Punishment.

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Let the punishment fit the crime is the old adage.

Here with an application of the old adage that indeed is apropos.

Thanks to Freeper.

"Montana Man Fined for Lying About Military Service"

"Morris [Ryan Patrick] told the court that he had done seven combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan but that was untrue. A Montana man who lied about serving in the military in order to have his burglary and theft case assigned to a Veterans Treatment Court has been found in contempt of court... District Judge Greg Pinski fined Ryan Patrick Morris $500 on Wednesday and ordered him to complete 441 hours of community service with a veterans’ service organization — one hour for each Montana veteran killed in the line of duty since the Korean War"

THE FAKE MILITARY WAR HERO/PREVARICATOR!

Unmasked and much to his discredit. NOW he will realize he is not getting off easy. His "burglary and theft" case not dismissed and the man now sentenced for what in the eyes of some is a much worse offense.

DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR MR. MORRIS! HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME SIR!

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Meltdown.

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Type 091 Chinese nuclear submarine [Han class] with classified portions removed now on display.

As reported by Strategy Page and as extracted from same:

"Submarines: A Chinese Nuclear First"

"[the] first Chinese Type 091 [Han] sub entered service in 1974 after being under construction for nearly a decade. This first Chinese SSN was retired in 2000 but three of the five 091 SSNs are still in service. The theme for the 2013 media promotion was that in 42 years of operation no Chinese nuclear sub has ever suffered a nuclear reactor accident"

I beg to differ! Han class not "suffering" a nuclear accident as that word "accident' normally understood but having been sunk by underwater collision, that amount of fissionable material released into the environment prodigious and unprecedented!! And remains so to this day?

From a previous blog entry:

"Pacific Fleet Victor III-class SSGN, K-324 from the Pacific Base of Rakushka collided with the Chinese Han-class SSN. June.1983.

"A Soviet survey in 1989  . . . commissioned by the  Pacific Fleet, detected extremely high radiation levels measuring 1,000 roentgen per hour [877 rad/hour] within a five-mile radius of the broken hull of the Han SSN."

A NUCLEAR DISASTER EXCEEDING THAT [FAR GREATER??] OF CHERNOBYL AND YET UNKNOWN TO THE PUBLIC?

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Airborne!

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A nothing? Do not have concerns? There is precedent for this sort of event? 

Thanks to Station 95 and the tip from Jeff.

"Air Force 1 and 2, plus FLOTUS in S.A.M. and an E-4 Command Aircraft all airborne as NATO raises Alert Status for 300,000 Troops in Europe citing 'Russia Concerns'"

EVERYONE ON HIGH ALERT? PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, THEIR RESPECTIVE FAMILIES AND OTHER HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ALL IN THE AIR AT ONCE?

"Something seems very peculiar.  As of 3:46 PM eastern US time today, November 7, Air Force One, Air Force Two, a Special Air Mission (SAM) with FLOTUS and SLOTUS,  PLUS an E-4 Military Global Command Aircraft are all airborne. This means the President is in one plane, the Vice President is in another.  Their families are in a third plane and a military global command post (E-4) are all in the air at the same time."

E-4 that TACAMO aircraft. Take Charge And Move Out! Issues the GO codes to nuclear equipped units!!

S.A.M. I was not aware of. Special Air Mission. Carrying cabinet members and lesser officials as designated to run the government in case of world-wide disaster.

"The United States Air Force Special Air Mission is the safe, comfortable, and reliable air transportation for the President of the United States (POTUS), Vice President of the United States (VPOTUS), First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS), Presidential Cabinet, U.S. Congressional delegations (CODELs), and other high-ranking American and foreign dignitaries."

Think Proud Prophet and Able Archer from a much prior period? I fear the worst here. Let us all hope my fears are UNFOUNDED!

That TACAMO painted with anti-flash white. Anti-flash as from a nuclear weapon going off in close proximity. Get it?

P.S.: A simpler explanation for all this has been made by an acknowledged authority. This is all part of the last-minute political campaign leading up to the events of yesterday, the American Presidential election. Probably so.

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Uncanny.

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Special operations needs to look into this. Perhaps they already have?

IMPROVED NIGHT VISION WITHOUT THE USE OF LIGHT-AMPLIFYING DEVICES?

Courtesy of the outstanding Internet web site isegoria.net.

"Coral Reefer Madness"

"Decades ago, pharmacologist M. E. West of the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, noted that local fisherman who smoked cannabis — or drank cannabis-laced rum — had 'an uncanny ability to see in the dark,' which enabled them to navigate their boats through coral reefs"

“'[but] I was then convinced that the man who had taken the rum extract of cannabis had far better night vision than I had, and that a subjective effect was not responsible.'”

NOT ONLY THOSE JAMAICAN FISHERMEN HAVING A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE.

". . . Moroccan fishermen and mountain dwellers experience a similar improvement after smoking hashish"

". . . in 2002, another research team traveled to the Rif mountains in Morocco to investigate further. They gave a synthetic cannabinoid to one volunteer, and hashish to three more, then used a newly developed piece of kit to measure the sensitivity of their night vision before and after. Confirming West’s earlier report, they found that cannabis improved night vision in all three of their test subjects."

RUM AND MARIJUANA NOT A COMBINATION THE MILITARY WOULD BE FOND OF. THAT ELEMENT WITHIN CANNABIS BENEFICIAL TO ENHANCED NIGHT VISION CAN BE EXTRACTED AND PUT TO GOOD USE? MEN WITH EYES OF A CAT/

It all remains to be seen! Get it?

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Malbork.

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1410! 1457! 1945!

Yet one more tourist destination with a military dimension and well worth visiting. If in the vicinity of Dansk Polank this is a must see!

Malbork Castle! Known to the Prussians as Marienburg!

LARGEST BRICK CASTLE IN THE WORLD HAVING BEEN RESTORED WITH AN AMAZING EXACTNESS AND DEVOTION TO DETAIL

Malbork/Marienburg during A PERIOD OF OVER FIVE-HUNDRED YEARS THE SCENE OF REPEATED SIEGE AND BATTLE!

1410: "In the summer of 1410, the castle was besieged following the Order's defeat by the armies of Władysław II Jagiełło and Vytautas the Great . . . at the Battle of Grunwald. Heinrich von Plauen successfully led the defense in the Siege of Marienburg (1410), during which the city outside was razed."

1457: "The Siege of Marienburg took place between September 28, 1457 - August 5, 1460, during the Thirteen Years' War. The Teutonic Knights tried to regain the fortress of Marienburg, which had been the capital of their state, but was captured by the Kingdom of Poland in June 1457. The Knights, commanded by Bernard Szumborski, failed to do so, and Marienburg remained in Polish hands, .

1945: "Near the end of World War II, the city was declared a festung [fortress] and most of the civilian population fled or were evacuated, with some 4,000 people opting to remain. In early 1945, Marienburg was the scene of fierce battles by the Nazis with the Red Army and was almost completely destroyed. The battle lasted until March 9, 1945".

From below take two virtual tours of Malbork Castle. Outstanding.

http://www.panodesign.co.uk/Malbork2008/

http://www.lovelypoland.com/malbork-castle-virtual-tour.html

These virtual tours I recommend highly, without qualification or reservation!

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Ping!

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Blame it on the Russia? Or blame it on the Americans? Or is it the space aliens?

Canada will fund out? Thanks to Freeper for the tip.

"Canada military probes mysterious Arctic pinging noise"

"The Canadian military has investigated a mysterious pinging sound coming from the sea floor in a remote region of the Arctic, officials have told the BBC. ... But the military says it is so far unable to explain the cause of the 'acoustic anomalies'. 'The [aircraft] crew did not detect any surface or sub-surface contacts,' the military said in a statement released to the BBC. ... A spokesman in the department of national defense in Ottawa said the cause of the pinging noise - which locals say can even be heard through the hulls of boats - remains a mystery...."

WHAT IS TO BLAME AND WHO IS TO BLAME, THAT IS THE QUESTION?

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Bomber 075.

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Lost has been found? After over sixty years a LOST atomic weapon has been discovered?

Thanks to the CBC, the article by George Baker and Andrew Kurjata and the tip from Al.

"UFO? Lost Cold War nuclear weapon? Canada's navy to investigate object found off B.C. coast Army records indicate diver may have found bomb lost by the U.S. Air Force in 1950"

"UFO? Lost Cold War nuclear weapon? Canada's navy to investigate object found off B.C. coast Army records indicate diver may have found bomb lost by the U.S. Air Force in 1950"

"The Royal Canadian Navy is sending a ship to determine if a diver has discovered "the lost nuke" — a Mark IV bomb that went missing after a U.S. bomber crashed off B.C.'s North Coast in the early days of the Cold War."

An American B-36 bomber aircraft [Bomber 075] in distress over international waters the crew having bailed out, the plane CONTINUING TO FLY UNMANNED FOR A TIME, WRECKAGE DISCOVERED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA INLAND BUT NO BOMB!!

That weapon evidently having fallen out of the warplane and landed in the ocean, NEVER FOUND!

At least until now!

A live weapon, an analog for training purposes or what? This all remains to be found out!

AND IF A LIVE WEAPON, COULD IT STILL POSSIBLY DETONATE EVEN AFTER BEING UNDERWATER FOR SUCH A PROLONGED PERIOD?

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