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April 14, 2021

War Stories We Didn’t Get to Tell – WW2 – Reading Comments

Filed under: Cancon, Europe, History, Military, Russia, USA, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 13 Apr 2021

Another edition of Across the Airwaves, where Indy, Sparty, and Astrid look at interesting and unique comments from our videos. In this episode, some amazing war stories that we didn’t get to tell.

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Sound design: Marek Kamiński
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Sources:
– Bundesarchiv
– Library of Congress
– Australian War Memorial
– Icons from the Noun Project: Boat by Richard Cordero, captain by Gan Khoon Lay, Mine Ship by Luke Anthony Firth, Wrench by Gregor Cresnar
– Explosion animation by Ignisium from YouTube
– Uboat.net, picture of SS Oklahoma courtesy of Texaco Archives

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– “Other Sides of Glory” – Fabien Tell
– “London” – Howard Harper-Barnes
– “Deflection” – Reynard Seidel
– “The Inspector 4” – Johannes Bornlöf
– “What Happens in the Park” – Claude Signet

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From the comments:

World War Two
2 hours ago (edited)
Day in day out, we review thousands of comments from people across the world. It’s always heartening to come across the ones that are particularly interesting, educational, touching, or even funny. This format, “Across the Airwaves”, is a great way for us to interact directly with our community and in this episode, Indy, Sparty and Astrid mainly look at comments from people offering extra details and analysis that we didn’t have the chance to include in our regular content.

Hope you enjoy hearing them. A big thanks to our community, especially our TimeGhost Army members.

Schrödinger’s photo ID requirements

Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, Politics, USA — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 03:00

Mark Steyn notes the odd inconsistency of US authorities insisting on or ignoring the need for photo ID for different demographics. So much for equal treatment in the United States.

“TSA Checkpoint” by phidauex is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Whenever you fly anywhere in America, you require picture ID — so that, when you get to the head of the great endless security line, the TSA agent can get out his jeweler’s loupe and examine how the ink lies on the paper. And, when he’s finished doing that, he can fish out his UV light to study the watermark on your ID.

Which is all bollocks even by the standards of American security-state bureaucracy. Why bother going to all the tedious trouble of fake ID when real ID is so easy to acquire? On September 11th 2001, four of the terrorists boarded the flight with genuine, valid picture ID issued by the state of Virginia and obtained through the illegal-immigrant day-workers’ network run out of the parking lot of the 7-Eleven in Falls Church.

If that didn’t get Americans mad about the cosseting of the undocumented, I doubt they’ll care a fig about this latest privilege. But I thought it worth mentioning anyway: While you’re stuck with the Loupe & Light guy poring over your ID, the federal government announced last week that migrants crossing the southern border will be permitted to fly within the United States without any valid ID. You’re on orange alert now and forever, they’re in the express check-in.

This is where selective enforcement of the laws always leads — to a broader contempt for all law, and an end to equality before the law. In 2021 no developed nation needs mass unskilled immigration. Some have it for historical reasons — a hangover of empire, as in Britain and France; some have it for sentimentalist pseudo-humanitarian reasons, as in Sweden and Norway. But neither of these rationales account for what the laughably misnamed Department of Homeland Security is doing at America’s southern border.

Tank Chat #103 | Laird Centaur | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 15 May 2020

David Fletcher looks at this curiosity from the 1970’s, a Land Rover with tracks. Currently housed in The Tank Museum’s Vehicle Conservation Centre.

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QotD: Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People

Filed under: Books, Politics, Quotations — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 01:00

The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure … Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even — so it was occasionally rumoured — in some hiding-place in Oceania itself …

Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party — an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it …

The sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically … But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were — in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less. Always there were fresh dupes waiting to be seduced by him. A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police.

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.

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