Category Archives: Technology

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama’s current backyard replaces old commuter trains with new ones from Japan! Billions in U.S. taxes paying for Japanese take over?

07 January 2014 (20:34 UTC-07 Tango 06 January 2013)/05 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/17 Dey 1392/07 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“Demand for new rail cars is growing in other U.S. cities.  We’ll aim to satisfy the need for replacements in those places as well.”-Iwasaki Hiroji, Kawasaki Executive Officer

U.S. taxpayers have just updated the metro rail system in Washington DC, with train cars made in Japan!

Kawasaki Heavy Industries delivered several new cars to the Greenbelt station in Maryland, in a ceremony in which U.S. officials did not directly mention the Japanese connection.

The cars’ major components were made in Japan, then shipped to Kawasaki’s final assembly factory in Lincoln, Nebraska.  There was a time when U.S. industries could have handled the task, but not anymore no-thanks to unAmerican Corporate America outsourcing jobs overseas!

Kawasaki officials claim some of the Japanese cars were 100% built in their Nebraska factory.

The Washington Metro Area Transit Authority has ordered 528 Japanese rail cars, at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $1.1-billion USD!

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

International, Technology, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. Department of Defense violates Federal Law and buys parts from China! F-35 = Failed State!

04 January 2014 (11:50 UTC-07 Tango)/02 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/14 Dey 1392/04 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“It was a pretty big deal and an unusual situation because there’s a prohibition on doing defense work in China, even if it’s inadvertent. I’d never seen this happen before.”-Frank Kenlon, recently retired senior DoD procurement official

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation revealed that U.S. military contractors have been authorized by the U.S. DoD to buy parts made in China, even parts for the super expensive (and total waste of tax dollars) F-35 Lightning II.  This violates current federal law!

More than a decade ago the F-35 was envisioned as a mutli-platform aircraft for all the branches of the U.S. military, and promoted as a way of saving the DoD money.  Ironically, it became so expensive that it became a multi-national project, in order to keep the already outrageous costs to taxpayers from going too much higher (and even that attempt was a fail).   Now it’s been shown that the DoD took it upon themselves to allow contractors to violate federal law and buy parts for the F-35 from China, in another move to keep costs from going higher.

The GAO will make the conclusions of their investigation public on 01 March 2014.  Reuters has already got hold of enough info to publish an article.

The GAO investigation was ordered by Congress, after U.S. metal suppliers complained they were being shut off from doing business with the DoD!

The F-35 is a prime metaphor for the exceptionally failing United States of America: It’s been dragging on for more than a decade, and more and more tax dollars are being spent with absolutely no end in sight, to the extent that public officials are willing to violate their own laws in the name of National Security!

(don’t blame China for the actions of your public officials, after all, the evil British empire is a major player in the F-35 program)

Technology, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: Federal judge says NSA data collection violates Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens! Calls data collection “Orewellian”.

17 December 2013 (11:43 UTC-07 Tango )/13 Safar 1435/26 Azar 1392/15 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary’ invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely, such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.”-Richard Leon, Federal District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. Federal District Judge, Richard Leon, has stated that the government data collection of its own citizens is unconstitutional, but is withholding official judgement in the case he’s presiding over.  Leon cited “…significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues…” for withholding judgement.

This is the first time a federal judge, who was not part of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, spoke against data collection.  In previous data collection cases the judges were members of the evil FISC.

If you study NAZI Germany, you’ll find they created a similar court of convenience, which ruled all the government’s evil doings, including gas chambers and death camps, to be legal!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Armor museum Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

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Military Vehicle Park, part of the John B Mahaffey Museum Complex, click the pics (by AAron B. Hutchins) to make them bigger and see more:

VEHICLE I-D: RAT ROD 1967 BLH AUSTIN-WESTERN USN SEABEES ROAD GRADER $14,794

International, Technology

China about to land Jade Rabbit on the Moon!

02 December 2013 (20:31 UTC-07 Tango 01 December 2013)/28 Muharram 1435/11 Azar 1392/30 Jia-Zi (10th month) 4711

“We will strive for our space dream as part of the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation!“–Zhang Zhenzhong, director of Xichang launch center

China is about to become the third country to land on the Moon.   The rocket carrying the probe and lunar rover blasted off early this morning.

The Chang’e-3 carries a lunar rover called Yutu (Jade Rabbit).  If successful China will follow the Soviet Union and United States, and become the third country to land on the Moon.

Technology

World War 3, Asian Front: China builds copy of U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel, that was shot down by Iran!

23 November 2013 (03:26 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Muharram 1435/02 Azar 1392/21 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

In December 2011 Iran captured a very expensive U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth UAV (drone), which was illegally flying in Iranian air space.  Today, China has released pics of their new stealth drone and it looks a lot like the RQ-170.

China calls their version the Sharp Sword.  The Sharp Sword stealth UAV is said to be a combat drone.

After Iran captured the RQ-170 they reversed engineered it and shared the info with Russia and China.

Iran decodes all data from stealth drone

Iran copies Stealth Drone shares info with Russia & China 

Iran…sends Obama a smaller hot pink version

Iranians are expert reverse engineers

Iran shoots down U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology, U.S.

More pleas for help from Idaho company that wants to save Pocatello’s Hoku polysilicon factory! 1-thousand new jobs to be created?

23 November 2013 (18:09 UTC-07 Tango 22 November 2013)/19 Muharram 1435/02 Azar 1392/21 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

The following was sent by Francis W Kreais III of JCF Funding:

Gordon Jenkins has been working closely with Francis Kreais who is the founder and CEO of JCF Funding-who has been the front man for Arco Hills Silica Company making this deal work.

Gordon Jenkins is the president of Arco Hills Silica Company. This company owns some very large and very pure silica located in Butte County, Idaho. (About 20 Billion tons) When we heard of the bankruptcy auction of Hoku, we became extremely interested in acquiring that polysilicon plant because it fits in so well with what we are trying to do with our silica mine located near Arco Idaho.

We plan to purchase the entire plant at this upcoming auction because it would make it possible for us to go into operation without having to build our own processing plant. We also would benefit the local community because we would not only bring back the some 160 jobs related to the shutting down of the Hoku plant, but at least another 500 to 1000 jobs related to the development of our silica mine and related to the companies that are willing to move their plants out here to Idaho just so they can decrease the transportation costs of hauling the silica back to where they are already located.

Contact Francis W Kreais III at [email protected] to express your support!

Read More about the Hoku Materials saga:

JH Kelley blocked by federal court

International, Technology

Don’t take your Crapper for granted, it’s time to celebrate World Toilet Day!

20 November 2013 (14:53 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Muharram 1435/29 Aban 1392/18 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

The words crapper and crap, for that matter, are ligit.  They come from the name of a real person.  Thomas Crapper was a successful British plumber who was incorrectly associated with inventing the modern flush toilet.

The idea of a flushing toilet is ancient.  Archeologists say the first example was created for the King Minos more than 2800 years ago.  The first patent for a modern flushing toilet went to Alexander Cummings in 1775.  The first use of indoor plumbing and flush toilets was in 1825 by a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.  But toilets back then were for the elites.  It wasn’t until after 1910 that flushing toilets took on a design similar to current toilets, and became affordable for us commoners.

And it wasn’t until after the Second World War that most commoner families of the Western World got indoor flush toilets.  I was in Scotland in 1991 and visited a museum dedicated to the history of sewage.  It even had a full size replica of a 1800s sewer system complete with stinking crap and piss (of course it was replicated, but who’d of thought somebody could be paid to make models of craps, other than those joke crap toys)!  But what awakened me to the fact that we take our crappers for granted was a small display that pointed out that most Scottish homes didn’t have indoor plumbing, or toilets, until after the 1950s!

Then you have to wonder at the Japanese, for taking toilets to the extreme.  Apparently the Japanese are so afraid of their rear ends they created toilets that blast their asses with water jets so they don’t have to wipe.  The latest Japanese toilets provide imaging systems and soothing female computer voices to tell them if they still have a nasty ass, and then it blasts them again.  (there are some people in the U.S. that are the same way and will pay top dollar for a robot toilet from Japan)

By the way the first production toilet paper wasn’t invented until 1857.   And the technology to make modern toilet brushes was used to create the first artificial Xmas tree, in the 1930s, thus linking Xmas and toilet cleaning.

Now to get serious,  the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) marked 19 November as World Toilet Day.  They want people to be aware of the major impact toilets have on reducing disease.  Even so, UNICEF says one reason for the rise of new diseases is the fact that (in their estimation) as many as 2-thousand children die every day because they live in areas that have no toilets, or way of handling sewage: “Access to toilets remains the unmentionable, shameful secret for even some very prosperous countries.  But its invisibility doesn’t make it harmless; in fact it is quite the reverse. Lack of access to toilets is quite literally killing children, making adults sick…”–Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

So those of us commoners who have toilets should be proud, and thankful, for they truly are our porcelain thrones!

Oh commodus selarium deus, forgive me for taking you for granted. I am truly thankful to have you.

Oh commodus selarium deus, forgive me for taking you for granted! I am truly thankful to have you!

Technology, U.S.

Martial Law: Google gets record World government demands for your personal data!

14 November 2013 (11:48 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Muharram 1434/23 Aban 1391/12 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“Americans still have no way of knowing whether the government is striking the right balance between privacy and security, or whether their privacy is being violated.”-Al Franken, U.S. Senator from Minnesota

ABC (American Broadcasting Company) News reporting that Google has received a record number of U.S. federal government demands for your personal data.  In the first six months of 2013 the police state federal government demanding the info for 10918 Google users.  That’s 2949 more than all of 2012.  It’s double the government demands from 2009.

Google admits it turned over 83% of the data demanded.  Google officials also revealed that other governments have increased their demands for your personal data (14961 foreign government demands in first six months of 2013, and Google says they’ve complied with most of them).

International, Technology

One Japanese agency accuses another agency of making it unprecedentedly easy for terrorists to get nukes!

06 November 2013 (04:19 UTC-07 Tango)/02 Muharram 1434/15 Aban 1391/04 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

The Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) is accusing the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) of violating anti-terror laws, regarding the protection of nuclear material.

The JAEA runs the fast breeder Monju reactor: “The violations included the lack of background checks on visitors to Monju, and the lack of regular inspections over the past 3 years of a device that records vehicle and personnel entry into the compound……members of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said that such neglect at a plutonium handling facility is unprecedented.“-Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation

The NRA says the lax nuke reactor security is inherent in the way the JAEA is organized.