vxbush 5/1/2026 8:12:09 AM

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vxbush 5/1/2026 8:41:02 AM

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Um.....Fatah Officials Accuse IDF of Training Rats to Attack Palestinian Children

I this might be my favorite response: 

Kosh's Shadow 5/1/2026 8:45:20 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

Not squirrels - feral cats. There are a lot of them in Israel.

I saw a video about an Israeli weapon that can shoot around corners, and the muzzle end has a stuffed cat, so it looks like just another cat and terrorists won't notice it until they are shot.

JCM 5/1/2026 10:52:45 AM

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North Korea's extreme battlefield doctrine revealed by Kim Jong Un during speech

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has publicly praised soldiers who killed themselves rather than be captured while fighting Ukrainian forces in Kursk region, offering the clearest confirmation yet of what officials and intelligence agencies have long described as one of Pyongyang’s most extreme battlefield policies.

Those same officials say the forces suffered staggering losses, with more than 6,000 North Korean soldiers believed killed in some of the war’s most intense fighting.

vxbush 5/1/2026 12:47:04 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:

Wow. Inventive, for sure!

preBoomer-Marinebrat 5/1/2026 4:28:05 PM

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Reply to JCM in 4:
Some 6 decades ago, one of the old Reader's Digest bottom-of-the-page tidbits was a bit of humor dating back to the early Fifties, during the Korean War.

An elderly Scottish couple relaxing in their living room.  Husband reading the editorial section in a newspaper.  Calls out to the wife (in a very thick Scottish brogue):  "They'rrrre sayin' it's Stalin who's rrrreally got Korrrrea."

The wife exclaims:  "Well bless th' girrrrl who gave it to him!"

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One could rework that to refer to the members of the Kim dynasty (whose absolutely fascist rule is incredibly closely-tied to the NK military.)

Kosh's Shadow 5/1/2026 7:08:08 PM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 6:

Whatever Kim Jong is in charge is a god like the Japanese emperor.

Japanese in WWII would fight being captured - often ships saving them had to club them into unconciousness first

preBoomer-Marinebrat 5/2/2026 2:01:25 AM

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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: ships saving them had to club them into unconciousness first

I've never read of anything like that ... but my knowledge of Japan is of their history and their traditional culture.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 5/2/2026 2:30:51 AM

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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: a god like the Japanese emperor

FYI, the Emperor was never a god.  The element in their culture is "obligation".  There are/were different facets to it, and sometimes they came into violent conflict.

(If you have an academic-wise thing for pain) read the 1967 book "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" by Ruth Benedict, but keep in mind that it's about traditional culture.  Modern Japanese culture can be called fruitbasket-turn-over.