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  1. Israel for starters - over the last decade (that we know about): In Jan 2010, nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi stepped out of his Tehran home. A parked motorcycle exploded via remote detonation, killing him instantly. Mossad spent months meticulously planning this In Nov 2010, Mossad agents on motorcycles attached a magnet bomb to Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari's car door in Tehran. It detonated seconds later, killing him. Shahriari's death severely impacted Iran's nuclear development timeline. Stuxnet - In Operation Olympic Games, Israel (with US cooperation) deployed the Stuxnet virus into Natanz nuclear facility. Over 1,000 centrifuges were destroyed by spinning uncontrollably. Iran's uranium enrichment was set back by several years. Supply Chain disruptions - Mossad agents systematically sabotaged Iran's nuclear supply chains in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East covertly inserting faulty components into critical nuclear equipment. Machines broke unpredictably, delaying progress significantly. 2018, Mossad stole over 55,000 pages of Iran's secret nuclear archives from a heavily guarded Tehran warehouse exposing the regime's nuclear ambitions and humiliating Iran's security apparatus publicly. Natanz Explosion in July '20 and then the Karaj Facility attack in July '21 - both widely attributed to the Israeli's.
  2. So it's MK-Ultra....
  3. Surly motto?
  4. If you get the drink package - which I highly recommend if you plan on drinking, it's fine. We'd get buckets of beer to take back to the chairs. You can order multiple drinks as well. So you can feed the kids as many as you feel is warranted. Nobody cares once you are away from the bar.
  5. The quality of the experience depends upon the price point of the cruise, your destinations, and often where you depart from. Best option would be a Med cruise. Greece, Italy, etc. If domestic, and we've done a few. It's a booze cruise - even at the nicer price points. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's anything else. Alaskan cruises are fine, but it's a much smaller boat that can get much closer to shore than the bigger ones. Probably the "best" (relative term) was a bunch of families together that hit Belize, Roatan, and The Bahamas. Royal Caribbean, I think? We booked a day pass at Atlantis in the Bahamas, ran into a friend from the neighborhood (not on the cruise) who had a bottle of Patron in his cabana. We hung with them all day. Little French Keys in Roatan is a blast. Older kids would like it. Belize is Belize. Zip lining, etc. I did enjoy having a deck cabin, so I had a little balcony to sit out on at night, listen to the waves, smoke a cigar, and finish whatever bottle I was working on. Kids had their own room. Cruises are a giant caricature. Don't take yourself too seriously, have fun, and they aren't awful. I's get up each morning, go work out then eat, bring coffee back to the room, and we'd hit the sundeck and start day-drinking.
  6. Giant, lumbering targets carrying large masses of soldiers over a straight that has TWO monsoon seasons. Have fun with that. Then you park that giant hunk of crap on the dunes and reefs that have been bracketed for decades with every piece of ordinance Taiwan owns. No way. These aren't siege towers from LOTR (which is what they remind me of) China's only chance is sabotage from within - Israeli style. They have to both secure the plants, AND more importantly, the select few people that know how to run them. 90% of all the advanced chips going into virtually every modern weapons system has chips in them from Taiwan.
  7. I'm sure they do, but they are spinning up a dozen or so coal plants weekly - cheaper to import oil than produce domestically.
  8. Time to reinvest in old fashioned humint
  9. Kharg Island is Iran's main export terminal. Iran/China really want to FAFO, that island is an easy, easy target.
  10. For the longest time Russia had the most ships. They were shit ships, but they had more of them. Further, China doesn't have the "right" ships to take Taiwan. Taiwan is over a 100 miles away and the straight between them is supposedly very treacherous water. They don't have a way to transport enough troops, get them over the barrier reefs, and into the handful of ports that can sustain such numbers. They don't really have any amphibious capability that can make that 100+ mile straight intact - all the while Taiwanese defenses have been prepping for them for decades. Then if they do, Taiwan just blows up the prize - the chip plants that need to stay intact to support global demand.
  11. Bottom left. Both GSP's are dialed in on whomever is taking the pic. Such great dogs. Then you have pedo-bob on the lower right wondering where his life went wrong.
  12. Didn't last very long. They occupied a few cities, but the outnumbered Vietnamese fought things to a standstill. No naval or air power was used. China's aggression in Vietnam and in Korea was limited to large amounts of infantry thrown into the meat-grinder. What China has shown no capability to do is combined military operations. I'm sure they train on it, but they have no history of efficacy.
  13. No - which is why this notion that they could attack, invade, and occupy Taiwan is problematic on so many levels.
  14. Arrows and knives providing an instant fatality.
  15. Originally I was worried about suicide. Hasn't seen any details on how they found her, specifics, etc.
  16. Also: endless magazines that never need reloading sparking bullets on impact grenades exploding like a 55g barrel of gasoline, throwing people across rooms, etc. shotguns blowing people through windows
  17. Tell me if this passes the smell test: Toyota of Plano So it was a cool grand to fix the wiring harness for the fuel injectors. I paid it. The only other item on the work order was a coolant hose they suggested be replaced. Two things on the work order. Pick up the truck, no error codes, seems fine. The NEXT day the check engine light comes back on so I take it to have the codes checked: P2401 P043E P043F P2402 P2419 All tied to the EVAP system. Replacing the leak detection pump module. The dealership also replaced the fuel pump (recall). I take it back to them and my point being you did all this work with the fuel system, now the EVAP codes are throwing, did the tech mess anything up when installing both new items? Their story is the codes were throwing at the original servicing inspection, but they "forgot" to include the work in the work order and now want another $1,300 for the EVAP system. The timing doesn't add up to me, and I have NEVER had a dealership just forget to add any and everything the vehicle should have work done on. I called corporate, told them my story, dealership called back and still claimed it was an oversight, and offered to shave a few hundred off the bill. From what I have read it's not uncommon when dealing with the fuel system that the sensitive EVAP system can be damaged. Any truth to this? So are my options to get a second opinion? How could they determine if installation issues cause the EVAP failure, or am I the one in a million customer they just forgot to add an expensive solution to the work order?
  18. Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq say hello.... "War is a racket" Smedley D. Butler, 1935
  19. Widowmaker....
  20. 55 is too damn young, they need to be a little more forthcoming on how/why she passed?
  21. FUCK! Loved watching her.
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