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www.geomatec.com/products-and-solutions/optical-control/anti-reflection-and-anti-glare/gmoth/
It's a couple years old, but I suppose it could be relevant for windows of subsonic aviation and land vehicles in regard to avoiding the glare that's in daylight more of an issue than whether your camo paintjob is plain grey or some fancy digital six-colour pattern. This glare issue is why AFVs and many battlefield helicopters have only flat glass areas that reflect direct sunlight only in one direction instead of in many like a beacon.
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FYI gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on-fraudulent-research-5cc079278602
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This is a humorous collage showing Russian troops on Kabul airport. It made me wonder whether there's a point to having a tail gunner position AND a bow gunner position on military transport aircraft after all.
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[German] zeit.de/stoerungsmelder/2021/08/24/goldgraeber-am-rechten-rand_30939
Ich meine ja schon seit Jahren, dass es wichtig ist, über den Schwachsinn der in Amerika abgeht informiert zu sein. Deren Schwachsinn schwappt häufiger mal nach Europa über. Diese Verquickung von rechter Propaganda/Hetze/Angstmacherei mit Verkauf von Büchern, Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln, Gold, Waffen und Post-Apokalypse Ausrüstung (zum Beispiel schwachsinnig unzureichend kleine Mengen von Saatgut) ist dort schon seit langem ein offensichtlicher Bestandteil des rechtsradikalen Subkultur. Beispiele:
nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html
esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a56714/john-oliver-alex-jones/
Auch beliebt ist die Abzocke als Geschäftsmodell bei weißen Evangelikalen "Predigern" (insbesondere beim 'prosperity gospel' mit dem "seed" Schwachsinn), die sich auch mit Rechtsradikalen vermischen, weil sie nicht blöd sind und wissen, dass der Rechtsradikalismus ein Sammelbecken für Schwachköpfe und andere Leichtgläubige ist. Das ist genau die Zielgruppe, die Evangelikale für ihren eigene Maschen brauchen.
Diese Abzocke mit eigentlich offensichtlichem Schwachsinn erzeugt also ein Profitmotiv und auch finanzielle Fähigkeiten für antidemokratische Gruppen, die einen Großteil ihrer Landsleute einfach nur noch hassen.
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Chinese state news push the idea that Covid is biological warfare by the US against China among other allegations of attacks. It's probable that relationships will worsen in the coming years. Could you look into this conflict between the US and China, especially if it gets into a forced reunification with Taiwan and a show down for global dominance? Thank you.
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Deletehttps://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/09/relevant-chinese-history.html
and what you can find by searching "taiwan" in the left bar is what I have on the topic, and I have no worthy insights beyond those blog posts.
This was more of a suggestion or polite request. You produce interesting insights when you have informed yourself about a subject and I'm now going to read your link.
ReplyDeleteI expect the conflict between the US and China to shape the next decades. It's at least becoming a second Cold War with separated technocomplexes and it has the potential to spread by intertwining this struggle with pre-existing tensions in other parts of the globe that affect Europe. It's obvious that the best course for Europe would be neutrality in this struggle, I just doubt this will work. Europe is losing economic importance compared to the center of this struggle in Asia, so it's probably a backwater to these developments and increasingly dependant on the happenings in the new economic center of the world in the Indo-Pacific.
Thank you and keep up the good work.
A lot less than a real cold war is completely within the range of historical normalcy when you look past 1945. The closest analogies are the rise of Germany 1871-1914 and the rise of the U.S. 1865-1942 , both compared to the UK. The former ended badly, but there's hope that lessons have been learned and ingrained.
DeleteThe rise of the US went well, because there was someone else to fight and dissolving the colonial empires didn't meet that much resistance. I don't see a similar situation in the current setting, but it's to be hoped that diplomatic solutions prevail.
DeleteWould you regard left wing ideas from the usa like wokeness, gender ideology and the financial interests of leftwing radical ngos the same way as schwachsinn? Many left wing radicals have only financial interests behind there behaviour too. And stupid people you can find there the same way, with arguments and statements beyond mental sanity.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about financial interests of NGOs (regulations differ a bit anyway), but the other points you mentioned are ordinary oversteering / exaggerations of emancipation movements. I wrote about those before (in the context of the greens who reflexively adopt such emancipation movements).
Deletethe problem with the American right wing is that ideology propaganda and selfish financial interests of the propagandists have been developed to extremes (including warping the constitution) and there appears to be a vicious cycle towards ever greater extremism/radicalism (even a deep dive into fantasyland).
So far the annoyance level of some modern-time hippie idiots who mostly indulge in 'holier than thou' talk and virtue signalling seems mostly harmless to me. The most extreme thing the emancipation movements have brought in the past four decades was the expanded interpretation of marriage.
The only assault on our parliament that Germany had was from a tiny minority of obvious idiots (who were stopped by four tonfa-wielding cops), which BTW are very much rather right wing-leaning (or more) than 'woke'. The mass delusion in the U.S. had created a very different mob.
It is exactly the same basic principle in the area of left ngos here. You use your own ideology to enrich yourself personally. With the right, items are sold accordingly, with the left, donations are embezzled or used for "administration and personnel costs" instead of for those in need. A lot of left ngos only serve to make money and ultimately cheat donors who, touched by the plight of poor people, give money to these liars. That goes far beyond us american ngos. Take the current Arbeiterwohlfahrt (workers welfare) scandal in Germany as an example.
DeleteThe whole of the lets help humans machinery of the left is in fact just used to make money. If you buy seriously from info war, you are simply plain stupid. No intelligent beeing could buy such an crap from such an insane idiot. But the left wing ngos cheat the people much more clever and they are not simply insane like alex jones who truly believes much of the bullshit he talks, the are criminals, nothing else.
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ngos-in-der-kritik-hilfe-fuer-millionen-oder-millionen-fuer.976.de.html?dram:article_id=498813
You're making a mistake here that I've seen done by American right wingers: Conflating something that's not right wing with being left wing.
DeleteThe AWO (your example) is NOT a left wing political organisation. They don't significantly agitate for some left wing party's political opinions or incessantly cheer for some left wing party's leader.
Meanwhile, white evangelical grifter-preachers agitate very reliably for the Fascist party (especially in regard to abortion and gay-hating, but also by pretending that the lying moron was sent by god and helping play down covid cuz the lying moron did it) and secular grifters like Alex Jones do so over a very wide range of topics with little deviation from fascist party orthodoxy.
Maybe there's some AWO member journal with some leftist article once in a while, I don#t know - but I do know that they're not a significant force of left wing agitation.
So basically you provided a false equivalency here by elevating largely non-political imperfect organisations to a supposed counterpart to all-in political grifter-propagandists.