Recent content by Colin Parkinson

It was certainly the best it got for sometime, but be under no illusion they were 2nd class citizens and they knew it. Jews in that period provided a unique service to their Moorish masters, that was the abilty to lend money and conduct business in a non-Halal way on behalf of the Moors...

Meanwhile on X, I have apparently been a bad boy, although I not sure exactly how?

Palestinians and Jews in the region both started with basically the same set of cards, the Palestinians had a slightly bigger hand. Had it just been those two fighting, we might have ended up with a two State solution early on. However Arab Nationalism was the flavour of the day and Egypt, Syria...

Push them into Syria. Assad could accept them and give them land taken from rebels and use them to bolster his security forces. Syria was the only Arab country to give Palestinians refugees anything close to Citizenship, they got a 2nd class citizenship, but it was much better than any other...

I have to question the electrical system on that vehicle running all that equipment. I assume the laser runs off of a storage capacitator for it's shots and is limited by recharge times and equipment temperatures?

Could someone explain to me why the term "Swipe" is used?

WB makes sense to be part of Israel and makes the country more defensible. That is with the majority of the palestinian population removed. Gaza has little strategic value to Israel. Without it's current population, it would be useful, but not critical to Israel like the WB or Golan is.

WB is a messier situation than Gaza. It's very clear the Palestinians have no intention of accepting any compromise Israel puts forward and will use any concession as a base to extract more concessions. The PA is trying to fight a demographic war in the WB and the only answer the Israelis have...

Iran + Missiles + AI = pickles https://ryanmcbeth.substack.com/p/irans-pickle-launch-capabilities?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1300522&post_id=143676946&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=29j1hx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Making a deal with the South Koreans would help there. They seem highly flexible in their manufacturing arrangements. We could get K9's make in SK, but assembled here at an existing facility. Use that deal to expand the facility so you can produce other equipment. I would also buy the rights to...

Back in the 90's on the CCG vessels, if you had no buoy work or training, you were chipping and painting all the time. The level of prep also depends on the type of paint.

i said higher end merchant ships, the various fleets run the gambit that goes from death trap to Starship. merchants try to avoid storms, but they have routes and timetables they must meet. They spend a lot of time at sea. I would agree that they are not as particular as we are in regards to the...

Lot's of the higher end merchant ships are in good repair, despite minimal docking and refits. I have to wonder if they use better coatings and prep work?

Memri provides accurate translations of Arab TV, so people can hear what they actually say. Not sure what planet your on, but Hamas and the Egyptian government have zero love for each other. They had a barely acceptable agreement in the last 5-10 years that Hamas would try not be to active in...

Here in Vancouver, the house is almost immaterial, it is the land that holds the value. Right now, my house could burn down and if insurance refused to pay out, i would still make 4 times what I paid for it by selling just the land.