Quite a scene at the SCG just now
Brilliant!
The Joy of Sport Open
by coldwarrior ( 449 Comments › )Filed under Open thread, Sports at March 25th, 2022 - 8:15 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/australian-rugby-player-collapses-with-cardiac-event/
lot of athletes having heart issues….
@ coldwarrior:
No reason to be suspicious.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Manchin will vote for Brown Jackson and Clarence Thomas is out of the hospital
Peter Schweitzer told us about the uranium deal Hillary cut w/Putin. John Solomon fills in the corners. They are big corners
The lame-duck George W. Bush administration planned to put missile defense structures in Eastern Europe to deter Russian aggression against its neighbors.
But one of the Obama-Biden administration’s first foreign policy maneuvers was to cancel that plan via a “secret letter” to Putin’s placeholder, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Why? U.S. leaders apparently wanted to make deals with Russia, and giant missile silos in Putin’s backyard were a nonstarter for Moscow.
But the canceled missile defense in Eastern Europe was only the beginning in a long line of concessions to Russia that not only emboldened Putin, but advanced Russian military capabilities in ways that are now having deadly consequences for Ukrainian civilians (think hypersonic missiles) while threatening the global economy.
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Another deal that Obama, Biden, and Clinton gave the Russians was called the “123 Agreement,” which allowed state-owned Russian entities like nuclear behemoth Rosatom to sell nuclear materials directly to U.S. utility companies.
This deal continues to pay huge dividends to the Obama Foundation’s top donor, Chicago-based Exelon Corporation. And President Biden has allowed that deal to survive even during the Ukraine war, exempting nuclear fuel sales to U.S. utilities from his recent sanctions targeting Russian energy imports.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-driven 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, and other so-called denuclearization efforts with Libya and North Korea, effectively sent hundreds of thousands of tons of uranium to Russia for enrichment — a huge cash and energy windfall for Putin.
On top of these nuclear handouts, the Obama-Biden-Clinton team gave Russia one of the biggest prizes of all: Uranium One.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/thururanium-oil-and-technology-how-russia-got-stronger
more at the link
“Mega Emergency” Unfolds For World’s Top Coffee Growers As Fertilizer Costs Spike
Good map at the link
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/mega-emergency-unfolds-worlds-top-coffee-growers-fertilizer-costs-spike
Hubby loves this one brand that works out to about $1.25 a cup up from $0.80 a few weeks ago. Fortunately, I drink the stuff rarely (I’m a tea person). When we first moved in it took 3 days to find the coffee maker. I thought he and my sister would have psychotic breaks.
I just looked at the date. Dad’s b-day. He would have been 107.
@ eaglesoars:
Until now, I thought the people whining about a potential nuclear war were crazy.
If they threaten the coffee supply, that could do it.
lobo91 wrote:
Hell, when I told my husband what it costs now, he was ready to go! I might be able to talk him into letting me try buying roasted beans, grinding them here and using a regular coffee point, but – doubtful. It’s been difficult to train him to not use paper towels to dry his hands, there are bar towels for that.
This clip is so short, no idea when it was made, no confirmation it’s the 82nd Airborne, he doesn’t say Ukraine, and this is not the usual manner troops are told they’ll be deploying.
But it IS from the RNC.
Biden tells the 82nd Airborne they’re going to Ukraine:
“You’re going to see when you’re there, you’re going to see women, young people standing in the middle, in the front of a damn tank saying ‘I’m not leaving.'”
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1507386975753494533
I’ve asked for supporting evidence
from reporter for the Independent/UK
Just now, @POTUS told US troops: “You’re going to see when you’re there, you’re going to see women, young people standing in the middle, in the front of a damn tank saying I’m not leaving”.
I have asked the White House if there are now plans to send troops or if he misspoke.
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1507379407605977092
@ eaglesoars:
prolly the QRF
they’ll go to germany or poland for some fun
More
President Biden on his European visit addressed soldiers in the Army’s 82nd Airborne and made the concerning statement they would be going to Ukraine. Watch:
“You’re going to see when you’re there, you’re going to see women, young people standing in the middle, in the front of a damn tank saying ‘I’m not leaving,’ I’m holding my ground. They’re incredible.”
The Department of Defense has not announced ground operations for U.S. troops in Ukraine, which would be a major escalation that could risk a regional war with Russia, if not threaten the potential for World War III.
As reported earlier, the United States does have ground troops in Ukraine. Seth Harp, an investigative reporter and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, revealed the JSOC operations on Sunday.
“US special operators are currently on the ground in Ukraine doing ‘operational prep of the battlefield,’ according to a well informed source,” Harp reported citing a ‘well informed’ source. “The military unit is JSOC’s Advance Force Operations, including members of Delta Force and SEAL Team 6.”
The developments are concerning to Americans who want to avoid entanglement in a foreign war, but Harp cautioned readers not to necessarily presume this is an “escalation.”
“This should NOT necessarily be perceived as an escalation in Ukraine,” Harp added. “Small JSOC teams routinely penetrate foreign countries to do covert work (not fighting) as part of long-shot contingency planning.”
“These are denied operations under Title 10, no different from CIA activities,” he remarked.
Becker News confirmed the reports with multiple intelligence sources, one of which called it “100% true.”
However, while many blasted Harp as potentially leaking compromising information about a sensitive operation, there are recent reports that corroborate the reporting.
“U.S. special operators are continuing with a mission to build up an elite fighting force in Ukraine, military officials said, even as Russia threatens invasion with its thousands of troops, tanks and artillery massed along their borders,” Stripes reported on January 19, 2022, prior to the Russian invasion.
“The bottom line is that our training mission in Ukraine is ongoing,” said Lt. Col. Juan Martinez, spokesman for U.S. Special Operations Command Europe.
Martinez told Stripes there are a “ton of outside factors at work,” but added that “the command hasn’t stepped back from Ukraine.”
“We continue to view our mission in Ukraine as part of an ongoing effort in enhancing Special Operations Forces capabilities as a keystone for regional stability,” he said.
“The Stuttgart-based SOCEUR has quietly operated out of a training center outside of Kyiv for the past several years,” Stripes added. “The mission’s focus is assisting Ukrainian forces to defend more effectively against Russian aggression.”
“The presence of U.S. special operators is part of a small American military contingent that remains in Ukraine,” Stripes also noted. “There are also more than 100 Florida National Guard troops in Ukraine in an advisory role,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at the time.
https://beckernews.com/biden-tells-82nd-airborne-theyre-going-to-ukraine-youre-going-to-see-when-youre-there-44502/
more at the link
@ coldwarrior:
what’s the QRF?
@ coldwarrior:
[psst… cw… your linky done be broke up top…]
eaglesoars wrote:
quick reaction force.
its a rotating battalion or larger sized element that is on standby for immediate world-wide deployment.
82nd, 101st, 1st mountain, 1st cav and others. it rotates through the different divisions
@ coldwarrior:
what does it do when it ‘reacts’?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
fixed!
thx!!!
i had to rush out this AM to get to my amish connection for some eggs and other such sundries.
eaglesoars wrote:
these are highly mobile light-infantry and / or airborne / air-assault that can go in hot and fight for a few days and then get re-supplied or pulled out.
they are not a long term fix like heavy infantry or armor
coldwarrior wrote:
And the world is now a better place.
I just got off a group teleconference with micromanagers. Nothing was accomplished except to propose another meeting to discuss pipe bollard finishes.
eaglesoars wrote:
so, of course. we played a big part in pushing putin to invade.
self-fulfilling war machine prophecy.
effin chickenhawks
@ eaglesoars:
That clip is of Biden speaking to troops in Poland. He was there yesterday, I believe.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
YESSSS!!!!!
a productive meeting where you leveraged your core competencies and realized synergy!
@ lobo91:
i sure hope the 82nd has their translated preferred-gender-pronoun cards ready!
right_wing2 wrote:
https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx
partial list
hmmmmm…..
pay attention to this over the next 5 days….
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-sees-unprecedented-capital-outflow-140808712.html
Some interesting guns turning up in Ukraine these days. I particularly like the red dot optic mounted on a water-cooled Maxim.
Yup…definitely 82nd
@ eaglesoars:Don’t know if this is what the POTatUS was referring to.
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1507382935535689767
coldwarrior wrote:
why 5 days?
coldwarrior wrote:
But they’re paying me.
Sometimes when the aggravation level creeps up, I’ll plant seeds and sit back for the fireworks. “Has anyone looked at grout color options?”
@ eaglesoars:
Trend line
coldwarrior wrote:
got it
Hunter Biden connected to firm funding U.S. biolab in Ukraine. Bongino has it
@ eaglesoars:
This was out 2 weeks ago…
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
ooops…it was a conspiracy theory 2 weeks ago
eaglesoars wrote:
Ah! It’s the brilliant journalist Natalie Winters
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Bio Firm Partnered With Ukrainian Researchers ‘Isolating Deadly Pathogens’ Using Funds From Obama’s Defense Department.
The U.S. President’s son was instrumental in funding a firm conducting pathogen and anthrax research in Ukrainian biolabs.
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) – a subsidiary of the Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz-founded Rosemont Capital – counted both Biden and Heinz as managing directors. Heinz is the stepson of former U.S. Secretary of State and current Climate czar John Kerry.
Amongst the companies listed on archived versions of the RSTP’s portfolio is Metabiota – an ostensibly San Francisco-based company that purports to detect, track, and analyze emerging infectious diseases.
Financial reports reveal that RSTP led the company’s first round of funding in 2015, which amounted to $30 million. Former managing director and co-founder of RSTP Neil Callahan – a name that also appears many times on Hunter Biden’s hard drive – sits on Metabiota’s Board of Advisors alongside former Clinton official Rob Walker who discussed, in another unearthed Hunter Biden hard drive e-mail, reaching out to the Obama Department of Defense with regard to Metabiota.
In July 2021, The National Pulse exclusively revealed the connection between Metabiota, Hunter Biden, and the pandemic-linked EcoHealth Alliance which worked closely with Anthony Fauci’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and the notorious Wuhan laboratory.
oday, we can exclusively reveal an official connection between the Biden-linked pandemic firm and biological laboratories based in Ukraine. In early March we revealed how these labs were handling “especially dangerous pathogens” through programs funded by the U.S. government. The potential for such entities to fall into the hands of invading Russian forces has come under hotly disputed scrutiny in recent weeks.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/24/biden-linked-company-partnered-with-ukraine-biolabs/
Did you see this guy troll some city council meeting in Texas? EPIC
“Marty Epstein”
“In 2015 Bernie Sanders woke me up,” he said. “My openly gay 6-year-old transgender nephew wanted something different than most kids for his birthday. He wanted the COVID-19 vaccine for the greater good of humanity because unlike the racist Republicans he wanted to protect our democracy and take on his social responsibility to do his part for the greater good,” he said. “He’s now gone from this world. He recently had a heart attack. But the doctors say they don’t know what caused it,” he continued. “But I know what caused it. It was the stress from the Donald Trump supporters and the science deniers, RACIST BIGOTED HOMOPHOBES,
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/03/24/watch-epic-troll-makes-boring-board-meetings-great-again-in-denton-texas-n1583853
video at the link
@ eaglesoars:
meh.
Hubby cancelled his Home Depot credit card today. They sent out the white privilege crap – Home Depot has gone viral for a worksheet in which it unleashes on people who supposedly have “white privilege,” “Christian privilege,” etc. The worksheet also admonishes folks who Home Depot believes as being in denial of their alleged privilege.
When he called the rep tried to give him the PR spin – not authorized by our execs and it came from Canada – and my husband just opened up.
“Has anyone been fired? Have your execs withdrawn it? NO. You’ve done nothing to fix this, you’ve just made excuses. THERE IS NO EXCUSE. YOU’RE FIRED”
zippah di do dah….
https://republicanpost.net/home-depot-slammed-for-woke-white-privilege-worksheet/
eaglesoars wrote:
Story links to The Blaze which links to this:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1506432641364467719
I think “Libs of TikTok” got temporarily suspended recently.
I ran across this earlier, yeah it’s from February…
Bowing to China, Shipping Carriers Refuse to Transport U.S. and California Goods
This export crisis and imbalance of trade hurts American workers, businesses, security, and American goods
By Katy Grimes, February 24, 2022 3:36 pm
“Shipping carriers rejected U.S. agricultural export containers worth hundreds of millions of dollars during October and November, instead sending empty containers to China to be filled with more profitable Chinese exports,” a 2021 CNBC investigation found.
American farmers, ranchers and growers don’t have a shipping container shortage, as has been reported. Foreign shipping carriers are refusing to take American and California-made products, and instead, the shipping carriers take empty containers back to China.
The CNBC investigation found that in October and November 2020, shipping carriers rejected 178,000 agricultural export containers worth $632 million.
China pays shipping carriers so much money to export Chinese-made goods, they are then paid a premium to carry the empty containers from America back to China. As a result, hundreds of thousands of containers with American products are delayed or remain sitting rotting on American docks in American ports while foreign customers wait.
In the past year, members of congress, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the California State Transportation Agency Secretary, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture sent letters to the shipping council, leading ocean carriers, and Federal Maritime Commissioners. But the export situation has only gotten worse.
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/bowing-to-china-shipping-carriers-refuse-to-transport-u-s-and-california-goods/
@ eaglesoars:
HDs lumber sucks. I try to keep it local but…if I have to do big box stuff it’s Lowe’s by a mile.
@ Bordm:
Globalization rocks!!!!
Throw some hope my way everyone. I have over twenty applications in review right now, but have only had one interview in a month. Down to the last 150 in savings. Have just enough coming in disability to cover my rent. Instacart is giving me just enough work to get me about 20 bucks every two days. Applied to Doordash and Grubhub but even though they alway tell me there aren’t drivers available when I order, they say they have enough drivers and can’t use me right now, lol. Just really stressed right now. The one job I do have is a substitute teacher position but all the teachers have used up all their PTO so no one is taking off work. This is just a really rough time right now.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Damn…
Some war, I just bought a Bath Rugby (town of bath, England) trainer jacket from a seller in ukieland. It ships monday.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yeah, of course part of it is my fault for getting sick, quitting the job that was killing me and losing my unemployment because I got sick.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
We’ll hit the icons for yinz Sunday.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thx
https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/33594563/f1-saudi-arabian-gp-go-ahead-attack-nearby-jeddah-oil-depot
The Saudis aren’t going to put up with this.
Before YouTube takes it down for “misinformation”:
eaglesoars wrote:
To me that reads that the Democrats proliferated nuclear weapons in exchange for money and a chance to grant Russia and China more power against America.
Military leaders should be worried.
@ lobo91:
eaglesoars wrote:
Rumor is that Candace Owens favors bar towels over paper towels.
And once the BRCC people address the coffee crisis coffee will be safe. I think I’ll buy an extra can of coffee next week instead of crypto.
Ok, submitted five applications to the school district. One job would be great, it’s literally across the street from my front door. One minute walk.
coldwarrior wrote:
The MO for this will be that Russian capture US Special Forces in Ukraine. One would think it would be only Green Beret or a foreign unit they have trained. Putting seals etc there would seem to be immanent military action.
@ darkwords:
Seals blow shit up.
Green berets overthrow your country.
darkwords wrote:
If there’s no fertilizer, there’s no fertilizer
coldwarrior wrote:
Same. Hang in there.
eaglesoars wrote:
In yet another finding that highlights the health perks coffee can brew, new studies show that having two to three cups a day not only wakes you up, it’s also good for your heart and may help you live longer.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/03/24/coffee-health-benefits/5801648144508/
@ darkwords:
Yes a couple 3 of coffee a day is in fact, good for yinz.
So sez the cardiologists I know.
darkwords wrote:
Thx
Beware of teachers on tik tok.
Captain Sou
@SouSanDiego
Thank you, Jesse for educating Americans on a subject that was never adequately taught in schools and the reason my family refugeed via Thailand to escape the Khmer Rouge. They didn’t flee a commie dictator to become slaves to US Marxism. Now there’s nowhere left to flee to.
Quote Tweet
@JesseKellyDC
Pol Pot himself was a teacher. The man in charge of his infamous S21 (Kang Kek lew) was a teacher.
Communist teachers slaughtering people is hardly an exception in history. It’s the norm.
@Roland51545709
Replying to @JesseKellyDC and @TheFirstonTV
I highly recommend the book Murder of a Gentile Land. The fact that many of Pol Pots murderous regime were french college professors did not surprise me.
Joey Jones
@Johnny_Joey
· 6h
I’m 3 episodes into this “Yellowstone” It’s so fake. The youngest son is supposedly a SEAL, but he’s met at least a dozen people and hasn’t told one of them about it, hasn’t said hooyah, and hasn’t even mentioned BUDS at all, and carries a Glock, not even a Gucci Glock. Fake news
@ darkwords:
Pol pots Cambodia, and the Roman empire are my favorite historical subjects.
Pol pot and his crew were true evil…they were the left unchained
darkwords wrote:
!!!
How to get the attention of a police officer if they are ignoring you.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2022/03/25/the-gif-friday-post-no-722-colorado-slider-little-bat-flaps-abba-ka-dabba/
coldwarrior wrote:
And we have a complementally crew of progressives sitting in our country waiting. 2A is holding them up.
darkwords wrote:
Yup
@ darkwords:
I don’t think anything can be as truly evil as Pol pot and the khmer rouge.
Always remember, the American press thought he was going to be the best thing ever.
…maybe papa doc duvallier and his Tonton Macoute were just as evil, but not on the scale of the rouge.
Smoking an early evening Mark Twain Memoir. At least I have a half full humidor to keep me from completely cracking up.
darkwords wrote:
who did the video? pure luck……..
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t see that standing out. I think it is just meant at college professors who taught French. But that was also one of the targeted groups for killing.
A little bit of the history shows western nations avoided calling it a genocide in order to placate the killers into cooperation.
@ coldwarrior:
The NY Times loved Fidel Castro back in the day
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Well played, sir!
I’m on an AJ Fernandez diesel 6×52 and some tequila
@ eaglesoars:
Looks like a traffic helicopter
lobo91 wrote:
See a pattern yet? Lol
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I haven’t had any of those yet.
Recommendations?
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I find that the promise of a nice cigar at the end of my shift keeps me from doing wrong thought things during my shifts. ; )
Its a small price to pay to keep my license
lobo91 wrote:
lol
One of the better ones.
coldwarrior wrote:
I like the Mark Twains. Great budget smokes. The memoir and the riverboat barber pole are just pleasant. A great way to unwind when you don’t want to go with something more expensive like a diesel, Alec Bradley Maxx, or CAO Flathead in my case.
well…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/house-vote-to-legalize-marijuana-next-week/
i have no problems with this
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
you nailed my faves for one a day!
the 660 flathead is reserved for teeing off at the CC. its a beast!
my local beer distributor has a nice wall humidor. AJ fernandez new world gordos for $6!
some of the My Father’s for $7-10. he’s undercutting the two cigar shops near here big time.
i buy the bulk of my cigars at cigarbid, yeah, i’m a cheap bastard. but diesels are always cheap as shit in bulk.
@ coldwarrior:
and he has $20 cohibas and davidoffs…..
once every month for one of those if i save my pennied!
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah cigarbid is nice. One of the reasons I’d like to have a job again with extra income over my bills.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
i do the freefall thing more often than not. its easier
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/emails-hunter-bidens-laptop-prove-helped-secure-millions-funding-us-contractors-ukraine-specializing-deadly-pathogen-research/
moar info on our war crime first-family and the MIC
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
@ coldwarrior:
i’s LOVE to know how many diesels AJ pushes through there in a month
coldwarrior wrote:
Same.
eaglesoars wrote:
My mum had her birthday too on the 25th. 100 and with us in spirit if not in body .
Happy hundredth mum!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Happy birthday Mrs. Aussie Mom!
My pug died the other day. How long does it take for me to stop seeing him around the house, lol. This is weird. I keep seeing him out of the corner of my eye.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
the mind is amazing.
22 March. Interesting if true.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506306740421341193
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/85233/ukraine-captures-weird-russian-container-hits-major-jackpot/index.html
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
sad news, boss.
that aint what they say it is.
coldwarrior wrote:
Mixed feelings. It could cut into the drug cartels’ profits, but once taxes are applied it’s still cheaper to get on the street. The cartels are running the addictive stuff anyway.
@ coldwarrior:
But it is camouflaged and hidden! Look at all the twigs the nasty Russians have placed on top of it!
Also the truck it was on must have sneaked away in the night…
coldwarrior wrote:
Which is why I posted it – to get a feckczech. Thx.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
working on it boss……
i need to get zoom in on those tubes. i have a sneaking suspicion what this is tho
Possum wrote:
Black hole antimatter eated it.
@ coldwarrior:
Well if it helps whatever it is ISTE says it is laying on its side.
@ Possum:
And a 1RL257 Krasukha-4 kind of looks like a big truck with a Direct TV dish on the top.
Having said that, the unknown thingy could be a generator off a support truck.
I don’t know. Russian anti radar jamming is not one of my specialties on my CV. Yet.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ coldwarrior:
i dont see any, which means not nearly enough hawks for the absurd power input and output that this would need to do all the stuff they claim it does. i dont see any evidence of large generator in the area. there would be yuge power cables that would have left an indentation in the pine needles. and if this was this
the opposite end it the in/out end for people. it doesn’t look anything like a jamming system. there would be cable marks in the earth heading out toward antennae.
i do see a lot of garbage. many people have walked/stood near the back corner of it. unlikely if its commo gear, the footpaths would be to the doors. and it looks nothing like the Krasukha-4 which is a massive vehicle.
next issue is that if you don’t have the ‘keys’ the system wont work, nor can you reverse engineer it. this isnt cutting edge stuff either,
i thought that the ruskies didnt have command and control and jamming stuff…that was the story a few weeks ago.
the area does not look like a ‘top sekrit jamming station’ it looks like a field kitchen
@ Possum:
generator?
i dont see any exhaust or oil stains on the ground. there lack of big cable marks on the ground and evidence of foot traffic to the rear left.
the tubes i dont get….
@ coldwarrior:
I was just guessing at generator.
It looks like a containerized system that can be put on, and taken off a standard vehicle.
Hey I seen the US Army mobile showers and clothes washing videos!
The 1RL257 Krasukha-4 seems to be a purpose built vehicle.
@ Possum:
yep. this aint what they say it is
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I didn’t know you had a dog! Bonnie die 4.5years ago. I still see her.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yesterday I posted something about the U.S. wanting some Russian something or other the Ukies had captured – I think it – no I don’t remember what it was
Good. The story Natalie Winters developed on Hunter Biden and the Ukranian biolabs was ‘fact checked’ by Glenn Kessler of WaPo. He accused her of propagating ‘Russian disinformation’ [when will they ever learn?]
Natalie’s boss, Raheem Kassem, fired back
Instead of focusing on the story, The Washington Post’s
@GlennKesslerWP slides into a female reporter’s @nataliegwinters
DMs alleging “laundering Russian disinformation.”
The evidence came from Hunter’s laptop. Not Russia. If he implies otherwise WaPo will be sued BIG TIME.
https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1507457271256780852
Watch this video of Biden. Frightening.
White House Feed *Cut* After Biden Confronted on Call with Xi Jinping
short, less than a minute
https://beckernews.com/white-house-feed-cut-after-biden-confronted-on-call-with-xi-jinping-44429/
The PRC’s Public Security Bureau no less.
Expect PLAN warship visits next. Tulagi’s harbour in the Solomons was a Japanese naval base in WW11.
Ten thousand dead US Marines, sailors and airmen are asking why in hell they were sent to die 77 years ago for something that was given away to the CCP through laziness and neglect by the US government and their allies.Xi thinks the West is a ripe apple ready to fall. He just may be correct!
SPIT.
https://www.solomontimes.com/news/solomon-islands-signs-police-cooperation-agreement-with-china/11735
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, technically me ex gave him to my nephew but he was mostly attached to me.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
did you have to feed him? ($$$)
@ Aussie Infidel:
they sold out.
i hope they enjoy their new masters. its an unneeded and useless bit of land at this point in warfare.
i do hope the chinatown residents are ready for the next riot.
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ coldwarrior:
small islands in the pacific at this point are sitting targets not much unlike the maginot line. easy-peasy non-moving targets wiped out in the first minutes of warfare
@ Aussie Infidel:
@ coldwarrior:
Did I not see something about the Solomon Islands residents rioting about the gov’t making deals with the ChiComs?
@ coldwarrior:
Well looking at a map the Chinese are going to be in a shit show like they never imagined when they try to take New Britain and New Ireland and try to unite them.
eaglesoars wrote:
He ate with my brothers dog, so I bought probably half the time or so.
https://humanevents.com/2022/03/24/industrial-wind-towers-cause-warming/
Interesting.
Change of topic! ( as if we ever stick to one topic in here… )
Movie recommendation time.
I do not like most ” comedy ” movies. I do not really smile or laugh much at anything, not even Benny Hill or Monty Python. Basically I am a miserable old man.
Anyway, earlier this week I was bored and looked for something to watch. Heat came up starring Sandra Bullock but it was labeled comedy. She is easy on the eyes so I clicked on it just to watch while I had a beer, ate supper and monitored the on going situation in the Ukraine.
I really enjoyed it. Sandra Bullock is an amazing actress. Five stars!
Yesterday I thought to try another comedy. Proposal.
Again five stars.
@ right_wing2:
That article links to studies that you have to pay for.
I agree with the basic findings of the articles. Wind turbines do disturb the airflow in a local area. Without going back and cutting and pasting I think they said the ground level temperature at night was about 0.5C higher than the surrounding areas.
looks like wind turbines are mixing cold ground level air with slightly warmer air that is a few hundred feet above.
A BAD THING!!!!!
Now Google Oranges, Florida, Frost, Helicopters. LOL
Or, read this article. https://www.winemag.com/2021/04/12/france-frost-wine-climate/
” Wind machines blow warmer air near the cool ground ”
The article main picture features a helicopter.
So, my suggestion, if windmills cause a mixing of cold air and warmer air then what better place to put them is in vineyards and orange groves.
Possum wrote:
Her new movie looks like one of her funniest. The Lost City. Reminds me of some of the older comedies I used to like. If you like those two movies give Miss Congeniality 1 &2 a try. Laughed my ass off with those. Bonus of William Shatner being absolutely a riot acting self-absorbed.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Thanks for that. I have Peacock and Amazon Prime. Not on Peacock and not on Prime either. Shit…
@ coldwarrior:
The tubes….tubes…. was messing with my head whilst watching Brumbies .
These look like replaceable RO tunes.
Or not.
@ coldwarrior:
Mobile containerized water purification system?
Lots of military shit is containerized.
Possum wrote:
That is one of the best movies EVAH. The bar scene is completely improv.
During a meeting of the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education this week, a hot mic caught board members apparently pondering “can we just go set Marsha Blackburn on fire?” — the latest instance of public school boards saying the quiet part out loud and revealing their partisan hostility against conservatives and Republicans.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/03/25/can-we-just-go-set-marsha-blackburn-on-fire-asks-nashville-school-board-member-n2605053
I’m posting this because NASHVILLE. We’re in Tennessee but the fight is not over. Ben Shapiro moved Daily Wire from Los Angeles to Nashville because he thought after a lifetime in L.A., it would be a better place. It’s better, but it’s not over. Be aware. No place is ‘safe’. You can always be surrounded.
gawd. after 1. bed.
@ eaglesoars:
Although he was smart enough not to move himself and his family there. They live in Boca Raton now.
coldwarrior wrote:
Front left corner tube steel is busted, too. Not crumpled. Torn.
Good.
Remember when that soy prick Vivick Murthy who is our testosterone-free Surgeon General told social media platforms to turn over info on users who were spreading COVID-19 misinformation?
Well, that led to twitter canceling some people and they aren’t having it. They’ve engaged the New Civil Liberties Alliance to sue on their behalf
https://nclalegal.org/2022/03/ncla-takes-on-u-s-surgeon-generals-censoring-of-alleged-covid-19-misinformation-on-twitter/
The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed a Complaint in the lawsuit, Changizi, et al. v. HHS, et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The lawsuit alleges that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, whom NCLA has sued in their official capacities, do not have the statutory authority to issue this RFI.
Apparently the lawsuit Trump filed the other day is a fat one. It’s a RICO-based complaint and it’s not just against Hillary, I think Jake Tapper and some others are in there too.
The other day someone pointed out the connection between French intellectuals and the Khmer Rouge.
I was unaware.
Look what pops up first thing in my twitter feed
https://quillette.com/2018/07/15/devastation-and-denial-cambodia-and-the-academic-left/
Pol Pot completed his studies at the University of Paris in 1953, just two years before Aron would publish his book. There, he had fallen in love with the works of Marx, Rousseau, Stalin, and Mao. Many of the future Khmer Rouge leaders were also graduates of French universities at this time, and became the founders of a club they called the Marxist Circle. Conduct a survey of your own among blue collar workers and students and faculty at universities, and it will soon become apparent that Marxism is a movement of intellectuals. But in the name of the peasants and workers, their doctrines left the halls of the universities and entered the killing fields of Cambodia.
https://quillette.com/2018/07/15/devastation-and-denial-cambodia-and-the-academic-left/
Thanks Joe – China Completes Its Militarization Of The South China Sea
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/thanks-joe-china-completes-its-militarization?r=19iqgx&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
the Chinese had now completed the militarization of at least three of the artificial islands they have constructed equipping them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems and fighter jets which threatened all nations in the area.
“The function of those islands is to expand the offensive capability of the PRC beyond their continental shores. They can fly fighters, bombers plus all those offensive capabilities of missile systems,” Aquilino said. Aquilino was interviewed by the AP on board a U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft flying near Chinese-held outposts in the South China Sea’s Spratly archipelago. During the patrol, the P-8A Poseidon plane was repeatedly warned by Chinese authorities that it had illegally entered China’s territory. The plane was ordered to leave.
“China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment,” one of the radio messages stated.
Aquilino’s comments highlight the essential nature of the Chinese activities in the South China Sea. There is nothing defensive about them. They are part and parcel of an aggressive Chinese policy of expansionism. These islands are not bastions in a defensive line. They are jumping-off points for conquest.
coldwarrior wrote:
Armstrong economics
Our models have confirmed that Biden’s sanctions against all Russians have undeniably destroyed the global economy unfortunately precisely on time from its birth in 1950. Our capital flow models have confirmed that there has been an unprecedented cash outflow from China following Biden’s sanctions. Not only are we witnessing a withdrawal of Western capital from China realizing that the US has no interest in peace and China will be next, but we are also looking at collapsing confidence in globalization continuing from here on out.
These Neocons are bringing the entire world to destruction which some argue is all part of their plan to enable the world to BUILD BACK BETTER which necessitates the destruction of the current energy system and reduction of population to make Bill Gates sleep easy at night. So the next season of BUILD BACK BETTER may be the climax.
Our model has ALWAYS picked up the shifts in capital flows that precede war. This time we are witnessing outflows not just from China, but also from ALL emerging markets on a scale that is simply unprecedented. The timing of outflows is clearly linked to Biden’s unprecedented sanctions against the Russian people – not just Russia itself as a political state. This has NEVER taken place in history before with the single exception of the US sanctions imposed on Japan and the freezing of all their assets in the United States which preceded Pearl Harbor.
It pains me to have to even write this today. But clearly, those who understand where this is going is to World War III and make no mistake about it – this is INTENTIONAL!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/capital-flow/capital-flows-confirm-war-is-coming/
Shut your mouth Joe
Biden declares Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in fiery Warsaw remarks
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/599883-biden-declares-putin-cannot-remain-in-power-in-fiery-warsaw-remarks
Visualizing The Link Between Soaring Food Prices And Political Instability
https://tradeforprofit.net/2022/03/visualizing-the-link-between-soaring-food-prices-and-political-instability/
Unbeknown To Most, A Financial Revolution Is Coming That Threatens To Change Everything (And Not For The Better)
https://zububrothers.com/2022/03/26/unbeknown-to-most-a-financial-revolution-is-coming-that-threatens-to-change-everything-and-not-for-the-better/
Around 90 central banks are either in the process of experimenting with or are already piloting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In a world of just over 190 countries that is a large contingent, but given they include the European Central Bank (ECB) which alone represents 19 Euro Area economies, the actual number of economies involved is well over 100. They include all G20 economies and together represent more than 90% of global GDP.
Three CBDCs have already gone fully live in the past two years: the so-called DCash in the Eastern Caribbean, the Sand Dollar in the Bahamas and the eNaira in Nigeria. The International Monetary Fund, the world’s most powerful supranational financial institution, has been lending its expertise in the roll out of CBDCs. In a recent speech the Fund’s President Kristalina Georgieva lauded the potential benefits (on which more later) of CBDCs while heaping praise on the “ingenuity” of the central banks busily trying to conjure them into existence.
Also firmly on board is the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, which helps many of the world’s largest central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the ECB, manage their assets while obviously keeping all potential conflicts of interests at bay. The fund was the largest beneficiary of the Federal Reserve’s bailout of exchange-traded funds during the market rout of Spring 2020.
In his latest letter to investors, the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, said the Ukrainian conflict has the potential to accelerate the development of digital currencies across the world.
Larry Fink is the shadow manager of the Fed and the ECB? We’re screwed.
Well, Little Miss Sunshine is off to vacuum seal some stuff and throw it in the freezer….
eaglesoars wrote:
Oil futures coming due in 6 months are $2 per gallon higher.
Biden is everything Gen Miley feared irrationally about Trump.
White House walks back multiple Biden remarks during Europe trip on Putin, chemical weapons, troops
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-walks-back-multiple-biden-remarks-europe-trip
WW III coming right up
darkwords wrote:
what, ‘white rage’?
THIS is what I was trying to remember
Ukraine captures one of Russia’s most advanced electronic warfare systems, which could reveal military secrets, reports say
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-captures-one-russias-most-124539212.html
My favorite channel:
It took them just one year to go from “thank God the adults are finally in charge” to “Jesus Christ! That’s not what he meant. Stop listening to the demented bastard”
https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1507844508725256196
eaglesoars wrote:
Everyone knows.
https://twitter.com/realMrPatriot/status/1507516838975995904
@ lobo91:
Bought a car sight-unseen from my sister for $500. Aside from cosmetic damage, it wasn’t in bad shape mechanically, but there was this white dust all over the engine compartment. Her friend had replaced the battery, wired it down with a coat hanger, the battery had got loose and the flywheel had gouged a hole in the side of it. The replacement battery was about to suffer the same fate.
Trump’s speaking at a rally in Commerce GA.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
he went from “I’m not bothered by a minor incursions” to “Putin is a butcher and has to go” to “forget I said that” in about 30 days. The Babylon Bee couldn’t keep up with this.
From Michael Yon on gettr
https://www.gettr.com/post/p121ovsed32
New Document Dump
26 March 2022
Just in:
About 80,000 images/videos/screenshots, and about 200,000 texts, emails, documents, were deleted or hidden on the drive. Those deleted or hidden files were recently recovered.
These documents were released hours ago. [Edit, to be clear, this is a limited number of documents that due not include any images or child pornography. These are documents related to Ukraine and the Biden Crime Family].
Jack Maxey oversaw the recovery and just sent me this dump re Ukraine/Bidens.
You are free to share:
https://drive.infomaniak.com/app/share/475026/4aef7d10-2b2a-49cf-96ef-9dc58795dc59/files/1794
Holy Crap
from Vadim Pozharskyi to Devon Archer
MEMO: Ukraine Science
Dear Devon,Please find few initial points to be discussed for the purposes of analyzing the potential of this as you called, “Science Ukraine” project.1.Financing. As I understand the Metabiota was a subcontract to principal contactor of the DoD B&V.Today they seem to state that financing is closed. What was the reason of stopping the projects and financing of the projects? They look for a new financing. Do they expect to receive it again from B&V or they look for else were?
2.What kind of partnership Metabiota is looking for in Ukraine? From potential non-governmental player in Kiev? Rebuilt the ties with respective ministries in Ukraine, and on the basis of that reinstate the financing from the B&V? Or they look for partnership in managingprojects in Ukraine, PR with Government institutions here, financing of the projects?
(( Metabiota counterparts in Ukraine were ( i.e. final beneficiary and the recipient of the results of the projects) were ministries of from Ukraine, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health.From the Ukrainian governmental point of you, it looks like standard International Assistance project, that could be technical, financial, etc))
3.The principal contactor B&V seems to be also the party that operates in Ukraine on the similar or the same projects. There is no competition here?Best regards, vadym2014-04-07 20:28 GMT+03:00 Devon Archer :Vadim,Send me some general questions if you have time so I can work on responses and we’ll go into further detail when we speak tomorrow.Best,Devon Archer646 436 3745
Dated April 8 2014
Vadym Pozharskyi was a Ukrainian energy businessman and executive of Burisma, making him a key figure in the Hunter Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory. He served as an advisor to the board of Burisma, and, on 12 May 2014, he sent an email to Hunter Biden asking how Biden could use his political influence on Burisma’s behalf. On 17 April 2015, Pozharskyi sent Hunter Biden another email thanking him for inviting him to Washington DC and giving him an opportunity to meet his father, Vice President Joe Biden. That December, Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin – who was investigating alleged crimes committed by Burisma’s executive board – was fired by President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk after Joe Biden threatened to withhold a $1 billion loan guarantee unless Shokin was fired. On 14 October 2020, news about the 2015 email from Pozharskyi to Hunter Biden was publicized by the conservative tabloid New York Post just two weeks ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Vadym_Pozharskyi
Google Issues Emergency Security Warning For 3.2 Billion Chrome Users—Attacks Underway
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2022/03/26/google-confirms-emergency-security-update-for-32-billion-chrome-users-attacks-underway/?sh=1d0d2582aaa2
I’ll call my nerds on Monday
Oh lookie here!
Ukranian ‘refugees’
from Kashmir
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1507483552182583296
Don Lemon is in Ukraine
It’s his Michael Dukakis moment
check out the video
https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1507887757116456963
eaglesoars wrote:
Trump was impeached for much much much less.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s his way to avoid the sex charges against him.
JUST IN: Exxon Mobile and Crusoe Energy are removing over 10 million cubic feet of methane gas per day from mining #Bitcoin
https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1507925619056820224
try that with your idiot wind turbines
Chinese state media say the 2nd “black box” has been recovered from the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed 132 people last week. Searchers had been looking for the flight data recorder after finding the cockpit voice recorder 4 days ago.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1507924917555240962
eaglesoars wrote:
The emergency update takes you to version 99.0.4844.84
You can check your version number by opening the chrome menu, going to “Help”, then “About Google Chrome”. This page will check your version and confirm whether you are fully up to date and tell you the version you are on
https://twitter.com/0xBender/status/1507767392792768513
Chromium browsers like
@brave
,
@opera
,
@MicrosoftEdge
,
@firefox
, etc are affected too:
https://twitter.com/hansmast/status/1507822894054879234
In a subsequent tweet he says firefox is not affected
@ eaglesoars:
I just checked mine, it shows
Chrome is up to date
Version 99.0.4844.84 (Official Build) (64-bit)
bed nite
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t use Chrome. If I read it right, the breach apparently only applies to desktops.
In cities, such a Mariupol, that are besieged by Russian forces there has been no visible attempt to provide air support, artillery fire or reinforcements. The AZOV battalion left in an ever shrinking perimeter in Mariupol have no way out and are running out of ammunition and food. No soldier in the world survives long without ammo and chow
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/de-militarization-ukraine-continues/
Interesting read
coldwarrior wrote:
At the time of the start of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with the National Guard, numbered 260 thousand 200 servicemen. During the month of hostilities, their losses amounted to about 30 thousand people, including more than 14 thousand – irretrievable and about 16 thousand – sanitary.
what does ‘sanitary’ mean?
eaglesoars wrote:
wounded? maybe
mrs coldwarrior can’t figure this term out either.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m guessing it was translated a couple of times (like from Russian to German, maybe, and then to English). My assumption is the same.
@ lobo91:
yeah, that’s what we think too.
Trump does Trump so well.
https://rumble.com/vynp47-boom-trump-mocks-john-kerry-ocean-will-rise-1100th-of-1-in-the-next-200-fck.html
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
BWAHAAA!!!
i missed that one!
this shit aint right
(if it is true)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/shocking-videos-allegedly-show-ukrainians-shooting-torturing-russian-pows/
Looks like Brandon’s been listening to AOC again.
Notice how they repeatedly conflate “wealth” and “income.” And they want to tax unrealized capital gains.
coldwarrior wrote:
there are no good guys here ( have no idea if it’s true either, I trust no one)
@ eaglesoars:
a family feud
lol
I know an otherwise sane woman who believes this stuff.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
My mom believes it, too
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
@ lobo91:
simple chemistry and physics just can’t support the claims.
i’m all for a good conspiracy theory, but even i have limits
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/599922-petraeus-becoming-a-ukrainian-alamo?amp
and that’s the last piece of putin’s puzzle.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Asthma thunderstorms are probably caused by the same phenomena that makes it rain frogs. Prevailing winds picked up a load of a manmade chemicals and redistributed them as rain.
In terms of mother nature its probably not wise to pull hydrocarbons out of the earth and place them into the air and water and food. Some long term industrial health diseases will result until we can adapt. But I would hazard a guess that the automobile is more of a threat than a chemtrail.
eaglesoars wrote:
What is astounding is the number of liberal white soccer moms saying it’s ok. They are despised Russians.
Jocko Willink analyzes this once in awhile. And for him it all comes down to leadership. Weak leaders let stuff like this happen. Strong leaders stamp any of this stuff out. He and many other US SoF point out that the enemy has no such qualms. But it is what separates us from the animals.
lobo91 wrote:
I’d vote to give Elon Musk a no tax status. He is a busy man building stuff.
@ darkwords:
It’s ironic that the only enemy we’ve ever fought that even made an attempt at following the laws of war was Nazi Germany.
@ lobo91:
When I saw the Iraqi POW’s in the first gulf war kneeling on the road with ziptied hands being subjected by the video narrative. It made me think of a Geneva convention violation. But over time I got over it as I saw more and more bad stuff. It takes quality leadership to carry the point over and over.
the Abu Gharib stuff was a preview of woke leadership.
My Lai. Initially I was pro US in this. But as the real narrative hit me then I realized there was a chain of command all the way up to the President that didn’t want to look at this as a crime.
Arming the populace in a war zone where ethnic cleansing has occurred then war crimes are going to be numerous.
I don’t think Russia is weak here. I think they are holding back. They will learn how to rotate their tires from this. How to manage their Chinese supply chain better. The only issue will be feckless leaders. But we have that problem also.
All plans change once you get punched in the face. Mike Tyson.
darkwords wrote:
its not chemicals. its particulate matter that is an irritant that gets picked up, concentrated, and then the asthmatics have a hard time.
it’s real. i see it a lot in the ER jut before we get big thunder storms
lobo91 wrote:
Prussian officer corps.
The ethnic tensions are much great in this part of the world than i perceived. Borders need to be redrawn.
I’m mobile. I don’t have any attachment to a cultural center or a regional piece of land. lucky to be in the US where I can drop anchor anywhere and be at home with an opportunity to work. As close as I get to a cultural center is a college football team. Go Cyclones.
I don’t have a desire or need to go back to Europe and reconquer the homeland my ancestors were kicked out of. I’d make an exception for Israel. I think they deserve that land.
darkwords wrote:
given what that unit was going through. and given the conditions on the ground.
well…..
coldwarrior wrote:
Someone has pointed that out to me before. There is a whole history I am missing.
eaglesoars wrote:
Looks like maybe a traffic cam? Colorado has the law where you have to pull over for vehicles on the side of the road (I think emergency vehicles, AZ it’s any vehicle) so that car was trying to get back into its lane after complying with the law. That law has caused more accidents and near-accidents than it has probably prevented.
darkwords wrote:
the prussians were the most professional officer corps in history. it ran in their blood and was passed down generationally.
honor, above all else.
@ AZfederalist:
stupid law.
the biggest cause of accidents isnt speed. its large variations in speed.
this was proved very nicely in my first grad school stats class. fascinating data sets
coldwarrior wrote:
Jocko Willink goes over these events in a 3 hr podcast. At one point the supporting helicopter pilots threatened to shoot any more of Calleys troops if they continued to kill civilians.
The enemy was everywhere. Discos where being bombed in Saigon. The only safe areas were the rear areas or on patrol. They had some kids excited to see Americans and some kids carrying bombs or retrieving weapons from the battlefield. It’s easy to see how Calley became war torn. He wasn’t alone. But again its a leadership failure. I was around 17-18 at my time in the Vietnam era(not in country). I don’t think I had the discrimination in me to object to My Lai at the time. I would have looked at it as just a consequence of war and moved on. Which is probably what happens everywhere in history.
I met plenty of Vietnamese. Some became saints from their war experiences. Some became devils.
Shift the conversation back to Pol Pot and he was 1000 times worse with his war crimes. Routinely wiped out villages.
But with the mass media today I think Zelensky and Putin could advocate to treat POW’s humanely. Not sure why they are not.
Ariana DeBois becomes the first Afro-Latina and openly LGBTQ actor to win the Oscar for best supporting actress
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1508245735455830021
That’s nice, but akshually, how many are there?
coldwarrior wrote:
There is a video of a Russian soldier detailing how wrong this is. And that all the Russian army is aware of this. He goes on to say while he won’t do this to a POW he will give no mercy on the battlefield.
coldwarrior wrote:
that didn’t come out for years……..
@ darkwords:
always treat your POWs like kings and show it wide and long.
one little way to kill the enemy’s will to fight.
@ darkwords:
Zalensky just needs to surrender and take the property loss. All he is doing by continuing on is killing kids so he can attend the Oscars.
Ukrainians will recover and be stronger.
I started following these anti American accounts in social media. As much as I can stomach.
Surprisingly, the majority of them are people living in the United States. Lot of Middle Easterners.
Biden gives them a PR win everyday. Lots of talk about how America has fallen and is being replaced by a new Sino-Russian alliance.
The 2022 elections need to set the tone for cleansing out Marxists in the US. Start with the school boards.
And just my opinion. lol. Got a little desktop warlike reading war twitter today.
@ AZfederalist:
I thought that at first, but those are fixed. The camera moves in that video.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep, most certainly is a stupid law. Law is that cars have to slow down (whatever that means) or pull over for vehicles stopped not the side of the road. Doesn’t matter if they are all the way over, not posing any obstruction, you just have to do it or be ticketed. Have almost been hit by semi’s multiple times while I was traveling in the middle lane, have nearly rear-ended others when in the right lane and they think “slow down” means go from 65 to 20 in 20 feet, and have had traffic come to a dead standstill across all lanes on the highway when idiots in the left, middle, and right lanes think they have to slow down to a crawl as well.
@ AZfederalist:
*stopped ON the side of the road*. Stupid auto-cowreck
lobo91 wrote:
Yep, that wouldn’t be it then.
@ darkwords:
stalker
darkwords wrote:
What if the Russian soldiers had been caught raping and abusing Ukrainian women and children?
NASA emails reveal internal discussions over calls to rename James Webb Space Telescope: report
New documents suggest that NASA officials dismissed concerns raised by the LGBTQ community over the name of its newest observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA was aware that discrimination against LGBTQ people took place in the agency under the leadership of 1960s administrator James Webb when it refused to remove the man’s name from its flagship mission, new documents obtained by Nature reveal.
In early 2021, a group of astronomers petitioned NASA to change the name of the space observatory of the century, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, arguing that his actions contributed to the “Lavender Scare” targeting LGBTQ people in government at the time. NASA dismissed the request in September 2021, claiming it had no evidence to support the allegation, and never published a report into the investigation, according to Nature.
https://www.space.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-name-controversy-investigation
oh, who cares. These people are beyond tedious
@ eaglesoars:
We’re never getting off this rock.
We are terminal
French Fighter Jet Joy Ride Goes Très, Très Wrong
Imagine: You work hard your whole life in the French defense industry, and when it’s time to retire, your co-workers want to give you something more memorable than a gold watch or a set of golf clubs. So they set up a coveted back-seat ride in a Dassault Rafale B fighter jet, the kind of perk that requires serious connections.
Just one problem: nobody asked one particular 64-year-old civilian whether he ever wanted such a ride, or showed him much about what to expect. Next thing you know, the French Investigation Bureau for State Aviation Safety (BEA-E) is issuing a report explaining how Monsieur Newbie came to experience not only the Dassault, but also its Martin-Baker MK16 ejection seat.
Well, mistakes were made. Lots of them. Since this treat was to be a surprise, the recipient didn’t get much of a briefing on what to expect. His g-suit pants weren’t on correctly, his seat harness wasn’t tight, and his helmet—and oxygen mask—were unbuckled as the plane taxied to the runway at Saint-Dizier 113 air base. He was so nervous that his heartbeat was around 140 beats per minute just from climbing into the plane. Our reluctant Goose did get medical clearance from a doctor, but only four hours before the flight, and with an important stipulation: no negative g’s. The way the rest of this was unfolding, do you want to guess whether there were negative g’s? Mais oui.
The fighter pilot, being a fighter pilot, probably thought he was taking it easy as he pulled into a 47-degree climb and generated a 3.7-g load. (Which, incidentally, was also beyond the doctor-ordered limit of 3 g’s.) On the climb, both pilot and passenger were crushed down into the seat. But when the plane started to level off, things got real panicky in the rear seat, as a negative 0.67-g load caused the ill-buckled passenger to feel like he was about to fly out of the cockpit. Which, shortly thereafter, he did.
Apparently the quick and dirty safety briefing failed to properly emphasize the fact that the black-and-yellow striped loop in the middle of the seat, between his legs, was not a grab handle but the trigger for the ejection seat. The good doctor’s g-load recommendations were surely exceeded as pyrotechnics blasted a hole in the canopy and rocket motors fired the seat and its terrified denizen out into the slipstream high above the French countryside.
Around about the time our hero took to the skies in his very own chairplane, the unbuckled helmet parted ways with the miserable noggin it was pledged to protect.
In a growing cascade of colossal fails, the next one was actually fortuitous: the pilot’s own ejection seat malfunctioned. When either the fore or aft seat in a Rafale is triggered, the second one is supposed to follow automatically, on the theory that if one crew member makes an unscheduled departure, there’s probably a good reason for the other to promptly join the exodus. And indeed, after the world’s unhappiest retiree bid adieu, pyrotechnics blew a hole in the pilot’s canopy. But the first ejection damaged the front seat, such that it didn’t eject, and the pilot was actually able to land his now al fresco fighter jet. At which point the pilot beat feet away from the aircraft, for fear that the dud seat would, like so many flights, take off late. In fact, nobody was allowed near the plane for 24 hours after it landed, just in case the pilot’s seat decided to go all Colonel Stapp and fire the rockets.
As for our unfortunate co-pilot, he made it to the ground with minor injuries and likely a keen desire to never hang out with his old co-workers ever again. Because, as the report notes, he didn’t want to ride in a fighter jet in the first place. According to the BEA-E, the passenger “never expressed a desire to carry out this type of flight, and in particular on Rafale,” but his cohorts offered him no chance to bail. Ultimately, he did anyway.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32131240/french-dassault-fighter-jet-joyride/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/zelensky-ready-make-concessions-russia-will-discuss-adopting-neutral-status-ukraine-will-agree-promises-crimea-video/
If true, game over
coldwarrior wrote:
Who is ‘we’?
At best I have 20 years. Even if Elon Musk gets people to the moon, I’m staying put.
Serious question. Why do you think humans have to leave Earth? Where would we go? I don’t think we’ve ever had this discussion.
coldwarrior wrote:
Show me a map. Did Zelensky ever give a crap about Crimea in the first place? No.
coldwarrior wrote:
It also does not take into account Biden’s intent to use Ukraine as a proxy against Russia. Biden will fight Russia right down to the last Ukie.
eaglesoars wrote:
We, the human race.
We have to leave this terminal rock. If we don’t leave, we all die here. This rock is THE END if we don’t move on. Sol Invictus takes us out all at the end. We know that this place is death at the end. Hell, it might be an asteroid that does it, or a massive volcano.
Our earliest ancestors decided to walk out of Africa et al and go elsewhere. Our not so earlier ancestors decided to take sail to the unknown because we are explorers and want to find out what is ‘out there’. A generation or so ago we up and decided to go to the moon.
We can’t stay here as a species or we die here in in a fiery predictable death. A one-off species. So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and such.
I have a higher hope that humanity as a race will get the hell off of this terminal rock and do what we do best. Explore.
eaglesoars wrote:
They Crimea is just windblown dust and dirt, especially since the Skies cut off the limited water supply from the dam just North of Crimea. There is a good port and harbour and it is handy to service all of the recently found marine oil fields to the West of the peninsula. Other than that it’s just tumbleweeds and Russians.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
crimea has been russian for hundreds of years. kruschev gave it to ukies because his dacha was there and he wanted to poke the russians in eye because they saw him as a knuckle-dragger, uneducated ukie. there is this small event about the charge of the light brigade that you may remember from wayyyy back.
donbas was attached to ukieland after a ton of russians got sent there to build factories by the politburo and to dilute ukie nationalism.
this whole area is a generational, intercine train wreck.
eaglesoars wrote:
Very true Eagles and the time to start the discussion was yesterday. It sounds plausible that FTL speed is at lease possible so distance is just a mirage. Finding a few suitable places to hang out on seems to be a minor problem but again with a hell of a lot of possible options the state are stacked very much in our favour for finding at least a few. Sounds as if Proxima Centuri B is tidally locked and subject to burps of radiation from Proxima A, so the nearest possible new home looks bad. Mars could do at a pinch and it doesn’t have a deep gravity well as does Earth so that’s a plus. The lack of a spinning core and protection from solar particles is easily fixed with a geostationary magnetic core in space between Mars and the sun.
You’d have to like sand however!
🙂
i’m not sure what to make of this
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/morgan-stanley-fade-clients-who-felt-cheated-banks-block-trading-business-seize-opportunity
i’ll have to read up in the morning.
i’m out.
coldwarrior wrote:
ok, talk to me about the time line.
I’m going to bed. nite.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I can’t even…
Is it ok if I concern myself with the price of food?
sheesh.
nite
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Waiting for a crow monthly post.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Bullet to the head on the spot. Battlefield execution. That is old day stuff. No room for war rape in a modern world. Even though war is still barbaric.
If it was officer led. Then trial and execution for the officer observed by the officer corps.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
A lol…
eaglesoars wrote:
ha….
experience not only the Dassault, but also its Martin-Baker MK16 ejection seat.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I wonder how the human body will adapt to faster and faster speeds.
Pilots are the ones with the experience. They can measure walking, riding in a car, and going supersonic. And we are spinning pretty fast on the globe. Would we see issues if we slingshot off the planet and then apply a steady acceleration to the speed of light?
@ darkwords:
Not only did he get an amazing birthday gift Martin Baker will send him a tie.
https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
Possum wrote:
Not sure if use of the MB Ejection Seat causing an emergency qualifies him for the tie.
@ AZfederalist:
You are no fun at all…
Give the man a tie!!!!
@ Possum:
Lol what is the second place reward?
I haven’t watched the Oscars in about 20 years, but apparently this happened tonight:
Life is interesting.
Currently there are two subjects I think a lot about and both subjects I just say to myself ” Not my concern. I can have no way of altering the outcome. Let those involved sort it out ”
First subject is women’s sports. Men should not comment on the current situation. This is a 100% biological female issue. Let them get this shit sorted out.
Second issue is the ” People of colour ” thing.
I think I follow on Twitter a balanced mix of races and political opinions.
The news I get to see, the violent incidents, tend to involve individuals with a suntan. Not just in the USA in the UK too.
Here in the USA we this week see a Walmart trashed, Miami under curfew and the usual attacks on Asians in New York.
Now and LMAOROTFASTC ( for those who used to have to type things like this instead of the emojie shit it is Laughing My Ass Off, Rolling On The Floor And Scaring The Cat )
We now have the Oscars!!!
I think people of colour should fix this.
@ lobo91:
A wonderful example to the underprivileged, poor and oppressed minorities in the US.
@ darkwords:
A new pair of underwear.
lobo91 wrote:
i guess that is the best Oscar moment ever. Rock handled it really well. Though one would think he would get the personal stuff pre approved by his target.
The last GF I had would have wanted me to do the same as Will Smith. Though I am not understanding why she was offended.
I really do not understand this American thing of ” Declined to file a police report ”
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/03/28/police-say-chris-rock-declined-to-file-a-report-against-will-smith/
I am now investigating how many murder victims failed to file a police report…..
coldwarrior wrote:
Not sure what that is all about – I’ll wait for someone to translate. I’ll be talking to my MS guy tomorrow about some other stuff and I’ll axe him.
darkwords wrote:
International Bollard is better.
@ lobo91:
From the Utobage description:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
From the Utoobage comments:
“Will struck him with an open-hand because he knows that paper beats Rock.”
READ THIS.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/re-visiting-russiagate-in-light-of?s=w
Trump supporters like to believe that the Deep State tried to remove their president because he was such a brave populist warrior leading a people’s revolution against their Satanic globalist agendas, and surely there were some individual goons within their ranks who would have loved to see him gone. But in reality the major decision makers in the US intelligence cartel never intended to remove Trump from office. They’d have known from their own intel that the Mueller investigation wouldn’t turn up any evidence of a conspiracy with the Russian government, and they’d have known impeachment wouldn’t remove him because they know how to count Senate seats. Russiagate was never about removing Trump, it was about making sure Trump played along with their regime change plans for Moscow and manufacturing mainstream consent for the escalations we’re seeing today.
And now here we are.
and
The most important thing to understand about the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is that it began with western intelligence agencies, was sustained by western intelligence agencies, and in the end resulted in cold war escalations against a government long targeted by western intelligence agencies. It was the US intelligence cartel who initiated the still completely unproven and severely plot hole-riddled claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump. It was a “former” MI6 operative who produced the notorious and completely discredited Steele Dossier which birthed the narrative that Trump colluded with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 election. It was the FBI who spied on the Trump campaign claiming it was investigating possible ties to Russia. It was the US intelligence cartel which produced, and then later walked back, the narrative that Russia was paying Taliban-linked fighters to kill allied occupiers in Afghanistan which was leveraged by Democrats to demand Trump escalate further against Putin. It was even a CIA officer who just so happened to be in the right place at the right time that kicked off the flimsy impeachment narrative that Trump had suspended arms deliveries to Ukraine.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/re-visiting-russiagate-in-light-of?s=w
Sam Duff is the first of 10 new parks funded by the Boyd Foundation. Once they are completed, Knox County will be No. 1 in the number of dog parks per capita in the United States.
https://twitter.com/knoxnews/status/1508458932280467466
but i thought the ukies were ‘kicking russian ass’
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-zelensky-makes-offer-to-compromise-on-donbas/
Has Jay Powell been right about anything yet? His record is as bad as Biden’s.
This is the FT on the inverted yield curve (I have no idea what they’re smoking but even I don’t want any)
Some fear that inversion indicates that markets do not buy the Fed’s claim that it can tighten monetary policy without too much of an impact on employment and will soon have to reverse course by lowering rates after its policies push the US towards a severe slowdown. Fed chair Jay Powell has consistently suggested there is considerable room for the economy to “cool” before employment is hit. But guiding something as complex as the American economy towards a “soft landing” is easier said than done. Markets understandably look upon it with scepticism.
An alternative interpretation of a potential inversion is that bond markets are on board with the Fed’s strategy and believe that inflation will stabilise in the long term. A far more concerning prospect is a steep rise in long-term yields. This would indicate market belief that high rates will be needed for some time in order to achieve price stability. At the moment, movements in equity markets indicate that many investors remain bullish — the S&P 500 has shown no signs of sustained falls.
Either way, there is good reason to think that “this time is different”. The predictive powers of inversion have never been truly tested at a time of very large central bank holdings of long-term debt. The Fed not only has to make choices about the level at which to set its main short-term policy rate but also how to manage its own vast stock of Treasuries. At present, Powell is indicating the central bank will first raise short-term rates and only then start selling its longer-dated bonds. An inverted yield curve would make some sense if markets believe the Fed will see this policy through.
Inverted yield curves may have historically predicted recession, but what inversion has meant in the past does not preclude a different outcome now or in the future. In any case, as all good economists know, an exception is always needed to prove a rule.
https://www.ft.com/content/565761c0-a89d-436b-9853-d77ee82c07d3
This is BRILLIANT!
How to make sure food doesn’t stick when cooking with stainless steel pan
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-pre-heat-non-stick-pan-hack-23318677?
@ eaglesoars:
hot wok
cold oil
food no stick!
: )
@ coldwarrior:
yes, but it can be TOO hot – this little vid shows how to test
Read this in the context of m #237
A man notorious for his inopportune gaffes, Biden went before a group of US Army personnel stationed in Poland and told the 82nd Airborne that they were heading over to Ukraine. From there, Biden went to the nation’s capital Warsaw and, supposedly breaking away from his carefully scripted remarks, burbled on about how Vladimir Putin’s reign of terror in Moscow needed to end.
This, after Biden a week ago had labeled his Russian counterpart a “war criminal” (and repeating that true but unnecessary claim while in Poland)!
We are told that the US president was misstating the official policy of his administration. However, this strains credulity for two reasons.
First, if the president says it is his policy to view Russian strongman Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, if it is his decision to deploy the 82nd Airborne into war-torn Ukraine, and if he declares that Putin’s violent regime must come to an end, by definition, it is now the official policy of his administration (if it wasn’t already its unofficial policy). For it not to be the official policy of his administration, President Biden would need to correct his statements publicly.
Second, Biden’s White House is stuffed full of advisers who believe that Putin’s regime is the greatest evil in history – and these advisers are willing to make a deal with China to punish Moscow.
It is not that hard to believe that President Biden does, in fact, support deploying American troops into Ukraine or that he wants to overthrow the Putin regime as the United States did to Saddam Hussein’s or Muammar Gaddafi’s regimes (and attempted to do to Bashar al-Assad’s government).
The greater question one must ask is: Why? Why on Earth would Biden wade into this geopolitical crisis that could go nuclear at any moment at a time when both the Ukrainian government and the Russian government appeared to be taking de-escalatory steps? And why hasn’t Biden come out immediately to correct the record, if he did indeed misspeak?
It is the contention of this author that President Biden did not misspeak.
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Or, it could be that Biden’s national-security team wants the conflict to go on longer to drain the Russian military of essential personnel and capabilities – thereby removing, in their eyes, any threat that the Russian conventional military poses to the wider West (regardless of the cost to Ukraine or the risk of nuclear world war).
https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/did-biden-just-escalate-in-ukraine/
The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia’s economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it’s true.
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“The Russia-gate story fits neatly into a geopolitical strategy that long predates the 2016 election. Since Wall Street and the U.S. government lost the dominant position in Russia that existed under the pliable President Boris Yeltsin, the strategy has been to put pressure on getting rid of Putin to restore a U.S. friendly leader in Moscow. There is substance to Russia’s concerns about American designs for ‘regime change’ in the Kremlin.
Moscow sees an aggressive America expanding NATO and putting 30,000 NATO troops on its borders; trying to overthrow a secular ally in Syria with terrorists who threaten Russia itself; backing a coup in Ukraine as a possible prelude to moves against Russia; and using American NGOs to foment unrest inside Russia before they were forced to register as foreign agents.”
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The United States could have easily prevented Russia’s military action. It could have stopped Russia’s intervention in Ukraine’s civil war from happening by doing three things: forcing implementation of the 8-year old Minsk peace accords, dissolving extreme right Ukrainian militias and engaging Russia in serious negotiations about a new security architecture in Europe.
But it didn’t.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/27/can-russia-escape-the-us-trap/
And let me point out that just as the Scamdemic fades into the rear-view mirror, what better chance for another nat’l emergency declaration going into the mid-terms than getting into a war?
I’ve just been notified of a death in the family. gotta go
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Ooh, now I get it and understand the reaction. That was low.
eaglesoars wrote:
oh no.
coldwarrior wrote:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mariupol-mayor-orders-complete-evacuation-city-now-russian-hands-ukraine-says-its
coldwarrior wrote:
Asymmetrically, they are.
AZfederalist wrote:
It was a lame joke,an innocent jab, and Will Smith laughed.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
ahhhh!
kinda like 4D chess?
coldwarrior wrote:
Ukraine has little chance of “winning”, but they are making a Russian “win” costly.
AZfederalist wrote:
Anybody who thinks this wasn’t scripted voted for Biden. These people do nothing BUT read scripts somebody else wrote for them. It was a ratings ploy so that people will watch NEXT year.
A man defending his woman doesn’t use an open hand. He uses a fist.
coldwarrior wrote:
Her name was Patti. She was the oldest of all of us. Pneumonia/heart failure. My cousin. She lived with us while she was in college. I was maybe 6-7 yrs old? I thought she was SO glamorous, her boyfriend picked her up in a white Pontiac convertible with red seats. Dave. She married him. It was at their wedding that my sister and I found out that OUR FATHER HAD BEEN MARRIED BEFORE AND ALL OUR COUSINS KNEW ABOUT IT AND MY SISTER AND I DIDN’T??!!
My parents had some ‘splainin to do. “Yes, you DID meet her, we just told you she was a family friend and no you do not have brothers or sisters we haven’t told you about.”
My entire family is comedy gold.
They’re out in California and I’m not vaxed so I won’t be attending the funeral. She was cool, I liked her. Her kids seem to be solid, Dave died long ago.
It goes on.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’d think he is repeating snippets of what his advisors have told him. All the stuff he says is on the table at the Whitehouse. Impeach him.
eaglesoars wrote:
Condolences. Many going through end of life issues. Best to all the family.
darkwords wrote:
Read the other stories I’ve posted. This is not about ‘snippets’. This is a long planned endeavor to remove Putin. Trump was an obstacle and now collateral damage.
And they’re getting us into WW III to do it.
@ darkwords:
Thanks. She was about 83. Long, well lived life. We’re ok.
@ eaglesoars:
{{hug}}
@ rain of lead:
thank you
First week of spring here. Bugs are coming out and celebrating. A certain type of area tree produces a yellow pollen that will dust the entire town for a few days until it rains. Was so thick last year I wore a mask.
Someone asked me to try pea protein sausages. Tastes similar but not quite. Maybe not enough animal fat in them.
I’ve had Hollywood turned off for a few years. The Smith papers Rock spat. H/T Bunk. Took me unawares. Some people saying it was staged for Oscar publicity. I hope they were paid if so.
I had a girlfriend once that would have been super pissed if I didn’t physically stand up for her. She expected her men to protect her at all costs.
If it had been my dad he would have tracked Rock down and taken a pound of flesh in a dark alley. To him a slap meant he was calling you a child or a pussy. You had to back it up if you did the talk.
I avoid all that stuff now. I’d protect any woman in a physical alteration. In a verbal thing I would expect her to tag team the assailant with me. then walk away.
I have a very busy day tomorrow and have to prep. I’m going to leave you with some headlines over several posts so I don’t have too many links in one post. All courtesy of Freerepublic.
‘Final and complete defeat’: Panic on Russian state TV over the war in Ukraine
Russian state television has broadcast an extraordinary rant about the state of the war in Ukraine, warning Vladimir Putin’s regime faces “final and complete defeat”.
Yakov Kedmi, an Israeli-Russian pundit and former diplomat, is usually a reliably pro-Kremlin voice. But in an appearance on the prime time show Tonight with Vladimir Soloviyev, he was remarkably negative about the situation in Ukraine.
Mr Kedmi said Russia could not afford to compromise on the initial goal of its invasion, which was to take major Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, and overthrow the government.
In his view, anything less than that – including any potential peace deal – would count as a humiliating loss.
“Whatever treaty Russia may sign with the current Ukrainian regime will mean the defeat of Russia. Final and complete defeat,” he said.
“In the eyes of the Russian people, in the eyes of the Russian army, in the eyes of the whole world. And then the support of India, China and the Arab world will evaporate.
“When Russia sent an ultimatum to the US, Russia also sent an ultimatum to itself. It has no right to lose.
“It means that Russia has no power to deal with anyone. With Ukraine? With Zelensky?
“This treaty may be the beginning of the end of the Russian state. Because if you failed with Ukraine, how do you threaten NATO? How do you threaten the United States? You could not deal with Zelensky, so what are you?
“You have a choice: either you win this operation or start the final countdown.”
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/final-and-complete-defeat-panic-on-russian-state-tv-over-the-war-in-ukraine/news-story/9a119f0447828b31ea652f9e6d2f5525
New Zealand leader calls China-Solomon Islands proposed pact ‘gravely concerning’
New Zealand’s leader voiced concern Monday over a draft security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands that, if approved, could see Beijing establish a military base in the South Pacific.
In addition, Australia’s prime minister reiterated his nation’s concern about the planned agreement that was leaked online last week.
The security pact would allow Beijing to set up military bases and deploy troops in the Pacific island nation, “marking the start of a much sharper military competition than anything we’ve seen in the region for decades,” said David Capie, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday said her country sees the pact as “gravely concerning.”
https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/philippine/grave-concern-03282022162857.html
yeah, what was her first fucking clue? While she was busy installing a police state while her fiance was boinking the maid….
This is a ‘FWIW’
Panicking Putin’s security headache as Ukraine names hundreds of Kremlin spies
The spies were thought to be “involved in the invasion” of Ukraine. The massive and embarrassing security blunder is the latest in Russia’s faltering invasion. In total, the details of 620 Russians working for the FSB spy agency “involved in criminal activities” were released by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine. Many of the spies can be traced back to their work addresses, based at the Federal Security Service’s, FSB, Lubyanka headquarters in Moscow.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1587649/putin-news-humiliation-ukraine-names-hundreds-of-Kremlin-spies
This is very cool
Astrophotographer Snaps Incredible Photo Of Astronauts On A Spacewalk From Earth
Astrophotographers often produce breathtaking images of distant galaxies, planets, and moons from Earth. But Dr Sebastain Voltmer captured something very different and yet equally incredible, last week. He photographed the International Space Station (ISS) while astronauts Matthias Maurer and Raja Chari were outside performing a spacewalk. This may be the first ground-based image that has captured two astronauts out on a spacewalk at the same time.
https://www.iflscience.com/space/astrophotographer-snaps-incredible-photo-of-astronauts-on-a-spacewalk-from-earth/
uh…
When is mRNA not really mRNA?
What is pseudouridine, why is it being injected into you, and why should you care.
this Substack essay focuses on some of the differences between what was originally envisioned and the current molecules that are being injected into our bodies. The first section of the essay sets the stage by summarizing (for a general readership) how the whole idea of gene therapy was developed, and then describing how and why this lead to the idea of mRNA as a drug and as a method of generating a vaccine response. The second section gets quite technical, and provides detailed information intended for a scientific audience. The conclusion is written for a general audience.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/when-is-mrna-not-really-mrna
darkwords wrote:
If Chris Rock doesn’t press charges for assault, it was staged.
From the priceless Emerald Robinson
How The Ukraine War Starts The Great Reset
Is the Biden regime provoking a war to cause a global famine?
This is where the Russia-Ukraine war comes in. Russia and Ukraine together produce about 30% of the world’s wheat exports — as well as 15% of corn exports and 30% of barley exports. Russia alone produces 15% of the world’s fertilizer. According to the corporate media, the war is causing fertilizer costs to skyrocket.
All our media outlets agree about this “unintended” consequence.
Biden has explicitly said that food shortages are coming, and that the deaths of millions of people due to starvation is just the price we all have to pay for our sanctions on Russia — and the ensuing mayhem that they’ve caused for wheat exports.
Welcome to the next step of The Great Reset.
This is exactly what the globalist elites want to happen. The Biden regime is not preventing catastrophes — it’s provoking them. Population reduction by virus or vaccine or famine is the ultimate goal. You are the carbon footprint they want to reduce. And if you don’t believe me, just remember that it only took 14 months to go from “Build Back Better” to “get ready for a global famine.”
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-ukraine-war-starts-the-great?s=r
darkwords wrote:
Like this?
eaglesoars wrote:
Some is cloudy. Brett Weinstein early in the pandemic read the papers on the vaccines. I might have to go back and listen to the Darkhorse podcast to see if he updated. He made one statement that said techincal papers show that a transporting fat for the mRNA is a trade secret. It’s in there but you can’t find out anything about it. Hidden as a secret.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Lol. Yes exactly like that x 1000. How do you find these things?
It’s either Alder or Birch. The trunks look Birch but the flowers don’t. Alder is everywhere.
And one more thing. Hubby had a bad day today. Everything that could go wrong did. He asked me to not cook tonite because he needed a steak and a drink – or three. He needed a break. Go for it sweetie. So he went to the local premiere steak house around here, Connor’s. Had filet mignon special at the bar and yada yada
He found out that it’s probably the last time they’ll have filet mignon special or filet mignon at all. Beef has become so expensive they’re worried about being able to stay in business, at least with their current menu.
So……
If I have time this week…off to buy steaks and vacuum seal the puppies.
eaglesoars wrote:
The Scientist appointed to head up the commission to review the science of “Gene Therapy” was none other than my graduate mentor Dr. Inder Verma, who had long been one of the leading proponents of gene therapy, and was subsequently forced to resign from the Salk Institute over a decades long record of what might most gently be called ethical lapses.
Mother nature has a term for this type of science. Fuck around and find out.
There is a haster about gene manipulation that seems unwise at best.
@ eaglesoars:
Interesting thing about global wheat shortages and no food on the shelves.
Wheat is planted three times per year.
Winter wheat is planted late fall and it grows a bit and then stays dormant. In spring it starts growing again and is ready for harvest early summer.
Spring wheat is planted at two times. late fall when the ground temperature is in the upper 30’s and the ground is still workable. These seeds do not germinate until the ground warms up in spring. It is ready for harvest mid summer.
The other time spring wheat is planted is in the spring when the ground is workable and the soil warms up. Ready for harvest late summer.
As you can see this is quite clever. Them combindiby harvesters are working from early to late summer. The ripening of the three crops is staggered.
My point? Their should be no shortage of wheat NOW.
The wheat flour available was harvested last summer.
@ Possum:
Precisely
Possum wrote:
@ coldwarrior:
In 1608, famine plagued England. Preachers responded with sermons begging the gentry to show compassion for the poor, King James I responded with royal proclamations against grain hoarding, and Shakespeare responded with Coriolanus, a Roman revenge-tragedy.
Likely composed in 1608 and staged c. 1609-1610, Coriolanus opens with starving citizens storming the stage with rakes, pikes, and clubs, demanding that the Roman government release corn (a catch-all term for grain) to them.
…
Proverbs 11:26 lent itself particularly well in the combat against food hoarders and those who profited from penury: “He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: / but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it”
“A proverb pronounced to all the cruel, covetous, and hard hearted Corn-masters, Cloth-masters, and all other old Pinching penny-fathers…”
** Bill Gates in the role of Coriolanus, Bezos as a cloth master.
“Bread lines are good thing”
~US Senator Bernie Sanders
@ eaglesoars:
So sorry to hear.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Announced today. He will not press charges.
@ coldwarrior:
In my tiny brain if I was in charge of the UN or something I would be thinking about the fact that there may be no wheat or other food coming out of the Ukraine this summer/fall.
As the person in charge of the world I would advise ALL countries to suspend the growing of the designer and trendy foodstuffs such as multi coloured lettuce and other crops that do not provide calories. Plant REAL food crops instead.
We have six months to avoid a global shortage of calories.
Yep I know, planting a different crop needs equipment and more importantly seeds. But a shortage of carbohydrates is on the horizon, possibly. There is time.
Hey, as an example in 2012 or so there was a shortage of pork due to some disease that killed small pigs. The answer was to let the big pigs grow from the usual 280 or so slaughter weight to over 320 pounds then harvest them.
Same could be done for, say, potatoes. Instead of harvesting them as cute designer and expensive ” baby reds ” leave the fuckers in the ground an extra month and turn them into man sized potatoes.
@ Possum:
We have all seen the asteroid movies. Even Bruce Willis starred in one.
” In 48 hours an asteroid will hit the earth!!!!!! ” and they all jump into a space shuttle and zoom away…
2022 we may face a global lack of carbohydrate crisis.
We have six months to prepare.
Taking a break.
I’m a pretty good researcher but I can’t do everything by myself. Can I ask that we on this blog ‘crowd source’ something?
I’ve posted before that the Fed is considering the pros/cons of a Central Bank Digital Currency.
As are other countries.
One issue is data mining. There are, of course, other issues.
I’m not sure how data mining works but the evidence is that it takes a shit-load of electricity.
Put that up against the eco-warriors who want to get us off fossil fuels. Try data mining with wind turbines.
Put that up against that zero-testosterone Powell who heads up the Fed who is ok with the dollar not being the reserve currency?
I could go on.
Can we, as a blog, crowd source individual areas of research and post it here?
Just a thought.
Back to work.
right_wing2 wrote:
Thank you.
Possum wrote:
That was the most interesting thing you have ever posted. Is the cycle the same in all countries? I don’t know. I DO know that China posted they are looking at the worst wheat crop in their history.
Keep going.
eaglesoars wrote:
I should say this is one reason why I sold my Tesla stock. [not to worry, I made a nice profit, bought gold, not to mention that there are not going to be enough people with money to buy those cars]
When the virtue signalers who bought Teslas go up against the Gov’t demands for data mining electricity and there are no charging stations and the fracking is constrained……..
@ eaglesoars:
I would imagine that is the same in all countries that grow wheat/barley/rye. Those crops are called corn in the rest of the world. What we call corn in the USA is maize to everyone else.
The staggering of the wheat/barley/rye crop like that means the crop is not all ready at the same time. wheat/barley/rye is a ” grass ” where once the seeds are ripe they fall off. The harvest window is short. Leave the crop too long and the wheat falls off.
American ” corn ” stays on the plant surrounded by a husk. When it is ripe and dried it just stays there. There is really no panic as to harvesting it. So the harvesting season is not as time intensive.
darkwords wrote:
‘haster’? what is that?
@ eaglesoars:
I looked up why China said they expected a bad wheat crop.
Heavy rains last fall prevented much of the planting of the winter wheat crop. That however does not prevent them planting spring wheat on the land they could not move machinery onto last fall. However it does mean that the harvesting equipment will be extra busy mid and late summer and idle early summer.
I hope that makes sense.
https://www.asiafinancial.com/chinese-minister-warns-of-worst-wheat-crop-in-history
Plants and maturity and harvesting and reasons for different types and methods of production.
I will use Mr Coldwarrior in this example.
He likes tomatoes, he eats them from spring until fall fresh off the vine.
So he grows indeterminate tomatoes ” Indeterminate tomato varieties also continue to set and ripen fruit throughout the growing season until frost kills the plants. They will give you a slow and steady supply of tomatoes, rather than one large harvest. ”
However Mr Coldwarrior likes salsa and home made canned tomato puree.
But because his indeterminate tomato plant produce a few pounds of tomatoes per week and he is sick an tired of canning a pound per week he also grows determinate tomatoes! He is smart.
His determinate tomatoes all ripen at the same time and then they are done. He cans, purees, dries and freezes them like a man possessed for a week, and eats them for a year.
Eat seasonal, grow seasonal.
@ Possum:
Yep, I once had a five acre farm and was selling determinate Roma type tomatoes for $5 for a 20 pound box.
Bonk, start a new thread. I killed this one with my Green Peace mother earth sustainability bullshit.
Fresh and washed baby carrots.
They ain’t ” baby ” carrots. They are HUGE carrots that someone put on a lathe somewhere and peeled and peeled and peeled them to baby sized.
The peelings got smushed and made into V8 juice.
Why is skimmed milk zero fat more expensive than full fat bad for you milk?
They take out the fat ( cream ) and make butter from it and then sell you the waste product from the manufacture of butter.
Yoghurt zero fat!!! where did the fat go?
Seasonal food. Unfortunately I have no way to get to a grocery store but if I did I would go get loads of 75% off corned beef.
I actually like it all year round, not just on 17th March….
People like this live among us. And they get to vote:
Cork is an interesting topic.
Cork as in cork for wine bottles.
The current trend is using plastic ” corks ” or even screw caps for wine bottles.
Cork is made from the bark of a species of oak and it is a very sustainable form of agriculture.
As mre wine producers are using plastic corks the production of real cork is declining.
The forests of trees that are used for cork production are dwindling. Who gives a shit you may ask?
Well, those forests are the home to, among other things, two particular animals.
Most notably and endangered is the Iberian Lynx https://www.greenjournal.co.uk/2020/02/how-cork-supports-wildlife-conservation/
The other endangered species is a small deer thingy that Iberian lynx’s like to eat.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sure. I’m not much of an expert in anything anymore. I’ll look at the CBDC. Mining is ok. The goal of that is to verify an internet transaction faster than the transaction can be hacked. Improvements in CPU processing and if anyone invents a better encryption algorithm then the energy used will go down.
Bitcoin could possibly get replaced by something more efficient.
The cost of EV batteries is going to go up up up I think. I have a hybrid and I dread the day the main battery dies. I think it is a $10,000 replacement. Any gas savings disappear.
eaglesoars wrote:
Typo. There is a haste or rush to manipulate genetics that seems unwise.
@ eaglesoars:
Data mining is a completely different thing to mining coins for some blockchain authentication stuff.
Data mining has been around since the 80’s
I kind of got involved in it from a consultancy technical aspect at the time.
Data mining then. Example.
Someone goes into a store and among the items they buy is laundry detergent. They pay by credit card so you know who they are. Some people always buy the same brand. Other people buy what is on sale.
As a laundry detergent manufacturer you have an advertising budget and you can mail a coupon to say 5000 addresses in a zip code for a free sample of your product. Who do you send the coupon to?
Not the ones that always buy the same competitor brand. Not the ones that always buy YOUR brand. Waste of money.
You target your free coupon to undecided.
Another more scary example. Real estate….
Using data from store credit card purchases it is noticed that Ms X is now buying diapers and baby formula. You have her address, you know she lives in a one bedroom apartment.
If you as a real estate agent or an apartment rental agency Ms X is an ideal candidate for a mail campaign about a new, bigger place to live. Don’t waste time targeting an old couple. They ain’t moving.
I experienced this months ago. Cancelled my auto insurance with Geico and got a flood of unsolicited real mail and email from other insurance companies. They specifically targeted me. Waste of their time targeting insured people, could be a score concentrating on uninsured.
Sold the car…..
Then came the flood of emails and real mail offering me new car loans!
While I owned a car it was a waste of money and effort offering me a car loan.
Once I sold my car assumption was, due to data mining, I would get another one.
As to data mining and free trial offers on pay to view channels I wish the data mines would recommend I get a free week of all movies Gina Carano was in.
LOL
darkwords wrote:
They find me.
Possum wrote:
You didn’t kill it. Everyone is in gaping awe of the farmlord.
Eaglesoars even took you off of double secret probation. I don’t know why you were on it in the first place.
Possum wrote:
You can read about what she eats here:
https://celebhealthmagazine.com/gina-carano-diet-workout/
Mullets are now a protected hairstyle.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2116/text
heads up yinz.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3756988
it isnt complete yet a the data tables need to be added.
coldwarrior wrote:
What I have learned is that there is this large inertia on the left that tries to gaslight the right during an election. And they do it to hide bad behaviors. And the GoP acts like Will Smith slapped them.
We don’t have a clear picture of the criminal left. Trump was really the only one driving it home on a national stage.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
(a) In General.—No individual in the United States shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under, any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, based on the individual’s hair texture or hairstyle,
** When I first started working IT I had to wear a blue suit and tie. Hair had to be off the ears. No beard. Clean cut. One time I rode an elevator with security personnel and he called me a scofflaw for having hair that was a little too wild for his business tastes. And indeed management all took it upon themselves to assess looks as a definition of character.
Possum wrote:
Instagram getinthecar_ account. NSFW but cute. Carano substitute. Learning a lot about cars.
It’s a weird thing to see politician complaining that that big Tech needs to be regulated. And wondering who could start the process to do that.
Ben Sixsmith
@BDSixsmith
·
9h
The best way to keep Donald Trump from the presidency is to tell him that with just three years of training he could win the Masters.
** Trump with a 181 yard ACE while playing with Ernie Els. He released a press statement on it that was funny.
Watching the neighbor’s cat digging at a gopher mound in our back yard, hoping he catches the bastard. He didn’t get the gopher, but turned around and dropped a deuce in the hole.
https://www.thefarside.com
Farside comic for the day.
Where the action is.
https://news.usni.org/2022/03/28/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-march-28-2022
Cool photos, too.
My blog viewers top ten today:
1. U.S.
2. Italy
3. Gambia
4. Canada
5. UK
6. France
7. Germany
8. Norway
9. India
10. New Zealand
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Gambia?? Can you tell if people are accessing your site thru a VPN?
I’m done with all my meetings today. I’m looking at a lot of housework right now, vegetable broth is on the stove, have to make the mushroom/cream sauce and set the pork tenderloin to dry brine for tomorrow
What does anyone here know about household generators? One of the meetings today was with my plumber (I collect handymen, at almost 70 years old it’s great fun!) who installed a pressure reducer on the outside line and we got to talking about stuff*. He put in a propane generator as a power backup. I don’t know anything about them, have to talk to Hubby.
One thing I’ve noticed about the people I’m encountering here – ALL the people practicing a trade are prepping. They don’t consider themselves ‘preppers’ as such, but they are NOT comfortable with things and they all know each other across the trades (the plumber knows the electricians who know the carpenters, etc.)
So as far as what’s in the news – what have I missed?
eaglesoars wrote:
At HIS house I should have noted
@ eaglesoars:
gramma and papap coldwarrior have one at their rural abode.
they far enough out that they are THE LAST property on that power line. they’ve had it for years and have never needed it. i have more power outages in the ‘burbs than they have had in the stix!
the running joke is that they had to sacrifice thousands of $$$ to the electricity gods so that the power would never, ever go out
@ coldwarrior:
What kind of heat do they have at their rural abode? Elec, gas, etc.
We just replaced the entire HVAC system here. The one that was here when we moved in was as old as the house -13/14 years and that’s about a life span. We didn’t want to be two old, decrepit people with 2 dogs caught with a dead system at the end of a non-functional supply chain. I’m replacing the water heater and maybe adding a water softener – waiting for the lab analysis to come back on the water to see what we need. I LOVE the fridge and it’s fairly new. The dishwasher, tho…I have issues.
@ eaglesoars:
Propane and wood
@ eaglesoars:
Mom has a Generac home generator, runs on natural gas, powers the whole house. It kicks on anytime the power goes out and shuts itself off once power is restored.
@ Bordm:
Thank you, noted
Eric Schmidt is the Google guy
A Google billionaire’s fingerprints are all over Biden’s science office
Eric Schmidt has long sought influence over U.S. science policy. Under Biden’s former science chief, Eric Lander, Schmidt’s foundation helped cover officials’ salaries, even as the office’s general counsel raised ethical flags.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712
How did I miss this? I must have been busy when Tucker covered it
Biden has nominated a Lisa Cook to the Fed. The problem is she’s a fraud, her only paper of note has been found to be scientific malfeasance.
She manipulated the data
So…. she is not good enough for the Michigan State economics department — a mediocre department in terms of ranking — but she is somehow good enough for the Fed Board? Talk about a blackpill. There are plenty of accomplished black women economists who are humble and truthful and would serve on behalf of working Americans with integrity. Lisa Cook is not one of them. She is not a good scholar, heck, she is not even a scholar. She is a partisan activist.
Why am I leaking this document? I love economics, and her nomination destroys the reputation of the field. Lisa Cook is underqualified, she faked her only good paper, and history shows she is very much at ease with falsehoods. Integrity matters. There was a time when a lack of honour disqualified a man for office. Hence, I morally object.
https://karlstack.substack.com/p/exclusive-lisa-cooks-tenure-packet?s=w
At the National Auto Dealers’ Expo
Though the best had to be when several dealer groups piped up about how much it’s actually going to cost them to install some of the newer chargers some manufacturers believe should be mandatory if they’re intent on selling EVs. Some showrooms are finding out that not all buildings are wired for the high loads incurred by modern charging systems, requiring additional financial investments they hadn’t counted on. With automotive dealerships using product delays as leverage for unprecedented vehicle pricing, it’s nice to see them getting a taste of their own medicine. Or it would be if the costs for updating facilities weren’t guaranteed to be reflected on future window stickers.
A recent report from Automotive News highlighted some of the NADA exchanges, offering up a few anecdotes where dealers were blindsided by how much it actually costs to set up some of their stores. In one case, the Orlando, Florida-based Starling Automotive Group said electricians doubled their estimate when they wanted to install Level 3 chargers yielding 150 to 350kW of draw. Having already reported on the exchange from the NADA event, Automotive News conducted a recent follow-up interview to see how things were progressing.
Spoiler: Things aren’t going well.
So they want electric cars and crypto – using windmills. Reality always wins. It’s just that most of the damage is ‘collateral’ – which means you and me
eaglesoars wrote:
It doesn’t track specifics. I get hits from China, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Nigeria… almost every country in the world except for North Korea and small countries with extreme poverty whose name I don’t remember.
coldwarrior wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
Can’t agree Cold & Eagles.
The Solomon Island chain of quite large islands spread over 700 Km of ocean and is the central core of the Central Second Island Chain that incorporates all of Melanesia, New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomons and Fiji Island groups.
I’m guessing that XI figures that he can limit US 7th Fleet penetration into the First Island Chain with the Mischief Reef and Spratley artificial island rocket launch sites and radar sites. All XI has to do it dominate the South China Sea and threaten Japan and South Korea’s shipping routes to succeed. Now he’s after the Second Island Chain routes, in the Western Pacific and dominate them from bases in Melanesia such as Honiara and the airbase at Henderson Field (thanks to the US Corps of Engineers). There have been Chinese Special Armed Police deployed recently in Fiji until they were seen off after the election. Vanuatu has been actively taking (Chinese Dane Geld) recently and New Guinea is toying with a Chinese Fishing base at Daru Island directly opposite Northern Australia in the Gulf of Carpentaria fishing grounds. China is threatening the whole SW Pacific and the US remains asleep at the wheel and ‘busy’ in Atlantic European and US East Coast affairs.
Guam and Korean deployments in the North China Sea aside, and the 1500 US marines in Northern Oz do NOT sound as if the US is serious in the Western Pacific and Xi knows it.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
What have you said to get offside with the Aussies? I’d try posting some cricket and Rugby and possibly some Aussie Rules football !
:)Gambia isn’t a country. It’s a line of houses with river views and a small port near the Atlantic coast. Mercy Ships stops off there regularly to do all of the Maxiofacial and cleft pallet surgeries. For some reason they seem particularly prone?
darkwords wrote:
We had a local Deputy Chief Pilot (commonly known as the Head Prefect)who made it his job to ensure that all of the pilots wore clean cut hair styles, were beardless unless they had a terminal skin condition and were on their last legs and who’s uniforms were ironed with front creases. What he couldn’t control was the vehicles the polits drove, It became a matter of pride to come to work in the most beat up old heaps of junk. Barry McCully always wok. He owned a farm and came to work in a hand painted 30 year old pick up with a bale of straw on the back, a coat hangar radio attenae and the passenger’s door tied close with an old bit of rope.
🙂
HEH
Possum wrote:
What did the Yoghurt bugs eat to produce the yoghurt, with all of the fat gone?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Aw no!!!!!
You are telling us that zero fat yoghurt is full of yoghurt bug shit?
( looking in the fridge trying to find anything in there that is low or zero fat. I failed…. )
On a different topic I think Krill oil is giving me the shits but my joints do not ache any more.
Tough decision here. Sore joints or a glow in the dark and on fire asshole.
🙂
Plus the vitamin supplements I am taking turn my piss into an amazing fluorescent orange colour.
Old age is fun….
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t know who wrote that, but he doesn’t understand the business. Auto dealers are beholden to the factory that sets the prices and delivers product. It’s also the factory that controls brand design and dictates when a dealer has to upgrade / expand. The dealer has little control except for vehicle price markup, and that is limited by competition from other local dealerships.
So if a dealer has a shortage of product, the price goes up, i.e., what the market will bear.
Vehicle sales (including financing & insurance, add-ons & extended warranties) are the gravy of the automotive dealership business, but their bread and butter is in parts and service.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I know dealers and dealerships. Been designing them for 30 years. We used to get a booth at NADA years ago but never got any work out of it.
To encourage the increase in EV ownership first someone ( government, greenies, electricity companies ) have to make an investment in the area of charging infrastructure.
I live in an apartment complex of 320 units. To overnight charge at low rates and low KWh rates they will need, um let me do the math here.
320 charging stations in the parking lot.
If at my apartment complex there was a charging station available for my use 24/7 then I may THINK about buying a Tesla.
Until then, nope.
Closest charging station is 2.2 miles away. I know, that is like going to a gas station to fill up. But the real advantage of electric powered vehicles is charging slowly at off peak prices.
@ Aussie Infidel:
maginot line.
static targets are a liability
Aussie Infidel wrote:
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I didn’t say the Solomon Islands were useless. ?? I don’t know anything about them.
Everything on this blog is CW’s fault
@ Possum:
So, all 320 apartments have to go 2.2 miles to the charging station after driving around all day in our electric cars.
It has…
CCS
· 150 kW
Total 5
CHAdeMO
· 50 kW
Total 1
J1772
· 7 kW
Total 1
SEVEN charging stations, five are the fast ones that will recharge me in about 30 minutes.
So, five us at a time take up the fast chargers, just for 30 minutes. That means for all of us it would be five eat a time. 64 batches of 5 for all of us.
Each batch of 5 takes 30 minutes.
That means the people that got to the charger last would have a 32 hour wait.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I know. Dad worked for GMAC
@ Possum:
the average person spends 5 minute filling his gas tank, etc.
the average charge is 35 min?
this means that all the recharge stations on the highways have to be 7x larger than they are now to prevent long lines and traffic problems
looks like multi-level charging garages are going to be a thing
eaglesoars wrote:
you sound like mrs coldwarrior.
lol
@ coldwarrior:
Well because of a wild world tour I did in about 1997 there are places in Canada that are already equipped to provide slow charging stations in parking lots.
Yellowknife, Canada, in December.
Parking garages there you park, and there is a power cord that you plug into the engine block heater on your vehicle.
Possum wrote:
Unlikely…how much are you taking.
@ Possum:
That’ll take forever!
What in God’s name did Geraldo Rivera do to his hair?
@ coldwarrior:
Twice what it says… LOL
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/gop-leader-mccarthy-plans-talk-madison-cawthorn-remarks-dc-elites-cocaine-inviting-orgy-parties/
Hmmmmmm…..
Possum wrote:
Lol….NO!
BAD POSSUM!
Oh guess what? Remember Janet Yellin wants to tax unrealized capital gains?
SCOTUS ruled it unconstitutional back in 1920
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/252/189/
Eisner v. Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920)
Congress was not empowered by the Sixteenth Amendment to tax, as income of the stockholder, without apportionment, a stock dividend made lawfully and in good faith against profits accumulated by the corporation since March 1, 1913. P. 252 U. S. 201. Towne v. Eisner, 245 U. S. 418.
The Revenue Act of September 8, 1916, c. 463, 39 Stat. 756, plainly evinces the purpose of Congress to impose such taxes, and is to that extent in conflict with Art. I, § 2, cl. 3, and Art. I, § 9, cl. 4, of the Constitution. Pp. 252 U. S. 199, 252 U. S. 217.
These provisions of the Constitution necessarily limit the extension, by construction, of the Sixteenth Amendment. P. 252 U. S. 205.
What is or is not “income” within the meaning of the Amendment must be determined in each case according to truth and substance, without regard to form. P. 252 U. S. 206.
Income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital. P. 252 U. S. 207.
Mere growth or increment of value in a capital investment is not income; income is essentially a gain or profit, in itself, of exchangeable value, proceeding from capital, severed from it, and derived or received by the taxpayer for his separate use, benefit, and disposal. Id.
A stock dividend, evincing merely a transfer of an accumulated surplus to the capital account of the corporation, takes nothing from the property of the corporation and adds nothing to that of the shareholder; a tax on such dividends is a tax an capital increase, and not on income, and, to be valid under the Constitution, such taxes must be apportioned according to population in the several states. P. 252 U. S. 208.
Affirmed.
Page 252 U. S. 190
The case is stated in the opinion.
Page 252 U. S. 199
@ eaglesoars:
Condolences Eagle.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes at the power available at each parking space for an engine block heater, but the parking structures have the conduit etc in place for power distribution to each parking spot.
I know, the conduit needs to be bigger, the wiring upgraded to handle more power but the basic idea is sound.
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t like Cawthorne. Something about him is sleazy.
Altho it may be true, I dunno. I just don’t find him – I dunno. Makes my skin crawl
AZfederalist wrote:
Thank you.
This is gonna get interesting
BREAKING: Today I will be introducing the “Spook Who Cried Wolf Resolution” to indefinitely bar security clearances for 51 intelligence officials who publicly lied and labeled the real contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation.
https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1508823972925763588
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, I’m wit yinz on that
coldwarrior wrote:
Just wait until I tell you how much of the stuff you give to old dogs for joint health.
Just looked at the bottle. It does not say what the ingredients are.
Only side effect is I can’t walk past a fire hydrant without pissing on it.
Otherwise I think the tablets are helping.
SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, “as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child,” she supports having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories” and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities.
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508926408332034049
TWO?? Tell me these kids weren’t groomed. I mean, what are the odds?
Possum wrote:
My dogs will not TOUCH krill oil. But salmon oil they love. Get a squirt every nite
eaglesoars wrote:
HEH!
🙂
Robot enforcing Shanghai lockdown.
https://twitter.com/dalibali2/status/1508821989472886786
Look at this thing. Creeps me out, I don’t care what it’s doing. Nuke it from space.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m with the ladies CW!
🙂
It’s ALL your fault mate!
HEH
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
You should know better than that CW. Firm bases to use as pivots for mobile offensive action.
It’s written down in the tactics manual so it must be true! Right?
🙂
HEH
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I was at the 1987 NADA in Vegas, Gary Patterson signed a lithograph of his “The Dealership” for me, along with everyone else that stood in line. We were working a booth for Ford Dealer Computer Services, I worked for IBM at the IBM Systems Integration Laboratory, we designed the system for Ford. Ford wanted us to demonstrate it to their dealers, so we got an all expenses paid trip to Vegas, had a total blast.
CIA Officer Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Claims Credit For Trump Loss
One of the former CIA officers who signed a letter claiming stories about a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were disinformation says he helped swing the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump.
“I take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump,” John Sipher, who served for decades as a senior operations officer at the CIA, wrote in a recent post on Twitter.
“I lost the election for Trump? Well then I fell [sic] pretty good about my influence,” he also wrote.
https://zububrothers.com/2022/03/30/cia-officer-who-signed-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-claims-credit-for-trump-loss/
Bordm wrote:
Still on my bucket list. But looks increasingly harder and harder to score the trip.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I stand with Coldwarrior!
I will defend him to the death.
Oh, hold that. BRB. I got to take a shit….
LOL
eaglesoars wrote:
Wasnt he supposed to stick to foreign affairs. Trial for him when the Rs with backbone get on board.
STUPID seems to be a req to get a job in the Biden admin
Top Biden Economist Says Farmers To Increase Crop Production On “Price Signals” To Avert Food Shortage
The White House’s chief economist told reporters at a daily press briefing on Monday that American farmers will respond to “price signals” to increase crop production to mitigate food shortages worldwide following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A reporter asked Cecilia Rouse, the chair of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, about the White House’s plan to deal with food shortages when it comes to wheat.
Rouse said, “well, first we are a net exporter of many food commodities, and farmers respond to price signals, and so with the price of food rising, they will be responding by making additional plantings and try to take advantage of increase pricing.”
She added: “The market will work as the market will work.”
https://zububrothers.com/2022/03/29/top-biden-economist-says-farmers-to-increase-crop-production-on-price-signals-to-avert-food-shortage/
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
Gotta luv Ripley’s logic
HEH
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Good find. Not that the Brandon administration lets anything like a Supreme Court decision stand in its way of course, but at least there is a legal ruling that already states that what they want to do is unconstitutional. Besides being stupid. What do they think is going to happen to the stock market if that goes through? Who’s going to invest? Oh. Wait. They want to destroy the economy and destroying investment is a way to do that. So, when are we either pressing charges for treason or sedition (deliberately destroying the country seems to fit) or decorating lamp posts?
eaglesoars wrote:
I think he is ultra religious. It comes out here and there when he talks. I believe he will source demons as part of the moral problem in the US. As does Jack Posobiec. As do some of the politicians in Russia when they talk about the west.
It takes a really wise religious person to serve all denominations when in a political office. I used to know an Episcopal priest from Texas that did it really well.
eaglesoars wrote:
Where is a good Novochok agent when you need him?
🙂
Yeah big surprise there…
FBI Cyber Chief can’t find Hunter Biden’s laptop…
https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1508842680830382089
eaglesoars wrote:
Gee ya think? I doubt if you could place a bet in Vegas that they weren’t.
AZfederalist wrote:
thanks but not mine, somebody on twitter I never heard of.
darkwords wrote:
Yeah. They tend to do their schtick pretty well. especially the ‘high church’ types
🙂
We had one who was a padre for an armoured unit that was a great pastor for ALL denominations.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
9 mm works too
eaglesoars wrote:
Ditto.
eaglesoars wrote:
Milk gets dumped. Farmers commit suicide. Those are the two most common headlines related to farmers responding to price controls. Another might be Farm subsidies.
The farmer makes little off the beef market. All the profit is taken at the slaughter houses. Small packing houses are regulated out of business as people selling meat out of the back of their pickup trucks. (used to be an actual problem)
eaglesoars wrote:
Hmmm, I think there are some federal laws that make this prosecutable. Laws in addition to lying; I believe that federal employees using their office to influence elections is strictly sick bird ill eagle.
eaglesoars wrote:
Heads need to roll.
Another change of topic. Movie reviews.
I don’t laugh much, I do not usually watch ” comedy ” movies but due to boredom I stumbled upon Hot Fuzz
Fuzz is British slang for police.
Something that is common in British movies is the self deprecating humour, we laugh at ourselves and the stereotypes that we are.
I do not think Americans will get this. For the first hour of the movie it is a parody of small village life in England.
Then it goes nuts!
It becomes a parody of American ” Action ” movies and I think was very well done.
It is the middle movie in a three part trilogy. The common theme is Cornetto, an ice cream cone. Don’t bother with the first or the last in the trilogy. They are crap.
Anyway, when the action starts there are over 100 references to other movies. The funniest in my opinion was the parody of Cool Runnings. A movie worth watching if you like Jamaican Bob Sled movies.
As an aside if anyone has watched the early Wallace and Grommet animations this is styled after them. A nice storyline and then in the last few minutes all hell breaks loose!
eaglesoars wrote:
So, now, all of a sudden someone in the Brandon administration is all free market? Really?
/I know that wasn’t your point Eagles, but that irony also struck me. Every other time there’s a problem, the Brandon administration is all about how the Government can solve the problem.
AZfederalist wrote:
Lol that would get shot gunned day 1 in the us. IN video games you get mega exp for killing something like that.
Possum wrote:
I followed a British humor site on social media. I hardly get half the jokes if that.
eaglesoars wrote:
Distract the robot dog by throwing it a titanium bone!
🙂
@ AZfederalist:
Carp! Bold was supposed to stop after the “now” in my first sentence. Anybody with editing authorization please feel free to fix my screwup
@ darkwords:
We laugh at ourselves.
I have 20 jars of peanut butter now. I think I can survive the supply chain crisis.
Possum wrote:
And that’s the last movie review we need to hear from you, thank you very much.
AZfederalist wrote:
You cannot unring a bell, you cannot stop a bullet after you pulled the trigger.
The Internet is forever…
LOL
AZfederalist wrote:
good point
@ eaglesoars:
You ever seen Cool Runnings?
It is awesome.
Possum wrote:
Try
BLACK SHEEP
The guy using Aunt Mable’s mint sauce as a counter to vampire sheep is a classic.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi177473049?playlistId=tt0779982&ref_=tt_ov_vi
HEH!
🙂
Possum wrote:
The Jamacian quad got a standing ovation recently at the Winrer Olympics!
A LOT of folks loved Cool Runings!
🙂
Biden is naked and all his supporters exclaim he is the finest dressed person in the land.
Australian movies worth watching. The Dish.
Based on a true story.
Also one of New Zealand’s best movies.
The World’s Fastest Indian
That is worth watching.
Like I’m going to believe a word they say
Prosecutors are preparing to issue some kind of “disclosure” about Ray EPPS, the figure at the center of pro-Trump conspiracy theories, in the Jan. 6 case that includes Ryan Samsel, one of the first to breach police lines.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1508991632351404034
Oh well, no more movie reviews from me.
Are book reviews OK?
This one is a review of a book written by a man while he was in prison for five years.
It is a detailed account of his life before he was incarcerated and sheds light on events that later occur after his release.
The book is titled, aw bugger I just got a warning I am out of data…
🙁
Possum wrote:
Loved The Dish. Laid back and understated which allowed the characters to develop. Because it was real made the ‘cockups’ really shocking … just like real life.
Wonderful
Still this is one my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYuoWyk8iU
Sir Humphry explains to the Minister the realities of the EU / EEC
🙂
Enjoy
@ Aussie Infidel:
Brit humour is basically laughing at ourselves. So is Australian humour.
Paul Hogan was doing it on a TV show long before he was famous as Crocodile Dundee.
darkwords wrote:
It’s worth the trip once or twice, I ended up there 6 or 7 times on business. We did a road show that ran from April to October for 3 years, traveled all over the country, I loved it. We ended up with 15 IBM business partners displaying their conversion and coexistence products, to integrate IBM computers into their OEM existing networks. I don’t recall all the OEM gear we had connected but do recall we had a HP 3000, DEC microvax, Wang VS, Borroughs System A ? and a couple others, along with the IBM gear we were pushing. The first show we did was in Orlando, when the trucker saw all the equipment he said “there is no way all of this will fit in a 40’ trailer”, I told him it will fit we’ve already got it laid out. We loaded it up like a 3-dimensional jig saw puzzle. When we were done the trucker told me to give him a call if I ever decided to switch professions.
@ Bordm:
In another life I really liked the working on the data conversion shit.
A big problem was the bloody connectors and making a cable that would connect the two objects in question so you could at least try to communicate with the object.
Best one was connecting a thingy to a PDP 11/23 in Africa. The thing had a pin out diagram but it was all in French.
Worked it out, got it talking electrically, my job was done.
Then I stood back and watched in amazement as they started to access the data from the thingy.
Seems that was the first and last time I saw a flight data recorder….
@ Possum:
@ Possum:
That was my forte, reading the schematics and building the interfaces for dissimilar systems to connect.
One of my favorite movies is Danny Deckchair.
Bordm wrote:
that sounds like fun
@ Bordm:
Magnetic tape was another one. IBM used one format and the rest of the world used another.
LOL
Possum wrote:
Does anyone here remember Fireside Theater? Or am I dating myself?
Wait. I can re-phrase that.
Possum wrote:
How I learned to hate IBM
I’m too tired to watch but others may find it useful
#Trump is suing 30 democrats and their organizations under RICO for the Russian collusion hoax. This video breaks down all 30 defendants named in the 108-page lawsuit
https://twitter.com/RobGouveiaEsq/status/1508999254974468100
I don’t know what’s going on here
First thing that a French high school did with Ukrainian refugees is to organize “speed dating” between African guys (who look like adults) and Ukrainian girls (who look under age).
This school has the sense of priority…
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland2/status/1508763164623753220
eaglesoars wrote:
I do they were great!
eaglesoars wrote:
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, a standard eight-bit character code used in computing and data transmission
Listening to Dr Peter Attila on the Megyn Kelly show. On longeivity. Pretty interesting.
Best thing you can do to maintain mental clarity in late life is exercise.
He is well spoken.
https://peterattiamd.com
@ darkwords:
EBCDIC sounds like a genital disease
@ darkwords:
if you want to clean the body out. Sauna 4 times a week for 20 minutes a session.
Possum wrote:
You’re ASCIIing me?
Possum wrote:
It is the reason your 2400 Baud modem made those sexual connection sounds.
@ Possum:
Magnetic tape was great, as long as you didn’t need to use it to do an actual restore.
Goal this month is to turn off the computer screens at 9 PM pst. fix my blue light sleep issues. Problem is I probably need to start reading again. lol. Gotta find that Kindle I misplaced.
@ darkwords:
And after the modem made all those weird noises and ended with the ” boing boing boing ” sound and went quiet. You know you were connected!
Bordm wrote:
I was in charge of an IBM tape library for a year. I can’t remember all the stuff I did. A lot of tape splicing. And reading tapes to correct errors. We stored programs on the tapes and the OS/JCL operators would call for a tape to run something like voter reg cards. Retrieved it for them. Ran the tape. Put the tape back in storage. No real issues with data loss. But I had to the print the voter reg cards from boxes and boxes of stock then prep them for mailing. I destroyed a lot of voter reg cards by sleeping at the collator.
Print then run through a type of collator that burst the perforations and stacked the cards. It also trimmed the sides.
One night I walked away from the collator and the feed got off track and cut every card right down the center. No ability to rerun the job. I had to lay out the cards in a long hallway in a courthouse and tape them all back together.
@ Possum:
You got mail!!! Little did we know at the time that this was the language of the overlords talking to us.
Health food is crap. Someone gave me a load of pea protein frozen meat imitations. It’s loaded up with the vegetable oils that are bad and also sugar.
I ate them though and I didn’t like it. Back to the spam.
@ darkwords:
Yeah and ” scratch tapes ” tapes that were not really assigned to long term data storage were labeled “111111”
Usually they were error ridden old tapes that were next to useless.
They would give a ” scratch tape ” to a technician that was trying to diagnose a fault on a tape unit.
Fuck that. If I was trying to diagnose a fault I wanted a fresh, brand new reel of tape!
When explained properly without using naughty words most customers understood it.
darkwords wrote:
HAR!! Brilliant!
darkwords wrote:
OMG
Back at PSU I had a friend, Mike, who had his entire program/data cards – 3 boxes of 2000 cards/box stolen (someone who didn’t want the academic competition). People kept their boxes on the shelves marked w/their names. It was an honor system.
The theft was reported to the campus police, fondly referred to as The Keystone Cops.
They came back with the following: As the cards were free to anyone who wanted them, the only things that Mike could claim ownership of were the holes that were punched in the cards and they had no idea how to recover holes.
I kid you not.
Off to bed. Nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
The best way to make a geek cry was drop those cards on the floor.
We had lockers also for the card savers. Pre this I was a punch tape guy where the data and programs were stored on punch tapes. Which were little better than those blasting caps rolls made for kids toy cap guns.
@ darkwords:
I had a lady in my life that could read punch cards. Normally there is no printing on the top. Usually you had to feed them through one of those interpreter things…
There was a problem. She looked at the offending card and immediately said ” there is an “O” where there should be a “zero”
Awesome skillz…
Kyle Rittenhouse should shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down and fade away.
He got lucky once.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
A couple years ago I told Phil Cordrey to fuck off and blocked him. He was a good guy who went all Trump derangement on me, one day I had enough of his insults.
Long term, the Top 10 are:
1. USA
2. Canada
3. UK
4. Australia
5. Germany
6. India
7. France
8. Finland
9. Netherlands
10. Italy
China’s at 14, Pakistan 18, NZ 19.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
More gun threads and anti CCP content and your traffic will go way up. Crow monthly and bollards can only monetize you so far….
Insult a few CCP denigrating their choice of guns and your traffic will go way up.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I looked it up on the google earlier, found a photo of Obama and the former President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh#/media/File:Yahya_Jammeh_with_Obamas_2014.jpg
Jammeh’s a real nice fellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh#Human_rights_abuses
Possum wrote:
Good advice for him. His fame should recide if he is smart.
Wild Things movie has held up well. George Clinton move score which I didn’t notice the first time.
coldwarrior wrote:
Working on one for a dealership in L.A. right now. LADWP requires some monster transformers.
Possum wrote:
If you still had your car you’d be driving with your head out the window.
eaglesoars wrote:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/black-mirror-trending-after-nypd-robodog-goes-viral/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Hence the need for regular visits by Mercy Ships as there are hardly any actual doctors in The Gambia. Over the years Africa Mercy has educated many local medical assistants. First Aid operators. Other than that The Gambis is your standard African hellhole.
Bordm wrote:
LOL We breathed the same air!
Lotta eye candy walking around that show. Elvis passed our booth too.
darkwords wrote:
The city without a soul.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sans fertilizer.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
“What’s that noise?”
“Somebody’s shearing…”
😀
eaglesoars wrote:
Firesign Theater. I remember I didn’t watch it.
@ eaglesoars:
Watching a friend’s stack of Fortran infested IBM cards drop from his hands and blow away with the wind was awesome.
new thread yinz guys
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/03/30/z-open/
darkwords wrote:
I always thought it sounded like two women who hadn’t seen each other in a while meeting up. “Ooooh!” “Eeeeeh!” …