Technology

“redeployment opportunities”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, June 2018

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

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ARKANSAS: Consolidating state taxpayer funded data centers could cost $15-million USD

CALIFORNIA: Gov’na Brown forces taxpayers to give the movie/TV industry $330-million USD!

Taxpayer funded InfoTech company GDIT/CSRA issued a layoff WARN, 67 people in Santa Clara County losing their jobs, possibly in connection to the […] Continue Reading…

International

Pacific Ring of Fire: 11-thousand quakes since July, get ready for a Year without Summer!

More proof climate change is not caused by human made pollution as more evidence of climate change on other planets is being found: Weird Volcanoes Are Erupting Across the Solar System

And for more proof human’s are too puny to affect climate: How an 1816 eruption short-circuited Earth’s ionosphere to trigger “Year Without A Summer” as well as How Volcanoes Reshape Ecosystems, and Active […] Continue Reading…

Idaho, U.S.

“This isn’t foster care, this is state-sponsored kidnapping!”: U.S. government shenanigans, June 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for June 2018:

Tax Foundation: To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Property Taxes?

USA TODAY:  By 2021, these 8 states will have no income tax

ALABAMA: tax delinquency amnesty program begins July 1

Seven Ways Alabama Has Made It Harder to Vote

Rail Commission apologizes, while former member continues to attack Alabama governor

Mobile Council Asks Alabama taxpayers for Amtrak Money

Alabama team showcases state for […] Continue Reading…

Idaho, U.S.

“Lockdown, lockdown”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., June 2018

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

 Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list […] Continue Reading…

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Kfir COA invades Nevada!

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In 2012, Columbia took part in its first participation in the USAF’s Red Flag wargames at Nellis AFB, Nevada.  Columbia used their  Israeli made Kfir COA (Kfir C.12, heavily modified Dassault Mirage).

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Vehicle I-D: ‘DISSIMILAR’ CONTRACTED F-21 LION (KFIR)

Technology

Vehicle I-D: ‘Dissimilar’ Contracted F-21 Lion (Kfir)

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In 2017 and 2016, the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, conducted ‘dissimilar’ air combat training, pitting contracted (Airborne Tactical Advantage Company [ATAC]) Israeli made F-21 Lion (Kfir, modified Dassault Mirage) against the super expensive F-35B.

Taxpayer funded ATAC operated F-21 F-35B Lightning-2

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Technology

Vehicle I-D: NATO’s Cold War era Hawker Hunter Russian aggressor?

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U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps use an outdated aircraft to simulate Russian aggressors.

Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 24NOV2020. USMC photo by Corporal Jacob Wilson. Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist Third Class Arnesia McIntyre, 23NOV2020.

Key […] Continue Reading…

Idaho, Technology

Vehicle I-D 2018: Idaho A-10C ‘dissimilar’

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In July 2018, Idaho was the site of U.S. Air Force ‘dissimilar’ air combat training hosted by Mountain Home Air Force Base.

Louisiana Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Dane M. St. Pe, 18JUL2018.

Air National Guard units from Indiana (A-10Cs) and Louisiana (F-15Cs), and the Idaho National Guard’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2s, […] Continue Reading…

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USMC AAV7 vid-fest

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Slow Mo video, Bellows, Hawaii, July 2018:

Video assault on Pyramid Rock Beach, July 2018:

Video AAV7 ground ops, Twentynine Palms, California, June 2018:

Video USS Oak Hill recovers AAV7, Baltic Sea, June 2018:

Video USS Ashland AAV7 deployment, Philippine Sea, April 2018:

Video, […] Continue Reading…

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USMC cannibalizes HMMWV to upgrade brand new JLTV

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The older HMMWV parts are being harvested for use on the brand new Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV).

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kristen Murphy, 01MAY2018.

The U.S. Marines Corps is cannibalizing older High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles in an attempt to save taxpayers millions of dollars, and “increase the JLTV’s […] Continue Reading…

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