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  1. US Air Force member dies after setting himself on fire at Israeli Embassy in DC yelling ‘Free Palestine’ US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell dies after setting himself on fire (nypost.com)
  2. Repost: Something to think about, both Russia and the Ukraine can take some serious casualties. The top three countries with the most casualties during WW2 = China, Russia, and Ukraine. Note - broken down by country not USSR, etc/keep in mind all these countries had a much smaller population during WW2. List of casualties from top 8 countries during WW2: Country Tot. Deaths Military Deaths Civ. Deaths via Military Civ. Deaths via Famine/Disease China 20,000,000 3,750,000 8,191,000 10,000,000 Russia 13,950,000 6,750,000 4,100,000 3,100,000 Ukraine 6,850,000 1,650,000 3,700,000 1,500,000 Poland 6,000,000 240,000 5,820,000 Germany 5,700,000 4,456,000 2,135,000 Japan 3,100,000 2,300,000 800,000 India 3,087,000 87,000 3,000,000 Belarus 2,290,000 620,000 1,360,000 310,000 Complete list: World War II Casualties by Country 2022 (worldpopulationreview.com)
  3. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason the SECDEF is keeping his pie hole shut is because he went to the hospital to get some type of trans surgery?
  4. The IDF might try to rapidly fill all these massive underground tunnel networks with saltwater. Park a couple dredge barges off the beach (in the med) connect large pipeline to nearest tunnel opening and start filling these shithole tunnel networks with water. Here's one of many examples: HOHN Group Dredging floating pipelines - HOHN GROUP:Oil and Gas·Dredging·Offshore Construction:Marine Services SINCE 1988 (floatinghosesllc.com) HOHN Group Dredging floating pipelines
  5. Repost: Something to think about, both Russia and the Ukraine can take some serious casualties. The top three countries with the most casualties during WW2 = China, Russia, and Ukraine. Note - broken down by country not USSR, etc/keep in mind all these countries had a much smaller population during WW2. List of casualties from top 8 countries during WW2: Country Tot. Deaths Military Deaths Civ. Deaths via Military Civ. Deaths via Famine/Disease China 20,000,000 3,750,000 8,191,000 10,000,000 Russia 13,950,000 6,750,000 4,100,000 3,100,000 Ukraine 6,850,000 1,650,000 3,700,000 1,500,000 Poland 6,000,000 240,000 5,820,000 Germany 5,700,000 4,456,000 2,135,000 Japan 3,100,000 2,300,000 800,000 India 3,087,000 87,000 3,000,000 Belarus 2,290,000 620,000 1,360,000 310,000 Complete list: World War II Casualties by Country 2022 (worldpopulationreview.com)
  6. I would recommend that the UN/NATO/EU/etc start broadcasting/posting maps - updated daily (Recommend a minimum of a 5-day, weather based, forecast map). The maps should show the potential downwind hazard areas if any of this Nuke Power Plant Reactor Cores/Cooling Systems/etc swiftly go into the wartime meltdown mode: The maps will probably look something like this =
  7. With the current banking crisis heating up there's the potential things could get really stupid over the next couple days/weeks. If folks have cash stashed in banks, brokerage firms, U.S. Treasuries/Bonds (Treasury Bills, Treasury Notes, Treasury Bonds, or Treasury Inflation - Protection Securities - TIPS), Other Bonds (Municipal, Corporate, etc) - now would be a good time to double check what type/amount $$$ of insurance coverage you have. Vanguard doesn't have any FDIC protection/coverage but they do have 'Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)' insurance. Me and my wife also have cash being held in separate Vanguard ROTH IRA accounts. These two ROTH IRA accounts are currently in the Vanguard Federal Money Market Holding Fund (VMFXX) and each account has 500K SIPC insurance protection (Total coverage = 1 million). I also have brokered CDs with Vanguard but the commercial bank they cut the deal with provides the FDIC 250K insurance coverage for the CDs. Here's some info on Vanguard SIPC and secondary insurance: ' under SIPC rules, IRAs have their own insurance that is separate from taxable accounts. And Roth IRAs are separate from Traditional IRAs. If you have 2 IRAs at Vanguard (one Roth and one Traditional) and 2 taxable individual accounts, you would have a total of $1.5 million of insurance. The retirement accounts would have a total of $1 million of protection ($500,000 for the Roth, and another $500,000 for the Traditional), and the taxable accounts would have another $500,000 (but not $500,000 for each). But if one of the taxable accounts is a joint account, it would have its own $500,000 limit, which would produce $1 million in total insurance for the taxable accounts.' Vanguard does have an auxiliary insurance policy through Lloyd’s of London and London Company Insurers. It adds a second layer of protection to a brokerage account if, and only if, SIPC protection is exhausted. The secondary insurance policy is good for up to $49.5 million per account. There is an aggregate maximum of $250 million. That means the insurance policy will shell out a quarter of a billion dollars at most across all accounts that have maxed out SIPC coverage. Is Vanguard SIPC and FDIC Insured? (ira-reviews.com)
  8. 'Exclusive: US Air Force fires leaders for failing nuclear safety inspection:' Note: Did they really mean 'Nuclear Surety Inspection' and not 'Nuclear Safety Inspection'? 'Two US Air Force commanders and four of their subordinates at a key nuclear base in North Dakota were relieved of duty this week after their units failed an inspection designed to ensure that the nuclear weapons stockpile is safe and secure at all times.' etc, etc. Exclusive: US Air Force fires leaders at Minot Air Force Base for failing nuclear safety inspection | CNN Politics
  9. FYI: I have a non-callable Brokered Vanguard CD at 5% and it's a little different method of payola then a regular bank CD. - A regular bank CD valued at $100,000 with a 5% APY has a 4.88 dividend rate with a APY total of 5% profit. --Example: 5% APY totals $5,000 in profit/your bank CD value after 1 year = $105,000 - A Brokered Vanguard $100,000 CD at 5% works in a different way. -- Example: At the end of 1 year the Vanguard 5% CD also pays out $5,000 in profit (monthly dividends) just like the %5 bank CD. The Difference is the Brokered Vanguard CD $5,000 in annual profits is "ALL" deposited (monthly dividends) into whatever "OTHER" account you select. -- FYI: All my Vanguard %5 CD monthly profits are also deposited into VMFXX and todays VMFXX rate (27 Feb 23) is currently set at 4.52%, up a little from the Jan 23 rates.
  10. Vanguard Brokered CD rates this PM. Note - these CD rates change daily and should continue to go up if the Fed keeps hiking interest rates, etc. Note; Vanguard deals in both callable and non-callable CDs, you probably want to buy only non-callable CDs (it's a complicated process, etc.). Brokered CDs Yield 1 - 3 months 4 - 6 months 7 - 9 months 10 - 12 months 13 - 18 months 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years 7 years 10+ years Brokered CDs * 4.75% 4.90% 5.00% 5.15% 5.25% 5.10% 5.05% 5.10% 5.15% 4.25% 5.00%
  11. Target rich environment. How many AIM-9's do we have stockpiled? '99 Red Balloons: US Air Base Launching Slew of Weather Balloons as Scrutiny Intensifies over Flying Objects:' 'The National Weather Service alone releases around 92 balloons every single day in the United States and its territories. They can float to altitudes of around 100,000 feet, according to the weather agency.' 99 Red Balloons: US Air Base Launching Slew of Weather Balloons as Scrutiny Intensifies over Flying Objects | Military.com
  12. This method was attempted and failed back in 1998 for a very large-stray weather balloon. When a Weather Balloon Went Rogue Two Decades Ago, Fighter Jets Fired at It but Couldn't Bring It Down | Military.com 'Almost 25 years ago, a large runaway weather balloon proved to be quite challenge a for a pair of fighter jets trying to shoot it down, staying in the air even after more than 1,000 rounds were fired at it. The Balloon passed across Canada, over the Atlantic Ocean, and through British airspace before entering Iceland's airspace and then drifting northward.' 'Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft spotted the balloon over Newfoundland and fired more than 1,000 rounds at it. The AP reported that the jets, Canadian variants of the American F/A-18 Hornet, hit the balloon, but rather than popping or exploding and crashing to the earth, it slowly began leaking helium. The big balloon was still in the air. The balloon, BBC reported, also survived encounters with British and American aircraft.'
  13. The new ordnance item contained in this latest Aid Package = The 'Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB)/long-range, all-aspect, precision-attack, ground-launched weapon developed by Saab in partnership with Boeing to address the emerging needs of armed forces.' U.S. readies $2 bln-plus Ukraine aid package with longer-range weapons -sources | Reuters
  14. Today IMHO - I don't believe any tank is anything but a rolling coffin. Are we going to provide these Ukraine gifted M1 tanks with modern DU 120mm rounds (120mm APFSDS-T) M829A3 and A4 Carts? We've done this a few times in the recent past/here's just one example and the results: 'Between 2010 and 2012 the U.S. supplied 140 refurbished M1A1 Abrams tanks to Iraq. In mid-2014, they saw action when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launched the June 2014 Northern Iraq offensive. During three months, about one-third of the Iraqi Army's M1 tanks had been damaged or destroyed by ISIL and some were captured by opposing forces. By December 2014, the Iraqi Army only had about 40 operational Abrams left. That month, the U.S. Department of State approved the sale of another 175 Abrams to Iraq.'
  15. What's next/one more: I'm surprised they aren't mandating vaccinating fetuses (babies) before they abort them.
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