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A new Navalny joke making the rounds on Russian social media:
“My son wears a Navalny T-shirt. In the last 3 days he was slapped 2 times and they peed on him!”
“I wonder what will happen if he leaves the house !”
Biden will only ever transfer wealth to the elite. It is what he does. He even directed the Covid relief payments through people’s deposit accounts, so the banks got to siphon most into ‘debt reduction’ before passing the pennies to the account holders. Checks were the only guaranteed way to get the full quid as it were.
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/06/all-western-leaders-are-white-punks-on.html
«Biden will only ever transfer wealth to the elite.»
This is one of the two famous and wrong myths of the “leftoids”, because actually USA/UK/… right-wing politics is designed to benefit a much larger percentage than the top 1% (or 0.1%), but the top 20-30%, via higher real estate prices (and share prices secondarily).
This is the era of the “mass elite”, or “mass rentierism”, where the top elites buy the support of the top 20-30% of the working class and pensioners with massive real estate and share profits, entirely redistributed from the lower classes.
The other myth of course that is that the USA/UK/… economy has been failing, when instead the profits and living standards of the top 20-30% have been BOOMING for 40 years, and many boomers regard therefore Reagan, Thatcher, and their successors as economic geniuses.
In the USA/UK/… the economy of the middle 20-30% has merely stagnated or slightly fallen, and that of the bottom 40-60% has been in permanent and worsening recession, but they are considered disposable by their superiors.
what banks siphoned fund for “debt reduction”??? i never heard of this happening. some of the covid relief payments were sent out as direct checks.
Gonzalo, though we may see his image as pared or juxtaposed with Brother Ritter’s…Gonzalo is to me a fascinating cypher – quite unlike Brother Ritter. I think GL must have actually taken a stiff course in rhetoric…he’s good! (I think his degree is in Philosophy) … But of course he has a big topic, a hot topic…https://youtu.be/ZQB7uWuWpBw In rhetoric the best testimony is given by the person who does not benefit by speaking…which is how he begins… alright Dude!
Oh yes, the topic…AZEnazijunta is about to start nuclear war over K Grad… Gee, how about those “centers of command and control”? I bet Stumpy might take a bet that the nazis get a surprise.
https://youtu.be/LNC0YwuGLqg
I recall how the Premier loves a surprise. Fella might guess the hootenanny is scheduled for the 4th of July…how festive!
It’s perhaps a sign from Heaven that we are treated to the symbolism of the senile guy falling off his bicycle..
Oh…Gonzalo makes a solid case…
Yeah, we’re understanding one another here.
We are so in phase, that I am learning how to make 8 types of Dim Sum. I’m going to have to figure out how to freeze all of those, but not, please heavens not, the chicken feet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKRHHjrvo6A
Lira is correct.
In an esthetic symmetry Brother Ritter conceives an affray in the Pacific – one involving the unspeakable. Naturally it’s important to keep in mind that there is every reason to understand that it’s one global and coordinated affair, and the nazis always double. Bother Ritter even speaks of a sunken fleet…many thousand of fellas…and then what…and the supernifty W whatever mininuke that gives president options (in dream?) Maybe Stumpy will give odds on Israel getting crazy with Iran… Wet gasoline all over, so to say… McGovern rightly says a liminal moment.
Like General Buck Turginsen said…”It looks pretty harry.”
I guess I better put a push on for the solar…
Meantime>…wonderful garden this year with great bounty, ladybugs, and bees, and we’ll plant the corn soon. Lite rain last night… drying veggies…animals napping in the sun…
I do not expect Xi and VVP to wait for a bloody nose.
Bless us all…
I take a walk from time to time, around those that call themselves patriots around the US climes.
Image Headline this morning:
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=700,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/109/198/630/original/0ff591ea359ad445.jpg
Denazification program SMO-AZE might be nice.
I too take walks…some people are nuts…Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat …which may be yet another indicator of proximity to the unthinkable.
How many did Abraham argue, 10% I think…and if there were fewer? Mene mene tekel upharsin and all of that.
Despite the Mighty Wurlitzer and the Mockingbird I think we still have <10% decent people…
Meantime…a "2×4"x 8' cost 9 buckies…@ Anoxia. Construction is functionally impossible. But on pleasant side…road traffic on our village road is much reduced.
Watching Brother Ritter with Nixon and McG it's clear that behind his projected persona he's scared. It's a genuine fear.
I wonder if some sort of a coup… And note with interest the implication of VVP's statement that there would be a change in the western elites…everybody seems to assume he meant European…and not US… I recall General Ripper's apt "two can play…"
I had to start using Facebook market place, pathetic life, I know, but the deals one can find especially on lumber as it’s a manipulated commodity in the retail market, makes the gag effect more palatable. Canada is floating on a sea of processed lumber, many mills idle due to no room to store it. If not for trade tariffs and middle men graft and grift it’d be pennies per board foot, not $s.
I have been collecting pallets with the aim of building a ‘pallet barn’, wife’s idea, thought I’d complain about the price of lumber and get to skip that this year, but damn YouTube she found all these vids of pallet barn construction.
Just add it to the ‘canyoudue’ list…..
Cheers M
There is no way back.
The US will not be able to get out of the crisis,
by Rostislav Ischenko –
https://cont.ws/@ishchenko/2311113
” The current global crisis is reminiscent of a nesting doll. The main and biggest is the systemic crisis of the West, covering all spheres of life of the Euro-American society, but until recently, most clearly manifested in the spiritual decline and moral degradation of Western cultures.
The Ukrainian military crisis and the resulting economic crisis in the EU are internal, smaller nesting dolls. But the root cause of the moral-political and financial-economic paralysis that has struck the West is the American crisis.
It was in the United States, in the late 80s and early 90s, that the elites made the wrong choice, which made inevitable the degradation of the West as a system of certain values and its sliding into the pit of a systemic crisis, from which there is no way out.
What happened? How was the American crisis born, in the existence of which many distinguished experts did not believe even when it had been corroding America and the entire collective West for twenty years? ”
Interesting article…
I think it started in the 70s These policies are thought out before hand and then implemented. Nixon and Kissinger opened up China to the West. It wasn’t to get access to a billion + market but to China’s large disciplined labor pool. Unionized labor factories marching to non Union Southern States on their way to Mexico was not enough. It has been said that the decision to raise the price of oil was made at a Bilderberg meeting in Sweden. This caused the third world debt crisis that came to bear by the 80s, Except for those countries with their own oil this was the end of the non- aligned countries power in foreign relations. By the end of the 70s the anti war movement in the US was over. The militarism of the US continued to grow even though the Vietnam War was lost. The decision to continue the US Empire wasn’t fazed with the use of the US military as the bitch of the world elites expanded. “They” had gotten away with killing JFK, RFK, and MLK in the 60s. “Their” power has increased each decade since.
The way to end the power of the US unions was thought out in the 70s and implemented in the 80s right at the beginning of the Reagan admin. In Britain Thatcher did the same. The stagflation of the 70s was not ok with the Powers That Be. Cost of living raises in Union contracts had to go. A Congress that would pass the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act had to be subverted. The number of US politicians that will bring up the bloated US Military Industrial Security complex in the US is less than the fingers on one hand.
«The way to end the power of the US unions was thought out in the 70s and implemented in the 80s right at the beginning of the Reagan admin. In Britain Thatcher did the same.»
There is a little known but vital story here:
* At the end of the 1970s an english right-wing think tank published a study showing something very important, that people who owned real estate, cars, share-based pensions voted for right-wing parties much more often than for left-wing parties, *even at the same level of income* (not just at different levels).
* The practical application was that even working class people would vote for right-wing parties, and thus for lower wages, lower taxes, against labor unions, against social insurance, if they owned even a tiny property, a low-end car, a tiny share-based account.
* Therefore reaganite/thatcherite policies were aimed at discouraging cheap rented housing, undermining public transport, closing down define benefit pensions.
* This effectively destroyed the labor unions too, because many working class people come to regard their real estate. and their share accounts as their sources of income and security more than their jobs, especially if retired of course.
Of these by far and away the biggest political and economics problem many countries have is real estate:
* Most voters will buy real estate and vote as a consequence for right-wing policies only if housing cost inflation is high and government-supported.
* To fuel high inflation of housing costs almost all the credit in those countries goes to finance higher real estate prices.
* Even if real estate is 100% unproductive and therefore 100% redistributive, even if it is the most profitable “investment”.
“Labors Untold Story” tells it all. do not pass it up if you haven’t read it.
He summed up his ability in one sentence and many people do have it, the ability to apply logic to the situation. It also helps to be able to think laterally, examine as many scenarios as possible then pick the most logical…..on second thought, skip the whole logic thing, in today’s world, it’s not that common of an ability.
Cheers M
so, is it to be or not to be
ticked the olde atom thingee,
don’t look at me, you decide!
***
the unthinkable pulverization of man
happening because of a bigbig bang.
the unthinkable words of the only one:
i am the way and the truth and the life.
***
humanity starved to death
because of the poor world
investing in spirit mockery
Tanka
in mocking spirit
spirit mockers
mock themselves –
a grotesque parade
of pretendents pretending
to be
askers ask of askers
what a be-er may be;
be-ers are beings
that are being
that which they be
one with the one
within the one; your atoms
teach my atoms –
I am the way and
the truth and the life!
By trying to make Zelensky, a coked-up scum bag, into an international hero, he could rehabilitate his son, Hunter?
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/06/somewhere-over-goddamned-fucking-rainbow.html
Its so pathetic. Europe and US, a deformed and disabled twins in a forced financial marriage, hailing a cocaine snorting psycho as their favourite star.
The populations totally paralysed by the easy access to debt financed loans, feasting with new cars, Nike shoes, Apple computers, and Iphones. “The politicians fault, not my fault.”
More and more people here in the US are waking up. President Putin is a man who loves his country and is doing everything he can to help Russia prosper. The narrative of Putin being a killer and tyrant as portrayed by the West and their lap dogs in the MSM has crumbled. I think mr. Putin has shown great restraint as NATO has moved their borders ever closer to Russia. My prayers are with Mr. Putin and the Russian people. As I see it Mr. Putin is the last hope of the free world to fight off the WEF and The New World Order.
Here’s VVP nailing another nail into their coffin https://forumspb.com/en/news/news/russian-president-vladimir-putin-meets-with-world-economic-forum-chairman-klaus-schwab/
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with World Economic Forum Executive chairman Klaus Schwab in St. Petersburg.
“We have always maintained relations with your forum that you founded and we will continue to support it. And, of course, Russian representatives have always taken part and will take part in the events you hold. For our part, we are holding similar events, which, of course, aim to establish business contacts with Russia’s partners above all else. You know we are holding the St. Petersburg Economic Forum here in St. Petersburg as well as in the Far East, in Siberia, and in southern Russia”, Putin said.
Schwab noted that the World Economic Forum and Russia have had a high level of cooperation for many years: “It has always been important for me that Russian representatives take part in our events in Davos. This has always been of particular importance to me […]. Our goal, as you already mentioned, is to strengthen cooperation between business people and government agencies. We are convinced that the significant challenges that we face today, be it climate and environmental problems or problems of economic growth, can only be solved through cooperation, specifically at the global level”.
Here’s Orwell on war /st-petersburg-sets-the-stage-for-the-war-of-economic-corridors/#comment-1110867
osi on June 19, 2022 · at 12:00 pm EST/EDT
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May it be the end.
“The war was not meant to end. It was meant to be continuous. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
George Orwell-“1984”
End Quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoW3YMSfmc4&ab_channel=MyFavorites
Russian song relevant to these days….eng sub titles.
Wonderful song, beautifully sung.
In the battles we can receive injuries, to the extent that we become incapacitated, but true courage is by not giving up and standing up to fight again for what we believe to be right.
Trump calls for some quick ending to Ukraine’s war.
At the present time Russia shouldn’t agree to settle for less than all eastern shore of Dnieper river + Odessa oblast.
Of course Ukraine and the Waste wont agree at first but later they will have to. Only to discover that the line has moved further west. Rinse and repeat… They’ll end up accepting rump Galicia abd Volhynia…
Somethings not right, they are talking about losing the Ukraine war to Russia will be worse than just the loss of equipment and high gas prices.
Like just how much worse can it get?
I’m getting the feeling that somebody owes somebody something and that a loss would entail some kind of reparations, like the ones after WWII and Germany, just a feeling but I’ve been too right about these types of thing to simply brush it off.
“how much worse can it get?”
The UK+P+3Bs could raise the stakes, forgetting their place and size.. watch the next 24 seconds (21:51-22:15)
“Go on then, do it!”
https://youtu.be/oRTUxPKJEEE?t=1311
As said by WTFUD, the agony of the comprehensive defeat means “..many will welcome a nuclear strike as opposed to a slow starvation.”
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On the futile quest for Full Spectrum Dominance, which by necessity begins at home. It does hollow out the virtue of the inner provinces, a corroding side effect.
“Despite the Mighty Wurlitzer and the Mockingbird I think we still have <10% decent people…"
a scene which expresses how most in this age are controlled at the flick of a finger.. Westworld. Westworld is an ongoing TV series adaptation of Michael Crichton's futuristic 1974 movie.
https://youtu.be/bZ4QPCgZflk
A scene expressing how Westworld IS the West, and the inevitable fall of men – from white hats in their idealistic youth to full-blown black hats in the ripeness of corrupted age.. simple pleasures evolve with time into cruelty and death cults. '🎵🎸🎶 Only the good die young?'
[Reality:] "Well, if you can't tell, does it matter?"
https://youtu.be/utmqZD6Y-ao
The term they use for NPC humanoid robots under the control bubble is "Hosts." They have narratives downloaded into them according to the will of their programmers.. a fitting metaphor for the prevalent possession and mindless passion in end stage Empire phase. The synthetic narrative patterns are also well-understood at this point by Zone B opponents. Our commentator Krungle puts it well, "..The West has nothing new in it’s playbook. They re-run the same plays over and over again–same playbook for well over a millennium." This guarantees their defeat.
Westworld is faithful to Crichton's vision with respect to the new technologies, robots, dystopias and full immersion in dark hedonism, even computer viruses. Crichton alone among sci-fi has always fascinated – I read all his works as a teen, being fortunately introduced by an appreciative Biology teacher. Crichton was an exalted member of the Club. He depicted the coming 360° surveillance state, nanotechnology, drone wars, biowarfare, transhumanism and rise of the machines, genetic manipulation, etc.. Extremely prescient or saw some blueprints or early test models.
Westworld also explores how insurrection is possible against suffocating Technocracy on an island surrounded by water, which is what all continents are.. It begins with dissent and nights-of-the-long-knives among Club members, leading to cascading effects. A house divided does not stand.
And he who is transplanted, sustains, which would imply that those who are not transplanted, do not, flick that around one time.
Marat Sade comes to mind>
Westworld was unknown to me! I’ll take a look.
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.”
Brother Ritter seems especially anxious about the W76-2 …which he says is “sold” as giving “options” of less than nuclear war…which, yes, is a somewhat muddled sort of thinking…but nevertheless the “pauci” seem to imagine that they can use these things and “win”. Ahrekondeyneverbeeninabearfight.
https://nukewatch.org/new-and-updated-item/us-deploys-new-low-yield-nuclear-submarine-warhead/
I was thinking about the old Scifi story A Boy Loves his Dog…not the movie…and about the fictional Topeka unable to procreate underground…part of the story…somehow I doubt that Topeka. More like Alphaville (the film) or Kafka (film).
Marat/Sade fits the bill!
be warned, Westworld is a dark production, full of extravagant risqué filler, and quickly runs out of steam after season one. Mostly wrapped as titillation, it has a dim nihilistic view of humanity. Not for most. An arrogant vanity project of the luciferians, like the Game of Thrones. There is even a Black Sun in later seasons and a self-aware evil A.I. which rules humanity.. CAF refused to see it, abhorring its overall cold anti-human message.
Note the high esoteric motifs and symbolism in its logo, such as the W of the Volkswagen and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian man.” It was even scored by Ramin Djawadi, the same Iranian-German composer of the Game of Thrones.
https://youtu.be/TSHg9Kg_ciM
I focused on its themes, what they incrementally revealed of technologies and how they use it, and how they frame and conduct the ancient battle of evil vs good. If you ignore the superficial filler and glitter, the psychological exploration & messaging can be fascinating.
The congruent POVs of Ritter and GL are interesting. One expects the escalation to the nuclear threshold to take place due to humiliation on the SCS front, and the other due to humiliation on the European front. The Duran men mention a third possibility – a more mundane means of changing topic, by withdrawing the narrative spotlight onto CONUS and ignoring everything taking place outside it. iow, they may not be doubling down into Armageddon [for now], but merely run brinkmanship into the red. So they redirect the Great Western Wurlitzer onto some domestic concern – like a big internal FF, or the sordid travails of BiDon and the Lotus.. 2022 was marked off on their To-Do List as Year of the Famine, and their hands are full with it. 2023 was projected to be the Year of the [big] War. I thought it was brilliant for Russia-China to preempt them and move into war now in 2022, before they were ready. Btw, Robots going haywire in the theme park is the essential plot of Westworld.. alluded to in past Simpson’s episodes too
https://youtu.be/1y1TpQEl4l0
Your linked article notes, “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚𝘚 𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘦 (𝘚𝘚𝘉𝘕-734), 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘺 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 2019 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯.”
The timing of its deployment (as COVID was breaking out in China) and the direction (towards Russia in the Atlantic) was interesting..
My understanding is Russian nuclear doctrine does not differentiate between low-yield or full yield. Didn’t Saker have a sitrep on this very topic years ago? A full secondary-strike response will be generated. A single Trident ballistic missile could generate it?? iow, It’s all or nothing, and both sides know it. Perhaps it’s all a ploy, a placebo pill, to get Euros to acquiesce to their ongoing suiciding? I would think the Pentagon knows the score..
I have not read “A Boy and His Dog.” I carefully avoided these sci-fi post-apocalyptic novellas.. reading its wiki, I note its Topeka matches the themes we discussed before – of underground cities below the despoiled surface.. interesting what parsing the plot of a 1969 celebrated “fiction” reveals (it won the Nebula Award):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog
(1) “Having lost both of his parents…” this is a theme in many sci-fi. Orphans will proliferate. A sequela of the magic juice? Last year I commented on the horrid movie, “The Fifth Wave.”
(2) ” Vic is captured by the ruling council (the Better Business Bureau).” Biden and BoJo’s signature is the BBB (Build Back Better) device..
(3) “The population of Topeka is becoming sterile, and the babies that are born are usually female.” Both increasing sterility and birth of females have been remarked in our world in the last generation, especially in developed urban locales! Some postulate WiFi has affected sperm / Y-chromosomes..
If totalitarian societies can largely be separated into dystopia such as “1984” or a faux utopia such as “Brave New World,” then “Alphaville (film)” falls into the former and Westworld into the latter.. I think in the real world, the West had achieved the latter, which is worse and harder to overturn. However, it requires a level of prosperity, narrative control and buy-in which is slip-sliding away by the day
Much there, it will take me awhile to think about most of it and do some reading. Meantime>
“… low-yield or full yield. Didn’t Saker sav…” I think Saker did address this. We might check that.
W76-2 is given as 5 kt and elsewhere as 8kt. It’s pretty much the primary-igniter without the Li-6 or H3.
I believe. W76-2 is not “mini” anything. See Ted Taylor…he was designing gadgets even before he got his degree, a natural feel for these machines. see “Davy Crockett”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) Given as 20 tons… What if the explosion was this small?
See Richard Rhodes on gadgets. I myself speculate about radiation channeling – nuclear detonation spherical can be in a small way gathered and focused as gamma in a particular direction – see Project Orion nuclear rocket designs….anyway I speculate that W76-2 may also have a brother W76-2-DR – which might be a way to blast a hole in the earth…beyond my paygrade, just a speculation, but done just right the fallout…well, it might be possible to make a hole without the fire-ball touching the ground, just very close and precise detonation and directional gamma ray tunnel bore.
Assuming 5 kt…https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Sevastopol> 5kt 13,790 dead and 25,000 injuries (I assume in 24 hours, more later of course.)
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=5&lat=44.6054&lng=33.5221&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=1752&casualties=1&fallout=1&psi=20,5,1&zm=13 should take you to the readout for Sevastopol.
Given the tone and content of recent Russian speeches and the obvious resolve, it’s pretty clear that RU would reply in kind. One might think about Diego Garcia…not many eye witnesses and perhaps even no “film at 11”. Tree falls in forest routine… Lots of pretty airplanes @ DG.
A question does arise though, what if W76-2 goes bang at 10,000 feet over international water as a sort of threatening demonstration? AZE may elect to ignore the test-ban as a sort of incremental posture.
Re: “small” nukes?
What happens when a nuke is down scaled sufficiently is that the radius at which an LD50 radiation dose to those unshielded is received exceeds the radius of the 5psi overpressure (the over pressure gradient which is usually taken as “everyone in the open/light structures inside this overpressure will probably be dead, if not from physically being smashed, by being hit with flying/collapsing structures or burned”). So, downsized nukes much below the nominal 15 – 20kt of the two war shots humans have ever been exposed to = more people suffering horrible slow radiation sickness deaths rather than quicker deaths provided by physical blast trauma/thermal burns.
See here:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html#nfaq5.6
I wish I did not know these things.
Ladies & Gentlemen, please welcome Senor Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, and the new President of Colombia!
At Langley Virginia, operational orders are being furiously issued..
Yes, that is quite unprecedented. From the commentators of the area, here is Multipolarista (Ben Norton)
https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/19/colombia-gustavo-petro-election/
And Ollie Vargas asks the question: The ‘new wave’ of progressive Presidents in Latin America (Boric, Castillo) made rainbow alliances with centrists and therefore haven’t met expectations, leading to lower approval ratings than the OG pink tide leaders and their loyal successors (Luis Arce)
Which way Petro?
I get the impression that Petro is a token leftie? But it is just my impression. He sure will have enough help if he is the real deal.
I don’t get the time now to write about it, but huge changes are happening also in Central and South America. Boys and Girls wanna be multipolar! Others with big bags of money or serious arm-twisting are stalking the corridors. Same old Economic Hitman style.
Well, it is said for every hot-air balloon of each size, there is the appropriate needle size to decompress it and bring it down to the reality of earth. These are welcome news from Latin America. AMLO has been encouraging too, within his safe limits. All know there is a strong global SMO and are adjusting their sails accordingly. Gringo is about to reap the whirlwind after the doublecrosses and abuses of 200 years! See the promise of Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan Maria Ramirez:
https://youtu.be/wVznSHEWf8E
And can the usual cash suitcases of Economic Hitmen buy Russian grain, fertilizer, petrochemicals and defensive weapons? Real people cannot live in the Meta, except in Europe for a while.. Times are a changing! Can you continue the extrapolation and imagine Lula coming back in few months and Argentina and/or Mexico joining BRICS?!
I know this is your neck of the woods, please give us a sitrep when possible. These HUGE changes on the “Monroe territories” may herald a greater withdrawal and metric of collapse than even losing Europe or Africa…
El Che and the Commandante seen at the Dewdrop Inn talking about the “change of elites” in Colombia!
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecable.ng%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F11%2FFidel-and-Che-Guevara.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
watched a tv prog re Bolivia…used to export huge amounts nitrates…maybe they can do so again..considering the fertiliser difficulties..but rail needs investment?
Hot potential re lithium in the salt lakes too.
Something to take a look at. I have no idea whether it really appeared in the Financial Times but if all else fails, we try the sex angle. It is hilarious. The gnarly old Hildabeast! Comments are wild.
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/15579
Evidently The H can’t think of a cogent criticism, and actually agreed with VVP…but the big question is….did she take him up on the suggestion when they “interacted in private”? If so, then a gallant fellow indeed! Far more courageous than most men!
What gets my mind flowing, is how the translators translated lol.
The link below was given by Gerry on the SMO thread.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/britain-head-of-military-tells-troops-prepare-for-wwiii/
And I quote from this:
Britain’s Military Chief of the General Staff had just taken that position and he has already told the army they need to prepare for war against Russia in Europe. He has told every soldier to prepare to fight Russia in a potential World War Three. He has pledged to forge an Army that can beat Russia in battle and said that we must now prepare “to fight in Europe once again.” He added on his fourth day on the job: “There is now a burning imperative to forge an Army capable of fighting alongside our allies and defeating Russia in battle.”
Judging from what I’ve heard behind closed doors from military pilots it does not surprise me at all.
The propaganda war against Russia has a very strong emotional-rush component, hence it is impossible to engage in a rational discussion with anyone in the current throes of mass formational psychosis
It’s not looking very good…. See what happens when people lose their minds, they can’t think.
I see @ RT ” NATO should give ultimatum to Russia – Polish general
The bloc should be prepared to introduce ‘anti-missile protection’ over Ukraine to defend its borders and Western weapons supplies, Stanislaw Koziej”
(This may tempt some to harken back to Polish jokes…that would be in poor taste…like how many Polish former Generals does it take to stop Russia?)
(answer only one, when he signs surrender)
“Whoever, would try to stop us, and furthermore, create threats to our country, our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences as you have never faced in your history. We are ready for any situation that arises. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard.” VVP
All appear connected – the sudden wave of demonic activity towards the cliff.. the Lithuanian blockade of K-Grad, British general girding for unwinnable land war (newly promoted and emplaced to suicide them), Polish psychic death-perambulations. The AZE is desperate and enraged at the gambit of France-Germany-Italy a few days ago..
It also is an indirect metric that the Donbas is about wrapped up. They cannot afford any Quiet on the Eastern Front. Not until the vax effects really kick in the autumn, the food chain has been fully severed, energy sources cut, and the next selection stolen (or frank Fascism declared?) It is really mind-boggling. They are in a race between suiciding their own and having sufficient dying lemmings to use to kill the Russians!
I hope it doesnt come to what Hudson mused, “𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘵. 𝘔𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘗𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘩𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘴 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭’𝘴 (𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯’𝘴) 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.”
/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century-the-mic-ogam-and-fire-sectors-conquer-nato/
If the rabid group of UK+P+3Bs & Holland, Brussels, Vatican maintain their current course.. Europa we knew and loved you once
I forgot to add a few more connecting pieces of this slow-motion melee.
– US markets & bonds are tanking. Banksters and owners need a conflagration to cover, not this simmering combined-arms-police-action.
– what appears to give the Eurolemmings the cojones to take on the Russians appear to be the US nukes littering their lands?? They know US will not protect them. And “Possession is nine-tenths of the law.” Yet lacking conventional capabilities, this is their only “hope”, and they may be determined to use them. Pure madness. The Bourbons are back in the saddle – “Après moi, le déluge”..
– Germany/Greece openly returning to coal. They are in for the bitter duration, with no expectation of Russian HCs or amity in the near future.
– Macron losing majority, hamstringing French from making conciliatory moves to Russians or marshalling Old Europe
– China (and soon India too!) now have Russia as top oil supplier. Expectations of imminent cuts to supply from Persian Gulf SLOCs?
– Boris had minor surgery today and “any significant military decisions – such as moves regarding the conflict in Ukraine – made within the next 24 hours are likely to be left up to [Deputy PM Dominic] Raab.” – RT. Is the teflon piglet princeling ceding the dirty move to Raab? [one RT comment noted he went into hiding, like azov rat! Read the RT comments, even funnier than Killary’s. Wasn’t a metric Soviets monitored in the past, of an imminent US strike, if pols suddenly went into hiding?]
–> within the next 24 hours is summer solstice (June 21) a traditional day of satanic sacrifice..
what did I leave out?
” The Second Coming ”
by William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
H. K. Smith in his passionate “commie” youth went to see the German nazis and later published his observations, and conflict-econo-predictions…(from memory) “Like a man on a bicycle going down hill who has to pedal faster and faster to keep from falling off…” He was speaking of the financial catastrophe that they had set in motion. In those days the “coaster brake” and overrunning clutch hub we know was not generally found on a bicycle. Downhill with no brakes could be a thrill! Smith said that the econ o-reality-process assured that nazi would have to attack or they would be overthrown.
FDR seems to have somewhat similarly arranged matters for fascist Imperial Japan.
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This, today, for AZEnazi, seems somewhat similar. “Last Train From Berlin”… toot toot!
I like the solstice bit.
Smith went to both Oxford and Heidelberg. (PhD Heidelberg, I think) Last Train> https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.13643
He was helpful in an inquiry I made into v. Luckner – rather destroyed the myth of the fictional antinazi Luckner…who seems to have been “with” Gehlen & Associates, so to say, and quietly “active” and helpful to the Gehlen folks and their patrons…Lucker? The myths say “spent the war in seclusion on estates”, but his W2 hang-out actually was the Adlon Bar, and youknowwho ran what there. That good man Lowell Thomas and the Count were tight… There’s lots of public secrets. And many mysteries remain, probably lost. Withal, v. L. did not escape his class origin. He himself says bigamist, spy, saboteur…and of course celebrated sea-captain of armed sailing ship (but the crew said he was incompetent – there were letters and I have copies). Ship went on reef. He was good in boats though. And he was at Jutland…
“Overthrown” tictictic…Change of western elites….
FDG-135 decodes as https://youtu.be/TLN-FhBLO6Y (Plan R, Strangelove).
I earned that Sudhi! I had responded cheekily to your last poem. well done. this poem and Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade are most relevant now. The epitaph of Oceania? We are all mesmerized, staring at the epic suicide in motion.
(1) https://youtu.be/S93lvQ4Ukg8
(2) https://youtu.be/ILYdzvSICes
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Younger Alex (Hiya if reading this again!) commented on the frenzied thrashings of the British in this entire Ukie affair. He is spot on. My father met Reagan in the Oval Office, corresponded with Sen. Ed Kennedy in Boston and lived 20+ years in US; he never wavered from considering the US the mere muscle. There is much more good and wholesomeness in US vs W. Europe. The British lead the AZE demonic intellectual and organizing effort. Any time peace threatens to break out, Boris flies into Kiev, a general barks, or their media fans the flames, etc. As masks are dropped, it really is back to basics – a reprise of the Great Game between the head of the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians.
And it really is about the Crimea, even more than Odessa.
Good history reminder from Meyssan:
https://www.voltairenet.org/article217210.html
“In 1792, the Crimea was conquered by the Russian Empire from the Ottoman Empire, as well as the freedom for its fleet to use the Dardanelles and Bosporus straits. Tsarina Catherine II intended to extend her influence towards the South Seas. But the British, worried that the Russians would enter the Mediterranean and compete with their naval hegemony, organized a coalition with France and the Ottoman Empire. They succeeded in defeating the Russian army, but not in retaking this territory….
[Crimea] decided in a referendum to regain its independence and to apply for membership in the Russian Federation. After the installation of Russian military bases in Syria, London saw the Russian presence in Crimea as the return of a credible rival, capable of threatening its maritime hegemony.”
Most would consider those words an exaggeration, of puny UK having hegemony of any sort, but if you parse the division of labor in AZE, the British are the brains, especially in current circumstances with Americans infighting and half in retreat and fighting for their own industrial survival and sovereignty. American input has dramatically reduced. This helps explain British madness since 2014, and why they may be current target #1 of the Russians, as messaged on Russian TV lately and Hudson’ nuke strike too. Their era of being the wizard behind the curtain is drawing to an end, one way or another.
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“the financial catastrophe that they had set in motion.. assured that nazi would have to attack or they would be overthrown.. FDR seems to have somewhat similarly arranged matters for fascist Imperial Japan.”
Yes, as CAF likes to say, “You can tell where a system wants to go when it refuses to learn.” Faux innocence and dissembling cannot wash when you see the same M.O. generation after generation.. Remember we discussed part of the intentionality of these ongoing severe deprivations is not merely to cull, or to loot, or to even control, but to channel into fascism and reaction for the needed next wave of stormtroopers and the ideological marshalling of the 4th Reich. President Putin confirmed it, saying at SPIEF2022: “Their wrong policies will lead to an increase in nationalist and extremist sentiments in European society.”
Survivors in Zone A will learn to appreciate why Jefferson recommended a revolution every couple decades or so.. it is like removing plaque at the dentist’s – accumulated gunk and scum must be dispassionately scrubbed and scraped off, in order to save society from oligarchic affliction.
AHH, I always look forward to you comments, as they are packed with so much new information and knowledge, at least for me. I only responded with the poem when you asked, “what did I leave out?”, after presenting such a dire picture of the world as off now. But one cannot lose hope, perhaps this turmoil will lead to a better tomorrow, who knows.
Alphaville – Forever Young
https://youtu.be/t1TcDHrkQYg
Lyrics :
Let’s dance in style, let’s dance for a while
Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies
Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don’t have the power, but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music’s for the sad man
Can you imagine when this race is won?
Turn our golden the faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we’re getting in tune
The music’s played by the, the madman
Forever young
I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever, and ever (**chorus)
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Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don’t they stay young?
It’s so hard to get old without a cause
I don’t want to perish like a fading horse
Youth’s like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures given up today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
Oh let it come true
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Thanks Sudhi, that song brings back memories… Alphaville was the quintessential German synth band, and I was living in Germany when that song came out.. I preferred Nena and Falco back then..
I try to inject positivity, but events overtake us. I am just laying it out as I see it. I agree the future is bright, however we need to buckle up, at least through 2030, when we’re hopefully finally rid of the global Inquisition..
https://youtu.be/PR7hp0613QY
“EU coal-thermal power stations will be re-started”
How would you deceive the last mile if you were in their shameless cynical Machiavellian shoes?
All this could be subterfuge, pure hogwash. That these are mere time-waster to mislead, to fill the narrative to prevent organized resuscitation with Russian HC. The way we tell some children that the reward for the dentist pulling their tooth is they get to put that tooth under the pillow and the Tooth Fairy will grant a wish or bring a gift while they sleep. The same deceptive pattern as demonstrated by Jorge with changing to non- Urals oil blend in a matter of weeks..
The Ukies are similarly deceived – told the $$ billions and arms are coming their way – just to keep their fighting spirit up through false hope up to the death of the last lemming, and to run out the clock..
What I have always been fascinated about nazis, and why I studied them so long, was their remarkable adherence to order and process and brainwashing of the victim even as they were industrially genociding the victim. And the Poles and Banderites appear among their foremost ecstatic victims. This weltanshauung really is incompatible with survival among humanity. And they do not have island bastions to retreat to.
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Talking of gaslighting and layered BS, here’s an old BBC show starring the incomparable Donald Pleasance. Has a lot of misdirection and fluff (de rigueur for the British Bulls**ting Corporation), but the story of the art of crafting the Narrative is impressive. As I was taught as a kid, assume every word uttered by Uncle Scam & Aunt Victoria is a lie until proven otherwise.. it is their way of life
https://youtu.be/xYAke_z3RVU
I particularly appreciate how it imagines the staging of a fake nuke FF, on a carefully controlled environment.. “very mountainous territory up there, there’ll be no survivors in 1973. no rescue work. radiation scare.. not exactly like this. We only plan in detail one year ahead..” perhaps if the scene of the crime is Kiev or Odessa or the old Chernobyl, most currently in AZE hands.. it may obviate dramatic retaliation by Russkies and allows full rupture with Zone B and the hermetic sealing of the propaganda bubble in Zone A.. so they imagine.. and if the controlled scene takes place on CONUS or Poland or thereabouts, it is even easier to shape the access and narrative.
Other FFs under consideration are EMP drills currently underway in Indiana .. Also perhaps a matter of “visiting Joe Biden’s Tomb” and “such a coup” in song and Simpsons too. It must be admitted the AZE provides quite a show on their way out!
https://genius.com/Electric-six-doom-and-gloom-and-doom-and-gloom-lyrics
Suhdi, thanks for this song, it’s moving, beautiful video accompaniment, and for your constancy of goodwill towards others in difficult times.
Many thanks to AHH and Nigella,
deeply humbled by your kind words.
The idea of “elder abuse”, the usage, semantic value, and especially the inescapable implication that it’s ok to abuse the young…well, much may be said…not all bad either, old people are frail, and ageing tends to be good, it’s vital to have old people if there’s to be culture and stability, history…but one of the lessons old people teach us is senility…and sometime filial loyalty to shield the poor fella … that may be especially impressive if the guy did shower with whozits…you know about the diary stuff and all that.
In another matter> The Byedon fella chattered along https://twitter.com/i/status/1538925283067273222
(grab that quick!) Chattered along…dadada international flat tax…dada..but the interesting voice is a girl’s and says “we did puzzles”. Poor old fella is confused too and speaks of girl as his (dead) son..
If we were writing a script for a tragic-comedy…first a clown act with wicked witch a-fluttering and screeching overhead….lightening and storm…and riots…then only the occasional splutter of bullets at sunset as the second act brings in, to the sound of bombs and distant flashes of war a disoriented and manipulated sick man and uses him – well, that’s family values.
The dramatic elegance and esthetic brilliance is really something which, as the German nazis propaganda fellas used to say einmalig in der geschichte .
https://twitter.com/i/status/1538925283067273222
Now then, what about that great intellectual the Harris?
The mills of the Moveable Feast Cafe grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine …
It being the longest day of the year, and also because of the train strikes, much of the UK is enjoying the glorious weather, many having been up before dawn to watch the sun rise, to swim in the lake at park, it was worth it being in the water, so soothing, as someone said, and overseas visitors also visiting the many ancient stone caves and circles that catch the first rays of the solstice, including a young couple from Canada at Stonehenge who were engaged to be married, the troubles of the world and home a long way away…
Stonehenge
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/21/huge-crowds-flock-to-stonehenge-for-summer-solstice-celebrations-16862310/
Scotland, sun rise in nature
https://www.dgwgo.com/out-and-about-in-dg/multiverse-will-be-the-perfect-place-to-celebrate-the-summer-solstice/
They say that EU coal-thermal power stations will be re-started.
This is easier to say than to do.
Some C-TPS will, could, probably re-start in 90 days or so. These things are not Aunt Pearl’s old de-soto car.
And when they were shut-down, I expect, there was pilferage and theft… Some C-TPS will turn out to be un-restartable…for example, steam turbines are prone to sagging…so they’re supposed to be rotated more or less all the time with “turning gear”…an electric motor drive…if not they tend to sag and become dynamically useless scrap….and this can become permanent. Boilers are supposed to be left full to prevent oxidation…were they? Then there will be “frozen” pumps, rust, and maybe frost damage…stuck valves…cracked castings and pipes…and boilers have to be hydro-tested and re-certified….probably essential parts have been stolen, salvaged, and sold. Is the documentation on hand or is it lost?
Skilled craftsmen and fitters are a limited group…and I assure you that they work to rule, know how to make sure that a job lasts a long time….especially if they’re unhappy.
Suit: “How much longer will this take?”
Pipe-fitter” “Oh damn! Now look what you did! You broke my concentration. I’ll have to grind this weld out and start over…”
The skilled people who used to know these plants? These people are gone like the breeze.
I judge that “re-start” may be 50% in 90 days, if they have a blank check and cut regulatory and engineering corners. After re-start? Expect unplanned events.
Steam plants last long time…and by the time a critical element is out of spec, the manufacturer is gone…
The men who cast the vital pump case, and their factory, are gone, dead. Mickey-mouse temporary repairs don’t last so long…and require experts…
Meantime…@ Anoxia? 42.2 grad is promised. ” Beer-30 ” by noon. Broccoli still and tomatoes a-comin’…big corn patch not quite ready to plant….blue-berries a-plenty and lots more.
The coal TPS is actually a pretty good machine…coal does not create water in combustion, so specific heat of stackgas is less, less corrosion, CO2 has good heat transfer to boiler tubes… I have been in coal plants that were so clean you could spend the day and not have to change clothes or shower before going to a party, or the bar. Others, however…
After the TPS restart project? All the same problems times 10 to restart a nuke, if it was shut down for a long time.
The Alex fellas and GL did a good livejob today.
Searchterm> Fourth Reich Rising: “Little Hitlers” Thesis – Part One phil butler” What a cluster of coincidences! I recommend this article.
It would be nice if the EU simply said “sorry” and made nice with Ruskieman. Especially because they’ll do this at some point, why wait?
What about that “Outcome Of Ukrainian Missile Strikes On Drilling Platforms Near Crimea”… @ southsomething…
I worked in the power generation industry my adult life, Did all kind of things. Including moth balling and un-mothballing power plants.
If a power plant is mothballed with no thought to preservation, there is hell to pay trying to get it back to running condition. The shafts of rotating equipment over time will become “fused” to their bearings to the point they will not turn when energized. Dust hast to be removed from motors and other electrical gear or you can have a short out and potentially blow it up at energization.
You are right about people pilfering equipment of mothballed equipment. I myself have gone on such expeditions, as many times the company involved may need something that was in the plants warehouse. People with an eye for value can and do get in there to help themselves to useful things. It is a bonanza for the home plumber or electrician.
Nature also takes advantage. Birds (mostly pigeons) delight in roosting in the places, nesting and raising their young, and defecating wherever they please.
All that said, it can still be done. It will take a lot of time and effort.
Ah! Blessed Be Entropy! None can escape it!
HI, I am a boiler engineer from South Africa looking after Eskom. All our boilers were designed in Germany and the drawings are in German – 88 thermal coal fired power station units – all belonging to the government – when we did the RTS or return to service for around 40 units that were mothballed for 10- 15 years – it took us 3 years to get them back up and running as so many parts were no longer made and had to be revesed engineers and sourced and even then to – the forging and casting companies were out of business and the steel molds had to be made from scratch or alternatives had to be found – the boilers had snakes and birds and rats and a lot of other animals in them, the wiring was eaten up by rats, the steel was corroded due to water and air exposure and these were very well preserved boilers – the electronics were shot to shit and had to be re hard wired from sractch in some parts – it can be done – but its not 90 days….the german plants were shut down not 15 years ago – and I am assuming they were even better preserved than the south african ones – but it should be at least a year.
I usually quite like the photos in the Moveable Feast Cafe, but this one goes above, it is exquisite.
So the new investment prospect in the EU is buggy whips. Seems the EU is reverting back to coal powered steam engines and horse buggies.