“Have you watched these pro-abortion, pro-murder rallies?” the Florida congressman asked the teenagers gathered at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida.
“The people are just disgusting. Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” Gaetz commented.
“These people are odious from the inside out. They’re like 5′ 2″, 350 pounds, and they’re like, ‘Give me my abortions or I’ll get up and march and protest.’ And I’m thinking —march? You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe v. Wade,” he said to a cheering crowd.
“A few of them need to get up and march — they need to get up and march for like an hour a day. Swing those arms, get the blood pumpin’, maybe mix in a salad,” he concluded.
What is really odious is that WOMEN voted him into office. And I’ll guarantee that some of those same stupid cows were in the crowd cheering him on.
Only a couple of years ago, Nebraska governor Bill Kitner said essentially the same thing.
Marc Short, a former aide to VP Mike Pence had a great response to Gaetz:
“I don’t know if Mike Pence will run for president in 2024, but I don’t think Matt Gaetz will have an impact on that — in fact, I’d be surprised if he’s still voting,” Short said. “It’s more likely that he’ll be in prison for child sex trafficking by 2024, and I’m actually surprised that Florida law enforcement still allows him to speak to teenage conferences like that.”
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
A man will say anything to a woman if he knows that she will allow it. Most American white women will allow it. Those stupid chattel are the ones putting and keeping disgusting creatures like Matt Gaetz in office. In america it actually boils down to who is worse, those stupid bitches or the tiny dick white men who work them for votes.
I couldn’t agree more. What I don’t understand is why he is being labeled a misogynist. He may actually love women, but considering the mindset(if you can consider what those stupid cunts use for reasoning a mind) of the average American white woman, he is just saying he thinks what will appeal to them.
If PrP, and the rest of those screaming “misogynist” were more honest, they would label the stupid cunts putting the Matt Gaetzs’ in office the misogynists.
As much as I dislike your chose of words in your post, I have to admit that you are telling the truth. One can’t apologize for the truth, however harsh. It would mean to live a lie. And sugarcoated lies are not what America needs going forward. We need to address the real problem in America, shit for brains white women. I’m almost ashamed to be a white woman when my non white women friends meet to discuss our political strategies. There seems no way to reach most of those idiots. If it is not some male god they insist on following it is, the sacredness of the color of their skin that makes them follow white men who are basically racist misogynistic liars.
For those of you telling us that America would not put the Princess in danger reading this might change your mind. The whiteboy couldn’t care less about the indigenous people there. They are only concerned about using Guam to protect their white mainland.
Guam: The Sharpening of the Spear’s Tip
Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.
by Kenneth Gofigan Kuper Posted on July 27, 2022
The RIMPAC exercise once again underscores the role of the islands and region in warfighting strategy as well as the complex and even paradoxical nature of “defending” and “protecting.” This is especially true for the island of Guam, the homeland of the indigenous CHamoru people. In Guam, military officials from the Joint Region Marianas assure the residents (and the indigenous CHamoru population) that the United States will continue to protect Guam against all threats, asking them to not be alarmed by military developments. However, as former member of the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Underwood points out, being told to not be alarmed is often reason for alarm. This can be seen in the latest push to make Guam more “robust” via missile defense.
The axis of the US Indo-Pacific strategy seems to revolve around Guam. As a US territory, Guam serves as a reliable location for logistics, power projection, and deterrence. Or, as the Hudson Institute puts it, “this US territory is essential to the security of the American citizenry.”
High-ranking officials, such as former head of Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Phil Davidson, have testified before Congress on the importance of Guam: “I have repeatedly stated the most important action we can take to increase the joint force’s lethality is to introduce a 360-degree, persistent, air and missile defense capability on Guam.” Representatives from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) visited the island for engineering assessments of military-occupied land. This year, the MDA decided on the architecture for Guam defense which will consist of the Lockheed Martin Aegis combat system, Raytheon Technologies SM-3 and SM-6 missiles, and Northrop Grumman Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command. Furthermore, the MDA reported plans to provide for the initial delivery of the Aegis Guam System via a sole source contract to defense industry behemoth, Lockheed Martin.
Guam’s role as a militarized, strategically located unincorporated territory has various cultural, environmental, and economic effects, including the occupation of 27 percent of the island’s land by the US military. The latest geopolitical maneuvering of great powers adds another element to the threat against Guam, which makes itself visible through the layers of missile defense.
Missile defense development composes its own grammar for Guam. Its development may both continue the slow violence of further militarization and be used in a hot conflict. But this “shield” may also simultaneously be a spear. In addition to the environmental and economic impacts, the construction of the missile defense architecture is placing Guam once again in the middle. In this way, Guam will bear the burden of a double-edged spear. As the US sharpens Guam for its use as the tip of the spear, the other edge finds ways to pierce Guam’s flesh and possibly pierce vital organs as the people of Guam prepare for the possibility of being at the center of conflict as it once was in World War II.
In Pentagon-sponsored wargames involving Taiwan run at the Center for New American Security and the RAND Corporation, the simulation tends to include China hitting Guam “with a massive barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles armed with submunitions to take out Andersen Air Force Base….Then they launch follow-up attacks on Guam to prevent the US military engineers from repairing damage to airfields and other installations.” China understands, in these wargames, the huge risk of attacking Guam. However, as wargaming expert Stacie Pettyjohn argues, “The operational advantages of destroying key American bases and logistics nodes, in particular those on Guam, outweigh the risks.” Arguably, Guam lives under a perpetual state of threat, even if just discursive.
The twisted grammar of the missile defense conversation, however, acknowledges this and uses it as a justification for further militarization of the island, in this instance, 360-degree missile defense. As military officials have said, Guam is not a place to simply fight from, it must now be fought for. They stress the urgency and timely nature of defending the island’s vulnerabilities, while simultaneously arguing that this will not provoke China. Rather, Guam’s missile defense becomes a key to deterrence in the region. US forces and facilities in the island would enable a drawn-out conflict, which China does not want.
Experts acknowledge, however, that this defense will not stop everything. For example, Rebecca Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute writes that a defense architecture for Guam cannot be held to a “zero-leak” standard. In military circles, a “leaker” is a warhead that has escaped layers of missile defense. Thus, scholars and policy wonks want to shift the conversation from purely defending Guam to showing that even if Guam is attacked, operations will continue from the island. As another Hudson Institute scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro writes “as long as the US is reliant on Guam to fight and win a war, China will ensure that it can effectively target the island.”
A chasm lies between outsiders viewing a conflict involving Guam and this same conflict seen from Guam’s perspective. The risks of escalation and the result of conflict mean something entirely different for those who actually live in Guam. A few missiles making it through may not be the worst-case scenario for the military’s ability to sustain operations, but for those who call the island home, this can destroy lives and livelihoods. Resiliency in Guam military operations does not translate into resiliency for the island’s society. The threat of deterrence failing should send chills down our spines, but we should also consider who placed the target on our heads in the first place. The conversation about missile defense and Guam’s future in a conflict with China must include those who bask in the warm Guam sun, feel the Guam wind on their skin, or are rooted generations deep in the island’s soil.
Kenneth Gofigan Kuper is director of the Pacific Center for Island Security and Assistant Professor of Political Science and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam. This is the latest in a series of articles featuring critical voices on the militarization of the Asia-Pacific region. You can read the introductory essay in the series here. Reprinted with permission from Foreign Policy In Focus.
If a police officer asks to search your car and you say no, what happens next?
My adult son was stopped just down the road from his home because the officer was looking for an excuse. He said the radar detector was blocking the road view so my son pulled the sunvisor down and it was lower than the detector. He asked the officer if that was illegal. The officer demanded to search his truck. He tossed his keys in the truck and locked the door. The officer at that point put handcuffs on him and was holding him when a dps trooper stopped and asked what was happening. After hearing both sides he told the officer to remove the cuffs and apologize. Of course my son had to call home for an extra key but he got the last laugh.
Okay, but you do know that this only works if the driver is white. A black driver would already have been shot and the arriving dps trooper would have probably emptied his gun into him also.
All we are hearing is another white privilege police encounter story. I tell my sons to be as careful as they can when encountering the police. So I don’t get anything out of this post.
Is it morally wrong to not visit a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s in a nursing home? What is the point of visiting if they don’t remember you, or won’t remember you ever visited?
Morals are a personal thing…but I will tell you that a person with dementia does not need to recognize you to feel your affection. If you can give them your love without the burden of your pain, they will receive it.
Trump represents the mindset of most of America’s corporations. Greed before patriotism is his and their mantra. Now they are blaming China for controlling most of the things we need to survive including the chips our military needs to defend our nation. China didn’t we did. Stop blaming China for corporate decisions made in the US. CEOs decided it was more important to increase profit with no regard to national security or workers in the US. China just dealt with the hand given to them.
Make that Taiwan. That’s the problem that led up the com chips bill. If China PRC invades Taiwan, the US will be seriously hurting for chips, & not the brown kind.
This new bill will bring much needed investment into the chip business. $50 billion to jump start these chip plants where each one will take years to build using thousands of skilled tradesmen paying high wages. That will create thousands of more jobs in the areas for restaurants, stores, auto repair, groceries etc etc.
Once open the plants will turn these rural barren areas into thriving neighborhoods who will support all the needed stores, schools, fire, police etc etc.
Republicans complain the most about balancing the budget, but they always do the opposite when in power. Reagan tripled the debt after his tax cuts, and Trump increased it faster than Obama after his tax cut. There should be an emphasis on investment and at least not increasing the debt. Republicans definitely do not have a say in it since last time Clinton tried, they decided that shouldn’t be our goal.
Too many politicians-mostly Republicans but not all – only care about their own financial interests and think that letting Americans have “crumbs” is better than nothing. Thing is, most of those crumbs don’t ever reach the average American.
“The Kentucky Republican said the Senate wouldn’t pass a computer chip bill if Democrats pursued budget reconciliation, but it did and they are.”
This America is what a working Senate looks like without the obstruction of Moscow Mitch.
We need to see a lot more of this.
Many Americans believe the Republican media, who specifically blame Democrats for inflation when it is far greater than the Democrats. The supply chains shut down due to slow or no business activity in 2020 to 2021. With a better response to Covid during those years, the supply chains may have reduced production rather than shut off production, causing greater demand with little to no supply to accommodate that demand. The results of production/supply chain shut downs led to INFLATION. When this problem became a world-wide problem, inflation became a greater problem for this country.
Many believe this problem started back in 2018/2019 where the focus was on a strong economy but without proper adjustments to maintain it. The only thing that will attack inflation is healthy robust supply chains, not politics, so don’t believe false Republican statements about inflation causes and fixes.
“ Democrats have already crushed American families with historic inflation.” Actually, Mitch, it’s the free world’s central banks that enabled that and much of that happened under Trump. Also, there is high inflation in Europe, Japan, China, Russia and the rest of the world. To my knowledge, the Dems didn’t control any of those countries’ policies. But, there’s nothing like hyperbole, is there?
That’s the way it works. Republicans get power with divisive rhetoric then rape and pillage the economy leaving it in ruins. Then Democrats have to come clean it up. Once people have jobs and spending money, they forget all about what the Republicans did last time and bend over for another ride.
We are poised to help Ukraine to capture thousands of russian soldiers. Why are we being held back
Legality doesn’t define morality, or truth. We will decide when you can. Happy?
The reason why Russia cared deeply about the future of the Ukraine (this is the old name, later shortned to just Ukraine) is because of Russian core. Russian core lands in the image above account for 80% of Russian population and more of their economy and agriculture. The land is inherently indefensible, wide open spaces of the European plain, dotted by pockets of human civilization – from small villages to large cities. What the Ukraine and Ukraine give to Russia is strategic depth and a narrower front to defend. If Russian armies control Ukraine all the way to Carpathian mountains, the area to defend is narrowed from a front of 2,000 km to 600 km and the invader has to cross about 700 km of your territory to reach the Russian core. This can be defended, naked Russian core cannot. This strategic depth saved the Soviet Union in 1941, it gave the Soviets time to mobilize, the distance exhausted the invader and stretched their lines to breaking point, allowing for a counteroffensive. France fell in 1940 in no small part because it didn’t have enough space between the border and their core, centered around Paris. Once French armies were defeated, the invader was able to march to Paris in a matter of days.
What is more, the gap between border of Ukraine and Caspian sea is 700 km of open spaces. Cut through that and you’ve cut Russia away from the resources Caucasus and their only warm water ports in Black sea. This makes Russia economically dependant on the goodwill of their neighbors.
All this means Russia cannot defend itself from a concentrated attack originating in Ukraine. If you can roll up your tanks and supply columns through friendly territory all the way to Kharkiv and Luhansk, Russia will be defeated before it can fight back. They might stop the invasion, but at the cost of becoming economically unviable as a state and will collapse.
Here’s where the mistake comes in. The West knew all this and because of well-founded Russian fears consented to let Ukraine join up with Russia in an alliance called Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This wasn’t because Ukrainians wished to tie the future of their country to Russia and it wasn’t because the West was unable to treat Russia as the defeated beast it was. No, it was a gesture of goodwill to stay out of Ukraine and make Russia feel secure. Years later this gesture of goodwill was taken as a sign of weakness, the readiness to let Ukraine be reigned by a pro-Russian caste interpreted as ceding Ukraine to Russia no matter the wishes of Ukrainian people and what we see now is the result of that interpretation.
The events of the past two months show the West should have treated Russia as a defeated enemy and strip them bare. Rather than giving Russia a hand to help them rise, it should have worked to smash the last vestiges of Muscovy to smithereens and ensure Western armies, with nuclear carriers, swarmed over Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia. Russian political class only responds to power and force, they would have consented to the complete demilitarization of Kalinigrad in exchange for limited use of the port of Sevastopol and withdrawal of nuclear weapons from eastern Belarus and Ukraine. However if Russia made but one misstep, there would be the Sword of Damocleus hanging above their head, ready to strike. Russian ruling elite suffers from collective narcissism on a grand scale. The only way to control a narcissist is to make him fear you and a frightned narcissist is a docile puppy. Fail to do so and they’ll come to stab you in the back the moment they see an opening.
Treat Russia as we treated Germany in 1945, or at least in 1918, and there might even be lasting peace.
think the “Russia is strategically indefensible therefore it must occupy its neighbours” argument is bull.
There are a lot of other countries that lack strategic depth that manage to have stable relationships with neighbours who are entirely independent of them. If anything, Russia’s lack of strategic depth should compel them to seek mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbours rather than antagonistic ones.
They are themselves to blame if they end up exposed against hostile neighbours.
Way too fucking much information.
There are important national interests involved in bringing criminal charges against former presidents, for things done while in office, because such actions can be so inherently political. It’s the kind of thing banana republics do. But, trying to disrupt an orderly and peaceful transfer of power to the new president elect when all evidence supports that the election was the legitimate will of the people, is different. It goes to the very heart of our democracy.
Allowing losing presidents to originate and orchestrate a relentless and vast criminal conspiracy to disrupt the Electoral College procedures, to fraudulently hold on to power, is too dangerous to go unpunished because it sets the stage for it to happen again.
The DOJ owes it to the American people to ensure this never happens again, and charging Trump is the only way to do it. Prosecutors, judges, and juries often speak of the “need to send a message,” and if there was ever a need for that kind of message, this is surely it.
It isn’t just about the impact in America, but the rest of the world is also watching. Our reputation and position of leader of the free world is at stake. Doing nothing is not an option.
Most countries saw and were well aware of Trump’s bullying and narcissistic deals, mainly personal benefiting himself, or his elitist friends with benefits. Don the Con was a joke, still is. America lost respect world wide with Trump’s reign of wanna be dictatorship and limited mental capacity. It’s always easy to be loud and pushy than address issues, Trump has limited knowledge.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Trumpville – Donald Trump has been struck out.
The real problem with America is the way we elect our POTUS. The Electoral College is just another relic of the 18th century that’s outlived it’s intended purpose which was to ensure that states with slaves could count those slaves. Today it’s just a tool that can be abused by unscrupulous actors to rig elections for the popular vote loser.
Unfortunately, it will take a constitutional amendment to get rid of it, and red states won’t go along. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact may help in the meantime.
Tesla’s Seventh Recall of 2022 Can’t Be Fixed By Software
JOSH HENDRICKSON
It might seem like Tesla is always issuing new recalls, but thus far in 2022, every instance involved a software fix. Those updates corrected problems like rolling self-driving rolling stops and incomplete speedometers. This time around, Telsa can’t fix the latest issue with software.
As first reported by Street Insider, this time around, Tesla issued a recall due to faulty hardware. The recall does appear to be limited—only certain 2022 Model Y vehicles are involved. Tesla determined that these vehicles have an issue with the front bumper structure that may alter crash detection. That alteration may lead the Tesla vehicle to “incorrectly deploy the airbag.”
Why Tesla Vehicles Are Always Getting Recalled
Tesla will replace the front bumper free of charge to correct the problem, and the company is mailing out notification letters which should arrive by September 19th. 2022. Tesla is no stranger to recalls, having issued six already in 2022 alone, but all the previous recalls involved software updates. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) defines recalls, and chooses to include necessary software updates to correct problems in that category.
It’s unclear just how many vehicles will require a new front bumper or which factories built these Model Ys. But Tesla has indicated the recall will only affect a small number of EVs, and it doesn’t expect to expand that number.
via Street Insider
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America’s dysfunctional two-party system.
The new party, called Forward and whose creation was first reported by Reuters, will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.
Party leaders will hold a series of events in two dozen cities this autumn to roll out its platform and attract support. They will host an official launch in Houston on Sept. 24 and the party’s first national convention in a major U.S. city next summer.
The new party is being formed by a merger of three political groups that have emerged in recent years as a reaction to America’s increasingly polarized and gridlocked political system. The leaders cited a Gallup poll last year showing a record two-thirds of Americans believe a third party is needed.
The merger involves the Renew America Movement, formed in 2021 by dozens of former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Donald Trump; the Forward Party, founded by Yang, who left the Democratic Party in 2021 and became an independent; and the Serve America Movement, a group of Democrats, Republicans and independents whose executive director is former Republican congressman David Jolly.
What is one thing that you always judge people on?
I judge people based on when they choose to have showers.
If you shower at night you are a normal human cleaning yourself after a day out in the world working a good honest job. For example, if you work a night shift at the local sewerage farm, you’d want to hit the pillow free of muck. People who shower at night have their lives together and are to be admired.
But there are… others.
If you shower in the morning you are a deviant of some sort, cleaning yourself in anticipation of all the horrid things you’ll get up to during the day. You know that physical, emotional, possibly even spiritual filth waits for you and you embrace it with droplets of water clinging to your sinful face.
Maybe it’s just me, but showering in the morning seems strange.
It’s like eating dessert before dinner. Sure it’s *technically* permitted but there’s something unnerving and unnatural about it.
The thought of existing all day then laying my head on the pillow without a good shower is the type of thing I could only see if nuclear war brings Earth’s population down to a handful of survivors. If there wasn’t enough clean water to shower and we needed all the spare H2O we had to clean the sharp sticks we use as weapons to fight a hoarde of disfigured zombies, then, and ONLY THEN, would I skip a night time shower.
In conclusion, people who have morning showers aren’t bad people by default, I just don’t want you anywhere near me, my family, or within 1000 miles of my property.
A man walks into a barber shop
A man walks into a barber shop and says, “I’ll have a shave and a shoe shine.”
The barber lathers his face and sharpens the straight edge while a woman with the biggest, most beautiful breasts he has ever seen kneels down and shines his shoes.
The man says, “You and I should spend some time in a hotel room.”
She replies, “My husband wouldn’t like that.”
The man says, “Tell him you’re working overtime, and I’ll pay you the difference.”
She says, “You tell him.
He’s the one shaving you.”
Humans are incredibly cruel. Why are we concerned about their demise?
What were the saddest last words in history?
Marie Antoinette – Her husband executed, her children taken and gone, hundreds and hundreds executed. On her last day was forced to change in front of guards, her hair shorn from her head, hands tied behind her back ridden in an open cart for one hour through jeering crowds and she mounts the stairs to a blood stained platform where the guillotine awaits.
“Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l’ai pas fait exprès” or “Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose”, after accidentally stepping on her executioner’s shoe.
Something so very sad — courtesy after all the horrors and facing death.
You are so very wrong. The saddest words in history are from people who history is not concerned with. Consider abused women before they are stained by their abusers, Slaves that have died after centuries of abuse by their abusers. The list goes on and on, You have bought into the scam by those who think only of themselves. Logically you should be more concerned as to why this is the case.
What is the best way to tell if a hotel room is really clean?
Or How do you know if a hotel room is clean?
It all depends on what level of clean you’re looking for.
Here is what I look for in most hotels:
When you arrive, put your luggage in the bathtub. It should be clean bright white and 3 or less scratches. Toilet and tile should be clean with no stains. Grout in bathroom should be stain free.
Now you get to go and check for bedbugs while your luggage is in the tub. Go to the bed near the headboard and pull off all the sheets and blankets + the mattress pad. You should see a nice and clean mattress that looks brand new. No stains on the mattress ever. Be sure to flip the seam back and forth. If you see any blood spots or brown spots anywhere, you’re likely dealing with bedbugs. Then check the box springs on both beds. I check the sheets for stains or snags. All should smell fresh.
Next, move to the air conditioning. Pull the air filter and look at it. It should be dust and mold free. The final thing I check is general cleanliness around the window. It should be clean and mold free. Window coverings should be clean with no massive stains. Carpet should be generally clean.
Someone anonymously charged a bar tab to my hotel room. What do I do if hotel management doesn’t believe it wasn’t me?
Question: Someone anonymously charged a bar tab to my hotel room. What do I do if hotel management doesn’t believe it wasn’t me?
You contact the hotel chain’s customer service telephone number and complain about the matter. They should be willing to resolve the matter quickly between you and the property’s management. If they don’t, then escalate the matter up the chain of authority with the company until it is resolved.
Additionally, flatly state that you want to file a criminal complaint with the local police department. Even if it’s only a misdemeanor, you still want a police report in case the hotel does something “funny” and attempts to charge your credit card for the unpaid bill. Don’t allow the officer with whom you speak to “buffalo you” and attempt to prevent your filing a police report. Get a copy of the report and keep it handy in case your customer service complaints are not addressed.
Finally, have the hotel provide you with a video of you in the bar, running up the charges. They would almost certainly have such a video and they shouldn’t have any problems letting you view if they are indeed claiming that you created a bill that you claim that you did not. If you are not on the video and you don’t know the person or people who did indeed create the charges, then they have no right to charge you.
Frankly, this would be a poor hill for the property to “die upon.” Either you made the charges or you didn’t. They would have to be willing to take a hit from their own customer service department, have a police report filed on their property and then risk having a customer give them bad reviews online for what is likely a relatively small amount. None of the above is good for a manager seeking to be promoted or even retaining his or her job
It’s their problem.
Let them fix it.
The US government has surveillance on just about every citizen who does anything in public. It’s been just less than two years ago that an United States Air Force Inspector General (USAF IG) report on the use of National Guard RC-26B surveillance aircraft against protesters was made public. The propellor driven, twin engine aircraft has been in US military service for many years as an intelligence collection platform, which is precisely the role in which it was used to track Americans engaged in marches and rallies after Floyd’s murder. The USAF IG’s June 2020 report on the RC-26B incidents was contradictory in terms of exactly how much potentially personally identifying data on protesters might have been collected and shared with federal, state, or local law enforcement.
The USAF IG report claimed (pp. 1-2) that “The sensors on the RC-26B can only collect infrared and electro‑optical imagery, and this imagery was not capable of identifying distinguishing personal features of individuals.” Yet deeper in the report (p. 21), the investigators conceded that “Although it is difficult in an urban environment, it appears it would be possible to connect activities to an individual. One witness described developing a ‘pattern of life’ which is a term-of-art in intelligence practice for following a person or object to discern patterns that allow forecasts of movements of that person or object…That requires some amount of discernibility among objects. For instance, a flight could observe suspicious activity, follow the person, and law enforcement on the ground could be vectored by a control center or by a law enforcement officer on-board to the individual….It is important to emphasize here, though, that there is no evidence that such a risk manifested in any of these RC-26B flights.”
Yet a National Guard Bureau white paper on RC-26B capabilities notes that “RC-26B records evidence-quality full motion video, and high resolution still frame imagery for use by the law enforcement community, host nations, and other government agencies.” And as the USAF IG report itself noted (p. 50), a plan to use a Phoenix-based RC-26B to collect full motion video on protesters to “deter planned/unplanned demonstrations, protests or looting” did not go as planned because of software compatibility issues between the RC-26B and the Phoenix Multi-Agency Coordination Center (MACC). The USAF IG report described the Arizona National Guard operations plan’s counterprotest language as “in-artfully worded,” it conceded that “Deterring protests and demonstrations, assuming they are lawful, is not consistent with constitutional rights.” In fact, planning a military operation to disrupt First Amendment protected protests was, in fact, a violation of the rights of Phoenix protesters – contrary to the USAF IG’s assertions at the time.
The directive in question requires DOD components to maintain such records on protest incidents for at least 90 days, and in some cases far longer with official authorization. DoD’s legal tactics have one objective – to try to prevent the American public from learning the exact scope of any ongoing DOD or component surveillance of US citizens engaged in peaceful, constitutionally protected activities.
Just over a week after Cato filed its FOIA lawsuit against the Pentagon, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) revealed that DOD components – including the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – had been buying commercially available data on American citizens, including geolocation data. The fact that the practice is apparently ongoing, combined with DOD’s refusal to cough up any information about its use of the directive at issue in Cato’s FOIA suit, should be a cause of concern for every American – and a call to action for Congress to intervene and mandate the release of the data in question.
Under “Men are disgusting” how about this one. Maybe he should have used an account I didn’t know about. So here is what he wrote on that account.
I finally confessed my feelings for my best
friend. I had a feeling she had similar feelings
and she did. Then we spent last weekend
camping and doing mushrooms. Haven’t felt so
connected to someone in my entire life.
The situation is still a little weird right now, but I
think it’s going to work out to be amazing.
What he didn’t say is that he did this while
cheating on his wife. Hi, I’m the wife!
Quit telling people this shit. Sooner or later they will bust you.
Did You Know?
If Johnny Depp hadn’t been available to play Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the second choice and fall back option was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
A lady goes to her parish priest
A lady goes to her parish priest one day and tells him, “Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots but they only know how to say one thing.”
“What do they say?” the priest inquired.
“They say, ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?'” the woman said embarrassingly.
“That’s obscene!” the priest exclaimed, “I can see why you are embarrassed.”
He thought a minute and then said, “You know, I may have a solution to this problem. I have two male parrots whom I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my house and we will put them in the cage with Francis and Job. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship. I’m sure your parrots will stop saying that…that phrase in no time.”
“Thank you,” the lady responded, “this may very well be the solution.”
The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest’s house.
As he ushered her in, she saw his two male parrots were inside their cage, holding their rosary beads and praying.
Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them.
After just a couple of seconds, the female parrots exclaimed out in unison, “Hi, we’re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?”
There was a stunned silence.
Finally, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and said, “Put the beads away, Francis, our prayers have been answered!”
We need to hear from you.
Monkey pox is about to jump the male gay sector in San Francisco. As usual gay men can’t be persuaded to use common sense protection when they engage in their multiple partner fucking. The Down-Under, the flat out lying about their gay tendencies, and the filthy habits of disregarding the health of others after practicing unprotected sex acts section of gays in San Francisco is exposing the general population to Monkey Pox.
Will it have to come to the isolation of gay men from the general population similar to when AIDS first reared its head to force these narcissistic men to put a jacket on their dicks when they engage in fucking some stranger in the ass?
Men in general are just fucking self centered assholes. Gay men represent the epitome of that genere.
Fuck gay men. The Log Cabin Republicans are white boys who fuck each other and the rest of America up the ass for their white privilege. I say let AIDS and the Monkey Pox have them.
The sad things about the death toll in Kentucky are: 1. The poor, as usual, are the ones that suffer from the whiteboy who denies climate change. And 2. Not enough of those racist motherfuckers die in a flood.
Did You Know?
Only two U.S. states have elevation points below sea level, California (lowest elevation, -279 feet/-86 meters) and Louisiana (lowest elevation, -8 feet/-2.4 meters).
Do narcissists realize when you’ve finally had enough?
From my experience, narcissists generally do realize when you’ve had enough. They may not show it, but they usually know when they’ve pushed you too far. The thing is, they don’t really care. Narcissists are all about self-gratification and they’ll keep doing whatever it takes to get what they want. Even if that means driving the people around them crazy. So while they may realize when you’ve finally had enough, it doesn’t really matter to them. They’ll still keep on doing their thing regardless.
Sure most say Trump was elected because of the bigotry in America, but that’s because no one in America wants to admit just how stupid Americans in general are. Here are These are actual complaints received by a holiday company from dissatisfied customers who all were American except one, you figure out which one that was:
1. “They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.”
2. “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”
3. “We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish.”
4. “We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price.”
5. “The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room.”
6. “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow.”
7. “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time — this should be banned.”
8. “No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared.”
9. “Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers.”
10. “I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”
11. “The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun.”
12. “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.”
13. “I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends’ three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller.”
14. “The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the resort.’ We’re trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service.”
15. “When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners.”
16. “We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning.”
17. “It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”
18. “I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes.”
19. “My fiancée and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”
Did You Know?
British coal miners used canaries as air quality indicators and early warning systems well into the 1980s.
Joke:
A woman is at home when she hears someone knocking at her door.
A woman is at home when she hears someone knocking at her door.
She goes to the door opens it and sees a man standing there.
He asks the lady, “Do you have a Vagina?”
She slams the door in disgust.
The next morning she hears a knock at the door, it’s the same man and he asks the same question to the woman, “Do you have a Vagina?”
She slams the door again.
Later that night when her husband gets home she tells him what has happened for the last two days.
The husband tells his wife in a loving and concerned voice, “Honey, I am taking off tomorrow so as to be home, just in case this guy shows up again.”
The next morning they hear a knock at the door and both ran for the door.
The husband whispers to the wife, “Honey, I’m going to hide behind the door and listen, and if it is the same guy I want you to answer yes to the question because I want to see where he’s going with this.”
She nods yes to her husband and opens the door.
Sure enough, the same fellow is standing there, he asks, “Do you have a Vagina?”
“Yes I do,” says the lady.
The man replies, “Good, would you mind telling your husband to leave my wife alone and start using yours!”
Why are targeted individuals targeted and destroyed?
The best piece of advice I’ve gotten is the “why” doesn’t matter. As in it does not matter why they chose you or me specifically… it could be any reason you could imagine: randomly selected, someone you unknowingly ticked off, your political/ religious/ personal beliefs, or in our case perhaps you saw or did something you don’t even realize is a problem. For my wife and I am almost certain it was some illegal (prob gov or cartel based) drone activity/ surveillance. But I try not to get bogged down in the why, it will drive you crazy and the best thing to do is accept it is happening and move on.
If your question is asking what is the purpose for the targeting then I have already answered this in other posts. But the short answer is to keep the budgets and wallets fat of all the involved parties while having a captive group to test electromagnetic weaponry and other boots on the ground tactics. They are human (maybe?) scum so try not focus to deeply on this question either, bc each group/ faction of this organized crime syndicate (fbi, military, local police, community watch groups, local militia, etc) each have their own agenda and goals. F them all! Do you best to journal and keep track of concise provable evidence. One day these terrorist human garbage cans will have to answer for their crimes against humanity…
What was Trump’s pettiest moment as president?
Until last week, I would have been unable to choose from the hundreds and hundreds of petty, spiteful things this failed human has done.
But he left us with a winner.
Remember how he ran out of town the morning of Biden’s inauguration so he wouldn’t get his fee-fees hurt by having to welcome the guy who beat him — by a landslide — back to the White House? Well, 30 minutes before the transfer of power, trump fired, by phone, the Chief Usher of the White House.
The guy who was supposed to open the door for the Bidens in trump’s absence.
Then he sent home everyone else on the staff. Meaning that when Biden arrived at the White House he was greeted by… closed doors.
Hysterical, right? That Donald; such a card!
Sure, it’s a massive violation of protocol that reflects badly on Little Donnie. And yes, it’s a security threat; there’s a reason the president doesn’t open his own doors to discover what’s waiting for him on the other side. But it’s right up there with short-sheeting someone’s bed at summer camp, so… Greatest Prank Ever!
That same day 4,400 Americans died of the #TrumpVirus. Instead of mourning their loss, or thinking of how he could reduce the death toll, trump was using his last minutes in office to try to embarrass the man who beat him.
Further, final proof he was completely emotionally and psychologically unfit for the job.
Russia doesn’t want the West providing Ukraine with long-range weaponry in case Ukraine uses it against Russia and potentially, on targets inside of Russia.
I know right? What a concept!
Putin wants to be able to attack Ukraine without repercussions or consequences and is angry that other countries are providing Ukraine with the means to retaliate… so the Kremlin is making vaguely mysterious and threatening noises in the hopes of reducing the amount of long range weaponry that Ukraine receives.
Actually Putin’s threat of nuclear war if the West gives Ukraine long range weaponry is working. NATO and is making the same mistake Europe made when Hitler took countries one by one as Europe stood by to appease him.
Do you have to service a Tesla given it’s electric?
Yes.
I bought one in 2020.
It is nearing the end of year two so my costs are going up this year. This year I will have to replace the A/C filter (20 bucks if I do it myself, around 80 for Tesla to), check the brake fluid for moisture ($5 test myself, not sure what/if the local mechanic would charge), and probably going to replace the wipers ($20 or so, may spend more for whatever brand Tesla used because they lasted a lot longer than most I’ve found). I’ll also rotate my tires (free with my local shop) and Clean & Lubricate my Brake Calipers ($150).
Last year maintenance was about 10 bucks (replace washer fluid, free tire rotations at my local shop).
Year 6 I’ll replace the A/C dessicant bag when I get the filter replaced ($50).
So that’s the 2 year rotation for me. Figure an average of about $200 a year.
Then the non-scheduled maintenance…
Brakes eventually wear and need replaced, but with an EV as it uses the regeneration of power using the motor to slow you down mostly, they tend to have a very long lifespan (7–10 years). Tires every 3–4 years most people figure, depends on driving and roads.
The evidence is: 1. reports of lab workers who fell ill in October. 2. Earlier contact tracing found the earliest known cases had NO known ties to the market. 3. Reports by guests on CNN or CNBC claiming Chinese lab workers have been caught selling lab animals to wet markets to supplement their income. 4. China’s only Class 5 virology lab getting cited for poor safety protocols as recently as the year before. 5. The lab’s admission they were currently studying several bat coronaviruses and 6. working on gain-of-function (aka, weaponization).
This last point is of negligible importance as in order to study a virus and manipulate it, the lab would obviously have samples in their natural form. Why is that fact willfully ignored by the media coverage?
Serious COVID-19 scientists are not suggesting anyone created it. That possibility was researched, but it was a dead end. That kind of genetic manipulation leaves traces in the genetic code, and those traces aren’t there.
Aside from that, the idea that someone would intentionally create this particular virus and release it doesn’t make sense. Original mortality was in the 1% range, bad but not bad enough for a bioweapon. The rate of mutation also makes it unpredictable, and unpredictable is not something that anyone would want in a weapon.
The conspiracy theory that someone created such an inferior “weapon” but had the apparent expertise to hide it means the perpetrator would have to be both incompetent and an unprecedented genius.
I always believed COVID was from the market. I have seen documentaries of cites in China where the markets are. I felt sorry for all the animals in tiny cages all stacked up in ultra close quarters. Chaos just waiting to happen.
Vv there were reports of lab employees reporting flu symptoms. The video evidence came from smuggled recordings of chaos at hospitals treating the early patients. It showed docs & nurses collapsing in the hallways from exhaustion. Patients were filmed being brought out in plastic wrapped tubes & rolling sealed boxes b/c the hospitals had no idea what they were dealing w/.
All this suppressed havoc was followed by docs & others being silenced by the disease & in other ways. Later, we have the very suspicious refusal to supply samples of the fluids studied by Chinese scientists. All that was offered were summaries of what their studies found.
Do you honestly think China will admit guilt for the introduction of COVID? I offer you this example. Many pet food manufacturers get supplies from China. There is a certain amount of protein required. China wasn’t meeting that until they decided to add melamine, is a chemical used in the manufacturing of plastic dishes, cups, and other tableware to the pet food, as it mimics protein. That food was used by pet owners and their pets were mysteriously dying. Until they tracked it down. China never apologized, or admitted guilt, they just executed the person in charge of that plant.
The racist whiteboy has always been with us. This is more dangerous than you all realize. Not time for pithy statements. People who think like him, who relate to him, are walking among you now when you are out shopping, buying gas, or picking up your children from school. We’re one step away from losing our democracy and one step closer to becoming an “benevolent” oligarchy. People like him are teaching rigidity and hatred for those who look and act different from “their” norm. There is no room for variety in their world and people like him will do whatever they can get away with to ensure their world view sticks.
Roughly speaking, in the first half of the 2nd millennium, the Christian world was fundamentalist and stagnated while the Muslim world was liberal and flourished. After the crusades attacked from the west and the Mongol invasions from the east, the Muslim world turned conservative and fundamentalist, and they entered a 500 year period of decline.
In the Christian west, after the defeated knights came back to Europe from the Levant, they brought the advanced math, science and technology they found in the Muslim world and sparked our Renaissance. The Christian world turned liberal, and we have flourished for the past 500 years.
The lesson is very clear. Conservatism and religiosity is a recipe for stagnation and failure, and liberalism is a recipe for success. Broadly speaking of course.
It just seems like it would be so much easier to treat human beings like, ya know, human beings. All this irrational bias against people simply because the look different than you, love differently than you or believe differently than you. I would imagine that just takes an enormous amount of energy to continually justify such hateful nonsense.
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SIM Cloning: 3 Signs Your Phone Number Is Compromised
SYDNEY BUTLER
SIM cloning is a practice where a malicious user makes a copy of your phone’s SIM card, putting you at risk that any SIM-based authentication you use is compromised. If you realize it fast enough, you could minimize the damage.
What Is SIM Cloning, and Why Does it Happen?
A SIM card is essentially a security measure to prove that you’re entitled to access a cellular network. Your phone number is associated with a particular SIM, and the SIM also has its own unique identification number, registered with the service provider.
When a SIM card is “cloned” it means one of two things. Either two identical cards now exist on the same network, or the original card has been blocked and the number associated with that card has been moved to a new SIM in the possession of a malicious actor.
While there are tools out there that can make a copy of a SIM card, they need the original card to be present. So an attacker would have to steal our card in the first place. This isn’t very practical, so the most common method is to impersonate you and get the phone company to do a SIM swap.
This is a hacking technique known as social engineering and it targets the part of a security system that tends to be the weakest link: humans! Sometimes SIM card cloning is done through collusion with an insider at the phone company, in which case the SIM card you have may not be blocked, making it harder to detect that you’ve been hacked.
Warnings Signs of SIM Cloning
SIM cloning is a relative rarity, but it’s definitely something everyone who uses a SIM card should be aware of. So, how would you even know that your card has been cloned?
1. You Suddenly Stop Receiving Texts and Calls (And Can’t Make Them)
If the attacker has initiated a SIM swap by impersonating you, then the SIM in your phone will be blocked. You may see a message that you have no connection or that your phone is “not authorized” or something to that effect. You won’t be able to make or receive calls or messages. If this happens to you, it’s a good idea to immediately phone your provider (from another phone obviously) and ask if a SIM swap has been initiated.
2. You Get 2FA Messages You Didn’t Request
In some cases where hackers manage to clone a card without blocking your original card, both your handset and the cloned handset may receive copies of the same messages. If you start getting messages with password reset codes or other two-factor authentication (2FA) information you didn’t ask for, it’s worth hopping on the phone with your provider to make sure your SIM is safe.
3. Your Phone Bill Has Unknown Activity
Sometimes hackers who clone SIM cards are not looking to defraud you directly, but to use your number as a way to defraud other people. They can commit crimes or impersonate you for various fraud scams by having control of your phone number.
So it’s worth going over your phone records every month just to make sure that calls aren’t happening on your number that you didn’t make!
How to Prevent SIM Cloning
While rare, becoming the victim of SIM cloning can be devastating. It’s not really possible to prevent cloning when it’s done as part of collusion with employees of a phone company. However, in most cases, the phone company itself is a victim of hackers impersonating you. The phone company will ask a caller a number of personal information questions to verify that they are the correct individual.
The key thing here is that this only happens when you phone the company. If someone claiming to be from your phone company calls you and then asks for this information, it’s almost certainly an attempt by someone to steal that info. Specifically, so they can turn around and pretend to be you to the phone company. So if you get such a call, never give out any of that sensitive information!
It’s better to deal with one of the main reasons cloning happens in the first place. If you’re using any sort of SMS-based, SIM-linked two-factor authentication service, consider changing it to another type of security factor. SMS-based two-factor authentication is weak compared to the alternatives.
The best option is to use an authenticator application that’s tied to your specific handset. Google’s Authenticator is widely compatible, although some companies use their own in-house authenticator technology.
Why can’t electric cars be towed?
EVs can be towed, just not with any tires on the ground.
The wheels are always connected to the motor, unlike in a gas car, where an engine can completely disconnect from the wheels. So when you try to move the EV, even if its in neutral, the motors will induce a current and that will damage the electronics and possibly fry the motor by getting extremely hot. This is why you always want a flat bed.
Russia’s New Naval Doctrine Identifies US as Main Threat
Putin signed the new doctrine on Russia’s Navy Day
by Dave DeCamp Posted on July 31, 2022Categories NewsTags Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday signed a new naval doctrine for Russia that names the US as Moscow’s main rival on the seas. He signed the doctrine ahead of a speech commemorating Russia’s Navy Day in St. Petersburg, Russia’s port city on the Baltic Sea.
The 55-page doctrine says that the major threat facing Russia on the world’s oceans is “the US strategic course towards dominance in the world ocean and its global influence on international processes, including those related to the use of transportation lanes and energy resources of the world ocean.”
According to Russia’s Tass news agency, the doctrine also identifies the expansion of NATO’s military infrastructure up to Russia’s borders and the alliance’s drills in waters near Russia as major security threats.
In recent years, the US and NATO have stepped up their naval activity in the Black Sea. In 2021, US warships more than doubled their presence in the Black Sea compared to the year before. But since Russia invaded Ukraine, the US presence in the waters has dropped, and Washington recently canceled planned Black Sea exercises.
Tensions between NATO and Russia in the Black Sea came to ahead back in June 2021 when the UK sailed a warship about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Crimea. Russia viewed the move as a major provocation and said it fired warning shots at the British warship HMS Defender.
Putin’s new doctrine also called for Russia to expand its military presence in the Arctic, an area where the US Navy has said it needs to confront Moscow. Russia is a major Arctic power and its coastline with the Arctic Sea and other waters above the Arctic Circle stretches about 15,000 miles.
Kennedy probably said it best:
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.”
John F. Kennedy
What’s one thing nobody knows about driving an electric car until they actually drive one?
I got to drive a Model S for a week in exchange for house sitting for a friend and taking care of his cats while he and his wife went on vacation.
One thing that I think no one knows is just how peaceful and stress free it is to drive an electric car. it’s both quiet and incredibly responsive. You hit the gas, you’re gonna go instantly. There is no perceivable time gap in between putting the pedal to the metal and launching forward. And if you’re going too fast, taking your foot off the gas slows you down instantly. No need to switch between pedals.
It reduces driving aggression because you’re not dealing with noise, mechanical idiosyncrasies or worry about finding a gas station when you need one. You do most of your charging at home, overnight. We never had to charge while we were on the road.
I would buy one if they made a short van like the one I drive.
Putin is currently making daily advances. Why? Several reasons.
First, he has concentrated his troops rather than having them spread out over the country.
Second, his inexperienced troops who are not dead now have experience.
Third, he is fighting in areas where he has indigenous support.
Fourth, he has solved much of his logistical problems.
Fifth, he has replaced generals who were ineffective.
Sixth, Russia is no longer underestimating the abilities of the Ukrainian troops.
But wars ebb and flow. A month ago Russia was in full scale retreat. No doubt Ukraine is devising a plan to counter what Russia is doing. Things will not stay the same.
We’ve been asked to detail what the various military acronyms mean by some of you new to your stations in Ukraine. We will be giving a more detailed explanation later. This should do for now.
.MBT; Main/modern Battle Tank. In Russia (and the Ukraine) each version is labelled as ‘T-number’; denoting the year of design; as in T64, T80, T72. & T90. The first 2 are more common with the Ukrainians, the last is Russian-only. The world and his mother have T72s
MTBs have big guns and load of armour; they’re the spearhead of any attack and the backup for a defence.
APC: A mechanised tin box (wheeled or tracked€ that protects infantry from light weapons and near misses from artillery. Generally cheap. In Russia the BTR-60/70/80. Fast, safer than being in a soft truck, light weapons., often referred to as a ‘battle taxi’.
MICV: Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicle. Far more powerful and way more expensive than an APC. Invented by the Soviets; BMP-1 to 3 and BMD-1 to 4. Generally carries a smaller number of infantry but under better armour and with a medium-sized gun in a smaller turret plus maybe a missile launcher on the roof. BMPs tend to be the most heavily armed but lightest armoured MICVs in the world.
AT: Anything that’s specifically designed to kill a tank or other armoured vehicle.
ATGM An Anti-Tank Guided Missile; like Javelin but there are dozens of types dating back as far as the 1950s. Sometimes referred to as an ATGW.
RPG; Rocket Propelled Grenade. Unguided, light, short range, cheap++.
AA: Anti-Aircraft weapons.
SAM: An anti aircraft missile; come in short, medium & long range versions; S400 (very long range) is not a useful weapon against HIMARS unguided rockets (the system can use longer range missiles but they haven’t been given to Ukraine)
SSM: Surface to Surface Missile. A big guided missile like a WW2 German V2 only far more accurate. The Russians are fond of them and have a huge variety as Mariupol, Odesa, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Lviv, 200 hospitals, about 300 schools & crèches and Serhei’s garden shed can attest.
HE: High Explosive. Think UXBs and a Big Bang. Usually anti-personnel or building; pretty useless against tanks.
AP: a term which means different things in different centexts. Either Anti-Personnel as above more recently ‘armour-piercing’.
So APDS, APFSDS, APFSDM; all specialised rounds for upsetting tank crews; listed in ascending order of ‘tanker’ nightmare.
But on the other side of the technology race is armour. From Iron (WW1) to steel and sloping (WW2) to composites, ceramics, ERA (tries to blow up the attack round) to NERA (disrupts the attack) and recent radar, IR and Laser sensors that detect and respond actively to incoming attacks before they arrive; the defence of a modern tank has become a lot more complex (and expensive).
Those of you attempting to take out as many russian troops as possible should take note: if you’re shooting at troops in the open don’t let the projectiles hit the ground. Use a timed fuse and set it for an airburst. It will produce “STEEL RAIN.”
It will be like shooting a large area from above with thousands of pieces of steel shrapnel and the Russians won’t have time to run or duck and for cover from a round moving more than a half mile a second no matter how fast they run. If you allow them to dive for cover and make it then your projectile wasn’t aimed in their general vicinity properly.
Buildings…tanks…personell carriers and bunkers are taken out with rounds having PD ( Point Detonation or half second delay fuses) to penetrate a building or bunker 5 or ten feet before exploding.
The Artillery we have equipped you with has GPS guided munitions and rounds that will burst over armor and fire through the top of a tank.
Infantry..Cavalry..Cav scouts and Armor wins battles. Artillery wins wars. The enemy can’t stop Artillery! If NATO and the Americans continue to dole out artillery to Ukraine in such a poor manner, they will lose the war. We have to use our ingenuity to compensate. Remember ˇÓ´ ´Â∏´‰O‰’ edict when doing so.
When choosing a country to be part of I suggest that you choose America. That way you can also choose a nationality without the problems of actually living in the country that nationality is from. There are innumerable benefits in doing this. Of course the choice is still yours, but on occasion we will list some examples:
What is the nature of Swedish people?
E[9 first learned the ways of the Polish people. He has lived in Sweden for 135 years. Poles are very different by nature. They like socialize and they do it in much less formal ways than Swedes do. The Swedish way is too organised and lacking in spontanity. Most Swedes are afraid to do or say something wrong (att göra bort sig). One thing that E[9 is not fan of is talking about work, which Swedes (those he knows) do a lot, at any occasion. About the friendship, as they say “once you are friends with a swede, the friendship can last for years and even decades.” The thing is that it never happens, or very rarely. E[9 can see among those he knows, that they don’t have friends, many are lonely. One feature that is typical for Swedes, and which E[9 values, is being decent and honest. Swedes can be a bit too boring, but they are reliable people, whether it’s in private or at work.
We like the comparison to Japan that E^/4 has made. In fact, we too thought there is a striking similarity between Swedes and the Japanese, despite such a long geographical distance between the countries.
I[4 there is no problem with the color of your urine being yellow don’t accept the myth about water that humans are indoctrinated with.
Thanks to advertising and under-educated health gurus, humans seem to think that they need to drink water basically all day, or they might: 1.“get dehydrated and die.” The “if your urine is yellow, you need more water” is an indicator of this myth.
The human body is an amazing machine, and it even knows when it needs more liquid!
How does it convey this need to you? It tells you you’re thirsty. Thats it. If you’re thirsty, drink. If you’re not, don’t.
Don’t listen to humans who say, “If you wait until you’re thirsty before you drink, it’s too late.” Consider the logic, that would be the same as saying; “if you wait until you’re hungry to eat, its too late,” or “if you wait until you’re tired to go to bed, its too late.”
The human body knows what it needs. Logic should tell you to look at the rest of earth’s
animal kingdom. Do they drink water all day, or only when they’re thirsty? Now does your logic tell you that humans are so unique in in all fauna that the human body can’t tell when it needs water or not?
Did You Know?
RAS Syndrome, Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome, refers to the use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym in conjunction with the abbreviated form (e.g. saying “I’m going to the ATM Machine” when the “M” in ATM already stands for “machine”); the redundancy of the word “syndrome” in the name of the effect is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the effect itself.
For those keeping track, we are at 89.7. Mechanisms are being employed. If you have changed your mind about retrieval, now is the time to say so.
You don’t know me and you don’t care to know me. And you aren’t smart enough to see the urban legend for what it is. I’m over trying to tell the truth about hat.
The truth is you have your own agenda. You will do things your way as you always do. Just like on the phone. I say “I didn’t call you.” You say, “okay, I’ll not call you,” and hang up. Are you three years old? How does one person’s statement become something YOU own? Where is the logic?
And it was in poor taste to request a promotion for “helping me.” Helping me my ass. You were assigned a job. Stop with the BS about being my friend.