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October 22, 2022
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101st Airborne division being sent to Romania, ostensibly to partake in exercises. Poor saps dont know they are being sent as sacrificial lambs. A false flag on their own troops is a perfect way to declare war. Ukronazis will be happy to oblige, Im sure.
Posted by: DaVinci | Oct 22 2022 18:51 utc | 2
101st Airborne division being sent to Romania, ostensibly to partake in exercises. Poor saps dont know they are being sent as sacrificial lambs. A false flag on their own troops is a perfect way to declare war. Ukronazis will be happy to oblige, Im sure.
Posted by: DaVinci | Oct 22 2022 18:51 utc | 3
Anytime someone runs an ALTER DATABASE “x” SET OFFLINE there’s always gonna be a few people think you got yourself shot b.
The fact it will attract the least trolls is somewhat sadly amusing.
Posted by: S.O. | Oct 22 2022 18:55 utc | 4
Good to hear, only in the sense that i was beginning to wonder whether something more nefarious may have been at play.
Posted by: Et Tu | Oct 22 2022 19:11 utc | 5
Northern Eve | Oct 22 2022 19:22 utc | 6
Sparse on the wise debaters
Not so the mass debaters
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 22 2022 19:33 utc | 7
thanks for the note…. no conspiracy theories here b, lol…
Posted by: james | Oct 22 2022 19:36 utc | 8
Thanks for the heads up b
Hopefully typepad can rid their software of those phantom bit diddlers that have been messing with the comment section for the past few weeks.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 22 2022 19:50 utc | 9
ah, then it was not strange i was unable to access the site yesterday.
Posted by: Per/Norway | Oct 22 2022 20:02 utc | 10
After my cousin lost all her work when geocities went down, I’m always wary of site maintenence. I hope you have a full content backup. The archives of your work here are good to revisit. I hope they stay online for a long time as a real-time analytic chronicle of the rapidly changing configurations of social forces in our times.
Posted by: bootsup | Oct 22 2022 20:07 utc | 11
I had to laugh when I checked the various threads this morning, my time, and found that I had a comment pegged to the bottom of a thread for a while….grin
And so it goes…hat tip to the software folks keeping all this software running as well as it does.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 22 2022 20:08 utc | 12
Awesome. Now everyone can be five hours ahead of reality.
Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 22 2022 20:08 utc | 13
About trolling and disfunctioning of portals.
This portal became livesavier… OK, there are trols, but anybody normal, can sense them…
I would already go for hunt on idiots in my coutry, which write for state media…
But I found, there are normal people, which understand…. And I feel there are some normal people out there, which think the same way I do.
So, now I add comments in that media. 90% are deleted.
First I write some good text, with arguments, sources. They delete. Then I start to name them idiots, all the selected names in our language…
Sending them literaly to place where they wre pulled out by birth …
Then again some good text. They allow then comment to be published… And I am in the moment on first or second page of thousand comments…
There is one interesting point, they could lock me for life time, but they don’t do that…
First reason, they know, what are they doing. That they lie, spread propaganda, and are forced to do that…
And becouse they know that, they allow to reliese steam out…
So, this is my experience…
Posted by: preseren3 | Oct 22 2022 20:27 utc | 14
Yeah having difficulty reaching the site. I thought another attack
Posted by: A.z | Oct 22 2022 20:33 utc | 15
Technical issues
1) Comments are often rejected by the spam filter, if they contain too many or the wrong links. Evidently b no longer has time to go through the rejections to manually approve comments. I will repost a comment I tried to post a week ago.
2) Links to comments not always working
In a previous thread:
PROBLEM I am an avid reader and admirer of the comment sections on this site. I like to bookmark various outstanding comments. I do this by clicking on the comment number. That usually jumps the comment up to just above the top of my screen. Then I bookmark it in the appropriate folder. However, frequently when I click on the comment number, the text jumps up to the top of that comment page – useless for bookmarking. I want to know: is there a flaw in the way that comment was posted in the Comment section, or is there an issue related to my computer? If it is the latter, how can I fix it? If it is the former, maybe b can change the way the comment is posted.
Posted by: gmar | Oct 6 2022 0:04 utc | 372
The automatic links sometimes direct to the wrong page. I often fix the URLs manually. This works, as long as the comment does not change page number because of deleted or approved comments.
The autogenerated link to the above comment looks like this:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/ukraine-what-explains-the-recent-russian-retreats.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02a2eed89028200d#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a2eed89028200d
Note the anchor at the end of the URL: “#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a2eed89028200d”
The comment is on page 4 of the comments section. This link with the anchor “#comments” goes to the top of the comment section.
To fix a non-working link to a comment, I combine parts of the two URLs. Like this:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/ukraine-what-explains-the-recent-russian-retreats/comments/page/4/#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a2eed89028200d
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Oct 22 2022 22:06 utc | 16
Anyone want to explain why Belgorod needs a defensive line of anti tank obstacles, I think these are called dragon’s teeth? No need to mention these are not to prevent rocket and shells or a nighttime squad of saboteurs but a full on assault by entire mechanized army with several divisions of tanks, anything less would be pointless suicide. So, NATO is preparing for an infantry invasion into Russian soil? This is where we are at now? And what would be the point of a tank assault on Belgorod unless NATO plans on going all the way Moscow? In two years will we relive the battle of Kursk?
I’m sort of being provocative here but someone doesn’t just lay and dig miles of hedgehogs and trenches because they have nothing better to do. Russia has always said since Soviet days that they’ll nuke any army marching towards their border, you’d think that would be enough and would override any need for an anti tank line. I find this hedgehog thing strange.
https://t.me/c/1335606541/59561
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 22 2022 22:24 utc | 18
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 22 2022 22:24 utc | 18
Regarding Belgorod, with all of Russia’s long border with Ukraine, why this city? What is so special about it?
Features? A gateway perhaps?
Posted by: HelenB | Oct 22 2022 22:34 utc | 19
@Petri Krohn #16
It looks like Typepad’s ?cid=COMMENT_ID parameter was specifically introduced for selecting the comment page containing the comment (thus accounting for cases when the comment has jumped pages due to other comments having been deleted or unblocked), but its implementation became broken at some point. When linking to past comments, I always check if the links actually open; if they don’t, I do the same “splicing” of URLs as you do.
Posted by: S | Oct 22 2022 22:43 utc | 20
My point is Ukraine has no claim on Belgorod so neither do its handlers, NATO. Belgorod is right next to Kursk so it couldn’t be any more strategic for invading Russia, but obviously NATO isn’t up for marching on Moscow. The shelling and sabotage attacks make sense as wanton, desperate reprisals by Ukraine but an infantry assault into Russia does not and Ukraine itself has no means whatsoever to effect one. That’s what is so weird about the tank traps. Only logic is RF has info that NATO is preparing a full on assault by several armies into Belarus and Russia (and likely Transnitria and into Kearson from the south) this would force Russia to pull out of eastern Ukraine to defend the homeland. Job done for NATO. If I was Russia I wouldn’t lay the tank traps, it’s just more ambiguity that only leads the west on, best let the nukes speak for themselves.
Maybe someone here can figure this defensive line thing out?
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 22 2022 22:52 utc | 21
@LightYearsFromHome #21
Wrong thread.
Oops, I thought this was an open one. I moved it.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 22 2022 23:14 utc | 23
Barflies,
Continue if you must. But I prefer you not reply to rk, zanon, and some others. I end up reading some of their tedious remarks because you reply to them.
Down South, thanks for the occasional news updates.
Posted by: dfg | Oct 22 2022 23:18 utc | 24
@ LightYearsFromHome | Oct 22 2022 22:24 utc | 18
From the cheap seats, I agree it’s puzzling.
Posted by: dfg | Oct 22 2022 23:22 utc | 25
Ok, now I’m really confused, so this thread is only about the MoA outages? First I thought it was open, then I got scolded and thought it was out the electric outage in UKR 🙃 and now I have no idea and there is no general discussion thread to repost on. Meh, I leave these posts here won’t be the first time the discussion drifted.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 22 2022 23:22 utc | 26
50 years ago, the U.S. Air Force sent me to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA to learn Romanian. It could have been me.
Posted by: Lysias | Oct 22 2022 23:28 utc | 28
Posted by: Melaleuca | 22 oktober 2022 19:33 UTC | 7
“Sparse on the wise debaters….”
No, not at all, just to mention a few of them at the beginning of 21 october:
Posted by: mockasin | 21 october 2022 18:34 UTC | 35
Posted by : Dave_k | 21 october 2022 18:48 UTC | 37
Posted: Petri Krohn | 21 october 2022 18:57 UTC | 44
Posted by: watcher | 21 oktober 2022 21:49 UTC | 86
And sometimes very funny ones:
Posted by: Last Laugh | 21 october 2022 22:04 utc | 93 “And you selfappointe five star general of the 182 nd Chairiborne Brigade”
And of course all b´s excellent articles and all references to other articles and interviews.
I very often refer to them and copy your comments with your signatures on other Social Medias. The discussions, even with trols, some of them perhaps only ignorants are instructive…
I could never have learned as much as I have on MoA.
The ever recurring deliberately stupid and provocative debaters you soon learn to recognize and also how to treat them whenever you meet them.
So it´s no wonder you´re always a bit nervous when you can´t enter Moon of Alabama.
Posted by: Northern Eve | Oct 22 2022 23:43 utc | 29
With fewer than 15 days until the elections, Team Biden must be in a frenzy, demanding a big result w.r.to Kherson — after Afghanistan, another loss would be disastrous for the Dems’ hopes in the House and Senate.
It would appear that the various Ukr attempts to break the defensive line on the right flank have met with little or no success, so will the Bidens eventually demand plan B — an all-out frontal assault against the deadly defensive fortifications in the immediate Kherson region that the Russians have had since March to prepare.
If memory serves, I believe that one of the Russian generals said ” … we have some surprises for them’ — one can only wonder …
Various Telegram channels have reported the Ukr general-in-chief has been strenuously advising Zel against a frontal assault, so it remains to be seen if Zel can withstand the American pressure.
Posted by: chet380 | Oct 22 2022 23:53 utc | 30
@Ed Nelson #27:
Well, what thread are we supposed to be on Mr S.
This thread is named “Outage”. It is about an expected Typepad outage. Here we are supposed to discuss the expected Typepad outage, past Typepad outages, comments “from the future” that stick to the bottom of threads, broken comment linking and other examples of Typepad shittiness.
Other issues, except the Ukraine, are supposed to be discussed in the latest non-Ukraine open thread: Open (Not Ukraine) Thread 2022-178.
The Ukraine is supposed to be discussed in the latest Ukraine open thread: Ukraine Open Thread 2022-179.
It’s really not that hard.
Posted by: S | Oct 22 2022 23:56 utc | 31
Are you sure the Russian didn’t bomb the location of your isp?
Posted by: Inkan1969 | Oct 23 2022 1:47 utc | 32
Good luck with that b.
Meanwhile Boston University will need some luck too. Hopefully they are not storing their new virus at Fort Detrick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTZo9ieBKY&t=926s
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 23 2022 2:25 utc | 33
Boston University full PDF of the pre publish paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1.full.pdf
Easy to download.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 23 2022 2:36 utc | 34
Testing for outages 5-3-1 . . .
Reading website ok,all threads. Can post ?
If this comes up in comments then all ok.here.
(Java script limited by choice.)
Posted by: Fíréan | Oct 23 2022 5:37 utc | 36
S | Oct 22 2022 23:56 utc | 31
Could you have a word with that Tony-Oftopic who’s
graffiti shits whole threads, with narcissistic diary entries?
He’s a habitual offender… much appreciated in anticipation.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2022 5:40 utc | 37
Scene of week.. The atlanticist Hu Jintao being kicked off.. hahaha
Posted by: Nick | Oct 23 2022 5:53 utc | 38
I replied “back to the future” with comment currently listed as Proteiros | Oct 23 2022 5:29 utc | 159
to comment
Arch Bungle | Oct 23 2022 9:39 utc | 196, now 200.
I’ve seen other mentions of similar problems, the shift in numbers seems just due to moderation, lag or similar, this issue looks more confusing/problematic, not sure if it’s recent, but this is likely the right thread.
A suggested preferred way to address previous comments looks useful, I mostly tried to copy others (hopefully I wasn’t too bad at it).
Posted by: Proteiros | Oct 23 2022 6:16 utc | 39
POWER IS OUT: Looks like the power is out of the UK with Liz Truss stepping down.
The power elite that control the UK know that Russia will nuke the USA. They had to get Liz Truss and Boris Johnson out before this event.
Both have stroked the nuclear threat with Russia to the max.
A more calm and deplomatic prime minister will be elected that hopefully can navigate the UK away from nuclear conflict with Russia.
If not, then the UK will become toast along with the USA.
The nukes will fly immediately after the Donbas (both Luhansk and Donetsk) is completely taken by Russia.
Posted by: young | Oct 23 2022 7:30 utc | 40
@Fíréan | Oct 23 2022 5:37 utc | 36
Testing for outages 5-3-1 . . .
Reading website ok, all threads. Can post?
The “Search” function has not worked for almost a week and is still offline.
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Oct 23 2022 8:06 utc | 41
Posted by: young | Oct 23 2022 7:30 utc | 40
You live in a cartoon world !
Truss was put in place simply because Sunak was brown. Sunak has an educational and career background which would be golden for a white boy and he was the choice of the MPs. However to join the Tory Party and vote you need to pay £5 online and live anywhere on earth……so I suppose lots of members in Kiev voted for “Johnson 2” and landed the British with Morongirl.
The opinion polls quickly showed Destruction of the Tory Party. England is the only part of UK without its own National Administration – yet has 56 million of the population. Conservative Meltdown with SNP as Official Opposition spells Civil War or withdrawal of England from UK – just as Yeltsin withdrew Russian Federation from USSR
Tories only got into power 2010 in a Coalition with LibDems – with current poll ratings they will be a fringe party with 45 seats – and consigned to oblivion.
There is little they can do – ever since John Major over promoted to Foreign Secretary, then Chancellor, then PM all in the space of 2 years – and having to resign as Leader for a contest in 1995……….
That is where the whole system started imploding……..
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Oct 23 2022 10:30 utc | 42
Truss was put in place simply because Sunak was brown.
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Oct 23 2022 10:30 utc | 42
Actually, I seem to remember an ever so small hint that he might be more interested in domestic economy, than adventurism on the world stage. After that, it was immediately announced in media that Truss is the most popular candidate and the given successor.
MI6 will let Sunak in only after having sworn allegiance to Empire and the War effort (like Meloni). If he does not comply soon, they will try for BoJo again.
Posted by: veto | Oct 23 2022 11:21 utc | 43
Truss was put in place simply because Sunak was brown.
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Oct 23 2022 10:30 utc | 42
The things you learn on the internet.
Sunak has an educational and career background which would be golden for a white boy and he was the choice of the MPs.
Theresa May was also the choice of Tory MP’s. Before that, they thought Ted Heath was a winner (lol).
The reason the Tory membership doesn’t like Sunak very much might be because he’s a cosmopolitan globalist banker whose non-dom Indian billionaire wife makes her fortune encouraging British businesses to sack British staff and replace them with outsourced Indian staff via her firm, Infosys. With the help of the British government, which under Rishi screwed over UK contractors by unnecessarily complicating IR35 tax rules to encourage offshoring.
Rishi is also directly responsible for Britain having the highest tax burden since 1945, all under a “conservative” government. So that might put average members off the guy, who has all the grinning vacuity of a brown Tony Blair.
So either Conservative MP’s are out of touch wankers who despise ordinary members and voters just like every other establishment party in Europe and the US does. Or… it could be those average people they despise are evil RACISTS who somehow still strongly support black and brown Actual Conservatives such as Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch.
I know which explanation sounds more plausible to me.
Posted by: ZX | Oct 23 2022 11:48 utc | 44
Is it too much to ask that the empty-headed englanders confine their inane discussions about which puppet of the exploiters they prefer to the ‘not ukraine’ open thread?
Posted by: Debsisdead | Oct 23 2022 11:57 utc | 45
La Presse’s take on the Liz Truss situation (while it’s still up for discussion on this thread – Francophone perspective on UK politics, a guilty pleasure)
https://www.lapresse.ca/contexte/caricatures/2022-10-23/liz-truss.php
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/2022-10-20/royaume-uni/bye-bye-liz-rebonjour-boris.php
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/2022-10-21/succession-de-liz-truss/penny-mordaunt-se-lance-rishi-sunak-et-boris-johnson-recueillent-des-signatures.php
Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 23 2022 12:09 utc | 46
You mean so we can discuss the topic, the Typepad service outages?
Posted by: veto | Oct 23 2022 12:10 utc | 47
You mean so we can discuss the topic, the Typepad service outages?
Posted by: veto | Oct 23 2022 12:10 utc | 47
I am 100% against the Typepad service interruptions. Anybody want to argue with me over this?
Posted by: ZX | Oct 23 2022 12:13 utc | 48
Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 23 2022 12:09 utc | 46
Penny is just a sock puppet candidate for Sunak, designed to soak up a portion of MP’s who will immediately transfer their backing to Rishi at 2pm tomorrow.
So Rish already has over 175 MP’s in his pocket. Boris has 75 and needs to get to 100 by tomorrow lunchtime. There’s 105 MP’s whose votes are currently “unknown”, so there’s a chance Boris will clear the hurdle they invented to cheat him out of this contest and get another crack at the PM job he won in the 2019 election.
That would be hilarious.
Posted by: ZX | Oct 23 2022 12:20 utc | 49
ZX @ 49
Thanks for the reply (I was just over at Sputnik News reading about how the US poured millions into toppling Hungary’s Orban, glad I came back to check in again.)
That would be hilarious. And I am also against Typepad service interruptions.
Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 23 2022 12:34 utc | 50
Bruised Northener no. 46
I like the comment by the artist in the caricature.😂
Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Oct 23 2022 12:39 utc | 51
Posted by: ZX | Oct 23 2022 12:20 utc | 49
You are a little premature all round.
Nomination letters are secret and only available to Graham Brady as Chair of 1922 Committee
Votes are secret and are unknown to Graham Brady
So Tory MPs can say they support X and actually vote Y
It is meaningless
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Oct 23 2022 13:04 utc | 52
Rishi is also directly responsible for Britain having the highest tax burden since 1945, all under a “conservative” government. So that might put average members off the guy, who has all the grinning vacuity of a brown Tony Blair.
I am not going to dispute any of that.
I point out that Boris Johnson was First Lord of The Treasury which is the official status of the Prime Minister – Sunak was Second Lord of the Treasury and cannot pass a Budget without the PM approval.
As for taxation considering UK is £2.4 Trillion in Debt I think it might be time to pay some taxes – I realise that is not fashionable in UK or USA where Debt Junkies and Zombies graze on QE and MMT fantasies………….
When UK blew up a Debt Bubble to fight WW1 and WW2 it used Financial Repression and Exchange Controls to service its Debt – No-one could take more than £50 in Foreign Currency out of country and it was recorded in the Passport……….and Base Rate of Income Tax was 35% in early 1970s and 83% top rate at incomes > £20,000 pa with a 15% Investment Income Surcharge making 98%
Taxes are going to be very high in UK for decades to come – Lockdown was an expensive indulgence
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Oct 23 2022 13:14 utc | 53
@ paul greenwood… thanks for your informed posts.. i learn a lot from you…
i also agree with debs – this england discussion really ought to be on the open thread, not the outage thread..
i tried posting on another thread and it was a no go.. not sure if that is typepad or not..
Posted by: james | Oct 23 2022 15:48 utc | 54
Taxes are going to be very high in UK for decades to come – Lockdown was an expensive indulgence
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Oct 23 2022 13:14 utc | 54
Or, we could just… try to live within our means. No more aircraft carriers, overseas wars and possibly no more Trident. No more spaffing hundreds of billions on useless railway lines to enrich mates of the government. No more tens of billions wasted on foreign aid. No more eye-wateringly expensive Net Zero.
So you’re probably right, high tax / low growth it is.
Posted by: ZX | Oct 23 2022 18:01 utc | 55
@b
Please ignore this if is a known issue, but since the time of the move, search has not been working for me across multiple devices and browsers. I know this because I use it all the time to keep track of replies to me, so I’m sure that the failure began while the move was happening.
Posted by: Hermit | Oct 24 2022 19:34 utc | 56