Wondering why the Nordstream bombing was back in the news?

Posted on June 8, 2023 by On the North River

From ACE.

At the Nord Stream Bomb Site, a Boot Used by US Military Divers Was Discovered. How Did the Official “Investigators” Miss This?

—Ace

I should point out that this boot is not used exclusively by US Navy divers. It’s also used by commercial divers, and by Ukrainian navy divers too, supposedly.

Okay, but: It’s suspicious that the “official investigation,” being conducted by Sweden, failed to turn this up.

On the evening of May 24, 2023, I stood aboard a small ship called the Baltic Explorer. With sun still high overhead in the Baltic Sea, our boat sat anchored thirty-one nautical miles from the coast of Denmark, and directly above the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the exclusive economic zone of Sweden.For several minutes, I stared at a live video feed from an underwater drone showing never-before-seen footage of the ruptures in the pipeline. Suddenly, a strange object appeared on the screen. It was a black and orange diver’s boot.

The Grayzone has identified a model which closely resembles this boot, and is used by both US Navy and commercial divers. Ukrainian Navy divers have also been seen wearing similar boots.

We have also learned that the boot’s presence had been previously reported to investigators, yet they have not collected it or divulged its existence.

 

This article was published a couple of days ago — and may very well have prompted the CIA to begin leaking that it must have been those Navy Aces of Ukraine that done the deed. It’s almost as if when the CIA’s first cover story began to unravel, they began pushing their back-up cover story to the compliant state media.

Update, Just in from Jake Tapper: This boot is one of them “conspiracy theories” I keep hearing so much about.

A couple of days ago I was shaking my head in disbelief as I watched a “News” story about how the Ukrainian Navy had circumvented the EU, going through the Bosporus strait, across the Mediterranean, North through the English Channel, pass Denmark and Sweden into the Baltic to blow up the Nordstream pipeline.

Why wouldn’t they just drive across Estonia and buy or rent a boat to then travel less than a hundred miles to the site of the attack?  The people making up this story, I thought, are idiots.

Idiots or the CIA, same difference.

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In great deeds… annual repost.

Posted on June 6, 2023 by On the North River

From 2019

I read today as a prelude to a story about D-Day commemorations the phrase “This will be the last significant observation of this event. Because only a handful of living veterans are now participating and none will be alive for the 100th year anniversary.

Really? Because the battle of Gettysburg, one hundred and fifty six years ago still commands great interest and respect in both the North and the South. It is my belief that as long as the American Republic survives both battles will continue to be marked by intense interest, respect and devotion to the principles of Honor, Duty and Freedom that both events represent.

“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.” – Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

So say we all.

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The Quiet Men.

Posted on June 5, 2023 by On the North River

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Lithium battery fires.

Posted on June 4, 2023 by On the North River

E-bike battery fires this year have killed more in NYC than in 2022: FDNY

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Lithium-ion batteries from e-bikes and similar devices have fueled 92 fires, injured 64 people, and caused nine deaths so far this year – almost as many as the 10 fatalities in 2022 and 2021 combined, FDNY data show.

Four people perished last month, when a May 7 blaze tore through an Upper Manhattan apartment building.

Even well engineered and manufactured E-batteries can blow after any common road accident. I’ve wiped out on my regular bike several times over the years, but I didn’t have to worry that night about parking it on the porch.

With a lithium battery all the layers between the cells are thin and closely packed and how would you know if there was internal damage?

It’s common practice to replace your bike helmet after a single spill where you went down hard, but not the bike’s battery?

I know that not every minor bike accident is going to result in the battery catching fire or blowing up, but how do you know that ‘this time’ it’s safe?

Maybe once in every thousand batteries there will be a fire or explosion  so imagine I have a jar with one thousand jelly beans, one jelly bean is poisonous and will kill you; how many jelly beans would you like?

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The Door.

Posted on June 4, 2023 by On the North River

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Killdozer! (re-posted annually)

Posted on June 4, 2023 by On the North River

Today is a special day.

June 4th 2018 marks the 14th anniversary of the Killdozer’s rampage through Granby Colorado.

Sit down kids and let me tell you a tale, about a reasonable man driven to do unreasonable things.

Marvin Heemeyer was a man who owned a muffler shop in Granby Colorado. The city council ordained to approve the construction of a concrete factory in the lot across from Marvin’s shop. In the process this
blocked the only access road to the muffler shop. Marvin petitioned to stop the construction to no avail. Petitioned to construct a new access road, and even bought the heavy machinery to do so himself. Denied.

The concrete factory went up in disregard to the ramifications on Marvin’s business. To add insult to injury, the factory construction disconnected the muffler shop from the city sewage lines. An indifferent city government then chose to fine Marvin for this.

His businessand livelihood were in ruin. Rather than lie down and die, Marvin chose to fight back. Over the course of a year and a half Marvin secretly outfitted the bulldozer he bought to save his business with three foot thick steel and concrete armor, camera systems guarded with bulletproof glass.

On June 4th 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of himself, entombing himself inside the Killdozer to make his last stand.

He burst forth from the walls of his muffler shop and straight into the concrete factory that ruined his business. Over the course of the next several hours Marvin drove his Killdozer through 13 buildings owned by those officials that had wronged him, including the city council building itself.

Swat teams swarmed the dozer, but it proved immune to small arms fire and even explosives. Another
piece of heavy machinery was even brought out to fight the Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozers righteous fury.

In the end, Marvin’s Killdozer became trapped in one of the buildings it was built to destroy. Marvin chose to take his life, the only life he took that day.

Today we celebrate Killdozer day and Marvin Heemeyer, the last great American folk hero. A man driven to the brink who chose to fight back against an indifferent system.

From notes left behind after his passing: “I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”

When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes duty

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Megyn Kelly comes around.

Posted on June 3, 2023 by On the North River

Megyn Kelly declares she won’t use Fake Pronouns any longer:

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Lost Graves. Reposted from 2019.

Posted on May 30, 2023 by On the North River

A Find A Grave photo request has just been made in your area. If you are able to take this photograph, please read the ‘Instructions for Photographers’ paragraph at the end of this email.

Name: Edmond J Harvey (unknown – Jan. 14, 1945)

Several years ago, after receiving this email, I set out to photograph this man’s resting place. Shortly afterwards I sent this email back.

“I’ve just received the location information about this grave.
Returning veterans bodies whose families could not afford a grave-site were buried in the veterans section (2). Within the cemetery that is between Immaculate Conception Ave. and St. Francis Ave., beyond that there was no record of the row or plot as the men were buried as they came back. “

Section two was about two acres, I came to find that the majority of the WWII graves had only a flat, 12″x5″ rectangular stone marker with Name, Date and Unit. I walked every inch of that section, but I never found “Edmond J Harvey”. I did find a number of stone markers after going to unmarked areas when the spacing should have had a grave and dug around under the sod until I found  the buried markers. By rain and snow and growing grass did disappear the markers of forgotten men, those whose families had moved away or never thought to maintain their resting place.

The next Memorial Day (aka Decoration Day), overcast and rainy, I rather self-consciously walked to the middle of the field in an area without visible markers or headstones, and placed a small batch of flowers alone on the wet ground. Edmond J Harvey is there, somewhere, and on each Memorial Day since as I go by that place I think about him and whisper a short prayer. For all the forgotten men.

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From Irish’s blog, “Repatriating the Remains”.

Posted on May 29, 2023 by On the North River

Any who, long story short, I took the two attached photo’s while providing logistical support during a repatriation of remains from Hanoi, Vietnam.  The ceremony is extremely quiet and you will notice the U.S. flags are not draped over the coffins.  That is because we had not re-established diplomatic relations yet and Viet government would not allow us to unfurl the flags on the tarmac.  This was completed after the ceremony when everything was being button-up for departure.  The wooden boxes the solider is saluting is the actual box the Vietnam government provides to us with the remains.  This will be transferred to the metal coffins in picture #1.  I attended six Repat Ceremonies i Hanoi, but never had the chance to participate since I was working logistics and was kept busy before and after the ceremony and was covered with sweat, fuel and other who knows what by the end.  Was able to click a few photos for my memory of what I was part of.  Please use photos if you want, just wanted to provide to people who care and for them to remember that freedom cost more than just money and equipment, and some of us will never forget.

It was my honor to serve our fallen comrades in such a manner and to hopefully bring rest to their grieving families.  I pass around these two photos to either ex-military or to individuals who have a strong desire to support the true reason behind Memorial Day.  May God bless and your family, keep up the great job on your site.

SmokeyJazz

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Her…. again.

Posted on May 29, 2023 by On the North River

Jane Fonda declares that Climate Change is caused by males. Who must be exterminated.

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