Saturday, July 09, 2022
The Jungle Warfare Instructors Course (Brunei)
The leadership in Sri Lanka will either flee or be killed soon (my prediction)
I wonder if someone somewhere is spooling up forces to intervene. My opinion? Not our fight, and we can help (to a degree that we can) after the dust settles.NOW - Protesters storm the presidential palace in Sri Lanka's capital.pic.twitter.com/Wv6oQ10kBQ
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 9, 2022
Random acts of crime.
No words.WATCH: 7 teens beat & killed a 72 year old man on Cecil B. Moore Ave two weeks ago this morning. 3 girls & 4 boys, used a traffic cone as a weapon. The man fell, hit his head & @phillypolice say he died the day after the 2:38 am attack on June 24th 1/2 @FOX29philly pic.twitter.com/4vmfGqOpp5
— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) July 8, 2022
My God! No child should have to face this after school.
I'm not naive though. I realize that this scene plays out on a smaller scale all over the country. My disgust and rage still apply. We must do better. We have sympathy for everyone except for those we should actually have sympathy for. These children deserve better. Those adults? Locked up and or moved out.Wow… this is what kids in San Francisco have to walk through to get home from school… watch till end pic.twitter.com/zMdsC16Jlf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 9, 2022
Remember the story of the super fat Russian general dragged out of retirement to lead their forces? All a lie and everyone ran with it...
Read the entire Tweet. She lays it out quite well. What has me spinning is that I have Russian readers here and NONE of them corrected the idiocy.Remember this "exclusive" story in the Daily Star about "general Pavel", who was supposedly "dragged out of retirement" by Putin and sent to Ukraine?
— Rien Emmery (@ArbiterOfTweets) July 9, 2022
So yeah, turns out that's total bullshit.@Lotte_Lambrecht and I found out who's _actually_ in this photo. Follow along!
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Its weird that major news organizations would run with such a poorly vetted story. That none would correct that story once the facts were known.
Its weird that so many bit on the story and aren't the least bit pissed that they were so wrong and passed along bad info.
We're all a big experiment. They're testing control of the masses via information warfare.
Friday, July 08, 2022
S. Africa is under the gun with regard to high fuel prices and an angry citizenry
Two thingsGas prices have risen to new records in South Africa, prompting calls for nationwide protests, as many in the country struggle to make ends meet
— RT (@RT_com) July 8, 2022
Follow us on Rumble: https://t.co/Nuc9nUQWe5 pic.twitter.com/wD3U9vu70y
1. RT publishes worldwide news. They're one of the few that actually cover the globe and not just the West. I'll use them and others to find nuggets of information.
2. This is what I was talking about when I spoke about knock on effects and unintended consequences. This is how regional wars start and/or govts topple.
Oh and right now we're just talking fuel/high prices. Watch and see what happens when we start talking about food shortages!
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"....a quick & dirty look at the Siege Of Melos
via Wikipedia
Synopsis
The Athenians offer the Melians an ultimatum: surrender and pay tribute to Athens, or be destroyed. The Athenians do not wish to waste time arguing over the morality of the situation, because in practice might makes right—or, in their own words, "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".[29]
The Melians argue that they are a neutral city and not an enemy, so Athens has no need to conquer them. The Athenians counter that if they accept Melos' neutrality and independence, they would look weak: Their subjects would think that they left Melos alone because they were not strong enough to conquer it.
The Melians argue that an invasion will alarm the other neutral Greek states, who will become hostile to Athens for fear of being invaded themselves. The Athenians counter that the other Greek states on the mainland are unlikely to act this way, because they are free and independent and thus loath to take up arms against Athens. What worries Athens is potential rebellions in its empire from disgruntled peoples they have already conquered, including islands that would threaten its dominance of the seas. Conquering Melos will demonstrate Athens' strength and discourage rebellions.
The Melians argue that it would be shameful and cowardly of them to submit without a fight. The Athenians counter that the Melians are not facing a fair fight, and if the Melians lose, they will suffer not mere shame but annihilation.
The Melians argue that though the Athenians are far stronger, there is still a chance that the Melians could win, and they will regret not trying their luck. The Athenians counter that the Melians should not indulge in hope when their odds of winning are so evidently faint, and the consequences of defeat so terrible. If the Melians resist, they will likely lose and come to bitterly regret their irrational optimism.
The Melians argue that they will have the assistance of the gods because their position is morally just. The Athenians counter that the gods will not intervene because it is the natural order of things for the strong to dominate the weak.
The Melians argue that their Spartan kin will come to their defense. The Athenians counter that the Spartans don't have enough at stake in Melos to risk an intervention, noting that Athens has the stronger navy.
The Athenians express their shock at the Melians' lack of realism. They reiterate that there is no shame in submitting to an overwhelmingly stronger enemy, especially one who is offering reasonable terms. The Melians do not change their minds and politely dismiss the envoys.
I found this debate interesting.
Idealism vs stark reality.
The aftermath was horrific...
The Athenians executed the adult men[24] and sold the women and children into slavery. They then settled 500 of their own colonists on the island.[25]
In 405 BC, by which time Athens was losing the war, the Spartan general Lysander expelled the Athenian colonists from Melos and restored the survivors of the siege to the island. The once-independent Melos became a Spartan territory, which would mean that it had a Spartan garrison and a military governor (a harmost).[26][27][28]
Read the whole wiki entry here
The Melos were proven right .... over time .... but the Athenians were true to their word.
I don't see a winner here. Do you?
Protests in Ghana over rising price of food & energy...inflation at 27%
BREAKING: Protests in Ghana breaking out due to soaring prices of fuel, food and high cost of living.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 4, 2022
Inflation surges to 27% 🚨
Sound optional pic.twitter.com/MYb14nZVPY
Unrest is spreading in the Balkans...global chaos is here!
NORTH MACEDONIA - Unrest is spreading through the Balkens now, people are barely surviving the increases in food and fuel price increases.
— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) July 7, 2022
We are being kept in the dark by our media & under new protest laws by our government incase we get any ideas 🔥pic.twitter.com/IcX59lVz8T
Thursday, July 07, 2022
China's Peoples Armed Police
Are these bubbas part of China's battle order or are they internal use only?The fact that PAP do much more CQB training more than PLA is pretty well known and fairly logical, but the sheer extent of that division of labour is sometimes jarring, even when comparing their respective SOFs. pic.twitter.com/g8z1AOzLNr
— Rick Joe (@RickJoe_PLA) July 7, 2022
Dutch farmers are doing the Ukrainian thing (only with police cars!)
Netherlands… Dutch farmers tow away the unwanted police vehicles
— Pelham (@Resist_05) July 7, 2022
RESIST 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/0QcQfccmW7
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
NASA saying China going to the moon to "own" the moon!
via Eurasian Times
Nelson said by 2035, China will complete the construction of its own Moon station and will launch several lunar missions. The top NASA official acknowledged that the US space administration has, in fact, been “very concerned” about China’s landing on the Moon and its agenda of hijacking the Moon.
Zhao emphasized that China has always advocated the peaceful use of outer space and opposed militarization and an arms race in space.
China has been actively developing its national space program in recent years. On April 29, the country began the construction of the multi-module Tiangong orbital station and successfully launched the Tianhe core module. The station can simultaneously accommodate three cosmonauts or six people during a crew change.
Are we behind the Chinese in the space race now? Have we been so wrapped up in idiocy that we are losing out to a nation that has kept its nose to the grindstone, worked while we sleep and is focused on its goals that we're two laps down in a 4 lap race?
I love America.
I am American.
But I hate Americans. We are so fucking pussified that we let the stupid become important and let the important become ignored.
We are losing and most of my fellow citizens don't even know it.
FBI & MI5 to coordinate in effort against Chinese
BREAKING: The heads of MI5 and the @FBI have used an unprecedented joint speech to warn that China is their biggest “game-changing challenge”, with the UK doubling efforts to combat Chinese "activity of concern". 1/
— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) July 6, 2022
Just don't know if the current FBI is up to the challenge. China is hard and I'm not sure the FBI still is.
I hope I'm wrong but the whole Russia dossier, the Jan 6th thing and going even further back the Boston bombing fiasco just has me wondering if they're up to the job.
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