First, there was the board censure of DeGroot in late
summer. After trying to have Al Gardner removed by the Police Chief during a
village meeting for replying to an insult DeGroot made to him during public
comments, and refusing to allow me to speak at all until I submitted a written
and oral apology to him first - two things he has no authority to do - trustees
Hansen and Feest got tired of his abuse. DeGroot said he would have them
removed too.
The recording made Milwaukee news. As the censure came down,
Anna Marie Clausen was there to speak - saying she supported the president.
When a local delegation traveled to Japan last summer to see
Foxconn facilities, DeGroot decided to travel along too. Instead of traveling
coach on the international flight like everyone else, DeGroot upgraded his
seats - at double the cost - paid for by village residents.
The complimentary champagne was not appreciated by his
travel companions.
Then there is the website. Since last May, Dave DeGroot has
penned a public website about me, trustees Feest, Hansen, and Otwaska which as
sexually harassed, verbally abused and intimidated us. The website is
registered privately, so I may never be able to prove he writes it, but he
doesn’t really hide his identity at all.
It’s disgusting, creepy and the work of someone who really
needs professional help.
What may be worse, Anna Marie Clausen encouraged people to
read the website with a link on her campaign Facebook page for six months
before she finally took it down - only after I started speaking out about it
and using her name in connection to it.
Now, more than ever, we need to elect trustees who will ask
questions, demand answers and become policy makers that will create a stronger
local government. We need to do better than the Castlewood “breakfast club” of
friends who are largely responsible for the mismanagement and lack of policies
which has plagued Village Hall.
I am so sorry I have not been posting Four for Fridays lately I have been getting really busy these days. We had to move my daughter back home from college thanks to her roommate not paying her part of the rent. Then we went up north one weekend and now this week my mom was taken to the hospital and we found out she has the viral flu. So now we have to make another trip up north to bring her some food so then we know that she will be eating. She has has this flu for about two weeks and she never said to anyone that she was not feeling good. It is like when one thing goes wrong everything is going wrong.
The
U.S. Navy is taking advantage of Chicago's sky-high murder
rate by sending new medics to treat gunshot victims at Stroger hospital
on the city's West Side as part of a pilot program which is currently in
its third year.
In 2017, 3,561 people were shot in Chicago; one every 2 hours and 27 minutes, while there were 679 total homicides - down from 2016's total of 808. Of the 679 homicides last year, 92.4% were from gunshots.
In fact, one-third of the 2016 spike in U.S. homicides came from just five Chicago neighborhoods.
The steady flow of shooting victims (which social justice warriors seem to have overlooked for some reason) has proven extremely useful in training combat medics for the battlefield.
“The experience here can’t be replicated elsewhere, unless you have a major land invasion,” said Dr. Faran Bokhari, chair of Stroger's trauma & burn surgery unit.
The pilot program is set to be expanded under a Department of Defense
effort to prioritize civilian and military partnerships. Newly enlisted
combat medics rotate into hospital shifts, along with those who need a
refresher while home from deployment. The hospital's 14-bed unit treats
more than 6,000 trauma patient a year - with many of the victims suffering penetrating, life threatening wounds similar to those found on the battlefield.
In many front-line Marine units, immediate medical care for
gunshots, explosions or shrapnel comes from these corpsmen who mostly
are young, new to the service and new to seeing up close the wounds they
train to treat. The Navy medics, known as hospital corpsmen,
typically receive 14 weeks of training in first aid and patient care in
Fort Sam Houston in Texas after initial boot camp, and then have the
option for additional training. -WSJ
“[T]he first time a corpsman got any trauma experience was when they were deployed, and some would just freeze up,”
said Navy Surgeon, Captain Paul Roach, who heads the program in the
Great Lakes region. “We don’t want that to happen anymore.”
Corpsmen in the program learn skills such as how to scrub in before
entering an operating theater, how to operate various machinery in the
treatment of gunshot wounds, and how to assist doctors and surgeons with
more advanced medical procedures during the trauma unit's 3 p.m. to 3
a.m. shift.
“Corpsmen are not routinely exposed to trauma or critically injured
patients during their first assignments,” said DoD spokeswoman Maj.
Carla Gleason. The “realistic, hands-on trauma training will allow them to hone their skills and increase their readiness.”
As the Wall Street Journal notes,
Navy corpsmen often find themselves operating alone in combat zones.
Operating in the hospital environment helps them learn protocol and
procedures which they can replicate in the field.
“A lot of it is here’s your training, you learn, it gets drilled in into your head—then it’s just go,”
said Andrew Swain, a 26-year old corpsman who has served as a medic in
Iraq. During that deployment, in his first “mass-casualty incident,” he
and just a handful of other medics had to treat about eight injured at
the same time, all with traumatic injuries. -WSJ
Approximately 30% of patients admitted to Stroger have suffered
gunshot wounds - compared to the national average of 4.2% for similar
level 1 trauma centers.
Corpsman Konrad Poplawski, whose first experience seeing anyone with a
gunshot wound was during rotation in the training program at Stroger
hospital, says that the program “has prepared me to deal with worse
things out in the field,” he said. “I’ll be the only one out there, so
I’ll have to learn from this.” What the hell is going on?
Chicago - which has been run by Democrats for 64 of the last 68 years, has been in an economic death spiral for years. The Windy City run by Rahm Emanuel is currently drowning in debt and pension liabilities, along with an education system that's in shambles.
In 2015, IBD noted "(Chicago's) financial woes have mounted despite
Emanuel's efforts to rein them in. Years, perhaps even decades, of past
financial sins all seem to be coming home to roost now. ... Moody's
Investors Service estimated in a 2013 report that fixed costs, like
pension contributions and debt service, could soon eat up more than half
the city's operating budget, up from about 15 percent of the 2015
budget."
As President Trump asked last December, "what the hell is going on in Chicago?"
Hello, sweety pies and magpies! How are you? Only 6 more days until spring. Yahoo! It's always good to make it official. We lucked out on winter this past year, but we've also had some terribly cold and snowy winters. I think it all evens out, but we wear down battling the snow. Maybe I'll move to Florida and haunt Beejay. Wooooo! Bookety book! Arf-arf!
Wait a second. Arf-arf? Whose dog got loose? Probably the neighbor's Labrador again. That dog spends as much time here as it does at home. It knows the food is better here. As well as the belly scratches. Junior loves tha5 dog. Señor Zanza tolerates it.
Of course, with the warmer weather all the filth on the streets will be exposed. They might even find a body or two. How many street sweepers do we have. At least four. Cut those guys loose as soon as the last of the ice and snow melts. They do a pretty good job of cleaning the streets. [Mr. OrbsCorbs says he definitely wants to drive one.] Maybe we could drive one through City Hall and clean up the damn place. How many criminals has Mr. lying John left behind? Let's get those guys.
Only 6 more days. I can't wait.
Only 3 more days to St. Patrick's Day.
And the party season in Racine kicks off.
I love living in Foxconsin, Everything is paid for. Just shut your mouth and do as you're told. Don't tip the boat, the gravy boat. I wonder when the jobs are going to start getting here? I predict that the majority of the workers will come from Milwaukee and Kenosha. Racine doesn't know how to work anymore. Racine is the 4th worst city for blacks in the USA. Jesus. Someone do something. I knew we were bad, but not that bad. I feel ashamed of my ignorance. I feel ashamed of our racists' ignorance.
There's some elections coming up and I think they're pretty important, but I don't know. No matter who is voted in where, the taxpayer always gets screwed. Always, always, always! The lure of tax dollars (seen as "free money") is too much for the crooks to ignore.
Btw, has Foxconn broken ground yet? Just wondering . .
Keep praying to the Sun God to warm us up, but not too much. Soon my boys will be out in the yard regularly, maintaining things. I love them. __________________________ Please donate: paypal.me/jgmazelis If you don't like PayPal, send me a note at madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com and I'll send you my street address so you can send a check or money order. Thank you.
Last week we noted that in what was a radical U-turn to what other public pension funds have been doing in recent years - most notably Calpers -
the struggling New Jersey public pension system decided that instead of
lowering its expected rate of return, it would raise it, from 7% to
7.5%.
The simple reason behind this odd increase in projected returns was
an accounting sleight of hand which would allow the state of New Jersey
to save some $238 million in pension contributions as a result of the
higher discount rate applied to the fund's liabilities. And with a
pension funding level of only 37% for the 2015 fiscal year, the worst of any state in the US, New Jersey would gladly take even the most glaring accounting gimmickry that would delay its inevitable death.
Unfortunately, being the not so proud owner of the most distressed
and underfunded public pension fund in the US is just the start of New
Jersey's monetary woes, and as Bloomberg reports, New Jersey's fiscal situation is so dire that new Governor Phil Murphy has proposed taxing online-room
booking, ride-sharing, marijuana, e-cigarettes and Internet
transactions along with raising taxes on millionaires and retail sales to fund a record $37.4 billion budget that would boost spending on schools, pensions and mass transit.
The proposal which is 4.2% higher than the current fiscal year’s,
relies on a tax for the wealthiest that is so unpopular it not only has
yet to be approved, but also lacks support from key Democrats in the legislature,
let alone Republicans. It also reverses pledges from Murphy’s
predecessor, Republican Chris Christie, to lower taxes in a state where
living costs are already among the nation’s highest.
Murphy, a Democrat who replaced term-limited Christie on Jan. 16,
said his goal is to give New Jerseyans more value for their tax dollars;
instead he plans on bleeding them dry. He has promised additional
spending on underfunded schools and transportation in a credit-battered
state with an estimated $8.7 billion structural deficit for the fiscal
year that starts July 1.
“If we enact another budget like the one our administration
inherited, our middle class will continue to be the ones shouldering the
burden, while seeing little in return,” Murphy said Tuesday in his
budget address to lawmakers. His solution? Socialist wealth
redistribution: "A millionaire’s tax is the right thing to do –- and now is the time to do it."
A better way of putting it, as Bloomberg has done, is that New Jersey's budget "would raise taxes on almost everything."
Of course, that is not a politically palatable thing to say, so let's
first crush the millionaires; the same millionaires who - like David
Tepper in April 2016 -
have decided they have had enough and departed for Florida long ago,
taking with them hundreds of million in foregone taxes. Because what New
Jersey fails to grasp, is that the truly rich can pick up and go at a
moment's notice, and transfer to any place in the country (or outside of
it) that actually does not endorse daylight robberies.
Meanwhile, the idiocy proposed by Gov. Murphy counts on total revenue
growth of 5.7%, an impossible number and the most since at least
2013... when it fell short. Murphy would increase the tax rate applied
to income above $1 million to 10.75 percent from 8.97 percent,
generating $765 million; and restore the state’s sales tax to 7% from
6.625%, raising $581 million.
Guaranteeing that the state's hedge fund residents would promptly
flee, the budget would also "gain" $100 million by closing a
carried-interest loophole on hedge-fund income.
“He must be kidding,” Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr., a Republican from Westfield, said after the speech. “I don’t think anybody could have anticipated this level of tax increases.”
So where would the money go?
Murphy’s proposal would almost triple the direct state subsidy for
New Jersey Transit, which has been plagued by safety and financial
issues. Including funding for the agency from the state’s Turnpike
Authority and an energy fund, he boosts money for New Jersey Transit by
about a third.
His plan also includes a move to raise the state property-tax
deduction to $15,000, which would benefit about one-third of homeowners,
according to a budget summary. It also would create a child-care tax
credit and increase the earned-income tax credit.
The budget also plans for four-year phase-ins of a $15 minimum wage
and full school funding as mandated by the state Supreme Court, and a
three-year path to make community college tuition-free.
Oh, and speaking of the above pension woes, guess who will be on the
hook to make the state's public workers whole? Why taxpayers of course as
the budget includes a record $3.2 billion pension payment, putting the
state on course to resume full funding by 2023, according to budget
officials.
And though the short-term effect may be positive, between the taxpayer subsidy and the idiotic hike in return assumptions, it won’t fix a system with a combined unfunded payments and medical-benefits liability that reached $184.3 billion in 2017, according to a March 5 commentary by S&P Global Ratings. The two biggest funds are forecast to be broke in 2024 and 2027.
“You kept hearing the same word: investment, investment, investment,”
said Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick, from Westfield. “Let me
interpret that for you: It’s taxes, taxes, taxes.”
* * *
Unfortunately for New Jersey, it may be too late: according to
Bloomberg, Murphy met with the major ratings agencies in New York
earlier this month to outline his financial plan (New Jersey’s credit rating is the second-worst among U.S. states, trailing only Illinois). That however won't stop the local democrats from trying.
Senate President Steve Sweeney, a Democrat from West Deptford and the
highest-ranking state lawmaker, was a perennial sponsor of a
millionaire’s tax during the Christie years, only to see the governor
veto it seven times. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s $10,000
limit on state and local property-tax deductions, though, Sweeney says
the extra charge would drive more wealth from a state that already has
the nation’s highest property taxes.
Yet what is strange, is that the two top wealth redistributors,
Sweeney and Murphy, now disagree on how to fatten state coffers. Last
week Sweeney outlined a proposal for a 3% surcharge on corporations
earning more than $1 million annually, for an estimated $657 million.
Murphy said he wouldn’t accept it as an alternative to his plan.
Sweeney, in a joint statement with other Senate Democratic leaders,
said Murphy’s budget “includes many ambitious proposals that are
appealing, but will require thorough review and consideration to
determine if they are achievable. We will maintain an open mind
throughout the budget process.”
Meanwhile, Murphy’s plan for the fiscal year starting July 1 counts
on $80 million of revenue from a plan to legalize recreational marijuana
by January 2019. He also intends to expand access to medical marijuana.
However, the governor is receiving push-back on recreational marijuana
from Republicans and some members of the Black Legislative Caucus.
Though polls show majority public support to make New Jersey the 10th
state to allow the drug - and Murphy says its taxation would generate
hundreds of millions of dollars - opponents say it would harm youngsters in poor communities and lead to increased use of outlawed substances.
Murphy’s plan to raise the sales tax likely also will be a tough
sell. The last two New Jersey governors to do so, Democrats Jon Corzine
and James Florio, were ousted after one term.
In short, New Jersey's democrats can't even agree how to best fleece
the rich, meanwhile the state careens ever faster toward financial
disaster.
Talking Racine episode 62 discusses the up coming municipal judges race
along with fundraising by the Mayor and State Representative in local
aldermanic races. A special guest also stops into the studio.We bring
the perspective down to the local level to discuss issues that affect
our own city of Racine, WI We're about investigative reporting on topics
that matter: corruption, conflicts of interest, broken systems, abuses
by institutions and individuals with power, whether that's government,
nonprofits, or the press itself.
Is Rebecca Mason being the municipal Judge while her husband Cory Mason
is Mayor a conflict of interest forbidden by the State of Wisconsin?
Even if there is
currently no actual vehicle production in SE WI anymore - see the
attached satellite screen shot of the former American Motors/Chrysler
site.
AT least Milwaukee is a hot bed of STD's.
YUCK!
MILWAUKEE (WITI/CNN) – The AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin confirmed recent reports of an HIV and STD “cluster” in Milwaukee.
It’s believed at least 125 people have contracted HIV and syphilis, and they’re connected in some way.
"Certainly,
this is an HIV and syphilis cluster," said Michael Gifford, president
of the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin. "HIV and STDs are a serious
public health threat."
Gifford said Milwaukee already accounts for more than half of the state’s HIV cases.
"Milwaukee unfortunately has one of the highest STD rates of any city in America," Gifford said.
The
center is the largest provider of HIV treatment in Milwaukee, and
Gifford said a “cluster” refers to people who are connected through
transmitting the disease.
"125 people have been identified as
being part of this cluster,” Gifford said. “That number is likely to go
up as additional review happens with this situation.”
Gifford said the cluster includes students in the Milwaukee Public Schools district. http://www.wistv.com/story/37694687/hiv-std-cluster-in-milwaukee-includes-children
And
Milwaukee stands up to refuse to pay for Racine County Foxconn
infrastructure projects while claiming that it's large number of
unemployed Residents are (un)fit for employment?
It's like everything else in SE WI - It doesn't make sense!
AUSTIN, Texas — Arnold Schwarzenegger’s next mission: taking oil
companies to court “for knowingly killing people all over the world.”
The former California governor and global environmental activist
announced the move Sunday at a live recording of POLITICO’s Off Message
podcast here at the SXSW festival, revealing that he’s in talks with
several private law firms and preparing a public push around the effort.
“This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry
knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill
people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact
from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were taken to court
and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars because of that,”
Schwarzenegger said. “The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did
their own study that there would be global warming happening because of
fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people’s
lives, that it would kill.”
Schwarzenegger said he’s still working on a timeline for filing, but
the news comes as he prepares to help host a major environmental
conference in May in Vienna.
“We’re going to go after them, and we’re going to be in there like an
Alabama tick. Because to me it’s absolutely irresponsible to know that
your product is killing people and not have a warning label on it, like
tobacco,” he said. “Every gas station on it, every car should have a
warning label on it, every product that has fossil fuels should have a
warning label on it.”
He argues that at the very least, this would raise awareness about
fossil fuels and encourage people to look to alternative fuels and clean
cars.
He added, “I don’t think there’s any difference: If you walk into a
room and you know you’re going to kill someone, it’s first degree
murder; I think it’s the same thing with the oil companies.”
Schwarzenegger was at SXSW for an extensive discussion of lessons he
learned in his seven years as governor, and how he’d apply them to the
current political situation in Washington and beyond. On the list:
Maximize the bully pulpit; use the carrot but have the stick ready; and
no one gets a perfect “10,“ because there’s always room for improvement.
Those, he said, were part of his art of the deal, and explained how
he’d been able to institute major laws from worker’s compensation reform
to environmental standards to a state election overhaul to implement
independent redistricting and a “jungle primary” system, in which the
top two advance.
Schwarzenegger also addressed, for the first time since the national
reawakening around the #MeToo moment, the charges of groping and
inappropriate behavior that surfaced from multiple women against him at
the end of his first campaign for governor in 2003. He acknowledged that
the change in the moment made a huge difference.
“It is about time. I think it’s fantastic. I think that women have
been used and abused and treated horribly for too long, and now all of
the elements came together to create this movement, and now finally puts
the spotlight on this issue, and I hope people learn from that,” he
said. “You’ve got to take those things seriously. You’ve got to look at
it and say, ‘I made mistakes. And I have to apologize.’”
He stressed the importance of sexual harassment training, like the
one he made his staff do once he was elected— including himself.
“We make mistakes, and we don’t take it seriously. And then when you
really think about it, you say, ‘Maybe I went too far,’” Schwarzenegger
said. “You’ve got to be very sensitive about it, and you’ve got to think
about the way that women feel—and if they feel uncomfortable, then you
did not do the right thing.”
The past few months, he said “made me think totally differently,” adding, “I said to myself, ‘Finally.’”
Schwarzenegger took a number of shots at Donald Trump, dismissing the
president’s latest attack on him, delivered at a rally in Pennsylvania
on Saturday night, for having “failed when he did the show,” a reference
to the former governor’s rocky one-season stint as the host of “The
Apprentice” on NBC last year.
“I never know really why the Russians make him say certain things,”
Schwarzenegger said. “It’s beyond me. Why do you think he says those
things? He’s supposed to be very busy.”
Later in the interview, he returned to the attack on Trump, teasing
that the script of the new “Terminator” movie, which Schwarzenegger is
set to start filming in June and is expected to be released next year,
had to be rewritten to include Trump. “The T-800 model that I play, he’s
traveling back in time to 2019 to get Trump out of prison,”
Schwarzenegger joked.
He wouldn’t reveal any actual details about the script other than
that he is still the T-800 model. This isn’t his only upcoming foray
into old film franchises: He’s due to shoot “King Conan” and “Triplets,”
an update on the 1988 film “Twins,” with Eddie Murphy as the third
brother. (“There’s something funny there with the mixing of the sperm,”
he said.)
Schwarzenegger said he’d like to see Ohio Gov. John Kasich run for
president but urged him to run in the Republican primary rather than as
an independent.
“He’s a great Republican,” Schwarzenegger said.
But he said don’t expect him to be a major campaign presence in 2020.
He’ll be focusing on pushing gerrymandering reform, and has gotten
involved again with California Republicans, with whom he’ll be meeting
in the coming days back home.
“The Republicans that are the new thinking Republicans in California
want to get things done,” Schwarzenegger said, adding that he wants
elected officials to remember, “ultimately, you are a public servant,
not a party servant.”
He urged the GOP to pay attention to what happened in California,
where Democrats have become completely dominant. Republicans there, he
said, “are stuck with an ideology that doesn’t really fit anymore with
what people want.”
He cited the environmental work of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as examples.
“Today, those are all things that are absolutely a no-no in the
Republican Party. I didn’t change; it’s the Republican Party that’s
changed,” he said. “Now we have to work very hard to get the party back
to where it was.”
Back at the end of his presidency, Bill Clinton wrote Schwarzenegger a
long letter that ended with Clinton urging Schwarzenegger to become a
Democrat. Schwarzenegger said he wasn’t interested then, and isn’t
interested now, for all his problems with Trump and the current GOP.
“That’s a fun letter, and I like supporting him on some issues,”
Schwarzenegger said. “But the bottom line is that I’m a Republican, and
I’m a true Republican, and I will always be a Republican. It’s a
fantastic party, but they’ve veered off into the right into some strange
lanes.”
It wasn't until I started poking around music of the 60's and 70's, that I remember all the dancers. I'd forgotten about them completely. Sometimes they're worth watching, but usually I'd rather see the band.
Ram Bhatia, candidate for Mount
Pleasant village trustee in the April election, has made his experience
as a trustee on the Gateway Technical College Board of Directors a key
qualification in his election. I agree; it is an important thing to know
about him.
Since Mr. Bhatia
joined Gateway in 2005, he and his colleagues on the Board of Directors
have raised property taxes for area homeowners every single year except
2014, when the state increased funding. The next year, they were back
at it.
Even in years when enrollment dropped, Bhatia and the board raised the tax levy costing homeowners more and more.
Foxconn
has barely begun, and Mount Pleasant is spending money like there is no
limit. Millions and millions of dollars to purchase land. Millions for
roads, water and sewer service. Millions for contractors and
consultants. Millions more for fire and police.
Does anyone really believe that
property taxes in Mount Pleasant aren’t going up when the village has
reached its borrowing limit? Who better to have on the board than a
trustee that is totally comfortable making property owners pay for
expensive projects with tax dollars. No thank you.
We
need trustees who will represent the people, not Foxconn. Vote for John
Martini, Don Schulz, Gary Feest and Tom Giese on April 3rd.
Stunning
video captured by U.S. Navy pilots in 2015 shows a mysterious object
with "no obvious wings or tails," and "no exhaust plume" traveling at a
high rate of speed over the Atlantic Ocean "very low over the water."
The declassified Department of Defense (DoD) video was released by analytics firm The Stars Academy of Arts and Science - whose advisory committee includes former Clinton and Bush Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon.
“What the f— is that thing?” shouts the pilot of a
U.S. Navy F/A 18 Super Hornet equipped with a Raytheon AN/ASQ-228
Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod - one of the
most advanced imaging devices in use by the military which can locate
and designate targets at distances over 40nm.
The unidentified vehicle appears as a white oval shape moving
at high speed from top right to lower left of the screen flying very
low over the water. Initially, the sensor is unable to
capture the object. The Weapon Systems Operator (WSO) steers the sensor
ahead of the object to attempt another capture. On the third
attempt, the sensor tracking capture is successful. The sensor is now
in “autotrack” mode, where the sensor uses contrast and other parameters
to lock-on to a target, automatically keeping it centered in the
sensors viewing frame. -TTSA
Specifically noted by the TTSA;
There are no obvious wings or tails on the object. Even IR imagery of a cruise missile, would have visible wings at this range.
There is no exhaust plume from the object.
An exhaust plume is clearly visible on conventional aircraft in the
mid-wave infrared frequency used by the ATFLIR. Shown below is a
mid-wave infrared image of a F-16 in flight. The sensor is in
“white-hot” mode. Note that the length of the exhaust plume is nearly
the length of the aircraft. The video from which this still was
extracted makes it clear that the F-16 is subsonic, which means the
throttle is at a low setting which creates relatively low exhaust
temperatures and volume of exhaust gases. In a higher power setting, the exhaust plume would be much larger and brighter.
Is the Pentagon ignoring UFOs. Why?
After the New York Times offered the clearest official footage of a UFO encounter in history last December - along with a secret $22 million Pentagon program to analyze unidentified flying objects, it's been crickets from the media.
"the footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an
aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed
and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident."
As former Clinton and Bush Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, writes in the Washington Post, the silence from the Pentagon in addressing what is clearly more advanced technology than what is publicly known - be it aliens or a foreign government - is deafening.
In December, the Defense Department declassified two videos
documenting encounters between U.S. Navy F-18 fighters and unidentified
aircraft. The first video captures multiple pilots observing and
discussing a strange, hovering, egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a
“fleet” of such objects, according to cockpit audio. The second shows a
similar incident involving an F-18 attached to the USS Nimitz carrier
battle group in 2004.
The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, appear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies.
Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence
confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since
2015. In another recent case, the Air Force launched F-15
fighters last October in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified
high-speed aircraft looping over the Pacific Northwest. -WaPo
"Is it possible that America has been technologically leap-frogged by
Russia or China?" posits Mellon. "Or, as many people wondered after the
videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might
they be evidence of some alien civilization?"
"Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers."
Mellon says that thanks to his years working in the Clinton and
George W. Bush administrations that the military treats these incidents
as isolated events rather than part of a pattern warranting
investigation. Mellon's colleague, Luis Elizondo, "used to run a
Pentagon intelligence program that examined evidence of “anomalous”
aircraft, but he resigned last fall to protest government inattention to
the growing body of empirical data."
Reports from separate services and agencies remain "largely ignored and unevaluated" says Mellon, who says there is no process at the Pentagon to analyze reports across agencies. Fox Mulder would shake his head... Incredible feats
Mellon notes that there's ample evidence from official government
sources of various unidentified craft performing mind-boggling
aerobatics.
In one example, over the course of two weeks in November 2004, the
USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser operating advanced naval radar,
repeatedly detected unidentified aircraft operating in and around the
Nimitz carrier battle group, which it was guarding off the coast of San
Diego. In some cases, according to incident reports and
interviews with military personnel, these vehicles descended from
altitudes higher than 60,000 feet at supersonic speeds, only to suddenly
stop and hover as low as 50 feet above the ocean. The United States
possesses nothing capable of such feats.
On at least two occasions, F-18 fighters were guided to intercept these vehicles and were able to verify their location, appearance and performance.
Notably, these encounters occurred in broad daylight and were
independently monitored by radars aboard multiple ships and aircraft. According to naval aviators I have spoken with at length, the vehicles were roughly 45 feet long and white. Yet these
mysterious aircraft easily sped away from and outmaneuvered America’s
front-line fighters without a discernible means of propulsion.
After speaking with senior Pentagon officials on the topic,
Mellon notes "nobody wants to be “the alien guy” in the national
security bureaucracy; nobody wants to be ridiculed or sidelined for
drawing attention to the issue." UFO parts sitting in Las Vegas?
Perhaps one of the most glazed over aspects of the New York Times'
December piece on UFOs is that of a $22 million joint project between
billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with
NASA to produce spacecraft.
Bigelow is an associate of Harry Reid (D-NV, retired), who has long had an interest in space phenomena.
Robert Bigelow
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely
convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth. -NYT
Contracts obtained by The Times show a congressional appropriation of
just under $22 million beginning in late 2008 through 2011. The money
was used for management of the program, research and assessments of the
threat posed by the objects. The funding went to Mr. Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.
And the kicker:
"Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegasfor
the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and
program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial
phenomena." "the storage of metal alloys and other materials... recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena" Let that sink in...
Moreover: "Researchers also studied people who said they had
experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and
examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft," reports the NYT.
“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,”
said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on
extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor
for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is
this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic
signals involved or its function.”
For those who have long said "I want to believe" when it comes to
UFOs, the U.S. military has released enough official footage in the last
six months alone to make believing much easier.
With more than 1,080 owners and more than $460,000 currently raised, the
Racine-based consumer-owned grocery co-op is 41 percent of the way to
its goal of $1.125 million toward the estimated $4.8 million total
project cost.
Yet once again, we see that one side will cheat and violate regulations, ordinances and laws to advance their cause.
If you got campaign literature from Anna Marie Clausen 4 Mount Pleasant, Ram Bhatia, Bud Eastman and Floyd Skip Leonard
stuck in the flag of your mailbox like this, please call the Perry Ave.
Post Office at 262/632-1008 or the Sturtevant Post Office at
262/886-4104 during regular business hours to report it.
They are breaking the law - and they know it. You may not interfere with the function of the flag.
March 9, 2018 – Milwaukee, WI – Today attorneys at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) have issued a legal memo
explaining how AB 433 – with the approved Substitute Amendment 1 –
would make it significantly harder for people to enjoy Wisconsin’s
long-standing tradition of tailgating, even at Lambeau Field.
The bill regulates the consumption of alcohol on certain nonpublic
(and public) places by requiring an expensive retail license to be
obtained.
WILL Executive Vice President CJ Szafir, explains:
“What major policy problem the bill is
designed to solve is a mystery to us. But what is clear – whether
intended or unintended – is that the amendment would negatively impact
people’s ability to enjoy a beer at their tailgate before a Packers,
Badgers, or Brewers game.
This raises the question of whether the
government needs to be interring with people’s recreational activities.
Is there some good reason why the legislature needs to restrict
Wisconsinites ability to have a brat and a beer on public or private
property before a sports game? We’d like to hear it.”
A substitute amendment to Assembly Bill 433 was introduced last
February. In short, the bill prohibits a person or business from
charging someone who would consume alcohol on their property. Unless, of
course, they obtain a license from a municipality.
The WILL legal analysis concludes that this could impact tailgating
outside of a sports event. Consider a homeowner, with property outside
of Lambeau Field, who wants to charge people to park on his lot. There
could be no alcohol consumed on his property, under this amendment.
The bill and amendment unanimously passed the Assembly by voice vote. It is awaiting a vote in the Senate.
Read the full WILL analysis of the substitute amendment to AB 433 HERE.
