NORD STREAM UPDATE: Danish authorities invite the Russian company that operates Nord Stream 2 to observe the recovery of an unidentified object resting near the sole intact pipe
NORD STREAM UPDATE: Danish authorities invite the Russian company that operates Nord Stream 2 to observe the recovery of an unidentified object resting near the sole intact pipe
If the photo of the "device" is the vertical/foreground object in your post's photo, and the object in the background is the pipeline itself, notice the length of the marine growth on the vertical object versus the pipeline.
The vertical object has far more growth on it , suggesting that it has been on-bottom longer than the pipeline itself.
And the whole "6 Divers on a Sailboat" theory? As a retired Divemaster/Rescue Diver, I Can tell you that the water depth alone puts that in the realm of almost certain impossibility.
I was actually trying to be somewhat kind with my comment, Indrek, but you are absolutely correct. 80m/240' is the realm of .MIL divers primarily, and maybe some saturation dives who work on Oil Rigs and such, but they are .001% of the 1% of humans who have ever breathed air under water.
In fact, the vertical object appears to have more growth on it as, you will remember reported on this substack, the explosives were actually made of 'plants', as in they 'planted explosives'. Hence it looks like a plant.
As someone who knows nothing about diving, could you please explain to me why the story is impossible? I don't doubt you, but as a diving know-nothing, I don't understand why the depth is prohibitive to 6 divers on a sailboat.
The diver story is BS. I'm an electrical engineer, it's pretty trivial at this stage of technology to make a robot to do all the work. Honestly, it wouldn't have been too hard in 1980 to do this.
It might have to have a tether to it, to power it, and to get visual feedback.
People keep thinking this is 1960 or something. All you need to do is place the explosive close enough to the thing you want to destroy. I have no idea about explosives, but you can make a drone just about any size.
Surprisingly most maintenance work on seabed infrastructure is still done by divers. Planting this bomb though i can imagine you could do with an ROV or a manned mini submarine. Still, not equipment you fit on a sailing yacht.
This method would also fit with the observation that the explosions were much larger than you would expect from a professionally installed shaped charge.
I'm just saying that given an infinite budget it would make sense to use a machine to plant the bomb, instead of a person.
But it IS surprising how STUPID our government is. They could have used a robot to place the bomb much closer to Russia. Perhaps they didn't because that would have been too provocative?
I'm just tired of the US government telling me lies that are just stupid that you'd have to be a moron to believe them. "Russia blew up it's own infrastructure" - FU US government for thinking I could be this dumb. Our propaganda is so bad, so infantile, so moronic, I wonder if it's not done purposely to drive people insane.
Based on seismological readings, each blast was at least about 220 pounds of TNT equivalent.
It doesn't sound plausible that six men diving and ascending several times could have managed to place any charges during a reasonable amount of time.
The logistics doesn't seem to work out. This points to the story being cooked up in an office staffed with people without actual knowledge/experience in these matters: politicians' aides in other words.
It could just be the material the object is made out of.
The pipeline was designed to be under the ocean forever and I presume they would've picked a corrosion resistant material, whereas this object was likely not intended to stay in salt water long term.
Mar 24, 2023·edited Mar 24, 2023Liked by eugyppius
Confuse, obfuscate. Their self isolation is showing, no longer playing 'to the room', just to the echo chamber. Snowing in late March in Oregon right now.
Right. The point of the cover story was not to provide a rigorous, credible explanation of events, but rather to float (excuse the pun) something that would muddy the waters (again, sorry). There are some people at work who are such predictable parrots of mainstream narratives that their comments on the thing explained its purpose: "a lot of theories, all with holes in them. We may never know the truth. Move on. Those are not the droids you're looking for..."
It's dumping snow in Utah as well. Snowbird has more snow on the ground right now than it has at any point in the past dozen years and the annual maximum probably won't happen for another six weeks.
I remember reading on Substack last fall that the combination of La Nina and that volcanic eruption in Tonga putting an unprecedented amount water vapor into atmosphere could lead to a very cold, wet winter in North America. Of course that prediction violated the current religion so it didn't get a lot of serious discussion elsewhere...
440” of snowfall atop western Colorado’s Grand Mesa as of two weeks ago. (That’s a bit over 11 m for metric folks.) Locals are hoping the winter total will surpass 2019’s record 550” (almost 14 meters).
Local ski areas that usually close in mid April are extending their season through early May.
Keep in mind this means NOTHING to the climate cranks, or to the vast propaganda and regulatory apparatus that feeds off their mental illness.
In fact, it ‘confirms’ the cranks’ updated theory that human carbon emissions cause ‘climate instability,’ not merely warming. You see, when the predicted catastrophic ’warming’ failed to materialize during the first couple decades of this century, they had to abandon ‘warming,’ which is measurable, for a theory that’s completely non-falsifiable.
So WHATEVER the weather, or the climate does, it’s anthropogenic. Hope everyone’s clear on that!
That’s what Newsom does. He always attributes weather that is unusual to California to ‘climate change’. Drought? Climate change. ‘Atmospheric river’? Climate change.
Being downstream on the Colorado, I'm happy to hear that we will benefit from all that snow on Grand Mesa. Here in the desert, we had an unusually long, cold, and wet winter.
It rained like crazy and cooled significantly on the east coast of Australia since the volcano. We got 3400mm for 2013! And sumner highs only in the low 20 celcuis instead of mid 30s. All the spring plants germinated later, and fruit set much later for shorter overall growing season.
Thanks Rosemary B, I am from Michigan, 10 miles north of Detroit, just below the 45th parallel. I love and miss my native state, left in 1992. I ended up traversing the country only to stop here in OR at the same latitude, with a warmer climate overall here in the western part of the US. Its strange though, how with a much damper climate, it infiltrates the bones. 40 degrees and raining here is as bad as 20 degrees in dry Michigan. I have heard it said that native folks would avoid this big valley for settlement, because of the inversions that happen in a valley are unhealthy. Lots of respiratory ailments from the dampness, a dehumidifer runs 24-7 in my basement until summer arrives in full. Live and learn, Best
incredible story Jacquelyn. I can imagine the dampness. I am in Northern Virginia 35 miles west of the swamp. I have never ventured out west.
My hubbs entire family is scattered all over Michigan, the lower part. I love Michigan and would live there, but for many reasons, I would not either.
We are close to the mountains of Blue Ridge and Shenandoah - I like balance here. We are looking forward to moving a bit west or south, just to get out of this County that used to be all farmland only 25 years ago. Now it is crammed full of data centers.
UFM, thanks. Good to hear from you. HAARP and DEW making the weather unpredictable, eh? Here too. Their desire to 'off' us seems quite deep, but they are training me to desire the same. One must respond to bad treatment or receive more of the same.
The Guardian article is 19 years old and includes names of all sorts of folk who were once believed. It would be hilarious if not so sad that some actually believe this crap. Good line though: “The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group …”. Maybe it was true 19 years ago. But they’re out in force now. Thanks for the laughs.
In Biblical times, Israel was a theocracy. The center of “government” and worship was Solomon’s Temple. Jersusalem & the Temple was the ancient equivalent of the National Cathedral, the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court. The Temple was corrupt to the core, run by evil, heartless, hypocritical men that Jesus called a pit of vipers. “Money Changers” infested the Temple ripping off the people. Jesus, in righteous wrath, fashioned a “whip of cords” and drove the money changers from the Temple. I chose it as my moniker becasue that’s what needs to happen; in righteous wrath, “we the people” must fashion our own whip of cords and drive the pit of vipers & money changers from the seat of our government.
operation mockingbird never ended. and it’s in europe as well. and the german don’t realize crap. i as a german feel so much disdain, hatred even, watching the people in this country bubbling around, babbling “putin!” and “climate change!”.
land der dichter und denker. kotzen im strahl könnte ich.
What happened to all the German green energy ? I always thought red energy from Russia is causing global warming and destroys the world .? The Germans could not make up their mind ,So Biden made up their mind for them .
I don't get this nonsense. The US + various NATO allies in an effective state of war with Russia. Yes, its not TOTALLY hot, but seriously this is WW3. I cannot reconcile how on one hand the so-called "we are not a party to the conflict" West is funneling as much arms and money as they can possibly muster into Ukraine while pretending now to be part of the conflict. Why exactly are they wasting time with this facade? The window for peace has long past and its been stated a hundred times that the strategic defeat of Russia is now the goal. What exactly is that, if not a war? The semantics are boring, tiring. And frankly even within the cuckolded German government I am willing to bet the Baerbock types are inwardly happy that the pipeline was blown up.
As long as NATO is not "officially" a party to the conflict, Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty does not come into play, and Russia does not have to contend with direct military assaults on Russia from Poland and the Baltic states. By the same token, Poland and the Baltic states do not have to contend with Russian forces advancing along those lines.
By remaining "not a party to the conflict" NATO gets to use Ukrainian forces to do the bleeding and the dying, and Russia only has to worry about dealing with Ukrainian forces.
This is a strategic win for NATO, as it locks Russia in an attritional war in Ukraine, such that even if Ukraine ultimately loses the war, Russia will not have even a portion of the military resources necessary to confront Poland or the Baltic states--which confrontation must happen if Russia is to rebuild her previously defensible borders in Europe.
If along the way Russia's economy is sufficiently weakened to limit their ability to rebuild their military, NATO just has to wait for Putin to either die or be overthrown, at which point the next phase of Russian collapse hands the NATO alliance another geostrategic victory.
Russian military history has rarely shown them doing well on offense. Napoleon beat them at Austerlitz. Britain and France schooled them in the Crimean War. The Germans manhandled them in WW1, and even their notionally successful Brusilov Offensive incurred so many Russian casualties that Russia's ability to contend with German forces afterwards was not counterbalanced by having functionally eradicated Austria-Hungary's military as a cohesive adversary on the battlefield.
About the only Russian commander who consistently achieved offensive success was Marshall Zhukov, having first gained prominence against the Japanese at Khalkhin Gol in 1939 and then prevailed against the Germans at the Battle of Kursk in 1943--but Zhukov's victories tended to come with high body counts (850,000+ at Kursk).
As a result, if Russian forces don't prevail on offense, eventually the front-line troops lose complete confidence in the commanders and mutiny. That's what ultimately forced the Russians to accept the Treaty of Brest-Livosk in 1918 to get out of WW1. Russian forces mutinied after the Mensheviks which initially assumed control of the Russian government after the Tsar abdicated tried to continue prosecuting the war to achieve favorable peace terms--and the front line soldiers had had enough of dying due to their commanders' incompetence.
Will a similar scenario unfold in Ukraine? We won't know that until it happens.
Pardon- the Russians are playing the same slow game they played in Syria, before that Chechnya, for that matter very slowly the Slavs driving out the Mongols.
They’re in no hurry nor do they wish to escalate and are content with slow gains and pretty reliable Ukrainian attrition.
Ukraine lost any army that could launch the magical offensive last year, gone by spring. The Russians really are just replaying Syria now, with the same players.
This so far has been an economy of force operation with large forces held in reserve. This has allowed pretty regular rotations of troops which is important.
As for the Russians not doing well on offensive operations we have a different view of history, certainly their record isn’t perfect, but they have a lot more successful Commanders in history than Zhukov.
Russia did not fight WW1-style trench warfare in Syria or Chechnya. They didn't even fight this sort of attritional warfare in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The perverse logic of attritional warfare was used by both sides in WW1 as explanations for battles such as the Somme and Ypres, with no consideration of the reality that it left both sides militarily weaker. Britain and France's army's were every bit as battered and drained as the Germans and Austrians by November, 1918.
Attritional warfare was also not the initial expectation with which Russia invaded Ukraine--hence Putin somewhat facetiously terming the war a "special military operation", and it was only after the initial offensives petered out and Ukraine reclaimed significant territories around Kharkiv and Kherson that Putin ordered a "partial mobilization"--not something that was ever part of the original Russian strategy.
Russia may yet prevail militarily over Ukraine. They do have an advantage in raw numbers. But the Russian army will have been considerably drained as a result and its capacity to project power into Poland and the Baltic States, or even Moldova--places Russia must project military power in order to restore the defensible borders enjoyed by the former Soviet Union--will be reduced if not eliminated entirely. Already their ability to sustain a military presence in the Caucasus and Central Asia has been diminished by the war in Ukraine.
Which is the perverse genius of the NATO strategy. NATO doesn't need a Ukrainian victory. They just need to delay a Ukrainian defeat. Ukraine does all the fighting and all the dying for NATO.
Given Russia's collapsing demographics (Ukraine's are not much better), if Russia cannot bring this war to a conclusion this year things will deteriorate pretty rapidly for them.
A go slow strategy for Russia amounts to one thing: defeat. They just don't have that kind of time.
Exactly my thoughts. They can afford to play the long game. Now that asinine bitem/shellinsky are arrogant enough to go on the offensive with the support of the pansy world powderpuff couch mongers. History shows well how offensive incursions into Russia in the fare. Plus, once pedo Joe is finally shown the back door the Biden/Z will be fully revealed (ack!) to be the corrupt obfuscation it has always been, at taxpayer expense. I expect a full refund from gropin Joe and his man love boy shelkgameinsky.
Not sure I see where that comparison holds. The Winter War was over and done within 3 months, and even though the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations and received significant international opprobrium for their attack on Finland, they were still able to conclude that conflict on favorable terms, which held until the Continuation War in 1941.
Russia is nowhere near being able to conclude the war in Ukraine on favorable terms (neither is Ukraine, for that matter, hence the stalemate along the front line).
A Winter War comparison would require the war in Ukraine to have been over by now.
As in- waiting for Biden’s term of office to expire; in the fervent hope that the Americans ‘elect’ a more ‘anti- war’ government in their next General elections. Assuming any western government is able to democratically elect a govt that’s representative of the people’s wishes - given obvious electronic vote tampering these days.
Russia would need to wait out nearly two more years of trench warfare.
Simply put, they don't have that kind of time. For that matter, Ukraine doesn't have that kind of time.
We will start to see what the next phase of the Ukraine war will look like in a few weeks, after the ground has begun to dry out. Either Ukraine or Russia or both will begin new offensive operations to break the stalemate along the existing front line.
If Russia can mount multiple offensives along the front line and stretch Ukrainian forces sufficiently, a breakout could ensue that would allow Russia to occupy the rest of Ukraine up to the Polish border--which is their ultimate strategic objective (stopping at the Dniepro River doesn't shorten the border they need to defend).
If Ukraine can mount a spearhead to push through to Berdyansk, they can sever Putin's "land bridge" to Crimea, which would ultimately compel Russia to withdraw their forces in Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts back into Crimea, which would essentially bring the military situation back to what existed immediately prior to February 24 of last year.
If the latter scenario is what unfolds, it is difficult to see how Putin remains in power in Moscow, and with no clear successor to Putin even a coup by hardliners is going to have their hands full just trying to have a secure hold on power in the Kremlin, which will make further prosecution of the war in Ukraine a practical impossibility.
One way or the other it is highly likely that the endgame for the war will begin to take shape by summer. Then the world will get to see what the postwar situation will be in Europe.
The Germans played the slow attrition game at Verdun. They played the slow attrition game at the Somme.
The end result was the loss of an empire.
Even today Douglass Haig is criticized for attritional warfare tactics at the Somme especially, and for that style of generalship broadly throughout WW1.
Could America's entry into the war have been foreseen at the time of those battles? (Would their math have worked without shiploads of fresh [albeit green] troops entering the fray in 1917?)
The Germans began their unrestricted submarine warfare knowing it would eventually draw the Americans into the war--hence the Germans failed effort to persuade Mexico to start a small border war with the US to delay the US entry into the European conflict.
German submarine warfare had always been a flashpoint for drawing America into the conflict, and prior to 1917 came very close to doing so in 1915 with the sinking of RMS Lusitania.
The problem with the Germans attritional math was that, much like Russia today, they were engaged in a war of economic attrition as the Royal Navy pretty much blockaded every German port and stopped most flows of goods into the German Empire--while Germany responded by attempting to deprive Britain of similar inflows of goods with their submarine warfare.
The attritional tactics at the Somme and Verdun was not just a drain on men but also on materiel, just as it is in Ukraine now. Russia has expended extraordinary quantities of munitions just holding the lines as they currently are, a situation that has been repeatedly exacerbated by Ukraine strikes on Russian supply depots as well as strikes into Russian territory, such as the Kerch Bridge attack which greatly disrupted the flow of supplies into Crimea and to the front lines from the south.
The resource drain from battles such as the Somme and Verdun, as well as having to support the Austrian forces in resisting the Brusilov offensive, was nothing short of ginormous, with the result that Germany rolled the dice with unrestricted submarine warfare beginning in January 1917 (the Zimmernan telegram to Mexico being sent at the same time). By April Congress declared war on Germany and by the end of 1917 fresh American troops were starting to fill the Allied ranks on the Western front.
Even if the Germans did not anticipate the entry of America into the war on the side of the Allies (people today forget that the US and Britain have not always been the best of friends, with Anglo-American disputes recurring throughout the 19th century) at the time of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, the attritional tactics of such battles leads directly to the unrestricted submarine warfare of early 1917 and the presence of America troops on the Western front by late 1917 and to great effect in 1918, by which point the German economy was no longer able to support the troops on the front lines.
While one could argue that their math could have worked but for the entry of America on the side of the Allies, that same math ultimately is what drew America into the war on the side of the Allies.
I have to stick with Hersch on this one. By the way, it wasn't a sailboat, it was a yacht. Anyway, the story of the rented yacht and the undefined "pro-Ukrainian" group sounds sufficiently stupid that one could readily belief on the one hand that it is a fabrication and on the other hand that it originated in our profoundly unoriginal minds of our "intelligence" community. I'm surprised that the saboteurs weren't described as a crack team of bikini clad Ukrainian divers operating under the direction of Ernst Blofeld.
There was a time when cover stories were actually believable.
I think the US narrative (this fable being told) is Cassiopeia in this story and I think it’s about to bite them in the ass, just like Covid being zoonotic....
Outstanding, then the authorities should be able to pick up the culprits in nothing flat. Unless of course, the rental was paid for using gold bullion and the renter signed for the boat by making his mark.
If the photo of the "device" is the vertical/foreground object in your post's photo, and the object in the background is the pipeline itself, notice the length of the marine growth on the vertical object versus the pipeline.
The vertical object has far more growth on it , suggesting that it has been on-bottom longer than the pipeline itself.
And the whole "6 Divers on a Sailboat" theory? As a retired Divemaster/Rescue Diver, I Can tell you that the water depth alone puts that in the realm of almost certain impossibility.
The dive team dedicated the mission to their close friend the ghost of Kiev
Either that or the ghosts of the 118 aboard the "Kursk".
I'm going to burn somewhere hot and sulfur-y for that one....
😂
Lmao! Winner for like a month.
As any good TV chef would say: "here is one I prepared earlier".
I am not a Divemaster/Rescue diver, but I have my "Advanced" certificate...
I have been 60' down (18.28M), which would be considered "snorkeling depth", for the "6 Divers" story.
I call it an absolute impossibility.
Just my opinion...
I was actually trying to be somewhat kind with my comment, Indrek, but you are absolutely correct. 80m/240' is the realm of .MIL divers primarily, and maybe some saturation dives who work on Oil Rigs and such, but they are .001% of the 1% of humans who have ever breathed air under water.
I was hoping you would comment.
I was just a recreational diver, and the pressure at 60 feet is incredible,
and one needs to be rational
Sorry, I posted before finishing...
I'm familiar with the Navy Diver's tables (999 pages), and I hope I didn't get anything incorrect with my layman's explanations.
Thanks for the expert opinion!
Aquaman
...smote the pipeline with his Mighty Trident. Totally.
Thanks for filling in the other blanks.
I am curious though, what depth were you at when you nearly got O2 toxicity?
Wow!
That is scary shit!
I hope there were no lingering effects...
And I was uncomfortable at 60'...
In fact, the vertical object appears to have more growth on it as, you will remember reported on this substack, the explosives were actually made of 'plants', as in they 'planted explosives'. Hence it looks like a plant.
Lol!
Perhaps it is a stray whale penis bone.
As someone who knows nothing about diving, could you please explain to me why the story is impossible? I don't doubt you, but as a diving know-nothing, I don't understand why the depth is prohibitive to 6 divers on a sailboat.
I don't profess to be any kind of expert, so here goes...
Surface atmospheric pressure is 14.7psi.
For every 10 M you dive, that pressure virtually doubles.
At 20 M you have to be cautious resurfacing, to avoid the "bends", which is nitrogen forming bubbles in your body.
Nordstream pipeline is about 100 M depth, or about 10 atmospheres.
You would absolutely need a hyperbaric chamber or 2 or 3 or 4, for a dive team.
These do not fit on a sailing yacht.
Our Divemaster could explain more accurately.
The diver story is BS. I'm an electrical engineer, it's pretty trivial at this stage of technology to make a robot to do all the work. Honestly, it wouldn't have been too hard in 1980 to do this.
It might have to have a tether to it, to power it, and to get visual feedback.
People keep thinking this is 1960 or something. All you need to do is place the explosive close enough to the thing you want to destroy. I have no idea about explosives, but you can make a drone just about any size.
Surprisingly most maintenance work on seabed infrastructure is still done by divers. Planting this bomb though i can imagine you could do with an ROV or a manned mini submarine. Still, not equipment you fit on a sailing yacht.
This method would also fit with the observation that the explosions were much larger than you would expect from a professionally installed shaped charge.
I'm just saying that given an infinite budget it would make sense to use a machine to plant the bomb, instead of a person.
But it IS surprising how STUPID our government is. They could have used a robot to place the bomb much closer to Russia. Perhaps they didn't because that would have been too provocative?
I'm just tired of the US government telling me lies that are just stupid that you'd have to be a moron to believe them. "Russia blew up it's own infrastructure" - FU US government for thinking I could be this dumb. Our propaganda is so bad, so infantile, so moronic, I wonder if it's not done purposely to drive people insane.
Oh, I see. I assumed that sort chamber was only required in an emergency, if a diver were to return to the surface too quickly.
Good link.
I wish other posters would follow the link to better understand the "6 divers" claim.
Based on seismological readings, each blast was at least about 220 pounds of TNT equivalent.
It doesn't sound plausible that six men diving and ascending several times could have managed to place any charges during a reasonable amount of time.
The logistics doesn't seem to work out. This points to the story being cooked up in an office staffed with people without actual knowledge/experience in these matters: politicians' aides in other words.
Enough charge to blow the line, the gas within would supply the majority of the force of the explosion.
There is no oxygen in the pipeline and barely any in the water.
I don't think 220 lbs of tnt means they used 220 lbs of explosive charges.
I think it's just a measure of how powerful the blast was.
It could just be the material the object is made out of.
The pipeline was designed to be under the ocean forever and I presume they would've picked a corrosion resistant material, whereas this object was likely not intended to stay in salt water long term.
While possible, likely not probable.
I've got a place on the Chesapeake Bay on the Atlantic coast of the US, about 10 miles from where the ocean meets the bay.
I can leave my fiberglass-hulled boat on the water for 7 days, with little to no algal growth to show for it.
Leave it on the water for 14 days? It looks like that vertical piece, with 6-8mm diameter barnacles attached to boot.
And if it was a dropsonde as proposed it was intended for salt water as well, and would also be made of non-corrosive materials.
"Never believe anything, until it has been officially denied."
- Otto von Bismarck
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz today denied that German banking is in any trouble like Credit Suisse ;)
HIER der BEWEIS - the proof of proof:
https://zeeemedia.com/dr-andreas-noack-dead-after-bombshell-vaccine-discovery/
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CUM-EX-Olaf is on a SUICIDE-MISSION to terminate Germany.
Confuse, obfuscate. Their self isolation is showing, no longer playing 'to the room', just to the echo chamber. Snowing in late March in Oregon right now.
Right. The point of the cover story was not to provide a rigorous, credible explanation of events, but rather to float (excuse the pun) something that would muddy the waters (again, sorry). There are some people at work who are such predictable parrots of mainstream narratives that their comments on the thing explained its purpose: "a lot of theories, all with holes in them. We may never know the truth. Move on. Those are not the droids you're looking for..."
Outstanding explanation Obi wan I'm thinking that kid skywalker might be responsible
It's dumping snow in Utah as well. Snowbird has more snow on the ground right now than it has at any point in the past dozen years and the annual maximum probably won't happen for another six weeks.
I remember reading on Substack last fall that the combination of La Nina and that volcanic eruption in Tonga putting an unprecedented amount water vapor into atmosphere could lead to a very cold, wet winter in North America. Of course that prediction violated the current religion so it didn't get a lot of serious discussion elsewhere...
440” of snowfall atop western Colorado’s Grand Mesa as of two weeks ago. (That’s a bit over 11 m for metric folks.) Locals are hoping the winter total will surpass 2019’s record 550” (almost 14 meters).
Local ski areas that usually close in mid April are extending their season through early May.
Keep in mind this means NOTHING to the climate cranks, or to the vast propaganda and regulatory apparatus that feeds off their mental illness.
In fact, it ‘confirms’ the cranks’ updated theory that human carbon emissions cause ‘climate instability,’ not merely warming. You see, when the predicted catastrophic ’warming’ failed to materialize during the first couple decades of this century, they had to abandon ‘warming,’ which is measurable, for a theory that’s completely non-falsifiable.
So WHATEVER the weather, or the climate does, it’s anthropogenic. Hope everyone’s clear on that!
All weather is now described as " extreme" by the BBC.
That’s what Newsom does. He always attributes weather that is unusual to California to ‘climate change’. Drought? Climate change. ‘Atmospheric river’? Climate change.
First it was global cooling. Then global warming. Then they realized that "climate change" was ideal as it could cover anything.
Being downstream on the Colorado, I'm happy to hear that we will benefit from all that snow on Grand Mesa. Here in the desert, we had an unusually long, cold, and wet winter.
It rained like crazy and cooled significantly on the east coast of Australia since the volcano. We got 3400mm for 2013! And sumner highs only in the low 20 celcuis instead of mid 30s. All the spring plants germinated later, and fruit set much later for shorter overall growing season.
Searched to remind myself when the eruption happened. Found this. https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push-earth-closer-to-1-5c-of-warming Of course! Hope to live to see the day when this is proved wrong.
as usual
My SIL lives in Marquette, They get snow in late April
Thanks Rosemary B, I am from Michigan, 10 miles north of Detroit, just below the 45th parallel. I love and miss my native state, left in 1992. I ended up traversing the country only to stop here in OR at the same latitude, with a warmer climate overall here in the western part of the US. Its strange though, how with a much damper climate, it infiltrates the bones. 40 degrees and raining here is as bad as 20 degrees in dry Michigan. I have heard it said that native folks would avoid this big valley for settlement, because of the inversions that happen in a valley are unhealthy. Lots of respiratory ailments from the dampness, a dehumidifer runs 24-7 in my basement until summer arrives in full. Live and learn, Best
incredible story Jacquelyn. I can imagine the dampness. I am in Northern Virginia 35 miles west of the swamp. I have never ventured out west.
My hubbs entire family is scattered all over Michigan, the lower part. I love Michigan and would live there, but for many reasons, I would not either.
We are close to the mountains of Blue Ridge and Shenandoah - I like balance here. We are looking forward to moving a bit west or south, just to get out of this County that used to be all farmland only 25 years ago. Now it is crammed full of data centers.
Stay cozy and dry
Correct, 45 Degrees is wet, and hard on the lungs, almost year around. I am 42 dregs north, South of you a few hours❤️🇷🇺💙🐻❄️🧡🐻
In Britain, we are supposed to be having a Siberian Climate in the next 21 months . . .
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver)
Which will be a shock since 2022 was the warmest summer on record . . .
(https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/england-summer-2022-joint-hottest-since-1884/)
UFM, thanks. Good to hear from you. HAARP and DEW making the weather unpredictable, eh? Here too. Their desire to 'off' us seems quite deep, but they are training me to desire the same. One must respond to bad treatment or receive more of the same.
But HAARP is now owned by the University of Alaska! True. It can be easily verified.
So, who owns the University of Alaska, then Jim?
Srlsy, are you not able to use a search engine and determine that yourself? Srlsy?
I really can't believe you asked this question: "who owns the University of Alaska".
The Guardian article is 19 years old and includes names of all sorts of folk who were once believed. It would be hilarious if not so sad that some actually believe this crap. Good line though: “The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group …”. Maybe it was true 19 years ago. But they’re out in force now. Thanks for the laughs.
Snow in AZ, too.
Snowing in late March in New Mexico, too, oddly enough.
Certainly *I* was surprised to have to deal with that this morning...
Clown world's narratives are not just false, they are the inverse of truth.
42 degrees North, 123 West…Oregon “Outback”. Snow today, thru the end of month. Perhaps it is the…Solar Minimum? Winks, 💙🇷🇺❤️🐻❄️🧡🐻
Fun to watch all the changes going on now.
https://electroverse.info/
There is no way the Danish will be permitted to recover any evidence that implicates the US.
I'm a native born US citizen.
Agreed! This sounds like another phase of the CIA mission to distract attention from Biden. Continue to muddy the waters with false narratives.
40 cm... It is a racoon dog!
At last, the origin of Covid!
Wonder if bin Laden's body is down there too.
“Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Paging atticus fetch we need you now more than ever.
Finch, wasn’t it? Actually forget..
Thanks for continuing to monitor this very important story and cover up.
This was an act of war and international terrorism. I’m glad the criminals who ordered the attack have been exposed for what they are.
You are correct, Biden does love to expose himself. The question: who in our triumvirate sham govt cares, likewise the daft world.
All to support shaminsky and bitem’s cover-up war.
Rule 1: Lying liars lie. They’re lying. It’s what they do.
"A Whip of Cords" - best moniker ever.
Thanks. Very few people “get it.”
We are living in the "temple" right now.
And just wait until CBDC is implemented.
That one o' them Cat5 of nine tails? 🤪
I don't get it. Help?
In Biblical times, Israel was a theocracy. The center of “government” and worship was Solomon’s Temple. Jersusalem & the Temple was the ancient equivalent of the National Cathedral, the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court. The Temple was corrupt to the core, run by evil, heartless, hypocritical men that Jesus called a pit of vipers. “Money Changers” infested the Temple ripping off the people. Jesus, in righteous wrath, fashioned a “whip of cords” and drove the money changers from the Temple. I chose it as my moniker becasue that’s what needs to happen; in righteous wrath, “we the people” must fashion our own whip of cords and drive the pit of vipers & money changers from the seat of our government.
What about a Whip of Chords - for the more musically inclined. Actually I think that was a Keith Emerson number.
IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU WRITE - THEN LISTEN TO THIS:
https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/donald-trump-speech-on-the-deep-state-is-likely-to-result-in-him-being-suicided-if-he-is-arrested-and-jailed/
I don’t doubt it in the slightest. I believe his view of the CIA cost Pres. JFK his life. I pray for DJT’s supernatural protection.
Jesus turning over the change-makers tables for turning the Father's house into a "commercial" center
operation mockingbird never ended. and it’s in europe as well. and the german don’t realize crap. i as a german feel so much disdain, hatred even, watching the people in this country bubbling around, babbling “putin!” and “climate change!”.
land der dichter und denker. kotzen im strahl könnte ich.
What happened to all the German green energy ? I always thought red energy from Russia is causing global warming and destroys the world .? The Germans could not make up their mind ,So Biden made up their mind for them .
"Land of thinkers and poets. I could puke"?
The German DICHTERS must now dichten the busted pipe lines .
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..." (The Wizard of Oz)
Thank goodness for Toto...
The Danes have probably been assured by the powers that be that this is not one of their devices. So the by all means, invite the Russians.
I don't get this nonsense. The US + various NATO allies in an effective state of war with Russia. Yes, its not TOTALLY hot, but seriously this is WW3. I cannot reconcile how on one hand the so-called "we are not a party to the conflict" West is funneling as much arms and money as they can possibly muster into Ukraine while pretending now to be part of the conflict. Why exactly are they wasting time with this facade? The window for peace has long past and its been stated a hundred times that the strategic defeat of Russia is now the goal. What exactly is that, if not a war? The semantics are boring, tiring. And frankly even within the cuckolded German government I am willing to bet the Baerbock types are inwardly happy that the pipeline was blown up.
As long as NATO is not "officially" a party to the conflict, Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty does not come into play, and Russia does not have to contend with direct military assaults on Russia from Poland and the Baltic states. By the same token, Poland and the Baltic states do not have to contend with Russian forces advancing along those lines.
By remaining "not a party to the conflict" NATO gets to use Ukrainian forces to do the bleeding and the dying, and Russia only has to worry about dealing with Ukrainian forces.
This is a strategic win for NATO, as it locks Russia in an attritional war in Ukraine, such that even if Ukraine ultimately loses the war, Russia will not have even a portion of the military resources necessary to confront Poland or the Baltic states--which confrontation must happen if Russia is to rebuild her previously defensible borders in Europe.
If along the way Russia's economy is sufficiently weakened to limit their ability to rebuild their military, NATO just has to wait for Putin to either die or be overthrown, at which point the next phase of Russian collapse hands the NATO alliance another geostrategic victory.
Which is why the object will explode when one or the other is down there? Maybe the equivalent of the Serb who shot the Austrian?
I often wonder why the Russians are not fighting harder. This is existential for them. Or maybe they are and its just slavic stoicism on display
Russian military history has rarely shown them doing well on offense. Napoleon beat them at Austerlitz. Britain and France schooled them in the Crimean War. The Germans manhandled them in WW1, and even their notionally successful Brusilov Offensive incurred so many Russian casualties that Russia's ability to contend with German forces afterwards was not counterbalanced by having functionally eradicated Austria-Hungary's military as a cohesive adversary on the battlefield.
About the only Russian commander who consistently achieved offensive success was Marshall Zhukov, having first gained prominence against the Japanese at Khalkhin Gol in 1939 and then prevailed against the Germans at the Battle of Kursk in 1943--but Zhukov's victories tended to come with high body counts (850,000+ at Kursk).
As a result, if Russian forces don't prevail on offense, eventually the front-line troops lose complete confidence in the commanders and mutiny. That's what ultimately forced the Russians to accept the Treaty of Brest-Livosk in 1918 to get out of WW1. Russian forces mutinied after the Mensheviks which initially assumed control of the Russian government after the Tsar abdicated tried to continue prosecuting the war to achieve favorable peace terms--and the front line soldiers had had enough of dying due to their commanders' incompetence.
Will a similar scenario unfold in Ukraine? We won't know that until it happens.
Pardon- the Russians are playing the same slow game they played in Syria, before that Chechnya, for that matter very slowly the Slavs driving out the Mongols.
They’re in no hurry nor do they wish to escalate and are content with slow gains and pretty reliable Ukrainian attrition.
Ukraine lost any army that could launch the magical offensive last year, gone by spring. The Russians really are just replaying Syria now, with the same players.
This so far has been an economy of force operation with large forces held in reserve. This has allowed pretty regular rotations of troops which is important.
As for the Russians not doing well on offensive operations we have a different view of history, certainly their record isn’t perfect, but they have a lot more successful Commanders in history than Zhukov.
Russia did not fight WW1-style trench warfare in Syria or Chechnya. They didn't even fight this sort of attritional warfare in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The perverse logic of attritional warfare was used by both sides in WW1 as explanations for battles such as the Somme and Ypres, with no consideration of the reality that it left both sides militarily weaker. Britain and France's army's were every bit as battered and drained as the Germans and Austrians by November, 1918.
Attritional warfare was also not the initial expectation with which Russia invaded Ukraine--hence Putin somewhat facetiously terming the war a "special military operation", and it was only after the initial offensives petered out and Ukraine reclaimed significant territories around Kharkiv and Kherson that Putin ordered a "partial mobilization"--not something that was ever part of the original Russian strategy.
Russia may yet prevail militarily over Ukraine. They do have an advantage in raw numbers. But the Russian army will have been considerably drained as a result and its capacity to project power into Poland and the Baltic States, or even Moldova--places Russia must project military power in order to restore the defensible borders enjoyed by the former Soviet Union--will be reduced if not eliminated entirely. Already their ability to sustain a military presence in the Caucasus and Central Asia has been diminished by the war in Ukraine.
Which is the perverse genius of the NATO strategy. NATO doesn't need a Ukrainian victory. They just need to delay a Ukrainian defeat. Ukraine does all the fighting and all the dying for NATO.
Given Russia's collapsing demographics (Ukraine's are not much better), if Russia cannot bring this war to a conclusion this year things will deteriorate pretty rapidly for them.
A go slow strategy for Russia amounts to one thing: defeat. They just don't have that kind of time.
I didn’t say WW1 - I said Ukrainian attrition. And Ukraine is fighting trench warfare, not Russia.
Exactly my thoughts. They can afford to play the long game. Now that asinine bitem/shellinsky are arrogant enough to go on the offensive with the support of the pansy world powderpuff couch mongers. History shows well how offensive incursions into Russia in the fare. Plus, once pedo Joe is finally shown the back door the Biden/Z will be fully revealed (ack!) to be the corrupt obfuscation it has always been, at taxpayer expense. I expect a full refund from gropin Joe and his man love boy shelkgameinsky.
The best parallell is the invasion of Finland in 1939.
Not only re: Russia but the international response too.
Not sure I see where that comparison holds. The Winter War was over and done within 3 months, and even though the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations and received significant international opprobrium for their attack on Finland, they were still able to conclude that conflict on favorable terms, which held until the Continuation War in 1941.
Russia is nowhere near being able to conclude the war in Ukraine on favorable terms (neither is Ukraine, for that matter, hence the stalemate along the front line).
A Winter War comparison would require the war in Ukraine to have been over by now.
Perhaps Russia is waiting it out.
As in- waiting for Biden’s term of office to expire; in the fervent hope that the Americans ‘elect’ a more ‘anti- war’ government in their next General elections. Assuming any western government is able to democratically elect a govt that’s representative of the people’s wishes - given obvious electronic vote tampering these days.
Russia would need to wait out nearly two more years of trench warfare.
Simply put, they don't have that kind of time. For that matter, Ukraine doesn't have that kind of time.
We will start to see what the next phase of the Ukraine war will look like in a few weeks, after the ground has begun to dry out. Either Ukraine or Russia or both will begin new offensive operations to break the stalemate along the existing front line.
If Russia can mount multiple offensives along the front line and stretch Ukrainian forces sufficiently, a breakout could ensue that would allow Russia to occupy the rest of Ukraine up to the Polish border--which is their ultimate strategic objective (stopping at the Dniepro River doesn't shorten the border they need to defend).
If Ukraine can mount a spearhead to push through to Berdyansk, they can sever Putin's "land bridge" to Crimea, which would ultimately compel Russia to withdraw their forces in Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts back into Crimea, which would essentially bring the military situation back to what existed immediately prior to February 24 of last year.
If the latter scenario is what unfolds, it is difficult to see how Putin remains in power in Moscow, and with no clear successor to Putin even a coup by hardliners is going to have their hands full just trying to have a secure hold on power in the Kremlin, which will make further prosecution of the war in Ukraine a practical impossibility.
One way or the other it is highly likely that the endgame for the war will begin to take shape by summer. Then the world will get to see what the postwar situation will be in Europe.
I wonder how you have so much razor sharp strategic insight regarding Russian strategy and goals. Mole maybe?
I kind of answered that on thread continues, but they’re playing the slow attrition game and the slow game from Syria, Chechnya, the Mongols.
The Germans played the slow attrition game at Verdun. They played the slow attrition game at the Somme.
The end result was the loss of an empire.
Even today Douglass Haig is criticized for attritional warfare tactics at the Somme especially, and for that style of generalship broadly throughout WW1.
Obvious, Russians are not Germans.
We have a different view of history Sir.
Are you saying that the German attritional tactics at Verdun were a success?
That the attritional strategy of the Brusilov offensive strengthened the Russian position on the eastern front in WW1?
That General Sir Douglas Haig is not criticized by military historians for the attritional tactics of the Somme?
That is indeed a fascinating, albeit erroneous, "view" of history.
Could America's entry into the war have been foreseen at the time of those battles? (Would their math have worked without shiploads of fresh [albeit green] troops entering the fray in 1917?)
The Germans began their unrestricted submarine warfare knowing it would eventually draw the Americans into the war--hence the Germans failed effort to persuade Mexico to start a small border war with the US to delay the US entry into the European conflict.
German submarine warfare had always been a flashpoint for drawing America into the conflict, and prior to 1917 came very close to doing so in 1915 with the sinking of RMS Lusitania.
The problem with the Germans attritional math was that, much like Russia today, they were engaged in a war of economic attrition as the Royal Navy pretty much blockaded every German port and stopped most flows of goods into the German Empire--while Germany responded by attempting to deprive Britain of similar inflows of goods with their submarine warfare.
The attritional tactics at the Somme and Verdun was not just a drain on men but also on materiel, just as it is in Ukraine now. Russia has expended extraordinary quantities of munitions just holding the lines as they currently are, a situation that has been repeatedly exacerbated by Ukraine strikes on Russian supply depots as well as strikes into Russian territory, such as the Kerch Bridge attack which greatly disrupted the flow of supplies into Crimea and to the front lines from the south.
The resource drain from battles such as the Somme and Verdun, as well as having to support the Austrian forces in resisting the Brusilov offensive, was nothing short of ginormous, with the result that Germany rolled the dice with unrestricted submarine warfare beginning in January 1917 (the Zimmernan telegram to Mexico being sent at the same time). By April Congress declared war on Germany and by the end of 1917 fresh American troops were starting to fill the Allied ranks on the Western front.
Even if the Germans did not anticipate the entry of America into the war on the side of the Allies (people today forget that the US and Britain have not always been the best of friends, with Anglo-American disputes recurring throughout the 19th century) at the time of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, the attritional tactics of such battles leads directly to the unrestricted submarine warfare of early 1917 and the presence of America troops on the Western front by late 1917 and to great effect in 1918, by which point the German economy was no longer able to support the troops on the front lines.
While one could argue that their math could have worked but for the entry of America on the side of the Allies, that same math ultimately is what drew America into the war on the side of the Allies.
I extend the same level of trust to german and US authorities as I would a fox guarding my hens.
Well, it was only Biden via Obama from his command mansion.
In the library? With the lead pipe?
I have to stick with Hersch on this one. By the way, it wasn't a sailboat, it was a yacht. Anyway, the story of the rented yacht and the undefined "pro-Ukrainian" group sounds sufficiently stupid that one could readily belief on the one hand that it is a fabrication and on the other hand that it originated in our profoundly unoriginal minds of our "intelligence" community. I'm surprised that the saboteurs weren't described as a crack team of bikini clad Ukrainian divers operating under the direction of Ernst Blofeld.
There was a time when cover stories were actually believable.
Latest reporting is that it was a sailing yacht named "Andromeda" rented out of Rügen.
I think the US narrative (this fable being told) is Cassiopeia in this story and I think it’s about to bite them in the ass, just like Covid being zoonotic....
Outstanding, then the authorities should be able to pick up the culprits in nothing flat. Unless of course, the rental was paid for using gold bullion and the renter signed for the boat by making his mark.
It's been captured on video: https://twitter.com/lingo_rennon/status/1634877079820075009
Yeah ragheads flying planes on 911. Biggest crock of shit since C-19