You may have noticed I've been writing little on this Submarine Matters lately.
I have been very busy commenting on other fora. Specifically
- the Aussie's On Line Opinion with me commenting 2-3 times a day as plantagenet
here is the list of my 4,000+ comments since 2005.
and
- US Intelnews commenting 1-2 times weekly as Pete
You'll notice an undeniable mindset aimed at (internal, external and sigint) intel collection and analysis, but mainly from-security-intel-angle.
Much of this has been inspired by 3 Americans on the game: A. in cyber security; B. mainly the security one with access to the 2 most famous bureau (mid level) and agency (an ex DD (Analysis); and C. in border protection. That was since 2005 until 3 years before Operation Neptune Spear, noting. Earlier, in 2006, I commented to a US contact (D) that bin Laden would not rely on electronic communications with bin Laden's network, but instead rely on hardcopy message couriers to-from bin Laden.
Since 2005 my communications have been closely monitored by 2 Five-Eyes. Fear not, I only consider traveling to Five-Eye-Safe Aus, NZ and UK, and telegraph my movements. I only use the same long term mobile and ISP accounts for ease of the established monitoring.
Also inspired by a lifetime of reading intelligence biographies, autobiogs, fiction and non-fiction (books, articles, websites, Youtubes, movies, TV series and newspapers).
Several family members being a broader part of the game:
- One, Grandad I never saw, on my Father's side, in then British run New Delhi, working with
electrical aspects of ULTRA and MAGIC intercept support in the early 1940s. Then UK tank
development. Later honoured with an OBE in 1961 "see George Leopold Albert COATES, Esq.,
Engineer I, Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Christchurch, [UK] War Office."
- Another, Grandad on my Mother's side, (paid by US or Australian DoDs?) to regularly fly into
Alice Springs to provide orthodontic services to Pine Gap staff and their families (1960s-70s).
- the last, my Dad, from Vietnam 1970 (counter-insurgency tactical intel) up to (access to
everything) Defense Attache to the US to mid 80s. Me often being told way too much by family on
the game.
Also by experinces triggered by such articles as this, this , this and this. In 2008 I scored a visit by a Chinese male "student" to my very small remote town. A "student" with an unenviable task as my town (where no Chinese lived...) was way out of the permitted Chinese diplomatic travel radius from Capital City. Aforesaid Chinese "student", of the thin cover carrying a camera (in his words "to take a picture" of my 90yo little old lady neigbour's old house...!) in retrospect, placed a GPS tracking device on my car. So when I visited Capital City in 2009 I was boxed-in by a Chinese team of 4 single, fit, chaps of around 30 years old. The 4 were just peaceably applying "here we are" pressure, thank goodness. The 4 had no plausible reason to be "window shopping" half an hour before the shops of the very cold Capital City opened.
So after all this I'm being encouraged to wean off the intel mindset with more about other genres, eg. crime thrillers (good, not far different from spy thrillers) and even fantasy (but the fantasy genre will never happen :)
I'm also writing more poetry (see https://petercoatespoems.blogspot.com/ ) and non-fiction with an emphasis on political satire, which will one day be funny
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On another matter :
Thankyou /Kjell
For directing me to a glaring defect in my blog software.
I have found over 350 comments in my Pending Comment bin that never went through to my email - some as far back as 2017. After removing around 150 SPAM comments I have just published all the Pending Comments, about 200.
My apologies to commenters, whose comments were, for a time, lost, hence not responded to - which I'll do over the next few days.
About 500 comments did get through to my email since 2017. I published them on the day received.
Cheers
Pete
I have been very busy commenting on other fora. Specifically
- the Aussie's On Line Opinion with me commenting 2-3 times a day as plantagenet
here is the list of my 4,000+ comments since 2005.
and
- US Intelnews commenting 1-2 times weekly as Pete
You'll notice an undeniable mindset aimed at (internal, external and sigint) intel collection and analysis, but mainly from-security-intel-angle.
Much of this has been inspired by 3 Americans on the game: A. in cyber security; B. mainly the security one with access to the 2 most famous bureau (mid level) and agency (an ex DD (Analysis); and C. in border protection. That was since 2005 until 3 years before Operation Neptune Spear, noting. Earlier, in 2006, I commented to a US contact (D) that bin Laden would not rely on electronic communications with bin Laden's network, but instead rely on hardcopy message couriers to-from bin Laden.
Since 2005 my communications have been closely monitored by 2 Five-Eyes. Fear not, I only consider traveling to Five-Eye-Safe Aus, NZ and UK, and telegraph my movements. I only use the same long term mobile and ISP accounts for ease of the established monitoring.
Also inspired by a lifetime of reading intelligence biographies, autobiogs, fiction and non-fiction (books, articles, websites, Youtubes, movies, TV series and newspapers).
Several family members being a broader part of the game:
- One, Grandad I never saw, on my Father's side, in then British run New Delhi, working with
electrical aspects of ULTRA and MAGIC intercept support in the early 1940s. Then UK tank
development. Later honoured with an OBE in 1961 "see George Leopold Albert COATES, Esq.,
Engineer I, Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Christchurch, [UK] War Office."
- Another, Grandad on my Mother's side, (paid by US or Australian DoDs?) to regularly fly into
Alice Springs to provide orthodontic services to Pine Gap staff and their families (1960s-70s).
- the last, my Dad, from Vietnam 1970 (counter-insurgency tactical intel) up to (access to
everything) Defense Attache to the US to mid 80s. Me often being told way too much by family on
the game.
Also by experinces triggered by such articles as this, this , this and this. In 2008 I scored a visit by a Chinese male "student" to my very small remote town. A "student" with an unenviable task as my town (where no Chinese lived...) was way out of the permitted Chinese diplomatic travel radius from Capital City. Aforesaid Chinese "student", of the thin cover carrying a camera (in his words "to take a picture" of my 90yo little old lady neigbour's old house...!) in retrospect, placed a GPS tracking device on my car. So when I visited Capital City in 2009 I was boxed-in by a Chinese team of 4 single, fit, chaps of around 30 years old. The 4 were just peaceably applying "here we are" pressure, thank goodness. The 4 had no plausible reason to be "window shopping" half an hour before the shops of the very cold Capital City opened.
So after all this I'm being encouraged to wean off the intel mindset with more about other genres, eg. crime thrillers (good, not far different from spy thrillers) and even fantasy (but the fantasy genre will never happen :)
I'm also writing more poetry (see https://petercoatespoems.blogspot.com/ ) and non-fiction with an emphasis on political satire, which will one day be funny
---------------------------------------------------.
On another matter :
Thankyou /Kjell
For directing me to a glaring defect in my blog software.
I have found over 350 comments in my Pending Comment bin that never went through to my email - some as far back as 2017. After removing around 150 SPAM comments I have just published all the Pending Comments, about 200.
My apologies to commenters, whose comments were, for a time, lost, hence not responded to - which I'll do over the next few days.
About 500 comments did get through to my email since 2017. I published them on the day received.
Cheers
Pete
Repeating /Kjell's comment (of Aug 10/11, 2019) below
ReplyDelete"Okey Pete I will try to post a comment, as the comments has disappeared I got the impression that you either do restrict the comments or you do have some technical issues with the approval of the comments. As there is no comments at all I tend to lean on the second issue. I can mention that I have done some comments that haven't been published, but as they often are a bit off the topic you never know why. So maybe this link can inspire you espesialy the artwork of the A26, yes I belive it's an artwork, but maybe it could have been something for Australia :) /Kjell on Submarine Matters and Pete at the moment."
Hi Kjell
ReplyDeleteIts very odd because all my settings for comments have remained the same for at least 6 years. Your comment came up in the "Pending comments" bin but no alert went through to my email. The not going through to my email seems to be the problem. I see other people's comments in my Pending bin. I'll try and fix the problem.
Meanwhile Go A26!! With all the problems the Germans are having maintaining their own Type 212As customers should buy Sweden's A26s instead of 212CDs :)
Cheers
Pete
Thanks /Kjell
ReplyDeleteFor your timely comment.
I have found over 300 comments in my Pending Comment bin that never went through to my email - some way back in 2017. After removing around 150 SPAM comments I have just published all the Pending Comments.
Meanwhile about 500 comments did go through to my email since 2017 and I published them on the day received.
There is hope and relevance yet for Submarine Matters, although I'll stick with my decisons in above the above article. Maybe:
- 1 submare article per week
- 1 international crisis article per week
- 2 poems a month.
- AND I'll check my Pending Comments Bin daily to avoid the "lack of comments" worry again.
I see its 1.11 PM in Stockholm, so good afternoon and many thanks /Kjell.
Pete
A corrected version with html end tag included
ReplyDeleteNice that it was a solvable solution, as the link to the artwork of the "A-26 AIP Attack Submarine" was lost in your publishing of my comment and if anyone like to see it here it is http://www.hisutton.com/A26.html and I don't belive it to be more than an artwork.
/Kjell
Thanks /Kjell (your ugust 11, 2019 at 11:28 PM)
ReplyDeleteFor http://www.hisutton.com/A26.html an excellet description and diagram of the A-26 "Blekinge-class".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekinge-class_submarine is also a good reference
With first of class being "Blekinge" and the second "Skåne"(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekinge-class_submarine#Units ) Sweden continues its practice of naming its subs after Swedish provinces
ie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekinge and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scania (aka: Skåne)
Regards
Pete