Silent Running

Take a look at this youtube video of fighters in Ukraine. This guy suppressed his RPD for automatic fire! Thats a level of sophistication the average Soldier doesnt do. Who helped them with this?

Through the Looking Glass

This hits right in the feels.

Korea Smolders

It looks like the recent tensions in Korea have gotten even more tense. Amid negotiations, the North Korean Navy has put 70% of its submarines to sea and doubled the number of artillery units on the border with the DMZ.

This is worrisome to say the least. Its unlikely that it will develop into a shooting war, but as it continues to escalate, then the possibility is still there. And the longer the the stand off goes the higher the chance it will eventually turn into a shooting war.

UPDATE
Reports of Chinese troops moving to the North Korean border. This doesnt make any sense unless China would be throwing in North Korea. But why move reinforcements so far from Seoul? Is it to preserve them from the initial blood shedding and nukes? This bears watching.

Here I Am, Give Me Everything!

So I've been following the immigration crisis in Europe with my peripheral attention, but this morning something caught my eye. Immigrants that have been illegally sneaking into Greece organized a sit in and demanded papers and food.

    KOS, Greece (AP) — Fights broke out among migrants Tuesday on the Greek island of Kos, where overwhelmed authorities are struggling to contain increasing numbers of people arriving clandestinely on rubber dinghies from the nearby Turkish shore.

Hundreds of protesting migrants demanding quick registration began blocking the main coastal road in the island's main town, staging a sit-in.

"We want papers, we want to eat!" they chanted.

Hundreds of people arrive on Greece's eastern Aegean islands daily, many after fleeing conflict in Syria and Afghanistan. Authorities, locals and charity groups are struggling to provide registration, food and shelter to the new arrivals, many of whom are children.

Look at that quote for a second. "We want papers, we want to eat!" they chanted.

Think about that sense of entitlement. These people illegally snuck into the country and then have the audacity to demand immigration paperwork and a hot meal, and it better be right now! Never mind that the immigration authorities are completely overwhelmed. Never mind that they circumvented the legal and proper way to immigrate the country. They're here now and you better bend over backwards to accommodate them. 

I get that they are running from an active war zone. But to show up and start throwing demands around with no thanks for the people that are actually taking them in? Imagine in you walked into your neighbors house and demanded they stop what they were doing, fix you up a room and cook you a meal right now because you're living there now. I imagine it wouldn't go well.

Another thing about the article concerns me.

    Greece has been overwhelmed by the number of migrants arriving, with at least 124,000 people reaching the eastern islands in the first seven months of this year alone. The figure represents a staggering 750 percent increase over the same period last year, according to figures from the United Nations' refugee agency, the UNHCR.

In all, Greek police said Monday that 156,726 migrants had been arrested for entering or remaining in the country illegally from January through July 2015, compared to 32,070 for the same months in 2014.

HOLY FUCK those numbers. That's almost a 500% increase in one year of people moving into the country. And Greece is already a shithole. Where are these people supposed to get jobs from when the country is defaulting.

Its true that most of them are trying to push deeper into Europe to France and Germany but I guarantee you things aren't much better there.

Greece isn't the only entry nation having problems. Hungary is trying to build a fucking 100 mile long fence. And because they're succeeding immigration there has actually sped up as people try and get in before the fence is complete! The Hungarians are actually going to pull it off too. They're having the military set up the fence, but they are also using prison inmates and people on welfare to help construct it faster. That's the only part of the situation I actually like. They're giving unemployed people a job.

If we look at Hungary's immigration numbers, they are just as bad as Greece. Last year 43,000 people applied for asylum. So far this year 100,000 have applied and its only August. Officials have stated they expect to get 300,000 by the end of the year.

This massive wave of immigration is causing a dilemma for Europe. They have two options. 1. They go broke trying to support these people while adhering to their socialist ideologies and Europe plunges into chaos an becomes a Muslim state. 2. They become more conservative and authoritarian and start kicking these people out or making them work for a living. There is even a slim chance they over correct and go back to the European time honored tradition of putting people in camps.  

Russian Anti-American Sentiment

While this article in itself is pretty interesting, I found the comments section far more disturbing. I browse foreign nations news sources to get an understanding of world opinion for the United States, so that I can predict how other nations will act. The comments section for Russia Today is entirely Anti-American. That's not really a surprise. The surprise is to what degree. Actively calling for a nuclear war to show the US a lesson? That's terrifying if its a main stream view.

 

This kind of nationalism could explain Putin's soaring approval ratings.

1984

According to this study, the order in which Google search results post news articles for candidates can sway undecided voters. Because of how close elections are, half of American elections have come down to less than an 8% margin, this is terrifying. Not to mention that most elections are decided only in swing states. If Google decided to show only positive articles for their candidate, and negative articles for an opposing candidate, the majority of uneducated voters would be subtly guided to Google's will.


To make matters worse, in the 2010 election Facebook send a random message to 61 million users urging them to vote. 340,000 people voted who would otherwise have not. Seeing as how Facebook knows what you like and who you support, they could send that message to just one parties voters.


And to top it all off the researchers in the study actually tried it in India during an election, and it worked.

The Fire Spreads

Its been awhile since I've last posted. I was in the field for awhile and had to get back up to speed.


It appears that the conflict in Yemen has escalated with two Saudi Armored Brigades deploying to Yemen.




This is huge news and its not anywhere in the main stream media. The Saudis are not prepared to win a fight in Yemen. We have fought all of their battles for them for the past 2 decades. This has allowed them to look strong while in reality the Monarchy is weak. Yemen in going to be their version of Iraq.


If and when Saudi Arabia loses in Yemen it will destabilize the Monarchy and add to the chaos in the Middle East.