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Hand-Launched Military Drone Getting New Payload Kit for Even More Spying Power
From www.autoevolution.com
2021-08-05 04:21:00
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One of the biggest names in the world of military hand-launched drones is without a doubt AeroVironment. The American company is responsible for making a diverse range of such machines, including the Puma and Raven, and spares no expense in keeping them relevant on the battlefield.
The latest…
Are Robotic Police Dogs Useful Tools or Threatening Machines?
From learningenglish.voanews.com
2021-08-04 18:01:41
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A robotic police dog is being used to look for high body temperatures in homeless people at a temporary shelter in Hawaii’s capital, Honolulu.
The effort is one way public safety agencies are starting to use the commercial robot Spot. Spot can move like an animal and can walk over almost…
Bill Collier- The objective of the Islamic terror organizations that waged war on America from its inception, culminating in the 9-11 attacks on New York and DC, was to weaken the US and install Islamist regimes in as many places as possible. The effort to lure in the US to a ground fight on the home turf of the Islamists and bleed that country into weakness and retreat.
Meanwhile, the fear lest in fighting the terrorists we ourselves become intolerant has also led to a paradoxically more friendly and accepted, even protected, status for Islam in the US which has allowed for the ease of recruiting Americans themselves into the ranks of radical Islamism.
While the “war on terror” has spanned the globe and has turned its prying gaze inward toward innocent Americans, thanks to the misnamed “Patriot Act”, in no places was it more violent and concentrated than Iraq and Afghanistan. In these two lands, tens of thousands of US troops came to grips with the enemy and found him to be tough, merciless, and smart. The trauma experienced by hundreds of thousands of young Americans has left a massive scar on more than one generations: 20 years of constant war have meant that the children of the first soldiers who started this war were equally traumatized by it.
The enemy isn’t and wasn’t a tactic of lateral warfare, it was and remains an ideology and those who promote it, a form of imperialistic, totalitarian, and cultish Islam whose goal is world destruction in uhersing in the end of the age. Whether the particular brand is Shia, as from Iran, or Sunni, as from Afghanistan, the common belief is that the state should control the population in a totalitarian manner to produce loyal and faithful Muslims while rooting out any unfaithful persons and punishing them or killing them.
The even deeper root of the core ideology is totalitarian control by the state in service of the ideas and beliefs of the rulers. The fellow travelers of this enemy include right and left wing ideologues, ranging from the right-wing Putin to the left-wing Chinese Communist Party, and in the US includes some leading Democrats and far right antisemites. Totalitarians have a certain solidarity against those who reject totalitarianism on principle and without compromise.
The “war on terror” became an authoritarian overstep both at home and abroad by a government that was becoming increasingly corrupted by parochial self-interest, moral depravity, and greed. The lust for power and control, almost sexual in its feeling, began to infect rank and file and topmost political and corporate leaders who, through the Patriot Act, were less and less accountable to anyone but their own whims. The US became an authoritarian and abusive occupation force whose reign was as abusive to average people as the Islamic totalitarians they had temporarily displaced.
A recent initiative announced by the Biden Administration against “domestic terrorism” seems to see US forces coming home even as all the powers of the Patriot Act which were focused on Islamic terror are focused on opponents, whether of the left or right, of the Democratic Party. The war on terror has been lost and is now morphing into a war on freedom in the name of a new war on “domestic terrorism.”
The loss of this war is seen in the precipitous withdrawal of the US from the heartlands of Islamic Totalitariamism, leaving the field to the likes of the Taliban and Iran. While the Freedomist has never supported this foreign adventurism, the manner of the withdrawal exposes the true depth of the defeat. Put simply, the fields of battle are now left to the Islamic totalitarians whom the US tried to defeat.
With all our military might and modern technology, the US was unable to subdue the enemy or win the population over to a more enlightened way. Small cells and bands of under-armed and untrained irregular forces bled out the US and its allies through a thousand cuts every day. Every “battle” saw the enemy leave the field, but the real strategy wasn’t to occupy lands the US could not enter, the enemy became like water, flowing away from strong force pouring into the surrounding population, who remained sympathetic to them and hostile to the Americans.
The count of dead was not like other wars, mostly because of advances is battlefield medicine. But the toll on the psychology of the troops in these far-flung fields became ever more immense. The cost of materials and supplies, and of “nation building” efforts, has accounted for almost $4 trillion dollars. This comes out to around $12,200 for every single human being living in the United States.
The enemy did not have overt support from major powers, like the Viet Cong did in our last lost war. True, some powers did back the enemy, sporadically, and Iran certainly did all it could, but if the US had wanted to punish these powers, it could have without too much risk to itself.
The constant fighting in essentially hit and run ambushes with plenty of IED’s and terrorist attacks kept US forces on constant guard, a psychological burden few can endure without lasting effects, and it caused many injuries and deaths.
The enemy won on three fronts:
1. Radical Islamic ideology is protected and promoted in the US itself and the overall atmosphere for Islamic recruitment in the US is far more favorable than it has ever been
2. US forces have left the field to the enemy who is now re-occupying ground and gainig global recognition for having defeated “the great satan”
3. The “war on terror” has turned inward and now the enemy of the Islamic totalitarians is itself being torn apart by the growing totalitarianism of its ruling class
After 20 years, the US has lost the war on terror. Totalitarian Islamic ideology is on the march abroad, free to recruit within the US, and content in the knowledge Americans are now the target of the “Patriot Act”, not them!
We lost this war as soon as we decided to wage war on a tactic, liberate people who didn’t want to liberate themselves, and resort to the same kinds of totalitarian methods as our enemies.
PGC – While the Chinese President, Chairman Xi, continues to build his military, just recently, the Chinese were able to host a meeting of the biggest American international corporations we have to assure them, and to preach to them, that decoupling from China is bad. They’re even dangling before these American companies the prize so many have been after, the open Chinese market.
The potential to make money in the Chinese market could be three to four times the capacity of America’s market in a short order, and this, in part, is what American corporations are banking on, and why they seem to be so integrated with China, with our own professional basketball league choosing China over Hong Kong in a Twitter war.
This is become their City of Gold they’ve been pursuing for sometime, a pursuit that was JUST ABOUT to bring big fruit until the Donald came along and wrecked their marriage in the middle of the dress rehearsal. Well, they can’t exactly get to that point just yet, but they’re working to get back to that point.
While these corporations prepare to become even more dependent on a nation-state that is currently genociding a whole ethnic group, they pretend moral supremacism through corpowoketarianizm at home, destroying the lives of innocents caught up in the latest moral hysteria to sweep across a land (wasn’t the first, won’t be the last).
And while our corporations, from near-stem, to near-stern, prepare the wedding bed with daggers under the mattress (knowing the bride has knives under there as well), that same courted bride is building a military behind an imperialistic mindest as reflected in Chairman Xi himself, who, under Xi thoughts, has described the role of China as serving as the Father of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics to the rest of the world that, through soft power mostly, will acceede to the Chinese Way of doing Marx, so to speak.
Not that he’s anywhere close to Marx or Chinese or even Characteristics for that matter in what his system currently represents, a mix of near lawlessness with brutal thought-police level of control. You can pee on the streets or randomly set up a space on a sidewalk and sell stuff, but don’t go on social media and watch anything inappropriate as defined by the CCP, or say anything inappropriate as defined by the CCP, else Uncle will show up and take you to a dark place, where you will be contained in a special chair to assure your movement was limited, and you would be questioned about that social media post or view or like until they were convinced you were contrite or duly chastized, then they would let you go.
The Chinese state has mastered corpowoketariansim beyond anything the corporations of America could hope to achieve anytime soon.
This is the CCP we are giving a pass to as she builds more power and makes it clear her intentions to not be a passive superpower, but to be one that consumes nations with her way. Come what may, you don’t want such an outcome for your children, yet our holy holy corpowoketarian companies seem to want that for your children, for they make bank at the top while we lose what liberties we have remaining.
Chairman Xi himself is either relying on martial inspiration for a boost in the hearts of a nation that is being wrecked with floods, broken dams, and incompentent state handling of crisis, or he is wary of America’s, and other nations’ continued patience with China once their populace figures out just how long and how deep the continued sacrifice of local liberty for Chinese dollar is among their biggest and most well-known and well-loved brands, and even their own governments as well (most certainly ours).
He is urging his military to make preparations for military struggle, which might be inocuous enough given his current geopolitical circumstance, but this seems, to me, to fit more in the pattern he and his foreign ministers have been following for some time.
If you will recall, it was a foreign minister representing Chairman Xi that warned America if it continued to say the Coronavirus came from China that they might withhold our medicine (why our corporations and our government would put 90 percent of our medical anythings in China is a question that will one day have to be asked) for treatment of the virus.
In that spirit, this comment is less inocuous to me, though I think it portends a still more gradual escalation that the nation-state has continued to be on for the last 4 years since Chairman Xi become the effective new Mao of the Chinese State.
Xi Jinping Calls on China to ‘Make Preparations for Military Struggle’
From legalinsurrection.com
2021-08-01 14:00:25
Vijeta Uniyal
Excerpt:
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the country to prepare for a military conflict. The Chinese leader demanded more power and resources for the country’s armed forces, the People Liberation Army (PLA).
The PLA “must be placed in a more important position, and the consolidation of national defence and a strong military must be accelerated.” the Communist dictator declared on Friday. “We must persist in strengthening the overall planning of war and make preparations for military struggle,” he added.
Friday’s statement comes amid series of threatening remarks aimed at the United States and the West made by the Chinese leader since President Joe Biden took over the White House.
In early July, Xi threatened that China’s adversaries will “have their heads cracked and bleeding” in any future confrontation. They “will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people,” he warned in a televised speech marking the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post reported the Chinese leader’s comments:
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a greater focus on national defence and the military in a speech given on the eve of an important military anniversary and as the nation faces a growing range of security risks.
After giving a spirited speech on the achievements of China’s Communist Party during its centennial celebrations earlier this month, Xi said on Friday: “On the path of completely building a modern socialist country and realising the second centennial goal, national defence and the military must be placed in a more important position, and the consolidation of national defence and a strong military must be accelerated.
The dramatic fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard was, according to the Navy, allegedly started by a sailor. While the sailor’s idenity has not been revealed, and formal court martial has yet to be announced, it appears this was an act of sabotage. Moreover, their is evidenced of 3 different fires on theee different vessels in San Diego over a 15 month period prior to this major fire.
“The sailor was a member of Bonhomme Richard’s crew at the time and is accused of starting the fire,” Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesperson in San Diego, said in a statement.
The charges “were brought forth against a Navy sailor in response to evidence found during the criminal investigation into the fire started on USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) on July 12, 2020.” The charges against the seaman apprentice are aggravated arson under Article 126 of the Unifrom Code of Military Justice and hazarding a vessel under Article 110.
“Evidence collected during the investigation is sufficient to direct a preliminary hearing in accordance with due process under the military justice system,” Robertson said.
“Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, who commands 3rd Fleet, is considering court-martial charges and has directed a preliminary hearing at which an impartial hearing officer will make determinations and recommendations required by the UCMJ prior to any further trial proceedings – including whether or not there is probable cause to believe an offense has been committed and to offer a recommendation as to the disposition of the case.”
The sailor, a Seaman Apprentice, had been held in custody at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., before being released in November. At this time they are not in custody.
What could some of the motives be? Some possibilities include a sailor disgruntled by the stress of being 2 years in dry dock and facing a deployment, a stressful scenario for many sailors. It could also be more ideological, ranging from right to leftwing radicalism, or even anger over the Navy’s constant and distracting “diversity training” which is clearly ideological brainwashing rather than useful instruction.
One possibility is that the Navy has a simmering problem with morale. We have already seen reports that morale is low, largely effected by the obsession of the command with convincing sailord to “bow to the rainbow” rather than focusing on combat readiness. The ability of sailors today to fight their ships is decidedly decreased over what it was 20 years ago.
This could either cause an angry reaction that, well not at all justified, is somewhat predictable. In that case, if indeed the sailor was disgruntled about the rainbow fascist indoctrination, the likely results could range from cover-up to conceal the problem to exploitation of the crime to double-down on the rainbow fascist indoctrination.
In the event the crime was motivated by leftwing or Islamist ideology, the true nature will be concealed with a focus on the sailor’s mental health.
The outstanding question is whether the Navy, in part through its obsession with ideological indoctrination, is brewing a massive morale problem that could lead to such acts of sabotage. This could either be a result of sailors’ trained to essentially hate their own country may be radicalized or because angry sailors rejecting ideological indoctrination lash out by committing crimes like this.
The opacity of the process by which this has been investigated and the fact the identity of the sailor is concealed and formal charges (as in a court martial) not brought, leads one to believe the actual circumstances and motive surrounding this incident are not useful to the Navy brass’s narrative.
