Just before sunset on 05JAN2026 (Iran time) the giant Kalleh Dairy operation blew up! Some sources report several explosions were heard. As I write this most of the factory is still on fire and evacuations for everybody within a one kilometer radius are taking place.
This Kalleh Dairy is located in Amol City, Amol County, […] Continue Reading…
When the Spanish explorers set foot in a place now called Venezuela they noticed that the natives were using a tarry substance, it seemed to be everywhere. Today, it’s known as heavy crude oil.
By 1928, U.S. oil companies had surpassed the operations of European oil companies in Venezuela. Despite a lot of naysayers claiming […] Continue Reading…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instituted a national ‘Public Order’ training standard for National Guard and law enforcers across the United States. The news media hasn’t published one word about this, yet you can find information directly from FEMA: Public Order and Public Safety basic course.
Training and Education.
The National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) […] Continue Reading…
The 6th of December 2025 turned out to be the biggest and busiest turnout yet for the Pocatello, Idaho, railroad club’s Open House; more than 3-hundred people were counted (according to two of the club members I talked with) between the 10th and 13th hours, and there was still an hour to go!
Was it […] Continue Reading…
U.S. and Jordanian forces launched large-scale strikes (using more than 1-hundred munitions) on more than 70 targets belonging to the so-called ‘Islamic State In Syria’. This in response to recent ISIS attacks upon […] Continue Reading…
“The improved KOT1 V2 command post armored vehicle receives orders from the observation post, processes them and, in a split second, forwards them to the self-propelled howitzer, which, in a short time, computes firing […] Continue Reading…
NATO-Germany just passed a law that says if their military fails to recruit 80-thousand men per year then ‘needs-based conscription’ (the draft) will be implemented. It is known as a ‘dual track system’, meaning if you don’t voluntarily join you will be forced into the military. Apparently this new law is because NATO-Germany is […] Continue Reading…
In Southeastern Idaho, Pocatello’s Center Street Tunnel (underpass) has been around since The Great Depression (1934 to be exact). The Tunnel was built underneath a very busy Union Pacific railyard. The City of Pocatello is supposedly, constantly, repairing the Tunnel. The repair work never lasts long and recently the Tunnel is looking so bad […] Continue Reading…
Great Patriotic War/World War Two: 1941 to 1945.
U.S. World War Two era M101 105-millimeter (105mm) ‘howitzer’ (short gun tube [barrel] artillery) still in use by Philippines.
I edited together several videos via U.S. Marine Corps, recorded during the October 2019 KAMANDAG wargame. KAMANDAG is an acronym for the Filipino phrase Kaagapay Ng Mga Mandirigma Ng Dagat, […] Continue Reading…