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International

13APR2024: WAR! Iran confirms it is attacking Israel!

Qatar and Kuwait close their air-space!

U.S. officials claim as many as 5-hundred drones launched against Israel!

Iran says any country helping Israel or U.S. to attack Iran will suffer retaliation by Iran!

Israel Defense Forces reports at least 1-hundred Iranian drones detected, plus cruise missiles!

Iraq closes its air-space!

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that they have launched “dozens” of combat drones (Shahed 136) and long range missiles against Israel, in response for Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria!  Israel warns it will attack Iran directly if any Iranian drone strikes Israel!

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu thanks NATO members for their support!

13APR2024: WAR? ISRAEL SAYS IRAN HAS LAUNCHED AIR ATTACK!

International, U.S.

13APR2024: WAR? Israel says Iran has launched air attack!

Kingdom of Jordan states they are prepared to shoot down Iranian aircraft!

University of Tehran professor indicates this is just the beginning of Iran’s vengeance attacks for Israel’s attack on the embassy in Syria!  Says if the U.S. attacks Iran then “they will lose Iraq”!

Israel’s El Al airline cancels flights!  Airline flights are being diverted around the air-space of Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Jordan and Syria!

U.S. and Israel now jamming GPS satellite signals in The Middle East! Kingdom of Jordan closes their airspace to air-traffic!  Israel claims Iran has launched multiple drones towards Israel!

U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, and other officials, on way to emergency security meeting!

Israel’s Home Front Command (HFC) bans public gatherings, shuts down schools, asks Israelis to obey orders of HFC!

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps captures cargo ship in Persian Gulf! Cargo ship is co-owned by an Israeli businessman.  Iranian government says they are prepared to shutdown the Straight of Hormuz, blocking 1/5th of global shipping!

05APR2024: UN DENOUNCES USE OF A-I & STARVATION AS WEAPONS OF ISRAEL, CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL WEAPONS BAN ON ISRAEL!

Idaho, Technology

Holt Arena 2024: Couple of cool Fords for the Hot Summer.

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On the 15th-16th of March 2024, Idaho State University (ISU)-College of Technology Automotive Program held its ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show.

1967 Ford Galaxie XL.

My walk-around video:

1949 Ford ‘shoebox’ woodie wagon.

My walk-around video:

Holt Arena 2024: HOT RODS ‘ATTITUDE CHECK!’

Idaho, Technology

Part-3 Chrome in the Dome, March 2024.

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On the 15th-16th of March 2024, Idaho State University (ISU)-College of Technology Automotive Program held its ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show.

Video part-3a:

Video part-3b:

Video part-3c:

Video part-3d:

Video part-3e:

 

In 1970 (Cold War), the first in the U.S. fully enclosed colligate sports arena opened; the ASISU (Associated Students of Idaho State University) Minidome.  In 1988 (Cold War), the name was changed to Holt Arena to honor the athletic director who pushed for the creation of the Minidome.  In January 2024 the name was changed, again, to ICCU (Idaho Central Credit Union) Dome, due to the arena’s recent refreshment being funded mostly by the financial institution.

Part-2: 2024, HOLT ARENA-ICCU CHROME IN THE DOME

Holt Arena 2024: HOT RODS ‘ATTITUDE CHECK!’ (Now improved with more videos!)

RATROD 1932 CHEVY

Influenza, International, Technology, U.S.

Operation Jupiter: U.S. Navy fires commander of bio-research labs!

08 April 2024 (11:01-UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Farvardin 1403/29 Ramadan 1445/30 Wu-Chen 4722/08 апрель 2024 года

The ‘woke’ U.S. Navy (USN) continues to clean house, removing yet another senior officer from a command position.  This time it is the commander of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU)-South (aka Unit-6, in operation since 1983)!

Attending the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting in October 2023. From left to right: Captain Abigail Marter, NAMRU-South, Captain Franca Jones, commander Naval Medical Research Command, Captain Virginia Blackman, NAMRU-Europe-Africa-Central, and Captain Jonathan Stahl, NAMRU-Indo Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Commander Kimberly Edgel, 20OCT2023.

Captain Abigail Y. Marter was removed from command officially “due to a loss of confidence”, which has become the standard ‘official’ reason why the new ‘woke’ USN is getting rid of officers and enlisted.  The USN did not give details about the decision, U.S. federal law does not require the Department of Defense to make public the reasons for commanders being removed from their jobs.

Captain Abigail Marter during her Unit-6 command ceremony, 07JUL2023.
USN photo by Monica Barrera.

Captain Abigail Y. Marter, a family nurse practitioner, had been in command of Research Lab Unit South since only July 2023!  But wait, she will continue to sail-on (at least temporarily), working for the USN’s Naval Medical Research Command.

Collecting mosquito larvae near Tumbes, Peru, 09AUG2023. USN photo by Kahoma Villaizan.

Unit-South (formerly Unit-6, until July 2023) operates biomedical labs in Callao and the Naval Clinic base in Iquitos, Peru, as well as on Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras.   The USN boasts that Unit-South researches and monitors various infectious diseases in Central and South America, such as malaria, dengue fever, zika, diarrheal diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and monitors for antimicrobial resistance in pathogens.

Note: the USN has both a rank of Commander, and a position of commander.  You do not have to be the rank of Commander to be assigned the position of a commander.

Operation Jupiter 2023: ANOTHER STATE CAUGHT ILLEGALLY SELLING BABY BLOOD TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE!?

U.S. Department of Defense BAT RESEARCH AND HEMORRHAGIC DISEASES!

Operation Jupiter 2021: PROJECT SEA RAVEN, U.S. Navy SEARCHING FOR NEW DISEASES IN CAPE VERDE

Operation Jupiter 2015: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU!

Kit Bashing

Model Gift Build: Finally, the Final Xmas build!

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Finally, the final (late) Christmas car gift build, for 2023, is done!  And it is a fine example of why, back-in-the-day, some kit builders did not like AMT.

Video-1, a little late, but finally!:

Video-2, stories of Subaru hell!:

Video-3, it’s a Brat!:

Video-4, Subaru hell never ends!:

Video-5, updates? What updates, where’s the spare?:

Video-6, a rushed job:

Video-7, finagle-y:

Video-8, if play with it you break it, you bought it:

Video-9, recommendations?:

Model Gift Build: LATE #4 IS DONE, BAD REVELL, BAD!

Idaho, U.S.

South Trail: Cherry Springs Nature Area, Idaho, March 2024 Thawing

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On 22MAR2024, my middle daughter Aryssa, along with my dog Struppi (and I) took a hike through the thawing Cherry Springs Nature Area, in Southeastern Idaho.

The Cherry Springs Nature Area is part of the larger multi-state Caribou-Targhee National Forest (Idaho, Montana, Utah & Wyoming), and is located in the Westside Ranger District of Southeastern Idaho.  It is two miles of hiking trails, a north trail and a south trail.

There was a heavy-wet snow storm a few weeks prior, causing power poles and trees across the region to snap, the South Trail was littered with downed branches and trees:

Cherry Springs Nature Area: March 2024 Thawing, North Trail

September 2023: Trippin’ through the Pocatello’s Center Street Ped-Tunnel

Idaho, Technology

Holt Arena 2024: Hot Rods ‘Attitude check!’

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I went through U.S. Army basic training in 1982 (Fort ‘Lost-in-the-Woods’, Missouri), and at the end of a rough day the Drill Sergeants would yell “Attitude check!”, and we would always respond “Fuck it!”.  In many ways those were better days than today.

On the 15th-16th of March 2024, Idaho State University (ISU)-College of Technology Automotive Program held its ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show.  This is just a couple of the many Hot-Rods in the show.

1934 Ford 5-window coupe:

1935 International:

More Hot Rods with attitude:

More Rods with ‘tude:

Holt Arena 2024: COLD-WAR MOPARS INVADE CHROME IN THE DOME!

International

05APR2024: UN denounces use of A-I & starvation as weapons of Israel, calls for international weapons ban on Israel!

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05 April 2024 (07:02-UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Farvardin 1403/26 Ramadan 1445/27 Wu-Chen 4722/05 апрель 2024 года

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution banning “the sale, transfer and diversion of arms, munitions and other military equipment to Israel, the occupying Power…to prevent further violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of human rights.”

Resolution A/HRC/55/L.30 also denounces the use of artificial intelligence (A-I) in combat as it might be a cause of international human rights crimes.

But the UNHRC is a paper tiger, any resolution adopted by the UNHRC has no legal standing.  

28 UNHRC countries voted in favor, six against (including the United States), and 13 abstentions.

Terminator: ISRAEL BLAMES ‘LAVENDER’ A-I FOR ITS INCESSANT ATTACKS ON CHARITY WORKERS!

02APR2024, Is the U.S. complicit with Israeli war crimes?: JOHN KIRBY WHITE-WASHES WCK, GAZA, IRAN, ISRAEL, SYRIA. 

International, U.S.

02APR2024: John Kirby white-washes WCK, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Syria.

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Is the U.S. complicit with Israeli war crimes?

02APR2024 White House presser, Admiral (retired) John Kirby gets frustrated with the barrage of questions concerning Israel’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria, supposed U.S. aid for Gazans, but especially about the execution of World Central Kitchen workers by Israel. I did edit this presser to show only those questions concerning the above mentioned.

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Terminator 2024: ISRAEL BLAMES ‘LAVENDER’ A-I FOR ITS INCESSANT ATTACKS ON CHARITY WORKERS!

God is Evil: F-35-I ADIR, “TOGETHER, WE WILL DOMINATE THE SKIES!” IS THE U.S. COMPLICIT IN GAZA GENOCIDE?

NIKKI HALEY PLUS ISRAEL “…the UN has bullied Israel for a very long time, and we’re not going to let that happen anymore.”; IS THE U.S. COMPLICIT IN GAZA GENOCIDE?