People who were dudded by QANTARSE selling tickets on flights that had already been cancelled get $225 for domestic, $450…
Open Thread – Tues 22 Feb 2022
- Bumtree #6
- Meme of the Day #68
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- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
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If I had my time again Roger, I would study Indian history.A huge market to tap into!!! Even with half of them…
Motive isn’t everything but it isn’t nothing either. So far as the child in the womb is concerned, for instance,…
If I had my time again Roger, I would study Indian history. A huge market to tap into!!!
IDF has begun evacuating people from Rafah… Worst. Genocide. Evah!
From the Oz:-
Well it was one stonking big bonfire of official papers they were burning in Kiev, but then Team Trump did claim to already have collected major loads of the evidence, so unless Team Biden knows, can find and ‘disappear’ every lacky who can testify to the legitimacy of the paperwork …
Cronkite, they don’t see it as failure, but in fact success. The more expensive fossil fuel derived energy, the better it is, according to them. Think in their terms, not ours.
USSR
Go fuck yourself.
@ Old Bloke-
When the Standard Gauge was completed from Kalgoorlie in 1966, Perth Railway Station was fully built out and occupied with narrow gauge metropolitan and country passenger and freight traffic.
Because of the way the city had been built up around the original station (1890s vintage, and built on what was the northern edge of Perth town at the time), there was no room for further expansion or regauging of any existing track. The decision was instead made to create a new passenger terminus as close as possible to the centre of town and centralise the WAGR’s administrative facilities there.
If you want an idea of what it was like in the steam era, jump on the Rail Heritage WA site’s photo gallery and search for ‘Perth Station.’ It was a busy and crowded old place, as everything destined for Fremantle ran through there.
In its current status as a metro terminus, I think Perth is almost as spartan and threadbare as it was in the early colonial days…
Gentle people.. one and all..
Please look at the latest livestreams of the catastrophic Russian attack on Kyiv from Fox News, or the WaPo.
The Russians seem to have developed stealth bombs and missiles, so stealthy they can’t be seen, or heard.
The horror!
Any other video evidence of this WW3 precipitant is welcome.
???
You have no proof of this and do not understand what you are talking about.
This is seriously unhinged, batshit crazy stuff.
You will not be proven right later down the track like Alex Jones re: frogs and atrazine.
Ted, I’m perfectly fine. How’s the banana picking going? Are you at least keeping up with the daily quota?
I have a question.
If masks, hand sanitising and social distancing don’t work, how come no-one has the flu?
Between Grigs and SRR, there has been far too much retardation on this blog today…
7:24pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/02/21/ukraine-russia-invasion-news-latest-putin-biden-war-updates/
Putin lashes out at Ukrainian authorities for persecuting opponents of anti-Russian revolution of 2014
President Putin lashed out at the Ukrainian authorities for going after those who opposed the 2014 revolution, pledging to “punish” those responsible for a deadly fire in a Black Sea city.
Mr Putin said Russia “knows the names of those responsible for the tragedy in Odessa and will do all we can to punish them.”
42 people trapped in a building in Odessa burned, suffocated or jumped to their deaths in May 2014.
Jefferson Earl?
Like in Married, With Children?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlfWUoMO4q4
It’s bullshit, just like Palmer and his Party.
Which ‘genetic lines’ have been targeted and what has happened to them?
And what are ‘genetic lines’?
On balance I think this is the best of the light machine guns, the CZ BREN 2. One for every person.
Being locked up is different to masks not working (peer review research).
You can lock down to not get COVID or the flu, but it’s a dumb choice.
Marshall and Stalin had something in common. Marshall retired many generals and colonels because they were old\and not up to scratch. If a commander failed on a mission he could be relieved and perhaps demoted but that didn’t spell the end of his career, some moved to higher ranks. Marshall’s attitude was simple: the commander probably gave it his best shot and failed, no point giving him another go at that particular mission. In a lecture I posted here some time ago the point is made that generals were successful in WW2 because they were replaced and seniority was not on Marshall’s scorecard for leaders. The lecturer argues that today the military no longer subscribes to Marshall’s rapid get rid of ’em if they fail strategy and that is why military leadership in modern times is of lower quality than in WW2.
🙂
The flu has been wearing one of those sexy, sexy masquerade mask things to go with its slinky evening dress or neatly fitted suit (depending on which way your imagination tends).
A natty Omicron one, at present. 🙂
John H
I’m not so sure one can make that claim because it would need to be tested in an all out war.
Good people. Peter Ridd and Jennifer Marohasy start their Real Science Project:
https://realscience.org.au/?tfa_next=%2Fresponses%2Flast_success%26sid%3D601f727264d612c142167b9c7f758622
Weeeellll…
George C. Marshall didn’t mass-murder all the ones he didn’t like.
And didn’t constantly try to sideline and hide away the very good ones on whom his dreams of continued dynasty relied…
OCO:
Startin’ to look that way, eh?
Our masters have worked on the premise that we hate Putin more than we hate them.
I think they may have made a really dud call.
Writer probably meant genetic clines, which is reference to gene distributions in a population across a geographic region. It is not possible to target clines or lines because these are typically small allele changes(slight gene variations) because it is extremely difficult if not impossible to target small changes in genes without impacting the other alleles for that gene.
He examines their performance in Iraq and Afghanistan and obviously thinks there were many strategic errors made. Also, today they aren’t sacking generals for stuff ups that in WW2 would have meant immediate relieving. They couldn’t cut in the smaller conflicts so thankfully there hasn’t been an all out war. Another obvious example if Vietnam, one huge clusterfuck of leadership after another, with McNamara being the Chief Clusterfucker.
Nuffy-speak for racial targeting. Something else to do with the Narrative that the Red Shoe-Wearing Tunnel Lizards are trying to murdergenocide us all and corrupt and enslave our bodily fluids, I suspect…
Just read the ‘how dare you’ comment Winston.
I suggest you go back and read what you wrote.
Citing the Geneva Convention in the context of an invading country that didn’t comply with the Geneva Convention, was the actual invader (not the allies seeking to free France) as a reason for the French not to resist perhaps wasn’t the persuasive argument you thought it was.
I wasn’t suggesting you thought the Germans were the good guys, though it did look like you were suggesting the massacre of French civilians was the responsibility of the French resistance, not the Germans who actually committed the crime.
Marshall didn’t replace Mark Clark, so you’re argument is dead in the water.
Wodger:
He got that right!
Remember the Jabs that the world protested against being mandated after the evidence of their many horrific & deadly dangers (backed up by actual experts), could no longer be denied?
Some can’t.
It’s like it all went, ‘Poof!’, all those dead people and those seriously damaged for life must be forgotten and we’re now supposed to go back to trusting Big Pharma.
Told you herding cats was easy.
I am not a cat.
I am a humane human being.
Throwing out wild guess now.
‘Genetic lines’ is vaccines designed to target white people fertility in cunning new racial genocide attempt?
Reports that Ruskies have taken control of several Ukrainian military vehicles and have infiltrated Kiev…
McNamara wasn’t a General, though he had been an executive at General Motors.
Why not quit while you’re behind?
Thanks Rex. We’re really just looking at a short distance, approx 2 kms, of narrow gauge railway being replaced with shared narrow / standard gauge railway. I assume that the railway sleepers would be longer (wider?) than the narrow gauge sleepers, but that shouldn’t be too much of an obstacle.
ZK2A:
When Stepdad Jack got out the army after a prolonged stay in the bomb happy ward, he went home to the missus and two kids. Unfortunately there were two Italian PoWs doing farm work there and were not amused at him turning up – nor was the missus.
They beat him fairly badly from all accounts and chucked him off the property.
He went back a week or so later, grabbed the kids and schooled them on the road.
Both of them turned out well, but.
Groogs, you’re leaving the lids off the formaldehyde during the day again aren’t you?
Umm, the fact that Marshall was largely responsible for Clark’s rise in the first place may have had something to do with his reluctance to sack his protege.
He was the Secretary of Defense.
Uh-huh.
Riiigggt.
Where did this come from?
Rosie by people who know less about genetics than me hence can dream up impossible genetic weapons.
Wodger:
I’ve been using that pharmacy for nearly 14 years now.
No more – go online, I don’t have to argue with them about my scripts and his authoritarianism.
“I can only supply what is on the script.”
“I think you have enough of them already so you can’t have them.”
I don’t argue with people, I just don’t go back. Arguing with someone on a power trip is useless. That’s their game and they can play it all by themselves.
It is not my argument you pitiful display of ratiocination. It is the argument of a military expert regularly called upon by head military honchos to provide advice.
McNamara worked for Ford, not GM, one of their “whiz kids”. Sort of explains why the F-111 was a flying Edsel
No shit, Sherlock?
Has he been advising those, heh, “head honchos” who thought it was a great idea to keep supplying missiles to Ukraine the last 8 years?
Is there an Edsel Club in Australia?
Hello, Spare Parts?
I’d like a grille for my ’58 Edsel.
BoN:
Depends if it’s me doing the navigating…
On the Frogs vs resistance bit.
The Frogs were brave and the multiple attacks had a minor impact militarily but were useful in tying up 2nd line troops and gumming up logistics etc.
The Boxheads had made it very plain that attacking them would mean massively disproportionate reprisals on locals near attacks.
I’m unsure if the partisans who attacked were locals or not. If they weren’t then it was a bit shitty to have attacked there.
This is a very good summary of Putin’s actions…from Fox News.
“Why Putin’s playbook can’t be stopped: Russian-born US intel expert”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJW7tn4wPys
McNamara worked for Ford, not GM, one of their “whiz kids”. Sort of explains why the F-111 was a flying Edsel
He wanted a common aircraft to be used by the US Navy and the Airforce. It was worked out that it was too heavy to be landed on carriers, so the Navy version was scrapped. Also when the problems were ironed out, it turned out to be a very capable aircraft.
They were communists who’d fled Spain, since Franco wanted to have a quiet word about some missing Clergy.
They were just snipers, if retaliation was carried out against local villagers, it didn’t worry them.
“Yeah but forget all that, Putin’s doing surgical strikes against legitimate military targets that have killed far less people than Cuomo killed, let alone all the others killed by their Western Govts Covid Protocols & Jab Mandates”
For someone who was furious, furious, at me for my failure to show conspicuous compassion towards a lady with a dislocated shoulder, that doesn’t sound like much concern for the war dead in the Ukraine, just as long as it’s ‘surgical’ ‘legitimate military targets’ and *far less people* right?
The left now spewing the lie that if Trump would have been Potus Ukraine would have been worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv4v4flXtPk
Stephen King is the ugliest guy alive and a shithead to boot.
Nope.
Some may have been hiding out, but there were plenty of actual French Communists who formed the Maquis.
The Maquis were not the only movement that formed the French Resistance
There were various saboteurs, spies, bombers, radio operators and more from all walks of life…
… And practically all of them were locals, working out of their own homes and villages, towns and cities.
The only vaguely near equivalent of the roving bands of mercenaries you seem to have imaginated for this latest exercise in your retardation, Grigory, were the SOE radio operators and other agents parachuted in from the UK from 1940-44 and the SAS Jedburgh teams inserted just prior to D-Day. And they all were tied to supporting operations in specific regions and liaising with specific groups.
Ok ed case.
There were some Spanish Republicans marquis,in the South, and some eastern European refugees, I don’t think Jean Moulin was one though.
And the trouble is when you visit the locations in question, everyone knows the names of the resistance members, their families, where they lived, which school they attended, how old they were when they were killed.
For example René Bye native of Tarbes age 19 in 1944 when he was summarily executed by the Germans.
Now he has his own Rue and before and after photos in the local musee.
I have a question.
If masks, hand sanitising and social distancing don’t work, how come no-one has the flu?
And yet they all still got Bat Flu…..
Bat Flu is the fucking Flu.
It makes no sense that “Flu” disappeared, “Bat Flu” appeared, and yet annual mortality rates remained the same.
I remember seeing somewhere recently (maybe here) that some country was introducing AI to try crimes. China I think.
We have a legal aid lawyer down here that runs on the volume principle, she gets everyone to plead guilty and gets the basic fee for minimal work. Must suck to get assigned that one if you didn’t do it. You might stand a better chance with an algorithm.
Exactly Rex.
Thefrollickingmole says:
February 25, 2022 at 7:36 pm
On the Frogs vs resistance bit.
The Frogs were brave and the multiple attacks had a minor impact militarily but were useful in tying up 2nd line troops and gumming up logistics etc.
Some may have forgotten from 1940-44 that most of southern France was under Vichy control.
French police and agents did the population control work for the Germans leaving them free to concentrate on the occupied area.
it turned out to be a very capable aircraft.
People with soft spots for dud planes are like men married to ugly women. They’ll never admit it.
It was a disaster from the moment they took the TFX contract off Boeing, despite winning four selection processes, and gave it to General Dynamics, which had just recorded the biggest corporate loss in US history after being jerked around by Howard Hughes, who wanted a fleet of golden-aluminium Convair jetliners for TWA. That it also happened to have a huge plant in Lyndon Johnson’s state (Ft Worth) didn’t hurt either.
Yes, I’ll agree the F-111 managed to perform the roles it was assigned in later development. But it was conceived as a fighter-bomber, not an electric warfare plane, as it became in Wild Weasel iteration, nor as a fuel-dumping airshow star. It certainly didn’t acquit itself with aplomb in Vietnam, where, if memory serves, the first six deployed all punched holes in the jungle before being withdrawn after about six weeks.
The F-111 represents everything wrong with materiel procurement, then and now: revolving door transfers from Pentagon to contractor; a plane that was supposed to do everything; ordering “off plan”; stupendous contractor corruption. I could go on, but that pedigree is its hallmark, not that it was revised and obliged to take up new roles for which it was never designed nor intended.
John H
It is not my argument you pitiful display of ratiocination.
I think that might be a bit too subtle for Dick Ed.
Covid might have a higher reproduction rate than other types of flu, I’m not arguing for compulsory masks, especially for children, I’m just suggesting they may have reduced transmission rates and I have zero problem with people at risk from covid continuing to choose to wear them, because it’s quite possible it’s the sensible thing to do, along with frequent hand sanitising.
Musician Chris Rea’s old man was Italian, seems they weren’t uncommon in post war Britain.
When I was a kid in Essex, just north of the Thames, the local icecream suppliers were the Bastiani ice cream company.
They were communists who’d fled Spain, since Franco wanted to have a quiet word about some missing Clergy.
They were just snipers, if retaliation was carried out against local villagers, it didn’t worry them.
Dick
Ease of on the magic ‘shrooms.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326447/
https://futurism.com/the-byte/bioweapons-kill-people-specific-dna
China’s Nightmarish New Bio Weapon Targets Race and Ethnicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNxl7tiVSY
laowhy86
4 months ago (edited)
Whether or not this technology can be used in the way that the PLA military scientists want it to be used (I’m very skeptical after speaking to people in the field) it’s the intention and principle of this research, and the brazen publications highlighting the maliciousness that counts.
***
Meanwhile, like everything that, ‘wasn’t possible’ until it became common place, the work on it hasn’t stopped, and it has people like Fauci’s of the world behind it.
So, Fauci & Co.’s gain-of-function gives us a bad cold that kills fat people & black people at a higher rate than even other very sick people, while little kids (who usually snuffle up like ooze machines with everything out there), are unaffected, but meh.
Funny how many characters here come out wildly shooting the messengers of topics that the West’s Enemies would rather we ignore.
it turned out to be a very capable aircraft.
if McNamara had anything to do with it I’d expect the opposite
Make mine the 14″ barrel in 7.62 x 39 please.
Not sure that moral equivalence works.
I find it hard not to look at the Russia/Ukraine situation without considering the first impeachment hoax trial.
Surely Putins actions will destroy the money laundering deep state?
rickw, my pal who is building the Pietenpol Air Camper has scored a newly re-built Ford Model A engine for $1400 which he’ll put in it. As it isn’t a go places , just a fly around the local area early in the morning or late in the afternoon, aircraft, this will make it much more authentic and likely worth more.
The conversion of the Model A engine to aero engine appears to be no big deal. Outstanding!
Well, make a big difference….
Yeah. The Loading Gauge is not really practical to widen now, due to the built-up nature of the city. Particularly once you get to Claisebrook and McIver, where you have some 4 tracks on a very tight curve into a confined space. Also, the nature and frequency of the PTA’s services is something that makes external access and deconfliction painful. It is better to keep the two separated, with limited pathways extended to external services that do not come all the way into town. There are also no platforms in Perth Central that could fit a full-length IP, and trying to run the Prospector or AvonLink services out of there would only impose timetable delays from the sparks coming and going around them, to no practical benefit.
Since all the Standard Gauge facilities were built around Forrestfield and Kewdale and down to the then-new bulk port at Kwinana (all of which was on the very edges of town in the mid-late 1960s), there was no point trying to extend anything further into Perth proper. If room could be found for it anyway.
Putin’s best weapon against the US would be the release of a dirt file on the political elites.
There’s no doubt their spooks would have compiled quite a dossier.
You are an ignorant idiot and you don’t know what you are talking about.
COVID, nor any vaccine, are a type of genetic *precision WMD*.
As for “the jabs!” being unsafe, Novavax, Sputnik and Covaxin have excellent safety records.
Areff.
You mentioned radical land clearing by the USAF in Vietman.
The F-111 had TFR – Terrain Following Radar.
Which on occasions turned into TFR – Tree Felling Radar.
The other thing the F-111 was world class at was hemorrhaging fuel.
I think the Commonwealth are still paying out claims for the poor bastards who had to get in the tanks and pick out and replace the sealant.
FFS, stop complaining!
Winston Smith says:
February 25, 2022 at 7:23 pm
Wodger:
After a similar experience recently, I’ve concluded that the sooner pharmacists are replaced by robots the better.
I’ve been using that pharmacy for nearly 14 years now.
No more – go online, I don’t have to argue with them about my scripts and his authoritarianism.
“I can only supply what is on the script.”
“I think you have enough of them already so you can’t have them.”
I don’t argue with people, I just don’t go back. Arguing with someone on a power trip is useless. That’s their game and they can play it all by themselves.
______________________
That would be nice, however an allergy treatment that works better and without the side effects of the off the self versions (and at half the price), comes with this when you try to buy it online –
“IMPORTANT NOTICE:
PLEASE READ THE CONDITIONS BELOW AND CHECK THE BOX TO ENABLE PURCHASE OF THIS PRODUCT.
Pharmacist Only Medicine
This product is a Pharmacist Only Medicine and requires pharmacist advice before we can dispatch this product. You must first place the order and then contact our pharmacists within 48 hours on 1300 bastards. The pharmacist will determine if this product is appropriate for you and if so, approve the order. In the event that you do not do this, the product will be deleted from your order and the balance of your order will be dispatched. This is not required if you have a doctor’s prescription.
I agree with the terms and conditions of ordering this product”
Putin’s best weapon against the US would be the release of a dirt file on the political elites.
There’s no doubt their spooks would have compiled quite a dossier.
that would be great but just imagine how great the legacy meja’s spinning against it would be.
they would try to bury it- I can’t image it being on Tom Elliot’s arvo sow
arvo show sorry
You are as incompetent as Grigory at dissembling. Your entire post was meant to have a go. And the fact you had to screech this back at me tells me I was right over the target.
What sort of Nuffiness is this? You tried to defend a statement that non-Russian ‘International’ Communists were controlling Communism from outside Soviet Russia, while your source correctly cited the Comintern (all those ‘International Communists’) as being controlled by Soviet Russia.
Care to try again? We’ll put training wheels on the goalposts this time to make it a bit easier for you.
Where’s the real Faulty when you need him? This replacement is substandard.
Gez you are right. The Vichy knew they were for the chop one the Germans were booted.
I can’t remember the book now but one of the most effective and ruthless Milice commanders had originally tried to join a resistance group but was turned down because he was a violent thug.
Hung at the end of the war from memory
https://greatworldwar2.tumblr.com/post/635651621644320768/milice-the-milice-française-french-militia
I’ve been watching Ukraine coverage on Fox News for eight hours+.
Like Hitler, I think Vlad has overestimated his army’s ability and underestimated the resistance of the Ukrainians.
Most interesting snippet of the day, from a young Ukrainian female patriot on the ground in Lviv, the uni town, is that US crowd funding site Patreon is blocking fundraising by civilian supporters of the Ukraine military.
Silicon Valley and all its billionaires can’t suddenly change their spots. They are fascist scum.
You’d think they’d learn after the F-111 fiasco, trying to make one basic airframe be a fleet defence fighter/interceptor and a low level strike aircraft but no, the F-35 is a close support/strike/conventional takeoff/landing, carrier capable, V/STOL fighter.
I think I was calling for the confiscation of cheating dice from the wrong player, Dot.
SRR rolls so many natural 20s and Critical Successes on her Nuff-Nuff Checks every session, I swear she’s gone and clumsily Sharpie’d ’20’ in messy script over each die face.
I dare not enter her Magical [Thinking] Realm…
A carrier capable one at that.
The upside that bit of Strange foolishness was Grumman’s biggest cat.
Why?
All Putin wants is Security Guarantees.
Whatever fairytales the American public choose to believe isn’t any concern of his.
srrsays:
February 25, 2022 at 8:04 pm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326447/
https://futurism.com/the-byte/bioweapons-kill-people-specific-dna
…
A cline is a gradient of distribution, not an identifier of an ethnic group. The biggest threat from GE is not ethnic cleansing it is the destruction of everything from crops to plastics by creating bugs and fungi. That has been done. All that is required is one organism that can degrade a key material and then release it. The problem is that once it is released there is a risk it will spread everywhere.
I’ve heard the rather bitter claim made that the Government is spending more money on studies and reports, then on compensating those who got into those tanks – they’ll all have to die, sometime!
Dead right, Sancho.
McNamara arrived from Ford assuming he could treat the Pentagon like a Detroit production line: OK a new model based on economies of use. Where he was euchred was in not grasping that the services’ brass were seasoned campaigners in corridor warfare, hated each others’ guts and jealously guarded their share of the defence budget with an unwavering eye on getting more of it.
The Navy insisted on all sorts of changes, notably a super-big radar dish in that pointy nose (which is why it’s pointy). This made the plane wide, so the pilots got to sit side by side in a slower plane. Having slipped in all its refinements, the Nacy then said the beast was worthless and managed to get its contract killed. The Poms, Canadians, Marines all bailed, leaving poor, stupid Australia to take delivery of a plane conceived as raining destruction on Indonesia but which lacked the legs to get there.
Such was and is the spite between the Navy and USAF that, at a memorable defence Committee hearing, congressmen learned that the two budget items they were considering were essentially the same plane — just that the rival services refused to call it the same thing.
As to being a capable plane in its latter years, ask Col Gaddafi about that one.
Reagan sent 11 to bomb Tripoli, of which only six (maybe seven) arrived from England and one of those was shot down.
The USN needs a modern version of the Tomcat. The F 35 can never fulfil that role, not fast enough, doesn’t carry enough weapons, too short on station time. The Tomcat was specifically designed for fleet defense and with China now having very long range stand off anti-ship missiles a very wide picket line in the air is very important for fleet defense.
Why?
All Putin wants is Security Guarantees.
Whatever fairytales the American public choose to believe isn’t any concern of his.
You’ve put your unwitting finger on it Ed.
Why?
Because he can.
Irrelevant.
The Red Army was poised to overwhelm Europe, so they didn’t have much of a choice.
Were you asleep for 8 hours?
The Ukrainian Army is surrendering and the Russians are allowing them safe passage out.
Most interesting snippet of the day, from a young Ukrainian female patriot on the ground in Lviv, the uni town, is that US crowd funding site Patreon is blocking fundraising by civilian supporters of the Ukraine military.
Bastards, who owns patreon? Regardless, I don’t think anyone should advocate targeted assassinations.
the F-35 is a close support/strike/conventional takeoff/landing, carrier capable, V/STOL fighter
Eyrie: What’s even funnier is that the F-18 was chosen over the F-16 for its two engines, said to be essential at the time for operating over water.
How many engines does our latest gold-plated hangar queen F-35 boast? Why, just one.
I’ve always thought that was McNamara’s legacy – the armed forces could be run like a Detroit production line.
It’s a shame that the TSR2 was cancelled- That was a supersonic strike aircraft that had promise.
Killed by idiot mandarins who thought that missiles would do all the work of air attack and defence forever…
Oh, OK.
What sort of bullying?
Right.
Now, I am no fan of PVO, but give me a fucking break.
No, my comment was so basic, even you could understand it.
Given that Boeing is still developing the F-15X platform into a Gen 4.5 semi-stealth fighter, I have little doubt that Lockheed (or whomever absorbed Grumman, if they do not still exist) could re-engineer the platform into something cutting-edge.
Or the US Navy develops Boeing’s Loyal Wingman into a loitering missile truck. Controllable from an F35 or E2.
Junkie. 😀
Redstate has this:
Report: Russia Fails to Reach Objectives for First Day Amid Brave Ukrainian Defense (24 Feb, via Lucianne)
No idea about the veracity of any of this, although the UK Ministry of Defence is probably as good a source as is around right now (ie. not very).
If as some reports are saying that the 10,000 Ukrainian grannies who are grabbing their free AKs plus ammo and going after the invaders Vlad may have a problem on his hands. Ukrainians aren’t the most well-hinged people on the planet. Probably with cause.
I have not been keeping an eye on the Ukraine invasion, as I figured the reporting was going to be nearly worthless in this current era of garbage news. Instead I’ve been readin of the 9th and 7th Divs assaulting Lae. Two fun things I learned tonight so far: that “furphies” are derived from a WW1 Western Front toilet, and the first ever Australian combat paratroop drop was by the 2/4 Field Regiment, of the artillery.
The fat-arsed German ruling class talked Biden out of sanctions that would work because they didn’t want to upset Vlad too much as he could cut off their oil and gas pipe from Russian via Ukraine.
Germany is addicted to Russian energy.
Once again, Germany is bludging off NATO and the US because it refuses to pay the 2% of GDP it promised.
Fuck the Chermans. Let Vlad cut off the gas pipe, bankrupt the joint and take over as the Chermans beg for their lives and their luxury AUDIs.
Source, Grigory? Because even if it’s partially true, you are such an untrustworthy soul that everything must be verified with you.
I’m waiting for a bunch of pissed-off Ukrainians to do it to everyone.
No sweet, sweet gas royalties for anyone, if you want to use us as a football…
#Opa!
Right.
Now, I am no fan of PVO, but give me a fucking break.
Not so sure.
The modern millennial male journalist has all the habits of bitchy girls.
Exclusion techniques are nasty girl 101.
I thought the rationale behind the scrapping of TSR2 was that it would be cheaper to order the F 111?
How many engines does our latest gold-plated hangar queen F-35 boast? Why, just one.
That’s because of the V/STOL version which can’t hover or likely even takeoff on one of two engines and two engines gives you twice the chance of losing the aircraft if one fails. The Air Force and Navy CTOL versions should have had two engines. The marines really just needed a Super Harrier 3 which could have been fitted with the cockpit and combat systems of the other two versions.
Best comment of the week so far.
Which is why he & his trusted business associated of many decades, from around the world, could be less hamstrung with Trump as an “Ex” President of The United States.
If it was always clear to me that ‘The Swamp’ was global and couldn’t be drained without blowing in the swamp creatures bolt holes around the world, I’m sure clever people such as & Trump & his mates would have figured a way to deal with it long before ever saying he would run for POTUS.
Trump didn’t only beat Team Hillary to become POTUS, he beat the world’s most dangerous & deadly cabals including Clinton/Biden & Co’s Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Middle Eastern, Central & South American partners in crimes against humanity & all of THEIR Western Media/Propaganda, and he is still kicking.
I don’t see any fat lady yet.
H/T srr
I’ll tell you a secret, Tom:
The Germans don’t want NATO.
So, who does want NATO?
The US, of course, so why shouldn’t they pay all the bills?
Really, Grigory?
So who have they been hiding behind since 1949?
Drop the Pro-Russian Glowie schtick. You have enough trouble with your own Gypsum-fuelled wrongologist act without trying anything else on…
Ed Casesays:
February 25, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Putin’s best weapon against the US would be the release of a dirt file on the political elites.
Why?
All Putin wants is Security Guarantees.
Whatever fairytales the American public choose to believe isn’t any concern of his.
Dick seems a little nervous at the prospect. Surely a spook like him would already know the contents of the files?
Smoking was banned on VIP aircraft at that time….
Being a Labor shill and paid stooge, his bosses are probably deathly concerned that anything that might implicate Rub-n-Tug as being anything less than the upright, rugged Tory-fighter he proclaims himself to be, in the runup to an Election Year…
Possibly.
But not being invited for coffee?
Is that … actionable?
Depends if the inviter was handsome, rich, 6 feet tall, funny and had no kids from a previous relationship…
Oh?
Can you explain, then, why Merkel cracked the shits with Trump when he said the US wasn’t going to pick up the tab anymore?
Zulu
I’ve heard the rather bitter claim made that the Government is spending more money on studies and reports, then on compensating those who got into those tanks – they’ll all have to die, sometime!
That might have been true in the 1980s/early 1990s, but knowing at least one of those involved later, I doubt that their is much validity to that claim now.
Thanks ZK2A – I could never stand that little PoS. I remember when he was deposed by the undertaking- record unemployment and all he could talk about was him and his family. Loathsome disgusting grub.
PAUL JOSEPH WATSON: World War Woke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXuHpaEwgE
So the LugenPresse is going to dripfeed details about Hawke’s private life in the hope that some Incels will think:
and not:
Two fun things I learned tonight so far: that “furphies” are derived from a WW1 Western Front toilet.
Don’t think this is correct. Australian WWI water carts were made by Furphy Bros. Foundry in Shepparton. The water cart operators were the purveyors of BS stories. Furphies.
https://furphyfoundry.com.au/the-origins-of-telling-a-furphy/
Hawkie’s partiality for Havana cigars didn’t suit his image of “The little Aussie battler” so there was a ban on any photographs being published of him with a cigar…..
Did you bother to read the article? Naah, didn’t think so.
rosie wants people to believe –
Western Govts going to war against their own people for refusing to submit Govt mandated, dangerous & deadly drugging for life,
is BETTER than,
a foreign Govt going to war against those who also blow the life out of over 16,000 of their own people, and conducting that war with absolute minimum of casualties.
rosie doesn’t believe it.
It’s just the twisted thinking she has to sell to keep selling acceptance of those deadly drugs she’s personally invested in.
Hawkie’s partiality for Havana cigars didn’t suit his image of “The little Aussie battler” so there was a ban on any photographs being published of him with a cigar…..
germalists were partisan hacks then too
What’s to explain?
Trump never meant anything he said and the US will never stop picking up the tab.
I see there’s been an excessive amount of Edding this evening.
Perhaps he would like to explain why he said Beria was an engineer, when he clearly was no such thing.
Also, a reminder. This was Ed a few weeks back:
‘I tell a lotta lies, pal.’
areff
As to being a capable plane in its latter years, ask Col Gaddafi about that one.
Reagan sent 11 to bomb Tripoli, of which only six (maybe seven) arrived from England and one of those was shot down.
But that was enough to make Gadaffi go very quiet until Shrillary decided to try her Julius Caesar impersonation on him.
The Red Army has entered chat.
rickw, my pal who is building the Pietenpol Air Camper has scored a newly re-built Ford Model A engine for $1400 which he’ll put in it. As it isn’t a go places , just a fly around the local area early in the morning or late in the afternoon, aircraft, this will make it much more authentic and likely worth more.
The conversion of the Model A engine to aero engine appears to be no big deal. Outstanding!
So cool!!!
Bruce of N
Not quite a toilet, but a water cart around which troops gatgered to fill their water bottles and gossip.
From Wiki
A furphy is Australian slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual. Furphies are supposedly ‘heard’ from reputable sources, sometimes secondhand or thirdhand, and widely believed until discounted. The word is said to derive from water carts designed and made by a company established by John Furphy of J. Furphy & Sons of Shepparton, Victoria. The steel and cast iron tanks were first made in the 1880s and were used on farms and by stock agents.[1] Many Furphy water carts were used to take water to Australian Army personnel during World War I in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.[1]
IIRC, cast into the circular tank ends was a slogan on the lines of “Until our good is better, and our better best”.
Areff:
I heartily agree. Defence spending throughout the West is politically corrupt, managed by shonks and only saved by the engineers who are able to remake silk purses made out of sows ears into reliable equipment fit for use.
Witness the submarine debacle.
When Hawke moved into the Lodge, after his election victory of 1983, he took his butler with him. There was a ban on mentioning the existence of said butler…
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 25, 2022 at 8:45 pm
It’s a shame that the TSR2 was cancelled- That was a supersonic strike aircraft that had promise.
I thought the rationale behind the scrapping of TSR2 was that it would be cheaper to order the F 111?
Mountbatten (then still an active admiral) was claimed to have turned up at a meeting in the MoD with a model of the TSR-2 and one of the Buccaneer, and asked “Do you want one of these or eight of the Buccaneer”, that being the relative costs.
🙂
It’s like a Pavlovian response that I can’t hear or see the word Essex without this man coming to mind, and being grateful he does –
David Essex Rock On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ppeRMgYOvU
Dick
I’ll tell you a secret, Tom:
The Germans don’t want NATO.
So, who does want NATO?
The US, of course, so why shouldn’t they pay all the bills?
Then original purpose of NATO was said to be to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down.
Bizarre sanctions.
Not only did the Germans veto kicking the Russians off SWIFT.
But all energy & agriculture transactions are exempted from any sanctions.
I’m old enough to remember when wars started you stopped doing business with them.
91.3%* of humans existing on this planet have lost the ability to sensibly govern themselves.
All thanks to the most absurd idiotology to have existed in our** history – collectivism.
*Figure may be higher depending on latest reality developments.
** Tempted to use “their”. I don’t want to be any part of this slow motion goat rodeo clownshow trainwreck …
Forget Libya.
How many Pigs did Biggles Gareth Evans despatch from Amberley for one to breach Tasmania’s air defences and take a photo of a river?
yes ZK2A- I only heard about the butler a few years ago
Imagine you’re some 18 old Ukrainian being told you have to fight the Russians.
All while the billionaires who caused this in the first place are still making bank (actually more because of what energy prices have done).
What a war.
rickw
Snap on furphy.
Lathe of the week for anyone in northern NSW. Looks rough but my guess is would scrub up very well, good box full of accessories:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/tuggerah/other-tools-diy/lathe-vintage/1290951954
From the recently released ASIO transcripts:
“err Carruthers, grab us another two slabs of Southwark, I tells ya and several boxes of Chateau Cardboard for li’l ol Blanche!” 🙂
“Until our good is better, and our better best”.
Good better best. Never let it rest. Until you good is better and your better is best! (IIRC!)
Found my Pietenpol engine, $300!
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/murray-bridge/engine-engine-parts-transmission/model-a-ford-engine-1929-engine-number-ca87438-/1290137819
Last night, wake up 2 am, check the market. Everything on a red downslope to hell. No surprises there. Back to dreamland.
4 am, another check. WTF. Everything on broad sunlit uplands.
This is insane.
Stirling individual, not at all into sexual predation either. Hopefully he keeps on using LugenPresse, it is sweet the way he does that. All learned and shit.
Rick – Here, see footnote p328. “Sanitary carts”.
feelthebernsays:
February 25, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Wow I am older than you but remember same. Tin foil types will be running riot with this…
Errr… No, Faulty 2.0.
Rosie is merely calling you a hypocrite.
Once again, that famed Glass Jaw of yours proves to be your undoing.
Got some actual proof other than a few ‘creatively interpreted’ blockquotes and other Nuffy magic to support that slander, Faulty 2.0?
Awww owe ahhh ugggh Blanche, uhhh you’re going to have to wake the general up with some diplomacy darl…..agggh uhhh too many West Coast Coolers with Mr Laurie Daley last night…not that I understand Rugby League ehhhh ahhh I do feel sorry ah for those working classes (starts sobbing) heroes like Benny Elias, poor little Benny…ahhhh by 1992, no Balmain hooker shall awwww ow ahhh ugggh be unable to score from behind.
SOP for propagandists; a selection of characters bitch about what they say someone says, not what someone actually says.
It’s so old hat it only works on kids & simpletons.
Which also tells you what they think of their audience.
And for BJ, in 1970 our house was served by pan men. Amazing guys. So hence my interpretation of what a “sanitary cart” might be. Would not be surprised if the same bunch provided both services, but that the more palatable became the official source of the word. Soldiers, though, tend not to hold back like that. 😀
Like the recent bank account freezes in Canada, locking nations out of SWIFT will only promote alternatives. As has already happened with China and Russia developing an alternative. Entirely predictable once the USA started down that path.
Given the effort Putin has put into sanction proofing Russia I don’t think they’re going to be much other than theater.
His one good point.
ZK2A:
I’d believe that – any bureaucracy will take any funds from anywhere for its own growth. The aim of the organisation is not the ‘mission objective’ eternal growth at any cost is.
It’s Australia written large.
The parasite eventually kills the host, then moves on to the next host.
Russia loses markets, America takes those markets, that’s what it’s about at the moment.
Special Ed using the George Costanza excuse “a lie is not a lie if you believe it”
Sounds like a cop-out to me Rex, I’m sure its do-able. I’ll give you this weekend to get it done, you can only work at night though but you should have it finished by Monday morning.
Sydney has the advantage of having a separate set of platforms for their inter-city and inter-state services apart from the suburban services, it’s a pity that the WA railway planners didn’t do likewise all those years ago.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 25, 2022 at 9:48 pm
And for BJ, in 1970 our house was served by pan men. Amazing guys. So hence my interpretation of what a “sanitary cart” might be. Would not be surprised if the same bunch provided both services, but that the more palatable became the official source of the word. Soldiers, though, tend not to hold back like that. ?
Army camps in 1914 might have had pan services, but once in the field, pits seem more probable. Gossip around a water cart provides more opportunities than perched along a row of pans, or squatting over a pit.
Watching the SBS version of MacBeth
Polansky’s was better so far.
Doesn’t have to be that highly selective to devastate targeted groups.
0.03ish % of contaminated, killed, was enough to bring the world to it’s knees.
You get even a 5% hit rate against recognisable groups, with something new, and what the hell wouldn’t their leaders agree to, to ‘avoid worse’.
Also, no matter an individual’s experience or expertise in this field, it is an old, broad & vast field with seriously competing interests sitting on their own developments with ruthless security.
If Iggy Pop came back as a seven foot skinny chick with a fondness for spangly codpieces he might look like this. If he did he would still be infinitely more appealing than the other notoriously skinny one. Note the url contains the directory /digital-cougar-assets/.
Meanwhile, in other extreme makeover news. That Woman’s Weekly photoshoot of Albo and his new squeeze has him turning into an eighties era yuppie preppy type. This can’t sit well with his professed love of fighting Tories.
I cannot tell anybody anything about you that your behaviour on this site does not already display in big, flashing neon lights, Faulty 2.0.
I take it that ‘propagandist’ is your throwaway insult of choice, like Bird with his ‘N****r’ and ‘J*w?’
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
John Kerry: “I hope Mr Putin will stay on track with what we need to do in respect of the climate.”
Bwahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Vlad has just started a hot war trying to wipe a country the size of Texas off the map and Kerry wants him to worry about the distraction he’s causing to mentally ill leftards about their mental illness about climate variability.
Dumbest piece of human rubbish ever born.
BJ – On a static WW1 trenchline I thought that would not be fortuitous. Sanitation would be a severe issue in such situation, so I assumed “sanitary carts” were doing what they did for us in 1970, although those guys had a truck not a cart.
It makes sense that the guys were shooting the breeze whilst waiting in line to use the thunderbox.
If we conscripted those between 16 and 60 to fight in the Baltics the Cat would be far more entertaining.
Just putting it out there.
Trump never meant anything he said and the US will never stop picking up the tab.
Tell that to Soleimani donut. You’re such a pissant.
US Vaccination Rates Collapse As Omicron Subsides
THEY’RE AFTER OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!!!1!
Soleimani was a spook and an Iranian and Israeli asset you stooge! Now just get over this and prepare for a victory so epic that Biden is going to get 70% of the votes in 2024.
It’s a warning.
Yeah, we let you take back the Donbass, don’t go Off Script on all the other bullshit, and we might let you keep it.
Knock off the vodka Dot and go to bed.
Bruce of Newcastle.
The brasco was not a place to linger in the trenches. Have a think about it.
Field hygiene was taken seriously, apart from the French of course.
Army publications had great chunks devoted to the subject prior to World War 1.
I have never shot a gun, as Dot put it.
Been on both sides of people firing them. Fired a few myself.
Where do you think the expression “ don’t get caught with your pants down” comes from?
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If Hawkie was running for PM today even what we know about him now I’d still vote for him cause he made us feel good about ourselves, he didn’t lecture us and the Liars weren’t a bunch of nancyboys. Does anyone remember how useless the Libs Federally really were. If only John Elliot hadn’t been nobbled things might have been different. Maybe its just me, liking strong characters. I could relate to both of them.
INTERESTS!
THE CABAL!
BANKSTERS!
INTERNATIONALISTS!
DARK FORCES!
DEFINITELY NOT JEWS!
For those out there demanding a translation of the posts made by srr and runny bum.
You’d also find there was next to nobody here.
And anyway, I’d insist you came too- I demand tactical advice and old man wisdom, and every wheelbarrow needs a gunner… 😛
#So, Ner!
It’s not that people on the Right don’t dislike Putin – it’s that after the last couple of years, they hate their own governments more.
There are lots of us who are delighted at the prospect of Putin releasing the KGB files on the likes of Biden, Obama, Bush, Harris, et al.
Do it Putin! Do it!
Starblazer @Starblazer
· 5m
Hospitals getting paid as much as $471,000 for each COVID patient
[short video, interview about of payment breakdown]
https://gettr.com/post/pwq99l7b8f
Trump never said anything about assassinating Solemeini.
Probably because he only found out about it while watching TV.
The guy is a clown, no different to Biden and the soon to be Ex President of Ukraina.
Boambee John,
The term “Furphy” comes from the manufacturer of water tank carts used by the Australian Army in World War 1.
But I am agog to hear more about field sanitation and tactical poohs from others.
Surely someone served time as the blowfly?
Where is Bob Numbers?
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A excerpt from the chapter I’m reading…
Boongs? Snowflakes would wilt if forced to read this wonderful stuff. Then they could get a derelict airfield going in a day, now we can barely find our arse with both hands.
Yeah, because most people in prisons don’t want to serve an extra 18 years for Murder.
Is this Prosecution serious or in the tank?
Ian56a @Ian56a
·53m
Paul Craig Roberts: Here Is the Full Text of Putin’s Speech This Morning, Feb 24, 2022.
Read it so that you understand the situation. You will not get a word of truth from the mouths of Western politicians and presstitutes.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/02/24/here-is-the-full-text-of-putins-speech-this-morning-feb-24-2022/
Putin’s speech is an accurate summary of what has happened in the last 30 years with Western Wars of Aggression, NATO expansion, and the situation we have now.
Biden’s refusal to discuss Russia’s legitimate security concerns over the US First Strike Nuclear Missile Silos in Romania & Poland built by Obama, further NATO expansion, and the escalation of hostilities by Ukraine’s Neo Nazis against the separatists in Donbass, led Putin to act.
https://gettr.com/post/pwr2iz5247
Trust Grigory to say that a fellow who had to personally authorise such a strike, only found out about it after the fact. And from a third party.
Less ‘tard out of you tonight, please Grigory. We’ve already got SRR going off like a jack-in-a-box…
I don’t take seriously claims that X is possible unless someone can point out to me the necessary mechanics of achieving X. It is too easy to dream up endless X’s. In this context, unless someone can specify the relevant target genes and indicate why that works against a particular ethnic group that someone is just dreaming stuff up. srr for me that’s too simple to be believable.
3 mm?
Then Rolfe shot him in the guts twice at point blank range.
TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
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31m
Horse face dictator Jacinda Ardern given a warm welcome by parents during school visit
https://gettr.com/post/pwr5uv0b62
MA – Nor the water cart. In fact much more the water cart.
One has to use the latrine but doesn’t the water cart, since you can send a detail back to fill all the water bottles. So the logical place to swap tall tales is the well-situated dunny in rear of the trench. From which the sanitary cartmen take the pan from once the shelling has stopped.
frank, you f*ck – trigger warnings, thanks – FFS. 🙁
Analysis of Russia/Ukrainian situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rO7VB9rTvE&t=12s
Don’t think this is correct. Australian WWI water carts were made by Furphy Bros. Foundry in Shepparton. The water cart operators were the purveyors of BS stories. Furphies.
I believe the naval equivalent is the ‘scuttlebutt’
I am 40m away, if I can help
Never fear, Constable Rolfe. Grogarly, Q.C., is on the case.
Ian56a @Ian56a
·47m
Paul Craig Roberts: Update on the Ukrainian situation.
The results of Obama and Neocon Victoria Nuland’s 2014 Coup using Neo Nazis to install an extremist regime in Kiev and start a Civil War in Ukraine are coming to a head
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/02/24/upda…
“The Europeans should have thought many times before they enabled Washington’s war crimes in Serbia and the Middle East.
European governments are such stupid idiots that it did not occur to them to wonder what happens if Russia responds to sanctions by cutting off the gas supply. Germany´s industry would be cut off from the power grid.
It is difficult to imagine people so totally stupid and self-defeating as the ones Western peoples trust with leadership.”
That’s the official version Flyingduk.
As I’ve been citing, it may’ve been…sanitized, over the years.