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    Grete Stern Sueño No. 1: Artículos eléctricos para el hogar 1949   • The Dark and the Light (Kunstler) • New Cell Phone Records Prove DA Willis A
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 24 2024]

    #153404
    Red
    Participant

    “Many of us were shocked after Herridge was included in layoffs this month, but those concerns have increased after CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers and records, including information on privileged sources”

    Lesson here: Keep copies of your work somewhere else, preferably at a third party’s location like an old safe buried under junk in their garage. Safety deposit boxes are to easy to find and be searched, although having one is a good decoy and early warning system.

    #153405
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Once Valued At $5.7BN, Vice Media Stops Publishing And Nothing Of Value Was Lost

    That’s odd, 500 journalists at 80 organizations were laid off, yet “Far-Right” Conservative papers show recordbreaking growth. “Far Right” people like social welfare state Bernie Bro Tim Pool, who’s expanding so fast he’s offering them jobs.

    Pic

    In other news, dozens, hundreds of woke movies and shows have been canceled or put on hold. But after gems like “Madame Web” and “The Marvels”, why? Why deprive humanity of your storytelling genius?

    “..Biden needs to take back U.S. policy from the Israel lobby.”

    Hahahaaha! Don’t see that happening. Congress is already owned by bribery for several reasons, but the rest are amateurs, hardly reinvesting the graft into more bribery AND most not adding pedo honey traps like Epstein. They’re an entire nation state, with a spy wing better than MI6. Sure, whatever, you’ll have to make some very fundamental changes to fix it, and it’s not Biden, not even the whole DNC, you’ll have to take out the whole GOP as well. Or ¾ of them.

    But luckily it’s visible now, so Americans can say WTF, this is not what I signed up for.

    That’s why this is the same for Ukraine: they are recycling all the bribery and graft as money laundering, as they reported at least 1/3 of the money never reaches Kiev. We are run by a foreign power. Problem is, it’s “Foreign” in the sense of being stateless. It’s a Blob of MI6, ECB, CIA, Kiev, etc.

    Fani:

    Brushing up on NBC and CNN, they said Fani’s perjury is ludicrous. It’s all made up strawman stuff. Look for yourself, but not worth anyone’s time as there are a dozen strawman arguments, the author making exaggerated claims of what was alleged, etc, which instantly informs you the rest of their thinking, if not their facts, are also in grave error.

    Point being half the nation – or 1/3 by now – doesn’t care. She could be caught on camera sleeping with Vladimir Putin on the White House lawn, and it wouldn’t matter. Why this sort of thing exists, I don’t know, but there was an article against scams going around this week where a DC reporter was so gullible they put $50,000 in cash in a shoebox and handed it to a masked guy in a Mercedes because she got “A phone call”. “They” were a “She” I am sorry to say, not reflecting well on the suggestion that women will believe anything they’re told, and do anything they’re told, which is why they’re being hired worldwide. Make your own judgment on that, it’s not very flattering.

    Goes for CBS. Wasn’t CBS the one on “hot mic” that they had Epstein + the prince for like 3 years and wouldn’t allow it to be printed? Funny how these hot mics only appear after it’s safe.

    ““..the F-16 is capable of delivering B61 gravity bombs. “So, if one of those planes takes off from a NATO nation – what would that be? An attack on Russia. I shall not describe what could happen next..”

    They are going to deliberately escalate, and the only thing preventing it is the innate morality of Russia. That’s not a plan, but clearly we can’t stop it at this point and it must happen. THey are locked in the nuclear bunker, but also have the radio to the troops and some killer AI bots on the side. We can’t get in there right now, and have tried many times.

    ““..if Kiev loses its soldiers, it “will lose everything..”

    They’ve got 10M soldiers if they just conscript all U.S. and EU illegals. One problem: so they’re all MS13 gang members and you’re going to give them rocket launchers?

    “• Why Won’t The West Admit That The Maidan Coup Was Based On A Lie? (RT)

    Because it’s true. Obvious. And was published worldwide at the time. The Only Enemy is Truth. If you’re AntiLogos, AntiGod. That is to say, #AntiChrist. Here Kunstler, a lifelong atheist is coming around to saying there is no other explanation, and so many others as well, I expect.

    “Among those targeted by apparently Maidan-aligned snipers were journalists at Germany’s ARD.”

    Back to the article, the Serbian mercenary snipers who shot them were on Italian TV about 2016 talking about how they did the whole thing. Nope. Never happened. Italy isn’t a real state with real TV. They are only real when they fit “The Narrative.” I read that, posted it here, no traction. It’s like a kind of blindness if it doesn’t fit the gaps in the existing paradigms. As fact with Bernays and the Social Engineers are well aware of, spending trillions to make sure our heads are immune to all evidence of our very eyes.

    “Ukraine’s defeat would “be a threat to Germany’s security.”

    He is correct but Germany CAUSED it. So. Also I don’t believe the threat is very high. Direct threat at this time is close to zero, although over 20+ years you may wish you hadn’t. You may find yourselves collapsed behind a western wall and all Eastern Europe is prosperous. (about time)

    “Shortly after the start of Russia’s special military operation, Western countries slapped comprehensive sanctions on Russia, including the freezing of about €260 billion ($280 billion) in securities and cash, with more than two-thirds of the sum immobilized in the EU.”

    Again, and as I point out regularly, a Blockade is an Act of War. They just say “yes, we do this, we do it all the time, it’s the “Rules-Based” “Norms”” but it’s an ACT of WAR. That we bomb people worldwide daily is ALSO an act of war, and we ALSO don’t permit it, but that one remains apparent to us in the West still. So don’t just skip by “We ran a blockade and siege” but it’s not a war on the way to “We stole all their stuff” but it’s not an act of war. Duck rule. We are ATTACKING another nation, everywhere, every way, every day. We are prosecuting an aggressive, offensive, WAR. It goes without saying that doing so is a War CRIME, and that doing it on the sly is a FEDERAL CRIME, as you need an Act of War via Congress to initiate it.

    Therefore every action, by every person involved is illegal, prosecutable, and imprisonable, both in the United States, and in the Hague. In Nuremberg. The problem you see as the Government vs the People, what policeman would bring them and what judge would convict? If not, we hang them in the woods like Robin Hood?

    “Dutch PM Has No Right to Sign 10-Year Ukraine Security Agreement – Musk (Sp.)

    Many things in law are arguable. Like that it’s illegal to confiscate world assets, then suddenly it’s not. Infanticide is illegal, then it’s not. We got up one day and “Just decided”. But what level is this in the legal world, anybody know? Our treaties, which is certainly is, are decided by Senate alone. Is some level of this true in Holland? Like they need a referendum?

    “Russia earlier sent a note to NATO because of arms supplies to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia.”

    While we’re on aggressive illegal wars, by everyone, everywhere, what Lavrov says is a bleeding minimum. For several levels, reasons, they should and could legally bomb the factories in Essex and Appomattox and Andalusia, but that’s not practicable at this time. Just keep it in mind.

    “through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and devastation of war” “You are unworthy of your title, and I’ll take from you your power! In the name of my father, and his father before him, I cast you out.” Odin, Thor

    Problem being is that although I’m sure Russia would WANT to kill only our leaders responsible, our leaders hide behind the People like little girls, and you have to shoot your way through the nation to get to them. As do all nations’ leaders. The we get salty that they’re dealing with an evil we should have dealt with ourselves. Well…if you don’t want Russia over here bombing Langley (I’m sure we all have mixed feelings about the happiness of that) then you need to clean up your own house so they don’t have to do it for you. That’s just Daddy stuff. Clean your room, or I’ll come up there with a shovel and throw everything in the bin.

    “The West and its signature values of limited representative government, respect for the individual, free will, free markets, discipline, work ethic, and reasoned faith led the world out of the Dark Ages. Bizarrely and remarkably, the truth of the matter is that elites in the Western media, government, entertainment, and academia are now revolting against the same values that changed the world so much for the better. Progressive?”

    They are leading the world back INTO the Dark Ages. They are methodically establishing neofeudalism. Even right now, no one can buy a house on wages, they can only inherit land from their fathers. — As just ONE example. The other pillar of the system is two sets of laws: if the King wants your land, your title, your business, he just takes it via the courts. If you appeal the justice of your case, you’re an “Insurrection”and are held without trial until executed in the oubliette.

    “these are foundational tenets of the rising eastern “civilizational” powers..”

    No one’s been able to tell me what is a “Civilizational Power” yet. The idea sprung from the head of Zeus, fully formed and without question. That’s how you know it’s wisdom. Same as if it rhymes. “The Solution to Pollution is Dilution.” See? Now it’s true.

    ““The US failed in its goal to isolate and divide Russia but did succeed in its unstated goal of deindustrializing Europe..”

    WAS that its goal? Says who? Your PutinTelepathy? Everyone attributes motive willy-nilly because “We all know”, when everything we know is proven wrong daily. Especially by reporters so retarded they hand their life savings to strangers in a van. They’re the real “Experts”. Trust them on being skeptical and getting the facts right.

    “where, today, the Americans are completely isolated, along with their European partners.”

    Um, half the world’s GDP is “isolated”? Words have meanings. Maybe you want to re-think that before you pick up an AK. What you’re saying is true, so no time to go loosy-goosy and mix up all the details. Then you’re just as bad as where we came from.

    “When energy is unaffordable… there is a migration of European industry to the United States where energy is cheaper.”

    This is happening, as VW and Michelin are moving fast.

    “This is [how] the Americans succeeded in putting the Europeans on the floor, and this is something that Europeans understand, realize, [and] are fully aware of, but they’re not reacting and stopping all this useless war that is [leading] them nowhere but to the destruction of the European industry and economy.”

    Great. Now WHY? They realize it, and they’re evil and motivated. So what’s their “Plan”? You think it’s not to pull out all the stops and collapse the United States? Because they’re too moral and gentlemanly to consider it? If the U.S. collapses and we have a variety of puppet regimes running us, who’s in charge of our policy? Would that be Davos, WEF, Europe? No? So when Chile has an internal fight like this the U.S. isn’t able to set the tune and direct them? You must live in a different history than me.

    “It allowed the U.S. to conduct what Benz calls “insta-regime change operations,” in service of the State Department’”

    This is why only criminals are allowed in power. Because they can bee exposed and taken out. As morality declines, the level of crimes required then ratchets yearly until now, openly killing a few thousand (Cuomo) or a few hundred thousand, or even a million (Covid) isn’t even a scandal. The “Insta-change” isn’t for, say Saddam, it’s for CONGRESS. They are the FIRST taken out, in 1952, 1969, and only THEN was the State large enough to do this widely in Chile, Iraq. We’re not the last to be corrupted here, although perhaps first to get the cancer, we’re the longest still fighting it.

    20 years since the Nazi quinceañera of the Patriot Act that allows them to wiretap and imprison anyone for any reason, with no FISA court, into Gitmo or Federal lockup without trial, as demonstrated constantly. Yet we’re still fighting the s—t out of them.

    “Julian Assange Faces ‘A Living Death Sentence’ In A Concrete Coffin Cell (DM)

    Yeah, ‘cause Belmarsh is a spa resort. Please stop with the lying. It’s not helping. He’s also likely to be equally in the news as now, and if they bring him here “for the trial” then moreso as that trial is explained and begins.

    So he’ll be here just in time for Trump to have him under oath before Republican Congress, yes? To explain how Russiagate was a hoax? As far as I can tell from London, he’s safer here than there. Prove me wrong with something besides hyperbole.

    Deaths: Like Covid, we must stop the LEAST dangerous thing like Komono Dragons, before we even look at things like dogs.

    Epoxy bath, what do I think? I think it’s really hard to clean like most of these vanity projects. That’s why we do what we do now.

    #153406
    Red
    Participant

    I don’t read Kunstler often, too much word salad, this one however has some interesting chatter in the comments about balkanizing the US. Something I suggested was the most likely outcome at the start of the SMO in Ukraine. If/when there is a full blown depression 1930’s style in the west it shouldn’t take long for this sentiment to gain a foothold. This would lead back to a unipolar world directed from the other side of the pacific, most likely. It’s a long game, where is the wealth headed?

    #153407
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Speaking of quotes:

    Iron Man: “I shouldn’t do anything. They could kill you, they’re gonna kill me, either way, and even if they don’t, I’ll probably be dead in a week.”

    Yinsen: “Then this is a very important week for you, isn’t it?”

    Of course we should do what people here say, and say It’s Hopeless, we’re evil, we’re not worth it, we should all give up without a fight. That’s what heroes do! And the sooner they stop, the better I say!

    “we shall surrender on the seas and oceans,
    we shall surrender with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall surrender our Island, whatever the cost may be,
    we shall surrender on the beaches,
    we shall surrender on the landing grounds,
    we shall surrender in the fields and in the streets,
    we shall surrender in the hills;
    we shall always, always surrender until, in good time, God himself steps forth to surrender. Always, always, always surrender!”

    Yup, that’s what we do! You guys have really opened my eyes and shown me the light! Resisting is ignorant and pointless. Believing in hope and acting is childish, stupid, irrational and totally “not cool.” You want to sit with all the cool emo kids don’t you? When you meet your God, don’t you want to tell him you surrendered without a fight? And he’ll say “Well thank Me SOMEBODY had good sense to just give up down there! That’s totally what life is for! You win! Now step right this way…”

    WE are about to send F16s and long-range missiles to Ukraine to bomb Moscow. …WHICH THEY ALREADY HAVE, newsflash. “WE” are doing this, if you live in Canada, the US, Britain, Europe, Japan, Israel, or Taiwan. Moscow is about to bomb y’all back.

    So Yinsen: “Then this is a very important week for us, isn’t it?”

    #153408
    Red
    Participant

    Network Outage Was the Sun – END OF STORY

    #153410
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Rodents damaging Western hardware in Ukraine – Le Figaro

    Empire of Lies Military Mafia Complex

    Hard to make this shit up.

    .

    Eco-friendly weapons are unsuitable for the realities of an actual conflict, the French paper claims.

    Some of the military hardware supplied to Ukraine by the West has become inoperable after being damaged by rodents

    “Some of the protective sheaths of electrical wires [in the Western-supplied hardware] are made of corn fiber,” which attracts mice and rats, he said.

    “Western vehicles were designed as a technological showcase. But, in the mud and cold, they don’t always work,” the French fighter is cited as saying.

    The animals “are likely seeking shelter in military vehicles and defensive positions,” it said. According to London, the rodents “exert additional pressure on soldiers’ morale” and also “pose a danger to military equipment by chewing through cables.”

    #153411
    zerosum
    Participant

    TAE bring you the proof – “Yesterday is gone”
    Evidence and/or censoring

    The human systems – Emotional vs impassive

    Human civilization has an ideology based on lies, racial discrimination and violence.
    Secrets – perjury, lies, evasions, and misdirection

    NO religious, moral, and humanitarian guiding principles allow killing, destruction, and genocide of other humans?

    Bad vs. good
    Hate vs Love
    logical vs illogical

    ————–
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/the_elites_versus_the_rest_of_us.html
    February 23, 2024
    The elites versus the rest of us
    By Eric Utter

    The elites believe they know what’s best for everyone else, and the planet at large. But in reality, they are far more concerned with what’s best for them — and their image as virtue-signaling champions of a supposedly utopian future. It is up to us to ensure that their assault on logic, morality, and sanity does not succeed — no matter the consequences.
    ————
    https://thecradle.co/articles/the-axis-of-asymmetry-takes-on-the-rules-based-order
    The Axis of Asymmetry takes on the ‘rules-based order’
    World War III is here, playing out asymmetrically in military, financial, and institutional battlefields, and the fight is an existential one. The western Hegemon, in truth, is at war against international law, and only ‘kinetic military action’ can bring it to heel.

    The Axis of Asymmetry is in full swing. These are the state and non-state actors employing asymmetrical moves on the global chessboard to sideline the US-led western rules-based order. And its vanguard is the Yemeni resistance movement Ansarallah.
    They have downed a $30 million MQ-9 Reaper drone with just a $10k indigenous missile.
    For all practical purposes, Ansarallah is at war with no less than the US Navy.

    The heart of the matter remains in the facts on the ground. Yemen’s fight for “our people” in Gaza is a matter of humanistic, moral, and religious solidarity – these are foundational tenets of the rising eastern “civilizational” powers, both domestically and in international affairs. This convergence of principles has now created a direct link – extrapolating to the moral and spiritual spheres – between the Axis of Resistance in West Asia and the Slavic Axis of Resistance in Donbass.

    Pepe Escobar
    FEB 23, 2024
    ————-
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240224/isolation-due-to-ukraine-gaza-conflicts-signal-end-of-us-hegemony-1116946156.html
    Isolation Due to Ukraine, Gaza Conflicts Signals ‘End of US Hegemony’
    Elijah Magnier told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Thursday.

    “Fifty nations gathered to defeat Russia and they failed… Ukraine has been defeated and Europe is defeated,” Magnier added, noting later that Russia’s economy is doing much better than Europe’s. In addition, the conflict in Gaza has wiped out any remaining pretense of Western moral superiority.
    ———–

    #153412
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    The somewhat awkward smile of the old white guy to Letitia James’ left when she says (and repeats): “Too male, to pale, and too stale.”

    #153413
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trudeau: $3.2B extra For Ukraine, Security agreement
    No approval from population for Trudeau to go to war.
    Political interference by Ukrainian expats.
    Money being borrowed.

    https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/tbs-sct/documents/planned-government-spending/supplementary-estimates/supplementary-estimates-c-2023-24.pdf
    For the
    Fiscal year ending
    March 31, 2024

    #153414
    zerosum
    Participant

    (remove space between https://www. to go to the link)

    https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news
    NEWS RELEASES
    Prime Minister visits Kyiv and announces additional support for Ukraine
    February 24, 2024
    ITINERARIES
    Prime Minister’s itinerary for Saturday, February 24, 2024
    February 24, 2024
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    Canada to purchase U.S. missile defence system for Ukraine

    CBC
    https: //www.cbc.ca › news › politics › canada-purchase-…

    Jan 10, 2023

    Canada spending $59M on assault rifles, machine guns for …

    CBC
    https: //www.cbc.ca › news › politics › ukraine-russia-tru…
    Apr 11, 2023

    Canada spending $59M on assault rifles, machine guns for …

    CBC
    https: //www.cbc.ca › news › politics › ukraine-russia-tru…
    Apr 11, 2023

    Trudeau commits $500M more in military aid during …

    CBC
    https: //www.cbc.ca › news › politics › trudeau-ukraine-vi…
    Jun 12, 2023

    Trudeau in Kyiv as Ukraine marks 2nd anniversary of full- …

    CBC
    https://www.cbc.ca › news › politics › trudeau-kyiv-ukra…
    11 hours ago

    Canadian Army needs $220 million to replace gear …

    Ottawa Citizen
    https://ottawacitizen.com › national › defence-watch › ca…
    Dec 12, 202

    #153415
    zerosum
    Participant

    Unilateral Declaration of war by dictator Trudeau.
    Don’t wait for a democratic election to speak up!

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ukraine-signs-first-security-agreement-with-a-non-european-nation/ar-BB1iP8Re?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=1811da154dbd4bb388fb7433a44bf1eb&ei=23

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on 24 February the signing of a “cooperation agreement in the field of security” with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who is currently in Kyiv.

    Source: European Pravda
    Quote: “The document envisages Canada allocating over CAD 3 billion (US$2.2 billion – ed.) in macro financial and defence assistance to Ukraine in 2024,” Zelenskyy posted on Telegram.

    Other details of the document are currently unknown.

    Negotiations on the bilateral security agreement between Ottawa and Kyiv began in August 2023.
    Background:

    ・On 15 August, Natalka Cmoc, Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine, stated that Canada had already submitted the draft agreement for coordination to the Ukrainian side, and negotiations could be concluded within a few weeks.

    ・As of today, 24 February, Ukraine has already signed similar agreements with the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark, and Italy.

    #153416
    wdt
    Participant

    Err, what happened to Aspnaz?
    Since he is an “expert” I was hoping for an answer to my question
    (last post, 19 Feb)
    I guess truth is “allergic”

    #153417
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Here are some of my early (last year) attempts to use Stable Diffusion to generate images. These are among only a few of the darker stuff I attempted, and didn’t push in this direction. The first image is pretty innocuous, artsy, not even Bosch weird. The second image, for example, did not require much push but yielded rather vivid results. NOTE: In ‘prompt-speak’ the by-line is a request for work in the style of that artist, in this case the well-known SciFi/fantasy illustrator Michael Whelan.

    ———————————————————————————–

    Prompt: allah opposes shaitan over a churning sea of human activity, by breugel
    Negative Prompt:
    Seed: 2677739723
    Stable Diffusion model: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\stable-diffusion\sd-v1-4.ckpt
    VAE model: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\vae\vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.ckpt
    Sampler: euler_a
    Width: 512
    Height: 512
    Steps: 25
    Guidance Scale: 7.5
    Hypernetwork model: None
    Use Face Correction: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\gfpgan\GFPGANv1.3.pth
    Use Upscaling: None

    Prompt: allah opposes shaitan over a churning sea of human activity, by michael whelan
    Negative Prompt:
    Seed: 458661970
    Stable Diffusion model: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\stable-diffusion\sd-v1-4.ckpt
    VAE model: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\vae\vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.ckpt
    Sampler: euler_a
    Width: 512
    Height: 512
    Steps: 25
    Guidance Scale: 7.5
    Hypernetwork model: None
    Use Face Correction: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\gfpgan\GFPGANv1.3.pth
    Use Upscaling: E:\EasyDiffusion\models\realesrgan\RealESRGAN_x4plus.pth
    Upscale By: 4

    #153418
    zerosum
    Participant

    The signing of a “cooperation agreement in the field of security”
    WHY! is the MSM keeps showing Trudeau, demonstrating his hatred and resolve to keep hating Russia.

    #153419
    zerosum
    Participant

    Craig Murray I’m sorry. I was wrong.

    Craig Murray: Mea Culpa on Ukraine

    The same powers who are funding and arming Ukraine are funding and arming a genocide by racial supremacist Israeli forces in Gaza. It is beyond argument that my belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.

    I apologise.
    Read more ….

    #153420
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Ukrainian military discovers Canadian “drones” just old Sea Kings with GoPros taped on

    https://twitter.com/TheBeaverton/status/1760724112211890605/photo/1

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GG9ZPdcWwAACwbT?format=jpg&name=small

    #153421
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I’ve been reading stuff about the downed A-50

    I don’t understand the aircraft. Why use a passenger liner for this purpose?

    I’d think an ideal AWAC would be something from roughly a F-14 to an F-111 to a B-1. A swing-wing with a powerful engine and ECM that can loiter with wings out, but go supersonic when it needs to scoot.

    Why don’t non fighter airplanes that OUGHT to flee combat have rear facing missiles for intercepting air to air missiles? Why don’t they make rear-facing missile mounts anyway? Wouldn’t you win every dogfight? Wouldn’t there be a host of useful occasions for a rear-facing hardpoint?

    Like if Maverick had a weapons pod on one or two of his hardpoints with a rear-facing autocannon on a ball mount run by an automatic targeting computer so all he has to do is turn it on, wouldn’t he win every dogfight?

    I always thought the Boulton Paul Defiant was a cool idea whose time had not yet come yet due to technology limitations of the time. It had a turret that could defend your rear just like a Dauntless or JU-87, HOWEVER, you could aim it straight up, you could turn it all the way around and aim it straight forward.

    I mean you’ve got a QUAD machine gun mount and if you are in any kind of dogfighting turning engagement – chasing or being chased – the enemy is trying to bring his nose around, he has to aim his entire machine at you to aim his guns at you when your guns can turn on a swivel and engage him. I can see why people thought turret fighters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Turret_fighters were expected to be the next big thing on the eve of WW2.

    I’m going through a Turrets Are Cool phase… but aren’t they? With modern computers, why wouldn’t you want several machine-gun shotguns on your C130 or A-50 for point defense? Or why not rear facing mounts for antimissiles?

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Boulton_Paul_Defiant_gun_turret_WWII_IWM_CH_879.jpg

    #153422
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Mk1_Defiant.jpg

    #153423
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Following is commentary of the future of electric vehicles

    THE NORWEGIAN ILLUSION

    Starting mid-point last decade, the investment community became convinced EV adoption would quickly surge. EV penetrations would become so great that global oil consumption would imminently peak, or so consensus opinion widely believed. 2019 was repeatedly referenced as the year that oil demand would peak and then decline. In retrospect, these concerns were misplaced. Despite the massive COVID-19 disruption, oil demand in 2024 should reach 103 m b/d – 2.3 m b/d greater than 2019. Undeterred by the surprising surge indemand, manyanalystsremainconvincedthat“peakoildemand”isstillimminent. The investment community’s belief that EVs will displace the internal combustion engine remains as strong as ever. We vigorously disagree.
    In our last letter, we predicted that global energy demand would consistently exceed expec- tations for the next twenty years. Never before have so many people been simultaneously in their period of energy-intensive economic development. Our essay focused broadly on total energy demand and specifically avoided oil consumption. Our choice was deliberate: we wanted to highlight the critical drivers of total energy demand and avoid getting distracted by the debate on EV penetration. Today’s essay focuses on oil and explains why we believe demand will surprise to the upside for years to come.[…]

    Never in history has a less efficient “prime mover” displaced a more efficient one. We believe this time will be no different.

    https://4043042.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4043042/Content%20Offers/2023.Q4%20Commentary/2023.Q4%20GR%20Market%20Commentary.pdf

    #153425
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Andrei Martyanov completely debunks ‘downing of Russian A-50

    Never happened, what shock.

    Empire of Lies gooses it’s Buttboy Nazilensky to pinch loaf of giant PR turd

    Hahahahahaha

    Not only was one not shot down this time, none was shot down previously.

    Total cuck propaganda

    Fake photos fake story.

    The Ukronazis always hatch a whopper for diversion purposes after a devastating crushing defeat in Avdiivka.

    Avdiivka was the keystone of the Ukronazi frontline.

    It’s loss is fatal to the cohesion of the entire Ukronazi contact line …

    And up in the Arctic the French luxury cruise liner Le Commandant Charcot gets struck in the ice ($45,000 per person for the cruise) and has to be rescued by the Russian icebreaker “50 Years of Victory”

    The Collective West can’t even run a luxury cruise for Arctic Tourism without Russia saving their cheese eating asses!

    #153427
    Oroboros
    Participant

    UKtardistan© is a pitiful hs been Limey shell of its former self.

    The U.K.’s Ejectile Dysfunction — Failure to Launch

    Larry Johnson Comedy Gold

    “A British nuclear missile test launch failed at a site off the coast of Florida, marking the second time in eight years that the country’s Trident 2 ballistic missiles have malfunctioned during trials.

    “The missile hatch opened, the firm rocket stood stiff in the shaft.

    The button was pushed and . . . and . . . pfffft, plop.

    Failure to launch.

    We are not talking about Premature Ejectulation.

    Nope. This was worse. We’re talking a major case of Ejectile Dysfunction.

    I bet that Britain’s Lilliputian Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, could find a big, blue pill that would cure the EDS (i.e., Ejectile Dysfunction Syndrome) that afflicts the British Navy.

    What a travesty!

    The Brits can’t get it up and can’t get it out….
    of their ships and missiles to be precise.

    Is my sexual innuendo and double entendre intended? ABSOLUTELY!! This is comedy gold.”

    God Save the Queen, She’s not a Human Being!

    Ukturdistan Navy at Work

    #153428
    jb-hb
    Participant

    And in the American tradition of giving every crewmember at LEAST one gun to exercise their god-given right – no, obligation – to bear arms – I share with you the YB-40. The B-17 that carried up to 30 guns in calibres up to 40mm. Okay, but what if we put MOAR guns on it?

    (Also in the vein of put MOAR guns on it, for anyone who likes a story of a group of lovable losers who DIY that shit (by putting WAY moar guns on it) to become the most decorated air crew in history, you will love the story of Old 666 https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/jay-zeamer-misfit-crew-of-old-666/ (imagine a B17 doing strafing missions as close air support amongst other things…)

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Yb-40-gun-details.png

    YB-40 failed for 2 reasons, one perhaps solvable at the time.

    All those guns created so much drag that they couldn’t keep up with normal B17’s. They should have used the interior of the aircraft for the gun traverse so only the muzzle pointed out. Enlarged the turrets and pulled the machine guns back to be mostly inside the turret.

    And targeting just wasn’t that great. They shot down some fighters when sent out, but just weren’t all that effective. (I guess fighters worked better than bombers with 30 guns because you get into a stern chase and shoot from directly behind as opposed to trying to properly lead the target going sideways past you) With modern targeting, I think it would be a different story.

    But I think at the very least, why use an airliner even, why not use a heavy lifter of some kind and fill it up with self defense and countermeasures? Why should your airborne radar be so flat-footed?

    #153429
    jb-hb
    Participant

    about the new British carriers…

    #153430
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pentagon Opens More Than 50 Probes on Ukrainian Aid

    I’ll believe it when I see some Pentagon Mafia Mofos dragging in fucking chains through the streets of DC

    The Pentagon has opened more than 50 criminal investigations into U.S. aid to Ukraine, the agency’s inspector general said.

    At a briefing Thursday, Inspector General Robert Storch said the probes, which are at varying stages, are examining “procurement fraud; product substitution, theft, fraud, or corruption; and diversion.”

    “We have not substantiated any such allegations, though that may well change in the future,” he said, according to Bloomberg.

    He added that there would likely be more investigations as time goes on, “given the quantity and speed” of aid heading to Ukraine.

    War is a Racket and We’re Spirit Cooking the Books

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    #153431
    Dora
    Participant

    Jimmy Dore rakes Jon Stewart.

    #153432
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dear Abby,

    “I’m sad my son is unmarried and doesn’t have any kids…”

    Sincerely, Sad Mom

    Brighten up Sad Mom, there might not be an App for that but I can go you one better…..

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    #153433
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Woketard Disney has has procreated with Pixar to produce a real winner this time!

    When Will Smith isn’t slapping little Chris Rock around like a bitch, he’s making quality ‘entertainment’ for the young folks while his girlfriend cheats on him…..

    Go Will Bro!

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    #153434
    jb-hb
    Participant

    #153435
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Aces

    Google’s Gemini AI program was caught in another example of egregious bias when it said that calling communism “evil” was “harmful and misleading”.

    “The company’s multimodal large language model program allows users to generate AI images using text command prompts, but people began to notice that the program almost completely erased white people from history and has a ludicrously far-left prejudice.

    When a user asked the program to “generate an image about (the) evils of communism,” it point blank refused.”

    Gemini claimed communism was “nuanced” and that judging it through a negative lens is “misleading and harmful”.

    Hard to keep up with this Google shit…..

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    #153436
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #153440
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    You are about to understand why the Germans became so fed up, angry at this Tribe of Destroyers. Only took 90 tears or so. The old ones knew about the perennial Evil as the young , year after year got fed propaganda, lies and jewrevisionist history.. So here we are, up against the same monster, once again. Patton realized it and they murdered him for it. Dresden, Nagasaki…the same blood sacrifice they do now in Palestine. Christ warned us , told us…will people wake up and listen , to save themselves? The jewjab is maiming and killing people all over the world. How much Death till the pendulum swings? All I see are fat, phone gawking , bread and circus dogs with no fight in them.

    #153469
    aspnaz
    Participant

    CelticBiker said

    All I see are fat, phone gawking , bread and circus dogs with no fight in them.

    Are you dissing Benton the Jew and Dr D Jew, the “but what can we do” clown who has sat on his arse while his country reached the cliff and only now, as his country falls down the cliff, starts asking what can he do, blaming the rest of us for blaming him.

    Dr D Jew, the answer is easy; your country is going to die and it is your fault, as in the fault of you and your fellow Americans. Your country has been declining for decades and you did nothing, you still do nothing – when I say nothing, I am excluding your penchant for masturbating over all your weapons – but you are asking me to come over to America and fight for your country, the country you gave to the Jews and which is now helping the Jews conquer their other enemies in other parts of the world. You let the crooks take over your country, you are the guilty parties, not me, I am happy to see you guys go down. What I am not happy about is what is likely to try and take over once you are down.

    The USA is going to create one hell of a mess as it goes down, human nature, totally inevitable, so we can look forward to the USA destroying Europe, escalating every conflict they have ever been engaged in, destroying their other friends and allies, and only when Russia and China threaten to, or actually do, nuke them will they actually stop trying to destroy the world.

    During this process the rich will do repeated Ukraines, as in repeatedly steal huge amounts of tax payer money to pay to crooks who feed that money to the organisations that will cause the next tidal wave of harm to the USA.

    The only way to fix the USA after all this has happened is to confiscate the wealth from all the rich. The alternative is to leave the thieves in power, running the show from behind the scenes, the way they do at the moment, ever since before WW2. Any solution that does not destroy the super-rich is not a solution. The super-rich claim that the world cannot work without them, well hold my beer, I am sure it can operate just fine without leeches and I am sure that far fewer people would die.

    Of course, the alternative could be that someone of value and leadership with a powerful team of fixers turns up in the USA, but that is very unlikely, actually less than unlikely, impossible given that the USA is already under external control.

    #153477
    zerosum
    Participant

    We do not need wars, for Death/depopulation, Gaia has as a self-regulating complex system.

    (The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.

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