Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport.
My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front).
Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42.
Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
The tiny Baltic country of Republic of Lithuania (land area 25,212 square miles compared to the much less populous U.S. state of Idaho with 83,642 square miles) just spent the equivilant of $437-million USD on new armored vehicles from Deutschland and Israel!
The vehicles are Deutsch made Boxer wheeled AFVs with Israeli made turrets and gun systems.
The reason for the record level purchase for the tini-tiny country is the ramping up of fear mongering by U.S. led NATO against Russia. It’s the same fear mongering bullshit that was used during the undeclared Cold War (1947-91). There is no proof that Russia is about to launch a take-over the world war! In fact it is the United States that has surrounded Russia, just like it did during the Cold War.
“The Americans have become obsessed with the idea of becoming absolutely invulnerable…..absolute invulnerability for one country would in theory require absolute vulnerability for all others.”-Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, February 2012
Today the United States has greatly expanded the territory it controls, some in the name of fighting a vague undeclared War on Terror (declared by the main stream news industry), some in the name of helping former Warsaw Pact members defend themselves, and some in the name of promoting stability in oil rich South China Sea.
The Soviet Union was the reason the United States waged its Cold War, but the Soviet Union died in 1991. Are ‘Americans’ so drugged up they can’t tell what year it is?
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.
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)!
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirms that 76% of the wealth in the United States is controled by only 10% of the population!
The data was based on 25 years of information, from 1989 to 2013. The CBO results back up what the tax collector Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been saying for the past decade; the majority of U.S. residents are losing their ass financially, since 1979!
And while the majority of money is made by a minority, the greater percentage of tax (per individual) is paid by the majority with a minority of income (16.9% tax rate for rich vs 23.4% for everybody else in 2007)!
“You do not forget this sound, ever! North Vietnamese people, we know what is B-52.”-Vu Duy Thanh, survivor of B-52 strikes in Vietnam, and witness to B-52 strikes on Iraq during Operation Desert Storm
Delamere Training Range in Northern Australia
On 18 August 2016, U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers taking part in exercise Pitch Black were diverted to the British empire country of Australia, to take part in Australia’s Vietnam Remembrance Day.
Video fo B-52s being diverted over Australia:
Australia’s Vietnam Rememberance Day is set on the date of the Battle of Long Tan, which took place in 1966. Supposedly 1-hundred Diggers (Aussie soldiers) and three Kiwis (New Zealanders) were surrounded by 2-thousand Vietnamese. According to Australian news sources, without explanation the Vietnamese halted their assaults after three-and-a-half hours. 18 Diggers killed, 21 wounded. The Australians claim they killed 245 Vietnamese druing the battle.
Royal Australian Regiment (the ‘Royal’ means they’re still under controll of the British monarchy) following the sudden end of the Battle of Long Tan
It should be noted that veteran Digger commander Harry Smith, who took part in the Battle of Long Tan, openly criticizes Australia’s Vietnam Rememberance Day pointing out that Australians would be “up in arms” if Japan had an national holiday celebrating it’s bombing of the Aussie port of Darwin (Japan conducted air raids on Australia from 1942-43).
Amazingly there are news reports saying Vietnam actually gave the Aussie government the go-ahead to celebrate the U.S. led occupation of Vietnam, in Vietnam! More than 1-thousand Australians went to Vietnam for Vietnam Rememberance Day, that’s ten times the number of Diggers surrounded at the Battle of Long Tan!
But to add even more insult to the Vietnamese veterans who fought against occupation, the U.S. Air Force diverted two B-52H bombers to Australia for the celibrations. The B-52 bomber became an infamous icon of genocide during the Vietnam occuation after bombing “them into the Stone Age”. In 1995, the Vietnamese government claimed that U.S. airstrikes (from 1965-74) caused most of the 2-million civilian causualties during the occupation!
The final, and ‘heaviest’ B-52 bombing missions over Vietnam were ordered by president Richard Nixon, about 20-thousand tons of bombs dropped in one week of December 1972!
Remains of B-52 still visible in Hanoi today. For a long time the USAF denied its B-52s were being shot down by the ‘stone aged’ Vietnamese
B-52 shoot down over Hanoi:
It was called Linebacker II, also known as Christmas Bombings (isn’t that nice of you ‘christians’?). Here’s audio of Nixon and Henry Kissinger talking about creating a False Flag excuse for launching the Christmas Bombings:
They were bombed “back to the Stone Age”, the U.S. and Australia never lost a battle, but who won the war?
“The Americans are still relying on their large, sophisticated war machine with electronics and awesome carpet bombs. That’s their strong point. But they have always underestimated their enemy. That’s their weakness…”-Bui Tin, former Colonel in People’s Army of Viet-Nam (PAVN), February 1991
“No army has ever surrendered because they were subjected to heavy bombardment.”-Eugene J. Carroll Junior, retired USN Rear Admiral, February 1991
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:
“It brings me back to when Hurricane Katrina passed in 2005, and I saw the National Guard around all the neighborhoods. That’s what persuaded me to join.”-Sergeant Bryan Campo
Monroe, Louisiana
Since 12 August, more than 3-thousand 8-hundred Louisiana Army and Air National Guard personnel have been mobilized to help deal with the unexpected and unprecedented flooding that’s ongoing (due to rain upriver, along the Mississippi).
Denham Springs, Louisiana
From 12 August to 19 August, the state militia rescued more than 19-thousand residents and more than 2-thousand 6-hundred pets. More than 78-thousand 9-hundred MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat), 465 tarps, more than 439-thousand bottles of water, 961,500 sandbags, more than 2-thousand 2-hundred cots and 1-thousand 7-hundred blankets were distributed! National Guard Military Police are also providing security at some shelters.
Don’t think it’s a ‘9-to-5’ job, militia personnel are pulling 12 hour-shifts!
On 16 August, while conducting search ops in Saint Amant, Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard spotted a herd of cows nonchalantly walking down the flooded main street of town:
Since 13 August, the U.S. Coast Guard has rescued more than 2-hundred people and at least 57 pets from the record level flooding in Louisiana!
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