Very informative and engaging presentation. As a former submariner, who at one time slept side by side with MK48 torpedoes in the torpedo room, I note that it took a MK48 to finish off the USS Racine. Go Navy!
Destin’s closing advice regarding the increasing political/social/cultural divisions within the U.S., and the manifestation of these divisions throughout cyberspace via the internet, while sound, may not be enough to diffuse; too little too late; the divisions the U.S. currently is contending with. I do note some positive idealistic movement here in the U.S., but I also note an increasingly desperate anti-American sentiment bordering on insanity within those individuals who blindly support all Left leaning causes. The Left seemingly is continually lowering the bar to justify violence, while those on the Right are basically attempting to hold the bar at its current level.
JackSeptember 27, 2019, 7:03 AM
I love and support the precious 1st Amendment but within that context its existence protects and permits the marxist, the nazi, the fascist, radical islam and every other anti-American “ist” to demand the death of this Republic and its citizens.
Every foreign war in which the US has been engaged was fought to destroy psychotic idealists whose only goal with their chosen “ism” is the destruction of civil society, the control of all wealth, the curtailment of all rights, privileges and freedoms, the destruction of representative government and the implementation of complete domination by central figure with Godlike authority. The US military and a few allies destroyed it overseas and we should destroy it here.
For some it’s a hard pill to swallow but I’m of the opinion that this country should turn its eyes and its powers inward and focus upon the so-called progressives and leftists who are demanding socialism and communism in the nation. I’m disgusted that they are even permitted to stand in public and commit open treason by demanding the implementation of a socialist state for this nation.
We know good and damned well who they are and only a fool would consider their movements to be poorly structured and fledgling. We owe them nothing less than the ends that were enforced upon the failed regimes of Europe.
Auntie AnalogueSeptember 27, 2019, 7:35 AM
None of that multi-domain schtick is worth a tinker’s damn if what’s being defended is rotting from the inside and thus for most people becomes intolerable to live in. In the same way the Wehrmacht’s revolutionary combined-arms Blitzkrieg method was worthless because it was the spear point of a regime that made life under it intolerable for those under the regime commanding the Blitzkrieg. If all that the U.S. armed forces are doing is protecting the Open Border$ Globali$t $ellout Invade the World/Invite The World E$tabli$hment, then we taxpayers are just wasting our tax dollars to exacerbate the regime that increasingly $ell$ us out and, by multi-domain means, persecutes us. Which brings up a domain not covered in that propaganda video: the sxith domain – the domain of the intelligence agencies.
That point is that all of that multi-domain apparatus – including and especially the intelligence domain (conveniently omitted from that video, in case you hadn’t noticed) – is also being used by the $ellout E$tabli$hment Regime to deceive, manipulate, and dominate us, right here where we live. Part of that deception, manipulation, and domination is that propaganda video, which is aimed at persuading us to trust the military tool of the $ellout E$tali$hment Regime. Trust the military only if it serves not the regime, but serves instead the people whom the regime is ostensibly in place not to rule, but to govern for the benefit of the people.
Truly must we “disenthrall ourselves.”
ghostsniperSeptember 27, 2019, 10:14 AM
“…the regime that increasingly $ell$ us out…”
=============
There it is, right before your very eyes.
Do you see it yet?
Or are you still keeping focus exclusively on the crybabies and other trash du jour ?
They’ve been stealing massively from us all our lives under threat of caging and death, and increasingly just flat out torture and then killing. THIS is the regime you choose every couple years. Some of the faces change each cycle but the regime itself just keeps getting worse and worse. To what end?
You can’t force change in others but you can modify yourself so that the effect of the regime is reduced, and you can stay out of it’s way as it stumbles forward but these things require dedication to a cause. YOUR cause. Spent any quality time with your conscience lately?
This is quite pertinent to the political warfare going on right now. Unfortunately, even if I engage with understanding and graciousness with others of a different belief system , they still have the option to attempt to destroy me and my belief system, and in fact I am pretty sure they prefer that option. I think the only realistic response is to fight back, and not always like a gentleman.
Let’s rip the scab off the wound at look at it. Looks to me like a significant portion of the intel community and the judiciary at the senior levels, plus 95% of the media at all levels, have begun a war to nullify the portions of the American Constitution that they find blocking their way toward dominating and reshaping our society. They may have been conscripted by liberal politicians, but it seems like they have broken the leash, and now the politicians simply attempt to ride them like a child riding a tiger… hang on tight and let the tiger go where he wants and kill whatever he wants, because that’s the only way to don’t wind up as his lunch.
The weapon they have that we don’t is the media. It lets the tiger eat his fill of the gullible and disinterested.
OK, Ray Van Dune, I’ll play. Some of the comments above are pre-history and extra-historic, but you’re grokking that war is happening in the political arena right now.
I, myself, said when Trump came into office that he’d be well advised to disintegrate the CIA and some of the other alphabets. I don’t know why in the hell I’m not in charge of everything! Now, our “Deepthroat 2019” appears to be a CIA intel guy. I use the term “intel” advisedly. He or she didn’t know shit, and their analysis was specious in the extreme. But, the point is that the attacks happen. The left knows it’s a blunt object.
The center of gravity (back to grand strategy), what the German’s call the schwerpunkt, is the American public. The general in the video knows it’s the human realm, perception, that matters. I immediately went in my mind to the long op by the Marxists to turn our republic – it’s been going on since Marx was smoking cigars and scarfing fish in London. The wobblies, the hippies, the Antifa. Fucking dupes that don’t fool me for a second.
But, the general is identifying not the human element but the speed of operations acceleration regarding the human battlespace. Twitfer, Instagarm, de-facebook, etc, are the new battlespace. That is fascinating.
Don’t be fooled. The whole thing is still governed by basic principles set out by Jomini and von Clausewitz centuries ago. I was pleased to hear the general using the term “maneuver,” because it’s still critical. Clausewitz wanted officers to express an intellectual keenness that he called “presence of mind”. How does that effect you and me? The thinking patriotic American can outwit most libs any day of the week. Be advised, however, that the lib will act without thinking. He’s trying to become a wolf, but at this point in time he’s really more like a chihuahua. He’s a good ankle-biter, but not that good.
I have written off congress, with slow Pelosi, Schiff-forBrains, and the rest. They may write laws, but they in no way govern me. Any news article I see from the MSM I instantly handicap as being total baloney. A detail escapes here and there, but really it’s just their map of operations.
Hey, Gerard. That facebook picture as a panopticon is sweet. A reminder that the battlespace is shifting from the political class to a technocratic sort of oligarchy. Have you seen the mask-makers and camouflage artists who are creating face paint and identity-hiding garments?
We have almost lost on the element of Security, but we can still Surprise the living fuck out of them.
Keep your powder dry, my friends.
Sam L.September 28, 2019, 10:01 AM
I speak missile, but not current. Olllllld missile; 40+ years ago.
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
– – WH Auden
from “1054 AD”
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
Camouflage
Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
BY GARY SNYDER
Chimes of Freedom
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
– – W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939
De Breanski
VAN GOGH
Hillegas
To the Stonecutters
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
from “1054 AD”
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
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Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
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Late in the day so I’ll listen to this half hour vid later. The speaker seems to have the chops to speak on the subject.
If that dude retired, I want to take his vacant job position! Great video.
Very informative and engaging presentation. As a former submariner, who at one time slept side by side with MK48 torpedoes in the torpedo room, I note that it took a MK48 to finish off the USS Racine. Go Navy!
Destin’s closing advice regarding the increasing political/social/cultural divisions within the U.S., and the manifestation of these divisions throughout cyberspace via the internet, while sound, may not be enough to diffuse; too little too late; the divisions the U.S. currently is contending with. I do note some positive idealistic movement here in the U.S., but I also note an increasingly desperate anti-American sentiment bordering on insanity within those individuals who blindly support all Left leaning causes. The Left seemingly is continually lowering the bar to justify violence, while those on the Right are basically attempting to hold the bar at its current level.
I love and support the precious 1st Amendment but within that context its existence protects and permits the marxist, the nazi, the fascist, radical islam and every other anti-American “ist” to demand the death of this Republic and its citizens.
Every foreign war in which the US has been engaged was fought to destroy psychotic idealists whose only goal with their chosen “ism” is the destruction of civil society, the control of all wealth, the curtailment of all rights, privileges and freedoms, the destruction of representative government and the implementation of complete domination by central figure with Godlike authority. The US military and a few allies destroyed it overseas and we should destroy it here.
For some it’s a hard pill to swallow but I’m of the opinion that this country should turn its eyes and its powers inward and focus upon the so-called progressives and leftists who are demanding socialism and communism in the nation. I’m disgusted that they are even permitted to stand in public and commit open treason by demanding the implementation of a socialist state for this nation.
We know good and damned well who they are and only a fool would consider their movements to be poorly structured and fledgling. We owe them nothing less than the ends that were enforced upon the failed regimes of Europe.
None of that multi-domain schtick is worth a tinker’s damn if what’s being defended is rotting from the inside and thus for most people becomes intolerable to live in. In the same way the Wehrmacht’s revolutionary combined-arms Blitzkrieg method was worthless because it was the spear point of a regime that made life under it intolerable for those under the regime commanding the Blitzkrieg. If all that the U.S. armed forces are doing is protecting the Open Border$ Globali$t $ellout Invade the World/Invite The World E$tabli$hment, then we taxpayers are just wasting our tax dollars to exacerbate the regime that increasingly $ell$ us out and, by multi-domain means, persecutes us. Which brings up a domain not covered in that propaganda video: the sxith domain – the domain of the intelligence agencies.
That point is that all of that multi-domain apparatus – including and especially the intelligence domain (conveniently omitted from that video, in case you hadn’t noticed) – is also being used by the $ellout E$tabli$hment Regime to deceive, manipulate, and dominate us, right here where we live. Part of that deception, manipulation, and domination is that propaganda video, which is aimed at persuading us to trust the military tool of the $ellout E$tali$hment Regime. Trust the military only if it serves not the regime, but serves instead the people whom the regime is ostensibly in place not to rule, but to govern for the benefit of the people.
Truly must we “disenthrall ourselves.”
“…the regime that increasingly $ell$ us out…”
=============
There it is, right before your very eyes.
Do you see it yet?
Or are you still keeping focus exclusively on the crybabies and other trash du jour ?
They’ve been stealing massively from us all our lives under threat of caging and death, and increasingly just flat out torture and then killing. THIS is the regime you choose every couple years. Some of the faces change each cycle but the regime itself just keeps getting worse and worse. To what end?
You can’t force change in others but you can modify yourself so that the effect of the regime is reduced, and you can stay out of it’s way as it stumbles forward but these things require dedication to a cause. YOUR cause. Spent any quality time with your conscience lately?
All I saw was a four star promoting himself.
This is quite pertinent to the political warfare going on right now. Unfortunately, even if I engage with understanding and graciousness with others of a different belief system , they still have the option to attempt to destroy me and my belief system, and in fact I am pretty sure they prefer that option. I think the only realistic response is to fight back, and not always like a gentleman.
Let’s rip the scab off the wound at look at it. Looks to me like a significant portion of the intel community and the judiciary at the senior levels, plus 95% of the media at all levels, have begun a war to nullify the portions of the American Constitution that they find blocking their way toward dominating and reshaping our society. They may have been conscripted by liberal politicians, but it seems like they have broken the leash, and now the politicians simply attempt to ride them like a child riding a tiger… hang on tight and let the tiger go where he wants and kill whatever he wants, because that’s the only way to don’t wind up as his lunch.
The weapon they have that we don’t is the media. It lets the tiger eat his fill of the gullible and disinterested.
OK, Ray Van Dune, I’ll play. Some of the comments above are pre-history and extra-historic, but you’re grokking that war is happening in the political arena right now.
I, myself, said when Trump came into office that he’d be well advised to disintegrate the CIA and some of the other alphabets. I don’t know why in the hell I’m not in charge of everything! Now, our “Deepthroat 2019” appears to be a CIA intel guy. I use the term “intel” advisedly. He or she didn’t know shit, and their analysis was specious in the extreme. But, the point is that the attacks happen. The left knows it’s a blunt object.
The center of gravity (back to grand strategy), what the German’s call the schwerpunkt, is the American public. The general in the video knows it’s the human realm, perception, that matters. I immediately went in my mind to the long op by the Marxists to turn our republic – it’s been going on since Marx was smoking cigars and scarfing fish in London. The wobblies, the hippies, the Antifa. Fucking dupes that don’t fool me for a second.
But, the general is identifying not the human element but the speed of operations acceleration regarding the human battlespace. Twitfer, Instagarm, de-facebook, etc, are the new battlespace. That is fascinating.
Don’t be fooled. The whole thing is still governed by basic principles set out by Jomini and von Clausewitz centuries ago. I was pleased to hear the general using the term “maneuver,” because it’s still critical. Clausewitz wanted officers to express an intellectual keenness that he called “presence of mind”. How does that effect you and me? The thinking patriotic American can outwit most libs any day of the week. Be advised, however, that the lib will act without thinking. He’s trying to become a wolf, but at this point in time he’s really more like a chihuahua. He’s a good ankle-biter, but not that good.
I have written off congress, with slow Pelosi, Schiff-forBrains, and the rest. They may write laws, but they in no way govern me. Any news article I see from the MSM I instantly handicap as being total baloney. A detail escapes here and there, but really it’s just their map of operations.
Hey, Gerard. That facebook picture as a panopticon is sweet. A reminder that the battlespace is shifting from the political class to a technocratic sort of oligarchy. Have you seen the mask-makers and camouflage artists who are creating face paint and identity-hiding garments?
We have almost lost on the element of Security, but we can still Surprise the living fuck out of them.
Keep your powder dry, my friends.
I speak missile, but not current. Olllllld missile; 40+ years ago.