Uutisia Yhdysvalloista

http://yle.fi/uutiset/yhdysvalloiss...llarien_kuljetuskoneiden_romuttamista/7521162

10.10.2014 klo 10:52 | päivitetty 10.10.2014 klo 10:59
"Yhdysvalloissa ihmetellään satojen miljoonien dollarien kuljetuskoneiden romuttamista
Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimat käytti vajaat 500 miljoonaa dollaria Afganistanin armeijan sotilaskuljetuskoneisiin, jotka myöhemmin muutettiin 32 000 dollarin arvoiseksi romumetalliksi. Kahdestakymmenestä koneesta on jäljellä vain neljä.

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Yhdysvalloissa ihmetellään, miksi maan ilmavoimat päätti tuhota 16 Afganistanin joukoille ostettua kuljetuskonetta sen sijaan, että koneille olisi keksitty jokin muu käyttötarkoitus. Afganistanin jälleenrakennustoimia valvova virasto on pyytänyt ilmavoimia dokumentoimaan kaikki päätökset, jotka johtivat satoja miljoonia maksaneiden koneiden romuttamiseen.

Yhdysvallat osti ja kunnosti yhteensä 20 vanhaa C-27J -sotilaskuljetuskonetta Afganistanin ilmavoimille vuonna 2008. Operaatio maksoi 468 miljoonaa dollaria, mutta hanke jouduttiin keskeyttämään varaosien puutteen vuoksi.
Tämän jälkeen kuljetuskoneet seisoivat vuosia Kabulin kansainvälisellä lentokentällä, kunnes ne päätettiin muuttaa romumetalliksi. Koneista saatiin romumetallia 32 000 dollarin arvosta.

Romutettujen C-27J -koneiden tilalle Pentagon hankki neljä suurempaa C-130 -kuljetuskonetta.

Afganistanin jälleenrakennustoimia valvovan viraston johtaja John Sopko vaatii nyt ilmavoimilta vastauksia siihen, olisiko veronmaksajien rahoja voitu pelastaa enemmän. Lisäksi hän haluaa tietää, mitä ilmavoimat aikoo tehdä neljälle jäljelle jääneelle koneelle, jotka ovat tällä hetkellä Saksassa.

Viime vuonna Sopko sanoi NBC Newsin haastattelussa, ettei ole selvää, onko kyseessä petos vai leväperäinen asian hoito. Joka tapauksessa kyseessä ei ole yksittäinen tapaus, hän totesi.
Lähteet: Reuters"
 
Rahaa meillä ei varmaankaan ole, mutta varmaan noille käyttöä löytyisi. Tai ei välttämättä kaikille, mutta jos hinta on sopiva, niin olisihan ylimääräisistä varaosiksi.
 
Ihmettelen, miten hän on välttynyt oman luottokorttinsa käyttämiseltä. :)

Yhdysvaltain presidentin Barack Obaman luottokorttia ei kelpuutettu newyorkilaisessa ravintolassa.
- Kävi ilmi, etten käytä korttiani tarpeeksi usein. He luulivat, että kyseessä on jonkinlainen petos, Obama kertoi USA:n kuluttajansuojaviraston tilaisuudessa.

Obaman onneksi hänen Michelle-vaimollaan oli toimiva luottokortti.

http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2014101818760498_ul.shtml
 
Poliisipäällikön mielestä yksittäistapaus.

http://www.funker530.com/jihadist-attacks-nypd-officers-with-axe-shot-dead/
Jihadist Attacks NYPD Officers With Axe, Shot Dead

A man armed with an axe attacked a group of four police officers, wounding two of them before being shot dead on a busy street in Queens, New York.

NYPD Commissioner Bratton said there is nothing that would indicate the attack was tied to radical Islam

Police identified the man as Zale Thompson, 32, although he also goes by the name Zaim Farouq Abdul-malik on hisFacebook profile, a name he carries as a Muslim convert. Thompson had a criminal record in California and was booted out of the Navy for misconduct.
One look at Thompson’s Facebook will tell you that he was motivated by jihad. His profile pic is that of an Islamic militant, his cover photo is a verse of the Koran admonishing unbelievers, and there are several personal quotes in which he suggests the need for jihad in America.


However, when asked if the assault was believed to be related to the Muslim extremists’ calls for attacks in America, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton responded with, “There is nothing we know of at the time that would indicate that were the case…” Another senior police official told CNN that investigators didn’t believe Thompson’s actions were tied to radical Islamic views.
Wow. So, either Bratton and his “investigators” are wholly incompetent stooges, or our appointed officials are playing a game of public relations, rather than the public servant role they are entrusted to fulfill. Furthermore, they are enacting a great injustice against their own brothers that were wounded in the attack.
Call a spade a spade. Canada did and they hate hurting people’s feelings. This attack on the officers was clearly a copycat of those events. How isn’t that gap being bridged?


Now, before you fire-breathers fill the comments section with anti-Muslim images that I have to exhaustively do my best to delete (because Funker530 is not anti-Muslim)… Please note that the three high profile attacks in North America in the last week were done by people who only recently converted. They weren’t born and raised Muslims, and if you ask me, they weren’t Muslims at all. I’m not trying to use the “No true Scotsman” logical fallacy to defend Islam by saying that either. I will be the first to tell you that there is a definite correlation between Islam and hate-driven terrorism, and the tens of thousands of natural born Muslims filling the ranks of IS and al Qaeda supports that assumption.
However, these guys had no idea what it means to be of the Islamic faith. They were mentally unstable. A lot of people follow their own faiths. Most were indoctrinated since birth. That makes it very easy to believe the dogma. Yet, how in anybody’s right mind could they, as an adult, suddenly be told that the magic man in the sky says you need to start wearing a dress (even though you’re a dude), put your face on the ground five times a day and pray, and oh yeah, kill all the non-believers? Not happening to anybody that’s anywhere near sane. These sick dirt-bags had wires twisted in their heads, and they were frustrated, but they weren’t Muslims.
Yet, they were coaxed in by the ever-spreading disease of hate, death worship, and lack of value placed on human life, ideals that are spewed by the likes of our militant Islam enemies.


Don’t fall into the politically correct guilt trip nonsense for a second, be true to your beliefs and your values, but don’t cast judgment on the Muslims living in your community because of these sick individuals. Just think about your Muslim interpreters that remained true to their faith, but also risked their lives with you everyday for a shared cause that we all believed in at one time. Think of the Muslim families that offered you chai and flat bread even after you kicked in their door, dragged them naked out of bed, and ransacked all their private and intimate possessions and found nothing.
So, while NYC decides to use this senseless act of violence to further their police state prison system and eventually ban foam swimming pool noodles, the rest of you should go buy a gun, a lot of ammo, learn how to use it well, and never give it up. This is America, Fear nothing. Take responsibility for your own personal safety, get together with your neighbors (even the Muslim ones) and put some contingencies in place for when the next whacko decides to snap. ~Will
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John McCain kummastelee Obaman touhuja.

"It is outrageous that, while the cries of moderate Syrian forces for greater U.S. assistance fall on deaf ears in the White House, President Obama is apparently urging Ayatollah Khamenei to join the fight against ISIS. This is the same Iranian regime that has been complicit in the rise of ISIS by pushing a violent sectarian agenda throughout the Middle East -- backing radical Shia militias and politicians in Iraq, doing everything in its power to aid the killing machine of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, arming Hamas terrorists with advanced rockets in Gaza, and orchestrating Hezbollah's dispatch of thousands of fighters from Lebanon into Syria.

"The Administration needs to understand that this Iranian regime cares more about trying to weaken America and push us out of the Middle East than cooperating with us. Until we recognize that reality, and formulate a regional strategy to counter the Iranian regime's malign influence, we will continue to harm U.S. national security interests, as well as our relationships with our closest regional allies and partners, in pursuit of the illusory goal of rapprochement with the current Iranian leadership. The consequences of this ill-conceived bargain would destroy the Syrians' last best chance to live in freedom from the brutal Assad regime."

http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=8e1edf21-359e-4c3d-835a-20fda69f5575
 
Jenkit yhyttivät venäläisen satelliitin tappajan?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JOcPO3ro
Object 2014-28E – Space junk or Russian satellite killer?
Sam Jones, Defence and Security Editor

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It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites.

For the past few weeks, amateur astronomers and satellite-trackers in Russia and the west have followed the unusual manoeuvres of Object 2014-28E, watching it guide itself towards other Russian space objects. The pattern appeared to culminate last weekend in a rendezvous with the remains of the rocket stage that launched it.

The object had originally been classed as space debris, propelled into orbit as part of a Russian rocket launch in May to add three Rodnik communications satellites to an existing military constellation. The US military is now tracking it under the Norad designation 39765.

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Its purpose is unknown, and could be civilian: a project to hoover up space junk, for example. Or a vehicle to repair or refuel existing satellites. But interest has been piqued because Russia did not declare its launch – and by the object’s peculiar, and very active, precision movements across the skies.

Russia officially mothballed its anti-satellite weaponry programme – Istrebitel Sputnikov or satellite killer – after the fall of the iron curtain, though its expertise has not entirely disappeared. Indeed, military officials have publicly stated in the past that they would restart research in the event of a deterioration in relations with the US over anti-missile defence treaties. In 2010, Oleg Ostapenko, commander of Russia’s space forces, and now head of its space agency, said Russia was again developing “inspection” and “strike” satellites.

Moscow’s ministry of defence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Whatever it is, [Object 2014-28E] looks experimental,” said Patricia Lewis, research director at think-tank Chatham House and an expert in space security. “It could have a number of functions, some civilian and some military. One possibility is for some kind of grabber bar. Another would be kinetic pellets which shoot out at another satellite. Or possibly there could be a satellite-to-satellite cyber attack or jamming.”

In a week when the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft landed a probe on a comet, the peregrinations of 2014-28E could seem insignificant, but they highlight an area of growing – if so far little publicised – concern for defence strategists: the weaponisation of space.

Having the ability to destroy or degrade an opponent’s satellite communications has been regarded as a powerful military capability since the space race began but, after the collapse of the iron curtain, many of the secret research projects Soviet and US engineers were working on were quietly shelved. In the past few years, however, interest in space weapons has revived.

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“It would be odd if space were to remain the one area that [militaries] don’t get their hands on,” says Ms Lewis. Cyber attacks on satellites are already a reality, she points out: last week, hackers linked to the Chinese government infiltrated US federal weather satellites.

Russia has in the past been at the forefront of efforts to try to secure an international treaty to prevent weapons being deployed in space, but its efforts have fallen on stony ground.

Amid rapid advances by other foreign powers, and the recent deterioration in relations between Moscow and the west, plans to revive the IS programme would make strategic sense, said one Russian military expert.

As far back as 2007, the Chinese showed they had the ability to shoot down satellites with rockets and in 2008 the US demonstrated it had the same capability.

More recently, in May this year, a Chinese satellite known as Shijian 15 began to exhibit unusual propulsion capabilities and eventually intercepted another Chinese satellite, Shijian 7.

“The experiment was linked to the possible use of a remote capture arm and close proximity operations,” said Max White, a member of the Kettering group of astronomers, which made a name for itself in the 1960s by pinpointing the location of Soviet spy satellite launches. “Both can have peaceful as well as military nuances, with the former for refuelling in space, and the latter for disabling an active payload belonging to a foreign nation, potentially without causing a debris cloud.

“Whether the Russians feel they need to demonstrate such capability is a matter for debate,” Mr White added. He, too, has been following the activities of object 2014-28E.

In a signal of international sensitivities over the prospect of anti-satellite technologies being rapidly developed, a Chinese missile test this year drew an unusually fiery response from the Pentagon. US authorities said they had “high confidence” that a July launch was a test for a ground-based weapon to strike a satellite, accusing the Chinese of “destabilising actions”. China’s test was later also condemned by the EU.
 
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Jenkit yhyttivät venäläisen satelliitin tappajan?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JOcPO3ro
Object 2014-28E – Space junk or Russian satellite killer?
Sam Jones, Defence and Security Editor

9953c5ca-db4e-4d16-961f-b530f09d2929.img

©Dreamstime
It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites.

For the past few weeks, amateur astronomers and satellite-trackers in Russia and the west have followed the unusual manoeuvres of Object 2014-28E, watching it guide itself towards other Russian space objects. The pattern appeared to culminate last weekend in a rendezvous with the remains of the rocket stage that launched it.

The object had originally been classed as space debris, propelled into orbit as part of a Russian rocket launch in May to add three Rodnik communications satellites to an existing military constellation. The US military is now tracking it under the Norad designation 39765.

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Its purpose is unknown, and could be civilian: a project to hoover up space junk, for example. Or a vehicle to repair or refuel existing satellites. But interest has been piqued because Russia did not declare its launch – and by the object’s peculiar, and very active, precision movements across the skies.

Russia officially mothballed its anti-satellite weaponry programme – Istrebitel Sputnikov or satellite killer – after the fall of the iron curtain, though its expertise has not entirely disappeared. Indeed, military officials have publicly stated in the past that they would restart research in the event of a deterioration in relations with the US over anti-missile defence treaties. In 2010, Oleg Ostapenko, commander of Russia’s space forces, and now head of its space agency, said Russia was again developing “inspection” and “strike” satellites.

Moscow’s ministry of defence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Whatever it is, [Object 2014-28E] looks experimental,” said Patricia Lewis, research director at think-tank Chatham House and an expert in space security. “It could have a number of functions, some civilian and some military. One possibility is for some kind of grabber bar. Another would be kinetic pellets which shoot out at another satellite. Or possibly there could be a satellite-to-satellite cyber attack or jamming.”

In a week when the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft landed a probe on a comet, the peregrinations of 2014-28E could seem insignificant, but they highlight an area of growing – if so far little publicised – concern for defence strategists: the weaponisation of space.

Having the ability to destroy or degrade an opponent’s satellite communications has been regarded as a powerful military capability since the space race began but, after the collapse of the iron curtain, many of the secret research projects Soviet and US engineers were working on were quietly shelved. In the past few years, however, interest in space weapons has revived.

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“It would be odd if space were to remain the one area that [militaries] don’t get their hands on,” says Ms Lewis. Cyber attacks on satellites are already a reality, she points out: last week, hackers linked to the Chinese government infiltrated US federal weather satellites.

Russia has in the past been at the forefront of efforts to try to secure an international treaty to prevent weapons being deployed in space, but its efforts have fallen on stony ground.

Amid rapid advances by other foreign powers, and the recent deterioration in relations between Moscow and the west, plans to revive the IS programme would make strategic sense, said one Russian military expert.

As far back as 2007, the Chinese showed they had the ability to shoot down satellites with rockets and in 2008 the US demonstrated it had the same capability.

More recently, in May this year, a Chinese satellite known as Shijian 15 began to exhibit unusual propulsion capabilities and eventually intercepted another Chinese satellite, Shijian 7.

“The experiment was linked to the possible use of a remote capture arm and close proximity operations,” said Max White, a member of the Kettering group of astronomers, which made a name for itself in the 1960s by pinpointing the location of Soviet spy satellite launches. “Both can have peaceful as well as military nuances, with the former for refuelling in space, and the latter for disabling an active payload belonging to a foreign nation, potentially without causing a debris cloud.

“Whether the Russians feel they need to demonstrate such capability is a matter for debate,” Mr White added. He, too, has been following the activities of object 2014-28E.

In a signal of international sensitivities over the prospect of anti-satellite technologies being rapidly developed, a Chinese missile test this year drew an unusually fiery response from the Pentagon. US authorities said they had “high confidence” that a July launch was a test for a ground-based weapon to strike a satellite, accusing the Chinese of “destabilising actions”. China’s test was later also condemned by the EU.
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Olisi suorastaan ihme, ellei sateliittien tuhoaminen olisi suurvaltojen kehityshankkeiden kärkipäässä. Olettaisin myös pienempien maiden kiinnostuvan asiasta täsmäaseiden lisääntyessä.
 
Missourissa Yhdysvalloissa mellakoidaan rajusti. Mellakat alkoivat, kun valamiehistö päätti, ettei mustan nuorukaisen elokuussa Fergusonissa ampunut valkoinen poliisi saa syytettä. Fergusonissa on poltettu useita autoja ja ainakin viisi rakennusta on tulessa. Kaupungista on kuultu konetuliaseiden ääniä, ja alueelle on julistettu väliaikainen lentokielto.

Missourin kuvernööri on jo aikaisemmin kutsunut paikalle kansalliskaartin ja julistanut poikkeustilan. Myös liittovaltion poliisi FBI on lähettänyt paikalle lisää väkeä.

-lähde: Elisa.net-
 
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