Some Goodies From Ol' Remus

 

1943. Wilhelmsburg (?) Germany.

 

A flak tower under construction. This appears to be a Bauart Generation 2 Gun Tower, equipped with four twin 128mm Flak guns and many smaller guns. It matches up with a photo of this one in Wilhelmsburg . The famous Zoo Tower was a Generation 1.

G-Towers were accompanied by a smaller L-Tower used for command, armed with forty 20mm guns.

Ol' Remus

  News24 - Rhodesians must 'come back and rebuild Zimbabwe', war vets say ... let's do it all over again

  Gun control, Reason - Connecticut's recent "assault weapons" registration law achieved an underwhelming 15 percent compliance rate, and New York's similar requirement resulted in 5 percent compliance. Contrary to widely-accepted national myths, public gun ownership is commonplace in most European states. Public officials readily admit that unlicensed owners and unregistered guns greatly outnumber legal ones. In the United States "a pervasive culture of non-cooperation with public authorities" is exactly what we should expect in response to any future successes gun controllers might achieve legislation-wise. That will leave supporters of gun controls increasingly disarmed relative to their opponents.

  American Pravda, Unz Review - The puppet master behind President Boris Yeltsin had planned to transform Russia into a fake two-party state—one social-democratic and one neoconservative—in which heated public battles would be fought on divisive, symbolic issues, while behind the scenes both parties would actually be controlled by the same ruling elites. With the citizenry thus permanently divided and popular dissatisfaction safely channeled into meaningless dead-ends, Russia’s rulers could maintain unlimited wealth and power for themselves, with little threat to their reign. Perhaps we can guess where Berezovsky got his idea for such a clever political scheme.

  Diversity, Taki's Magazine - Pilsen is a predominantly Mexican neighborhood in Chicago’s Lower West Side. The protesters are “demanding that non-Mexican owners here and across the street get out of Pilsen.” Viva la Raza! There’s your identity politics, leftists. This is the logical conclusion of the race-centered worldview that the left encourages nonwhites to embrace. These “progressive” geniuses thought they could unleash that beast on whites alone. They thought they could feed it, nurture it, grow it big and fat, and still control it. How’s that workin’ out?

  The Only Underwater Submarine Battle Ever, National Interest - ... Running submerged on batteries, Launders slipped the Venturer behind the German submarine and began tailing it. He was waiting for U-864 to surface before launching his torpedoes, but thanks to its snorkel, U-864 could operate underwater for extended periods of time. The German submarine began zigzagging side to side, likely having detected the British sub. After three hours of pursuit, the Venturer was running short on battery and would soon have to surface itself. Launders decided he would simply have to attack U-864 while it remained submerged.