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I can recall reading about one instance where, when the surrender news and Allied troops reached the POW camps, and the Japanese turned in their weapons - in one of the Burma Railway POW camps, several of the freed Australian POW's turned on one particularly vicious Japanese Korean guard after he was disarmed, and beat him to death before Allied soldiers could step in. You won't find the event in official records. Some of them lived only a little longer, just to go through the Allied military courts, and then be executed for War Crimes. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C195468 However, it appears the Koreans claimed they were forced into the positions as Japanese guards, they were not officially Japanese soldiers, and they were only obeying strict Japanese military orders. The Koreans under the Japanese really were in an invidious position. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/08/18/reference/special-presentations/spared-korean-war-criminal-pursues-redress/

Word is out that the French are going to deliver some new high-tech Kamikaze drones to the Ukrainians over the next few weeks, and these drones have the ability to take out more of the Black Sea fleet. https://dronexl.co/2024/02/18/france-support-ukraine-kamikaze-drones/

He claims he's a self-made man, but it's been proven he got over $400M given to him by his father, Fred.

At least, it's better than being named Ho Lee Fuk.

And either one of them could drop dead at any moment - and if that happened, it would alter the entire scenario to something that no-one has even conjectured about yet.

I can recall the last military punch-up between the Norks and the South Koreans. The Nork Army was found to be seriously wanting in organisation and response, despite organising some artillery. Few people in the West really understand how much most South Koreans really hate the Norks, and are prepared to launch a full-scale attack on them, and drive them into the ocean - with the RoK troops in particular itching to lay into them. The RoK has one of the largest and best equipped standing armies in the world, with 500,000 full time soldiers and 3.1M reserves, who will become full timers in short order in the event of any attack. That's 3 times the size of the Norks full time soldiers and reservists. Russia is not in any position to hand out aid or supply large numbers of troops to the Norks. Little Fat Wun is all bluff and bluster, and works on the basis that Big Brother China will come to their aid rapidly, if they're attacked. But the Chinese may step in and simply disarm the Norks and take over, if it looks like the South is getting too close to their border. The Chinese will be watching the Ukraine show with some concern, and the fact that the same large number of countries that are backing Ukraine, will come to back up South Korea, quite likely concerns them greatly.

Interestingly, I note that Christmas Island (an Australian Territory administered by W.A.) has had only half its annual rainfall in the last 12 months, and only 25% of its normal wet season rainfall. This is the ninth-driest year in the Islands weather records, which only go back 50 years. There have been some bad droughts on Christmas Island before, one of which actually caused the cessation of the phosphate mining there. This year, the drought has affected the red crab migration, and delayed it by 3 to 4 months. The crabs normally migrate from the interior to the Indian Ocean to breed in October and November, but they've only just started their migration, and there's concerns this late migration may result in a higher level of crab mortalities. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-20/dry-weather-delays-christmas-island-crab-migration/103487576

Nev, you're on a different level. We started discussing the Russian helicopter pilot who defected to the Ukraine, and who went to live in Spain. His carcass was found riddled with 12 rounds and the Spanish Police initially thought it was a local gangster hit - until they found out the ID of the victim. To everyone else, it appears the Russians tracked the defector down and eliminated him - but the Russians claim it's all fake news. The discussion about Navalny was some way back, but Peter has brought it forward again.

Strapping - Trapping - Rapping - Raping - Aping - Ping - Pin - In - I.

They won't do that, because it leaves the Kremlin admitting they kill people who oppose them - and they'd never do anything like that, they're such nice people!

I need to ask all these gun-fondlers how well their "armed patriot" ideas worked out, for the "Posse Comitatus", "Montana Freemen", "Christian Patriots", and "Sovereign Citizen" shootouts - or even the David Koresh mob. Seems like they're on a losing wicket every time they encounter law enforcement, but they'll never admit to that - just as long as they've got their guns, they're FREE MEN!! These are some of the most dangerous terrorists the Western world has ever seen, Islamic terrorists have got nothing on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement

We've been going to the beach in the early mornings to get away from the constant heat. We leave about 5:30AM, and get there about 6:15AM, it's 20kms, and we have to almost go into the city and out the other side. But thanks to the Farmer Freeway Tunnel, we get a good run through, without too many lights or holdups - and going early beats the morning peak hour traffic rush. Here's 3 shots of City Beach as we arrived at 6:15AM this morning, the Indian Ocean was like a millpond, and there was just a slight breeze, about 7kmh from the North. It was 30°C at 6:15AM at the beach, and there were only a relatively small amount of people on the beach and oceanfront. Yesterday was busier, but I think yesterday might have been an RDO for a lot of people. It was much windier yesterday also, with a 25-30kmh hot Easterly blowing. We usually leave after about an hour, so we only just start to run into peak hour traffic on the way home - but fortunately, we're running against it, after we go through the Tunnel.

No, you're not allowed to have your own private army or an ICBM, or even a working tank. The gun fondlers know this, and happily accept those laws. But if you have the "right" to own a gun, you can get an AR-15, and take on the whole U.S. Govt and its military forces, and take them down, and win.

You've got the news all wrong about the defected Russian helicopter pilot. The Russians say his death was staged by the Ukrainians, so he could truly disappear without trace. So now we know the truth, it was all an elaborate setup.

Lilith was actually a succubus. Now you'll be heading straight off to Google it.

Is there an echo of OME in here??

After reading the Washington Post article and seeing the level of local opposition to the drone factory in their midst - as well as the teenage schoolkids being forced to work in the place - it makes me wonder if some local set it on fire, rather than any Ukrainian commandos.

I'd know that face anywhere - Woody Allen.

But there was no "religion" in the Garden of Eden. Religious groups are a man-made thing.

NOAA is saying we might get a bit of moisture within the next 7 days, but I can't see anything by way of moisture for the next 3 weeks. The cold fronts aren't reaching us, and no moisture is coming down from the NW in upper level cloud masses. The magpies and a heap of other birds were in the front yard this morning with their wings drooping and beaks open. Poor buggers are doing it tough, it's like an oven out there. We've got birdbaths back and front and keep them full and the birds are using them aplenty. There's a lot of street trees ready to die, they're nearly all Qld Box, and they can't stand extended dry spells. The last rain we had was 6mm on the 3rd Oct 2023, and even September rainfall was well below average. I cannot ever remember a Spring and Summer so hot and so dry, for so long. https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/models/rainfallchart.jsp?lt=wzcountry&lc=aus&mh=168

It's the letters containing the white powders that are the ones they get really jittery about.......

Once again, that terrible affliction of mysterious fires has again affected Russia. A former shopping mall in Russia, at Izhevsk, had been turned over to Granat-4 drone production. But during the night a very destructive fire started, and caused enormous damage to the facility. Of course, the Russian media claimed the mall only produced detergents and disinfectants. https://news.yahoo.com/alleged-drone-factory-catches-fire-131024557.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/26/russia-izhevsk-drone-mall/

I find this current extreme heatwave to be very puzzling. Normally with any heatwave we get, it doesn't take long for a big thunderstorm to build up, and we get fireworks and some rain. But there's been an extensive cloud mass moving in over Southern W.A. over the last couple of days, from the central Indian Ocean - and to us on the ground, the sky is overcast, it looks like a massive thunderstorm is brewing up - but we haven't had a single drop of rain anywhere in Southern W.A. I would have thought the cloud mass moving in from the Indian Ocean would've brought some worthwhile moisture with it - but it hasn't, and this has me truly puzzled.

Strangely enough, despite the ferocious heat, we've had little by way of fires. I put that down to the fact it's too hot even for the firebugs/arsonists to get out and about.

And Geraldtons maximum temperature today was 49.3° - an all time record for the town - and the weather records for the place go back to 1877! http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml#CW