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[epo333]

Navy Deploys 2nd Aircraft Carrier to Gulf

April 09, 2012
Associated Press
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - - The U.S. Navy says it has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear program.

Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said on Monday that the deployment of the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise along with the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group marks only the fourth time in the past decade that the Navy has had two aircraft carriers operating at the same time in the region.

More here:



http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-deploys-2nd-aircraft-carrier-to-gulf.html?ESRC=eb.nl

[Doc]

"These are the voyages of the Enterprise?" :biggrin2:

[CasperParks]

Saw that on the news. They claimed it, "has nothing to do with what is going on with Iran".

[CasperParks]

Peaceful manuvers.

[epo333]

False Flag Carrier Enterprise Now In Place

By Zen Gardner
April 9, 2012

Would the US military really sacrifice its own to start a war with Iran? Would the US really be complicit in attacks on its own citizens to get into lucrative wars and gain access to precious natural resources?

If this sounds outlandish to you all you have to do is read. And read.

The USS Enterprise that just arrived in the Persian Gulf, nicknamed the “Big E”, is scheduled to be decommissioned after this last tour of duty.

A very expensive endeavor, especially since this was the very first nuclear powered vessel.

It’s reminiscent of the old warships left in Pearl Harbor as the newer ones left just prior to the attacks, or the ultra-expensive asbestos removal scheduled for the Twin Towers before their timely demise.

They like to kill many birds with one carefully planned stone if you haven’t noticed. They also need something spectacular to jar public opinion and an aircraft carrier can sustain a lot of very visible, dramatic damage without sinking to once again shock the dumbed-down American sheeple.

It will also be reminiscent of WW2 which brings up all that subconscious war programming.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufdw21ltc-8&feature=player_embedded

[Marvin]

False Flag Carrier Enterprise Now In Place


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufdw21ltc-8&feature=player_embedded


One doesn’t need much evidence to make a trial in the court of public opinion… but in criminal court, one has to prove intent.

This video did not make its case on intent, only on suspicion. While I find it interesting with the video’s suspicion of the US, Iran was not even held accountable for the hypothetical attach on the Enterprise. That speaks volumes on the video’s beliefs and perspective… it is the US’s fault for Iran’s attack on a US war ship in international waters. Therefore, the video’s belief is that Iran has no responsibility with any of its decisions in the matter.

Well, it’s their viewpoint, they are entitled to it.

[Redbone]

501

CVN-65, USS Enterprise
5,828 (maximum)
Ship's company: 3,000 (2,700 Sailors, 150 Chiefs, 150 Officers)
Air wing: 1,800 (250 pilots, and 1,550 support personnel)

Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar, AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar

Electronic warfare and decoys: AN/SLQ-32 Mark 36 SRBOC
Armament: 2 × NATO Sea Sparrow launchers, 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts, 2 RAM launchers

Armor: 8 in (20 cm) aluminum belt (equivalent to 4 in (10 cm) rolled homogeneous steel armor), armored flight deck, hangar, magazines and reactors

Aircraft carried: Hold up to 90, 60+ (normally)


She is not a toy and still very, very lethal. A False Flag? I don't think so.......I think what we are seeing is the USA getting into position because Bebe has given us a possible Go Date! If Iran strikes back at the two US Carrier Groups in the Gulf, they will be met with overwhelming fire power. Round the clock sorties from Carrier based aircraft and Cruise missles from the Support Group will rain tremendous destruction on Iran. There is more fire power with those two Carrier Groups than Iran can possibly imagine. I do not want to see another War, but we seem to be on a collision course with this one.

[southerncross]

I pray for the sake of our innocent men and women in uniform this is wrong.

But I have a question on any attack that may occur. Does not Russia have radar jamming in place so as to jam any radar that can assist Israel in an attack?
The US might not attack but it could provide intel. If radar is jammed, that drops the information to a disadvantage.

[norenrad]

All I can say is, "They have a way around that."

[southerncross]

Good to know.

I was not surprised to see attacks continue in Syria despite the "cease fire" agreement. Refugees in to Turkey have risen from 100 per day to 700 per day. So many Syrians are fleeing that Syrian troops have begun to fire in to Turkish refugee camps on Turkish soil. This may escalate if they do not stop. I would not like to piss the Turks off. Historically they are very brutal warriors. Also, if they get involved, the Middle Eastern "spring" will have expanded exponentially. Not good.

[neverwas]

I did just find this today, what it all means, one can only guess.
Don't know the accuracy of any of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfp1WjUqlZA&feature=related

[CasperParks]

I did just find this today, what it all means, one can only guess.
Don't know the accuracy of any of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfp1WjUqlZA&feature=related

Thanks for sharing with us, very interesting.

[epo333]

Seems a likely place for this....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elot2FxgJo&feature=player_embedded

Coments...?

[epo333]

This item could go anywhere as it is stuffed with everything from aliens, to Fukushima, to sinking the Enterprise, to financial collapse.

In my view Clif High's predictions/forecasts are rarely on the mark...(but we'll see).

From: http://halfpasthuman.com/summertime.html

~~~---~~~
ticks in time....and other summer hazards...

Summer (northern hemisphere) time-to-event forecasts from the data used in the last report.


June 7/8/9 - Economic and political scandal surfaces in USA. Temporal echoes show this scandal will track over June/July with 'unexpected events' within the [cult of rome] aka 'vatican'. Expect secrets to be revealed in both the USA and vatican scandals that will not only [shock], but will [horrify]. The data indicates that [communications] between [cabal members] will be [intercepted], and the [real leaks] will be [viral] in [hours]. This is indicated to lead to a [global constipation (blockage)] of the [financial flows]. This [blockage/constipation] will begin (apparently) on June 3rd late in the evening (pacific coast time, north american continent) at about 9:18pm. This [blockage] is showing as [persisting and growing] through to [exposure] via [rupture] on June 7, 8, or 9. This [constipation] and [rupture (through)] is described as a [plank] in the [gallows] for the [banksters]. This economic scandal will not be the [breaking point] for the [global economy]. That comes later in the month. The data points to the beginning of the [icelander's disease] {ed note: from the view point of the banksters} spreading to [spain], [greece], and [italy]. The [spain] references point to a [person of historical pride] as being the [populace's symbol] as they ['engage'] their [oppressors]. The data indicates [spainish populace] will be [successful], and do it with [flair], and [passion]. Data suggests that [restraint] will [prevail] in at least one of the [eruptions of icelander disease], and that [financial oppressors] who are [captured, beaten, stripped, and paraded near-naked/bruised/bloodied] will [NOT] be [killed] by the [mob], but rather will be [released] in such a [manner] that the [image] will become [the most viewed (to it's time) image on earth].

June 27/28/29 - 'Unexpected' military events put pressure on populace (usa) that will bring [preppers] into [positions of responsibility] that will persist for months if not years. The 'unexpected' military events will continue into 2013, growing into a [dominating liability] for [officialdom (globally, not merely here in usa)] and [isis-ra-el]. The 'good' news is that the scandals from earlier in June are escalated to such an extent by the conditions on-the-ground, that [secrets revealed] goes [batshit] globally, and [central banksters] and their [institutions] begin the process of [failing]. Again, sad to say, but a good temporal marker will be the [identities] of the [proffered victims] of the [unexpected military events]. These [victims] will have their day, in that for each of them, the data suggests that [thousands (of the guilty/collaberators)] will [perish] in [flames] and [through dissoving?]. So, karma rules after all. The data sets are clearly stating that whatever-the-events of late June are, that the pivotal point for [continuation] of [central banks and nwo and global warfare] is breached in these three/3 days. There are very small levels of [visibility] on the [breach of stability (for existence of central banks)], so it is unlikely that the [populace] will be aware of this significant shift. As the [unexpected military events] are going to dominate the consciousness, the data flow suggests that we will only be able to ascertain the shift point in analysis from the near future when the [central banks] have all failed.

The data suggests the [unexpected military events] can be used as temporal marker for [social unrest] {ed note: in so many forms as to not be easily encapsulated} here in USofA. The officialdom can be expected to use their usual 'tool kit'. Many many traps for the unwary.

July 4 - 10 (+/- 3 days) 'Unexpected' occurances at [sea], [under lands], and in [atmosphere] will [rapidly escalate] over (mere hours) [global concerns (about FUkushima catastrophe). No supporting data for a 'natural earthquake'. Large numbers of data sets showing that despite the many ongoing military concerns, much of the planetary populace focus will be on Japan/FUkushima from July 10th through to December 14th.

July 17/18/19 - (+/- 3 days) - a [hiatus (breathing space] in the [ongoing military and economic warfare against the oppressors of humans] is indicated to [occur] briefly as some [space based intrusions] capture attention. This is not showing as being a global phenomenon, but rather indicated for specific sub sets of the [populace/usofa]. My thinking on these sub sets is that it may be [military], or [officialdom], or the [tptb (who have their dicks up the asses of the 1%)]. The focused sets are so small, and have very low levels of visibility in the msm, yet are somehow indicated to be [responsible] for what can only be described as a [temporary hold] in [aggressive acts]. This may/could be referring to the [shadow govt] that is involved with the [alien agenda here on earth]. It may be that the data is pointing to these fellows having their [attention rivited] elsewhere. While there are repeated sets in support of this from [space] based data, there are no indicators of a threat (to general populace). There are some small hints of threats to the tptb from this, but nothing revealing in the data. The aware observer may wish to see where tptb have their 'eyes' focused during this time.

July 31 - August 9 - (+/- 9 days) - the [bottom] becomes [visible] off in the [near distance] to [the officialdom minions]. The data suggests that [offcialdom] here in the USA starts shitting the small sharp ones as the [new dawn] reveals the [chaos] and [smoking rubble] of their [hopes] of [sustaining] the [economic illusion] until the time of the [political illusion (election)]. The data sets are pointing toward an [understanding] from [offcialdom] that will come [in the early morning light] during a [horrific night] here in USA that is further described as [changing the game] as well as [affecting the (olympic) Games]. As an aside, it warms the cockles to know that what 'we' do here in the usa causes such [vexation] to [queen/royal lines] in [celtic lands] that [images of spittle] and [yellow eyes] will be [visible].

August 12 - planned [radiation event] for the [gulf of persia, and the indian/southern oceans]. In the cabal's on-going war (by proxy through US and other navies/militaries) against their [underseas alien enemies] here on earth, their plan is to get a [three-fer (3 for 1 hit)] by having some [fake iranians (actually the mossad agents... want their names? naw...just kidding...our stuff does not work down to that level...] come out of 'no where' and [sink 4/four USA nuclear reactors] into the [persian gulf]. This will be done by the [mossad agents pretending to be iranians] actually hitting the [target painted] on the [enterprise]. This is planned to be [mission accomplished] while they (ptb) think we will all be watching their [head (games)] in [THE CITY (london)].....watch for the [financial records destruction] angle to their upcoming events. **** don't work well for these folks and as humans know, plans aft gang aglay.

3fer = prompt for US to attack iran + radiation against underseas enemies + radiation in air to kill off more of those annoying humans (from tptb perspective)...

We will end this summer time line projection here. Another update is planned, written, and securely stashed ready for posting as we reach a few key temporal markers.

###
posted May 30, 2012

~copyright by clif high, all rights reserved. no use allowed without attribution.(attribution at top of this post!)~

[epo333]

US Announces Plans To Arm Domestic Surveillance Drones With Missiles

The US announces plans to arm drones that will be operating inside the US with missiles and bombs as part of a 30,000 strong domestic deployment.

Fully armed remotely controlled aircraft used by the United States military and its allies in the War on Terror overseas are set to begin a new era of operating over domestic soil.

The US military has revealed that stronger and more powerful versions of the famed Predator drones, known as MQ-9 Reaper drones, are being fitted with missiles and other explosive ordinances as part of a deployment of 30,000 drones authorized to fly over the US by the NDAA and the armed drones will now be operating inside the United States.
A military spokesman at the Hancock Field Air National Guard base in NY said the drones will only be armed with missiles and explosive ordinances when they are operating in airspace over US military bases and are only being armed as part of a program to train others to operate America’s new drone fleet.

Legislation passed by congress authorized the integration of military and public airspace into a single national aerospace grid to support both civil and public drone flights over U.S. skies.

The news comes as law enforcement agencies announce plans to weaponize their drones with “less than lethal” weapons such as tasers, tear gas and rubber bullets.
Overseas, the UK has already equipped their once unarmed surveillance drones to carry missiles.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. congress is expected to pass legislation that will arm Italy’s fleet of Reaper drone aircraft with missiles in a deal that is likely to pave the way for the roll-out of armed drones across the spectrum of NATO allies.

The news comes as the Obama administration comes under fire for his use of drones in the secret U.S. assassination program.

Recently Obama appointed John Brennan as the first ever Assassination Czar delegating him as the sole authority to designate people for assassination under the United States top-secret assassination program.
The appointment led a public backlash which forced the Obama administration to reveal unprecedented details to the New York Times about the use of the drones in the assassination program.

The article revealed a series of hair-raising spine-tingling facts including revelations that Obama personally ordered attacks he knew were going to kill woman and children along with the admission that we are conducting a new type of attack called “signature strikes” which involves bombing entire groups of civilians not even knowing who they are.

At the same time it was revealed in accounting for civilian casualties overseas, the Obama administration has categorically counted everyone killed by the program as an ‘enemy combatant’ while even not even knowing their identities with the exception being when US intelligence was able to obtain absolute proof the assassinated person was not a combatant.

In the video Colonel Kevin Bradley, commander of the 174th Air National Guard Fighter Wing, discusses the new special mission assigned to him by the government to transition the MQ-9 reaper drones from overseas deployments in Afghanistan to deployments over US Skies.


http://video-embed.syracuse.com/services/player/bcpid650412371001?bctid=1282349847001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAPLpuTok~,Mq6Bf5KTh4AWiWybEmU_mGVR7_ 83kiVA


Much more here:http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/30/announces-plans-to-arm-domestic-surveillance-drones-missiles-139411/

[CasperParks]

US Announces Plans To Arm Domestic Surveillance Drones With Missiles

The US announces plans to arm drones that will be operating inside the US with missiles and bombs as part of a 30,000 strong domestic deployment.

Fully armed remotely controlled aircraft used by the United States military and its allies in the War on Terror overseas are set to begin a new era of operating over domestic soil.

The US military has revealed that stronger and more powerful versions of the famed Predator drones, known as MQ-9 Reaper drones, are being fitted with missiles and other explosive ordinances as part of a deployment of 30,000 drones authorized to fly over the US by the NDAA and the armed drones will now be operating inside the United States.
A military spokesman at the Hancock Field Air National Guard base in NY said the drones will only be armed with missiles and explosive ordinances when they are operating in airspace over US military bases and are only being armed as part of a program to train others to operate America’s new drone fleet.

Legislation passed by congress authorized the integration of military and public airspace into a single national aerospace grid to support both civil and public drone flights over U.S. skies.

The news comes as law enforcement agencies announce plans to weaponize their drones with “less than lethal” weapons such as tasers, tear gas and rubber bullets.
Overseas, the UK has already equipped their once unarmed surveillance drones to carry missiles.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. congress is expected to pass legislation that will arm Italy’s fleet of Reaper drone aircraft with missiles in a deal that is likely to pave the way for the roll-out of armed drones across the spectrum of NATO allies.

The news comes as the Obama administration comes under fire for his use of drones in the secret U.S. assassination program.

Recently Obama appointed John Brennan as the first ever Assassination Czar delegating him as the sole authority to designate people for assassination under the United States top-secret assassination program.
The appointment led a public backlash which forced the Obama administration to reveal unprecedented details to the New York Times about the use of the drones in the assassination program.

The article revealed a series of hair-raising spine-tingling facts including revelations that Obama personally ordered attacks he knew were going to kill woman and children along with the admission that we are conducting a new type of attack called “signature strikes” which involves bombing entire groups of civilians not even knowing who they are.

At the same time it was revealed in accounting for civilian casualties overseas, the Obama administration has categorically counted everyone killed by the program as an ‘enemy combatant’ while even not even knowing their identities with the exception being when US intelligence was able to obtain absolute proof the assassinated person was not a combatant.

In the video Colonel Kevin Bradley, commander of the 174th Air National Guard Fighter Wing, discusses the new special mission assigned to him by the government to transition the MQ-9 reaper drones from overseas deployments in Afghanistan to deployments over US Skies.


http://video-embed.syracuse.com/services/player/bcpid650412371001?bctid=1282349847001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAPLpuTok~,Mq6Bf5KTh4AWiWybEmU_mGVR7_ 83kiVA


Much more here:http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/30/announces-plans-to-arm-domestic-surveillance-drones-missiles-139411/

They are getting prepped and ready.

[Dragonfire]

Pepped and ready for what, the NWO? Makes you wonder just WHO they are targeting.

[epo333]

It might be wishful thinking, but patrolling our southern boarder would be good place to start. Providing back up with some teeth in an effort to put the breaks on illegal boarder crossings... .

IMO we should militarize our boarder with Mexico for a few years, and go back to processed immigrations.

[CasperParks]

Pepped and ready for what, the NWO? Makes you wonder just WHO they are targeting.

Prepped and ready to use against those opposed to a NWO. At this point, it is unlikely it will be called NWO - I am sure they will come up with something else to call it.

Passages of current and near future events will tell.

[Doc]

It might be wishful thinking, but patrolling our southern boarder would be good place to start. Providing back up with some teeth in an effort to put the breaks on illegal boarder crossings... .

IMO we should militarize our boarder with Mexico for a few years, and go back to processed immigrations.

Powerful interests inside and outside of Govt don't want that border secured.

[epo333]

DHS hunger for more ammunition is a sign of fear and weakness...

By James Smith

http://theintelhub.com/2012/08/13/hunger-for-ammunition-noaa-requests-ammunition-for-the-weather-service/ August 13, 2012

On 9 Aug 2012, the Department of Commerce, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by way of the National Weather Service, put out a solicitation for a small variety of ammunition.

What future event is coming that makes the National Weather Service believes it needs to train and arm it’s employees?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im_5Lv7sGFc&feature=player_embedded

[CasperParks]

National Weather Service, gunning-up?

That makes no sense, unless....

[CasperParks]

Seems a likely place for this....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elot2FxgJo&feature=player_embedded

Coments...?

Some very interesting patches.

[epo333]

Social Security Administration To Purchase 174 Thousand Rounds Of Hollow Point Bullets

Preparing for civil unrest? Ammunition to be delivered to 41 locations across U.S.

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

UPDATE: DHS Now Covering Up Ammo Purchases?

First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and now the Social Security Administration is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country.

http://www.infowars.com/social-security-administration-to-purchase-174-thousand-rounds-of-hollow-point-bullets/

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6c39a2a9f00a10187a1432388a3301e5&tab=core&_cview=0&fb_source=message

Things are looking pretty bad for the near future. Something's gotta give, and it looks like it's We The Sheeple!

The Empire acts as if they are shaking in their boots! So when the Soc Sec Checks stop coming, do make a run on you local Soc Sec Administration.

[CasperParks]

They are expecting something... Economy, war, disclouser - something...

[matthews1969]

Seems a likely place for this....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elot2FxgJo&feature=player_embedded

Coments...?

had some fun with a latin english translator and came up with

opus dei cum pecunia alienum efficemus = work of art made with foreign money
gustatus similis pullus = Taste like chicken

[epo333]

Russian Sub Spotted In The Gulf Of Mexico

An unusual story has been circulating since last week of an Akula class Russian submarine lurking in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks, evidently undetected by the U.S.

The story is odd not only because such a mission would be unusual and alarming, but also because of the source — in this case, veteran national security reporter and former Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz via the conservative news website The Washington Free Beacon, launched in 2012.

While cat and mouse games between Soviet and American sub forces were fairly commonplace during the Cold War, these types of missions are very rare now, with the last acknowledged set of occurrences reported by the New York Times in 2009.

As part of Russia’s military retrenchment and treaty disarmament since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its total deployed navy was reduced, along with the geographical projection of its missions. While the Russian navy under Putin and Medvedev has undertaken well advertised “symbolic” missions, such as a 2008 visit by a contingent of its weathered North Sea Fleet to Venezuela, these have generally not been much more than extremely visible ways to demonstrate displeasure with U.S. and NATO policy and/or maintain good relations with its arms customers.

Likewise, when Russia’s air force deploys its ancient propeller-driven Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear” bombers to buzz close to American airspace, the U.S. deploys fighter jets to intercept.

These strategic bombers are unarmed, though their long range allows them the opportunity to reach U.S. coastlines, as they were originally designed to do.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-is-talking-about-this-russian-sub-cruising-the-gulf-of-mexico-2012-8#ixzz25YIVwp3H

[epo333]

Allies Launch Largest Ever Middle East Naval Exercise.
BY Oliver Tree | September 17 2012 9:07 AM

The United States and its allies began their largest ever naval exercise in the Middle East on Sunday, designed to demonstrate their ability to counter a potential Iranian naval blockade of the vital Straight of Hormuz.

An armada of military hardware from 25 nations, including battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines and minesweepers has descended on the Persian Gulf as Western policy makers desperately try to convince Israel that diplomacy and sanctions designed to halt Iran's nuclear program need more time to work.

The massive show of force has once again brought the threat of war to the region, raising the prospect Israel will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran, which has already promised retaliation for any attacks against its nuclear facilities.

[CasperParks]

Allies Launch Largest Ever Middle East Naval Exercise.
BY Oliver Tree | September 17 2012 9:07 AM

The United States and its allies began their largest ever naval exercise in the Middle East on Sunday, designed to demonstrate their ability to counter a potential Iranian naval blockade of the vital Straight of Hormuz.

An armada of military hardware from 25 nations, including battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines and minesweepers has descended on the Persian Gulf as Western policy makers desperately try to convince Israel that diplomacy and sanctions designed to halt Iran's nuclear program need more time to work.

The massive show of force has once again brought the threat of war to the region, raising the prospect Israel will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran, which has already promised retaliation for any attacks against its nuclear facilities.

Asleep, they stagger toward a self-fulfilling prophecy of self-annihilation.

[southerncross]

Prepped and ready to use against those opposed to a NWO. At this point, it is unlikely it will be called NWO - I am sure they will come up with something else to call it.

Passages of current and near future events will tell.

They may be able to control the general civilized world but I would like to know how they'll subjugate 1.5 billion Muslims around the world ?
Can't see them bowing down to a global largely western elite.

[norenrad]

The Anti-Christ is believed to be a promoter of the Islam religion, it's also been said that Catholicism is a tool for the Anti-Christ as well... I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[southerncross]

It does create a problem as the Islamic Mahdi is bound to seek the convert or die path as he is the fulfillment of the faith. Then the Christian Antichrist is convert or be sent to hell which may be another way do saying die. These are so opposing to one another that it seems impossible to resolve and find a common leader. Except for supernatural methods the only thing that binds us is the global economy. However that isn't doing so well either as we keep lighting over oil.

Now if this was an alien disclosure issue and one was spotted in mass global experience....maybe, just maybe, that's our guy. I don't know, just thinking out loud. But for me, I will not be quick to trust anyone that professes to have all the answers.

[epo333]

Boeing Announces ‘New Mobile Laser Death Ray Now Available’

By Shepard Ambellas
October 9, 2012

Just like in a science fiction flick, Boeing has now announced that it has a new weapon for the battlefield proving grounds that travels at a speed of 186,000 mph while disintegrating it’s targets on site with extreme precision.

This 500 horsepower, 10kw mobile solid-state laser is the new talk of the town.

This thing can shoot anything from missiles to airplanes and more, it’s no joke.

Field test will soon begin for the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD).

An excerpt from the Daily Mail reads;




Mike Rinn, vice president of Boeing Directed Energy Systems and director of the program, said: ‘The Boeing HEL MD program is applying the best of solid-state laser technology to ensure the Army has speed-of-light capability to defend against rockets, artillery, mortars, and unmanned aerial threats – both today and into the future.

http://theintelhub.com/2012/10/09/boing-announces-new-mobile-laser-death-ray-now-available/

[CasperParks]

:yikes:


Boeing Announces ‘New Mobile Laser Death Ray Now Available’

By Shepard Ambellas
October 9, 2012

Just like in a science fiction flick, Boeing has now announced that it has a new weapon for the battlefield proving grounds that travels at a speed of 186,000 mph while disintegrating it’s targets on site with extreme precision.

This 500 horsepower, 10kw mobile solid-state laser is the new talk of the town.

This thing can shoot anything from missiles to airplanes and more, it’s no joke.

Field test will soon begin for the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD).

An excerpt from the Daily Mail reads;

Mike Rinn, vice president of Boeing Directed Energy Systems and director of the program, said: ‘The Boeing HEL MD program is applying the best of solid-state laser technology to ensure the Army has speed-of-light capability to defend against rockets, artillery, mortars, and unmanned aerial threats – both today and into the future.

http://theintelhub.com/2012/10/09/boing-announces-new-mobile-laser-death-ray-now-available/


Could be useful against invading alien forces.

Ready, aim and fire...

[epo333]

Disclosure of UFO Conflicts, Technologies and History

Gordon Duff for Veterans Today and George Noory for Coast to Coast Radio...

Thus far, the only national interview with a Majestic 12 “reading group” member...!


...(from about 6:30 to 39:00)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHgAPoCvp0&feature=player_embedded



http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/20/ufo-disclosure-gordon-duff-on-coast-to-coast-with-george-noory/

[epo333]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8z43j2QEVY&feature=related

[CasperParks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8z43j2QEVY&feature=related

Good shot.

[CasperParks]

U. S. Navy ship: Littoral Class

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship

Ships are very different from my time in the service.

[epo333]

The Iron Dome missile defense system is publicly slated as a “shield” that is being used to stop rockets shot from Gaza and averting Israeli targets from being hit. Its accuracy rate is at an alarming 90%; up from 75% in 2011.

857



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMBSWGYlnF0&feature=player_embedded


The Iron Dome will assess the threat level of a rocket with the surveillance systems comprised of a management center using radar detection. If the missile is deemed a threat, the Iron Dome will emit a microwave frequency to destroy the missile.

http://occupycorporatism.com/israeli-attack-on-gaza-excuse-to-test-us-funded-death-ray-called-the-iron-dome/

[CasperParks]

The Iron Dome missile defense system is publicly slated as a “shield” that is being used to stop rockets shot from Gaza and averting Israeli targets from being hit. Its accuracy rate is at an alarming 90%; up from 75% in 2011.


That is very impressive.

If Biblical prophecy is true...

It may or may not explain why ground troops in the future are sent-in.

An Arab Federation gets into trouble against Israel and maybe the E. U.

Russian and China bring in their troops.

Eagle from the west with her allies arrive to help Israel.

Earth is scorched by fire…

[epo333]

Disclosure of UFO Conflicts, Technologies and History

Gordon Duff for Veterans Today and George Noory for Coast to Coast Radio...

Thus far, the only national interview with a Majestic 12 “reading group” member...!


...(from about 6:30 to 39:00)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHgAPoCvp0&feature=player_embedded



http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/20/ufo-disclosure-gordon-duff-on-coast-to-coast-with-george-noory/

MAYBE this is some kind of follow up of the Gordon Duff disclosure from the above qoute/post...

~~~

Again from the "Veterans Today" site.
Saturday, December 1st, 2012
by Preston James, Ph.D

You are NOT allowed to KNOW anything for sure about this Secret Space War because these facts are deeply and narrowly compartment-ed under “Beyond Black” National Security Classifications (Aka NATO Cosmic Top Secret). Only a very small number of folks have received these security classifications and it is these folks alone that have access to these very narrow compartments based on an absolute “need to know” only

DO NOT EXPECT ANY OFFICIAL USG DISCLOSURES ON THIS TO BE FORTHCOMING SOON.

Do not expect American Intel or any DOD contractors (where most such secrets are now held) to be disclosing any actual facts soon about this Secret Space War. And without specific factual disclosures which are “christened” by the major mass media at the USG’s direction, we can only make good guesstimates after reviewing RUMORS from reasonable sources to form reasonable BELIEFS.

YOU ARE FREE TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO BUT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KNOW FOR SURE

Thus we are not going to be allowed to KNOW anything for certain about this Secret Space War until the USG provides actual scientifically reproducible facts and the major mass media validates them publicly. Be assured this is not likely to be happening soon. Here’s why. The USG has a long post WW2 history of a complete secrecy lock-down. It has kept several huge secrets that are so sinister that if revealed would be so alarming to the American People that such disclosures could seriously threaten any current regime’s power base. In the past when serious secrets were revealed in special Congressional Hearings such as those relating to MK-Ultra, Iran Contra, human Radiation Experiments and the like, these stories received little traction in the major mass media and thus were not validated or Christened, preventing them from wide recognition among the populace.

If there was a major story disclosed by the USG and broadcast and published by the major mass media on the presence of an ongoing Space War between earth based humans and Extra-terrestrials consisting of high tech battles between anti-gravity craft of ours and theirs, this story would immediately go viral and could shake society to its very foundation. The ruling regime knows this and would expect such a huge disclosure to completely debase their power.

THE USG HAS WHAT IT CONSIDERS TO BE GOOD REASONS FOR THE CONTINUED COMPLETE SECRECY LOCK-DOWN OVER THIS SECRET SPACE WAR

There are numerous other considerations the USG has for maintaining this complete secrecy lock-down such as what would occur if the public found out for sure about this Secret Space War but this one is believed to be the greatest concern: an expected complete loss of credibility of all those officials and Congress-persons involved in withholding the truth from the citizens who work hard to provide tax money to pay for these secret programs. Can you imagine the difficulty any sitting US President, Congress-person or Official would have trying to explain to the American People that the US Military has a high tech Space Command with anti-gravity craft (AGCs) and orbital space platforms with high tech plasma cannon weaponry but still cannot defeat it extra-terrestrial enemies or provide low cost or free energy to the masses.

And of course let us not forget the numerous rumors from retired formerly high placed USG or DOD officials that have claimed that the USG has been hijacked by an alien group the USG formed a special treaty with back in 1964 referred to as the “Grenada Treaty” which has ultimately led to the USG now being under control of an Alien Agenda which is against the interests of the People of the United States.

Since we are now denied access to the actual facts of the matter, our best shot for figuring out and guesstimating the truth is to evaluate and vet the many rumors out there on this Secret Space War and select those from the most reasonable sources which seem to make the most sense overall based on what we do know about current levels of technology and anecdotal stories told by folks we respect who are not crackpots and who make no money off such claims, sometimes receiving derision, harassment or great loss instead.

Read more here:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/01/secret-space-war/

[epo333]

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USS Eisenhower Nears Syria With Thousands Of US Troops Aboard

By M. Frank Drover
December 8, 2012

For the third time in as many decades the United States is massing soldiers and military assets on the border of a middle eastern country.


The USS Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier that holds eight fighter bomber squadrons and 8,000 men, arrived at the Syrian coast yesterday in the midst of a heavy storm, indicating US preparation for a potential ground intervention.

While the Obama administration has not announced any sort of American-led military intervention in the war-torn country, the US is now ready to launch such action “within days…”

…If the US decides to intervene militarily in Syria, it now has at its disposal 10,000 fighting men, 17 warships, 70 fighter-bombers, 10 destroyers and frigates and a guided military cruises.

Some of the vessels are also equipped with Aegis missile interceptors to shoot down any missiles Syria might have at hand…

With mainstream reports alleging Syria is preparing to deploy sarin gas attached to bombs against rebels and populace areas in the country, the West and its allies is on a war-footing, ready to attack by sea or land:


NATO moved forward Thursday with its plan to place Patriot missiles and troops along Syria’s border with Turkey to protect against potential attacks.

Assad’s regime blasted the move as “psychological warfare,” saying the new deployment would not deter it from seeking victory over rebels it views as terrorists.



Whether the threat is real or just another WMD psychological operation on the order of Iraq is very quickly becoming irrelevant.

more here:
http://theintelhub.com/2012/12/08/report-over-10000-us-nato-troops-mass-ahead-of-syria-invasion-patriot-missiles-deployed-in-turkey/

[CasperParks]

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USS Eisenhower Nears Syria With Thousands Of US Troops Aboard

By M. Frank Drover
December 8, 2012

For the third time in as many decades the United States is massing soldiers and military assets on the border of a middle eastern country.

Assad’s regime blasted the move as “psychological warfare,” saying the new deployment would not deter it from seeking victory over rebels it views as terrorists.

Whether the threat is real or just another WMD psychological operation on the order of Iraq is very quickly becoming irrelevant.

more here:
http://theintelhub.com/2012/12/08/report-over-10000-us-nato-troops-mass-ahead-of-syria-invasion-patriot-missiles-deployed-in-turkey/

Mainstream media keeps mentioning Syria’s government is preparing to use chemical weapons against its people.

Is there hard evidence concerning chemical weapons, or is this more propaganda to drag the US into another war?

Will the end result be another Middle East Country under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood under the guise of an elected democracy, another country living under strict religious laws?

I am of the mindset, deals have been cut with the Muslim Brotherhood behind closed doors.

Guess this is a wait and see who takes control when it is all said and done.

Then it is onto the next phase in the Middle East, and it will get very nasty.

In the near future between now and 2035, expect Disclosure to arrive as an attempt to end wars in the Middle East.

[epo333]

Potential Military Confrontation: Russia Arms Syria with Powerful Ballistic Missiles

Hours after NATO agreed on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey because of the crisis in Syria, Russia delivered its first shipment of Iskander missiles to Syria.

The superior Iskander can travel at hypersonic speed of over 1.3 miles per second (Mach 6-7) and has a range of over 280 miles with pinpoint accuracy of destroying targets with its 1,500-pound warhead, a nightmare for any missile defense system.

According to Mashregh, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard media outlet, Russia had warned Turkey not to escalate the situation, but with Turkey’s request for Patriot missiles, it delivered its first shipment of Iskanders to Syria.

Reporting today, Mashregh said the handover occurred when Russian naval logistic vessels docked at Tartus in Syria.

The Iskandar is a surface-to-surface missile that no missile defense system can trace or destroy, Mashregh said. Russia had earlier threatened that should America put its missile defense system in Poland, it would retaliate by placing its Iskander missiles at Kaliningrad, its Baltic Sea port.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/potential-military-confrontation-russia-arms-syria-with-powerful-ballistic-missiles/5314850

[CasperParks]

Potential Military Confrontation: Russia Arms Syria with Powerful Ballistic Missiles

Hours after NATO agreed on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey because of the crisis in Syria, Russia delivered its first shipment of Iskander missiles to Syria.

The superior Iskander can travel at hypersonic speed of over 1.3 miles per second (Mach 6-7) and has a range of over 280 miles with pinpoint accuracy of destroying targets with its 1,500-pound warhead, a nightmare for any missile defense system.

According to Mashregh, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard media outlet, Russia had warned Turkey not to escalate the situation, but with Turkey’s request for Patriot missiles, it delivered its first shipment of Iskanders to Syria.

Reporting today, Mashregh said the handover occurred when Russian naval logistic vessels docked at Tartus in Syria.

The Iskandar is a surface-to-surface missile that no missile defense system can trace or destroy, Mashregh said. Russia had earlier threatened that should America put its missile defense system in Poland, it would retaliate by placing its Iskander missiles at Kaliningrad, its Baltic Sea port.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/potential-military-confrontation-russia-arms-syria-with-powerful-ballistic-missiles/5314850

I expect more missiles will arrive in that region over the next few weeks, months and years.

[CasperParks]

Boeing Successfully Tests Microwave Missile That Takes Out Electronic Targets.


Boeing Successfully Tests Microwave Missile That Takes Out Electronic Targets.

Boeing successfully tests a new missile that can take out electronic targets with little collateral damage.

The aerospace company tested the microwave missile last week on a two-story building on the Utah Test and Training Range where computers and electronic systems were turned on to gauge the effects of the missile’s radio waves, according to a Boeing press release.

The missile, known as CHAMP (Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project), fired a burst of High Powered Microwaves at the building, successfully knocking out the electronic systems and computers, and even taking out the television cameras recording the test.

“This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,” Keith Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works, said in the press release. “In the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.”

Seven targets were taken out in total during the one-hour test which left no collateral damage.

Coleman believes this can be a huge advancement forward in non-lethal warfare.

Story from Newsvine (http://somedude68-1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/26/14718717-boeing-successfully-tests-microwave-missile-that-takes-out-electronic-targets)and CBSlocal (http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/10/25/boeing-successfully-tests-microwave-missile-that-takes-out-electronic-targets/)

[epo333]

The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. US Navy Photo


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From:Victoria Baer -
Sent:Monday, February 25, 2013 3:55 PM
To:
Subject:More intel that WE CAN TRUST on 5 nuclear carriers into harbor for "routine" (?) inspections...
Importance:High




Here is some feedback that I receive that I trust:

Victoria:

I was in the U.S .military for 30 years and the U.S. Navy for 24 years and retired out of Norfolk as an Intel Officer.

I can tell you, having lived in Virginia Beach for 12 of those years (30 minutes to the Naval Base) that

having five U.S. carriers in port at one time,IS CREATING THE PERFECT TARGET.

Such a move is insanity....unless you are TRYING to 'set up the Navy' for a missile attack.

Now, who what 'American' president or CINCUSNAV would EVER do such a thing.

http://beforeitsnews.com/military/2013/02/5-nuclear-carriers-into-harbor-for-routine-inspections-this-is-definitely-a-problem-2449952.html

[CasperParks]

The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. US Navy Photo

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From:Victoria Baer -
Sent:Monday, February 25, 2013 3:55 PM
To:
Subject:More intel that WE CAN TRUST on 5 nuclear carriers into harbor for "routine" (?) inspections...
Importance:High

Here is some feedback that I receive that I trust:

Victoria:

I was in the U.S .military for 30 years and the U.S. Navy for 24 years and retired out of Norfolk as an Intel Officer.

I can tell you, having lived in Virginia Beach for 12 of those years (30 minutes to the Naval Base) that

having five U.S. carriers in port at one time,IS CREATING THE PERFECT TARGET.

Such a move is insanity....unless you are TRYING to 'set up the Navy' for a missile attack.

Now, who what 'American' president or CINCUSNAV would EVER do such a thing.

http://beforeitsnews.com/military/2013/02/5-nuclear-carriers-into-harbor-for-routine-inspections-this-is-definitely-a-problem-2449952.html

Agree it is as if the US military is saying, "we dare you to attack" or something else is up. Pearl Harbor comes to mind.

When I was in the Navy, fleets were scattered for a reason.

[CasperParks]

North Korea Claims Nuclear Missiles 'On Standby'

SEOUL, March 8, 2013

A leading general in North Korea claims the country has a long-range missile armed with nuclear warheads on standby. Pyongyang repeated its Thursday vow to ditch all nonaggression pacts with South Korea and again threatened a "preemptive nuclear attack" on the United States as well.

The regime also announced early Friday that it plans to cut off phone hotlines between North and South Korea. It was part of a defiant response to tough new sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council.

Colonel General Kang Pyo-yong was quoted in North Korea's party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, as saying his soldiers are already positioned to launch a war of reunification -- taking over South Korea -- whenever the order is given by its leaders. "Our intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and other missiles are on standby position mounted with various nuclear warheads that have been developed lighter and smaller," he announced to tens of thousands gathered Thursday at a mass rally in Pyongyang. Read more at ABC. (http://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korea-claims-nuclear-missiles-standby-cancels-nonaggression/story?id=18684653)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI6NQnLtMXg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypSCiDhBFk

[epo333]

The future is now: Navy to deploys lasers on ships in 2014

WASHINGTON — The Navy is going to sea for the first time with a laser attack weapon that has been shown in tests to disable patrol boats and blind or destroy surveillance drones.

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A prototype shipboard laser will be deployed on a converted amphibious transport and docking ship in the Persian Gulf, where Iranian fast-attack boats have harassed American warships and where the government in Tehran is building remotely piloted aircraft carrying surveillance pods and, someday potentially, rockets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/world/navy-deploying-laser-weapon-prototype-in-persian-gulf.html?hp&_r=1&

and...

The Pentagon has plans to deploy its first ever ship-mounted laser next year, a disruptive, cutting-edge weapon capable of obliterating small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles with a blast of infrared energy.

Navy officials announced Monday that in early 2014, a solid-state laser prototype will be mounted to the fantail of the USS Ponce and sent to the 5th fleet region in the Middle East for real-world experience.

more with video..

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/08/future-is-now-navy-to-deploys-lasers-on-ships-in-2014/

[Doc]

The future is now: Navy to deploys lasers on ships in 2014

WASHINGTON — The Navy is going to sea for the first time with a laser attack weapon that has been shown in tests to disable patrol boats and blind or destroy surveillance drones.

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I love it when "future weapons" I encountered in video games show up in the real world, such as the rail gun and now, this. ;)

[majicbar]

The USAF has just stated that one third of all US based aircraft will be grounded due to the sequestration to reduce costs and assure that the remaining fleets will have all the service and readiness that is possible given the circumstances.

[neverwas]

that's really funny since I and others have been seeing a rash of unmitigated flights all over, even where they have no business

[epo333]

Reduced flying hours forces grounding of 17 USAF combat air squadrons

WASHINGTON — The Air Force will begin grounding combat air squadrons Tuesday in response to forced spending cuts that have eliminated more than 44,000 flying hours through September, according to internal documents obtained by Air Force Times.

The Air Force's budget for flying hours was reduced by $591 million for the remainder of fiscal 2013, making it impossible to keep all squadrons ready for combat, according to an April 5 memo signed by Maj. Gen. Charles Lyon, director of operations for Air Combat Command. The across-the board spending cuts, called sequestration, took effect March 1 when Congress failed to agree on a deficit-reduction plan.

Seventeen combat-coded squadrons will stand down effective Tuesday or upon their return from deployments, according to the documents. The Air Force will distribute 241,496 flying hours that are funded to squadrons that will be kept combat ready or at a reduced readiness level called “basic mission capable” for part or all of the remaining months in fiscal 2013, the documents said.

Much more @ link below...

http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20130408/NEWS/304080035/Reduced-flying-hours-forces-grounding-17-USAF-combat-air-squadrons

[epo333]

Three Russian Warships Approaching Syria, China Joins the Party

It looks like America’s military dominance on the world stage is about to face its most serious test in decades, as Russia and China appear ready to physically challenge Obama’s controversial plan to bomb Syria.

Agence France-Presse via Yahoo! News reports three Russian warships crossed Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait Thursday en route to the Eastern Mediterranean near the coast of Syria. Based on a diagram posted by Zero Hedge, Russia now has six vessels in the region versus 13 US ships and two US submarines.

If that’s not enough, Russian news source Telegrafist reported Wednesday that at least one Chinese vessel is en route to the region. However, it appears – at least publicly- China is only there to “observe” the situation, although it’s clearly sending a message for the US to back off.

Piling on to the drama, based on Zero Hedge’s diagram, the UK and France – both US allies, already have a naval presence in the region. The UK has a submarine while France has a ship in the Gulf.

All of this is over an alleged chemical attack by Syrian President Assad’s regime, which has yet to be proven remotely true. Of course, there are likely underlying issues contributing to the crisis, including the US’ ever-present desire to remove the said leader.

Is Obama really willing to risk igniting World War III over this?

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Photo credit: Flickr/desomurchu archive gallery

http://downtrend.com/james/three-russian-warships-approaching-syria-china-joins-the-party/


I hope this is nothing more than a bunch of saber rattling...!

[epo333]

Syria crisis: China joins Russia in opposing military strikes

Chinese intervention comes as leaders gather for G20 summit hosted by Vladimir Putin, who has threatened to send a missile shield to Syria if US launches attack without UN backing
Patrick Wintour in Saint Petersburg
theguardian.com, Thursday 5 September 2013 08.51 EDT

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China has joined Russia in opposing military strikes on Syria, saying it would push up oil prices and create an economic downturn.

The Chinese intervention came as G20 leaders gathered in Saint Petersburg on Thursday for a summit likely to be dominated by Syria. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is expected to allow the issue on to the agenda for dinner, reflecting the reality that the fate of the world economy is inextricably intertwined with the risk of a Middle East conflagration.

The Chinese deputy finance minister, Zhu Guangyao, told a pre-G20 briefing: "Military action would have a negative impact on the global economy, especially on oil prices – it will cause a hike in the oil price."

The UN special envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is rushing to the summit to update G20 leaders on the state of stalled peace talks.

It also emerged that the pope had written to Putin, reportedly saying military action would be a futile pursuit.

In a sign of tensions before the summit, Putin called the US secretary of state a liar for claiming al-Qaida did not have a significant presence in Syria. He said US bombing of Syria could lead to highly dangerous attacks on Syrian nuclear reactors.

More here...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/syria-china-russia-opposing-military-strikes

[CasperParks]

At some point in the near future, the United States will step from the world stage as a policing force in the Middle East and it will fall the EU.

[CasperParks]

Tick, tick, tock... It is eleven fifty-nine, pm.

[aquila]

urge nasa recall juno space probe (on missiom to jupiter) during its fly by with the earth next week - juno will be needed to monitor weather patterns and oceanic dynamics related to global warming and other atmospheric events such as stratospheric luminescent clouds .. aurora .. meteorite ..
the need to monitor terrestrial atmospheric phenomenon indicates that juno should be reprogrammed to return to the earth and enter an earth orbital regimen - there is no basis for a juno mission to jupiter

[epo333]

From Project Camelot:
http://www.projectcamelotportal.com/2013-10-03-15-53-21/unwanted-publicity-guy-s-blog/1907-us-spy-plane-forced-down-over-russia

U.S. Spyplane 30 Spies Over Meteor Skies Forced Down And Captured By Russia
by, Paul Collin ( The Unwanted Publicity Intelligence Guy )


November 1, 2013

LOS ANGELES - November 1, 2013 - A U.S. government BOEING surveillance aircraft, carrying twenty-four ( 24 ) United States ( USA ) military staff and six ( 6 ) United Kingdom ( UK ) military personnel were all forced to land by Russia authorities in Siberia on Thursday ( 30OCT13 ) at Chita Kadala airport near Mongolia where thirty ( 30 ) Western personnel were grounded with their spy plane until further notice. Russia authorities wisely treated 'the international incident' as a simple precautionary "emergency landing" due to 'dense fog' where the U.S. and UK 'military staff should have landed their BOEING aircraft' near Ulan-Ude - at 'that Siberia airport' instead.

Grounded, by Russia authorities at Chitah airport, the thirty ( 30 ) personnel, 'all initially chose to refuse' Russia airport authority hospitality offering a warmer room to sleep in than the plane plus courtesy hot food to eat, but 'the military staffers chose to continue hiding inside their cold plane stuffed with surveillance equipment parked on the airport tarmack in Siberia.

Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence resources throughout Eastern Europe news media outlets stretched official Russia government news storyline reports.

Reports varied widely, circulating claiming the plane was over Russia airspace on a "legitimate science mission," might have only been "analyzing atmospheric particles" lingering "in regions above" where Russia's "meteor streaked across Siberia skies" months ago.

U.S intelligence spread storyline news indicating "only civilians occupied the plane," were subjected to an "unprescendented" 'detainment', "stuck in Siberia" over "airport fees" to be paid before the thirty ( 30 ) "innocent Western captives" could leave.

Stories are also circulating other claims too. Chita airport spokesman Alexei Turskov, according to The Siberian Times indicated, "The plane cannot leave until 'technical service' and 'refuelling' bills are paid. Further, all "computed documents" were sent to Moscow. Russia Itar-Tass News Agency indicated the BOEING aircraft needed to make an "emergency landing" at Chita airport instead of Ulan-Ude airport due to a landing restriction of thick fog.

"We've satisfied 'some' [ crew member's ] requests by providing a room and hot meals for 'those'," said Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Kotelnikov, "They, spent the night on the airport compound."

Some crew members, except those believed onboard having science and technology ( S&T ) intelligence security clearances understandingly may have remained on the plane, while others left the BOEING aircraft to use airport facilities supplied on "humanitarian grounds" by Russia.

RIA Novosti indicated the BOEING crew underwent Russia's border migration control.

Inernational observation planes over Russia must land at only two ( 2) airports:

#1. Moscow Region airport; and,
#2. Ulan Ude airport.

No immediate comments came from America or Britain authorities. U.S. Spy Mission Speculations - What 'were' Western intelligence 'thinking'? That, with 'U.K. intelligence personnel' aboard, the U.S. could somehow get-away-with another unauthorized overflight over Siberia? Western intelligence efforts to 'capture lingering atmospheric particles' from the Russia military kinetic weapon 'stealth delivery system propellents'?

Hyper-Penetrating Target Saturation Explosive Blades Or, capturing particles from its hypersonic 'warhead skin casing deposits' of a new type of 'nano-thermite explosive material that 'penetrates', 'instantly sheds a cylindrical collet sheathed nano-explosive adherent', that cylindrically explodes in a rotary motion from within its target objective outward, which in 'this case' was the recent meteor in Siberia that it also overtook?

Or, capturing particles of the 'kinetic energy initial stage booster exhaust waveguide remnants'? Or, capturing particles from its secondary hypersonic booster warhead with an 'impact resistant nano-destructive explosive coating'?

Either method, of which the Russia military secretly used recently to capture, explode, and overtake the meteor over Siberia. Simply watch the video clips on YouTube and you'll basically see what the CIA did. Virginia farm roadrunners back to drawing-board at CIA again.

Submitted for review and commentary by,

Paul Collin
The Unwanted Publicity Guy

[epo333]

Not sure if this needs to be "debunked" or wysiwyg!

5/21/11 energy from UFO directed to base?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXpC15iNuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXpC15iNuo

[CasperParks]

Not sure if this needs to be "debunked" or wysiwyg!

5/21/11 energy from UFO directed to base?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXpC15iNuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXpC15iNuo

Epo333,

You're correct on debunking or confirming as true.

Someone claimed transformer explosions after a storm in the Fort Worth area. This happened in May 2011.

What is the population of people living near the base? Why did it take until now to surface? A light show that large would have drawn out a number of cell phone cameras.

[epo333]

Very interesting,the same footage from the original poster here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYCHBI66izs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYCHBI66izs

(HD)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rbueQHZx8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rbueQHZx8

I don't really see a storm or tornados involved here.

Found this tid bit too, but I'm not familiar with "Rainbow Phoenix"...?

http://rainbowphoenixcom.ipage.com/Archives/20131204Q1.pdf

[CasperParks]

Very interesting,the same footage from the original poster here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYCHBI66izs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYCHBI66izs

I don't really see a storm or tornados involved here.

Found this tid bit too, but I'm not familiar with "Rainbow Phoenix"...?

http://rainbowphoenixcom.ipage.com/Archives/20131204Q1.pdf

I am not attempting to debunk the videos, he did record an event of some sort.

Looking at roughly 2:08 through 2:12 on the timer there are beams of light that rotate from ground upward. However, the light show moves across a broad area. Is it possible the base was taking part in a war game of sorts? Are the blasts of light points of war-game-play impact sites? Are there any photos or video of the base before and after the attack?

Why would aliens attempting to keep their presence secret, attack a base surrounded by major cities? If making a point to the US government why not attack a base located an isolated area?

Was glimpsing through comments at youtube, not sure where the alien attack was started. Did not read where he claimed it was an alien attack.

Again, I am not attempting to debunk the videos. From what I gather, he isn't sure what it was. It could be an alien attack...

Sometimes these things take on a life of their own.

Agree that more information is needed before drawing a conclusion.

[epo333]

I am not attempting to debunk the videos, he did record an event of some sort.

Looking at roughly 2:08 through 2:12 on the timer there are beams of light that rotate from ground upward. However, the light show moves across a broad area. Is it possible the base was taking part in a war game of sorts? Are the blasts of light points of war-game-play impact sites? Are there any photos or video of the base before and after the attack?

Why would aliens attempting to keep their presence secret, attack a base surrounded by major cities? If making a point to the US government why not attack a base located an isolated area?

Was glimpsing through comments at youtube, not sure where the alien attack was started. Did not read where he claimed it was an alien attack.

Again, I am not attempting to debunk the videos. From what I gather, he isn't sure what it was. It could be an alien attack...

Sometimes these things take on a life of their own.

Agree that more information is needed before drawing a conclusion.


There is a lot of info in that pdf link...

Also, in the HD video, from 0:15 to 0:22 there looks like two or three UFO above the seen. Based on the number of blue flair-ups, I'm not inclined to think lens flair on those...

Maybe much of the damage was underground.

Do check out the pdf though. I value all opinions.

[epo333]

Wake Up NATO, You’re No Deterrent to Russia

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a Washington audience on Wednesday that Russia’s absorption of Crimea is a “wake-up call” for his organization. The alarm had best ring loudly, because NATO has been sleeping deeply.

The Russian aggression has led some Europeans to proclaim, “Thank God for NATO.” They assume that the organization formed during the Cold War to thwart any Red Army thrust across Western Europe will certainly protect them from a Russia that is increasingly behaving like its Soviet parent. Former Soviet satellite states are particularly nervous, and even Sweden, which for many years has done well enough on its own, has been so spooked by Russia’s Ukraine adventure and recent war games that it is talking about joining NATO.

The organization retains considerable luster from its early years, but its reputation is not in line with reality. An honest appraisal of NATO’s capabilities will quickly find that most of its European members have let their militaries fall into such disrepair that NATO, in terms of accomplishing military missions, is nothing more than a horseless Tonto, while the United States remains the Lone Ranger.

read more...

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/03/wake-nato-youre-no-deterrent-russia/80977/?oref=d-mostread

[Doc]

I have a feeling that if NATO was called to the rescue of what remains of the Ukraine, quite a number of the Member Nations would let the call go to voice mail.

[epo333]

Engineering and Design
ETL 1110-3-510
31 May 2013
AVIATION COMPLEX PLANNING AND DESIGN CRITERIA FOR UNMANNED
AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS)

http://cryptome.org/2014/05/TL_1110-3-510.pdf

[southerncross]

Posting this article. Curious as to others opinions.
It states the Chinese are in the US and that the US has made a deal that will nullify our debt by allowing China complete access to our minerals. Also that Russia will take Europe and China the US. No where to run guys.

http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/05/05/world-war-iii-has-already-been-lost-and-the-chinese-are-in-the-process-of-occupying-amerika/

Thoughts ?

[majicbar]

Posting this article. Curious as to others opinions.
It states the Chinese are in the US and that the US has made a deal that will nullify our debt by allowing China complete access to our minerals. Also that Russia will take Europe and China the US. No where to run guys.

http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/05/05/world-war-iii-has-already-been-lost-and-the-chinese-are-in-the-process-of-occupying-amerika/

Thoughts ?
Delusional B. S. This guy has been disconnected from reality since I first encountered his material.

[Garuda]

Delusional B. S. This guy has been disconnected from reality since I first encountered his material.

I agree...

[southerncross]

I haven't followed this fellow so didn't know what his sources were.

But while we're on the topic of EMPs. What are the odds we will see one in say the next 25 yrs ?

[majicbar]

I haven't followed this fellow so didn't know what his sources were.

But while we're on the topic of EMPs. What are the odds we will see one in say the next 25 yrs ?My thinking is that North Korea has nothing to really loose, they are most likely to go ahead and do it, even if it would mean that we incinerate every inch of their land in retaliation. North Korea is not that far from a nation that is living in the dark ages, they loose everything and they loose almost nothing. They DO us and we loose everything. Estimate by our Congress is that our population would have a third dead in a year, 80 percent in five years. North Korea is a nation of fools and yes men, they would not hesitate to follow the great leader, as he likes to be called, to the very gates of hell and shove us into that hell even if they had to all go there with us. Odds, maybe 100 percent, unless we can somehow change their basic social structure, preemptive nuclear strike? Maybe that, I hope not, but they would be crazy enough to go that route in my opinion. I am just too optimistic sometimes.

[epo333]

I haven't followed this fellow so didn't know what his sources were.

But while we're on the topic of EMPs. What are the odds we will see one in say the next 25 yrs ?

Here is some info for those who may take the idea of an EMP lightly.

Another question might be: Would the ETs help or hinder such an event?

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/categories/emp-electro-magnetic-pulse/

[calikid]

I find it interesting I had never heard of an EMP until after reports of ET overflights disabling missile sites.
I suspect EMP was first used by ET and we only discovered after researching "How the heck did they do that?"

[majicbar]

I find it interesting I had never heard of an EMP until after reports of ET overflights disabling missile sites.
I suspect EMP was first used by ET and we only discovered after researching "How the heck did they do that?"The discovery of EMP came as a result in 1962 as a result of the Dominic 1 nuclear test program in the South Pacific. The assumption of the DOD was that nuclear war was inevitable, that ICBMs would be used and some kinds of missile intercept would be used to reduce the attacks against us. The intent of the DOD in Starfish Prime, July 8, was to research radio and radar in the nuclear effects of warheads used in such interceptors. Dominic 1 series included air drops from B-52, launches of Nike Herclues and Thor missiles. Something like 59 nuclear explosions were involved, a half dozen at altitudes causing some degree of EMP. That these test occurred outside major developed areas minimized observed effects, but were significant enough to degrade satellite solar cells and radio transmitters. EMPs were strong enough to affect Hawaii 800 miles away, tripping power breakers and affecting radio communicatons.

Chuck Hansen's The Secret History , U. S. Nuclear Weapons has an extensive description of this test series, but only briefly mentions EMP effects, also known as the argus effect.

[epo333]

I find it interesting I had never heard of an EMP until after reports of ET overflights disabling missile sites.
I suspect EMP was first used by ET and we only discovered after researching "How the heck did they do that?"


Soviet high-altitude tests[edit]

The Soviets detonated four high-altitude tests in 1961 and three in 1962. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, both the US and the USSR detonated several high-altitude nuclear explosions as a form of saber-rattling. The Soviet tests were meant to demonstrate their anti-ballistic missile defenses which would supposedly protect their major cities in the event of a nuclear war.

The worst effects of a Soviet high-altitude test occurred on 22 October 1962, in the Soviet Project K nuclear tests (ABM System A proof tests) when a 300 kt missile-warhead detonated near Dzhezkazgan at 290-km altitude. The EMP fused 570 km of overhead telephone line with a measured current of 2,500 A, started a fire that burned down the Karaganda power plant, and shut down 1,000-km of shallow-buried power cables between Aqmola and Almaty.

The Partial Test Ban Treaty was passed the following year, ending atmospheric and exoatmospheric nuclear tests. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 banned the stationing and use of nuclear weapons in space. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty of 1996 prohibits all kinds of nuclear explosions; whether over- or underground, underwater or in the atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion

[atmjjc]

Judge Jeanine Pirro Justice Investigates U S Power Grid In Danger


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOqTBjElLMs

[Edgar Fouche]

Washington's Bloated Defense Budget
10-6-14
Full Article:
http://rense.com/general96/bloated.html

I've written many articles about DoD/Military fraud, waste, abuse, nepotism, and bloated budgets that are out of control in the last 20+ years.

It's obscene and criminal! Every year since the Vietnam War, our Department of Defense has lost or is unaccountable for over a BILLION dollars. That's a Thousand Million every year.

We have endless procurement offices, provision offices, contracting offices, logistics centers, comptrollers, thousands of auditors, bookkeepers, and oversight personnel from the top down to the bottom.
Doesn't seem any of them are competent!

We never seem to have any money left to fix the US infrastructure; no money for schools, roads, bridges, railroads, and the energy grid just to name a few.
But we continue to historically spend billions of dollars EVERY year since WWII for new ships, subs, bombers, and fighter aircraft that have cost overruns and extremely busted budgets.

Look at the F-35 that we've wasted tens of billions of dollars on after a decade of development and it can't exceed the F-15 Eagle fighter's ability, that we developed in the very early 70s.

Why? Corruption, lack of talented and professional Department of Defense (DoD), military, defense contractors, and sub-contractors who are competent.
Every year since the Vietnam War I see a marked increase at the only solution they can come up with is keep throwing money at a problem, never having enough
talent, education, or experience to know when something isn't worth the money or will never work.

I think our country is turning into the world police, because of corporate interests. It has NOTHING to do with National Security at all. The Trillion Dollar Homeland Security has not caught ONE real terrorists.
It has to do with greed, power, and personal interests. Vote out ALL incumbents.


Edgar (Ed) Fouche
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~

Washington Post editors want America's bloated defense budget increased. So do some of its contributors. More on this below.

America's business is war. Without end. Ravaging, destroying and pillaging one nation after another.

Doing it for wealth, power and dominance. While vital homeland needs go begging. At a time America's only enemies are ones it invents.

Annual congressional national defense authorizations are the tip of the iceberg. America's defense spending constitutes a black hole of waste, fraud and abuse. More on this below.

It's military Keynesianism on steroids. With all categories included, America spends as much or more on militarism, wars and related areas than the rest of the world combined.

Over $1.5 trillion annually goes for so-called defense. Doing so makes the world safe for war profiteers. They never had it better.

Enormous sums get tossed around mindlessly. Government watchdogs identify hundreds of billions of potential savings from unneeded weapons, defective ones, no-bid excess, over payments, and outright fraud.

Intelligence spending accounts for tens of billions of dollars annually. Other black budgets include enormous unknown amounts.

Add-ons increase them exponentially. What's spent is hidden from public view. Most congressional members don't know.

On January 13, HR 3855: Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2014 was introduced.

It requires annual federal budget submissions to include total dollar amounts proposed for intelligence and related activities, as well as estimated appropriations required for each of four ensuing years.

The bill was referred to the House Committee on Budget. It's gone nowhere so far.

Gov Track explains only 11% of legislation makes it through committees. In 2011 - 2013, only about 3% passed.

On November 24, 2013, the Army Times said Pentagon base budgeting increased 85% post-9/11. Including overseas contingency operations, it's up over 104%.

Military and civilian personnel costs alone increased by 78% from 2001 to 2012. Weapons development costs grew by around the same amount.

Much of the increase came from cost overruns. The Government Accountability Office said 85 "major (DOD) acquisition programs" ran a collective $411 billion over initially budgeted amounts.

Some acquisition programs aren't completed. Some weapons produced aren't used. Tens of billions of dollars, perhaps hundreds, spent are wasted.

For FY 2015, Obama's proposed discretionary spending allocated 61% for military related purposes, including veterans' benefits.

Excluded are military related Department of Energy, State and Treasury spending. Department of Homeland Security. NASA.

Department of Veterans Affairs administration and net interest attributable to past debt-financed defense outlays.

Other priorities get crumbs by comparison:

Government: 6%

Education: 6%

Social Security, Unemployment & labor: 5%

Housing & community: 5%

Medicare & Health: 5%

Energy & environment: 3%

International affairs: 3%

Science: 3%

Transportation: 2%

Food and agriculture: 1%

A previous article discussed enormous Pentagon waste, fraud and abuse. It's a black hole of accountability.

On September 10, 2001, then Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

On November 18, 2013 Reuters headlined "Behind the Pentagon's doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste."

Since 1996, DOD was never held accountable for $8.5 trillion. Sweetheart deals, no-bid contracts, out-of-control cost overruns, bribes and kickbacks are commonplace.

So is routine over-billing amounting to grand theft. DOD has a virtual blank check. Defense contractor favorites cash in hugely.

At taxpayers' expense. Sacrificing peace, stability, security, equity and justice. Shutting out vital homeland needs.

According to Reuters, DOD "chronic(ally) fail(s) to keep track of its money - how much it has, how much it pays out, and how much is wasted or stolen."

Monthly it spills far more than most nations spend annually in total. It's entire record keeping system is dysfunctional. Nothing remedial is done.

Rest of Article:
http://rense.com/general96/bloated.html

.

[epo333]

1335

Why IS the US military moving back into 'Stargate' base deep under the Rocky Mountains a decade after it was abandoned?


It shut down nearly ten years ago as the threat from Russia seemed to subside, but this week the Pentagon announced that Cheyenne Mountain will once again be home to the most advanced tracking and communications equipment in the United States military.

The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.

The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command.

Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that 'because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain's built, it's EMP-hardened.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3031041/Why-military-moving-Stargate-base-deep-Rocky-Mountains-decade-abandoned.html

[southerncross]

Lets pray that the same good fortune that saved us from a nuclear disaster in the 1960's will prevail in the future.
The US is hated, no doubt, but it is rapidly becoming a different nation as people from other nations flow into us like a flood. Lets face it. We won't be the same country in 10 yrs, much less 20+.
They may not hate us so much by then. We'll be like all the other foreign countries.

[calikid]

1335

Why IS the US military moving back into 'Stargate' base deep under the Rocky Mountains a decade after it was abandoned?


It shut down nearly ten years ago as the threat from Russia seemed to subside, but this week the Pentagon announced that Cheyenne Mountain will once again be home to the most advanced tracking and communications equipment in the United States military.

The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.

The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command.

Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that 'because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain's built, it's EMP-hardened.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3031041/Why-military-moving-Stargate-base-deep-Rocky-Mountains-decade-abandoned.html
Have to wonder how the military justifies the expense.
So many $Trillions spent on defense budget.
Another win for the MIC.

[majicbar]

Have to wonder how the military justifies the expense.
So many $Trillions spent on defense budget.
Another win for the MIC.

Do not forget that Russia's missile force is still fitted with hard wired doomsday - launch one, launch all commands. Either a rogue launch, or decision by a crazed Putin would be the same. WWIII is not much further away now than when we started to breathe easy a few years ago. It may be one of either case, we now realize that Russia is still a huge threat, or we realize a treat from alien craft of a rogue alien race is a greater threat than we were willing to admit before now. The nightmares of the baby boomers return.

[CasperParks]

All Time 10s: 10 Biggest Armies in the World (https://www.youtube.com/user/alltime10s/videos)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNwsBPtDJoc&feature=youtu.be&a

[epo333]

Congress probing U.S. spy agencies' possible lapses on Russia


Senior U.S. lawmakers have begun probing possible intelligence lapses over Moscow’s intervention in Syria, concerned that American spy agencies were slow to grasp the scope and intention of Russia’s dramatic military offensive there, U.S. congressional sources and other officials told Reuters.

A week after Russia plunged directly into Syria’s civil war by launching a campaign of air strikes, the intelligence committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives want to examine the extent to which the spy community overlooked or misjudged critical warning signs, the sources said.

Findings of major blind spots would mark the latest of several U.S. intelligence misses in recent years, including Moscow’s surprise takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea region last year and China’s rapid expansion of island-building activities in the South China Sea.

Though spy agencies have sought to ramp up intelligence gathering on Russia since the crisis over Ukraine, they continue to struggle with inadequate resources because of the emphasis on counter-terrorism in the Middle East and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, according to current and former U.S. officials.

A senior administration official, who also asked not to be identified, insisted that there were “no surprises” and that policymakers were “comfortable” with the intelligence they received in the lead-up to the Russian offensive.

Spy agencies had carefully tracked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s build-up of military assets and personnel in Syria in recent weeks, prompting White House criticism and demands for Moscow to explain itself.

But intelligence officers – and the U.S. administration they serve - were caught mostly off-guard by the speed and aggressiveness of Putin’s use of air power as well as a Russian target list that included U.S.-backed rebels, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"They saw some of this going on but didn't appreciate the magnitude," one of the sources told Reuters.

Russia’s sudden move to ramp up its military involvement in the Syria crisis has thrown Obama's Middle East strategy into doubt and laid bare an erosion of U.S. influence in the region.

A shortage of reliable information and analysis could further hamper President Barack Obama’s efforts to craft a response on Syria to regain the initiative from Washington’s former Cold War foe.


BEHIND THE CURVE?

It is unclear how his administration could have reacted differently with better intelligence, though advance word of Putin’s attack plans might have allowed U.S. officials to warn the moderate Syrian opposition that they could end up in Russia's line of fire.

Obama, who is reluctant to see America drawn deeper into another Middle East conflict, has shown no desire to directly confront Russia over its Syria offensive – something Moscow may have taken as a green light to escalate its operations.

Syrian troops and militia backed by Russian warplanes mounted what appeared to be their first major coordinated assault on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday and Moscow said its warships fired a barrage of missiles at them from the Caspian Sea, a sign of its new military reach.

Russia's military build-up now includes a growing naval presence, long-range rockets and a battalion of troops backed by Moscow's most modern tanks, the U.S. ambassador to NATO said.

. . . And "The Rest of the Story" @ link below:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/us-mideast-crisis-intelligence-exclusive-idUSKCN0S20CZ20151008

[epo333]

Russia orders all officials to fly home

Russian officials have been 'told to bring relatives home to the Motherland'
Failure to act will put promotion chances at risk, according to local reports
Comes amid worsening relations between Russia and US over Syria crisis
US has pulled plug on Syria talks and accused Russia of hacking attacks
Russia has moved nuclear-capable missiles nearer to the Polish border

~

Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid heightened tensions over the prospect of global war, it has been claimed.

Politicians and high-ranking figures are said to have received a warning from president Vladimir Putin to bring their loved-ones home to the 'Motherland', according to local media.

It comes after Putin cancelled a planned visit to France amid a furious row over Moscow's role in the Syrian conflict and just days after it emerged the Kremlin had moved nuclear-capable missiles near to the Polish border.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has also warned that the world is at a 'dangerous point' due to rising tensions between Russia and the US.

more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3833941/Russia-orders-officials-fly-home-relatives-living-abroad-tensions-mount-prospect-global-war.html

[epo333]

Wars, Wars and Rumors of War . . .


Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

MATTIS RULES OUT MILITARY RESPONSE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA

On his first trip to Asia as secretary of defense, Jim Mattis ruled out a military response to China's assertiveness in the South China Sea but promised to continue with freedom of navigation operations to oppose Beijing's occupation of disputed islands.

"At this time, we do not see any need for dramatic military moves at all," Mattis told reporters in Tokyo, emphasizing the need for diplomacy.

He said that "freedom of navigation operations and other actions by the U.S. forces in the South China Sea contribute to maintaining maritime order based on the rule of law."

"Freedom of navigation is absolute, and whether it be commercial shipping or our U.S. Navy, we will practice in international waters and transit international waters as appropriate," he said.

Over China's objections, U.S. warships have deliberately sailed close to Chinese-occupied features four times since October 2015 in operations meant to enforce Washington's position that the waters must remain open to international navigation.

China has repeatedly warned the U.S. to stay away from the South China Sea disputes because it is not a claimant.

Mattis also explicitly stated that the Trump administration will stick to the previous U.S. stance that the U.S.-Japan security treaty applies to defending Japan's continued administration of the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, which are contested by China and also known as the Diaoyu.

In response, China's Foreign Ministry reasserted its claim of sovereignty over the tiny, uninhabited islands and called on the U.S. to cease "making wrong remarks" over the issue.

In an editorial, the ruling Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times called Mattis' statement on the South China Sea a "mind-soothing pill."

"For, at the very least, it dispersed the clouds of war that many feared were gathering over the South China Sea," the paper said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/recent-developments-surrounding-south-china-sea-021910630.html

[A99]

Whew! That's good news! Thanks for posting that. :)

[A99]

Here's what Bannon has to say about China:


China
On multiple occasions (http://www.alternet.org/world/steve-bannon-war-south-china-sea) on his Breitbart radio show, Bannon has gone after China, which he has apparently been gunning for going back years. Trump’s obsession with the country finds its source in Bannon, who’s been putting the anti-China words right in Trump’s mouth.

“We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years,” Bannon said in a March 2016 interview with the Heritage Foundation’s Lee Edwards. “There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face – and you understand how important face is – and say it’s an ancient territorial sea. That’s a throwdown, is it not?”

A few months earlier, Bannon took aim at China—along with Islam, his favorite target—while suggesting the U.S. and Europe aren’t being aggressive enough toward either. “You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They’re arrogant. They’re on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian west is on the retreat.”


http://www.salon.com/2017/02/06/6-things-steve-bannon-has-declared-war-on_partner/

[epo333]

How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans

The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given to the American people that North Korea has not “demonstrated” that it can miniaturize a nuclear warhead small enough for missile delivery, or build a reentry vehicle for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of penetrating the atmosphere to blast a U.S. city.
Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.

Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles. And North Korea does, in fact, have two classes of ICBMs—the road mobile KN-08 and KN-14—which both appear to be equipped with sophisticated reentry vehicles.

Much more at link.. ..

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/326094-how-north-korea-could-kill-up-to-90-percent-of-americans-at-any

[calikid]

How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans

The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given to the American people that North Korea has not “demonstrated” that it can miniaturize a nuclear warhead small enough for missile delivery, or build a reentry vehicle for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of penetrating the atmosphere to blast a U.S. city.
Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.

Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles. And North Korea does, in fact, have two classes of ICBMs—the road mobile KN-08 and KN-14—which both appear to be equipped with sophisticated reentry vehicles.

Much more at link.. ..

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/326094-how-north-korea-could-kill-up-to-90-percent-of-americans-at-any
IMHO, Sounds a bit like fear mongering.
Reads like a self-serving Military assessment, that justifies pouring BILLION$ into defense budget$.

Also, Not sure how smuggling a nuke or two into the USA (one premise of the article) would take out "90% of Americans" before a retaliatory strike takes out 100% of North Korea.
While NK does pose a legitimate threat (even a single nuke strike with minimal casualties should be avoided), IMO this article may overstate the potential impact.

My concern at this time has to do with strikes against US allies in that region. Japan, South Korea, etc.
A much more pressing issue.

[epo333]

IMHO, Sounds a bit like fear mongering.
Reads like a self-serving Military assessment, that justifies pouring BILLION$ into defense budget$.

Also, Not sure how smuggling a nuke or two into the USA (one premise of the article) would take out "90% of Americans" before a retaliatory strike takes out 100% of North Korea.
While NK does pose a legitimate threat (even a single nuke strike with minimal casualties should be avoided), IMO this article may overstate the potential impact.

IMHO, the leader of NK is nuttyer the a friut cake and will do an attack at some point.

I don't think the its the nuke blast that will effect millions as much as any EMP effects. Just 30% loss of power grid for even 6 months would have a killing event.

Not just hospitals, nursing homes, lack of food deliveries, but masses of desperate people will also be a big problem.

[calikid]

IMHO, the leader of NK is nuttyer the a friut cake and will do an attack at some point.

I don't think the its the nuke blast that will effect millions as much as any EMP effects. Just 30% loss of power grid for even 6 months would have a killing event.

Not just hospitals, nursing homes, lack of food deliveries, but masses of desperate people will also be a big problem.
Pretty nutty alright.
I get the feeling that NK is simply China's lapdog.
And China enjoys watching the tiny Shih Tsu bark at the formidable American Pit Bull.
I would hope his leash gets pulled before the Pitbull executes the rag doll maneuver. Never a pretty sight.

[CasperParks]

Pretty nutty alright.
I get the feeling that NK is simply China's lapdog.
And China enjoys watching the tiny Shih Tsu bark at the formidable American Pit Bull.
I would hope his leash gets pulled before the Pitbull executes the rag doll maneuver. Never a pretty sight.

I wouldn't doubt it...

[epo333]

Pretty nutty alright.
I get the feeling that NK is simply China's lapdog.
And China enjoys watching the tiny Shih Tsu bark at the formidable American Pit Bull.
I would hope his leash gets pulled before the Pitbull executes the rag doll maneuver. Never a pretty sight.

Comment on Todays Missile Strike in Syria . . .

This was a “measured” response by the US against the violation of international laws regarding use of chemical weapons. IMO, this was the correct move on Trumps part. Nice that he showed his hand around the same time as his negotiations with the Chinese Precedent here in the states. Shows resolve or some backbone in going forward wrt to the North Korean issues.

Just think of the ramifications of North Korea screwing up and actually hitting one of our allies in the Pacific Rem. Rest assured there are a few USS Sea Wolf Class subs in strategic locations poised for just such an event!!!

Sorry to say each one is capable of ending life on ALL seven continents.


epo333

[epo333]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steamed towards the region.

Trump, in an early morning note on Twitter, said the call with Xi, just days after they met in the United States, was a "very good" discussion of the "menace of North Korea". The call came as an influential state-run Chinese newspaper warned that the Korean peninsula was the closest it has been to a "military clash" since North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006.

The communication between the leaders underscored the sense of urgency as tension escalates amid concern that reclusive North Korea could soon conduct a sixth nuclear test, or more missile launches, and Trump's threat of unilateral action to solve the problem.

Trump ordered the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to head to the Korean peninsula in an attempt to deter North Korea's nuclear and long-range missile ambitions, which it is developing in defiance of U.N. resolutions and sanctions.

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Class and type: Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 101,300 long tons (113,500 short tons)[1]
Length: Overall: 1,092 feet (332.8 m)
Waterline: 1,040 feet (317.0 m)

Beam: Overall: 252 ft (76.8 m)
Waterline: 134 ft (40.8 m)

Draft: Maximum navigational: 37 feet (11.3 m)
Limit: 41 feet (12.5 m)

Propulsion: 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors
4 × steam turbines
4 × shafts
260,000 shp (194 MW)

Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h; 35+ mph)
Range: Unlimited distance; 20–25 years
Complement: Ship's company: 3,200
Air wing: 2,480

Crew: 6,062
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPS-48E 3-D air search radar
AN/SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar
AN/SPQ-9B target acquisition radar
AN/SPN-46 air traffic control radars
AN/SPN-43C air traffic control radar
AN/SPN-41 landing aid radars
4 × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems
4 × Mk 95 radars

Electronic warfare
& decoys: SLQ-32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite
SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasures

Armament: 2 × Mk 57 Mod3 Sea Sparrow
2 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
3 × Phalanx CIWS

Armor: Unknown
Aircraft carried: 90 fixed wing and helicopters

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson

[epo333]

EXCLUSIVE – Congressional Expert: North Korea Prepping EMP Catastrophe Aimed At U.S. Homefront

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TEL AVIV – While the international community and news media focus on North Korean missile tests and the country’s nuclear program, one expert warned on Sunday that North Korea may be secretly assembling the capability to take out significant parts of the U.S. homeland via an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission.

Speaking on this reporter’s talk radio program, Pry pointed to two North Korean satellites that are currently orbiting the U.S. at trajectories he says are optimized for a surprised EMP attack. “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” is broadcast on terrestrial radio on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia and online.

Pry was referring to the KMS 3-2 and KMS-4 earth observation satellites launched by North Korea in April 2012 and February 2016 respectively.



He warned: “They are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view. So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States.

“Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down.’ Which is basically what he said. I mean, he has made threats about turning the United States into ashes and he connected the satellite program to this in public statements to deter us from attacking.”

“If you wanted to win a New Korean war,” added Pry, “one of the things you would certainly consider doing is taking out the United States homeland itself.”



Pry surmised the North Koreans may be taking the idea from a Soviet plan during the Cold War to attack the U.S. with an EMP as part of a larger surprise assault aimed at crippling the U.S. military.

“During the Cold War, the Russians had a secret weapon they called a fractional orbital bombardment system,” he explained. “And the idea was to do a surprise EMP attack against the United States by disguising a warhead as a satellite. Because a satellite trajectory is different from an ICBM trajectory that is aiming to go into a city. You know, for accuracy on an ICBM you launch it on a lower energy, 45-degree angle that follows a classic ballistic trajectory. Like a rifle. To land your missile on a city.”

Pry continued of the original Russian plan:

But if you put a satellite in orbit it follows a different trajectory. It doesn’t have accuracy but it puts the satellite up there so that it stays in permanent orbit so it looks different in terms of the trajectory. And guys watching their radar screens tend not to get alarmed when they see a missile being launched on that satellite trajectory. Because they assume it is for peaceful purposes. …

So, the idea was to put a nuclear weapon on a satellite. Launch it on a satellite trajectory toward the south so it is also flying away from the United States. Orbit it over the South Pole and come up on the other side of the earth so that it approaches us from the south.

Because we didn’t during the Cold War and even today we still don’t have ballistic missile early radar warnings looking south. We don’t have any national missile defenses to the south. We are blind and defenseless to the south. We can’t see anything coming from that direction. Then when this gets over the United States you light it off so that it does an EMP attack.

Pry stated that in the Soviet plan, “They were mainly interested in paralyzing our strategic forces, our strategic command and control and communications so that we couldn’t talk to our forces. Maybe take out some of the forces themselves. And that would give them time to then launch their mass attack across the North Pole to blow up our ICBMs. So, kill them once with the EMP. Kill them twice by blasting our bases by using their long-range missiles. That was the Russian plan. But the cutting edge of the plan was this surprise EMP attack.”

North Korea, by contrast, “doesn’t have enough missiles or sophisticated missiles to blow up our missile bases and bomber bases. What they seem to be doing with the satellites is the EMP part of the Soviet plan.”

“I think what they are mainly going for is the unhardened electric grid,” Pry surmised. “Transportation, communications, all of the other civilian critical infrastructure that we depend upon to keep our population alive.”

Pry spotlighted recent North Korean nuclear and missile tests minimized by the news media for reported failures. When viewed through the lens of potential preparations for an EMP attack, Pry warned, the tests were actually successes.

more at link below:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/05/08/exclusive-congressional-expert-north-korea-prepping-emp-warfare-aimed-u-s-homefront/

[calikid]

EXCLUSIVE – Congressional Expert: North Korea Prepping EMP Catastrophe Aimed At U.S. Homefront

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TEL AVIV – While the international community and news media focus on North Korean missile tests and the country’s nuclear program, one expert warned on Sunday that North Korea may be secretly assembling the capability to take out significant parts of the U.S. homeland via an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission.

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more at link below:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/05/08/exclusive-congressional-expert-north-korea-prepping-emp-warfare-aimed-u-s-homefront/

I wouldn't want to downplay how terribly inconvenient knocking out a region the size of Los Angles would be, but the USA is a big place.
The thought of two satellites knocking out the entire US infrastructure seems unlikely.
Add to that for the past few decades, we have had satellite killing missiles capable of being fighter-plane launched, that can take down those satellites should we feel the need.
IMHO, it seems like the damage estimates are being overestimated. Possibly to justify additional War funds, in a country that already militarily outspend$ every other country in the world.

Not really clear on why Mr Fry, "chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission", is making these comments in Tel Aviv Israel. But it would not surprise me to learn he is angling for additional funding for his commission.
After all, if you are a hammer the world looks like a nail.

Seems like the rhetoric from NK has been reduced of late. Goodness knows China is a massive trading partner with the US, and would not take kindly to NK interfering with commerce.
Maybe China has managed to calm down NK a bit. Let's hope.

BTW, EPO I think it is important information and needs monitoring. Thanks for sharing. I'm just not so sure the sky is falling.

[epo333]

I wouldn't want to downplay how terribly inconvenient knocking out a region the size of Los Angles would be, but the USA is a big place.
The thought of two satellites knocking out the entire US infrastructure seems unlikely.
Add to that for the past few decades, we have had satellite killing missiles capable of being fighter-plane launched, that can take down those satellites should we feel the need.
IMHO, it seems like the damage estimates are being overestimated. Possibly to justify additional War funds, in a country that already militarily outspend$ every other country in the world.

Not really clear on why Mr Fry, "chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission", is making these comments in Tel Aviv Israel. But it would not surprise me to learn he is angling for additional funding for his commission.
After all, if you are a hammer the world looks like a nail.

Seems like the rhetoric from NK has been reduced of late. Goodness knows China is a massive trading partner with the US, and would not take kindly to NK interfering with commerce.
Maybe China has managed to calm down NK a bit. Let's hope.

BTW, EPO I think it is important information and needs monitoring. Thanks for sharing. I'm just not so sure the sky is falling.

The way I read it, the reporter is reporting from TEL AVIV on what they heard from a talk show in New York. (New York’s AM 970)

I wouldn't what to find out what a 50kt detonation 2 or 3 hundred miles up could actually do to our PWR Grid, maybe nothin' maybe somthin'!

[CasperParks]

The way I read it, the reporter is reporting from TEL AVIV on what they heard from a talk show in New York. (New York’s AM 970)

I wouldn't what to find out what a 50kt detonation 2 or 3 hundred miles up could actually do to our PWR Grid, maybe nothin' maybe somthin'!

Ouch... It would not surprise me if something to that effect happened, via a bomb or natural EMP from space / sun.

[epo333]

Ouch... It would not surprise me if something to that effect happened, via a bomb or natural EMP from space / sun.

Yes Casper, whether from a bomb, or major CME or any other reason the PWR Grid in the USA goes down we would have to go it alone.

Here is a bit of fear mongering . . . or is it?

May 9, 2017, by Ken Jorgustin
Without Electricity Most Of The Population Will Not Survive


http://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/without-electricity.jpg


It really is incredible when you start to think deeply about our reliance upon electricity and the terrible disastrous consequences of being without it for a long period of time. Heck, even a relatively short period of time without electricity will likely result in people “losing it”…

How long will it take without electricity until lots of people literally begin to die?

What will be the specific chain of events that will lead to the deaths of so many people?



Given the current events as of this post date (the reported supposition that NK may have orbiting EMP capability) I felt this would be a good “food for thought” exercise, albeit grim.

Any thinking person would have to admit that indeed there would be great loss of life if electricity (our life blood) were to vanish.

Why would there be such great loss of life? Because our modern society has become 100% reliant upon it. Most all of our infrastructure is dependent on electricity for it to work. It is a great challenge to come up with a list of infrastructure-related things that do not in some way depend upon a source of electricity.

How long would it take before a significant number of people begin to die off?

I believe that it would begin sooner than most people may think…


I have written about this scenario a number of times over the years and I really have not changed my view too much on this (except one). I have always felt that if the lights went out in America (grid-down), it is my opinion that ultimately 70% – 90% would not survive.

One major viewpoint that I’ve adjusted is how long this would take to occur (the 70% – 90%). When I first hypothesized this years ago, I felt that an approximate one year time frame would be required to finally reach those numbers. I believe that this thinking was incorrect. It would be much sooner than that.

Given the lack of drinking water after the pumps stop working and holding tanks drain,

Given that most people have less than one week’s worth of food at home,

Given that the majority of people live in urban areas,

I feel that these facts alone will seal their fate within one to three months. One month for many, and certainly within three months for most. There simply will not be enough food available within our just-in-time system and this will immediately begin the timeline to starvation. The lack of drinking water will bring about end-of-life even sooner.

63% of Americans live in cities (source).
81% of Americans live in urban areas (source).

While 19% live in rural areas, most of them too are reliant upon electricity. Of the 19% how many are self-reliant and able to procure water and food without pumps, electricity, and grocery stores… enough to last throughout the year?

What do we require to stay alive? Water, Food, Shelter, Security. How long until these things become no longer available after the electricity goes out?



Potential Sequence of Events After “Lights Out”

Thousands trapped in elevators

ALL electrical appliances shut down-refrigerators, heating, A/C

ATM machines are inoperative

Banks and other businesses shut down

Gas stations without generators cannot pump fuel

Water faucets begin to run dry in some areas without utility generators

Toilets will no longer flush without water pressure

Drug stores and supermarkets being stripped

Law enforcement overwhelmed by emergencies and outbreaks of looting

Batteries on laptops, cell phones, and flashlights are dying

Conflicting descriptions of power outage, unknown expected duration

Officials disagree regarding recommended actions

Bridges, tunnels, highways becoming clogged with refugees

Gas stations running out of fuel (those that could pump)

Water is at a premium

Some emergency generators assist in pumping water and sewage (limited)

Many ‘unprepared’ are running out of food

Beginning to panic, discovering widespread outage ramifications

The “Oh $hit” moment of realization…

Any .gov emergency rations are depleted

Many of the elderly and infirm have died

Hospitals overwhelmed and struggling to perform emergency services

Military attempts to maintain semblance of order, but not enough personnel

Looting (especially cities) has become rampant

Millions upon millions are ‘on their own’

People have become deeply frightened and fear for their lives

Most are now entirely running out of food to eat

Many are dying in regions without access to water

Many are dying in regions/climates where there is no heat (if during winter)

Disease (e.g. typhoid fever, cholera) from eating tainted food, water, poor sanitation

Martial Law is declared (perhaps/probably much sooner)

Many drug-dependent patients are dying

The millions with severe psychotic disorders (no more meds) create bedlam

People and communities fighting over resources

Home invasions and violence-related die-offs

Escaped prisoners, organized gangs, more violence-related die-off

Communities are slowly starving

3 months, 70% – 90% are dead

The issue of all the bodies…

Note: I know that there are those of you who do not accept the possibility that something of this magnitude could or would actually occur, however this is just a thought exercise ��

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/systemic-risk/without-electricity-most-of-the-population-will-not-survive/

[Wansen]

Yes Casper, whether from a bomb, or major CME or any other reason the PWR Grid in the USA goes down we would have to go it alone.

Here is a bit of fear mongering . . . or is it?

May 9, 2017, by Ken Jorgustin
Without Electricity Most Of The Population Will Not Survive


http://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/without-electricity.jpg


It really is incredible when you start to think deeply about our reliance upon electricity and the terrible disastrous consequences of being without it for a long period of time. Heck, even a relatively short period of time without electricity will likely result in people “losing it”…

How long will it take without electricity until lots of people literally begin to die?

What will be the specific chain of events that will lead to the deaths of so many people?



Given the current events as of this post date (the reported supposition that NK may have orbiting EMP capability) I felt this would be a good “food for thought” exercise, albeit grim.

Any thinking person would have to admit that indeed there would be great loss of life if electricity (our life blood) were to vanish.

Why would there be such great loss of life? Because our modern society has become 100% reliant upon it. Most all of our infrastructure is dependent on electricity for it to work. It is a great challenge to come up with a list of infrastructure-related things that do not in some way depend upon a source of electricity.

How long would it take before a significant number of people begin to die off?

I believe that it would begin sooner than most people may think…


I have written about this scenario a number of times over the years and I really have not changed my view too much on this (except one). I have always felt that if the lights went out in America (grid-down), it is my opinion that ultimately 70% – 90% would not survive.

One major viewpoint that I’ve adjusted is how long this would take to occur (the 70% – 90%). When I first hypothesized this years ago, I felt that an approximate one year time frame would be required to finally reach those numbers. I believe that this thinking was incorrect. It would be much sooner than that.

Given the lack of drinking water after the pumps stop working and holding tanks drain,

Given that most people have less than one week’s worth of food at home,

Given that the majority of people live in urban areas,

I feel that these facts alone will seal their fate within one to three months. One month for many, and certainly within three months for most. There simply will not be enough food available within our just-in-time system and this will immediately begin the timeline to starvation. The lack of drinking water will bring about end-of-life even sooner.

63% of Americans live in cities (source).
81% of Americans live in urban areas (source).

While 19% live in rural areas, most of them too are reliant upon electricity. Of the 19% how many are self-reliant and able to procure water and food without pumps, electricity, and grocery stores… enough to last throughout the year?

What do we require to stay alive? Water, Food, Shelter, Security. How long until these things become no longer available after the electricity goes out?



Potential Sequence of Events After “Lights Out”

Thousands trapped in elevators

ALL electrical appliances shut down-refrigerators, heating, A/C

ATM machines are inoperative

Banks and other businesses shut down

Gas stations without generators cannot pump fuel

Water faucets begin to run dry in some areas without utility generators

Toilets will no longer flush without water pressure

Drug stores and supermarkets being stripped

Law enforcement overwhelmed by emergencies and outbreaks of looting

Batteries on laptops, cell phones, and flashlights are dying

Conflicting descriptions of power outage, unknown expected duration

Officials disagree regarding recommended actions

Bridges, tunnels, highways becoming clogged with refugees

Gas stations running out of fuel (those that could pump)

Water is at a premium

Some emergency generators assist in pumping water and sewage (limited)

Many ‘unprepared’ are running out of food

Beginning to panic, discovering widespread outage ramifications

The “Oh $hit” moment of realization…

Any .gov emergency rations are depleted

Many of the elderly and infirm have died

Hospitals overwhelmed and struggling to perform emergency services

Military attempts to maintain semblance of order, but not enough personnel

Looting (especially cities) has become rampant

Millions upon millions are ‘on their own’

People have become deeply frightened and fear for their lives

Most are now entirely running out of food to eat

Many are dying in regions without access to water

Many are dying in regions/climates where there is no heat (if during winter)

Disease (e.g. typhoid fever, cholera) from eating tainted food, water, poor sanitation

Martial Law is declared (perhaps/probably much sooner)

Many drug-dependent patients are dying

The millions with severe psychotic disorders (no more meds) create bedlam

People and communities fighting over resources

Home invasions and violence-related die-offs

Escaped prisoners, organized gangs, more violence-related die-off

Communities are slowly starving

3 months, 70% – 90% are dead

The issue of all the bodies…

Note: I know that there are those of you who do not accept the possibility that something of this magnitude could or would actually occur, however this is just a thought exercise ��

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/systemic-risk/without-electricity-most-of-the-population-will-not-survive/

Great post!

IMO, it's a not a question of "if", it's "when".

[CasperParks]

Yes Casper, whether from a bomb, or major CME or any other reason the PWR Grid in the USA goes down we would have to go it alone.

Here is a bit of fear mongering . . . or is it?

May 9, 2017, by Ken Jorgustin
Without Electricity Most Of The Population Will Not Survive

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/without-electricity.jpg

Note: I know that there are those of you who do not accept the possibility that something of this magnitude could or would actually occur, however this is just a thought exercise ��

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/systemic-risk/without-electricity-most-of-the-population-will-not-survive/

Thanks for posting - Great read....

Of mindset: "It is best to prepare for it, and hope it never happens. But if it does, be ready for it."

I think infrastructure, power and communications lines should be designed to withstand something of this nature - that "just in case scenario"....

[calikid]

Ok EPO, so if I read your estimates correctly, it would take about a year for the "die off" to occur.
My question is: Why would we go without electricity for a year?
Hugh outages have already occurred in recent history.
A CME did shutdown part of Canada.
Also, in a separate incident a cascade failure in the grid did shutdown a large part of the eastern US seaboard, for several days.
The loss of power was VERY scary/inconvenience. But repairs were make. As I recall, the main problem was large transformers (that were damaged beyond repair) are not stockpiled, had to be rush manufactured and deployed.
Why wouldn't we make the repairs and move on?
Don't see NK surviving the aftermath, if they initiated the strike.
After a US BOOMER leveled NK, I'd think repairs to the grid would progress unimpeded.

[epo333]

Ok EPO, so if I read your estimates correctly, it would take about a year for the "die off" to occur.
My question is: Why would we go without electricity for a year?
Hugh outages have already occurred in recent history.
A CME did shutdown part of Canada.
Also, in a separate incident a cascade failure in the grid did shutdown a large part of the eastern US seaboard, for several days.
The loss of power was VERY scary/inconvenience. But repairs were make. As I recall, the main problem was large transformers (that were damaged beyond repair) are not stockpiled, had to be rush manufactured and deployed.
Why wouldn't we make the repairs and move on?
Don't see NK surviving the aftermath, if they initiated the strike.
After a US BOOMER leveled NK, I'd think repairs to the grid would progress unimpeded.

Some of those were regional and only the larger substation transformers (and controllers) were damaged beyond repair on site.

Now a deliberate 50kt detonation say 200 miles high would extent to a much farther horizon, maybe only 500 mile radius with an immense pulse, not only taking out hundreds of sub-stations but them thousands of smaller step-down transformers the supply the lower voltages to every house and business.

Just drive down a rural road and you'll see what I mean. some poles have a transformer supplying a single house, some going to two or tree houses. That's the 220 volts going to your main panel. You will also notice some poles with 2 or 3 small transformers, they normally supply businesses with the 3phase delta power in the 440 volt needs.

Anyway imagine 10 or 20 thousand of those puppies wiped out! That's where the replacement ain't likely in a years' time. We won't mention the idea of a few nuclear power plants needing cooling pumps 24/7 and running out of fuel for their generator's that maintain temps for spent fuel rods, reactors, and control systems.

The biggest long term problem will be food production. Even a small town of say 8000 people will still need an average of at least 1800 calories per day per person. So how much water would we need to grow that. How much fuel (calories?) would we need to harvest and ship/distribute produce.

Then there the livestock, for a while I suppose.

Anyway seems very scary indeed . . .

[epo333]

N. Korea test-fires missile, challenging new leader in South


SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Sunday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew for half an hour and reached an unusually high altitude before landing in the Sea of Japan, the South Korean, Japanese and U.S. militaries said. The launch, which Tokyo said could be a new type of missile, is a direct challenge to the new South Korean president elected four days ago and comes as U.S., Japanese and European navies gather for joint war games in the Pacific.

It wasn't immediately clear what type of ballistic missile was launched, although the U.S. Pacific Command said that "the flight is not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile." Japanese officials, however, said the missile flew for about 30 minutes, traveling about 800 kilometers (500 miles) and reaching an altitude of 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) — a flight pattern that could indicate a new type of missile.

David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the flight indicates that the missile could have a range of 4,500 kilometers (about 2,800 miles) if flown on a standard, instead of a lofted, trajectory; that would be considerably longer than Pyongyang's current missiles.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/skorea-rival-n-korea-launches-221238531.html

[calikid]

I read this last NK missile landed closer to Russia than Japan.
Guess now we'll see how Mr. Putin likes having a seat in the game.

[calikid]

Impressive display, 90 second video linked.
Watch the US Navy's laser weapon in action
Already deployed on the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship is the US Navy's first - in fact, the world's first - active laser weapon (http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/07/17/us-navy-active-laser-weapon-orig.cnn/video/playlists/mobile-digital-features/).

Guessing it won't be long before we discover how effective E.T.'s "shields" perform under duress?!

[Wansen]

Impressive display, 90 second video linked.
Watch the US Navy's laser weapon in action
Already deployed on the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship is the US Navy's first - in fact, the world's first - active laser weapon (http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/07/17/us-navy-active-laser-weapon-orig.cnn/video/playlists/mobile-digital-features/).

Guessing it won't be long before we discover how effective E.T.'s "shields" perform under duress?!

Great find! Thank you for posting.

It's quite amazing that the Navy would install this on an old (launched in 1970), LPD (Amphibious Transport/Landing Dock) vessel.

I myself, was a crewman onboard LPD-8 (the exact same class as the USS Ponce), and simply put, LPD's are not first-line combatant vessels, they are armed transport ships that carry USMC personnel (about a thousand), that half fill with water allowing landing craft to exit from the 'well deck' located in the stern (no more going over the 'side' down a rope ladder).

They are fairly lightly armed as well. LPD-15's listed armament are: "two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, (looks like R2D2 and are usually for defense only), two 25mm Mk 38 guns, eight .50-calibre machine guns". Likely, she also carries a Stinger Missile squad as well (we did).

This ship is homeported at the dreaded 5th fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain (a s***hole if I ever saw one), and perhaps the Navy felt she needed some extra firepower being "forward deployed" and so close to potential enemy combatants.

Now armed with this laser, she's got some serious teeth to her.

EDIT: Wikipedia states that the Ponce was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2012 but was reprieved to act as a base for Sea Dragon mine-sweeping helicopters operating in the Persian Gulf.

[A99]

To North Korea (for your big day):


Something old
and something new
Something bold
from the Red, White and Blue


Sincerely yours,
The United States Navy

[A99]

Great find! Thank you for posting.

It's quite amazing that the Navy would install this on an old (launched in 1970), LPD (Amphibious Transport/Landing Dock) vessel.

I myself, was a crewman onboard LPD-8 (the exact same class as the USS Ponce), and simply put, LPD's are not first-line combatant vessels, they are armed transport ships that carry USMC personnel (about a thousand), that half fill with water allowing landing craft to exit from the 'well deck' located in the stern (no more going over the 'side' down a rope ladder).

They are fairly lightly armed as well. LPD-15's listed armament are: "two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, (looks like R2D2 and are usually for defense only), two 25mm Mk 38 guns, eight .50-calibre machine guns". Likely, she also carries a Stinger Missile squad as well (we did).

This ship is homeported at the dreaded 5th fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain (a s***hole if I ever saw one), and perhaps the Navy felt she needed some extra firepower being "forward deployed" and so close to potential enemy combatants.

Now armed with this laser, she's got some serious teeth to her.

EDIT: Wikipedia states that the Ponce was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2012 but was reprieved to act as a base for Sea Dragon mine-sweeping helicopters operating in the Persian Gulf.

Very interesting. You have quite a impressive background there. BTW, the only men in uniform I don't like are the one's in the rear view mirror. But I love Navy though. Am from a Navy family myself.

[Wansen]

Very interesting. You have quite a impressive background there. BTW, the only men in uniform I don't like are the one's in the rear view mirror. But I love Navy though. Am from a Navy family myself.

As my ship (LPD-8) was home-ported in Japan, we thought (hoped) we might be spared from a Persian Gulf deployment. Unfortunately, there was so much 'action' going on there that eventually my Task Group (mini fleet) was also brought into the fray of Operation "Praying Mantis" (a quite appropriate name as we were to find out).

I could write several paragraphs about what went on but it would not a flattering portrayal of the USN...tactics were used that some might find hard to believe. I was aghast at what I witnessed with my own eyes.

Suffice to say that after the USS Stark incident (et al), we were looking to draw blood and then some.

The apex of our 'blood hunt' culminated with the shoot-down of an Iran Airlines civilian aircraft.

Those interested can see and hear it for yourself directly from those involved as a film crew just happened to be onboard at the time and got it all on camera. The various ship's Captains are interviewed and give surprisingly frank testimonies.


https://youtu.be/kJ1x3WR5JP8 (45 minutes)

With regard to those snazzy Navy uniforms; I showed an old picture (while in uniform) of myself to my niece who is five and she immediately replied "I didn't know you were in jail!" :rolleyes:

Can't blame her as this was our getup...and NO, this isn't me just a picture I found. :bleh:

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[A99]

Wow, that's incredible! Thanks for sharing (hope you'll share an extended version on that battle someday too) and will watch that vid sometime this evening. As for that uniform, I think it's pretty cool. Love those pants and that dixie cap. Ships Ahoy mate! lol

[Wansen]

Even though my "oath of secrecy" has expired and legally, I can talk about our Persian Gulf adventures, doing so would potentially reflect a very poor image of the USN.

The candid dialogue of the various commanders in that video link pretty much sums it up without going into specific details.

One just has to read 'between the lines' to get the gist of it.

Perhaps a more interesting story would be about our encounter with some refugees that lead to murder, cannibalism and the 'cashiering' of one of the Navy's most highly decorated Task Group commanders.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/24/world/skipper-accused-of-abandoning-asian-refugees.html

[A99]

ca ca ca Cannibalism? I'm afraid to click on that link now but curiosity will probably get the best of me so will check it out after breakfast. I clonked out early last night... sheesh, song writing is EXHAUSTING... Was totally wiped out yesterday. Will watch that vid sometime later today. Really interesting stuff.

[Wansen]

The video clearly demonstrates the attitude of the USN vessel(s) (commanders) and their disregard for the territorial sovereignty of (some) other (potentially hostile) nations.

This scenario has occurred repeatedly. The last (known) encounter (in Iran) resulting in the capture and detainment of ten USN personnel.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/politics/iran-navy-capture-investigation-report/index.html

[A99]

I watched the video and read your links and now I'm processing all of it. I'm very concerned but other than agreeing with your sentiments on this material, I'm going to refrain from saying anymore about it until I do more research on all of it.
Anyway, thanks for enlightening me on these incidents. I mean, sure, I already knew about that Iranian airliner being shot down but never in such detail. That vid is worth a second watch.
As for those other 2 incidents, didn't know about them and will be doing some lookups on them to flesh out those stories.

[Wansen]

I appreciate your feedback and can completely relate to needing processing time.

I needed several years to process it and I've still got miles to go.

[calikid]

As my ship (LPD-8) was home-ported in Japan, we thought (hoped) we might be spared from a Persian Gulf deployment. Unfortunately, there was so much 'action' going on there that eventually my Task Group (mini fleet) was also brought into the fray of Operation "Praying Mantis" (a quite appropriate name as we were to find out).

I could write several paragraphs about what went on but it would not a flattering portrayal of the USN...tactics were used that some might find hard to believe. I was aghast at what I witnessed with my own eyes.

Suffice to say that after the USS Stark incident (et al), we were looking to draw blood and then some.

The apex of our 'blood hunt' culminated with the shoot-down of an Iran Airlines civilian aircraft.

Those interested can see and hear it for yourself directly from those involved as a film crew just happened to be onboard at the time and got it all on camera. The various ship's Captains are interviewed and give surprisingly frank testimonies.

SNIP Video

With regard to those snazzy Navy uniforms; I showed an old picture (while in uniform) of myself to my niece who is five and she immediately replied "I didn't know you were in jail!" :rolleyes:

Can't blame her as this was our getup...and NO, this isn't me just a picture I found. :bleh:

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I'm old enough to remember the headlines of the Aegis equipped missile-cruiser USS Vincennes shoot down of that airliner.
At the time, there was some speculation that the Iranians had loaded up corpses and remote piloted the aircraft into the cross-hairs. A theory fueled by the grim sight of floating nude bodies.
Sounded pretty desperate, and was ultimately discounted.
Not our finest hour... if I recall correctly War reparations were paid out by the USA, to the airliner victim's Iranian families.
At least we acknowledged our mistake, and took responsibility for our actions.
A tragic event, during difficult times.
NOTE: I use words like "our" and "we".
Two side of the same coin; national pride, and national shame.
Share your feeling of disappointment in the debacle Wansen.


So Wansen is it true those Bell bottoms were designed to help a guy swim, should he fall overboard? A rumor I once heard.http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smiley_faces/sailor-smiley-face.gif

[Wansen]

Exactly correct calikid.

The whole uniform was (supposedly) designed to act as a float/swim aid, etc.
The traditional ("Crackerjack") top and bell bottoms (supposedly) when removed could be filled with air and tied off. The hat could fold down (Gilligan style) to block sun and when reversed, (supposedly) capture rain water.

I say supposedly because while we were told about this in boot camp, we never actually tried it out.

Your recollection of the USS Vincennes incident and the rumors in the aftermath are spot on.

She arrived in Japan just prior to that PG deployment. That's were we joined up.

[A99]

That shoot down happened 35 years ago. I was a crazy and wild 20 something then and was planning the 'wedding-of-the-century', my own. I'll never forget the horror of getting the news about that airliner. A few short years prior to that, back in college, I had a close female Persian friend who was a doctoral student in geology. She was a riot! A real partier, just like the rest of us in our group. We had so much fun together, cruising the bars in town on the weekends. But then she returned back to Iran and I haven't heard from her since. So many drastic changes there, ya know?


Anyway, I thought of her when that plane went down. Everyone on it was a 'Nadia' to me. I felt devastated when it happened.

[M-Albion-3D]

This is one of the best documentary's I've seen about the leadership in North Korea...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madZhwKI2dA

[epo333]

Now this is really SCARY . . .

U.S. military invests in ‘doomsday genetics’ technology

By Mac Slavo | SHTF Plan - December 4, 2017


Amid United Nations fears that genetic extinction technology could be used by militaries, a United States military agency has invested $100 million in the doomsday biological technology that can wipe out an entire species.

Scientists now have the knowledge and the tools they need to create and deliver Doomsday genes which can selectively target and exterminate an entire species. And to make matters worse, emails released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), suggest that the United States’s uber-secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has become the world’s largest funder of this “gene drive” research and will heighten international tensions further ahead of a UN expert committee meeting in Montreal beginning on Tuesday.

The UN is debating a ban on this technology as several southern countries fear the application of using extinction technology. The use of genetic extinction technologies in bioweapons is the stuff of nightmares, but so far, known research is focused entirely on pest control and the elimination of diseases. The key word there being “known.”

UN diplomats confirmed that the new email release would worsen the “bad name” of gene drives in some circles. “Many countries [will] have concerns when this technology comes from DARPA, a US military science agency,” one said. “You may be able to remove viruses or the entire mosquito population, but that may also have downstream ecological effects on species that depend on them. My main worry,” he added, “is that we do something irreversible to the environment, despite our good intentions, before we fully appreciate the way that this technology will work.”

Jim Thomas, a co-director of the ETC group which obtained the emails, said the US military’s influence in furthering this technology would strengthen the case for a moratorium. “The dual-use nature of altering and eradicating entire populations is as much a threat to peace and food security as it is a threat to ecosystems,” he said. “Militarization of gene drive funding may even contravene the Enmod convention against hostile uses of environmental modification technologies.”

More at link below . . .


https://www.intellihub.com/u-s-military-invests-in-doomsday-genetics-technology/

[CasperParks]

Now this is really SCARY . . .

U.S. military invests in ‘doomsday genetics’ technology

By Mac Slavo | SHTF Plan - December 4, 2017

Amid United Nations fears that genetic extinction technology could be used by militaries, a United States military agency has invested $100 million in the doomsday biological technology that can wipe out an entire species.

Scientists now have the knowledge and the tools they need to create and deliver Doomsday genes which can selectively target and exterminate an entire species. And to make matters worse, emails released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), suggest that the United States’s uber-secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has become the world’s largest funder of this “gene drive” research and will heighten international tensions further ahead of a UN expert committee meeting in Montreal beginning on Tuesday.

The UN is debating a ban on this technology as several southern countries fear the application of using extinction technology. The use of genetic extinction technologies in bioweapons is the stuff of nightmares, but so far, known research is focused entirely on pest control and the elimination of diseases. The key word there being “known.”

UN diplomats confirmed that the new email release would worsen the “bad name” of gene drives in some circles. “Many countries [will] have concerns when this technology comes from DARPA, a US military science agency,” one said. “You may be able to remove viruses or the entire mosquito population, but that may also have downstream ecological effects on species that depend on them. My main worry,” he added, “is that we do something irreversible to the environment, despite our good intentions, before we fully appreciate the way that this technology will work.”

Jim Thomas, a co-director of the ETC group which obtained the emails, said the US military’s influence in furthering this technology would strengthen the case for a moratorium. “The dual-use nature of altering and eradicating entire populations is as much a threat to peace and food security as it is a threat to ecosystems,” he said. “Militarization of gene drive funding may even contravene the Enmod convention against hostile uses of environmental modification technologies.”

More at link below . . .

https://www.intellihub.com/u-s-military-invests-in-doomsday-genetics-technology/

I think it was the series Killjoys or Dark Matter on SyFy that had DNA / Gene bomb that killed only people within certain families and or those of a targeted nationality. Leaning toward it was Killjoys.

[calikid]

I think it was the series Killjoys or Dark Matter on SyFy that had DNA / Gene bomb that killed only people within certain families and or those of a targeted nationality. Leaning toward it was Killjoys.

Probably both series used that plot device.
I recall ST:TNG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vengeance_Factor) used it as well, back in the 1989 S3E09 episode "The Vengeance Factor".


The Gatherer's body is later found but initially assumed that death was by natural causes. However, later investigation by Dr. Crusher reveals that a fast-acting "micro-virus", targeted to attack a specific Acamarian DNA profile, was the cause. Dr. Crusher believes the virus was purposely genetically engineered, and that the death was a targeted murder

Yesterdays SciFi, becomes today's SciFact.

[whoknows]

there is no way I can prove this and I wounder why I even mention it. For me it's just a cool reminder of where we think things are and where they probably are.

Here's the deal. When I was but a lad I had the opportunity to sit in on conversations that I had no say in taking part though for what ever reason I've physically been present when extraordinary things were discussed.

In the spring of 1971 I was present when a man ( can't remember his name and even if I did I wouldn't use it ) spoke of his dissertation which entailed the use of BIO weapons that targeted people with specific regional genetic markers. It wasn't just theory form what he was saying, it was a deployable weapon. Maybe he was putting on a 17 year old.:nono: But I didn't get that impression at the time, It was just too twisted and intricate to be a joke.

[epo333]

United States Space Force

Space Force was signed into law Dec. 20, 2019 as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. SpaceForce.mil went live shortly thereafter.
On June 18, 2018, President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to begin planning for a Space Force: a 6th independent military service branch to undertake missions and operations in the rapidly evolving space domain. The U.S. Space Force would be the first new military service in more than 70 years, following the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947.

read more:
https://www.military.com/space-force

[epo333]

https://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2020-01/space-force-logo-1800.jpg?itok=hYoG30-S

24 Jan 2020
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk


The U.S. Space Force seal has arrived.
A month after the newest military branch was formally signed into existence, President Donald Trump unveiled its official seal in a tweet.

"After consultation with our Great Military Leaders, designers, and others, I am pleased to present the new logo for the United States Space Force, the Sixth Branch of our Magnificent Military!" Trump tweeted Friday alongside a picture of the seal.
The seal includes the words "Department of the Air Force," making clear that Space Force falls under the service, just as the Marine Corps falls under the Navy.
Twitter users were quick to point out that the insignia was highly reminiscent of the "Star Trek" Starfleet Command logo, which could be subject to copyright. However, others pointed out the seal also looks very much like the now-defunct Air Force Space Command patch.
In a statement provided to Military.com Friday evening, a U.S. Space Force spokesperson offered more insight into how the design came about.
“The creation of the U.S. Space Force seal pays tribute to the newest Armed Service that organizes, trains, and equips space forces in order to protect U.S. and allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force. The U.S. Space Force seal honors the Department of the Air Force’s proud history and long-standing record of providing the best space capabilities in the world," the official said.
The central element, which reminded many of Star Trek, has a long history in the Air Force, according to the statement.

read more:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/24/president-trump-unveils-new-space-force-seal-twitter.html

[epo333]

U.S. Space Force says its new seal is not a Starfleet knockoff
by Sandra Erwin
January 25, 2020

The image of the U.S. Space Force seal drew instant mockery on Twitter because of its striking resemblance to Star Trek’s emblem for the fictional Starfleet space force organization.

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Several commenters with military backgrounds pointed out the that the U.S. Space Force seal, with the use of the delta symbol, appears to be inspired by the real-life space organization U.S. Air Force Space Command, and that it’s likely the creators of Starfleet drew inspiration from AFSPC, not the other way around.

read more:
http://www.theoutpostforum.com/tof/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=604

[epo333]

No putting this back in the bottle . . . if its out!

Unbelievable New Mini Weapons – 1897b
Nov 20, 2017


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=UC9WI0c8kHE&feature=emb_logo

[epo333]

I'm thinking at some point (after elections maybe?) we might be seeing Military activity in the troubled cities across the U.S.A.

Frankly I'm surprised stuff like this hasn't already been deployed alredy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9p5naCkz2w

IMO, No matter who wins in November, there will be more unrest . . .

[CasperParks]

I'm thinking at some point (after elections maybe?) we might be seeing Military activity in the troubled cities across the U.S.A.

Frankly I'm surprised stuff like this hasn't already been deployed alredy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9p5naCkz2w

IMO, No matter who wins in November, there will be more unrest . . .

I wonder if that is cooking people from the inside-out? Does lengthy exposure have cancer risks?

[epo333]

I wonder if that is cooking people from the inside-out? Does lengthy exposure have cancer risks?

The YT explained at the 1:50 mark, that it heats the water under your skin at about .010 of an inch. also the beam has the same geometry of the biggest reflector.

So the "victims" can step out of the beam rather quickly.

Assuming that it is horribly uncomfortable, the target will move on (home) . . .

Would be interesting to know if there is a leathal dose and how long safe exposure would be.

[epo333]

Live Air-to-Air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa

https://www.naturalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2020/08/florida-airport-live-missile-jordan.png

Live guided air-to-air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa; markings indicate a Matra R530F radar-guided missile that could bring down Air Force One

A live air-to-air, radar-guided missile was just discovered at the Lakeland Linder Airport in Florida, East of Tampa, and the airport was ordered to evacuate. We have analyzed the markings of the missile storage container and discovered this missile is a Matra R530F missile, which uses radar guidance and could be used to bring down Air Force One or a similar-sized airplane.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/08/pics-fl-airport-discovered-live-missile-evacuated/

This is highly relevant to current events, given that a U.S. Air Force helicopter used to help provide security to President Trump during short flights was fired upon last week, causing an emergency landing to be initiated, after which one occupant required hospitalization, according to media reports.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-helicopter-bullet-emergency-landing-virginia

https://naturalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/florida-airport-live-missile-jordan-markings.png

A closer look at the markings of the missile holding container reveals the serial number and missile type indicators:

BREAKING: Live guided air-to-air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa; markings indicate a Matra R530F radar-guided missile that could bring down Air Force One
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by: Mike Adams
Tags: air-to-air, Florida, Matra R530F, missile, national security, President Trump

https://www.clearnewswire.com/450254.html


Image: BREAKING: Live guided air-to-air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa; markings indicate a Matra R530F radar-guided missile that could bring down Air Force One

(Natural News) A live air-to-air, radar-guided missile was just discovered at the Lakeland Linder Airport in Florida, East of Tampa, and the airport was ordered to evacuate. We have analyzed the markings of the missile storage container and discovered this missile is a Matra R530F missile, which uses radar guidance and could be used to bring down Air Force One or a similar-sized airplane.

This is highly relevant to current events, given that a U.S. Air Force helicopter used to help provide security to President Trump during short flights was fired upon last week, causing an emergency landing to be initiated, after which one occupant required hospitalization, according to media reports.

We also know that communist China has been smuggling weapons components into the United States to arm Black Lives Matter terrorist groups with automatic weapons upgrades and illegal suppressors, as Natural News has previously reported, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection press releases.

AmericanMilitaryNews.com is carrying the details of this radar-guided missile which was discovered in the Lakeland Linder Airport, citing both BayNews9 and ABC Action News. From AMN:

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from MacDill Air Force Base came to help safely remove the missile Friday.

“This weekend we received a call that a contractor at Lakeland Linder Airport had discovered a guided missile. Our 6th EOD team helped secure it with the help of ATF, the Lakeland Fire Department, and our 6th LRS team who provided a flatbed semi for transportation,” MacDill Air Force Base said in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday. “It is currently sitting in a munition storage facility on base awaiting proper disposal.”

A closer look at the markings of the missile holding container reveals the serial number and missile type indicators:


The markings say: MIS A/A MP EM F20 S520 Lot 82, Serial Number 5185

According to the orange ring on the right edge of the photo above, the missile is “live,” meaning it carries live explosives. The red ring indicates the missile also contains its own propulsion fuel, which is of course a different kind of explosive.

“Lakeland Linder Airport officials eventually gave the “all clear” after the missile was taken away,” reports American Military News. “Markings on the left side of the missile’s container read “RJAF Jordan Air Forces,” indicating the missile or its container may have belonged to the Royal Jordanian Air Force.”

But wait… what’s an unaccounted air-to-air missile doing in an airport in Florida?

The U.S. Air Force giving the “all clear” misses the whole point of this story: What is a Jordanian air-to-air missile doing in a container in central Florida in the first place?

Who brought it in, and how? What is its intended purpose?

It’s not the U.S. military, obviously, or the missile wouldn’t be Jordanian. This means someone else brought it into the United States. For what purpose was it brought into the country?

One clue may be found in this 2019 article from The Aviationist, which documents the discovery of the exact same type of missile — with serial number 5284 — which was found to be in the possession of a neo-nazi extremist gang operating out of Italy.

https://i2.wp.com/theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/R-530F.jpg?resize=678%2C381&ssl=1

https://theaviationist.com/2019/07/19/lets-talk-about-the-matra-r530f-air-to-air-missile-seized-by-the-italian-police-during-raid-against-neo-nazi-gang/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=79&v=9Z7-i4LYv7E&feature=emb_logo

[calikid]

Live Air-to-Air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa

https://www.naturalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2020/08/florida-airport-live-missile-jordan.png

Live guided air-to-air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa; markings indicate a Matra R530F radar-guided missile that could bring down Air Force One

A live air-to-air, radar-guided missile was just discovered at the Lakeland Linder Airport in Florida, East of Tampa, and the airport was ordered to evacuate. We have analyzed the markings of the missile storage container and discovered this missile is a Matra R530F missile, which uses radar guidance and could be used to bring down Air Force One or a similar-sized airplane.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/08/pics-fl-airport-discovered-live-missile-evacuated/

This is highly relevant to current events, given that a U.S. Air Force helicopter used to help provide security to President Trump during short flights was fired upon last week, causing an emergency landing to be initiated, after which one occupant required hospitalization, according to media reports.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-helicopter-bullet-emergency-landing-virginia

https://naturalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/florida-airport-live-missile-jordan-markings.png

A closer look at the markings of the missile holding container reveals the serial number and missile type indicators:

BREAKING: Live guided air-to-air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa; markings indicate a Matra R530F radar-guided missile that could bring down Air Force One
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by: Mike Adams
Tags: air-to-air, Florida, Matra R530F, missile, national security, President Trump

https://www.clearnewswire.com/450254.html


Image: BREAKING: Live guided air-to-air missile discovered at Florida airport near Tampa; markings indicate a Matra R530F radar-guided missile that could bring down Air Force One

(Natural News) A live air-to-air, radar-guided missile was just discovered at the Lakeland Linder Airport in Florida, East of Tampa, and the airport was ordered to evacuate. We have analyzed the markings of the missile storage container and discovered this missile is a Matra R530F missile, which uses radar guidance and could be used to bring down Air Force One or a similar-sized airplane.

This is highly relevant to current events, given that a U.S. Air Force helicopter used to help provide security to President Trump during short flights was fired upon last week, causing an emergency landing to be initiated, after which one occupant required hospitalization, according to media reports.

We also know that communist China has been smuggling weapons components into the United States to arm Black Lives Matter terrorist groups with automatic weapons upgrades and illegal suppressors, as Natural News has previously reported, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection press releases.

AmericanMilitaryNews.com is carrying the details of this radar-guided missile which was discovered in the Lakeland Linder Airport, citing both BayNews9 and ABC Action News. From AMN:

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from MacDill Air Force Base came to help safely remove the missile Friday.

“This weekend we received a call that a contractor at Lakeland Linder Airport had discovered a guided missile. Our 6th EOD team helped secure it with the help of ATF, the Lakeland Fire Department, and our 6th LRS team who provided a flatbed semi for transportation,” MacDill Air Force Base said in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday. “It is currently sitting in a munition storage facility on base awaiting proper disposal.”

A closer look at the markings of the missile holding container reveals the serial number and missile type indicators:


The markings say: MIS A/A MP EM F20 S520 Lot 82, Serial Number 5185

According to the orange ring on the right edge of the photo above, the missile is “live,” meaning it carries live explosives. The red ring indicates the missile also contains its own propulsion fuel, which is of course a different kind of explosive.

“Lakeland Linder Airport officials eventually gave the “all clear” after the missile was taken away,” reports American Military News. “Markings on the left side of the missile’s container read “RJAF Jordan Air Forces,” indicating the missile or its container may have belonged to the Royal Jordanian Air Force.”

But wait… what’s an unaccounted air-to-air missile doing in an airport in Florida?

The U.S. Air Force giving the “all clear” misses the whole point of this story: What is a Jordanian air-to-air missile doing in a container in central Florida in the first place?

Who brought it in, and how? What is its intended purpose?

It’s not the U.S. military, obviously, or the missile wouldn’t be Jordanian. This means someone else brought it into the United States. For what purpose was it brought into the country?

One clue may be found in this 2019 article from The Aviationist, which documents the discovery of the exact same type of missile — with serial number 5284 — which was found to be in the possession of a neo-nazi extremist gang operating out of Italy.

https://i2.wp.com/theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/R-530F.jpg?resize=678%2C381&ssl=1

https://theaviationist.com/2019/07/19/lets-talk-about-the-matra-r530f-air-to-air-missile-seized-by-the-italian-police-during-raid-against-neo-nazi-gang/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=79&v=9Z7-i4LYv7E&feature=emb_logo

Guess I'd be more paranoid if it was Ground2Air missiles . An air2air requires an aircraft capable of mounting, aiming and firing such ordnance.
A bit more complex getting such an aircraft off the ground loaded and cocked.
While clearly cause for concern, IMHO shoulder fired rocket are a much frightening scenario. Point and click and BOOM!

[epo333]

It would appear that Draken International does have the resources to achieve the "loaded and cocked" capability you describe. I'm sorry to say the political situations in our country have reached very dangerous conditions.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Draken_International_.jpg
Draken International team at Lakeland, Florida headquarters.

Draken International, LLC is an American provider of tactical fighter aircraft for contract air services including military and defense industry customers. The firm is based at the Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida and also has an operating base at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

Draken offers airborne adversary support (Red Air), Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), Close Air Support (CAS), flight training, threat simulation, electronic warfare support, aerial refueling, research, and testing services to the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. defense contractors and aerospace firms, provided by a fleet of former military aircraft.

In March 2018, the company announced a $6.7 million expansion of its headquarters and repair infrastructure at Lakeland Linder International Airport.[1]

On June 1, 2018, the Pentagon announced that the Air Force had awarded Draken a $280 million contract to continue providing training services for the 57th Adversary Tactics Group at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, as well as Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and Hill Air Force Base in Utah.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draken_International

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As we have heard from the "Tic-Tac" reports, training is not usually done with live ammo.(Although this was not armed, it did have the standard explosives' on board.)

[calikid]

It would appear that Draken International does have the resources to achieve the "loaded and cocked" capability you describe. I'm sorry to say the political situations in our country have reached very dangerous conditions.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Draken_International_.jpg
Draken International team at Lakeland, Florida headquarters.

Draken International, LLC is an American provider of tactical fighter aircraft for contract air services including military and defense industry customers. The firm is based at the Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida and also has an operating base at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

Draken offers airborne adversary support (Red Air), Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), Close Air Support (CAS), flight training, threat simulation, electronic warfare support, aerial refueling, research, and testing services to the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. defense contractors and aerospace firms, provided by a fleet of former military aircraft.

In March 2018, the company announced a $6.7 million expansion of its headquarters and repair infrastructure at Lakeland Linder International Airport.[1]

On June 1, 2018, the Pentagon announced that the Air Force had awarded Draken a $280 million contract to continue providing training services for the 57th Adversary Tactics Group at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, as well as Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and Hill Air Force Base in Utah.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draken_International

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As we have heard from the "Tic-Tac" reports, training is not usually done with live ammo.(Although this was not armed, it did have the standard explosives' on board.)

So are you accusing Draken International of being the bad actor responsible for Air2Air missile? I thought the source/owner was unknown? And said unknown bad actor would be unlikely to have access to military grade aircraft?

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So are you accusing Draken International of being the bad actor responsible for Air2Air missile? I thought the source/owner was unknown? And said unknown bad actor would be unlikely to have access to military grade aircraft?

Not really the company as whole . . . who is to say there are not elements involved with in. It is a huge company responsible for what, 60+ military aircrafts.

You can see their inventory in the last link in the post. They may be older, but still in service for training.

AIR FORCE 1 does ply Florida's air space at least monthly or so, just thinkin' about that and what the consequences would be.

Not good, it would be an egregious at of war.

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Not really the company as whole . . . who is to say there are not elements involved with in. It is a huge company responsible for what, 60+ military aircrafts.

You can see their inventory in the last link in the post. They may be older, but still in service for training.

AIR FORCE 1 does ply Florida's air space at least monthly or so, just thinkin' about that and what the consequences would be.

Not good, it would be an egregious at of war.

In order to have military contracts, certain criteria must be maintained by the participating companies to qualify. Do not think "Uncle Bob's Ammo" could build and provide munitions to the US Government without maintaining some form of licenses/clearances.

As I'm sure you are aware, there are many types of Private Security Guards in the USA. We has a whole spectrum ranging from the "Mall Cop" with their pepper spray and radio on the lookout for shoplifters, to the "Camo Guy" driving a HumVee carrying an M4 automatic assault rifle patrolling the perimeter of secure facilities and insuring breaches by bad actors will be met with deadly force. Won't even get into surveillance by cameras and motion sensors.
I would hope your lack of confidence would be bolstered knowing that such people as Camo Guy are on the job working to insure such breaches are as near to impossible as can be made.

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In order to have military contracts, certain criteria must be maintained by the participating companies to qualify. Do not think "Uncle Bob's Ammo" could build and provide munitions to the US Government without maintaining some form of licenses/clearances.

As I'm sure you are aware, there are many types of Private Security Guards in the USA. We has a whole spectrum ranging from the "Mall Cop" with their pepper spray and radio on the lookout for shoplifters, to the "Camo Guy" driving a HumVee carrying an M4 automatic assault rifle patrolling the perimeter of secure facilities and insuring breaches by bad actors will be met with deadly force. Won't even get into surveillance by cameras and motion sensors.
I would hope your lack of confidence would be bolstered knowing that such people as Camo Guy are on the job working to insure such breaches are as near to impossible as can be made.

Someone is going to come up with a mundane/ plausible answer for this and the bulk of population will move on to the next story . . .

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7139170560/h54CD62C9/oh-that-its-nothing

lol . . .

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“The biggest cybersecurity breach of federal networks in more than two decades.”

Most worrisome: “CISA has evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform,” CISA announced Thursday, with “Orion” referring to the problematic update server. “It is likely that the adversary has additional initial access vectors and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that have not yet been discovered.”

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/12/the-d-brief-december-18-2020/170891/

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Alert (AA20-352A)

Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations.

Summary:

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor beginning in at least March 2020. This APT actor has demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft in these intrusions. CISA expects that removing this threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging for organizations.

One of the initial access vectors for this activity is a supply chain compromise of the following SolarWinds Orion products (see Appendix A).

Orion Platform 2019.4 HF5, version 2019.4.5200.9083
Orion Platform 2020.2 RC1, version 2020.2.100.12219
Orion Platform 2020.2 RC2, version 2020.2.5200.12394
Orion Platform 2020.2, 2020.2 HF1, version 2020.2.5300.12432
Note (updated December 19, 2020): CISA has evidence that there are initial access vectors other than the SolarWinds Orion platform. Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of SAML tokens consistent with this adversary’s behavior is present, yet where impacted SolarWinds instances have not been identified. CISA is working to confirm initial access vectors and identify any changes to the TTPs. CISA will update this Alert as new information becomes available.

On December 13, 2020, CISA released Emergency Directive 21-01: Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise, ordering federal civilian executive branch departments and agencies to disconnect affected devices. Note: this Activity Alert does not supersede the requirements of Emergency Directive 21-01 (ED-21-01) and does not represent formal guidance to federal agencies under ED 21-01.

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a

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DARPA Is Developing Aircraft-Launched Missile-Like Drones That Fire Their Own Air-To-Air Missiles
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK AND TYLER ROGOWAY FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has hired General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, to craft designs for an air-launched missile-toting air-to-air combat drone as part of a program called LongShot. In concept, a larger manned aircraft would fire this unmanned air vehicle, which could then fly to a certain area and engage multiple aerial threats with its own weapons. This, in turn, would extend the range of the launch platform and reduce its vulnerability to hostile aircraft or air defenses, among many other benefits.

DARPA announced the contract awards, the value of which has not yet been disclosed, on Feb. 8, 2021. Plans for LongShot had emerged last year in the Pentagon's budget request for the 2021 Fiscal Year, which asked for $22 million, in total, to conduct initial work, including the development and refinement of the design for a "demonstration system." That same request also included $13.27 million for a proposed gun-armed air-launched drone effort called Gunslinger, which you can read more about in this past War Zone story.

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"The LongShot program changes the paradigm of air combat operations by demonstrating an unmanned, air-launched vehicle capable of employing current and advanced air-to-air weapons," Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Paul Calhoun, the LongShot program manager, said in a statement. "LongShot will disrupt traditional incremental weapon improvements by providing an alternative means of generating combat capability."

. . . More at link . . .

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39152/aircraft-launched-missile-like-drones-that-fire-their-own-air-to-air-missiles-are-in-the-works

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Air Force Makes Extremely Rare Mention Of Deployment Of RQ-170 Stealth Drones
JOSEPH TREVITHICK MARCH 12, 2021

The U.S. Air Force has made an extremely unusual decision to publicly disclose a deployment of RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drones sometime in the last six months or so. More than a decade after the service officially acknowledged the existence of this unmanned aircraft, details about its operations remain highly classified.

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F1615587503252-rq-170-inline.jpg?quality=60

The Air Force's 432nd Wing at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada quietly revealed the RQ-170 deployment earlier this week. The disclosure was tucked in with other information relating to a visit to Creech by General Mark Kelly and Chief Master Sergeant David Wade, the commander and command chief of Air Combat Command (ACC), respectively. The 432nd conducts training and other non-combat operations inside the United States, as well as combat operations overseas. The Air Force refers to crews conducting missions downrange remotely as being under the direction of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) and often describes the Wing collectively as the "432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing.

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F1615587738984-beast.jpg?quality=60
A picture of what was originally referred to as the Beast of Kandahar in Afghanistan. The name was a reference to repeated sightings of RQ-170s at Kandahar Airfield in that country.

While we don't know where this newly revealed deployment may have taken some of the RQ-170s, the general time frame the Air Force has provided may offer some clues.

more here:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39753/air-force-makes-extremely-rare-announcement-about-deployment-of-rq-170-stealth-drones

Then this tid-bit comes along . . .

Mysterious High-Altitude Flight Corridor Was Opened Up Between Area 51 And The Pacific
TYLER ROGOWAY AND JOSEPH TREVITHICK MARCH 15, 2021

Late last week, a curious alert appeared in the Federal Aviation Administration's database of Notices to Airman, or NOTAMs, which, among other things, alerts aviators to chunks of airspace that are temporarily off-limits. The details strongly point to the comings or goings of a high-flying aircraft between either Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, or the Tonopah Test Range Airport, two of the U.S. military's most closely-guarded flight test facilities, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest of San Francisco, California.

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F1615843505749-notam-route-1-1-j.jpg?quality=60

The NOTAM, which was first pointed out by users of the Dreamlandresort.com message board, was issued on March 12, 2021, but was only active between 5:45 PM and 8:15 PM local time the following day. This is a very odd time when military aviation training and test activity is usually at a minimum. The notice outlined a path 20 nautical miles wide and 426 miles long at an altitude between Flight Level 450 and Flight Level 600, or 45,000 to 60,000 feet. The exact route, defined by a series of named waypoints, can be plotted using tools available on the website SkyVector.com.

If one starts in the west, the route consists of a stretch 104 nautical miles long between the Pacific Ocean and the waters southwest of San Francisco. The next leg runs 54 miles south to an area just west of Monterey, California, before turning inland over a relatively sparsely populated route across California and into western Nevada for the remaining portions.

The flight path ends right at the edge of a parcel of restricted military airspace in Nevada referred to as R-4807A, which is part of the U.S. Air Force's sprawling Nevada Test and Training Range. To the north of R-4807A is R-4809, where Tonopah Test Range (TTR) and its associated airport lie. To it south is R-4808N, inside which sits R-4808A, also known as "The Box." That is the heavily restricted airspace around Area 51.

More on this here:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39787/mysterious-high-altitude-flight-corridor-was-opened-up-between-area-51-and-the-pacific

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Japan-Based USAF F-16s Flew South China Sea Mission Fully Loaded With Live Air-To-Air Missiles
Flying far from their home in Japan, the four F-16s, each armed with six missiles, executed operations in one of the tensest areas of the planet.

THOMAS NEWDICK APRIL 19, 2021

The four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets that recently flew a mission over the highly contested South China Sea were photographed landing at their home base, Yokota Air Base in Japan, at the end of their return flight. The images confirm that these jets were armed for counter-air operations with a heavy load of live air-to-air missiles. The jets’ appearance in the South China Sea last week coincided with the biggest presence of People’s Liberation Army aircraft in Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in recent times: 25 aircraft in all.

The Viper photos, taken by Lori, whose tweets can be found here, detail the jets’ extensive armament. Each jet was armed with five beyond-visual-range AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles and a single short-range AIM-9 Sidewinder — one of the latest AIM-9X missiles on some of the jets, or an older AIM-9M on the others. Under the belly, each aircraft was fitted with an AN/ALQ-184 electronic countermeasures self-protection pod. All of the weapons were live, a relatively uncommon sight, especially over Japan, and indicated that this was much more than a simple long-distance training mission and, instead, a calculated signal to the Chinese military and possibly even a contingency operation.

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As evidenced by the AN/ASQ-213 HARM Targeting System, the distinctive pod-mounted sensor found under the right side of the aircraft’s intakes, these jets are the radar-killing Wild Weasel F-16CM versions but, on this occasion at least, they were carrying maximum air-to-air load-outs. That these live missiles were then taken over the sensitive South China Sea suggests a willingness to demonstrate U.S. ability to generate defensive combat air patrols (CAPs) in proximity to Taiwan, as well as other hotspots in the region.

The photos were taken on April 17, when all four of the jets that had been involved in the South China Sea flight on April 12 touched down at Yokota Air Base, in eastern Tokyo, at around 3:00 PM local time, presumably for a fuel stop, before departing again around 5:00 PM. They then flew home to Misawa Air Base, their home station, around 400 miles further north.

More at link:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40242/japan-based-usaf-f-16s-flew-south-china-sea-mission-fully-loaded-with-live-air-to-air-missiles

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Space Force Wants Its Operations To Extend To The Expanse Between Traditional Orbits And The Moon

he Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate has released a report detailing how the U.S. military is preparing to develop spacecraft and concepts of operations for missions beyond traditional orbits that could span all the way to the space surrounding the Moon. While the document doesn't offer any specifics in terms of how the U.S. military might be planning to project power in space or protect its space-based assets, it does highlight the complexities that the U.S. Space Force will face as it expands into the uncharted territory of operating beyond Earth's orbit.

The report, titled “A Primer on Cislunar Space,” was written as a guide for military space professionals to help them better understand what cislunar space actually is and how they can better develop operating concepts and relevant capabilities for this relatively new area of operations. Because traditional Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems were designed for geosynchronous orbits much closer to Earth, future operations beyond this region of space will require entirely new models for planning and tracking the trajectories of satellites or other craft.

more at link:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41262/space-force-wants-operations-to-extend-to-vast-expanse-between-traditional-orbits-and-moon

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Milley: China Challenge Placing Pressure on International Behavior
By: John Grady
August 2, 2021
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said “China is coming at us rapidly” – economically, diplomatically and militarily, and that challenge is putting existing international behavior “under tremendous stress.”

“Every single cent spent in the U.S. military is spent to preserve peace,” Army Gen. Mark Milley said Monday at the Navy League’s 2021 Sea-Air-Space meeting. He added that the more than $700 billion budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 means having a military ready now and modernized for the future.

The Senate Armed Services Committee added more than $25 billion to the original request. Differences with the House version of the authorization bill will have to be worked in conference committee later this summer.

Milley added what was happening now reflected a new age of threat brought on by the convergence of a range of technologies. He cited artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, 3-D printing, biotechnology and long-range fires available to every nation over the next decade as examples of the new technologies that can have either an immediate impact or in the future.

More at link:

https://news.usni.org/2021/08/02/milley-china-challenge-placing-pressure-on-international-behavior

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If China and the US Claim the Same Moon-Base Site, Who Wins?

Relatively few craters are attractive, and there’s no consensus about avoiding conflict over them.

There’s a not-so-quiet race back to the moon underway, but the two largest factions, with China and Russia on one side, and the United States and its partners on the other, are not recognizing each others’ proposed rules on what’s allowed once they get there.

Lawmakers and space policy analysts are concerned: How do you avoid conflict in space if the international laws and policies on Earth no longer apply?

“Many terrestrial military doctrines are not applicable in space, or at least not as applicable. If you get beyond 50 miles, or at least 62 miles, suddenly different rules apply. We need to start being aware of that,” says Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn.

There’s already some aggressive international elbowing over the rules of satellite operations. As with the moon, there’s no consensus yet on how to respond to aggression in Earth orbit, the head of U.S. Space Command Gen. James Dickinson told attendees at last week’s Sea Air Space conference.

“The behavior of some of our adversaries in space may surprise you,” Dickinson said. “If similar actions have been taken in other domains, they'd likely be considered provocative, aggressive, or maybe even irresponsible. And in response, the U.S. government would take corresponding actions using all levers of national power, a demarche, or a sanction or something to indicate we won't tolerate that type of behavior, but we're not quite there yet in space policy.”



In 1967, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a treaty on the use of outer space that promised cooperation and banned nuclear weapons, military maneuvers, and military installations off-planet. The agreement also requires countries to take “appropriate international consultations” before making any moves that would “cause potentially harmful interference” with other space programs, and allows countries to “request consultation” if they believe such interference is likely.

This treaty “forecasted very well” the issues that that might arise as space exploration expanded, said James Lake, a senior associate at Canyon Consulting who co-wrote an article on lunar security issues in this month’s Space Force Journal. “The question remains: is that text sufficient? That’s something we are going to find out fairly soon.”

Notably, a treaty annex that prohibits military activity on the moon went unratified by Russia, China, and the United States. It’s likely both the China-Russia and U.S.-led partnerships will begin their moon bases without any sort of agreement between them in place.

In June, the China National Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos announced they would begin surveying locations for their International Lunar Research Station this year, and pick a site by 2025.

In 2020, NASA, together with the nations partnering with the U.S. under the Artemis Accords, outlined its Artemis Base Camp project. The Artemis nations aim to to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024.


In addition to those two major alliances, private firms such as Blue Origin are also working on private moon bases.

But there may be only a few locations on the moon where it would make economic sense to build a base, said Bleddyn Bowen, a professor at the University of Leicester and author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics.

“Water ice, for example, might be in limited pockets, for example, making the territories around certain craters on the polar regions, perhaps more desirable,” Bowen said.

So what happens if each decides on the same crater as the best spot to begin moon operations?


More at link:

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/08/if-china-and-us-claim-same-moon-base-site-who-wins/184352/

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China says U.K. warship in Taiwan Strait shows "evil intentions"

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Taipei — China bristled on Monday over Britain's decision to send a Royal Navy warship sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, saying the act "harbored evil intentions." China claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory, and has increased pressure on the small island in recent years to accept Beijing as its capital.

The Royal Navy announced that the HMS Richmond, a frigate deployed as part of a U.K. aircraft carrier strike group, was sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday in a move that challenges Beijing's claim to the sensitive waterway.

"After a busy period working with partners and allies in the East China Sea, we are now en route through the Taiwan Strait to visit Vietnam and the Vietnam People's Navy," read a tweet from the official account for HMS Richmond.

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Video and more at link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-says-u-k-warship-in-taiwan-strait-shows-evil-intentions/ar-AAOS9PM?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

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Now here is something different . . . (A Project Looking Glass is often mentioned in association with the Stargate Project.)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoREKB5KUsw

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USS Connecticut (SSN-22) is a Seawolf-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine operated by the United States Navy.

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Officials: 11 sailors injured after USS Connecticut submarine ‘struck an object’ underwater earlier this month

Eleven sailors were injured Oct. 2 when the deployed fast-attack submarine Connecticut “struck an object” while submerged in the Indo-Pacific region, a Navy official confirmed to Navy Times Thursday.

None of the injuries were life-threatening and the vessel is arriving in Guam today, according to the sea service.

A Navy statement did not confirm what kind of object the submarine struck, but an official who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on the record said that the area’s topography at the time did not indicate there was a land mass in front of the boat.

There are also no indications that the mishap was hostile or that the sub collided with another vessel, according to the official, who cautioned that information on the incident is preliminary at this point.

While two crew members suffered moderate injuries, no one required evacuation from the boat, according to the official, who declined to provide a total number of sailors injured but described those injuries as “bumps, bruises and lacerations.”

“The submarine remains in a safe and stable condition,” the Navy said in a statement. “USS Connecticut’s nuclear propulsion plant and spaces were not affected and remain fully operational.”

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The Space Force's new song, "Semper Supra."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV3Q4ztGaA


I'm speechless . . .

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The Space Force's new song, "Semper Supra."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV3Q4ztGaA


I'm speechless . . .

It really sounds like a parody...

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Unbelievable it’s like a 1930s b and w musical

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Russia's Klub-K Container Missile System


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRClbgBaYko