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Fast scenes. High stakes. Power struggles. The Operators shows how the Afghan War was run—and why it spiraled. The book that inspired War Machine.
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Fast scenes. High stakes. Power struggles. The Operators shows how the Afghan War was run—and why it spiraled. The book that inspired War Machine.
#BookTokHistory #WarMachine #MichaelHastings #books -
Fast scenes. High stakes. Power struggles. The Operators shows how the Afghan War was run—and why it spiraled. The book that inspired War Machine.
#BookTokHistory #WarMachine #MichaelHastings #books -
Fast scenes. High stakes. Power struggles. The Operators shows how the Afghan War was run—and why it spiraled. The book that inspired War Machine.
#BookTokHistory #WarMachine #MichaelHastings #books -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@shaynej/115849616447687106
THIS IS WHY FASCISTS WANT CONTROL OF THE US - the obscenely large US Military Industrial Complex.
Spending HALF our nations budget on a war machine with no purpose only serves to make it a target for authoritarianism.
OVER $2 BILLION EVERY DAY - not on food or shelter or education, but on bombs for brown people who dont do what the US says. -
The only ones who truly benefit from the #WarMachine are #Corporations! And this is further proof! My uncle was in the US Army and when he was discharged, he could fix just about anything electro-mechanical! But nooooo... We can't have folks fixing stuff themselves -- just buy new ones and waste #taxpayer money!
Congress Quietly Kills Military “#RightToRepair,” Allowing #Corporations to Cash In on *Fixing* Broken Products
Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.
by Matt Sledge, December 9 2025
"The idea of a 'right to repair' — a requirement that companies facilitate consumers’ #repairs, #maintenance, and modification of products — is extremely popular, even winning broad, bipartisan support in Congress. That could not, however, save it from the #MilitaryIndustrial complex.
"#Lobbyists succeeded in killing part of the National Defense Authorization Act [#NDAA] that would have given service members the right to fix their equipment in the field without having to worry about military suppliers’ intellectual property.
"The decision to kill the popular proposal was made public Sunday after a closed-door conference of top congressional officials, including defense committee chairs, along with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
"Those meetings were secret, but consumer advocates say they have a pretty good idea of what happened.
" 'It’s pretty clear that defense contractors opposed the right-to-repair provisions, and they pressed hard to have them stripped out of the final bill,' said Isaac Bowers, the federal legislative director at #USPIRG. 'All we can say is that #DefenseContractors have a lot of influence on Capitol Hill.'
"The idea had drawn bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, which each passed their own versions of the proposal.
"Under one version, co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mt., defense companies would have been required to supply the information needed for repairs — such as technical data, maintenance manuals, engineering drawings, and lists of replacement parts — as a condition of Pentagon contracts.
"The idea was that no service member would ever be left waiting on a contractor to fly in from Norway to repair a simple part — which once happened — or, in another real-life scenario, told by the manufacturer to buy a new CT scanner in a combat zone because one malfunctioned.
"Instead of worrying about voiding a warranty, military personnel in the field could use a 3D printer or elbow grease to fix a part.
" 'The military is a can-do operation,' Bowers said. 'Service members can and should be able to repair their own equipment, and this will save costs if they can do it upfront and on time and on their schedule.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/09/congress-military-ndaa-right-to-repair/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/54Nro#EndlessWar #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #USInvasions #USPol #ContractorProfiteering #LockheedMartin #Boeing #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct
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There was a lot of good stuff in this AMA, but what intrigued me the most was their comment that the Iron Kingdoms RPG would revert back to a 2d6-style system for its next incarnation, as opposed to its current D&D 5 version.
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It's Friday night, that means it's time for mindless murdering meatbags! @steamforged latest 3D bundle brings Drudge Slayers, Mind Slayers, and beast customisation bits for Old Umbrey forces. Subscribe today! https://l.d20.ninja/yckwz23e #SteamforgedGames #Warmachine #3DPrinting #TabletopGaming
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It's Friday night, that means it's time for mindless murdering meatbags! @steamforged latest 3D bundle brings Drudge Slayers, Mind Slayers, and beast customisation bits for Old Umbrey forces. Subscribe today! https://l.d20.ninja/yckwz23e #SteamforgedGames #Warmachine #3DPrinting #TabletopGaming
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It's Friday night, that means it's time for mindless murdering meatbags! @steamforged latest 3D bundle brings Drudge Slayers, Mind Slayers, and beast customisation bits for Old Umbrey forces. Subscribe today! https://l.d20.ninja/yckwz23e #SteamforgedGames #Warmachine #3DPrinting #TabletopGaming
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It's Friday night, that means it's time for mindless murdering meatbags! @steamforged latest 3D bundle brings Drudge Slayers, Mind Slayers, and beast customisation bits for Old Umbrey forces. Subscribe today! https://l.d20.ninja/yckwz23e #SteamforgedGames #Warmachine #3DPrinting #TabletopGaming
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#Meanwhile...
The #PrideOrange #WarMachine is #Still #FineForDiesel...
#Still with #ZeroFakebook...
#HappyHappy #DeadHamsterMonth...!
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#Politics #Conservative #Liberal #Libertarian #Economy #Finance #Markets #Bitcoin #Crypto #Blockchain #DebtCrisis #USDebt #GlobalEconomy #StockMarket #Recession #InterestRates #Conservadorismo #LiberdadeDeExpressao #DireitaBR #BrasilConservador #renatotrezoitao #trezoitao #Maga #DeepState #EstadoProfundo #ShadowGovernment #GlobalElites #WakeUp #TruthSeeker #RedPill #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #EisenhowerWarning #WarMachine #EndlessWar de
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Mortenebra trades Cyriss for Lord Toruk in Steamforged's latest Warmachine release. The Iron Liche brings necro-crispiness to Cryx while Captain "Boom Boom" McCoy and Circle's Lupine Shifted prepare their violent objections. Office politics: https://l.d20.ninja/3jtb8apv #Warmachine #Steamforged #TabletopGames #Miniatures #Wargaming #Cryx #CircleOrboros
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New @steamforged Gravedigger Auxiliaries for Cygnar. Elite veterans led by Colonel Jakes, with Captain Brock and Beaker the warjack in tow. Specialists in "stealth and devastation" - an oxymoron only Cygnar could weaponise https://l.d20.ninja/3dk6a8s2 #SteamforgedGames #Warmachine #Cygnar #TabletopGaming #Wargaming #Miniatures
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Oh shark jesus please let me not regret this #warmachine #sharkyandgeorge
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Respect for Ian Williams, #Canadian #author who actually went outside the #GillerPrize celebrations to talk to people protesting the #Palestinian #genocide while #ScotiaBank continues to fund the #Israeli #warMachine. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/previous-giller-winner-ian-williams-on-navigating-the-tensions-in-canlit-1.7387244
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Impellitteri – War Machine Review
By Dolphin Whisperer
As the eponymous outfit of American shredhead Chris Impellitteri, Impellitteri has wielded the heavy metal chorus call and neoclassical solo response for near forty years. Though presenting a style that rollicks about Malmsteen-like fretboard gymnastics in a 80s rockin’ manner in the ballpark of the flamboyant Racer X or rough ‘n’ riffy Chastain, Impellitteri has maintained a workmanlike vigor in their long-standing songcraft. Virtuosity in runs and power chord progressions call the shots in this well-attended line of fire-fingered, efficient attacks. And though times are different than when Rob Rock (of his own eponymous works and ex-Axel Rudi Pell), first joined the Impellitteri crew, his continued presence alongside the nimble band leader aims to find that same consistency with this newest War Machine.
Understandably, War Machine veers little from the Impellitteri way. Though the American stalwarts materialized in 1988 as an affair similar to the Rainbow-on-shred names popular of the time, debut Stand in Line even featuring ex-Rainbow, ex-Alcatrazz vocalist Graham Bonnet, Impelliterri grew to thrive less on AOR shakin’ and more on power metal adjacent triumph on successive releases.1 And with the introduction of Rock on mic, Ken Mary (Fifth Angel, ex-Chastain) on kit, and Ed Roth (Driver) on keys, 90s peaks Screaming Symphony and Eye of the Hurricane offered a thrilling and overloaded version of a sound that already possessed much flexing force. Though low on variation, Impellitteri’s style through to War Machine remains classic and guitar-forward, a combo that to lovers of the olde and solo-wild will rarely be displeasing.
Despite the similar nature of everything, both to past Impellitteri works and within its own walls, War Machine comes stacked with bombastic guitar work against ridiculous themes. Reaching for a standard-issue bag of neoclassical tricks, along with spacey phasers that give whiffs of Van Halen party energy (“Superkingdom,” “Just Another Day”), Impellitteri’s licks endure as swift and truly heavy metal. And relying on the intensity of a post-Painkiller world, tracks like “Hell on Earth” and “Light It Up” find an extra rhythmic propulsion that keeps the horns raised high against double-kick assaults.2 Testament to Rock’s not-ageless but studied bravado, his performance, while not striking the highest highs of his younger days, lives in full commitment against campy themes of AI takeover (“Superkingdom”) and getting rowdy in the mosh pit (“War Machine,” “Light It Up”). Adding that all-too-important warmth and earnestness to the smoky stage romp that Impellitteri embodies, Rock persists as a link vital to keeping the War Machine on course.
When Impellitteri fires on all the cylinders still at their disposal, War Machine lives up to its name. But that makes up only about half of its forty-three-minute runtime. At this point in the Impellitteri catalog, the line between filler and iterated event runs thinner than the cutting tone Mr. Impellitteri loves so to highlight his lightning-speed scale laps. In that sense, it shouldn’t matter that “War Machine” is another “Turn of the Century” (Crunch, 2000) shred-laced groove that sets a marching tone, nor should it be a bother that “Beware the Hunter” utilizes one of the most common riff patterns that Impellitteri has ever put to tape. The War Machine versions of these tested sounds should land on their own merit—at cranking speeds (“Wrath Child,” “Light It Up”) and proudest arpeggio (“Superkingdom,” “Just Another Day”) they do, and Impellitteri shows they have ideas left in the tank. But when all eleven tracks don’t show this same fervor at this stage of their career, Impellitteri needs to spend a little more time in curation than creation.
If a younger Dolph had written this review, some of War Machine’s issues of repetition may not have stuck out in as flagrant a stumbling manner. However, Impellitteri, since first entering the fold of cetaceous enjoyment in the mid-00s, has released album after album of lowering differentiation with infrequent flashes of a former shining self. When the past was more recent, less littered by minds who wanted the same 11-dialed Marshall and scalloped Strat in the limelight, Impellitteri’s recursive ideas were more forgivable. But at our current juncture in time, growing every year closer to four decades of Impellitteri occupation, the War Machine must stand against those who preceded and inspired its existence, those who grew shoulder-to-shoulder in shred, and those who have raised themselves on the entirety of that history. And that’s all more fight than War Machine gives.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Frontiers Music
Websites: impellitteri.net | instagram.com/chrisimpellitteriofficial
Releases Worldwide: November 8th, 2024#20 #2024 #Alcatrazz #AxelRudiPell #Chastain #FifthAngel #FrontiersMusic #HeavyMetal #Impellitteri #NeoclassicalMetal #Nov24 #PowerMetal #RacerX #Rainbow #Review #Reviews #RobRock #Shred #WarMachine #YngwieMalmsteen
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In 2016; I ordered the #PrideOrange #WarMachine 4-wks ahead of the #BrexitSham; there was a #MinorDelay of 2-mths on #Delivery because it was #Subject to a #Euro6 #DieselEmissions requirement... #Ford honoured the #Contract...
#However... Within weeks of the #BrexitReferendum; #Ford had #Slapped a £4,000 #Surcharge on any #NewOrders for a #Vehicle of the #ExactSameSpecification...
#UponDelivery; it was the only time in #MyExperience, where the #Vehicle was #WorthMore by #DrivingIT off the #Forecourt
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In #2016; I ordered the #PrideOrange #WarMachine 4-wks ahead of the #BrexitSham; there was a #MinorDelay of 2-mths on #Delivery because it was #Subject to a #Euro6 #DieselEmissions requirement... #Ford honoured the #Contract...
#However... Within weeks of the #BrexitReferendum; #Ford had #Slapped a GB£4,000 #Surcharge on any #NewOrders for a #Vehicle of the #ExactSameSpecification...
#UponDelivery; it was the only time in #MyExperience, where the #Vehicle was #WorthMore by #DrivingIT off the #Forecourt
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In 2016; I ordered the #PrideOrange #WarMachine 4-wks ahead of the #BrexitSham; there was a #MinorDelay of 2-mths on #Delivery because it was #Subject to a #Euro6 #DieselEmissions requirement... #Ford honoured the #Contract...
#However... Within weeks of the #BrexitReferendum; #Ford had #Slapped a £4,000 #Surcharge on any #NewOrders for a #Vehicle of the #ExactSameSpecification...
#UponDelivery; it was the only time in #MyExperience, where the #Vehicle was #WorthMore by #DrivingIT off the #Forecourt
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In 2016; I ordered the #PrideOrange #WarMachine 4-wks ahead of the #BrexitSham; there was a #MinorDelay of 2-mths on #Delivery because it was #Subject to a #Euro6 #DieselEmissions requirement... #Ford honoured the #Contract...
#However... Within weeks of the #BrexitReferendum; #Ford had #Slapped a £4,000 #Surcharge on any #NewOrders for a #Vehicle of the #ExactSameSpecification...
#UponDelivery; it was the only time in #MyExperience, where the #Vehicle was #WorthMore by #DrivingIT off the #Forecourt
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#One of #TheNiceThings about #Living in a #CivilisedSociety with the #PrideOrange #WarMachine is that #IT has #AllRoundSensors to #Detect #ThePresence of #Things...
#ITWorks a #LotLike #Sonar; but, #IT's #NotSonar...
#StoopidTrucks are #SuperAwesome | You can #QuoteMe on that; but, you #ProbablyWont...
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#One of #TheNiceThings about #Living in a #CivilisedSociety with the #PrideOrange #WarMachine is that #IT has #AllRoundSensors to #Detect #ThePresence of #Things...
#ITWorks a #LotLike #Sonar; but, #IT's #NotSonar...
#StoopidTrucks are #SuperAwesome | You can #QuoteMe on that; but, you #ProbablyWont...
#AlsoAvailable In #PlumAndRusty... And, #RustyAndPlum...
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#ForInformation: #BeAdvised; the #PrideOrange #WarMachine is #AlreadyFittedOut for #SpecialNeedsAdaptations... And, #QuoteToots
Useful for the #RearMounted #SoupCannon...
#AT the #Risk of #OverSpecifying... #AndAllThat...
#IT also has its own #WiFiHotSpot... | #TrueFact #StillTrue
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#ForInformation: #BeAdvised; the #PrideOrange #WarMachine is #AlreadyFittedOut for #SpecialNeedsAdaptations... And, #QuoteToots
Useful for the #RearMounted #SoupCannon...
#AT the #Risk of #OverSpecifying... #AndAllThat...
#IT also has its own #WiFiHotSpot... | #TrueFact #StillTrue™️
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Cluster Bombs and Biden's Wider War . . . a Green & Red Commentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po2PqxMMHFw&ab_channel=GreenandRedPodcast
Bob here discusses Biden's decision to use cluster bombs--a war crime--in Ukraine. Cluster bombs were widely used in Laos by the U.S. and 80 million didn't explode, and caused thousands of deaths since the war ended. Despite billions of dollars sent to Ukraine and massive casualties, the war is a bloodbath and stalemate and the U.S. continues to escalate and reject talks.
#bloodmoney #warmachine #killerprofits #genocide #crimesagainsthumanity #classwar #Ukraine #bloodbath #theft
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My ★★★ review of War Machine on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dpW0pl
#265moviereview #WarMachine #WarMachineNetflix #Netflix #movies
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#BTW: #WatchOut for #BirdStrike...
The #PrideOrange #WarMachine is #Still: #FineForDiesel...
And, #BackToTheFuchsia...
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#BTW: #IF (and #IT's a #VeryBIG #IF) you also have a #PrideOrange #WarMachine AND a #TentInABox™️ #IT's #Conceivable that you may also want to #Affix the #TentInABox™️ to the #FlatBed of your #PrideOrange #WarMachine...
You can #DoThat; there is #MoreThanEnough #StructuralRigidity in the #TentInABox™️ for that to #Happen - #IT's #ReallyWellMade... But...
And, #IT's a #BigButt... You'll #EndUP with a 3' #Overhang off the #Tailgate, which is #NotIdeal... For #AllSorts of #Reasons...
#TheLadder is #Great; #So, #Pop the #TentInABox™️ on #TheRoof and #StopBeingArseholes...
#YoureWelcome | #DontMentionIT...
#IT's a #CommunityThing with #Ambassadors and #Lanyards, and #FairyLights (#OhMy!)... #SortOf #LikeACult... But, with #GroovyMerch
Are you #Ready for some #CampingOnArrakis...?
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