Here is an interesting article that came from another blogger and the site is interesting enough, timely and backed by facts that I am adding into the mix. I will not say about this because the obvious is right out here for anyone to catch. Just another area that this administration is falling short on. Welcome to Seaspook's Rants.
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What Happens When Russia Controls Space?
Never mind that Obama is letting Iran run free with it's nuclear weapon ambitions and may force Israel to ignite WWIII, or that he has filled his administration, including Homeland Security and the Defense Department with Muslims who's first loyalty is with Islam, and then claims that his critics are actually enabling al-Qaeda.
Now he's abandoning America's space program and turning it over to the Russians. Did you ever wonder why when the USSR collapsed and the Russian economy was in the toilet, they still managed to find the resources to keep their space program viable and every other country fighting to get into space? Because space is vital to economic and defense security. Who do you think is now going to have complete control of the so-called 'international space station' that was almost entirely financed and designed by the United States? Who will be able to turn the space station into a weapon against the free world?
Space Daily:
Russia, which is set to hold a monopoly on flights to the international space station
(ISS), wants to charge more for rides on its Soyuz rocket, the space agency head said Tuesday.
"At a meeting of the space agency chiefs in Tokyo, I want to discuss the maintenance of transport to the station," Roskomos head Anatoly Perminov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
"We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this. But after that? Excuse me but the prices should be absolutely different then!"
Double hat tip to Totus and Seaspook's Rants
Showing posts with label National Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Security. Show all posts
What we learned from Massachusetts.
Scott Brown won on Tuesday in the bluest of blue states. There were
several reasons why he won going away. One of the main reasons was
his stand on national defense, terrorism and our how we must conduct
ourselves during wars. Brown made it clear that we have no need to go
around apologizing for our actions in self defense, battling terrorism and
trying to convince our enemies that we are 'nice', so they should be nice
to us. Bush understood this to a point and could have done better but
that is not the issue here. Obama, the democrats and the far left formed
this first year of the 'one's' presidency. Obama failed in spades and that
resentment from the voters in Massachusetts helped Scott Brown usher
in a new era in that state's politics. This leads in to a really great article
by Andrew McCarthy from National Review Online.
It’s the Enemy, Stupid
National-security strength lifts Scott Brown.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
The laws of war are the rule of law. They are not a suspension of the Constitution. They are the Constitution operating in wartime. The Framers understood that there would be wars against enemies of the United States — it is stated explicitly in the Constitution’s treason clause (Art. III, Sec. 3). The American people understand that we have enemies, even if Washington sees them as political “engagement” partners waiting to happen. Americans also grasp that war is a political and military challenge that the nation has to win, not a judicial proceeding in which your enemies are presumed innocent. The rule of law is not and has never been the rule of lawyers — especially lawyers we can’t vote out of office when they say we must let trained terrorists move in next door.
As for privacy, Americans are not as self-absorbed as ACLU staffers — who, by the way, reserve the right to search your bags before you enter their offices. If you fret about privacy, it’s Obamacare that ought to give you sleepless nights. The lefties who’ve told us for nearly 40 years since Roe v. Wade that the government can’t come between you and your doctor are now saying you shouldn’t be able to get to a doctor except through the government, which will decide if you’re worth treating — that is an invasion of privacy. Penetrating enemy communications, on the other hand, is what Americans think of as self-defense. It’s what we’ve done in every war in our history. It’s what common sense says we must do to win. And when America goes to war, Americans want to win.
And our reputation in the international community? Reputation with whom? Sharia states where they stone adulterers, brutalize homosexuals, and kill their own daughters in the name of honor? Rogue regimes where exhibitions of American weakness are taken as license to mutilate? Euro-nannies who rely on us for protection because they’re without the will and the resources to do the job themselves? They ought to worry about their own reputations. In the United States, only the blame-America-first crowd gives an Obama-dollar what they think. That crowd does not include about 80 percent of Americans who look around at their country, look at the teeming masses trying to get into it, and figure this is a pretty good place after all.
Scott Brown didn’t modulate his positions to send a thrill up the media’s leg. He said the United States needs to stop apologizing for defending itself. And he won going away, in the bluest of blue states.
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Hat Tip: Human Events/Newt Gingrich
several reasons why he won going away. One of the main reasons was
his stand on national defense, terrorism and our how we must conduct
ourselves during wars. Brown made it clear that we have no need to go
around apologizing for our actions in self defense, battling terrorism and
trying to convince our enemies that we are 'nice', so they should be nice
to us. Bush understood this to a point and could have done better but
that is not the issue here. Obama, the democrats and the far left formed
this first year of the 'one's' presidency. Obama failed in spades and that
resentment from the voters in Massachusetts helped Scott Brown usher
in a new era in that state's politics. This leads in to a really great article
by Andrew McCarthy from National Review Online.
It’s the Enemy, Stupid
National-security strength lifts Scott Brown.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Bowing to the Pig King of Saudia Arabia
The laws of war are the rule of law. They are not a suspension of the Constitution. They are the Constitution operating in wartime. The Framers understood that there would be wars against enemies of the United States — it is stated explicitly in the Constitution’s treason clause (Art. III, Sec. 3). The American people understand that we have enemies, even if Washington sees them as political “engagement” partners waiting to happen. Americans also grasp that war is a political and military challenge that the nation has to win, not a judicial proceeding in which your enemies are presumed innocent. The rule of law is not and has never been the rule of lawyers — especially lawyers we can’t vote out of office when they say we must let trained terrorists move in next door.
As for privacy, Americans are not as self-absorbed as ACLU staffers — who, by the way, reserve the right to search your bags before you enter their offices. If you fret about privacy, it’s Obamacare that ought to give you sleepless nights. The lefties who’ve told us for nearly 40 years since Roe v. Wade that the government can’t come between you and your doctor are now saying you shouldn’t be able to get to a doctor except through the government, which will decide if you’re worth treating — that is an invasion of privacy. Penetrating enemy communications, on the other hand, is what Americans think of as self-defense. It’s what we’ve done in every war in our history. It’s what common sense says we must do to win. And when America goes to war, Americans want to win.
And our reputation in the international community? Reputation with whom? Sharia states where they stone adulterers, brutalize homosexuals, and kill their own daughters in the name of honor? Rogue regimes where exhibitions of American weakness are taken as license to mutilate? Euro-nannies who rely on us for protection because they’re without the will and the resources to do the job themselves? They ought to worry about their own reputations. In the United States, only the blame-America-first crowd gives an Obama-dollar what they think. That crowd does not include about 80 percent of Americans who look around at their country, look at the teeming masses trying to get into it, and figure this is a pretty good place after all.
Scott Brown didn’t modulate his positions to send a thrill up the media’s leg. He said the United States needs to stop apologizing for defending itself. And he won going away, in the bluest of blue states.
Continue reading
Hat Tip: Human Events/Newt Gingrich
How safe are our railroads? Is the T.S.A. doing all it can to ensure our safety on the rails?
Labels:
Amtrak,
Freight Railroads,
National Security,
T.S.A.,
Terrorist Attacks.
We travel exclusively by train uless it is a family emergency. Has been this way since I was very young. I grew up in a family that always traveled by train. I am sure many are wondering how safe our rails really are? Here is a report from the T.S. A. It is not just Amtrak we are talking about here but also the freight railroads and the cargos they haul on a regular basis. How much protection and security do you notice at passenger stations and freight yards?
Rail Security
Securing Our Nation’s Rail Systems
Our nation’s railroads, both passenger and freight, are important pieces of the transportation network. The London subway and Madrid rail bombings demonstrated the critical need for protecting trains from terrorist attack.
Our work focuses greater information sharing, increased training and public awareness, and providing greater assistance and funding for rail transit activities. Grants and awards to rail systems around the country total millions of dollars yearly.
While state and local governments are primarily responsible for rail security, we have taken a number of steps to ensure the security of these crucial assets by working in concert with the Department of Homeland Security, other federal agencies, industry experts, and our local counterparts.
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Hat Tip: China Confidential
Rail Security
Securing Our Nation’s Rail Systems
Our nation’s railroads, both passenger and freight, are important pieces of the transportation network. The London subway and Madrid rail bombings demonstrated the critical need for protecting trains from terrorist attack.
Our work focuses greater information sharing, increased training and public awareness, and providing greater assistance and funding for rail transit activities. Grants and awards to rail systems around the country total millions of dollars yearly.
While state and local governments are primarily responsible for rail security, we have taken a number of steps to ensure the security of these crucial assets by working in concert with the Department of Homeland Security, other federal agencies, industry experts, and our local counterparts.
Continue reading
Hat Tip: China Confidential
SIOA: A Confluence of Folly(Part two)
Here is the second part of A Confluence of Folly from SIOA. Please just read
both parts if you have not already read the first. The battle is against Islam as a whole.
"The idea that Islamic terrorism, violence and hate against Americans is poverty-driven, or a response to some particular American foreign policy (cf. support of Israel, another frontline state in the jihad war) is now clearly debunked after the most recent attack by a wealthy, privileged Islamic terrorist. Islamic terror is motivated by Islamic doctrine; we are the target because we exist.
The adherents of Islamic doctrine attack us because they hate us, they hate us simply because we exist. El Al takes security very seriously, we Americans do not; Israel is very successful with airline security because they ask questions and are not concerned with ridiculous politically correct self-censorship. Relying entirely on technology and ignoring the human component of a potential attacker has already failed."
We live in a time of the confluence of dangerous cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral, and political failures. At a time when American exceptionalism and importance should be encouraged and understood across the country and the world it is diminished instead. When American jobs and livelihoods should be protected and made safe they are undermined by open porous borders and an immigration policy that is neither a proper national policy nor of benefit to newcomers or citizens.
We live in a time when security considerations are built upon absurd concepts of extreme tolerance and a total aversion to cause offense to anyone most particularly those who may be threats. We live in a time of rampaging folly.
We live in a time shaped by definitive concepts of good and evil and right and wrong; there are those who do not share our concepts and hate us for the ideals that we embrace. We are hated because we are not Islamic and we are hated because we help Islam, but never enough. There is no unifying this contradiction as we always remain kafirs to the Islamic umma. No matter how much we help, no matter how “good” we are, the adherents of Islam fight us as they are commanded to do so by Allah and Mohammed.
So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour. (Koran, 25:52)
There is bliss across the world at our American failures to acknowledge the truth and tears of frustration here at home at our continuing failure to speak the truth and to fight the enemy and his totalitarian ideology. We fought a devastating civil war over a century ago to end slavery; let us not overturn the results of that struggle by denying that slavery is our future if we do not once again unite in the concepts that have given us the finest country, the light unto the world, so far seen on this planet.
Continue reading part two
Confluence of Folly(Part one)
both parts if you have not already read the first. The battle is against Islam as a whole.
"The idea that Islamic terrorism, violence and hate against Americans is poverty-driven, or a response to some particular American foreign policy (cf. support of Israel, another frontline state in the jihad war) is now clearly debunked after the most recent attack by a wealthy, privileged Islamic terrorist. Islamic terror is motivated by Islamic doctrine; we are the target because we exist.
The adherents of Islamic doctrine attack us because they hate us, they hate us simply because we exist. El Al takes security very seriously, we Americans do not; Israel is very successful with airline security because they ask questions and are not concerned with ridiculous politically correct self-censorship. Relying entirely on technology and ignoring the human component of a potential attacker has already failed."
We live in a time of the confluence of dangerous cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral, and political failures. At a time when American exceptionalism and importance should be encouraged and understood across the country and the world it is diminished instead. When American jobs and livelihoods should be protected and made safe they are undermined by open porous borders and an immigration policy that is neither a proper national policy nor of benefit to newcomers or citizens.
We live in a time when security considerations are built upon absurd concepts of extreme tolerance and a total aversion to cause offense to anyone most particularly those who may be threats. We live in a time of rampaging folly.
We live in a time shaped by definitive concepts of good and evil and right and wrong; there are those who do not share our concepts and hate us for the ideals that we embrace. We are hated because we are not Islamic and we are hated because we help Islam, but never enough. There is no unifying this contradiction as we always remain kafirs to the Islamic umma. No matter how much we help, no matter how “good” we are, the adherents of Islam fight us as they are commanded to do so by Allah and Mohammed.
So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour. (Koran, 25:52)
There is bliss across the world at our American failures to acknowledge the truth and tears of frustration here at home at our continuing failure to speak the truth and to fight the enemy and his totalitarian ideology. We fought a devastating civil war over a century ago to end slavery; let us not overturn the results of that struggle by denying that slavery is our future if we do not once again unite in the concepts that have given us the finest country, the light unto the world, so far seen on this planet.
Continue reading part two
Confluence of Folly(Part one)
Feingold Moves to Strike Material Support Law and gut the PatriotAct
Counterterrorism Blog: Feingold Moves to Strike Material Support Law
There is nothing to be gained by this foolish amendment. It will weaken this country in an area where we must have strength and the legal ability to go after our enemies. More proof that the demosocialistacrats are cowards, and do not understand the threats to our freedom and liberties.
There is nothing to be gained by this foolish amendment. It will weaken this country in an area where we must have strength and the legal ability to go after our enemies. More proof that the demosocialistacrats are cowards, and do not understand the threats to our freedom and liberties.
Interesting analysis on the NEW missle defense system.
Labels:
Israel,
Missle Defense,
National Security,
Russia,
Turkey
DEBKAfile - New US anti-missile system in Israel, Azerbaijan to replace scrapped shield in E. Europe
I do not agree with handing the Russians quite possibly, four aces. Alot can change in six years until this program is in place. There is NO reason to trust the Russians. Even severe sanctions against Iran will not deter the Mullahs from becoming a nuclear armed state and attacking Israel, and other targets.
I do not agree with handing the Russians quite possibly, four aces. Alot can change in six years until this program is in place. There is NO reason to trust the Russians. Even severe sanctions against Iran will not deter the Mullahs from becoming a nuclear armed state and attacking Israel, and other targets.
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