Suiting up for Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, and Radiological (CBRN), also known as Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC).
On 27 JUN 2017, the Oklahoma National Guard’s 63rd Civil Support Team responded to a hazardous chemical spill in Weatherford, they completed their mission successfully. It was all in a day’s training:
VIGILANT CATAMOUNT: NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA PREPS FOR DISASTER, MILITARIZES LOCAL COPS!
NATIONAL GUARD RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL ATTACK(?) IN ARIZONA!
More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in April 2017:
Discount broker and T-Mobile partner Loyal3 suddenly announced it will shutdown in May!
Arkansas: Bentonville based Walmart laid off hundreds more corporate employees, including 3-hundred Information System Division employees! It’s part of Walmart’s plan to improve its lagging e-commerce sales.
California: Despite reporting a record breaking quarter NerdWallet laid off more than 40 people. It’s part of NerdWallet’s plan to shift focus on different services and to consolidate operations. After 11 years Palo Cedro Printing shutdown. It sounds like the operator was forced out by the landlord saying “I am still in the printing business, but I am closing the store front. I will not have a location for walk in customers until I find a new space.” In North Highlands, Advanced Call Center Technologies eliminating 135 call center jobs by the end of May! Google suddenly laid off 104 satellite mapping employees and refuses to say why! Reports that China based ‘smart’phone maker LeEco has eliminated hundreds of California jobs and more layoffs are planned! Former employees told local news media that they’re still waiting for their final paychecks! In Irvine, software company Cylance laid off an undisclosed number of employees due to restructuring. In Santa Clara, Marvell Semiconductor laying off 13 people in June. Online marketplace Zazzle issued a shutdown WARN for its San Jose ops, 117 jobs gone by June! Vishay Siliconix issued a layoff WARN for Santa Clara, 71 jobs gone by the end of June. NDC Technologies shutting down its Irwindale ops, 42 jobs gone by July. Texas Instruments issued a layoff WARN for its Santa Clara ops, 78 jobs gone by mid-June. In Fullerton, Nelco Products laying off 62 people by mid-June. In Westlake Village, NCR laying off 76 people by the end of June. 3D Instruments issued a shutdown WARN for its Anaheim ops, 59 jobs gone by the end of June. In San Jose, Nimble Storage finally notified the state that it laid off 67 people back in February.
Colorado: Greenwood Village based Ciber is now bankrupt busted and being sold-off to a French company. Georgia based payment processor TSYS (Total SYstem Services) shutting down its operations in Golden, in an effort to “focus to our business model.”
Connecticut: Bristol based ESPN laid off about 1-hundred people, saying the layoffs were planned awhile ago due to “Dynamic change demands”!
Idaho: Georgia based payment processor TSYS (Total SYstem Services) laying off 64 people as it shuts down its operations in Boise, in an effort to “focus to our business model.” Also in Boise, Marvell Semiconductor laying off 23 people in June.
Illinois: More layoffs for Chicago based Groupon, this time 1-hundred people were suddenly let go! Apparently it’s part of Groupon’s plan to kill 1-thousand jobs and halt operations in seven countries.
Indiana: Outsourcing company StarTek laying off 207 ‘customer care’ employees in June, no reason given!
Nebraska: Warren Buffett owned BH Media Group suddenly laid off 289 people and closed 108 vacant newspaper jobs! But don’t blame competition with digital media, CEO Terry Kroeger revealed that even digital media is losing money saying “our digital revenue is not growing fast enough”.
New Jersey: Gannett Satellite Information Network issued a WARN for its operations in Freehold, 213 jobs gone by June!
New York: Online magazine Elite Daily issued a shutdown WARN, at least 47 jobs lost due to the sale of the internet business.
North Carolina: LED light bulb maker Cree laid off 70 people “in response to current business conditions.” Centerline Digital laid off 20% of its employees. Upset former employees revealed on internet sites that at least 25% of employees voluntarily quit every year, due to mismanagement. However, Centerline Digital administrators say the 20% layoff is due to its largest client conducting a “market transformation”. Winston-Salem Journal suddenly laid off 14 people due to crashing revenues. News & Record suddenly laid off 36 people “in response to market changes.”
Pennsylvania: Condulent laying off 149 call center employees in Moosic by the end of May! Local news media said employees were ordered not to talk to local news media.
Texas: Tax sucking General Dynamics shutting down its Lacy Lakeview ObamaCare sign-up call center, 840 jobs lost by the end of May! It’s blamed on the lack of people signing up for ObamaCare (ACA).
Virginia: Richmond-Times Dispatch suddenly laid off 33 people, announcing the company must restructure due to crashing revenues.
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, March 2017: ”TO REDUCE OUR BURN RATE”
24 JUN 2017 (13:39 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Tir 1396/29 Ramadan 1438/01 Bing Wu(6th month) 4715
In the ‘right-wing’-conservative-Christian-oil-rich state of Texas the United States Army has been deployed on an economic mission in an area known as Colonias.
It’s a joint operation with Texas A&M University known as Colonias Innovative Readiness Training. Not only are infrastructure problems being dealt with, but, and despite the advent of ObamaCare (ACA), free medical clinics are held for Texas who still don’t have ObamaCare mandated health insurance!
U.S. Army-Texas A&M free dental service in Web County, Texas.
Free taxpayer funded eye exams in Web County, Texas.
But this isn’t the first time the U.S. Army has been called in to help supposedly fiercely independent Texans. In 2016, a free clinic in Rio Grande Valley was swamped by people who are not benefiting from ObamaCare.
Red Neck Fail: Saudi Arabia takes over Texas oil supply?
Red Neck Fail: Turkish Tankers take Texas!
RED NECK FAIL: ‘CHRISTIAN’ TEXAS HOME BASE FOR TAXPAYER FUNDED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST SCHOOLS!
Red Neck Fail: Texas Caribbean Xmas theme park built with Chinese labor!
OBAMACARE FAIL: U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYED TO RENDER FREE MEDICAL HELP TO 13-THOUSAND U.S. CITIZENS!
24 JUN 2017 (13:05 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Tir 1396/29 Ramadan 1438/01 Bing Wu(6th month) 4715
“Depending on the weather, it can severely degrade if not stop the mission. Depending on what’s going on, you could have turbulence so severe that it prevents aircraft from flying or dropping bombs.”-Staff Sergeant Caleb Custer, USAF 380 Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight
The United States Air Force has inadvertently revealed the biggest threat to their taxpayer burdening billion and trillion dollar weapon systems; radical weather!
USAF weather-personnel at an undisclosed location in the Middle East.
Climate change is real, but the Earth has always undergone severe, sometimes catastrophic climate change, and at times when there were no humans on the planet. Whether the radical weather is caused by humans, or just part of the planet’s cycle, it drastically affects those hi-tech aircraft: “Without a legal weather brief, the aircraft could not even get off the ground…. ….It is one of my biggest frustrations with this job. It can go from beautiful to completely horrible in the blink of an eye with no warning whatsoever.”-Master Sergeant Randy Jones, USAF weather operations flight chief
USAF personnel employ Tactical Meteorological Observing System.
Radars need to breath. USAF personnel changing an air filter on portable Doppler weather radar in Qatar.
Hi-tech USAF rain gauge (Tactical Meteorological Observing System) in Qatar.
USAF Tactical Meteorological Observing System deployed to North Dakota.
Hi-Tech Fail: Aptos user Rue21
Texas special forces ‘weathermen’ para-dive into Lake Worth!
Hi-Tech Fail: USAF ADMITS F-22 STEALTH JET IS A PAIN TO MAINTAIN, AND THAT’S JUST THE ‘SKIN’!
Islamic State Fail: Video shows attempt to launch drone in Syria
Gun Ban Fail: ‘Terrorist’ strikes using low-tech weapons!
Hi-Tech Fail: Idaho’s low tech paper ballots ranked one of most trustworthy for U.S. elections!
Self Drive Car Fail! Uber breaks the law in California!
Hi-Tech Fail: Japan joins the Dumbing Down crowd!
False Flag: Military loses 1,000+ high tech devices in one year!
Climate Change? The Nose Knows!
That High Tech agreement you signed onto just took away your Rights!
24 JUN 2017 (12:13 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Tir 1396/29 Ramadan 1438/01 Bing Wu(6th month) 4715
According to retail analyst Fung Global Retail & Technology, in the first half of 2017 there’s been a 218% spike in store shutdowns compared to the first half of 2016!
The death of Radio Shack is the main culprit, but the overwhelming majority of retail shutdowns are clothing/apparel accessory operations.
I’ve already pointed out that the retail industry’s death spiral began under the Obama regime (Obama Legacy: U.S. Apparel industry Death-Spiral “I have no clue. It just doesn’t seem to be working…”, Obama Legacy: Death of ‘Outdoors’ stores, and don’t blame the internet!, Obama Legacy: “…a severe recession…”, OBAMA LEGACY: TRADE DEFICIT AT RECORD LEVEL?, Obama Legacy: Record 95-million + unemployed & not counted!, Obama Legacy: Illinois now an “exceptional” failed state, blame ObamaCare!)
There have been announcements of plans to open new stores in the United States, but they don’t even come close to making up for the shutdowns (many having already taken place).
2017 is well on its way to being the second highest year for shutdowns, 2008 holding the record for number one. But the way things are going, with so many surprises for industry ‘expert’ analysts who keep getting it wrong, 2017 could take the number one spot for shutdowns.
Already I’ve seen main stream news media reacting to the data from Fung Global Retail & Technology by blaming the internet. I’ve pointed out many times that online shopping is way down as well, and that most of the businesses that are shutting down operations, going bankrupt or dying altogether, also sell online.
Case in point: Clothing seller Bebe (which sold on the internet) halted online sales ever since it went bankrupt. Now there’s word that China (Hong Kong, a former British empire colony) based Global Brands Group will soon begin selling Bebe brand clothing online.
Then there’s this amazing fact: Karen Edwards, instructor at University of South Carolina’s College of Hospitality Retailing and Sport Management, stated to local news media that internet sales make up only 10%-15% of all U.S. retail sales!
Online sellers Sears Kmart Death Spiral, June 2017: “already-dead” Hundreds of new store shutdowns, thousands of jobs lost!
Don’t blame the Internet: Idaho internet sales tax collections flat-line!
23 JUN 2017 (11:24 UTC-07 Tango 06) 02 Tir 1396/28 Ramadan 1438/29 Bing Wu 4715
Without warning to U.S.-NATO ‘coalition partners’ the Russian navy and air force hit multiple insurgent logistical positions inside Hama Governorate, Syria.
Two Russian frigates and a submarine launched a total of six cruise missiles at what were believed to be ammo depots and command posts used by insurgents. Russian aircraft targeted insurgent personnel.
Russian military officials say they are now conducting 24 hours monitoring of all insurgent activities in Syria. Russia also says co-operation with U.S. is now suspended and all ‘suspect’ aircraft over Syrian territory west of the Euphrates River will be targeted.
The Russian airstrikes come less than a day after U.S./European/Saudi/Israeli backed insurgents launched attacks across Syria, including an attack on the Al Sharq Private Hospital in Al Kashef district of Daraa city:
Dozens of civilians were killed or wounded by insurgent mortar attacks in Daraa and Hasaka governorates. This included mortar attacks which originated in the NATO member country of Turkey.
In al Rawiya village, in Hasaka Governorate, a mortar round fired from Turkey exploded and wounded two women and a girl.
And in another front of the ‘western’ backed war against Syria, yet another batch of cheap ‘meth’ type drugs were captured as they were smuggled in to supply western backed insurgents.
1-million-9-hundred-thousand captagon pills were seized in al-Sheikh Sa’ad village in the Tartous Governorate.
NATO biggest drug dealer in the World? Amphetamines, it’s what Islamic State does!
Captagon: Yet again, another U.S. ally Saudi prince arrested for drugs trafficking!
Syria, 01 October 2015: The Drugs Combating Department arrested seven drug traffickers in and around Damascus City. They’re accused of trafficking hash from U.S. controlled Afghanistan, as well as the cheapo version of meth called captagon.
Obama Legacy: Kill all civilians, Trump continues tradition!
21 JUN 2017 (10:36 UTC-07 Tango 06) 31 Khordad 1396/26 Ramadan 1438/27 Bing Wu 4715
“As Illinois’ Chief Fiscal and Accountability Officer, my Office is responsible for managing the state’s financial accounts as well as providing the public and the state’s elected leadership with objective and timely data concerning the state’s difficult fiscal condition. As you are quite aware, I have been very vocal regarding these issues and the budgetary impasse since assuming office six months ago; however we are now reaching a new phase of crisis.
Accordingly, I must communicate to you at this time the full extent of our dire fiscal straits and the potential disruptions that we face in addressing even our most critical core responsibilities going forward into the new fiscal year. My Office has very serious concerns that, in the coming weeks, the State of Illinois will no longer be able to guarantee timely and predictable payments in a number of areas that we have to date managed (albeit with extreme difficulty) despite an unpaid bill backlog in excess of $15 billion and growing rapidly.
We are effectively hemorrhaging money as the state’s spending obligations have exceeded receipts by an average of over $600 million per month over the past year.
My cause for alarm is rooted in the increasing deficit spending combined with new and ongoing cash management demands stemming from decisions from state and federal courts, the latest being the class action lawsuit filed by advocates representing the Medicaid service population served by the state’s Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). As of June 15, the MCOs, and their provider networks, are owed a total of more than $2.8 billion in overdue bills at the Comptroller’s Office. There is no question that these obligations should be paid in a more timely manner and that the payment delays caused by the state’s financial condition negatively impact the state’s healthcare infrastructure. We are currently in court directed discussions to reach a workable and responsive payment schedule going forward, but any acceleration of the timing of those payments under the current circumstances will almost certainly affect the scheduling of other payments, regardless of other competing court orders and Illinois statutory mandates.
For the record, however, and as a message to the financial markets, please know that debt service payments will not be delayed or diminished going forward and I will use every statutory avenue or available resource to meet that commitment. It is a necessary pledge in order to attempt to avoid further damage to our already stressed credit ratings and to make possible the additional debt financing that we all know will be required to achieve some measure of stability going forward.
Ultimately it is the only way that we can preserve what remains of our ability to provide vital services to our state’s most at risk populations.
Currently, more than 90 percent of Illinois’ monthly spending is directed toward core functions of state government mandated by court orders, consent decrees, or state law including continuing appropriations. These include certain Medicaid programs, debt service, payroll, K-12 General State Aid and state pension contributions. With the inevitable cash management impact related to the outcome of the MCO lawsuit, this Office will soon be facing the prospect of deciding which court order or statutory mandate the state can accommodate. I hope we can all agree that this is more than an unprecedented situation; it is simply unacceptable.
Even absent pressure from additional court orders, we still foresee unmanageable financial strains, beginning in July, that will severely limit any payments in core areas not under court mandate or consent decree that provide essential services to the state’s most vulnerable individuals, including but not limited to, long-term care, hospice, and community care and supportive living centers serving the senior community, and ambulatory and other critical medical supplies for the poor and disabled.
In large part, through careful cash management and effective stewardship of the state’s General Revenue Fund, our Office has made every effort to triage this crisis in a way that has prioritized and enabled some hardship payments to the state’s most vulnerable citizens and the programs that serve them while still meeting core obligations. That ability will eventually cease.
It is critical that the state’s fiscal situation be addressed immediately before the cash shortages this summer cause further deterioration. I am available to discuss this situation, and possible remedies, with you personally, as a group in a leaders meeting or individually at your earliest convenience.
In the meantime, I will be meeting and communicating with other public stakeholder groups to share these same warnings.
My closing message is simple: The state can no longer function without a responsible and complete budget without severely impacting our core obligations and decimating services to the state’s most in need citizens. We must put our fiscal house in order. It is already too late. Action is needed now.
I eagerly await your response as to next steps for furthering this discussion.”-Susana A. Mendoza, State of Illinois Comptroller, letter posted on the internet 20 JUN 2017
Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois budget impasse will block federal aid
Money-CNN: Powerball and Mega Millions players may fall victim to Illinois budget crisis
Reboot Illinois: Cost and consequences of Illinois’ budget crisis
“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
Obama Legacy: Kill all civilians, Trump continues tradition!
U.S. Job Losses & Closings 26 March 2016: Coal company says ‘fuck you’ to Illinois taxpayers!
U.S. Job Losses & Closings 27 February 2016: Shit hitting the fan! Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania economic Failed States!
U.S. JOB LOSSES & CLOSINGS 07 – 08 FEBRUARY 2016: THE RAPTURE SHUTTERS 100 CHICAGO CHURCHES!
U.S. Civil War, October 2015: Obama regime Homie Town police genocide 7,185 people in Chicago!
U.S. JOB LOSSES & CLOSINGS 11 OCTOBER 2015: CHICAGO ASKS OBAMA TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW, EVEN THE BOY SCOUTS ARE LEAVING!
U.S. Job Losses & Closings 19 – 20 September 2015: Obama regime threatens 5,000 jobs in Chicago!
U.S. Civil War, 03 – 14 September 2015: Illinois steals victim’s homes!
U.S. Civil War Chicago, 01 – 05 September 2014: USN sending doctors to Chicago war zone! Cops pay out $1.25-million for killing residents!
Operation Jupiter: Ebola; Michigan & Illinois next?
U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 24 June 2015: Fighting over food ramps up in Illinois! “There are no more presents under the Christmas tree!”
U.S. Civil War Chicago, 16 – 20 August 2014: “Everybody’s killing each other!”
U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings 11 – 12 August 2014: Illinois gets slammed, again!
U.S. Civil War Chicago, 31 July – 02 August 2014: Illegal immigrant kids being sent to hell in Chicago!
U.S. Civil War Chicago, 12 – 13 July 2014: More proof it’s all about drug running!
Illinois paying out record tens of millions of dollars for wrongful convictions!
U.S. Civil War: Chicago update 16 – 20 June 2014: Afghan heroin connection
Exceptional Failed State 2014: Real estate, welcome to the Death Spiral!
Exceptional Failed State 2014: Illinois based Sears adds another 120 stores to its now secret shutdown list!
Exceptional Failed State 2014: Blame the weather? Blame ObamaCare!!!
Exceptional Failed State 2014: U.S. voters prove they are insane! (or on drugs)
Exceptional Failed State 2014: Don’t blame China, more proof the U.S. Middle Class is the Tool of the British empire!
20 JUN 2017 (10:53 UTC-07 Tango 06) 30 Khordad 1396/25 Ramadan 1438/26 Bing Wu 4715
“We note in particular that the intensification of airstrikes, which have paved the ground for an SDF [U.S. backed Syrian Democratic Forces] advance in Raqqa, has resulted not only in staggering loss of civilian life, but has also led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes.”-Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, UN investigator criticizing repeated U.S. airstrikes against civilian targets in Syria
19 JUN 2017, Syrian Red Crescent convoy delivers humanitarian aid to 11-thousand people in the newly liberated Harasta area.
Also on 14 JUN 2017, United Nations human rights investigators praised Russia, Iran and even NATO member Turkey for “…a discernible reduction in levels of violence in the zones around Idlib and western Aleppo.”
Syrian Army after securing the border with Iraq, in al-Badia (Badyah), 13 JUN 2017. Is the real reason United States is openly attacking Syrian government forces because the U.S. backed insurgents are getting their butts kicked?
According to UN investigators, just since 21 MAR 2017, three-hundred Syrian civilians were killed by U.S. bombs! Isn’t it interesting that the U.S. shoot-down of a Syrian plane (which was attacking U.S. backed insurgents) was made just days after the statements against U.S. airstrikes were made at the 35th Human Rights Council session?
And isn’t it interesting that the United States has begun openly attacking Syrian government forces just as those forces made huge gains against the insurgents, such as retaking the Arak petroleum fields, beginning on 15 JUN 2017:
(Update: U.S. shoots down Syrian UAV, U.S. kills 12 civilians in Hasaka & NATO partner Australia halts airstrikes in Syria)
But let’s not blame Donald Trump only. A non-profit group called Airwars says that ever since Barack Obama officially began a supposed war against British empire created Islamic State (in August 2014) at least 3-thousand-9-hundred civilians in Iraq, Libya and Syria have been killed by the U.S. led NATO ‘coalition’. The U.S. Department of Defense admits to killing hundreds of civilians.
It’s been well established (see below) not just by independent NGOs, but by the United Nations itself, that the number of civilians killed in the False Flag U.S. led (British empire instigated) War on Terror skyrocketed under Obama. The latest data from the United Nations, specifically concerning Syria, is par for the course.
OLD OIL WAR: U.S. FORCES KILLED AFGHAN POLICE!
OBAMA LEGACY: ILLEGAL CYBER-POLICE OPS SKYROCKET!
OBAMA LEGACY: DEATH OF ‘OUTDOORS’ STORES, AND DON’T BLAME THE INTERNET!
OBAMA LEGACY: U.S. APPAREL INDUSTRY DEATH-SPIRAL “I HAVE NO CLUE. IT JUST DOESN’T SEEM TO BE WORKING…”
OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DRUG PUSHER? OBAMA!
OBAMA LEGACY: WHO’S THE BIGGEST GUNRUNNER OF THEM ALL? OBAMA!
OBAMA LEGACY: “…A SEVERE RECESSION…”
OBAMA LEGACY: TRADE DEFICIT AT RECORD LEVEL?
OBAMA LEGACY: MUJAHIDEEN RE-TAKE MORE OF AFGHANISTAN
OBAMA LEGACY: RECORD 95-MILLION + UNEMPLOYED & NOT COUNTED!
OBAMA REGIME SECRET REFUGEE DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA!
OBAMA KILLS 500% MORE PEOPLE THAN BY ALL MASS-SHOOTERS!
U.S. CIVIL WAR 2015: OBAMA REGIME HOMIE TOWN POLICE GENOCIDE 7,185 PEOPLE IN CHICAGO!
2015 WORLD WAR 3: IRAQ MILITIAS DECLARES WAR ON UNITED STATES AFTER OBAMA REGIME REVEALED NEW ‘SPECIAL OPERATIONS’ OFFENSIVE!
2015 WORLD WAR 3: OBAMA DEPLOYS A-10 THUNDERBOLT TO TURKEY! SIGNS ‘SECRET’ DEAL WITH RUSSIA!
AFGHANISTAN, 26 – 31 JANUARY 2015: OBAMA REFUSES TO CO-OPERATE WITH HIS OWN SIGAR, DEPLOYS 1100 PERSONNEL TO SECRET LOCATION! USAID ADMITS $2-BILLION SCAM!
MARTIAL LAW U.S.A.: RC MODEL PLANES NOW CONSIDERED ‘DRONES’ MUST BE REGISTERED WITH OBAMA REGIME!
AFGHANISTAN, 12-15 MARCH 2014:UN SAYS OBAMA KILLS INNOCENT CIVILIANS WITH DRONES!
2013 World War 3: UNITED NATIONS HAS PROOF Obama REGIME KILLING CIVILIANS….U.S. CITIZENS “FUTURE” TARGETS!
2012 World War 3: MASS MURDER IN YEMEN ON OBAMA’S ORDERS! DRONE STRIKES BEST RECRUITING TOOL FOR AL-QAEDA EVER!
2012 World War 3: OBAMA KILLS THOUSANDS MORE PEOPLE THAN BUSH JR! GERMAN OFFICIALS SAY SOME OF THOSE KILLED WERE GERMAN CITIZENS!
KIT BASHING: IRAN TO DISPLAY LIFE SIZE MODEL OF CAPTURED U.S. STEALTH DRONE, SENDS OBAMA A SMALLER HOT PINK VERSION
19 JUN 2017 (16:33 UTC-07 Tango 06) 29 Khordad 1396/24 Ramadan 1438/25 Bing Wu 4715
“I would like to extend a special thanks to our teammates in Canada for continuing to send us their best officers to serve in America’s I Corps…”– Lieutenant General Gary Volesky, U.S. Army I Corps
Canadian Brigadier General Dany Fortin during a ceremony on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, for his contributions to I-Corps. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Youtoy Martin, 13JUN2017.
“It is an incredible privilege to have been selected by my country to come here, and a tremendous opportunity to develop my war-fighting skills…. …I believed in being a part of the team that is the U.S. Army…..”-Brigadier General Dany Fortin, Canadian Army (Armée Canadienne)
Photo of Canadian Brigadier General Dany Fortin on the day he became deputy commanding general for operations, I-Corps, on 31JUL2015. USA photo by Sergeant Sinthia Rosario.
Canadian General Fortin returned home to the British empire’s (Commonwealth) Canada after a two year stint as Deputy Commanding General for Operations with the United State Army’s I-Corps (pronounced eye-core). He revealed that since 2008 Canadian officers have been working inside I-Corps, in command positions.
On 13AUG 2014, Dany Fortin, then a Colonel in the Canadian Army, met with the Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General John M. Paxton Junior, to observe U.S. Marine Corps Large Scale Exercise on Twentynine Palms, California. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Tia Dufour.
U.S. Army I-Corp was founded in 1918 (World War One) and is headquartered at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Under orders from Barack Obama, I-Corps is now part of the Pivot to Asia (operation Pacific Partnership). I-Corps has about 40-thousand active and reserve personnel.
NEW OIL WAR: TRUMP DEPLOYS COMBAT TROOPS TO PHILIPPINES?
Canada controls U.S. NORAD: SHHH, DON’T “CROSSTELL”, BUT U.S. AIR MILITIA UNITS & CANADA PREPPING FOR TFR EMERGENCY!
BRITISH POLITICIAN SAYS OBAMA IS A LOSER, ORDERED FALSE FLAG “PROJECT FEAR”!
USAF REMINDS YOU THAT OUR MORTAL ENEMY IS THE BRITISH EMPIRE!
BRITISH EMPIRE ABANDONS TEXAS!
VIVA LA LIBERACIÓN! UN RULES FALKLANDS BELONG TO ARGENTINA, NOT THE BRITISH EMPIRE!
FALSE FLAG: MEDIA REGULATOR PROVES BRITISH NEWS CREATING FALSE HATRED OF MUSLIMS!
DESTROY U.S. DOLLAR: BRITISH EMPIRE BANKING GOING DOWN, DRAGGING GREEN-BACK WITH IT (It’s called the petrodollar system)!
BRITISH EMPIRE WELCOMES CHINESE CASH IN HAND! QUEEN TREATS XI FAR BETTER THAN ANY U.S. PRESIDENT!
BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH
Exceptional Failed State 2014: Don’t blame China, more proof the U.S. Middle Class is the Tool of the British empire!
Italeri recently re-issued its old but nice looking Deutschland class heavy cruisers (they are not battleships) in 1:720 scale.
These kits represent the class before the 1939-40 rebuilds (refit). They were first issued in the late 1970s, and have excellent detail for the scale (which made some of the larger scale ship kits look even worse than they were; 1:600 Airfix, Aurora, 1:570 Revell, etc). In the 1980s Testors issued them in the United States. Italeri issued them again in the 1990s.
Deutschland: Parts distinct to the first ship and prior to the 1939 update and name change. Deutschland originally had ‘exposed’ torpedo tubes, but the Italeri kit comes with the armored tubes.
Scheer: Parts distinct to the second ship of the line, prior to its 1939-40 rebuild.
Graff Spee: Parts distinct to its final year of life, 1939, with one exception; the kit does not come with the ‘mattress/bed spring’ radar that should be mounted on the front of the tower range finder. Note that prior to 1939 Graf Spee was fitted out similar to Scheer, so if you want to model an earlier Graf Spee just buy the Scheer kit.
Lützow: Parts distinct to the 1939 update to Deutschland (when its name was changed to Lützow), but prior to its 1940 rebuild.
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For decades these ships were called battleships by the victors of World War Two, which is ridiculous since battleships ranged in the 30-thousand to 50-thousand tonnes standard displacement range. It’s the result of official British empire government backed news media propaganda (today called Fake News) coming up with the Fake News phrase Pocket Battleship. It was an attempt by the British government to rile up their subjects to support war with Nazi Germany. Nazi and Blitzkrieg were also Fake News terms made up by the British main stream news media, they were not German terms, although the Germans liked the word Blitzkrieg and used it themselves. What should be noted is that the Deutschland class of ships were not constructed by the ‘Nazis’, but by the western imposed Weimar government in the early 1930s, before the NSDAP (National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei) was democratically elected to power. While these ships violated treaties limiting warship sizes, the violation was initiated by the Weimar government, not the NSDAP (incorrectly called Nazi by the British Fake News Media).
Under treaty cruisers were limited to 10-thousand tonnes (metric tons) standard displacement. According to some sources we will never know the true displacement because Weimar bureaucrats altered the official data. Today it’s generally accepted that Deutschland was just over the 10-thousand tonnes limit, Scheer was closer to 13-thousand and Graf Spee closer to 14-thousand tonnes.
The differences in weight between the ‘sister’ ships is due to subtle alterations in the hulls of Scheer and Graf Spee to accommodate extra armor protection. Official suspect data give the same length and width for all ships, but hull height for Scheer and Graf Spee is 0.2 meter shorter that Deutschland. I would assume that with the extra armor the hull side thickness was greater than Deutschland’s (naval researcher H.T. Lenton says Spee/Scheer were about 1 meter [3 feet] wider than Deutschland-Lutzow).
Knowing that official data for the ships are suspect it’s no use getting knit-picky about accuracy. The best thing is to use photographs of the ship you want to depict at the time period your interested in.
Graf Spee was the first to go, sunk by its own crew in South America in 1939, after being damaged by three Royal Navy cruisers. During its South Atlantic adventure Graf Spee underwent attempts at deception, making itself look like a full fledged battleship with extra gun turret and exhaust funnel, and even painting the name Deutschland on the side of the hull.
Lützow and Scheer lived longer than anybody expected. Not only did the British want them sunk, but, at the protests of the Deutsche KriegsMarine (DKM), Adolph Hitler ordered them scrapped in 1943.
Scheer ended up being used as a training ship and artillery platform against Soviet ground forces. Scheer was sunk in April 1945 by Royal Air Force bombers, a month before Germany surrendered.
Lützow was disabled and used as an artillery platform against the Soviets, supposedly destroyed by its crew as the Soviets overran the port. Western news sources reported that the Soviets had raised Lützow for the purpose of scrapping it. In 2000 it was discovered the Soviets used Lützow for target practice, sinking it in 1947.
The only disappointing thing I find about these Italeri kits is that no decals come with them. It would be nice to have each ship’s bow shield/crest and the Coronel nameplate on the front of Graf Spee’s tower. (you can adapt 1:700 aftermarket decals to these 1:720 scale kits, as well as PE sets)
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