The MoA Week In Review – (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-156

laguerre | Jul 6 2023 2:47 utc | 280
And they have a lot of bust-ups, much as depicted in the Asterix comic books
Yeah, but it ain’t 50 b.c. anymore.
I’m kinda jaded at this point, but I see psychopathic behavior at every turn.
As far as this phenomena spilling over into the home of Gladio goes, well, I dunno…
I mean, economic solutions for immigrants in France come with racism and a lifetime percolating in the underclass. In Italy, economic solutions are scanty, but any racist demeanor is pretty anemic.
Could make a difference, n’est-ce pas?
Funny thing about Crooke, whose analysis I generally much admire, is that he condemns the EU a lot, but actually lives in Rome, in a country that has profited enormously from EU funding
Hmmm…must be that Getafix-like joie de vivre.
Hey, why does Christiane Amanpour live in Paris?

Posted by: john | Jul 6 2023 10:26 utc | 301

Prigozhin seems to be getting the show and shame treatment. The Communist Workers Party in Russia will be pleased.

Izvestia publishes new footage of the search of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s home: his own helipad, swimming pool, sauna, gym and gold bars

source with interesting photo collage: https://t.me/ukraine_watch/5220

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 6 2023 10:42 utc | 302

Epstein and Maxwell’s bank that overachieved in financing their juvenile sex racket is alive and well in China. Maybe they have an appropriate photo library that maintains their immunity.
China permits this scum to remain and operate in its country? Shame.

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Clean house time IMO. Or perhaps China is happy to house the oligarch’s bank of choice?

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 6 2023 11:00 utc | 303

Russian forces downed a Storm Shadow in soft landing :))

In particular, the following remained intact:
– inertial navigation unit of the rocket, GPS-correction module (together with an anti-interference antenna with a narrow radiation pattern and shielding of the lower hemisphere) and an infrared correlation and guidance sensor in the terminal section of the trajectory;
– target selection controller based on an infrared portrait recorded by an IR sensor, starting from a distance of about 20-15 km from targets (depending on size and thermal signature);
– avionics power controllers and rocket battery;
– digital fuel supply circuit to the Turbomeca Microturbo TRI 60-30 turbojet engine;
– as well as the design features of the shielding of the engine integrated into the tail section of the engine nacelle.
The analysis by specialists of the Central Research Institute of VVKO and a number of Russian defense concerns of the design features, the gain of a noise-protected GPS antenna in one or another angle of the radiation pattern will allow us to determine the level of noise immunity of the product when interfered with by domestic electronic countermeasures systems, both non-directional and directional. As a result, this can serve as an excellent help in the development of new modifications of ground-based and (preferably) air-based electronic warfare systems covering the frequency ranges of 1,575.42 MHz (L1) and 1,227.6 MHz (L2).
An analysis of the type and generation of the matrix photodetector of the infrared correlation and guidance sensor in the terminal section of the trajectory, as well as determining its operating range (medium or long wavelength ranges of 3–5 and 8–12 μm, respectively) will make it possible to determine the effective range of its operation against heat-contrast targets in conditions of high dusty and smoky atmosphere, as well as under conditions of a heated underlying surface, when the target object almost does not contrast against the background of the environment. In particular, in adverse weather conditions and a smoky atmosphere, the permeability of IR waves in the range of 8–12 µm is much higher than in the range of 3–5 µm.
Moreover, the remaining elements of a glider with a wing, represented by radio absorbing materials, can be placed in an anechoic chamber, which will make it possible to more accurately determine the effective reflective surface of the product from different irradiation angles and in different wavelength ranges corresponding to one or another radar complex included in the composition. SAM of military air defense and airborne forces of Russia.

So it goes…
source: https://t.me/two_majors/9205

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 6 2023 11:09 utc | 304

@Nemesis Jul 4 2023 18:52 utc | 210
You wrote:
“Rather, the uninterested child will graduate to other toys more for his age, when he hits puberty, he will begin to set his mind towards learning because he wants to imitate adults. This learning is equivalent to the digesting of information gathered about beings until he reaches adulthood where he can apply this archived knowledge towards a profession or where he if were to develop his own curiosity, might seek to be the first man to land on that distant planet to archive new information.”
Thank you for this most illuminating description of the difference in the worlds of a technician and an intellectual.
I am straddling the two worlds as a physician/surgeon. Life and death questions and the practical issues. Hard life.
Btw. The discussion of Heidegger is great. My education in philosophy is too meager to take part, I am tempted though.

Posted by: fanto | Jul 6 2023 12:28 utc | 305

“Yeah, but it ain’t 50 b.c. anymore.”
Posted by: john | Jul 6 2023 10:26 utc | 302
That’s good for a laugh. Do you think Asterix represents the reality of life in Gaul in 50 BC? Or perhaps more the ideal of French life in the 20th century. The one the people who are funding the killer cop to the tune of millions think of as real France.

Posted by: laguerre | Jul 6 2023 14:21 utc | 306

source with interesting photo collage: https://t.me/ukraine_watch/5220
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 6 2023 10:42 utc | 303
Looks very pleasant. It reminds of Gen. Dostum’s place up there in N. Afghanistan.
Business Insider: The abandoned palace of Afghanistan’s former vice president is now home to 150 Taliban fighters, NYT documentary shows

Posted by: Bemildred | Jul 6 2023 14:22 utc | 307

fanto @306 – You are welcome to offer perspective, if only in asking a question. Good questions are helpful for everyone, and it seems that philosophical progress in certain areas is usually not attained in the form of an answer, but, rather, a realization that the actual question had not been stated well enough, and must undergo reformulation. These shifts tend to come with completely new viewpoints, and the more basic the earlier “questions” had been, the more radical the shift will appear. Also, the old riddles become laid over again and again, sometimes for centuries and even millenia, throughout the course of philosophical history. I like to quip that we are looking at 2,500 years of well-documented failure here.
Philosophical Zeitgeist is surely not a linear development towards ever higher insight, at least not in the western tradition. Upon loocking back, we see periods of Betriebsblindheit” [unawareness of shortcomings in one’s frame of thought], and at this point an education can become an actual hindrance to leave one’s view of old towards gaining understanding. It is healthy to remain a child in this regard, methinks. A plain curiosity which presents itself with human decency will not bore out a philosophical discussion, unless it is concerned with reassuring everyone that “there’s nothing to see, just go along”. As much as some hard-fought inside needs theory to dig out, there is a certain virtue to then reprocess the find and give it back to everyone with a sincere interest in the thing. Jargon is not needed for such interest, and not for having valuable insights to add either, as I can attest, having been best mates with a former breakdancer for many years who had not read a single book in his entire life.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 6 2023 15:18 utc | 308

@Ed 206, waynorinorway 290, and surely many others who think along –

Magic and supernatural phenomenon diminish as science offers new and solid (materialist) answers to age old questions and supernatural, and superficial answers.

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Here we seem to have a case of Betriebsblindheit. Since both of you seem to be technical types, I shall link to some accumulated evidence from the fringe field of parapsychology. The cited work is more or less giving the current state in the field, and as you will find to your surprise, it is completely empirical in that. Turns out, repeated experiments with simple outcomes lend themselves very well to a methodology of counting, which gives surprising statistical results. My favourite are the “guess what playing cards I hold” experiments started by JB Rhine, today carried on by his daughter among others, and since having refined their setup in various ways, one which has the playing cards mixed and drawn by a machine, in a different city, in the future! And it still works —
Hans Bender in Germany has also researched why the quite stunning results in the field could get so little traction, and he found that many people rely on authoritative worldviews, in a psychological stratum so far down that it can’t be easily reached later. This forces them into denial, of course, and as it stands, many folks who reach academic positions and influence are even more “indoctrinated” in this sense than others.
Hence, I’d like to ask all those who find themselves in disbelief and anger about this post to back down from starting a brawl. – I think the cage is ready in the cellar now, so we can go there anytime, but I have other things to do which are more rewarding [just kidding] —
Let’s ask fanto instead. What do you feel? Among surgeons, a couple of quite remarked phenomena seem to show regularly:
– The placebo effect. Could it be that the spirit holds our bodies together, and not so much the other way round, as materialism has it?
– Of course, the bodies may fail for their own reasons. The material world is somehow withdrawn and apart, though not isolated, from the mind. If you strengthen the mind – instill believe – it will strengthen the body. Wound healing should be a great example.
– The shamans tell us they call helpful spirits to heal. Do they show up in an ER room, as well? Have you witnessed instances where a team working to save a trauma patient experiences telepathic understanding?

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 6 2023 15:50 utc | 309

laguerre | Jul 6 2023 14:21 utc | 307
Do you think Asterix represents the reality of life in Gaul in 50 BC
Well, sure, laguerre, I mean people laughed even before Christ.

Posted by: john | Jul 6 2023 16:56 utc | 310

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