Firmly ensconced in Papap Coldwarrior’s Garagemahal for the Father’s Day golf outing on Saturday. My first practice round will already be underway at 5am after this posts. The Competition, play, and steaks will be Saturday. I’ll let yins know the result.
The US Open starts Thursday AM in CA at the Los Angeles C.C. (that’s Country Club for yinz non golfers, n’at). The LACC has never hosted a major. hell, they never host anything. DO they deserve The Open? No. They don’t. This was a bullshit move by the USGA. CC’s (Country Clubs) worth their salt work to get the Open…Oakmont, Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Bethpage, Shinnecock, Oakmont…yeah, I said Oakmont twice because it is the nastiest, hardest, most unforgiving course in the world. And that is what the Open is. I hope the LACC doesn’t fail like what happened at the unprepared 2017 Open (learn how to cut the grass and attend to the patrons).
And now THIS: The Ashes 2023. The Aussies just dismantled the Indians in test cricket in England for the World Test Championship. No mean feat! Now the Aussies stay in England to continue The Ashes Series. The Aussies hold the Ashes and England must win outright over the summer. The last wickets will be at the end of July at The Oval. It’s a brutal best of 5 Test. If yinz get a chance to look at it, DO! It starts Saturday.
This is an Open.
i don’t think that England’s middle order can handle the Aussie bowlers.
the Aussies retain the Ashes 4/5.
Apologies for going off topic so soon, but I don’t want to forget this
USF leaders revoke victory of DeSantis supporter who won student president election
https://www.thecollegefix.com/usf-leaders-revoke-victory-of-desantis-supporter-who-won-student-president-election/
Student and administrative leaders at the University of South Florida recently rescinded the results of a student body president election, revoking the victory of a conservative-leaning ticket and handing the win to the runners up, who ran a more liberal-minded campaign.
This brings back memories. A year after I got booted from the public school system in Mt Lebanon, the student body elected a kid by the name of Ricky Watts as president of the student council.
The admin nullified the vote and tried to force another election. Why?
Ricky was the son of Alan Watts. (His older brother, Mark, was in my class).
Alan Watts was a ‘hippie’ philosopher. He wrote books, the one I actually read is The Way of Zen.
So the son of a San Fran hippie author gets elected, the admin tries to kill it and guess what happened next?
The entire student body went on strike.
IIRC, Alan dropped dead at his home in a suburb of San Fran from a massive heart attack.
Yup.
Given the Aussie’s current form and the depth of available talent, especially with the ball I think 4/1 is a fair assessment of how the Ashes will go. I am only throwing that 1 out there to cover a weather related glitch and a Duckworth calculation early on in the 5 day Test match!
Give the Aussies just the faintest whiff and they will be there immediately tearing your throat out!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
For the rest of the crew
https://youtu.be/jdH6amb99js
lol
In response to PBS’ & others’ chyrons:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/06/14/pbs-chyrons-during-trumps-bedminster-remarks-were-something-else-n761098
Fox did this:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/06/14/left-melts-down-after-fox-news-chyron-gives-biden-a-jaw-dropping-label-n761209
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s some info I can’t find the original articles I read since they were on my phone.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/06/12/interior-secretary-deb-haaland-cancels-chaco-event-protests/70314019007/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/native-american-protesters-shut-down-biden-admin-event-oil-leasing-ban
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
thx!
nice ash! lol
um….
Pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and REvil announced their plans to take down the entire European banking system within the next 48 hours.
“This is not a DDoS attack, the games are over. No money, no weapons, no Kiev regime — this is the formula for the death of Nazism and it will work.”
“Within 48 hours we are launching this global company, nothing will save you and this is not a warning. I am just informing. You have never seen such problems before.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1669108851378126851
Ian’s stuff has been very reliable in the past and he says this group is legit, not a hoax
This was posted 6:25 yesterday evening by Ian, I don’t know when the hackers posted
posted about 30 mins ago
Exclusive: US government agencies hit in global cyberattack
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/us-government-hit-cybeattack/index.html
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting their MOVEit applications,” Eric Goldstein, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement on Thursday to CNN, referring to the software impacted. “We are working urgently to understand impacts and ensure timely remediation.”
It was not immediately clear if the hackers responsible for breaching the federal agencies were a Russian-speaking ransomware group that has claimed credit for numerous other victims in the hacking campaign.
doesn’t sound like the same group but who knows?
Heads up!
Hepatitis A outbreak plaguing strawberries sold at Trader Joe’s, Costco and Aldi: US issues 3 recalls in 90 days – but how is the virus spreading to fruits imported from Mexico?
Trader Joe’s, Costco, Aldi and Oregon-based Willamette Valley Fruit Company have asked customers to toss purchases in the trash due to contamination concerns.
The recalled frozen strawberries and fruit blends containing strawberries were sold under the Great Value name, Walmart’s store brand, Rader Farms Organic Fresh State Smoothie Blend at Costco and Rader Farms Organic Berry Trio at HEB.
Great Value Strawberries, Great Value Mixed Fruit, and Great Value Antioxidant Blend were distributed in 32 states.
These are: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Products at Walmart were sold between January 24, 2023, and June 8, 2023.
Rader Farms Organic Fresh Start Smoothie Blend was sold in Costco stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Texas.
These products were sold between October 3, 2022, and June 8, 2023.
Rader Farms Organic Berry Trio was distributed in HEB stores in Texas.
These were sold between July 18, 2022, and June 8, 2023.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12198955/US-issues-3-recalls-hepatitis-strawberries-imported-Mexico-spreading.html
Life in a third world country.
Hottest day so far this year in Houston.
Advisory states drink plenty of water.
11:33am got an email and checked the water, yep none.
Hey no worries, cats have water, I have beer and no need for a shower as I ain’t going anywhere. So life is good!
2:10pm fucking power went off. Now I am going to be stinky!!!!!!
My home Internet is a $30 Visible phone which is on a charger 24/7 with an unlimited data plan and unlimited hotspot data plan tethered to a laptop so I have about 4 hours before life as I know it finally ends.
Lunch is probably going to be a can of sardines and a tomato. Oh, and more beer.
@ Possum:
And just think! These things come in threes, so you’re already two down!
eaglesoars wrote:
Thanks for the warning. As I have a history of lacerated fingers whilst opening cans of sardines then lunch will be just two tomatoes.
But they look so yummy, Wild Planet, Sardines in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Lemon and lightly smoked. Sustainably caught in the North Pacific.
I am tempted….
@ coldwarrior:
You want a good everyday smoke, look for Fratello with the red camo band. Freaking amazing at a low price.
Hoping to get a couple Punch Dad Bods for Sunday.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Thx! I’m on it!
@ Aussie Infidel:
238-5 isn’t terrible for England.
I went to the CC early, teed off at 530am. Done just as they finished lunch. Sat on the veranda, had a G&T, watched some Ashes, a great cigar, and CIVILIZATION for an hour.
But, all glory is fleeting…but one hour of peace and quiet…
@ Aussie Infidel:
Wait till yinz see the wicket taken on Brooks! Horrible luck.
This is so repugnant I couldn’t finish the thread. Fox Corp is on the PRIDE train and it’s appalling. Matt Walsh got the documents
1/ BREAKING: We’ve obtained internal docs from @FoxNews employees. Fox Corp is celebrating Pride by encouraging employees to read about “glory holes,” supporting a group that gives sterilizing hormones to homeless youth, & deployed woke AI to monitor everyone. EXPLICIT CONTENT:
2/ The documents we’re about to show you were produced by Fox Corp, which is the parent company of Fox News. These materials are presented to Fox News employees when they log into their employee portal. Let’s start at the top.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1669457286677291008.html
And yet again.
Another stinky day for me!
I am really glad I am not a transgender women who has to wash out her underneath thingy every 30 minutes or it turns nasty.
@ Possum:
For anyone wondering what is an hour in other countries well, an hour for lunch in France is three USA hours. An hour in South America where the workers on the water pipe come from is manyana which roughly translates to Sometime, but not today.
An hour translated to Indian ( Not the Red shooty arrows at cowboys but the curry eating ones ) means we got your rent payment, fuck the fact you have no water.
@ Possum:
I got a micromanager to spin out this morning and I wasn’t even trying. He flipped and quit the meeting – that he was in charge of running. 😀
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well good news water is back on! But no hot water.
What does that mean? It means if I go get a shower and wash Mr Happy I will use a lot less soap.
Rep Jim Jordan heads up something called the weaponization committee. An IRS agent used an alias to go to a woman’s home to tell her the estate she was the fiduciary of owed money and if she didn’t pay it blah blah blah. She called her attorney who told the agent to leave, the agent told the attorney to fuck off and everybody called the cops. The cops investigated, found the agent and his supervisor, his supervisor said no taxes were due, blah blah blah.
Here is the letter the Weaponization Committee sent to the IRS.
@ eaglesoars:
https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1669859036806754304/photo/1
Was just wondering what to eat for supper tonight. Looked out of the window and today there are only five street vendors. Saturday nights there are more.
Even on Saturday night there is not much diversity.
Just Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and one Mexican place.
Four vastly different cuisines! Taco Bell it ain’t.
Weaselzippers is coming up as suspended.
@ right_wing2:
suspended from WHAT?
Possum wrote:
Go for Street Chicken. Well, I guess some call it pigeon. (On a related note I heard it’s pretty decent when they call it squab.)
Jack Posobiec posted this an hour ago. California is 3-4 hours behind east coast so this pic was taken at 6:30 pm west coast time. If this is legit, no one showed up for the Dodgers game (after their Pride bullshit play)
However, there was a very large protest outside the stadium so maybe ticket holders couldn’t get in. I’m not sure what happened/is happening
24 hr rule
DODGER STADIUM-The “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” are recognized for Pride night to a mostly empty audience.
Two Dodgers fan nearby begin loudly booing after they’re announced:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1669884379496345600
You know who is a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? That Sam Brinton freak, Biden admin Dep Asst Sec Nuclear Waste or something who was arrested 2/3 times for stealing luggage at airports and eventually booted from the admin.
@ eaglesoars:
There is a video at the link. Comments are not enlightening. Could be too early to be definitive
eaglesoars wrote:
yep
Here’s a shot of the stadium, top of the third inning:
https://twitter.com/sav_says_/status/1669899750089568256
It’s actually a short video
Just finished watching Extraction II on Netflix. Pretty decent movie. Much explosions
@ lobo91:
Thanks!
eaglesoars wrote:
From Glenn Greenwald’s ex:
FBI groomed a kid with mental problems to be a terrorist.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-undercover-isis-teenager-terrorist/
morning y’all
so there is a new game about to come out
the next skyrim only bigger
Starfield: Official Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYqyVpCV-3c
they delayed the game for a year to polish it up some
and got this
Starfield Official Gameplay Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYEiTdsyas
the girl is pissed, when it comes out she will be back at school and won’t be able to play it until christmas
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Salt the earth
rain of lead wrote:
Yeah, I’m keeping my Microsoft Gamepass subscription for that game.
But, this is what I’m really waiting for, Avowed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-IISqERIKY
The one I’m really, really waiting for is called The Wayward Realms. It’s being created by the designers of Elder Scrolls Daggerfall. Hundreds of Islands to explore and adventure. But, there really hasn’t been any news in almost a year, so a little worrying.
Hey CW, if you want to cross post this one, be my guest. Well, since Ms CW is more or less responsible for this article, as you will no doubt recognize just from the articles title.
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/why-did-the-ancient-egyptians-build
The president ladies and gentlemen.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/joe-biden-gaffe-queen-railroad
Video: Joe Biden ends gun control speech saying, ‘God save the Queen,’ before needing guidance to walk offstage
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
And the excuse is he was responding to someone in the audience.
And his “Don’t jump” is trolling conservatives.
right_wing2 wrote:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-mocked-plans-build-railroad-across-indian-ocean-bold-initiative
And then there’s this one.
They also trotted him out with Fetterman yesterday, and Fetterman did not look or sound like a well man still.
I believe in Chicago this actually does count as a celebration. (Expect to never hear anymore about this if it turns out to be a “gang thing”.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-shooting-juneteenth-suburb
1 dead, 20 shot during Juneteenth celebration in Chicago suburb: ‘It was chaos’
Happy Fathers Day drive-by post.
I found this collection of NorK propaganda paintings (1950-1970) and sent them to a friend:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/north-korea-anti-american-propaganda-pictures/
Here is his response.
Happy Father’s Day yinz!
coldwarrior wrote:
The First Ashes Test is what is called lyrically ‘balanced’ with the ‘Aussies with a sniff’ between showers and the two openers for England dismissed cheaply on day 3. If the Brits can get anywhere north of 300 on day #4 then they may be in with a chance.
The Aussie tail-enders were all out cheaply on day #3 between rain spells and were just behind the 398 for 8 declared for the Brit’s first Innings. The loss of those two Brit openers in England’s second innings moved the needle towards the Aussies, just a smidgen. If the bloody rain puts in a showing on Day #4 then we may be looking at a Duckworth calculation and that’d be a travesty as this game could still go either way and doing ‘Duckworth maths’ would be disappointing.
I’m still optimistic about the rain staying away on Day #4 and the Aussie ‘quickies’ getting amongst the English middle order batsmen. Both teams ‘tail-enders’ seem to be vulnerable, but if Oz can get past the Brit openers on day #4 then I think that the Aussie ‘quickies’ will be merciless. I still can’t see the Brits lasting for a full day with the openers already gone for a pittance. Unless the Brit top order bats can ‘dig in’ and put in a showing then I think that the Aussies will maintain their momentum. With just two days to go this could go either way but for me I think that the Aussies now have a sniff of victory and you know how ruthless they can be.
I’m guessing that the Aussies will snatch this one by Day #5 or if the Brits can dig in and play out the clock then they might get away with a drawn match. I really REALLY don’t want the ‘Duckworth calculations’ to intervene as this match has had some classic chops and changes of initiative and it’s be sad to have a bunch of ‘Duckworth maths’ to intervene and force a draw. Fingers crossed for NO MORE RAIN and the Aussie ‘Quicks’ to be fed raw steak and let loose on the Brit first order bats. If that transpires then there will be blood all over the British press as their middle order and tail-enders will be swept away by those ruthless Aussie quickies.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
… but after razing the FBI HQ and putting their ‘mandarines’ to the sword! Figuratively speaking. I’d settle for a few ‘perp-walks’ in manacles emerging from the FBI 7th floor!
🙂
HEH!
@ Aussie Infidel:
They want money to build a complex larger than the Pentagon. Defund THAT sucker ASAP
@ eaglesoars:
If everyone on this site provided a large bag of salt then we can salt the whole of the bare site where the FBI building now stands. Better that then allowing the FBI the funding to build their FBI Pentagon 2.0 building with the attendant staff, to totally suppress the whole of the US population!
A food post.
For the past several days it has been in the upper 90s. Currently it is 7:30pm and 93F
Not one single, solitary ice cream truck has been around!
Usually there are two or three per day, the really annoying one plays Christmas music.
I even have a stack of dollar bills on the kitchen counter for me to quickly grab as I run for the door….
@ Possum:
Is your water back on?
@ eaglesoars:
Yep, it is now. Came on at 5pm today.
Cold only, no hot. But here the cold is luke warm. So at least I can wash dishes.
From Miranda Devine (she wrote the book on Hunter’s laptop)
this is about the mayor of Miami mayor Francis Suarez running for POTUS
Pfft. Voted for Hillary 2016. Voted for Andrew Gillum 2018. Friend of SBF. Clashed with DeSantis who told him he couldn’t enforce mask mandates in Miami. Spoiler candidate.
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1670633392101105664
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
The full quote was “God save the Queen Man.”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
you voted for him
@ Possum:
freddie mercury is dead lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
yeah 1991
@ Possum:
i didn’t vote for him in 1991 either
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Why not? You homophobic?
@ Possum:
I voted for Ru Paul.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I am ashamed to admit I had to Google Ru Paul.
Wish I had not, now for months all the ads I will see will be for men in panty hose.
Google “Carter carburetor 1972 Chevrolet Caprice”. That should fix things.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yeah that worked really well Bunk. Now the ads I see are for a little Caprice.
You ain’t helping!
@ Possum:
Try “Japanese vending machines” or maybe go random with “velvet hammer pig.”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
okay, this is scary
NOBODY is this stupid, this is pure in-your-face graft
California’s imaginary solar-powered bullet train
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/california-imaginary-solar-train
In the 15 years since this was approved, not one INCH of track has been laid and there’s no more money, they’re going to the Feds for a bailout. So, hey, give ’em a little carrot, yes? Buttigig and Granholm will positively swoon. Whisper ‘solar’ and watch the Feds open our wallets.
@ Aussie Infidel:
England is 235 for 8 with a 242 lead…this is gonna be close…few more hours to go on day 4
This is bad. 120F in the shade. Texas is taking it in the neck.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/texas-is-in-the-thick-of-a-brutal-and-prolonged-heat-wave/ar-AA1cGog3
You know that Dodgers baseball game that held that pre-game pride thing that people protested? The Dodgers played the SF Giants and they lost 7-3. Two things John Frederick* brought up this morning. When the Dodgers players came out on the field, 17 of the 18 were wearing a crucifix in some form. AND – Dodger pitching/batting was incoherent. Swinging at the wrong pitches, throwing the wrong pitch given the on-base configuration.
The Dodgers’ players threw the game?
*John Frederick is the owner of the radio network that broadcasts Steve Bannon and some of the shows appearing on America’s Voice News
eaglesoars wrote:
Dude, that’s stupid hot. Meanwhile, we haven’t had to turn on the AC except for 3 days. By now, it’s usually on and that’s it till September
@ eaglesoars:
And of course they left out the most basic question, which is who even wants to take a train from LA to San Francisco anyway?
@ eaglesoars:
A ton of players are latin, and very Catholic
@ eaglesoars:
Dew points over 80f! Good lord.
@ lobo91:
Well, I could imagine some might want to take it OUT of San Fran. Outbound U-Haul trucks are getting hard to book.
@ coldwarrior:
That was my first thought, but I really don’t know anything about the Dodgers team.
@ eaglesoars:
@ eaglesoars:
I suppose the dodgers can bring in the Klan next. They are pretty anti catholic
281 is gettable for Aussies over this evening and tomorrow.
My butcher just called, he has an NZ leg of lamb for me!!!
He got 4, kept one for himself and called his 3 faves.
No pressure to get this perfect. Lol
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh, to die for!
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m nervous. No pressure.
Gonna hafta channel my inner Gordon Ramsey.
ITS RAW, YOU DO DONKEY!!!!!
And the divorce announcement is less than 6 mos away
Meghan Markle is ‘wise to distance herself from her husband’s toxic dramas’
Meghan Markle is ‘very busy building a global brand’ and ‘wise to distance herself from her husband’s toxic dramas’
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1081934-meghan-markle-is-wise-to-distance-herself-from-her-husbands-toxic-dramas
Just so you understand, Markle planted this story. This is battlefield prep.
@ eaglesoars:
Lol
Psychos the lot of em
@ eaglesoars:
Lots of Dominican, Cuban and Puerto Rican players in MLB
lobo91 wrote:
Yep. VERY catholic countries.
@ eaglesoars:
She should get nothing in the divorce.
He needs to get a hot Scottish chick to make him forget that nightmare he married.
He’ll be right as rain in a few weeks.
Hot Scottish chic? Yinz laugh. Ever been there? Oh my.
coldwarrior wrote:
California divorce laws. Altho I think whatever is left over from his inheritances from Diana and his great grandmother will be protected, I don’t think that’s very much considering what she’s spent. But not to worry, she’s not the type to leave w/o having somewhere to go, which in her case means another man. I’m out of ideas when it comes to what guy would touch her with a barge pole at this point, tho.
As for Harry, I don’t think he’ll EVER be alright. He’s been mentally ill his entire life and a right bastard to boot. Animal abuser, etc.
It’s the so-called children that are going to be the focal point of this drama. She didn’t give birth to them, that’s for sure. Whether they’re his remains to be seen.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
She reminds me of a computer rendered average of 500k women from all round.
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292
Sit down and read the whole thing.
coldwarrior wrote:
ok, I will. Check your email, I put together some stuff for Mrs CW to review about the infamous moon bump!
NOW I’m off to the store!
is about the restriction of freedom. This is exactly what we are doing here. We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.’
Adolph Hitler (1937): ‘Where the freedom of the individual effects in the slightest the interests of the national community, that the freedom of the individual ends, and the freedom of the national community takes the place of the freedom of the individual’.
I’ll have to verify, taken from 0hedgebuygoldandsilver
eaglesoars wrote:
Cheers!!!
Aussies better get on their horse tomorrow they need 281 in one day
I must update the OP:
LACC did a great job and the course got US Open tough on Saturday and Sunday.
doriangrey wrote:
Yinz need to read this. It’s well done AND
features Mrs coldwarrior’s most famous theory. It makes perfect sense. When she stated it, I was slackjawed at its elegance, simplicity, and perfection
coldwarrior wrote:
Apparently the quote is a paraphrase.
https://rumble.com/v2uqb1a-adolf-hitler-on-freedom-munich-1938.html
https://freepress.ie/2023/06/irish-green-party-senator-pauline-oreilly-echoes-adolf-hitler-in-arguing-against-free-speech/
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1669275401397456898
RedBalloon.com, a US recruitment company ad
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/us-recruitment-agency-claps-back-at-wokeness-in-the-workplace-in-new-ad-campaign/video/08e98c121b738e19271db385fc7e735e
coldwarrior wrote:
It MAY be close although I seriously doubt it unless there is more rain. Feint hope!
🙂
Nope the Okkers will do it at a canter. They NEVER give the Pomes a break. The POME cricketers eased up just a tad and the Aussies will now literally tear the English’s throats out and finish the Test Match quickly so that they can repair to the bar and have a few beers.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Wickets be damned!
Go like hell!
coldwarrior wrote:
Now that’s why I really love Russian BLACK humour with a passion. The major crutch behind every Russian joke is that it’s always tinged with TRAGEDY. It’s the only way for Russians to crack a smile. They make fun of the tragedy in their lives and also make fun of themselves. It makes their lives ….. liveable, and I guess that’s why I tend to be a Russophile, and why Russians learn some deep truths.
…. even if I can’t stand their politics
HEH
🙂
czek yinz’s skype
coldwarrior wrote:
… A century and a couple of 50s by tea and the middle order imagining themselves in Delhi playing in a T20 after tea and with a bar full of cold beer just waiting for them to arrive. No problem mate!
🙂
HEH
@ Aussie Infidel:
i dont think itll be that easy.
the pomes think that they can win
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ll give it a shot. The Microsoft gods have been stirring shit with my SKYPE recently and demanding one shot passwords which makes me a tad twitchy.
I’ll give it a shot and see how I go.
@ Aussie Infidel:
the subtleties of russian humor are very hard to get. it took me years even though i dealt with them for over 40 years. its a singular comedy, enhanced by a horrible history.
@ Aussie Infidel:
sez yinz aint on line
Bingo!
Got in no problems.
The Australian TGA states you can find reputable information about Covid-19 vaccines on their ‘Is it true’ section of the website. It is worth a look. In answer to the question ‘Can COVID-19 vaccines alter my DNA?’ the TGA is clear: ‘No, COVID-19 vaccines do not alter your DNA.’
They explain, ‘mRNA vaccines use a synthetic genetic code called RNA to give our cells instructions about how to make the coronavirus’ unique spike protein. When our body has made the protein encoded by the mRNA vaccine, it then recognises the spike protein as being foreign and launches an immune response against it. The RNA from the vaccine does not change or interact with our DNA in any way.’
Phew. Well, that’s ok then, right?
Possible routes for mRNA to convert to DNA (including a process known as reverse transcription) were discounted. Until the publication of an annoying little paper in 2022 by Alden et al, an in vitro study involving human liver cells which showed Pfizer’s mRNA was expressed as DNA within six hours.
At the time, this was assumed due to reverse transcription of the mRNA. However, in light of McKernan’s discovery, there’s a whole new possibility to consider. What if the vaccines already contained DNA? Then arguments about whether the mRNA could reverse transcribe into DNA become irrelevant.
Let’s return to McKernan and take a closer look at what he found. In addition to the expected mRNA, he also found mRNA fragments, other pieces of RNA, and two forms of DNA: linearised and circular. The significance of the circular – or plasmid – DNA is important. The plasmid DNA is the ‘complete recipe’ used to program bacterial cells to mass produce the mRNA. This DNA should not be there. Further investigation by McKernan showed the plasmid DNA contained in the vaccines was indeed viable and capable of transformation in bacterial cells.
So, the Pfizer and Moderna vials of bivalent vaccine that McKernan tested were contaminated with DNA. DNA encoding the spike gene and potentially capable of inserting into the genome of an organism.
I don’t think ‘contaminated’ is the word they want. I think ‘spiked’ is more like it.
Much more at the link
https://brownstone.org/articles/vax-gene-files-accidental-discovery/
BREAKING: RIC GRENELL IS EXPOSING THAT JACK SMITH USED PROSECUTIONS AT THE HAGUE TO BLOW UP TRUMP NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN KOSOVO AND SERBIA
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1670865283693543435
In case the name ‘Jack Smith’ doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the guy prosecuting Trump’s documents case
Lee Smith expounds
The Ugly History of the DOJ Hatchet-Man Tasked to Target Trump
Former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell Explains How Jack Smith Nearly Rekindled Conflict in the Balkans to Get Trump
[Grennel speaking]
This is a long, complicated history in the Balkans, the war, the bombing that started in 1989. And there are lots of different views. There’s lots of war crimes that people were accused of, and there were lots of investigations of those war crimes. I spent eight years at the UN and the UN launched investigations of what had happened. Lots of charges of war crimes on both sides. And this international court was established to work through the details. We spent decades, millions of US taxpayer dollars on prosecutors looking at details, interviewing witnesses, and when the prosecutor at the Hague before Jack Smith resigned he said, I’ve investigated for years, I’ve spent millions of dollars and there’s nothing here. No one will be indicted.
That’s a really important point — the prosecutor before Jack Smith had been there for a long time had looked at everything and said there’s nothing to do now. Think about this: an international court investigating for 15 or 20 years and not being able to produce any type of indictment is a serious situation.
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[brief discussions about how both sides had agreed to get rid of the ICC/Hague where Jack Smith was now the prosecutor]
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As Hashim Thaci, the president of Kosovo was on his way making plans to come to Washington DC to meet me at the White House to do final negotiations — and if we concluded the negotiations, to meet with President Trump to sign it — he was indicted by the court. Jack Smith indicted the president of Kosovo on his way to negotiate to get rid of Jack Smith’s job at the Hague.
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There was this idea long ago that the charges against Thaci were about trafficking human organs on the battlefield. But when they put forward the indictment, none of that was there. There were no dates. There are no specifics. And here’s the clincher, some of the witnesses to that indictment have now come forward and said, I only said what I said because the person interviewing me claimed to be the United States, CIA, and they had evidence and wanted me to say this. That person now has been proven to not be a CIA person. Whoever that person was lied to the witnesses. The witnesses have come forward to say I was lied to, I thought I was working with the CIA. Did Jack Smith know about this? Did he put up these phony CIA people to jam through this.
keep reading, it’s fascinating. Jack Smith also got a former governor of Virginia convicted for taking bribes
https://leesmith.locals.com/upost/4077763/the-ugly-history-of-the-doj-hatchet-man-tasked-to-target-trump
btw, Smith also got a conviction against former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. It was so corrupt the Supreme Court tossed it. Unanimously.
5 Missing Including Famed Explorer As Authorities Race To Find Missing Titanic Submersible
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/five-missing-titanic-submersible-hamish-harding-explorer/
The submersible used to make the dive, known as the Titan, carried three paying guests, Harding and a pilot with enough oxygen to last four days, BBC News reported. The trip to the Titanic wreck site, which lies 12,500 feet beneath the surface, and back typically takes a total of eight hours to complete, the outlet continued.
David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, explained that communication is already limited on the submersible as neither GPS nor radio “work under water.”
Durham is testifying? Why bother?
Since Durham is testifying on Capitol Hill tomorrow, will we finally find out why he didn’t interview:
– James Comey, FBI Director
– Andrew McCabe, former acting FBI Director
– Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who authored a fake email to continue surveillance of the Trump campaign
– Glenn Simpson, paid by the Clinton campaign to hire Christopher Steele
– Peter Strzok and Bill Priestap, FBI agents intimately involved in the Russia Hoax
Durham rightly concluded the FBI was so blinded by its political vendetta against Trump that they accepted “seriously flawed information” and abandoned their “own principles regarding objectivity and integrity.”
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1670916994789687297
I love this stuff
Meghan Markle faked podcast interviews, her voice added later: sources
https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/meghan-markle-faked-podcast-interviews-her-voice-added-later-sources/
Just after Spotify’s breakup with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, a new report alleges that Markle’s interviews for her “Archetypes” podcast were not conducted by her.
Podnews reported that some of the show’s interviews were done by members of the duchess’ staff — and audio of her voice asking the questions was clipped in later.
The Dem presidential primary is going to be a shit show between Gavin Newsom and RFK Jr. Biden won’t run again and nobody is going to remember how to spell what’s her name.
Pelosi will back Newsom, there is a familial connection (marital, not blood)
Which for the Repub’s will be a good thing. Newsom is easily taken out, RFK, given his COVID status, could give Trump or DeSantis a run for their money.
ok, nite.
@ eaglesoars:
That submersible looks like it was cobbled together in somebody’s back yard
Am I the only one who didn’t know that June 19 is now a national holiday?
crimeny………
hey y’all
so my old trash company was bought out by my new trash co
just got the bill from said new trash co
20% increase
well sonofabitch
wonder how that happened
@ rain of lead:
Is the new trash company Waste Mgmt by any chance?
@ eaglesoars:
BAM!
give the lady a ceegar
@ rain of lead:
Yeah, they’re mob out of NYC.
Get rid of them.
In Virginia, our HOA contracted with a trash company and the $$ was included in our HOA fee. When we moved to Tenn. there were several to choose from and driving around I saw quite a few and they were the ones who answered the damn phone. I was in a hurry. The rates were outrageous and customer service sucked canal water.
Within a year I went to our HOA and suggested they look around for another company who could give us a group rate. So they did. BINGO. $40/month difference
Jack Smith is utterly corrupt
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/06/19/exclusive-previous-target-of-dojs-trump-legal-hit-squad-alleges-witness-payoff-scheme-n1704481
Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the current investigation into and indictment of Donald Trump. But as USA Today reported, Smith “built [his] reputation” in his previous role overseeing the prosecution of former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). And according to Renzi himself, in exclusive comments to PJ Media, there’s evidence tying Smith to illegal wiretaps, jury influencing, payoffs for false testimony, and other highly questionable behavior. The newly published allegations led Donald Trump to call Smith “deranged.”
Renzi was convicted on bribery and extortion charges, to which he pleaded “not guilty,” and was later given a full presidential pardon by Trump. While a 2019 complaint and request for investigation filed on Renzi’s behalf by respected legal firm Mayer Brown claim to provide evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, current Trump prosecutors Jack Smith and David Harbach were more directly implicated in the misconduct allegations—including a reported government payoff offer—than previously revealed.
The alleged prosecutorial misconduct of Smith and his team, both from the DOJ and FBI, included illegal wiretaps, concealment of exculpatory evidence and impeachment evidence, destruction of evidence, and introduction of false testimony before and during Renzi’s trial. “The prosecutorial misconduct of Jack Smith and his lead prosecutor in my case, David Harbach, is what led to the presidential pardon” Trump gave him, the former congressman told PJ Media. He explained how he believes Smith and Harbach “tainted” his jury pool while working to exclude pro-life jurors since Renzi is a pro-life father of twelve.
But Renzi had an even more explosive accusation to share, based on information his lawyers told him. Renzi said that “what Jack Smith and Harbach are known for is that they’ll provide some sort of a secret incentive, some sort of a pay-off scheme… to cooperating witnesses in order to get them not just to flip on the defendant, but also to spin a tale.”
more at the link
Disney’s Woke New Movie with “Non-Binary” Character Crashes on Opening Weekend, Has 2nd Worst Opening Ever
Elemental, Disney’s new animated film, didn’t recover from its opening day disaster and had an even worse opening weekend than predicted.
https://theamericantribune.com/disneys-woke-new-movie-with-non-binary-character-crashes-on-opening-weekend-has-2nd-worst-opening-ever/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
gee, that’s too bad………
TOTAL. BULLSHIT.
A federal judge has struck down an Arkansas law prohibiting gender reassignment procedures and treatments for children under 18; Judge Jay Moody found the law violates due process and equal protection rights of transgender people, and the first amendment rights of physicians.
https://twitter.com/KATVChrisMay/status/1671259113622474753
Mutilating children is not a free speech issue and I have NO idea where the ‘due process’ crap comes in
BREAKING: Leaked FBI Office of Diversity and Inclusion memo reveals the FBI is forcing employees to take polygraphs during their annual “unconscious bias” training!!!
https://twitter.com/FBIPantyRaid/status/1671152264843788300
WHAT??!!
Not “Rational” US Officials Block Rescue Mission of Titanic Tourists
According to the Telegraph, the team from deepwater specialists Magellan Limited has not received approval for take-off.
He added Magellan’s remotely operated vehicle was unique in that it was likely the only asset available to have a winch capable of dragging submersibles from the depths of the ocean, while it can also detect signals and send them above the surface.
Mr Hunchak said the desperate situation was “painful” to him as he described Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a Frenchman reported to be among those on the submersible, as a “personal mentor”.
He told the Telegraph: “We have British, French and US citizens on board and every minute here counts. This is not a rational decision, this is the only asset we have with a winch, and the guys are experts in this area.
“Why not run both vessels? The more help we can get, the better, and denying us means you are giving up on every option you have to save lives.”
“These are irreplaceable human beings.”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/not-rational-us-officials-block-rescue-mission-of-titanic-tourists/
Jesus, you guys. Take off anyway, fuck ‘permission’
As electric vehicles (EVs) become increasingly popular, Walmart has announced plans to build EV charging stations at thousands of Walmart and Sam’s Club locations across the country by 2030.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/walmart-sam-club-introduce-game-100000507.html
4 dead, 2 critically injured in New York City fire caused by lithium-ion batteries, e-bikes
https://justthenews.com/government/local/4-dead-2-critically-injured-new-york-city-fire-caused-lithium-ion-batteries-e
Ok, here’s a brain buster ticket
Trump/RFK
THAT would be a political hand grenade
@ eaglesoars:
Our Walmart has about 6 charging stations. They built them about 3 years ago.
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen one of them in use.
@ lobo91:
I wonder when it will occur to Elon to build the suckers with solar plates that charge the battery.
Heads up. I don’t know what’s going on here but my gut tells me it’s important.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1671265971741360131
NEW: This photo is from today at Jared Bossly’s farm in Brown County, South Dakota.
Surveyors from Summit Carbon Solutions, currently filing an eminent domain lawsuits against him and 80 other landowners in the state for a carbon capture pipeline, showed up to his property with a massive drilling rig that they hauled into the middle of his crops.
Keep in mind that the lawsuit is still pending and they don’t even have a permit to build the pipeline yet but say that this is granted under their right to “survey.”
Is @KristiNoem doing anything to protect private property rights? Nope. The company building the pipeline was a platinum sponsor of her inauguration back in January!
and…
https://twitter.com/RepJonHansen/status/1671239300875431938
Update on the carbon sequestration pipeline and the use of eminent domain by private corporations in South Dakota: These photos, taken today, show Summit Carbon Solutions, accompanied by law enforcement, “surveying” land on farm ground without the farmer’s permission (does this looks like a “survey” to you?). The landowner feels like “a prisoner on his own land.” Look at how they trample all over the the farmer’s crops with complete disregard. This is not freedom.
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This is the current scene on private property in South Dakota: an out-of-state, for-profit corporation with armed patrol intruding on property without the landowner’s consent to lay a carbon sequestration pipeline that the landowner doesn’t want. This is not freedom.
ARMED PATROL?? [there is a pic]
more…
https://www.parabellum.news/p/when-green-energy-comes-for-your
The Bossly family are just one of over 80 South Dakota landowners facing eminent domain lawsuits Summit filed in late April.
These 80+ properties fall in the path of a planned 2,000-mile carbon capture pipeline the company plans to build. The planned project traverses five states and aims to capture carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in Iowa and sequester it underground in North Dakota.
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” This process of eminent domain was upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional in the landmark case of Kelo v. New London. The process is highly controversial and often criticized by advocates for civil liberties on the left and right.
In South Dakota, there is no clear process laid out by which an entity is granted the power of eminent domain. Historically, once a project is approved or permitted by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), it assumes the power of eminent domain. But under the PUC’s Pipeline Sitting Guide, pipelines are designated as common carriers, which deflects the decisions to the circuit court system.
And despite the fact that the pipeline has not yet been permitted, SCS is taking advantage of South Dakota’s lack of private property protections and using it against landowners like Jared Bossly.
As he explained to me, the construction of a pipeline on his property would likely ruin the future success of his farm. The route would force them to bulldoze many of the trees he has planted, jeopardizing the safety of his cows by removing the windbreaks used to protect them. He also said that the topsoil is only about a foot deep, which means moving it around will likely prevent crops from growing there again.
Many landowners being taken to court are just like him- small town farmers whose farms have been in their family for generations.
The Green Energy Scam
A few years ago, one of the biggest stories in the country centered around the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which today carries over 750,000 barrels of oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois.
Despite not crossing through tribal lands and not using eminent domain to build it, the construction of the pipeline led to mass protests, many of which turned violent, as well as wall-to-wall media coverage.
Politicians like Bernie Sanders spoke out passionately against it, celebrities such as Mark Ruffalo, Shailene Woodley, and Jesse Jackson traveled to the protests in North Dakota and it even led to the leader of the Standing Rock Sioux getting an audience before the UN Human Rights Council.
Well unlike the Standing Rock Sioux, South Dakota landowners are actually facing property loss and it’s for a product that brings almost zero public benefits.
Based in Iowa, SCS has been able to turn carbon capture into profitable enterprise due to massive investments from venture capital firms such as TPG Rise Climate Fund and Tiger Investment Partners. They also benefit from massive subsidies from the federal government. The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden last year, massively expanded tax credits for carbon capture worth up to $210 billion.
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more at the link
eaglesoars wrote:
IIRC that was the plan back when he was showing off the E-Truck. But, the efficiency of the solar panels was crap for the job and he couldn’t find ones that were any better.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
You can’t get enough power from solar panels that will fit on a car to significantly charge the batteries.
eaglesoars wrote:
yep. a video just over 11 minutes.
RFK Jr. Shifts The Overton Window, Bridging The Left and Right Populist Movements
https://rumble.com/v2v8tam-rfk-jr.-shifts-the-overton-window-bridging-the-left-and-right-populist-move.html
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
huh. I had no idea.
This is hysterically funny. I won’t bore you with the details, but apparently Meghan’s next idea in her ‘rebranding’ jihad is that she and Harry change their surname to ‘Spencer’, Diana’s maiden name.
I’m ‘dead’ just watching this play out.
@ coldwarrior:
Told Ya!
Ye of little Faith!
🙂
Never NEVER give the Occers a sniff or they’ll rip your throat out!
HEH
🙂
I must admit that I had my fingers crossed behind my back when the Aussies were down to their last middle order and just the tail enders left. Especially so as they collapsed during their first Innings.
🙂
Still I’ll the the win
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t see Diana’s brother being all that pleased. Has Meagan no class at all? She’s like a petulant child in a powder store playing with matches. Keep this BS up and MI6 may arrange her car to hit an over bridge on the 405 Freeway in LA.
lobo91 wrote:
The Aussies have a 2,000 Km race through the Great Sandy Desert in Oz. When I say race I mean that it is run at a leisurly pace and only in the middle of summer. It is NOT very comfortable driving electric cars through a blading hot desert. There may be loads of sun but the head degrades the efficiency of the solar panels by around 30%.
The robustness of the drivers are the limiting factor!
🙂
Titan submersible failure analysis assumptions & possibilities posted aprrox. 3pm EST.
@ coldwarrior:
That Root Caught & Bowled was a bit of a hash but he managed to hold onto the ball at the second attempt. It ended up with a true Captain’s ‘knock’ and some dogged support from a tail-ender!
🙂
Bongino’s had Drago Dzieran on a couple of times. Just ordered the hardcover.
https://www.amazon.com/Pledge-America-Journey-Political-Prisoner/dp/1637583710
Sound up
https://imgur.com/gallery/Sgn8iLh
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Seriously, you have to ask?
@ eaglesoars:
Trump/Gabbard.
Not that I want Trump.
Oh, too bad
Fox News Collapses In Ratings After Ousting Tucker Carlson: ‘Hannity in 14th Place, Behind Joy Reid’
https://conservativebrief.com/fox-collapse-74277/?utm_source=Conservativebrief.com&utm_medium=Push
@ right_wing2:
I have my doubts about Gabbard
oh, yeah, well good luck!
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who went missing aboard his Titan submersible vessel along with four other passengers on Sunday, told an interviewer he didn’t want to hire a bunch of “50-year-old white guys” like other submarine companies because he wanted his team to be “inspirational.”
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63826
He looks like a 50 yr old white guy to me
ALL TOGETHER NOW
They’re all trapped in a missing submarine, a missing submarine, a missing submarine
Do you think Trump hurt himself with the recent interview?
If so, how badly?
right_wing2 wrote:
No.
Trump/Lake
rain of lead wrote:
Heh
rightymouse wrote:
KABOOMSKI!!!!
@ Aussie Infidel:
The tail enders did great!
I just got an email from the Nextdoor app. A survey to help them to ‘address potential bias’. First question was about my ethnicity.
deleted.
Looks like the second attempt at a censure resolution against Adam Schiff (this time without the $16 million fine) passed. Watch how the Dems act when he’s called to the well at about 3:30
@ lobo91:
No hits against Rep. Luna, but it’s meaningless.
rightymouse wrote:
ok, this is going to be a problem. I predict that the narrative will be Trump and Kari are having an affair, etc. blah blah blah
Kari Lake Appears at Mar-a-Lago More than Melania Trump and ‘Practically Lives’ in a Suite (Exclusive Source)
https://people.com/kari-lake-mar-a-lago-appearances-exclusive-source-7550484
I don’t think Trump can win, period. Too many people utterly hate him.
eaglesoars wrote:
So do I with bells on!
Gibbard is from a really WIERD family into cow worship. She is a veteran but she always made sure that she was posted to Corps or above … not actually in the front trench, wearing a helmet, packing ‘heat’, swatting away grenades.
She is on the hard Left of the Democrat Party when it comes to Social Issues. She’s OK o Defence and the economy but she’s STILL highly suspect overall politically……. and she comes from Honolulu or Democrat Central Casting.
Looks good on TV and says all the ‘right’ stuff on cue ….. BUTTTT!
eaglesoars wrote:
I fear that you’re correct Eagles.
Trump has folks who HATE him and want him dead preferably and they hail from BOTH sides of the Congress. The last thing he needs is more scuttlebutt about potential affairs with a possible VP!
If Trump wants to ‘have a go ‘ well and good, but don’t push it mate!
coldwarrior wrote:
I truly hope to hell that the boat just imploded 4 days ago and cremated the crew in the ensuing 1,000C shockwave. There is now not a hope in hell of FINDING the craft and taking hours to WINCH it back to the surface. Pull it aboard and OPEN up the pressure hull FROM THE OUTSIDE, all within the next 6 hours.
Dying of CO2 poisoning is a truly horrible way to peg out.
rain of lead wrote:
They’re all dead.
rightymouse wrote:
Kari Lake would be an asset to anyone running.
Screw RFKjr.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Ditto.
eaglesoars wrote:
OceanGate CEO Rush didn’t have a single staffer, quarter century career engineer, 50+ year old, seen it all, white guy, in his team of ‘inspirational’ grinning kids , including a graduate ‘surfer’ hire as a trainee sub driver. OceanGate was using untested technology, off the shelf GameBoy joy stick and software, a lack of multiple automates, manual and emergency back up systems like other competitors, and was obviously beyond the wise risk level, in a business model that demands perfection and total professional management at all levels.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I agree but given the’ uber-toxic narrative’ in the States, adding more high octane fuel to the already blazing Trump inferno, may just push the whole Republican effort to explode.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The wording of the acceptance of risk document should be enough to scare any sane person.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Socialism or civil war or military coup…
eaglesoars wrote:
Hey Eagles, we all know that People Magazine is just yesterday’s paper wrap, for tonight’s Fish & Chips. Still its hit job on Trump and Lake is just People Magazine’s little brick in the MSM wall, blocking Trump from even getting to the Start Line for the election! There is a chance for Trump to win 2024, given the garbage candidates for the Dim-ocrats and their horror story approach to the election. Still the last thing Trump needs is any more ‘ammunition’ being handed to the Democrat / MSM to advance their agenda.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Socialists extremism you already have, civil war, the Hard Left is gagging for it to use the levers of the State to crush the people. and a military coup. Nope not anymore as the Pentagon have pruned all of the conservative General Officer Corps and sent them packing. Especially the USAF and to a lesser extent the USN.
You forgot the assassination of the Republican candidate / President. It’s happened twice already when alphabet agencies got involved!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Damn. You got me boxed in. All I got left is Food Fight.
The French are coming to the rescue! Victor 6000.
Why the US would not let Magellan assist is a mystery.
Possum wrote:
Wasn’t sure if that was true or another rumor to get people pissed.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well I would have thought that the company and their equipment that did this may be quite useful in a rescue effort.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602182
@ Possum:
Oh, that. I was referring to a rumor that the US told some country to find something else to do because “we’ve got this” or something.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
The story is that they needed customs clearance to “Import “the equipment. Also to add to the saga they needed a C-17 or larger and the RAF was not helpful.
If Twitter is to be believed a USAF C-17 landed at Guernsey ( an island off the coast of England ) a few hours ago to collect the equipment.
Three days too late.
US Coast Guard confirms it is on the way.
https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3435166/joint-search-continues-for-missing-submersible-titan/
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I know, I checked her out during the last election cycle. I couldn’t verify anything but there was no contrary evidence so I just put a ‘caution’ sticker on her until I could find out more. And her husband looked dodgy too but I’ve forgotten why
‘My daughter was murdered by a gender ideology’: LA mom slams CPS after it took away her daughter and let her transition into a man – before she killed herself three years later aged just 19
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12221449/California-mom-claims-19-year-old-daughter-murdered-gender-ideology.html
Wait, WHAT?
Apparently the EEOC has issued ‘guidelines’ that require employers to “allow employees into restrooms that correspond to the employees’ gender identity, no matter the individual’s biological sex, whether the individual has had a sex-change operation, or whether other employees have raised objections or privacy concerns.”
That includes religious institutions.
America First Legal sued on behalf of religious institutions and won but that says nothing about secular employers.
https://aflegal.org/major-victory-afl-prevails-at-the-fifth-circuit-in-lawsuit-challenging-the-eeocs-extreme-transgender-guidance-documents/
*It would have been fun watching them enforce it inside a mosque. Not that anyone would attempt it in a mosque
The U.S. Coast Guard says debris field has been found near the Titanic during search for submersible
https://news.yahoo.com/rescuers-last-desperate-push-final-040243936.html
I hope this is true. It would have been fast.
Boston
Four kids aged between 5 and 10 taken into care after being found at a drag party with a dead trans woman’s body on the floor and drugs and sex toys scattered throughout ‘hoarder’ home
Fire officials found four children jammed together in a cramped room, surrounded by filth and a stench permeating the air
The children were reportedly being hid in a back room by men dressed in women’s clothing, who were uncooperative and denied having children inside
A transgender black woman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a police report
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12223171/First-responders-horrified-children-trans-drag-party-dead-body-drugs-sex-toys.html?ico=related-replace
Titanic submarine search debris ‘CONFIRMED’ to be from missing OceanGate sub
Rescue expert and friend of the men trapped on the sub, David Mearns, has told Sky News he received a WhatsApp from someone “directly connected” to the ships involved in the search, who told him “a landing frame and rear cover from the submersible” was recovered.
He said: “There is a WhatsApp group between ourselves and the explorers club, that we have all been connected to as soon as this happened, and our President is directly connected to the ships that are out there, and the message they are telling me ‘if you are talking about debris, it was a landing frame and rear cover from the submersible’.”
He added: “So again, this is a very unconventional submarine, that rear cover is that pointy end of it, and the landing frame is the little frame that it seems to sit on, and that is how its docked into the landing bit, so that confirms it’s the submersible.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-titanic-submarine-search-debris-30300513#source=breaking-news
@ eaglesoars:
Sadly, this was probably the best outcome. Instantaneous.
right_wing2 wrote:
I don’t know if it was instantaneous. They probably had some time between when they realized they had lost ballast/power and the time they got too deep to resist the pressure.
oh, what a nice guy Hunter is, threatening one of his Chinese ‘business partners’. SHOW ME THE MONEY! TONIGHT! Read this crap
https://twitter.com/SchmittNYC/status/1671945644372623369
what the actual fuck?
Randi Weingarten was just appointed to a council to advise the Department of Homeland Security.
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1671712788903755776
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Where is Belushi when you need him?
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Looks as if the two Titanium rings and half pressure domes off each end of the pressure vessel were fairly close to each other. Sounds as if it was the highly experimental 5″ thick Carbon Fibre wound layered pressure tube that failed catastrophically. Because the two ends of the pressure vessel were reasonably close to each other it would seem to suggest that they imploded close to maximum depth near the bottom. So much for the continuously monitored system that kept an overwatch on the integrity of the 5″ thick carbon fibre hull. Comms were lost at 3,300 metres so one has to assume that it imploded sometime deeper than that, or less than half a mile above the bottom. The dive 2 years ago, a passenger said that the hull was very noisy as the pressure increased. They didn’t even use their batteries on the decent to save power. Just Glo-sticks for light. Seated in a steel grill flooring in the dark listening to the hull making creaking and popping noises. The Titanic depth was right on the maximum pressure limit 4,000 metres.
At least it was very fast. Mere milliseconds, to implode with atmosphere heating up to well over 1,000C+ . As human nerve impulses travel at a mere 350 MPH the brains of the passengers would not have been ready to input the electrical impulses as they would have already been mush. They never even knew that they were already dead!
Similar thing happened to the Air NZ DC-10 passengers when they hit the mountain in Antarctica, back in the day. The shock wave travelled so fast from the floor through the passengers legs and bodies into their heads that their brains were totally turned to mush long (relatively in milliseconds) before the pain nerve sensors had time to transmit to their brains. There were no brains left to register pain. Their death was totally painless, like turning off a light! Same with this implosion!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yeah, it looks to me like they lost power, otherwise they could have blown the ballast. I don’t THINK they could have done that mechanically (i.e., no electricity). They had a little time to know they were fucked, tho.
Much better than CO2 poisoning.
behind a paywall so I won’t link the article (WSJ), link at the tweet
NEWS: A top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard the Titan sub implosion hours after the submersible began its mission.
https://twitter.com/benpershing/status/1672007496502837255
eaglesoars wrote:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/4-children-found-hidden-in-bedroom-behind-drag-party-featuring-alcohol-drugs-sex-toys-and-a-dead-man
A little more info. The children were neglected and “abused”. That is a broad term but very telling considering the people living there. Also for laughs there’s this bit:
Nick Collins, the Democratic state senator who represents the area, stated in a Facebook post, “No child should be exposed to what these children are alleged to have been exposed to.”
Strange since his party is working to condone this kind of thing.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
wait till they figure out who the parents are
Video illustration of the collapse of the Titan.
https://twitter.com/HispanatoliaEN/status/1671998554850639879
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I don’t understand the ‘heat’ part
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1671944961711898627
Aaron Berman, former 17 year CIA officer, is now “Head of Elections Policy” for Facebook & Instagram.
Berman joined Facebook in 2019 and was responsible for writing Misinformation Policy & enforcing it for the 2020 election, COVID, Brazil elections etc
He is joined by 15 other CIA, FBI & DHS working in Trust & Safety.
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1. After learning that Twitter employs at least 15 former FBI agents, I searched Facebook. What I found is alarming
Facebook currently employs at least 115 people, in high-ranking positions, that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS:
17 CIA
37 FBI
23 NSA
38 DHS
The first-ever “laboratory for studying the ideas of Xi Jinping” outside China has opened in Moscow. “Its research will cover Mr Xi’s ideas about economics, foreign and domestic policy, social policy, culture, art, and ideology.”
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1671792570899283968
Kirill Babaev, director of ICSA RAS, told the Chinese Xinhua agency that based on the results of the work of the laboratory in 2025, “a large scientific monograph should be published that will acquaint Russian readers, including representatives of the Russian authorities, with the ideas of Xi Jinping and their significance for the development of China and, of course, for Russian-Chinese relations.” Mr. Babaev noted that the Russian government needs to understand well “what is the ideological basis for the development of today’s China.”
According to the director of ICSA RAS, Russia understands that Mr. Xi’s ideas determine China’s policy in many areas.
@ eaglesoars:
That tweet is from Max Seddon, Moscow Bureau Chief for the Financial Times
@ eaglesoars:
Get a bicycle pump, put your thumb over the outlet and pumpit. Apart fromthe squeaking noise it gets hot.
If you compress a gas heat is generated. That is how a diesel engine ignites the fuel without spark plugs.
Possum wrote:
ah. thanks
I picked this up from a reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/14gcjxq/with_news_of_the_titan_experiencing_a/
The CEO of the company had this sub built using carbon fiber wrapped around a mandrel, a methodology used for pressure vessels. The problem is that this kind of design resists pressure from the inside because carbon fiber is strong in tension, not compression. It is not proven for resisting pressure from the outside trying to crush it, and the material theory governing fiber-wound vessels suggests that it would fail, but he “broke the rules” in the name of innovation. He was widely criticized by the submarine community for this, but he forged ahead. See James Cameron explain this.
Carbon fiber and epoxy composite systems do not fail gradually; when they fail, they snap or shatter because they tend to be very stiff and brittle, and failure happens by delamination, where the layers of epoxy and fiber separate, since they have different stress-strain curves under extremely high loads. Upon delamination, carbon fiber composites lose all their strength. Here is a hydraulic press crushing a carbon fiber ring to failure vs. a titanium ring. That moment you hear a snap is when it fails, but unlike a slow moving hydraulic press that needs to keep moving to do more damage, the deep sea would have continued to squish the thing all the way in upon the first moment of failure with unrelenting speed.
At the depths they had descended to, the pressure on the hull would have been around 2,800 PSI (pounds per square inch), nearly a ton and a half per square inch. For comparison, the atmosphere is at about 15 PSI.
When that hull failed, it likely crushed inward faster than the speed of sound in air. Either that, or the first crack that formed let in a thin jet of water comparable to that of a water jet cutter that sliced whoever and whatever was near it into pieces.
Basically a catastrophic implosion means they likely didn’t even have time to react in any substantive way to the first signs of failure before they were doomed. At best they tried to release the ballast to return to the surface and died very shortly after. At worst, they instantaneously became salty meat paste at supersonic speed.
Here is a great video explaining the massive stack of stupid decisions by the company that would make any experienced submariner wince:
@ eaglesoars:
here is the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac
Possum wrote:
You know, that’s basic chemistry
I completely forgot it
from reddit
To qualify my remarks with an asterisk and a footnote, I should have said that the kind of carbon fiber wound vessel they used could probably stand a round or two of that kind of compressive loading, but each time they did a cycle of extreme pressure followed by depressurization probably formed micro-cracks throughout the material that were very difficult if not impossible to detect. These micro-cracks are where the fiber separates from the epoxy matrix gluing it together because the stress-strain curves for epoxy and carbon fiber differ substantially at high loads, causing them to separate from each other even if they were bonded together when assembled and cured during manufacturing.
Basically, that’s the expected mode of material fatigue in fiber reinforced composites. We now know what the limit of their design is: three or four rounds, if I remember correctly. Too bad it cost five lives to learn this. They could have tested this and found out beforehand, but the CEO’s attitude could be characterized as “Safety Last”, so no such cyclical testing was done.
Steel, if made thick enough, and if loaded well within the elastic deformation limit for its shape, is extremely resistant to material fatigue. Carbon fiber is not. Composites are not strong against this kind of wear, which is why wind turbine blades (which are made using fiberglass or carbon fiber bonded with epoxy) eventually wear out from the flexing, which causes the fibers to delaminate from the epoxy over time.
I have no sympathy for the five that got instantaneously squished on a Disneyland ride.
They were not ” explorers ”
Also I would not have any sympathy for any one on a Jeff Bezos rockety thing if one exploded.
Add the Virgin Space carnival ride to that list.
As to Artemis, do not get me started! What is the fucking point of sending ANYONE to the moon? To do what?
I have serious questions as to what they are actually achieving on that space station also. Yeah growing plants in zero gravity, fucking up spiders so they weave strange webs and making strange plumbing contraptions so women can stand up to piss with no gravity and they don’t piss on their socks.
Scientific breakthrough!
@ Possum:
Not explorers, tourists. And this hits on my peeve about climbing Everest…ummm…been done a million times. Big deal.
um………..
Barack Obama has used a stolen social security number most of his adult life. The one he uses was issued on March 28, 1977 to someone living in Connecticut, born in 1890 and is now long deceased. Obama was fifteen years old that day, living in Hawaii and playing on the junior varsity basketball team at Punahou
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Obama is a felon — plain and simple. He should have a Hawaiian social security number like his half-sister, Maya, starting with the numbers 575 or 576. He claimed he worked at Baskin-Robbins when he was fifteen. It would have required a social security number. Instead, Obama has a number starting with 042, used for the exclusive use of CT residents, and which appeared on his 2009 tax return while he was president. Someone forgot to remove the number.
From 1936 until June 2011 social security numbers were assigned by the address on the SS-5 form used to apply for one. Under Obama, the law was changed to randomize where the applicant was living when he or she applied. Imagine that.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/barack_obama_and_his_connecticut_social_security_number.html
Now that they’ve destroyed their farmers, they are in the process of destroying the housing market
It’s not just farms–Dutch government now will determine who you can sell your home to
The new Housing Act will give municipalities the power to force someone selling their home to sell to people with a lower or middle income. A parliamentary majority supports Minister Hugo de Jonge’s (Public Housing) bill, AD reports.
The idea behind this measure is to make sure people with lower incomes can find a home. Now, they often have to bid against wealthier buyers in the tight housing market. Municipalities can set this requirement on half of owner-occupied homes. The bill also lets municipalities reserve half of owner-occupied homes and rentals for their locals or people with crucial professions like teachers and police officers.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/22/its-not-just-farms-dutch-government-now-will-determine-who-you-can-sell-your-home-to-n559809
Alito is the only dissent and it is blistering
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas’ Challenge to Biden Border Policy
“The Court holds Texas lacks standing to challenge a federal policy that inflicts substantial harm on the State and its residents by releasing illegal aliens with criminal convictions for serious crimes,” Alito wrote. “In order to reach this conclusion, the Court brushes aside a major precedent that directly controls the standing question, refuses to apply our established test for standing, disregards factual findings made by the District Court after a trial, and holds that the only limit on the power of a President to disobey a law like the important provision at issue is Congress’s power to employ the weapons of inter-branch warfare—withholding funds, impeachment and removal, etc.”
This is a major cave by SCOTUS, an utter disgrace
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/23/supreme-court-strikes-texas-challenge-biden-border-policy/
eaglesoars wrote:
I do carbon composites for a living, and this is 100 percent correct.
In which I explain Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal.
https://doriangrey1.substack.com/p/biden-inc-meet-the-new-mafia
@ eaglesoars:
So your 200,000 house is sold for 120,000 because the government says so. And you’re SOL.
right_wing2 wrote:
I don’t know how mortgages work in the Netherlands but, using your numbers, what if you owe $130,000?
eaglesoars wrote:
DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas Vows to Reinstate ‘Sanctuary Country’ Orders After SCOTUS Ruling
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/23/mayorkas-praises-scotus-ruling-sanctuary-country-orders/
I don’t know what the hell is going on here, but Prigozhin has been badmouthing Putin for weeks
Wagner chief ‘declares war’ on Putin after Russia launches missile strike on his troops
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wagner-chief-declares-war-on-putin-after-russia-launches-missile-strike-on-his-troops/ar-AA1cX3TG
Vladimir Putin was tricked into invading Ukraine, claims Wagner leader
The Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has said Russia’s defence ministry concocted false pretences to trick Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine and said Moscow could have avoided the war entirely.
In a half-hour tirade Prigozhin, founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, claimed Russia had faced no immediate threat from Ukraine when Putin began his full-scale invasion last year and accused the army’s top brass of deceiving the Russian president for their own personal gain.
The extraordinary rant, posted on social media on Friday, was the former caterer’s latest salvo in a long-running spat with defence minister Sergei Shoigu, who Prigozhin has accused of sabotaging the war effort together with Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s general staff.
Prigozhin’s regular diatribes, in which he claims Russia runs the risk of losing the war after Ukraine began a counteroffensive earlier this month, indicate elite infighting is getting fiercer as Moscow’s war effort continues to struggle.
Though Prigozhin notably refrained from criticising Putin personally and has backed the war’s goals, the video was the first time he publicly questioned Russia’s rationale for the full-scale invasion.
“There was nothing out of the ordinary on February 24,” said Prigozhin, referring to the day Putin ordered the invasion. “The defence ministry is trying to deceive the president and society by saying Ukraine was going mad with aggression and was planning to attack us together with the whole Nato bloc.”
Instead, Prigozhin claimed Shoigu had convinced Putin the war was necessary so “a bunch of bastards could rule the roost and show off about what a strong army they have”, then botched the invasion through “incompetent planning”.
“For some reason, this bunch of idiots thought they were so smart-assed that nobody would understand what they were up to or stop them on their way to Kyiv,” he added.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4162981/posts
Full message of Prigozhi “declaring war on the Russian Ministry of Defence:
“PMC Wagner Commanders’ Council made a decision: the evil brought by the military leadership of the country must be stopped.
They neglect the lives of soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we will bring it back.
Those, who destroyed today our guys, who destroyed tens, tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers will be punished.
I’m asking: no one resist. Everyone who will try to resist, we will consider them a danger and destroy them immediately, including any checkpoints on our way. And any aviation that we see above our heads.
I’m asking everyone to remain calm, do not succumb to provocations, and remain in their houses. Ideally, those along our way, do not go outside.
After we finished what we started, we will return to the frontline to protect our motherland.
Presidential authority, Government, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardia, and other departments will continue operating as before.
We will deal with those who destroy Russian soldiers. And we will return to the frontline.
Justice in the Army will be restored. And after this, justice for the whole of Russia.”
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672314259907158028
I think he’s pissed off
Putin ain’t happy either
DEVELOPING: Russia’s anti-terrorism committee is initiating a criminal case against Prigozhin for “incitement to an armed rebellion.”
https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1672336186302509057
eaglesoars wrote:
99 percent sure it’s all a NATO psyop…
NATO can’t beat Russia in Ukraine in a land war, so they’re trying the Vietnam public square approach. Which probably won’t work, because despite their best efforts, Putin is insanely popular in Russia.
1 min 13 sec video
Don’t worry @FBI I’m sure this is nothing that the American people care about…
Soros: “We have a Foundation in Ukraine and it happens to be one of our best foundations. I also want to mention that there is one person who was very deeply involved in Ukraine and that’s Biden…”
https://twitter.com/PunishDem1776/status/1672321834748981249
Mercenaries are useful, until the guy who is paying the bill says they arent.
doriangrey wrote:
The cocksuckers in NATO and the Globalist media keep trying to convince everyone that Russia is losing, but the Russian’s don’t give a flying fuck what the Fakestream media says and aren’t backing down.
It doesn’t matter what the Fakestream media says with regard to who is or isn’t winning when Russian troops keep advancing against Ukraine and NATO’s best efforts. They just end up looking like Baghdad Bob claiming that American troops aren’t in Baghdad as American tanks can be seen behind him taking Baghdad.
doriangrey wrote:
don’t think so. There is a video of the Prigozhin rant (and a lot I didn’t post)
Audio of Wagner Group leader with translation.
2 minutes
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1672350195559067648
eaglesoars wrote:
When you compress gas explosively in an implosion the temperature part of the gas formulae (P1V1/ T1= P2V2/T2) registers the temperature as a balanced constant as the Pressure bit of the formula massively increases as the Volume almost instantly decreases. The temperature of the air inside the collapsing pressure structure is reflected in an almost instantaneous geometric change in the temperature to keep the two sides of the gas equations equal.
If my 11+ age group (primary school) Marcellin College ‘Primary Final’ physics is correctly remembered!
🙂
Biden’s nat’l security advisor bails after James Rosen asks him about Hunter’s msg to their Chinese business partner. “I’m not gonna do this, I’m just not”
Priceless video
https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1672320437093539841
when do we get to start hanging these bastards?
World Leaders Push ‘Overhaul’ of ‘Global Financial System’ for ‘Climate Solidarity’
https://slaynews.com/news/world-leaders-push-overhaul-global-financial-system-climate-solidarity/
A Troubling Supreme Court Habeas Decision
The Supreme Court was wrong to deny relief to a man imprisoned for activity that Court’s own rulings indicate was not illegal – one who never had an opportunity to challenge his incarceration on that basis.
There aren’t very many cases where the Supreme Court splits 6-3 along left-right ideological lines, and I think the liberal dissenters got it right. But today’s important habeas corpus decision, Jones v. Hendrix, is one of those times.
The issue in Jones is whether a man incarcerated in a federal prison has the right to file a habeas petition challenging his imprisonment in a situation where an intervening Supreme Court decision—issued many years after his original conviction and appeal—ruled that the activity he was convicted and imprisoned for wasn’t actually a crime. Here is the Court’s summary of what happened in the case of Marcus Jones:
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/06/22/a-troubling-supreme-court-habeas-decision/
Di we ever find out who leaked the Dobbs decision? Nope. SCOTUS is running scared.
doriangrey wrote:
Yup Correct. University of Sydney Aeronautical Engineering labs were working on this problem over half a century ago and never did get it correct. We made fibre glass cooling fan blades as the blade expansion of metal fan blades would fracture against the rubbing seals, under the velocity and heat loads, so we tried fibre glasses. NOPE!
@ eaglesoars:
You’re probably screwed.
The dumb SOB night carbon fiber that was past its shelf life.
https://www.insider.com/oceangate-ceo-said-titan-made-old-material-bought-boeing-report-2023-6
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-want-therapists-to-be-able-to-counsel-12-year-olds-on-gender-identity-and-endorse-their-admission-state-facilities-without-parental-consent
I’m not drawing lines here, but this is how you get more of that.
right_wing2 wrote:
I am?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I work in the carbon fiber composite industry. So, as you can imagine, I’m pretty familiar with the properties of carbon fiber composites.
If you asked me, would I ever consider going down in a carbon fiber composite submarine. My answer would be… Depends.
As in… It depends on how far down, and was the submarine specifically designed for that depth.
The Titan was only designed for 1300 meters. Not 4000 meters. Carbon fiber composites have a razor thin margin for failure. They work fantastically within their proper application. Their greatest weakness isn’t the carbon, it’s the polymer’s used to hold the carbon stiff.
Those polymer’s are like any crystal structure. As long as you don’t put stress or pressure on them beyond their sheer point, they’ll last for decades, maybe even centuries. But repeatedly taking them to the limit’s of their sheer points means that micro fracture in their crystal lattices will eventually result in a catastrophic failure.
Interestingly enough, the way that carbon fiber composites fail is so predictable that they are used in the sporting industry specifically because of how they fail. As carbon fiber composites fail, their is an exponential dissipation of energy. This is why they are used as the cockpit’s of F1 race cars. As they fail, they adsorb enormous amounts of kinetic energy.
A submarine isn’t subject to kinetic energy(unless it’s hit by a kinetic weapon like a torpedo), it’s subject to a constant and unrelenting pressure. Carbon fiber composites work great against constant pressure, as long as that pressure remains static. If that pressure varies substantially, then the lattice structure of the polymers in the composite are at high risk of sudden catastrophic failure. In short, micro fracture propagate until suddenly the whole structure fails.
@ doriangrey:
Also doing the imaging ( how ever you do it. Ultrasound? ) to detect flaws is difficult when the structure is 5 inches thick.
doriangrey wrote:
We were not using Carbon but we were using Glass fibre composites. The fans that we built were for very large diesel engines (up to 5 in a train) hauling 2 mile long trains of Iron ore from Mt. Newman to the loading dock on the coast of Western Australia. The high speed aluminium cooling fans were 3 metres across and in the 100F desert environment cooled the diesel engines. Alas the temperature and fan speed caused fan creep and stress, rubbing on the sacrificial fan housings. Some ‘einstein’ decided that fibre glass composites would do the job better. Wrong!
Less creep and expansion than the aluminium but micro fractures in the blade tips and catastrophic destruction of the high speed fans. Quite spectacular. 🙂
We did all kinds of research including hypersonic and supersonic R&D, A job quieting the jet pipes of Boeing airliners, Design and construction and testing of throw away plastic cargo parachutes (taped together with glass tape), (back to front) flame propagation R&D, boundary surface control R&D , thixotropic fluids boundary flow studies, low speed turbulent boundary layer re-energising R&D, cavitation R&D …
The best job I ever had
The Profs never told you HOW to do something. They just told you what DATA they needed and left you to go figure it out yourself. The tradesmen were first class and could build ANYTHING!
When you weren’t busy you could do any project you wanted and a huge workshop was your playground. We built a 1/4 scale V1, a 1/16 scale steam engine and created the first tech to make printed circuits, micro hot wire anemometers, the first LASERs and a Triumph sports car with some radicle additions like a turbo and a very modified V8
🙂
… It really was the best job I ever had!
The Vietnamese neighbors are doing karaoke tonight. Funny stuff. Mr. Possum would love it.
@ doriangrey:
The composites industry in NZ is deep into leading edge R&D and the racing yacht design and building industry have recently been cleaned out of materials boffins by RocketLabs. AS most of RocketLabs customers are based in the US Peter Beck the CEO and founder of RocketLabs has sold a majority shareholding to US financial outfits. They moved some of the Electron rocket manufacture to the US West coast, and the new Neutron medium sized reusable launcher under manufacture to the US East coast. RocketLabs R&D as well as the satellite design remains based in Auckland NZ. Peter Beck is currently designing and building a constellation of Moon orbiting micro-satellites to bring the Internet and 24/7 communications to future Moon stations.
Neutron Medium weight launcher is no longer into 3D printed engines as was the Electron body and the Ruterford engines, and is reverting to a mix of some printed components and more conventional manufacture for thrust chambers. I jacked up a visit to RocketLabs for the chief rocket engineer of Israel’s IAI. She imagined that she was visiting a bunch of amateurs. It was interesting watching her body language as the briefing progressed. In the end she was leaning forward over the tabbed shaking her head and mumbling … “I can’t believe this…. This is crazy . No you can’t possibly have that level of technology…”
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HEH!
Then she tried to sell RocketLabs a first stage IAI booster. I didn’t realise at that time that Peter Beck had already designed and built a prototype 3 D printed Electron launcher.
Smart guy, who never went to university and just started off as a technical tradesman at Fisher and Peikel NZ making kitchen appliances, stoves, refrigerators and washing machines etc, and rockets on the side for universities.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Compressed gas heats up. Almost instantaneous compression can heat up a lot.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I love diversity. I bet they have food too!
American food is shit. Really.
Saturday night is awesome here. 5-7 street food vendors on my street. No grits, no pancakes with tree syrup. No mac and cheese or chilli dogs.
Also none of that ethnic food pretending to be ethnic but adapted to American tastes. Example, go to a Chinese All You Can Eat Buffet and I guarantee they have fries and fried chicken etc.
Lived in Italy for a while. LOL many Chinese places had ravioli and spaghetti as recommended dishes.
At least in Houston I can get authentic foreign food, takes some finding but Uber Eats delivers.
Only craving I cannot fulfill here is Greek. There are “Mediterranean ” places, but not authentic.
End of rant, and CW how did the leg of lamb turn out? ( I also spent time in Greece )
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We did all that. The skweeky noise from a bicycle pump.
An example of how to survive in the USA by adapting the fast food that is available relatively cheap to be real food.
Today I got a Ubereats delivery of three chick fil a sandwiches and a large coke, no ice, i get more coke.
If I got a coke there was $10 off the order. Hence the coke.
Anyway one chicken sandwich got devoured as is for lunch. Sandwich #3 is in the freezer.
Ask what will happen to sandwich #2. OK I will tell you.
Sandwich #2 is taken apart, the bun is frozen, it will get a new life as a toasted cheese sandwich.
The breast will be served tonight accompanied by carrots, stuffing, mushroom gravy, apple sauce and a baked potato.
Real English food created from American junk food.
I’m seeing reports that the Wagner group is in Rostov and a few saying they ‘took’ it.
I can’t confirm anything
Wagner forces are on their way north.
Some troops were left in Rostov but reports from Reuters suggest Wagner has now captured military sites in Voronezh and are headed to Moscow.
Moscow roads blocked. Putin speech still expected overnight.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1672499428949737476
posted at 2:58 am, map at the link
Putin speech
Putin responds to Wagner coup:
“This is a criminal campaign. It is equivalent to armed mutiny. Russia will defend itself and repel this move. We are fighting for the life and security of our citizens.”
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1672501025415000068
video at link
Huge traffic jam on the M4 highway in Russia.
People are fleeing Rostov and Moscow.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1672487974767042562
video at link, posted at 2:13 am
I noticed that of the only 4 vehicles traveling in the opposite direction, 3 appeared to be military
https://www.the-sun.com/news/8447136/wagner-group-russia-ukraine-coup-putin/
if you have a twitter account the best follow for Russia news is OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFWzhwsZrI
Oooops, thats the Scott Adams show on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFWzhwsZrI
@ eaglesoars:
Groovy…good link !
jeez, I didn’t realize it was this close. about 120 miles (road) between Moscow and Rostov. Daily Mail says the Wagner Group is about 2 hrs out of Moscow.
30 mins ago
Ria Novosti:
“⚡️Prigozhin accepted Lukashenka’s proposal to stop the Wagner movement in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate tensions, the press service of the Belarusian President reported.”
I think Lukashenka is Pres. Belarus?
linky
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672654521154039811
‘We are turning back’: Wagner chief sensationally agrees to END his mercenary group’s march on Moscow following emergency negotiations – after Russian military desperately rushed to build defences around the capital
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12230141/Wagner-chief-agrees-escalate-END-mercenary-groups-march-Moscow.html
Russian Civilians can be heard Cheering as Wagner PMC Forces at the Southern Military District Headquarters within the Occupied-City of Rostov-on-Don appear to be preparing to leave and head back towards their Base Camps in Eastern Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1672670011255660544
sound up
Chattanooga? Let’s see how long this lasts……
Chattanooga is one of the first two cities in the U.S. slated to become one of the World Economic Forum’s “15-minute cities.
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These green warriors that now run the city say that “buildings are the number one contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Chattanooga,” and that the people who live and work in them cause unsustainable levels of waste that pollutes green spaces and waterways.
In other words, people are the enemy in the war of climate sustainability.
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15-minute cities promote the ability to live, work, attend school, and play where you live without ever using a car. This concept has already been rolled out globally by the WEF. Chattanooga, my once-sleepy little hometown, has installed cameras with facial recognition software and license readers at most intersections, and is rezoning properties to high-density mixed-use designations. Surveillance is a critical component of the 15-minute City because it allows for the monitoring of non-compliant citizens.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/chatanooga_goes_brave_new_world.html
Well, FWIW. Interesting take. As Dorian said, a psyop, but not by NATO. By Putin and Prigozhin
Lemme get this straight.
Prigozhin, who is fully funded by the Russian Government, is close with Putin, and engaged in disinformation psyops like “no ammo in Bakhmut”; says crazy shit again, and the folks didn’t even consider the possibility it was Russian disinformation?
There was no civil war. There were zero casualties. It was just Prigozhin being batshit crazy like he always is, and right back to the frontlines after his outburst.
What do I think? I think Prigozhin is working with Putin as usual to accomplish any number of goals.
What did Putin gain? The disguise of the movement of mass quantities of his troops, the appearance of being weak to bait Ukraine to attack (they did and lost outside Artyomovsk), and he weeded out any traitors who may have tried to join with Prigozhin.
What did Putin ultimately lose? Nothing. There was no civil war. No civilians in danger. And now the country and the public are galvanized around him.
Now the NAFO turds will be on to the next thing and right back to hating Prigozhin and Wagner. They will forget that they briefly worshipped the man who took their beloved Bakhmut from them. Just like they did with Belgorod, this turned out to not be the end of Russia, despite the [Ukranian flag emoji] accounts being certain of it.
As I said before, the only place this was a civil war, was on the Internet. And you just witnessed who is a reliable source, and who is not. Who reports on verifiable information, and those who report on wild speculation.
Careful who you follow. Choose wisely.
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1672669933564575744
Trump’s lawyer, John Eastman is facing disbarment. And this WaPo POS is gloating about it
This has gone under the radar, but it’s a huge deal: John Eastman is facing disbarment proceedings for his role as key architect of Trump’s coup.
And Eastman really might lose. When it comes to elite accountability for Jan 6, this is a big moment. 1/
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1672210432222797825
This guy is a hoot, one of my better twitter follows
I’m identifying as a Ukrainian from now on because those are the only Niggas that got reparations from Joe Biden.
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1672694995990577152
Soros cash fuels big wins for progressive prosecutors in Virginia primaries
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-cash-fuels-big-wins-progressive-prosecutors-virginia-primaries
I dunno, don’t ask me….
#BREAKING Wagner chief to leave for Belarus, case against him to be dropped: Kremlin
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1672694614934056960
Pro basketball player Óscar Cabrera was diagnosed with myocarditis in 2021 after collapsing during a game.
Cabrera said the heart condition was a result of the COVID jab, which he was required to get for work.
He died of a heart attack this week at 28.
https://twitter.com/Outkick/status/1672668661369262080
He died Thursday
I got a damn Myocarditis from taking a f-cking vaccine. (I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me. But guess what? It was compulsory or I couldn’t work. I am an international professional athlete and I am playing in Spain. I have no health problem, nothing, not hereditary, no asthma, NOTHING! I suddenly collapsed to the ground in the middle of a match and almost died. I’m still recovering and I’ve had 11 different cardiology tests done and guess? They find nothing. I have no cholesterol, no fat, nothing! 7% body fat 93% muscle. When they give me the diagnosis, they tell me that I won’t be able to play for at least 5 months until my heart goes down again and they can’t give me that medicine.
https://www.outkick.com/professional-basketball-player-dies-of-heart-attack-previously-blamed-covid-vaccine-for-myocarditis/
10 reasons we KNOW that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Lab
1. The “suicide” of the Wuhan lab collaborator, Dr. Yusen
A key Chinese scientist who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Dr. Zhou Yusen, filed for a patent for a COVID vaccine on February 24, 2020, according to documents obtained by The Australian.
The early timing of his filing raises concerns that the unnamed vaccine was in development months before the COVID-19 pandemic became public.
Yet less than three months after filing his patent, Dr. Zhou Yusen died under mysterious circumstances.
The Chinese media said he died from “falling off the roof” of the Wuhan lab.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/10-reasons-we-know-that-covid-19-leaked-from-the-wuhan-lab/
And this……..(it’s a long thread)
#13 Before migrating to the U.S. and receiving funding from Dr. Fauci and Dr. Hotez, Dr. Du Lanying co-published research on SARS-coronaviruses with Dr. Jiang Shibo and Dr. Zhou Yusen for the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences.
Dr. Du Lanying is the widow of Dr. Zhou
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1672713941687074816
BREAKING: Train plummets into Yellowstone River after Montana bridge collapse, officials warn against water usage due to fear of hazardous materials
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-train-plummets-into-yellowstone-river-after-montana-bridge-collapse-officials-warn-against-water-usage-due-to-fear-of-hazardous-materials?utm_campaign=64483
So, anybody heard any news out of East Palestine recently?
Are you kidding me?
Ireland, 2023.
Irish girls forced to hide in their homes in fear of the diversity their government is forcing upon them.
This is a declaration of war by the Irish Government against the People of Ireland.
The notice says “Girls to stay indoors after 6 pm (until further notice)
New arrivals to this area are not accustomed to Irish cultural norms at this transitory times
https://twitter.com/Texan_Jack/status/1672571204434284548
She looks like a walking sofa. DOCTOR Jill Biden. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT DRESS?
https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1672686830959853568
@ eaglesoars:
Women are so bitchy!
Now us men are wondering if she is wearing a thong or split crotch panties under that dress….
Possum wrote:
what was your first clue.
bed.. nite
Going to have to quit drinking beer. I make nice meals that I eat once per day and have a lunch that is food, but girl food. Today was 2oz of mozzarella and a plump tomato.
The main meal I cook i just eat small portions, you may remember I complain anything I cook I am eating for days.
If I calculate calories from what I drink it is often 1200 to 1600 per day. LOL 12 cans of Miller High Life is 1800 calories, that is when I get silly on here!
Anyway, even if I don’t eat for days I still cannot get below 224 pounds.
Going to have to give up alcohol, not because I drive drunk, get into fights, abuse my wife, forget to feed my cats but just to lose weight.
Men are different, they gain inside fat. If I clench my stomach muscles and grab the fat their ain’t much on the outside. It is all wrapped around on my internal organs and it is uncomfortable. A bloated feeling.
So, beer has to go…. But without beer my wit and sparkling personality and repartee with Bunk will wither and die.
OK one for Bunk as he knows music. Posting this before I quit drinking and my Possumy skills die.
First five seconds of this Ford commercial. What does it remind you of? They changed the music in the newer, slightly longer version. Maybe a copyright infringement sort of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oxPbuy78Y
@ Possum:
For Bunk, the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
@ Possum:
LOL best version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8FtbzH_JE
And even more deeply into the wormy hole I go..
You heard of Patrick Stewart? The Star Trek star? He kind of lost, or deliberately trained in peach. Sean Bean? he actively uses his native accent in some movies. Lead singer for Pulp. Well he has an accent when speaking but not when singing. Intro to “Common People ” he is using his own voice and accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwsx7dksUp4
There are many more examples!
Why am I posting this? All of us were born and brought up within a twelve mile radius.
All the same age sort of. Brought up in a North of England depressed economy as the main industry, coal and steel died.
@ Possum:
Trained in peach is something who has cats which regularly piss on my keyboard to own it says.
peach should have been speech!
Cat story. When I got the boys they were two days old. Had to be fed every few hours night and day. They lived in a cardboard box with a 2 litre coke bottle filled with hot water and wrapped in a tshirt next to my bed.
When they were about three weeks old they could climb out of the box, crawl into bed with me and snuggle under my arm. They weighed about half a pound. That was ok with me as sleep was not happening bottle feeding them every two hours.
Fast forward to now. They are three and a half years old. They weigh thirteen pounds. Why the fuck do they STILL both insist on doing the snuggling shit when I am trying to sleep?
Cats are assholes. And to quote George Floyd often I yell at them ” I can’t breath. “
Oh. My. God.
Fairfax County, Virginia takes shotguns away from police, replaces them with beanbags, and you can almost feel crime going down!
https://notthebee.com/article/fairfax-county-virginia-takes-shotguns-away-from-police-replaces-them-with-beanbags-and-i-feel-safer-already
@ eaglesoars:
Supposedly that’s a fake
right_wing2 wrote:
I sure a hell hope so, but can you show me?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12231599/Ex-CIA-analyst-claims-Putin-orchestrated-Wagner-coup-Prigozhin-classic-false-flag.html#comments
‘No, this is all staged’: Ex-CIA analyst claims Putin ‘orchestrated’ the Wagner coup with Prigozhin as a ‘classic false flag’ to boost recruitment for the army and make West think he is weakened
@ eaglesoars:
Sun Tzu smiles.
@ eaglesoars:
And to find traitors. And to draw in the nazis to battle
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/993610?ecd=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_230625_etid5568478&uac=244989FT&impID=5568478
Oh, just stop, now
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, that was my first thought. Who clears out their bank accounts and has private jets on hold. Clear the field.
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, I question the tests
Kim Dotcom: Did Putin and Prigozhin Play the CIA to the Tune of $6 Billion?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/kim-dotcom-did-putin-prigozhin-play-cia-tune/
Yeah, remember that ‘accounting error’ story from a few days ago about the DoD finding an extra $6 bil they could now send to Ukraine?
@ coldwarrior:
My scientific mind understands why people taking anti depressants are much less likely to catch COVID.
Most of them spend twenty three and a half hours hiding and cowering in fear behind the couch with the cat stuff.
Less contact with normal humans = less chance of catching COVID.
Simples!
@ Possum:
I refused to read it. If they didn’t control for that obvious confounding variable, well…
Crap study.
@ coldwarrior:
I did! They tested people as they entered mental health institutions. That is when they got caught by the men in white suits and were fitted with canvas jackets that fasten at the back.
A lower percentage of patients that had been taking their meds before they got locked up had COVID.
Heh…I was rooting around in the bar’s back cabinets…
An ohaus triple beam….damn…the glory days!
@ Possum:
I need to look at the N and controls. Look, I have an MS in stats.
I’d rather listen to Fleetwood Mac rumors on vinyl and have a Guinness.
I’ll tear the study apart later.
The tension between Buckingham and Stevie is just sumptuous
Bullshit. He’ll find another way to do it
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he’s no longer using the term “ESG” (environment, social and governance) because it is being politically “weaponized” and he’s “ashamed” to be part of the debate on the issue.
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/26/larry-fink-ashamed-esg-weaponized-desantis
The backstory: BlackRock’s bullish outlook on responsible environmental, social and governance investing is being blasted by conservatives as “woke capitalism” and has drawn boycotts from Florida and Texas.
Fink has been a major proponent of factoring in climate change risks to investing strategies and corporate leadership.
What’s new: In a conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday, Fink acknowledged that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to pull $2 billion in assets hurt his firm in 2022, but made clear last year was his company’s best with net flows of $200 billion from U.S. clients.
What he’s saying: “I’m ashamed of being part of this conversation,” Fink said.
“When I write these [investment] letters, it was never meant to be a political statement. … They were written to identify longterm issues to our longterm investors,” he told the crowd.
Yes, but: When pressed on the statement later in the conversation, Fink backtracked.
“I never said I was ashamed,” he said, incorrectly. “I’m not ashamed. I do believe in conscientious capitalism.”
“I’m not going to use the word ESG because it’s been misused by the far left and the far right,” he added.
coldwarrior wrote:
not like she’s a ballbuster or anything……….
eaglesoars wrote:
That LP is always on my rotation. It’s damn near perfect
@ coldwarrior:
Ah, but there will never be another Tina Turner. She has been my lodestar for years.
Stevie is fascinating for little girls but Tina made Mick Jagger step back.
@ eaglesoars:
And I did Bostons first album on vinyl and the high end headphones and tube driver.
Glorious.
So perfect.
Tina Turner Amsterdam Concert (2009?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM4l4mIiH1I
about 2 hrs.
@ eaglesoars:
Listen..
TINA
Is TINA. There will never be another.
@ coldwarrior:
But us white people are RACIST!!!!!!
Us white people are HOMOPHOBIC!!!! ( Freddie Mercury et al )
Possum wrote:
I know.
No white folk love rob halpert, hell, WE HATE FREDDIE.
We are horrible
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.thejournal.ie/debunked-deceptive-leaflet-distributed-in-dublin-telling-girls-to-stay-indoors-5995483-Feb2023/
LOL a food post!
Tonight supper is going to be a baked potato with finely chopped white onion and sharp chedder cheese, and sour cream.
During the preparation for this feast while finely chopping the white onions I managed to chop my thumb.
Menu change…. Baked potato with red onion and cheese.
Living alone has advantages.
LOL
coldwarrior wrote:
remember Bose sound systems?
off to bed, long day
coldwarrior wrote:
That would be my first port of call.
Putin with Prigozhin as well as Leschenko may indeed all be gangsters and arse-wipes but they have all read Sun Tzu and are currently playing chess. Meanwhile the talking heads and washed up analysts from deep in the Cold war are being wheeled out in their bath-chairs to pontificate ad nauseum to wet behind the ears cub reporters and MSM talking heads. Some of that 3 day old garbage is STILL doing the network rounds, even when it stinks to high heaven already. These MSM morons just can’t do their own analysis or even go ask a professional that’s been updated and just report that. Like trained seals they get issued with their talking points on the narrative and just keep regurgitating them and barking out the pat answers …. even after those narratives appear to be proven hokum.
What in the hell has happened to balanced analysis ?
Believing one’s own propaganda is a very dangerous hobby.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
Bose often uses a lot of trickery and tons of acoustic science. Their speakers were very nice. I had a pair of 501s wayyyyy back. Excellent stuff.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Mrs coldwarrior just laughs at this nonsense
right_wing2 wrote:
Oh! I thought you were referring to the Fairfax County/beanbag guns story. (Which IS true, Breitbart has it: Nolte: Crime Surges in Left-Wing Fairfax County, Cops Get Beanbag Shotguns https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/26/nolte-crime-surges-left-wing-fairfax-county-cops-get-beanbag-shotguns/)
We were SO right to get out of there.
But the Dublin thing is good too
eaglesoars wrote:
To be fair beanbag shotguns are very effective for subdual. Not a replacement in a shootout but the bounty hunter Papa Thorson used to swear by them. Great for taking someone down in a single shot.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
That’s fine as an ADDITION to the choice an officer has, but not as a replacement.
Possum wrote:
Not sure, but I think it was clipped, looped and modulated down a couple octaves from a Skeeter Davis song.
This is BIG. Yellin is proposing this
Supreme Court Will Decide If The Government Can Tax Income You Haven’t Received Yet
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/26/supreme-court-decide-government-tax-income-received-yet/
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/kim-dotcom-did-putin-prigozhin-play-cia-tune/
This whole CIA thing is just so typical of an organization that outgrew its reaison d’etre and became a semi-criminal enterprise, when it became more interested in surviving for its own sake. Jack Kennedy knew that the CIA was pulling his string and would probably end up killing him when he threatened to pull the plug on the CIA, by attempting to trim down their power after the Bay of Pigs shambles. That was never going to happen and Kennedy paid with his life. Lee Harvey Oswald was just the patsy who took the fall but it was a CIA bullet that ended it for Kennedy. Truman should have scrapped the OSS/ CIA in the 1950s, before the CIA got more interested in surviving as an organization, rather than serving a civilian administration. Eisenhower knew it too and specifically warned his administration about the CIA survival instincts, but by then it was too late to pull the reins in on the CIA. Kennedy had no chance, as by then the CIA bureaucracy was already too powerful, and totally set up to survive, rather than being a servant of the administration. Read at least the first tranche of the comments as well.
The CIA had engineered itself a $6 billion slush fund to finance a Russian coup….. But it failed when Prigozhin did a deal with Putin to take the money and run. No doubt Lukashenko in Belarus will get a few $$$$ as well, hence the speed (totally unheard of prior to this ) of his brokering a peace between Prigozhin and Putin. The only ones out of pocket are the CIA ….. AGAIN!
The cat is now out of the bag and this will now be an exercise in active suppression. I seriously doubt that it’s going to succeed and this whole CIA led operation is going to be fought over until the 2024 election. Meanwhile the reality of what is happening in Eastern Ukraine can’t be denied. Ukraine is finding it attacking a serious defensive line and in today’s climate where defence is a whole lot easier than attack, as the Ukrainians are discovering. The Ukraine is losing 7:1 at the moment and the ratio for an attacker is to have a 4 to 1 superiority against a defender. The Ukrainian forces in Eastern Ukraine are no where near that ratio so expect their losses in men and equipment to mount exponentially. That 7:1 loss ratio will creep up to 10:1 and the Ukrainian military will just bleed out. Also don’t forget that the Russian military manuals are NOT like Western tactical Manuals. Russia treats small tactical nukes as just another ‘dialable’ warhead between 300 tonnes deliverable up to 100 kilo tonnes, where Russian Corps Commanders are authorised to make the decision to activate tac-nukes without asking permission from the Russian government in a tactical move from conventional warfare to tactical nuclear warfare. Western forces (AKA NATO) have a very different policy regarding the transition from conventional to tac-nuke. Those decisions are made in NATO at the strategic level.
Letting one’s own policy structure assume to be mirrored by one’s own adversary is a major error.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Yep, they got played by the Russians. Our side plays checkers. They play chess.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yet our side never seems to learn. I’m certain that at tactical levels our lot have their wins, but over time the major wins seem to wither away.Perhaps it’s a continuity failure that is reflected of democratic governance with all of its changes in policy at various levels that weakens the overall long term planning goals.
@ Aussie Infidel:
If you fix a problem, it goes away. If you don’t…throw more money at it
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Well, Biden will just keep throwing money at them. The Pentagon found a $6 bil ‘accounting error’ the other day that puts more money up for the Ukies.
VERY interesting UFO article out of Las Vegas from a few days ago. WITH PICS/VIDEO
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/another-ufo-is-spotted-flying-over-las-vegas/ar-AA1d4GKP?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=cf01c85adb1a43088e51869fc00d3cf1&ei=14
Oh wonderful. North Caroline
Highway Closed as 3-Alarm Blaze Erupts at Lithium Battery Plant – Fire Officials Can Only Watch it Burn
https://www.westernjournal.com/highway-closed-3-alarm-blaze-erupts-lithium-battery-plant-fire-officials-can-watch-burn/
First, brutal though Putin may be, he is, in comparison to people like Prigozhin, “a cautious, milksop moderate.”
Second, Hitchens is right that “militant Russian nationalism is a powerful political force that Putin struggles to keep on his side at the best of times.”
These aren’t the best of times, and Prigozhin’s excellent coup adventure, not to mention Putin’s rocky adventure in Ukraine, can’t have endeared Putin to such chthonic forces.
The appearance of weakness is unacceptable.
It’s also unforgivable.
Which means that, political calculus being what it is, Putin, no matter what deal was struck, “surely cannot now leave Prigozhin unpunished.”
https://instapundit.com/591836/#disqus_thread
yeah, I had to look that one up
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/06/27/an-open-for-late-june-2023-the-ashes-test-2/