant that works on personal health. I guess my question is would I be dependent on it to live and could the government shut it off?
A global health ID card is going to be hard to avoid. Maybe best to manage the rights around it. I find it a pain to talk to doctors. They all seem to have a ” I know best attitude” and in a few questions I can tell they only have a limited knowledge of a limited scope of health care. Works very well with things that are objective and can be measured. Like blood pressure or broken bones. Fails completely in subjective areas or new areas of health.
The mind is funny. I can feel perfectly healthy but if a doctor tells me that I have an issue then my body will start to exhibit symptoms that fit the doctors narrative.
@ Possum:
Funny. Those Brits though could just make the TV license dependent on your energy social credit score. turn the kettle on too much and turn off your electricity. Maybe home solar would help reduce the load.
@ darkwords:
Home solar in the UK? You are kidding….
Being more serious when I lived in the UK you could have your house fitted with a white meter alongside your regular electricity meter.
The supply from the white meter was turned on and off by the electricity company.
We had things called storage heaters. Quite a bit more bulky than a normal radiator. Filled with bricks, heavily insulated and heated to really high temperatures with electricity. The heat from this hot pile of rocks was vented by fans as an when required. Connected to the white meter.
Also larger than normal and heavily insulated hot water tanks. There was a heating element and thermostat connected to the top elements of the hot water tank connected to the regular electricity supply so if during the day you needed lots of hot water it was available.
At the bottom of the hot water tank were heating elements connected to the white meter. So when white meter power was on it gave you a full tank of hot water. In normal use that would last all day.
Washing machines. There were washing machines that just connected to the cold supply of water, filled then used electricity to heat up the wash water. You could connect them to the white meter.
So, you put your laundry in the washing machine and went to bed. Sometime during the night when the electricity load was low the coal fired and nuclear power stations were still generating what they generate. You cannot just turn them off when not needed. ( modern natural gas turbine power stations are a different beast )
When they had excess capacity at night white meter activated. Power flows to heat up the rocks in your storage radiators so you have heat next day. Water heater powers up to give you a full tank of hot water and laundry does its thing.
White meter rate was MUCH cheaper. Other term for it is “off peak electricity “
darkwords wrote:
A blast from the past. Blago didn’t do anything every other Chicago pol hadn’t done before him. That whole thing was Obama playing Big Swinging Dick. Good on Trump for getting him out.
lobo91 wrote:
Well, the fascinating part referred to Musk. Soros will meet his end in his own bed. I’d go after his spawn.
darkwords wrote:
Let’s leave ‘soul’ out of it for the moment. Or several. Try ‘conciousness’. You want that altered by a chip that someone can hack into or control remotely?
Possum wrote:
yes
Your posts on TV I don’t understand, sorry. I’m ignorant about a lot of stuff
@ Possum:
And fast forward to 2022 where the idea is to charge electric vehicles cheaply during the night.
@ eaglesoars:
The TV thing, the powers stations watch TV. Or used to. The electrical grid gets an increase in demand during commercial breaks in TV shows or when one ended. Back then there were just 3 TV channels. Now there is cable and Internet streaming and satellite TV so there is none of the peaks in electricity demand there used to be.
Back then imagine the sudden increase in electricity demand when half the population went to put on the kettle to make a nice cup of tea when a tv program ended and Monty Python was next.
Those that did not go and put the kettle on went to pee and flushed. ( increasing the power needed to pump residential water supplies. )
@ Possum:
As to the TV thing. It is a myth that if everyone in China jumped up in the air and when they landed they would create a tidal wave that would engulf the USA.
Not so much of a myth that if everyone in the UK decided to turn on their kettles at the same time to make a nice cup of tea it could bring down the UK electrical grid.
Possum wrote:
Oh! Makes perfect sense.
Electric cars and their benefit to the electrical distribution network.
Yes I am all for having any electric powered vehicle when not in use connected to a charger.
I would be quite happy for my little car to be connected when I am not using it. When electricity is cheap then charge it up to 100%. When electricity is expensive due to demand, or a power station going offline you can have that electricity back as long as you did not discharge my battery below, say 70% so I could still get to work and back and make a diversion to the beer place on the way home.
The issue for me is the lifetime of my little car battery. The charge and discharge cycles….
Hey I sound like a broken record here. Last week I was full on isolationist as to the USA and food and eat seasonal, eat it when you got it. Store it for eating at times when you don’t.
Now it is electricity, use it and store it when you got it ( in pump storage schemes and electric cars ) use that storage when you don’t.
In my new world I would use wind power and solar power to run aluminium smelting plants….
I am now very busy and I can no longer help with the world energy crisis.
Just got a free subscription to Peacock Prime and started watching Departure.
Never, ever, seen so many hot chicks in the same TV show and I am still only half way through episode one of the first season.
LMAO that comment was probably more appropriate to be posted over at DoD.
Possum wrote:
you were doing so well..and then..KABOOMSKI!!
nite
@ eaglesoars:
The proviso is if it did not impact the battery life of my little car..
Current tech it would. So no way!
@ Possum:
And because the power grid is a very widespread AC synchronous entity then if the national grid took a dump the available electricity in my little car is useless. So is any electricity generated from domestic grid connected solar panels.
The Possum would chop up the national power grid into smaller segments. Interconnected with High Voltage Direct Current lines. Next to impossible to do until a few years ago.
@ Possum:
Yea we all know that all the power generating stations use rotating generators to make electricity. Well they ALL have to be rotating at EXACTLY the same speed for the power grid to be able to work.
A bit like everyone in China jumping up and down at the same time…
@ lobo91:
sad but true
Possum wrote:
I think the Babylon Bee’s days are numbered. It’s getting too hard to tell the satire from the truth
We all like police chases. They are fun and get the adrenalin flowing even though we are sitting safe at home behind a screen and a keyboard.
Especially the dash cam ones where the police are chasing someone at 100MPH..
Terrifying, nail biting, scary!!!!
Now watch British police car chases.
Same Terrifying, nail biting, scary thing but add to it AND WHY IS EVERYONE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!!!!
Mr Aussie may get that.
@ lobo91:
RT is getting slowly banned because they are Russian state sponsored.
I follow them on Twitter and have their news site bookmarked because they are a good source of news.
I did not detect any bias, although I was not really looking for it.
The ongoing Two Minute Hate
https://americandigest.org/the-dawning-of-the-age-of-brave-new-world-forever-1984/
Everyone is affected by the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
You questioning my smartness about power grids and Thorium reactors and washing machines that wash my panties at 3am?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
When Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy.
When Papa ain’t happy ain’t nobody gives a shit.
From @asbmilitary
Ukrainian peace negotiator killed by Ukrainian security services. 2 shots to the head. Accused of treason.
also.
Chinese Unionpay system coming to Russia after Visa/Mastercard withdraw from the country.
Possum wrote:
I remember the Houston roaches. I’d set off a bug bomb and leave for work. While I was gone, the roaches figured out what was going down and run to my neighbor’s apartment. Then my neighbor would set off a bug bomb and leave for work, and the roaches came back to my place.
darkwords wrote:
It would never get past the environmentalings.
Possum wrote:
And they’re smart. Flip on the light and they run right between your feet as you try to swat them. The flying ones go straight for your eyes to make you duck.
eaglesoars wrote:
3 hours ride on a jet plus a 90 minute trip from Sydney to the Oaks (near Camden Town) South of Sydney.
Because I do not have a covid passport I can’t leave the country, even if I get a RAT test prior and immediately on arrival.
These bastards are Satanic in their wickedness
SPIT
darkwords wrote:
Placebos have siblings called malcebos (or nocebos). Convince a bunch of people that the office a/c has toad stools in the ductwork and many will develop symptoms.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
What symptoms are indicative of exposure to toad shit?
Asking for a friend that has cats that go nuts at 4am.
Possum wrote:
Had nothing to do with your comment. I popped it in because I’d never heard of it before and it explains the internest activists.
Possum wrote:
I left that there so you could make a funny without too much trouble.
@ Possum:
For kambo collection, ceremony practitioners go into the jungle at night, mimicking the call of the giant tree frog. Since the animals rely on their chemical defenses, they are easy to handle and catch. In order to extract the toxins from the back, practitioners often tie the legs of the frog and scrape the venom using a wooden tool.
https://realitysandwich.com/hallucinogenic-frogs-and-toads/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I need to get better mind control of myself then. I neglect the subconsciousness too much.
Russians are paying up to $20,000 above market rate to buy Bitcoin
https://cryptoslate.com/russians-are-paying-up-to-20000-above-market-rate-to-buy-bitcoin/
So as a result of my ex friend Bunk advising me I may have a toad in my AC duct I updated my profile on the dating site I am subscribed to.
My profile…
I have roaches
I have spiders
I have a lizard
I have four cats
I have a toad in my air conditioning duct
I am English and I sleep with my socks on to stop roaches, spiders, lizard, cats or toads biting my toes when I am sleeping.
Admins at dating site just emailed me saying they were refunding my subscription in full as there was no way I am ever going to get a girlfriend.
I think the toad thing was the reason, or the socks…
Toad, it must have been the toad.
@ Possum:
Maybe if I changed the wording on my profile from “I have a toad” to “I have a frog” they will let me join again.
can’t hurt to try….
darkwords wrote:
These days my subconscious won’t let me. It keeps tripping me up.
Possum wrote:
X friend.
morning! not awake yet
#BREAKING: Russ
ia’s state owned Sberbank is to replace VISA and MasterCard with a new “MIR” card system in partnership with China’s Unionpay. #Dragonbear
https://twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1500417247575171075
Well, it has been an interesting few weeks. Hope all are well and healthy?
I have not been watching the MSM, but I know that Vlad has taken 40% of Ukraine are encircled Kiev and currently the bulk of UA troops in the eastern provinces. Once that is done, there are few military units in the western part of the country to do much.
Starting to see checkmarks in green boxes labeled “verified video” on some tweets on Ukraine…
https://twitter.com/UA_BotTwitte/status/1500525520617885701
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Hey yinz!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Which means….
Not much. Nice try twitter
6 baby back ribs will be done @1600.
Get here! Lol
@ coldwarrior:
Apparently it’s a vid of wreckage from a russian plane that was shot down this morning.
@ coldwarrior:
3:2:1 method,
Apple and mesquite 3:1. Apple juice and bourbon
YEZZIR
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’m agnostic about anything posted on socials or coming from msm.
@ coldwarrior:
There are people still hollering about hyperbaric bombs (that aren’t being used).
Subliminal machine.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/printing-ceramic-bowls.gif
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Slick!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I think you meant thermobaric
Hyperbaric is that thing Michael Jackson used to sleep in
@ lobo91:
Those machines are astounding. Healing is so much faster.
It’s really shocking to see.
Big guy gets 10^
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/iran-got-everything-it-wanted-in-this-deal/
@ coldwarrior:
Smoking a beef roast today, and making jerky and beef strips for storage. Huge eye of round was on sale locally for $3.99 a pound so grabbed three packages totaling $80 (CAD). Three roasts and jerk and strips. Haven’t seen it this cheap for a long time.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/iranian-immigrant-loves-america-loves-freedom-and-loves-the-peoples-convoy/
He gets it
@ PaladinPhil:
Nice! I use lower grade london broil for jerky.
I’ll have to check out your cut
*sigh*
This is a brutal, depressing piece from Martin Armstrong. First point is – we’re headed for WW III.
The rest is background on how we got here, a lot of which comes from Armstrong’s personal experience. Too long/complex to sensibly excerpt.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/the-real-backdrop-nobody-will-discuss/#new_tab
Why I love Camille Paglia. She takes no shit, not to mention prisoners
YOU SNIVELING LITTLE MANIACS!!
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-epic-camille-paglia-asked-about-jordan-peterson-and-trans-pronouns/
Some fun videos of B-52s,
https://notthebee.com/article/take-a-peek-inside-the-massive-stratofortress-b-52s-currently-doing-laps-around-eastern-europe
welp
CBS anchor Margaret Brennan: “If for instance the Polish government, a NATO member, wants to send fighter jets, does that get a green light from the US or are you afraid that will escalate tension?
Tony Blinken: “No, that gets a green light. In fact, we’re talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if they provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do? How can we help?… For us it’s not about regime change. The Russian people have to decide who they want to lead them… It’s going to end and it’s going to end with Ukraine prevailing… Winning a battle is not the same thing as winning a war.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/going-end-ukraine-prevailing-secretary-state-blinken-says-nato-countries-green-light-send-fighter-jets-ukraine-video/
Mere hours beforehand, however, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, had categorically denied that any such deal was on the cards, telling an Eastern European online media outlet reporting the claims that they were “FAKE NEWS”.
“Poland won’t send its fighter jets to #Ukraine as well as allow [Ukrainian pilots] to use [Polish] airports,” they added.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/06/blinken-claims-he-working-polish-jet-plan-poland-called-fake-news/
Does anybody in our gov’t know how to play this game?
Deisel is now $7/gal in Los Angeles
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1500571153890430982
@ coldwarrior:
Getting lower grades like London broil is hard in my area. Don’t know what it is or if I am looking in the wrong places. Very few actual butcher shops unless you are in a big city I believe.
lobo91 wrote:
I did. Hyper sounded more menacing.
Heather has…interesting…hobbies
The West is committing financial suicide. This spills over into corporations making long-term decisions based upon the demonization of Putin, ignoring even the fact that Kamala Harris publically told Ukraine to join NATO and violated the neutrality of Ukraine agreed to in the 1991 Budapest Agreement. We are witnessing the decline and fall of the world economy as we have known it. Those who have hated the dollar, always calling for its crash, will see a future where even cryptocurrencies will not survive. The false belief that somehow crypto will bypass the central banks and end fiat is such a joke. Ukraine’s power plant, the largest nuclear plant in all of Europe, has been captured and is on fire. Crypto is worthless without a power grid.
So welcome the New World Order, but it will be NOTHING as even Schwab expected.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/welcoming-the-new-world-order/
@ lobo91:
Not sure I’d want a dinner invite from her….
@ eaglesoars:
I wonder if Harris knows what the acronym means or what a no fly zone is? About 90 percent of libs don’t know. They think a no fly zone is liberal wish fulfilment.
The fiat can’t exist without a power grid either. Or computers. A gridless economy would be a prepper economy. In that case… cases of vodka are needed.
Unless Elon gets solar and nuclear satellites up there and there is some kind of retail power generation.
But bitcoin probably can’t survive without a world wide robust power grid. Fiat will last longer.
darkwords wrote:
I doubt it.
once people realize how much energy crypto mining needs crypto is getting banned.
@ eaglesoars:
But there is a way to mine crypto WITHOUT using energy to do it.
Well, you use electricity but you only use electricity that would have been used anyway.
I mined some a few years ago. Cost me nothing in electricity. Not much, was worth just a few hundred dollars and had it on the Cryptopia exchange.
Cryptopia got “hacked” every on there who had funds lost their coins. The operators of Cryptopia disappeared LOL
@ eaglesoars:
That was funny.
Possum wrote:
explain that please
Our beagle Willow has gone nutzoid. She’s started digging holes in the yard. A LOT OF HOLES. At first, they were all along the fence line. We had to put tarp down because Psycho Puppy figured out she could wiggle under the fence.
Now Willow is digging in the middle of the yard. BIG HONKING HOLES. Like 2 feet long and a foot deep. And she’s eating the little roots she finds.
She seems to be digging for the roots to eat.
Calling the vet tomorrow.
I have no idea…
It’s a good bbq when you find one of the guests passes out on the back deck.
; )
@ eaglesoars:
Without doing my long and boring ramblings mining crypto uses electricity which no matter what you use electricity for it ends up as heat.
My apartment uses electricity for heat. As you know I live in Texas and so the heating need is a short period. Maybe only nights, but sometimes days too from say early December to end of February.
Thermostatical thingy turns on electric heat when apartment temperature falls below 70F but what if apartment temperature never fell that low because there were three mining rigs in here? ( I use that term loosely A mining rig was three old PCs )
Warmth in apartment either came from heating system ( using electric ) or heat from the old computers.
Still using same electricity to generate heat but instead of heater elements heat came from computers.
Anyone in a more Northern climate would have a much longer mining season. Using ” free ” electricity.
@ coldwarrior:
Passed out guests eat less! A win!
@ Possum:
I did used to heat a studio I lived in with heat from my computer. It was just enough to keep it warm. I was able to turn the electric baseboard heater off.
Possum wrote:
One of mrs coldwarriors students decided she wanted the famed blue martini…
@ coldwarrior:
X2.
Light weight.
@ darkwords:
LOL and now some one will patent baseboard heaters that do not contain resistive heating elements but crypto mining rigs!
Welcome to medicine, sweetie.
@ Possum:
Usually there is a good video to go along.
@ coldwarrior:
What’s in a blue martini… ?
darkwords wrote:
A blended Smurf…
@ Possum:
Blue Curacao, It is an orangy thingy.
Fuck knows what they do to oranges to turn them blue though. No wonder people pass out.
@ Possum:
Or it’s straight vodka poured to the brim by a depressed person?
@ darkwords:
Nunya
@ Possum:
I love the Internet!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_blue_FCF
And the part that made me smile and Mr Bunk will find funny.
LOL Doctor help me! My shit is blue!
Um, were you at a Coldwarrior BBQ last night?
Why yes I was, how did you know….
@ Possum:
Well, that one killed this place.
🙂
Possum wrote:
No, that’s ‘alternate’ electricity.
I’ve never heated a room with a computer.
There’s a ‘color index’? who knew?
@ eaglesoars:
You have never heated a room with a computer but that computer unknowingly adds heat to the room you are also heating with other means.
If you have heating via electricity every watt that enters your home ends up as heat.
explosions in Damascus being reported.
Bennett just had a mtg w/Putin
are there dots to be connected……..
If Israel is sidling up to Russia, that’s another utter failure of Biden but I’m not clued into the Abraham Accords and how Syria is covered there.
Possum wrote:
I understand everything electric emits heat. I’ve just never been in a domestic ‘climate’ where a computer could heat up a room. I have worked in environments where there was so much equipment the place needed AC
@ eaglesoars:
I am not saying a computer/mining rig setup can heat a room to the temperature that us humans like.
What I am saying is the heat that the mining rig produces supplements the heating that the home heating provides.
More electricity used by mining rig, less electricity heater uses.
*GOLD FUTURES HIT $2,000 AS UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS HAVEN DEMAND
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1500648266375081986
eaglesoars wrote:
You fell for obvious charade.
She has been watching The Great Escape on TV. She is digging 3 secret tunnels names Tom ; Dick ; and Harry! They will come up just outside the wire. She’ll emerge disguised as an Alsatian and wearing a trilby
🙂
@ Possum:
got it.
China shut down its cyber miners because of the stress on the grid.
no way for me to tell if this is a true photo but FWIW
Kharkiv train station. Earlier today.
V Unian.
https://twitter.com/Den_2042/status/1500624098254327808
eaglesoars wrote:
Now imagine the scenario in Possum world. The mining rigs were in the basements of 20 story apartment buildings in China and that generated heat was used to heat the 400 apartments above in the winter.
That makes economic sense to me and no extra stress on the electrical grid.
@ PaladinPhil:
I’ve got a dehydrator that I want to learn to use. I’ve tried pineapple and it’s been bad.
@ Possum:
So what about in summer you may ask.
Run mining rigs at reduced capacity. Less heat needed for heating. 400 apartments are still supplied with hot water.
Possum wrote:
I don’t know what ‘reduced capacity’ means
off to bed.
All I see is Russia becoming a client state to China who would like nothing more than to use Russia as their cannon fodder for kinetic war against the west.
FWIW
How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/
eaglesoars wrote:
Either take some offline or mine slower.
You never played Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000?
The faster you fly the harder the CPU works.
The harder the CPU works the more heat generated.
The more heat generated the faster the fans run on the CPU to get rid of that heat.
Shit, just by listening to the fans on my rig I knew when I was going to crash!
During summer mine slower….
Anyway I am off to bed. Old men need lots of sleep.
Thinking of the 1974 movie and hoping I inspired the Architect.
Hoping the Architect checks things out with the fire brigade first.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sounds like an Adios Mutha. They glow under fluorescent lights. After 3 or 4 everything goes dark.
Possum wrote:
Now I’m mixing colors in my head. Blue (FD&C Blue No. 1) and purple (beets) plus umber (natural)… might have to add some corn… nah. Still looks like crap.
eaglesoars wrote:
Zooming in, it almost looks like it was a colorized b&w photo. Colors are in patches, some areas have no color at all.
Possum wrote:
Are you talking about the movie where Paul Newman plays an Architect, opens a random electrical panel and exclaims, “Well THERE’S your problem!”
I lol’d.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
1/2 ounce vodka
1/2 ounce rum
1/2 ounce tequila
1/2 ounce gin
1/2 ounce blue curaçao
2 ounces sweet-and-sour mix
Sprite or 7up, to top
Garnish: lemon wedge (optional)
Garnish: preserved cherry (optional)
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/adios-motherfucker-2/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I was just in my teens then and after I watched that movie I have a life long respect and admiration for Architects.
This time it is really bed time. Eating my birthday meal.
Chicken nuggets.
Possum wrote:
That Architect (and everyone else up the line) fkked up. A high-rise with no sprinkler system? No fire alarm? No safe exits? Oh wait, it’s a movie. In real life they jack up apartment buildings while the tenants are trapped inside.
I’m not one of those manbun Architects who wears all black and talks about the dialogue between the elements and the rhythm of the surrounds that define the space. I’m the guy who explains to the civil engineer that he’s draining the site into the building.
@ Possum:
Happy Birthday. I had bachelor food for supper. Leftover gumbo over mashed potatoes and baked beans with asparagus mixed in. *urrrp*
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’ll have to give it a try.
John Konrad V @johnkonrad·8hYou and me both.
I said it on @mercoglianos youtube show and I will say it again now: China needs the port of Odesa more than Russia does!
@ darkwords:
Make sure there’s no open flame around if you do.
@lee_kovarsky
It is *MATHEMATICALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE* to be experiencing higher than average call volume all of the time.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Maybe I can leave off the garnish.
I’m a sucker for a good alcohol advertisement. But in my old age i have to pick a calendar day that allows for enough recovery time.
@ErrataRob
The main effect of the US cutting off Russian oil will be local effects, like driving up the price of gasoline in Alaska, because they get their gasoline from Russian refineries.
Starlink test through a phone.
@ErrataRob
From phone through the microcell, Speedtest says 130mbps download and 110ms latency.
@ darkwords:
He has his own cell tower that connect to starlink.
https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1500230171495788545/photo/1
good morning!
There’s a 20 minute video I don’t have time for but the text is good
Why Russia’s Logistics Failed
Ukrainian forces destroyed all rail links between the two countries.
Russian forces are relying on analog, unsecured radio communications rather than scrambled digital channels, and Ukrainian forces are listening in and jamming.
Poor logistics also helped Soviet forces lose in Afghanistan.
Russia has 30,000 strong military rail organization.
“Russia doesn’t have enough trucks.” They can’t operate effectively more than 90 miles from supply dumps.
A large percentage of truck transport was dedicated to rocket resupply, not fuel and food.
Russia only had 3-5 days of supplies when they invaded. When those ran out, they were screwed.
Russia’s military works on a “push” logistic system rather than a “pull” system used by the U.S. military, mean it’s not very flexible.
Russia has the capability to set up the infrastructure for a longer war, but it’s going to take time.
Russia’s failure to quickly achieve it’s objectives has seen it resort to more desperate and indiscriminate tactics.
And here’s a related Twitter thread that touches on rail network logistic issues.
more at the link
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=50792
Institute for the Study of War is a good twitter follow
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar
good maps too
I thought UA destroyed this?
Russian armored train reportedly spotted in #Melitopol, southern Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1500853289814208513
video
High-powered group targets Trump lawyers’ livelihoods
A dark money group with ties to Democratic Party heavyweights will spend millions this year to expose and try to disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Donald Trump’s post-election lawsuits, people involved with the effort tell Axios.
Why it matters: The 65 Project plans to begin filing complaints this week and will air ads in battleground states. It hopes to deter right-wing legal talent from signing on to any future GOP efforts to overturn elections — including the midterms or 2024.
The group takes its name from a count of lawsuits that sought to invalidate the 2020 results.
Details: David Brock, who founded Media Matters for America and the super PAC American Bridge 21st Century and is a Hillary Clinton ally and prolific fundraiser for Democrats, is advising the group.
Advisory board members include former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.); and Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative and member of the Federalist Society who was former senior counsel for Ken Starr’s Clint0n-era Whitewater investigation and served in George W. Bush’s Department of Homeland Security.
Former Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Christine Durham; and Roberta Ramo, the first woman to serve as president of the American Bar Association, are also members.
The project was devised by Melissa Moss, a Democratic consultant and former senior Clinton administration official.
Brock told Axios in an interview that the idea is to “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”
https://www.axios.com/trump-election-lawyers-disbar-5c2b9252-d15d-495f-a759-2446d9fa62e8.html
Brock is a Soros wannabe
This is just devastating
China agriculture minister says winter wheat condition could be worst in history
BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) – The condition of China’s winter wheat crop could be the “worst in history”, the agriculture minister said on Saturday, raising concerns about grain supplies in the world’s biggest wheat consumer.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliament meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian said that rare heavy rainfall last year delayed the planting of about one-third of the normal wheat acreage. read more
A survey of the winter wheat crop taken before the start of winter found that the amount of first- and second-grade crop was down by more than 20 percentage points, Tang said.
https://www.reuters.com/business/china-ensure-agricultural-product-supplies-including-grains-2022-03-05/
On top of that, Ukraine won’t be planting this season and even if they did, Odessa, their port may not be usable.
AND…one of my ag reports came in this morning and the story is the crop in Kansas will be down because they’re dealing with drought.
and the fertilizer thing……..
@ eaglesoars:
Vile bastards.
@ right_wing2:
I cannot find one good guy with the power to redirect any of this. Orban seems to be a good guy but his sphere is quite limited
Naomi Wolf interviewed Edward Dowd, the former wall street guy about Pfizer and FDA fraud. There’s no text, it’s all video a bit over an hour, but if you’re interested…..
https://dailyclout.io/edward-dowd-explains-bombshell-fraud-charge-re-pfizer-hiding-deaths-data/
eaglesoars wrote:
heh. Bannon says they’ll be going after these losers. Should be fun.
Fox News & Newsmax Took Biden Money To Push Deadly COVID Vaccines To Its Viewers
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/fox-news-and-newsmax-took-biden-money?s=r
This is Emerald Robinson who was fired from Newsmax because she wouldn’t shut up about the vax after they told her to pipe down
wheat price chart.
Straight up vertical
https://twitter.com/alifarhat79/status/1500538421240119299
In case you were wonder what happened to Greg Gutfeld…
Fox News star Greg Gutfeld’s mother-in-law escapes Ukraine
The mother-in-law of Fox News star Greg Gutfeld was safely evacuated from Ukraine and tearfully reunited with her daughter in Poland last week.
Gutfeld, the co-host of “The Five,” played a video on the air showing the dramatic moment his wife, Elena, met her mother after she crossed the border separating Ukraine and Poland.
“Just to let everybody know my mother-in-law crossed into … Poland about half an hour ago, so she’s in a car on her way to Warsaw to see her daughter, Elena,” Gutfeld said on the air.
When he introduced the clip of his wife and mother-in-law reuniting in Poland, Gutfeld warned viewers: “This clip has been known to cause a run on tissues.”
https://nypost.com/2022/03/07/fox-news-star-greg-gutfelds-mother-in-law-escapes-ukraine/
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If this report is real, it was over before it started. An analysis from the FSB
Russian invasion is facing ‘total failure’, whistleblower analyst claims
Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine will be a ‘total failure’ comparable to the collapse of Nazi Germany, a report by a so-called FSB analyst has claimed.
‘By and large, [Russia] has no way out. It’s just that there is no option for a possible victory, and defeat is everything,’ the report said.
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It compared Russia’s mistakes to those made by Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War, and said that Moscow’s ‘starting position’ was akin to ‘Germany in 1943-44’ –
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov – who is usually a staunch ally of Putin’s – is furious with Moscow after his ‘kill squad’ sent to assassinate Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky was instead destroyed by Ukrainian troops.
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‘Even with minimum resistance from the Ukrainians we’d need over 500,000 people, not including supply and logistics workers,’ the author claims
https://www.nytimespost.com/russian-invasion-is-facing-total-failure-whistleblower-analyst-claims/
Msgr. Vigano brings down the hammer
As we can see, NATO has failed to keep its commitments to Russia, or has at least forced the situation at a very delicate moment for geopolitical balances. We should ask ourselves why the United States – or rather the American deep statewhich regained power after the electoral fraud that brought Joe Biden to the White House – wants to create tensions with Russia and involve its European partners in the conflict, with all the consequences we can imagine.
As General Marco Bertolini, former commander of the Joint Summit Operational Command, has lucidly observed: “The United States did not just win the Cold War but also wanted to humiliate [Russia] by taking everything that in a certain sense fell within its area of influence. [Putin] bore with the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria [joining NATO]. Faced with Ukraine [joining NATO], which would have taken away any possibility of access to the Black Sea, he reacted” (here). And he adds: “There is a problem of the regime’s stability, a situation has arisen with a fairly unlikely prime minister [Zelensky], one who comes from the world of entertainment.” The general does not fail to recall, in the case of a US attack on Russia, that “the Global Hawks flying over Ukraine depart from Sigonella [Italy]; Italy is an American military base in large part. The risk is there, it is present and real” (here).
https://www.marcotosatti.com/2022/03/07/declaration-of-msgr-carlo-maria-vigano-on-the-russia-ukraine-crisis/
Those paras are AFTER he eviscerates the media for COVID. It’s a fun read.
eaglesoars wrote:
Urban actually is one of the very few ‘good guys’ involved in this SNAFU of a war.
He’s currently trapped between a rock and a hard place. His options involve supporting a bad guy or a very bad guy.
He can support Putin a murderous psychopathic bad guy, by just staying out of this except for taking in Ukie refugees. At least Put-on is just another megalomaniac, among many national leadership crazies.
Alternatively Oban can support a really bad guy in Zelinsky, who although is the current pin up boy of the Western MSM, Zelensky is a degenerate and totally corrupt arsehole,(ask him where he got the $$$$$ to buy his $23 million Miami pad’, ) who is attempting to get Europe involved in a shooting war with Russia. Zelinsky was a graduate of the Klaus Schwab NWO young leaders class of 2000. He’s in Soros’ pocket and a paid up member of the Great Reset.
I’m guessing Orban will hold his nose over Putin, and stay clear of this war
eaglesoars wrote:
Vigano is one of the few commentators who I trust to call it as it is. That’s why he’s hated totally by the corrupt ‘establishment’ figures in the Church, as well as the establishment leadership in (un) civil society.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think you’ll see Putin dig in once he takes Kyiv and the coastal strip linking up with his isolated battalion on the Eastern edge of Moldova. There is no way to hold western Ukraine and he faces a lack of Russian speaking rump populous support, in the West around Lviv.
Holding the ‘cradle of Russian civilisation’ by capturing Kyiv and squeezing Western Ukrainians away from the coast around Odessa will be enough and will allow him to return as the conquering hero. What happens in the next week will be crucial. Putin is up against running out of complete logistics support before he can win his limited gains.
What totally frustrated me is WHY the Skies along the Black Sea coast haven’t used their Neptune anti-shop missiles and put Putin’s heavy coastal assault landing ships on the bottom? IT’s not as if these ships were manoeuvring or out of range. Neptunes are deadly accurate out past 200 Km and currently at least 6 Landing Support ships are moored just 1 Km off the beach! For crying out aloud create an artificial reef with their hulks while Ukraine still can!
Sheesh!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Are they too old to be reliable? Perhaps they want to protect the coast?
Heard an interesting hypothesis about the Russian air force. Their sorties consist of 1 or 2 aircraft, no more. They have no idea how to manage fleets of planes in an operation.
No wonder they get blown out of the sky.
Yeah, I have no illusions about Zelensky. The entire country is corrupt which is at least one reason NATO wants nothing to do with it.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope they are brand spanking new. Ordered in 2020 and delivered in 2021. 6 Launcher vehicles plus assorter RADAR vehicles and a number of back up reload vehicles make up the Neptune Division of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They field 36 missiles in total.
There is a AA AD Heavy Russian Cruiser FRN Moskva, sitting just off the beach near Odessa. No reports of their having downed any missiles headed their way. No reports from the Russian airborne forces in the area too have taken or destroyed the Neptune Anti-ship Division or its missiles.
Where ih hell are these missiles? They would really upset the table if they were successfully deployed and scored hits on the Russian Black Sea Fleet including the 6 Heavy landing and support ships that transited from the Northern fleet before the kick off of kinetic ops.
@ eaglesoars:
The initial rocket booster of the Neptune System is from an old Russian anti-aircraft launch system. The rest of the Neptune (290Km range) is ALL MADE in the Ukraine, compromising a Ukie turbo-jet engine, warhead and all of the electronics and targeting systems.
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually I am shocked that behind the curtain the Russian force structure hasn’t developed much since the end of the Cold War. They seem to have the tech development in spades but it never seems to be translated into operational use by front line units.The T-72 / T90 tanks seem totally vulnerable to current NATO weapons and their operational manuals seem totally out of date.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/01/ukraine-ordered-a-first-batch-of-neptune-anti-ship-missile-systems/
In theory the Ukie Neptune Division should field a total of 72 missiles overall, but other sources suggest that they have just half that number
darkwords wrote:
Bingo! Every place you call for the past 3 years is experiencing “higher than average call volume”. I would think that after 3 years, these companies would get a clue and fix the problem. Oh. Wait. It’s not a problem for those companies, people are willing to hang on the line until they get to speak to someone. Company saves big on salary with reduced staff, keeps the customers and wins because customer time doesn’t cost them anything. Until those customers have to call one too many times and go somewhere else.
darkwords wrote:
Because ANWR. Remember 28 years ago when Bill Clinton shut that down saying, “it won’t solve anything for 5 years anyway”. Guess what? We are past that 5 years when it could have been making a difference. Dang this democrats and their Gaia worship. The frickin’ caribou will figure it out; it’s not like these wells cover every square inch of territory. We’re drilling freakin’ holes, not paving the place over.
Russia has just over 1500 Combat Aircraft (1511) and has lost just 30 in the Ukraine to kinetic action. That leaves a huge reservoir to call upon.
To put this into a proper perspective however the Russian airforce maintenance / operational availability of aircraft is down at around 30% at any one time. Most Western airforces have operational availability up between 50-78% at any one time. So Russia has 450 operational airframes that he can deploy and has lost about 7-8% in just over a week.
Russian Sortie are also well down (around about half) compared to Western Airforces. So if you want to compare Daily sortie rates to Western airforces the Russian Airforce compared to western airforces can field the equivalent of just over 200 combat aircraft per day based on available equalised sorties per aircraft.
eaglesoars wrote:
Why how positively Bolshevik of them. Can anyone go after them for filing frivolous lawsuits, defaming others, or stifling free speech and commerce? Because that is what they are doing, using lawfare to suppress political ideas.
If you want to now base Russian losses on an operational airframe sortie rate those 30 losses of combat airframes on an equalised sortie rate … 30 losses out of 200 or a 15% loss rate for the Russian Airforce for the last 10 days of combat. When you look at this in those terms the problems of Russian Airforce maintainers is striking and may indicate why the Russian airforce is so ‘careful’ in penny-pinching out it’s air resources.
eaglesoars wrote:
… and every reason Biden, Soros, and the rest of the NWO crowd want us involved. I’m guessing it’s not just Biden who has dirty money coming from Ukraine.
The EU is now considering membership for Ukraine, Georgia and one other??
That is fucking insane
Allow them full access to your borders?
(via Ben Harnwell on Bannon)
AZfederalist wrote:
They’re big on sex/child trafficking. Tons of money in that
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m sure some Russian logistician has plugged in his calculator and has helped the formulation of an Early June ‘we are running dry’ timeframe for the end game of this war. Russia has just 90 more days to win this or lose it for good.
I’m sure when Putin kicked off this war he knew that he had just 100 days total to become the next Czar or the permanent global pariah forever.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
What happens then is anyone’s guess. A bankrupt pariah with thousands of dead soldiers coming home in body bags and little to show for all of that bleeding ? With the world’s largest stockpile of nukes and nothing more to lose?
The options are not good.
Just got email from a friend who made a 7 hour drive from Houston to Lafayette Louisiana. $80 in gas.
Also from an FB friend
God: You’re a parrot
Parrot: OK
God: You can repeat everything you hear
Parrot: Humans are the worst
God: uh-what?
Parrot: I’ll prolly kill them in a flood soon
God:
Parrot:
God: What’s it gonna take to keep this quite?
Parrot: I wanna live in a tropical paradise
eaglesoars wrote:
Agreed. Insane and dangerous. The average Ukie earns $5k per annum. Georgians earn a lot less. How can trying to integrate such poor nations into the EU be good for anyone/ The UK just dodged a bullet with Brexit!
Next will come NATO membership following Sweden and the Finns. Again Rissians will see this as encirclement of nuclear armed forces with bare minutes between a nuke launch and its arrival on a Russian Target. This would have ALL Russian nukes (flaws in their system and all) on ‘hair triggers’.
What could possibly go wrong in this scenario?
Our elites are sleepwalking and leading us to Armageddon.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Pretty soon we’re going to insist Germany re-arm and march thru Poland!
U.S. National Average Price of Gasoline Hits New All-Time Record High
https://www.gasbuddy.com/newsroom/pressrelease/1104
Previous record of $4.10 per gallon set in 2008 has fallen as gas prices continue to rise
BOSTON (March 7, 2022) — The national average price of gasoline in the U.S. today broke the existing record, rewriting the all-time high to today’s $4.104 per gallon, according to GasBuddy, the leading fuel savings platform saving North American drivers the most money on gas. The previous all-time high was set back in 2008 at $4.103 per gallon, just ahead of the U.S. Great Recession and housing crisis. The national average price of diesel is also nearing a new record, now at $4.63 per gallon, likely to break the record of $4.846 per gallon in the next two weeks.
In addition to setting a new all-time high, the national average is seeing its largest ever 7 day spike: 49.1 cents per gallon, eclipsing the 49.0 cent weekly rise after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many gas price records have been broken due to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which has pushed Western countries to impose severe sanctions on Russia, curbing Russian exports of crude oil to the global market.
eaglesoars wrote:
They had a couple of trial runs so they definitely know the way!
🙂
My baby brother Chris appears to have about 6-12 weeks left. Aggressive cancer on his liver and spread to his pancreas. He’s probably going to forego all radiation and chemo as he says he’d rather die on his feet than on his knees. He’s keeping on working on one of his 3 mines because he enjoys the challenge. He’s also finishing up the wiring on the large garage and workshop that he’s been building near his house. Chris is the one who tried to swim with me between the heads of Little Bay when he was 6 and I was 16 way back when… (where that Great White shark attack happened a fortnight ago.) Smart and quiet with loads of guts!
I’ll miss the little guy ( We ( my junior brother who’s 6’5″) and me 6’4″)whereas Chris is ONLY 6’2″ and we tease him by calling him ‘stumpy!’
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
There are quite a few videos of democratic peons torturting kids with masking requirements in Disneyland and pre schools. Seems like there is a narrative there for the upcoming election that would Trump all these false patriots.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Someone will get the idea on the ships now that you mentioned it. 🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Unable to get them out of the barn when under fire.
Russia disabled them? or the personnel manning the keys were pro Russian and now lie with 2 bullets to the head.
@ Aussie Infidel:
This has to be a central planning/old general failure. Russia had two decades to watch the US work in Afghanistan. All that time to produce counter measures in the air.
The war is still unclear to me. I have a sense that Russia is just trying to brute force their way on the ground and avoid civilian causalities.
@ Aussie Infidel:
How old is Chris’s youngest?
@ eaglesoars:
If you want to cripple the US cut off the coffee bean, oil, and drug and alcohol supply. If China just stopped sending fentanyl to Mexico the US consumer base would go crazy.
twitter thread devoted to news out of Ukraine
https://twitter.com/i/lists/1498457571216134144
@ Aussie Infidel:
Be there for him when you can. Prayers.
darkwords wrote:
I understand that a TON of U.S. meds are made in China
eaglesoars wrote:
Youngest is about 30.
He’s got 5 by his wife GBGGG and, two by a ‘wild woman’ with 11 kids when he was a bachelor deep in the Queensland mines near Rockhampton. GB both in their 40s now
darkwords wrote:
I can’t get out of the country because the bloody has demanded No Covid Passport NO TRAVEL.
Also my Aussie Passport just ran out and I went to the Australian High Commission last week and applied for a replacement that will take 6-8 weeks top arrive. Not that I can use it unless I get stabbed 3 times with spike protein. That in itself would take 6 months before they would issue me with a Covid Passport. So that’s not going to happen.
WE chat 3-4 times a week on SKYPE and he’s OK with dying and is well prepared. He’s refusing chemo and radiation as he says …” He’d rather die on his feet than on his knees’.
Not changing his life. Working at one of the three mines he runs because he likes it. He’s still building stuff around his place and will continue until he can’t anymore. The guy has guts and we are all there either in person of electronically supporting him over this ‘hump’.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
What about the precursor chemicals needed in its production. There are Chinese financed factories in Mexico doing the production side of the supply chain into the US. China knows that it will come under pressure so it’s stopped the shipment of the drug to Mexico and has reverted to supplying the stuff used to make it to the Cartels.
Cunning bastards
SPIT
darkwords wrote:
That was the original tactics as Putin wanted Ukraine’s utilities and people intact. Now that the swift and cunning tactic has bogged down he’s into destroying anything he can and using scorched earth tactics to get a result in Kyiv and then across central Ukraine and along the coastal strip to Odessa. It’s going to get bloody soon as the ‘heavies’ arrive and the killing becomes widespread and bitter.
He’s GOT to win by early June or it’s all over for him logistically and fiscally. A trapped and hurt breast is a dangerous beast. One hopes that the Neo-cons and war hawks in Europe can be controlled or we will see Vlad use the current Russian tactics manual and use tac nukes to plug geographic gaps if NATO is silly enough to ‘have a go’!.
The only guy smiling in that case would be Xi !
@ Aussie Infidel:
Yeah. They thought it would be a sprint. They ended up with a marathon.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m looking for neither side to win with an edge to Putin. Some kind of message to China that Taiwan will be ready.
I think this is a war of clinton/bush/biden against Trump. The first three want money and corruption in Ukraine. The latter wants to be self sufficient. Those Minsk II terms seemed pretty reasonable unless one was a Russia Hawk.
My relatives think 2024 is too far away to save the country. Have to start monkey wrenching the elite now.
There is a video of Trump on the campaign trail telling the audience “Do you like the $2 a gal gas you have now? If Biden wins you’ll get $7, $8, $9 a gallon.”
darkwords wrote:
The credentialed elite hate the populists.
@ eaglesoars:
Tulsi Gabbard agrees:
I’m trying to remember something.
After 9/11, the West was looking for a way to disrupt the Islamic money system that was financing the terrorists.
But Islamic banking developed outside the western system and forbids interest (I think).
As far as Western intel was concerned, it was – is – an untraceable system.
After racking my so-called brain for a day I remembered the first letter of the system is ‘h’.
Found it.
Hawala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
In the most basic variant of the hawala system, money is transferred via a network of hawala brokers, or hawaladars. It is the transfer of money without actually moving it. In fact, a successful definition of the hawala system that is used is “money transfer without money movement”. According to author Sam Vaknin, while there are large hawaladar operators with networks of middlemen in cities across many countries, most hawaladars are small businesses who work at hawala as a sideline or moonlighting operation.[3]
Hawala example transaction; see text for an explanation
The figure shows how hawala works: (1) a customer (A, left-hand side) approaches a hawala broker (X) in one city and gives a sum of money (red arrow) that is to be transferred to a recipient (B, right-hand side) in another, usually foreign, city. Along with the money, he usually specifies something like a password that will lead to the money being paid out (blue arrows). (2b) The hawala broker X calls another hawala broker M in the recipient’s city, and informs M about the agreed password, or gives other disposition of the funds. Then, the intended recipient (B), who also has been informed by A about the password (2a), now approaches M and tells him the agreed password (3a). If the password is correct, then M releases the transferred sum to B (3b), usually minus a small commission. X now owes M the money that M had paid out to B; thus M has to trust X’s promise to settle the debt at a later date.
The unique feature of the system is that no promissory instruments are exchanged between the hawala brokers; the transaction takes place entirely on the honour system. As the system does not depend on the legal enforceability of claims, it can operate even in the absence of a legal and juridical environment. Trust and extensive use of connections are the components that distinguish it from other remittance systems. Hawaladar networks are often based on membership in the same family, village, clan or ethnic group, and cheating is punished by effective excommunication and “loss of honour” that leads to severe economic hardship.[3]
Informal records are produced of individual transactions, and a running tally of the amount owed by one broker to another is kept. Settlements of debts between hawala brokers can take a variety of forms (such as goods, services, properties, transfers of employees, etc.), and need not take the form of direct cash transactions.
In addition to commissions, hawala brokers often earn their profits through bypassing official exchange rates. Generally, the funds enter the system in the source country’s currency and leave the system in the recipient country’s currency. As settlements often take place without any foreign exchange transactions, they can be made at other than official exchange rates.
Hawala is attractive to customers because it provides a fast and convenient transfer of funds, usually with a far lower commission than that charged by banks. Its advantages are most pronounced when the receiving country applies unprofitable exchange rate regulations or when the banking system in the receiving country is less complex (e.g., due to differences in legal environment in places such as Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia). Moreover, in some parts of the world it is the only option for legitimate fund transfers, and has even been used by aid organizations in areas where it is the best-functioning institution.[7]
So crypto depends on the grid, and who knows what happens with the dollar – but could this model be beneficial?
lobo91 wrote:
Can’t wait till they all get kicked out by a woke board of directors
eaglesoars wrote:
As much as this is going to piss off everyone here the Hawala system would not work in the USA.
The Hawala system depends on honour, integrity and trust.
eaglesoars wrote:
This the exact system that the Templar Knights used for centuries until Philip of France demanded his share and when they said NO he set them up slaughtered them almost to a man and blackened their nmame forever.
Good to see that Congress is hard at work dealing with current problems. Never mind the fact that there hasn’t been a lynching in over 50 years…
@ Possum:
Our banking system used to transfer dollars to a company in the UK is quite fun. Only had to do it once.
The bank in the USA took a commission in dollars. It was not a percentage but a flat fee. I think about $15 but I cannot be sure.
The receiving bank in the UK also needed a flat fee to do the transfer. That was about 12 pounds I think. Due to the dollar/pound exchange rate they both charged approximately the same.
The not easy part was the fluctuating exchange rate.
Say I needed to get 500 pounds or GBP to a company in the UK.
Current exchange rate is $1.31 to the pound. So, I need to give my bank here the equivalent of 500 GBP plus another 12GBP to cover the banking fee in the UK 512 x 1.31 )so $670.72 plus the USA bank fee of $15 equals $670.72 and GO!!!!!
Exchange rates change by the minute, and they change in fractions of one tenth of a cent.
$670.72 at that instant in time would have covered bank fees in the USA, bank fees in the UK and 500 GBP should have popped out the other end. Correct?
No way, first couple of trys I was short a few pounds. Increased the dollar amount this end and eventually transfer went through but it was about five pounds over the 500 they wanted.
Called them and told them to go buy a beer on me!
Just a regular transfer of money from the USA to the UK would have been easy if I was not targeting a specific amount to arrive in the UK.
@ Possum:
That’s one nice thing about PayPal. If you want to send someone 500 pounds, that’s what you do. The correct amount in dollars will automatically be withdrawn from your bank account.
I sometimes buy things from the UK that way, and its much simpler than trying to figure it out.
lobo91 wrote:
It will be re-instated in 2 weeks if I have anything to say about it. And race has nothing to do with it.
@ lobo91:
I agree. Instead of trying to push 500 pounds to the UK it would have been much easier for them to charge me 500 pounds and my bank then told me how much I owed them.
That was the beauty of the UK being in the EEC or whatever it is called now. EU I think.
Country to country money transfers in Euros.
Possum wrote:
The point is – there is NO country where, if it goes thru gov’t channels, the financial system is trustworthy.
The point is – it’s based on a clan/tribal system where everyone knows everyone else and it goes forward outside a centralized system.
Which crypto claims is its best feature.
Except for the grid part – oopsie!
At some point, it will have to interface with the ‘outside’ system just like crypto but so what?
It’s something I’m thinking thru. I don’t think you could buy a house with it but maybe food?
dunno. I just put it out there as a thinking point.
@ eaglesoars:
In the USA we kind of have a clan/tribal system of payment system in places where as you say everyone knows everyone else.
If you live in small town USA I bet you can run up a bar tab.
@ Possum:
Crypto transaction times are slow. Pay at the checkout for a twelve pack of fancy water and a lettuce with Bitcoin and you will be standing there at least 10 minutes while transaction takes place.
My electronic payment card goes through faster than I can put my lettuce in a sack.
I mean…I can’t even…I suck canal water at science but even I…
Separately, some members of congress are beginning to advocate for a non-kinetic no-fly zone – something to the effect of using electromagnetic pulse, sonar, and cyber to keep Russian jets on the ground so they can never take off. Unclear how much support this will end up getting
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1500961829509636099
Her bio: White House Correspondent, fill-in anchor @FoxNews
• Capitol Hill & 2020 campaign trail alum • 3x Emmy Award-winning reporter • podcast host
I have never heard of her
Possum wrote:
I assume the mining as to be real-time with the transaction at checkout?
@ eaglesoars:
I assume the mining HAS to be real-time with the transaction at checkout?
@ Possum:
Oh and I kind of faked the fancy water and a lettuce just to make an old friend think I was eating healthy.
I am currently consuming healthy Ramen Noodly stuff.
@ eaglesoars:
Mining creates new empty blocks to add to the blockchain. The blockchain records transactions. Every transaction has to be verified as legitimate by several hundred separate mining rigs.
Less miners active, longer it takes to create new blocks and the slower the validation of a transaction is.
As a side note. I have a new hobby! Pissing people off on Facebook.
Currently a company on Facebook that are promoting cute T-Shirts for small children featuring a caterpillar.
LOL
Possum wrote:
more miners active, more electricity used
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds so easy when it just rolls off the tongue.
Practically it bloody difficult to achieve. Forget EMP unless you intend to explode a large nuke directly over Kyiv. That might work except for the Hardened Tempested electronics … like military electronics. Importing a cyber bug into a system that effects other systems still sounds a little like a direct pluck out of a novel. It is possible however, but ideally it needs someone on the inside. Soon??? Really. We aren’t talking submarines are we Jacqui? Perhaps she meant microwaves?
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soon = SONAR
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@ eaglesoars:
Higher electricity prices, mining less profitable, less miners, longer transaction times….
eaglesoars wrote:
Ya get nothing for nothing Eagles except for a mother’s love!
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@ Aussie Infidel:
LOL no need for an EMP over Kiev just turn the power off.
Possum wrote:
didn’t we talk about that a few days ago? And cooling the water etc?
@ eaglesoars:
Zaporizhzhia was taken over by Russia a few days ago. Zaporizhzhia reactors are a different design to Chernobyl.
Zaporizhzhia reactors designed and built in Russia.
They are in safe hands…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Anytime you hear a reporter use the aggregate ‘some’ as in ‘some members of Congress’ it’s total, complete bullshit.
These are just congress critters – and maybe just the one – or 5 – getting into her pants – who are throwing around words like ‘kinetic’ ‘laser’ etc and have no clue what they’re talking about .
They all use hair gel.
They probably already are.
These assholes don’t even know what ‘EMP’ means.
Possum wrote:
I don’t know anything about the design. Don’t care. Nobody is blowing it up.
But I do recall our discussion that the power needs to stay on in order to keep the cooking system in place.
It’s low on my list of priorities.
I do logistics.
Where is the food and where is the fuel and where is the ammo?
eaglesoars wrote:
yeah, that too
COOLING system
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.
Some of those who remained set to work scrutinizing decades-old assumptions. They started thinking anew about the striking features of nature that seem unnaturally fine-tuned — both the Higgs boson’s small mass, and a seemingly unrelated case, one that concerns the unnaturally low energy of space itself. “The really fundamental problems are problems of naturalness,” Garcia Garcia said.
Their introspection is bearing fruit. Researchers are increasingly zeroing in on what they see as a weakness in the conventional reasoning about naturalness. It rests on a seemingly benign assumption, one that has been baked into scientific outlooks since ancient Greece: Big stuff consists of smaller, more fundamental stuff — an idea known as reductionism. “The reductionist paradigm … is hard-wired into the naturalness problems,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Now a growing number of particle physicists think naturalness problems and the null results at the Large Hadron Collider might be tied to reductionism’s breakdown. “Could it be that this changes the rules of the game?” Arkani-Hamed said. In a slew of recent papers, researchers have thrown reductionism to the wind. They’re exploring novel ways in which big and small distance scales might conspire, producing values of parameters that look unnaturally fine-tuned from a reductionist perspective.
“Some people call it a crisis. That has a pessimistic vibe associated to it and I don’t feel that way about it,” said Garcia Garcia. “It’s a time where I feel like we are on to something profound.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/
somebody go read it and explain it to me like I’m 5.
Ok, 3
From Russia With Love – new thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/03/08/danger-uxb/
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. I’m thinking it’s one — someone like Occasional Cortex might believe something like that is possible. I’m sure there are a number of congresscritters briefed on current DE (directed energy) capabilities. What this reporter is spouting is pretty much nonsense.