I think the problem here is in the penultimate sentence Mickey used - " There are multiple more peaceful ways of dealing with North Korea. " The problem being that these more peaceful ways have allowed NK to go from a state without nuke to one with both ...
Whoooooa - do I detect a teeny tiny bit of sarc there
Sorry but I think the suggestion that Trump can read books is somewhat anomalous with his abilities as demonstrated to date. While I have no doubt he can read and even write using a pen (or at least sign his name - does he use a cross or actually write D ...
US military claims 36 "terrorists killed and the only imagery I could find was a very small B&W camera shot taken from above - not very enlightening - could have been anything.
I think with all the concentration on the type and effectiveness of the MOAB dropped, we seem to have forgotten two salient points the article provides. 1. Trumps used the MOAB for the first time - suggesting that this President has become very much ...
Is that what H6 is? - I couldn't find it anywhere. I assumed because it wasn't pure explosive like semtex or torpex or suchlike it was hybrid of some type. I also assumed that because there's really nothing man-made that can penetrate mountains, so used a ...
Come on Duke - what part of check, re-check and check again your facts did you not understand. There is a specific military definition of "Barrel Bomb" - for you to use the phrase indiscriminately is laziness at best - several other words at worst. You let...
Quite right Robert - look up wiki on disinformation and propaganda - their argument is a classic example of one such technique.
I think the answer lies in the slogan adopted by most organised protest groups as they've matured - "Think Global; Act Local". The exact same argument use in your italicised quote is the basis of the protest movement. Without protest and social movement ...
Yep - so did the Values Party of the 1975 election - my first vote as an adult.
Not really Duke - peterlepaysan wasn't specific about barrel bombs in ME - I was trying to point out that the use of explosive/Greek fire/incendiary devices has a long, long history, particularly in the ME - the Romans used them in their sieges, as did the...
Not entirely right HI, the think big projects were started under - shock horror - Norm Kirk who wanted to extend NZ independence from imports by further developing our own control of our resources - especially oil and steel. Muldoon just extended this ...
There seems to be a lot of this in Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" - he basically said that human (in 1777 I think he had a fairly narrow definition of human) community involvement and happiness depended on a balance between individuals ...
Congrats Weka - I'm pleased as an old man to see the torch has indeed been passed successfully to the next generation. For us old vets of PYM and CND who seem to have failed when it came to stopping the "Great Economic Experiment" it's heartening to see ...
Sorry Duke my friend, but the first use of explosives in the ME goes back quite a few centuries before that - try the Crusades - or even the Romans in 70CE
For precise definitions of "Barrel Bomb", "MOAB", 'Bunker-buster Bombs" see Wikipedia - note the quantity and type of explosive used (check the type at wiki too to see what it does). Yes you're basically right that a bomb is a bomb - so firecrackers fall ...
Worse - $314m!!!!
Wrong BM - thermobaric is designed to fill tunnels with incendiary gas which is ignited by the very small explosive charge, thus removing all oxygen from the enclosed space and burning anything organic left behind. A particularly gruesome weapon!! A so-...
One small point of order here ropata - I mention this because here is a classic example of relying on suspect tweets. "So after 9 years we just pushed a 22600 lb MOAB off the tailgate into A'stan:- Why now?- What was the objective?- Why is it orange?. pic....
Not quite the most powerful non-nuclear weapon: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast Only 18700 lbs of H6 c/f British Grand Slam - 22000 lbs of Torpex D1: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb) Reported the ...
Yeah - add my apologies for going off the deep end too. Still even if it was sarc - it was certainly an excellent chain yank - got me going. Nice one
Yeah - I think you hit the proverbial nail on its nut there - I notice the USA stuffed all their old chemicals on Johnson Atoll and like the UK keep a tiny stock pile at their research centre. I though they did a pretty thorough search for Iraqi Chemicals ...
Yeah I think you've hit the problem I'm having with my cheap new laptop running on Windows 10 - I opted for US English and am stuck with their spelling and grammar quirks. Can't figure out how to get UK English as it does appear on the options - so I'm ...
Quite correct Draco. Most economists today - if not all - especially those adopting the Chicago School model - follow the Adam Smith WON model as it has been twisted by Milton Friedman in Free to Choose. I have a close relative who has a BCom after ...
... primes - and to be very skeptical of URLs. There's a fairly...
"no climate change" - oh really? - Why is it then that out of the roughly 1.2 scientist involved with oceanography. climatology, atmospherics etc, etc and so on, about 98% have convincing and unequivocal proof that Earth's climate is changing rapidly and ...
Okay - point taken about off topic. In explanation, you'll see from most of my comments on other matters, I'm way left of centre, but - and it's a big but - in matters of International Relations, I defer to my tutors at Varsity. International Relations are...
Here's another stat for you Gosman. Prior to 1991 - the year the Employment Contracts Act was rammed through by your mates, NZ had the highest per capita rate of voluntary sector workers - by voluntary I mean everything from social services, church support...
Correct again Duke - the reports of US military support for the Rebels who were getting creamed by Assad's military in the early days - before ISIS got going - under the Obama administration are well documented. As is the lies perpetrated by the Bush ...
Spoken like a true ACT Party member - get off this website you right wing troll!!
Grew up in NZ welfare state sonny!!! - saw it dismantled by greedy bastards - same pricks who are in power at the moment. Am doing my bit to put something back so my grand kids have some semblance of a chance. = What's your excuse for undermining the ...
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