The General Discussion Thread

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Okay as an experiment here it is. Discuss your favourite generals here!

Well perhaps… Really this is simply the place to post news-items, fun-items or whatever takes your fancy. In short just post what you want here.

It’s just another wee experiment – comments welcome.

Squonk.

[Image: General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett (Stephen Fry)]

17,285 thoughts on “The General Discussion Thread

  1. There are two versions of that song and video Clark, but I think the one you watched was the one above.

  2. Habbabkuk, you can’t fix everything with combat. In fact, I think combat rarely fixes anything.

    The stimuli that lead to excessive suspicion are secrecy and deception. The remedies therefore are openness and honesty, which are achieved through accountability.

    I think you carry a lot of anger. So do I.

  3. ‘The remedies therefore are openness and honesty’

    seconded Clark.
    Don’t think this have any effect on our secretive interloper, its very likely that he is not in the employment of HMG anymore, because he could not cope with openness.

    Now he’s sowing dissent here, rather that in Murdochs rags who are full of spun and untruth gobshite on a daily basis.

  4. whats anonymity worth in a world of encryption, Clark, when you use it for purposes best described as Goebbels tactics, or best neocon protocol?

  5. I shall now go for an early one, have been on my feet since 5am and I have a stinking cold. Speak again Clark.

  6. Nevermind (aka Just)

    As I pointed out on CM, you’re a fine one to talk about Dr Goebbels.

  7. Famous quotes from John from Cincinnati,,,


    “The zeroes and ones make the Word in Cass’s camera. In the Word on the wall that hears my-Father-in-Cass’s-camera, the good one Mitch catches doesn’t wipe Cissy out. In the-Word-that-hears-my-Father, Cissy shows Butchie something else. In-my-Father’s-Word, Cissy shows Butchie in Shaun. In-my-Father’s-Word, Tina raises Shaun at lunch. In Cass’s-camera, Butchie lays the court out for Barry, and Mister Rollins watches, and he doesn’t come on Barry’s face. In Cass’s-camera, Butchie knows Kai kept the faith. In-my-Father’s-Word, the Wave lifts them up.”

    You have no idea the wisdom of this quote.

  8. Clark

    ” The stimuli that lead to excessive suspicion are secrecy and deception. The remedies therefore are openness and honesty, which are achieved through accountability.”

    i’m with Nevermind on that..Being hard to argue with…and kool wisdom 🙂

    I was trying to track down the makers of the Whale video.. seems they have been deliberately Very secretive in their work –

    ” Summary of eRummor:

    Many are wondering if a video showing a humpback whale hologram jumping through a gymnasium floor as students look on is real.

    The Truth:

    This is a promotional video for a tech startup that shows what type of technology they want to develop, not what they’re currently able to do.

    In other words, a hologram whale didn’t really jump through a gymnasium floor as amazed children looked on — the video was edited to showcase the technology the company, Magic Leap, hopes to develop.

    As of October 2015, Magic Leap was in “stealth mode.” The company had attracted high-profile investors like Google and Weta Workshop, the company that did special effects for “Lord of the Rings” and “Avatar.” Still, Magic Leap’s technology has been largely held under wraps, CNET reports:

    https://www.truthorfiction.com/video-shows-hologram-whale-jumping-in-gymnasium/

    Here’s another Magi Leap demo..Looks like the Whale technology could be only a short time away

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0-JRa9n94

    Nevermind hope the cold passes on soon.

  9. Ben

    Just shows that tracking NEO’s can be a tricky Task –

    observations of asteroid 2013 TX68 have been obtained, refining its orbital path and moving the date of the asteroid’s Earth flyby from March 5 to March (2016)..And they moved this one farther out too at about 3 million miles .. Still One of these days Eh ???

  10. BrianFujisan, 10:40 pm, thanks, just as I thought. The demo you just linked to is more honest because it doesn’t pretend that an audience are all seeing the same thing – each person viewing would need to wear miniature screens like spectacles, or direct-to-retina projectors, hooked up to a computer. For that demo, one screen could be placed in front of the camera lens. Some sort of focal adjustment would be necessary.

    But they’d still have real trouble getting the image of the cute floating robot to pass behind the table-leg.

    None of this has anything to do with holography.

  11. Of course, Habby, you poor troll, I have huge objections to disarming the IRA at any cost, as the massacre at the Hill of Stone on the Mull of Kintyre demonstrated which you hoped to get away with while I was occupied with the latest attempt by German and Mossad operators to get rid of me while on my way back to the States.

  12. And now the case against Real IRA member Seamus Daly has collapsed for those 29 innocents killed at Omagh four years later, the same number of innocents killed at the Mull.

    Only loonies in the Security Services could have believed that the Republicans had truly laid down their arms after their betrayal in the GFA.

  13. Trowbridge (12h18)

    What on earth are you going on about?

  14. I am going on about your loony claim that anything was justified in disarming the Provisionals which’Bob’ Evans aka William Perkins achieved by killing those 25 spooks from Northern Ireland like Ian Phoenix who wanted a peace which would persuade them to give up their armed conflict.

    Instead they were obliged by double agent’Steak Knife’ to turn in their arms, and agree to a dead end ceasefire without any remaining support within the UK establishment which colleagues would not abide to, as the Omagh bombing demonstrated.

    Its killers are still on the loose, as are the ones who pulled off the sabotage at the Mull.

  15. Ben, I can see your stick figure. It suffers a bit of displacement because WordPress strips out spaces. You can try the “code” tag. You know html tags?

    [less than symbol]code[greater than symbol]

    Text in here will be in monospace font like this
    where all characters are given the same width.
    Use dots to space things out...
    1....
    .1...
    ..1..
    ...1.
    ....1

    [less than symbol]/code[greater than symbol]

  16. BrianFujisan, wow, great meteor. I saw meteors lighting up the area like that during the 1999 Leonids. I was in a built-up area with street lights etc. One big meteor left a luminous trail that persisted for twenty minutes or so.

  17. Wow Clark..20 mins a trail, amazing.. best shower i seen was on a dark skies Island.. the August Perseides. … i found a great way of watching future showers, or just Gazing at stars 🙂

    http://www.bubblecabins.com/

  18. Thanks Clark.

    The trajectory looked straight down, Bri. I’m sure the angle of the camera made it appear so.

    Been reading about pre-Dilvuian cultures like Atlantis. Seems to be mounting archaeological evidence. What melted the glaciers so rapidly? Meteor showers?

  19. Hi Ben

    Interesting stuff Atlantis and Pre-diluvian Era…

    a while ago i read a Gripping Novel called ‘ Hunt For Atlantis ‘ by Andy McDermot, More recently i read ‘ THE TOMB OF HERCULES ‘ – Andy Mcdermot. Decent wee bit of escapism.. Like you Ben i had been feeling my eyes against the Computer light..

    interesting theory Re impacts for seemingly Rappid ( or was it ) Flooding

    I found the Carvings in Karnataka, India.. the river Shikri, to be very interesting –

    http://www.worldhindunews.com/2015/09/25/48419/dried-up-river-shikri-water-exposes-thousands-of-shiva-lingas/

    Fascinating Subject indeedio Cheers 🙂

  20. The best evidence that hardliners in the Security Service brought down the Chinook helicopter at the Hill of Stone on the Mull of Kintyre was it allowing former MI5 agent Anne Machon publish her most limited expose’ of its successes in Spies, Lies & Whistleblowers just when IRA bomb maker Sean McNulty was finally put away without even a mention of the crash, especially if the Republicans had done it.

    Of course, they all knew what they were doing, though, as there is a mention of the unsuccessful Saville Inquiry, like the Hutton one of Dr. Kelly’s Mossad kidon murder, of it, though no mention about what it was about. (p. 340)

    MI5 counts on allowing routine matters to be disclosed if it helps cover up its real excesses.

  21. Trowbridge

    “I am going on about your loony claim that anything was justified in disarming the Provisionals ”
    _________________

    Actually I claimed nothing of the sort.

    i was just asking you why you found the idea that the Provisional IRA should disarm such a bad one.

    Do you believe that they should not have disarmed (if indeed they have)?

  22. You said, Habby, that no one could object to the IRA being forced to disarm, implying that it was worth any cost, like MI5 killing those 25 spooks who wanted a peaceful solution to The Troubles.

    I always thought that the Republicans should have waited about turning in their arms until that happened, and they were no longer needed.

    And MI5’s Annie Machon made no mention of their sabotaged killing in her book which Lobster magazine claimed was undoubtedly the best ever book written about the Security Service.

    No wonder I never got anywhere with my work with Robin Ramsey’s rag.

  23. Habbabkuk, good. I’m doing quite well today thanks. It’s been a nice sunny day here in Essex. This morning I unblocked the drain outside the kitchen and cut quite a bit of firewood, using my new sawing horse which I completed yesterday. In the afternoon I did the laundry and got it all hung up to dry, and then went out and collected more firewood which I stacked, some in the shed, and some in the boiler cupboard so that it will dry out a bit before I cut it. The weather prophets say we have a few cold days of wind and rain or even snow coming, so I thought it’d get some wood ready, the stove is so much nicer than the central heating.

    I was very ill with ‘flu and a strained back in January and I got rather out of condition. It has been good to feel well enough to cut wood, and the exercise has made me feel even better. I carry logs home on my shoulders and cut them with a bow saw, which gives quite varied exercise. I can’t understand why so many people use a gymnasium, it seems such a boring, repetitive way to exercise. I’d much rather get out into the fresh air and do some useful physical work instead, or ride a real bicycle.

    I snagged the lead to my computer keyboard on Tuesday and broke it. I got another keyboard out but it’s some non-standard Spanish type and I can’t find the colon or the semicolon, which is most annoying.

    You been up to much?

  24. No I am not, Glenn, so thanks for informing me of it, though I have written a lot about the JFK plot, and the Rockefeller Commission’s cover up of Agency assassination attempts.

    In fact, the Commission asked me for my input about it all, and it must have included a report I wrote for Rep. Henry Gonzalez of Austin in anticipation of the House Committee inquiry into the murders of JFK and MLK, though I don’t recall it exactly now, as my former employer, Holy Cross College, destroyed my files after I took early retirement, and I had thought they were safe with the subsequent user of my office.

    The Commission ultimately concentrated on the Agency’s unsuccessful assassination attempts on foreign leaders rather than the successful ones it carried out at home.

    It was so successful that it continued them when crazy Ronnie stole the 1980 election with his assassination surprises which almost killed him.

  25. BrianFujisan, thanks for saying hello at Craig’s. I replied here because that whole argument with RobG was quite enough off-topic already, but someone has to counter his – well, they’re lies. He knows enough to know he’s blagging, so they’re lies.

    Squonk, thanks to you for chipping in. Same disclaimer.

  26. Atz Cool Clark

    I Saw you were active over at Craig’s but should have replied here.

    I was impressed , by all that near OutDoor living you were up too. Cutting the wood ect.. Superb, but glad you are able

    The techy Stuff is Almost Alien to me Chapies… I only tonight discovered that my DELETE option being missin in the Copy / paste box..Don’t mean i cant use the CUT button… .

    Heres to Nature…And Slowing of What do they call it..Progress

  27. Oh, Glenn, I forgot to mention the three-part series of articles in Tom Valentine’s The National Exchange in the spring of 1976 about the JFK assassination not being a Castro plot but the result of a domestic struggle between the President and Nixon, Connally, and the CIA, especially its DDP Richard Helms, and Director of Executive Action William King Harvey.

  28. Oh well at least the lights will be on for Christmas week!


    UK Year Ahead Electricity Generation Surplus/Deficit

    Might as well shut down Britain in November and start up again Spring 2017. Maybe three day working weeks can make a comeback.

  29. Whit…Maybe Monsanto can come up with a Hibernation Pill Thingy…And At the same time put Mr Gates Eugenics out of Business … Cos if many hibernate, they cant be AHEM.. otherwise Engaged… I here By Patent this Idea.. Gimme Time to invent the Pill .. 🙂

  30. And that’s the official National Grid data. I believe they are mandated by law to provide all that data to the public to prove that the national security of our electricity supply is safe in privatised hands… Oops.

    Hibernation pill sounds good to me 🙂

    Don’t mention Longannet!

  31. Clark

    Not up to much, just keeping my usual vigilant eye on the people commenting on CM.

    BTW, I notice you had an ongoing spat with RobG and Republicofscotland yesterday evening. You shouldn’t – just make a couple of accurate, pithy replies to put them in their place and leave it at that. They are essentially non-serious commenters and are just having fun leading you on by the nose; don’t give them the satisfaction.

    They are as fraudulent as the fantasist who calls himself “Lysias”.

    Stay well.

  32. Nice Music and Video Cheers Squonk…And Tony…they make such Soulful videos.

    My fave Massive Attack choon is ‘ Angel ‘ have a peek

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k

    P.s. I’ve consulted my Subterranean Friends for help with my new invention 🙂 –

    http://thespiritscience.net/2016/03/04/documents-leaked-by-edward-snowden-reveal-an-incredible-secret-buried-below-our-feet/

    PPS Stunning weather for a Drive… White Mountains Dazzling in sunlight…Catch yas later

  33. Habbabkuk, why do you bother with Craig’s? In my case it’s because I’m such a misfit, such a miserable failure that I’ve nothing else, and Craig’s is something I helped to contribute to and a place where I learned a lot. It helps me pass the time. But you seem to have a proper life, places to go and people to see. Why bother with a place of so little value?

  34. Space Weather Message Code: WARK06
    Serial Number: 322
    Issue Time: 2016 Mar 06 2032 UTC

    WARNING: Geomagnetic K-Index of 6 expected
    Valid From: 2016 Mar 06 2031 UTC
    Valid To: 2016 Mar 06 2359 UTC
    Warning Condition: Onset
    NOAA Scale: G2 – Moderate

    NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
    http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

    Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 55 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
    Induced Currents – Power grid fluctuations can occur. High-latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms.
    Spacecraft – Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible.
    Radio – HF (high frequency) radio propagation can fade at higher latitudes.
    Aurora – Aurora may be seen as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state.

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