Good lord. How does that go undetected that it was wired incorrectly after repairs. It obviously wasn't tested after it was rewired or there was another failure that caused the engine order telegraph to indicate / operate incorrectly.
In regards to the UK's ship colliding
Royal Navy warships crashed into each other ‘due to faulty rewiring’
Wiring error meant HMS Chiddingfold went backwards when set to go forward and hit HMS Bangor in Bahrain, say sourceswww.theguardian.com
Failure to audit means failure to test means failure to launch.Good lord. How does that go undetected that it was wired incorrectly after repairs. It obviously wasn't tested after it was rewired or there was another failure that caused the engine order telegraph to indicate / operate incorrectly.
Can someone explain to me why a military ship like this is fiberglass above the waterline? At least I hope its just above the waterline.
Can someone explain to me why a military ship like this is fiberglass above the waterline? At least I hope its just above the waterline.
because its a mine sweeper, and many mines are activated by metal ( induction) moving over them.
/\ Let's fuck around and find out.
Edit: Nothing on aljazeera.com
Well the main stream news said that none of their missiles have actually damaged the cargo ships in the last attack when one actually tore through the ship forcing it back to port.Yemen says they just hit an American destroyer....haven't seen anything confirming this
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-- rolls eyes --Well the main stream news said that none of their missiles have actually damaged the cargo ships in the last attack when one actually tore through the ship forcing it back to port.
and killing 10k children with indiscriminate bombing is not pure evil?
Ok low effort
Just to be clear here, the Houthi's are pure evil.
They have taken the extreme policy position of the complete extermination of all Jews.
In Houthi territory they run camps to forcefully indoctrinate the population to their ideology, and forcefully convert Bahais and Christian minorities.
They abduct and torture women in their areas. The abduct and torture political opponents.
Killing a Houthi combatant by definition makes the world a better place. It doesn't matter the motivation. It does not matter the why. These people are black and white evil.
https://www.adl.org/resources/news/why-do-houthis-curse-jews
the above quote does not do it justice, read the section, it is systematic crime after crime on a grand scale. It will make your blood boil.
Preventing the Next Kabul: Confronting the Houthi’s Violent Suppression of Women in Yemen
Since 2014, the Houthi militia has abducted and tortured hundreds of women and forced their seclusion through indoctrination with foreign ideology. The violations of women’s rights and international norms cannot go unpunished unless Sana’a is to become a second Kabul.www.wilsoncenter.org
Yemen: Abusive Detention Rife Under Houthis
Houthi and other Sanaa-based authorities in Yemen have arbitrarily detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared numerous opponents, Human Rights Watch said today. Among the hundreds of cases of arbitrary detention reported by Yemeni groups since September 2014, Human Rights Watch recently...www.hrw.org
Sometimes, Evil is just Evil. Sometimes, things are black and white. Sometimes, killing someone does make the world a better place. Regardless of why they were murdered.
Interesting article dropped by the BBC a couple of days ago about our nefarious dealings in YemenWhat makes the Houthis "pure evil" compared to all the other garbage people? Also, I hope you realize that's the exact same rhetoric constantly used by conservatives to justify unjust actions (see Reagan calling Soviet Union evil, or Dubya's "Axis of Evil" and the many others whilst they perpetrated evils as great or greater) and that's never actually worked out in a way that hasn't made the situation even worse (Reagan did eventually see that and it was maybe the only positive he did - but even that was too late as he basically pushed America into the forever wars mentality and ever ballooning defense industry based on fear).
I don't like the Houthis, but acting like they're somehow particularly evil compared to the other evils, including the ones perpetrated by the US (using literally the exact same fucking arguments the Houthis, or Islamic State, there's conservatives in America openly working towards the exact same type of shit and they also are responsible for more death and misery than those groups due to the much higher power they wield), is so silly that its like you don't even realize what a clown you look like.
Sometimes there's every bit as much evil being perpetrated by the persons doing the "just" work in dealing with "evil". That's also literally the exact same argument police have used for their perpetual campaigns of terror which often turn out to be based on bullshit, so your "evil" rhetoric just sounds like the full of shit preaching from the same type of psychopaths that want you to enable their strain of holy war. Which is the exact same type of shit the people you're declaring evil and need to be exterminated are telling their people. Its the exact same shit, just with slightly different names. Fuck your Crusades. They don't accomplish anything.
Hell, I'd guess the Houthis might not even make the top 5 of groups perpetrating evil in the Middle East right now. And that's just of the groups committing the exact same shit you are calling the Houthis evil for, and doesn't include Israel, the US, Turkey, Russia, or the others that have been meddling in the Middle East during this time.
Like I said before, this presents a good case for our military to learn some new tactics. Like how to cost effectively deal with such situations. Or maybe as a country, find some new fucking ways of moving goods. Or a litany of other options that would both cost less and not just continue the cycle of pointless fighting, that then is used to justify further fighting in the future. At some point you need to learn to break the cycle or you're just going to doom yourself.
In regards to the UK's ship colliding
Royal Navy warships crashed into each other ‘due to faulty rewiring’
Wiring error meant HMS Chiddingfold went backwards when set to go forward and hit HMS Bangor in Bahrain, say sourceswww.theguardian.com
Is that you Bagdad Bob?Yemen says they just hit an American destroyer....haven't seen anything confirming this
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He needs to be a target.Interesting article dropped by the BBC a couple of days ago about our nefarious dealings in Yemen
UAE has funded political assassinations in Yemen, BBC finds
The United Arab Emirates has paid for the killing of its political enemies in Yemen, whistleblowers say.www.bbc.com
~During our investigation we also came across the name Nasser al-Shiba. Once a high-ranking al-Qaeda operative, he was jailed for terrorism but later released. A Yemeni government minister we spoke to told us al-Shiba was a known suspect in the attack on the US warship USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors in October 2000. Multiple sources told us that he is now the commander of one of the STC military units.
Stated goal:What makes the Houthis "pure evil" compared to all the other garbage people? Also, I hope you realize that's the exact same rhetoric constantly used by conservatives to justify unjust actions (see Reagan calling Soviet Union evil, or Dubya's "Axis of Evil" and the many others whilst they perpetrated evils as great or greater) and that's never actually worked out in a way that hasn't made the situation even worse (Reagan did eventually see that and it was maybe the only positive he did - but even that was too late as he basically pushed America into the forever wars mentality and ever ballooning defense industry based on fear).
I don't like the Houthis, but acting like they're somehow particularly evil compared to the other evils, including the ones perpetrated by the US (using literally the exact same fucking arguments the Houthis, or Islamic State, there's conservatives in America openly working towards the exact same type of shit and they also are responsible for more death and misery than those groups due to the much higher power they wield), is so silly that its like you don't even realize what a clown you look like.
Sometimes there's every bit as much evil being perpetrated by the persons doing the "just" work in dealing with "evil". That's also literally the exact same argument police have used for their perpetual campaigns of terror which often turn out to be based on bullshit, so your "evil" rhetoric just sounds like the full of shit preaching from the same type of psychopaths that want you to enable their strain of holy war. Which is the exact same type of shit the people you're declaring evil and need to be exterminated are telling their people. Its the exact same shit, just with slightly different names. Fuck your Crusades. They don't accomplish anything.
Hell, I'd guess the Houthis might not even make the top 5 of groups perpetrating evil in the Middle East right now. And that's just of the groups committing the exact same shit you are calling the Houthis evil for, and doesn't include Israel, the US, Turkey, Russia, or the others that have been meddling in the Middle East during this time.
Like I said before, this presents a good case for our military to learn some new tactics. Like how to cost effectively deal with such situations. Or maybe as a country, find some new fucking ways of moving goods. Or a litany of other options that would both cost less and not just continue the cycle of pointless fighting, that then is used to justify further fighting in the future. At some point you need to learn to break the cycle or you're just going to doom yourself.
Score one for the Houthis?
How much of a fire can an oil tanker endure before the whole thing is lost?
Maybe it was just the deck....
This will do wonders for the price of oil.
Yemen's Huthis Claim Attack On British Oil Tanker In Gulf Of Aden
Yemen's Huthi rebels claimed Friday a missile strike on a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, setting the vessel on fire, their latest attack on shipping.
n Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry said Beijing was calling for a stop to “disturbance to civilian ships” and had “been in close communication with various parties and worked actively to alleviate the tension in the Red Sea”.
However, in veiled criticism of the US and UK attacks on the Houthis, the ministry urged the “relevant parties to avoid adding fuel to the fire”, adding that the UN Security Council had “never authorised the use of force by any country on Yemen”.
The Red Sea tension was also a “spillover” from the Gaza conflict, which should be ended as soon as possible, the ministry said.
Houthis Won't Target Chinese, Russian Ships in Red Sea
A senior official of the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group says Chinese and Russian vessels will have safe passage through the Red Sea. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political leadership, said in an interview with the Russian outlet Izvestia that the shipping lanes around...www.voanews.com
Anyway if that holds then it makes the funny meme above about Putin and his advisors rather moot.