From Radio Free Asia
(link) There are articles that I recommend that you read and this is one of them.
Major state-owned companies across China are setting up corporate militias under the direct management of local garrisons of the People’s Liberation Army, according to official reports.
Jiangsu-based current affairs commentator Zhang Jianping said the move is likely linked to concern over potential social unrest, however.
“Urban investment groups … owe huge debts and they must want to maintain stability,” Zhang said. “[Armed forces departments] can also help to solve the issue of unemployment among veterans.”
Current affairs commentator Bi Xin agreed.
“They are expanding their capacity to control confrontation between the people and the government,” he said. “Shanghai Chengtou is mostly engaged in urban development and property investment, as well as infrastructure projects like bridges, tunnels, metro lines and so on.”
“The People’s Armed Forces departments are a new way to maintain stability.”
“These armed forces departments have nothing to do with any threat from overseas or about national defense mobilization,” he said. “They are about using military force to suppress people inside the system who are seen as disloyal.”
Me-110G-2
An interesting article on the use of the Me-110 with Lichtenstein Radar in a night fighting role.
Jules blogs about toads in holes and making food that is difficult to assemble in the Colonies. She also has art from her latest inktober that requires phisolophical interpretation…now I’m hungry.
Identify the Aircraft
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Typhoon
One big titanium boat.
Bullet Points:
** Supply chains are not something most of us think about on a day-to-day basis. Or they weren’t, until the last few years, when we’ve been exposed, at least on the right, to the fragility and susceptibility of said supply chains. This author works in the shipping industry and has a few thoughts.
** Ukraine War – Just follow the money. The amount of lobbying money spent by Ukraine and others is tremendous, impacting almost all the politicians. Everyone is getting in on it. Consulting firms linked to the White House’s leading Ukraine policy architects — including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland — appear to be advising the Ukrainian government on its reconstruction efforts funded by U.S. taxpayers. Defense contractor lobbyists are lobbying on behalf of Ukraine for free while taking millions from contractors that benefit from the war.
** What is a “woman”? Fury as women in tech conference is overrun with men claiming to be ‘nonbinary’ – who cut in front of female attendees to network with employers… Oh what a tangled web we weave…
The scandal erupted at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando Florida, which is among the most lucrative job finding conventions for young female professionals to meet major tech firms, often right out of college.
The article is funny. I laughed as I read the accounts. The only thing required of a man to actually be a woman these days is a statement of self-identification. Guys fresh out of college looking for work are told that there is a hiring preference if they’re non-binary and they say, “sign me up.”
** A Pentagon official has been seen for the first time since he was accused of running an illegal dog-fighting ring for 20 years – and electrocuting animals that didn’t die in grim battles. A number of people have speculated that since his name is “Frederick Douglas”, and a descendent of slaves, he stands a good chance of getting a slap on the wrist.
From the Days of Fighting Sail
more sailor’s superstitions
Cold Iron Touch metal and say cold iron will protect you from witches and fairies on board. It was also whispered on board of Scottish and Irish ships when someone had taken the forbidden words rabbit or pig in the mouth and so the misfortune herrauf conjured, only so could an upcoming misfortune from himself avert.
Crew change Please change your fishing boat crew every season and you will be lucky.
Cross A small wooden cross around the neck was a from of divine protection. The Spanish and Portuguese even had crosses on their sails to protect their ships.
Fly For sailors from Greenock, Scotland, it was a good omen if a fly fell into the glass from which the man was about to drink.
Garlic In Greece and Turkey it was common to wrap a bunch of garlic around the rails to protect the ship from storms. Medieval England, the Netherlands and France, on the other hand, banned garlic and onions on board because they were said to affect the lodestone or compass.
Storm songs It needs some wind ? don’t worry just sing Ghostly Sailor or Young Charlotte and the weather will turn against you and call for a storm.
Good luck charms Sailors are notoriuos for carrying good luck charms or totems. Some of the more common ones are carved horns (England, Norway, Denmark); pieces of slate (America, Sweden, Scotland); small sugared skulls (Mexico); horse figurines (China); dried apples (England); animal and human ashes (Africa); wooden carvings of geese (Ireland); carved figurines of saints (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy); bat wings (Europe, America); bone fragments (America, Canada, Japan); otter skin (Shetland Islands); and the right front paw of a seal (Scotland)
Michigan Mitten Great Lakes sailors were once fearful of sailing on an inverted U-shaped voyage, something that happens when a trip is planned around a peninsula. This mitten shape occurs, for instance, on a route from Toledo, Ohio, to Chicago or between Detroit and Milwaukee. The reason behind this may have been that the inverted U resembles an upside- down horseshoe, which is a very unlucky symbol.
Speaking Speaking to a ship to encourage her along greatly increases her speed. Sailors would not consider this as superstitious, although others might.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Vickers Warwick
2. Ilyushin DB-3
1. I now think it’s a Vickers Wellington.
It’s a Vickers Warwick.
Interesting article on the Me 110 night fighter. Possibly of interest: the only surviving jet night fighter from World War II, the Me 262B-1a/U1, may be seen at the South African National Museum of Military History. Picture is at the second link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_National_Museum_of_Military_History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262#/media/File:Messerschmitt_Me_262B-1a_Red8.jpg
I’m surprised the new South African Govt. hasn’t sold all that off to collectors.
IDA:
1. Vickers Windsor
2. Ilyushin DB-3
Ukraine- I start at the beginning…why exactly are we funding this disaster, and who gave the authority to do so when America has no vested interest? Yet the grift has been so protracted and normalized that anyone questioning it is the crazy one.
I’m not telling MrsDrPaulM about the Pentagon Cretin because she’d be heading straight away to DC, invoking her former clearance, and shooting the guy in the knee so he’s reminded everyday of his evil-doing.
After Hillary facilitated the sale of Uranium One to Russia and Hunter Biden took money from Russian Oligarchs, the media painted Trump as the Russian pawn. Today, we know that the Clinton Campaign manufactured it and spread the lies through stooges in the media and Congress. If you throw mud, sometimes it sticks. The media is a powerful tool. The FBI bends to the media’s influence since they go from headline to headline.
When Afghanistan ended, the convenient place to launder money and to feed the military-industrial complex ended. Ukraine came along as the heaven-sent solution. FTX could launder Ukrainian aid back to democrats. In country hardware could be diverted to Albania and end up on the international arms market. Putin could (with some justification) be set up at the man everyone hates, and it would take people’s small minds off Covid 19 and those responsible.
In a nutshell.
Good synopsis of the trajectory…basically the liars and cheats in charge are the modern Military Industrial Complex while telling us to get behind it or else we’re the terrorists or insurrectionists or unAmerican. Afghanistan could have been resolved in short order by a few retirees here (MikeW comes to mind), a couple of well done Ops to take out the snakes and no need for a lengthy war. Problem with that simpler solution is no stateside political hack or larger firms (Blackrock) makes money. Always follow the money. Bankman-Fried, a total con artist with brains, will be the fall guy…and he didn’t kill himself.
I’m with Jules, public hangings for all the players, as in Colonial times, would stop this steamroller dead in its tracks. People today are more visual than ever before, might make them think twice. Then again, the self-appointed elites think they are untouchable, until they’re not.
Time For A Reset ™
My new perspective: If Hollywood gets behind something, despite their public attitudinal ovations to the opposite, then it’s a ploy and should be stopped immediately.
I don’t think that it’s 100% the case. Hollywood did missing the kidnapped and exploited children film released in theaters. Maybe the way to look at it is that everything they do must be scrutinized.
Yeah a broad brushed statement, and certainly at the fringes there is some excellent product coming from Hollywood, but taken as a whole, and after watching TC’s interview with Amanda Milius on His previous Fox Nation program, (her dad was writer/director of Red dawn, and a pile of other great movies)…she spoke of Hollywood and its inhabitants as bizarre and living in a tone deaf bubble unable to relate to regular America. This was a first person account.
The Sound of Freedom exposed child trafficking, something Hollywood (as I have read) have turned a blind eye for decades because some are heavily involved.
Speaking of Afghanistan–
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1710902080309710952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1710902080309710952%7Ctwgr%5Ef4d36a1bf49704278213c8e8d540e42a48a57aeb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fncrenegade.com%2F
All part of the plan…infuriating to say the least. These bums push and prod then push some more…then shout that we are the problem.
How much more of this criminality can We The People allow to continue before “stepping in”?
Time For A Reset ™
Imagine the skill night fighter pilots had to have to fly in pitch black night looking for 400 bombers to attack as you’re flying along hoping your own flak doesn’t get you by accident. Then fly back to base, fuel and ammo up, and do it again the same night when the bombers were coming back from their target.
Most did not live to a ripe old age.
Where is Epstein’s client list? Why hadn’t the FBI made all of the Epstein videos that they control, public? Where are the children that Bill, Hillary, Oprah, and the rest of the Epstein guests molested? Have they been interviewed? Where is the investigative journalism? Maybe the kids have been murdered and journalists have been reminded of that fate?
Epstein didn’t hang himself while the cell doors were opened, the cameras were turned off and the guards took a four-hour break.
Ha! You hit on the dog fighter dem. Nice, might have to follow up.
Then there’s the long range Luftwaffe bombers, what a great lead infographic.