Here is an incomplete list of local news reports from the past month.
On 23MAR2023, a homeless camp went up in flames:
Does this have any connection to the fact that authorities in Portland began barricading homeless camps two days prior, on 21MAR2023:
In the past month, two big retail corporations shutdown almost all there stores in Oregon, one of those corporations gave no warning to employees or customers!
Walmart:
Cracker Barrel:
Some analysts blame the rampant crime rate:
Even City of Portland employees are being directly linked to murder:
Two years ago, Oregon legalized marijuana use, now officials are actually complaining about a lack of demand for the weed:
To add to the crime wave, Portland officials are removing all the lighting from numerous city parks, claiming it is about ‘safety’, but also it is about the fact the city can no longer afford to maintain the lights:
And don’t forget that Oregon is an anti-2nd Amendment state, yet that isn’t stopping an increase in shooting in Portland:
And why is ambulance response times in the Portland metro area tanking longer and longer:
It is not just Corporate America that is abandoning liberal-progressive-woke controlled Oregon, even local chain-stores and local ‘mom & pop’ businesses are shutting down.
After ten years, Portland based ‘woke’ convenience chain-store Green Zebra ceased to exist:
After 32 years a deli is shutting down, blaming the high cost of operating in Portland:
And here is an odd-ball thing, the ‘woke’ lawmakers of Oregon are now considering banning educational programs/exhibits that use animals:
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The Islamic Republic of Iran; predominantly Indo European/Aryan (Arya) ethnic groups.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; predominantly Semitic/Arab ethnic groups.
Iraq;predominantly Semitic/Arab ethnic groups, but also influential Indo European/Aryan (Arya) ethnic groups.
Al Jazeera (an Arab news outlet) reported that it was the Iranians who first went public with the China brokered peace deal:
Just over a week ago the main-stream ‘woke’ U.S. and Western news media almost ignored the peace deal between mortal enemies Iran and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Was it because it was brokered by communist China, and actually challenges the influence of the West’s NATO in the Middle East? The Western main-stream-woke-news media glanced over the deal, and now is trying to downplay the deal by literally saying it doesn’t mean anything, as if it was a Chinese Paper Tiger.
Image via NATO, 20MAR2023.
If that is the case then why, just a few days ago, did NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg go out of his way to host the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs, at NATO headquarters in Belgium?
On 20MAR2023, ten days after the Iran-Saudi peace deal, NATO officials met with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein. In the official NATO video you can hear that the meeting is totally about reinforcing, and “how we can further”, the Western-NATO presence in Iraq, under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’, but also hear the Iraqi official state that he wants NATO to “expand” operations in Iraq:
You have to understand that Iraq views both Iran and KSA as mortal enemies, so this seems to me to be a direct reaction of both NATO and Iraq against the China brokered peace deal between Iran and KSA.
The SR-71B that would become NASA 831. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Luis Ruiz-Vazquez, 15JAN1982.
SR-71B #61-7956, on the day of its delivery to NASA, 24JUL1991.
NASA photo of SR-71B #831, July 1991. The ‘B’ version of the Blackbird has ventral fins on the nacelles, like the YF-12A.
Silent take-off video from 1991:
In July 1991, NASA began using the last of two SR-71B trainers (the other SR-71B was lost in a crash in 1968), #61-7956, also known as NASA 831.
Silent refueling video from 1991:
NASA photo from 1992, showing-off the three SR-71s they got ‘on loan’ from the U.S. Air Force. NASA 831 is in the middle.
Silent take-off video from 1992:
SR-71B ‘831’, photo via NASA, 1994.
NASA photo of 831, March 1996.
831 was used for crew training and various research programs on Dryden Flight Research Center (now called Armstrong Flight Research Center, on Edwards Air Force Base), California, until October 1997.
This NASA photo was made in July 1997, just a few months before 831 was retired.
NASA photo from August 1997, in the foreground is SR-71A carrying the Linear Aerospike experiment, behind it is retiring SR-71B 831.
Same photo but I zoomed in to show the apparatus on the canopies of 831.
At the end of 2002, pieces and parts of NASA 831 were loaded onto tractor-trailers at Edwards AFB (Dryden Research Center), California, for the trip to Michigan. Photo via NASA.
To confuse things even more, some aviation blogs claim the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, has NASA 831! The museum’s own SR-71 FAQ section states they’ve had the SR-71 since 2002! They post three photos; two are NASA photos, with one being of 831, and the other being an SR-71A being configured for the Linear Aerospike experiment. The third photo is of the museum’s SR-71 and it is clearly an SR-71A, not the B or even 831.
At this point, the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum is the only location that has photographic proof that they have NASA 831. Not only does their website have lots of detailed photos of NASA 831, but they got lots of photos of other Blackbirds.
Testors SR-71 built as the ‘B’ version, NASA 831. I had to scratch build an aerial refueling door as Testors did not provide it.
After 25 years in my stash-pile, and realizing that the outrageous prices being fetched for an old Testors SR-71 might be due to Testors ceasing to exist, and the fact that the new Revell-Germany SR-71 does not include parts for the ‘B’ version, I decided it was time to build it.
NASA photo, July 1995.
The first problem I came across with the kit itself, was that Testors molded the refueling door in the open position and did not provide a door for the closed position, I wanted it closed so I had to use plastic sheet to cover the open fuel receptacle. Perhaps Testors got confused, photos of parked SR-71s do show the refueling door open, but that is because the hydraulics have relaxed, in-flight the door is closed, except when refueling.
I still have a mail-order catalog showing the MSRP of $20 back in 1996-97. I realized that the kit was not promoted as being able to build the B version.
I bought the Testors kit back in 1997, when it was a whopping $20 brand new, and I got it on discount for less than $19!
Unfortunately, the box and decals didn’t survive the test of time; the outer end opening box literally began disintegrating, and the decals were cracked beyond use (I tried, even with a coat of clear they shattered in the water), I ended up getting some Caracal-Cartograf decals.
If you follow the order of assembly you will have problems.
I learned that if you follow the instructions and attach the rudders to the nacelles first, you will have problems attaching the afterburners. Attach the afterburners before attaching the rudders. I glued the intake spike (shock cone) behind the mounting point as I was building it to represent being in-flight. The shock-cone retracts into the nacelle allowing the Blackbird to fly faster.
Dry fitting reveals a major problem.
Another problem is that the mounting holes in the center section are too small to allow the nacelles to fit. Even after hollowing them out, and thinning the posts on the nacelles, I still ended up with stress cracks on the center section.
Even after surgery to make the parts fit, stress cracks appeared.
Lack of mounting stubs caused the rear part of the wing to droop. Testors does not replicate the fuel dump, I tried by filing the pointy end flat and using paint.
For some reason Testors did not model the prominent fuel dump at the back of the Blackbird. I decided to flatten the pointy end and then use red paint to represent the fuel dump. Most photos of the rear-end of SR-71s show the inside of the fuel dump was painted red.
An SR-71 gate-guard on Beale AFB, California, showing the red painted fuel dump. USAF photo, 26JAN2016.
The kit does not come with pilots, using putty I modified some old Monogram pilots to look like astronauts, but then discovered the seats wouldn’t allow them to fit. I had to chop off the pilot’s feet, butts and part of their backs to get them to fit.
I modified some spare Monogram pilots. Turns out the red borders around the canopy glazing are incorrect, and the clear I used to get them to stay down fogged the canopies.
Forget those red canopy border decals, they are flat wrong. While reviewing photos (unfortunately after I applied the decals) I noticed there are no red borders. At certain angles it might look like there are, but the red that is sometimes seen around the glazing is actually the seals inside the canopy framing.
In this close-up of NASA SR-71B 831, you can see there are no red borders around the canopies. What is red are the seals inside the canopy framing. NASA photo, December 1994.
It was in the Caracal-Cartograf Blackbird Part-2 decal set that I discovered the markings for NASA 831.
You might not can see, but even a coat of clear paint failed to force the aftermarket decals to lay flat on the underside of the Blackbird.
Even expensive (almost as much as what I paid for the Testors kit back in 1997) aftermarket decals can be wrong (like the red canopy borders), and not cooperate. For some reason not known to me, the decals would not settle down on the underside of the kit. Decal solution failed to keep the decals from wrinkling. I applied clear paint and the result was no more wrinkles, instead I got blisters which hardened when the paint dried.
NASA photo of 831, sometime in 1995.
831 cruises over the Mojave Desert with a NASA F/A-18 Hornet flying safety chase. NASA photo sometime in 1996.
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It is starting to look like the United States (U.S.) returning to ‘isolationism’ is a good thing, if that also includes the U.S. Dollar (USD). Banks might not like the raising of U.S. interest rates, and it is part of the reason for collapse of the big banks, but for the working class within the U.S. in the long run it could result in the manufacturing industry returning hundreds of thousands of jobs to the U.S. In other words, destroying the global use of the USD could restart the domestic economy of the U.S.
KITCO News: Is inflation caused by the decline of the use of the USD globally (Global Monetary Reset)? The rest of the World calls it De-dollarization. Here is a hour long explanation;
INDIANA: On 16MAR2023, Purdue University researchers prove the situation is worse than officials are saying, revealed yet more unreported chemicals found in samples from the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment;
NORTH CAROLINA: Revealed this week, officials covered-up a CATS Light Rail derailment for a year! Also revealed, the derailment was the result of a known problem, and the delay of repairs to fix the problem;
PENNSYLVANIA: State-level politicians hold special meeting over the 40 days old East Palestine, Ohio, derailment;
WASHINGTON: Approximately 5-thousand gallons of diesel fuel spilled when the train derailed on 16MAR2023;
In 2014, the U.S. Army awarded a taxpayer funded contract to BAE to modify 2-thousand-907 Bradleys into AMPVs, to replace M113s.
I’m a Cold War veteran (signing-up in 1982, the year after the Bradley began service) and I remember that the Bradley was first sold to the U.S. public as being the replacement for the M113, yet here we are more than 40 years later and we are still using the M113, but now both the M113 and Bradleys, and their ‘new’ replacements, are made by a British empire company!
Testing the 120mm mortar carrying AMPV, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, 17OCT2017. Photo by Mark Schauer.
The BAE AMPV began testing in 2017, on the Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG) in Arizona. Five variants were proposed. It was kind of a ‘no shit, Sherlock’ moment when they promoted the AMPV as being bigger than the M113, when the AMPV is just a modified Bradley, which is naturally bigger than the M113.
120mm projectile launched from the AMPV mortar track on Fort Hood, Texas, 20SEP2018. Photo by Major Carson Petry.
In 2018, testing shifted to Fort Hood, Texas. The AMPV is intended to replace five variants of the M113: Medical Treatment, Ambulance, General Purpose, Mortar Carriers, and Command Post.
U.S. Army photo by Major Carson Petry, 20SEP2018.
U.S. Army video, Fort Hood AMPV testing, 2019:
February 2021, U.S. Army promotional video by Dan Heaton:
USA photo by Mark Schauer, 16JUN2021.
In 2021, intense off-road and maintainability testing back at the YPG in Arizona.
USA Tropic Regions Test Center photo, 04APR2022.
In 2021-22, testing moved to the jungles of Panama (reportedly the first U.S. tracked vehicle tested in Panama since the 1980s) and the snow/ice of Alaska.
USA Cold Regions Test Center, Alaska, 14DEC2021. Photo by Sebastian Saarloos.
Return to the Empire: In the late 1990s, under the Bill Clinton regime, Marconi Electronic Systems (MES, originally an Italian company) began taking over U.S. defense contractors. In 1999, MES and BAe merged to create BAE Systems, apparently to stop a U.S. defense contractor from taking over MES. In 2001, the same year the False Flag War on Terror began, BAE Systems aggressively invaded the U.S. defense industry, taking over many U.S. companies, including cyber security companies.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
The Gepard (German for Cheetah) is a Cold War era self-propelled anti-aircraft gun system based on the German Leopard-1 battle tank. The Gepard uses radar guided 35mm auto-cannons. When the non-declared Cold War ended in 1991, Romania left the Warsaw Pact and eventually joined NATO. Romania acquired 43 Gepard 1A2s from the reunified Germany. Officially the Gepards were ‘donated’ to Romania, under a 1998 agreement, finally being delivered in 2004.
Ukraine Crisis: February 2014 (NATO backed coup) to present.
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Steven M. Colvin, 26OCT2015.
U.S. Army video by Staff Sergeant Michael Zahnow, July 2017:
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Timothy Villareal, 15JUL2017.
Gepard shoot-em-up video, by Laurens Vermeire, July 2017:
Romanian Gepards on Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, 02FEB2021. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Elizabeth O. Bryson.
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Elizabeth O. Bryson, 02FEB2021.
USA photo by Specialist Osvaldo Fuentes, 30JUN2021.
USA photo by Sergeant First Class Adrian Patoka, 27JUL2021.
Sky Guardians fire their anti-aircraft Gepards during a live fire at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, 27JUL2021. USA photo by Specialist Osvaldo Fuentes.
NATO promotional video (by U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Adrian Patoka), Romanian Gepards night-fire over Poland, July 2021:
NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group-Poland/Task Force Ivy (Croatia, Poland, Romania, United Kingdom, United States) conducted a Combined Arms Live Fire EXercise (CALFEX) at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, on 05AUG2023. Romania brought their German made Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, U.S. Army video by Sergeant Alex Soliday:
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According to a White House Fact Sheet, U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior issued a bold new executive order concerning the destruction of your Second Amendment Constitutional Right!
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms (ATF) video from 2015, explaining how they can track guns using something called NIBIN (National Integrated Ballistic Information Network), part of Crime Gun Intelligence (CGI), it is currently used for solving crimes:
ATF video from 2014, showing random inspection of gun store by ‘Industry Operations Investigators’:
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“The Biden rule would lead to sweeping changes to the federal government’s authority to regulate what is considered a navigable water, with enormous impacts on small businesses, manufacturers, farmers, home and infrastructure builders, local communities, water districts, and private property owners. Cloaked under the guise of clean water, all this rule does is expand the federal government’s control over states, localities, and private landowners, making it harder to farm, build, and generate economic prosperity. I encourage the Senate to pass this commonsense resolution to push back against onerous rules like this one.”–Sam Graves, U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
What is WOTUS? Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water Act (CWA), it determines which water, and water conveyances, fall under federal and state control.
WOTUS is also known as the Clean Water Rule (CWR-2015) of 2015. CWR-2015 is an attempt by both the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to clarify federal regulations regarding water usage by industry, academia and individual citizens. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior altered the CWR-2015/WOTUS, the new rule goes into effect on 20MAR2023. However, on 09MAR2023 the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block (227 to 198) what is now called The Biden WOTUS Rule.
The U.S. Senate is also poised to block The Biden WOTUS Rule, but Biden has vowed he will veto any such blocks upon his version of WOTUS!
The Biden WOTUS Rule is the result of a more than a decade long federal lawsuit brought by an Idaho couple against the EPA and USACE, in 2008. In October2022, the federal Supreme Court heard arguments, for a second time, concerning the lawsuit, the Court is supposed to make a decision in early 2023.
Biden’s WOTUS Rule was finalized on 30DEC2022. One controversial rule says that water ‘adjacent’ to ‘protected’ water is subject to the new WOTUS, there was no wording clarifying any amount of distance from such ‘protected’ water. Another rule states that ‘permanent’ flows of water in local ditches, waste water treatment ponds, artificially created lakes or ponds, are now under the control of the EPA! The new WOTUS uses ‘environmental justice’ as an excuse to take control of local water, restricting industries including food production!
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