Phil Perry

This is yet more from the story of Herr Wilhelm Flicke of the German Intercept Service. It has been mentioned before that Herr Flicke’s opinion is that Signals Intelligence is of the highest importance. Few would argue with him but as well as intercepting and deciphering wireless messages, they have to be evaluated and distributed to the relevant people. Having received them, these people should then act on them. The “greatest General of all time” is our old friend the little Austrian Corporal Adolf. The sarcastic title has been awarded by Herr Flicke based on his knowledge of Adolf’s attitude to signals intelligence as well as a few other things. The two striper had his own view of the world and all in it, anything that clashed with that view was incorrect and could be ignored plus its supplier could well get an earful of abuse, or worse. He even insisted on seeing raw intelligence, no analysis of it was allowed. This article will attempt to provide a few examples where this happened and the consequences where possible. To my poor little mind, the two biggest mistakes Adolf made were declaring war on the USA and attacking the USSR. You could argue the holocaust but disgusting as it was, it did not finish him off and I think those two decisions ensured Germany lost the war. Strangely enough, there is a connection. First obvious misinterpretation was his belief that neither the UK nor France would fight to support Poland. He was very wrong, we declared war on him but as it was a phoney war he thought we would eventually get bored and come to an agreement with him. When Operation Sea Lion was going on, it was not done under cover or camouflage but out in the open. It was like the Germans were sending a message. Adolf still wanted peace with the UK and its help against the USSR (based on pre war anti Bolshevik comments made by Churchill). The implication is that the threatened invasion was a bluff and designed to force the UK’s hand. When this didn’t do the trick, the next step was to threaten the UK’s colonies in the Far East, using the Japanese, so as to split the disposition of Britain’s military. The Germans had forgotten one thing and that was if the Japanese tried to disturb the balance of power in the Far East, the USA would not stand by and watch; relations were already tense over the Japanese invasion of China. The Japanese raised an objection to this, they did not want the USA involved. Von Ribbentrop assured them that the USA would be in no position to cause trouble because Germany would declare war on the USA and both the USA and the UK would have to split their forces to deal with two fronts and the USA would then be too weak to threaten the Japanese. In September 1940 the Germans had intercepted traffic that gave a fair picture of the USA’s production capabilities and estimates for the the next two years. Compared with German production these figures were enormous. Hitler and Ribbentrop said these figures were pipe dreams, they knew best. It was typical Hitler, facts that do not agree with his ideas must be wrong. Next came the “if I attack the USSR, based on anti-Bolshevik utterances of Churchill, the British are bound to join in with us and also attack the commies”. That worked out well for him too, He eventually ended up with the perennial German nightmare, war on two fronts, three if you include Italy. Hitler had decided in about September 1940 to attack Russia. He wanted the oilfields of Mosul in Iraq and wanted to attack them via Russia and North Africa. The British landed troops in Iraq to counter this and about this time Hess flew to Scotland with his attempt to negotiate, it was unofficial but with Hitler’s blessing. Originally one of the routes chosen to Mosul was via Turkey, with or without its approval. the Ambassador in Ankara von Papen convinced Adolf to go another way. Hence the attack on Crete but it was so costly, the result was the Germans abandoned that route. Treachery was again suspected when the defence of Crete seemed so resolute and the British seemed to know the German plan. Hitler expected the USSR to collapse under the weight of the German onslaught as it blitzkrieged its way through Russia. It didn’t and instead of demoralising the Russians, each German victory spurred them on. Talk of a holy war in the East was replace by the Lebensraum theory, how I hate that word. Even the White Russians left in Germany were advocating fighting for the Motherland, this was stamped on by the Gestapo. Intelligence provided reports that the Russian Air Force had over 10,000 aircraft as well as significant production capability. The Nazi bigwigs, including Adolf, ridiculed this idea and decided there was no way they had more than 3,000. After the Germans had announced that they had destroyed more than 6,000 Russian planes, the bigwigs decided that the method of reporting of Russian losses was to blame, not their estimate of the initial strength. The German timetable was wrecked, but even if they had occupied Moscow, what would have happened. Napoleon had done just that and the Russians had withdrawn enticing him to advance further still. He did not, he retreated, and the Germans would have gone no further. From August to October 1941, the Russians built up 40 divisions to the rear of the fighting. The Germans intercepted the signals and could identify what was going on. Colonel Kettler, Chief of these Intercepts composed an exhaustive report detailing what the Russians were up to and sent it via General Fellgiebel, Chief of Armed Forces Signals, to the General Staff who passed it on. It was rejected and returned to Fellgiebel with these comments They ought to put this Hosenscheisser (trouser shitter) Kettler out of business, from Jodl (a bit of a brown noser from all accounts). This is also the opinion of the Führer, from Fegelein (later husband of Eva Braun’s sister). The report was returned to Kettler who was then given a command at the front. Late in October the traffic ceased and at his Wolf’s Lair, Hitler was convinced it had been a Russian hoax, the little Austrian convinced himself he had been right once again. But the defence around Moscow was strengthened with the reserves and the Germans, against their expectations , were held. Among German Army commanders, an awakening began to dawn. They started to remember what their Signals Intelligence had been telling them about the timetable of Russian mobilisation and the capacity of the munitions industry beyond the Volga. Hitler had a theory that a population of one million could muster x divisions, the Russian population was about 180 million so from that he had a theoretical maximum number of Russian divisions. Needless to say, the Soviets actually produced more than this theoretical maximum. In the middle of this the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, the USA declared war on Japan and Germany declared war on the USA. Just as the Russian campaign was slowing down, the fool goes and declares war on the USA which was already supplying equipment to the USSR. Since August 1941 Hitler had wanted Japan to join the war against the USSR but Japan’s gaze was in another direction and in fact the Japanese eventually came to an agreement with the USSR that they would not attack it, thereby freeing up more Red Army divisions to be used against the Germans. Who can forget the Downfall videos mocking Adolf. One of his first sentences is “Das war ein Befehl, der Angriff Steiners war ein Befehl” or “That was an order, Steiner’s attack was an order”. Well, Steiner had a semi-mythical force that didn’t really exist except on paper but the Führer convinced himself it was real and lost the plot when it did not follow orders. Even to the end, having been so wrong on so many things, he was still at it. The man obviously had some kind of talent, if only he could have used it for good rather than evil. Well Chuffed 2018 going postal blog

I agree with your Good Lady Marty. We used to visit one of my Aunts twice weekly. They had a small farm and Dad used to shoot rabbits there. Auntie always gave Mum a couple of sodding rabbit pies to take home with us. . .we were duly forced to endure it three times weekly in the mid to late 1950s. . .I used to sneak bits of mine to the cat under the dinner table. . he didn't seem to mind. !

Immigration explained. A deer walked into a gift shop in Colorado and the owner gave it some biscuits. Eventually it left, only to return half an hour later with its whole family. [ATTACH]49449._xfImport[/ATTACH]

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I like this one ( nothing to do with LGBT ) Recent meeting of EU & European leaders ( + Mr. Netanyahu ) and supporters showing the city street rammed to capacity. . . The regrettable unofficial one below taken from an adjacent hotel. . .oops. . .isn't that a bit of naughty media 'Cheating'. . .? [ATTACH]49437._xfImport[/ATTACH]

My Goodness. . . .is THIS REALLY what our ancestors fought Two World Wars for ? . . . [ATTACH]49436._xfImport[/ATTACH] Now I KNOW that there are some on the site of the Gay community but. . .Really ?. . .is this necessary ? Does it help ?

'Who is Muzzlng the Media ?' . . in this case,. . it is 'Allegedly'. . . . . Angela Merkel. [ATTACH]49435._xfImport[/ATTACH] NOW,. . .is this true ?,. . . Partially True ?. . .Any grain of truth in it at all ?. . . or a disgusting attack upon a well respected Government Leader. . . . .. we won't know for a while until someone in the German Press leaks it. I truly hope that it isn't.. . . Migrant Beheads 1-Year-Old Girl In Germany; Merkel Bans Media Reporting This 'news' site is denigrated by the msm and other #fake news sites. . . . .AGAIN,. . I truly hope that this is 'Invented' BS.

[ATTACH]49434._xfImport[/ATTACH] Colour me shocked. . . .we're still I the competition. . . BUT. . CROATIA are proper team. . . . .next Wednesday, we are playing THEM. . . . ( Cue horror movie soundtrack. . .)

Yeah Gareth,. . .I always took the pi$$ out of old guys wearing socks with sandals,. . .but in mitigation, the sandals were brand new, and chafed me poor feet. . . .Not only that, the tops of me feet got sunburned the day before, hadn't you heard ? we have a stonking heatwave here i the UK been up to 28/29 every day for a few weeks. . .Jeeze. . ! I've been sweating like an adulteress in Kabul mate. . .

Caution OK ? ? ?. . . . . Local Anaesthetic / Local Girl ? ? ? Sick ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? am I missing something here ?

Here's a Still picture David, taken by Little Daughter around 1 second before it hit me in the head . . . .(Incidentally I'm not really a fat barstard,. . . that tee shirt is quite thick. . .) The item i my mouth by the way, is the joystick pad instruction overlay card . . .I should have left it in position. . . Fortunately, I ony have a small cut above my left eye which is healing nicely. [ATTACH]49433._xfImport[/ATTACH]

What a CRUEL thing to say Neil. . .<BLOCKED> :-)

I used go out with an anaesthetist. She was a local girl.

She doesn't SEW I'm afraid David. . .However, she is a fanatical Gardener. This is why I am still in the kennel since decapitating some of her beloved plants whilst trying to control my toy drone. . . .Had Big Daughter and her partner not been present, I am sure that I would have been in the A & E department having a three pronged garden fork surgically removed from the back of my neck. . . ( Daughter's Partner took the blame you see. . . I Like him a lot. . . gonna make a useful Son in Law after Nov 5th this year )

My Good Lady (?) commented today, after ( Yesterday ) I had carefully removed some REAL computer junk from the shed, (these old system units are really heavy ). . . and, along with a load of dead 'Tinnies' aquashed flat and bagged up from the last two barbies, gone and weighed the lot in at a BRAND NEW Scrap metal dealer not far from here ( AND made myself Fourteen Quid in the process,. . .that she had found some 'Old Bits of Wood' in there whilst I was away. . . One of these Old bits of wood, was the original 2 blade timber Propeller from my Flash 2 Microlight, all refurbed and revarnished. . . .( Could be worth £50/60 or so to the right victim ) She says "Well, it looks like an old bit of wood to me. . ." I can't even win a little teeny bit. . . . . .

Indeed that is quite possible. . .the question has to be WHY ?. . there are hundreds of similar pictures, taken over the last three years by NGO Charity people trafficking ships which loiter just off the Libyan coast and act as a taxi service to Italy, Malta and Greek ports. . and such pictures are posted regularly on varied media platforms to tug at the heartstrings . . there would be little value in altering a few of them. . . .hardly going to make much impact.

This one isn't 'Muzzling' the media,. . .it's just another fake to tug the heartstrings and alter the political narrative.. . .it is one of many such pictures promulgated and re-used by the British media, but one that went wrong in this case. [ATTACH]49431._xfImport[/ATTACH] This photo was taken of 'refugees' supposedly struggling in the Mediterranean sea when their dinghy sank, but was ruined by the man who stood up in the shallow water as the whole thing was being staged... WHY ? ? ? Media is not to be trusted any more. . but who is driving this narrative ?. . . .and WHY ?. . .The white outlined part is the picture which was used in several mainstream media reports, and LOADS of Social Media reports, as being in shark infested waters off the coast of Libya. . .

Apprentice Donald Owen Clarke (5th March 1923 - 9th August 1942), Merchant Navy. Sailing alone on 8th August 1942, his motor tanker, the San Emiliano, was torpedoed and sunk by U.155 in the central Atlantic, south east of Trinidad. The ship was engulfed in flames but despite being so badly burned that he died the next day of his wounds, he helped save other severely burned victims by rowing a lifeboat clear of the stricken tanker. He rowed the lifeboat, the only one to survive the sinking, for two hours despite his hands being so badly burned they had to be cut away from the oars as his flesh had stuck to them. Lying at the bottom of the boat, as they waited for rescue, he sang to keep up the spirits of the other men. Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette of 20th July 1943. The citation ended thus "By his supreme effort, undertaken without thought of self and in spite of terrible agony, Apprentice Clarke ensured the safety of his comrades in the boat. His great heroism and selfless devotion were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Merchant Navy." He was 19 years of age. 19 years old. . .Astonishing bravery..

WHOAH everyone Please. . . . I saw that meme and it was very prescient; as have a garage and two other outbuildings stuffed full of computers / parts and my Good Lady is nagging me all the time to clear them out. She has never, ( to my knowledge ) physically attacked me though. In this regard, it was a poor choice of picture, I had not intended to illustrate domestic violence per se.

SKY TV, / Sports, Netflix and one other media subscription used to cost us circa £148.00 monthly.. . we decided that we could do without it, and dumped the £147.50 per annum BBC licence tax as well. Our UHF aerial is receiving 'Freeview' only. . . .This is a Digital service. . .Shame the programming is poor. ( Old adage : 'You get what you Pay For' ) Many Advertising channels, . . some old TV drama shows, Occasionally BBC4 re-runs of interesting stuff ( NOT live streamed broadcasts, some reasonable comedy ( Old stuff,. . modern comedy is not amusing at all ) Travel Channel. . .a few good progs on there too, so not too bad for free. We occasionally buy 'Box Sets' of movies / series on DVD dirt cheap from Amazon, which fills up most of the TV viewing that we bother with. . .and NO BBC TV Tax required. We have no landline, so no broadband / Sky, Netflix etc. It's Liveable with. . . .good enuf for a couple of old pensioner codgers anyhow.

TWO ELDERLY COUPLES WERE ENJOYING FRIENDLY CONVERSATION WHEN ONE OF THE MEN ASKED THE OTHER, "FRED, HOW WAS THE MEMORY CLINIC YOU WENT TO LAST MONTH?" "OUTSTANDING," FRED REPLIED. "THEY TAUGHT US ALL THE LATEST PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES - VISUALIZATION, ASSOCIATION - IT'S MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE FOR ME." "THAT'S GREAT! WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT CLINIC?" FRED WENT BLANK. HE THOUGHT AND THOUGHT BUT COULDN'T REMEMBER. THEN A SMILE BROKE ACROSS HIS FACE AND HE ASKED, "WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT FLOWER WITH THE LONG STEM AND THORNS?" "YOU MEAN A ROSE?" "YES, THAT'S IT!" HE TURNED TO HIS WIFE.................... "HEY, ROSE, WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT CLINIC WE WENT TO ?"

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There is a UK wide scarcity of CO2. . .this is causing problems for brewers / retailers of pressurised keg Beers in outlets all over the country. . . . . [ATTACH]49429._xfImport[/ATTACH]

DIY is enjoying a boom,. . . . . . . The popularity of woodwork is sawing