There were breakouts conducted at the Marion Ill. Supermax during the 80s with a helicopters, so I'm sure that scenario, along with the Secret Service's penchant for planning and a history of lone nutjob attacks on Truman, JFK, Ford, the Capital, Reagan, Clinton made Redeye and Stingers a part of the arsenal long before 9-11.
The White House roof is said to be a photoshop to mask the sniper and MANPADS emplacements up there. They probably have some sexy antennas up there for COG and secure coms.
Some of the newer bases, like the US CENTCOM complex in Qatar was designed to be low-observable from recce, electro-magnetic and optical. There are some good photos from back in '02 on globalsecurity's site under public eye.
I'm a military historian, I do alot of stuff about Israel/PA/Iraq/Afghanistan. I'm found it interesting that in say Iraq, the cities will be of a medium resolution, but large American bases will be at the highest resolution. So if one wants to see where the SOCOM copters generally park or where the barracks areas are laid out at Balad, there you go.
I vote based on whats good for me, not for the "greater good". That is why we elect representatives in a Republic, to stand up for your needs and goals.
Naw, the NSA/NRO types don't get boiling blood over it. There simply is no way to hide a launch and orbit so they just have to accept the realities of what it takes to orbit one of these boxes.
Besides, they make cool patches and team logos for the missions and programs, which is more than a public company like Apple allows, so they aren't *that* paranoid about it.
1. War - War is a political dispute, characterized by organized violence between national military units, Clausewitz calls war the âoecontinuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means" - War is an alternative (and violent) form of political interaction in which two or more militaries have a âoestruggle of wills.â
AQ and the Taliban, even if they are not National or State actors are still military units, even if its just cellular.
2. The United Nations was the term used for the Allies in the Second World War following the American entry into the war. The term "United Nations" was first used by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the 1942 Declaration by United Nations, which united the Allied countries of WWII under the Atlantic Charter, and soon became a term widely used to refer to them.
3. Fascist governments, like Germany, Italy, were pretty damned socialist.
So aircraft flying into some of the tallest buildings on Earth, and one flying to the largest office building on Earth and leaving 3,000 dead is an "idea"? No, that is a tacit act of war.
Saying one can not fight "terrorism", in this case the fight is against Islamic-fascism, is like going back to 1942 and saying there can not be a war against fascism because that is like having a war against the dark.
The United Nations did have a war against an idea, from 1941-'45, and following that war, there wasn't much Imperial Fascism left in the world was there? National Socialism pretty much went away as did Japanese Imperialism. The Ba'athist parties are about all thats left of that classical Socialist-Fascism, and theres only one state left with that form of ruling government, Syria.
I'm not talking about political history Pre-American Revolution, or hell, outside the United States before the revolution.
I'm talking about the political and legal history of the United States since 1860. Compared to the American Civil War, the First World War and the Second World War, the crackdown on civil rights has been tame, compared to the dangerous faced with new asymmetrical weapons and tactics.
Your comment made me laugh, it really did. Go look at the civil liberties raped over and over by both sides during the American Civil War or during the First World War in the US, then compare/contrast to the current "erosion" of civil liberties.
What has gone on for the last eight years is nothing compared to what happened in the past. How many languages have been outlawed in the last 8 years? None, go back to the teens, the government did the equivalent of making Spanish outlawed when the German language was all but criminalized.
In 1918, these 'anarchists' would be getting deportation hearings right now, even if US citizens or born here.
The most recent recorded volcanic eruption was between 1820 and 1854, but many eyewitnesses reported eruptive activity in 1858, 1870, 1879, 1882 and 1894 as well.
"A repeat of the Osceola mudflow would destroy Enumclaw, Kent, Auburn, and most or all of Renton. Such a mudflow might also reach down the Duwamish estuary and destroy parts of downtown Seattle, and cause tsunamis in Puget Sound and Lake Washington."
The "so what" is that Mt Rainier poses as tangible and tacit threat to a major urban area as hurricanes do to the Gulf Coast, so if we are going to start clearing urban centers like New Orleans because of threats of tropical storms, have to do it for volcanos too, not to mention earthquakes.
If we look at earthquakes and the damages they will do in the long term, time to clear SF/Oakland, LA basin, Portland, Seattle, etc
"Reading her bio, I wonder if she's ever met a black person."
Well since she is in Alaska and Alaska is over 15% American Indian/Alaska Native, and her husband is half Eskimo-Aleut, I'm sure she knows "people of color" since that is what you are alluding to in your comment. As for "blacks" she's meet Sec State Rice, over 12% of Fairbanks ethnicity is "black" and the Anchorage boasts more languages spoken in the school system than New York City, so I am really confident she knows about other races.
When Rainer goes, and when it likely blows apart Redmond and Tacoma, it'll be like a nuclear device went off, look at Mount St Helens to see the effects. A Hurricane, even Cat 5s, don't cause that kind of damage.
24 megatons thermal energy (7 by blast, rest through release of heat) in seconds, a Cyclone releases 10 megatons of thermal energy every 20 minutes, on average. 300 mph blasts...
Pyroclastic Flows - At least 1,300 ÂF, what does a hurricane have to compare to that?
When Rainer goes off, the damage it could do will be more than all of the hurricanes that hit a major metropolitan area like NO.
Alot of people don't understand how the Parties work in the Upper Great Plains, Alaska, Mountain States. OK, where the media lives, you have your Red and Blue states and politicians. In less populated states the politicians are different. There are anti-abortion liberals, pro-life Conservatives, pro-abortion welfare advocate Democrats who go hunting and not for a photo-op.
She is an awesome pick for McCain, Biden was terrible, terrible, I'm a moderate and I've been on the fence, I like Obama's technology and space stances, I like McCain's foreign policy. Biden is a nail in the coffin for me and Obama, if McCain had gone with someone bad, like Jindal, I would have sucked it up and voted Obama, now, back on the fence.
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Don't worry, even without the CO2 the planet is still going to climate change ;)
And trees which are being GM'ed to grow faster and/or remove more CO2 are under attack by eco-terrorists.
I'm not going to search, but I'd thought that grasslands were more efficient CO2 sinks than trees
Well, I'm a historian, not an image analyst :) Anything high res on a facility of Balad's importance made me wonder.
Its good to know
Remember that someone flew a small plane into the White House (almost) during the Clinton administration.
http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N40/crash.40w.html
There were breakouts conducted at the Marion Ill. Supermax during the 80s with a helicopters, so I'm sure that scenario, along with the Secret Service's penchant for planning and a history of lone nutjob attacks on Truman, JFK, Ford, the Capital, Reagan, Clinton made Redeye and Stingers a part of the arsenal long before 9-11.
He goes to Site-R, also known as Raven Rock.
The White House roof is said to be a photoshop to mask the sniper and MANPADS emplacements up there. They probably have some sexy antennas up there for COG and secure coms.
Some of the newer bases, like the US CENTCOM complex in Qatar was designed to be low-observable from recce, electro-magnetic and optical. There are some good photos from back in '02 on globalsecurity's site under public eye.
Of secure sites?
I'm a military historian, I do alot of stuff about Israel/PA/Iraq/Afghanistan. I'm found it interesting that in say Iraq, the cities will be of a medium resolution, but large American bases will be at the highest resolution. So if one wants to see where the SOCOM copters generally park or where the barracks areas are laid out at Balad, there you go.
People's Republic of China.
Oh wait, Google is using its infrastructure and clout to assist the censorship and surveillance of dissidents.
Stop filtering the internet for 1.3 billion people.
That'll help change the World.
I vote based on whats good for me, not for the "greater good". That is why we elect representatives in a Republic, to stand up for your needs and goals.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1033/1
It was posted in this story further down, so here it is redundantly.
Naw, the NSA/NRO types don't get boiling blood over it. There simply is no way to hide a launch and orbit so they just have to accept the realities of what it takes to orbit one of these boxes.
Besides, they make cool patches and team logos for the missions and programs, which is more than a public company like Apple allows, so they aren't *that* paranoid about it.
1. War - War is a political dispute, characterized by organized violence between national military units, Clausewitz calls war the âoecontinuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means" - War is an alternative (and violent) form of political interaction in which two or more militaries have a âoestruggle of wills.â
AQ and the Taliban, even if they are not National or State actors are still military units, even if its just cellular.
2. The United Nations was the term used for the Allies in the Second World War following the American entry into the war. The term "United Nations" was first used by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the 1942 Declaration by United Nations, which united the Allied countries of WWII under the Atlantic Charter, and soon became a term widely used to refer to them.
3. Fascist governments, like Germany, Italy, were pretty damned socialist.
The US is not fighting a war?
So aircraft flying into some of the tallest buildings on Earth, and one flying to the largest office building on Earth and leaving 3,000 dead is an "idea"? No, that is a tacit act of war.
Saying one can not fight "terrorism", in this case the fight is against Islamic-fascism, is like going back to 1942 and saying there can not be a war against fascism because that is like having a war against the dark.
The United Nations did have a war against an idea, from 1941-'45, and following that war, there wasn't much Imperial Fascism left in the world was there? National Socialism pretty much went away as did Japanese Imperialism. The Ba'athist parties are about all thats left of that classical Socialist-Fascism, and theres only one state left with that form of ruling government, Syria.
I'm not justifying anything, simply point out that most folks have no sense of how laws and rights change during war times.
I'm not talking about political history Pre-American Revolution, or hell, outside the United States before the revolution.
I'm talking about the political and legal history of the United States since 1860. Compared to the American Civil War, the First World War and the Second World War, the crackdown on civil rights has been tame, compared to the dangerous faced with new asymmetrical weapons and tactics.
No, they had one of the pointless votes that isn't binding to change the name of them in the commissary.
Your comment made me laugh, it really did. Go look at the civil liberties raped over and over by both sides during the American Civil War or during the First World War in the US, then compare/contrast to the current "erosion" of civil liberties.
What has gone on for the last eight years is nothing compared to what happened in the past. How many languages have been outlawed in the last 8 years? None, go back to the teens, the government did the equivalent of making Spanish outlawed when the German language was all but criminalized.
In 1918, these 'anarchists' would be getting deportation hearings right now, even if US citizens or born here.
The most recent recorded volcanic eruption was between 1820 and 1854, but many eyewitnesses reported eruptive activity in 1858, 1870, 1879, 1882 and 1894 as well.
"A repeat of the Osceola mudflow would destroy Enumclaw, Kent, Auburn, and most or all of Renton. Such a mudflow might also reach down the Duwamish estuary and destroy parts of downtown Seattle, and cause tsunamis in Puget Sound and Lake Washington."
The "so what" is that Mt Rainier poses as tangible and tacit threat to a major urban area as hurricanes do to the Gulf Coast, so if we are going to start clearing urban centers like New Orleans because of threats of tropical storms, have to do it for volcanos too, not to mention earthquakes.
If we look at earthquakes and the damages they will do in the long term, time to clear SF/Oakland, LA basin, Portland, Seattle, etc
"Reading her bio, I wonder if she's ever met a black person."
Well since she is in Alaska and Alaska is over 15% American Indian/Alaska Native, and her husband is half Eskimo-Aleut, I'm sure she knows "people of color" since that is what you are alluding to in your comment. As for "blacks" she's meet Sec State Rice, over 12% of Fairbanks ethnicity is "black" and the Anchorage boasts more languages spoken in the school system than New York City, so I am really confident she knows about other races.
When Rainer goes, and when it likely blows apart Redmond and Tacoma, it'll be like a nuclear device went off, look at Mount St Helens to see the effects. A Hurricane, even Cat 5s, don't cause that kind of damage.
24 megatons thermal energy (7 by blast, rest through release of heat) in seconds, a Cyclone releases 10 megatons of thermal energy every 20 minutes, on average. 300 mph blasts...
Pyroclastic Flows - At least 1,300 ÂF, what does a hurricane have to compare to that?
When Rainer goes off, the damage it could do will be more than all of the hurricanes that hit a major metropolitan area like NO.
There are blood free diamonds from Canada, even some not associated with DeBeers.
And pro-life Liberals...
And pro-welfare Conservatives (farm/fishing supports)
Alot of people don't understand how the Parties work in the Upper Great Plains, Alaska, Mountain States. OK, where the media lives, you have your Red and Blue states and politicians. In less populated states the politicians are different. There are anti-abortion liberals, pro-life Conservatives, pro-abortion welfare advocate Democrats who go hunting and not for a photo-op.
She is an awesome pick for McCain, Biden was terrible, terrible, I'm a moderate and I've been on the fence, I like Obama's technology and space stances, I like McCain's foreign policy. Biden is a nail in the coffin for me and Obama, if McCain had gone with someone bad, like Jindal, I would have sucked it up and voted Obama, now, back on the fence.