To clarify, because I have learned that assuming comprehension online is foolish.
 
I don’t hate Americans. I hate Americans who support being a vicious colonial Empire. If you’re American and you don’t like the Empire, then we can be friends.
 
But if you’re an American who makes excuses for avoiding the Epstein conversation, the support of genocides in Vietnam, Palestine, Korea, Russia, etc, you’re a POS. You would be a POS if you were black, from France, or Mars. 
 
Race is immutable. Beliefs are not.
 
Stop believing and supporting evil, and then cry when someone calls you out on what you’re so proud of.
 
How does one square the money and materiel that America provides to the genocidal entity to literally commit crimes against humanity?
 
Sure, you can’t stop it. You’re one person, and probably like me, a nobody, but you don’t have to cheer for the people pushing mass death, rape, and extermination on the world.
 
If Trump is so great and Americans are so great, where is the resistance to evil?
 
Imagine the cognitive dissonance of supporting Trump but also thinking Epstein trafficked humans.
 
Imagine the cognitive dissonance of thinking America is the good guys as they murder fishermen without cause, shattering families.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 18:30 utc | 203

LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 18:19 utc | 205
 
It was not Russian humor. The presidential decree dumping the gender agenda within the US military was a clear indication of that. Back to the future with the proclamation of two biological sexes. Trannies with dicks where booted out of women’s showers and shitters. In that aspect, amongst others, a return to normalcy.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 18:38 utc | 205

On the couple’s wedding day.The prez, the top brass, the msm, local and foreign were present,. to honor their ‘national hero’

They died fighting them over there, so we dont have to die fighting them over here.

Posted by: denk | Nov 7 2025 18:58 utc | 207

by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country,”

 
Except there’s got nothing to do with that sacrosanct national security.
 
cui bono ?
 
BIg OIl [BUsh]
 
MIC [Rumsfeld]
 
Helliburton [Cheney]

Posted by: denk | Nov 7 2025 19:14 utc | 209

214 Corrected:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran/videos

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 7 2025 19:36 utc | 211

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 18:38 utc | 209
 
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Over the course of my life, I have had some ideas and statements that I have been proud of.
 
None so much my theory that Russia and China are indulging the screaming child that is Trump/America, knowing that they will eventually run out of steam and be ready for nap time.
 
Everyone focuses on the sexual degeneracy stuff that is a byproduct of Zionism. The same crap was tried in the Weimar Republic and gave Hitler a lot of anti-woke energy to persecute Jews.
 
Gruff supposedly hates woke, but he avoids any conversation about Israel when the whole transgender thing has Jewish roots and Tel Aviv is considered the gayest city in the world. Israel regularly is a non-extradition safe haven for pedos. The same goes for many MoA MAGAs.
 
Many bigger problems than degeneracy, but degeneracy has always been a symptom of decay and self-destruction.
 
What’s old is not new again; it never stopped being “the thing”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 19:50 utc | 213

Posted by: denk | Nov 7 2025 1:26 utc | 85
Posted by: denk | Nov 7 2025 18:38 utc | 210

 
Despite the constant rah-rah “support our troops” chants, a profoundly individualistic society cannot collectively shoulder the burden and costs of war. They also detest the casualties as losers of the war because they operate on a ruthless winner/loser binary mentality. Which is why Americans prefer to use proxies such as Israelis, Jihadis, Contras, South Koreans, Germans, the Japanese, the Ukrainians etc to fight its wars. The body bags and the broken bodies coming home makes it harder to sell the next war of plunder and conquest. Lenin noted:

As for the second circumstance, Hobson writes: “One of the strangest symptoms of the blindness of imperialism is the reckless indifference with which Great Britain, France and other imperial nations are embarking on this perilous dependence. Great Britain has gone farthest. Most of the fighting by which we have won our Indian Empire has been done by natives; in India, as more recently in Egypt, great standing armies are placed under British commanders; almost all the fighting associated with our African dominions, except in the southern part, has been done for us by natives.”

 
The PLA, in contrast to the imperial American stormtroopers, fights for a diametrically opposed cause. Because the PLA fights for liberation, because the PLA knows that if they “do not fight the fascists today it’ll be the next generation who’ll have to fight”, the ones whom they have liberated, the next generation whom they have sacrificed their own lives to protect, remember to honor them. On September 12, 2025, 30 Chinese martyrs of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953) were laid to rest in Shenyang. This is not a one-off showy event. On October 26, 2025, the identities of 8 martyrs were confirmed using DNA technology.
 
I recall the reaction of Americans when clips from the 2023 Korean War movie The Sacrifice were shared on social media. The Americans call it the best propaganda for American military dominance. It’s 2 hours of the CPV trying to build and rebuild a dinky little bridge while America showcases its air superiority by safely bombing it to oblivion over and over again. The Americans see the movie as demonstrating the futility of resisting an overwhelmingly technically superior force. America fuck yeah! The Americans cannot comprehend the movie’s appeal to a Chinese audience.
 
I have not seen the social media reactions for The Volunteers: To the War and The Volunteers The Battle Of Life And Death, but I think the Americans would be similarly baffled by the Chinese will to resist.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 7 2025 19:51 utc | 215

Often we heard people saying the US never learn from history
 
Posted by: denk | Nov 7 2025 19:51 utc | 218
 
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The British, French, Germans, as well.
 
The Chinese are excellent at learning from history, and the Russians, too.
 
Both civilizations have experienced multiple collapses and have recovered. The West hasn’t had a “proper” collapse yet, I think.
 
It isn’t easy to learn when one starts with the frame of being exceptional. An exceptional person is less likely to work to eradicate flaws or catalog errors.
 
Underdogs and upstarts have a lot to prove and so need to work that much harder because nothing comes easily.
 
IMO, the greatest gift someone can receive is to be underestimated.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 20:01 utc | 217

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 20:01 utc | 220
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oNE more for the road.
 
The only good USA is one broken into 51 parts, quarreling and fighting among themselves,.
Hopefully they’d be too busy to mess with the row again.
 
Hopefully, that is.
 
We all know that uncle sham multitask skill is legendary
 
Hence maga is anti human, anti life
Who in their right mind wants a bigger, stronger USA ?
 
Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Nov 7 2025 20:13 utc | 219

@ jonku | Nov 7 2025 20:00 utc | 219
 
Well yes, which is why I added the point about the motor design. In ye olden days of British Rail DC EMUs, we had camshaft-controlled resistor switching, along with field-weakening above certain speeds.
 
So, current control for DC motors, frequency control for AC motors.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 7 2025 20:15 utc | 221

Imagine powering AI data centers by burning household garbage…

ROFL!Trash for Trash.
Posted by: MAKK | Nov 7 2025 12:10 utc | 140
 
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Yes… but…
 
Imagine powering an MRI machine from material that is an expensive, major problem.
 
Problem solved, people’s life and health recovered, something valuable from ‘nothing’… how many patients and families are laughing (with derision of course!)
 
We are both looking at exactly the same thing; yet we see two completely different things. I guess I’d better have my ‘vision’ checked…
 
 

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 20:37 utc | 223

Nickola Tesla, son of an Orthodox Priest, invented the AC motor and AC current  DC was Edison’s baby BTW 
 
 

Posted by: Exile | Nov 7 2025 20:41 utc | 225

@Refinnejenna #221
Gartner did make a diagnosis on Biden – he said Trump was more senile/demented than Biden in 2024 – a link which I posted earlier.
This automatically disqualifies this partisan of all credibility, not that I assign much to anyone in that profession to start with.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 7 2025 21:14 utc | 227

Good minimal techno often tends to be subtle. The 1998 album Consumed by Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman is a great example of both the style, as well the intricacies of minimal music more generally – it’s calm, quiet, trancy, pulsating, flowing and meandering, and (I think) endlessly interesting if you dig into the vibe. The way space is handled between the sparse yet infinitely rich sounding synth voices is stunningly artful. This is also very much not machine music, but profoundly human in an aesthetic sense. I’m reminded of Glenn Gould’s otherworldly interpretations of Schönberg’s piano pieces, for the way seemingly disparate and abstract elements are phrased into coherent, organic, breathing landscapes of sound. In this, it is a strong example for what Edmund Husserl calls synthetische Apperzeption: the distinct “noetic” quality of perception which constitutes all things (the Lebenswelt); the god spark which Mani calls the Light that is at the very foundation of experience itself.
 
There is no “world”, no nature, no cosmos bar of experience. This is no “ghost in the machine” speaking to us in his own voice. It is human creation, expression of the soul, the mind at work. As with all tools, there is an earthy, sensual quality associated with their use [electronic instruments in this case], but this is not to be mistaken for invocation of spirit with own real agency.  AI slop claiming otherwise is nothing more but a self-reading operations manual, of notoriously dubious quality at that. 

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 7 2025 21:35 utc | 229

I’m sure the motors in electric cars, which have DC batteries, run on DC and don’t rely on that DC current being converted (with an “inverter”) to AC.
Posted by: jonku | Nov 7 2025 20:00 utc | 219
 
The heavy stuff – high voltage AC. As in 600 to 700 volts. Apparently AC is required for the regenerative braking.
Theres a youtube channel, some young blokes in Canada starting up building hybrid trucks. Low horsepower genset plus the regenerative braking. They have built a number of different units and have more than demonstrated proof of concept. An exceptionaly interesting channel to watch.
 
Drive axel units come from China. A motor per drive wheel gives easy traction control. Standard bogie drive assembly gives 1000 hp for stop start stuff or pulling up a hill. Genset around 300 hp. Those sort of trucks though, its no good just being a spanner monkey. A serious electrician is required if the high voltage stuff breaks down.
 
The Letourneau electric drive equipment was I believe a simple DC drive, no batteries, no regenerative braking. 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 21:56 utc | 231

Exile 228 – Yes Tesla was the son of a Serbian Orthodox priest, and really out shined the DC crowd in the states.
Basically side tracked by the mega billionaires of the time, especially Edison and company (billionaires by today’s standards and most likely by the standards of the day too.)

Posted by: tobias cole | Nov 7 2025 22:06 utc | 233

here it is
 
Climbing the Dialectical Ladder: China’s Continual rEvolution: “It is difficult to understand China’s modernity without understanding the modernity of the Communist Party of China”
Confucious, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Mao & Xi

Karl Sanchez

Oct 26, 2025

Climbing the Dialectical Ladder: China’s Continual rEvolution: “It is difficult to understand China’s modernity without understanding the modernity of the Communist Party of China”

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 7 2025 22:07 utc | 235

A point I didn’t see covered is the need for the solar-generated current to be modulated in some manner in order to provide an approximation of a sine wave that will allow excitation of the motor driving the propeller, depending on the motor design the current or the frequency will need to be controlled. It is always a thing, solar doesn’t directly produce “rotational” electricity.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 7 2025 19:36 utc | 216
 
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Damn!! There is always another ‘problem to be solved with this new-fangled solar shit! “solar doesn’t directly produce “rotational” electricity” – maybe we need Annalena Baerbock’s skill to be able to execute the required 360’s….
 
If I only had access to DC (solar generated current) I may consider using DC electric motors. I guess they work just as well in your car – for winscreen wipers, electric window winders, seat adjustment, fans for your climate control… – as they do in mine?
 
Oh, and another ‘downside’ of solar is that it produces electricity using no moving parts whatsoever. Imagine all the service and maintenance crew put out of work because solar (PV) doesn’t need their skills with oiling, greasing, adjusting, and replacement of moving parts.
 
I reckon that is a dumb greenie conspiracy manipulated by communists who want to destroy the western economy.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 7 2025 22:14 utc | 237

Bot, you are a bot.  You are unable to thing and feel. 
 
Sorry, you don’t pass the human criterium: you are not self consciouss-
Most of you are old farts who talk with bots. A desgrace.
 

Posted by: This_is | Nov 7 2025 22:22 utc | 239

Bots.
Don’t write with them

Posted by: This_is | Nov 7 2025 22:24 utc | 241

Ornot | Nov 7 2025 22:23 utc | 243
 
By necessity, any lighter than air aircraft will have a huge cross section in square meters regardless of the shape of that cross section. Okay when running with a tailwind but not so good when flying into a headwind.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 22:59 utc | 243

Wisco | Nov 7 2025 23:14 utc | 248
 
You come across as a little crazy conversing with yourself like that. Name changing leg humper, is I think, a very apt description of you.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 23:18 utc | 245

Mister me; you are a bot, not a human being.
 
We are the word; we are the children:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34sK9AYQN4

Posted by: This_is | Nov 7 2025 23:41 utc | 247

@243 Ornot cont.

…the thought of 100% efficient solar, reminded me of a long article written on the CERN by someone who was convinced that it was releasing some super heavy particles that were settling at the center of the earth, that they would reach critical mass eventually and the world would instantly implode into a new black hole. CERN tried to convince him otherwise (i.e. they knew exactly what he was talking about), but he differed still. There was one comment left at end …”I think I’m going to puke”…sort of theory that keeps you up at night…

Black holes are 100% no ? Not sure what they convert everything into but probably wouldn’t be easy to power an electric engine from it…very stealthy though.

My thoughts are that for a long time the world has had the technology necessary for comfortable existance, it is the organisation, or the nature of some, that makes for misdirected pursuit, the ‘loss of innocence’ of science as someone famous once said. Ethical and moral guidance are relegated by new technology, possible competitive advantage…directions are not properly considered, simpler practical alternate solutions are dismissed.

If you look at more mundane necessities, and we tend to find these by necessity (mother of invention etc.) because of being active in a practical sense, then there are so many adventures of improvisation and worthy solution to be had …they are there in plain view but no-one bothers.

One of my next projects is extracting water from atmosphere, the calculations are good, cost minimal, but still experimental (meaning in practice refining an idea to be workable) . Not saying until tested properly.

@Peter previously

Nixon shock was foreseen, pre-planned. Bretton ‘gold standard’ allowed for centralised national accounting (i.e. over issuance by creating multiple claims). The Fed Res Act also allowed that. That is what fiat does, creates a centralised account that does not have a proper hierarchy of claims…gets misused, whole country then goes bankrupt/defaults. Illusions and mismanagement, manipulation and theft at large scale basically.

I like opals. Here we’re near enough to Rio Tinto, outside of that geological zone but still near enough for related geological ‘oddities’. I said about finding iron previously, will be looking at old copper mines sometime I hope. It is more exploring and ‘historical’, there are many outcrops of various kinds that are not feasible commercially but were useful at artesanal level, historically, most unknown now because of how dispersed they are. Iron was one example that suprised various researchers in related fields when I mentioned to them… studies on volcanism, there are early researchers that described finding lava right out of context and now they cannot even find location again while looking…I found an outcrop of that also . I think geologists are often slightly secretive too, for good reason maybe, but also that academia is very selective with its history and focus of attention.

Anyway, the region is not known for precious stones, plenty of metals though, which is fun and lots of history to it, going right back to first thousand years BC , a fascinating period to revisit.

@246 peter

Hence the ability to change between ‘lighter’ to ‘not lighter’ than air. As you know (I outlined) there are a hundred parameters, many outside of the pure technical design of the aircraft.

@247 general

“Efficiency of thermal conversion can be as high as 93% (compared to around 22% for PV)” Quora…five seconds to search.

Seriously ignorant maybe ? I’m not saying more because details on conversion and propulsion are a very (very very) large topic.

“just a brief description with enough details so we can understand the principle”

The principle would match the objective, which is not clearly defined … unless limited uncritically to “solar electric identical replica of GH” .

“Could I recommend once more that you visit the website I mentioned?”

You just did, and you know a definition given to repeating same while expecting a different result, no doubt.

Etc.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 8 2025 0:08 utc | 249

The regenerative braking coming down loaded, would I assume, pump in more energy than had been expended going up the mountain empty.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 23:32 utc | 250
 
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True. Gravitational force is a conservative field. In other words, the work done along any closed path integral is zero. That is just physics speak for saying the work done against gravity is equal (and opposite) to the work done by gravity on the same object – assuming no frictional losses etc and that you come back to where you started. It doesn’t matter what path you take, or how fast/slow you go.
 
Potential energy is just mgh. To make an easy approximate mental arithmetic example, assume a 10 ton truck (10,000kg) and g = 10 (really, 9.8) and the mountain log dump is 1,000 m higher than the mill. Work done against gravity going up takes 10,000 X 10 X 1,000 = 100 MJ. Coming down with a 20 ton load, the work done by gravity is 30,000 X 10 X 1,000 = 300 MJ. Let’s say friction, mud, slip and slide up and back and electrical and charging losses take 15% (both ways) then you have (300 – 45) – (100 + 15) = 140 MJ left over. Plenty enough to boil the billy or run the beer fridge 🙂

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 8 2025 0:13 utc | 251

 juliania | Nov 7 2025 6:10 utc | 116 Not much weakness in you juliania. Like just a few others here, an isle of peace troubled times. I guess I am the opposite. b has had to put on his gestapo hat and give me a stern warning or two.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 6:32 utc | 119
 
Thanks,  Peter!  I don’t regret having tried to live down there.  Others do live there, mostly Scots in that region.  And there’s a wonderful series of thrift stores, or there were, catering to the coming and going student body.  I took advantage and furnished my house with furnitures solid in amazing New Zealand woods for next to nothing.  When we left I gave it all to my sons’ teacher whose home furnishings had burned in an electric fire his disabled son had accidentally triggered.  
 
The train goes up the east coast to the island crossing ferry – dolphins and whales in an amazingly irridescent sea on one side and the Southern Alps on the other. Coming across by ferry the first thing you see in that southern ocean channel is the white mountains rising out of the southern sea. ns  It’s a fantastic journey even if you only make it down and then up again in flight back north as I and my young sons did.  We never saw the albatrosses flying until our last few days we visited the colony at the end of the peninsula — huge, magnificent birds that flew straight out to sea when they left their nests.
 
And I’ve forgotten to mention the tuatara in residence, and the wonderful green diamond backed geckos out in the bush – some other geckos brown and white that squeaked — my sons were captivated.    Why do you want to go to Dunedin? said my relatives.   I didn’t know till I went.
 
And even my failure to stay made it all worthwhile.  Lovely place; lovely people!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 8 2025 0:21 utc | 253

Very interesting, what the UK Establishment considers OK ….
 
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/11/the-four-mentors-of-king-charles/

Posted by: Cynic | Nov 8 2025 0:36 utc | 255

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 7 2025 19:36 utc | 216
Re: Solar aircraft.
 
They could utilise dc-ac inverters to generate the required voltage. If designed for the specific voltage and current of the solar array, they can achieve efficiencies around 98%, so the loss is not that great, although…
 
Nowadays, I would suspect that they might use dc motors instead, as they can be very efficient. There are several varieties of dc motors (brushed or brushless, shunt, series, stepper, etc), but I’m not up to date on what the efficiencies of those are, or which are preferred. I believe most EVs utilise dc motors because they are more efficient and robust than ac (especially compared to ac brushed commutator types that need regular brush replacement).
 

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 8 2025 0:45 utc | 257

I just finished watching the Judge show with Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson where they reported that the USS Ford carrier group has stoped 120 miles from Venezuela which is beyond the 100 mile range of the new missile tech that Venezuela may now have from Russia/China/Iran.
 
Which domino falls first?  How many corners has the God Of Mammon cult painted itself into?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 8 2025 1:14 utc | 259

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that JD Vance was created by Thiel, who hired him, financed his campaign, and meets with him a lot. Your story that Thiel is irrelevant is wrong.

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 8 2025 1:19 utc | 261

China’s superfast EV charging taking over European car markets
 
“Taking over markets” is good old-fashioned soft power, and best of all, it pays for itself.
 
In the future, China will be seamlessly integrated everywhere in the West, making Sinophobia difficult.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 8 2025 1:37 utc | 263

William Gruff @ 153
Good post. 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 8 2025 2:16 utc | 265

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 7 2025 17:54 utc | 202   Not one single vote against is ever recorded as a vote against, every single one is recorded as a vote for.  That is a fact, no more amenable to argument that the claim there is no magic.
 
It doesn’t matter if you ape your idiot mother. Your mother is a damn fool and you inherited the stupid. And you appear to have inherited the vicious too. Lots of people imagine all manner of things, about themselves even, and your low-life internet friends have no problem pronouncing them wrong. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 8 2025 2:40 utc | 267

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 7 2025 15:47 utc | 170  I don’t know of you to do anything but BS. Take the BS away, is there anything human left to you?

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 8 2025 2:44 utc | 269

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 7 2025 16:13 utc | 179  Lies by falsifying a quotation. Lies about fascism, omitting that most of all it’s about conquest or at least restoring so-called national greatness. Implicitly lies about Trump by omitting that he wants to Make America Great Again, put America First, which means, save the Empire. Lies about fascism by implying it has to be street gangs, as if self-respecting fascists don’t prefer to use the police and army, because they professionals. Lies about the working class being the deplorables. And vice versa too. The deplorable aren’t the working class. Stephen Miller isn’t working class, for just one, but he’s a bona fide deplorable, just like this asshole. And a transvestite worker is exactly that, working class but the target of the true deplorables, the bigots of all kinds. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 8 2025 2:54 utc | 271

steven t johnson fulminates:
 
“
Not one single vote against is ever recorded as a vote against, every single one is recorded as a vote for.  That is a fact, no more amenable to argument that the claim there is no magic.”
 
Of course not, but why do you choose to ignore the motivation of actual voters?
 
“It doesn’t matter if you ape your idiot mother. Your mother is a damn fool and you inherited the stupid. And you appear to have inherited the vicious too. Lots of people imagine all manner of things, about themselves even, and your low-life internet friends have no problem pronouncing them wrong.”
 
But my mother was no more foolish than anyone else who votes for, or against, well, anyone. I guess you just despise people who don’t vote the way you want them to. And did I ever claim that I “aped” her tactics? No, I did not. In fact, I advocated, and practice, voting my conscience, outside the Duopoly, which you so contemptuously dismiss.
 
Turns out that you’re just as piss-poor a reader as you are a writer, not that anyone here, whatever the political persuasion, would be at all surprised by that.
 
Oh, and reading over your comment, you’re just about the last person on the planet who should be calling anyone “vicious”.

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 8 2025 2:57 utc | 273

juliania | Nov 8 2025 2:52 utc | 288
 
I never saw let alone learned how to throw a boomerang. The community I spent time with, contacted for – basically a clan within a nation, a state within a nation.
 
I had seen a series of spring fed pools coming off an equipment when flying. One day when doing nothing, I threw some tea sugar salt and fishing line in a backpack and with my former wife hiked up the rocky gorge to the top of the assortment. Half way up was a crystal clear rock pool. I sat on the ledge  and splashed my feet in the water to cool them. Perch came from everywhere. Threw in the handline pulling the bait out of the way of ythe small fry and quickly pulled in a couple of dinner sized perch. Cooked them on the coals on that bit of rock. The pools at the top of the escarpment – old aboriginal doings everywhere. I picked up a number of things.One, a translucent green stone stands out in my memory. A very intricately knapped spear point. I took the bits and pieces back with me me. Old Jock, the oldest and most respected elder told me the names of every one of those artifacts.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 8 2025 3:24 utc | 275

Peter AU1 @295
 
‘dogs have owners cats have staff’

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 8 2025 4:12 utc | 277

This I vow – take it to the bank:
 
I am never listening to the voice of Donald Trump ever again.    I am never listening to the voice of an EU leader again.  I am never listening to the voice of a NATO  leader again.  I am never listening to the voice of that crazy woman in Venezuala in hiding again!!!!!!!!
 
Thank you, Larry Johnson, for modifying your tone on Scripture; thank you.
 
 

Posted by: juliania | Nov 8 2025 4:46 utc | 279

A Latvian politician faces prison for supporting Russia (EADaily, November 7, 2025 — in Russian)

In Latvia, former member of parliament and Riga City Council member Alexey Roslikov faces 25 years for supporting Russia. The politician himself announced this on his Telegram channel.
 
“They will be considering real prison terms… In Europe, they give seven years for murder, but for defending Russians, for defending the Russian language, for defending your right to be yourself, you get 25, and you have absolutely no alternative,” he said.
 
Roslikov noted that this trial will show “how pathetic Europe is and how afraid it is of the truth.”
 
As a reminder, at a session of the Latvian Saeima on June 5, Roslikov criticized the oppression of Russian speakers in the country. Following this, Latvian intelligence agencies announced that a criminal case had been opened against him on charges of assisting Russia and inciting ethnic hatred. On June 16, Roslikov was detained and released on bail.

Posted by: S | Nov 8 2025 8:00 utc | 281

About the unique components of Poseydons and their prospective carrier, the Khabarovsk nuclear submarine (EADaily, Evgeniy Damantsev, November 7, 2025 — in Russian)

Information about the imminent attainment of operational combat readiness by the 2M39 Poseydon low-noise strategic nuclear-powered underwater strike vehicle has become the leading news in both Russian and international media.
 
Today, such a system (together with its Chinese counterpart, the AJX-002) can ensure strategic parity between the Russian Navy and numerous carrier and naval strike groups of the US Navy and the NATO Allied Naval Forces. But what are the tactical and technical features of the Poseydon that enable it to achieve such capabilities?
 
First, the aforementioned system has a design displacement of approximately 47–55 tons (the 100-ton displacement reported online is incorrect). This is approximately 29–30 times greater than that of the UGST Fizik torpedoes. Moreover, the warhead yield of this strategic intercontinental torpedo can range from 17 to 30+ megatons, which is three to four times more powerful than all 10 warheads of the prospective Sarmat heavy silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile, which Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned in the list for imminent deployment.
 
This power is sufficient to inflict critical damage on the US Navy’s 2nd Task Force, stationed at Naval Base Norfolk. The warhead can be initiated 10 to 15 kilometers from the target. A similar tactic is also applicable to countering enemy carrier strike groups.
 
Nevertheless, to effectively deploy its warhead, the Poseydon must successfully penetrate all NATO naval anti-submarine access and maneuver denial zones. What’s available for this?
 
The Poseydon’s nuclear power plant can produce up to 8 MW of power, but in “sneak” mode, only 100–400 kW can be used. The acoustic stealth required to penetrate the echeloned anti-submarine barriers (formed by the sonobuoys of P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft) is ensured by a sophisticated waterjet propulsion system that eliminates the cavitation effect. This effect is typical of conventional propellers.
 
The Poseydon, like all modern multipurpose nuclear submarines, also boasts the placement of its mechanical components on multi-tiered shock-absorbing platforms. Its submerged cruising speed can reach 20–35 knots, while its maximum speed is no more than 85–100 knots.
 
Detecting a Poseydon strategic torpedo in “sneak” mode, with a noise level of 35–50 dB, in the first far zone of acoustic illumination (30–70 km) using the standard AN/BQG-5A and LAB (Large Apperture Bow Array) sonar systems of Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines would be extremely difficult even under ideal hydrological conditions. In challenging hydrological conditions (typical of the North Atlantic), the detection range could be reduced to several hundred meters.
 
The 2M39’s guidance system features an inertial navigation module with extreme hydroacoustic correlation based on sea bottom topography, as well as AI algorithms and the ability to correct using GLONASS/GPS surface correction data. An active-passive sonar seeker is used for the terminal phase.
 
What features does the Khabarovsk multipurpose special-purpose submarine, the most promising carrier of the 2M39 Poseydon strategic torpedoes, possess?
 
On November 2, after the Project 09851 multipurpose submarine Khabarovsk was transferred from SMP’s Workshop No. 50 to the Sukhona floating dock for launching, the advanced submarine was photographed by a Maxar long-focus optical-electronic monitoring satellite. Based on the published photos, we can conclude that the submarine’s hull is 135–140 meters long and 13.5 meters wide.
 
Domestic submarines of similar displacement can use OK-650V steam generators with 190 MW pressurized water reactors and 1700 kW SBGD 12-1700 electric generators. But the most interesting detail is as follows.
 
The sketch and photos show that the submarine will also be equipped with a low-frequency passive sonar system based on the Vinyetka-EM-01 flexible extended towed array (FEA) or a more advanced analogue, capable of detecting maneuvering submarines at ranges of 10–20 km in shallow water and up to 30–35+ km (in the first far zone of acoustic illumination) in deep water. Torpedoes can be detected at ranges of 30+ km. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers can be detected at ranges of 85–135+ km (depending on hydrological conditions).
 
Thus, the Vinyetka-EM-01 alone is already capable of partially providing the crew of a Poseydon carrier with sonar information about the proximity of enemy anti-submarine lines.
 
The submarine’s combat information and control system also integrates the IKS-R-783-0985 communications system developed by PAO Inteltekh. The system will likely be able to operate in the shortwave range and receive information from airborne command posts such as the IL-86VKP (NATO reporting name: MAXDOME) or the UVB-76 “Doomsday” station. Thus, the Khabarovsk–Poseydon tandem can today be considered the primary destroyer of NATO naval strongholds.

Posted by: S | Nov 8 2025 8:58 utc | 283

“U.S. Shocked! Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles in Venezuela, A New Front Emerges!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMLXdYInj0Y  (length: 6 minutes)
 
“Venezuela Strikes Back — Russian Missiles Challenge U.S. Power at Sea | Prof. John Mearsheimer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPQFcz7N9U  (length:  33 minutes )
 
Even Mexico is not solely focussed on the US anymore.
https://mexicobusiness.news/trade-and-investment/news/mexico-joins-brics-talks-seeks-strategic-alliances
(Date posted: july 7, 2025)

Posted by: WMG | Nov 8 2025 9:40 utc | 285

Correction of post #291:
“(It seems Mearsheimer has given an interview to some podcaster ealrier this week. And several fragments of that interview has been published separately on YouTube. But up to now I haven’t been able to find the entire podcast/interview. Was anyone able to find the entire video ??).

Posted by: WMG | Nov 8 2025 9:54 utc | 287

Xiao pignouf @ 293
Who do you think funds and arms israil .
 
Just like the trump regeme enables israil and ukraine,  people like you enable the partial distrution of this blog by  condoneing the long term troll and multiple fake name user gruff.  Its not about what comments you like, its about the hundreds of first rate commenters he has knowingly driven away. and the same can be said for his pathtic little cohort of supporters.
 
 
Dont be a nazi apologist for trump or gruff…..

1. “Dont feed the trolls”

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 8 2025 12:02 utc | 289

Dont be a nazi apologist for trump or gruff…..
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 8 2025 12:02 utc | 294

Don’t be stupid, read properly, you’re better than that. 

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 8 2025 12:29 utc | 291

A few short comments while only now catching up with the thread …
 
The “solar-powered Global Hawk” notion I came up with earlier was indeed meant as a functional replacement, not a tech specs one. In 2016 an electric drone went around the globe; this is what I was having in mind. An ISR aircraft needs payload, which in aircraft relates to gross weight which relates to wing span which relates to solar cell power generation. Mileage may vary, but the concept should be somewhat feasible. 
Critical thinking is notoriously switched off in many people at a fairly young age; this result was established by the parapsychology community when they had begun to wonder why their somewhat surprising results were broadly ignored by mainstream science. Curiously, the inhibition showed to be more prevalent in higher educated people, up to and including typical university professors. These types will “go with the flow” and thus effectively act as gatekeepers to innovation from “outside the box”. I presume this state of affairs is (mostly) a social psychology effect of upbringing, specifically in the west but perhaps also outside of it; it will be interesting to watch China in this regard. Perhaps research has been done on this (I reckon the CIA would be interested in this) but I am not aware of any. As a note, when I was playing in a metal band with working class dudes while still a pupil at the Gymnasium, I learned that these folk at a lesser regard for high-ed types than one might suspect; I guess this was down to them realizing many of them are wearing literal blinders as a result of their upbringing. Also when studying physics, I was told the technically very ‘succesful’ students often go on to become merely mediocre scientists because they lack the learning process which comes with a broader experience of overcoming various difficulties along the way, leading to a better developed ability to think outside of the box.I wrote mostly above, because another curious effect is in play here as well. Typical uni profs are in the 130-145 IQ range, which is good but not truly spectacular; a quality change occurs at 160+ which is so rare that it is very rarely discussed. At this range, thought process changes from linear thinking to an interconnected matrix-style mode. A colleague was diagnosed up there fairly early in life, and he upfront shared the information with me that this kind of thinking basically disrupts the usual talk among uni scientists, which ends up getting the more profoundly gifted folks mobbed out of the place. Couple this with the observation that innovation in science is highly correlated with IQ and you get an idea what bogs the whole thing down. One of the genuine strengths of the now-abandonded German “Humboldt” university concept was that it favoured depth over breadth; eccentric people could find refuge and work freely to their hearts content, which today is much less common because uni courses very much resemble a school setting, including routines among the collegiate. By the way, I suspect that prevalence of this level of giftedness is may higher than recognized; I base this on my personal experience of decades in both high and subculture city life which saw a few rather stark examples. Among the barflies I would name Peter who barely has a middle school education but went on to design flying machines and probably never did any type of test because no one was interested in singling him out. We saw the disruption effect also with scorpion whose way of thinking flew over the heads of many here, leading to conflict and his eventual departure (of course both sides are partly responsible for the outcome, but still). 
 
Critical thinking is also a skill which needs to be developed. I knew very talented people who barely had a culture of thinking for themselves; but if you don’t practically develop routines of questioning and fluid use of logic, it is bound to have some effect. Subjects of higher education such as math or linguistics are quite helpful in this regard, but by no means the only avenue to establish eventual skill. On the other hand, many people pass math exams in any number of subjects, only to forget whatever they acquired in a short timeframe afterwards. 

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 8 2025 12:57 utc | 293

Imagine powering AI data centers by burning household garbage… It might be my lack of imagination, but I truly cannot imagine, given the institutional inertia in the West, that America or Europe will be able to achieve similar results independently.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 7 2025 3:24 utc | 101

 
Hamburg built themselves a fine incinerator back in the eighties which does just that. Waste is burned at 1400° removing dioxins from the process, the exhaust gas is washed from hazardous components (and carried away from the city by the prevalent winds), and the slag is used to fortify the banks of the Elbe river. Electricity is generated and heat sent to homes. It works so smoothly that you can throw almost anything in any trash can here unless it has recycling value. But it turned out that the plant was planned to a much higher capacity than today necessary after decades of green re-education of the populace, so they ended up trucking garbage from hundreds of kilometers away just to keep it running. 

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 8 2025 13:22 utc | 295

Kazakhstan might turn out to be a problem as its now in bed with the Yanks and the Zio-Monsters.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇮🇷🇷🇺⚡- North–South Corridor: Moscow–Tehran axis expands The first Russian freight train to Iran has arrived — 62 containers from Moscow through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, now entering the Persian Gulf corridor. In parallel, Moscow and Tehran are preparing a new container line between Makhachkala and Iranian ports. The Caspian route is tightening its logistics grip. The North–South Transport Corridor is ramping up — 7,000 km shorter than Suez, faster, cheaper, and outside Western choke points. From St. Petersburg to Mumbai without touching hostile waters — the multipolar trade network is no longer a concept, but an operational route.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 8 2025 13:26 utc | 297

William Gruff @ 153Good post. 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 8 2025 2:16 utc | 269

Sorry, I disagree. It’s not a good post. It’s just over simplistic and caricatural. Sophistry, even. It’s only made to preach the choir.
When he says :

They absolutely hate it when rednecks self-identify as fishing enthusiasts or NASCAR fans rather than white supremacists like the woketards believe they should.

So” they” = “woketards”. But when did “they” say anything like that ? I would like to know if someone really said anything close to that, if it’s a well structured discourse or if it’s just some of these usual occurrences of foolishness online that the far right sympathisers likes to feed on to make their points because on a theoretical level, they can rarely withstand serious contradiction that will always arise.
The MAGAsphere embraced the meme culture.
 

Nobody gets automatic respect from me due to their self-identification as a psychedelic-colored magical cartoon pony

Again, does Gruff really know someone like that ? If not, why this need to externalise that way something that is totally different ? To identify as a man or a woman when one is of the opposite sex is absolutely lightyears away from identifying as a pony – and not even necessarily a rainbow-colored one, just a simple one – or as a table or as Napoleon.
 
Why this need to ridicule if not because of the fragility of the argument and dare I say, of the arguer ?
 
Mark2, allow me to come back on your unfair accusations :

people like you enable the partial distrution of this blog by  condoneing the long term troll and multiple fake name user gruff

I was personally the target of Gruff’s slurs.

Its not about what comments you like, its about the hundreds of first rate commenters he has knowingly driven away. and the same can be said for his pathtic little cohort of supporters.

You ignore something : I’m not spending much time on MoA. I consult b’s blog on a daily basis but I don’t have time to read carefully the hundreds of comments, just to skim through them, except in the week-ends.

Who do you think funds and arms israil .

I do know that. If you took the trouble to check my blog, you’d realise that. The same way as I know the 40’s USA were at first very compliant with Nazi Germany. Does it mean they were ruled by a fascist regime ? I don’t think so, do you ?
 
Yes, in the end, I disagree to call Trump’s regime fascist even if it feels good to say it. I can call it “crypto-fascist”, but not fascist per se. The best I can do is to acknowledge it’s on the path of becoming fascist. And if for you, the support to Israel is the ultimate evidence of Trump’s fascism, then Biden’s regime was even a worse form of it.
 
On the other hand, I can theorise the fascist aspects of US international policies, but it goes way back Trump and way further than USA.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 8 2025 13:32 utc | 299