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Russia is Bombing 'Our' Jihadists in Syria — Now What?
We picked a hell of a time to take a month off! JWS initial skepticism that Russian pilots would directly participate in strikes on ISIS and other anti-Assad jihadist groups has proven unfounded. Moscow has begun a Syrian air campaign in as overt a fashion as possible. Now what? MOAR proxy war and insane Cold War2 propaganda…especially as Washington and its Mideast regional allies watch their proxies in Syria suffer a string of humiliating defeats at the hands of Russia's bombing campaign in support of an expected Syrian Arab Army (SAA)/Iranian offensive…
First, a bit of 'housekeeping' or really, an acknowledgement of our own limitations. Unlike those analysts out there in alternative media who only tell you the predictions they've successfully made and gotten right, we admit that we did not see the Russians overtly striking targets in Syria, at least not this soon.
Much of our skepticism was owed to our Floridian White Russian friend The Saker. But as it turned out Israeli-Russian Israel Shamir's sources were correct in early September that Russia intended to fight against ISIS and the CIA/Saudi/Qatari backed jihadists of Al-Nusra Front sooner rather than later.
…in the Russia Analyst's view we are unlikely to see Russian soldiers and combat pilots participating in direct combat with the Islamic State or the anti-Assad rebels — unless their status as anti-ISIS coalition member combatants can receive some sort of United Nations or international mandate. Then the situation would change completely as Russia would be able to use its highest firepower and most modern weapons while regional allies (Iraq, Iran, and possibly even Saudi Arabia and Egypt to take de facto control over southern and Jordanian-bordering Sunni areas of Syria) would provide the bulk of the manpower and endure the casualties before ISIS is completely wiped out. – "Are Russian Soldiers and Pilots Fighting in Syria? Not Quite Yet" us writing at RogueMoney on September 7, 2015
On the other hand, our caveats about Russian military action did mention that if Russia got involved it would leave the vast bulk of the ground combat to the Syrian Arab Army, the Iranians, and the Iraqis (with some of Gen. Sisi's Egyptian special forces thrown in for good measure?). The primary task of any Russian troops deployed to Syria's generally pro-Assad Allawite heartland near the Mediterranean coast would be force protection of air and naval bases, followed by elite special forces to hunt down high value targets such as Caucasians and assorted Muslims from the former Soviet 'Stans embedded within ISIS and Al-Nusra.
That Putin's Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov would volunteer his elite and feared Kadyrovsti soldiers to fight terrorists on behalf of Allah and Mother Russia, we had little doubt. What we did not anticipate is that Russian media would report that Beijing is sending People's Liberation Army (PLA) commandos to Syria in order to fight Turkic Uyghur jihadists from far western China. Reports that China sent its one and only operational aircraft carrier to the Russian naval base at Tartus were false, much like Debka's claim that the Russians were sending a nuclear ballistic missile submarine to Syria. We also aren't buying Debka's claims that Chinese J-15 fighter bombers are en route to Syria until we see pictures of them lined up alongside the Russians' jets. At any rate with the claims that Moscow is about to launch a ground offensive in the vicinity of Homs using its own or Chinese troops, Доверяй, но проверяй — trust but verify as Reagan used to say.
As the Tennesse actor Fred Dalton Thompson famously said in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October — which no doubt inspired Debka's disinfo scribblers to claim a Typhoon-class SSBN was sailing to Syria — "what's his plan? A Russian submarine captain doesn't go to the bathroom without a plan." Similarly, it's safe to assume Putin has a plan in Syria, besides twirling his evil (non-existent) mustache while showing up Obama and the U.S. in the Middle East.
Zerohedge has done a good job discussing the daily news of the situation and the Iranians keen interest in a counteroffensive on behalf of Damascus and their Hezbollah local proxies. Therefore we don't see the need to belabor points that have already been made elsewhere in the alternative media and English-language Russian press of RT/Sputnik. What we can do as the Russia Analyst fresh from a Moscow trip is present our analyses in a Q&A format, focused on the obvious 'why now?' and 'what next?' inquiries as presented by the mainstream media and the Russians.
Questions such as:
1) Why has Putin chosen to directly intervene in Syria — a non-Slavic, Muslim majority country hundreds of kilometers from Russia's borders — while avoiding direct engagements as opposed to proxy war 'next door' in Ukraine? And why now?
This is a fair question and one many Russian nationalists critical of Putin have been asking since it became clear in late September around the time of Putin's United Nations general assembly speech (more on that in another post) Russia would directly intervene with air strikes against the Islamic State. One answer was supplied by RogueMoney reader and regular commenter SloopyJoe:
Why now Syria and not Ukraine? Ukraine was a trap that the cunning Bear smelled a mile away that is collapsing on its own inertia. Syria is going on five years ILLEGAL USSA-led Western FUBAR War OF Terrorism that is now clearly visible for the world to see. The mission creep of the Turkish No-Fly Zones into Northern Syria is a big NO NO in the Bear's and Dragon's eyes.
Certainly the Western globalists desire to impose a 'No Fly Zone' to secure 'safe areas' for civilians which would become militarized pockets for future anti-Damascus offensives along the Yugoslav breakup model was a motivating factor in terms of the timing. In an odd example of bipartisan 'get tough' rhetoric serving the same globalist objectives, Hillary "what difference does [Benghazi] make?" Clinton and Dr. Ben Carson the supposed antagonists of America's false Repub-Democrat Left/Right paradigm all agreed this week after Russian bombs started falling that the U.S. should impose a no-fly zone over territories occupied by 'its' rebels (see more about this in our post about the propaganda war vs. Russia's Syria campaign).
Nevermind that Al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra are all in the same areas! Nevermind that the so-called 'Free Syrian Army' (FSA) works with Al-Nusra. Nevermind that it's only after the Russian bombs started falling that everyone seems to know with certainty where ISIS is and isn't, and which groups are and aren't 'moderates' supported by the CIA. The Russian bombing of ISIS strongholds in Raqqa has been greeted with either silence or angry denials that the Kremlin is serious about fighting ISIL, in addition to the groups that more closely threaten Assad's strategic heartland stretching from Damascus via a narrow salient to the Allawite-dominated Latakia region on the Med.
While Assad's army is NOT about to collapse, it is worn out by four years of hard urban fighting and significantly outnumbered if not outgunned by its Western and Sunni Gul state-sponsored foes. This is what prompted this development reported by Zerohedge[we note for the record that Gen. Soleimaini's visit to Moscow was denied by the Russian authorities at the time – JWS]:
Back in June, the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimaini, visited a town north of Latakia on the frontlines of Syria's protracted civil war. Following that visit, he promised that Tehran and Damascus were set to unveil a new strategy that would "surprise the world."
Just a little over a month later, Soleimani – in violation of a UN travel ban – visited Russia and held meetings with The Kremlin. The Pentagon now says those meetings were "very important" in accelerating the timetable for Russia's involvement in Syria. The General allegedly made another visit to Moscow in September.
Although this may seem surprising to Western critics who imagine Putin is hellbent on recreating the Soviet Empire at any cost, the Kremlin is cognizant that Russia has limitations both in finances and manpower when it comes to supporting Russian allies. Moscow's unwillingness to send any more than non-military and a few active duty 'vacationers' when needed to the Donbass war probably came as a great disappointment to those like arch-globalist Russophobe Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski who fantasized about thousands of Russian soldiers dying in bloody urban combat for Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk or Kiev as Russia became a pariah state. And while the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics were able to provide enough former citizens of Ukraine as manpower to halt Kiev's offensive and even reverse it at places like Debaltsevo, the DNR/LNR are not a large enough force to push much beyond the pre-war administrative borders of their respective regions into the rest of Ukraine, much less serve as an occupying force where they are not welcomed by locals.
Mariupol and possibly Kharkov could be exceptions to that rule, but in both places there remains a large minority loyal to a 'united Ukraine' if not the current Kiev regime. Therefore the Kremlin treads cautiously and has in fact reigned in its Novorossiya Armed Forces (NAF) proxies, particularly last September when the possibility of Mariupol being seized with a week or less of fighting was very real.
Whether Russia's Putin slamming 'hooray patriots' like it or not, from an international relations and legal point of view it matters that Bashir al-Assad is still recognized as the head of state in Syria. This is the case Washington likes it or not, and regardless of Washington's weak attempts to form a government in exile that its Persian Gulf Sunni-stan partners can 'recognize'. This means that Russia's air campaign over Syria is legal under international law, whereas the American-led anti-ISIS coalition bombing Syria does not have similar legitimacy.
The Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics breakaway statelets are not internationally recognized even by Moscow (unlike say, Abkhazia and South Ossetia whose formal independence has been recognized by Russia and a handful of Russian allies). From an international legal point of view — and we know Putin was trained in St. Petersburg as a lawyer after the KGB dissolved in 1992 — Assad can under the UN Charter's terms invite Russian forces to fight for his country, whereas the elected but unrecognized leadership of the DPR/LPR cannot.
Furthermore, the Kremlin is well aware that the population in large parts of Ukraine would view Russian armed forces as occupiers, whereas in Syria's pro-Assad Latakia region they are viewed as potential saviors or at least offer hope of an enforced truce after nearly five years of war. Indeed, some Syrian Christians if not Allawites living in the area may hope that their attractive daughters catch the eye of some Russian officers or pilots, so the whole family can be sponsored in relocating to Russia. A trickle of Syrian Christians and Allawite refugees has already been resettled in Russia proper, overshadowed by the over one million Ukrainians who have fled into the arms of the 'aggressor' nation.
Syrian mother in 2013: I want my children to become Russian citizens
Again, whether the 'hooray patriots' like it or not these differences matter a great deal, just as it matters that Russia will be far from fighting alone or with the Syrian Arab Army only. The prospect of Iranian officers directing Iraqi militiamen, if not the direct involvement of the Iraqi Army and perhaps even the Egyptians and Chinese in a counteroffensive matters a great deal. It means Russia is not fighting alone, unlike in Afghanistan (see our and others thoughts in reply to question 4 below).
Unlike in Syria, where time was not on the side of Putin's allies without more substantial aid to match the billions Riyadh and Doha have spent to arm the insurgents, in Ukraine time is on the side of Russia's Donbass proxies. The longer the Ukrainian economy collapses, cut off from Ukraine's natural trade with Russia, the less war-making potential the U.S.-backed Kiev regime will have (though American aid can certainly prolong the life span of the Poroshenko and succeeding forces). As we've pointed out here at RogueMoney over the last several months, the Kiev regime could not launch a serious offensive now even if it wanted to, because it lacks a sufficient number of attackers to achieve any breakthrough against determined and now-heavily armed, battle hardened locals. This means if Washington wants to achieve anything on the attack in Ukraine, it will have to risk the lives of American soldiers or at least NATO mercenaries to press any attack. That is something the Obama Administration has thus far not been willing to do.
Hence, contrary to the claims of Kiev propagandists like Christo Grozev or Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder that Putin distracts his people from the unresolved Donbass war with a new one in Syria, in fact the Kremlin keeps the conflict frozen and the DPR/LPR's final status ambiguous on purpose. The goal for Moscow was never to conquer territory [why does Russia need any more land? What Russia needs is more people -which the emigration from a failing Ukraine provides – JWS] or dominate the Ukrainians, as Grozev and Snyder imagine, but to use the DPR and LPR to block Ukraine from ever joining the EU (always a far fetched goal) and NATO (now extremely unlikely as Kiev joining would require unanimity among countries like Germany, France, Italy, Hungary and Greece that were never enthusiastic about Washington's policies in Ukraine in the first place).
To this end, a frozen conflict in Donbass suits the Kremlin's purposes perfectly, though it is not satisfactory to the majority of Donbass militiamen who had hoped to liberate their regions if not all of Ukraine from a U.S.-backed regime they regard as fascist. On the other hand, there are those in Donbass who correctly recognize that the economic, social and military integration of Donetsk and Lugansk into the Russian Federation continues on a de facto if not de jure basis. The ruble has already become the currency of choice on the territory of the DPR and LPR (Russian acronyms DNR/LNR). As those counseling patience have pointed out, it would be quite strange for Putin to go through the trouble of spending billions of rubles to aid the Donbass and build up the NAF with tanks, ammunition and fuel only to surrender it to the Ukrainians as part of some 'deal' with the Americans that Washington can never be trusted to uphold anyway.
2) What can Russia, backed by China, and the Iraqis/SAA/Hezbollah realistically hope to achieve with the help of Russian air strikes?
This is a very important question, in some respects, THE most important question if one believes Clausewitz's maxim that war is a continuation of politics by other means. "Tell me how this ends" is the most important question any American should ask their politicians when D.C. is trying to 'sell' them on a new foreign war. As we witnessed from watching Russian TV channels in Moscow prior to the bombing campaign, TV channels like Rossiya and Rossiya 24 were in overdrive presenting the 'fight them now on foreign soil or fight them later at home' argument to a fairly patriotic, pro-Russian military public. We certainly recognize the fallacy of the 'flypaper' strategy in Iraq, which was the argument advanced by many neocons that the U.S. was killing lots of terrorists in Mesopotamia after the initial easy phase of the march on Baghdad bogged down into a years-long occupation that nearly hollowed out the U.S. military.
However there are several important differences between America's occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and Russia's actions in Syria. And one can present them easily without allegations of simply being a 'Putin apologist' or 'in the tank for the Russians' no matter what they do. We certainly think for example if Mr. Putin had sent his tanks to Kiev or even Kharkov he'd be making a historic mistake. We have our own fears as generally anti-war libertarians about not only 'collateral damage' from Russian bombs, but also the determination of America's Deep State to fight the Russians if necessary to the last Syrian and foreign jihadist, and damn the costs of turning the U.S.-led 'War on Terror' into a sick joke. Just like the neocon lunatics and their Deep State/globalist string pullers wanted Putin to choose between fighting to the last Ukrainian or force him to accept the defeat of his pro-Russian allies in Donbass.
Nonetheless, the Russian argument that they must 'fight ISIS now in Syria or fight them later in the former USSR Central Asian states or on Russian soil in the Caucuses' make a lot more sense than there American analogues. For starters, Russia does not have the Atlantic Ocean between itself and the 'Muslim world'. Muslims have been a part of the Russian Empire dating back to Ivan IV "the Terrible's" conquest of Kazan over 400 years ago and the medieval Rus had extensive trade and military clash contacts with the Siberian and Tatar Khanates.
For Russia, unlike the United States which sits comfortably behind two oceans from Eurasia, closing the borders and disengaging from the Muslim world is not an option. The Russian Federation has a large Muslim population, even though neocons and Russophobes tend to exaggerate its size and numbers. About 1 out of every 10 Russian residents (approximately 15 million) is or has a relative who is Muslim, more than triple the percentage of the population that is Islamic in the U.S. These numbers have been bolstered in recent years by mass migration from the so-called 'Stans led by Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, doing the same types of jobs in Russia that Mexican and Central American migrants do in the USA. Nor are Muslims confined solely to the poorest and least productive regions of Russia in the northern Caucuses region bordering Azerbaijan, Armenia or Georgia. The Muslim-majority Republic of Tatarstan with its petro-dollar renovated capitol in Kazan and Tatneft is a critical part of Russia's petrochemical/hydrocarbon industrial base. As Israel Shamir, a Jewish convert to Russian Orthodox Christianity observes:
Russia is home to some twenty million Sunni Muslims (and very few Shia) [we think these numbers may be exagerrated but are nonetheless 'in the ballpark'- JWS] who are fully integrated and occupy all walks of life and important positions in the Russian state. One of the more fervent and outspoken Russian Muslims is Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of warlike Chechnya. He expressed his support for the Russian airstrikes and offered to lead his fighters into battle in the Syrian hills in order to save the Syrians from the wrath of Takfiris (=those who call other Muslims "Kaffir", "infidel" – a name for Daesh and other Muslim extremists). So for the Russians, this is not a Crusade of Christians against Muslims, but a war of Christians and Muslims against Takfiri sects.
We already know too that a U.S.-trained former Georgian Army officer known as Omar Al-Shishani is one of the top emirs in the Islamic State/ISIL (known as IGIL in Russian). This has led many Russian military and intelligence service men to declare flat out that ISIS is a CIA creation. This may or may not be a slight exaggeration. We know from interviews with retired KGB/SVR Lt. Gen. Leonid Reshetnikov and current GRU chief Colonel-General Igor Sergun believe Daesh is a U.S.-created monster that may have become inconvenient for its masters. So whether you like neocon hipster Michael D. Weiss sneer at this belief of Putin's top advisers and likely Vlad himself, or accept it based on merits is ultimately irrelevant for the near term (though exposure of Russian kompromat about who created Daesh and how no doubt will do tremendous damage to what's left of Washington's 'war on terror' and 'good guy' reputation).
In a fallen world, international relations is not a Hollywood courtroom drama where the bad guys frame up is finally exposed for all to see, Putin has decided to take the U.S. Narrative about big bad ISIS as the worst super terrorist group since COBRA from the GI Joe series and exploit it for Russia's own geostrategic interests. Some may find that crass, others clever realpolitik, but it 'is what it is'.
For argument's sake, we would state that at best the CIA enjoys only one degree of separation from ISIS, and pretty much everyone 'in the neighborhood' if not outside the greater Mideast with two brain cells to rub together knows it. At worst, the half-assed, pathetic and unsuccessful 'coalition' air campaign against the group contrasted with the howling over Russia's more aggressive bombing is the best proof possible that Washington intended to use ISIS rather than dismantle them all along. One only needs to ask a few common sense questions to see the pattern.
Why didn't we see an exodus of military age males from ISIS and Al-Nusra controlled territories that Russia is now bombing prior to a month or two ago, or better yet when the U.S. bombing of ISIS began?
Why did ISIS never cancel Friday prayers in Raqqa when it was the U.S. not Russia doing the bombing?
Why did the US never hit the ISIS oil truck convoys illicitly supplying the Turks or for that matter according to neocons like Weiss, Assad's regime with fuel? Why if oil smuggling was so important to Daesh's bottom line was this never done?
Why was most Americans first impression of Daesh besides beheading videos with top notch Hollywood production values huge lines of Toyota Tundra and other looted vehicles rolling through the Syrian and Iraqi deserts, unmolested by American drones or bombing?
Most importantly, why did no fewer than 50 intelligence analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and other agencies sign off on a complaint that the Obama Administration and its favorite brass have been falsifying U.S. successes against the super-terrorist group even as ISIS territory and recruitment expanded?
The Al-CIAeda charge thus sticks. Therefore notion that Moscow can simply sit back and let Assad fall and not expect the ISIS terrorists to surge into the former Soviet countries, including Ukraine and Russia itself, is naive. That's the argument made by a Russian colonel in the video pasted below. Therefore the answer to "what can Moscow realistically hope to achieve" by its air campaign in Syria is simply this: to do severe damage to these terrorist organizations and devastate them on the battlefield before they can be deployed as useful terror assets against Russia and her allies closer to home.
3) How long will the Russian air strikes and SAA/Iranian counteroffensive last? And how will Russia try to use its forces in Syria as 'force multipliers' to help Assad force peace talks on his enemies (and behind them the Saudis, Qataris, Turks and Americans)?
This is directly related to question no. 2. The answer according to The UK Daily Telegraph is a minimum of 3 to 4 months. President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the air campaign will continue for the duration of "the Syrian armed forces offensive operation." That doesn't sound like just an autumn campaign to us. But at the same time, one has to consider the historic combat effectiveness of Arab armies, even when they outnumber their opponents as Assad's enemies hold a 3 to 1 manpower advantage over the SAA — at least on paper. But here's where the rubber meets the road and the fat hits the fire: how many of the 'Free Syrian Army' (FSA), Al-Nusra and Turkish Muslim Brotherhood 'Army of Conquest' legionnaires will stand and fight against Russian airpower combined with disciplined Iranian attacks?
Syrian rebels may be willing to die for their tribe or hometown if they fear themselves being captured or tortured by Assad's forces. The converse in large part is why the SAA has stubbornly fought on despite grim losses after four years — the Allawites and Christians can expect no mercy from the likes of Al-Nusra if they surrender. But if Damascus is offering amnesty to those who lay down their arms, or better yet, there's the chance to flee to Europe for free room and board in Germany– then what?
Do the neocons and 'humanitarian interventionists' really think masses of Syrians are eager to die for Erdogan, the Saudi princes, and the Qataris if not Allah? Do they think it's an accident the vast majority of the Syrian 'refugees' trying to reach the promised land of Germany these past several weeks were, contrary to MSM reporting, military age young Sunni Muslim males hailing from the anti-Assad rebel controlled areas?
This brings us back to the question of objectives and whether Russia's are realistic. We're told by 'think tankers' shilling for Persian Gulf Sunnistan masters like Charles Lister that Assad's army is on the ropes, controlling a heavily populated but squeezed corridor from Damascus to the coast, while having conceded vast swathes of Sunni super-majority desert territory stretching towards Jordan and Iraq to the south and west.
Nonetheless, we believe rapid advances are possible and humiliating defeats for Washington's 'Free Syrian' proxies are not only possible but likely, based on how quickly Russia's NAF proxies were able to rout the Ukrainian Army that was 'gaining back ground' in August and September 2014. The generally poor levels of coordination between the various rebel commanders and the inability of the CIA or allied intelligence services to coordinate them on a battlefield is very similar to the tactical and strategic weaknesses of the Ukrainian Army shortly before Kiev's forces ran into a buzzsaw at Ilovaisk, Saur Mogila and on the outskirts of Mariupol.
Another commonality with the eastern Donbass battlefield is that closer to Damascus and Latakia, the jamming frequencies are controlled by the Russians. According to Sputnik Russia has deployed the same type of ground-based electronic warfare (EW) systems that we wrote about for Rogue Money this summer see "Rumors of War with Russia Part 7: The Russian Battlefield EW 'Off Switch' is Very Real"). The only military that can credibly try to counter Russia's jammers is the Israeli Defense Forces but they are too far from Damascus or Latakia to matter and Netanyahu has already grudgingly accepted Putin's RUSSIAN no fly zone stretching out from the Syrian capitol and the Russian air bases. Why does Netanyahu pray tell swallow his pride when it comes to dealing with Putin, while trying to bully Obama through the U.S. Congress? Because even Bibi recognizes strength when he sees it, IDF and IAF generals are not stupid and realize their pilots would do far worse going up against Russian hardware today than in the 1970s, and (shhh don't tell the neocons) but a sizeable segment of the Knesset either secretly or openly admires Putin as a friend to the Jews. Plus there's the small matter of backroom negotiations about the future of Israeli Mediterranean gas through Cyprus and Greece mingled with Turkstream…
While Washington's Syrian proxies may be better equipped in terms of satellite phones and TOW anti-tank weaponry than the Ukrainians were over a year ago, one has to consider that Kiev's troops didn't suffer a single confirmed Russian air strike. Much less a months-long campaign paired with round-the-clock satellite and drone-driven targeting paired with human intelligence. In other words, after the first few Russian air strikes in close air support combined with Iran and Hezbollah's most elite troops attacking on the ground, we could see a decisive breach in the rebel coalition lines and major gains for Assad and his allies. With the Russians objective not so much helping Assad to gain back all of the territory lost to the rebels (this as Israel Shamir says is not feasible) but to force them to the negotiating table and secure Assad's eventual succession.
To test Moscow's ability to coordinate its air strikes on rebel commanders, fuel and ammo dumps with an SAA/Iranian ground offensive, and to build confidence among the pro-Assad troops, the Russians will select an easier target first. A sort of Syrian version of Debaltsevo, a bulge in the rebel lines that can be pinched off. Attacking north of Latakia towards Turkey where Russian close air support can strike within 5 minutes of being airborne (only 100 kilometers away) and thus driving the rebels out of long range rocket range from areas where the Russians will be seems to be an immediate objective of the pending pro-Assad ground offensive. Russian air strikes that Moscow's Defense Ministry said inadvertently penetrated Turkish air space this week were likely a test run for the type of raids that would interdict Ankara's resupply to its 'Army of Conquest' proxies as their front lines get pulverized.
Meanwhile, pinching off salients and cleaning out some suburbs of Damascus may take longer if only due to the lower efficacy of airpower in heavily urbanized, bombed out areas. Spreading panic, and demoralizing the rebels by targeting commanders who use cellular phones or who imagined Russia could not intercept the signals of their satphones dialed into 'safe' frequencies provided by Langley also seems to be another Russian objective. Motorola satphone encryption might prevent the Russians from listening to what an Al-Nusra commander is saying or who exactly he's calling. But with SORM and high altitude electronic warfare pod equipped Su-34s scanning for such signals, Langley's encryption won't prevent triangulation for a 'Fullback' Glonass guided bomb strike!
As Crimea-based Russian military watcher Col. Cassad observed a few weeks ago, the Kremlin is supplying the SAA with its brand new BTR-82 armored personel carriers painted in desert camo, as well as stacks of Kornet anti-tank missiles of the type that devastated the Israelis Merkava tanks in the 2006 Lebanon war. With Russia owning the skies over Syria, we're confident the Russians can supply the SAA, Hezbollah and the Iranians with Kornets to carve up FSA/Al-Nusra front line posts faster than the CIA can push TOWs into its proxies hands. And the Langley boys know this. They also know the coming combined SAA/Iranian/Hezbollah ground offensive that may start as soon as this weekend will use Soviet/Russian 'shock army' tactics. Meaning the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) will likely hit the most exposed FSA/AlNusra salients first, so the less well trained SAA conscripts can pour through the breach and turn the rebels' flanks while Russian Sukhois incinerate the FSA/Nusra's expected reinforcements. This has been basic Russian armored/tactical doctrine since the Shock Army breakthroughs routed the German Wehrmacht in WWII.
4) Can America and its Mideast 'allies' turn Syria into a second Afghanistan for the Russians? Or will Washington's strategy of trying to fight Russia to the last jihadi work about as well as its plan to fight Putin to the last Ukrainian 'worked'?
Senile neocon windbag Sen. John McCain's first reaction to the Russian air strikes was to call them 'disgraceful' and to suggest that the US put man portable surface to air missiles (MANPADs) like the Stinger in the hands of the Syrian rebels. Aside from the fact that the US arm and train program equipped rebels have already surrendered their American weapons to Al-Nusra or other Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadist groups the US says it didn't intend to arm or opposes, there's another logical problem with McInsane's 'solution'. The Russians are well aware of the role Stingers played in the tail end of the Soviet Afghan campaign, and are generally either flying so low and fast at night using the Su-24's terrain following radar as to make a MANPAD lock difficult (the 'Fencer' is the Soviet equivalent to the now retired F-111 bomber that the North Vietnamese called 'whispering death' for precisely the reason that by the time you hear it, it's already dropping its bombs)…or their Su-34s are flying well above 10,000 feet and MANPAD range.
So following McInsane's plan will not only put Stinger missiles in the hands of Al-Qaeda or ISIS jihadists who could use them against civil aviation, thereby making McCain a material sponsor of terrorism under the USA Patriot Act, they're also going to be useless against the Russian jets. Russian Hind helicopters and those supplied to the Syrians and Iranians are another matter — the Al-Nusras probably already have some Croatian or French made MANPADs to shoot down those as we've seen over the last four years of Syrian war footage.
Again, McInsane thinks the Russians have learned nothing from their Afghanistan experience and the U.S. can use the same playbook that worked in the 1980s against the Soviets against Putin. He forgot that unlike in Afghanistan, the Russians have battle hardened and effective local allies to serve as their infantry, and that every Russian soldier sent to Syria is a kontrakti professional volunteer, as opposed to the conscripts the Soviets used as the backbone of their Afghan campaign. Thus far Putin has also shrewdly denied that he plans to involve ground troops in the Russian intervention, though legally the upper chamber of the State Duma has given him authorization to deploy troops (most likely spetsnaz and advisers) has permitted him to do so.
Then there's the inconvenient fact for McInsane that unlike President Ronald Reagan's plucky Afghans, ISIS is universally despised around the planet thanks to Uncle Sam's own media noise machine. The Al-Nusra jihadists who supposedly have been fighting ISIS alongside the 'Free Syrian Army' like Daesh support shariah Islamic law, complete with burkahs for women and stoning of homosexuals and adulterers. They are hardly poster boys for a worldwide sympathy campaign to soften the 'kill Russians' rhetoric and make it more palatable beyond fanatical Cold Warriors' bloodlust.
As longtime Russia watcher Anatoly Karlin observes over at The Unz Review:
Senile Cold Warriors from McCain to cuckservative icon Tom Cotton rave and demand to knock Russian fighters out of the sky to protect their beloved Al Qaeda proteges. On the off chance this leads to WW3 and the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R/Fallout [to which we would add — , Americans should know that they did this to protect literal cannibals, genocidal [as in kill all apostates which means Allawite and Shi'a Muslims, while enslaving the Christians and selling off their attractive girls into sexual slavery after raping the older wives – JWS]fanatics, and – horror of horrors – homophobes…
The Soviet Union never *invaded* Afghanistan either (even if it was presented as such by the Cold Warriors). It came by request of the legitimate Afghan authorities. And it ended getting bogged down and losing the lives of 15,000 soldiers, in an ultimately futile attempt to preserve some semblance of civilization against mujahedeen financed and sponsored by the Saudis and their best friends the Americans. According to Islamist propaganda, which neocons admire greatly (at least so long as it is aimed against Russia), this provoked the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The key difference: So far Russia is only sending fighter aircraft, and military advisors who will not be actively taking part in the fighting. So long as things stay that way, the Syria intervention will not constitute a major financial commitment, or a major commitment in terms of morale and approval ratings. The worst that can happen is that a fighter pilot is captured and gruesomely executed by Al Nusra or ISIS.
That, however, runs the risk of provoking a larger-scale Russian ground intervention, especially if the SAA fails to make the hoped for advances with the help of the Russian Air Force. They could get gradually sucked in like the Americans did in Vietnam. At least this is how this argument goes in Russian liberal and some nationalist circles. But I assume the Russians are familiar with that particular history and will not fall into a similar trap, no matter how much the neocons might be wishing otherwise.
Way to go Senators McCain and Cotton! Not only do you sure know how to pick 'winners' from the scum of the earth, but you also love to show your sincere concern for the oldest Christian communities on the planet in Syria who are praying for Assad and Putin's health every day!
5) What will be the long term consequences of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Russian/Chinese/Iranian intervention in Syria?
This is probably the most important question for readers of RogueMoney, who are less concerned with the military aspects of the superpowers clashing in Syria by proxy than they are with the consequences to the petrodollar of America losing its superpower 'street cred'. We'll let the Rogue Money 'brain trust' chew more on this in the days and weeks to come, particularly the Guerrilla and 'W' the Intelligence Insider.
Suffice to say, there is a reason Washington elites ranging from neocon Senators like Marco Rubio to Hillary Clinton to Pentagon officials whining about how 'Putin made us his prison b-tch' are alternating between rage and panic. They understand that if Russia and her allies succeed in forcing peace terms on Assad's enemies in Syria, the geopolitical dominos will start falling. Like the five part stages of grief, official Washington is still stuck on anger or denial.
Indeed, the U.S.-installed government of Iraq, now firmly aligned with Iran, has already invited the Russians to wage air strikes against ISIS on Iraqi territory. The Afghan government, which has had observer status with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) led by Russia and China, is now inquiring whether Moscow can provide air strikes on against militants on its soil. Both are huge developments if anything downplayed by U.S. mainstream media thus far.
The reason is obvious. It was the United States and not Russia which spent the last twelve years losing thousands of servicemen and spending trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan — yet these regimes are turning to Moscow because they cannot rely on Washington! Meanwhile waiting in the wings are the younger generation of Saudi princes, who see a new 'strong horse' emerging in the Mideast, and who have openly called for the forced retirement of the Washington loyalist older hardliners that led Riyadh into the Yemen quagmire. And Egypt under the pro-Russian and Chinese regime of President Al-Sisi is also backing Russia's air campaign, despite billions in Saudi funding for Cairo!
While Turkey under Erdogan remains stuck with its crackdown on the Kurds both inside Turkey and across the border in Iraq, the deployment of Russian jets if not SAMs to Kurdish areas under Iranian auspices could soon shut down Ankara's ability to bomb Kurdish groups across borders with impunity. Perhaps aware of this fact and the potential for the Kurds to bleed the Turkish Army should they receive Russian weapons like the Kornet, Ankara downplayed the recent Russian incursion into their airspace as a mistake, rather than playing it up as NATO wanted them to do. The obvious reason is the recent talks between Putin and Erdogan after the opening of the Grand Cathedral Mosque last month in Moscow regarding re-starting construction on the Turkstream gas pipeline.
Erdogan: Turkey aims for $100 billion in annual trade with Russia by 2023 — RT on Sept. 23, 2015
Erdogan's generals also know the score in Syria — they are not about to sacrifice thousands of Turkish soldiers fighting the SAA only to be left in the lurch by a faithless ally in Washington. Which is why they have avoided pushing for anything more than a narrow 'buffer zone' which U.S. politicians including Hillary have proposed as a no-fly zone — too late, as Gen. Phillip Breedlove admitted last week, Russia has already set up their own NFZ in Syria. Moscow now owns the air space over the Levant (if Lebanon turns pro-Russian given the possibility of Gazprom backing Beirut's claim to the Leviathian Mediterranean gas field) and it is Putin that Erdogan must reckon with as he seeks his own political survival. And all of this is taking place due to Russian intervention, before the fire breathing Chinese dragon makes its appearance on the Syrian battlefield.
Horse, barn door, meet the political zombie Hillary Rodham Clinton
There's a new sheriff in town (actually two of them if you count Xi Jinpeng), and unlike Obama, they ain't messing around.
Russian/Soviet song Polyushko Polye — in Arabic — likely a hit on Assad regime radio these days
A somewhat crude but effective Russian propaganda video highlights the real aggressor across the entire planet — and the human toll from 'the Empire of Chaos'


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We have been on a helter-skelter ride of new lighting technology in the past several years, all of which has promised greater and yet greater savings of energy. Most
of these have turned out to be over-optimistic promises backed by numbers that bear scant relationship to reality. It has become pretty clear that we do not know with any degree of certainty how much electrical energy is directly used by lighting let alone what extra energy is needed for ventilation and cooling to get rid of the heat produced by lighting.
It is also clear that daylight has become an enemy of buildings through the heat loss through windows in the winter and uncomfortable heat gains in the summer. So, rather than optimise window design, building regulations insist that no more than 40 per cent of a façade can be glazed.
Profligate use of lighting
It seems pretty obvious that the most efficient electric light is one that is switched off. Despite this we see profligate use of lighting when it is not needed, in commercial buildings after working hours and even in our own homes because many people just don't switch lights off in rooms they are not using. This is a psychological issue and a learned behaviour. We have evolved into a species that sees fire and light as indicators of safety and comfort so we have to be specifically trained to plunge places into darkness.
What we need is simple and effective controls that will switch light on. We would arrive in lit spaces that feel comfortable rather than edging into dark spaces while the lights decide whether or not we are there and take whatever time they take to switch themselves on.
At present the majority of lighting controls are entirely reactive, switching light on after we have entered a dark space. What we need are controls that will switch the lights on before we get there. We are saddled with, by and large, PIR technology that we picked up from the burglar alarm industry. This is really not very good at determining presence, it is all designed to detect movement, hence the infuriating distraction and arm-waving required to switch lights on when the inadequate detector has not seen you move for a while.
What we need is something a lot more sophisticated based on other technologies that exist already. Digitalcameras are very cheap, so are computers. They are used extensively in manufacturing to monitor parts moving on production lines, for robots to accurately fit things together and were even demonstrated by Philips as lighting control devices some three years ago at Frankfurt. Why can we not have these operating our lighting? Identifying presence by shape and colour, switching lights on in corridors as we walk towards the door, providing task lighting by determining what we are looking at… With little modification such a system could recognise us individually and adjust lighting to the way we like it.
Offer us convenience
Please can the lighting industry start working on these technologies that offer us real convenience and proper energy saving and stop messing about trying to re-invent the light sources that are already doing pretty well in changing electrical energy to light?
Can the regulators stop looking at meaningless numbers and start to encourage the use of daylight rather than electric light?
Finally, can the researchers start to look into some real numbers on energy use of lighting and do some proper research on the psychology of the use of light? Changing one lamp for another is not going to produce the massive change in lighting energy use we need to meet the challenges of climate change. It might look good in terms of being seen to do something and it certainly boosts the profits of the lighting industry. It does, however, consume other resources that are all contributing to human impact on the ecosphere.
Once – and if – we solve the energy issues, we will have found we have dug ourselves another hole in the planet.


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VU team visits Faculty of Computer Science in Sarawak, Malaysia
Aim of this visit was to continue and expand research collaboration. The VU was represented, by Prof. Hans Akkermans, Dr. Jaap Gordijn, and Anna Bon. The team explored possibilities for student and research staff exchange between VU and UNIMAS. Our contact at UNIMAS is Dr. Cheah WaiShiang, computer science researcher at UNIMAS, who worked at VU's in the period 2015 – 2016, on a research project on ICT4D and business sustainability. UNIMAS has a strong program on Community Service Learning, which they started in 2016, in collaboration with Cornell University (US). This program, which is run by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), aims at bridging the gap between higher education and rural communities. Students of UNIMAS go to the field and develop ICT solutions for communities in Sarawak. The program is currently focused on education in rural regions of Sarawak, and how this can be improved with ICTs. We briefly met the vice chancellor of UNIMAS, who welcomed us. The dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and the director of the research Institute ISITI expressed their interest to intensify collaboration with VU. For a full trip report: http://w4ra.org


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All Characters start off with a friendly little pet depending on their choice of race and a lot more can be captured throughout the Ether Saga World. Just as complicated as some popular hit franchises raising your pet and "breeding" them to obtain better stats and skills, Pets' serve as your other party member who can accomplish a variety of tasks with you and can often times be a life saver.
Catching a Pet Edit
Pets can be caught from level 15 on. However currently some particular types of pets cannot be captured and must be obtained through other means. While most pets are indeed caught with the use of a pet net, others can be obtained though quests and events. Often times these pets are unique and never seen in the wild.
The Catch Edit
Traditional Method Edit
Players may buy Pet Nets from the Trapper in Pokari. These nets are quite expensive, amounting to 20 silver pieces. Furthermore these Nets have a low chance of capture, so when catching pets players will almost always require more than one net to catch a pet. When a pet is captured its stats, nature, and fusion elements are randomized. When a pet is captured it is labeled unidentified and will appear in the player's inventory as a simple pink egg with a ribbon on it. Players need to be of or higher level than the type of monster they are trying to catch.
Players can buy identifying tools called Mirror of True Form, from the trapper. Depending on the level from which it was captured different tools will be needed in order to identify it. Once identified players will be able to view all of its stats, affinity, and fusion elements. However prior to identification players can see its nature, number of skills, and its pet rank. Pet rank is the overall sum of the pet's abilities. Therefor pets with a higher pet rank will tend to have better stats and fusion elements.While all captured pets start out at level one, normal type pets that are captured will have a randomized level depending on the level it was captured at.
Other Methods Edit
Pets can be obtained though a few quests and events. There is also one other type of item that can be used to capture a pet. It's called a Perfect Seal Orb. Only one is given to the player at the moment, but it's capture rate is surprisingly high at 80%. It is given to players by one of the Dragonkin in Pokari.
Raising a Pet Edit
Pets level up the same way players do with the exception that the experience gained is not shared with the players. So whenever players turn a quest or an event they should have a pet ready to accept the experience. However when players have more than one pet out the experienced shared ration can be edited. Currently players may only have one pet out and a fuse pet.
Pet Melding Edit
Pet melding is a method for players to improve the stats of their pets slightly by combining them. This can be done at the Ancestral Forge in Pokari. By consuming an amount of gold and spirit, players can create entirely new pets that are stronger than their ancestors.
Players will need two pets to combine. There is a host pet and a target pet. Both must be above level 30.


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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Charlottesville's mayor is apologizing for a statement he issued about the city's response to a white nationalist rally that he says "impugned" the reputation of the city manager and police chief.
Mike Signer addressed reporters after an hours-long City Council meeting Wednesday. He apologized for the statement posted on Facebook, as well as other actions and communications, saying he had "overstepped" the bounds of his role.
Signer's Facebook post asserted he'd been largely shut out of security preparations for the Aug. 12 rally, which descended into violence. One person was killed when a car plowed into a group protesting the event.
The City Council said in a statement that they accepted Signer's apology and did not ask for his resignation.
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Guide to GTA V: The Los and Damned
Every day, new games are launched on various gaming platform but Xbox is nevertheless the best gaming platform for playing games. There are thousands of games in the market. Some games are awesome while others are just mediocre.
Now, let us turn to the subject of the launching of the latest version of Grand Theft Auto game titled Grand Theft Auto V: The Lost and Damned. Players get an entirely new gameplay experience besides the wide range of guns and vehicles. GTA 5 cheats online offers much more content and better gameplay compared t to other video games. This version is a follow up sequel to the original game and it is built on the same platform as the original game. The original content can be found on the latest sequel and it also has many other extra features and longer storyline with characters that you are already familiar with.
Grand Theft Auto V: The Lost and Damned is about a Jewish biker called Jonny Klebitz who live in Liberty City. Throughout the game, you will see the theme of brotherhood. The game is about a few men who have dreams that no one around them appreciate. One character called Niko has a dream that all people will be kind and truthful to him but the fact is that people are always hateful towards him. Johnny has a circumstance that is even worse than Niko.


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borne by the consequences of choice
From the blood drenched depravity of The Wounded King, the ancient curses of The Elder, the sadistic betrayal of Red and Gold and the cruel heartbreak of The Tall Priest, we now follow The Magi as he begins his descent into destruction and madness.
It begins with doubt.
Blessed with powerful magic, shrouded in savage infamy in a land one thousand years before Christ, the immortal Magi is feared and revered. The counsel to shamans and kings. His authority unquestioned. But when faced with a dangerous choice, he stumbles.
Driven by false hope, he walks into the darkest of magic. Encouraged by the whispered promises of an impossible priest, he's witness to monstrous sights. Ignoring the dire warnings of an ancient witch, he kneels, the goal at hand but his soul broken. And, the journey at an end, the most dangerous of deeds having been done, he stumbles again, burdened by a regret that follows him for millennia.
A man battered beyond repair. An immortal desperate to reclaim his darkness. A legend trapped in a nightmare without end borne by the consequences of choice.
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Excerpt. Sneak peek of the WIP cover.
The Magi. The latest in The Martuk Series.
Coming soon.
under callous incalescence
A sneak peek from The Magi, Book Five in The Martuk Series.
Coming very soon.
speck of dust, loose thread
A quick peek at an interview I gave oh so long ago (okay, not that long ago -September 2016 -but I'm being dramatic, so…). Anyway, it's worth revisiting 'cause it's a pretty good read.
I actually sound kinda smart! 😃
What attracted you to writing horror?
In my opinion, horror lets you write your own rules. I can create a haunting something out of a forgettable nothing in horror. A speck of dust, a loose thread, a glance in the mirror. In other genres, those everyday things are just that: everyday things. In horror, at least for me, they're jumping off points for the total unraveling of a life, of one's sanity, of one's grip on reality. For me, they're the necessary first step into the hungry shadows of deepest dark.
Horror also has some of the best readers in the industry. People who not only applaud your breaking of rules and annihilating of limits, but actually demand it. They want you to go too far. They want you to shock. They want to gasp and cringe and keep reading. And these readers want that unpredictable predictable to be achieved in a way that is surprising and memorable and, above all, smart.
Listen, those who read horror are a tough group to please. They're not a knee jerk "OMG sooooooo good"-type of fan that posts a five star review two seconds after the book hits Amazon. They make you work for their praise. They demand you do better than before. And I appreciate that.
More over at the link.
the flesh lit from within
Two books dropping in the next four months? Yep. The Magi (May) and then a collection of all five Martuk Series shorts (July/August). Cover reveals soon.
Can't say I haven't been busy. 😁
Here's a taste from The Wounded King, Book One in the series.
And now back to work on Eidolon Two. 👍
The Tall Priest – excerpt
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Last Sunday, as several had been stranded at U.S. airports, President Trump tweeted and emphasized that the United States can only be protected through extreme measures.
"Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world, a horrible mess!" President Trump tweeted, adding that the U.S. requires a strong and firm border and that an extreme vetting must take place immediately.
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As Priebus stated that green card holders would no longer be affected by this travel ban, he went on to say that other nations may very well have to be added to the travel ban if necessary.
In New York a judge had temporarily halted a partial grant to those who were being deported from the United States.
Priebus states that perhaps several people should be detained at the airports, even after they had already undergone an extreme and thorough screening procedure.
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Six by 6 | Six other comics I'd like to see more of
After almost 20 years, it looked like the first two issues of Big Numbers were the only issues we'd ever see. But last week the third issue miraculously surfaced on the internet.
Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz's aborted epic is one of those series that, even 20 years later, still gets people talking and wondering about what might have been. On his blog, Eddie Campbell remembers talking to Kevin Eastman about why the third issue was never published, even though it was finished: "I recall asking publisher Kevin Eastman at the time why, even though the 12-issue series was abandoned, he couldn't put out the existing third issue," Campbell writes. "He looked at me as though I was daft. Who would want a third issue if they knew there wouldn't be any after that?"
And yet here we are, in 2009, talking about a third issue no one would want.
Big Numbers is far from the only series that ever fell into comic limbo. In honor of Pádraig O Méalóid's eBay purchase, here are six other comics that I'd like to see more of. Note that for the purpose of this list, I avoided titles that were officially canceled for sales reasons (like Blue Beetle, Aztek or Chase … that's another list for another day) and instead focused on comics that we expected to see one day, but for some reason or another, they were never published (at least not yet, anyway). Books where I feel I could use some closure. Like last week, I received a little help from my fellow Robot 6 bloggers, so thanks to Kevin Melrose, Tim O'Shea and Michael May for their suggestions.
1. Miracleman: I would consider three comic titles the "holy trinity" of stories lost to comic book limbo — three books that were created but never saw print for one reason or another. One would be the previously mentioned Big Numbers #3, while another would be Miracleman #25. Written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Mark Buckingham, the 25th issue of this epic series was never published.
The legal battles between Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane over the rights to the character have become legendary, and they're only one piece of the legal maze that surrounds the rights to Miracleman/Marvelman (if you'd like to run that gauntlet, you can check out many of the referenced articles in the Miracleman Wikipedia entry, or find yourself a copy of Kimota! The Miracleman Companion by TwoMorrows, which details the property's history). What I do know for sure is this — Moore, Gaiman, Buckingham, Alan Davis, John Totleben and the rest of the creators involved with the book created 25 monumental issues before the book's publisher, Eclipse Comics, folded in the mid-1990s. Only 24 of those saw print, and Gaiman has said if they can ever unravel the legalities he wants to get the material back into print. Hopefully that day will come in my lifetime.
2. The end of Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing run: And heres' the third of the trinity I mentioned — Swamp Thing #88. As part of a time travel arc written by Veitch, Swamp Thing was going to meet Jesus in issue 88,. The cover for that issue would have featured an image of Swamp Thing as the cross where Jesus died. DC decided not to publish it, so Veitch left the title, and not only did fans miss out on that particular stories, but we never saw how Veitch would end his excellent run on the title.
This is another one that I'm hoping we haven't heard the last of. As noted on the Swamp Thing Annotations site, back in 2004 Veitch said he'd be willing to finish his run on the book and even change parts of #88 deemed too offensive for publication. Heck, if Chris Claremont can pick up the X-Men where he left off, why not have Veitch finish his Swamp Thing run? It doesn't look like DC is interested, which is too bad; I guess fans will once again have to turn to eBay.
3. Doc Frankenstein: Along with Shaolin Cowboy, Burlyman Entertainment's somewhat controversial Doc Frankenstein was written by the Wachowski brothers of The Matrix trilogy and Speed Racer fame. Drawn by Steve Skroce, it detailed the fabled monster's journey through history, as the immortal being becomes a heroic figure plagued by his own origins. It was a great mix of philosophical ideas, satire and big explosions.
The book started out on a bi-monthly schedule in 2004, then moved to a, what, yearly schedule sometime during its run? As of the end of 2007, six issues have been published, but since then, nothing — we haven't heard about anything comic-related out of Burlyman or the Wachowski brothers since.
4. Leave It To Chance: Back in the mid-1990s, Starman writer James Robinson and Uncanny X-Men artist Paul Smith created Leave it to Chance, a fun comic about the daughter of a city's mystical protector. The book was initially part of Wildstorm's Homage line (which also included Kurt Busiek's Astro City), then moved to DC when they bought Wildstorm, then returned to Image for its 13th (and, it would turn out, last) issue. (For more on the series, I recommend reading this post from the Holy Heroes blog, which captures the spirit and energy of the comic).
The series ended with several dangling plotlines, not the least of which was the question of whether or not Chance's father, Lucas Falconer, was really dead or not. There was also a cadre of villains from the previous 12 issues forming a pact to take Chance down. But while issue 13 promises a "next time," it never came … perhaps Robinson's Hollywood work prevented him from doing further issues, or maybe sales were low. Dunno. What we do know, however, are two things Robinson revealed at WonderCon: Lucas wasn't dead, and further issues of this fun series aren't planned. "We're never going to publish this, so I can tell you, her father isn't dead. He was going to be the next falconer," he said.
5. Aqua Leung: Created by Mark Andrew Smith and Paul Maybury, Aqua Leung was intended to be a series of graphic novels about the forgotten son of the king of Atlantis, a coming-of-age tale about his rise to the throne. Blogger Dick Hyacinth was a fan of the book and sums up his feelings on it nicely:
As for the book itself, it wasn't without it problems, but there were a number of really terrific moments. I'm not really a fan of mid-brow, ground level type comics, mostly because they seem to lack the energy of the trashier stuff and the sophistication of the artsier stuff. The worst examples end up being uptight but not especially deep (the vast majority of Vertigo's output springs to mind). However, a strong, art-emphasized approach can yield some very commendable results–I'm thinking Mike Mignola and Eric Powell here. I thought Aqua Leung was in this territory, with the promise of even better things to come.
Unfortunately, there was a disagreement between the two creators over who did what on the book, as was detailed in the comments section of Maybury's LiveJournal (the specific post appears to no longer be available, but you can find the comments toward the end of this Lying in the Gutters column). It's a shame not only that their partnership ended, but that it ended in such an unpleasant manner.
6. Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.: You might be wondering why I included Nextwave on this list. Didn't it have an ending? Wasn't it a 12-issue limited series, and all 12 issues were published? Or wasn't it canceled, so doesn't including it on this list violate my rule about not including comics that were officially canceled?
Well, maybe, on that last one. But no, Nextwave wasn't a mini-series, as writer Warren Ellis noted on his blog a couple of years ago. "To clear up a common misconception: NEXTWAVE was always pitched as an ongoing series. However, my original intent was to do 12 and then pass it on to someone else. This got garbled, somewhere down the chain of communication, and so the first issue or two got solicited as 'part xxx of 12,'" he wrote.
But did it have an ending? Sure. But let's go back to the beginning. Nextwave was a brilliant, satirical series from Marvel, written by Ellis, wonderfully drawn by Stuart Immonen and immaculately colored by Dave McCaig. It featured a cast of B- and C-grade Marvel characters, like Machine Man, Monica Rambeau (the former Captain Marvel) and Boom Boom from X-Force fighting a guerrilla war against the Beyond Corporation and their "Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction."
Ellis said that the book was doing okay as a monthly, while sales of the first trade were "terrific." And he was up for doing a second year on the title, but Marvel found that at its current sales levels they could afford to keep Ellis on as writer, but not Immonen as the artist (he went on to draw the higher-profile Ultimate Spider-Man after Nextwave). So yes, I was hesitant to put Nextwave on this list, as I feel like we did get some closure with that last issue. But Ellis also promised we would, indeed, one day have more of Monica, Boom Boom and the rest. "NEXTWAVE #12 will be the last issue of the ongoing series: but there will be more NEXTWAVE to come, presented as a sequence of limited series," Ellis wrote on his blog.
So sure, closure, but also the promise of more Nextwave. And thus I wait, patiently, for more of this insane and delightful comic.
So there you have it, six titles we were expecting to see more of but for a variety of reasons didn't. As we saw last week, anything can happen with an old, aborted project, so maybe the final blog posts on all of these comics have yet to be written. No doubt I've overlooked some other ones (like Chester Brown's Underwater, as Chris Mautner suggested, or DC's Thriller, as Tom Bondurant threw out), so I'd love to hear from the rest of you on other projects you'd like to see finished.
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Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center
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This location is tentatively opening in mid-June.
With five locations Sparygrounds are now offered around Charlotte to keep the Queen City cool. With no fees to enter you can sit, jump around, and run to get wet no pool required! Visit links below for more information.
Locations: Cordelia Park, West Charlotte Recreation Center, Latta Park, Veterans Park, Nevin Park
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It wasn't until college at the University of Oregon -- a spring day, I think, in about 1992, that I finally got to be in the same room with my hippie writer prankster idols. Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion" is still one of my favorite novels of all time. Hunter S. Thompson's "The Edge" still gives me chills. Check out this animation. Seriously. "There were no helmets on that night.....The Edge is still out there."
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Question about Watches
I bought a cheap J Tech watch which did not come with instructions and the alarm keeps going off. I do not know how to turn the alarm off or reset it for the correct time. Help! It is driving me crazy!
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My Timex indiglo expandable watch beep on the hour. How do I shut it off?
same problem with my J-Tech 3ATM
how many buttons does the watch have and does it have a stopwatch?
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SOURCE: How do I adjust date of my watch bought from GAP
I think I figured it out: (Start + Reset) = toggle alarm on/off ("ALM" will display in upper left corner when alarm is on. (press Mode once) will bring you in chrono mode, where "start" button starts and stops the chrono, and "reset" button resets it back to zero (press Mode once more) will bring you to setting of time for alarm. Set the "hour" value by pressing "start" repeatedly, then press "reset" and set the "minute" value by pressing "start" repeatedly (press Mode once more) will bring you to setting of time for actual time. Reset the "Seconds" value to zero by pressing "start" button once, then press "reset" and set the "minute" value by pressing "start" repeatedly, then press "reset" and set the "hour" value by pressing "start" repeatedly (if it shows "H" in upper right corner, time will be displayed euro-style 0:00-23:59, if it shows "A" time will be displayed 12am/12pm), then press "reset" and set the "day of month" value by pressing "start" repeatedly, then press "reset" and set the "month" value (1-12) by pressing "start" repeatedly, then press "reset" and set the "day of week" value (Su-Sa) by pressing "start" repeatedly (press Mode once more) voila!
Posted on Jun 12, 2009
SOURCE: Can't turn off alarm
Here are the instructions to view, change alarm time and turn off alarm:
From normal time display:
Press MODE once to display stop watch.
Press MODE again to change alarm time.
Press MODE again to change time.
From normal time display:
Press RESET once to display current alarm time.
Press and hold RESET then press START to turn on and off alarm (watch for alarm symbol on top left)
Press and hold RESET then press MODE to turn on daily alarm vs one time (watch day marker lines at the bottom)
Hope this helps.
Posted on Nov 17, 2010
SOURCE: Aspen watch
Call International Watch Group @ 718-623-6000 and give them your watch details. They are more than willing to e-mail / fax a scan copy of the watch manual.
Posted on May 29, 2008
SOURCE: GapKids Digital Watch - Need to know how to set
Light button is A
Mode button is B
Start button is C
Reset button is D
Standard Time Adjustment:
1) To set time, date, etc. press button B three times (assuming you start in standard time display mode)
2) Press button D until the area you'd like to change is flashing. (i.e.: minutes, date, day, etc.)
3) Press button C to change. Press once for one unit increment of change. Hold for 3 seconds for speedy advance.
4) Press D again until the next area you'd like to change is flashing.
5) At completion of changes press Button B to resume standard time display mode.
Posted on Dec 19, 2008
SOURCE: GapKids Watch turning off the alarm
If you don't have the instructions, the buttons are labeled as follows:
Top Left is "Light" - Button A
Bottom Left is "Mode" - Button B
Top Right is "Start" - Button C
Bottom Right is "Reset" - Button D
With the time displayed, press the reset ("D button as listed in the instructions) and the alarm time should be displayed. While holding the "D"/reset button down, press the start or "C" button to toggle the alarm on or off.
Hope this helps
Posted on Dec 20, 2008
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