Category Archives: Technology

Vehicle I-D: USMC AAV7 vid-fest

Slow Mo video, Bellows, Hawaii, July 2018:

Video assault on Pyramid Rock Beach, July 2018:

Video AAV7 ground ops, Twentynine Palms, California, June 2018:

Video USS Oak Hill recovers AAV7, Baltic Sea, June 2018:

Video USS Ashland AAV7 deployment, Philippine Sea, April 2018:

Video, ocean towing an AAV7, Okinawa, Japan, March 2018:

Video Assault Amphibious Vehicle AAV7-A1, Camp Pendleton, California, October 2014:

Vehicle I-D: USMC cannibalizes HMMWV to upgrade brand new JLTV

The older HMMWV parts are being harvested for use on the brand new Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV).

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kristen Murphy, 01MAY2018.

The U.S. Marines Corps is cannibalizing older High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles in an attempt to save taxpayers millions of dollars, and “increase the JLTV’s survivability.”

Official video explainer for JLTV:

Vehicle I-D: M88A1 mud-bug

M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle

The following pics are from Fort McCoy’s Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course in July 2018.

Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, began its tracked vehicle recovery training in October 2017.

Vehicle I-D:  FRENCH CAESAR INVADES GERMANY!

MLRS, BRITISH RED COATS INVADE U.S. ARMY BASE IN GERMANY!

PANZERHAUBITZE 2000

Vaccine Fail: Health official accused of Torture in vaccine deaths! It’s all about the money!

More proof it’s all about the money as theperfectinvestor.com reports Vaccine Contract Manufacturing Market Size Is Predicted To Exceed $4-Billion By 2025!

Health Europa: World Vaccine Congress Europe 2018

Arrogant, and ignorant, @caraxdemarco wrote on social media “We vaccinate so that those that medically cannot be vaccinated don’t contract diseases”.  (why don’t you just nail yourself to a crucifix and be done with it!)

Quanta Magazine: Vaccines causing germs to get stronger

WKMG: Florida doctor goes to jail for improper use of vaccines

Forbes: how doctors can force parents to vaccinate their kids

The Conversation AU: Most people don’t benefit from vaccination

The Standard: Filipino pro-vaccine health officials accused by Department of Justice of killing kids with vaccines, in violation of Anti-Torture Act and other laws!

If vaccines are safe why did the U.S. government create the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System?

Business Standard: Indian girl died due to MR vaccine complications

CNN: Samoa pulls MMR vaccine after two babies die

Newshub: Cook Islands lifts vaccine suspension after baby deaths

Stuff.co.nz: Rare condition suspected in children who died after MMR vaccinations

thejournal.ie: Ireland demands citizens get measles vaccine

Note that U.S. measles outbreak ended BEFORE the vaccine was introduced!

Ars Technica: JAMA Pediatrics blames a 2013 outbreak of measles on anti-vaxers in Brooklyn-NYC, saying they should pay for the public healthcare response. 

Press Herald: Romanian measles outbreak blamed on anti-vaxers

Science Magazine: Nobody can prove Congo’s Ebola outbreak was halted by the new vaccine

New Dengue Fever vaccine proven to make people sick and does not offer ‘full immunization’, UN-WHO warns!

UNICEF: Another fine example that if you become a refugee you will have the ‘shit’ vaccinated outta you!

UN News: Record 123 million infants received at least one vaccine in 2017

STAT: Was pandemic flu vaccine tied to an increase in narcolepsy cases?

The Local Italy: Italian parents no longer need proof of vaccinations to enroll children in school

Focus Taiwan News Channel: Taiwan begins baiting ferret-badgers with rabies vaccine

fiddleheadfocus.com: Airborne operations to bombard raccoons with rabies vaccines

Surrey Now Leader: Normally pro-vaccine Canadian health officials refused to give woman rabies vaccine after she was attacked by wild raccoon (the mayor of Surrey got vaccinated, why not her?)

Caixin Global: Rabies Vaccine Producer Ordered to Halt Production

More proof rabies vaccines are about the money as Stock Analysis reports Global Rabies Vaccine for Humans Market 2018

The Mercury: Class warfare as new Australian vaccine costs $1,100 AUD for a family with four children, leaving poor people out in the cold 

Yahoo News: New medical-martial-law plan to crack down on Australian parents who refuse vaccines for children

The Atlantic: Is your horse vaccinated against Hendra, which is deadlier than Ebola and kills humans? 

Honolulu Civil Beat: Want The New Shingles Vaccine? Join The Crowd

Food Poison Journal: Nearly 2,000 Vaccinated for Hepatitis A after Dining at Hardee’s

Arizona State University: Plants produce natural vaccine against norovirus

Ahwatukee Foothills News: Arizona health czars freaking out about declining vaccination rates

NBCNews.com: Anti-vaccine hot spots on rise across U.S.

Sacramento Bee: This lawmaker blocked anti-vaccine activists on Twitter. Now he’s being sued

How to make anti-vax doctors think twice about exempting you from shots

wgbh.org: Anti-Vaccine Doctor Is Disciplined By California Medical Board

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “We thought we could bring brigades of Mexican doctors and we can put free vaccines from Mexico, and we realized that it was not permitted.”-Xochitl Castaneda, Health Initiative of the Americas at University California Berkeley’s School of Public Health

Odessa American: Enforcement of school vaccinations causes shot shortage in Ector County

Dallas Observer: 76 Percent of Texans Believe Vaccines Are Good.

Chron.com: Texas anti-vaccine movement is growing

Infectious Disease Advisor: Universal Purchase Programs in the United States May Not Effectively Increase Vaccination Rates

H1N1 flu shots proved to be failures during the 2015-16 outbreak, new study discovers several factors that will prevent vaccines from working

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Crack down on anti-vax doctors!

The Pioneer News: Kentucky’s new school vaccination laws

Times Free Press: Tennessee law says anybody entering school, including colleges and universities, must be vaccinated

NBC4 Washington:  DC-Area Schools’ Vaccine Requirements

Richmond News: Parents told to check immunization records after Chinese vaccine recall

South China Morning Post: Fake data – the disease afflicting China’s vaccine system.  Disease numbers are being swept under the carpet and false expiry dates slapped on injections, industry insiders say.

Specialty Pharmacy Times: Should drug addicts be forced to get vaccinations? (why not, since they obviously don’t mind putting ‘junk’ into their system?)

Labiotech.eu: Spider web is the new vaccine ingredient

Natural News: Top 9 vaccine ingredients you would never eat if found in food

People: Supermodel caught kissing British anti-vax doctor (oh my!)

VACCINE FAIL, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018: “NOT COST EFFECTIVE.”

OPERATION JUPITER: VACCINES CAN’T SAVE YOU!

Vehicle I-D: Black Hawk with Skis, ‘Hang Ten’

Alaskan UH-60 Black Hawks with skis:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sean Evans, 15MAR2018.

Alaska Army National Guard photo by Specialist Michael Risinger, 09FEB2019.

This Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk is wearing just the tail ski. U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 30MAY2018.

The rear portion of the main skis can be lowered for hoisting operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Connaher, 30JUL2016.

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 21NOV2017.

Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard, 05JUN2018.

Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard, 05JUN2018.

Photo by John Pennell, 28NOV2017.

Video, aerial refueling March 2018:

 

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 21NOV2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña, 29JUL2016.

U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Pena, 24FEB2015.

Video, Operation Rock and a Hard Place, March 2015:

‘Hang Ten’ was originally a symbol of surfing in late 1950s California, then becoming the logo of a surf-clothing company in the 1960s. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 20AUG2015.

‘Hang Ten’ video, people jumping out of a perfectly good helicopter with Hang Ten painted skies in the middle of an Alaskan Winter, 2014:

Video report, Arctic Care 2013:

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Burt Traynor, 13JUN2019.

MILITIA UH-60L LOOSES WINDSHIELD AT NTC!

VEHICLE ID: UH-60 BLACK HAWK M240 LIVE FIRE, GRAFENWOEHR

BLACK HAWK DOWN JAPAN: U.S. ARMY TRAINS YOKOHAMA TO RESCUE DOWNED UH-60 CREWS

Drone Wars: QF-16 Drone

QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target drones operate out of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Video first sortie, February 2017:

Video QF-4 retirement, replaced by QF-16 December 2016:

 

Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 2015

 

ALABAMA F-16s DEPLOY TO MIDDLE EAST!

FLORIDA F-16s JOIN ITALY & ISRAEL TO INVADE GREECE!

DRONE WARS: QF-4 TO QF-16

SPECIAL LAS VEGAS SHOOTING EDITION F-16 & F-15

UTAH: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

“to achieve profitability.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, May 2018

Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in May 2018:

British empire United Kingdom based facebook data stealing Cambridge Analytica now bankrupt busted in the United States, due to $10-million USD of debt: “Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations. The siege of media coverage has driven away virtually all of the company’s customers and suppliers. As a result, it has been determined that it is no longer viable to continue operating the business.”

CALIFORNIA: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group-Deluxe Digital laying off 52 people in Burbank, by the end of July.  Charter Communications suddenly laid off 66 people in Cerritos.  Data warehousing company VSolvit suddenly laid off 107 people in Ventura!  Santa Barbara based consumer electronics company Sonos suddenly laid off 96 people, despite claiming to be growing and profitable.  Japan founded DENSO Wireless Systems America issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Vista, 160 jobs gone by the end of July!  Electronic device maker AMETEK issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Irvine, 42 jobs gone by the end of June. Symantec continues killing jobs, this time 14 people in Mountain View unemployed  in June. Also in Mountain View, data ‘protection’ company Veritas Technologies finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 54 jobs back in April.  Japan owned, Culver City based Sony Crackle suddenly laid off a dozen people “to streamline operations and increase efficiency”.  Video game maker Blind Squirrel Games laid off 13 people due to the sudden cancellation of a project.  Video game maker Daybreak Game Company issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego location, 79 jobs gone by the end of June.   Soleil Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego ops, 88 jobs gone mid-July.  Also in San Diego, Qualcomm laying off 44 people by mid-July. San Francisco based media-tech company PopSugar laid off 19 people “to achieve profitability.”  Qatar based Al Jazeera issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco office, 68 jobs gone by August.   Beverly Hills based Relativity Media bankrupt busted and being sold-off due to more than $500-million USD of debts generated over a two years period.  Ironically job search website Snagajob shutdown its Oakland office.   Taylor Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its Livermore location, 43 jobs gone by the end of June.  Credit.org issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside location, 43 jobs gone by July.  NetApp issued a layoff WARN for its Sunnyvale location, 36 jobs gone in July. Online food ordering company Munchery issued a shutdown WARN for its Gardena location, 82 jobs lost in July (Munchery shuts down operations in LA, New York and Seattle).  Intel issued a layoff WARN for its Santa Clara operations, 65 jobs gone by the end of June.  Business communications company RR Donnelley issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego and Ontario locations, 59 jobs gone in July.  ‘Content connector’ Grass Valley shutting down in July.

FLORIDA: Time shutting down its Customer Service centers, 621 jobs gone between July 2018 and March 2019!  

ILLINOIS: Allstate Print Communication Center issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Wheeling, 220 jobs gone between May and December, due to being outsourced!

LOUISIANA:  Monroe based CenturyLink keeps killing jobs, this time around 1-thousand people will become unemployed as a result of CenturyLink’s merger with L3 Communications!

MASSACHUSETTS: Inside the ‘dehumanizing’ cost-cutting efforts by new Digital First Media ownership at the Boston Herald

Mitt Romney co-founded Framingham based, but now privately owned, Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!

MINNESOTA: Best Buy shutdown its 10 years old Mall of America brick-n-mortar store.  Artesyn Embedded Tech issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by the end of June.  Telemarketer Marketlink issued a WARN, 62 jobs gone mid-July.

NEW JERSEY: Apple shutdown one of its brick-n-mortar stores in Atlantic City, 52 jobs gone “Due to a sharp decline in tourism and visitors to the area…”  Mimeo.com issued a WARN, 116 people in Newark jobless by July!

NEW MEXICO: Call center contractor Convergys eliminating about 1-hundred jobs in Albuquerque due to the expiration of a contract, local news media revealed that Convergys received almost $200-thousand USD in taxpayer funded incentives to create 1-hundred jobs last year!

NEW YORK: Condé Nast’s American Vogue and Vanity Fair together laid off 14 people.  NYC based Viacom suddenly laid off 1-hundred people as it attempts save money while battling for control of CBS!  Software maker for the retail industry Aptos shutting down its Newburgh office, 117 jobs lost over the next 12 months!  California based human interface hardware maker Synaptics halting production at its Linden Oaks facility, 40 jobs gone by mid-July.

WRAL Tech Wire:  Feds launch age discrimination probe of IBM in making layoffs

NORTH CAROLINA: Sykes shutting down a call center in Fayetteville, 377 jobs gone in July!  Local news media said that at one point the call center employed more than 5-hundred people.

OHIO: IBM controlled Watson Health suddenly laid off at least 40 people in Cleveland, a now former employee posted online “….to close the shop, will happen in early 2019. … This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one…” 

PENNSYLVANIA: Call center contractor Ibex Global Solutions shutting down its operations in the Indiana Mall, 105 jobs lost unless a new client can be found soon!

SOUTH CAROLINA:  QS/1 suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, yet at the same time the healthcare software maker claims to be hiring for multiple technology positions.

UTAH: The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 64 people.  The new owner of Standard-Examiner laid off four people. 

VERMONT:  After 72 years, magazine Vermont Life is now dead.

VIRGINIA: Ironically job search website Snagajob laid off an undisclosed number of employees at its Richmond office.

WASHINGTON: Video game maker Wargaming Seattle shutting down in Redmond, 155 jobs gone by mid-July, company officials saying “Development was discontinued on May 23”! 

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, April 2018: “…TO THRIVE IN THE FUTURE.”

Vehicle I-D: CH-53K King Stallion

Forget the CH-53 Super Stallion, there’s a new heavy lift Marine coming onboard; CH-53K King Stallion.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ethan Pumphret.

Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron-1 load the main gear box of the new CH-53K King Stallion onto the aircraft, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 03OCT2018.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

The first CH-53K King Stallion hovers above the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.It’s not a rebuild, it’s completely new with reduced weight yet stronger construction, fly-by-wire, and able to lift three times more that the Super Stallion (externally transport 27-thousand pounds/12247 kilos over 110 nautical miles/127 miles/203.7km and has a max external lift of 36-thousand pounds/16329.3 kilos).  The most noticeable visual difference is the cockpit/nose section of the rotary wing aircraft.

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

The first CH-53K King Stallion taxis across the flight line at MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018.

Offical U.S. Marine Corps video explainer:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Samuel Lyden.

Another video, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 16MAY2018:

USMC photo by Sergeant Matthew Callahan.

USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Leynard Kyle Plazo.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

USMC General checks out the new CH-53K at the Berlin Air Show, Berlin ExpoCenter Airport, Schönefeld, Deutschland, 25APR2018.

USMC photo by Corporal Hailey D. Clay.

Video of heavy lift demo at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18JAN2018:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

Test flight over West Palm Beach, Florida, 22MAR2017.

Official video from April 2017:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Molly Hampton.

By April 2017, the CH-53K had passed its Defense Acquisition Board assessment, and low-rate initial production began. The CH-53K is scheduled to completely replace the CH-53E Super Stallion by 2030.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

“Experimental” silly-vilian colors (and nose) at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Florida, 08MAR2016.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Gabriela Garcia.

Vehicle I-D: CH-53 SEA STALLION MCAS-YUMA, APRIL 2017

“…to thrive in the future.”: U.S. hi-tech/communications breakdown, April 2018

More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in April 2018:

EdSurge: Computer Science Degrees and Technology’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle

California: Maker of “electromechanical and solid state switch gear for aircraft” Leach International-Esterline Power Systems suddenly eliminated 46 jobs in Buena Park.  Social media camera company Snap suddenly eliminated 90 jobs in Venice and Santa Monica.   In Rocklin, Germany based SMA Solar Technology eliminating 51 jobs by the end of June.  Newspaper owner Tronc suddenly laid off more than 12 people at several major newspapers, including people who worked in the digital/online departments.  McClatchy owned The Sacramento Bee laid off 23 people, one of the fired reporters warned “If people think they will continue to get the news for free, they have another thing coming.”  It’s been revealed that Menlo Park based facebook is spending $20-thousand USD per day to provide Mark Zukerberg with security guards! Qualcomm eliminating 1-thousand-5-hundred jobs in San Diego, San Jose and Santa Clara, as part of its “cost reduction plan”, however, a financial adviser told local news media that it was really about boosting Qualcomm’s stock price!  Also in San Diego, neurobiological computer fabric maker KnuEdge issued a shutdown WARN, 30 jobs gone by the end of May.  San Diego based Daybreak Game Company suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people: “Daybreak confirms we are realigning our workforce to better position our company for the future.”  

Connecticut: Konica Minolta Business Solutions issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Windsor, 431 jobs gone between July and September!

Florida: The Gulf Coast Voice (Pensacola Voice) halting publication after 54 years, due to the owner retiring and none of her relatives wanting to continue running the newspaper.

Georgia: More than 1-thousand jobs lost in Columbus (Midland/Corporate Ridge) as ATM maker NCR will shut down both factories (NCR is also shutting down a factory in China) between August and October!  Politicians in Georgia say the announcement by NCR was sudden and means NCR violates the deal that gave it taxpayer money to move ops to Georgia, and now it must pay that money back.  NCR administrators would only say that their decision to shutdown factories is to ensure NCR’s future survival.

Illinois: Online shopping service Swap.com issued a layoff WARN, 196 jobs in Bolingbrook gone due to “financial” reasons!

Iowa: In Coralville, taxpayer funded General Dynamics InfoTech (IT) eliminating 112 jobs by July!

Louisiana: Monroe based CenturyLink eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs across the U.S., saying the jobs are considered “redundant”!

Minnesota: SL Montevideo Technology Incorporated (MTI) issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Montevideo, 110 jobs gone as part of efforts to “help make MTI an even stronger company”!

Nebraska: Charter Communications shutting down its call center (formerly TimeWarner) in Lincoln, 55 jobs lost, possibly in connection to  a recent service upgrade.

New York: NYC based Univision warned “…we have made the very difficult decision to reduce personnel across the company…” in order “…to thrive in the future.”  Synaptics issued a shutdown WARN for its Rochester ops, 40 hardware/software jobs gone by mid-July.  Newsday issued a phase six layoff WARN as part of its shutdown of ops in Melville, a total of 1-thousand-423 jobs affected when the shutdown is complete din October.  Heidenhain shutting down its Electronics Precision Graduations factory in Jamestown, 40 jobs being consolidated to Illinois and Austria. Advertiser Prompt Direct shutting down its Staten Island ops, 49 jobs gone by July.

North Carolina: Germany based solar panel maker Schletter now chapter 11 bankrupt busted in the U.S. after halting production at its factory in Shelby.  More than 1-hundred people suddenly unemployed after not being paid for several pay periods: “Something went wrong with their business, but they didn’t give anybody a heads up, and they left people with unpaid bills.”-Mel Lockhart, owner of janitorial service hired by Schletter

Ohio: Bankrupt Bon Ton’s internet order fulfillment center in West Jefferson shutting down, 330 jobs gone by June!  Online estate sale company EBTH issued a massive layoff WARN for its distribution ops, 203 jobs gone in June!

Oregon: Software company Puppet suddenly laid off less than 20 people (exact number not given) in an attempt to ensure that “investments are focused on our most strategic priorities.”

Pennsylvania: Quad Graphics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Hazleton, 167 jobs gone by June!

Vermont: Gray Television Group, the new owners of WCAX-TV, suddenly laid off six people in the name of efficiency.

Washington: Lionbridge Technologies issued a layoff WARN, 119 jobs gone by June, no reason given!  Hearst owned online newspaper Seattle Post-Intelligencer (SeattlePi) continues killing jobs, through layoffs and resignations.  At one time there were 160 employees, now there’s only seven!  

U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, March 2018: “HARD REALITIES”

U.S. Air Force owns your GPS! U.S. Army warns ‘We know where you are’!

18APR2018 /23:58 UTC-07 Tango 06  (30 Farvardin 1397/03 Sha’ban 1439/04 Bing-Chen 4716)

How many silly-vilians know that the current Global Positioning System is a military operation controlled by the U.S. Air Force?  Here’s the official USAF video explainer:

Official U.S. Army video (weak-ly done) warning about the dangers of using your silly-vilian so-called smart-phone GPS or Snap-chat:

It’s all part of the ever expanding military controlled Global Information Grid.

SATCOM upgrades to Wideband Enterprise Terminal, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, to further expand the Global Information Grid.

MAKING ZOMBIES: USAF SECRET SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENT REVEALED!