I will be writing a separate piece on the likely end of the Joe Biden President. For now I want to present something that my old friend, Command Paul Evancoe USN(RET), wrote last March. Paul was an exceptional Navy SEAL and is an extraordinary man. Now, Here is Paul:
Nearly everything we read about Russia’s invasion into Ukraine mentions their use of thermobaric weapons. Of course, the media does not explain what that means. So – here’s a quick, concise summary that will allow you to sound like a genuine expert.
The thermobaric weapon, also known as a fuel air explosive (FAE), is a two-stage munition. The first-stage charge creates an aerosol cloud above the target made up of very fine material – from a highly volatile carbon-based fuel (butane, propane, etc) that may also include micron-size metal particles (magnesium, aluminum, etc.) as a booster/intensifier. Once the cloud is formed and has adequate time (we’re talking micro seconds) to mix with the surrounding air (so it can oxygenate), a second charge known as a detonating charge (more than one may be used depending upon the design and size of the weapon) is projected into the center of the cloud, detonating it. The ensuing detonation creates a very lethal massive explosion with a huge overpressure shock wave that is instaniously followed by a vacuum that sucks all surrounding oxygen (air) away from the target area. This is followed by a second shock wave – actually a thunder clap as the air rushes back in to fill the vacuum void. The blast wave lasts significantly longer than a conventional explosive because of it lower velocity of detonation. Along with the searing heat it creates, it is capable of instantly vaporizing human bodies within its blast radius.
Such weapons are used for a variety of purposes and come in a range of sizes. Extremely large, air-dropped versions are designed to destroy caves and tunnel complexes. The U.S. first used them in the Vietnam War along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to stop the delivery of arms and troops from the north to the south and to flatten jungle areas for use as helicopter landing zones. The US also relied on them to eliminate al-Qaida hiding in mountain caves in Afghanistan. Russia is now using them in a “bunker-buster” role to destroy defensive positions in Ukraine.
The major detractor in their use is that they are far from surgical. When used in an urban area, house flattening, lung embolisms, broken ear drums, etc. collateral damage is unavoidable. I hope this helps with your understanding.
Speaking of great guys, I was honored to be the first live guest on The Duran in 2023. Sitting down for a chat with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris is always a scintillating experience. I apologize for some of the glitches in the broadcast. I have the highest possible speed for my router, but seem to have problems with Streamyard. (If anyone has any ideas how to solve this problem let me know).
Larry:
The issue is your router. Reset it with a paperclip and reboot a few hours before your next appearance.
Good suggestion. Will do.
That’s terrible advice! Unless you are using all default settings from the factory, a reset will clear all your custom settings and leave you calling the provider to help sort it out. DO NOT reset the router with a paperclip or any other prodding implement.
A simple reboot (turning it off and on again) will more than likely not hurt settings and is the most I would advise just to see if it helps.
Beyond that there’s so many variables that you really need to do tests in situ to figure out bottlenecks in performance.
Actually, router on/off won’t do much in the way of a reset. The probable causes of the bottleneck will remain in memory if the router is simply turned off/on.
The best approach is to turn the router off, disconnect it from an electrical source for ~5 minutes (3 will probably do the trick, but a bit longer is a sure thing), then reconnect to the electrical outlet and turn it back on.
Disconnecting the router from the electrical source will clear all residual RAM and stored hardware info the router might keep around. Generally, hardware like this keep the information around using micro-feeds of electricity in order to reboot and restart a bit more quickly, so rebooting the router will likely take a bit longer.
In any event, simple on/off won’t likely do much and isn’t a good troubleshooting technique. Disconnecting from the power supply so the hardware caches and RAM are all cleared is a better move, because if the network issues persist after taking those measures you’ll know that it’s some sort of glitch in either the machinery or the configuration (or, less likely, a server-side issue with your ISP).
Sounds like someone who really does know what to do. Hope this helps Larry.
This is complete nonsense. When the router is restarted it will reinitialize memory like any other computer. Please do not spread this kind of nonsense.
Router on/off often works, usually in connection with the DHCP server.
My tip would be to make sure you are connecting with a UTP cable instead of WiFi … significantly faster and more stable connection, no signal distortion, interference, etc.
I am a network engineer. Yes, there are so many variables that could be contributing to problems you experienced (yes, I was watching via Rumble).
However, Webej is correct in that I would first certainly avoid using WiFi as your connection to your network. Rather, using a Cat5 (or 6) cable will at least provide you with a much faster and cleaner network connection.
The second aspect (from a networking perspective) could be the Internet path may not support (all of the time), a real time audio/video feed. I think this is less likely but it is possible.
Third, the most likely culpret is in the configuration/settings for the application and/or the codec used not being correct for the end-to-end transmission of the audio/video stream.
Router on/off often works, usually in connection with the embedded DHCP server.
My tip would be to make sure you are connecting with a UTP cable instead of WiFi … significantly faster and more stable connection, no signal attenuation, distortion, interference, etc.
The end device (Window PC most likely) often is the problem and not the network itself, and I do agree with your overall assessment. I told Larry it could be the power settings in his Windows PC as power saving mode can wreak havoc on live streams as I found out personally with my HP laptop after many weeks of intermittent failures on Zoom calls.
I was watching one of your interviews on Youtube and a couple of people thought it might be that other wireless devices in the house were downloading updates from your internet connection. They suggested turning them off, (maybe airplane mode for your cell in case they can still download turned off.)
Using the UTP, (I think they are also call ethernet), cable is a good idea, too.
Stuff like that gets it to factory settings and is not the first thing to do. Check out the list of some other things to do before that, in a yesterday’s post.
Before resetting the router with the paper clip, I would recommend backing up the router’s configuration first. Check the router’s documentation on how to proceed. That way you will have the original settings on hand if the new configuration setup does not solve or makes the connection less stable.
Some routers may need a firmware update to stop poor performance. Go to the manufacturer’s site and see if there is a newer firmware version available. First save the existing configuration and flash the router with the latest firmware. I always use a UPS (uninterrupted power supply) when flashing as a power failure can lead to bricking the router. Some routers can do this automatically through their administrative interface.
Wireless can be interfered with other signals from the neighborhood. It is best to use an Ethernet Cat 5e or 6 cable of correct length (do not go over 300 feet in total length) with gigabit connectivity will provide the best throughput one can use on a gigabit rated router.
If one has to use wireless try using a different channel on the router’s radio. Some channels can be very polluted with interference from the surrounding environment.
Thanks. Attaching directly with an Ethernet cable is not possible. It is a WiFi connection.
if you sit far from your router and have multiple walls in between, it may make sense to add some WiFi repeaters or ideally a full mesh system like some ASUS AiMesh devices (personally I also had WiFi connectivity issues in far rooms until I switched to a ROG Rapture AX11000 router – which resolved them all instantly).
another alternative is to use powerline LAN adapters, there’s tons of those at Walmart or Amazon, see https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g35470087/top-powerline-adapters/ etc.
Thanks. Yes, I’ve added a repeater.
Larry – Wireless is the most hostile form of communications and requires forward error correction bits that consumes more bandwidth than an Ethernet connection via cable. I was a project manager on a number of wireless pilot programs in a Fortune 200 company to make sure the hardware/software would not disrupt the production network. My home router is in the master bedroom and I run a 50-foot CAT-5 cable from router and down the hallway to my computers in the living room. Once a month, I unplug the router for five minutes and plug it back in. That is the advice I received from network engineers on my team and it works for most routers. Resetting the router with a paperclip is not necessary. Best Regards and thanks for sharing your insights into the conflict in Ukraine which will alter history in this century.
Hi Larry,
You should check your internet speed. There are several links to do that. Here is one: https://fast.com/. Compare the result to your ISP plan. As long as you are close to your plan rate then you can rule out modem/router issues. If it passes the test then you will need to troubleshoot your audio/visual setup. Coincidentally, my ISP had to send over a tech to clear an outside plant issue today. Ended up replacing a large section of cable. Not something that you would expect to fail. BTW, any rate over 100 Meg will provide more than enough bandwidth.
I have grown to like Alex’s presentation. Kind of quirky like Andrei Martanov’s. Adds a human element to the discussion.
After thinking about it some more I feel pretty confident that the issue is with your A/V application. While I have no real experience with them I think that there should be an option to change its bandwidth allocation. Also, at my previous job when we went to voice over IP the older PC’s that we had were causing degraded sound quality. It may help to close down other applications when you are running the A/V app. You may need to add additional memory to your PC. Thoughts from a telecom guy.
Larry, Which of these technical solutions suggestions, if any, is the trolling advice designed to keep you off the “air” and which is the real advice? Just as confused as you are…
I don’t really see any of the suggestions as being “trolling” as none of what I read would take Larry off line for any significant amount of time. The problem with the advise is that it assumes knowledge of what the problem is without doing empirical testing. There are two components at work transport and access. If you have a degraded transport path then a speed ping test will detect it. If the transport path is good then it is an end device access issue.
If it is an end devise issue then several things can cause this. If inadequate RAM is causing excess hard drive read/write activity then this can degrade the application. A/V can consume a lot of bandwidth and an A/V application most likely lets you adjust this. I suspect that Larry just needs to increase the allocated bandwidth.
As far as the arguments to use CAT5 instead of wireless this is more of a latency issue. CAT 5 will have lower latency due to a simpler signal path. Both options will provide similar BW. We are seeing evidence of inadequate bandwidth not excessive delay. One possible advantage to a hard wired router is that it will reduce your exposure to RF. That is the only advantage that I see and it requires the equipment to be colocated with the router. Sorry for the long winded response but trouble shooting telecom issues is my stock and trade.
Agreed on all points. I suggested it could easily be the end device (Windows PC) and its power settings. I’ve been a telecom engineer for my whole career and done a lot of troubleshooting. But one that drove me crazy was my own PC locking up once in a while on Zoom. Long story short, the HP laptop was known to have intermittent issues with anything other than “full power” settings in MS Windows and when I got rid of my power saving plan all the intermittent problems disappeared. We both know it’s a needle in a haystack type of problem.
Great chat on Duran.
So FAA glitch with NOTAMs put everything on the ground the other day. The same time that the USAF put upwards of 52 tanker aircraft up over the US (way, way more than normal). Some are pointing to a hacking attack (as with Southwest) but I’m not so sure.
Good chance those tankers were up for a very good reason, to refuel fighters. The response with military hardware over the homeland was out of proportion to any cyber attack.
So come on Eggheads and spooks, what spooked the US?
I see even NOTAMs have gone woke. When I was flying it was “Notice To Airmen”. Now it’s “Notice To Air Missions”. No sweat, keeps the girls happy.
Don’t get me going. It was about as predictable as a FAA review of Boeing.
Almost became NOBALs was the story I was told.
Excellent discussion – the kind you can’t hear almost anywhere else. Great job Alexes and LJ. Thank you.
I regret that the London protagonist did not let you lose to get your take on the Wagner. He often hogs the airtime.
No. Not fair. Alex M is a great partner in these broadcasts.
It’s his air time, yes?
Yep but he’s still a hog – in love with his own voice and ideas – repetitious.
agreed. I lost patience when he said “I find it appalling (or words to that effect) that ANYBODY AS STUPID AS DONALD TRUMP COULD EVER HAVE BEEN POTUS”.
This suggests that he overlooks entirely the moral-courage aspect of anybody who finds themselves in positions of authority and power; that it may be relatively easy to grasp what needs to be done, but immensely more difficult to sustain the courage and the force of character to make sure it does get done. In other words, a weak man who doesn’t even understand what it means to be a strong man.
We are observing a time when moral-courage is almost entirely lacking in our intelligentsia, which is why we should cherish those– like Doug MacGregor, Scott Ritter and Robert Malone–who have shown it
Nah, I like Mercouris. Early on, I though he sounded a bit like William Buckley but aside from that, he’s got some very good insights and they roll off his tongue in good tempo when he’s not running solo. Plus, he’s courteous enough to stop and yield the floor often enough. When he’s running solo though, he tends to hesitate and repeat/correct/amplify himself constantly while trying to get the exact wording, which is a bit laborious on the ears. It lets you leap ahead on his topic and then wait for him to catch up. Why he doesn’t do that when he’s with company, well – who knows. Then he sometimes drifts off a bit into speculative minutiae and that’s interesting in itself, but it interrupts the rhythm of the core issue.
Those transmission problems with Larry though make him tougher to follow, which puts him at a disadvantage in holding the floor. Lots of good tips here. I’d try them all & go by process of elimination. I’d do regular speed tests, then have my ISP tech check for probs at his end. If the router has a direct, short path to the desktop, I wouldn’t hesitate to hardwire it, most high end wifi routers have ethernet ports. Easy & cheap. Cutting power 5-10 minutes for reset, def. a do. Upgrade the router? Upgrade the service? Older house coax? connectors? Pump the ISP tech for solutions? That’d be my amateur’s shotgun approach anyway.
Another thing that drives me crazy in general, sound quality (not nec. with Larry but with others.) It’s amazing what a few bucks invested in a good microphone will do and how often people just don’t bother. Looks like Berletic went whole hog studio on that front. Smart move.
Sorry for the long wind.
I have grown to like Alex’s presentation. Kind of quirky like Andrei Martanov’s. Adds a human element to the discussion.
Previously unpublished footage of the work of TOS-1A “Solntsepek” in the vicinity of Novomikhailovka
At the time of recording, the settlement was under control of 72nd and 79th Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists have located their strongholds in private sector houses in the south-east of the village. To knock out enemy, Allied forces use heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A “Solntsepek”.
The video shows a volley fire of 220 mm unguided rockets equipped with thermobaric warheads. 24 missiles are capable of hitting the location of enemy personnel and equipment with an area of several tens of thousands of square meters, as well as destroying dugout infrastructure. Impressive!
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/28536
And a no less impressive text from Alastair Crook this week in Strategic Culture:
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/01/09/us-strategic-aim-break-and-dismember-russia-or-maintain-us-dollar-hegemony-or-muddled-both/
If you are watching those videos, note how dust and debris rises from buildings hit by only the pressure wave.
Impressive. The wave looks almost nuclear. And I also saw the appearance of the bodies. Imagine inside a cave… It’s literally the most terrible end of the world anyone can imagine on the battlefield! It only has the advantage of being very fast!
Indeed it looks horrible and is, frankly, a diabolical invention, BUT we all have to go sometime, somewhere, somehow. I’m holding out for an FDR-style massive cerebral hommorhage (sp?), there one minute gone the next and only a “terrific headache”. But nuclear bomb or this thing and probably no pain at all. Yeah I could dig that.
Sorry, I wasnt able to get past the shock wave .. WOW! A large version of one of these things looks to be halfway between a conventional dumb bomb and a small tactical nuke
The TOS-1A Rocket System has no equivalent in “western” militaries. It is a Short-Range, Direct-Fire Weapon that puts a Lot more Explosive on a Target than any other MLRS System. Unlike with regular Artillery Rounds, most “Bombproof” Bunkers are vulnerable to the Heat and Suffocating Effects of the Thermobaric Explosive. But it’s exactly the kind of Inexpensive, Simple, Effective Weapons System that the War Pigs in the ‘military-industrial complex’ Absolutely, Positively, Cannot allow the FUSSA Army to have…
Thanks Paul for the link to Crook. He looks like a promising addition to my Politics bookmark.
Welcome! An excellent political economic analyst who would make an excellent Minister of Foreign Affairs in any decent Western country. Which perhaps does not exist and he married himself and left the West completely disillusioned. Former MI6 who has also practically filled Borrell’s place as a consultant in the EU. It says well how the world has changed to get here, with the EU challenging the two main pillars of all European growth in recent decades, Russian energy and trade with China. According to Borrell himself – the height of imbecility in Europe today. Only surpassed by the corrupt Van der Leyen!
But in terms of North American reality, I left here two days ago, in a post already at the end of its life, Patruchev’s interview – very rare – which despite not saying anything new, which I myself have already written here, such as the fact that the President of the US is nothing more than a waiter of the real power. Otherwise how could the US have a completely senile President? I think it’s always worth reading very carefully because it just proves that the knowledge of Russia in the West is completely proportional to our lack of knowledge of Russia!!! As the failure of economic sanctions showed all too well. And if we don’t even know the Russian economy, how could we know its military power? But what I most admire about this batch of politicians that we are now meeting in the West is that they never stand up against any nation but are solely focused on defending the interests of their countries and their populations. Like any honest politician, but which we have stopped listening to in the West for many years! And for those who haven’t seen it, I’ll put the link back:
https://aif.ru/politics/world/rossiyu_hotyat_prevratit_v_moskoviyu_nikolay_patrushev_o_zapade_i_ukraine
I keep listening to Larry and reading his material. Very interesting guy but must have some sort of hate issue with the USA. Never can find a nice thing to say about us.
I am an “us” and can’t find anything good to say about our government either, just feel non-partisan disgust. These people may get us all killed. I won’t cut them any slack.
D@mn right. I frankly started a hate affair with the neocons when witnessing this last brainchild of theirs in Ukraine, then walked back over the decades to their previous influencing operations. THEY are the nexus of this country going haywire. Warmongering dogmatic imperialist ideologues to the core. Not the only influence but damn near close….and if this ends in God forbid, a nuclear exchange, I’m laying it right at their doorstep (unless I’m laying elsewhere).
God Bless America
That used to mean something, when we were a Constitutional Republic or close to it.
Today we could say
For what?
Kicking GOD out of the public view.
Abortion unhinged
Unconditional Wars
Big Pharma, Big Corp and MIC control.
Printing funny money what we can’t pay back
Unethical Elections
Teaching Children to become Sodomites?
Pushing LGBTQXYZ on other countries.
Allowing the Occult
Breaking Treaties
On and on we could go.
It’s best summed up with
Ask the American Indians
AMEN and AMEN!
Is there anything nice to say about the US political establishment. Let me think. No, nothing.
Larry is only doing his job. “If you see something, say something.” There are lethal threats to our survival, and they are within our leadership and in our midst.
Nobody hates you.
“i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever.” —- nayyirah waheed
So Larry should lie about the United States because his American? That’s the problem with most Americans, you only what to hear the good stuff and don’t care about the horrors your country is creating in other countries including mine.
In case you haven’t noticed, the criminal psychopaths of the unitary party have taken over our government.
USA is in an existential crisis which if left to proceed in this current direction, will lead to nuclear Armageddon and the end of all living species on this planet. Larry is trying his best to scream out the iceberg ahead of the Titanic, and here you are complaining that he has nothing nice to say about how beautiful the deco of the Titanic is… Facepalm.
I don’t think that is the issue, I think it is the opposite he loves his country very much, but he may have been dissapointed once to often.
I say that base on the experience and sentiment as a result thereof that I feel thinking of my country which is the Netherlands. Was once great, it just kept shouting progress while regressing. It is dissapointed not lack of love for the country. Broken promises, and so and so on. It is like trust with your partner in a relationship. It gets broken, it ain’t easy to fix.
As an American, I think it’s that there’s little “nice” to say these days. Like many of us, Larry Johnson is a realist, not a pollyannaish yahoo blinded by Hollywood movie military “victories” on the screen and Washington political hot air from assorted mendacious media. Real patriots today prefer to hear truth rather than listen to delusional nonsense from the Beltway.
I only found this site of Mr Larry yesterday and also I find it very interesting.
Here is another way to look at his dislike of America. I am Russian and many would believe that I will also dislike America, however I do not. I like America, the country and it’s people. The dislike is of the American government, from outside it looks imperialistic, colonialist, authoritarian, well so much more that is ironically projected on to other nations, either it’s competition or adversaries.
Well anyway thank you for the chance to practice the English writing. Kind wishes and good health
Dobro pozhalovat’!
It is an important distinction.
I don’t “hate” Canada, I hate the Trudeau regime.
I don’t “hate” New Zealand, I hate the sociopaths who got control of its government.
I don’t “hate” the United States. I love my country, but NOT our government.
Let’s face it. Many of the governments on the planet are controlled by a small world-wide group of villains, basically headquartered now in Davos, Switzerland.
We need to re-direct the public’s attention away from Washington D.C., Ottawa, et al. and on to this tiny number of authoritarian sociopaths.
Just a thought: a thermobaric device detonated over their conference next time they meet would be a far greater service to humanity than anything else I can think of.
Why hate and not simple disappointment? You do him a disservice.
Regarding the glitches: are you using a wired (LAN) or wireless (WiFi) connection to your Router? Wireless connections are prone to such hiccups. If at all possible you should try and switch to a wired connection, in case you have been using WiFi, at least for live sessions.
Not possible. I’m going to try resetting the router before broadcasts.
As noted above: doing a factory reset is almost certainly a bad idea as that shall wipe all of your personalized, local configuration and require you to completely set up the router again, from scratch.
A simple on/off isn’t much use, though, because the router hardware and RAM will store a lot of information to aid in a more rapid startup. That info may well be the main source of the problem that’s clogging up your bandwidth.
It’s best to turn the machine off, unplug it from the electrical outlet, and then let it sit there, unplugged, for at least 5 minutes (3 will typically do the trick, but a bit of overkill here is good). Then plug it back in and restart.
Disconnecting the machine from the electrical outlet will clear all of the residual caches in the hardware (including anything kept over in RAM). These can include things like routing tables, for instance, or other automated networking protocols that can occasionally gum up the bandwidth.
It will mean that your router may take a bit longer to start up but that should be so negligible as to be hardly noticeable. A minute or so longer would be extreme. The advantage of using this method is that if your router gets this thorough reboot and you are still having bandwidth/latency issues, then the problem is almost certainly in your hardware or its configuration (or, less likely, a server-side issue with your ISP).
One other thing you might want to check into is what DNS servers your router is configured to use. Switching away from your ISP’s private DNS servers is almost always a good idea to use, instead, a publicly available one like Google’s (8.8.8.8, or 8.8.4.4) or Cloudflare’s (1.1.1.1). Lots of users have cleared up latency/bandwidth issues by switching over their DNS servers. You can find which servers are fastest by following this guide:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-find-the-fastest-dns-server-near-you-and-configure-it-in-windows.1572436/
then remember to turn of as much bandwith using appliances/apps in your house/phone as possible..
That is a easy way to eek out a few more Mb`s, cutting the power a few min to the router is sometimes a miracle fix🤷♂️
But cat6 wired connection is the most stable and what i use on my gaming system, but when that is no option try the 2 easiest options i mentioned above.
Internet, a pain in the arse yet a great tool 😂
A thought …
With all the US and NatoStans hooplla in giving aid to Ukrnazis for the death of Russians and to weaken Russia
Is it possible Russia was sending a message to
US yesterday & Canada today?
Thank you Larry for all you do.
I really enjoyed your discussion with Alex and Alexander, I always come away with a better understanding of this proxy war. Thank you gentlemen.
So looking forward to your take on Biden’s end game. Will he be able to string things along, due process and manoeuvres like that, to see out his term? If not, Kamala Harris will become POTUS. The woke mindset in DC probably has enough momentum to carry that thru, mixed race female etc. etc., but then she will have to appoint a VP. This person would have to be approved by Senate? House? Joint sitting? And who might it be.
Is this the Ukraine off-ramp / on-ramp anywhere else the West so desperately needs? Sorry, Zelensky, busy as.
I said when they were installed in 2021 that Joe would be shown the door, one way or another, February/March 2023 time frame. Kamala becomes incumbent and will be President for 10 years (gaming the Constitution is much easier than trying to overturn it). Interagency agenda will roll on without so much as a hiccup. Kamala certainly will not rock the boat.
Some might argue she’s too dumb to be re-elected. 1) no one steals an election to let democracy back in the door. 2) they installed an imbecile with senility issues as President in 2021 and a vegetable as Senator from PA in 2023, walking her through three sham referendums will be a cake walk. 3) this is America, there is no such thing as “too dumb” to be reelected.
Mayor Pete will be VP. Senate will pass him with only a couple of harumps because he was already vetted for a Cabinet post. Must play by the rules and all that collegial nonsense that makes the Senate so special.
You are right about Biden. However, Kamala for 10 years is a no go. She is as corrupt as Biden. Her VP will probably a WEF servant like Turdeau of Canada, from the current cabinet. The best fit candidate could be Janet Yellin. She can try to stop Powell from his destruction of the Euro and his prevention of a one Central Bank Digital Currency.
Her corruption is an asset to the Interagency, not a liability. See point 1 above.
Tom… What if Kamala can not be the president because they need someone else, despite, point #1? You have to get Kamala out first, to make way for the next VP then President. Time will tell.
If, for some reason, the Interagency rethinks Kamala then Buttigieg is next best because he is just as morally vacuous as Joe and Kamala plus already has been vetted for appointment. Yellen is too old and has not even the thinnest veneer of a political career.
Remember that whomever they install will NOT be making any real decisions. You don’t steal an election to let democracy re-rear its ugly head and you don’t install someone so they can screw up your plan with their own agenda. If they want to incur the risk of someone more difficult to control my money would be on Michelle O. Joe will be persuaded to resign, anyone else may well have the increasingly common “cardiac event”, (tsk tsk we should have the CDC do a “study” of that), less messy/risky than arkancide. One of the rules of societal nudge: if a change/condition is sufferable for 6 months it becomes the societal “normal” and requires ever less excuse/explanation.
Here’s one potential endgame: Kamala’s Veep pick needs concurrence of Senate and House. The House could simply stall it long enough for digging up the “evidence” to remove Kamala, and McCarthy then ends up as POTUS.
She would have to be “removed” via the Senate. Good luck with that.
Mr. Johnson -great job on the interview- the usa definitely needs an intervention and i believe it will come from above in the very near future . i also agree that the biden docs are coming out since he will made into a near future scapecoat.
a link to the interview is on rbn. in my comment stated thought that you would be a great guest on one of their programs.
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/bidens-classified-records-found-in-garage-ag-garland-considering-special-counsel/
regading russia; the one thing that is not mentioned very often is the incredible amount of weapons and material they received from the usa and the commonwealth during ww2 which if they did not get this support; i doubt russia would have won as per below.
Know only 2 generations later the usa and the rest of NATO is trying to do the same for the ukraine. As you, Andrei M. , new atlas and others have pointed out they do not have the industrial base to do the same. as they did 80 years ago;not even close.
in ww2 my country of canada with 10 percent of the us population very large amounts of armaments and at the end of the war had the 3rd largest navy in the world. I would not be surprised if the industrial capacity of canada during ww2 know exceeds the industrial capactity of the usa today.
https://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/
400,000 jeeps & trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
1.5 million blankets
15 million pairs of army boots
107,000 tons of cotton
2.7 million tons of petrol products
4.5 million tons of food
https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html
Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
“I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war,” Stalin said. “The most important things in this war are the machines…. The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war.”
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
“If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war,” he wrote in his memoirs. “One-on-one against Hitler’s Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me.”
However, the real significance of Lend-Lease for the Soviet war effort was that it covered the “sensitive points” of Soviet production — gasoline, explosives, aluminum, nonferrous metals, radio communications, and so on, says historian Boris Sokolov.
“In a hypothetical battle one-on-one between the U.S.S.R and Germany, without the help of Lend-Lease and without the diversion of significant forces of the Luftwaffe and the German Navy and the diversion of more than one-quarter of its land forces in the fight against Britain and the United States, Stalin could hardly have beaten Hitler,” Sokolov wrote in an essay for RFE/RL’s Russian Service.
https://www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans/
The Soviets have long insisted that Lend-Lease aid made little difference. Newly discovered files tell another story.
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the thermobaric bombs are a horrific weapon of war i would never want to be subjected too. If i could would ban them. i think they make tactical nuclear weapons obsolete as there is complete destruction without having to worry about radiation and fallout.
one was used at the beginning of the movie outbreak (1995) to cleanse the camp
Outbreak – Opening Scene (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdlrWDx2Ldw
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this is sad- elvis only daughter is gone. Also Adam Rich — who starred in the hit TV show “Eight is Enough” — who played the young child on it also just died at 54. these celebrity deaths are getting to be a epidemic.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/adam-rich-former-eight-enough-195523358.html
BREAKING NEWS – Lisa Marie Presley ”dies suddenly” at age 54
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mYmYfBGN8Ab8/
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this is a good short clownworld
A man is asked ‘How do you know your not a woman?’ (His response was perfect)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gkt6LrJOFniN/
regards,
ralph
Ralph, the Russians sacrificed 26 million soldiers on the Western Front fighting the Nazis. If it wasn’t for the Russians wiping out the Wehrmacht, it is possible to say, the allies would not have faired so well.
german casulty figures are below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II
OKW Casualty Figures Sept 1, 1939 to Jan 31, 1945
Description Dead Missing & POW Total Wounded & Sick
Army
Eastern Front 1,105,987 1,018,365 2,124,352 3,498,059
if russia lost 26 million then it looks like the russian-german loss ratio is about the same as the ukraine- russian loss ratio in the current war.
a big difference i see between the russian army of ww2 and the modern one is that the modern one cares allot more about safeguarding the lives of their soldiers than they did in ww2.
am not saying at all russia did not do the bulk of the major battlefield fighting; just that they had allot of logistical help that without they would not have fared near as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
Soviet Union
Among other goods, Lend-Lease supplied:[50]: 8–9
58% of the USSR’s high octane aviation fuel
33% of their motor vehicles
53% of USSR domestic production of expended ordnance (artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives)
30% of fighters and bombers
93% of railway equipment (locomotives, freight cars, wide gauge rails, etc.)
50–80% of rolled steel, cable, lead, and aluminium
43% of garage facilities (building materials and blueprints)
12% of tanks and SPGs
50% of TNT (1942–1944) and 33% of ammunition powder (in 1944)[51]
Allied shipments to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 were 17,499,861 tons.
regards,
ralph
Among the 26 million killed, only 8 million were the military. The rest were civilians.
When lend-lease shipments began in full, Soviet Union had already changed the dynamics of the war. This is not to say that the lend-lease was unimportant. Andrey Martyanov discusses this in one of his videos.
One must also remember that items supplied via the lend-lease were not a gift. Russia made its last payments for Soviet Union’s lend-lease obligations in the early 2000s. Most wars have been very good for the US business.
“this is sad- elvis [sic] only daughter (correction: child) is gone. Also Adam Rich — who starred in the hit TV show “Eight is Enough” — who played the young child on it also just died at 54. these celebrity deaths are getting to be a epidemic”.
First thing I thought was: I bet she was vaccinated to the max (like a good little Wokie).
Fits the emerging picture: young, healthy. Then BAM! Keels over dead from heart attack.
” the usa definitely needs an intervention and i believe it will come from above in the very near future” – if you are referring to the King of the Universe, well he/she/it moves in mysterious ways, that’s for sure. We’ll come to believe that when It acts, it does so like in the Moses story with Cecil B. de Mille visuals. Rather, often (always) It acts in small ways that have big consequences. After all he/she/it knows all: past, present and future. Lastly, prayer certainly doesn’t hurt!
FGB3 – someone just emailed me this short vid below. i found it interesting. I believe there are definitely higher powers involved in the affairs of men and women. And yes prayer does not hurt. my 2 favourites are psalm 91 and psalm 83 if you are into the bible stuff at all .
Russian military fears Psychic Attacks #strangerthings #wearenotinkans… | TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@verititas/video/7187505269839121710?_r=1&_t=8Yyh7MtCA5O&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7187505269839121710
the short tiktok vid reminded me of this movie and this book i read 30 yrs. ago
this is an interesting movie about this stuff in the us army in iraq
men who stare at goats
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/?_hsen=
The Men Who Stare At Goats
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Tvf773NGM2dR/
right click and save
https://seed151.bitchute.com/zoppY2evmAeJ/Tvf773NGM2dR.mp4
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this is an interesting book i read 30 yrs ago.
https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Archon-Conspiracy-Hunt-Dave-U.S.A-Harvest/16042587523/bd
Synopsis:
In a race against time, CIA agents and Soviet leaders scramble for the ultimate weapon…psychic power. Locked into the international intrigue is computer genius Ken Inman whose goal to contact mysterious entities turns into a nightmare when Archons attempt to take over his mind. Famed journalist Carla Bertelli becomes a key player in a psychic war that could destroy the world as she goes behind the scenes to discover the truth. Torn between her love for Ken and her contempt for Christianity, one question continues to plague her: Are the Archons the benevolent higher beings they claim to be, or are they demonic forces?
https://archive.org/details/archonconspiracy0000hunt/page/n3/mode/2up
https://www.amazon.ca/Archon-Conspiracy-Dave-Hunt/dp/0890817669
regards,
ralph
The Russian fear, if actual, would not be totally baseless. In this brief Wikipedia article on Paul Cain, who claimed to be a prophet and often wowed people with his words of knowledge (knowing things he had no normal way of knowing), it says, “He served as a consultant to Central Intelligence Agency—Paranormal Division, a consultant to the FBI and was a Presidential Consultant and Special Envoy for three presidents.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cain_(minister)
Cain turned out to have serious problems with alcoholism and homosexuality (https://charismamag.com/widget/). Who else does the CIA – Paranormal Division have on their payroll? Is there actually such a division?
The problem with many people’s ideas of spiritual or psychic power is that they are based on a false assumption. They assume mankind can use or control God or whatever other spiritual power they believe in. There is no basis for this. Everything would say the opposite.
The best novel I have read exploring the idea of the using paranormal is: “Could you but find it” by Robert Cilley. Cilley is an American and a retired judge. It is not a long book, almost like an extended short story.
https://www.amazon.com/Could-You-Find-Robert-Cilley/dp/1482032244
Great program. You and the Duran are required daily reading/listening for me.
An unrelated question. Who is Jessica Berlin?
I just saw a couple of DW News clips over at YouTube and she is selling a Europe vs Russia hot war like a ginsu knife infomercial, hard and heavy, yet I try to find out something about her and there is nothing but laudatory shilling for her consulting company and some sort of hokum about being the epitome of a Global Citizen. Apparently she is a go to geopolitical expert on German TV yet she has not so much as a Wikipedia page. Who is in the public eye this much but doesn’t have so much as a cursory listing on Wiki? By the comments it would seem like lots of Europeans, and not an inconsiderable number of Americans, are just eating her pitch up that shipping Zelensky all the armor he desires is all that stands between the West and perdition, and by the way there is absolutely no possible down side to it. No one seems concerned about the secrecy of who her pay master might be, CIA, WEF, Ukraine (but I repeat myself) who knows, but clearly she is selling like an Edsel dealer circa 1959, desperately.
Ips Prez: Constructive criticism is not condemnation.
We ignore his information and insights at our peril. Larry has seen and paricipated in highly covert, classfied actions for American national security, at great risk to himself and to people he cared about, that I would wager very few readers of his blog could claim. He has unique knowledge and training, extensive experience, and informed perspectives that entitles him to be critical of the corrupted state of our institutions and our political class.
Here is a great Russian war porn channel updated daily with great footage, like this Russian rocket system doing work.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CDRfZaCL04RO/
Also of footage of Russian armored units massing to attack.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QgQSaFBmdezD/
Carlton – this is probably the best video about house to house street fighting of ww2. it occurred in christmas 1943 in italy at a place called ortona. the fighting occurred in the buildings as nothing out in the street could survive allot like Soledar and Bakhmut.
the combatants were canadian soldiers versus german paratroopers. In 1998 some of the surviving combatants met again at ortona under different circumstances.
The Battle of Ortona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu52xkfLzl0
regards,
ralph
“I apologize for some of the glitches in the broadcast.”
Have you tried a different microphone? It seems to me that it doesn’t follow you all the time and introduces noise to the broadcast.
Yes I have.
Hi Larry,
I’m a new subbie to your site, and greatly appreciating your insights..
Here is another possible solution to your connectivity issues; Powerline Adapters..
They use the electric cabling in your house to send/receive data, as if the cables themselves were ethernet.. Some also have built-in wi-fi to extend your range..
I’ve been using a set of 3 Devolo adapters for years and have never had problems with them, I have one next to the router and the other two in upstairs rooms, one connected to an ethernet hub, with multiple devices attached..
A simple tip to setting them up when they first arrive is to have two side by side or at least in the same room (so you’re not running up and down stairs or a distance when checking for flashing lights), switching one socket on at a time, so the first powered up can become the ‘master’ and then power up the next one, so it can detect the ‘master’ and set itself up as the ‘slave’.. Any additional ones can simply be powered up after and they’ll config themselves as additional ‘slaves’.. Once they’re setup, they’re ready to go and will keep their configs in the event of power cuts, so you don’t have to redo them once power is restored..
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-powerline-adaptors
Good luck, whichever route you take..
Matt..
If you experience network glitches , it might be useful to know if another program might be eating a good share of your available bandwidth when you need it to stream. (update , download , shared connection with other users…maybe also some kind of worm or virus.)
On Windows , the network tab from the resources monitor might help , on Linux I do use a package called nethog , don’t know about the Macs … not my kind of dope. For multi users networking , your router might have some kind of http-based interface saying who’s using what bandwidth.(Usually at 192.168.1.1 but not ever.)
This might help …
“…followed by a vacuum that sucks all surrounding oxygen (air) away from the target area.”
This is not well worded. Oxygen is not air (but only a part of it), and is not sucked out from the target area. Oxygen is used up in chemical reaction with fuel, and replaced with carbon dioxide/monoxide (similar to what happens in an internal combustion engine). Lack of oxygen and abundance of carbon dioxide/monoxide can be very deadly (just like breathing car exaust), even without shockwave and excessive heat. Regular flamethrowers operate in a similar way, and Russians are using the term flamethrower in the names of TOS-1A and RPO-A (systems made as replacements of old school flamethrowers).
Also, there is no actual vacuum, and using that term just adds to confusion.
I have a question. Someone on another forum claimed, “damp salty environments are not good places to store ammunition or military equipment.” Anyone know anything about this?
Corrosion requires water as a reactant, not salt. However, salt solutions facilitate electron movement.
Salt mines are extremely dry, so they make good storage areas for lots of stuff.
It’s dry, not damp.
Here’s a video about British salt mine used for storage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-QHeZnVu4
Putin is the prime example of this Russian self-confidence that you speak of, Larry. He is at once ambitious and humble. He doesn’t brag, he’s not self-righteous, (at least I’ve not seen it in his extensive speeches and interviews, esp. with Oliver Stone); yet the rise of Russia from the ashes since his Captaincy both economically and defensively speaks for itself. For me his demeanor is of a man who is calm and in control of himself, a far cry from the old, bloviating Soviet leaders and the current chief bloviator, Joe Biden.
“The blast wave lasts significantly longer than a conventional explosive because of it lower velocity of detonation.”
not sure this is right – there is an equation of state (like pressure, density graphs)for these things (chemical air mixtures) that has two branches – a detonation branch and a deflagrtion branch. i suspect the return flow jumps down to the deflagration branch. that is it burns. the commander may have meant lower deflagration speeds…
I listened to the video, Larry, and can tell you that, even with the sound glitches, it was one of the best I’ve heard on The Duran. Believe me when I say that is high praise, rightly deserved in this case. I hope to see you often and soon again in the company of Alex and Alexander.
The fuel air explosives used in the Russian TOS “blazing sun” is a pure liquid device that is contained in 220mm rocket….a complete salvo of 24 rockets can destroy a area of 400×200 meters….after the rockets scatter charge disperses the aerosolized nanofuel into a cloud that covers and infiltrates into every possible space including trenches and dugouts… according to fuse….a secondary explosion ignites the fuel that oxidizes the surrounding air and creates a shock wave and massive heat….there will be continued exposure on the periphery of the explosion of fuel molecules reacting with the air so the heat is sustained and thus the fireball… probably the reference to explosion lasting longer. When the area of the fireball cools there is a rapid drop in air pressure and rarefaction. There are secondary initiation of flammables and of course the wounds are ghastly…..conventional explosives need an
oxidizer mixed with fuel and as such..alot more fuel is able to be carried in thermobaric device that uses the oxygen from the atmosphere….a Russian air dropped device has 7 ton of liquid charge that duplicates nearly 40 ton of TNT. The shortcomings are mainly these devices obviously need atmospheric oxygen so don’t work underwater…high altitudes and incremental weather. What’s a router?
Hi Joe, you may be absolutely correct that the ammunition is a “pure liquid device” (ref. MO.101.04, MO.1.01.04M rocket). However, it’s difficult to get accurate information on the ammunition used by the TOS system because much of the available information is parsed through journalists or others equally unqualified. The TOS MLRS reportedly uses either incendiary artillery ammunition or thermobaric ammunition but we’re only discussing the so-called “thermobaric” ammunition here.
For the record, the weapons class is Volumetric and the two subclasses are [1] Fuel-Air Explosive (FAE) and Blast-Enhanced (BE) ammunition. As Paul correct describes, FAE uses a small “busting charge” to aerosolize the fuel and a second small “primer charge” to ignite the aerosol cloud. BE ammunition is different – it uses a standard artillery-type high-explosive surrounded with a fuel-aluminum mixture. The ammunition is detonated (a single detonation) and the expanding shock wave from the artillery-type high-explosive forces the fuel mixture away from the blast while simultaneously igniting the fuel and thus enhancing the high-explosive blast.
This drawing points to a busting charge [3] and primer charge [4] indicating that the TOS ammunition is FAE except that [4] is clearly the rocket propellant. I suspect that [3] is a actually a high-explosive rod and much larger and thicker than the drawing implies.
IMAGE:
https://i0.wp.com/www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/east_europe/russia/artillery_vehicle/tos-1a/Tos-1A_Soltsepek_heavy_flame_thrower_220mm_multiple_launch_rocket_launcher_system_Russia_Russian_army_details_003.jpg
I’m under the impression – perhaps incorrectly – that the TOS thermobaric ammunition is of the BE type. That it uses standard artillery-type high-explosive surrounded with a fuel-aluminum mixture. That there is a single explosion on impact where the artillery-type high-explosive is detonated and the surrounding fuel mixture is both ignited and forced away from the high-explosive blast to enhance the explosion. Am I correct? Don’t know. Several Russian articles describe the ammunition as “explosive with metallic fuel“ (взрывчатое вещество с металлическим горючим) which seems to imply BE ammunition.
Getting caught up with your articles as I had the flu. My apologies.
The Chechens were probably given a much needed rest from constant combat. Putin does that.
Also missing are 20,000 to maybe 25,000 (with callups) air mobile troops. They could team up with the Chechens to take Odessa or Nikolayev or maybe even Pokrvosk that supply city 80 plus miles from the current Donbass frontlines.
Interview with Retired German General – he pulls no punches; worth using machine translator to read closely
https://www.emma.de/artikel/erich-vad-was-sind-die-kriegsziele-340045
Hello Larry,
One of my gigs was to develop software for live streaming for the video game industry. Occasionally I would have as many as 50k live stream viewers from my desktop. Without knowing details about your streaming configuration such as codecs, your networking environment and quality of connection to a content delivery network, I can offer some general advice on troubleshooting streaming glitches.
Besides rebooting the router I would monitor the cpu load on the computer as well as amount of free memory. There are various system monitoring tools available depending on which os you are using. It may be possible that some processes are hogging system resources from time to time. So you may consider rebooting the computer or at least shutting off some processes or browser tabs.
Running a few live streaming tests while monitoring cpu/memory loads on the computer, and monitoring network activity on the router if that option is available would be very helpful in troubleshooting glitches.
If you are only able to use wifi you could setup a second router that has an ethernet connection to your main router. This router would operate on a different wifi channel than your main router, and you would have exclusive use of the channel when live streaming.
Sometimes the source of the glitches originates from the service provider such as Streamyard and the CDN or social media network. You may consider trying out another live streaming service if these issues persist. Resi is known for being an extremely reliable streaming solution.
Re: router.
One possibility with router might be overusing/leaking operative memory (RAM) (not storage AKA disk AKA persistent memory).
Personally i noticed that when BitTorrent protocol with loud fanfares switched from TCP-based protocol to UDP-based. Later BT-based online streaming platforms like AceStreamer followed the suit.
One very old and barebone router (it did not have room even for Linux, so basic it was inside) could be smashed by this new BT in a matter of single minutes to total freeze or spontaneous reboot (best but rare case).
Not so old router (having about 4-8 MB RAM and Linux inside) were going progressively slower. And their name resolution (DNS) proxy was “paged out” of memory aggresisvely (or maybe because the basic DNS protocol is UDP based too and its drops get lost in a torrent?). Like, after watching a soccer game or two using p2p streaming, you then open your browser trying to read something and is greeted with NSERROR host/server/domain not found (not 404 Page not found). Wait 2-3 minutes do it again and the server (all its pages) start to open. But try any link to any another server – same story.
Also Wi-Fi connections (crypto) were getting noticeably less reliable than wired connections.
This attrition of RAM if started would nor relieve itself for the next few hours.
Not sure if you saw similar sumptoms maybe you did, maybe your case is something totally unrelated to my experience.
Also, for what i know, USA Internet and mobile telephony is pretty feudal. You ISP enforces their own box on you as part of the contract, which can be state of the art but mor eoften turns to be some cheap+old+unupdated junk, and your are not even allowed to replace it with your own off the shelf better tool.
Sorry for mumbo-jumbo incoming, but at least it might give you cues for googling or for talking with IT specialists.
Okay, back to my technobabble.
BT/UDP promised both reduced RAM usage and easier port-forwarding / NAT pinholling / Nat Traversal.
The latter promise was probably true but it was directly contradicting the former promice.
The latter idea was to strip all the midway router/servers of information about stable information streams (TCP sessions) and force them into guessing who throw mostly unmarked chunks (UDP datagrams) to whom. This can only be done by implicit statistics-based heuristics. Small scake data mining. Instead of “obsolete” explicit declaraiton of information streams.
Google says: StreamYard / A professional live streaming and recording studio in your browser
So the question then is if there is a stand-alone application or only a super-complex WWW page inside a browser?
If you think you might saw some symptoms like aforementioned, you might try:
1. Find the most techy usually hidden settings of your WWW browser and disable UDP based protocols SPDY and HTTP2. Force it fallback to old school HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 which were TCP based.
2. If StreamYard has a stand-alone application then maybe they also have their own network settings about TCP vs UDP.
3. If you have options of Wi-Fi or wired connections – The latter might be less fragile.
4. Before streaming reboot the router. If you have several chained devices from ISP in-let to you personal “end terminal device” –
phone, laptop or any other computer you use for streaming – all in the chain. For example it could be ADSL or Cable TV adapter, then Ethernet router, then Wi-Fi access point. Today it is cheaper to cram this into one integrated device, but the could be separate.
Like they said above, “reset to factory/default config” is not what you need. Computer-like reset=reboot is. If in doubts, power cycle is easiest thing. Unplag it from AC, count 5-10 seconds, plug it back.
This would zero out RAM usage, if it was the issue, and would give you more time until it (if it was it) accumulates again.
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Another possible issue could be overheating, bohh network router and/or USB Wi-fi/4G dongles.
But it is winter so i would less think about it. I had issues with Huawei mobile telephony USB modems overheating in rural area, but it had little correlation with “information” load, and more with radio amplification. OTOH i have two USB WiFi dongles self-cooked in a city flat before i drilled a concrete wall and pulled an old school wire to my desktop. Go figure.
Anyway, measures against overheating are both self-evident, hardly “hintable” in blogs and can violate your ISP contract (disassembly and/or modifying “their” hardware).
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Finally, back on-topic
> followed by a vacuum that sucks all surrounding oxygen (air) away from the target area
I feel shocked your high ranks spot such a nonsense.
They either don’t get elementary physics and chemistry, or they assume their readers don’t so they bastardise their knowledge to a mess.
Like some people here calling computer monitors “processors” – not that it had zero relation to truth, but soooo remote and tangential, so bastardise, that it irks.
I am not exactly an expert in the field, but it seems to me that Surovikin was, in part, put in charge of the Russian efforts in the Donbass because of his coalition building skills. Before the current conflict his significant successes were in the 2nd Chechnya War, wherein the Kadyrovs and their associated clans had to be incorporated as an important element of the general effort. In Syria, again, he used Kadyrov’s Chechens to great effect and had to coordinate with the Syrians respectfully to create a winning strategy. Surovikin was given command in Ukraine simultaneously with the annexation of the Donbass. As part of this the native Donbass forces had to be incorporated into the Russian military command structure complete with uniforms, pay, pensions etc., and continue to fight in cooperation with the Chechens, Wagner and other forces being employed in Ukraine. I think that this may have been among his most important tasks in Ukraine, creating a unified command structure for a unified effort toward victory.
Your wifi router should have typically 4 ethernet ports on it. Pick up an Ethernet cable long enough to get to the router for when you do live videos. Your computer will automatically switch from wifi to hardwired when it detects a cable. Hardwiring will at least eliminate one of many possible causes, worth a try. Wifi can lag.
That’s correct and most sensible solution to at least reduce the issue if not eliminate it. The speeds on a ethernet cables can be twice as fast as the router. Also in Best Buy/Amazon one can pick 25, 50, 75 feet cables ( in case your desk is away from Modem/Router) using a ethernet switch can also extend as one can extend the cable length beyond 75feet. The talk about TCP/UDP is basic tech razzle dazzle, maybe to impress you – UDP works better for live broadcast (more reliable,). more relevant for p2p connections. as soon as you plug the ethernet cable to back of your router n relevant port on your machine the connection will switch automatically.
It was very hard to understand you. I think what you need is a better microphone.
Larry, I know the suggestions have come fast, high and low, still my two bits ( my daughter is a twitch game streamer)and I have some knowledge of her set up.
1. If you don’t mind what’s the tested speed of your ISP connection ( both download as well upload?) it can easily be checked from any online speed test app (this clears the network issues)
2. what is the RAM/GPU processing capability of your laptop/desktop say Core i7 processor 8/16 GB RAM and a good GPU (RTX 3070) or equivalent – this will clear your machine capability issues
3. Your video recording/transmission setting i.e. 720P, 1080 P or higher? Sometime reducing the quality can help especially if your laptop is a bit dated ( bandwidth requirement)
Also please keep in mind due to large number of friends 🙂 you have in community someone could be doing a DOS attack on you.
Just found this site and Larry from watching The Duran. I’ll coming back to this site regularly now. I’ve come to rely on Alex C and Alexander M for actual news about what is going on. (Also, The New Atlas with Brian Berletic is a must for military insight). I knew from the beginning that the whole Ukraine war was a lie. As a primary school teacher in England, it’s been painful as schools love to push all the narratives: Russia bad, poor Ukraine, convid fear, get poked, climate change. I try to instil the ability to question in these kids but it’s hard when schools are now so woke.
I’d like to ask a question and may sound completely stupid. On The Duran, they mention neo-cons and neo-Libs. How do you define these and how do they differ.
The neo-cons trace their lineage back to Scoop Jackson. A Democrat Senator who was Conservative with respect to limiting Government power, controlling spending but fighting international communism. Neo-libs are liberal in all aspects except they side with the neo-cons in supporting military intervention.
Just wish to say, I very much enjoyed your interview with “The Duran”
Wishing you “All the Best” solving your tech issues.
As for pedo-Joe, I have no doubt he is “time-exed”… and in fact I am a little surprised his owners/Pay Masters have left him in for this long.
I guess he is still useful in destroying the US and parts of the world.
Currently wondering what the Uber psychos have in store for WARshington DC and the country.
Concerning the connection problems/breaking up of audio video stream first thing to find out is what is causing the problem. Since you can’t use a cable connection, which would be the best way to test if the wifi connection is the cause, I recommend using an app/program to analyse the wifi environment. Like inSSIDer or Wifi Analyzer.
That way you can check how many other Wifi networks there are on the channel/frequency you are using. And if there are other channels that might be less crowded. Ideally done from a mobile device (or fixed computer with an external wifi adapter on a extension cable) so you can move it around to do measurements in different spots.
If you live in an apartment complex (or next to one) chances are that all channels are overcrowded and there isn’t much you can do about it on the 2.4 GHz band. If your devices support the 5 GHz band that might be a solution.
But if you are on an overcrowded 2.4 GHz band there are some things you can try that might help. First is the placement of the router/access point. What I sometimes encounter is Wifi transmitters placed in the fuse box, generally not an ideal spot. If your wifi transmitter is orientated horizontally in relation to your client machine best is to put the wifi transmitter +5ft above the ground so there are less objects obstructing the signal. If one of your wifi devices has external antennas keep in mind they transmit the signal from the sides. So if, for instance, your computer is on an other floor level then the wifi router it might help positioning (one of the) antenna(s) horizontally instead of vertically so that the wifi signal is more aimed to upper or lower floors.
An other thing that might help is using an external USB Wifi adapter on an USB extension cable (6ft) so that you can move the wifi adapter around to a spot where it has the best signal. This can be a matter of a good connection in one spot and one inch away from that spot a bad connection. I encountered a location where the only thing I could do was position my laptop (wifi adapter) in a specific spot where I suffered as little as possible interference from the +100 other wifi transmitters. A good spot was easily 10x better reception (bandwidth/jitter) compared to a non optimal location. And the margins/tolerance of that good spot was very small, an inch at most.
Larry,
How old is your house?
While you are connecting your electronic devices to the router using Wi-Fi, the router itself is receiving its signal from a cable that runs through the walls of your home. Updates and upgrades in the cable that brings that signal to the router may be the source problem.
Update your Wi-Fi drivers.
Also if older computer, what kind of WiFi do u have…if ur Wi-Fi can’t handle thruput, it dont matter how fast your router is. Change the WiFi card if ur motherboard is compatible.
Hi Larry, as a network design engineer and 40 years of experience of using PCs and routers, it is possible that if you were using a laptop for your broadcast, the power settings may be causing connection problems. While the router is often thought to the the main issue, if you have power saving turned on in your laptop firmware via MS Windows it can cause the PC to lock up. Please remove all power saving settings from your laptop. Power off your router and wait 30 seconds and power it back on again, disconnecting from the mains while you do. While CAT5 or 6 unshielded twisted pair is a better option than WiFi, WiFI is much more convenient so please make sure you use the 5Gbps WiFi setting. Also you should check your signal strength of your WiFi with a simple app on your phone such as WiFi analyzer and make sure your power level is better than -50 dBm. Also making sure that your household are not making any massive downloads while you have a video call will help. Best of luck.
I can’t imagine what it would be like being on the receiving end of thermobaric munitions.
The pressure – shock dome is visible in the Slavyangrad video link.
If the US wanted to get thousands of troops to Europe they would commandeer cruise ships. The UK commandeered the Queen Elizabeth for one of the Falklands war troop ships. Cruise ships carry 3,000 passengers, but could carry up to 10,000 troops. There are 64 cruise ships over 139,000 tonnes in the world. It takes about 6 to 7 days to cross the Atlantic with embarkation/de-embarkation with res-supply add three days each end. So that’s 3 to 4 weeks. That’s 50,000 to 100,000 in ten trips. Very do-able.
Whether they could cross the pond without being blockaded or sunk by Russia is of course an interesting question. Something which Thatcher didn’t have to worry about with the Falklands.
The US DOES need an intervention, however it won’t come from within. Like Ancient Athens the US will continue with it’s micro-militarism so that eventually like Athens and like the UK with the Suez crisis the intervention will come from outside.
As Alexander intimated, it wouldn’t surprise me if Ukraine is to the US what the Spartans were to Athens.
The Suez crisis was the death knell of the British Pound as the reserve currency, and one thin the British did not do was to dishonor the financial system like the US has done with its seizure/freezing of bank accounts.
Wikipedia has a reasonable article on the Wagner Group.
Before there was thermobaric weapons, there existed industrial accidents (particularly in refineries) that demonstrated the hazards of fuel-air vapor cloud explosions. Its why you should never light a cigarette when refueling your car at the gas station. There are also OSHA case histories of volunteer firefighters entering a building in which a fuel leak is suspected (and consequently the electricity has been shut off) and then one of the firemen lights a match in order to see in the dark (yes, this actually happened). An enormous amount of safety engineering and training goes into avoiding these kinds of situations. Thermobaric weaponry (like most forms of artillery and missile attack) has a distinctive incoming sound. When you hear it, drop flat on your stomach (preferably in a trench), tightly cover your ears with your hands, and hold your breath until you hear the thunderclap. And maybe say a prayer that you’re not within the kill radius.
I try to listen to Mercouris every day, but he makes it more and more difficult.
Endless repetitions, hesitations, and disclaimers.
I got the habit of listening to him at 1.5 speed, but most of his videos are more than one hour these days. I might switch to 1.75 (it still works…).
It’s as if he had an audience exclusively made of very bored pensioners.
A shame, because he has interesting insights.
Trump is 20 times his brains, though.