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U.S.

“Haven’t got one wrong yet”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 26 to 31 of Gregorian January 2020.

U.S. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) report on nonimmigrant students in U.S.

U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) National Drug Threat Assessment

ALABAMA:  Illegal immigrants arrested for abusing toddler

ARIZONA: GoDaddy founder pays the tuition for illegals attending Arizona State University

Gang of 11 arrested for drug running

  Man sent to prison for human trafficking

ICE has flown more than 450 migrants to the interior of Mexico since December

The first 30-foot panel for the Yuma 10/27 project is placed at Barry M. Goldwater Range.  Yuma 10/27 will be a 31 miles ‘secondary’ wall, behind the first wall seen in the background.

CALIFORNIA:  Governor Newsom Expands taxpayer funded Health Care Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

Longest cross border tunnel yet, discovered 

FLORIDA: Illegal from United Kingdom dies in ICE custody

Illegal from Cuba dies in ICE custody

 Illegal from Cuba goes to prison for human trafficking

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)-Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) captured more than 176-thousand counterfeit (fake) sports-related items heading to the Super Bowl, worth an estimated $123-million (MSRP, Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price).

BLACK Border Patrol HELICOPTERS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

Video, Super Bowl truck scanning:

Video, U.S. Coast Guard Super Bowl boat patrol:

GEORGIA: 31 people sentenced for arraigning false marriages to avoid immigration laws

ILLINOIS: Illinois Tech offers MAP funding to illegals

MARYLAND: State legislature overrides governor’s veto of a bill that provides in-state college tuition for illegals

MASSACHUSETTS: Man wanted for wartime rape crimes in his home country, was deported by ICE

ICE deports illegal wanted for attempted murder in Brazil

MICHIGAN: MSU informs all students are eligible of its resources “regardless of immigration status.” 

MINNESOTA: Judge finds county was breaking law by holding immigrants for ICE

NEW YORK: ICE arrests illegal accused of child rape

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 75 undocumented immigrants 

Illegal man wanted for drug crimes in Spain, deported 

Man sent to prison for gun running from Kosovo

Two Mexicans accused of killing a Mexican soldier and running drugs into the U.S.

OHIO:  judge uses a hunch to call ICE on undocumented defendants: “Haven’t got one wrong yet”

PENNSYLVANIA: ICE arrests illegal who has been repeatedly arrested and released by local immigrant loving law ‘enforcement’

Chester County is or is not a sanctuary county?

PUERTO RICO:  U.S. Coast Guard captures 37 illegals from Dominican Republic on 29JAN2020, bringing the one week total to 69 illegals captured.

TEXAS: Company hit with $3-million fine for knowingly hiring illegals 

Illegal from Mexico goes to prison for human trafficking

UTAH:  Illegal ‘Dreamers’ can now become attorneys in Utah

VERMONT: Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Takes Hold, to counter illegal immigrant sanctuary cities

VIRGINIA: ICE arrests gang member wanted for crimes in El Salvador

WASHINGTON:  A legal resident, from Bosnia, going to prison for gun running

ICE, along with state and local law enforcers, arrest seven people for child sex trafficking

WYOMING: ACLU says privately run ICE prison is illegal 

Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 19-25 January 2020: “THIS IS NOT A REQUEST, IT’S A DEMAND!”

 

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: F-22 Raptor, plenty of kits of this one!

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F-22 Raptor flies over Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 05DEC2019. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Erin Baxter.

F-22 during demonstration over Shaw AFB, South Carolina.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob Gutierrez, 06JAN2020.

Whoopsy! Main landing gear collapse on Joint Base Langley-Eustis. Virginia Air National Guard photo, 16JAN2020.

Video, USAF Air Demo Teams explainer:

F-22 music video, Fort Lauderdale Air Show, May 2019:

Refueling over the Persian Gulf, 17JAN2020. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Joshua L. DeMotts.

Video, ‘undisclosed location’ in Persian Gulf, refueling F-22s, July 2019:

Sentry Aloha war games in Hawaii, 17JAN2020.  Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier.

Video, Sentry Aloha explainer:

First ever Forward Area Refueling Point (FARP) for F-22 Raptors in an extreme cold weather environment. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 30JAN2020. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ridge Shan.

Missile bay, F-22 on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. USAF photo by Justin Connaher, 31JAN2020.

Video from July 2019, over Battle Creek, Michigan, taken from Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation P-51 Mustang:

Model kits:

 

USAF ADMITS F-22 STEALTH JET IS A PAIN TO MAINTAIN, AND THAT’S JUST THE ‘SKIN’!

Video:  Virginia F-22

2013: FALSE FLAG REPORT CLAIMS U.S. F-22 SHOT DOWN!

Obama cancels F-22 demo for fear of upsetting North Korea?

News media gives conflicting reasons why Obama deployed F-22s to South Korea!

Influenza

“I’m the only one left”: Going Viral 30-31 January 2020

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Wuhan man on the ground was walking home when he suddenly died!

What is it like when your city is under medical martial law lockdown?

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 30 to 31 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Climate change blamed for new diseases

Deadly Marburg virus pops up in west-Africa region for the first time .
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South Africa preps three hospitals for viral outbreak
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Men may be more prone to coronavirus than women, study finds

U.S. orchestra cancels arts festival tour

Italy Confirms Two Virus Cases, Stops Air Traffic With China
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A deadly virus has infected 15 million Americans so far, and it’s NOT coronavirus

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Coronavirus outbreak declared a global emergency as virus spreads from one person to another for first time in U.S.

U.S. CDC coronavirus update, 30JAN2020

Florida school children and their teachers quarantined!

Quarantines, examples from bizarre to heartbreaking

Christian university in Oklahoma quarantines student

Australia designates island as quarantine zone

Oil Dives Toward Worst Monthly Loss Since May on Virus Fears

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Coronavirus estimated to cost Chinese economy U.S.$43-billion per MONTH

“I’ve sacked everyone, I’m the only one left.”–tour company owner who says after months of anti-government riots the coronavirus is the final straw

Canada donates thousands of masks to Wuhan, but virus profiteers cash in

City of Huanggang fires health official for lack of response!

Exported Chinese Pork Dumplings Found To Contain African Swine Fever

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GOING VIRAL, 26-29 JANUARY 2020

VACCINE FAIL: HOSPITALS CONSIDER FLU A NON-EMERGENCY! AS MANY AS 20% OF CHILDREN WHO DIED HAD FLU SHOT!

U.S.

Pennsylvania Disaster, Army deploys!

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Not reported by the ‘main stream”, on 24JAN2020 the U.S. Army’s Charlie Company, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, deployed in response to a disaster in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Video, UH-60 Black Hawks deploys:

The casualties were transported to a medical facility at Fort Indiantown Gap, in UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

Don’t worry, it was just another in the growing number of disaster training operations by the U.S. military.  Blood provided by Field of Screams Haunted Houses of Pennsylvania.

OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

FEMA REGION 4, FEMA REGION 6, CONTAMINATION EVENTS!

International

Pacific Ring of Fire, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

Earth’s $40-Billion Weather Disasters of 2019: 4th Most Billion-Dollar Events on Record
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ARGENTINA: 4.8 quake

5.5 quake

CANADA:  4.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island

FIJI: 4.3 quake, 24 January

JAPAN:  new Nankai trough quake tsunami predictions

Animals are thriving in nuke disaster area

Diet considers an extra 4.47 trillion yen (U.S.$40.8-billion) for disaster recovery efforts

MEXICO:  Yet another quake hits Oaxaca

NEW ZEALAND:  5.4 quake northwest of Wellington

RUSSIA: 5.6 earthquake – Near East Coast of Kamchatka

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 6.1 quake Andreanof Islands 

6.2 Magnitude earthquake felt in Adak

 U.S. Coast Guard investigating reason why a group of S-O-S radio towers are now in a communications ‘dead-zone’

Arizona; Mesa settles lawsuit from massive 2014 flooding; homeowners receive $1.6M payout

California; Quake and aftershock near Barstow

Pacific Gas & Electric opens new Vacaville Emergency Response Center

Granada Hills Struck by 3.6 Magnitude Shake
Folsom Dam Raise Project groundbreaking, at the Folsom Point Boat Launch near Dike 8, 21JAN2020.  In a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers directed project the Folsom Dam is going to be raised as part of a plan to both increase water storage and prevent future flooding.
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Hawaii; Minor earthquake – Honaunau-napoopoo

Mauna Loa Volcano Activity Update
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Idaho;  3.4 quake Soda Springs area

Oregon; Could you survive for two weeks if ‘The Big One’ hits?

Utah; Small earthquake hits Box Elder County

Washington;  All of Lewis County Now Included in Flood Watch

King County’s Flood Warning Center shutdown, this report doesn’t give a clear reason why but says Flood Warning employees will still be monitoring the ongoing flooding.

Property owners in Island County hit with surprise U.S.$50 flood insurance surcharge, blamed on FEMA

Washington National Guard’s Homeland Response Force toured the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Western Regional Center in Seattle: “The information provided by these resources is critical to anticipating weather’s effects on hazardous material incidents and our response operations during an incident.”-Sergeant First Class James Peters

Washington National Guard also showed-off its disaster response communications equipment, along with AT&T’s First Net.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “THE FIRE BREATHING DRAGON OF CLOUDS.”

CLIMATE CHANGE, 19-25 JANUARY 2020:  OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

U.S.

“This is not a request, it’s a demand!”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 19-25 January 2020

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

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Tensions Rise at Mexico’s Southern Border With Guatemala

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Lawyers accuse government of not complying with a federal court order that protects mentally disabled immigrants in California, Arizona and Washington.

Meet the Boy Scouts of the Border Patrol

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Professional Bull Riders get millions from Border Patrol for recruitment campaign

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ALASKA: Idaho man fined, banned for guiding illegal Alaska hunts

 

ALABAMA: The refugee question in Alabama

ARIZONA: Murder convictions upheld for 2 men in border agent’s death

Deadly Vaping oils flooding across border: ‘Everyone should be concerned’

Replacing older sections of the Tucson 1 border wall (from before President Trump’s time) near Ajo, 20JAN2020.

ARKANSAS: Three law enforcement agencies participate in 287(g) program.

CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles bans for-profit privately run immigrant ‘service centers’. 

Migrant parents separated from children since 2018 are reunited
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection capture a U.S. citizen whose truck’s gas tank was filled with liquid meth from Mexico. 

Hi-tech data company Palantir admits it actively searches for illegal immigrants for ICE

COLORADO:  Updated overtime protections will expand to more workers 

Colorado is losing about 2-thousand jobs due to industry shutdowns, politician Matt Soper is now begging farmers to stop hiring migrants and hire citizens, saying “at least give them a shot”!

CONNECTICUT:  Record number of illegal immigrant children arriving by themselves

FLORIDA:  ICE captures four of 12 of the illegals who washed ashore at Palm Beach

ICE dispatching agents to Super Bowl to catch human traffickers and rescue slave sex workers

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations partners with Miami-Dade Police Department for security ops for Super Bowl LIV in Miami, Florida.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection reveal taxpayer sucking technology used to keep Super Bowl safe

GEORGIA: Former cop threatens illegal immigrant after car accident

GUAM: The island territory is apparently having trouble with migrants from Micronesia

IDAHO:  Canyon County reimbursed for more than U.S.$43-thousand spent holding illegal migrants in jail

ILLINOIS: Hundreds of non-citizens registered to vote due to technical glitch

MAINE:  Customs and Border Protection Officer sentenced to prison for possessing child porn

MARYLAND: Illegal immigrant captured with child porn

MASSACHUSETTS: Iranian student deported from Boston by Customs and Border Protection despite court order

MINNESOTA:  More proof unchecked immigration is not about providing migrants a better life; now shuttered mom-n-pop drywall company owes money to dozens of illegal workers: “I’ve done other work comp fraud cases but not of this magnitude. It cheats the workers from the health care insurance they’re entitled to; second, it cheats the insurance company who is supposed to provide the coverage; and third, it cheats the companies that compete with a fraudulent corporation.”-Mike Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney

NEVADA: ICE prison guard fired for speaking his mind

NEW MEXICO: The town of Chaparral is mostly illegal immigrants, the main employer in the area is a for-profit privately run ICE prison

NEW YORK:  ICE subpoenas the city of New York: “This is not a request, it’s a demand….   …Dangerous criminals are being released every single day in New York.”-Henry Lucero, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  ICE issues list of ‘fugitive’ illegals freed by New York City’s sanctuary city policies

A convicted felon from Kentucky, with a gun in his truck-trailer, takes wrong turn while driving through New York, ends up in Canada where the Canadian border guards allow him to turn around without checking his truck-trailer, tries to get back into the U.S. but his truck-trailer was searched because he didn’t have a passport and he was arrested for illegal possession of a gun.

Interesting that Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the U.S. since 1917, yet in The Big Apple they are still considered immigrants, even by the politicians who represent them, and the local news media!

And even more interesting, the Puerto Ricans living in The Big Apple have avoided taking part in the U.S. Census, even though since 1917 they’re considered citizens!

OHIO:  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at the Port of Cincinnati intercepted 51 shipments of invasive mitten crabs

OREGON: In immigrant loving state migrant students struggle to graduate from local high schools

PENNSYLVANIA: ICE deports convicted gun runner from Kazakhstan

TENNESSEE: Illegal immigrant teenager charged with kidnapping 

TEXAS: Mexican murder suspect arrested while trying to enter the United States

16 pregnant illegals captured by ICE

U.S. citizen is building his own version of the border wall

U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested a man at the Anzalduas International Bridge with $229,000 worth of alleged cocaine 

UTAH:  Supposedly there’s such a labor shortage in Salt Lake City that even illegal workers are getting paid $15 per hour to start!

VERMONT:  Middlebury College pledges to help illegal dairy farm workers

Washington DC: Trump immigration policies showing results, with illegal border crossings plummeting

ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities
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IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “BETTER OFF NOT BEING A CITIZEN”

International

Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

Africa Climate Change Fund approves seven projects worth U.S.$4.7-million
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The plot to profit from a bee-killing pesticide

 

France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline

climate change fears are reviving Europe’s sleeper trains
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Locusts, the latest curse of East Africa weather extremes
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 HFC emissions are ‘rapidly’ rising and China and India could be to blame
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Be wary before donating to fire, earthquake funds

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AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks of apocalypse

BRAZIL:   Brazil Listed Among Climate Change Culprits

CANADA:  Taxpayers funding CAD$20-million climate change think tank

CHINA:  China Suspends Tours Abroad as Xi Jinping Warns of ‘Grave Situation’ from new virus

  the world’s largest greenhouse gas emission emitter

economic woes threaten to derail China’s climate actions

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ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt are moving towards resolving disputes in order to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

FRANCE: New killer virus from China arrives

GERMANY:  Youth lawsuit challenges newest climate law

 15 personnel heading to operations with U.S. Africa Command (USAfriCom) went through humanitarian aid training at Kelley Barracks/Helenen-Kaserne: “We provide training to units like AfriCom to prepare them for when they might be called to provide humanitarian assistance to help the allies and partners that are within their area of operations as opposed to other military operations which are their main mission.”-Jenny Caruso, Humanitarian Assistance Response Training manager

GREENLAND:  For more proof climate change is a constant, scientists now say the demise of Viking colonies, in the Gregorian 15th Century, was the result of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change resulting in skyrocketing cod fish:  “The Cod is coming back to Greenland strong.”-Bo Lings, fishing boat owner

HAITI: Scientists warn the next quake will be worse than the 2010 quake

ISRAEL:  UBQ Materials is an Israeli company which has developed a process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute, Germany’s Diamler agrees to test the household waste plastic in new cars. 

IVORY COAST:  How climate change has altered cocoa farming

SPAIN: Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

 Sea foam floods streets during deadly storm

TAJIKASTAN: 5.5 quake, 23JAN2020

TURKEY:  NEW earthquake hits already quake-devastated E. Turkish province

At Least 4 Killed, Buildings Collapse in Strong Earthquake

UGANDA:  Reforestation project considered a success, as forest employees live off revenues from Carbon Credits

UNITED KINGDOM:  Tremor shakes homes on Teesside

Taunton’s £6m flood defense plan approved

‘Hypocrisy’: 90% of UK-Africa summit’s energy deals were in fossil fuels
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UNITED STATES:  Is climate change making it easier to get syrup from the rare Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple?  Production is on the rise.

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Government Flood Buyouts Fail 

Residents of Minnesota urged to get flood insurance after warning of massive flood from National Weather Service

Pennsylvania lumber mill shutdown due to three years in a row of flood damage

  It was revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a training session on how to deal with a “hypothetical scenario” with Youghiogheny River Lake, in Pennsylvania.

More flooding predicted for Iowa 

Puerto Rico’s Air National Guard’s (PRANG) 156th Mission Support Group are the ‘gateway’ for all U.S. military support entering the territory for quake relief.  The above pic shows PRANG  personnel explaining the Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration process at Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted ‘door-to-door’ wellness checks in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred military personnel supporting quake relief in Puerto Rico

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

Volunteer veterinarians from the Clinica Veterenaria tend to earthquake survivors’ pets, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

 Rescued pets from earthquake-ravaged Puerto Rico end up at East Coast shelters

Puerto Rico Is Welcoming Tourists As Island Recovers From Earthquake Damage

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3.8 magnitude earthquake felt in southern Kentucky

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In Mississippi, loud booms hear, authorities say it’s not an earthquake

Mississippi Fights With Army Corps of Engineers Over Flood Control
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Third earthquake hits near same area of Tennessee this week

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2.7 quake in Pecos County, Texas, 24JAN2020

3.0 earthquake shakes west Texas, 23JAN2020 
Exercise ‘Sudden Response’, involving military units located at Killeen, Austin and Fort Hood, Texas.  The exercise preps military responders for equipment deployment, life-saving operations and web-based command and control.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers to rescue “donated” C-130

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24 January 2020 / 21:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (05 Bahman 1398/29 Jumada l-Ula 1441/01 Ding-Chou 4718)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

“The U.S. commitment to this partnership is stronger than ever, and I look forward to building upon it in the days ahead.”-Michael Raynor, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, during the June 2018 C-130E hand-over, he obviously didn’t realize the Ethiopians couldn’t handle the U.S. taxpayer funded ‘gift’

Poorly thought-out hand-over of donated C-130E, June 2018.

A year-and-a-half ago the U.S. government “donated” a C-130 Hercules to the struggling Ethiopian air force, and without much forethought, it turns out, as it was discovered that the Ethiopian military personnel lacked the knowledge to maintain or operate the transport.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In January 2020, U.S. military officials realized the Ethiopians needed help with their U.S. taxpayer funded gift, so the U.S. Air Force’s 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (MSAS) went in.

U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel check-out the landing gear on the donated C-130E. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

Explainer video, 23JAN2020:

So far the old C-130E has completed taxi runs, hopefully will be flying soon.

Between 1998 and 2014, Ethiopia got two C-130Bs, and a C-130E.  The above pic is of tail #1562 seen wasting away.  The other B model and the E model are listed as active, which is hard to believe since Ethiopia had so much trouble maintaining the C-130E donated in June 2018.

In the cockpit, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In the cargo bay, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

The intent of the donation of the C-130E was to help Ethiopia conduct ‘peacekeeping’ missions in Africa.

Taxpayer rip-offs: U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

BARE METAL: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

Technology

NATO Vehicle I-D: Challenger vs Leclerc

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NATO’s 2020 anti-Russia training was held in the eastern European country of Latvia (right on Russia’s border).

NATO promo-video, NATO’s Adazi Training Base, Latvia, 23JAN2020:

LECLERC, NATO-France:

French Leclercs invade NATO-Germany, 29MAY2018. U.S. Army photo by Kevin S. Abel.

U.S. Army (USA) video by Kevin S. Abel, May 2018, France ‘invades’ Germany for Strong Europe Tank Challenge:

The Leclerc does not have a bore evacuator (fume extractor) on its NATO compatible 120mm F1 smoothbore main-gun.  It uses interior overpressure, or a compressed air system, for gun-tube fume extraction.

USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

USA video by Matthias Fruth, Leclercs blasting away during NATO’s Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the 7th U.S. Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

Simulated CBRN attack. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Push-me-pull-you action, towing away a ‘broke-dick’ Leclerc. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Leclerc’s butt. USA photo by Lacey Justinger, 04JUN2018.

Leclerc has a single exhaust that looks like a giant water-pipe elbow pointing skyward. The ‘things’ on the back-end of the tank are racks for external fuel drums, à la Soviet style.

CHALLENGER:  No, not my (snow)drifting Challenger!

NATO-United Kingdom:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

This is the Challenger I’m talking about, the United Kingdom’s Challenger-2.  The Challenger has a ‘coffee-can’ bore evacuator on its non-NATO compatible 120mm L30A1 rifled-bore main-gun.

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

It also has fuel drum racks on its butt.  The exhaust ports are square looking boxes towards the rear on each side of the vehicle.

Pistol shoot. USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 06JUN2018.

Video, shooting a pistol from the turret of a Challenger-2, Strong Europe Tank Challenge,  Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

Somebody lit a fire under this Challenger-2’s ass!  I suspect that it is one of the smoke grenades used to simulate a CBRN attack.

USA silent video, by Elliott Banks, of Royal Red Coats uploading their unique three-part-ammo:

USA video of Challenger-2 blasting away (this time Elliott recorded the audio), 06JUN2018:

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

 ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE! (and they keep coming back from the dead)

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers deliver MD-530F Cayuse Warrior to Kenya

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24 January 2020 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Bahman 1398/28 Jumada l-Ula 1441/30 Yi-Chou 4717

Handover Ceremony at Embakasi Barracks, Kenya, 23JAN2020.

It’s a few months late (first promised delivery was for mid-2019, then pushed back to the end of 2019) but the first six of 12 taxpayer funded MD-530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters are now in Kenya.

The helicopters will be used against ‘extremists’ in Somalia.  MD Helicopters was issued a five years  U.S.$1.4-billion IDIQ contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal-Multinational Aviation Special Project Office.

IDIQ means Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity, it is a U.S. government phrase referring to contracts that require unknown quantities over a specified time period.

Multinational Aviation Special Project Office states on its website that it “provides aircraft procurement and support activities for customers around the world and services a fleet that includes a wide variety of rotary and fixed wing aircraft such as the Mi-17s, MD-500Es, MD-530Fs, MD-600Ns, AH-1Fs, AH-6i’s, IA-407s, Bell 412s, S-333s, Bell 206s, UH-1s, Huey IIs and AW-139s.”  In other words, taxpayers are paying for other countries’ helicopters.

MD Helicopters claims the upgraded MD-530 has the Rolls-Royce 250-C30 650shp turbine engine, advanced all-digital glass cockpit, ballistically tolerant crash-worthy fuel system, Harris RF-7850A tactical radio, Rockwell Collins HF-9000D, FN Herstal Weapons Management System, DillonAero Mission Configurable Armament System (MCAS), DillonAero Fixed-Forward Sighting System, 62mm ballistic armor protection, FN Herstal .50 caliber HMP 400 Machine Gun Pods, and M260 7-shot rocket pods.

VEHICLE I-D video: MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR, AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTAN GETS MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDED HELICOPTERS & GUNS!