RSS- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Monthly Archives: February 2024
Everglades Challenge 2024
It’s that time of year when I invite the Turcopolier Committee of Correspondence to check out this year’s running of the Everglades Challenge. I discovered this event well over a decade ago. I still have dreams of participating in this … Continue reading
Posted in Messing about in boats, TTG
11 Comments
Open Thread – 28 February 2024
Have at it, or as Colonel Lang often phrased it, amuse yourselves. TTG
Posted in Open Thread
112 Comments
Mexico City may soon run out of water
Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded … Continue reading
Posted in Blood on the Border, Mexico, TTG
31 Comments
Illia Ponomarenko on two years of war
Two years. It’s been two years since that fucking night of February 24. We knew — well, we’ve been told “it’s not 100% confirmed yet…but THIS is possibly due at 4 am or 5 am, stay put.” A half-glass of … Continue reading
Posted in TTG, Ukraine Crisis
101 Comments
The Register on the leak of Chinese infosec vendor’s hacking activities
A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing. The trove appeared on GitHub last week and contains hundreds of documents documenting I-Soon’s activities. Analysis of … Continue reading
Posted in China, Cyber, TTG
26 Comments
IM-1 lander enters lunar orbit
WASHINGTON — Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander mission entered orbit around the moon Feb. 21, setting up a landing attempt in a day. The company announced on social media that the Nova-C lander, named Odysseus, performed a 408-second burn of … Continue reading
Posted in Space, TTG
10 Comments
“Indicted ex-FBI informant told investigators he got Hunter Biden dirt from Russian intelligence officials”
CNN — The former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest that Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing information to him about Hunter Biden, prosecutors said Tuesday in a new court … Continue reading
Posted in Intelligence, Politics, TTG
44 Comments
“Heavy Fog In Channel; Continent Cut Off.” – Walrus.
INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS: CODE FLAG “U” – YOU ARE STANDING INTO DANGER! America is the Titanic and our Iceberg is something called “Inversion”. I tried to draw attention to this in August 2014 by quoting that Times Of London … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Policy, Politics, Walrus
106 Comments
“Ukraine War, 17 February 2024: Melee in Avdiivka”
Hello everybody! An update at ‘unusual hour’, because of latest developments in the Avidiivka area. Essentially, upon realising that the ZSU is in the process of withdrawing from the ruins of the town, the Russians launched such a massive onslaught, … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art, TTG, Ukraine Crisis
69 Comments
Open Thread – 16 February 2024
As SSG Gutierrez would sometimes enthusiastically answer the company phone, no matter who was calling, “Charging Charlie, One Three Five, speak your nickel’s worth.” A piece of big news this morning is the death of Navalny in a Russian prison. … Continue reading
Posted in Open Thread
68 Comments