Loose Screw

Memorial Day has come and gone,  but the spirit of honoring those who put it all on the line for us should remain.

 

Walther PPK/PPKS

CW at Daily Timewaster asked for opinions on the PPK at his blog.

7+1 .380  (9mm kurtz). I carried one in a backup role for years, with a modified recoil spring, throated and ramped. It worked well.

I prefer the Sig P-365 SAS in that role.  (Most police shootings are 0-7 feet)

10+1 9mm, buy the standard 365 magazines and you get 17+1. I’ve modified it with a longer (non-porting) threaded True Precision barrel. The new 9mm ammunition available has given it a significant improvement over past 9mm ammo.

 

Not a Documentary

 

Bullet Points:

** The Value of Propaganda – A research psychologist who previously released a study that demonstrates how Google has the power to sway elections is once again sounding the alarm about the tech giant. Dr. Robert Epstein, a Californian Democrat who has been researching Google’s result manipulation tactics over the past decade, shared his latest findings with the New York Post.

Epstein previously estimated that upwards of six-million votes were shifted to Joe Biden in 2020 due to Google’s manipulated algorithm. The tech giant used its virtual monopoly to elevate links that were positive for Biden while also amplifying negative stories for then-President Trump. Get Out The Vote messaging on Google’s homepage was also targeted toward Democrat voters.

**Snake Space Robot –  At least 83 moons orbit Saturn, and experts believe its most reflective one could harbor life underneath its icy surface. To find out, NASA scientists hope to send a massive serpentine robot to scour Enceladus, both atop its frozen ground—and maybe even within a hidden ocean underneath.

As CBS News highlighted on Monday, researchers and engineers are nearing completion of their Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) prototype. The 16-foot-long, 200-pound snakelike bot is capable of traversing both ground and watery environments via “first-of-a-kind rotating propulsion units,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These repeating units could act as tracks, gripping mechanisms, and underwater propellers, depending on the surrounding environment’s needs. The “head” of EELS also includes 3D mapping technology alongside real-time video recording and transmission capabilities to document its extraplanetary adventure.

** Thoughts on 2024 Election Rigging. (PJM) Former deputy national security adviser K. T. McFarland appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo about a week ago. In it, she warned of efforts by the Deep State to tip the scales for the Democrat nominee in 2024 (unless it’s RFK Jr., she might have added).

** California’s Water Shortages – California’s political leaders are obsessed with climate, so why don’t they prepare for droughts or deluges? The atmospheric rivers that are sweeping the parched Golden State should be a cause for relief, but they’ve instead given way to catastrophic floods and enormous water waste. Scientists last fall forecast another warm and dry winter following three of California’s driest years on record. Yet storms this winter have already dropped tens of trillions of gallons of water across the state and more than a dozen feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Alas, little of the storm runoff is getting captured.

** In Delaware – the unconstitutional firearms ban and restriction is in place for now, but the larger question is whether its citizens will roll onto their backs (and pee on their bellies) or not.

 

Identify the Helicopter

 

Maps

 

Mt. Athos,  the holy mountain, is home to a number of monasteries, where women are not welcome.

The minimum age at which children can be sent to prison.

 

Instability

History is complex. The period between the First and Second World Wars was one of extreme chaos as ethnic clashes arising from the fall of old empires frequently defied the diplomatic efforts of The Entente and League of Nations. Below is a partial list of the tumultuous and frequently bloody events that set the stage for the most devastating war in modern history:

Events leading to World War II

Revolutions of 1917–1923

The aftermath of World War I 1918–1939

Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918–1925

Province of the Sudetenland 1918–1920

1918–1920 Unrest in Split

The Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919

Heimosodat 1918–1922

Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia 1918–1919

Hungarian–Romanian War 1918–1919

Hungarian–Czechoslovak War 1918–1919

1919 Egyptian Revolution

Christmas Uprising 1919

Irish War of Independence 1919

Comintern World Congresses 1919–1935

Treaty of Versailles 1919

Shandong Problem 1919–1922

Polish-Soviet War 1919–1921

Polish–Czechoslovak War 1919

Polish–Lithuanian War 1919–1920

Silesian Uprisings 1919–1921

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1919

Turkish War of Independence 1919–1923

Venizelos–Tittoni Agreement 1919

Italian Regency of Carnaro 1919–1920

Iraqi Revolt 1920

Treaty of Trianon 1920

Treaty of Rapallo 1920

Little Entente 1920–1938

Treaty of Tartu (Finland–Russia) 1920–1938

Mongolian Revolution of 1921

Soviet Intervention in Mongolia 1921–1924

Franco-Polish Alliance 1921–1940

Polish–Romanian Alliance 1921–1939

Genoa Conference (1922)

Treaty of Rapallo (1922)

March on Rome 1922

Sun–Joffe Manifesto 1923

Corfu incident 1923

Occupation of the Ruhr 1923–1925

Treaty of Lausanne 1923–1924

Mein Kampf 1925

Second Italo-Senussi War 1923–1932

First United Front 1923–1927

Dawes Plan 1924

Treaty of Rome (1924)

Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention 1925

German–Polish customs war 1925–1934

Treaty of Nettuno 1925

Locarno Treaties 1925

Anti-Fengtian War 1925–1926

Treaty of Berlin (1926)

May Coup (Poland) 1926

Northern Expedition 1926–1928

The Nanking incident of 1927

Chinese Civil War 1927–1937

Jinan incident 1928

Huanggutun incident 1928

Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928

Chinese reunification 1928

Lateran Treaty 1928

Central Plains War 1929–1930

Young Plan 1929

Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

Great Depression 1929

London Naval Treaty 1930

Kumul Rebellion 1931–1934

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931

Pacification of Manchukuo 1931–1942

January 28 incident 1932

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1932–1939

Geneva Conference 1932–1934

May 15 incident 1932

Lausanne Conference of 1932

Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact 1932

Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact 1932

Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932

Defense of the Great Wall 1933

Battle of Rehe 1933

Nazis’ rise to power in Germany in 1933

Reichskonkordat 1933

Tanggu Truce 1933

Italo-Soviet Pact 1933

Inner Mongolian Campaign 1933–1936

Austrian Civil War 1934

Balkan Pact 1934–1940

July Putsch 1934

German–Polish Declaration of non-aggression 1934–1939

Baltic Entente 1934–1939

1934 Montreux Fascist conference

Stresa Front 1935

Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance 1935

Soviet–Czechoslovakia Treaty of Mutual Assistance 1935

He–Umezu Agreement 1935

Anglo-German Naval Agreement 1935

December 9th Movement

Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–1936

February 26 incident 1936

The remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936

Soviet-Mongolian alliance 1936

Spanish Civil War 1936–1939

Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936

Italo-German “Axis” Protocol 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact 1936

Suiyuan campaign 1936

Xi’an Incident 1936

Second Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945

USS Panay incident 1937

Anschluss Mar. 1938

1938 Polish ultimatum to Lithuania Mar. 1938

Easter Accords April 1938

May Crisis May 1938

Battle of Lake Khasan July–Aug. 1938

Salonika Agreement July 1938

Bled Agreement Aug. 1938

Undeclared German–Czechoslovak War Sep. 1938

Munich Agreement Sep. 1938

First Vienna Award Nov. 1938

German Occupation of Czechoslovakia Mar. 1939

Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine Mar. 1939

German ultimatum to Lithuania Mar. 1939

Slovak–Hungarian War Mar. 1939

The final offensive of the Spanish Civil War Mar.–Apr. 1939

Danzig crisis Mar.–Aug. 1939

British guarantee to Poland Mar. 1939

The Italian invasion of Albania Apr. 1939

Soviet–British–French Moscow negotiations Apr.–Aug. 1939

Pact of Steel May 1939

Battles of Khalkhin Gol May–Sep. 1939

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Aug. 1939