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Harrisonact
Posts: 1754
Incept: 2010-10-04
canada
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SO, are these 238-361 new cruise replacing existing cruises? They must be. I can't imagine the fleets being in the Gulf now with empty cruise tubes.
So are they special in some way? Ie, low yeild nukes?
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bilge
My playbook speaks español. Deal with it. Im too lazy to fix it.
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Bobby
Posts: 2994
Incept: 2008-01-19
vermont
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I think it is just an order for Block 4s.
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"It was the money.You Americans, you believe money is power.""Belief, is power."
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Vitchilo
Posts: 4624
Incept: 2011-04-27
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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/45048....Quote:Iran Calls for Extraordinary OPEC Meeting
Sanctions-hit Iran on Saturday called for OPEC to hold an extraordinary meeting to rein in output going over its agreed total quota because oil prices have dipped to a "critical level" under $100 a barrel. Just as sanctions are to take effect... in less than 6hres... http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/....Quote:Iran to deploy submarines in Caspian Sea
A semiofficial Iranian news agency says Tehran plans to deploy submarines in the Caspian Sea.
The Saturday report by Fars quotes Adm. Abbas Zamini as saying Iran plans to deploy "light submarines" to the oil-rich sea that adjoins Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. He did not elaborate. Well the US can't hit them there...
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken
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Julier
Posts: 240
Incept: 2009-10-14
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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I am up in the area of Cape Canaveral and yesterday morning the sliders to our unit started rattling....We looked outside to see that a rocket had launched....Turns out a spy satellite went up....Apparently this is the second one in the last two weeks....FYI.... http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/st....
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Daily I wonder what will happen next....
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Bjonsson
Posts: 349
Incept: 2010-03-10
California
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The US is in the process of putting up a new constellation of reconnaissance satellites. This is something that has been in process for a few years now.
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Genesis
Posts: 130775
Incept: 2007-06-26
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I'm going to laugh when someone launches a pile of **** up there just to be junk and play hell with everything up there.
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Bjonsson
Posts: 349
Incept: 2010-03-10
California
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Quote:I'm going to laugh when someone launches a pile of **** up there just to be junk and play hell with everything up there. Yep. The scariest aspect of that being how reliant the Pentagon is on GPS-based technology. It frightens me how much the enthusiasm in funding high technology "sexy" projects with pork money is outpacing the rather obvious achilles heel such short sighted decisions might possibly be creating. I also wish more R&D money were being spent on petroleum contingency resources for our military, coal gassification, etc. |
Jeffrey_thomason
Posts: 7083
Incept: 2009-03-11
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Quote:I'm going to laugh when someone launches a pile of **** up there just to be junk and play hell with everything up there. Remember when China shot up one of their satellites with a missile, suddenly releasing thousands of pieces of space junk? Kinda like that.. Actually, if someone did that and put the ISS in danger.. I wonder what kind of hell that would play diplomatically...
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"Until we look beyond the throne where the power structure lies, we'll fight amongst ourselves as freedom dies. The only hope for human kind lies in solidarity. The strength in our numbers sets us free."
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Genesis
Posts: 130775
Incept: 2007-06-26
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One heavy lift rocket full of rocks....
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Landshark
Posts: 11295
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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Quote:One heavy lift rocket full of rocks.... Better yet, how about all of the crap we throw away... tires, old toilets, bailing wire, pipes, rotten lumber, etc. Launch that **** into orbit and watch the fun.
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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
– C. W. Wendte
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Asimov
Posts: 104041
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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Karl: yup....
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Landshark
Posts: 11295
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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Crude Spikes On News Iran Lawmakers Propose Straits Of Hormuz Blockade For Sanctions Countries Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/02/2012 10:14 -0400 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/crude-spik....What goes down, must come up. In this case crude, which is soaring on news out of FARS that Iranian lawmakers have drafted a bill proposing a blockade of the Straits of Hormuz for oil tankers heading to sanctions supporters, i.e., embargo countries. Naturally, if implemented, this would mean an almost inevitable military retaliation on behalf of the "western world." Then again, this is not the first time Iran has postured with a blockade. A member of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) said that Iran will close the Hormuz Strait if the economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic take effect. Arsalan Fathipour in an interview with Alalam News Network said that the recent oil price fall will not last for long. "We take the control of the Hormuz Strait. If we are supposed to be sanctioned, we will not allow a drop of oil to pass through the strait," he said, Fars News Agency reported. "In such a situation, oil price will surge and we will see that those who have imposed sanctions will not be able to be accountable for their people," he noted. He noted that Iran can find new customers for oil. Iran has stored up imports and hard currency for a "battle" against EU sanctions, officials said on Sunday, the day that the measures aimed at pressuring the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program take effect. Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said the country has stockpiled the population's daily needs to reduce the impact of the embargo hitting the oil and banking sectors. "Today, we are facing the heaviest of sanctions and we ask people to help officials in this battle," Rahimi was quoted by the IRIB News. He said the "dastardly sanctions" might cause "occasional confusion" in the market, but that the Iranian nation would not be stopped. If indeed willing to follow through, it surely mean Iran has at least implicit whisper support of Russian and Chinese support when the situation inevitably escalates.
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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
– C. W. Wendte
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Poer
Posts: 1388
Incept: 2008-09-28
'Eppur si muove!'
Online
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Any updates on this? The gas prices going up here
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"The degree to which a man substitutes the judgment of others for his own, failing to look at reality directly, is the degree to which his mental processes are alienated from reality." Nathaniel Branden in Ayn Rands 'Capitalism The Unknown Ideal'
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Vegasradar
Posts: 8668
Incept: 2007-07-11
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Be the change you want to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Gollum
Posts: 755
Incept: 2011-07-31
Wyoming
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"US Military Buildup in Gulf sends warning signal to Iran" — Fox News
That makes us sitting ducks according to General McCaffrey"
Maybe that's the plan, repeat of 1941 if you believe in conspiracy theories......
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Landshark
Posts: 11295
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
– C. W. Wendte
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Videopro
Posts: 1896
Incept: 2007-08-03
L.A. Area
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I wanted to bring to light a story that has made it's way through the media in one form or another over the last two years or so. This is the recurrent expose of the once Iranian double agent, using the fake name of 'Reza Kahlili' who, after defecting from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard intelligence Corps went back to Iran working for CIA in the capacity of a spy for the United States. After watching this story, comparing the details with others that have come to my attention and the larger domestic civil-security environment I believe there may be important parts of a puzzle coming together. Yesterday's L.A. Times Headline: Quote:Former CIA spy advocates overthrow of Iranian regime
Reza Kahlili, living in the shadows with a fake name and disguise, worked from inside the Revolutionary Guard. He warns of terrorist sleeper cells in the U.S. and a plot to destroy Israel. Link to July 6th story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/....In this story 'Mr. Kahlili' provides special emphasis on one key point about the nature of Iranian agents operating in the United States: Quote:Kahlili says Iranian terrorist cells inside the U.S. have weapons, explosives, money and safe houses; they use contacts with Mexican and Latin American drug cartels to smuggle explosives and weapons into the U.S.
"They have very detailed information about sensitive sites such as bridges, railroads, airports, military bases, power plants, nuclear sites, water plants, railway stations," he says.
If the U.S. or Israel attacked Iran, he says, sleeper cells inside the U.S. would launch suicide bombings and sabotage. Iran would attack Israel, and U.S. bases in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf, he warns. In the story, there is reference to his published memoirs in 2010 and other public, semi-public writings. Although the newspaper does not name the book, I can state that the title is known as 'A Time To Betray' published by Simon & Schuster. Title at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Betray-Astoni....At first blush the cynic in me want's to put this off to psyops due to the seeming timing aspect to how this story emerges and reemerges at interesting key intervals of geopolitical events. However, there are other complimenting independent occurrences that have swung my belief to authenticating his accounts as described in his writings. With all the factors combined, my belief have become more solidified that the recent centrally commanded shut down of the Occupy Movement nationwide was less about suppression of free speech as it is has been designed to deny a fertile environment for Iranian agents to exploit in response to a possible military attack on Iran.The speed, brutality and urgency of which the multiple demonstrations and encampments by Occupy where busted up leads me to believe the 'authorities' are unwittingly and unavoidably transmitting a larger agenda by keeping volatile and politically motivated crowds of any substantial number off the street and away from violent exploitation by under cover Iranian agents should an attack go forward. The rapidity of the rollup may point to an opportunity window that is contemplated for an attack. In his book, 'Reza' makes quite a number of specific references to the exacting knowledge that Iranian agents possess of our domestic infrastructure, commercial establishments, agency tactics and protocol. Some of them I know of specifically and find the writing rather disquieting. In addition, 'Reza' has also been verified as authentic by several independent national security experts and a recent revelation to me about the circumstance surrounding a former employer of mine further lends authenticity to the 'Reza' story as well as the potential for military involvement with Iran at some point in the not too distant future. This story is a key one worth tracking in all it's iterations and shading of meaning.
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"The Spinning Cyclone Of Deflation Is Fueled By Deficit Spending. An efficient asset destroying storm powered by the printing press". - Me
When the Nazi's broke every law when coming to power, people in later years were asked, how were they allowed to do it? The answer was easy: They Simply Did It.
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Avianphlu
Posts: 3959
Incept: 2008-12-03
Ulster NY
Online
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gee landshark...50 years from now...the truthers will have been right all along...forget what the MSM tells you the truth matters not... sarc off
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Landshark
Posts: 11295
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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Once you embrace the fact that the world we live in is controlled by people and forces who are evil to their deepest core, you finally begin to understand the truth, and it's quite freeing.
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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
– C. W. Wendte
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Ape_lincoln
Posts: 764
Incept: 2011-08-04
Ron Paul 2012
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Macdill airforce going craaaazy lately with FA-18's and F-22's this weekend. Im not sure if it was redeployment for July 4 festivities or what it was. But ALOT of hardware has been outbound. I have heard probably 20 jet fighters in the last two day. I cannot positively identify all of them. They appear to be mostly FA-18's and I did definately see an F-22 being escorted by two F-16. Why escort an F-22? Anyway...Something is up. I live right near the runway so its unusual activity. But it mimmicks the activity in late 2002 and september 11th
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Drench
Posts: 28631
Incept: 2009-11-10
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Quote:Israeli operatives have killed at least four Iranian nuclear scientists, including targeting them with operatives on motorcycles, an assassination technique used by the Israeli spy service, the Mossad, according to authors Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman in their book to be published July 9, "Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars."
The Mossad agents "excel at accurate shooting at any speed and staying steady to shoot and to place exquisitely shaped sticky bombs" and consider it their hallmark, Raviv said Friday during an interview with both authors.
The hits are part of a series of regular missions deep inside Iran, intended to keep Tehran from developing weapons and following through with threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/08/.... |
Videopro
Posts: 1896
Incept: 2007-08-03
L.A. Area
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Just putting this out there for discussion: This story on ZH, who has in the past been rather alarmists in nature about these and many other things. Quote: Third US Aircraft Carrier Returning Unexpectedly To Mideast Ahead Of Schedule http://www.zerohedge.com/news/third-us-a....The story focuses on CVN 74 John C. Stennis as seen in this deployment map:  However, with one admittedly uniformed look, there appears at first blush to be more than that to the story:Notably also, - CVN 69 Dwight D. Eisenhower - Underway in the Western Mediterranian - Fast sprint across the Atlantic, headed East, purportedly for a port call in Spain. - CVN 73 George Washington - In and out of port quickly, reverses direction. Underway in the Eastern Pacific - Headed South West Note where the ships were only a week and two weeks ago. With no change in course from the current, it would be easy to contemplate five (5) carrier groups in the Middle East as soon at two weeks from now. Or? Fleet experts invited to comment. Thanks.
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"The Spinning Cyclone Of Deflation Is Fueled By Deficit Spending. An efficient asset destroying storm powered by the printing press". - Me
When the Nazi's broke every law when coming to power, people in later years were asked, how were they allowed to do it? The answer was easy: They Simply Did It.
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Landshark
Posts: 11295
Incept: 2008-02-07
The Wild West
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No worries, this is just part of the show. Nothing bad will happen because that would be, well... bad. And bad things don't happen in our time! U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to oppose Iran July 11, 2012 | 12:47 pm http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_no....WASHINGTON — The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the event of a crisis, U.S. officials said. The tiny SeaFox submersibles each carry an underwater television camera, homing sonar and an explosive charge. The Navy bought them in May after an urgent request by Marine Gen. James Mattis, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East. Each submersible is about 4 feet long and weighs less than 100 pounds. The craft are intended to boost U.S. military capabilities as negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program appear to have stalled. Three rounds of talks since April between Iran and the five countries in the United Nations Security Council plus Germany have made little progress. Some U.S. officials are wary that Iran may respond to tightening sanctions on its banking and energy sectors, including a European Union oil embargo, by launching or sponsoring attacks on oil tankers or platforms in the Persian Gulf. Some officials in Tehran have threatened to close the narrow waterway, a choke point for a fifth of the oil traded worldwide. The first of the SeaFox submersibles arrived in the Gulf in recent weeks, officials said, along with four MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopters and four minesweeping ships, part of a larger buildup of U.S. naval, air and ground forces in the region aimed at Iran. The U.S. already has sent two aircraft carriers and a squadron of F-22 fighters to the Persian Gulf, and is keeping two U.S. army brigades in Kuwait. Though much of the buildup has been publicly acknowledged by the Pentagon, the deployment of the submersibles has not been publicly disclosed, apparently to avoid alerting Iran. The SeaFox is small enough to be deployed from helicopters and even small rubber boats, but it also can be dropped off the back of a minesweeper. It is controlled by a fiber optic cable and sends live video back to a camera operator. It can be used against floating or drifting mines, which Iran has used in the past. It operates up to 300 meters deep, and moves at speeds of up to six knots. But the $100,000 weapon is on a what amounts to a suicide mission. The “built-in, large caliber shaped charge” it carries destroys the mine but also the vehicle itself.
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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
– C. W. Wendte
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Kamath
Posts: 1539
Incept: 2009-04-04
Sweden
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Let me guess that Iranian mines do not cost $100,000 each...
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"Yep - and that ****er didn't want to light either. I had to soak it in gasoline for a full day before that rat bastard thing would combust." - Karl Denninger
""We could not be more ill served if we had some South American tribal witch doctor shaking monkey bones at us. "
- Infidel
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Genesis
Posts: 130775
Incept: 2007-06-26
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So we spend $100,000 to destroy a $1,000 hunk of iron and explosives?
That sounds intelligent.
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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