Knife Fighting: Folding Knives

There  is a lot of bullshit written about knife fighting, so lets deal with one of the big myths peddled by a lot of self-defence instructors: you won’t ever have the time to open a folding knife in a knife fight. This is about as stupid as saying you won’t ever have the time to draw a firearm. People have been doing it in Europe for centuries with no bother.

Everyone has heard of the Italian (or Milano) switchblade, which is a superbly designed ultra efficient automatic opening stiletto.

The butterfly knife is another fast opening folding knife design. If you heard that they were developed in the Philippines, you’ve been misinformed. They date back to at least 1710 in France and were in production in Europe throughout the 18th and 19th  century. There is no record of them in the Philippines until the early 20th Century.

The usual brigade of limp wristed, cross-dressing, bed-wetters have banned the carrying of switchblades in most places — not that that matters — so spring assisted knife was designed. They open nearly as fast and are usually legal to carry.

But even a normal folding knife can be opened with one hand in less than a second.

The Extrema Ratio – Nemesis

The navaja (traditional Sevillan fighting knife)

She Wolf “Loba”

Don’t know about in Spanish but in Italian lupa (she wolf) is slang for a dirty whore!!!!!! It can also mean a slut, who don’t care whose dick is in her figa.

What can Obama do about Iran?

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, said that Iran must:

“prove to our satisfaction that their program is, as they claim, for peaceful purposes and open up their facilities to inspections, freeze their uranium enrichment program, commit, as they have done, and follow through on that commitment to provide fuel for enrichment outside of the country or face real pressure and consequences.”

But if they don’t, what can Obama do about it?

Short of a military attack, not much; and with America needing Iranian support in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and with Obama gambling his economic policies on an economic recovery, like a degenerate betting his kids college fund on a 2 of hearts and 7 of spades in a poker game, that is about as likely as George Bush winning a noble prize for literature or West Ham winning the premiership.

Mohamed ElBaradei, might say “that we are shifting from confrontation into transparency and cooperation,” but the truth is Iran’s offer to allow the IAEA  access to the Fordo nuclear enrichment facility on 25 October and enter talks earlier about temporarily exporting low-enriched uranium to be converted into nuclear reactor fuel is a take it or leave offer, and Obama cant afford to leave it. Bush has already overplayed America’s hand, there are no more unilateral sanctions that America can impose — America has sanctioned everything it realistically can and there are no buyers internationally for more sanctions on Iran.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told RTL radio and LCI television, “We are ready to no longer speak about sanctions”, as well he might, because there isn’t even EU wide support for them and Russia and China have made it clear they wouldn’t agree to further sanctions — not that they would have any intention of biding by any sanctions, even if they did eventually agree to them. So where does that leave Obama?

He doesn’t have much to offer Iran as an incentive for discontinuing its nuclear enrichment programme. So assuming that it’s going to happen whatever position America adopts, he might as well actively support it. There is an irresponsible assumption that Iran going nuclear is dangerous but if history had proved anything, it is that MAD works, and that nuclear states will not enter into direct warfare with one and other. Iran is a far greater threat to both US geopolitical interests and Israel, without a nuclear weapons deterrent than it ever would be with one.