You won't hear about this on mainstream media. Google new unknown version of H1N1 killing Ukranians. This is part of their mass genocide.You won't hear about this on mainstream media. Google new unknown version of H1N1... more
F-15 warplanes of the Saudi Air Force fly over the capital, Riyadh, during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University on Sunday.F-15 warplanes of the Saudi Air Force fly over the capital, Riyadh, during a... more
The Air Force's newest polar-orbiting weather satellite has undergone several years of building, integrating, upgrading and testing.The Air Force's newest polar-orbiting weather satellite has undergone several years of... more
New groundbreaking research shows that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the skin disrupts the branching point of nerves called C fibresNew groundbreaking research shows that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the... more
Purdue, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Pennsylvania State University are all working together on a new rocket propellant called ALICE. Not named for anyone's girlfriend or mother, the name ALICE comes from what the propellant is made out of: frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder.Purdue, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Pennsylvania State... more
The Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard are again participating in Operation Deep Freeze.Operation Deep Freeze
The Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard are again participating... more
The U.S. Air Force, which has been soaring into the wild green yonder on alternative fuels and other sustainability measures, has added paint to its roster of more earth-friendly maneuvers. At Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, the Air Force has been easing away from toxic formulas, using PreKote to protect its aircraft from corrosion. PreKote is a propriety nontoxic base coating manufactured by Pantheon Chemical of Phoenix, Arizona.
(Casey, T., 2009, September 27)The U.S. Air Force, which has been soaring into the wild green yonder on alternative... more
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- For Rick Kelly, the first sign of cancer was a feeling of discomfort in his chest.
"My wife would hug me, and it became almost unbearable," he said. "I went to a doctor, and they sent me to the oncologist, and they did biopsies on both sides. And then I ended up with a double mastectomy."
Kelly is one of 20 retired U.S. Marines or sons of Marines who once lived at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and who are now suffering from breast cancer, a disease that strikes about one man for every 100 women who get it. Each of the seven men CNN interviewed for this report has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, along with chemotherapy, radiation or both.
All 20 fear that water contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals may have caused their illnesses, but the Marine Corps says no link has been found between the contamination and their diseases. Without that link, the men are denied treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which says it can't treat them for a condition that hasn't been shown to have been "service-related."
The men with breast cancer are among about 1,600 retired Marines and Camp Lejeune residents who have filed claims against the federal government. According to congressional investigators, they are seeking nearly $34 billion in compensation for health problems they say stemmed from drinking water at the base that was contaminated with several toxic chemicals, including some the federal government has classified as known or potential cancer-causing agents.
Jerry Ensminger is a former Marine Corps drill instructor who was stationed at the base in 1976, when his daughter, Janey, was born. She died of childhood leukemia at age 9.
"We were being exposed when we went bowling," Ensminger told CNN. "We were being exposed when we went to the commissary. We were being exposed when we went to the PX. And then when we went home, we were being exposed over there."
In 1981, the lab again found "water highly contaminated" -- and added the word "solvents," with an exclamation point. In August 1982, the experts found one sample with levels of trichloroethylene, a degreaser believed to cause cancer, of 1,400 parts per billion. Today's EPA safe level for the substance is five parts per billion.
"Nobody in this world has been more disillusioned than I've been. I feel like I've been betrayed."
more at the linkTAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- For Rick Kelly, the first sign of cancer was a feeling of... more
A video I wrote the script for, produced and edited the video and performed the voice over for. This is my contribution to all the brave men and women to serve in the US Armed Forces."American Soldiers... You'll Never Walk Alone"
A video I wrote the script for,... more
The U.S. Army and Air Force hardly communicate with each other. But somehow, the Iraq Air Force and Army are working together just fine.The U.S. Army and Air Force hardly communicate with each other. But somehow, the Iraq... more
A super-secret U.S. government satellite is circling Earth today after a lumbering launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.A super-secret U.S. government satellite is circling Earth today after a lumbering... more
For Air Force Staff Sgt. Shalounda Nightingale, currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an intelligence analyst with the operations section of Multi-National Division – South, military service is all in the family.For Air Force Staff Sgt. Shalounda Nightingale, currently deployed in support of... more
Alpha Industries ormai da più di 10 anni non produce più negli Stati uniti, e molti amanti di questi fantastici capi di giubbotteria militare di volo sono rimasti molto delusi.
Inoltre Alpha Industries si è dedicata a realizzare altri tipi di capi di abbigliamento come l'abbigliamento Pet, ed ha olto dalla propria produzione molti articoli "inediti" come il bomber con imbottitura in lana ed i giubbotti ed abbigliamento in tessuto MPTex, un tessuto indistruttibile e perfino antimacchia, dei quali si possono trovare ancora alcuni modelli come il CWU45 e la Field M-65, ed i giubbotti in goretex, che ormai non si trovano più da nessuna parte.
Mentre si trovano ancora alcuni modelli di giubbotti di volo Made in USA, come i mitici Bomber MA-1 e CWU45 e B-15, ma solo in alcune colorazioni.
Uno dei giubbotti più famosi di Alpha industries è la mitica Field Jacket M-65, la giacca usata dalle forze armate di stanza in Vietnam durante la guerra.
Alpha Industries è nata nel 1959 a Knoxville, Tennessee, e da allora ha fatto il suo scalpore nell'abbigliamento militare, dove tante aziende l'hanno emulata e perfino copiata, tra le quali la più famosa fra tutte la conosciutissima Avirex.
Ma questo non è mai dispiaciuto ad Alpha Industries, il suo slogan era: "la riproduzione dei nostri articoli è la più alta forma di adulazione", almeno fino a qualche anno fa, quando, per motivi di costi troppo alti, e per la troppa concorrenza, Alpha industries ha deciso di spostare tutta la propria produzione nei paesi Asiatici come Cina e Vietnam riducendo i prezzi, ma cambiando anche la vestibilità dei propri articoli.
Ma rimangono ancora molto ricercati da appassionati e collezionisti i famosi giubbotti prodotti negli USA, interminabili e praticamente indistruttibili.
Infine i Giubbotti di Volo Alpha Industries Made in USA sono diventati capi di abbigliamento militare da Collezionisti, ma fortunatamente si trova ancora qualcosa a prezzi molto accessibili ... finchè dura!Alpha Industries ormai da più di 10 anni non produce più negli Stati uniti, e molti... more
What if your loved one was prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice of fighting for their country, but that same country doesn’t want you to exist?What if your loved one was prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice of fighting for... more
I hope that more people can find the strength to do the same. I don't agree with a logistcal basis for refuting the war (it has/will cost too much), I think that is a self destructive mentality, but expressing one's mind at the threat of facing government oposition is comendable and courageous.I hope that more people can find the strength to do the same. I don't agree with a... more
had to hustle—the sky was scheduled to start glowing soon, and he didn't want to miss it. It was just before sunset, a cold February evening in deep-woods Alaska, and the broad-shouldered US Air Force physicist was scrambling across the snow in his orange down parka and fur-lined bomber hat. Grabbing cables and electronics, he rushed to assemble a jury-rigged telescope atop a crude wooden platform.
The rig wasn't much, just a pair of high-sensitivity cameras packed into a dorm-room refrigerator and pointed at a curved mirror reflecting a panoramic view of the sky. Pedersen had hoped to monitor the camera feed from a relatively warm bunkhouse nearby. But powdery snow two feet deep made it difficult to string cables back to the building.
As darkness closed in, Pedersen tried to get the second imager working—with no luck—and the first one began snapping pictures. A few minutes before seven, throbbing arcs of green and red light began to form on his monitor, eventually coalescing into an egg shape. Other shards of light shimmered, gathered into a jagged ring, and spun around the oval center. "This is really good stuff," Pedersen cooed. This wasn't just another aurora borealis triggered by solar winds; this one Pedersen made himself. He did it with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (Haarp): a $250 million facility with a 30-acre array of antennas capable of spewing 3.6 megawatts of energy into the mysterious plasma of the ionosphere.
Budget for Haarp's high-altitude nuclear cleanup research (millions)
Source: Darpa Budget Estimates
Bringing Haarp to fruition was, well, complicated. A group of scientists had to cozy up to a US senator, cut deals with an oil company, and convince the Pentagon that the project might revolutionize war. Oh, and along the way they sparked enough conspiracy theories to make the place sound like an arctic Area 51.
But the shocking thing about Haarp isn't that it's a boondoggle (it's actually pretty worthwhile) or that it was spawned by a military-industrial-petrochemical-political complex (a hallowed government tradition). It's that, all too often, this is the way big science gets done in the US. Navigating the corridors of money and power is simply what scientists have to do.
In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received a simple radio signal sent from across the Atlantic Ocean—dot-dot-dot, again and again, the letter S repeated in Morse code. Leading scientists of the day had said such a transmission was impossible: Earth's surface is curved, and radio waves travel in straight lines. The dots should have shot out into space. Instead, they traveled from Cornwall, England, to a 500-foot antenna Marconi hung from a kite in Newfoundland. A previously unknown, electromagnetically charged layer of the atmosphere was reflecting the signal back down to earth.
At any given moment, the sun is bombarding our planet with 170 billion megawatts of ultraviolet, x-ray, and other radiation. Those waves collide with atoms of air—nitrogen, oxygen, and so on—stripping away electrons like spring rain eroding a snowbank. The result: positively charged ions drifting free. At high altitudes, those ions are far enough apart that it can take hours for them to bind with a free electron. Called the ionosphere, these undulating bands of charged particles stretch from 50 to 500 miles above the earth—too high for weather balloons and, in large part, too low for satellites. Researchers who study it jokingly call it the ignorosphere.
For decades, researchers who wanted to bother with the ignorosphere did what Marconi had done—they built an emitter, pointed it straight up, and watched to see what would happen next. Those researchers learned that the ionosphere contains plasma, charged gas clouds that are more common in stars than on Earth. They saw that regions of the ionosphere expand and contract depending on their position over the planet, the tilt of Earth toward the sun, and the time of day. (At night, for instance, onhad to hustle—the sky was scheduled to start glowing soon, and he didn't want to... more
Government officials knew the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty would scare the bejabbers out of New Yorkers,but they went ahead with it anyway and quickly realized their bigtime blunder.By Leo Standora
Daily News Staff Writer
Government officials knew the Air Force... more
