Getting ready
It should be clear to everyone the Western Regime is bent on global war.
The blatant goading of Russia to over-react to attacks in deep Russian territory just keep coming. It should be a "burning cross" indication of how badly the western oligarchs need to plunder and pillage Russian resources to save the west from financial collapse.
Which is also an indication of how badly they want and need to hide their economic blunders they have been nurturing for decades. An economic model based on ever increasing consumption in a finite world is clear now.
It is unsustainable.
I'm fairly certain the powers that be now know they have only three options.
1( Steal Russia's wealth and bolster the western economy for a little longer.
2( Reduce the number of consumers worldwide. And reduce whomever is left to serfdom and slavey.
3( Flee with as much of their wealth they can carry and hide somewhere in the underground.
It doesn't look like option 1 is possible without invoking number 2 as a consequence. So, essentially telling the world population that either Russia surrenders their wealth or billions fewer humans will walk the Earth.
Option 3 is possible, but Musk is way behind on his Mars project.
Of course, this is just an opinion. But I welcome other options if anyone has any.
Thread is open.
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Insatiable greed has only one outcome
Death and destruction are not my favorite choices.
What it is.
Thanks for the OT!
Zionism is a social disease
There is a stickied post
on WoTB on Reddit claiming that the Ukranian drone attack, for which we provided funding and (no doubt) intel, constitutes an abrogation of the New START treaty: in particular the part that addresses Non-Interference with Technical Means (referring to the use of technical means such as satellite imagery to monitor the condition and disposition of nuclear forces and delivery systems).
I'm not sure that that is completely true. However, as I'd pointed out yesterday, that's why we have dozens of chopped-up B-52s laying around Davis-Monthan to be watched by satellites, and that is why those Russian bombers were all sitting out in the open with tires all over them: precisely so that we would know exactly where they were, and could count them.
The upshot of it all is that we've given the Russians all the slack they could want to walk away from that treaty, since this is just another indication that the US and its allies are completely agreement-incapable. That essentially guarantees a return to the good old massive-proliferation, shell-game Cold War that we all know and love so well.
I'm going to reread the treaty, and come to my own conclusion. But frankly, the technical accuracy of that abrogation claim means very little when there's a hot war going on, and we (via our wholly-owned Ukranian proxy) have just directly attacked one leg of the Russian nuclear triad as part of it.
I don't think that Our Owners understand the gravity of this escalation at all. Not in the slightest. And I don't think that the Russian response (whenever it comes) will be to merely turn the other cheek.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Yeah
I was just reading the Wilkerson interview at Naked Capitalism and he says we are looking at a first strike by one or the other.
The world is at a crossroads, and it's all about greed.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Wilkerson holds out some hope
Russia will stay the course of attrition, but there is no doubt Russia has been shown all treaties are broken and nothing stopping him from nuking someone somewhere.
Notice his throwaway remark about the powerful west may see this as a desired depopulation event?
How many times do we need to hear that the Weffers want no more than 500 million people on the planet, just need to come up with an efficient way to kill off billions. They say it out loud.
Thanks for the OT, friend.
It is nice to see someone agreeing with Ritter.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I do like Ritter
But sometimes he gets a little excitable, kind of like Patrick Lancaster. But Lancaster is usually reporting from the front line with ordinance whizzing over his head.
Good post, thanks.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Broadcasters predicting Lee Jae-myung victory in S.Korea
...with about 40 percent of votes counted. Looks like Lee is at 48.9 percent with Kim Man-soo at 42.8 percent. Lee Jun-seok, the conservative reform party candidate would not withdraw from the race to support Kim Man-soo. The PPP dominated by former president Yoon's far right faction, drove Lee Jun-seok out of the party with accusations of corruption, and threats of prosecution for an alleged sex for political favors scandal. Lee had been the PPP party leader who delivered pivotal votes from young male voters in their 20s and 30s to Yoon during his election campaign in 2022, enabling Yoon to become president then, with an extraordinary slim margin of victory.
Payback's a beach. By refusing to withdraw Lee Jun-seok denied any chance of the PPP candidate in this race, Kim Man-soo, a Yoon supporter, to be competitive in this race for president. Voter turnout was reported to be very high, somewhere in the high 70 percent range. The vote breakdown favored Lee or Kim on the traditional regional bases, with Pusan, Daegu, and the southeast regions voting heavily for Kim Man-soo. This was too little to make him a contender without more support in Seoul, Gyyeonggi-do, and the traditionally progressive southeast provinces (the area around Gwangju).
The election won't be officially called for several hours. My information here is based on a projection derived from the 40 percent votes counted thus far. This information is about an hour old taken from an MBC broadcast. Lee has gone home to his residence with his spouse, after briefly thanking the crowd assembled for their support and pledging to do his best to fulfill his duties and meet their expectations.
edits- typos
語必忠信 行必正直
Thanks for the update
I guess we'll know the final count tomorrow.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Thanks for the OT earthling1
sorry for not saying that. I'm glad I have a place to post here. My old blog which I pretty much abandoned due to time constraints, has been getting hundreds of hits the last few days from a few brics countries I think looking for an independent evaluation of the election. I haven't heard anyone in the English media bring up what Lee Jun-seok did, and why he did it.
I should be working at the house, but I'm too preoccupied with this story.
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AP: Kim Man-soo concedes defeat
South Korea’s main conservative candidate Kim Moon Soo concedes defeat in the presidential election
The gist of the earlier article by AP is essentially that Lee Jae-myung won't be able to do much. That's odd, he just overcame the opposition of the press, and the South Korean establishment, and defeated a coup d'etat. But he won't be able to do much? LOL.
語必忠信 行必正直
Well, if tomorrow's news
indicates that the unexpected victor has unexpectedly assumed room temperature, we'll be able to assume that it will be one of our very own beloved three-letter agencies that did the unexpected bumping-off...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Definitely a real concern UFS
There are some pending criminal trials pending against Lee Jae-myung, all bs. Some prosecutors might or judges might seek to carve out an exception to the constitutional requirement that a president in office cannot be tried for a criminal charge, other than insurrection or treason, while in office. I think the principle being if the people voted you into office, you can only be removed by the impeachment process, such as just happened to Yoon.
If that doesn't work, they might try something more desperate.
語必忠信 行必正直
I think that it is reasonable to come to the conclusion that
the results of the Romanian election were predetermined well in advance of the actual voting.
Nobody's living on Mars.
The gravity is too low and the atmosphere is too thin. It's too cold and dry.
I wouldn't mind sending Musk there himself, though.
"It's time for a revolution, but probably not in the terms that people imagine it" -- Frank Zappa
If IIRC
Mars has about one quarter the gravity of Earth, but it may be possible to adapt over time.
There is subterranean water, which could provide oxygen and power. Food could be grown or manufactured (yeah, yuck), but radiation would force underground life.
Hypothetically, it is possible, but one would probably never be able to return to Earth.
So yeah, great place for Musk and his fellow rich bitch ghouls.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Almost!
Mars has 37% of Earth's gravity. Extended living under such conditions would screw up anyone used to Earth's gravity, bigtime.
The Martian atmosphere is 0.7% as thick as Earth's. Mars, moreover, has neither a magnetic field nor an upper atmosphere to protect the surface from cosmic rays. Martian inhabitants would either 1) spend the entirety of their lives underground or 2) contract some form of dementia in a few months of exposure to such an environment.
Low temps on Mars are typically minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
https://www.space.com/16907-what-is-the-temperature-of-mars.html
Martian soil is quite poisonous:
https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-surface-looks-to-be-much-more-deadly-t...
There really isn't a practical way to terraform such an environment absent some form of solar-system-wide geoengineering, like maybe we could toss a lot of ice harvested from orbit around Saturn at Mars and hope it can be used to create the semblance of an oxygen atmosphere, which would eventually leak into space.
The idea of terraforming Venus is laid out in one of Kim Stanley Robinson's novels. The plan would involve using metals harvested from asteroids to construct an aluminum shield that would cover the entire surface of the planet and its atmosphere, then waiting until the atmosphere, 92 times as thick as Earth's and nearly all carbon dioxide, froze. Robotic bulldozers would be sent to the surface to bury most of the resultant dry ice deep into the ground. I don't remember how Robinson proposed to deal with Venus' vast clouds of anhydrous sulfuric acid. Ever play with anhydrous sulfuric acid before? It reacts chemically with water.
H2SO4 + 6 H2O = H2SO4 * 6H2O
Explosive water bonding!
If you want to find an atmosphere with pressure approximately like that on Earth, there's always Saturn's moon Titan, with an atmosphere about 1.5 times as thick as Earth's. Of course, it's incredibly dark on Titan, and the average temperature is about minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Titan
There are good reasons why we live here, and not somewhere else. I hope that helps!
"It's time for a revolution, but probably not in the terms that people imagine it" -- Frank Zappa
And here's a new one
to chew on. We *know* about this one. Now, to misquote Donald Rumsfeld, how about the "unknown unknowns"?
https://archive.ph/ubzXh
In the month of April, 419,828 inbound TEUs (20-foot-container equivalents) went through the Port of Long Beach. YTD through May 1, that would be 2,973,970 TEUs. Presumably, similar numbers went through our other large container ports. Many of those went onto intermodal carrier trains, and many more went onto intermodal-trailer dollies to become semi-trailer loads over the roads.
Not all of those containers were inspected. The attack vector in Russia appears to have been fairly anonymous containers on intermodal trailers, driven by what appear to be completely unsuspecting truckers. I drive by hundreds of anonymous containers every day, and I'm in Denver, where there are lots of strategically-interesting things that a putative enemy might like to blow up- even though we are as far from an ocean as you can be.
I see far too many people who believe that such a thing couldn't possibly happen here. After 9/11, all I can say is that we will most assuredly all become educated about the reality of the possible at the same time...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Iran has something similar
Only theirs have large rocket boosted drones stacked six to a rack like pie shelves. As the roof opens they move into launch position.
I had seen photos of a Russian missile inside a container on a railcar way back in the oughts, the idea being there could be dozens of them spread out all over Russia ready to fire in a moments notice.
I don't remember the range of them but they looked capable of hitting anywhere in Europe or the middle east, surely Alaska and maybe the upper Pacific Northwest.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
We nearly did that
as well, back with the MX/Peacekeeper system. There’s actually still one MX rail car launcher on public display
somewhere out here in CO or WYat Wright-Patterson AFB, after it was moved from Pueblo, CO.I’ll look it up and link it in, on edit.We negotiated the rail-based MX system away, but that was probably good. The shell-game of hiding the missile consists in tunnels and shelters now and again, and clogging the sidings with the dummies all the time, became unmanageable- given the horrific condition of most of our rail infrastructure. And that was in
the late ‘70s and early ‘80s…‘86-‘91. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the “end” of the Cold War put the kibosh on further development.Gawd, I slept since then…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Can't resist
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I agree with you
And those options are damned scary. Your (and my) opinion is spot on, sad to say.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
There is this
about getting ready
remember rare earth? 1973
Zionism is a social disease