The Russian Services
Claudio sent me this article and it sent me back in time for a moment. Circa 1980, the GRU (including Spetznaz) used to drop their people in Central America, they’d hitchhike, cross the US/Mexico border illegally and make their way to New York City, where they’d be exfilled back to Mother Russia. It constituted one of several tasks (including killing a puppet) that you needed to do to be a full-fledged operator. So we’d go down to Mexico and screw with them. The Mexican police services worked with us and took them into custody (a fail on the course). The Russians followed a familiar pattern.
Today things have slipped for the SVR (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii), inheritor of the old KGB and while the core of the GRU isn’t completely incompetent, it’s not your granddad’s GRU. Read the article.
Then there are the Americans, who should know better
(Mail) Secret documents that provide details of US and NATO plans to help prepare Ukraine for a spring offensive against Russia have spilled onto social media platforms, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The Pentagon said it is assessing the reported security breach.
Bullet Points:
** The Tranny War? Law enforcement officials in Colorado have arrested a transgender individual with a communist manifesto for allegedly planning mass shootings at schools and churches in the area. News of the arrest was made public on Thursday afternoon, but the arrest happened on March 31, just a few days after a transgender terrorist massacred six people, including three children, at a private Christian school in Nashville.
** The BRICS Move – A New Currency? The BRICS countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are discussing the idea to create a common currency in an effort to challenge the dominance of the US dollar and reduce their dependence on it. This move comes amidst calls from Moscow and Beijing for de-dollarisation in the face of Western sanctions, Firstpost reported.
** From American Thinker – It’s one of the more bizarre experiences in life to witness the unsuspecting sheep shuffle on towards the abattoir as you openly declare the danger ahead, telling them they are in fact moving towards a grisly death. What’s even stranger, is when those sheep bleat back, asserting the slaughterhouse is actually a utopia, and once inside, everything will be more just, more free, and more fair.
Of course, the analogy above is akin to the struggle of the awake conservative and how we relate to contemporary everyday leftists. They really have no idea they’re nothing more than pawns, utterly dispensable, and they too will be told to ‘face the wall’ if — as Tucker Carlson labels them — the “lizard overlords in Davos” get their way.
Speaking of whom….
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and World Economic Forum crony, dispatched a letter to all shareholders just two days ago which contained several revealing tidbits, two of which I will highlight.
The first? Dimon proposes the seizure of Americans’ private property as a viable path forward for the “green” agenda. In his words:
We may even need to evoke eminent domain – we simply are not getting the adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind and pipeline initiatives.
As we all know, the Inflation Reduction Act was really just the Green New Deal, with billions of confiscated and unbacked dollars funneled to “green” industries — and now the globalists are openly clawing for our real estate too. (more here)
Identify the Aircraft
From the Days of Fighting Sail
Traverse Boards
Oak and bone Traverse board, with a brass hourglass, 17th century
These boards were used in northern Europe in the 16th century to record the movements of a ship. They were circular and had a series of holes along lines marking the 32 cardinal points. The pegs were attached to the board with a string and inserted into the correct hole for the course to be steered, usually one hole for each half hour of the watch, which was measured with an hourglass.
At the end of each watch, the records were noted and later transferred to the log book, usually by the ship’s captain, and the pegs pulled out for the next watch. Later versions also had a row of holes on the bottom to record the ship’s speed, which was measured with a log and a line.
Identify the Aircraft:
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406
Late on the draw again.
It was French and did not fair well against the Luftwaffe in WWII.
Do AI dream of electric sheep?
I’m more of a how we got along after the bomb kind of AI.
Heh
Didn’t Surly star in Blade Runner?
He IS The Matrix.
The Architect?
Surly is the Keymaker of the Matrix. And was lucky enough to ride behind Trinity on the Ducati.
Wandering Neurons
That’s more on the quality of training and tactics than a condemnation of the aircraft.
Surly, what was the giveaway? Most of the online (not AI enhanced) pictures showed the air intake (radiator) at the front underside of the fuselage to be enclosed….the pictured example shows that to be exposed.
Cletus
Agreed but the rest looked like the M.S. 406 so I assumed battle damage or such. In any case, my identification still awaits confirmation from the Proprietor.
The MS406 had a retractable radiator, yes MS406
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3
It’s an MS 406 – and this particular aircraft. wore Finnish livery, though you can’t see it in this photo.
Good post, the quote from American Thinker article is displaced and took me a while to find it…
For those who are as challenged as I when it comes to linkage,
Here is the easy link:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/banking_behemoth_ceo_flaunts_federal_incompetency_and_proposes_the_use_of_eminent_domain_against_american_citizens.html
May God Bless and protect you and your family on this Glorious Anniversary of His Defeat of Death that we might have Life
MSG Grumpy
Amen.
Amen as well…today being “the in between” day. Beans has an interesting and thought-provoking take on the day over at his spot:
https://oldafsarge.blogspot.com/
Imagine trying to use the Traverse Board on a rough sea.
Gotta be careful, Tranny’s are now a protected class of…something or other. Kammy headed to Tennessee to support the Dem “Insurrectionists” who disrupted official proceedings, and Joe got a Camp David scoop of rainbow ice cream in solidarity. As Hale’s school shooting got forced into the memory hole 😡, more and more Tranny TimeBombs will go off and we aren’t allowed to say anything or end up in jail for hate speech. Getting more upside-down stupid by the day.
Dimon, on the JPM linked header picture, has the audacity to wear an American Flag lapel pin. Maybe it’s a male “Jamie” thing, but more likely: “When the uber wealthy get bored while hanging around their uber wealthy moron pals while giving tours of their latest yacht moored in some exclusive harbor.”
My new road sign: ‘Goa Way’
Paul, with your permission I may borrow that Goa Way sign idea for my driveway.
Do it, sends a certain “attitude” that “Private Property” does the quit convey.
Check this out…seems great minds think alike:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/153332903242?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338765313&toolid=20006&customid=0d3b9953263bd5f012948b42b808c1b1
*doesn’t quite convey
(iPad and stiff fingers after regrading the road since the one weekend cabin neighbor decided to ‘just send’ the propane truck up in the snowmelt melt mud and tearing it up.)
Getting to remind me more and more of “Telefon”….
Was looking at the dewoitine family of fighters. Too late on the draw. France had top of the line equipment. Germany had the will.
France had good pilots too. But the politics in France, England, etc. was shit.
Jimmie Diamond was only stating the obvious as a warning to the normies. Of course we need more land for windmills, ah turbines, there being insufficient storage for off hours power needs. Now if he said we have to sieze Barack’s waterfront mansion to fight climate change nobody would believe him.
Barack & Big Mike’s mansion could be used to house illegal aliens in the name of equity.
Plus they could clean it and take care of the grounds to work off their room and board, that is, according illegal immigrant proponents who emphatically state illegals…err…immigrants…will happily do those jobs that Americans won’t. Win, win.
Indentured Servitude. Dems have always been for that.
And tell their blind and deaf followers the opposite.
Are we talking about barry & big mike doing the cleaning and groundskeeping? Since they’re not Americans, they’re qualified.
When we refer to both together, can we just use bm? It kinda fits.
I doubt that Big Mike or the Half-Blood Prince have done an honest day’s work in their lives. Maybe they’ll shovel coal in the next?
One of my friends, on the editorial board of First Things, no less, argues thus: We must return to civility and decency of discourse. Her point being that conservatives and trads shouldn’t mimic their leftist opposition.
She teaches political science at Baylor.
This, clearly, is a worthless degree and you’ll be unsurprised to note that the prof’s sister is a lesbian.
I’ll leave it at that.
Civility and decency of discourse **among ourselves** is all well and good. But as to the rest? “Chicago rules” as per Jim Malone (Sean Connery’s Irish cop from The Untouchables).
Further remarks about giving a generous tip to the non-English speaking thug herding her into the boxcar, and perhaps believing that “salvation” comes from the persons employing the thug, redacted.
FWIW, I’ll bet this friend is a good, decent person. On the other side of the political spectrum, I have plenty of good, personally decent friends who support insane leftist policies. (Though interestingly, as they have children themselves and look to how they want their child to be raised, they’re starting to sound … conservative. Bwahahah!)
Are mothers removing their son’s penises at birth for the sake of transitioning?
Dimon et al won’t be the ones coming for your stuff… They don’t have the balls to actually confront real people… They’ll sit in their guarded enclaves and have their version of the Stasi do it.
Exactly – they always use stooges (like Antifa) to do their dirty work. Antifa, brownshirts – same thing.