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Interesting series of clips, two from Russians, and one from a Ukrainian SpecOps unit. No gore. The first clip shows two Russian jeeps, on a snow covered landscape (so recent). There is a FPV attack, someone suffers an injury. They all bail out of their jeeps leaving wounded behind. They look more like a rabble, than soldiers. You compare to footage from Afghanistan/Iraq, and Western/NATO troops. Yeah, there is chaos, but a curious sense of order, and training showing through. The second clip is also Russians, similar landscape. Drone damaged dormobile. They exit the vehicle, or rather fall out of it. The camera operator gets hit by a drone, and is conscious. Not one of his unit renders any first aid, checks on him, they are all too busy looking around at the sky. As the narrator intimates, the Russian government is committing murder, not just of Ukrainians, military and cavilian, but their own people. They are clearly sending in untrained blokes off the street to be mown down, until presumably Ukraine runs out of drones. That must be the tactics. Its criminal. The third clip is Ukrainian, and they capture a Russian soldier who is apparently a spotter. He's living like a tramp (hobo) and is apparently caught unawares in his <deleted>hole he calls a bed. Again, I think back to US/UK spotters; they wouldn't be like that. They'd be well camouflaged, and fully aware of their situation.

Enabled by an education. The Truth will set you free.

I guess its the Quisling effect. Oswald Mosely didn't really have the same support post-WW2 as before.

I went to university, as a working class kid, son of a British Army officer who originally did National Service, and decided to stay in, first in my family. A life changing moment changed my view of life from one being "get a job" to "make a difference", expanding my horizons, and I ended up in Antarctica. I ended up with 3 distinct careers. So PhD and postdoctoral research in aeromicrobiology, followed by a career in defence research during the GWOT (I know what I did saved lives), a few peer reviewed papers and some patents. For the last 12 years, its been more an advisory role to medtech, whether manufacturers, or healthcare providers (governments). I know I have made impactful contributions during the COVID crisis. The effects on healthcare are still being worked through, which has caused me, in the last year or so, to work more and more with parts of the FDA and the EU's HERA. Cutting through all the applied BS, my fundamental interests lie in the 97% of the biological world that we know nothing about. That will occupy me, I hope, to the day I croak. James Lovelock, another working class lad, is a hero of mine. Anyone who is lucky enough to have been offered a place at university has been given a gift, not to be or belittled by those with no interest in education or of little education.

Not an academic.

Ok, a different more mammon driven view of life. Retiring early is not a goal for me, too much of a boomer view of life. But I get to leave an enduring legacy in the font of human knowledge. What I did, and am doing, will endure, long after I have gone. My "education" has left me with lots of soft skills. Its piss easy to fix a car, over rated "talent". Its just mecanno. Bit like boasting you can tie up shoe laces. I've always fixed my own cars. The point is, unless you are descended from royalty/the oppressors, your ancestors have been repressed, held back, robbed. Education is a way to put the boot on the other foot. If you're not particularly clever, ok, you do what you can. If you really have done all those things you hav done, then I suspect your epitaph would be "could have done better". But being a model isn't much of a skill. She could have become an architect, and left a legacy. I don't envy her future after he is 6 foot under.

A good friend of mine is an academic from Taipai. Many years ago, we were discussing the case of Nick Leeson, the trader who brought down Barents Bank, essentially through fraud (to cover losses incurred after a trainee he was supervising made mistakes). He went on the run, got caught, went to prison in Singapore. We were discussing the sentence. I thought at the time the sentence was appropriate; a white collar criminal, it wasn't the worst crime in the world. My Taiwanese friend had precisely the opposite view. He thought Leeson should have been executed, because of the harm to society he had caused (people losing their savings). There was the difference between East and West. Mike Okay visits the King Romans casino in the Golden Triange SEZ. Scary place.

So you don't think her father being a member of the elite 5% of the Yugoslav population who were Party members had anything to do with her career? And that models actually build their own careers, rather than someone else do all the building (so called talent spotters). And yes, I spent my late teens travelling and building a career leading me to be a much requested SME in my field. In general, and this isn't anything really to do with Knauss, I have a fairly low opinion of people who are given the frankly precious opportunity for education, to turn their back on it. It's a slap in the face of your ancestors' efforts. People from middle class backgrounds don't understand that, as they take college education as something for granted, to be dropped for specious reasons. I see a huge difference between the hundreds of thousands of GIs post WW2, who took seriously the opportunities given by a degree education, and today. I find it sickening for people to disparage education.

A glorious film apparently. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania/reviews/verified-audience Not sure about this 4/5 review: "The contemporary music used in this documentary is fun and well-chosen. The classical pieces however are not well chosen. The music editor is the sole one responsible for those aspects of the film. The classical musical choices should have been considered more responsibly. I can imagine Melania the First Lady had a role in the music choice. So there may have been some external pressures. But oh my god, during one moment in the documentary, Melania -- still in her high cut evening dress, sits down to remove her heels and relax her feet. I felt that Melania's Posterity was being violated and so I had to almost look away as she crossed and uncrossed her legs to remove her heels, photographers were actually going to capture a <deleted> shot of the First Lady!! ...!!"

Normally one is innocent until proven guilty. Literally, he is still innocent.

Nor should it. They only have to look at the societal mess the West has gotten into if they go too liberal.

Lack of religion causes problems. Lack of corporal punishment leads to feral, stabby kids, and politicians who feel no shame in sucking someone off in a crowded theatre. We used to have similar punishments. Comparatively recently, they were abolished, which has proven to be a mistake given record prison populations and soaring divorce rates. Christianity preaches death for adulterers. Modern man has reinterpreted that as wife swapping parties.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2011/04/26/bring-back-the-lash/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-defense-of-flogging/ I sense you are a liberal when it comes to crime and punishment. OK with state murder, but quesy at the thought of other physical punishments, and an ungodly view of marriage. Flogging, caning, is not a uniquely Islamic practice. There are groups calling for it's reintroduction into Christian society in order to reduce unmanageable prison populations. Would you oppose the public flogging of a drug dealer? And if so, why? We could say its not civilized. But its not particularly civilized to kill convicts using gases or injected concoctions. In 16 US states, adultery is still a crime, but the law is not enforced (https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/better-or-worse-adultery-crime-and-constitution, https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/adultery). Not everyone would agree with that position. In most Western countries, there are restrictions on drinking alcohol, and most have severe punishments imposed on the supply of alcohol to underage drinkers (a year in prison, which is effectively career ending for most people). Under age drinkers in many US states includes 20 year olds who might have been serving their country in some bullet ridden hellhole. In South Africa, Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald (white, Afrikaaner, very Christian) is actively considering the reintroduction of flogging to address prison crowding. Surprisingly, South Africa, a country with a 80% Christian majority, only abolished flogging in 1996. In the UK, 17% of the population support flogging, 21% support the stocks, and 49% support reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools. Schools in Missouri have brought back paddling. This is likely to be repeated in Georgia and Florida. A Texan campaign https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mans-mission-restore-corporal-punishment-dallas-public-schools/story?id=10576341 "I want to bring back corporal punishment to Dallas," Leal said. "Kids have no fear anymore. There are no consequences." That equally applies to adults. If not, why not? On this forum, I have strongly advocated the introduction of public punishment, lethal and non-lethal, but for contrary reasons. I am opposed to the death penalty, on the grounds that justice is inperfect, and the death penalty offers no prospect of an injustice being corrected. That said, I firmly believe any country that advocates the death penalty should have the courage of its convictions, and carry out the punishments in public, with the compulsory participation in the act by members of the public, through ballot in a similar way to jury service. ie. you might be asked to pull the lever. I support public non-lethal corporal punishment, which could involve floggings, or the stocks. I am sure modern technology could devise alternative approaches such as forms of electrocution, or the microwave devices developed by the US military (intended for crowd control, they simulate the feeling of being burned alive). A bit of jacking of the system could change it from feeling hot to feeling actual pain, but without the physiological damage (for those worried about such things). Just make sure the criminal is not wearing eye glasses, to lessen the risk of eyeballs exploding. Public shame still has a big role to play in law enforcement, and liberal policies over the last 60+ years has gradually stripped the concept of shame from society, to the extent that I rarely hear of politicians anymore expressing shame (and this is quite a recent development, considering the shameful resignations during the Thatcher years. Going back before, consider the genuine shame John Profumo felt). Doesn't happen anymore. An American politician performing oral sex in a pack theatre (and who was asked to leave), what happened? She was re-elected. Any of the names popping up in the Epstein files; nothing. Another US politician, who actively covered up sports department sexual abuse, repeatedly re-elected, shrugs about it. Boris Johnson, had to be dragged into police interviews under caution, before he finally got it. They are merely reflecting the corrosive impact lack of public punishment has had on morals. The stocks were abolished in England because a doctor who was punished gamed the system to use the punishment to generate public system. I think it should be revisited. Interestingly, it was the British who introduced corporal punishment to India, through modification of the Indian Penal Code in 1864. As recently as the 1950s, there were serious politicians in the UK calling for the Cat of Nine Tails to be used to deal with rising car thefts. Which crimes should be subject to corporal or physical punishment depends on the society. There is a Christian tradition, a minority view, that holds that adultery is a capitol offence, followed by a spectrum of views that ends in spit roasting and wife swapping parties (never husband swapping). Marriage as an institution is in danger of collapsing, because of our liberal views on fidelity. Many take vows hypocritically, because there is no longer any shame in breaking them. Yet marriage is the glue that holds society together. Some nitwits think Islam invented corporal punishment.

While the image is Google-AI generated, this vieo, of him paying respects to a deceased veteran, is not. US Air Force Sergeant Terrence Lee Randolph, Vietnam War veteran, passed away on December 10, 2024 aged 77, from lung cancer at the Minneapolis Veterans Medical Center. https://upnorthnewswi.com/2026/01/30/a-caregivers-legacy-family-honors-alex-pretti-icu-nurse-killed-in-minneapolis/

The population of men aged 65 or over has an annual growth rate of 2-2.5. Ergo the population of dirty old men in flasher macs is increasing.

The flip side is that reporting of these crimes has increased, and that in the past, these were under reported. In the second paragraph reference is made to new laws being passed and evolving police practice, defining additional acts as sexual offences. The article is from the ONS, from statisticians. It requires further analysis, rather than provoking prepubescent dimwits who view cartoon drug dealers as their heroes. But these dimwits lack the literacy or attention span to get beyond the first paragraph. This is the actual report https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/sexualoffencesprevalenceandtrendsenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2025 The unattributed sensationalist source quoted in the opening piece fails to properly cite the key points of the report: The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) year ending (YE) March 2025 estimated that 1.9% of people aged 16 years and over (898,000) experienced sexual assault (including attempts) in the last year. Despite no significant change in the prevalence of sexual assault experienced by people aged 16 to 59 years in the last year (2.4%) compared with YE March 2024 (2.6%), there has been a significant increase compared with YE March 2015 (1.7%), after previously decreasing from the YE March 2005 survey to the YE March 2014 survey. The police recorded 209,079 sexual offences in England and Wales in YE March 2025, an 11% increase from YE March 2024; over half of this increase can be attributed to the recording of two new offences as a result of the introduction of the Online Safety Act 2023. Excluding the new offences, the increase in police recorded sexual offences between YE March 2024 and YE March 2025 was around 4%; this continues the trend of increases in the number of police recorded sexual offences seen over the last decade. Sexual offences recorded by the police do not provide a reliable measure of trends with increases likely to reflect a number of factors including improvements in police recording practices, introduction of new offences, and changes in reporting by victims.

Its mass hysteria, must be. One of the drawbacks of a universal vote I suppose.

https://youtu.be/A4ON3XXglvg?si=Lp-SNtHYVVx4NC5k&t=109

Jesse Ventura considering a crack at it. "We have a party, the Republicans, who don't seem to want to abide by the Constitution. January 6 is a prime example of that. And now they are all free and in charge. You know what, maybe its time for Jesse. I only did one term. I'm owed a second. You want to know something, I'll give you a quote. We're a Third World country now. You want to know why? I'm an expert. I've been to them. I spent 17 months in a South East Asian country while the Draft Dodger was playing golf. Right? You want to know how I know we are a third world country? Because in third world countries they have the military doing their police work on the streets. I was in the Philippines on the day that Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and went under, gulp, dictatorship. We went from nobody to a guy with a machine gun on every corner. Thats what happens when you have a dictatorship. Come on in, you <deleted>. Come on in. Ol' Painless is waitin'. I'm gonna have me some fun." (He didn't say the last bit on the steps of his old High School, but he could have) Some political journey, comparable to the Mooch (who is a very interesting, and frankly aggreable guy to listen to on his podcast/youtube channel).

Are military coups always right wing, per se? eg. Chavez in Venezuela and Gaddafi in Libya. Carnationa Revolution in Portugal. Derg coup in Ethiopia. All engineered by army officers with what is regarded as a left wing agenda. You're in danger of aligning non-Western political discource with Western conceits. Even in the West, there are startling differences in what constitutes "Left Wing" versus "Right Wing". Currently, in the US, partial nationalisation of tech firms is seen as a very right wing thing to do. But nationalisation of train firms (or more precisely, cancellation of licences) in the UK is seen as Left Wing. Free Trade in the UK is seen as a conservative policy, but in the US, state (federal) intervention in the market is seen as right wing. Its a mixed up world.

Panic. Most lack police training. Some might have a military background, but don't let that fool you. The majority who have served have never fired a shot in anger before. In Iraq, the majority of deployed troops were logistics and support, people like JD Vance, who only shot photos. ICE feels the need to offer $50,000 signing on bonuses (with no upper age bar), suggesting they are forced to recruit individuals who are motivated more by monetary gain, than a sense of public service (the latter is what we all want in a law enforcement officer, or whatever branch). Struggling to meet recruitment targets, little evidence they are successful in enticing serving police officers to join: https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ice-hiring-standards-dhs-immigration-police-rcna239656 ICE training: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/ice-47-days-training-reduced-trump/ Used to be 5 months training, now its basically 48 days, which is significantly less than the training carried out in police departments, which varies between 12 to 27 weeks (a lot less than in Europe, Australia) Having said that, I recall, as a young undergrad, at UT-Knoxville, of the University Police Chief boasting his officers were the most highly trained in the city, because there was a basic requirement for a Hight School Graduation Certificate. That did leave me worried. Now, many American police officers are highly professional, very capable. But it only seems to be in America, at least in the free world, where police officer go really bad, like the officers in New Orleans committing armed robbery, in uniform (WTF). Its fair to say why they might brandish Police-emblazoned stab vests, they possess, in general, nowhere near the competancies of what you expect from serving police officers.

Minnesota's open carry laws allows open carry of long rifles. In the incident that lead to Pretti's death, federal agents crossed the road, and one pushed down a woman; she was not an immigrant. She might have been shouting at them from across the road, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them doing their job. Pretti stepped in to intervene. He had a pistol in a holster, under his jacket, ie concealed carry. The Agents only realised he was armed during the subsequent scuffle. If he had been carrying a long rifle, as the militias in the state often do at rallies and protests, would the agents have crossed the road to push down a woman yelling at them? The Black Panthers think they have it worked out. Robert Peel developed the modern concept of a police force/service, and established the Peelian Principles of Policing, among which is the importance of policing by consent. Re-establishing that was vital to ending the troubles in Northern Ireland. The police could not impose themselves on a local population that didn't want them, eg West Belfast, (London)derry. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Feck me, your sort would have locked up Charlie Chaplain. Good job your generation's time is over, after robbing us. https://youtu.be/17_KnWm-Zm4?si=R-8L0Ydt6WRuh12Y&t=64

Top Walting. "Force Protection" is a term that entered the common lexicon during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to describe security measures applied to the long logistics train operating in a highly kinetic war situation. Miller has never served in uniform. Walten Kommando,

UK Border Force doesn't go to work looking like Cosplay SAS though. No need to hide behind a mask, except when there are sanitary reasons. The entry requirements are a bit higher as well, plus more than 47 days training.