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Technology

‘routine tests’ & ‘logistics hell’: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, November 2018

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Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in November 2018:

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Facebook documents seized by British empire

Mexico’s tequila council pumps the brakes on Elon Musk’s ‘Teslaquila’

5 Reasons Cryptocurrency Prices Are Plunging Again

CALIFORNIA:  Tobi.com issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Mateo County, 62 jobs gone by the end of January 2019.  SMK-LINK Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Camarillo.  ‘Truth in Data’ company Merkle Group issued a layoff WARN for ops in Burbank, 82 jobs gone by the end of the year. Communication tech company Polycom suddenly shutdown its operations in Tracy.  Cisco Systems suddenly laid off 462 people in San Jose and Milpitas!  Universal Electronics issued a layoff WARN, 38 jobs in Santa Ana gone in February 2019. Source Broadband Services eliminating 44 jobs right after xmas.  Warner Music finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 58 jobs, back in July.  Madhouse Entertainment shutting down its Los Angeles office right after xmas.

Taxpayer funded Amtrak to close Riverside call center, eliminating 550 jobs!

New tech start-up Moogsoft lays off 30 people

Broadcom eliminating 2-thousand jobs as part of its take-over of CA Technologies!

Defy Media Shuts Down (90 jobs gone according to WARN)

Disney Digital Network Hit With a New Round of Layoffs

Facebook claims outage was the result of a ‘routine test’

Facebook admits years-old messages are randomly coming back

Elon Musk scraps plans for Los Angeles tunnel after lawsuit settlement

Tesla was near death during Model 3 ramp-up

Tesla’s ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’ 

FLORIDA: Tampa Bay Times cuts more jobs

Global security and detection firm L3 to lay off 70 workers 

Syniverse lays off 3-hundred!

Duke Field, USAF video attempts to explain Synthetic Expeditionary Communication Training (SECT):

HAWAII: Commercial printer Hagadone Hawaii blames New tariffs, rising costs for layoffs of 93 employees

IDAHO: Ivanka Trump gets a first-hand look at Boise elementary school’s tech partnership with Apple

Tech. co. with Boise office sold to bankrupt radio firm

Why this Idaho chipmaker is suddenly at the center of the US-China trade war

INDIANA: Q-Edge Corporation and Foxconn notified the state that they would be cutting approximately 155 jobs by the end of February 2019!

IOWA: Varsity Theatre closing after 80 years of business

MARYLAND: The state’s Army National Guard 110th Information Operations Battalion celebrated 10 years of operations: “This unit is on the cusp of the U.S. Army’s movement to a new information warfare strategy concept…..our adversaries attack us within the information domain every day.”-Lieutenant Colonel Kristine L. Henry, 110th Bn commander

MINNESOTA:  Thomson Reuters suddenly laid off 140 people in Eagan!

Downtown Minneapolis newspaper closing after 48 years

NEVADA: Tesla will live and die by the Gigafactory

NEW JERSEY:  CA Technologies issued a WARN, 54 people in Ewing jobless by January 2019.

NEW YORK: Mic Network shutdown its NYC ops, 120 jobs suddenly gone due to loss of digital publishing contract (according to official WARN)! Broadcom issued a mass layoff WARN for ops in Islandia and NYC, at least 280 employees affected!   Without warning low priced tablet maker Bak shutdown ops in Buffalo, 78 jobs suddenly gone according to the WARN, even the website is offline.  The founders of the company wanted to prove it was possible to make profits off of low priced tablet computers, they failed.

Glamour to Cease Publishing Regular Print Mag in Condé Nast’s Latest Digital Shift

Vice Media is cutting its staff by up to 15% amid missed revenue and a traffic slump

3-year-old Roomi lays off more than half of its workforce after start-up funding falls through

Thomson Reuters closing office in Rochester

360i Goes Through Round of Layoffs Across Multiple Departments

More than 50 positions in NBCUniversal’s advertising sales group are expected to be eliminated as the company works to allocate more resources to digital

NORTH CAROLINA:  Cisco’s large Research Triangle Park campus braces for layoffs

OHIO: Motel operator closing Clintonville call center, laying off 150!

OREGON: Ergontron issued a shutdown WARN for its office in Tualatin, 103 jobs gone by March 2019!

PENNSYLVANIA: Dash Solutions offers to rescue data customers of bankrupt CloudMine

WASHINGTON: Tacoma Tribune News issued a layoff WARN, 67 jobs gone by March 2019.

crypto-currency pioneer GigaWatt now chapter 11 bankrupt busted

Microsoft Accidentally Downgrades Windows 10 Pro

Microsoft’s Office 365 MFA security crashes for second time

The Washington Air National Guard’s 262nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron was tasked with providing cyber security for the state’s electronic voting system during the November elections.

Washington DC: Facebook’s latest scandal has Washington’s full attention

WEST VIRGINIA: State Army National Guard video explaining their new ‘cyber center’:

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, October 2018: “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY”

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: THAAD (updated)

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In the 1990s, the THAAD originally stood for Theater High Altitude Area Defense, but it has changed.  Lockheed Martin: “…Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). THAAD is a highly effective, combat-proven defense capability against short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats, and is the only U.S. system designed to intercept targets outside and inside the atmosphere.”

Possibly in exchange for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu promising not to attack nuclear operations in Iran, on 13OCT2024 U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior confirmed he deployed the THAAD system to Israel.

Bravo Battery-62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Fort Cavazos (aka Fort Hood), July 2024. U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Josefina Garcia.

Estimated cost (as of 2017): $1.25-Billion per battery (48 missiles, six truck-mounted launchers, a radar, a command-and-control platform, 95 soldiers), $12.6-Million per missile.

THAAD command & control vehicles, Dededo, Guam, 12MAR2024. U.S. Army photo by Major Trevor Wild.

Difference between a rocket and a missile: A ‘missile’ is a guided rocket, a ‘rocket’ has no guidance system.

THAAD launcher somewhere in The Middle East, November 2023. USA photo by Duy Nguyen.

In March 2019, the U.S. Army deployed (supposedly for the first time) a THAAD  battery to Israel for a U.S.-Israeli wargame.

Somewhere in the Negev Desert, U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Cory D. Payne.

THAAD radar units of the U.S. Army’s Bravo Battery-Second Air Defense Artillery Regiment-11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Israel, 04MAR2019.

Somewhere in the Negev Desert, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Cory D. Payne, 05MAR2019.

Fort Bliss, Texas, 23FEB2019. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Cory D. Payne.

THAAD load-up on C-17 for deployment from Fort Bliss, Texas, 23FEB2019.

Official U.S. Department of Defense music video of 2019 deployment to Israel:

Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. USA photo by Captain Adan Cazarez.

THAAD deployed to Guam, 05FEB2019.

AN/TPY-2 radar on Kwajalein Atoll, 11AUG2012. Photo via U.S. Missile Defense Agency.

The THAAD also uses the Army/Navy TPY-2 radar.

GREAT RENEGER: TRUMP DEPLOYS THAAD TO ISRAEL

VEHICLE I-D: USAF C-21 LEARJET, YEAR OF THE LEAR

International, Technology, U.S.

Great Reneger: Trump deploys THAAD to Israel

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U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Bethany P. Williams, 06MAR2019.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a group selfie with U.S. Army THAAD system personnel, 06MAR2019.

At the begging of March 2019 U.S. THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missiles were deployed to Israel, under the Dynamic Force Employment (DFE) ‘concept’.

The U.S. Army’s Bravo Company-First Battalion-503rd Infantry Regiment-173rd Airborne Brigade (in NATO Italy), also deployed to Israel for the wargame. USA photo by Henry Villarama, 23FEB2019.

Supposedly this deployment has nothing to do with increased fighting in the area, but is meant to prove DFE is capable of rapidly deploying air defense weapons globally (just like the APS system), in anticipation of World War Three.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Cory D. Payne, 06MAR2019.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, get a tour of a U.S. THAAD site in Israel, 06MAR2019.

Official propaganda video promoting U.S.-Israeli military alliance:

Official social media propaganda video:

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

GREAT RENEGER: LOUISIANA BOMBERS DEPLOY TO ENGLAND

AMERICA SPREAD THIN: More than 2-thousand U.S. military personnel are now in Israel!

Technology

Cold War & Beyond Vehicle I-D: USAF C-21 LearJet, Year the Lear gets upgraded

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Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

13MAR1984, photo via Gates-Learjet.

13MAR1984, photo via Gates-Learjet.

The aircraft is the military version of the Learjet 35A business jet, it replaced the older T-39 Sabreliner.  The C-21A was ‘drafted’ by the U.S. Air Force in 1984. 

Photo dated 02AUG1984, photographer and location unknown.

13MAR1984, photo via Gates-Learjet.

The C-21A is a twin turbofan-engine aircraft used for cargo, medical or VIP (Very Important Person) passenger airlift.

VIP interior of a C-21A. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Fernando Serna, 07SEP1984.

Cargo interior. Photo via Gates-Learjet, 13MAR1984.

A C-21A Learjet arrives on Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, 20SEP1984. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Michael J. Donahue.

What many U.S. taxpayers don’t known is that in November 1984, Gates-Learjet supplied communist China (People’s Republic of China) with a C-21A equipped for geological surveys.

Notice the commie Chinese flag on the tail of this C-21A! Photo via Gates-Learjet, 14NOV1984.

This ‘rollout’ photo is dated 01MAR1985, by Technical Sergeant Rob Marshall.

Operation Desert Storm: 17JAN1991–28FEB1991

Refueling by a Saudi fuel truck during Operation Desert Storm, 23JAN1991. Photographer unknown.

A UN ‘peacekeeping’ officer arrives in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm, 17APR1991. Photo by Sergeant Jeff Wright.

War on Terror: 11SEP2001 (aka 9-11) to present

A C-21A on Scott AFB, Illinois, is adorned with the 9-11 battle cry “Let’s Roll”, 22MAR2002. USAF photo by Airman Justin F. Myers.

C-21A hanger on Scott AFB, Illinois, 17DEC2018. USAF photo by Senior Airman Daniel Garcia.

After 35 years the U.S. Air Force is celebrating it’s use of the executive LearJet (C-21), calling 2019 The Year of the Lear.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Fernando Serna, 07SEP1984.

As part of The Year of the Lear, the USAF has forced taxpayers to upgrade the plane with $38-million of new electronics (partly due to the Federal Aviation Administration’s 2020 mandate)!

USAF photo by Senior Airman Tara Stetler, 25FEB2019.

Video report of continuing C-21 aircrew training:

July 2012:

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, July 2012.

AIR MOBILITY COMMAND LEARJET on POCATELLO AIRPORT (photos by me)

VEHICLE I-D: NEW KC-46A PEGASUS

Technology, U.S.

U.S. taxes support Indian Military Air Show

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In the Brititsh empire’s (Commonwealth of Nations) India (India is not independent), Aero India is taking place and the U.S. taxpayers are helping to support it, despite the fact the United States officially does not have any military ops in India.  The show is taking place at India’s Air Force Station Yelahanka.

U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific members perform for a crowd during Aero India, 23FEB2019.

USAF B-52 bomber from Guam overflies Aero India, 20FEB2019.

USAF F-16 from Misawa Air Base, Japan, overflies Aero India, 20FEB2019.

USAF C-17 shows-off at Aero India, 23FEB2019.

U.S. Navy F/A-18 from VFA-27 on display at Aero India, 23FEB2019.

U.S. representatives admitted the spending of tax dollars on the Indian air show is an attempt to influence the Indian military.  That’s because India is now a financial powerhouse (despite still rampant poverty) and many other countries have already cashed in on deals with India’s military industrial complex.  According to the Economic Times of India, Aero India 2019 is the largest air show in Asia.

India’s own design Light Combat Helicopter TD1, 21FEB2019.

India’s Russian designed two-seat Sukhoi-30 flies alongside India’s own design Tejas, 20FEB2019.

These Russian marked Yakovlev aerobatic planes are actually operated by the British empire’s United Kingdom based Team Yakovlevs.

Indian Air Force helicopter display team Sarang, flying India’s own Dhruv/ALH helicopters, 20FEB2019.

U.S. Ambassador to India, Kenneth I. Juster, is on hand to promote the sale of U.S. military gear.

International, Technology

Hi-Tech Fail: NATO Germany proves Mules still rule Mountain Warfare

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One of the most economically powerful European Union member, and a powerful NATO member, Germany still uses mules in mountain warfare because they’re still the most efficient way to transport weapons and supplies to Gebirgsjäger.  So much for hi-technology.

World War Two

It’s not just the Germans, U.S. MARINES TRAIN RESUPPLY TECHNIQUES WITH PACK ANIMALS

U.S. Army Special Forces and Pack Animals – Info and Pubs

HI-TECH FAIL: CLIMATE CHANGE BIGGEST THREAT TO BILLION DOLLAR WEAPON SYSTEMS!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: New KC-46A Pegasus

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U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody Dowell, 08FEB2019.

KC-46A Pegasus flies over Altus Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma, 08FEB2019.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Cody Dowell, 08FEB2019.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Alan Ricker, 14FEB2019.

U.S. Air Force video, by Staff Sergeant Joshua Crawley, first crew familiarization flight from McConnell AFB, Kansas, 26FEB2019:

USAF photo by Airman First Class Alan Ricker, 25JAN2019.

The first KC-46A Pegasus arrives at McConnell AFB, Kansas, 25JAN2019.

USAF photo by Airman Michaela Slanchik, 25JAN2019.

Video by Staff Sergeant Joshua Crawley, of KC-46As landing at McConnell AFB, 07FEB2019:

USAF illustration by Technical Sergeant Maeson L. Elleman.

 

USAF illustration by Technical Sergeant Maeson L. Elleman.

Boeing photo, 30OCT2018.

Most testing was conducted at Edwards AFB, California, in 2018.

USAF photo by Yasuo Osakabe, 23OCT2018.

The new KC-46A was also tested on Yokota Air Base in Japan.

South Carolina Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Megan Floyd, 13JUL2016.

The KC-46A is a modified Boeing 767.

KC-46A boom operator explainer video:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Tryphena Mayhugh, 14FEB2019.

KC-135 Stratotanker refuels KC-46A Pegasus.

USAF video by Senior Airman Tryphena Mayhugh, KC-46A refueling a C-17 over Washington, 14FEB2029:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Tryphena Mayhugh, 14FEB2019.

VEHICLE I-D: NEBRASKA KC-135 TEENAGED NOSE ART

M1A2-V2-SEP ABRAMS IDAHO LIVE FIRE, FEBRUARY 2019

Technology, U.S.

Nuclear helicopters spotted in Wyoming?

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Does the ‘N’ in UH-1N mean nuclear?  Maybe it does if you’re part of an elite USAF team training to protect the transport of nuclear ballistic missiles.

In yet more proof that we’ve returned to a Cold War mindset, training missions are being conducted in Wyoming, in which swarms of UH-1N ‘Huey’s fly ballistic missile convoy protect missions.

The 37th Helicopter Squadron, based at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, “…supports emergency war order taskings, by transporting tactical response force teams in support of launch facility denial and recapture and convoy operations.”

Idaho, Technology

Vehicle I-D: M1A2-SEP-V2 Abrams Idaho live fire, February 2019

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Alpha Company, 2-116th CBCT. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

At the Orchard Training Area (OTA, aka Orchard Combat Training Center-OCTC) the Idaho Army National Guard is preparing for the 116th Calvary Brigade Combat Team’s upcoming rotation at the National Training Center (Fort Irwin), California, later this year.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Mason Cutrer.

Photo via Idaho Army National Guard.

Photo via Idaho Army National Guard.

Photo via Idaho Army National Guard.

Photo via Idaho Army National Guard. I’ve seen a lot of model dioramas with polished metal cases for the 120mm rounds, that is wrong, the case is a clear combustible plastic, the light grey color is the charge inside.

Photo via Idaho Army National Guard.

“Gunner! Sabot, tank!”

“Identified!”

“Fire!”

“On the way!”

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Thomas Alvarez.

Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 116th CBCT. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Mason Cutrer.

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Mason Cutrer.

Photo via Idaho Army National Guard.

A lot of ‘Metal Case Bases’ (we call them AFCAPs). Anybody experience an AFCAP separation from the case while trying to load it? I have, it sucks, there goes your whole gunnery run!

WORLD WAR 3: “THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING! 

VEHICLE ID: NTC AND THE BRADLEY

116TH SNAKE RIVER’S 2015 NTC ROTATION

Idaho, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Idaho M2A3 Bradley, January 2019

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Upgraded British empire made (BAE Systems) Idaho National Guard M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) conducting ‘live fire’ exercises at Orchard Training Area (OTA, aka Orchard Combat Training Center-OCTC).

Idaho Army National Guard’s Alpha Company, 116 Brigade Engineer Battalion, prepping for ‘rotation’ to National Training Center (Fort Irwin), California, later this year.

VEHICLE I-D: MITSUBISHI F-2, SURE LOOKS LIKE AN F-16

UNITED STATES INVADES IDAHO!

A-10C SNOWBLIND WALKAROUND IN IDAHO!

WORLD WAR 3: “THIS IS WHERE ARMOR FIGHTS!” IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD RETURNS TO COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!