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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

From:  Arutz Shiva

1. Video: Super-Fast Plane May Be Clincher in Missile War
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Video: Super-Fast Plane May Clinch Missile War

The United States has tested a plane that can fly from London to New York in one hour, but its real advantage is hitting a long-range target with a super-fast missile.

The “X-51A WaveRider” unmanned aircraft made a five-minute test flight before a planned crash into the Pacific Ocean.

The hypersonic speed of the plane, which is ejected from the wing of a B-52 bomber, could give the United States a critical advantage in a future missile war in which it could launch a missile to hit a target 3,000 miles away in one hour. The current intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) take hours to reach their targets.

Hypersonic engines also would allow planes to quickly escape enemy fire.

A super-fast missile would have eliminated bin Laden in 1998, when he was able to escape before cruise missiles fired by the U.S. Navy fired hit his terrorist training camps 80 minutes after laucnhing, The Los Angeles Times noted.

The Wave Rider’s first test was conducted in 2010 and lasted for slightly more than two minutes. As in Tuesday’s test, the first flight also was designed to end in the ocean. Officially, it is called a “non-retrievable” aircraft.

After it is dropped from the B-52 bomber, a solid-rocket booster accelerates its speed before a “scramjet” propels it to speeds five times faster than the speed of sound.

The video below shows a simulation of the 2010 test flight.








  





Thursday, December 15, 2011

RALPH NADER WEIGHS IN ON CONGRESSIONAL TYRANNY AND THE WHITE HOUSE SURRENDER (THIS WAS OBAMA'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO HIMSELF)

Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender

By Ralph Nader

December 15, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Paraphrasing Shakespeare, something is rotten in the state of Capitol Hill. A majority of Congress is just about to put the finishing touches on an amendment to the military budget authorization legislation that will finish off some critical American rights under our Constitution.

Here is how two retired 4 star marine generals, Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, described in the New York Times the stripmining of your freedom to resist tyranny in urging a veto by President Obama:

“One provision would authorize the military to indefinitely detain without charge people suspected of involvement with terrorism, including United States citizens apprehended on American soil. Due process would be a thing of the past….

“A second provision would mandate military custody for most terrorism suspects. It would force on the military responsibilities it hasn’t sought”…. "for domestic law enforcement….”

“A third provision would further extend a ban on transfers from Guantanamo, ensuring that this morally and financially expensive symbol of detainee abuse will remain open well into the future.”

All of Obama’s leading military and security officials oppose this codification of the ultimate Big Brother power. Imagine allowing the government to deny people accused of involvement with terrorism (undefined), including U.S. citizens arrested within the United States, the right to a trial by jury. Imagine allowing indefinite imprisonment for those accused without even proffering charges against them. Goodbye 5th and 6th Amendments.

On some government agency’s unbridled order: just pick them up, arrest them without charges and throw them into the military brig indefinitely. This atrocity deserves to be repeatedly condemned loudly throughout the land by Americans who believe in the rights of due process, habeas corpus, right to confront your accusers, right to a jury trial—in short, liberty and the just rule of law.

Some stalwart lawyers are speaking out soundly: They include Georgetown Law Professor, David Cole, George Washington University Law Professor, Jonathan Turley, Republican lawyer, Bruce Fein, former American Bar Association (2005-2006) president, Michael Greco, and the always alert lawyers at the civil liberties groups. Their well-grounded outcries are not awakening the citizenry.

Where are the one million lawyers? Where are the thousands of law professors? Where are the scores of law school deans? Are they not supposed to be our first constitutional responders?

Where is the Tea Party and its haughty rhetoric about the sanctity of constitutional liberty? Most of the Tea caucus voted for tyranny. Presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul has been an outspoken critic of this attack on our civil liberties.

The majority also voted to ratify a dictatorial procedure in the Congress, as well. This indefinite, arbitrary, open-ended dictatorial White House mandate was never subjected to even a House or Senate Committee hearing, and was not explained with any rationale known as legislative “findings.” It was rammed through by the House and Senate Armed Services Committees without the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees invoking their concurrent jurisdiction for public hearings.

So extreme are these majority Congressional extremists, composed of both Republicans and renegade Democrats, the latter led by Senator Carl Levin, that the Obama Administration has to lecture them about the fundamental American principle that “our military does not patrol our streets.”

It is not as if the imperial presidencies of Bush and Obama need any more encouragement and legitimization to continue on their lawless paths to criminal wars of aggression, unlawful surveillance, arbitrary slayings of innocents, wrongful imprisonments, and unauthorized spending. Instead of Congress using its constitutional authority regarding the war, appropriations and investigative powers, it formalizes its impotence by handing the “go for it” power to the Executive branch with the vaguest of language boundaries.

Usually there are a few Senators whose upfront defense of our Constitution would lead them to stand tall against the “Senate Club” and put a “hold” on this pernicious amendment. Civil libertarians hope that, before the final Senate vote in the rush to get home for the Holidays, Senators Rand Paul, Tom Harkin, Al Franken, Richard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, Tom Coburn or Mike Lee would step forth.

A “hold” could spark the demand for public hearings and floor debate to give the American people the time and information to react and ask themselves “how dare Congress take away our most fundamental rights?”

President Obama initially threatened to veto the entire bill and make Congress drop these pernicious dictates that so insult the memory and vision of our founding fathers. He is already signaling that he doesn’t have the backbone to reject the false choice “between our safety and our ideals,” that he asserted in his Inaugural Address.

Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and author.

Monday, June 20, 2011

PANETTA CAUGHT IN 1 WORLD SCHEME TO CEDE OCEAMS TO UNITED NATIONS BASED INTERNATIONAL LAW

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/06/obamas-dod-nominee-caught-in-1-world-scheme-to-cede-oceans-to-u-n-based-international-law/

I tried to warn you...call Congress as soon as you read this and start leaving messages if they aren't there.

The guy has communist (one world government) ties. What does it take to wake the world up?

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

PANETTA APPROVED AS DEFENSE SECRETARY, DESPITE COMMUNIST TIES.

Once again the bar of excellence has been lowered. This time to ground level.

http://nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/senate-panel-approves-panetta-for-defense-secretary-20110614

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NewZeal/~3/AdXQysGQ3Wk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Did you make your phone call yesterday?

I did. Four of them.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

LEON PANETTA HAS COMMUNIST TIES AND IS ABOUT TO BE NAMED SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

SURELY THESE PEOPLE PUTTING HIM IN THIS PLACE KNOW THIS. KEY PEOPLE TO CALL: INHOFE, VITTER AND YOUR OWN SENATORS. FLORIDA'S ARE NELSON AND RUBIO.

HERE'S THE TOLL-FREE TO CONGRESS: 1-877-851-6437

TELL THEM HE MUST BE FULLY VETTED AND HIS COMMUNIST TIES SCRUTINIZED. FOR THE SECURITY OF OUR COUNTRY, WE MUST NOT LET HIM INTO THIS POSITION.

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.14-1.2011.html?utm_source=getresponse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=asinews&utm_content=[ASI]+Panetta+has+been+approved+

Friday, April 2, 2010

US under Obama's Executive Order to ban nuclear defense is rendered nearly helpless

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7085041.ece

That SOB in the White House will not stop until we are sub-third world.

Are our military leaders so emasculated and the prestige of their ranks so important that they can't change his mind? Stand up to him?

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Newsmax: US military preparing for domestic disturbances due to economy

This is dangerous.


U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances



A new report from the U.S. Army War College discusses the use of American troops to quell civil unrest brought about by a worsening economic crisis.

The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”

Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.

He writes: “To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap.”

Freier continues: “Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order … An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home.”

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned last week of riots and unrest in global markets if the ongoing financial crisis is not addressed and lower-income households are beset with credit constraints and rising unemployment, the Phoenix Business Journal reported.

Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Sherman of California disclosed that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson discussed a worst-case scenario as he pushed the Wall Street bailout in September, and said that scenario might even require a declaration of martial law.

The Army College report states: “DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States.

“Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance.”

He concludes this section of the report by observing: “DoD is already challenged by stabilization abroad. Imagine the challenges associated with doing so on a massive scale at home."

As Newsmax reported earlier, the Defense Department has made plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to emergencies.

The 130-year-old Posse Comitatus Act restricts the military’s role in domestic law enforcement. But a 1994 Defense Department Directive allows military commanders to take emergency actions in domestic situations to save lives, prevent suffering or mitigate great property damage, according to the Business Journal.

And Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the U.S. military operations to liberate Iraq, said in a 2003 interview that if the U.S. is attacked with a weapon of mass destruction, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

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