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Government Shenanigans: UH-60 for Afghanistan, killed-off by the Mil 17, U.S. taxpayers raped twice?

31 October 2020 / 03:21 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 10
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U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sean Martin, 05NOV2017.

Begun under the Barack Obama administration, the UH-60A program for Afghanistan is now drastically scaled back under the Donald Trump administration, due to lack of the Black Hawk’s performance in Afghanistan, a shift in priorities within the U.S. Department of Defense, and the high cost to U.S. taxpayers.

A former U.S. Army Black Hawk is loaded onto a C-17 transport, bound for Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Adriane Elliot, 15SEP2017.

September 2017, the first batch of UH-60As for Afghanistan are unloaded from a C-17 Globemaster-3, at Kandahar Air Field.

 

Photo by Staff Sergeant Trevor McBride.

Video by Senior Airmen Ryan Green, UH-60A flight training, November 2017:

By December 2017, a small group of six Afghan Mil 17 pilots became qualified to fly the UH-60A+.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Jared Duhon.

By February 2018, the Afghan Air Force had eight UH-60 Blackhawks.

By March 2018, U.S. military officials were boasting the UH-60 program was “mission ready”.  Video of more flight training by John Roberts:

USA photo by Major Richard Barker, 06MAY2018.

By May 2018, the first large class of Afghan UH-60A crews had completed the Mission Qualification Course (MQC).   Video by Jackie Faye showing Afghan UH-60s taking off on their first official mission one day after the MQC graduation:

In June 2018,  The U.S. Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) criticized the UH-60 program for Afghanistan saying “They are unable to accommodate some of the larger cargo items the Mi-17s can carry, and in general, it takes almost two Black Hawks to carry the load of a single Mi-17. Furthermore, unlike Mi-17s, Black Hawks cannot fly at high elevations and, as such, cannot operate in remote regions of Afghanistan where Mi-17s operate.”

A Train, Advise and Assist Command-Air (TAAC-Air) explainer video by Staff  Sergeant Rion Ehrman, with overly dramatic music, July 2018:

Photo by Sergeant Luke Hoogendam.

July 2018 MedEvac (medical evacuation) training, now known as CasEvac (casualty evacuation).

Photo by Staff Sergeant Clayton Cupit.

By December 2018, U.S. TAAC-Air contractors continued to train Afghan personnel on the UH-60A.

In February 2019, SIGAR warned that the $7-billion U.S. taxpayer funded program to replace Afghanistan’s Russian built helicopters with U.S. made helicopters (first proposed in 2014, mainly using the UH-60A+) was flawed because “DOD does not currently have a maintenance training course in place to train Afghan personnel to maintain UH-60s. Having insufficient Afghan maintenance personnel limits the locations at which UH-60s can operate because DOD policy bars U.S. contractors from working where there is no U.S. or Coalition control due to security concerns.”

Another former USA UH-60 Black Hawk bound for Afghanistan, this time on 25APR2019, transported by Ukrainian An-124 transport. USA photo by Richard Bumgardner.

In January 2020, the Military Times reported “The U.S. military is reducing the number of UH-60 Black Hawks it plans to provide Afghan forces from 159 to just 53…..”, ostensibly because the U.S. Department of Defense no longer considers Afghanistan a priority.

September 2020, the Financial Express explains the reasons why ‘Afghan Military to stick to Russian-made Helocraft’, saying the Obama era program to rely mainly on UH-60s to replace proven Russian technology was “primarily driven by political concern”.

Don’t worry all you happy U.S. taxpayers, you paid for those Russian made ‘Hip’ helicopters as well, to the tune of $15-million each!

Zombie ‘Copter:   HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN (with the help of U.S./NATO), AND WHY IT WON’T DIE

Afghanistan:   MIL 17 CRASH & BURN

 MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

  MD-530 Cayuse Warrior

“…a potential wipe out of an entire generation…”: Pandemic lockdowns prove to be worse than the Pandemic!

12 October 2020 / 10:27 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 21 Mehr 1399/24 Safar 1442/26 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to official reports from around the world:

David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for CoViD-19, warned in 08OCT2020 video interview, with the Spectator’s The Week in 60 Minutes, admits that nobody knows how to properly respond to CoViD and that lockdowns could be worse than the pandemic“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control…..  …..lockdowns have just one consequence….making poor people an awful lot poorer.”

This is from a UN WHO report about the economic realities of lockdowns and mass-testing, made public in July 2020: “In larger populations, however, such comprehensive surveillance may be impracticable or too costly and the test workload may rapidly outstrip capacity and resources….. long-term lockdowns may not be an option because economic necessity could preclude self-isolation.”

Despite what some leftist liberal environmentalists said about the pandemic lockdowns reducing pollution, the facts show the opposite happened! 

 

AUSTRALIA: Discriminatory lockdowns being imposed? 

JAPAN: Suicide Spike in Japan Shows Mental Health Toll of Covid-19

MALAWI: ‘Drastic rise’ in suicide rate linked to Covid economic downturn

UNITED KINGDOM: Local lockdowns dreamed up in London are causing nightmares for the rest of England

UNITED STATES: “You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

 

 

05OCT2020 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers video report, by Michael Glasch, revealing that responding to natural disasters is being made more complicated due to CoViD-19 restrictions:  

 The American Institute for Economic Research declares “COVID lockdowns unnecessary”

Arizona National Guard delivers a trailer full of food and supplies to the Navajo Nation, 06OCT2020.  Since the beginning of the outbreak the Arizona National Guard took over transportation of food throughout the state.

Arizona National Guard stock the shelves of a food pantry in Sun City, 09OCT2020.  Since the beginning of the outbreak in the U.S., the Arizona National Guard took over civilian food operations across the state.

  California university doctors say lockdowns are worse than the pandemic! 

A sign your system has failed; 08OCT2020 video report by Staff Sergeant Eddie Siguenza, California National Guard delivers record 100-million meals to people due to CoViD lockdown:

Pop-up food pantries a new tactic to fight CoViD lockdown food insecurity in Illinois.

  The Covid-19 pandemic will be outlasted by the grief pandemic — and no one is preparing for it

My 3-year-old was handling the pandemic well. Then his mom was diagnosed with cancer.

05OCT2020, Texas National Guard taking part in food growing operations in San Antonio, as part of Joint Task Force Longhorn.  Texas mobilized its Guard units in April 2020, for CoViD-19 response.
                                                                                                                                      Wisconsin reports 40 years of gender progress in employment erased by pandemic restrictions:“What we’re really facing is a potential wipe out of an entire generation of mothers’ careers…”-Joan Williams, University of California-Hastings Law, Center for WorkLife Law

Wisconsin blames CoViD-19 restrictions for more job layoffs and increased food insecurity.

Cybercriminals steal 8-billion tax dollars worth of Covid relief funds

U.S. airline industry already got 50-billion in taxpayer funded CoViD-19 support, now it demands another $25-billion, or else!

03OCT2020: COVID-19 SHENANIGANS

18SEP2020: COVID-19 = ECONOMIC & SOCIAL DEATHS OF DESPAIR!

U.S. Army warns of new pandemic: CHIKrisk 2021

CoViD-19 Shenanigans

03 October 2020 / 03:48 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 12 Mehr 1399/15 Safar 1442/17 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to news reports from around the world:

United Nations World Health Organization now admits that harsh pandemic lockdowns cause more harm than the pandemic and “must be avoided at all costs.” 

Countries without CoViD infections are still being killed-off by CoViD restrictions in pandemic countries:

CHINA:  Hong Kong’s massive USD$68.4-million mass testing during its Third Wave now considered a waste of time and money!

GERMANY: Neanderthal gene increases risk of severe coronavirus illness

FINLAND:

 INDIA: Experimental vaccine maker is somehow already producing millions of doses

Scientific contact tracing study discovers that children are the CoViD-19 super-spreaders!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            CoViD-19 restrictions force migrant workers to flee                                                                                                                                                                                                Coronavirus Shatters India’s Economy

City of Mumbai discovers possible second CoViD-19 antibody

JAPAN: Fourth suicide by a Japanese star during COVID-19 highlights country’s crisis

Suicides among young women increasing sharply, government response to coronavirus blamed

Coronavirus government subsidy fraud on the rise

Retail store sales continue to crash and burn due to CoViD restrictions

National Center for Global Health and Medicine confirms that pre-existing medical problems are the main reason people are dying after getting infected with CoViD-19

PAKISTAN: Begins Phase-3 Trial of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine

Is Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ really working in Pakistan?                                                                                                                                                                                         Schizophrenic government response as on one hand all education facilities are re-opened, yet on the other hand restaurants are being forced to shutdown                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       RUSSIA: ‘Mushrooms Have Kidnapped You’; Pandemic Obsession With Forest Fungi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Recovery of tourism industry will take at least two years once the pandemic is finished                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       SWEDEN:

UNITED KINGDOM:  Study says loss of smell is best indicator that you are infected                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         UNTIED STATES: 50 Most Popular U.S. Restaurants That Won’t Reopen After the Pandemic
                                                                                                                                                           Idaho;     After 18 years the Golden Corral restaurant in Pocatello gave up the ghost, blaming CoVid-19,  adding another nail in the slow-death-economic-coffin for Pocatello.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

CoViD-19 fearmongering restrictions kill-off more restaurants in Eastern Idaho (some of those fearmongering restrictions are the fault of the restaurant owners themselves, one Asian style buffet in Pocatello is now open only four days per week and requires you to wear a mask, except when you are actually shoveling food into your mouth, and if you don’t have a mask they force you to buy one of theirs)

                                                                                                                                                          Pub owner in Western Idaho tries to be responsible in the age of CoViD, resulting in the permanent shutdown of the popular Irish gathering spot after 18 years “of fun”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coronavirus Cases Rise In What Is Called Idaho’s Third Spike (Wave)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    State officials already developing CoViD vaccine distribution operation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Even god can’t stop the mormon owned BYU-Idaho from possible shutdown due to an invisible virus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Arrests made at church’s ‘psalm sing’ in Moscow, Idaho, over coronavirus violations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Man shutdown Idaho high school football game by refusing to wear a mask, yet in the photo you can see that even the responding cops, as well as other people, refused to wear masks!                                                                                                                                                                                                          Leftist group warns of new anti-pandemic lockdown organization based in Idaho                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Washington DC; President Trump gets experimental antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      President Trump is correct about suicides versus CoViD-19: “Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.Betsy McCaughey                                                                                                                                                                                                            VENEZUELA: Thanks Russia for 2-thousand experimental CoViD-19 vaccines
CoViD-19, April 2020:  ‘EXPERTS’ ADMITTING TO WHAT I ALREADY WARNED ABOUT, MASKS CAN’T PROTECT YOU!                                                                                                                                                                          March 2020: CoViD-19 fearmongering shuts down WINCO’s 24 hours grocery operations in Pocatello, Idaho

CoViD-19 can’t stop growing global tsunami of migrants! Where the hell are they coming from?

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations from August 2020 to the beginning of September 2020.

Leftist news sources want metro areas to become “true havens for climate migrants” advising How cities can prepare to support climate migrants.

 

Five years later hundreds of migrants still dying in the Mediterranean.

Five years on from boy’s tragic death, “refugee and migrant children worse off”.

Migrants rejected by European Union and deported to Tunisia are now fleeing to Libya.

“47% of surveyed refugees and migrants cited increased difficulty crossing borders as an impact of the coronavirus crisis…”

AUSTRALIA:  So desperate for skilled slave-wage workers that The Land Down Under is going to wave CoViD-19 restrictions for them

Revealed; real estate values were being propped-up by influx of migrants

State of Tasmania desperate for slave-wage migrant construction workers, blames CoViD-19

BANGLADESH: 80 Bangladeshis were arrested after they claimed they were tricked out of $4-thousand each, and into migrating to Vietnam for jobs that didn’t exist.  Apparently there is a Bangladeshi law that says you can’t embarrass the country by doing things like protesting over unemployment in other countries.  

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: ‘No Man’s Land’: Migrants, Refugees Stranded at a Bosnian Roadside

FRANCE: Council backs migrants who pitched tents in central Paris

GERMANY:  Leftist news media claims Five years after migrant crisis, integration is succeeding

GREECE: First case of CoViD-19 confirmed in migrant camp (you’d think by now there be hundreds, if not thousands, of infections)

 More than 10-thousand migrants blocked

Greece Is Dropping Migrants into the Sea — And Europe Is Turning a Blind Eye

INDIA: Government food program to feed slave-wage migrant workers slashed to starvation rations

ITALY: Troubles brew on Lampedusa as island bears brunt of migrant arrivals

 

Italy gives Sea-Watch-4 permission to bring 353 rescued migrants to Sicily

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: African migrants locked up in  coronavirus centers

KOSOVO:  U.S. Army National Guard units from Oregon and Texas are in Kosovo and, among other things like CoViD-19 response, are conducting joint border patrols with the Kosovo Border Police, in the municipality of Kamenicë (Kamenica). Photo by Captain Nadine Wiley De Moura.

LEBANON‘They Called Me ‘Slave’: Beirut Blast Exposes Migrant Workers’ Plight

MALDIVES:  Covid-19 Exposes Abuse of Migrants

MALTA: Illegals on tanker ship running out of food, threaten to jump

Prime Minister to spend 1-million Euros per month to detain illegals on cruise ship

PANAMA: 22-thousand illegals from around the world captured crossing the Panama-Colombia border in 2019

SINGAPORE: Migrants get help from new CoViD-19 phone application

SPAIN: Migrants trying to reach Europe pushed to deadly Atlantic

 

UNITED KINGDOM: Exhausted migrants wade to shore and collapse on beach – as 409 make journey across Channel too shatter new daily record

 

UNITED STATES: The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs is awarding a $250-thousand Technical Assistance Program grant to help domestic migrants (aka Compact Migrants) within the U.S. Pacific territories

ICE captures 2-thousand illegals over a five weeks period

 

Leftist New York Times claims After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared

Taxpayer funded security contractor housing immigrant children in hotels

Near Naco, Arizona, a new section of wall (San Pedro River Project) has been started under Section 284 of Title 10, U.S. Code:

On the top of the Tinajas Atlas Mountains, in Arizona, a new ‘border road’ was started on 05AUG2020.  Photo by George F. Jozens, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Photo by Jerry Glaser, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

From California to Texas, 3-hundred miles (483 kilometers) of new border wall sections were completed:

The U.S. Coast Guard reports capturing 16 illegals from Bahamas near the Hanover Inlet of Florida, 12AUG2020. One human trafficker (smuggler) was detained.  The illegals were returned to Bahamas.  Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray.

Near the coast of Marathon, Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard captured 20 illegals from Cuba, 19AUG2020.  The U.S. Coast Guard reports a huge drop in illegals coming from Cuba; so far this fiscal year only 140 have been captured, compared to the 482 in fiscal 2019.

Idaho PBS reveals refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo are now one of the main groups arriving in Idaho.

In the state of Michigan, National Guard personnel are being used to test migrant farm workers for CoViD-19.  This is the result of the state Department of Health and Human Services issuing an emergency order at the beginning of August, requiring that all agricultural and food processing workers who are living in migrant housing camps must be tested for CoViD-19 within 48 hours of entering the state.  The program is taxpayer funded and involves the Michigan National Guard because apparently a lot of Guard personnel speak Spanish: “We do have a large migrant population as well in our community, because of our influx of migrant workers during the summer and fall months. So having somebody who does speak Spanish is important because it gives them access too.”-Heather Alberda, Ottawa County Department of Public Health

On 07AUG2020, the U.S. Coast Guard captured this boat with 16 illegals from Dominican Republic, near Puerto Rico. The illegals were sent back to their home country.

16AUG2020, the U.S. Coast Guard claims this boat was packed with 52 illegals from Dominican Republic, heading to Puerto Rico.  On 17AUG2020 the illegals were handed over to the Armada de Republica Dominicana.

 

Texas Army National Guard assist with operations at border checkpoints, 14AUG2020.  Photo by Staff Sergeant DeJon Williams.

Texas Army National Guard performs maintenance on U.S. Border Patrol vehicles.

14AUG2020, pilots at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, conducted a CoViD-19 flight carrying flags to honor the members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection killed by CoViD-19. Photo by Senior Airman Anne McCready.

VENEZUELA: 100-thousand would be illegal immigrants halted by CoViD-19

OPERATION COVID-19: BORDER GUARDS

OPERATION COVID-19: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., 09-15 FEBRUARY 2020: BORDER COPS REPORT RECORD NUMBER OF…FLOWERS?

OPERATION JUPITER: MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, SEPTEMBER 2018:TAXES, BAD COPS & CRIMINAL MIGRANTS ON THE RISE!

Singapore Sky Pirates & Idaho Gunslingers

In March 2022, Idaho’s Gov’na, Brad Little, poses with Singapore’s Buccaneers. U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Hoskins, 21MAR2022.

In December 2021, the Buccaneers flew from Idaho to Florida, to take part in the Weapons System Evaluation Program. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 08DEC2021.

The Buccaneers take part in Red Flag, in Nevada, March 2021.
USAF photo by Senior Airman JaNae Capuno.

Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, is home to F-15SG Buccaneers (428th Fighter Squadron Republic of Singapore) and F-15E Gunfighters (U.S. Air Force 366th Fighter Wing).  They fly their own colorfully painted ‘flagships’. The tiny Republic of Singapore is part of the British empire’s Commonwealth of Nations.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Andrew Kobialka, 15MAY2020.

Buccaneers F-15SG flagship flying alongside an F-15E from a different squadron (Bold Tigers) of the same Fighter Wing, and Idaho National Guard A-10Cs, as part of CoViD-19 morale booster operations 15MAY2020.  The Buccaneers are flown by the The Republic of Singapore Air Force, but are based at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 15MAY2020.

About to deploy from Idaho to Utah, for Combat Hammer. USAF photo by Airman First Class Jeremy D. Wolff, 02MAY2017.

Combat Hammer, 2017.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Jeremy L. Mosier, 02MAY2017.

Official USAF video report about Combat Hammer, Singapore bombs Utah:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Connor J. Marth, 27FEB2017.

Over Mountain Home AFB, February 2017.

USAF photo by Airman Alaysia Berry, 08APR2016.

Buccaneers bomb crew getting instructions at the start of weapons loading competition at Mountain Home AFB, April 2016.

Singaporean F-15SG crews competed against USAF F-15E crews for best weapons loading, on Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Airman First Class Chester Mientkiewicz, 08APR2016.

USAF photo by Senior Airman James Hensley, 19NOV2015.

Landing at Luke AFB, Arizona, for exercise Forging Saber, November 2015.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Spangler, 11JUL2014.

Red Flag Nevada, July 2014.

Video, Red Flag Nevada night take-off, afterburners:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jim Araos, 09OCT2012.

Idaho’s, I mean Singapore’s Buccaneers taking part in Red Flag Alaska, October 2012.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Sutton, 16OCT2012.

Only one of the F-15SGs has fancy paint on its tails, the others are plain.

The Republic of Singapore began flying F-15SG Strike Eagles at Mountain Home AFB in 2009.  The U.S. Air Force re-activated the 428th Fighter Squadron specifically for the RSAF (as part of the Peace Carvin V program).  The 428th Fighter Squadron (FS) is officially part of the 366th Fighter Wing (FW).

(MATTIS DISCOVERS SINGAPORE’S INVASION OF IDAHO)

And now for Idaho’s Gunfighters:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 12JUN2019.

‘Flagship’ F-15E Strike Eagle of the 366th FW, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

Video, 2019 ‘elephant walk’ at Mountain Home AFB:

USAF photo by Todd Cromar, 15AUG2018.

Taking part in Combat Hammer at Hill AFB, Utah, 15AUG2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 22MAY2018.

Gunfighter flagship over Mountain Home AFB, 22MAY2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 23MAY2018.

The 366th FW ‘Gunfighters’ (represented by the 20mm Vulcan-gun carrying Spook) includes 389th FS ‘Thunderbolts’ (represented by the lightening bolt), 391st FS ‘Bold Tigers’ (represented by the orange field with black tiger stripes [like Idaho State University’s colors]) and 428th FS ‘Buccaneers’.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Javier Cruz, 13DEC2016.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Javier Cruz, 13DEC2016.

A 391st Fighter Squadron Bold Tigers F-15E Strike Eagle over Saylor Creek bombing range, near Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Kevin Wallace, 16OCT2013.

NEW TAIL FEATHERS FOR OREGON EAGLE, B-17 BOMBER STYLE!

D-DAY F-15E STRIKE EAGLE

LOCATION OF MISSING IDAHO F-15E STRIKE EAGLES REVEALED? OR, WHY HI-TECH DOESN’T EQUAL FEWER HUMANS?

IDAHO F-15E WALK-AROUND

Climate Change = CoViD-19?

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

A U.S. Navy sailor conducts weather observations aboard USS Makin Island (LHD 8), 16APR2020, somewhere in the Eastern Pacific.

Incomplete list of links to academic/scientific studies or reports about the connection between diseases and weather:

U.S. EPA; Climate Change affecting people with existing health problems

A Sudden Change in Weather Affects Your Health

Could warmer weather help contain the coronavirus?

Wet Weather Could Slow Planting, Increase Risk of Disease

What disease modeling could learn from weather forecasting

President Donald Trump authorized the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to expand its flight of climate monitoring aircraft based at Lakeland, Florida.

Plus, NOAA begins new Unmanned Systems Operations Program to collect weather data.

Plus, NOAA gets two new big boats for ecosystems research.

Weather Variability and Disease Management Strategies

Disease in Uganda put on a Climate Timeline

Infectious Diseases, Weather, and Climate

Climate Influences on Specific Diseases

WEATHER AND DISEASE. | JAMA

WHO | Climate change and human health – risks

U.S. Marine collects weather data on Camp Pendleton, California, 22APR2020.

U.S. CDC; Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease

Warmer Temps Speed Infectious Disease Spread 

The Effect of Seasonal Weather Variation on the Dynamics of the Plague Disease

Weather and Climate Effects on Disease Background Levels

12 Diseases Climate Change May Worsen

Woman’s Rare Blood Disease Triggered by Cold Weather

From 1966; The Effect of Weather on Prevalence of Disease

This is a portable ground based weather surveillance system at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Climate Change: Trees are Maxed Out! 

SKY CITIES STILL ARRIVING! CLIMATE CHANGE, HOLOGRAMS, END TIMES?

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OPERATION TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH HOME BASES FOR NASA’S climate sniffing aircraft FIREX-AQ!

NASA ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!

NATO’s MiG-21

During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich, hence MiG.

MiG 21, NATO reporting name Fishbed/Lancer.

BULGARIA:

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 17JUL2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 17JUL2015.

Apparently 2015 was the last year that Bulgaria operated the MiG-21.

CROATIA: 

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.

It is smaller than an F-16

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 06APR2019.

Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia video of MiG 21s flying with French Rafales, 15MAR2022:

Croat MiG 21s with USAF Aviano Air Base F-16s on the Pleso/Zagreb Airport, 27MAR2022. Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia by T. Brandt.

Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia, on 17MAY2022 a MiG 21 was assigned ‘Gate Guard’ duty for the 30th Anniversary of a flight by Colonel Ivica Ivandić.  This is a controversy in Croatia because there were other MiG 21s involved in that flight and those pilots were seemingly ignored:

ROMANIA, ‘Lancer’: 

2014

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant R.J. Biermann, 17APR2014.

2015

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Armando A. Schwier-Morales, 17MAR2015.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joe W. McFadden, 16APR2015.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant William A. Tanner, 22MAY2015.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Bruch, 23OCT2015.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Bruch, 23OCT2015.

2016

18MAR2016, Canadian Forces photo by Master Seaman (Master Sailor) Steeve Picard.

2017

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.

26SEP2017, Canadian Forces photo by Sergeant Daren Kraus.

2019

Romanian MiG 21s visited Serbia in October 2019. Photo via Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia.

Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia, 01OCT2019.

Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia video, Romanian MiG 21s at the October 2019 International Air Exercise Air Solution meet:

28NOV2019. Canadian Forces photo by Leading Seaman (Sailor First Class) Erica Seymour.

28NOV2019. Canadian Forces photo by Leading Seaman (Sailor First Class) Erica Seymour.

NATO Channel video MiG-21 operations, cockpit view:

2022:

Romanian Ministry of National Defense video report from 04SEP2022, a pilot’s last flight in a MiG 21UB:

Ukraine Crisis: NATO forces Slovakia to suddenly retire its MiG 29s

More MiGs: HERITAGE SABER & MIG FIGHT IT OUT…OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?

INDIAN AIR POWER

MiG-21 adversary F-4 Phantom Two: PHINAL UN-MANNED PHANTOM PHLIGHT

SOVIET ERA TANKS NOW IN USE BY NATO: BULGARIAN T-72

Sky Cities still arriving! Climate change, holograms, End Times?

13 April 2020 / 03:56 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Farvardin 1399/19 Sha’ban 1441/21 Geng-Chen 4718

“And I saw The Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from Heaven from beside God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.”-Revelation 21:2, Aramaic Bible

They’ve been happening since the end of 2010, Sky Cities making appearances over coastal cities in Southern China.  The most recent was over Yangtei City, in August 2019, and even got the attention of the official communist government TV news known as CCTV:

Here’s a May 2018 video from another communist government TV channel, CGTN.  What looks like a giant apartment building “near Beach #1 in Qingdao” in the background, it seems to appear on the ground:

The government controlled news media dismisses these as mirages.  I’ve seen mirages of water caused by heat waves rising off hot desert roads or dry lake beds, but they are not ‘steady’ like these.  The mirages of water I’ve seen are wavy, from the heat rising, and it’s that wavy-ness stirring up the air molecules that give the effect of water on the road or dry lake bed, and they don’t last long, simply  shifting your perspective can make them go away.  I have never seen a steady, sharp edged mirage that reaches up into the sky and lasts for long periods of time!

Here’s a video from 2011, Xin’an river, which looks to be near flood stage.  The problem I have with it is that it’s hard to tell which is the Sky City and which is the real city, there’s no explanation in the video:

CGTN video, March 2016, skyline appears just above the water along the port of Dalian in Liaoning Province:

One possibility is the melting of glaciers is not only flooding the oceans with fresh water, but permeating the air with humidity.  However, if you compare the images in the sky with the landscape on the ground they are very different.  The sky cities appear to me as if they were megalithic blocks, something you’d see in an early science fiction silent film movie about a stark future-city.   Is this what inspired the megalith builders of the super ancient times?

Is it possible that increased humidity in the air can project an image of one city over another city?  China is full of what the ‘western’ news media calls ghost cities; giant cities built but never populated with people, and many were built in the desert regions of China:

In the June 2018, Australian Broadcasting Company’s (ABC News) video you can see some of the buildings in those ghost cities look like blocky megaliths.  Also note that there are lines of unfinished buildings with construction cranes still present.  In some of the videos of the Sky Cities you can barely make-out what looks like construction cranes.  Again, is it possible that atmospheric conditions caused by Climate Change is projecting ghost cities from desert regions into the sky above coastal cities?

In this video, from Xinhua, a ghost city in China’s Inner Mongolia with fog wrapping the lower half of the buildings, it look just like the Sky Cities that appear over water in other parts of China:

Note that at the beginning of this article I pointed out that the first Sky Cities appeared in 2010, that’s about ten years after the construction of the ‘ghost cities’ was started, that’s enough time for many of the buildings to be nearly finished.

Are they human made holograms?  Hologram technology has advanced so far that now they can even create the sensation of touch and sound!  Here’s a November 2019 explainer from C/NET:

The C/NET report shows you how far hologram tech has come in just the past two years.  Here’s an NBC News explainer about how holograms work, as of January 2018:

For those of you who are too religious, natural mirages or human made holograms do not refute End Times signs, it could back them up with scientific explanation.

The natives of the Southwestern area of United States not only talk of Sky Cities, some of them still live in Pueblos.  That’s correct, that plateau of protruding rock in the above pic has a city on top of it!  It’s known as the Acoma Pueblo.

Note the blocky megalithic appearance of the mud-brick buildings, from a distance. Unfortunately, as you’ll see in this official New Mexico video, Acoma is now a tourist trap Sky City:

For the native people of the U.S. Southwest, Pueblos came into use due to a need to escape climactic factors and even competing humans.   A good example are the Anasazai who once lived on the flat lands and built their cities partially buried in the ground, but then abandoned them.  Anasazai myth says their ancestors lived in the ground like ants, until the sky gods told them it was safe to come out.  Archaeologists think the Anasazai civilization was ended by a catastrophic climate change (drought), and that the survivors split-up and started building in the hills and on plateaus.

The Navajo talk about The Fifth World.  It is not the same as the Mesoamerican Fifth World, this appears to be the Sky World.  It is above the ground where humans and other animals live (Fourth World), and below the place where the Soul (Spirits) of Living Things live (heaven?), and above that The Place of Melting (source of creation?).

The Fifth World (sky?) is connected to multiple End Time events in that it appears to be the battle ground between the Spirit World and the Fourth World of animals.  Humans/animals don’t like living on Ground (Fourth World) and yearn to live in Sky (Fifth World), but the Spirits of heaven (Spirit World) routinely interfere, even saying “What are you doing here? This is not your country.”  

This book was first published in 1909.  Notice the swastika.  It is ignorantly called a good luck symbol because the Sanskrit word very loosely translates that way, but I believe it was an Earth/Sky symbol for many ancient tribes.  For the Navajo it represented the four worlds (I think are also the Sacred Mountains, cardinal directions, although many people believe the Sacred Mountains are real mountains) of humans/animals and lower beings living underneath the Fifth World of Sky.

In the above pic I believe the semi-circle Kachina surrounding the swastika is Sky.

Since World War Two, Native Americans have altered their swastikas to be politically correct, making them look more like pinwheels.

How scientists are connecting ancient myths to natural disasters

2015: PROOF OF PROJECT BLUE BEAM? VIDEO OF FLOATING CITY SEEN ACROSS CHINA, AGAIN!

COVID ODDITIES-5: “THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE GOING TO ARREST ME, THIS IS INSANE!”

CDC, JOHN HOPKINS, WIKIPEDIA, NEWS MEDIA+FLU vs COVID=SOMEBODY IS LYING

IMAGES OF THE RAPTURE: POPE REFUSES TO USE THE PHRASE “GOD’S WRATH”!

SUMERIANS WERE RIGHT! BEHOLD THE GOBLIN PLANET!

Ingenious or desperate?

A big water/fuel tank turned into a boat. Intercepted in 1999.

For more than five decades Cubans who don’t like living on their island country have sailed, some even tried swimming, to the United States.  This is partly because the U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) of 1966 ‘fast tracks’ citizenship for any Cuban who can make it to U.S. territory.

U.S. policy is to sink all intercepted migrant boats.

Looks like simple 2×4 construction. Intercepted in 2016.

Even since the year 2000, Cubans still come up with ingenious, or maybe desperate, ways of getting to the United States.

Not sure what this is. Intercepted in 2016.

Wood planks strapped to 55 gallon drums. Intercepted in 2015.

My favorite. A 1951 Chevy truck mounted on empty 55 gallon drums.  The riders actually attempted to drive it to the U.S.  The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat-truck in July 2003.

The truck-boat plugged along at eight miles per hour and made it just 40 miles from U.S. shores before sinking.

You might have seen one driving around Miami, but it’s not the one that sank.  A Florida Chevy dealer was so inspired by the effort of the Cubans that he made a much better-working replica.  As of May 2019, the dealer was trying to sell it for just under $40-thousand!  

But wait!  In 2004 two Cuban families tried to drive to Florida in their 1959 Buick.  The families had tried to do the same thing in the 1990s but their Buick developed electrical problems and they turned back. The U.S. Coast Guard ended their 2004 attempt, catching them before they could reach the shore, sending them back to Cuba, and their classic car to the bottom of the ocean.

But two failed attempts didn’t stop the people in the Buick, they tried again in 2005, this time in a floating 1948 Mercury stretched taxi.

As is U.S. Coast Guard policy, and despite the boat being a classic car, the Cuban taxi-raft was sunk.

VEHICLE I-D: JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

VEHICLE ID: ARMORED DRUG SMUGGLING BOATS

Soviet era tanks now in use by NATO: Bulgarian T-72

U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant Ian Fischer, 27MAY2021.

30MAY2021, live-fire during NATO Saber Guardian-Defender Europe war game, U.S. Army video by Specialist Christian Cote:

USA photo by First Lieutenant Ian Fischer, 27MAY2021.

Louisiana Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Megan Zander, 21FEB2020.

Towards the end of February 2020, the U.S./NATO conducted a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEX) at the Novo Selo Training Area in Mokren, Bulgaria.

Louisiana Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Megan Zander, 22FEB2020.

Bulgarian T-72 tankers were happy to take part in the live fire training.

Louisiana Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Megan Zander, 22FEB2020.

Louisiana Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Megan Zander, 22FEB2020.

Keeping an eye on the U.S. Army M1 Abrams from Fort Hood, Texas.

Louisiana Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Megan Zander, 22FEB2020.

Louisiana Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Noshoba Davis, 22FEB2020.

Firing the Soviet designed 12.7mm, fun!  I loved firing the M2 Browning 12.7mm when I was an M1A1 TC (Tank Commander).

USA photo by Sergeant Ashley Gillons Terpsma, 11JUN2019.

NATO Strike Back-19 wargame, Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria, June 2019.

Michigan Army National Guard photo by Specialist Samantha Hall, 12JUN2019.

North Carolina Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jamar Marcel Pugh, 02AUG2018.

NATO’s Platinum Lion, 2018.

North Carolina Army National Guard video, 15SEP2018:

North Carolina Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jamar Marcel Pugh, 15SEP2018.

North Carolina Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jamar Marcel Pugh, 15SEP2018.

What a T-72 looks like looking out the back of a Bradley, September 2018.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sean J. Berry, 03AUG2017.

NATO’s Platinum Lion 17.2 training with U.S. Marines, August 2017.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Christopher Lange, 12JUL2017.

Eagle Sentinel-17, July 2017.

Oregon Army National Guard video, Saber Guardian wargames, July 2017:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Michelle Reif, 15DEC2016.

NATO’s Platinum Lion wargames, 2016.

Hull down. USMC Photo by Corporal Justin T. Updegraff, 15JAN2016.

USMC Photo by Corporal Justin T. Updegraff, 15JAN2016.

USMC Photo by Corporal Justin T. Updegraff, 08JAN2016.

USMC Photo by Corporal Justin T. Updegraff, 08JAN2016.

Can you identify the World War Two Soviet tank in the background?

USMC Photo by Corporal Justin T. Updegraff, 08JAN2016.

USA photo by Specialist Jacqueline Dowland, 25JUN2015.

SOVIET ERA TANKS NOW IN USE BY NATO:

BULGARIAN ARMOR, (PLUS THE BULGARIAN BMP-23)

SLOVENIAN M84 Sniper