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Reminiscent of what happened in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia and China whereby the regime encouraged citizen to turn against citizen, all of course to maintain power for the regime

Thoughts?

In the old days, If you get unruly on a flight the pilot takes the plane to the nearest airport where authorities are ready to greet you. They don't have time for such bullshit now and it appears they will duct-tape you to the seat as they continue to their intended destination.

A woman in an American Airlines flight decides she wants to leave the plane in mid-flight, attempting to open the front door, attacking flight attendants and spitting on them.
The woman was taped to her seat for the rest of the flight...



Links to the Yahoo story:



TikTok video from a passenger exiting the plane.

It happens

A new study of U.S. service members found higher than expected rates of heart inflammation following receipt of COVID-19 vaccines. It's a finding Defense Department researchers say should call attention to the condition, known as myocarditis, as a potential side effect of the immunizations.





Well, duh.

It's not like we didn't warn you.

For all you faux-vax fan-boys, and fan-girls and fan-traanies, get your jabs and mind your own beeswax.

Every single one of these (five) doctors believe that these shots are NOT vaccines, but bioweapons designed to kill human beings.

So far it's 24 dead at the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside where a section collapsed last week.
Lots of news (and fears) about the approaching tropical storm, but South Florida had 2 days of perfect weather. Rescue work was suspended last night and the remaining portion of the building was taken down around 10:30pm in a controlled demolition.

The thought of that sickens me.

The official statement was between 10:00pm and 3:00am
You couldn't wait... could you?

I read the collapse was to be away from the area where the first section fell so it didn't hamper continued rescue in finding as many dead as they could. At this point, there is no hope of recovering anyone alive.

I'm thinking of the residents to the 100+ apartments that remained standing. They were evacuated and not given a second to take any belongings with them.
Important things like identification, documents, jewelry, cash, keys all remained inside.

The whole thing was handled poorly. It's a fiasco to a degree beyond comprehension.

Both sides of the beachfront have been barricaded and the waters patrolled by coastguard. I haven't read anything about the


More to come...

Sometimes one needs just to apologize and move, then warning shots could have been avoided.

Most Americans are not being taught history, and even fewer are taught foreign military history. But if the American Brass (the military and political leaders in charge of our military) had been paying attention -- like the Imperial Japanese had -- the Pearl Harbor attack would not have been as nearly successful.

What was Taranto?



It was the location of the Fascist Italian naval fleet in 1940, nearly two years before Pearl Harbor, where the fairly powerful and dangerous Regia Marina lay at anchor. The ships were protected by dense defense of barrage balloons (serving as obstacles for low-flying aircraft), torpedo nets (stopping air-dropped torpedoes before they reached the side of a ship, and many anti-aircraft guns, which the Brits would call Ack-Ack.

The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Italian naval forces, under Admiral Inigo Campioni. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, employing 21 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean Sea.

The attack struck the battle fleet of the Regia Marina at anchor in the harbour of Taranto, using aerial torpedoes despite the shallowness of the water.





The success of this attack augured the ascendancy of naval aviation over the big guns of battleships. According to Admiral Cunningham, "Taranto, and the night of 11–12 November 1940, should be remembered for ever as having shown once and for all that in the Fleet Air Arm the Navy has its most devastating weapon."
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The Italian fleet lost half of its capital ships in one night; the next day, the Regia Marina transferred its undamaged ships from Taranto to Naples to protect them from similar attacks, until the defences at Taranto (mainly the anti-torpedo nets) were brought up to adequate levels to protect them from further attacks of the same kind (which happened between March and May 1941).

Repairs to Littorio took about four months, to Duilio seven months; Conte di Cavour required extensive salvage work and her repairs were incomplete when Italy surrendered in 1943.

Cunningham wrote after the attack: "The Taranto show has freed up our hands considerably & I hope now to shake these damned Itiys up a bit. I don't think their remaining three battleships will face us and if they do I'm quite prepared to take them on with only two."

Indeed, the balance of power had swung to the British Mediterranean Fleet which now enjoyed more operational freedom: when previously forced to operate as one unit to match Italian capital ships, they could now split into two battlegroups; each built around one aircraft carrier and two battleships.


Some Americans were paying attention, but their warnings fell on deaf ears.

Lieutenant Commander Opie still was busy in the Mediterranean. In December he had sailed on board HMS Jervis, and in January 1941 he was on board the Warspite when the nearby Illustrious was attacked by swarms of Stuka dive bombers. Opie wrote a report on the battle as well as a personal letter to his boss, Captain Alan G. Kirk, the U.S. naval attaché in London. He told Kirk, “I am not trying to drum up my own trade but I honestly feel that I should fly to Hawaii and talk to the boys there on war experiences and how to train to meet the lessons learned.” He received no answer.

So Sez Fact Checkers Who Told Us Covid Came From Bats, Pangolins & Wet Markets.

Let's Pray The Fact Checkers Got This One RIGHT - Judge For Y'all's Selves...

TUE JUN 29, 2021 / 12:21 PM EDT

It's typical for the 4th of July fireworks to have some rain in South Florida. This year it looks like Tropical Depression Five will pay us a visit.

Updated link to the NOAA Weather center:



The forecast is it will pass over Cuba and head into the Gulf of Mexico.