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Afghanistan Today: Narco State
(Strategypage) The United States and Pakistan openly agree that the new Afghan government cannot be trusted. It is definitely providing sanctuary for many Islamic terrorist groups. In August 2021 the elected IRA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) collapsed and was replace...
P.S.
Is Sweden Hiding the Ball?
(zerohedge) Why would Sweden share their findings with the Russians? Whether or not Sweden joins NATO or not (because of Turkey) is not the point. Russia is a hostile neighbor.
In September 2022, leaks were found in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, leaks that were caused by explosi...
Bullet Points
Identify the Tanks/TD
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Jigsaw
Google’s Jigsaw will begin a campaign to combat “misinformation” about Ukrainian refugees. The campaign will be based on research conducted by psychologists at Bristol and Cambridge universities.
The psychologist conducted their research on several social media ...
Tanks & Blood & Tijuana Traffic
How significant is 10?
(Reuters) Sky News cited one unnamed source saying Britain could offer around 10 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. The Challenger 2 is a battle tank designed to attack other tanks and has been in service with the British army since 1994. It has been deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Iraq.
In B...
Consider This
The B-oneski White Swan
(captioned photo)
The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Russia is making upgrades...more here. 16 remain in service, Tu-160M, and Russia wants to build 50 more of the unstealthy bombers t...
Consider That
SMART
Most people don't know what a SMART City is. SMART stands for surveillance, monitoring, analysis, reporting technology.
Wikipedia has a slightly different spin: A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data. Information gained from tha...
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Bullet Points:
* When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Nov. 18 that he had named a special prosecutor to investigate former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents found at the Mar-a-Lago compound, the government harbored a fresh secret: The current president, Joe Brandon, had a similar problem....
Mid-Week Muse
Bullet Points:
* Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, whose election is still under question and litigation, is now under fire after it was revealed that Hobbs sold tickets to her inaugural events for as much as $250,000, reportedly using a “dark money” operation.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs was sworn into ...
Clown World
Bullet Points:
* (NPR - your tax dollars at work) Why Is NPR Promoting Teaching Children How To Give Oral Sex? Taxpayer-supported public radio continues to gaslight listeners about queer dirty books in school libraries.
* January 6 - I wish that it was satire. I really do.
* From American Thinker - House GOP Leader Kevin...
Bullet Points
From our Virtual Mirage Reporters (at large)
It's not only M&M's for lesbians and overweight women. Queer Skittles (taste the rainbow) are now available. If you're not woke now, you may be after eating them. One day each grievance group will have its own candy. Thanks to Mike_C.
Thank you Frank for clarifying t...
More on Monday
Identify the AFV
Identify The Tank/self-propelled AT Gun
The Price of Gold and Silver
Last Friday:
For those of us who prefer to be paid in physical gold, there was little surprise in the market move. In this coming year either the Fed pivots too early and turns dovish before inflation is under ...
Monday’s Mysteries
Zero Click
During the Trump administration, and likely behind the president’s back but with the knowledge of senior folks appointed by him, the FBI purchased Israeli-manufactured software known as zero-click. Zero-click refers to the ability of the user of the software to target and download the contents of a computer wit...
Sunday Supplement
If there is a Sunday Sermonette, is there a need for another blog post...
Identify the Aircraft
You need to be SPECIFIC. This is one of the harder aircraft identification challenges. There is one giveaway.
Bullet Points:
* Over at LSP's blog, he's poking fun at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy...
Sermonette
Are you tired of the same Old Testament Study?
Do you hanker for more? Try the Apocrypha. I read it in the Harper Collins Study Bible (New Revised Standard Version). How much time do I spend on Apocryphal study? Not that much, but I hate to plead ignorance if somebody wants to discuss the Tobit...
Weekend Supplemental
I hope
that they had a great reunion.
Identify the Tank - Bonus for the nationality operating it.
Identify the Aircraft
Crusaders have to Crusade
Get your wallet out...
but don't get your hopes up.
Bullet Points
* China in Focus...more here
*...
Piracy
Jean- David Nau aka François l'Olonnais - the horrible Buccaneer
Jean-David Nau (c. 1635?- 1670?), also known as François l'Olonnais or Fleau des Espagnoles, was considered to be one of the most terrible Buccaneers of the 17th century.
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (Exquemelin came to the islands as an indentured...
From Cave Paintings to Mosquitoes
France’s 13e RDP (13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment) in their interesting camouflage during winter training.
If Norway Invades Russia?
No, the Norwegians have no intention of doing that, but if they did? How would Russia respond? With what? Claudio and I have been toying with the idea like two chess masters sta...
Bullet Points
Culture
Jamaican culture fosters intergenerational poverty, and instead of reforming local culture, politicians cultivate welfare- rather than wealth-oriented culture by professing their love for the poor. Idealizing poverty, however, will only encourage the immiseration of the poor because entrepreneurs, progressive intellectuals,...
Jan 6 and so forth…
"We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie". -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Bullet Points:
* Breaking News! There has been a stunning development in the ongoing House speaker drama: Former Presid...
Random Topics
Yes, it's "insurrection day" in America.
Mindset
(ricochet) Claudio recommends this article and I can't find fault in it. Maybe it's because I'm as crazy as Russians are, but their mindset made sense to me. Then again so does the Chinese mindset.
"They want to go back to that kind of imaginary past. There was no s...