If the prediction that “war is on table by May at the latest” proves to be accurate, then we are truly in dire straits and I don’t see how it averts being catastrophic for the entire world. I had great hopes that DJT would change things for the better, and in some areas he probably has, but it appears that in the final analysis, too much business as usual will prove detrimental to accomplishing a comprehensive change that could have made the world a safer place. I try to be optimistic, but I have to admit that right now I’m feeling anything but optimistic about how this situation continues to unfold, maybe “unravel” is a better choice.
Only if students, and or faculty had politically correct thoughts. Any deviation with wrong think was severely punished.
Trump is using anti Semitism as an excuse to get universities to agree to changes.
Unz has written about the over representation of Jewish in the Ivy League. Discrimination against some ethnic groups is an issue (Whites and Asians), with admittance of lower qualified students, has lowered considerably the reputation of the Ivy League. I view them more as brainwashing finishing schools for the elites with credentialism, and not actually educating students.
Same experience with my niece - outstanding student (well trained to take exams shall we say!) - was rejected by all UC’s except…Santa Cruz…her failing was to be a Caucasian.
My daughter only got accepted by UC Santa Barbara, mid tier.
but when I did research on majors and starting salaries, compared to cal poly San Luis Obispo, cal poly was the winner. Outside of engineering, UC SB needed you to get a masters for marketable skills. Cal poly at the time only used grades and test scores.
my daughter is Half white/ Asian. She got an excellent education at cal poly and a great job after graduation.
Ray- you are absolutely correct. The perceived greatness of Ivy League and most universities is part of the propaganda bought by many in America. Political correctness and leftist ideology has overtaken the quest for knowledge and truth. A brainwashing finishing school is an accurate description. It becomes more obvious when you look at the symbiotic relationship between government and higher education, each giving the other the credibility they desire.
“the symbiotic relationship between government and higher education, each giving the other the credibility they desire”
Very well said! And don’t forget the foreign influence, initially in the humanities (“lit crit”)now leaching into most all academic endeavors and then these minds go into government.
Why does the U.S. have sanctions against Venezuela, when European countries such as Romania, France, Germany, and UK also jail opposition figures? Not to mention Ukraine, Censor? Or judicially disqualify them? Basically have similar anti democratic behavior.
Robert you are on target. I remember Obama went all out to assure the judges he appointed were radical and activists who would eschew the law in favor of corrupting the law. these Ivy leagues schools are fixated on teaching how to subvert the constitution. that's why Obama bragged about being a "Constitutional" Law Student. It wasn't he constitutional law he was learning it was subversion of the constitution.
Back when I was sitting though Con Law I & II some 30 years ago, three of the main authorities on the subject (the guys who authored the casebooks/hornbooks) were Larry Tribe, Erwin Chemerinsky and Mark Tushnet. All were Harvard-affiliated (two were HLS profs, the other a scholar there) and observably far left of center. Tushnet was a self-declared "critical legal studies" advocate (even back then) and the others seemed to be fellow travelers, so I was under no illusions as to where they'd come out politically. That said, in their written works (at least, the ones foisted upon law students), they operated within the generally-agreed contours of Constitutional jurisprudence. They very well knew, as we all did, that Constitutional law was an established, discernable reality, with and from which all lawyers needed to work. If you wanted to change things, you started from that reality and got creative in your persuasive efforts.
Now, in just the last few years, each of these three "scholars" has been on the record advocating, in some form or fashion, for court packing, Bill of Rights curtailments and the general unsuitability of a Founding Fathers-era document to modern life. Hmmm, the Constitutional order that these very guys (accurately) taught us suddenly no longer exists?!?! Boy, that is one long march...(neatly explained, of course, as an "evolution in thinking").
NFO, thanks for your comment here. Very informative. When you wrote, "If you wanted to change things, you started from that reality and got creative in your persuasive efforts." I think that line probably aptly describes what I was thinking when I wrote my rant (so to speak). You get creative. I'm sure when they were taught Con law, they were careful not to deviate from what was established but the interest of both those professors (among others) and students was how to get around the constitution or get creative. Your right, it's been no secret the left disdains the constitution and has for years referred to a living constitution. They do not want to be held back in devising ways to create new rights or laws that would not be constitutional but they believe would help their causes they got persuasive with their arguments and hence we've now got rights that protect all their favorite constituents and have given them protections that put them above the law...untouchable.
It’s interesting that Jonathan Turley was a young-buck, up-and-comer into this pantheon at the time, co-named with these three on some of the law-school canon. Maybe he was a little “John” to their “Matthew, Mark and Luke,” but the general story was the same. As sort of a paleocon, I don’t always agree with him (and I think he’s an intellect well above finding issues du jour to feed to his website audience), but Turley is a product of our Constitutional tradition, the others were/are sleepers all those years.
Paleocon, I like that. I think we have a shared belief structure. I like Turley despite the fact he is, as a academic, leaning slightly left, he's agreeable and like you say, I don't always agree, but I can understand his viewpoint and often modify or soften my position if it's sound and makes sense. Some might call that being open minded, what a concept! The way it used to be.
Ah, Trump. Who is he really? Who pulls his strings? Why did this real estate mogul turned fake wrestling promoter and TV personality (playing himself!) become president on The Simpsons in the year 2000, complete with an iconic escalator descent?
If you'd like a bit of a rabbit hole, I'd suggest checking out Roy Cohn. On Yandex, of course. Google is useless for this stuff.
Kit Klarenberg in the Internationalist has a very interesting , mostly factual perspective , on the British involvement and indeed orchestration of, much of the disastrous Ukranian troop deployment in the never ending war . Trump should extricate himself and the USA from this corrupt mess - the sooner the better .
He can't Malcom, and he seems he won't. It's the smart thing to do, but in reality the amount of money that is at play in the form of corruption, resources, and opportunity is too great for him to buck his handlers. The contrarian might say well, just shift to the middle east, but the middle east, while rich in oil and gas resources, plus beach front property, it is not the breadbasket of the world. Food and water are two resources often overlooked by the need for minerals to run the economy, but is vitally important...for whom, those of us left? Within Ukraine is millions of acres of very prime agricultural land. Big AG is all over that plus Blackrock wants to rebuild it with government money (us). Just a few years ago, Bill Gates bought 300 acres, for a pittance, of some of the richest soil in our country along the Red River Valley in Northeastern North Dakota. You go 50 miles west and the Chinese were trying to buy land about 10 miles south of the Grand Forks AFB, which coupled with UoND aviation school becomes a major hub of Drone technology. I think this is still in dispute whether the owner will be granted the right to sell, and the question of why there for the Chinese is obfuscated by their legal representatives, and FuFeng, oh, it's just a wonderful opportunity for AG they say. Right.
no one knows what weapons the Houthis have but they do know the Houthis have shot down some sixteen ( 16 ) MQ - 9 reaper drones ( cost some 33 million each but that is neither here nor there )
Knowing the Houthis have been successfully striking MQ 9
and that
The MQ-9 Reaper has a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet - and one may imagine they were flying the MQ9 pretty high - these B 52s or B 2s have to be flying possibly at near maximum altitude, which apparently effects accuracy of bombs and kind of puts them at risk
But the point is,
As far as I know B 52 and the B 2 and the MQ 9 share the similar maximal functioning altitude of 50,000 feet
. they have to keep their distance or know they are at risk
Obviously the MQ-9 is a cheap system--when compared to B-52s, B-2s, and virtually any other manned aerial platform. Nevertheless, at the rate the Reapers are being used up there are two considerations:
1. Obviously the Reapers are necessary for target acquisition, or as attack platforms *when manned platforms are at too much risk*.
2. At some point I suspect that the loss of this number of highly capable surveillance platforms is going to impact force effectiveness. This can't go on indefinitely. All of these systems require lots of maintenance.
DD reckons that this level of deployment--in preparation for an attack on Iran--can only be maintained for about two months. But losing so many Reapers over a relatively small country like Yemen could have a significant effect on an attack on Iran. Scott Ritter talks a lot about decapitation strikes on Iran, but many of Iran's major missile systems are mobile. ISR is thus of critical importance--in a relatively vast country with similarly rough terrain that can provide concealable and hardened sites for such systems.
Thanks our messages/posts crossed paths ( writing at same time )
I just believe it would be insane to presume that the Houthi's no longer have capability to hit - ' get lucky ' - a B 52 or B 2
Having hit 16 MQ 9 - I imagine the first hit, they learned a lesson and flew differently, I imagine the 10th hit they were being very careful, I imagine the 15th hit they were being very very very careful - # 16 says something
US has made many ridiculous presumptions thus far, Russians have no missiles, Russians using washing machine computer chips, Russians are weak, Sanctions will cripple Russia
I hope we don't see another foolish presumption - but fear we may.
Just an fyi I had written yesterday but it may have been missed
There is a difference between the B 52 and B 2 I had to look it up
obviously confusing as the numbers are so similar and writers sometimes
write as if they are the same, or appear the same to me when they write
They do carry different bombs
A B-52 bombing from an average height of 35,000 feet could accurately hit a known underground Yemen bomb storage site with a GBU-28, achieving a CEP of 5-10 meters, sufficient to destroy shallow or moderately hardened targets (up to 30 meters deep in earth).
Against deeper installations, its effectiveness diminishes, and a B-2 with a GBU-57 would be required.
=== I believe this US plan to B52 bomb Yemen is destined for failure,
a) they need precise location ( probably gathering now but much is unknown )
b) given # of MQ9 being shot down they have to be concerned about altitude, so bombing greater altitude less accuracy,
c) many if not most of Yemen bunkers/storage dug deeper then B52 penetration and fortified concrete, and
d) the B52 already tried to hit known Yemen bunkers and it was reported only the
" doors " to the bunker were damaged and that they were quickly repaired
The B-52 could theoretically hit an underground weapons storage facility in Yemen, such as those controlled by the Houthis, if its location is precisely known. The GBU-28 is designed to penetrate up to 6 meters (20 feet) of reinforced concrete or 30 meters (100 feet) of earth before detonating,
Yemen’s Houthi forces are believed to possess Soviet-era systems (e.g., SA-2, SA-3) that pose a threat below 40,000 feet, though these are less effective against high-altitude B-52s with electronic countermeasures.
Knowing the Houthis have been successfully striking MQ 9 and that The MQ-9 Reaper has a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet - one may imagine they were flying the MQ9 pretty high.
And knowing this US must also know, Houthis may have weapons greater than US believes -
A B-52 bombing from an average height of 35,000 feet could accurately hit a known underground Yemen bomb storage site with a GBU-28, achieving a CEP of 5-10 meters, sufficient to destroy shallow or moderately hardened targets (up to 30 meters deep in earth). Against deeper installations, its effectiveness diminishes, and a B-2 with a GBU-57 would be required. Given known Houthi sites, success is possible if intelligence is precise and the target isn’t excessively fortified beyond the GBU-28’s capabilities.
Yes, Joe they have the money, but it's never enough. A lot of that endowment likely came from very rich progressives and of those many of the billionaires are probably Zionist. They bullied their way into these schools using the classic race card and after paying millions to shape it's philosophy to align with their own, they do not want this disrupted. they are anti-Islamists, the very mirror image of anti-Semitism, but no one calls them on it because...........money begets power, power begets more money, more power and more money begets control, power, money and control changes a nation.
Cosmo~the progressives, globalists, Zionists, and other groups that have similar imperialistics goals...all are never satisfied. Their lust for power, control, and money--as you point out--fuels their quests that can never be satisfied. Thus their minds and hearts are always restless.
The restlessness and dissatisfaction is because they do not have God. Unless they have the Lord in their hearts, and walk with Him, they will never be satisfied with earthly things.
Only faith in God satisfies the sinful human heart, and so brings rest and peace.
Thanks At first blush """But any such resistance was broken when the Trump Administration suddenly pulled $400 million in annual funding. """
400 million seems like a lot - but perhaps one has to ask DOGE
why are they getting $ 400 million in the first place, if they make more interest than that.
With a 52 billion USD investment, the average yearly interest would depend on the investment strategy and interest rates. Assuming a 5% annual interest rate, the average yearly interest would be around $2.6 billion.
So many of these issues are tragedies that are impossible to understand, at least for me given my restricted insight into the mechanics of political and geopolitical power. How do the globalists have so much power to do things like have judiciaries cancel elections and political parties? How can Zionists effect so much power over free speech in the bastions of free speech? How can Ziohell actually get away with bombing and sniping 50,000 inconvenient civilians to death? How can they justify that even to themselves? How can the US actually be prepping for war against a country that poses no threat to it? Is the US REALLY going to "contain" China?
I feel like I'm standing dumbfounded at the funeral of a friend who has just died an unexpected and unexplained death.
I'm finding it impossible to imagine a happy resolution of any of this score of tragic but seemingly unnecessary situations. The only resolutions that I can imagine all involve violence and lose-lose outcomes. How can't our "leaders" know what dangers await?
The globalists accrued so much power because We, the People, took our eye off the ball. Helped of course by massive dollops of gaslighting from the MSM. People en masse aren't very intelligent, and most normal people still find it hard to believe that our leaders are psychopaths who hate us. The reason I get so angry with Trump is that he is (was) our last best hope of turning things around without some kind of civil war. Maybe that was a job beyond any one man, but he had a lot of good will and power to give the DS some very hard and possibly fatal blows. However, his thraldom to the Zionists and his out of control egomania mean that, even after 2 months, he is failing and has probably failed. Europe is gone. America - and Russia, ironically - are the last bastions of hope against the globalists. If the Trump and the ballot don't work, then it is indeed going to be the bullet.
Steghorn, I agree with you that over the past decades many Americans have become complacent, accepting what mass media tells them, are more casual about changes in the culture that degrade it, and have stopped going to church.
Russia has been experiencing the opposite since emerging out from under the iron fist of the Soviet Union.
Particularly under Putin, a reverence for history, beauty, the arts, morality, and faith in God, has washed over the populace.
I compare the country-conquering politics and wars initiated by the US to any similar actions by Russia...I just don't see comparable mind- and soul-sets between the two countries.
Here is an interesting article that I found about the number of Christians and churches in Russia:
Don't believe they will be released. Plus Trump has shiny object syndrome. Today tariffs. Tomorrow, immigration, Friday should be college funding withholding, then weekend golf.
It would likely disrupt the Zionist plans and the CIA coupled with Mossad and MI6 are integral tools to that end. Plus any of this dirt could impact reliable Zionists who are deeply enmeshed in this hoax. IMHO
Give me a break, who in their right mind would see $100 M contribution any more than a sellout?
If the prediction that “war is on table by May at the latest” proves to be accurate, then we are truly in dire straits and I don’t see how it averts being catastrophic for the entire world. I had great hopes that DJT would change things for the better, and in some areas he probably has, but it appears that in the final analysis, too much business as usual will prove detrimental to accomplishing a comprehensive change that could have made the world a safer place. I try to be optimistic, but I have to admit that right now I’m feeling anything but optimistic about how this situation continues to unfold, maybe “unravel” is a better choice.
All just seems like utter madness.
Shaking. My. Head.
On Ivy League defending their students…
Only if students, and or faculty had politically correct thoughts. Any deviation with wrong think was severely punished.
Trump is using anti Semitism as an excuse to get universities to agree to changes.
Unz has written about the over representation of Jewish in the Ivy League. Discrimination against some ethnic groups is an issue (Whites and Asians), with admittance of lower qualified students, has lowered considerably the reputation of the Ivy League. I view them more as brainwashing finishing schools for the elites with credentialism, and not actually educating students.
and closer to home Ray! I don’t know if you saw this - a bit O/T but to your above excellent (brainwashing academies) point: https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2025/03/28/hold-for-ezra-trumps-doj-launches-investigations-into-several-california-universities-over-concerns-about-affirmative-action-in-admissions/
I’m not surprised at the targets.
my daughter, a very good student, was rejected by a bunch of uc’s.
and what’s amusing is a proposition was passed that supposedly outlawed this type stuff, but there are ways around it. Essays, life experiences, etc.
Same experience with my niece - outstanding student (well trained to take exams shall we say!) - was rejected by all UC’s except…Santa Cruz…her failing was to be a Caucasian.
My daughter only got accepted by UC Santa Barbara, mid tier.
but when I did research on majors and starting salaries, compared to cal poly San Luis Obispo, cal poly was the winner. Outside of engineering, UC SB needed you to get a masters for marketable skills. Cal poly at the time only used grades and test scores.
my daughter is Half white/ Asian. She got an excellent education at cal poly and a great job after graduation.
She obviously takes after her dad in intelligence!
Ray- you are absolutely correct. The perceived greatness of Ivy League and most universities is part of the propaganda bought by many in America. Political correctness and leftist ideology has overtaken the quest for knowledge and truth. A brainwashing finishing school is an accurate description. It becomes more obvious when you look at the symbiotic relationship between government and higher education, each giving the other the credibility they desire.
“the symbiotic relationship between government and higher education, each giving the other the credibility they desire”
Very well said! And don’t forget the foreign influence, initially in the humanities (“lit crit”)now leaching into most all academic endeavors and then these minds go into government.
Why does the U.S. have sanctions against Venezuela, when European countries such as Romania, France, Germany, and UK also jail opposition figures? Not to mention Ukraine, Censor? Or judicially disqualify them? Basically have similar anti democratic behavior.
Sphere of influence, Ray.
The Western Elites’ War Against Democracy Is Now Out in the Open
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4308427/posts
The final comment on that post was:
Someone thought this out very carefully and determined that the Achilles heel of western civilization were the judges.
0bama knew this and deliberately appointed many far left wing judges who are highly political. Clinton did it but 0bama brought it to the next level.
Robert you are on target. I remember Obama went all out to assure the judges he appointed were radical and activists who would eschew the law in favor of corrupting the law. these Ivy leagues schools are fixated on teaching how to subvert the constitution. that's why Obama bragged about being a "Constitutional" Law Student. It wasn't he constitutional law he was learning it was subversion of the constitution.
Back when I was sitting though Con Law I & II some 30 years ago, three of the main authorities on the subject (the guys who authored the casebooks/hornbooks) were Larry Tribe, Erwin Chemerinsky and Mark Tushnet. All were Harvard-affiliated (two were HLS profs, the other a scholar there) and observably far left of center. Tushnet was a self-declared "critical legal studies" advocate (even back then) and the others seemed to be fellow travelers, so I was under no illusions as to where they'd come out politically. That said, in their written works (at least, the ones foisted upon law students), they operated within the generally-agreed contours of Constitutional jurisprudence. They very well knew, as we all did, that Constitutional law was an established, discernable reality, with and from which all lawyers needed to work. If you wanted to change things, you started from that reality and got creative in your persuasive efforts.
Now, in just the last few years, each of these three "scholars" has been on the record advocating, in some form or fashion, for court packing, Bill of Rights curtailments and the general unsuitability of a Founding Fathers-era document to modern life. Hmmm, the Constitutional order that these very guys (accurately) taught us suddenly no longer exists?!?! Boy, that is one long march...(neatly explained, of course, as an "evolution in thinking").
NFO, thanks for your comment here. Very informative. When you wrote, "If you wanted to change things, you started from that reality and got creative in your persuasive efforts." I think that line probably aptly describes what I was thinking when I wrote my rant (so to speak). You get creative. I'm sure when they were taught Con law, they were careful not to deviate from what was established but the interest of both those professors (among others) and students was how to get around the constitution or get creative. Your right, it's been no secret the left disdains the constitution and has for years referred to a living constitution. They do not want to be held back in devising ways to create new rights or laws that would not be constitutional but they believe would help their causes they got persuasive with their arguments and hence we've now got rights that protect all their favorite constituents and have given them protections that put them above the law...untouchable.
It’s interesting that Jonathan Turley was a young-buck, up-and-comer into this pantheon at the time, co-named with these three on some of the law-school canon. Maybe he was a little “John” to their “Matthew, Mark and Luke,” but the general story was the same. As sort of a paleocon, I don’t always agree with him (and I think he’s an intellect well above finding issues du jour to feed to his website audience), but Turley is a product of our Constitutional tradition, the others were/are sleepers all those years.
Paleocon, I like that. I think we have a shared belief structure. I like Turley despite the fact he is, as a academic, leaning slightly left, he's agreeable and like you say, I don't always agree, but I can understand his viewpoint and often modify or soften my position if it's sound and makes sense. Some might call that being open minded, what a concept! The way it used to be.
Ah, Trump. Who is he really? Who pulls his strings? Why did this real estate mogul turned fake wrestling promoter and TV personality (playing himself!) become president on The Simpsons in the year 2000, complete with an iconic escalator descent?
If you'd like a bit of a rabbit hole, I'd suggest checking out Roy Cohn. On Yandex, of course. Google is useless for this stuff.
Also, I don't believe the "fraction of an inch" assassination narrative at all. Check out his ear! https://mileswmathis.com/crooks.pdf
Kit Klarenberg in the Internationalist has a very interesting , mostly factual perspective , on the British involvement and indeed orchestration of, much of the disastrous Ukranian troop deployment in the never ending war . Trump should extricate himself and the USA from this corrupt mess - the sooner the better .
He can't Malcom, and he seems he won't. It's the smart thing to do, but in reality the amount of money that is at play in the form of corruption, resources, and opportunity is too great for him to buck his handlers. The contrarian might say well, just shift to the middle east, but the middle east, while rich in oil and gas resources, plus beach front property, it is not the breadbasket of the world. Food and water are two resources often overlooked by the need for minerals to run the economy, but is vitally important...for whom, those of us left? Within Ukraine is millions of acres of very prime agricultural land. Big AG is all over that plus Blackrock wants to rebuild it with government money (us). Just a few years ago, Bill Gates bought 300 acres, for a pittance, of some of the richest soil in our country along the Red River Valley in Northeastern North Dakota. You go 50 miles west and the Chinese were trying to buy land about 10 miles south of the Grand Forks AFB, which coupled with UoND aviation school becomes a major hub of Drone technology. I think this is still in dispute whether the owner will be granted the right to sell, and the question of why there for the Chinese is obfuscated by their legal representatives, and FuFeng, oh, it's just a wonderful opportunity for AG they say. Right.
The thing is - in my opinion
no one knows what weapons the Houthis have but they do know the Houthis have shot down some sixteen ( 16 ) MQ - 9 reaper drones ( cost some 33 million each but that is neither here nor there )
Knowing the Houthis have been successfully striking MQ 9
and that
The MQ-9 Reaper has a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet - and one may imagine they were flying the MQ9 pretty high - these B 52s or B 2s have to be flying possibly at near maximum altitude, which apparently effects accuracy of bombs and kind of puts them at risk
But the point is,
As far as I know B 52 and the B 2 and the MQ 9 share the similar maximal functioning altitude of 50,000 feet
. they have to keep their distance or know they are at risk
.
Without having any expertise ...
Obviously the MQ-9 is a cheap system--when compared to B-52s, B-2s, and virtually any other manned aerial platform. Nevertheless, at the rate the Reapers are being used up there are two considerations:
1. Obviously the Reapers are necessary for target acquisition, or as attack platforms *when manned platforms are at too much risk*.
2. At some point I suspect that the loss of this number of highly capable surveillance platforms is going to impact force effectiveness. This can't go on indefinitely. All of these systems require lots of maintenance.
DD reckons that this level of deployment--in preparation for an attack on Iran--can only be maintained for about two months. But losing so many Reapers over a relatively small country like Yemen could have a significant effect on an attack on Iran. Scott Ritter talks a lot about decapitation strikes on Iran, but many of Iran's major missile systems are mobile. ISR is thus of critical importance--in a relatively vast country with similarly rough terrain that can provide concealable and hardened sites for such systems.
Thanks our messages/posts crossed paths ( writing at same time )
I just believe it would be insane to presume that the Houthi's no longer have capability to hit - ' get lucky ' - a B 52 or B 2
Having hit 16 MQ 9 - I imagine the first hit, they learned a lesson and flew differently, I imagine the 10th hit they were being very careful, I imagine the 15th hit they were being very very very careful - # 16 says something
US has made many ridiculous presumptions thus far, Russians have no missiles, Russians using washing machine computer chips, Russians are weak, Sanctions will cripple Russia
I hope we don't see another foolish presumption - but fear we may.
.
They being the US the US had to have flown differently and made changes after the 1st hit 10th hit 15th hit and yet still Houthis successful
.... noting:
US did presume Russia did not have the Oreshnik ---...
.
I read up on it a bit
The MQ-9 Reaper, a drone aircraft, typically cruises at around 200 miles per hour (200 knots), with a maximum speed of about 260 knots (300 mph).
B 52 and B2 fly at subsonic speed Subsonic speed refers to any speed less than the speed of sound, which is approximately 761 miles per hour
So obvious difference but Houthis could have a sufficient weapon and/or ' get lucky '
beating the horse dead - my apologies but I thought interesting to me anyway
B-2 Stealth Bomber:
Wingspan: 172 feet (52 meters)
Length: 60 feet 6 inches (18.4 meters)
Height: 18 feet (5.5 meters)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 167,000 lbs (75,800 kg)
MQ-9 Reaper:
Wingspan: 79 feet (24 meters)
Length: 38 feet (11.6 meters)
Height: 11 feet 8 inches (3.56 meters)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 10,500 lbs (4763 kg)
Lord knows what the Russians and Chinese and Iran have helped Houthis with
I hope Trump does not put US Personnel in harms way
Stealth Bomber may no longer be so ' stealth '
.
Just an fyi I had written yesterday but it may have been missed
There is a difference between the B 52 and B 2 I had to look it up
obviously confusing as the numbers are so similar and writers sometimes
write as if they are the same, or appear the same to me when they write
They do carry different bombs
A B-52 bombing from an average height of 35,000 feet could accurately hit a known underground Yemen bomb storage site with a GBU-28, achieving a CEP of 5-10 meters, sufficient to destroy shallow or moderately hardened targets (up to 30 meters deep in earth).
Against deeper installations, its effectiveness diminishes, and a B-2 with a GBU-57 would be required.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Post from yesterday:
Regardless
=== I believe this US plan to B52 bomb Yemen is destined for failure,
a) they need precise location ( probably gathering now but much is unknown )
b) given # of MQ9 being shot down they have to be concerned about altitude, so bombing greater altitude less accuracy,
c) many if not most of Yemen bunkers/storage dug deeper then B52 penetration and fortified concrete, and
d) the B52 already tried to hit known Yemen bunkers and it was reported only the
" doors " to the bunker were damaged and that they were quickly repaired
The B-52 could theoretically hit an underground weapons storage facility in Yemen, such as those controlled by the Houthis, if its location is precisely known. The GBU-28 is designed to penetrate up to 6 meters (20 feet) of reinforced concrete or 30 meters (100 feet) of earth before detonating,
Yemen’s Houthi forces are believed to possess Soviet-era systems (e.g., SA-2, SA-3) that pose a threat below 40,000 feet, though these are less effective against high-altitude B-52s with electronic countermeasures.
Knowing the Houthis have been successfully striking MQ 9 and that The MQ-9 Reaper has a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet - one may imagine they were flying the MQ9 pretty high.
And knowing this US must also know, Houthis may have weapons greater than US believes -
A B-52 bombing from an average height of 35,000 feet could accurately hit a known underground Yemen bomb storage site with a GBU-28, achieving a CEP of 5-10 meters, sufficient to destroy shallow or moderately hardened targets (up to 30 meters deep in earth). Against deeper installations, its effectiveness diminishes, and a B-2 with a GBU-57 would be required. Given known Houthi sites, success is possible if intelligence is precise and the target isn’t excessively fortified beyond the GBU-28’s capabilities.
They're just turning over lots of sand. I should get them to do my garden.
HA!
Trump's War-Driven Policy / He's sending More Combat Power to Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzfEemh0ARw
And the more he sends, the harder it will be for him to back down. "Saving face" will kick in.
Exactly what DD gets into.
It seems to be obvious to everyone except Team Trump. And what the hell happened to Tulsi Gabbard?
WIZ is short for Wizard of OZ
Reported: As of October 18, 2024, Harvard University's endowment reached $53.2 billion,
So theoretically Harvard does not require government aid, additionally many other universities are similar in financial situation
If Harvard does not stand up, then pretty much everyone will buckle, sad, very sad for all of America,
so much for “VERITAS” (“Verity” or “Truth”) Harvard Motto.
No excuse, they have the money.
Yes, Joe they have the money, but it's never enough. A lot of that endowment likely came from very rich progressives and of those many of the billionaires are probably Zionist. They bullied their way into these schools using the classic race card and after paying millions to shape it's philosophy to align with their own, they do not want this disrupted. they are anti-Islamists, the very mirror image of anti-Semitism, but no one calls them on it because...........money begets power, power begets more money, more power and more money begets control, power, money and control changes a nation.
Cosmo~the progressives, globalists, Zionists, and other groups that have similar imperialistics goals...all are never satisfied. Their lust for power, control, and money--as you point out--fuels their quests that can never be satisfied. Thus their minds and hearts are always restless.
The restlessness and dissatisfaction is because they do not have God. Unless they have the Lord in their hearts, and walk with Him, they will never be satisfied with earthly things.
Only faith in God satisfies the sinful human heart, and so brings rest and peace.
Excellent.
Thanks At first blush """But any such resistance was broken when the Trump Administration suddenly pulled $400 million in annual funding. """
400 million seems like a lot - but perhaps one has to ask DOGE
why are they getting $ 400 million in the first place, if they make more interest than that.
With a 52 billion USD investment, the average yearly interest would depend on the investment strategy and interest rates. Assuming a 5% annual interest rate, the average yearly interest would be around $2.6 billion.
So it's kind of bologna.
So many of these issues are tragedies that are impossible to understand, at least for me given my restricted insight into the mechanics of political and geopolitical power. How do the globalists have so much power to do things like have judiciaries cancel elections and political parties? How can Zionists effect so much power over free speech in the bastions of free speech? How can Ziohell actually get away with bombing and sniping 50,000 inconvenient civilians to death? How can they justify that even to themselves? How can the US actually be prepping for war against a country that poses no threat to it? Is the US REALLY going to "contain" China?
I feel like I'm standing dumbfounded at the funeral of a friend who has just died an unexpected and unexplained death.
I'm finding it impossible to imagine a happy resolution of any of this score of tragic but seemingly unnecessary situations. The only resolutions that I can imagine all involve violence and lose-lose outcomes. How can't our "leaders" know what dangers await?
The globalists accrued so much power because We, the People, took our eye off the ball. Helped of course by massive dollops of gaslighting from the MSM. People en masse aren't very intelligent, and most normal people still find it hard to believe that our leaders are psychopaths who hate us. The reason I get so angry with Trump is that he is (was) our last best hope of turning things around without some kind of civil war. Maybe that was a job beyond any one man, but he had a lot of good will and power to give the DS some very hard and possibly fatal blows. However, his thraldom to the Zionists and his out of control egomania mean that, even after 2 months, he is failing and has probably failed. Europe is gone. America - and Russia, ironically - are the last bastions of hope against the globalists. If the Trump and the ballot don't work, then it is indeed going to be the bullet.
Steghorn, I agree with you that over the past decades many Americans have become complacent, accepting what mass media tells them, are more casual about changes in the culture that degrade it, and have stopped going to church.
Russia has been experiencing the opposite since emerging out from under the iron fist of the Soviet Union.
Particularly under Putin, a reverence for history, beauty, the arts, morality, and faith in God, has washed over the populace.
I compare the country-conquering politics and wars initiated by the US to any similar actions by Russia...I just don't see comparable mind- and soul-sets between the two countries.
Here is an interesting article that I found about the number of Christians and churches in Russia:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mysticpost/2015/12/21/the-surprising-rise-of-christianity-in-russia/
Something I failed to include, but an important indicator: Why have CIA Russia Hoax docs not been released?
Same reason as the Epstein files haven't been released: too embarrassing for too many people on both sides of the aisle.
Or maybe, in the case of the CIA, incriminating.
Don't believe they will be released. Plus Trump has shiny object syndrome. Today tariffs. Tomorrow, immigration, Friday should be college funding withholding, then weekend golf.
It would likely disrupt the Zionist plans and the CIA coupled with Mossad and MI6 are integral tools to that end. Plus any of this dirt could impact reliable Zionists who are deeply enmeshed in this hoax. IMHO
I think you’re right.