Category Archives: Technology

“We’ll be hiring a ton of people!” Suddenly 70-thousand auto workers unemployed!

22 August 2016 / 19:36 UTC-07 Tango 01 (02 Shahrivar 1395/19 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/21 Bing-Shen 4714)

Never ending techno-glitches, rebelious parts suppliers, crashing sales and more conspiratorial moves towards all-electric vehicles could kill-off a once iconic car brand; Volkswagen.

The latest tech propblem for VW is that its eletronic lock system can be easily hacked, according to research at United Kingdom’s University of Birmingham.   That means at least 100-million VW, Skoda and Seat vehicles are vunerable!  The study also found that Ford, Peugeot and Citroen vehicles are also screwed up.

Despite seemingly never ending techno-probs for VW, the Deutschland based car maker is ramping up plans to make more tech heavy electric cars.  Five new electric models are planned, with the prototype of one to be revealed next month at the Paris Auto Show.  To confirm my suspicions that the whole diesel scandal is a Rockefeller funded False Flag operation to push vehicle owners into cars they don’t want, VW says it will produce one million electric cars per year by 2025. 

In Deutschland, nearly 70-thousand automotive industry employees found themselves suddenly unemployed when vehicle production was halted at six VW factories, and worker strikes hit several independantly run parts factories!  For the past few weeks news reports said the looming shutdowns were to be blamed on disputes with parts suppliers. Parts suppliers (controlled by a company called Prevent) accuse VW of violating its own contracts and say VW hasn’t been paying them.  However, perhaps the real reason for the production halt is the fact that VW sales in the United States fell for a ninth straight month, an 8% decline in July.

Sales in the Fatherland of Deutschland fell 8.7%.  But that’s nothing compared to the 32% decline in Brazil (for the first half of 2016)!

Main stream anti-diesel news media keeps blaming the situation on the False Flag diesel scandal, but most VW diesel owners love their TDIs: “The irony is that Volkswagen Group has been a champion of diesel propulsion…the best in the industry… so good, they could convert most hardcore petrolheads.”-CarScoops

Interestingly Spain based Gestamp, a VW parts maker, says it can’t find enough employees for its factory in Tennessee to handle orders for VW’s new sport utility vehicle: “We’ll be hiring a ton of people!”-Madalyn Roberts, Gestamp HR

VICTORY FOR VW DIESEL LOVERS, OR VICTORY FOR ANTI-DIESEL NUTS?

RUSSIANS HAVE THE MONEY. …VW…MAKES THEIR MOVE

Vehicle I-D: M1A1 ‘Day at the Range’ with the USMC

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

USMC 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, during a Large Scale Exercise (LSE) on Twentynine Palms, California, August 2016.

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

Being a ‘tanker’ is more than just ‘humping’ rounds; there’s lots of busting wheel hubs and tracks, fueling, a little mine/lane clearing and then finally some live fire:

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

Notice the 120mm round has a shell casing made of clear combustible plastic/cellulose, the silver-grey color is the explosive charge.  The steel end-cap on the combustible shell-casing is called the afcap, it contains the primer charge.  The afcaps get recycled onto new 120mm rounds.  Kit bashers note that USMC M1A1s have features not found on U.S. Army M1A1s.

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

A Mine Clearing Line Charge (MCLC, pronounced mic-lic) fired from an amphibious AAV.

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

MCLC explosion.

In this video a Marine officer tells you how proud he is of his tankers:

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

USMC photo.

USMC photo by Corporal Clarence A. Leake.

M1A2: 116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION

World War Three, 2016: B-1, B-2 & B-52, the new ‘Integrated Bomber Force’, B-B-B-B-BAAD to the Bone!

17 August 2016 (17:05 UTC-07 Tango 01) 27 Mordad 1395/13 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/15 Bing-Shen 4714

Bomber Assurance And Deterrence = BAAD

As a show of force against ‘enemies’ in the oil rich South China Sea area (anybody remember the U.S. occupation of Vietnam?) The U.S. Air Force is conducting strategic bomber ops using all three of its strategic bombers for the first time.

“The unique thing about our opportunities here as part of the continuous bomber presence is we really have the chance to train across all of the mission sets that the B-1 is capable of. We will routinely, on a day-in and day-out basis, get to train with the land, air and naval forces of both the US and our allies and partners in the region. It’s really an unmatched training opportunity for our squadron.”-Lieutenant Colonel Seth Spanier, commnader 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron

B-1B Lancer (aka Bone) from South Dakota takes part in bomber operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

“It also gives us the chance to work with other bomber aircraft we have inside Air Force Global Strike Command as well as some of our regional allies and partners for national security and deterrence in this part of the world.”-Lieutenant Colonel Keith Butler, 13th Bomb Squadron director of operations for the B-2

B-2 Spirit from Missouri taking part in bomber operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

“We’ve been out here the past six months flying Pacific Power Projection sorties, so all over the Pacific area of responsibility doing assurance deterrence missions.”-Captain Kaitlin Tardieu, B-52 driver

B-52 Stratofortress from North Dakota takes part in bomber ops at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

The B-1, B-2 and B-52 have been to the U.S. Territory of Guam before, but not as a combined bomber team.    The U.S. Pacific Command’s area of operation covers 52% of the world!

Video of B-1, B-2 & B-52 take-offs from Guam:

USAF news report on BAAD:

OPERATION PACIFIC PATHWAYS: OBAMA PREPS FOR WAR WITH CHINA, AT SAME TIME SELLS CHINA NUCLEAR MATERIALS!

U.S., AUSTRALIA & JAPAN INVADE VIETNAM, AGAIN! PREPS FOR WAR WITH CHINA!

OBAMA SENDING 60% OF NAVAL FLEET TO SOUTH CHINA SEA OIL FIELDS!

NASCAR contender? USMC Pit Stop maneuver for E-2C Hawkeye

17 August 2016 (14:27 UTC-07 Tango 01) 27 Mordad 1395/13 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/15 Bing-Shen 4714

Grounds crews at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, conduct ‘pit stop’ on USN E-2C Hawkeye.  The electronics warfare aircraft was on its way to U.S. Naval Air Facility Atusgi.

U.S. TAX DOLLARS PAY RUSSIANS TO DELIVER C-130 SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN IWAKUNI