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Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports
NeoPrime writes "CNN Money web site has a story about Northrop Grumman forecasting development of a laser shield 'bubble' for airports and other installations in the United States within 18 months. The system will be called Skyguard — a joint venture with Israel and the U.S. Army. It will have the capability to generate a shield five kilometers in radius."
This is another attempt of Israel to involve the U.S. in Israel's defense. Israel needs this "Skyguard", not the United States. Israel's costs for development will be far lower if the U.S. taxpayer pays most of the bill.
There were several reasons that the U.S. started the present war with Iraq, in this order: 1) Israel wanted protection from Saddam Hussein, but didn't want to pay for it. 2) Wealthy investors wanted oil profits from Iraq. 3) The military and those with investments in weapons, such as the Cheney and Bush families, wanted any war. 4) There was concern that Iraq oil was sold to Europeans for Euros; that might deflate the dollar. 5) There are many people who call themselves Christian who are actually more angry than religious. They wanted a way to act out their anger.
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U.S. gov. violence ended Iraq's thousands of years of violence. Oh, wait, it increased it.
There's probably a hundred ways Israel can spend two billion dollars that will save more than thirteen lives over four years.
Yes, two billion dollars would fund a good week or two attack and kill a whole lot of the people that keep fire rockets at them. Oh, wait, they're doing that now, albeit for different reasons. Good for them.
(for everyone who doesn't think Israel launching an all out attack is justified in response to 13 deaths over four years.... how bout we bring your entire extended family down to the firing range and you can all stand at max distance. We'll have someone blindfolded, with a gun, and pointed in your general direction. We'll have him keep firing for quite some time. Oh, by the way, there's a good rifle at your feet and you're not wearing a blindfold. Do you neutralize the threat?)
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Hamas - kills Israeli soldiers, takes one captive.
Israel - kidnaps palestinan politicans, kills > 40 civilians.
Who are the terrorists?
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Just a little idea,
but maybe if there were no Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil maybe they wouldn't be captured?
Watch this Heartland Institute video
"Northrup just needs to make it portable and widespread."
That "just" represents an enormous amount of engineering, and the idea is that the U.S. taxpayer would pay for that engineering. Is helping Northrup make a profit the best allocation of taxpayer money? Remember that, if for some reason the weapon doesn't work well, Northrup will still get the money.
"Furthermore, why shouldn't the US be involved in Israel's defense?"
This "ally" has a 3,200 year history of conflict with surrounding people. Read the Torah. Read the old testament of the Christian Bible. There is only a few lines of explanation; we will almost certainly never know the full story. However, about 3,200 years ago an Egyptian pharaoh objected strongly to the behavior of the tribe who eventually became the Jews. Why? What were they doing? The only fragment of information is that they were having too many children. But that explanation would require more detail; certainly the other tribes living in the desert did not have methods of population control. Or did they?
This "ally" cares only about itself. Those who call themselves "God's Chosen People" don't really mean something good about themselves, they mean that the rest of us are lesser beings in the eyes of the Israeli "God". If you aren't Jewish, do you accept that you are a lesser being, and that anyone who calls himself or herself Jewish is superior to you?
This "ally" believes in violence. The Torah says that the Israeli "God" is himself violent, and participates in adversarial behavior, even sometimes when he is being implored by a human leader to think carefully about the results of his actions.
Most U.S. taxpayers don't realize that the U.S. government contributes taxpayer money to Israel, perhaps $1,000 for every Jewish man, woman, and child each year. If U.S. taxpayers understood more clearly, would they decide there were no better places at home to spend the money?
The money given to Israel by the U.S. government is entirely for the purposes of embezzlement. There are several levels of mis-direction involved, but the money is, effectively, meant to be spent to buy U.S. weapons. So the money really goes to the pockets of weapons company investors, like the Cheney and Bush families.
There are only about 5,000,000 Jews living in Israel. Should the entire way that the U.S. relates to world be arranged around the needs and wants of only 5,000,000 people?
Hell, I wouldn't die of shock to find that some of the missiles had been fired by Israeli SF from Gaza into random fields.
(This is not so much a rant at the Israelis as a fundamental distrust of most governments where a continued "state-of-terror" works in favor of the party in power)
Cthulhu Barata Nikto
So while this is a neat idea and all, what's to stop a guy from firing a dozen tennis balls at a target followed by an actual bomb? Every solution has a counter-solution.
Not that it matters. Nobody but the U.S. and Zionist secret services (and the dupes they con into doing it for them), are lobbing bombs at civilian targets anyway. --All to A) Rape countries. B) Sell expensive weapon systems, C) To consolidate and extend psychotic police state powers, and D) To snatch all the really good chairs while playing, 'Musical Apocalypse'.
Laser bubbles? Gimme a break.
You want to stop airplanes from blowing up? Try routing out the secret government and stringing up all the scuzzy little Neocons and Zionist cultists who have the world in a stranglehold.
Allen Moore had the right idea.
-FL