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Hurricane Michael damaged 10% of American F-22 fleet - because they were sitting around waiting to be repaired

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:41 UTC
F-22 Raptor
F-22 Raptor
Note to the wise: When a hurricane comes, move your planes out of the way. Especially your really expensive F-22 fighter planes. After all, those babies are $339 mil apiece. Got the message?

Apparently the US Air Force didn't get this message. Or, did they find themselves unable to follow the message?

The Washington Times reported Tuesday that between 17 and 20 of these top-of-the-line fighter jets were damaged, some beyond the point of repair, when Hurricane Michael slammed ashore on Mexico Beach, Florida, not far from the Tyndall Air Force Base in the same state. The Times reports that more than a dozen of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets were damaged after being left in the path of the extremely fierce storm:
President Trump's tour Monday of devastation wrought by Hurricane Michael took him close to Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base, where more than a dozen F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets were damaged after being left in the path of the powerful storm.

The pricey fighter jets - some possibly damaged beyond repair - were caught in the widespread destruction that took at least 18 lives, flattened homes, downed trees and buckled roads from Florida to Virginia.

The decision to leave roughly $7.5 billion in aircraft in the path of a hurricane raised eyebrows, including among defense analysts who say the Pentagon's entire high-tech strategy continues to make its fighter jets vulnerable to weather and other mishaps when they are grounded for repairs.

"This becomes sort of a self-defeating cycle where we have $400 million aircraft that can't fly precisely because they are $400 million aircraft," said Dan Grazier, a defense fellow at Project on Government Oversight. "If we were buying simpler aircraft then it would be a whole lot easier for the base commander to get these aircraft up and in working order, at least more of them."
This is quite a statement. The F-22 is held to be the tip of the American air defense sword. A superb airplane (when it works), it can do things no other plane in the world can do. It boasts a radar profile the size of a marble, making it virtually undetectable by enemy radars. It is highly maneuverable with thrust-vectoring built into its engines.

Comment: Wow. And they're replacing this jet with the F-35, perhaps the crappiest fighter jet in existence. Good job, America.

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US-based mercenary boasts of running targeted assassination program in Yemen as part of Saudi coalition


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:41 UTC
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© Reuters / Nasser AwadThe US is supplying weapons, intelligence & other support to the coalition, but a security contractor claims the UAE hired his mercenary company, Spear Operations Group, to kill specific enemies.
A Hungarian-Israeli security contractor based in the US, Abraham Golan, has claimed he ran a targeted assassination program in Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition currently waging a proxy war against Iran-backed Houthis.

The US is supplying weapons, intelligence, and other support to the coalition, but Golan's account, as told to BuzzFeed, reads like something out of a spy thriller.

Golan claims the United Arab Emirates (UAE), part of the coalition, hired his mercenary company, Spear Operations Group, to kill specific enemies, including Anssaf Ali Mayo, leader of the Yemeni political party Al-Islah, which the UAE considers a terrorist group. The Mayo assassination was ultimately unsuccessful - Mayo disappeared from Yemeni politics for a while, and the Spear crew even thought he was dead, but he is currently serving in the Yemeni government, alive and well.

The botched assassination of December 29, 2015 is seen by observers from both sides as the opening salvo in a "targeted campaign," which former UN investigator Gregory Johnsen says eventually took out 25 to 30 members of Al-Islah and other clerics.

Golan claims responsibility for several of the high-profile assassinations in Yemen, though he refuses to share which ones. Not because of remorse - he's a mercenary, after all - but because his business inhabits a legal gray area, and perhaps because he doesn't want his professional secrets getting out. Golan is trying to sell his business model to the US military.

Comment: See also:

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Report: Elizabeth Warren's great-great-great grandfather was a member of the militia that ripped Cherokee from their homes, separating Native American families

Natural News
Mike Adams
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:52 UTC
Elizabeth Warren
© ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
If you thought digging into Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbook revealed some bizarre history, look what internet sleuths have managed to dig up about Elizabeth Warren.

Warren, who falsely claims to be Native American (Cherokee), recently publicized a DNA test she says vindicates her claim. The DNA test showed her to be 1/1024th a combination of Colombian, Mexican and Peruvian DNA. No Native American DNA comparisons were conducted whatsoever. Furthermore, her claimed percentage of "Native American" ancestry (0.098%) is about half the level of Native American ancestry found in the average white American (0.18%).

Thus, Elizabeth Warren is no more "Indian" than any typical white woman in America.

But it gets even worse. Now, it turns out the husband of Warren's so-called great-great-great grandmother was actually a militia member who rounded up Cherokee Indians, according to historical records, separating Cherokee from their families in one of the most brutal chapters of American history.
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Smoke-filled cabin and mechanical issues force the emergency landing of Melania Trump's plane


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:36 UTC
Melania Trump
© Reuters / Carlo Allegri
First Lady Melania Trump's plane has been forced to return to base after smoke filled the cabin and a burning smell was reported 10 minutes after its departure from Joint Andrews Air Force Base.

According to preliminary reports, the plane had just taken off from the air base when Secret Service agents leaped up and ran to the front of the cabin. Smoke began to fill the plane, and journalists on board reported a burning smell growing stronger.

The entourage held wet towels over their faces until the plane touched down safely at the military base. Mrs. Trump was seen getting off the plane at Andrews, and appeared to be in fine health.
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Russia's latest challenge: Ukraine & the Western-backed war on the Orthodox Church

Oleg Tsarev, Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
Stalker Zone
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:32 UTC
Putin
© Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin
At the beginning of next year the most serious challenge for all its thousand-year existence will be thrown at Russian civilisation. The future of the Russian world will depend on how we will react to it.

Whatever one might say, the Russian world is a world built on an imperative of truth, justice, equality of all before God, and faith - our orthodox faith, the sources of which are in Kiev. To destroy the unity of the orthodox world is to destroy the future of the Russian world. A thousand years of our Russian civilisation. For one thousand years it was tried to conquer us, to break us, to force us to our knees, to divide and pit us against each other - and it didn't work. It didn't work because Orthodoxy is the foundation of our civilisation.

According to the information that I receive from Kiev, the deputies of Filaret - the patriarch of the UOC (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) of the Kiev Patriarchate - holds active negotiations with militants from Right Sector over the capture of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. At the present time it's not even the idea about capture that is being coordinated, but concrete plans are already being developed. The situation is well understood in the Lavra, but there aren't any forces and possibilities to defend it. The Lavra will be seized over several months, specifically when the decision on the date of its capture will be made on Bankova Street (the street where the building of the Presidential Administration of Poroshenko is located).

Comment: Also see: Faith, power, money: How Western meddling is corrupting Ukraine's Orthodox Church

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Suspects identified in probe of Khashoggi's disappearance have 'ties to Saudi government'


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:32 UTC
Turkey police
© AFP 2018 / Bulent Kilic
Turkish authorities have identified five suspects in its investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, four of whom have ties to the Saudi Arabian government, US media reported.

One of the suspects identified by Turkey is a companion of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and another is a forensic doctor with senior positions in the Saudi Interior Ministry and medical establishment, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The other three suspects are connected by witness accounts and other records linked to the Saudi crown prince's security team, the report added. Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a diplomat assigned to the Saudi Embassy in London in 2007, is among the suspects, the report said citing a British diplomatic roster. Mutreb traveled constantly with the Saudi crown prince and accompanied him this year on trips to Spain, France and the United States, the report added.

Comment: Also see: The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Oil, Sanctions And The Anti-Trump Establishment

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Russian Embassy: Bellingcat's connections to special services are 'apparent'


TASS
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:32 UTC
Russian embassy in London
© REUTERS/Henry NichollsRussian embassy in London
The Bellingcat group may be linked to special services, judging from the nature of information they publish and their non-transparent structure, the press secretary of the Russian Embassy in London said.

"Bellingcat's connections with special services are apparent if one takes into account the circumstances surrounding this group," the press secretary said. He named several factors that serve as evidence to this: the group was established "several days before the MH17 crash," it publishes information that combines "features of intelligence data and high-quality fakes," its activities are directed against Russia.

Comment: Higgins is not a serious journalist nor is he a serious person. His 'research' is a joke, not unlike his responses to criticism. It's hard to understand why anyone would take his work seriously, but informational soundness isn't exactly the forte of the establishment and their NPC robots.

Also see: Bellingcat authenticity and Skripal poisoning case under question by independent journalists

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Trump slams Fed for being 'too independent,' says it's his biggest threat


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:32 UTC
Donald Trump
© Reuters / Carlos Barria
Trump is making it clear he's "not happy" with the behavior of the Federal Reserve, which he blamed for last week's market crash. The Fed hiked short-term interest rates three times this year and plans to do so again before 2019.

In an interview with Fox Business anchor Trish Regan, the president complained the Fed was behaving too independently and "raising rates too fast." Contrary to its name, the Fed is privately held and largely free of US government oversight.

Last week, Trump blamed the Fed for the massive stock sell-off that caused the Dow to plummet 832 points in a single day - its largest single-day point drop since February and its fourth-worst point loss in history. He is on record urging the central bank to focus on "what's good for the country" instead of raising rates, which can hurt consumers because it increases the costs of borrowing.
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Here's why we should boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:08 UTC
facebook
NATO - the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE - has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international 'news'-reporting, including that of virtually all independent news-sites and blogs.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google, in recent days, delivered what might be the death-blows.

NATO's main PR agency, think-tank, and lobbying organization, is 'non-profit' - a legal tax-dodge that's financed by donations from those weapons-making firms and their supporting firms and their 'non-profits', so that the taxes that it doesn't pay will need to be paid instead by the general public. Billionaires know how to avoid taxes, and they hire politicians who write the laws with all the 'right' loopholes for them - and only for the very richest - to use. This PR agency is called "The Atlantic Council," and it was set up in 1961, the exact same year that U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower left office warning that "the military-industrial complex" might take control of the U.S. Well, it did so, with The Atlantic Council's help; and, now, it is finally lowering the boom against democracy itself - at least among the U.S. and its allied nations (the governments whose weapons-manufacturing firms are in, and sell to, NATO governments). The aim is to drive up the percentage of government-expenditures there that go to pay those firms, and so to reduce the percentages that go to pay everything else. The aim, in short, is the permanent-warfare-economy. After all, firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE sell only to allied governments. They have virtually no consumers except those governments. So: their (and their 'charities') basic message is 'austerity' - except on 'defense' or realistically called "aggression." This is national 'defense' such as against Iraq in 2003, and against Libya in 2011 - it is instead sheer aggression. George Orwell predicted "Newspeak" - well, here it is. It's today's norm, so normal that the public think it's just natural, and conservatives and even many liberals think it's the way that 'a free market' ought to be.

Comment: See also: Banned Facebook pages were featured on 2016 PropOrNot 'blacklist'

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Hungary's central bank shock announcement of 10-fold jump in gold reserves

Ronan Manly
Bullionstar.com
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:00 UTC
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Some of the newly purchased gold bars of the Hungarian central bank. This gold has also been repatriated to Hungary.
In one of the most profound developments in the central bank gold market for a long time, the Hungarian National Bank, Hungary's central bank, has just announced a 10 fold jump in its monetary gold holdings. The central bank, known as Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) in Hungarian, made the announcement in Budapest, Hungary's capital.

The details of Hungary's dramatic new gold purchase are as follows:
  • Before this month, Hungary's central bank held 3.10 tonnes of gold.
  • During the first two weeks of October, the Hungarian National Bank purchased 28.4 tonnes of gold.
  • This gold purchase raised the central bank's gold holdings from 3.1 tonnes to 31.5 tonnes, i.e. a 1000% or 10-fold increase.
  • The Hungarian central bank had not altered its gold reserves since 1986, i.e. 32 years ago.
  • The 28.4 tonnes of gold was purchased in 'physical form', and 'its repatriation has already taken place' to Hungary.
  • Interestingly, Hungary now holds the same amount of gold as it held 70 years ago.

Comment: With the impending collapse of the dollar and the relentless threats of sanctions from the US, is it any wonder countries all over the world are flocking to gold? Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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