editor victoria’s comment ~ he continues to focus on this date (12/21/19). while i have let go of dates – i do feel this calendar year is it. over. done. rose says not to focus on dates – it is forbidden – i find that to be nonsense – anything being “forbidden” – but i do feel predicted dates are rather meaningless – and i can see where this event transition moment will come when it comes and from my inner-standing’s is not something we (inside that is) control. and…..whatever “year” it really is – as well as what really defines a “year”. or day. month. hour minute second. artificial marker’s made by others. perhaps i’m priming myself to be in the experience of no time. energetically i know many if not most of us who long for Home – we are literally on the edge of our seats ready to lift up and off and out. this is not my home. it never has been and i have absolutely stopped chastising myself to think otherwise. we know what we know. Devin says this is purgatory. i feel it’s a combo of purgatory and hell. the outside experiences that is – the systems. war. power over. pay to live. harm. if i gave this type of a set up my approval, i long ago withdrew my consent. let us go and create the way we long for. each and every one of us. end of story. over and out.
editor victoria’s comment ~ anybody know if the Air Force Academy ever closes its base? (the vent on the 30th is just a Drone Light Show, btw….nothing to read into that drop)
From: TUCCI-JARRAF, HEATHER ANN Subject: RE: Majestic 12 tweet Date: Oct 28, 2019 at 10:35 PM …what did i say October 2016????? do you remember?????????
“Russia, China/’China’, and the ‘Galactics’ will all be made transparent at basically the same time… more or less simultaneously.”
…the term “Galactics” was, and still is, all inclusive of any time/space/coordinates/terms/definitions/branches/separations/etc. played/thought of/engaged…LOL!
…..and the jump is completed…all shake off the “vertigo” and shaky legs from the jump as they “wow!” themselves with all accomplished!… 😉
in joy, enjoy….IN COMPLETE LOVE, GRATITUDE, HEARTITUDE, AND HUMOR…hugs, loves, and celebrations by all, for all, with all!
STAR WARS World War 3 in SPACE would destroy ‘GPS, banking systems and even TV’, astro-physicists warn
By Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker
25th October 2019, 4:02 pm
Updated: 25th October 2019, 4:02 pm
AT AN upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain”, partly in response to new developments in technology.
If it does declare space a war zone, NATO could start using space weapons that can destroy satellites or incoming enemy missiles
But what is this technology and how could it enable a war?
In a recent first for space technology, Russia has launched a commercial satellite specifically designed to rendezvous with other satellites.
The purpose of this vehicle is peaceful: it will perform maintenance tasks on other satellites in orbit.
The fact that commercial companies have this capability probably means that it already exists for global military powers.
This has caught the attention of NATO.
If a country or company can manoeuvre its own satellites into close proximity of others, then it can do so for military or sabotage purposes potentially without detection.
Another development is France’s recent announcement that it will build “bodyguard” satellites armed with either machine guns or lasers.
This follows an announcement that the US will launch a space force in 2018. Many other nations may soon follow suit.
Electronic warfare
But how would sabotage and warfare happen exactly? One method involves firing an intense beam of microwave radiation at an object.
In fact, such concepts have been tested before by the police as a means of bringing a speeding car to a halt by disabling electrical devices on the vehicle.
Such a concept deployed on satellites would constitute a “directed-energy weapon”, enabling nations to disable other countries’ satellites without creating large clouds of orbital debris.
You could potentially make such an attack look like an accident and deny involvement.
The use of “radio jamming” to disrupt radar and communications dates back to World War II.
By swamping a radio receiver with, effectively, radio noise, one can obscure the reception of genuine signals and render the system inoperative..
This is a little like trying to spot the light from a candle against the glare of car headlights.
Satellites are thoroughly tested for self generated radio noise before going into space.
But if a “hostile” satellite nearby were to deliberately direct broadband radio transmissions at the target satellite, then communications could be completely disrupted.
Space-based electronic warfare is likely to become an increasing concern for military planners.
In fact, many military services on Earth now depend on space technology to work.
Kinetic kills and lasers
By far the most obvious method of interfering with a satellite is a solid projectile.
Moving satellites have very high kinetic energy and momentum. If a slower moving object can be placed briefly in the path of a satellite, then the resultant collision will be particularly devastating.
These so called “kinetic kills” have previously only been used to take satellites out of commission at the end of their life, with the US, Russia China, and India demonstrating their ability to perform this.
This type of removal consists of a ground-launched missile aimed at the satellite.
If aimed at an adversary satellite, such a missile would be fairly obvious and could be tracked by other nations using radar.
A more subtle method would be to destroy a satellite owned by the country or company launching the missile and aim to produce as much debris as possible, which then lies in the orbital path of the intended target.
This could look like an accident and actually accidently occurred in 2007.
As far as kinetic weapons in space are concerned, machine guns are generally problematic due to the recoil involved.
If the weapon is fired at any angle which is not in the exact direction of the orbital path the satellite is travelling along, then a torque will be applied, rapidly changing the direction of it.
The idea of kinetic weapons has been attempted before.
The Soviet space station Salyut-3, for example, was armed with a rapid fire cannon in the mid 1970s.
Lasers are also being considered as defensive weapons, with the idea being to take out attacking satellites’ solar panels.
With no power, the satellite will be unable to communicate with the ground station and is essentially lost.
The recoil from a laser is much smaller and the lack of atmosphere would allow them to perform better than on the Earth’s surface.
A laser could be used to blind instrumentation on an opposing satellite thereby reducing the efficacy of either rendezvous or aiming software.
The most likely satellites to be targeted would be those dedicated to communication or observing.
With the newest research satellites able to take images down to a 30cm resolution, military versions are likely to be even better.
A nation with no communication facilities or ability to observe others will never know who has launched an attack against them.
But what would a space war look like from Earth? While sci-fi films have conditioned us to believe that space lasers would use visible light, shorter wavelengths actually produce more power..
Any observers on the surface would be unlikely to directly see any effects from space warfare, unless a kinetic kill actually breaks a spacecraft up with debris lighting up as it re-enters the atmosphere.
That said, attacks could still affect our lives on Earth, disturbing GPS, television services and even cash withdrawals.
Nuclear weapons?
The use of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in space is currently banned under the Outer Space Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty.
But not all nuclear armed nations have ratified the latter, including the US and North Korea.
A small number of nuclear tests in space were conducted in the 1960s including Starfish Prime.
These resulted in artificial radiation belts forming around the Earth which were still detectable decades after the event posing a danger for astronauts.
These radiation belts also disabled half a dozen satellites in low Earth orbit.
If the results of Starfish Prime are anything to go by, then clearly it would take only a handful of nuclear detonations to make space unusable for any satellites for decades to come.
Given the options now becoming available, it seems important to remember that, under the Outer Space Treaty, space is supposed to be used only for peaceful purposes and remain the domain of “all mankind”.
This article was written for The Conversation by Gareth Dorrian, a Fellow in Space Science at the University of Birmingham, and Ian Whittaker, a lecturer in Physics at Nottingham Trent University.
editor victoria’s comment ~ we know the phrase – “history repeats itself”. johnson/kennedy. pence/trump. this time – history will NOT be repeating itself. … and the mirror effect – as we now know jfk jr went to europe in 1999 to study the Codex (of leonardo da vinci – who studied mirror writing)….
Monday morning and we here we go again for another “dramatic week”. There are going to be monthly PMIs to look at in particular: will we see any further deterioration, or will growth start to pick up as an early Christmas present? And there are of course rate meetings for the Fed, and the BOJ, and the BOC: the former will cut, with the real issue being if they will signal more soon or not given they are already deep in Repo Madness; and will the giant BOJ wake up from slumber like a giant Kaiju and start throwing markets into turmoil again?
Plus there is the Brexit circus. Will the EU grant the UK an extension until end-January 2020, or a more flexible date, or will France veto that and insist on a very short extension? Almost certainly they will insist that the newly reopened Withdrawal Agreement is this time firmly shut – so if the British Parliament then decides to merrily reopen it from its end and unilaterally start ramming amendments into it, it will not be doing so with EU approval. As such, and just as pertinently, will PM BoJo get his December election or not? The greater likelihood is not, as Labour appears to be desperate for an election – just not now – although the Lib Dems may be prepared to allow one given they see this as a way to prevent any further movement towards Brexit in the short term. (Though what do they think the election campaign will be about? The price of cheese?) Note that the latest opinion poll for the Observer has the Tories on 40% (+3 on the week), Labour unchanged on 24%, and the Lib Dems on 15% (-1), with the Brexit Party on 10% (-2).
In Europe, we have just seen the AfD surge to second place in state elections in Germany’s Thuringia with 24% of the vote, double what it got last time, putting it 1ppt ahead of Chancellor Merkel’s CDU, with the Far Left Die Linke in first place. The AfD are nowhere near power as nobody will co-operate with them, but that 24% outcome is all the more remarkable given an attack on a synagogue and neo-Nazi death threats through the campaign.
In China, Chairman Xi Jinping will be presiding over the long-expected Communist Party Plenum, which is usually looked to for policy guidance. Market expectations this time are that all the focus will be on politics and control, and none will be on market-based reforms. Tellingly, this weekend saw China disband a three-year old Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity after nobody has been prepared to cut back on capacity: China is claiming it alone has, but this somehow overlooks that its net steel output is up on three years ago, at a record high, and still growing.
Any wonder President Trump did not inform Democrats?
In 2017 we had a handle and were preparing to take ISIS leader Baghdadi out. Someone leaked to the NY Times and mission planning was aborted. #TheyCannotBeTrustedpic.twitter.com/eAH4BV6mrI
— Lady Liberty-Well Then…War It Is! (@DutyOfAPatriot) October 28, 2019
Audio translation: “I thought it was a reasonable question but the trouble is, you can’t pick up the phone book. There’s no Langley in Israel that you can look up, you know, CIA or, in our case, the Mossad. We thought we should ask, “What shall we call it in English?” We can translate the Hebrew words, and like I said, Mossad is “institute.” But when they write a letter to their friends in the CIA or the British intelligence, what do they call themselves? It took a while. It was a matter of asking the prime minister’s spokesman — the best you could do because officially the Mossad is under the prime minister’s office. And I think he sort of wondered, “Why do you want to know?” and all that, so we explained and he came up with the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service. And if it were to have initials it would be ISIS, just simple words like that — interestingly enough, though, kind of a British model. The British don’t really like the names MI5 and MI6 for their foreign service. They prefer SIS, Secret Intelligence Service.”
ISIS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, considered a potential Abu Bakr al-Baghdadisuccessor, was also killed in Syria, a senior State Department official confirmed to Fox News on Monday.
Al-Muhajir was considered a “number two” to al-Baghdadi, and a potential successor, according to the official.
The senior State Department official said Al-Muhajir was killed in Aleppo province in a separate attack by U.S. forces.
here’s another capture of mine from the Eibsee hotel from yesterday – that roundish object in the western sky – off to the right hand side of the scene:
