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Today marks a very sad day.
The time of wearing shorts and crocs has come to an inglorious brutal uick end up here in the land of snow and igloos.My parents said know:
I suspect Aspnaz has probably has suffered power outages and loss of internet in Taiwan. Aren’t they also being hit by a typhoon too?
Thanks Red and Morongobill for vaccine detox links.
Germ: I have seen Sept 23/24 dates too but remain baffled as to what it mean!
Zerosum: The Rule of 72 was one of the first rules of investing I learned. But since ZIRP and NIRP the rule only showed how fast you were losing!
Tree Frog: I admit I had a good chuckle at your expense re- “I was an accident”. Probably the work of auto correct!
Bosco: Re-shoes. I had a Dutch teacher who said Dutch kids who couldn’t make it to the toilet (or too lazy) would pee into someone’s wooden shoes usually left outside by the door! Polder might verify the practice?
BDS: Spoiler Alert! They wouldn’t ask you the question because they didn’t want an answer! It was really important that the question remained unanswered. An answer would have spoiled the effect!
Zerossum:
Mule tail deer are what I saw out west from Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, down to New Mexico and Arizona. Man can those big deer jump! So more deer burgers!
We just have the little white tail deer here in Ontario. For moose, one has to travell to northern Ontario.
Somebody recently disked on the Sherman tank as Ronson-Shermans. This unfairly taints the Sherman tank.
Now I will be the first to admit the Sherman tank was indeed designed by committee. But a very knowledgeable committee.
The limitations imposed upon the Sherman tank designers were chiefly transportation limitations. It could only be so wide due to US railway shipping limits such as railway bridge and tunnel widths. Then it could only be so heavy due to the maximum lift capacity of on board cargo ship’s lifting cranes.
There was no point designing a tank that could not be shipped by railway to US ports, then loaded onto a cargo ship. An wide and heavy tank would need disassembly before shipping and then reassembly after shipping. Very inefficient and time consuming.
The US also faced the problem of designing a tank in 1942 that would still be suitable for use in 1944, then building it, then shipping 50,000 of them overseas. So a 2 years lead time.
On top of that the committee needed the tank to be reliable a d rugged since the tank was going to be used a long way from home where it would be difficult to fix any major problems.. Then the design needed to be something the US auto sector could mass produce. Since the tank was going to be produced in multiple different factories, it was specified that all parts had to be interchangeable between manufacturers.
Why was the Sherman tank so tall? The US wanted to use a large powerful engine (600 hp) so the tank was fast. They selected a rotary airplane engine that had been around for many years and had all of it’s bugs ironed out. One Russian Sherman tank crew went around a corner so fast that they tipped over! This saved them, as the four T-32 tanks following them, got knocked out by German gunners. By-the-way a Russian T-32 tank was only good for 800 km! That is why Riussia had to make so many of them!
To speed up production any changes or improvements had to be grouped together and implemented all at the same time in a controlled manner, not done one by one, slowing down production. Retrofits/improvements kits had to fit all previously produced tanks.
Since these tanks were likely going to get damaged, major components had to be easy to replace with new ones in the field. So many of the tank’s components were somewhat modular. Blow an engine, hit a mine, replace a damaged gun, replace tracks, suspension bogies, drive sprocket, gear box/transmission, etc. That meant lots of spare parts and major crew training too.
Yes early Sherman’s did tend to light up like Ronsons but that was solved by wet ammo storage and crews not leaving ammo lying around. Then German gunners were specifically told to pump in an extra round or two into the tank to ensure the knocked out/damaged Sherman tank could not be repaired! Most damaged Sherman tanks were quickly repaired in the field and put back into service. The average Sherman tank/crew lasted only 47 days in combat!
One thing you never hear of is any Sherman tanks breaking down like German or Russian tanks did! Sherman’s were very reliable tanks and if a commander had 50 tanks, then 50 tanks showed up when he needed them! Unlike the German or Russian tanks. You had 50 tanks and if over half were in working order you were very lucky! Spare parts? What parts! Easy to repair? You’re joking! German tank crews often had to destroy their own tank because it broke down.
In many ways the Sherman tank was ahead of it’s time. It could shoot it’s main gun fairly accurately while still moving, something no other tank could do at the time.
(Why did the US go into Normandy with only the 75 gun? Because the 75 gun had both armor priecing and high explosive rounds to support infantry. The 76 gun only had very good armor priecing rounds but a poor high explosive round so it could not support infantry.) ( in case you are wondering about the differences between the 75 and 76 guns, both are 3″ diameter caliber guns but the 76 cartridge is much bigger than a 75 gun cartridge thus higher shell velocity and armor penetrating power. The 76 was named such, to avoid confusion in the field about ammo types.)
Sherman tracks are still used in the latest Abraham tanks used today.
Zerosum:
Did any of your trail cameras get a shot of the 7 point bull moose Michael recently bagged in Newfoundland? Michael has to settle for moose burgers since there are no deer in Newfoundland.
By-the-way what type of deer run in your neck of the woods? At least you can have deer burgers!
I have a new geen electric chain saw nick named Greta.
Unfortunately she has just crapped out on me.
So I can’t say she is looking very cute!Banks …… Never waste a good crisis!
King Charles …… King of the WEFs?
Yeah, the Ukraine is winning the progand war!
So it is covid, not the vaccines, that is causing excess deaths!
Phoenixvoice:
Amoung my friends, the ones who are the most adamant about vaccinations are the supposedly very bright and very well educated. I count 2 lawyers and 1 doctor.
Those not insanely over educated, are more likely to be open minded.
So your conclusion, about the level of education, is backed up by my observations too!
The difference between UK energy prices and EU energy prices boils down to one simple fact. The City of London. They knew ahead of time exactly what was going to happen in the UK and acted to capitalize on it. It was like shooting fish in a barrel!
However, Europe was a different kettle of fish. Since the consensus wasn’t so clear, it wasn’t like shooting fish in a barrel. Also the EU is more socialist, so capitalism wasn’t such a sure thing. But they still made a killing.
Europe has employed more floating gas storage and regassification units (GSRU) to help increase winter gas storage levels above 80%. These units help import more LNG.
The foot floor sanders. I have often wondered how wooden floors got sanded smppth in the good old days. I figured many rough saw cut flooring just got smooth by many feet over time. Modern wooden floors come already planed so require very machine sanding to make them smooth. Now you can even buy pre-stained and finished wood flooring.
I guess floor foot sanders simply and quietly disappeared into history, just like the blacksmiths.
Everyone knows NATO has it’s soldiers unofficially fighting in the Ukraine. Many of these NATO soldiers are being given “time credits” from their own militaries, while fighting in the Ukraine.
Notice however, that none of these NATO soldiers ever seem to get killed. In a war, this is simply not possible. So how are these deaths being hidden from their families and the public? One way is via helicopters crashes while training. A single helicopter crash can hide hundreds of deaths. Expect to see many more helicopter deaths.
Areas of the Ukraine that Russia intends to keep, can be easily distinguished, from the areas Russia doesn’t intend to keep. How? Simple. If Ukrainian 1road signs are replaced by Russian road signs. Local Ukrainian banks become Russian banks. Ukrainian money turns into Russian Rubles. Local infrastructure is being rebuilt. If none of these are happening in your neighborhood, then you are out of luck.
Contrary to public reports from the west, the Russians successfully staged an organized retreat starting 8 days before the Ukrainians attacked. The sleeping Russians didn’t leave behind 60 tanks nor any civilians who wanted to leave. In fact a Russian armored vehicle bravely sacrificed itself to protect the last of the leaving civilians.
Now we know why the Ukrainians were able to move forward 32 km so rapidly. They entered a vacuum.
Clearly the Russians laid out a nice welcome mat for the attacking Ukrainians, 4,000 killed, 8.000 wounded. However, the Ukrainian attack survivors still have to figure out a way to survive in their new salient.
One of the reasons Russia decided to retreat from this area is that it contains many wooded areas making it much harder to defend with only a few soldiers. A river is much easier to defend. This area isn’t without some significance. There is a damaged reservoir (slightly south?) on the river that controls water to the Donbas region.
Ukrainian Numbers Game:
Since the west wants to fight a forever war against Russia, the Russians are going to have to start cancelling more than 500 Ukrainians a day. A 1% Ukrainian birth rate can replace 500 cancelled male Ukrainians per day, forever. Th Ukraine’s birth rate is above 1% but below 2%.
Only if more than 1,000 Ukrainians are cancelled each day, will the Ukrainians start having problems replacing their losses.
It is tough to fight a war when your opponent doesn’t care how many Ukrainians he kills fighting you.
The water level in the St. Lawrence River is so low that you can now see the hunger stones! The New York State Department of Resources says the water is low to punish Putin.
Mr. Green Turtle, the president of the Association of Turtles, is very worried about the low water levels as their member’s winter homes will likely freeze. The Governor of New York State said this shouldn’t be a problem as she will ask the banks to print more money to help the turtles buy more water so they can stay warm this winter.
The Governor of New York State is now being called racist by the head of the Association of Fish, Mr. Black Fish.
This so called counter attack by the Ukraine serves only one purpose. Kill a bunch more Ukrainians to try and temporarily change the mood in the west’s unreal virtual world.
It does nothing to change the real world.
Imagine trying to sell Wall Street hype. It is what Wall Street does best, repeatedly selling hype, like IPOs, to unsuspecting suckers!
I can see Wall Street selling parts of the Ukraine it doesn’t own, to unsuspecting suckers. I can’t see Wall Street buying it’s own hype though!
The 5,100 Russian KIA is likely accurate. It is based upon the number of local death notices in Russia.
Bill7:
Hundreds of Ukrainians died today to gain a wee bit more time. The west is spending billions each day to hurt their own people, all just to punish Russia. Russia is waiting for old man winter to arrive. Then the Ukrainians will have no forests to hide in. Same game plan as always.
As for hillary the evil hunch back bow legged witch, notice all the cosmetics surgery done on that face that could never hide the evil within. That is why TPTB like her so much. There is no evil she wouldn’t gladly do for power. When in power her evil only grows more so.
Burning Candles instead of using light blubs.
Just one slight problem here. The paraffin used in candles consists of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons come mainly from oil. Beeswax can be used but there really aren’t enough bees in the world to light up Europe. There are also plant based waxes too. There are also glue factory horses too.
Candles have a brief advantage over electricity. In the beginning candles are priced at the old price before they too will sky rocket in price. But at least you cut out the hopelessly incompetant government monopoly on electricity generation.
Candles can also be very romantic but I don’t think TPTB would approve of more babies being produced. Oh, never mind this, I forgot TPTB have already covered this base with their vaccines providing automatic abortions (miscarrages) in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
If you put a candle inside an opened metal can, it does serve as a very nice hand warmer. And if you are not extremely careful, you can also very nicely burn down your dwelling.0
One interesting item of the Ukrainian war that seems to get little notice, is Russia’s consistent ability, day in and day out, is to intercept dozens of Ukrainian fired missiles, both ex-Soviet and US missiles. This of course proves the Ukrainians are winning hands down.
Russia is fighting this war in such a way that the US/NATO are being forced to spend billions of dollars every day to fight Russia. The Ukraine desperately keeps throwing poorly armed and trained cannon folder into the frontlines, just to buy a little more time. Russia is quite content to leave the eastern frontlines intact as long as fresh Ukrainian cannon fodder keeps arriving to replace yesterday’s dead cannon fodder.
Russia is quite happy to prolong this war for as long as the US/NATO wants the war to last.
Many are unaware of how the Russians are fighting this war in the Ukraine. For Russia the one commodity they are the most short of, is infantrymen. Yes, you read that correctly! However, Russia has plenty of very good artillery! So that is exactly how they are fighting!
The Russians put very few soldiers on their frontlines. Their mobile units are held back, mostly out of harms way. The Russians are letting their artillery do most, if not all of of the fighting.
If the Ukrainians attack in force, the Russian front forces simply fall back while the artillery does it’s deadly business. If the Ukrainians continue attacking in force, the Russians simply fall back some more as their artillery goes about it’s usual business.
Once the Ukrainians have exhausted themselves as cannon fodder, then the Russians hit them from both sides of the advance, cutting off any means of retreat. Then it becomes a simple&⁸ turkey shoot. Then the Russians reoccupie their previous frontline. Wash and Rinse.
Ukrainians lose hundreds of soldiers (but gain time). The Russians lose very few soldiers because there is very little man to man encounters because the Russians insist upon fighting the war from a safe distance.
If a Ukrainian frontline becomes mostly devoid of soldiers, only then will Russian mobile forces move in to mop up what’s left of the Ukrainians. Those still resisting inside fortifications, etc. get quickly roasted.
Russian military leaders have been told to take their sweet time. There is no hurry. Actually the slower the better.
Meanwhile the west is winning by going bankrupt!
Notice that our leaders are not backing down. Instead they are doubling down. Protests will not deter them.
The western created energy shortage and economic war against Russia, I suspect, is just cover for bringing in central bank digital currencies under the disguise of national security.
Creating an energy shortage will supposedly highlight the need for countries to greatly increased their investments in new energy systems.
If this investment is left to private investors, the government will have little control over what energy systems get built and how the money is spent to do so.
However, if the need for investments is nicely swept under the “national security” umbrella, as expected, then the government gets to control the types of energy systems that get built. To ensure the money only gets spent as desired by the government, this is where central bank digital currencies come into play.
Digital currencies would allow the government 100% control over who gets the money and who does not get this money. This self created energy crisis is just the perfect excuse needed to for the government to launch central bank currencies.
Conspiracy Theory:
The magnetic north pole moving from Canda/US to Russia is signifying a shift in world power from the new world to the old world. It is all about magnetic power! Putin is magnetic! Joe not so much.
The Mississippi River map:
Notice that the watershed area for the greatest amount of fresh water anywhere in the world, the 5 Great Lakes, all comes from Canada. Only the shoreline areas on the US side of the Great Lakes, drain into the lakes. Almost all of the continental US’s watershed area drains into the Mississippi. Chicago fills it’s toilets with Lake Michigan water and flushes it down the Mississippi!
2020 Election Poll:
Biden poll counts inflated by 13%. Each Biden vote worth 113%.
Trump poll counts defated by 13%. Each Trump vote worth 87%.
That and poll stuffing is how Biden won the 2020 poll!P.S. Power restored after 3 days! Ontario Hydro simply forgot about us!
In a zerohedge article, it shows US life expectancy has been falling in the last 2 years. On the graph shown, it looks like the average US life expectancy has fallen from above 78 years down to about 76 years. Or a fall over over 2 years in the last 2 years.
Ivermectin could have prevented that from happening but profits for a few people is much more important than deaths of millions of people.
Joseph Stalin: One death is a tragedy but the death of millions of people is just a statistic.
P.S. Ontario hydro finally restored power after 3 days!
I was reading that China is going to put a solar station in orbit and then beam the power back to earth. Boy that will really upset the global warming folks as this will add more energy to the earth than we normally get!
However this idea isn’t new. NASA thought about it too a while ago. If you think about it, this idea is crazy as hell! We can not even breakeven on solar panels back here on earth, never mind use a shit load of fossil fuel to send a solar panel into orbit! A real bat crazy idea! And in China of all places!
This afternoon we lost power to the island cottage. A short time later we got hit with a brief thunderstorm with heavy rains and high winds. I am guessing the storm knocked out power somewhere to the west of us before the storm hit us. The winds flipped over our 35 foot catwalk to the floating dock and knocked down a number of trees. I have now righted the catwalk using nylon straps and a chain hoist.
We are on Elon Musk’s Starlink internet. It went down with the lost of power but I have rigged up an inverter to the lawn tractor’s battery to restore internet. The inverters fan is coming on fairly frequently so Elon Musk seems to use a fair amount of power. So how long this battery lasts we will find out soon enough!
Well the first battery didn’t last 15 minutes before the inverter beeped in agony before shutting down due to low battery voltage of 11.6 vdc! So now a second battery is giving it’s best effort.
Trudeau is one of those who believes the little people should sacrifice themselves for his benefit. Flying in a Canadian made Challerger jet wasn’t good enough for him. Now his highness flies in a large Airbus jet plane.
Do as I say, not what I do!
UpstateNYer:
Yes, I have noticed that global cooling seems to have suddenly and unexpectedly arrived, in our neck of the woods, very recently.
So far I have been able to be outdoors in just a T-shirt and shorts. But if our climate continues to cool at its current rate, this rapid cooling trend will soon resemble an inverted hockey stick.
This sudden gobal cooling trend greatly concerns me because then I will soon be forced to wear pants and a jacket or I might soon go extinct!
I have to wonder if the culprit to blame is a sudden fall in our CO2 levels?
Maybe I need to start collecting more firewood. Maybe if I start burning some firewood now, I might be able to reverse this sudden global cooling?
Climate Change:
I see TPTB have no problem sacrificing their climate change narrative in Eiurope to fight a war with Russia.
Trying to get Europe to fight an energy war with Russia is stupid! Europe has a deficit of energy. Russia has a surplus of energy. A war won’t change that.
Europe to burn more coal hurting climate change to hurt Russia! Winning!
Obviously TPTB are not too worried about climate change. They are more worried about a change in their power climate!
Climate Change:
I see TPTB have no problem sacrificing their climate change narrative in Eiurope to fight a war with Russia.
Trying to get Europe to fight an energy war with Russia is stupid! Europe has a deficit of energy. Russia has a surplus of energy. A war won’t change that.
Europe to burn more coal hurting climate change to hurt Russia! Winning!
Obviously TPTB are not too worried about climate change. They are more worried about a change in their power climate!0
Being from a mining family, I dig rocks! And them there rocks told me that the earth has warmed and cooled millions of times during Earth’s( history. So yeah, the climate is always changing. And if you disagree with me, then I am going to dump a big pile of rocks on you, until you come around!
Climate change is just another way TPTB are using, to control us serfs. There is no shortage of energy. TPTB are just creating energy shortages to better control us. If there was a real energy shortage the western TPTBs wouldn’t be expending tons of energy fighting endless wars to control the world.
In a real energy shortage there wouldn’t be enough energy to for TPTB to make bombs, etc. Western TPTBs are fighting eastern TPTBs to control the world. There is no shortage of energy for this battle.
And if you still disagree with me, then I will dump 30 cubic meters of rock, in under 30 seconds, on your head to straighten you out!
V.P. I eagerly await your picture words wisdom! Your trail of amusing word pictures haven’t gone unnoticed!
Problem:
The only reason Canadian energy and food prices are rising is because of Trudeau’s war on Canadian energy and farmers.
Russian sanctions have nothing to do with this. This is a “Made in Canada” problem created by Trudeau’s insane belief in the WEF’s green madness.
Solution:
Save on high energy and food costs by taking an extended vacation south this winter, to a sane country not practicing the WEF’s insane green madness. That is also where you will find the Davos crowd hanging out every winter.
It is very nice to see so many of TAE’s regular commentators pop in for a visit today. It is like old times again!
Biden in the finest of democratic party tradition, has just bailed out his banker friends by empty the public treasury to the tune of $400 billion, disguised as student loan forgiveness. Colleges are happily raising their fees by the same amount. Everybody wins except the taxpayers.
Russian Sanctions:
One curious aspect of the Ukrainian War is how all the previously neutral countries of Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, and Finland suddenly abandoned their long time neutrality and quickly imposed sanctions on Russia. I am guess the US read them the riot act.
What is also very interesting is that most of the rest of the world refused to go along with US demands for sanctions on Russia. Thus the US need for the 4 European neutrals to show their support.
Casualty Figures:
New casualty figure for the Ukraine and Russia have come out. Russian losses are nearly 5,300 killed. This figure likely comes indirectly from counting local death notices and funerals. Current casualties have dropped down to about 30 killed per week.
Ukrainian losses are 76,000 killed. However one must keep in mind Ukrainian commanders have a huge financial incentive to not report any of their soldiers as killed. They get to collect the dead soldier’s paycheck. Current Ukrainian casualties are at least 600 killed per week. More likely much higher. If 76,000 is true, then after 6 months that works out to almost 3,000 killed per week. Ukrainians reported only 44,000 injuried which is hard to believe, unless the Ukrainians are just leaving their seriously wounded to die. That is entirely possible in an artillery type war.
Europe:
If electricity in Europe is equal to $1,000 per barrel of oil, then I would just buy the oil and burn it to run my own generator. In other words if the TPTB’s power system is that corruptly expensive, I would just replace it with my own private system. But then taking a long vacation down south might be more enjoyable.
Aspnaz:
Sorry to disappoint you but China’s engineers already are designing today’s cars. GM’s Cadillacs are completely designed and built in China!
Dr. D:
If you are Germany, completely controlled and occupied by the US, then it makes perfect sense to ensure your own military is hopelessly weak, so it can’t be used by the US as cannon fodder like the Ukraine.
O.K. I know I am not the brightest bulb in the Euroland neighborhood but faced with such high energy costs this coming winter, might it make more sense to simply shut off the water supply into your home, drain the water pipes, shut off the heat, and then shut off the electricity, using the money saved to pay for your trip south to a warmer place?
My Father was never a serious drinker. He might have a little Portuguese wine with his spaghetti and meat sauce on Sunday. In retirement, at the cottage during the summer, my Mom insututed “Happy Hour” issuing Dad a shot of rum to slow him down as she felt he sometimes worked too hard. The rum dosage depended upon my Mom’s nursing judgement.
But my Father was no stranger when it came to dealing with alcoholics! Actually part of his work, mining exploration in northern Quebec/Labrador, greatly depended upon employing acoholic drillers!
Exploration drill camps by their very nature are located in the middle of nowhere, accessible only by air. My Father naturally controlled the company’s large fleet of float planes, Beavers, Otters, and Norsemen.
The trick was to fly these alcoholics into the remote drill camps and waiting until their suitcase carried alcohol ran out. So for the first week or so you let them drink and party until the camp drank itself dry! Once sober, most of these fellows made very good hard working drillers.
Early in my Father’s mining career his boss sent him from Labrador to northern Ontario to recruit drillers. He successfully rounded up a dozen experienced drillers. Then his problems began. The train would stop for a short time at each major town along the way from Ontario to the south shore of Quebec’s Gaspe region.
Naturally at each stop, the thirsty drillers would leave the train and go into the town’s bars and pubs to get a drink. The train would blow it’s whistle a few minutes before leaving to give departed passengers time to reboard the train before it left the railway station. My Father would then try to round up all of his drunk drillers and get them aboard the train.
Slowly but surely my Father started losing drillers, especially in places that had multiple pubs and bars. By the time he returned to Labrador he only had 3 out of 12 drillers left! When my Father reported to his boss how few he had managed to successfully bring back, he fully expected to get blasted! His boss complemented him for a 50% improvement over the previous years drillers recruitment!
In future years, my Father now the boss, had the company’s DC-3 fly the drillers to Labrador avoiding trains at all costs!
