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POPSRussia Simulates Nuclear Attack on Poland On the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, Obama canceled the construction of a defense system that was to be based in Poland. Now we know that simultaneously, Russia was simulating nuclear attacks on Poland. It's painfully obvious that Obama has already taken sides in this battle.
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POPSWhy Obama Is Wrong on Missile Defense FTA: "Why, at a time of growing threats from unstable regimes that are testing long-range missiles and at or near nuclear status, would we spend less money on missile defense?" Why indeed!!!! (but I preach to the choir)
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POPSSaudis Consider Russian Air Defense System This is what I am talking about. Keep Iran away from this defense system, because Israel will attack Iran before it is in place. Before we are ready. It still may happen, with U.S. help and/ or approval...Saudis are strict and treat women like garbage, but this little act will keep peace a day or two longer....
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POPSThree Historical Lessons to Help the President Cope
continued testing its missiles designed to deliver nuclear war heads to Tel Aviv. And the health care takeover is losing momentum. These issues require hard work for a hardened politician. Most that want to be President relish these days as the chance to make a real difference for the country. Obama chooses a flight to Copenhagen. Defense Secretary Gates furthered the concern over Afghanistan on the Sunday talk shows by pointing out that leaving that basket-case of a country would allow the Taliban and Al Qaida to regroup, rearm and re-attack the American homeland. Should that occur, of course the US military would be sent back into Afghanistan to hunt bad guys " at least until the next leftist liberal was elected President. The Prez though, is reluctant to get into a war that can’t be quickly won. The President’s preferred choice may be to fight the War on Terror on the streets of American cities rather than Afghanistan. Reasoning that we wouldn’t have to pay
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POPS NASA Launches Delta II Rocket The latest Air Force weather forecast offers a 70-percent chance of conditions good enough for liftoff during the one-hour window, with cumulus clouds and showers again the main concern. Heavy clouds moving in from the Atlantic Ocean scrubbed a first launch attempt Wednesday. A second attempt was planned this morning, but a leak from fuel line at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17B prompted another delay. Engineers traced the leak to a corroded weld, located beneath the launch pad, in the line through which nearly 10,000 gallons of RP-1 rocket fuel will be pumped from a storage tank to the rocket. The weld was repaired quickly enough to limit the delay to one day, and NASA says the rocket and spacecraft are ready to fly.
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POPSCheck Six - Mutual Support and Communication in Business Fighter pilots train in an environment of mutual support and always check each other’s six for the unseen threat. And when our wingmen call out break right to avoid the missiles, we never question their judgment. We act because we trust each other. We act because this is what we’re trained to do.
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POPSNK fires new type of short-range missile... But our Sec. of Defense says this is no "crisis" & our President attends a Hollywood fundraiser and talks basketball & politics. :~( I hope someone is working on this and our other problems besides suggesting that we all paint our roofs white to reduce global warming.
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POPSMissile Defense Defend your base from missiles, aliens and aircraft. You need to nuke them before they touch your base.
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POPSIran Missile Experts in North Korea: Japanese Prepare To Intercept Illegal Missile As tensions increase ahead of the rocket launch, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force began deploying units capable of shooting down a rocket to the northern prefectures of Akita and Iwate. Early today, units carrying Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles left a base in central Japan and will arrive at the northern prefectures on Monday, according to Japan's national broadcaster NHK. On Friday Tokyo gave its military the green light to shoot down any incoming North Korean rockets. Pyongyang has said that it will launch a communications satellite over northern Japan between April 4 and April 8, but the US and its allies in the region believe the secretive regime is actually planning illegally to test a long-range Taepodong-2 missile that could reach North America. Japanese media claimed that spy satellites have photographed the nose cone of a long-range North Korean rocket on its launch pad.
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POPSIsrael Defends Itself - Blame Hamas Terrorists U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel's offensive as excessive and demanded an immediate cease-fire. He said key international and regional players — including foreign ministers of the Arab League nations holding an emergency meeting Wednesday — must "act swiftly and decisively to bring an early end to this impasse." Can you believe the lowlifes at the UN - Hamas terrorist fire rockets into Israel constantly but condeme Isarel for striking back. What a bunch of moron!
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POPSRussian S-300 Anti-Air Systems Already Delivered To Iran On July 9, US Secretary of State Robert Gates said: "Based on what I know, it's highly unlikely that those air defense missiles would be in Iranian hands any time soon." Clearly, Gates was misinformed and his intelligence wrong, since five months on, those missiles are on their way to Iran. While both the Bush administration and Israeli leaders insisted that a military option remained on the table if Iran persisted in its nuclear weapons program, neither took into account that Tehran was not deterred or standing idle. This week, the Israeli defense ministry announced that Amos Gilead, a high official, would travel to Moscow Wednesday, Dec. 17 in a final bid to hold the Kremlin's hand. But Olmert and defense minister Ehud Barak had missed another boat.
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POPSWhen is Failure Success? When You Ask the Pentagon That last paragraph tells you all you need to know. If it doesn't work, Obama's going to cut it. So every test, regardless of outcome, will be called a success. The spin isn't even consistent. Where the test was meant to simulate "countermeasures similar to what Iran or North Korea could deploy," Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O'Reilly, director for the Missile Defense Agency, says, "Countermeasures are very difficult to deploy. We have had trouble deploying them in the past." So N. Korea and Iran can pull it off, but we can't?
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POPSU.S. Missile-Warning Satellite Fails Discovered by amateur astronomers! .:p .:confused: It underscored the urgency of getting the new Space Based Infrared Satellite (SBIRS) system being developed by Lockheed Martin Corp into orbit. The SBIRS program was launched in 1996 with an eye to launching the first satellites in 2004 at a cost of $4.2 billion. The program has been restructured several times and its price tag is now seen at well over $11 billion Hitchens said some amateur astronomers, who use optical and radio telescopes to track objects in space, suggested the DSP satellite may have been adrift in geosynchronous orbit, which could pose a danger to other satellites operating in that orbit, she said.
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POPSWhat is Blackwater Doing in Alaska? The Blackwater guards are nominally employed by Chenega, an Alaska Native corporation associated with the Alaskan coastal village of Chenega Bay, population 86. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, architect of the “Bridge to Nowhere” and recently convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges, is one of the principal proponents of the anti-missile system and was also instrumental in writing laws which help secure government contracts for Alaska Native Corporations. Chenega gets contracts through the Small Business Administration, rakes off a percentage, then lets giant Blackwater provide the actual services. Since 2000 Chenega has received over $1.1 billion in sole-source or non-compete bids from the Army, Air Force and Department of Homeland Security. It's good to have friends in high places.
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POPSUS Arms Sales Climbing Rapidly "This is not about being gunrunners," said Bruce S. Lemkin, the Air Force deputy under secretary who is helping to coordinate many of the biggest sales. "This is about building a more secure world."
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POPSArming Iraq Front page story from the Wall Street Journal lays out both business and national security implications of the potential deal, notably underscoring the importance of Middle Eastern market for defense contractors. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, General Electric, and United Technologies get mentions.
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POPS Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards Bases in Sight Tehran would view a US attack on the IRGC bases as a casus belli and might react in ways and on a scale unanticipated in Washington. Two days ago, Iran’s defense minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar warned: “Iran’s Armed Forces are fully prepared to counter any military attack with any intensity and to make the enemy regret initiating any such incursions.” According to DEBKAfile’s Iranian and military sources, the IRGC had by mid-May completed their preparations for a US missile, air or commando assault on their command centers and bases in reprisal for Iranian intervention in Iraq. These preparations encompass al Qods’ arms, most of them undercover, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan. At home, the Revolutionary Guards have evacuated their key bases together with manpower and equipment to regular army sites or temporary quarters in villages located in remote corners of eastern and northern Iran.
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POPSReport: Air Force Nuke Weapons Not Secure Ironic. Yet other articles disclosed that Israeli contractors would be in charge of nuke weapon security in the U.S. , which is even more interesting. So if "terrorists" used a nuclear device, guess where it might come from? This article also underlines the Minot Air Force lapse when nukes were loaded on B-52s and flown across the country, "without (official) authorization". There is more evidence of internal security problems than from any foreign enemy.
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POPSIsrael on High Alert; Fears Syria's Retaliation on their own Nuclear Plant "What goes around comes around." Remember it made news that Israel bombed a Syrian nuclear project last month (a facility which Syria and Korea denied as propaganda); then recently that U.S. had done the bombing (without Congress or public knowledge). Now they are on high alert, or paranoid of retaliation. (If you were Syria what would you do?) Not sure if this is based on real intelligence or Israeli propaganda. We know the neocons, headed by Cheney, wanted to attack Syria last year, when Israel was bombing Lebanon. Therefore their attack in Syrian territory was provocatory, and could indeed result in retaliation. Or, Israel could commit a false-flag attack on itself, and claim it was Syria. Thus two routes to war with Syria. Apparently only Israel is permitted to have nuclear power in the middle east. What hypocrisy.
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POPSLeFigaro-pt1: French view of Syria raid
Israel, Hezbollah and Gulf Monarchies Preparing for the Possibility of Strikes in Iran ... Le Figaro "In anticipation of a possible Iranian riposte to US bombings, Israel has also decided to bury its Defense Ministry in Tel-Aviv, where "bunkerization" works proceed apace. Israel, which fears a hijacked airplane crashing against a tower of the Defense Ministry, has learned its lesson from the Iraqi Scuds' launch against Tel-Aviv in 1991. 100 kilometers to the north, Hezbollah is also getting ready. No longer only to the north of the Litani River where a rearmament has been observed since the beginning of the year in South Lebanon" "Lately, truck convoys have been sighted at night, as well as trenches dug amid the palm groves and immediately recovered; suspicious explosions have been heard: so many indications that strangely recall the 2005-2006 preparations, when, in anticipation of a conflict with Israel, Hezbollah dug tunnels, fortified bunkers and secured its radio communicatio
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POPS 70 Punished In Accidental B-52 Flight A main reason for the error was that crews had decided not to follow a complex schedule under which the status of the missiles is tracked while they are disarmed, loaded, moved and so on, one official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. The airmen replaced the schedule with their own "informal" system, he said, though he didn't say why they did that nor how long they had been doing it their own way. "This was an unacceptable mistake and a clear deviation from our exacting standards," Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said at a Pentagon press conference with Newton. "We hold ourselves accountable to the American people and want to ensure proper corrective action has been taken." The weapon involved was the Advanced Cruise Missile, a "stealth" weapon developed in the 1980s with the ability to evade detection by Soviet radar. The Air Force said in March that it had decided to retire the Advanced Cruise Missile fleet soon.
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POPSSimultaneously, Russia and America Conduct Major War Games Russian strategic bombers Tu-160, Tu-95 and Tu-22M3, and Il-78 aerial tankers "will conduct flights over the Arctic region, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, and the Black Sea, with simulated bombing raids and firing of cruise missiles at testing grounds in northern and southern Russia," Colonel "Alexander Drobyshevsky said." (RIA Novosti). Part of these Russian war games will be conducted in the Arctic, within proximity of US and Canadian territory (Alaska and Canada's Arctic). "U.S. and Canadian fighter jets, including F-15s, were dispatched each time to escort the Russian planes in the exercises, which ranged from two to six aircraft,... "
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