All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Sofia (AFP) - Bulgaria's Orthodox Church has called on its government not to let any more Muslim refugees into the country to prevent an "invasion".
The Balkan EU member has largely been bypassed by the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict and poverty, many of whom set off from Greece through neighbouring Macedonia and Serbia towards northern Europe.
But Bulgaria has still seen Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis cross its southeastern border from Turkey.
"We help refugees who have already arrived in our motherland, but the government must absolutely not let more refugees in," the church -- which claims 80 percent of the population as its followers -- said late Friday on its website.
"This is a wave that looks like an invasion."
It added that the problems in the refugees' countries of origin "must be resolved by those who created them and the Bulgarian people must not pay the price by disappearing."
Visitors to a London exhibition celebrating freedom of expression this week found plenty of familiar taboo-busting work, from Jamie McCartney’s The Great Wall of Vagina, an eight-foot long cast featuring the genitals of 400 women, to Kubra Khademi’s video of an eight-minute walk she made through Kabul in Afganistan, dressed in lushly contoured body armour. But they will have looked in vain for one work detailed in the catalogue by an artist known only as Mimsy.
Isis Threaten Sylvania is a series of seven satirical light box tableaux featuring the children’s toys Sylvanian Families.
It was removed from the Passion for Freedom exhibition at the Mall galleries after police raised concerns about the “potentially inflammatory content” of the work, informing the organisers that, if they went ahead with their plans to display it, they would have to pay £36,000 for security for the six-day show.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE POLICE ARE MAKING THEM PAY A PROTECTION FEE.
THE POLICE ARE IN CAHOOTS WITH THE JIHADISTS IN A RACKETEERING ORGANIZATION.
First a crane collapses on the Grand Mosque killing over 100 people
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/11/many-deaths-reported-crane-collapse-meccas-grand-mosque/72069206/
Then hundreds more are killed in haji stampeded.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/middleeast/stampede-hajj-pilgrimage/
Now the grand mosque in London – biggest in England, is on fire.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/608131/Fire-Morden-mosque-in-south-London
All within a week or so.
Ah…the will of allah
Somebody up there is pissed off.
READ EVERY WORD AND THINK ABOUT RUSSIA AND CHINA AND IRAN RIGHT NOW
Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right
As
if they suddenly came to an epiphany, the United States Air Force brass
is now admitting what many of us have been screaming about for so long:
We didn’t build nearly enough F-22s, and the F-35 cannot simply pick up
the slack. So why aren’t those who pushed so hard to cancel the F-22
program being held accountable?
By
the mid 2000s, the F-22 was finally entering the fray as the world’s
first true stealth fighter, offering a quantum leap in capability and
performance when compared with anything else on the battlefield. It was a
thoroughbred weapon system meant to shape the battlefield by
vanquishing anything in the skies and neutering enemy air defenses, so
that less capable combat aircraft could survive over the battle space.
It was a high-end door kicker, the ultimate “anti-access” fighter.
At
the same time that the Raptor was coming online and proving itself,
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, of both the Bush and Obama
Administrations, was calling for the F-22’s demise. This was said to be
due to the aircraft cost and use as “only” an air-to-air, destruction of
enemy air defense, and deep strike platform.
Gates’s push for
the Raptor’s demise came at the same time as the cost of examples of the
jet were rapidly dropping. For the last batch of 60 of the
super-fighters, the unit cost per jet was $137 million, which is pretty
close to the cost of an “affordable” F-35A today – at a time when a
similar number of F-35s have been built as F-22s, about 165 compared to
the F-22’s 187.
Costs were slated to have continued to drop if
another lot of about 53 jets were built to meet the Air Force’s stated
minimum fleet size requirement of 243 airframes. But it never happened.
Instead
the F-22 was cast off and all of the USAF’s fighter chips were put into
the very much unproven F-35 bucket. Gates justified chopping the F-22
as he wanted aircraft to “fight the wars we are in today, and the
scenarios we are most likely to face in the years ahead.” Considering
air superiority and destruction of enemy air defenses is an absolute
must for any conflict (aside for ones with totally permissible
airspace), this was a very near-sighted evaluation, and as it turns out,
prediction of the future.
Gates further rationalized his decision:
To
sustain U.S. air superiority, I am committed to building a fifth
generation tactical fighter capability that can be produced in quantity
at sustainable cost. Therefore I will recommend increasing the buy of
the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
A misleading statement if there ever
was one, as it’s impossible to build something in quantity at a
sustainable cost when you’re not willing to build it in great enough
numbers so that a sustainable cost is achievable. It’s a bit of a
chicken-and-egg scenario, but at some point, the costs eventually
balance out.
For the F-22, that point was rapidly approaching.
The
F-22 was by many accounts on the verge of a cost breakthrough that
would have sent its unit cost plunging well below the $100 million line.
Gates later said:
We have fulfilled the program. It’s not like
we’re killing the F-22. We will have 187 of them… The military advice
that I got was that there is no military requirement for numbers of F-22
beyond 187.
Considering that the minimum the Air Force said they
could operate with was 243, this statement seems less than true. And
that number was last ditch compromise, the real bottom-line fleet size
the USAF required of the F-22 was around 339 jets, which itself was
dropped drastically from the original number of around 750 jets
originally envisioned. At 339 examples it was hoped that the F-15C/D
force could have been retired.
Yet
Gates was not alone in the push to cancel the F-22. The Bush
administration was guilty of it too, although they were able to punt the
final decision to the Obama administration, who demanded it be
cancelled with a sharp veto threat.
Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right
Key
Congressional figures like Senator John McCain also wanted the Raptor
line shutdown. Their justifications ranged from the program’s expense,
which was largely sunk costs for research and development over the
aircraft’s 30-year gestation period, to statements proclaiming that
China would not unveil a stealth fighter until late in the next decade,
with no chance of it being operational until the mid to late 2020s.
Today, China has two stealth fighters flying, the first one, the J-20,
getting airborne well before the last F-22 even left the production
floor. The timing of the J-20’s first flight also occurred while
Secretary Gates was in Beijing meeting with top-level government
officials. The event was a well planned propaganda affair that aimed to
make Gates look bad for underestimating Chinese technological
capabilities.
For F-22 supporters it was an unwanted vindication.
Another
common argument against the F-22 was that the idea of America meeting
Russian, or any near-peer state fighter aircraft, head-on in battle was a
relic of the Cold War, and had no place in 21st century. Because of
this, less potent, multi-role platforms were more of a necessity. Fast
forward a half decade, and that statement is far from accurate. In fact,
the F-22 just made its first deployment to Europe as part of a security
package to deter Russian aggression and to reassure our NATO allies.
The F-22 has also been regarded as a force multiplier in the air war
against ISIS, itself attacking many targets with great precision from
the first night of air strikes in Syria on.
Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right
Back
in the Gates years, naysayers, like embattled Air Force Chief of Staff
General Michael Mosley and Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wayne,
both supporters of the F-22, were gotten rid of. Mosley has since
reiterated his frustration with the F-22 decision, stating that the
shutdown of the F-22 program “will prove to be one of the most
strategically dislocated decisions made over the last 20 to 25 years.”
He
also said that follow-on batches of F-22s were quoted as costing well
below $90 million per copy fly-away cost, which is about 25 percent less
than the cost of an F-35A today.
Nowadays it seems that everyone
laments the premature F-22 line shutdown, from late-to-the-scene defense
commentators to those at the very top of the USAF, including Air Combat
Command chief Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, whoe was quoted in National
Defense Magazine as saying:
“We don’t have enough F-22s, that’s a
fact of life. We didn’t buy enough; we don’t have enough.” However, the
Air Force is going to make do with the Raptors it does have, Carlisle
said. “You’re going to need the Raptors” for a high-end fight, he said.
“So you’re still going to have to do that and we’re going to do it with
the 180 or so F-22s we have.”
Because only 187 F-22s were built, with
only about 125 of the jets setup for assignment to combat units at any
given time, even fullfilling small detachments of F-22s to the Pacific,
Middle East and European theater may be troublesome. As such, the
F-15C/D force, which less than a decade ago was suffering from mid-air
breakups resulting in a year-long grounding, has had to stay online to
supplement the relatively tiny F-22 force.
Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right
At
the time of the F-15C/D fleet’s grounding, the talk was that the Eagles
needed either deep and costly refurbishment or replacement. Now these
jets are slated to serve for decades to come in an attempt to fill the
gap left by a curtailed F-22 production run. In order to do so, the
“Golden Eagle” fleet of around 200 aircraft will require billions worth
of upgrades, including both structural and major capability
enhancements.
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With
all this in mind, if we built enough F-22s to eradicate the enemy’s
defenses, both in the air and on the ground, and improved the aircraft
over time, perhaps even stretching it into an FB-22 with F-35 like
avionics, would the USAF need an F-35A at all?
Instead,
the force could be filled in by other high-end capabilities currently
in the works, like a new long-range stealth bomber, stealthy standoff
weapons and unmanned combat air vehicles. On the low-end side of the
equation, plentiful, relatively cheap and proven platforms, like the
F-16 and A-10, among others, could be available once air dominance has
been achieved, or for lower-end conflicts that do not require the F-22’s
high-end anti-access capabilities.
What makes things worse is
that the floundering F-35 program has sucked funds for much needed
upgrades on existing systems, including the F-22. In fact the F-22 lacks
relatively standard technologies found on all of America’s fighter
fleet, thus needlessly handicapping America’s “tip of the spear”
fighter.
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So
what exactly happened here? If we clearly do not have enough F-22s
today and it seemed nobody really thought we had enough at the time of
its cancellation, aside from those with the power to kill the program,
and the jet was passed over for the F-35, an aircraft that the USAF
itself admits cannot fill the high-end role like the F-22, somewhere
along the line disinformation was passed along to decision makers, or
worse. So why don’t we pull those key decision makers in and have them
explain exactly how they understood the situation at the time, what
information and intelligence were they going off of, and who gave them
that information and when?
Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right
The
F-35 is said to be the biggest weapons program of all time, literally a
$1.5 trillion income proposition over its lifetime. As such, it has a
tremendous amount of special interest, Congressional and corporate
“momentum” behind it. During the period of the F-22’s cancellation, the
F-35’s problems were just becoming so serious that they could no longer
be denied. Any competition threatened its existence, including the F-22,
Lockheed’s own product. For the USAF, why dive into a pit of unknowns
and cost and timeline overruns when you already had the best fighter in
the world in production?
Yet given what we know now now publicly,
the limitations of the F-35, especially in the air-to-air realm, could
have made the decision to end the F-22 production much tougher.
Especially as claims about the jet’s maneuverability were far more
exaggerated compared to reality. Which is something even the Air Force
has admitted to now.
The Official Response To The F-35’s Dismal Dogfight Report Is Misleading
The F-35 Joint Program Office countered a leaked report describing the jet’s dismal performance.…
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Since
there appears to be little will in Washington to correct the error in
judgement that ended the F-22 line by putting an improved F-22 back into
production, we need to learn from this very expensive mistake. This is
especially relevant considering nearly $30 billion of the F-22’s nearly
$70 billion program cost was spent to just develop the fighter. By
better understanding what they knew and when they knew it, and above all
else, where the information for their conclusions came from, we can at
least try to avoid such procurement and strategy blunders in the future.
She's Not Wearing a Burqa, She's Begging To Be Raped
From Front Page Magazine:
From the "If you don't go out on a date with me, I'll kill you and your whole family" school of propositioning.
Take a few million of these people... or they'll turn into terrorists and kill you. And hope they don't do that anyway. At which point you'll be stuck with a whole lot of terrorists anyway.
Jordan’s Queen Rania has used a speech in Berlin today to call upon Europe to help more Syrian refugees – and not to ‘bolt the door for fear of the unknown’.
That's a great speech coming from the queen of a country that refuses to give its own "Palestinians" citizenship. Europe isn't supposed to "bolt the door for fear of the unknown".
That's a privilege reserved for her Hashemite kingdom.
But then again she and her husband know exactly what they're bolting the door against. Europe isn't supposed to.
The royal, who has consistently spoken out about the perils of extremism, also warned that refusing to help could lead to a ‘disillusioned generation’ who would prove easy prey for terrorist recruiters.
‘Denying refugees their basic rights risks creating a defeated and disillusioned generation,’ she said, ‘who, at their most desperate, could be susceptible to extremists’ ideology.’
Jordan is currently home to an estimated 1.4 million refugees – 20 per cent of the country’s population – many of whom are living in camps close to the Middle Eastern country’s northern border.
Jordan, which denies refugees basic rights, is warning Germany not deny them basic rights. Jordan doesn't want to take in their own people. They want Europe to do it.
And Queen Rania is warning Europe that if it doesn't take in a whole lot of Muslims... they'll turn to terrorism.
Brain surgeons, long burdened with the onerous reputation of being among the smartest people in the world, are expressing relief that the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson is shattering that stereotype once and for all.
In interviews with brain surgeons across the country, the doctors revealed the enormous pressure they felt to live up to their profession’s inflated renown for intelligence before Carson entered the race.
“When people found out I was a brain surgeon they would always assume I was some kind of a genius,” said Harland Dorrinson, a neurosurgeon in Toledo, Ohio. “Now they are beginning to understand that you can know a lot about brain surgery and virtually nothing about anything else.”
Dorrinson said that acquaintances used to view him as a source of wisdom on a wide range of subjects, but added, “Ever since Ben Carson said that prisons make people gay, that’s really fallen off.”
We paid a trafficking agent for false visas to fly here to Germany,’ says 34-year-old Atif. ‘We claimed asylum and came to Giessen camp with other migrants. Three weeks ago, because we had families, they gave us a proper home.’
Atif is well-dressed and speaks perfect English. He used to be a transport manager at Karachi airport and is from a well-to-do family. Between mouthfuls of curry, he adds: ‘But there is violence between political gangs in Karachi. Lots of people are leaving for Europe. The trafficker decided that Germany was the place for us because it is welcoming refugees.
Obama Ambassador to UN Quotes COMMUNIST to Push New Socialist UN Sustainable Development Goals
It’s official. On Friday morning [September 25, 2015] the United States, and 192 other nations, unanimously adopted the new United Nations Sustainable Development goals. These “goals“, designed to eradicate world poverty and fight Climate Change, include the Socialist ideals of universal healthcare, universal education, universal employment, and wealth redistribution, all of which must in place by 2030.
Los Angeles authorities say as many as five women may have been sexual assaulted by a Saudi prince inside his massive Beverly Hills compound.
As many as five victims may have been sexually accosted by a Saudi royal inside his massive Beverly Hills rental compound, The Daily Beast has learned from Los Angelesauthorities.
When cops arrived at the residence along Wallingford Drive, in Beverly Hills, to check out a disturbance call that came in around 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday, they discovered a horde of people milling about in front of the $37 million, 22,000-acre gated mansion.
After conducting interviews, the police officers arrested Majed Abulaziz Al-Saud, a 28-year-old Saudi prince, for allegedly trying to force at least one unidentified woman to perform oral sex against her will. What’s more, “four more victims allege the same crimes committed—including criminal threats [by Al-Saud],” an LAPD police spokesman told The Daily Beast, noting that all the alleged victims and witnesses who were interviewed said the alleged attacks occurred on the same day.
