Has anybody asked Grok how often it makes up things when it doesn't have any real answers or is programmed not to reveal any truth?
Respectfully suggest taking a Sharpie marker and writing at least one bail bondsman's phone number on your arm prior to engaging in shenanigans and malarkey
Good News! Iran is getting war
U.S. Forces Destroy One Iranian Tanker and Damage Two More
Published Sep 5, 2026 11:43 AM by The Maritime Executive
On Saturday, U.S. Central Command reported that Iranian forces attempted to hit a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles, prompting a severe American counterstrike that disabled two Iranian tankers and destroyed a third.
In a statement, CENTCOM said that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a destroyer "successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks," and that all crewmembers were unharmed. In response, U.S. forces launched a counterstrike that "completely destroyed" a sanctioned shadow fleet tanker with IMO number 9189146 (operating as Kylo or Noxen) in the Gulf of Oman.
Video released by CENTCOM showed multiple hits on the tanker's weather deck, followed by two heavy strikes that blew through the port side shell plating and out the starboard side, consistent with an antiship cruise missile attack.
The ship was in ballast at the time, reducing the consequences of a spill. Prior to the attack, the tanker's crewmembers were instructed to abandon ship. CENTCOM did not provide an update on their status post-strike.
Two additional Iran-linked tankers - Downy and Stark 1 - each received a single small missile strike at the transom, intended to disable but not destroy the vessels. CENTCOM emphasized that Iran has no way to intercept American attacks on its ships.
“Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost —taking out three of yours,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM's commander, in a statement Saturday. “We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”
More:
https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-forces-destroy-one-iranian-tanker-and-damage-two-more
Oil, gas, lumber, vehicles, machinery and parts
Coming to an end
Already oil deal with Venezuela
Toyota and Honda thinking of departing Canada
Kenworth and Peterbuilt on their way out
Soon Carney will announce increase in jobs but leave out the part where those are government positions
>Allegedly according to you
Info is out there, just like the jobs numbers for August
USA: gained 162,000 jobs
Canada: Lost almost 49, 000 jobs
All good, the coming months are going to be very interesting
It is more entertaining to see shills still rattled by a bunch of high school kids that haven't been around in years
MO Concludes Next Round of Net-Zero Discussions Still Divided
Published Sep 4, 2026 4:02 PM by The Maritime Executive
The International Maritime Organization completed its next working group session discussing efforts to reach a decarbonization approach still largely divided, and is now aiming for a potential resolution by the end of 2026. Optimists are noticing a productive discussion and less political maneuvering and backstabbing, but the United States and others continued their opposition to the Net Zero Framework, and key issues were deferred to more intersessional discussions or a consequential series of three sessions in late November and early December 2026.
The session came against a backdrop where climate scientists assert that the evidence of the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions is building. Europe and many other parts of the world suffered through a blistering summer of heatwaves, and Nepal is still reeling from what appears to have been a major glacier collapse leading to catastrophic flooding. The United Nations released scientific reports saying the globe would exceed the previously ascribed goal to limit the increase to 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above mid-19th century temperatures, and likely more harsh consequences.
The United States, Saudi Arabia, and primarily other oil-producing states, continued their opposition in the IMO discussions that emerged and led to the deferral of adoption votes. They continue to push to scrap key elements of the Net Zero Framework or call for additions such as different fuels and more pathways. The proposed GCG Fund remains one element of strong opposition even with proposed changes and a renaming.
Other states put forward yet different approaches, such as Liberia, which wants to tie in the availability and affordability of cleaner fuels to the structure. Japan proposed replacing the pricing structure with shipowner-directed contributions, but according to observers in the closed-door sessions, that was “robustly rejected.”
Smaller and island nations continue to push for stricter requirements while many of the individual issues remained open to discussion. Researchers at UCL Energy Institute noted likely efforts to soften the initial Global Fuel Intensity pathway in the NZF as well as broad debate on issues such as pooling and transfer of credits. China put forward a proposal that includes reward payments and could form a single transaction, which was reported to receive broad support.
Observers are saying that it appears at least two-thirds of the states are supporting the approach of a centralized pricing and collection system that also rewards early adopters. At the end of the four days of meetings, it seemed that despite the continued block of opposition, overall, there is no significant support for an alternative to adopting the Net-Zero Framework.
“Whilst there are many positives to take away,” Dr. Tristan Smith, Professor of Energy and Transport at UCL Shipping and Oceans Research Group, said, “there remains high uncertainty in the extent that both industry’s transition and low-income countries' transitions will be supported. There remains high risk that in the effort to find a creative way forwards, the equilibrium between these two aspects, that enabled the NZF in the first place, is lost to the detriment of the outcome overall.”
Summarizing where things stand, UCL concludes that “several key aspects of the negotiation are wide-open and didn’t narrow this week.” It sees as a core question the level of the early transition, how soft it is, and the regulatory tools and support for businesses to manage the changes. It expects the draft documents will evolve more informally and warns, “There could well be twists to come as different concepts are merged together to find common ground.”
The official IMO timeline calls for the intersessional working group to reconvene November 23 for a week of discussions. The following week, MEPC 85 runs from November 30 to December 4, and the extraordinary sessions adjourned in October 2025 resumes on Dember 4, assuming MEPC 85 produces conclusions.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/imo-concludes-next-round-of-net-zero-discussions-still-divided
"…climate scientists assert" but those "scientists" are never identified
Methinks it's not just Ottawa desperately hoping mid-term election change things in DC
Disruption at Port of Dover due to 'stop the boats' protest
Simon Jones, in Dover, Craig Buchan and Joshua Askew, South East 5 hours ago
There has been major disruption at the Port of Dover due to a large group of masked men holding a demonstration.
Hundreds of protesters, dressed in black and wearing face coverings, blocked roads and were heard chanting "stop the boats".
Traffic was stopped from going in and out of the port, with the government saying it condemned "the behaviour in Dover and the travel disruption it has caused".
Kent Police, which made no arrests, described it as a "spontaneous" protest, while Mike Tapp MP said questions need to be asked around why it appeared the police "didn't know about it".
Officers moved the crowd from the port to Dover Priory railway station at about 11:30 BST and said "all involved had dispersed by 12:00".
Paul King, Reform UK councillor for Dover West, said he had been told it was a "stop the boats protest".
Kent Police has not yet commented on who was behind the demo.
Anti-hate organisation Hope Not Hate claims that the Patriot Platform network arranged the protest, saying the group began meeting in July and has brought together members of anti-migrant groups from around the country.
Demonstrators told the BBC they did not want to talk to the media, although one said "send them back" and another said "stop the boats" when approached.
Far-right activists Tommy Robinson and Danny Thomas both posted about it on X, praising those involved.
Thomas wrote: "The experience on the ground today, was the overwhelming majority of the women and local people we spoke to were thankful that people were actually doing something."
Dover and Deal MP Mike Tapp said the incident, which started at about 07:00, caused "absolutely awful disruption" for residents.
"I am fed up with idiots coming to Dover," he said on Facebook.
"I bet if you asked any one of those 'protesters' they wouldn't know small boat crossing are down by 40% and we are working hard to fix the mess.
"I will be looking urgently on Monday to ask questions around why we didn't know about this," he added.
"In this instance, it would appear that the police didn't know about it, and the resources were pretty thin on the ground, to be quite honest from what I saw."
Responding on X, Thomas said Tapp "might want to take a look at what your own constituents are saying. The comments from people in and around Dover speak for themselves."
Labour leader of Dover District Council Kevin Mills told BBC Radio 4 low policing levels contributed to the disruption protestors caused.
He said that the police presence improved over the day, though it was initially "pretty low".
The Port of Dover said operations had returned to normal and routes in and out of the town had all reopened.
Rafael Pittman, a tour guide from London, said the area had been "absolute chaos" in the three hours that he was there, waiting to pick up a group of tourists who had docked at Dover.
He said: "Passengers didn't disembark and we couldn't enter the terminal as it was blocked by freight trucks.
"The hooded protesters arrived en masse, passed the trucks and headed towards the cruise terminal, followed by the police."
Pittman added that, while the protesters "looked quite frightening", they were "friendly-ish" and told him that they were protesting against illegal migration.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8znyzgkjjo
Greetings Baker!
I had made an error on the copypasta for the article at >>25010585
Should be IMO for International Maritime Organization
Humbly request correction as I hang my head in shame
Damn skippy
The ripple effect of the Clancy case is going to be devastating. There's been bits so far of girlfriends getting dumped and weddings called off. Sad for the venues for receptions when the marriage rate falls off a cliff. Then again, thousands of womencame across the border while the lberals cheered. Women raised to appreciate and respect a man in their lives. Women raised that Family is priority and Wife and Mother is high honor. I won't touch on the old traditions of Catholics being against divorce but ya know
I'd like to submit for anon approval a modification to "WASP" so the new meaning is "White Anglo-Saxon Psycho"
First it was PMS should be forgiven, their hormones make them lose control and now it's post-partum hormones make them lose control. Fine, hormonal instability and tendency to be ruled by emotions demonstrates women should not be trusted with positions of authority. Might need to adjust some laws, like how about no voting while PMS or post-partum in effect?
The number keeps coming up. Year 2030 it's expected 45% of women will be single and childless. That was before the Clancy case. That was based on studies that started in Japan in the 90s and the more recent ones in North America.
I saw a video last night about some American women bashing on passport bros. Most of the women were water buffalo sized. A Thai woman living in the UK (with her husband and two kids btw) had quite some clapback on those chicks
>>25010802 (me)
A scenario likely to be repeated many times in the future
Woman raised by man-hating single mother and family chases college degree and career. The "Biological Clock" gets ignored and she's not interested in doing family anyway because she hates men. Bring in the cat to substitute for the nurture that is biological instinct. Cats live about 20 years. She gets cat between 30 and 35 so at 50-55 cat dies. Bring in the Silence. Her dwelling is empty now. She lays in bed all alone. Kitty died so there's no cuddle, no purring, no telling the fuzzball about her day. Nothing stirs, just silence.
Somewhere at sometime it happens. The supermarket maybe? The cart going by her has an infant in it, does the laugh only babies can. On her big screen tv maybe? Yeah, some sitcom rerun or some holiday movie. There on the screen, a family together. That word "Mom" or maybe even "Mommy" like she referred to herself when talking to the now dead cat. Around her is no family, no cat, but the Silence is there. "Ah, my Peace and Quiet" she may tell herself. In the Silence comes something else, Emptiness. What memories does she have? Board Meetings or Mergers? Nice, not really much in the Legacy department. Ah yes, Legacy. None. No one to mourn or even remember her existence. Maybe she built a company. Merger, acquisition, rebranding. The influence she had gone, new hires never hear her name. She chose the path that lead to nothingness
kek
I want one of those coins now
Too bad the source is a "content creator"
anything for clicks I guess
likely, considering what time it is