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MAFFS: Wildfire season 2018 going to be a hot one?

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10 September 2016 (15:32 UTC-07 Tango 01) 20 Shahrivar 1395/07 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/10 Ding-You 4714

North Carolina Air National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Monica Ebert.

Apparently the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense (DoD) think the 2018 fire season is gonna’ be big because they’ve just added another MAFFS C-130 firefighting unit to their western states inventory.

Nevada National Guard 152 Airlift Wing’s brand new MAFFS C-130H

MAFFS stands for Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System.  The Forest Service owns the MAFFS, the DoD (through USAF Reserve and state militias) provides the C-130s and personnel to operate it.

C-130J MAFFS 4, Channel Islands, California

Currently there are three MAFFS units operated by the state militias of California, North Carolina and Wyoming, and one MAFFS Air Force Reserve unit out of Colorado.  Since early August MAFFS have already flown 142 firefighting missions, dropping more than 3.5-million pounds (1.6-million kilos) of fire-retardant in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.

North Carolina ANG photo by First Lieutenant Monica Ebert.

Nevada’s 152 AW High Rollers will be used to augment the units from Colorado and Wyoming, and will be based in Reno.  While MAFFS fly missions across the country, the U.S. Forest Service wanted a new MAFFS unit whose home base is in the fire prone Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.  The MAFFS equipment is being transferred from North Carolina Air National Guard’s 145th Airlift Wing to Nevada’s 152nd Airlift Wing.

C-130H MAFFS 8, out of North Carolina

This year’s official fire season began MAFFS on-job-training for crews of the High Rollers: “The actual drops have been challenging and exhilarating. It’s a great feeling to see your immediate results whether we are dropping a protective line of retardant between the fire and someone’s property or dropping ‘mud’ directly on flames leaping from the tops of trees in an effort to slow the fire’s progress.”-Lietenant Colonel Tony Machabee, first member of the High Rollers to co-pilot a MAFFS mission

The U.S. Forest Service wants the new 152 AW MAFFS unit ready to launch for the 2018 wildfire season.  The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences predicts that by 2050 the official U.S. wildfire season will be three weeks longer, and for several years now the Pacific Northwest has been dealing with major fires in the official off-season.

Video: 45 YEARS OF C-130 MAFFS OPS. WHO WOULD’VE KNOWN WILDFIRES WOULD BECOME SUCH A PROBLEM? 

Despite a busy wildfire season, Oregon based helicopter fire bomber operator Erickson Air Crane laid off 1-hundred people! Company administrators admitted that despite years of busy wildfire seasons they’re burned by massive debt to Wells Fargo (the evil bank owned by ‘christian’ agnostic Warren Buffett).

Technology

“With such fast growth, we lost some focus…” : August 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 August 2016:

California: San Francisco based internet ‘ride sharing service’ Uber lost $1.3-billion USD in the first half of 2016!  Uber pays its ‘contracted’ drivers a subsidy in order to keep ride fares low, and that’s supposedly what caused Uber’s massive loss. Uber now wants to shift to more dangerous driverless cars.  Digital comedy portal Funny or Die shutting down their San Mateo office and eliminating 37 tech jobs.    San Jose hit hard, starting with Cisco Systems which suddenly laid off 899 employees, as part of their new plan to eliminate 14-thousand jobs worldwide! Cisco administrators blame crashing sales of computer hardware.  Despite signing a contract to update San Jose city lights to L-E-D, Sweden based Ericsson issued a shutdown WARN for their San Jose operations, 435 jobs gone by Halloween!   Also in San Jose, computer chip maker Micrel issued a layoff WARN, 195 jobs gone by the end of September! San Jose based solar panel maker SunPower eliminated 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs due to crashing demand for solar power products!  SunEdison suddenly laid off 16 people.  Possibly due to Tesla’s take-over bid SolarCity eliminating 108 jobs in San Francisco and San Mateo!   For some unknown reason state employment administrators finally published the fact that Broadcom and Avago eliminated more than 1-thousand jobs back in March!  State employment admin records show Broadcom and Avago gave the state the mass layoff notices back in January!  Speaking of Broadcom, they just issued another WARN, this time 50 jobs in San Diego gone by mid-September.  It’s been revealed that maker of the new Ghostbusters video game, FireForge (not connected to FireForge Games), went chapter 7 bankrupt busted back in July!   Chapter 7 usually means they’re dead. In Milpitas, cyber security company FireEye laying off 80 employees in October, and the new CEO warned of another 4-hundred layoffs at a yet to be determined later date!  QLogic laying off 69 employees in Aliso Viejo, by mid-October.  In Los Angeles, Xerox laying off 11 people by mid-October.  Glendale based Disney Imagineering laid off an undisclosed number of employees: “Walt Disney Imagineering is a project-based organization, and we continually evaluate and adjust our resources to support the design and development of Disney theme parks, resorts and experiences around the globe.”-official vague explanation

Connecticut: France owned Altice USA-Cablevision Systems Corporation/Optimum shutting down a call center and a customer support center, eliminating more than 5-hundred jobs (some reports say 6-hundred) between October and December!

Georgia: Colorado based EchoStar Technologies shutting down their Atlanta metro area operations, 137 jobs lost by October due to “many factors”!  Internet based Ditech Financial laid off 80 people in the Atlanta area, and another 1-hundred people will lose their jobs in North Carolina and Texas!  Ditech’s parent company, Walter Investments, lost $232-million USD in its 2nd quarter.

Hawaii: Oahu Publications revealed it laid off eight people, there was also news that the owner of the building where Oahu Pubs is HQed has put the building up-for-sale.

Idaho: Idaho National Laboratory (INL) lost its attempt to become the site for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy, or FORGE: “Although our Idaho site was not selected, INL still has the opportunity to participate in the FORGE effort through our role as a member of the University of Utah-led team and in other funded proposals.”-Rob Podgorney, INL geothermal

Iowa: Iowa State University eliminated 30 InfoTech jobs. At the same time, university administrators claim their reorganization of their IT department actually created eight jobs.

Michigan: Dialog Direct (Novo1) shutting down their Grand Rapids call center, 106 jobs gone by mid-October!  According to local news reports, in 2014 Dialog Direct was promised $1.5-million USD in taxpayer funded “investments” to establish a call center in Grand Rapids and hire 287 people.  There was no explanation in the official WARN as to why they’re shutting it down, or why they hired only 106 people.

Missouri: The Kansas City Star laid off 12 people, local news reports say for the past few months there’s been non-stop layoffs at the struggling newspaper.

Mississippi: Another example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs; bankrupt e-Fitness & Wellness shutdown their Biloxi location.  The operators blame a payments collection company in Utah for going bust and as a result cutoff funding for e-Fitness.

New Jersey: Japan owned OKI Data Americas eliminating 38 jobs in Mount Laurel by the end of September.  In Red Bank, California based Qualcomm Atheros eliminating 76 jobs by the end of September.

New York: New York Life eliminating numerous in-house InfoTech jobs across The Empire State, between November 2016 and April 2017.  France based Altice USA laid off 1-hundred people in Bethpage, that’s where Altice took over Cablevision Systems!  News reports say news magazine Time Incorporated will eliminate 110 jobs in an attempt to “optimize” growth!  Advertiser MDC-KBS eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs while at the same time claimed “we’re growing and hiring too”.

Oregon: Software “localizer” Sykes issued a shutdown WARN for their Eugene ops, 418 jobs lost by the end of October!

Pennsylvania:  Thorley Industries-4moms, a company that prides itself on using computers and robots to design and build products for babies, revealed it laid off 53 people back in June. 

Texas: Austin based Revolve Solar now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Interestingly company administrators stated that their financial numbers filed for the bankruptcy were wrong, and that the company was “fine”.

Washington: In Seattle, advertising-analytics company Marchex laid off about 40 employees after a $68-million USD loss in its 2nd quarter.  And video game maker Z2 laid off an undisclosed number of marketing and administrative employees, probably in connection with being taken over by two differnet companies last year.  Still in Seattle, tech company QuoteWizard suddenly laid off 20 people after spending money on a new office in Colorado, administrators admitted “With such fast growth, we lost some focus…”.   Also in Seattle, software company Moz laid off 60 people after a failed attempt to increase its market diversity: “Increasing the breadth of the product suite added a lot of complexity to the business, but didn’t result in the growth we expected.”-Sara Bird, ceo

“WE’LL BE HIRING A TON OF PEOPLE!” SUDDENLY 70-THOUSAND AUTO WORKERS UNEMPLOYED!

U.S. Navy SAYS SOCIAL MEDIA IS NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!

3RD SELF-DRIVE CRASH FOR TESLA!

July 2016: “IT’S BRUTAL…LIKE STANDING IN A LINE FOR A GUILLOTINE!”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

Technology

Japan buys V-22 under guise of Disaster Preparedness!

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Despite many silly-vilians in Japan demanding the removal of U.S. V-22 Ospreys (due to high accident rate world-wide, 1991-2000 four crashes 36 people killed, since 2007 three crashes six killed), the neo-imperialist government of Abe Shinzo is buying U.S. made MV-22 Ospreys ostensibly for disaster preparedness:

JAPAN TO TEST NEW AUTOMATED IMMIGRATION SYSTEM! U.S. ALREADY HAS ONE, AND IT FAILS TO STOP ILLEGALS!

Technology

How to bring in a Harrier, Iwakuni style

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“It’s the only kind in the world, the only one in the world. It was specially delivered to us to assist Marine Aircraft Group 12 in maintaining their qualifications to fly without having to go too far and leave this area of operation to do it, so it gives them the ability to train here on deck.”-Gunnery Sergeant Charles Maddox

U.S. Marine Attack Squadron 542, Iwakuni Japan, use the Expeditionary Hover Position Indicator to qualify pilots of the AV-8B+ for landing on helicopter/assault ships:

RUSSIA DELIVERS C-130 SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!

Technology, U.S.

Operation Jupiter: Israel conducts Chemical, Biological warfare in U.S., controls National Guard?

04 September 2016 (13:22 UTC-07 Tango 01) 14 Shahrivar 1395/01 Dhu I-Hijja 1437/04 Ding-You 4714

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN, once known as NBC, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) administrators from Israel spent the last week of August in the United States. 

CBIRF demonstration in Maryland, 29 August 2016, for visiting Israeli Ministry of Defense administrators

For the past few years U.S. tax dollars have been used to help the Israeli military create a Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF).

National Guard Bureau General Joseph Lengyel with Israel’s assistant minister of defense Moshe Edri

Israel’s assistant minister of defense also made an ‘office call’ with the U.S. National Guard Bureau.

Also during the same time, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs Thomas Shannon went to Israel, where he went on an anti-Palestinian propaganda tour given by the Zionist government.  The tour actually proves that the Israeli government controls all access and exits points (meaning all food, medical supplies, fuel, access to employment, etc) around the world’s largest concentration camps known as West Bank and Gaza Strip.  Shannon also visited a factory inside a Kibbutz.  A Kibbutz is esentially a Communist Work Camp.

GOD IS EVIL: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS MEET WITH ZIONIST TERRORIST AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN!

FALSE FLAG: AIR FRESHENERS BLAMED FOR CHEMICAL ATTACK ON U.S. BASE?

OPERATION JUPITER: BIO-CHEMICAL ATTACK IN WASHINGTON STATE?

Technology, U.S.

Gary West & U.S. Army say ‘Wear your damn life jacket you dumb ass!’

Maybe it’s because of the hurricanes, or Labor Day weekend, or that it’s National Preparedness Month, but if your going to be near the water wear a great old-school technological invention known as the life jacket:

 

International, Technology

Japan to test new Automated Immigration system! U.S. already has one, and it fails to stop illegals!

02 September 2016 (14:21 UTC-07 Tango 01) 12 Shahrivar 1395/29 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/02 Ding-You 4714

Japan is ready to test a new automated legal (not illegal) immigration system.  It’s hoped to speed up the ingress and egress of foreigners coming to vist, work or even live in Japan.

Legally registered foreigners will scan approved ID at electronic checkpoints located in major transportation centers.  The test run will use electronic checkpoints at Japan’s international airports.

A new immigrant law goes into effect in November, allowing pre-registered foreigners from visa-free countries to use the electronic checkpoints to enter Japan.  

U.S. electronic checkpoint in Houston, Texas

After 2-hundred years of not having to use a passport to cross the borders of Canada, United States and Mexico, the paranoid U.S. instituted the required use of passports.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection also uses the Automated Passport Control (electronic checkpoint) system in an effort to speed processing of people who can legally cross the border.  However, if you do your research the requirement to use passports, and even the use of electronic checkpoints, has done nothing to affect illegal immigration!

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLS U.S. FIREFIGHTER WITH BUS FULL OF MIGRANTS! ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT HAD PRIOR RUN-IN WITH COPS!  

Technology

Back Blast Area Clear! TOW live fire Grafenwoehr

D Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (U.S. Army Airborne) Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) live-fire Deutschland:

VEHICLE ID: U.S. ARMY M1A1 SEPV2 GRAFENWOEHR

U.S. NATIONAL AIRBORNE DAY

WYOMING AIR MILITIA 50-CAL LIVE FIRE!