Everyone of my generation who played guitar one of the requirements was to learn "Wipe Out"... The Ventures were part of our lives.

Happy New Year you mob from Australia.

Sydney fire works going off as I type.

They are the best,

Good year for Rogue.

Bally

As I have mentioned before, I am living/squatting in a house that was converted into an auto/machine shop and parts warehouse with very little space and massive amounts of chaotic clutter. I moved from a fully furnished 1800 sq ft home with a decked out garage/shop into basically a bedroom and a half so my own disaster was added into the already existing disaster but I’m fine with that. I’m not fancy. I also drive a 40 year old car too! Lol!

For example, this is what used to be the living room of this house. The rest of the place is pretty much the same and I have a huge combo mill and machine lathe in my kitchen!



I have one fairly large room, the master bedroom (you’re not supposed to call it that anymore) with a big sectional sofa and 60” TV. It is a cozy space where I can entertain guests comfortably with some degree of respectability with a boho/laidback flair. Not that I do that anymore as I dumped all my friends and quit going out to the bar and dragging folks home for an after party but it is nice to have the option.

The "nice" room


Since I moved in here three years ago, I have been sleeping (or trying to) on a very worn out bed that unfolds from the couch providing the most miserable nights of sleep I can remember so I decided to do something about it as my old bones just couldn’t take it any more so I purchased a small Twin XL size hybrid innerspring & memory foam mattress in a box on sale from Amazon. link

I didn’t want to just plop it down in my one good room that is reasonably nice as that would ruin its use as a living room so I decided to make room for it in the one other room I have access to. This room is mostly filled with storage, a workbench, my sim rig and my corner desk where I spend most of my time and there simply wasn’t room so I decided to tear things apart and move things around to make room.

I thought before I got too carried away, I would take a picture.



I managed to find space and put the mattress on the floor. I’ve been sleeping there for a month now and I really love my new bed but it is hard to get out of and some of the stuff I took out to make the room for it somehow needs to come back into this room so I have come up with a plan to build a bed frame that is also a storage rack.

How things are now. My "project" will be going where the bed is and that metal workbench will be moved up against the wall.


I have attached my plan below in the PDF. I am hoping some of you guys that know more about this stuff than I do will take a look at it and see if there are any problems with my design? It isn’t anything fancy and is just using lumber from Homo Depot but I think it will do?

I realize that 2x4s and 2x6s aren’t actually that size as shown in my blueprint but I will accommodate for that when building. I have built several things before and am not a complete novice.

I have a table saw that I will be making a crosscut jig for to get perfect cuts. I also have a circular saw and a long metal guide for cutting sheets of plywood and hand tools galore, 3 electric sanders and gaggle of different kinds of big and small clamps. For the majority of the joinery of key components, I am going to be using dowels for strength and have an awesome new dowel jig I’ll be putting to good use as my old one was crap. I have a pocket hole jig too but don’t think I’ll be using it for this project?

One thing I am not sure of is I will be corner joining two long 86” boards together and am unsure how many dowels to use or how far apart they should be so any advice would be appreciated.

I am hoping I can con my ex-hubby into coming over next week with his giant Sprinter van to take me to Home Depot so I can get started. He promised to take that metal cabinet off the wall too. I will update things as they progress.

I'm figuring it will probably cost around $550 and that's before I add the accessories like drapes and stuff and a TV  Yeah, I'm crazy, no doubt!

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As some have speculated Chinese leaving China's mainland are infected and the possibility of another global pandemic seems to have the ground work being laid by the stupid. It was supposed to be January before the Chinese were free to travel out of country but evidently some have been able to get their freedom pass early.

Hello all.  2nd attempt at this.  

Had the story all ready to send and suddenly everything went blank.  Please bare with me again.  I'll save as I go. 

So, take 2,  Listening to the Aussies -v- South Africa = cricket test

 1/.  I like cricket.  2/.  I watch the test cricket on the big screen.  3/.  My son bought me a radio for xmas so I can listen in the garden and elsewhere. 4/. I tuned into ABC "Australian Broadcasting Commission" A radio station sponsored by the Government.  Live commentary.

So the match ended early with the Aussies winning.

The program went to issues as is normal with ABC and while cooking dinner I listened on.  

One issue was the wearing of 'possum' fur/skins by aboriginal elders during ceremonial occasions. (possums are a protected species)   (I have no issue with this)  (We have aboriginal skin names and family) but the respondent to the journalist stated - "The Govment gave us blankets laced with smallpox instead" alluding to the fact of Genocide.  Gobsmacked! I was.  

Don't from now on give the Aboriginals any blankets or perhaps anything else of the like nature au gratis.  

What a stupid statement to make and the ABC ran with it.  No further questions or request for qualifying statements.  "BLANKETS LACED WITH SMALLPOX???"  On or about 6.50pm today EST.  

Maybe a rant but this is Australia mate.  

I cannot grasp the reason for this assumption.  Smallpox?  Give me a break.

Anyway, my Australian ABC story.

Bally

The Sum of All Fears? Anyone catch this story? Back to the old cold war days.

Quote:US prosecutors claimed the group worked with two Moscow-based companies controlled by Russian intelligence services to acquire electronic components in the US that have civilian uses, but can also be used to help make nuclear and hypersonic weapons and in quantum computing.

One of those indicted is 35-year-old Alexey Brayman, who holds Israeli citizenship but is a resident of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

According to The Boston Globe, Brayman was born in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The court agreed at a hearing on the charges that he would be allowed to return to his New Hampshire home, but he was fitted with a location tracker.

The indictment, cited by CBS, said Brayman “repeatedly used the New Hampshire residence as a transshipment point for repackaging sensitive military-grade and export-controlled items and forwarding them to intermediate locations in Europe and Asia, from where they were transshipped to Russia.”

The Boston Globe said prosecutors charged the equipment “could make a significant contribution to the military potential or nuclear proliferation of other nations or that could be detrimental to the… national security of the United States.”




According to the newspaper, supplies smuggled through the Drayman family home included semiconductors — key to producing the ballistic missiles that Russia has deployed to deadly effect in Ukraine.

The exporting of the technology involved in the case is heavily regulated and occurred in violation of US sanctions, according to a 16-count indictment unsealed Monday in Brooklyn.

“The Department of Justice and our international partners will not tolerate criminal schemes to bolster the Russian military’s war efforts,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement announcing the charges.

However, the Boston Globe noted Brayman had posted on Facebook a clip of Ukrainian performers on the “America’s Got Talent” television show highlighting the years-long conflict between Moscow and Kyiv.

The report said that even as equipment was allegedly smuggled through their New Hampshire home en route to Russia, Brayman’s wife Daria posted a call for donations to a charity that was helping Ukrainians amid the invasion.
The couple’s Facebook pages, now apparently taken down or set to private, also reportedly documented at least one vacation to Israel.

The Boston Globe likened the case to a plot line from “The Americans,” a drama in which a pair of Russian spies lived undercover in suburbia.

Neighbors told the outlet that the Braymans run an online crafting company and participated in community activities.
“It’s crazy. You just never know who’s in your neighborhood and what they’re doing behind closed doors,” neighbor Mike Benoit told CBS.

Brayman’s attorney David Lazarus said in an email that his client has not been convicted of anything and is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

The seven charged included five Russian nationals, including Vadim Konoshchenok, a suspected officer with Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB. He was arrested in Estonia last week and will undergo extradition proceedings to the United States, US authorities said.

About 375 pounds of ammunition originating from the United States was found by Estonian authorities in a warehouse used by Konoshchenok, according to federal prosecutors.

The four other Russian nationals remain at large.

Also arrested was Vadim Yermolenko, a US citizen living in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

US officials said the arrests had disrupted the procurement network allegedly used by Russian intelligence services, which they said had been operating as far back as 2017.

US scrutiny of efforts to evade sanctions on Russia intensified after the invasion of Ukraine last winter.

The Times of Israel

Quote:The group worked on behalf of Serniya, a global network of Russian agents and front companies with clients such as the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Federal Security Service, or FSB, according to the indictment. US officials have described Serniya as “instrumental” to Russia’s war machine.

Working at the behest of agents in Russia, Boris Livshits, a Russian national who once lived in Brooklyn, allegedly purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars in sanctioned items from American electronics companies, misleading sellers about the equipment’s ultimate destination.

Once purchased, authorities allege, Livshits, using the alias “David Wetzky” and a host of front companies, arranged for the items to be shipped to the Braymans’ Merrimack home. In March 2022, 18 days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Brayman and Livshits discussed sending items to Russia through Germany “by hook or by crook,” according to the indictment.

Brayman regularly sent shipments to Vadim Konoshchenok, a Russian national and suspected FSB agent in Estonia, who, authorities say, would then smuggle the goods across the border into Russia. On one such trip in late October, Konoshchenok was detained and found with 35 different types of semiconductors and electronic components, according to court documents. He has also been found with tens of thousands of rounds worth of American ammunition, including sniper bullets made in Nebraska. A search of his warehouse revealed some 375 pounds of ammunition.

Do someone has spotted some explanations about the Z symbol which is currently used during the war in Ukraine?

It seems it was used before as well:



taken from 

During the course of human history, civilization has repeatedly collapsed. The first that I am aware of is the Late Bronze Age Collapse, roughly 3200 years ago, but it was by no means the last, and we appear to be walking right into the perfect storm to precipitate yet another, on a grander, world-wide scale.

A couple of things that civilizational collapses all seem to have in common are 1) over-centralization of control, and 2) over-extension of supply lines, what is now known of as "Globalism".

The over-centralization is usually exhibited as ridiculous centralization of governmental control structures (think "Rome" as the hub of the Roman Empire) and unwarranted centralization of financial structures (think "central banks"). This centralization of power structures leaves them vulnerable to a death blow. Consider the current centralization of political power in the US into Washington, DC. That leaves the entire nation vulnerable, as a nuke or two on DC would throw the entire country into disarray, like a chicken with it's head cut off. Don't think our enemies haven't noticed that.

Likewise the US financial structure - take the Federal Reserve (or any other Central bank you choose) out, and suddenly there would be no one to run the financial show - the entire economy would vaporize.

Over-extension of supply lines can produce disastrous cascade collapses that effect far more than just that supply line. Take out  just one "man in the middle" distribution point, or just one critical supply line, and watch how the carnage spreads from that single point into myriad other areas that became overly-dependent upon it - make gasoline and diesel unaffordable, and watch food prices rise out of control, even though none of us eat or drink petroleum products.

Putting all your eggs in one basket, and then putting that basket into the bull's eye far away from yourself still has a rippling effect that can collapse your own house.

We are witnessing, in our own day, yet another attempt by civilization to over-centralize control structures, and over-extend supply lines. They give it the pretty name of "Globalism" now, but make no mistake that the very central tenets of Globalism are the same damned things that have led to every other collapse of civilization in history.

Humans in general are stupid herd-beasts. As a matter of fact, calling humans "sheep" is, I believe, an insult to sheep. Will we ever learn from past mistakes? I doubt it - not as long as power can be centralized and a single person or group can seize that power for themselves. Humans are, not just stupid herd beasts, but also stupid herd beasts with a hankering for power over the other herd beasts, and control of them. So long as that is the case, civilizations will continue to collapse and have to start over from scratch.

When you add in "climate change" (which is always, and always has been changing), and other migratory pressures that cause one group to invade the territory of another group in search of cushier survival, you get a perfect storm that cascades into civilizational collapse - the "Sea Peoples" in the late bronze Age Collapse, the "Barbarians" in the collapse of the Roman Empire, and now the "migrants" from the Middle East currently invading Europe and the Hispanic "migrants" currently invading the US, are all examples of that phenomena. That ain't going to end well - it never has, NEVER, in all of human history.

The Late Bronze Age Collapse:



What we are seeing now is no different from what folks were seeing way back then. it's just a matter of time. While this video concentrates on the Mediterranean world and the Middle East, the migrations and collapse were not restricted to that area. For example, there is recorded in the ground evidence for a giant battle on the Tollense valley of Germany at the same time, fought with bronze weapons against stone and wooden weapons such as clubs. No one knows who the combatants were, or why, as history was not being recorded in Europe at that remote time. All we have are the remains of the dead and the weapons they killed one another with... but the timing is right to include the battle in this world-wide collapse of the original "Globalists".

ATTN Humanity: Learn from history or die. there is no third option. It may be that humanity really IS too dumb to live.

Globalism kills civilizations. We're next on the agenda.

"Too big to fail" = "too dumb to live".

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More childish behavior from a corporatist-fascist organization. Shocked! (Not)

Quote:World Economic Forum cancels Twitter, directs followers to Chinese social media apps

Prior to its upcoming conference in Davos next month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) appears to have joined the cancel campaign against Twitter, taking to recommending Chinese state-controlled social media apps to “follow along” with Davos Man into the future.

Quote:Zelensky announces he is planning to join World Economic Forum in Davos, to sign new "postwar loans" with BlackRock

"Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Larry Fink agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channelling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy," the post said.

Quote:Keeping up with the WEF - Davos 2023 in Jan: "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" by Dr. Robert Malone.

The topic for this year’s event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv6RJB3kak8


Exacto Bullet.  Found this.  Hope this works.

Precision guided bullet.

DAARPA

Sorry, can only post link,

Regards,

Bally