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.
24 November 2015 (05:55 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Russian Sukhoi 24 was shot down by U.S. led NATO Turkey F-16s, saying Turkey “…stab us in the back, they hit our planes… Together with the U.S. we signed an agreement on air operations…. …We’ve always treated Turkey not only as a close neighbor but as a friendly state…. instead of establishing immediate communication with us….Turkey contacted NATO….as if we downed a Turkish plane! …it’s a crime….” and warned of “serious consequences” for Turkey.
Putin added that the Su-24 was hit by NATO Turkey F-16s one kilometer inside Syrian territory, crashing 4km inside Syrian territory.
Putin also revealed that Russian planes were bombing “Russian” takfir Islamic insurgents (Chechens) in the Turkmen region of Syria!
Putin went on to accuse NATO Turkey of protecting Islamic State-DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]) and accused many NATO members of buying oil from DAIISH!
Putin’s comments were made in Sochi, Russia, during his meeting with the British empire puppet king of Jordan, Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein.
24 November 2015 (05:02 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
Russian news commentators implied this is a False Flag by NATO to justify war on Russia! A Serb-American analyst, Srđa Trifković, said if NATO Turkey had F-16s already in the area then it was “a set up”!
U.S. led NATO holding emergency meeting over the alleged shootdown of a Russian Su-24 by NATO member Turkey. Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, canceled his planned trip to Turkey as emergency meetings being held in Russia.
Turkey claims only Turk civilians in Turkmen Mountain area where Russian plane was bombing, however, new video shows U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli insurgents praising the death of one of the Russian pilots. Turkey claims the Syrian Turkmen Mountains.
In my past reports on Syria I’ve repeatedly pointed out that Turkey was allowing insurgents including Islamic State, aka DAIISH (DA for al-DAwla, I for al-Islamiya, I for al-Iraq, SH al-SHam [al-Sham=Syria]).
24 November 2015 (03:57 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
“It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it.”-Parker, 1979 movie Alien
In the African country of Guinea, the Donka University Hospital in Conakry reports an average of 30 infections daily, caused by the Staphylinidae beetle (aka Rove beetle).
The Rove beetles are spreading a disease called dermatite da Paederus. Apparently it happens when people smash the bug after finding it crawling on them. The first case in western Africa was documented in 2008.
Don’t smash it!
Dermatite da Paederus has also been found in South America and is considered a tropical disease. It’s caused by chemicals in the insect which attack the skin after the bug is crushed.
24 November 2015 (03:39 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
For a long time the academically accepted idea that modern civilizations began with the agricultural revolution of wheat and barley domestication. Now Israeli researchers say beans to that!
Wheat & Barley have often been praised as leading the Neolithic Revolution.
In the area now incorrectly called the Middle East (aka Levant, Fertile Crescent) an archaeological find reveals that the primary crop grown 10-thousand years ago (when the agricultural Neolithic Revolution involving wheat and barley is claimed to have started) were Legumes like fava beans, lentils, peas and chickpeas.
Weizmann Institute of Science spent several years investigating Neolithic sites in the Galilee region. The Israel Antiquities Authority say the fava beans are the oldest ever found, possibly 10-thousand 2-hundred years old!
24 November 2015 (03:30 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
“Turkish airspace is NATO airspace.”-Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkish prime minister
Reports say one Russian pilot has been captured by U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli insurgents. The other pilot is dead. Two Turkish helicopters have been dispatched to the area known as the Turkmen Mountains.
U.S. led NATO member Turkey has called a UN Security Council meeting over Syrian, Kurdish and Russian attacks on insurgent positions in the Turkmen Mountains. The area is legally part of Syria but Turkey actually claims the Turkmen area.
24 November 2015 (02:19 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
Russian military administrators say two RT (aka Russia Today) reporters and one TASS (aka Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS)reporter were targeted with an anti-tank missile while they were reporting on battles against U.S., EU, Saudi and Israeli insurgent along the Turkey-Syrian border.
The attack took place in Latakia Governorate, in the village of of Al-Dagmashliya. The wounded reporters were riding in a convoy when anti-tank missiles from an insurgent controlled area began arriving on target.
Russia’s main airbase in Syria is in Latakia. The governorate is just south of NATO Turkey, along the coastline with the Mediterranean Sea.
24 November 2015 (02:06 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713
Russian military administrators say a Russian operated Sukhoi 24 was shot down near the border with Turkey, but that it was shot down by a missile that came from the ground. They stress the plane was not in Turkish airspace.
Turkey is now claiming that they are defending Turkmen territory in Syria. Weeks ago the Turkish president adamantly stated that they would never let Syrian Kurds control northern Syria (aka Rojava) which includes territory that Turkey considers to be Turkmen.