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Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.
The letter read,
"Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,
We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.
Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Army Paymaster”
Colonel Maclaren replied;
“Dear Paymaster,
Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.
I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68,500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.
By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.
I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”
A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col. Maclaren’s letter box, it read:
“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,
We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.
We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p.
However, we also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles;
The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton)
The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland)
The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War)
The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade)
The Boer War (1899 -1902)
World War One (1914-1918).
We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:
9.765 Cannons
26,785 Swords
12,889 Pikes
127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
28,987 horses (fully kitted
Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.
We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p.
We have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov
[RIA] Sometimes they say that Russians for the West are the new Jews, and Russophobia is akin to anti-Semitism. But in the West itself, the best minds believe that Russians are the new Arabs: “We must give Ukraine nuclear weapons. <...> The Russian media portray the war in Ukraine as a war of Christian civilization against demonic Satanism and so on. I mean that "They are no better than the Arabs. Today they are fanatical religious fundamentalists in the worst sense of the word. They must be stopped."
Who is speaking? Slavoj Zizek is a major European intellectual and a prominent left-wing philosopher. Russian fanatics must be stopped because they threaten a tolerant, peaceful Europe - and for this it is not a sin to give Ukraine a nuclear bomb. For the Russians to retreat from Ukraine or to arrange Armageddon on Russian soil? The “Christian atheist,” as Žižek calls himself, does not specify: is he so afraid of the threat of Russian fundamentalism that he does not hesitate to make openly racist comparisons? Are the Arabs the measure of evil for him? Or any truly religious people? Or is it those who say that European civilization is not only self-destructing, but is also trying to drag the rest with it - they need to be contained or stopped with an atomic bomb? How does Israel “contain” the Arabs by destroying the Gaza Strip in front of the whole world?
And by the way, is Ukraine Israel or Palestine ? The debate about this has long been going on in the West - especially among the European left, which not only has a decisive influence on the minds of Europeans, but also heads the governments of some EU countries, for example, in Germany. These disputes especially intensified after October 7 last year, when, in response to the Hamas attack, Israel launched an unprecedented operation against the Gaza Strip, which has already killed more than 33,000 civilians. The West, which in every way repeated the mantra about protecting unfortunate Ukraine from imperialist Russia, found itself in the most unfavorable situation for itself: its refusal to condemn Israel’s actions nullified all the pathos of “protecting peaceful Ukrainians from Russian atrocities.”
Moreover, the mood of public opinion in European countries tilted in favor of Palestine and against Israel. Considering that the majority of Europeans still support Ukraine, it turns out that it would be beneficial for Western elites to restructure, combine the two in one and say: Palestine is Ukraine, we will support their people suffering at the hands of a stronger and more aggressive neighbor. Is it logical from the point of view of both internal propaganda and Europe’s relations with the Global South ? Yes, it’s logical, but everything happened exactly the opposite. Western elites tried to present Ukraine as Israel, and when this was not accepted by either their own European population or the world community, they simply fell silent, pretending that the contradictions in the West’s position on the two conflicts did not matter.
As a result, the authorities of European countries continue to help Israel and do not demand a cessation of hostilities, limiting themselves to calls to protect “civilians.” They express sympathy for the Palestinians and talk about the need to solve the problem in the future through the creation of two states, which sounds completely mocking against the background of the destruction of what could become the basis of a real Palestinian state, that is, the Gaza Strip. No, of course, the Europeans are verbally putting pressure on Israel, they are already beginning to call on Netanyahu to complete the operation, but all this is absolutely for form, because even American pressure (the only one that matters for Israel) has no effect (due to the fact that is also carried out half-heartedly).
Giving up support for Israel is not on the agenda for the West, just as no one is going to back down from Ukraine. In both cases, he wants a speedy end to hostilities, but what does he promise after they end? Ukraine - admission to NATO and the EU, payment of reparations by Russia, and so on. Palestine - the creation of an independent state, the restoration of Gaza and financial assistance. Do Palestinians trust the West? Of course not, especially when they hear words like those uttered by Olaf Scholz on Wednesday. The German chancellor said that the goal of Germany, the EU and the US is “the prospect of a two-state solution to the conflict”: “It is clear that through negotiations. And it is clear that we are talking about a Palestinian state without its own army.”
That is, the Palestinians are again being offered an inferior state - a little less inferior than they had - and just as dependent on Israel? And they should believe it - especially at the moment when Gaza is being razed from the face of the earth? They will be given humanitarian aid and promised a bright future in order to once again deceive and reduce their already small and unprotected territory. And ideally, force them to flee, leave Palestine, and abandon hopes for the restoration of justice.
And Ukraine needs not just help with weapons and money - it would be advisable to give it an atomic bomb to stop the “Russian Arabs.” Which, probably, like in the Middle Ages, are rushing into the heart of Europe - oh, those fanatical Moors, religious fanatics. Europe has long renounced Christ and is now frightening itself with a combination of the most left-liberal, anti-religious slogans (in the style of the Great French Revolution) with absolutely nationalist and racist ones. The enemy of Europe is a Russian Orthodox traditionalist and Muslim believer? Well, if Europe itself designates them as its enemies and does everything to inflict a strategic defeat on them on their lands, or even expel them from them, then this is its choice. The consequences of which she would not have to wonder about.
[StrategyPage] BLUF: …and in China. They’re prepping for the coming Age of Warlords, when the Communists lose the Mandate of Heaven and leaders at all levels battle each other for survival and supremacy, including the threat of intramural biological warfare. And possible extramural ditto.
[Armstrong Econ] Tyson Foods may be the next company to learn the lesson, "Go woke, go broke." The same company that is partnering with the World Economic Forum to add insect protein to your food recently announced that it will lay off US employees in favor of hiring illegal migrants. Boycotts have followed the company’s decision, and now a prominent fund manager is pulling out of Tyson Foods.
American Conservative Values Fund (ACVF) CEO Bill Flaig sees this move as a poor business decision that will repel investment. "I’m not sure other institutional managers will follow boycotting Tyson, but politically conservative investors are becoming aware that they can fight the woke liberal takeover of America with their investments," Flaig told the Daily Mail.
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Haven't bought any since back when they supported the Clinton crime fambly.
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#1, thanks for all the detail. I didn't realize that Tyson owned Sara Lee.
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Thank you P2K.
See ya Jimmy Dean and Hillshire. Think I've seen ads before for places who 'feature Ball Park franks'.
Pro-Ticks. Moral and intellectual Masters of the MBDIE, the worst human traffickers in history. I remember back when bugs in your hot dogs was said to gross people out, not to be a feature.
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively last week that he sees a new category of crime emerging in the United States because of President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats’ policies: “Migrant crime.”
“We have a new form of crime in the United States—it’s called ‘migrant crime,’” Trump told Breitbart News in a 90-minute exclusive interview at Mar-a-Lago last Wednesday. “Now, it would be called and normally I would call it ‘Biden migrant crime,’ but that’s too long and too crazy. But everyone knows we have a new category in crime. So we have crime, and we have migrant crime. It’s vicious and it’s horrible and these people are very tough. Everyone talks about the migrants coming to America; many of these people are real bad people. Many of them are sick. Many of them are mentally ill.”
Trump has made focusing on the plight of “Angel Families,” like the family of murdered 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a key facet of his campaign to return to the White House. Sadly, Riley is hardly the only instance of Americans being killed by migrants in the country unlawfully and people who would not be otherwise hurt if the government enforced American immigration laws.
Trump’s campaign, as Breitbart News reported exclusively before his and Biden’s rivaling border trips a few weeks ago, released a brutal video highlighting many of the crimes, including rapes and murders, that migrants Biden let into the country have committed. Trump also, at his recent Georgia rally immediately after becoming the last remaining GOP presidential candidate and right before he locked up a majority of the delegates to the Republican National Convention this year, met with Riley’s parents. He also intends to do more events and meetings throughout the year with Angel Families.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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