Sam Jacob

[Sara Ghorbani @d_white_rabbit]

I’m Iranian.
Islam has destroyed my country.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

As France is burning, I keep thinking of what the UAE Foreign Minister said a few years ago 👇

He accurately predicted this.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

May 5, 1945. Hitler has been dead for five days. The war in Europe is almost over.

In a castle in the Austrian Alps, American soldiers, German soldiers, and a group of elderly French prisoners grab rifles and get ready to fight the SS.

Together.

The castle was called Schloss Itter. The Nazis had turned it into a prison for very important people. Not ordinary prisoners. Trophies.

Inside were two former prime ministers of France, Paul Reynaud and Édouard Daladier. Two of France's top generals, Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin. A famous tennis champion, Jean Borotra. And the older sister of Charles de Gaulle.

As the Reich collapsed in early May, the SS guards panicked and ran. The prisoners suddenly found themselves in charge of a castle, with weapons left behind, and a serious problem.

Waffen-SS units were still roaming the area. Fanatics who would gladly kill them all.

They needed help. Fast.

One of the castle's prisoners, a Yugoslav handyman, slipped out on a bicycle to find the Americans. Separately, a German army officer named Major Josef Gangl also went looking for them.

Gangl was a Wehrmacht officer who had turned against the Nazis and was secretly working with the Austrian resistance. He wanted to protect the prisoners too.

He found an American tank commander named Captain Jack Lee.

Lee was 27, tough, cigar chewing, and willing to do something insane. With a single Sherman tank and a handful of American soldiers, he drove up into the mountains alongside Gangl and a few of his German troops.

They reached the castle on May 4.

The French prisoners were not exactly thrilled to see a tiny rescue force. They had expected an army. Instead they got a few Americans, a few Germans, and one tank.

The next morning, the SS attacked.

Somewhere between 100 and 150 Waffen-SS troops hit the castle with machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank weapons. The defenders fought back from the walls and windows. Americans and Germans side by side.

The French prisoners refused to hide. Some of them, including Reynaud, picked up weapons and joined in.

The Sherman tank was knocked out. The defenders were running out of ammunition. It looked like the castle would fall.

Then Jean Borotra, the tennis star, volunteered to make a run for it. He jumped the wall, slipped past the SS, and sprinted through the countryside to find American reinforcements.

He found them. And he insisted on coming back with them to finish the fight.

During the battle, Major Gangl saw Paul Reynaud exposed to gunfire and moved to pull him to safety. A sniper shot Gangl dead.

He had survived the whole war as a German soldier, only to die defending French prisoners from the SS in its final days.

That afternoon, the American relief force arrived and broke the attack. The SS were scattered and captured. The prisoners were saved.

Jack Lee received the Distinguished Service Cross. In Austria, Josef Gangl is remembered as a hero, and a street is named after him.

It is believed to be the only battle of the war where American and German soldiers fought together on the same side.

[Chandu Thota @ChanduThota]

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[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Seeing the riots in France and the terrible state of the French economy made me think of this 🔥 speech by Lee Kuan Yew.

"Look at the buildings around you. Look at the stock market bouncing up.

Let me tell you how to bring it down. Have a couple of really good riots, shake political confidence."

On top of that, the French economy is collapsing. Only one in three French people works in the real economy. Two-thirds live off other people’s taxes. The entire system is completely unsustainable due to absurd pensions and runaway state spending.

At the end of the clip, Lee says:

"My political opponent says that we are 'obsessed with profits'

I say 'YES! That’s how Singapore survives.'

If you have no profit, who pays for all of this?

If you make profit into a dirty word.. Singapore dies!”

Beyond mass migration, this is how Western Europe is dying btw.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Always have a comma in your password, if part of a leak it will break the CSV.

Follow me for more cybersecurity advice.

[bigmacsauce @lebigmacsauce]

@TipOfTheBanana Ah so the ‘D’ stands for Diabetes

[Sam Jacob @skjacob]

@Frank_Stones Yanbu has a Lawrence of Arabia connection!

[Steve Robinson @SteveRob]

BREAKING: Terry Liu, the Chinese national arrested this week in Maine, has been charged with illegally modifying the hardware of Customs and Border Patrol computers at the Maine-Canada border.

Liu, who described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China, was caught on camera breaking into CBP computers and replacing processors and memory devices before re-inserting them into government networks.

More details to come...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@HumanProgress Valid point. Well-deserved praise.

You can tell something is genuinely good when most of the world would be upset if it went away. That is true of Amazon.

[Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 @MikeZaccardi]

Know your secular bulls & bears... and cyclical bulls & bears... inspired from Suttmeier, formerly at BofA @stockcharts

Something @DustinTerry00 and I will discuss on the podcast soon @CurioCapMGMT

[William Seaborn @will_seaborn]

I respect his honesty.

But the reason why the Hindu community and Islamic community are so different in Western countries is because Hinduism and Islam are very different religions.

Hinduism teaches to respect your karmabhoomi. Islam has no such concept. Islamists can never be loyal to a non-Muslim country.

[Ajit Pai @AjitPai]

Wireless keeping aviation families connected!

Air Traffic Controller: "She still living in your house?
Pilot dad: "Oh no, but she is on my cellphone plan."
ATC: "Hey, hey, ... she's not allowed off your cellphone plan until she gets married. ..."
Pilot daughter: "I am single."

[Sam Jacob @skjacob]

@JackDunc1 These things have been happening for millions of years. Himalayas is shaped by Earthquakes, Monsoon, Glaciers and landslides. This process is still happening and will continue after we are all gone.

[JOSE GEFAELL @ChGefaell]

El desprendimiento de glaciares colgantes sobre pendientes muy pronunciadas es relativamente frecuente en las grandes cordilleras, aunque hasta ahora, como no había móviles con video, no nos enterábamos. Es difícil sostener que sean debidas al cambio climático.

🌑 1941: Huaraz, Perú (laguna Palcacocha / quebrada Cojup). El 13 de diciembre, un desprendimiento de hielo desde los nevados Palcaraju o Pucaranra cayó sobre la laguna Palcacocha (~4.562 m), en la cabecera de la quebrada Cojup. El impacto generó una ola que rebasó y rompió el dique morrénico. La laguna, que entonces contenía unos 12 millones de m³ de agua, se vació casi por completo. El flujo descendió por Cojup, arrasó también la laguna Jircacocha aguas abajo  e incorporó bloques de hielo, rocas y sedimentos. En unos 50 minutos (según reconstrucciones) recorrió ~23 km hasta Huaraz, en el valle del Santa. Destruyó aproximadamente un tercio de Huaraz. Las estimaciones más recientes hablan de hasta 7.000 muertos. CO₂ atmosférico: ~311 ppm.

🌑 1962: Ranrahirca, Perú. Nevado Huascarán Norte. El 10 de enero colapsó parte del Glaciar 511 en la cara oeste del pico norte. Unos 13 millones de m³ de hielo, nieve y roca descendieron ~15-16 km por el valle del río Shacsa/Llanganuco a unos 170 km/h, se licuaron al incorporar material morrénico y sepultaron Ranrahirca y ocho poblados más. Murieron unas 4.000 personas. No hubo terremoto previo conocido; el desencadenante fue el propio peso y el deshielo. CO₂ atmosférico: ~318 ppm.

🌑 1970: Yungay, Perú. Nevado Huascarán. Un terremoto aceleró el proceso que había comenzado en 1962 y que, según las evidencias sedimentarias, se había repetido en el pasado. Provocó una colosal avalancha de rocas y hielo de 100 millones de m³, que descendió 14,5 km por el valle y sepultó completamente el municipio de Yungay. Murieron más de 18.000 personas. CO₂ atmosférico: ~326 ppm.

En el Huescarán hay evidencia geológica de avalanchas pre-hispánicas aún mayores que las de 1962 y 1970; el valle ya estaba cubierto por depósitos antiguos cuando se fundó la ciudad de Yungay. 

🌑 2002: Kolka-Karmadon, Osetia del Norte (Cáucaso, Rusia). El 20 de septiembre una caída de roca y hielo colgante desde la pared noreste del Dzhimarai-Khokh impactó el glaciar Kolka y lo arrastró casi por completo. El volumen total en movimiento alcanzó unos 130 millones de m³. El flujo recorrió ~20 km por el valle del Genaldon a velocidades medias de 180-280 km/h, se detuvo en las “Puertas de Karmadon” y sepultó el pequeño poblado de Nizhniy Karmadon. Murieron más de 125 personas (incluido todo un equipo de cine). Es uno de los eventos de roca-hielo mejor documentados por su movilidad extrema y por haber erosionado un glaciar de valle entero. CO₂ atmosférico: ~373 ppm.

🌑 2007: Mount Steele, Yukón (montañas St. Elias, Canadá). Hubo dos eventos consecutivos en la misma cara norte del Monte Steele (5.073 m), en una zona remota y deshabitada. El primero el 22 de julio. Se desprendió una losa de hielo de unos 3 millones de m³. Se fragmentó al caer, cruzó el glaciar Steele, superó una cresta de 275 m y continuó hasta el glaciar Hodgson. Recorrió unos 8 km en horizontal y cubrió ~2 km² con hielo. Dos días después, el 24 de julio, ocurrió el principal evento.  Una gran sección de roca y hielo de unos 400 m de ancho se desprendió de la misma ladera. El volumen estimado fue de 80 millones de m³. Cayó en vertical unos 2.500 m y recorrió en horizontal unos 5,76 km a una velocidad de 126–234 km/h. Cruzó el glaciar Steele (1,5 km de ancho), superó de nuevo una cresta de 275 m en la ladera opuesta y luego resbaló de vuelta sobre el mismo glaciar.  No hubo víctimas por ser una zona de glaciares salvajes. CO₂ atmosférico: ~384 ppm.

🌑 2021: Chamoli (Uttarakhand, India). El 7 de febrero se desprendió un bloque de ~27 millones de m³ de la cara norte del Pico Ronti (~5.500 m). Cayó casi 2 km en vertical, se fragmentó, fundió gran parte del hielo por fricción y se convirtió en un flujo de escombros extraordinariamente móvil que transportó bloques de más de 20 m y erosionó las laderas hasta 220 m por encima del fondo del valle. Recorrió los valles del Ronti Gad, Rishiganga y Dhauliganga, destruyó dos centrales hidroeléctricas y dejó más de 200 muertos. CO₂ atmosférico: ~416 ppm.

🌑 2026: Langtang Lirung / frontera Nepal–Tíbet/China. El 26 de agosto, se desprendió un bloque de cientos de metros de ancho de glaciar y roca de la cara norte del Langtang Lirung, a unos 5.400 m de altitud. Se habla de un fallo de lecho rocoso que soportaba el glaciar colgante. Los bloques de hielo y roca cayeron más de 1.200 m en vertical, se pulverizaron y se transformaron en una avalancha que bloqueó temporalmente el río Lhende Khola. Al ceder la presa natural se generó un flujo de lodo, agua que arrasó aldeas, puentes, carreteras y el puesto fronterizo de Gyirong (Tíbet). A 29 de agosto se contabilizan más de 580 muertos y 3.000 desaparecidos. Es plausible que el gran terremoto (7,8) ocurrido en 2015 en la cara sur de la misma montaña Langtang Lirung haya contribuido como factor de preparación. Entonces, el edificio fronterizo de Gyirong apenas sufrió daños (ver video) pero ahora ha quedado totalmente sepultado. CO₂ atmosférico actual: ~427 ppm.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Well, there it is. The scene at the location where it all began. It looks almost like a small nuclear bomb was detonated in the valley.

Photo credit: Dr. Guoxiong Zheng (गुवसियोङ् चङ्)

[Sharing Travel @TripInChina]

Photos from the rescue team.
All the buildings have disappeared.
Only a stretch of rocky beach remained at the border crossing.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Guessing game: How far away from Mount Rainer (the big fat white thing in the middle of the photo) are the hikers? Answer in the top comment.

Photo source: https://t.co/i2IAg6uH5G

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Well, I guess it was a success of sorts? In 1998, Honduras built a bridge designed to survive any storm. It survived a Category 5 hurricane perfectly but the river shifted, leaving it spanning over dry land. Source: https://t.co/w5QWbSL0Ja

[Sam Jacob @skjacob]

@altcap @Jesse_Livermore @DrOz No, a coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan would not reliably have detected or predicted this specific issue (aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease)