USMC CH-53E Super Stallions refueled by KC-130J, over Yuma, Arizona:
VEHICLE I-D: CH-53 STUD Weapons and Tactics Instructor course
Category Archives: Technology
Vehicle I-D: Ohio Air Militia C-130H Hercules
Ten minutes of Ohio National Guard’s 179th Airlift Wing C-130H transports, in action and at rest:
40 seconds of Ohio C-130H buzzing a football game:
RUSSIA DELIVERS C-130 SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!
C-130 MAFFS: WILDFIRE SEASON 2018 GOING TO BE A HOT ONE!
45 YEARS OF C-130 MAFFS OPS. WHO WOULD’VE KNOWN WILDFIRES WOULD BECOME SUCH A PROBLEM?
USAF Kadena subsidizes ops with your trash!
26 October 2016 (13:38 UTC-07 Tango 01) 05 Aban 1395/24 Muharram 1438/26 Wu Zu 4714
The U.S. Air Force operations known as Kadena, on Japan’s Okinawa, subsidizes their base maintenance by recycling trash, to the tune of $2-million USD per year:
Vehicle I-D: CH-53 Stud USMC Arizona
USMC Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment CH-53E Super Stallion during Weapons and Tactics Instructor course (WTI) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 07 October 2016:
2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division fast ropes out of a CH-53E Super Stallion at Auxiliary Airfield 2, Yuma, Arizona, 30 September 2016:
Vehicle I-D : M113 disguised as BMP-2
Opposing Forces (OpFor) U.S. Army 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment M113s disguised as Soviet/Russian BMPs, Fort Irwin, California, October 2016:
U.S. Army photo, 07OCT2016.
USA photo, 07OCT2016.
USA photo, 07OCT2016.
116th Snake River’s 2015 NTC rotation: The last time the 116th went to NTC was in 1998, with yours truly. 
“THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!: Includes a couple of my crappy photos of NTC in 1998. 
Vehicle I-D: V-22 Osprey USMC Yuma
V-22B Osprey, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment Weapons and Tactics Instructor course (WTI) Yuma, Arizona, 07 October 2016:
VEHICLE I-D: MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR, AFGHANISTAN
Yes he can, Obama gives it all to ICANN! : September 2016 U.S. TECH/COMMUNICATIONS LAYOFFS
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in September 2016:
Alabama: AT&T eliminating 190 jobs due to consolidation of some operations to Georgia! Scottsdale based e-cig maker NJOY now bankrupt busted, blaming declining sales for creating $234-million USD of debt.
Arizona: Japan based Ricoh eliminating 68 call center jobs in Tempe. ARRIS Group eliminating 195 call center jobs in Phoenix!
California: Unnammed employees report that Apple eliminated “dozens” of jobs with its self driving car project in an attempt to “reboot” the project. Open Source data mining op H2O.ai (0xdata) announced a shift in strategy for raising cash, then laid off nine sales people. After laying off an undisclosed number of Disney Imagineering employees last month, Disney announced the elimination of 250 additional jobs at it’s video game studios in Glendale! Also in Glendale, Dreamworks eliminating 226 jobs due to being taken over by NBCUniversal-Comcast! Japan based Sony laid off at least 40 video game makers from its Sony San Diego Studios. Solar panel installer Verengo now bankrupt and eliminating at least 82 jobs right before Thanksgiving. Solar power company Enphase Energy eliminating 11% of its global workforce “…to increase our competitiveness…” Struggling solar power company SunEdison laid off 17 people in Belmont, without warning. In Mountain View, Symantec issued a layoff WARN, 23 jobs gone by November. In Sunnyvale, Hewlett Packard revealed it had eliminated 77 jobs back in the middle of August. Southern California Edison eliminating 43 jobs in Rosemead, by Halloween. Technology Solutions shutdown its Chula Vista ops, 102 jobs gone! In San Jose, Synaptics Incorporated finally revealed it laid off 77 people, back in July. Xerox laid off 19 people in Irvine. Pacific Laser Systems shutdown its San Rafael ops, 69 jobs gone. Internet clothier drjays.com issued a shutdown WARN for their San Diego ops. In Milpitas, Western Digital issued a layoff WARN, 59 people jobless by October.
Connecticut: Stamford based cell phone service company Frontier Communications announced it will kill 250 jobs in connection to its take-over of Verizon’s California, Florida and Texas networks!
Florida: Taxsucker Honeywell Sensing and Productivity Solutions eliminating 52 jobs in the name of “efficiency”, starting in January 2017. Contracted telecommunications/customer service company Sitel eliminating 199 jobs in Ocala, right after Halloween!
Illinois: Now China owned Motorola Mobility eliminated between 7-hundred and 1-thousand jobs! Ever since Lenovo’s take-over of Chicago based Motorola Mobility, in 2014, thousands of jobs have been killed globally. Rubicon Technology shutting down its six years old factory in Batavia, affecting 50 jobs by December. Rubicon Technology also laying off 17 people at its Bensenville ops, by November.
Louisiana: Monroe based CenturyLink sent employees a letter stating that 3-thousand 5-hundred jobs are on the chopping block! The employee cost reduction layoffs will begin immediately.
Main: Xerox shutting down their Lewiston customer service ops in October, 140 jobs lost!
Maryland: Taxsucker Textron Systems eliminating 45 jobs at its ‘drone’ factory in Baltimore, blaming it on a “…change in the mix…”.
Massachusetts: EnerNOC eliminating more than 2-hundred software jobs as “…part of a broader restructuring plan designed to materially reduce the Company’s operating expenses..”!
New Jersey: Gannett eliminating 426 Satellite Information Network jobs right before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday! Is the true reason because Gannett continues spending millions of dollars buying out competitors? Tax-haven Ireland based security systems company Tyco International eliminating ten jobs at its Princeton location, after Xmas.
New York: IBM continues mass layoffs, unnamed employees report that layoff notices continue to be issued despite IBM administrators claiming they have 25-thousand open positions! IBM claims the jobs they’re eliminating are “redundancies”, and the layoffs are part of plans to shift to cloud computing.
Oregon: Florida based Sykes shutting down their Eugene call center, 418 jobs gone by the end of October!
Pennsylvania: Tribune-Review eliminating 106 jobs as it shifts to digital editions only, by the end of November!
Texas: Austin based internet news outlet The Daily Dot laid off at least 15 people in an effort to do “…the right thing for the long-term sustainability of the Dot…”. Round Rock based Dell plans to eliminate 3-thousand jobs after its take-over of EMC!
Washington: Massachusetts based Lionbridge Technologies eliminated 31 jobs at its Bellevue ops due to losing a contract with Microsoft. Redmond based Microsoft shutting down a Skype office in United Kingdom, about 2-hundred jobs lost! In Aberdeen, after 30 years Techline shutting down so the owners can retire for good.
Washington DC: Oh yes he can! The Obama regime transfered control of the internet to a supposedly California based ‘non-profit’ corporation called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ending decades of oversight by the government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The states of Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas have filed lawsuits to try and stop the transfer of total internet power.
September 2016 Government Shenanigans: MARIJUANA SAVES COLORADO! ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS PROTECTED IN IDAHO?
August 2016 Tech/Communication layoffs: “WITH SUCH FAST GROWTH, WE LOST SOME FOCUS…”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
Vehicle I-D: MD-530F Cayuse Warrior, Afghanistan
The following videos show the U.S. taxpayer funded MD-530F meant for the Afghan Air Force, however, it should be noted that in all these videos the actual pilots are U.S. personnel.
Buzzing about Kabul Airport, 11 September 2016:
Gunnery with seven-tube M260 launchers for 70 mm (2.75 inch) rockets, 11 August 2016:
Formation flying and strafing with .50cal (12.7mm x 99mm NATO) FN M3P machine gun, 08 May 2016:
Official ‘rollout’ for new MD-530F deliveries to Afghanistan in 2015:
AFGHANISTAN GETS MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDED HELICOPTERS & GUNS!
Minority Report: Your next job interview will be with a robot named NeoFace?
11 September 2016 (12:40 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Shahrivar 1395/08 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/11 Ding-You 4714
NEC (formerly known as Nippon Electric Company) created artificial intelligence software used to sort resumes, job applications and employment test results. Now the company wants to create a robot interviewer!
NEC claims their employee screening AI tech will reduce the chances of a person being hired simply because they know the employer/recruiter.
Their new robot interviewer will not only consider your answers to its questions, but your body movements as well, utilizing technology similar to NEC’s new NeoFace facial recognition program now being used for electronic payments in Tokyo, Japan.
It’s all part of the Japanese government’s FinTech (financial technologies) plan. NEC conducted a large scale Walkthrough Facial Recognition System test on its own employees back in April.
NEC won the 2015 Gold Award, for using facial recognition AI to create a concert ticket ID system, from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. Such facial recognition systems require that your image data is already stored in a corporate or government computer system.
In Australia, NEC recently won a contract to develop CrimTrac’s new biometric identification system: “The Biometric Identification System will not only integrate with existing law enforcement systems, but advance as our nation’s biometric capability advances. This is vital in the current national security landscape, because it is essential to have robust and efficient cross-border information sharing to support the law enforcement agencies that protect our communities.”-Michael Keenan, Minister for Justice-Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Counter Terrorism
TOTAL GUN BAN TOTAL FAILURE, AUSTRALIA: YET ANOTHER GUN RELATED INCIDENT IN COUNTRY THAT TOTALLY BANS GUNS!
FALSE FLAG BLOW BACK: IRAN WARNED AUSTRALIA FOR DECADES, YET AUSTRALIA PROTECTED KNOWN TERRORIST
Human Big Data: Meet your new computer boss, same as the old human boss!
11 September 2016 (11:47 UTC-07 Tango 01) 21 Shahrivar 1395/08 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/11 Ding-You 4714
“….what does this mean about the employee and employer relationship that they need to be so closely monitored? What does it say about the sense of trust or respect?”-Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute
Hitachi calls it Human Big Data
Soon your nagging first line supervisor could be replaced with a nagging AI boss, in the form of a name tag-dog tag worn around your neck.
Japan based Hitachi is testing a new artificial intelligence ‘boss’ under the guise of “tracking employee happiness”. Hitachi is not the first company to do so, many companies are testing such big brotherisms all under the guise of making sure their employees are happy. But news reports out of Japan reveal the truth behind these AI bosses; the tiny computers will be able to boss you around through your smartphone or tablet (apparently employees working for companies employing the big brother-sister technology will get “advice” on how to better do their jobs, sent to them in their off-time)!
Right now 6-hundred Hitachi employees are using the AI name tag ‘dog tags’ and are being commanded to do things like “you should talk to your colleagues more often.” Here in the United States that command will most likely be changed to ‘you talk too much, get back to work!’ The Hitachi prototype works by tracking every little thing that you do while on the job, not one microsecond of privacy!
In 2015, WARABLE published an article questioning how Hitachi’s AI program would determine ‘happiness’ by tracking “…how much you sit, stand, nod, type and walk around at work. ….and collects data on your movements an incredible 50 times a second throughout the day.” Back then Hitachi justified its efforts by claiming that sales at a test call center went up an incredible 34% on days that employees were “happy”.
U.S. farm equipment maker Deere is also testing similar devices, but they’ve been more accurately described as Motivation Metrics, in other words it’s not really about the happiness of the employee, but about how to get the employee to do more work. It also means the end of first line supervisor positions for humans.
According to Springbuk Health Analytics, a promoter of electronic ‘wearables’ in the workplace, 54% of employers would love to track every little thing that you do on their time!
Software company Salesforce claims that 86% of U.S. employers will ‘invest’ more into AI wearables this year! 40% of employers admitted it was not about employee happines, but about managing employee time and communications!
And now for something as old as ‘civilization’: Lawsuits. Already tracking device maker Fitbit has faced several lawsuits. In 2014 a lawsuit against Fitbit claimed that the wearable caused allergic skin reactions (many people have allergic reactions when certain metals are worn). Two lawsuits filed this year claim the heart rate data collected by Fitbit trackers (the second lawsuit also targets Apple) is not accurate, about 20 beats per minute off. Research by California State Polytechnic University-Pomona showed the fitness trackers actually became inaccurate once you started exercising (they were accurate when the person was at rest). Gee, whatever happened to checking your pulse the old fashioned way, with your finger?
Another lawsuit (filed in 2015) claims Fitbit’s sleep tracker is wrong as well. Gee, are people so disconected and/or whacked on prescription drugs they can’t tell when they’re asleep and when they’re awake?
‘MINORITY REPORT’ PROGRAMING FOR INSURANCE POLICIES, AFTER JAPAN TAKES OVER U.S. COMPANIES!
XENOMA: JAPAN DEVELOPS PARASITIC E-SKIN THAT LETS OTHER PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!