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Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites
According to the Daily Yomiuri, "Japan launched two satellites on Jan. 27 to strengthen its surveillance capabilities, including keeping a closer eye on North Korea which has vowed to stage another nuclear test. One of them was a radar-equipped unit to complete a system of surveillance satellites that will allow Tokyo to monitor any place in the world at least once a day. The other was a demonstration satellite to collect data for research and development." The Defense News version of the story says "Japan developed a plan to use several satellites as one group to gather intelligence in the late 1990s as a response to a long-range missile launch by Pyongyang in 1998. The space agency has said the radar satellite would be used for information-gathering, including data following Japan’s 2011 quake and tsunami, but did not mention North Korea by name."
Check this video of new spy technology for drones and presumably spy satellites: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e95_1359267780
A single drone can cover a 25 sq mi area with 6" resolution. This video is incredible in that it gives you a detailed peek at what is possible from a single aircraft and the amount of data-processing that can be done in real time.
More like trying to spying on a real threat like China. NK is hardly a threat.
You know, being the geek that I am, I paid as little attention as possible in history class, because at that time, 5 minutes spent actually listening to that ancient stuff was 5 minutes less I could spend thinking about how to write that tricky little C function that had been bugging me for a couple of days.
Now I realize: holy shit, unless you know at least a bit about how the world ended up the way it is, you have very little chance of making sure that all the cool things you develop don't end up helping someone who hates you takes aim at you and everything you hold dear. Just look at TFA. :\
So how long have you been a member of the KKK?
Because if you disagree with Obama, or just so happen to not like the color tie he chooses to wear, you instantly receive your custom bath robe and lifetime membership card.
New Bush same as the old Bush. Let me know when a president serves a 3rd term. Until then, a cult of personality is irrelevant.
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How did things change when Obama took over from Bush? Herr Bush had his own cult. It was a multi-teired cult, with military industrial people on the inner circle, oil industry in the second circle, bankers in the third circle, and the fourth circle was composed of any rich idiot who cared to worship Bush and his war machinery. And, the whole republican party invited every imbecile who was frightened of the terr'ists to sit on the outer fringes to worship Bush.
If we're going to compare the cults, I can forgive the black folk who are in love with the half-black president a whole lot easier than I can forgive everyone who worshipped Bush.
Which cult do you happen to belong to, anyway?
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>China's second immediate goal is a possible attack from Japan, not that it would be much of a problem.
>Of course they would not attack Japan by themselves, nothing to gain there.
>But they are pawning Japan in another game. Remember when USA was giving crap to China because China "artificially" keeps its currency cheap?
>China was doing it by buying up massive amounts of USD, basic stuff. When the amount of crap they recieved became too high, they outsourced it to Japan.
China HAD to "buy" USD, they are selling a lot of stuff to Americans. Americans can only pay with USD at some level, and Chinese have to accept it. There is little they can do with it, except buy treasury bonds. (or burn it for heat in the winter).
>Started to buy up yen instead.
Well I think they are only buying Yen to the extent they sell stuff to Japan, which is much less than they sell to the US.
>The price of yen rising, Japan losing it's export power, all of their big companies going bust.
But Import power is raising, which is good for consumers like me! We can go on fancier vacations, but up more foreign goods, etc. Also, very few companies have gone "bust". Some have gone bankrupt, but it's just restructuring so far for the most part. (i.e. declaring bankruptcy so they are allowed to get rid of useless lifers, etc.).
> Japan is doing it's best to cheapen the yen by buying up USD themselves,
Well not "Japan", just PM Abe. I wish he wouldn't be doing that stuff, as it sucks for us Japanese in some ways as mentioned above.
> (following the Chinese masterplan) but they can not match the Chinese wallet.
Why not? We easily could. Just here the government doesn't control so much, and taxes are not so high.
>So the Japanese economy, already in a standstill for decades, is now on the brink of collapse.
Wow, doom and gloom. Come hang out here for a few weeks. Stand-still isn't bad once things are running smoothly. It's a myth that things need to "expand" constantly. Just like when you are growing, your rate of growth slows as you get older, and eventually you reach a stable height. Japan has probably a pretty good GDP for the population. About 10x the wealth of China per person.
Anyway, even on the day before pay day, you will find restaurants, bars, etc. packed. Hardly on the brink of collapse. Plus, last time I visited the US, *that* was depressing. Japan is nowhere near that bad.
>And they might be crazy enough to go kamikaze on the Great Wall of China.
Uhm..??? I'm not sure what this means.
What, and the US army having guns is a slap in the face for all those who died in the Civil War? What is the time when they would be allowed?
Learn to love Alaska
History moves on. Japan is no longer our enemy. Russia too is no longer our enemy, although people in the US State Dept haven't grown out of it. We have other enemies today. Like N Korea. We would do well to focus on real enemies who do wish to damage or destroy us, as opposed to imaginary enemies borne out of history, but who we defeated and changed, and who are no longer inimical to us.
Often people don't have an intelligent rebuttal to say so they fall back on ad hominems.
"How long have you been in the KKK?"
"Go back to Stormfront!"
"Go back to screwing your sister, redneck!"
It is an attempt to silence dissent. Unfortunately it works far too often.
If this doesn't work they'll resort to screaming over you and forum sliding, typically with mindless drivel.
What about those of us who are critical of Obama from the Left? That he is black is frankly my fav thing about the guy. Otherwise he is just another status quo centrist Democrat. Same ole same ole. Guantanamo is still open right? No bank CEOs ever arrested? Mass servailance still ongoing? Mostly a continuation of the Bush years.
Not sure if troll or not, but I'll just say that the world does not run on face-value thinking like that. We need to go deeper :H
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Japan was very upset when the USA decided NOT to help Japan with rockets or Satellite technology a while back.
( Its bad enough when the Russians, French and Chinese offer cut rate launches) and arguably the French have the most reliable vehicle. Japans security infrastructure is not trusted by the usual players.
Well, Japan decided they will do, and their companies will do too. With the ESA sat details practically public, Japan now has world class hi res Satellites up . Not sure how anti Sat launches, or what Japan could do with the info over and above what the French would sell em.
Go ahead, cross that Rubicon - it won't hurt - much.
You won't con me with rubies. ;)
Sounds like a summary for the next Tom Clancy novel.
May god have mercy on us all!
Soon to be available at every book selling shop in every airport in the world.
Just need to insert "Clark" and/or rainbow 6 (Seal team 6 perhaps?! Hmm maybe not, I hear Disney's got the rights now for 175 years)...
Sorry, NK is not the enemy of the U.S. They may be an enemy of U.S. interests, but you should read "U.S. interests" as "things the very wealthy and very powerful want but cannot get without government intervention" so for laymen like ourselves, NK is a non-issue.
The enemy of the U.S. people are the corporations and special interests that control the government. Until people start realizing this, they'll just continue to get hit with the fallout from the U.S. government protecting its "interests."
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Here in Oceania our allies have always been Eurasia. The drones tell me that it's true.
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Don't forget "Mindless Obama Worshipers". In this case, the ad hominem rebuttal was retaliation for an ad hominem attack. Neither side added any intelligent thought to the discussion.
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Obama is a rightist, not a centrist.
Was it the Koreans ?
Or was it the Japanese ?
Senator Blutarsky said it was the Germans. Are you saying a US senator would be either lying or wrong?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Go ahead, cross that Rubicon - it won't hurt - much.
You won't con me with rubies. ;)
Then perhaps rubles will do? Come along, comrade, there is much to be done!