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U.S. Strikes Iran as Tanker Attacks Raise Stakes in Strait of Hormuz
By Jasper Ward and Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. launched new air strikes on Iranian targets on Tuesday, quashing hopes that an exchange of fire last weekend might...
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After 286 days at sea, US aircraft carrier visits Thailand for 'well-deserved' R&R
LAEM CHABANG, Thailand, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln arrived in port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after 286 days at sea, including a lengthy deployment in the Middle East, amid reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions on board.The nuclear-powered Lincoln, with roughly 5,000 personnel, was involved in the U.S. naval blockade and combat operations in the war with Iran and — according to Democratic lawmakers — set a modern-day record for consecutive days at sea.
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We're long past the time of wooden ships and iron men.
Today's Femi-Navy has trouble with a long deployment. Imagine any of them being on any of Columbus's voyages, or Cook's...which took years and led to decimation of the crews.
I'm not justifying it, but this is how today's "sailors" - and, probably, soldiers - react to stress. The people at the top need ask themselves if they really think we're ready for a war to loot and strip Russia.
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The Definition of Insanity - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands. This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran...
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Some time ago, I ran across a random video on YouTube talking about the design of old ships (and Viking ships in particular) and how they were designed to deal with the human waste problem for long voyages. Won't anyone today think about the poop?
The poop deck.Some time ago, I ran across a random video on YouTube talking about the design of old ships (and Viking ships in particular) and how they were designed to deal with the human waste problem for long voyages. Won't anyone today think about the poop?
Seriously. LONG long ago...while I was in the Navv, and one of my collateral duties was sorting through book donations to our library...one interesting book turned up. It was a fictionalized memoir of a guy who enlisted in the Navy at age 14, using fake papers and forging his mother's signature. He's in Boot Camp when peace breaks out.
But he's in. And, a lot of people make him out for an underaged kid and they don't care. This, I later learned, mirrors the guy's actual life...he wrote all this before age (IIRC) 35, and he died shortly after completing the book.
But. He was assigned to a ship that was keeping the Yangtze River open, against Mao's guerrilla forces, which were starting to show strength. They had to move a bunch of nationalist Chinese men on the ship...and the Boatswain's Mates put makeshift loos over the gunwale. Just walk out there, three feet, squat over the hole, and you're done. Zero privacy, zero plumbing. The Yellow River.
The Chinese were rather sickley but took the facilities in stride - apparently it was just what they were used for.
Wish I could remember the title. Lotta graphic information in that book - both about Navy life, and the life of a returning vet, and of how a troubled young man has a hard time outrunning his troubles. How he makes many of them himself.
I think it's aftereffects of The Jab.
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USS Abraham Lincoln Looks Like It's Been Through Hell After 286 Days At Sea
We got our first good look at the Lincoln as it pulled into port in Thailand for its only liberty call of its entire cruise and after sustaining high-tempo combat ops for months.
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How would they know?USS Abraham Lincoln Looks Like It's Been Through Hell After 286 Days At Sea
We got our first good look at the Lincoln as it pulled into port in Thailand for its only liberty call of its entire cruise and after sustaining high-tempo combat ops for months.
ANY ship out to see for nine months, away from painting crews, is gonna show faded colors, rust runs. It would take a marine surveyor to identify between surface and structural rust and damage.
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This blew my mind... so much more going on than meets the eye...
00:00 Iran, the nuclear deal and the pallets of cash
00:38 What the encrypted BlackBerrys were used for
01:42 Megatons to Megawatts: 20,000 warheads and the empty cylinders
04:10 Uranium One, the centrifuges, Charlie Kirk and Joe Kent
05:52 The whistleblowers at Piketon and the nuclear signature
07:18 Brennan's spy network and the deal the Senate never voted on
10:55 Following the money: Podesta, ARMS in Moscow, Hillary for America
13:14 The laws broken and the paperwork Trump is sitting on
15:47 What a kilo of enriched uranium is actually worth
17:40 Is this just fear-mongering about Iran?
20:01 The City of London and the Rothschild teeter-totter
22:29 Why shouldn't Iran have the bomb? A.Q. Khan and Smiling Buddha
26:40 Kissinger, Marc Rich and the manufactured OPEC crisis
28:30 Trump's red line, and why Iran wanted cash and gold
31:31 What the JCPOA actually promised
32:42 Joe Kent, Lloyd's of London and the data centres
36:50 How North Korea got its nuclear material
40:20 Take the Hormuz islands
41:50 Regime change and the regional security pact
The Real Reason Trump Won't Leave Iran
00:00 Iran, the nuclear deal and the pallets of cash
00:38 What the encrypted BlackBerrys were used for
01:42 Megatons to Megawatts: 20,000 warheads and the empty cylinders
04:10 Uranium One, the centrifuges, Charlie Kirk and Joe Kent
05:52 The whistleblowers at Piketon and the nuclear signature
07:18 Brennan's spy network and the deal the Senate never voted on
10:55 Following the money: Podesta, ARMS in Moscow, Hillary for America
13:14 The laws broken and the paperwork Trump is sitting on
15:47 What a kilo of enriched uranium is actually worth
17:40 Is this just fear-mongering about Iran?
20:01 The City of London and the Rothschild teeter-totter
22:29 Why shouldn't Iran have the bomb? A.Q. Khan and Smiling Buddha
26:40 Kissinger, Marc Rich and the manufactured OPEC crisis
28:30 Trump's red line, and why Iran wanted cash and gold
31:31 What the JCPOA actually promised
32:42 Joe Kent, Lloyd's of London and the data centres
36:50 How North Korea got its nuclear material
40:20 Take the Hormuz islands
41:50 Regime change and the regional security pact
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USS Abraham Lincoln Looks Like It's Been Through Hell After 286 Days At Sea
We got our first good look at the Lincoln as it pulled into port in Thailand for its only liberty call of its entire cruise and after sustaining high-tempo combat ops for months.
A bit more on the rust
America doesn't honor the truces anymore, why should Iran?
Frankly, they probably should look at the paint they're using - why it didn't hold up.
Being out to sea nine months shouldn't cause this - in port, a carrier is still in salt water. I don't know how often carriers get drydocked and the hull painted below the waterline - it's a massive project. I was on a Nimitz-class two years, and no drydock repairs. The prior ship was homeported across from the Kitty Hawk, and again, for two years, it was variously out to sea or tied up at North Island, in the water.
I remember the Ranger looking a little rough, but it was coming up on its end of life and decomissioning.
But, the paint seems not to have held up, here. Remember, government, including the Pentagon, is just LOUSY with eco-weenies, and with bribed procurement officers ready to take kickbacks for substandard product.
Being out to sea nine months shouldn't cause this - in port, a carrier is still in salt water. I don't know how often carriers get drydocked and the hull painted below the waterline - it's a massive project. I was on a Nimitz-class two years, and no drydock repairs. The prior ship was homeported across from the Kitty Hawk, and again, for two years, it was variously out to sea or tied up at North Island, in the water.
I remember the Ranger looking a little rough, but it was coming up on its end of life and decomissioning.
But, the paint seems not to have held up, here. Remember, government, including the Pentagon, is just LOUSY with eco-weenies, and with bribed procurement officers ready to take kickbacks for substandard product.
Iran torched the MOU they signed when they launched a drone strike against a commercial cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
If we hanged all the treasonous bastards working for israel, Washington would be empty....