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POPS Just Space Junk? What's in Space? Much more than you realize. Since the start of the space age there have been some 4,500 space launches worldwide, & today there are 860 active satellites in orbit, The United States owns and operates roughly half of those satellites. This space activity has resulted in millions of pieces of orbiting debris There are two main sources of orbital debris: (1) Routine space activity and the accidental breakup of satellites and stages placed in orbit by such activity; (2) The testing or use of destructive anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons that physically collide with satellites at high speed . The destruction of a single large satellite such as a U.S. spy satellite could by itself double the total amount of large debris currently in low earth orbit (LEO), where nearly half of current satellites reside. There are currently no international restrictions on the testing or use of military systems intended to destroy satellites.
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POPSUS can give Iran space to accept atom deal: Official What a bunch of fools. The IAEA is a pawn of the Iranians and the majority of UN 'diplomats' are Muslim sympathizers. It's all about stalling and doing nothing while Iran steadily moves on with it's nuclear programs. Why not just give them the dang bomb, shut down the IAEA and the UN, eliminate all diplomatic positions and end the charade. Everyone knows that Iran is NOT going to stop its nuclear weapons development.
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POPSTop U.S. Scientist Arrested in FBI Sting Attempting to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Israel
The conduct alleged in this complaint is serious and should serve as a warning to anyone who would consider compromising our nation’s secrets for profit,” said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security. … “From 1989 through 2006, Nozette held security clearances as high as top secret and had regular, frequent access to classified information and documents related to the US national defense,” the Justice Department said. … “In addition, Nozette allegedly offered to reveal additional classified information that directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, and other major weapons systems,” DOJ said. In addition to allegations against a network of moles said to be based at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, Edmonds has also fingered current and former members of Congress, such as Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO),Stephen Solarz (D-NY) and Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased), as well as high-ranking Pentagon and State Dept.
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POPSZbigniew Brzezinski To Obama: Shot Down Israeli Planes If They Attack Iran
In an interview with the Daily Beast, Brzezinski was quoted as saying, "They have to fly over our air space in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?" Currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Maryland, the former White House official added, "We have to be serious about denying them that right. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back, or not." Lt.-Gen. Ashkenazi maintained, however, that Israel will do whatever is necessary to defend itself when the time comes. "Israel has the right to defend itself, and all options are open," said the IDF Chief of Staff. "The IDF's working premise is that we have to be prepared for that possibility, and that is exactly what we are doing." With regard to the cooperation between the IDF and the U.S. Armed Forces that would be essential should military intervention become necessary,
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POPSCan We Stop Being a Superpower, Please? Says New Age Hustler "This is a relevant question in the aftermath of President Obama's visit to Russia, a country that yearns to return to its former status and does everything it can to posture as its old superpower self. Yet other than a bloated nuclear arsenal and swaggering oil production, present-day Russia doesn't fit the bill and never will again. Its diminished threat is the first reason why the U.S. should abandon the thankless task of policing the world. The second is the enormous waste of resources involved in being a superpower. Sheer inertia keeps fueling the production of new armaments to replace outworn ones that were useless to begin with. Has the Stealth bomber justified its staggering cost? Has the nuclear submarine, Polaris missile, Titan missile, not to mention Star Wars? Most of these weapons haven't seen the slightest use. Billions of dollars have been spent on a defense system that is protecting us from a foe who long ago neutralized its threat." Deepak Chancer Deepak=Smarmy Apache
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POPSDefying world powers, N. Korea conducts nuke test The U.N. Security Council was meeting later Monday in New York to discuss what President Barack Obama called Pyongyang's "blatant defiance" of resolutions banning the regime from developing weapons of mass destruction. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the test as a "danger to the world." Russia's Foreign Ministry called it "a serious blow to international efforts" to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. French officials said they would push for new sanctions, and even traditional Pyongyang ally China said it was "resolutely opposed" to the test, which Russian officials estimated yielded a powerful 10- to 20-kiloton blast — enough to flatten a city and far more than North Korea managed in a 2006 atomic test.
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POPSChute Defense Protect earth from alien invasion, humans have build protection platform, use it smart and strategic.
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POPSRecommendations for anti-consumerism books & documentaries
Also (click through to the source for the links on these): I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs Weapons of the Weak a book called The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, and it's more about how capitalism defers and damages people's dreams definitely check out Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism by Daniel Harris. The section on the grotesque lurking within cuteness is hilarious and right-on Heath & Potter's Rebel Sell (Also known as Nation of Rebels,) which makes the distinction between mass society (capitalism as monotonous efficiency, everyone buying the same thing) and consumerism (I am what I own, I must own something new and different in order to be young and unique.) I think it's a really important distinction that a lot of books…totally miss…beware anti-massification arguments masquerading as anti-consumerism arguments Can't Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne
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POPSIt's here... The military industrial complex is already here: in spades. I spent most of the 80's and 90's working on (some high profile) space systems... While some have finally made it to orbit, others are still around -- unlaunched, but milking the government for 100's of millions. Large defense companies are parasites on our economy and society.
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POPSUS Intelligence: Israel is full of crap about Iranian threat Iran has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so. Israel believes Iran does want to make a nuclear bomb and is willing to start a war before verifying Iran’s intentions. Israel tends to take more of a worst-case approach to the situation. Either way, Iran is enjoying its bargaining position just by having everyone else concerned over what it may or may not do. Iran so desperately wants to be a world power that it will hang on to this bargaining chip as long as it can.
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POPSA bulldozer in Jerusalem At just over 8300 square miles, Israel comprises less than one half of one percent of the Middle Eastern territory. Israel is in fact smaller than the state of New Jersey. Amazingly, one can drive across the country near its widest extent – from the shore of the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean on the other side – in just over 90 minutes. Being only 290 miles long, a modern fighter jet can cover the space between Israel’s two most distant points in less than 10 minutes. Israel’s population of 7.3 million is smaller than that of Virginia. More than twenty percent – nearly 1.5 million – are Arabs while five percent is composed of other ethnic minorities. That means that there are 5.5 million Jews in Israel. That figure represents a miniscule portion of the overall population of the Middle East, which stands at some 230 million. In light of this, it is hard to believe that the tiny Jewish remnant is somehow responsible for all of the region’s problems.
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POPS Defense: A Disarmingly Low Priority "I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems." If only our enemies would do the same. In his address to Congress Tuesday night, the president neglected to mention the 17,000 additional troops being sent to Afghanistan. The only mention of national defense, in fact, was a pledge to "reform our defense budget so that we're not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don't use." We may get the chance. An increasingly belligerent Russia and an ambitious China have been expanding their forces. A Russian-built reactor in Iran has just gone live as the mullahs show their global reach with a satellite launch. North Korea is preparing a launch of its Taepodong 2 intercontinental ballistic missile.
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POPSAmerica Being Taken Less Seriously These Days By Our Friends And Our Enemies men arrested on suspicion of having ties to al Qaeda. While none of these events amounts to the foreign policy crisis that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said during the campaign would test the new president in his opening months, Mr. Obama's reaction will shape foreign perceptions of the new U.S. leader's mettle. Any substantive policy changes toward Pakistan are awaiting the outcome of a trip to the region this week by Mr. Obama's representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, as well as a strategic review by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. Central Command. In some ways, the Iranian satellite launch was the biggest rebuke for Mr. Obama, who on the campaign trail promised to begin constructive engagement with Iran in an effort to get the Islamic republic to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
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POPS A Government Bailout of Government The deficit will be increased so that it can eventually “come down?” Obama insisted the bill wouldn’t contain earmarks, but that was another deception. Most of it in fact constitutes a gigantic earmark for state and local governments that have already spent beyond their means. Not surprisingly, left-wing labor unions that backed Obama supported . . . Obama promises budget cuts, but the expectation of Obama’s “progressive” supporters is that he will slash the U.S. military, especially missile defense and weapons systems. Obama himself vowed during the campaign, “I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems…I will not develop new nuclear weapons.” This would leave America in a very dangerous situation. Because of our decline financially and economically, America’s military superiority is practically all that is left of our superpower status.
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POPSBush: Hamas attacks on Israel an 'act of terror' I'm so sick of this one sided crap.. what Israel does no wrong. You can't lock people in a small land space, deny them shipments of medicine, food etc. and expect them to just take it! These people can't get around without security checks in their own land.. I'm still trying to figure out how the Jews are running our Govt. while the people of america allow it to happen.. wake up people!
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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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POPSA ray of fight. "If the ray gun works, it will have joined the self-driving car in the ranks of fulfilled sci-fi." and maybe other things as well from the Sci-Fi will come true, like space travel, life time extension, different stage for humanity... and so on.
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POPS Obama And Frank: A Farwell To Arms Caucus for Priorities is a campaign of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its mission is to “change U.S. budget priorities to reflect a national commitment to education, healthcare, energy independence, job training and deficit reduction — at no additional taxpayer expense — by eliminating funding for unneeded Cold War-era weapons systems.” That will certainly deter a rearming and expansionist Russia, an ambitious China and a dangerous Iran. If Obama wins, the “obsolete Cold War weapons” to be done away with, to Russian and Chinese glee, include the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the F/A-22 Raptor to replace our aging F-15s, the wings of which are literally falling off. The Raptor can fly to and from Iranian nuclear facilities undetected should the need arise, as it very well may at some point.
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POPSMissing Launch Devices at Minot AFB The number of odd circumstances at Minot Air Force Base which was the center of attention after the discovery of mis-shipped nuclear weapons without proper authorization is real interesting. This is about the 5th news report, which follows up on some of the previous oddities. The Air Force also announced Thursday that three ballistic missile crew members from the Minot Air Force Base who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices have been sanctioned and "decertified from missile operations." See Minot AFB Nuclear Mishap Oddities
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