RWC Unfiltered 11-5-11

• Cain 999 Cannonball Express Derails
• Figures Don’t Lie But…
• Taiwan Building EMP Weapons
• Santa Barbara Installs Tsunami Warning Signs
• Markel “Iron Lady” Redux
• Recent Bombing of Iran’s Nuke Bomb Factory Devastating
• 70^th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Attack
• Israel-U, S, Rift Widening
• West Losing Access of East Med Sea and Suez
• Napolitano Nitwits trip Search 84-year old Grandma in Wheel Chair

A 9-year old Carolina boy has been suspended from school for two days on charges of sexual harassment for telling a classmate a substitute teacher was cute,

The Herman “Cain Train” came to an ignominious end Saturday when like Casey Jones the Cain 999 Cannonball Express book tour derailed as he “suspended” his mercurial Presidential bid amid rustling petticoats as his onetime field leading popularity had plummeted to near invisibility. The onetime capo de capo of Godfather’s Pizza got caught repeatedly with his zipper down. Cain supporters will likely split with his support going to Gingrich and a few going too others.He will likely endorse Newt.

In WW2 a number of air crewmen died of ruptured intestines in World War 2 (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)..

“Unemployment, 8.6%!” headlines bleated Friday. Now, the truth of the matter is - and Bloomberg News even points out that the only way - it’s a corrupt number. It is a corrupt number.

Folks, the number of people who have quit looking for work in the last few weeks is 315,000. Those are the people have thrown up their hands after 99 weeks or more of being unemployed; and they’ve said, “I’m quitting. I’m not looking.” So they’re not counted. Therefore, the universe of jobs available in the country is down by 315,000. That is the labor force participation rate. The labor force participation rate is a meager 64%. It fell to 64% from 64.2%. So the 0.2% drop equals 315,000 people leaving the workforce.

That means there are 315,000 fewer jobs to have, so the universe of jobs has been steadily shrinking. What was the number of jobs created? It’s 120,000 jobs. It’s 120, 126,000, whatever. That’s in the ballpark. That number of jobs created can lower unemployment rate 0.4%, almost one half of a percent? Creating 120,000 new jobs can do that? That alone tells us how small the labor force participation rate is. That tells us how small the universe of available jobs in the country is, when creating 120,000 - and we still have, don’t forget, over 400,000 applications for unemployment compensation reported yesterday. So just 120,000 new jobs can lower the unemployment rate almost a half a point. That’s not possible without that 315,000 figure, the 315,000 people who have just walked away.

 The way the Bureau calculates unemployment almost guarantees corruption, and assures its “sampling: will be wrong always leaning toward a lower number: here’s how?

A sample of the more than 3,000 counties across the nation is selected. 25% of those over age 16-years are interviewed by phone in the selected counties, asking whether individuals in the home have a job or if they are laid off. Other questions query whether the persons are available for work and the techniques they have used to look for work in the preceding month. These questions are posed because only those individuals which do not have a job, have actively look for work in the past four weeks and who are currently available to work are considered to be unemployed. That information is then compared as a percentage to the number of people in the labor force. It should be noted that the labor force is considered to be all individuals who are age 16 and older who either have a job or who are actively looking for a job. Individuals who do not have a job and who are not actively looking for work are not included in the labor force.

The survey is adjusted or weighted to account for independent population estimates across the entire nation. These adjustments take into account factors such as state of residence, sex, age and race. Despite the adjustments; however, it is important to note that because the survey is not a complete count, the results of the sample cannot be expected to be the same as if a survey of the entire population were taken.

A longtime statistician friend tells me the built in error margin can be as much a five points, meaning 9 could be 14%, and the design appears to be intentional. The system is a clumbsy, costly bureaucrat supporting entrenched system susceptible to political meddling.

 Sumer is the oldest civilization in the world. The Sumerians were the first people to practice year round agriculture, which allowed them to settle down and stop being hunter-gathers. They oldest city in the world, Eridu, was founded by the Sumerians around 5400 BCE.

 Sumer was in western Iraq in the southern part of the fertile crescent.

The U. S. has long promised allies protection under its nuclear umbrella. But, few are confident Obama would honor such guarantees believing wrapping appeasement in tough public rheotoric while quivering and collapsing in private.

It is no surprise then that Taiwan’s military is preparing for a  future war with China by developing electro-magnetic pulse weapons. It’s about the best hedge because if China preemptively used nuclear weapons it would provoke nuclear protections treaties.

EMP devices create the same type of disabling pulse produced by a nuclear weapon, which can neutralize electronic equipment hundreds of miles away.

Taiwan’s Asia-Pacific Defense Magazine last week also disclosed that both China and Taiwan were producing EMP devices.

The Chinese military, according to the report, is researching and developing EMP and other new concept weapons as part of plans to achieve “electromagnetic control” in a conflict.

Taiwan, too, is building non-nuclear pulse weapons and other exotic weapons at the Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) under the code name “Hsuan T’ien Plan,” or Dark Day Plan.

Two types of weapons are being worked on. One simulates the air-burst detonation of a small (1-kiloton yield) nuclear bomb. It would constitute a “weak nuclear explosion electromagnetic pulse bomb.” A second device also uses conventional explosives to generate the pulse. This would be a “non-nuclear explosion electromagnetic pulse bomb,” or an “E-bomb.”

Pulse weapons can produce a shock wave up to 300 kilometers away and cause permanent and irreparable damage to electronic components from overload and short circuiting. It could black out shundred of square miles permanently destroying components requiring weeks and month to get power restored,

“If non-nuclear explosion electromagnetic pulse warheads are deployed to air defense missiles or anti-ship missiles, the missiles need only explode in the vicinity of the target to effectively damage the electronic components on enemy fighter aircraft and ships, causing the fighter aircraft to crash to the ground and neutralizing the ships,” the report said.

“If this non-nuclear explosion electromagnetic pulse ‘bomb’ technology were used in anti-radiation missiles or anti-missile systems, it would be a major transformation in military technology,” the report said.

The United States most likely has EMP weapons in its arsenal, but it’s not clear in what form. Much of the United States’ EMP research has involved high power microwaves (HPMs).

HPM e-bombs aren’t really bombs at all. They’re more like super powerful microwave ovens that can generate a concentrated beam of microwave energy. One possibility is the HPM device would be mounted to a cruise missile, disrupting ground targets from above.

This technology is advanced and expensive and so would be inaccessible to military forces without considerable resources. But that’s only one piece of the e-bomb story. Using inexpensive supplies and rudimentary engineering knowledge, a terrorist organization could easily construct a dangerous e-bomb device.

In late September 2001, Popular Mechanics published an article outlining this possibility. The article focused on flux compression generator bombs (FCGs), which date back to the 1950s. This sort of e-bomb has a fairly simple, potentially inexpensive design,

Here’s the sequence of events when the bomb goes off:

• A switch connects the capacitors to the stator, sending an electrical current through the wires. This generates an intense magnetic field.
• A fuze mechanism ignites the explosive material. The explosion travels as a wave through the middle of the armature cylinder.
• As the explosion makes its way through the cylinder, the cylinder comes in contact with the stator winding. This creates a short circuit, cutting the stator off from its power supply.
• The moving short circuit compresses the magnetic field, generating an intense electromagnetic burst.

Most likely, this type of weapon would affect a relatively small area — nothing on the order of a nuclear EMP attack — but it could do some serious damage.

The consequence is that electronics short out; cars, planes and train stop functioning and the targeted part of the world malfunctions and seizes up. There is little apparent physical damage.

Many believe the U. S. shared the technology with allies years ago. System can be shielded but not seamlessly.

Last Halloween 85-years to the hour after Harry Houdini’s death a fire broke out and badly damaged the Hollywood Magic Castle.

Saying “we want people to know it is not a good idea to run to the beach if a tsunami warnng is heard” Santa Barbara City employees are erecting blue and white warning signs adjacent to low lying streets and walkways. There has never been a tsunami surge in the city. But, the logic raises questions about the collective intellect of residents.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake in 1930 off of Redondo Beach is thought to have caused a landslide that generated a six-meter tsunami wave.In 1812 a tsunami swamped a smuggling ship anchored off Refugio Beach near the Gavioto Pass 12 miles north of Santa Barbara-  the road to the Reagan Ranch starts at that beach.

The US Interstate Highway System requires that one mile of motorway in every five has to be straight so that these sections can be used as airstrips in times of war. The idea was borrowed by President Eisenhower when he proposed the Interstate system modelling it on the Nazi built autobahn. A reason intersecting roads cross over and not under interstates is that warplanes could shellter under those bridges.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to snub investor pleas to back an expanded European Central Bank role in solving the debt crisis, as she pushes her demand for tighter economic ties in Europe as the only way forward.  She already sent Obama scampering home yelping like a kicked puppy. He couldn’t get to the printing press fast enough to print billions of increasingly worthless dollars to shower on the EuroUnion fiscal philanderers almost assuring explosive inflation.

The worse news is all this new money is at best a bandied that many expect will vaporize in two weeks. The stock market skyrocketed on the initial news then turned sullen flattening on Friday.

For her part Merkel has becomes the new “iron Lady” dethroning Margaret Thatcher being crowned the toughest national leader in all Europe.

During World War I parrots were kept in the Eiffel Tower to squawk of approaching aircraft. They could detect planes and airships long before they came into the range of human lookouts.

Western intelligence agencies have determined that Iran sustained a huge blow when a leading nuclear facility was blown to smithereens on Nov. 28.

Western intelligence sources said Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Isfahan was severely damaged by an explosion. They said the explosion was believed to have destroyed Isfahan’s large conversion center as well as stored uranium.

Iran’s nuclear facility in Isfahan is said to have been badly damaged in a Nov. 28 bombing. Satellite photos show extensive, wide spread damage.

“This has struck terror in the hearts of Iranian nuclear chiefs,” an intelligence source said.

The sources said the explosion was the work of a “sophisticated bombing squad” that penetrated Isfahan’s formidable defenses. Citing analysis of Western satellite imagery, they said the explosion rocked Iran’s largest city with smoke and debris.

This marked the second explosion at a major Iranian weapons facility in less than a month. On Nov. 12, a base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was destroyed in a mysterious explosion, which also killed the head of the nation’s ballistic missile program, Maj. Gen. Hassan Moghaddam. The sources said the explosion was the result of a bombing rather than an accident as IRGC claimed.

Over the last month, Iran has come under intensified sabotage of its strategic facilities. The sources said the bombing of the uranium facility at Isfahan demonstrated that Iran’s maximum-security nuclear and missile centers were vulnerable to attack.

“There are countries that impose economic sanctions and there are countries who act in other ways in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat,” Israeli Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor said.

The Teheran regime has not provided a clear explanation of the bombing in Isfahan. At first, Isfahan Gov. Ali Reza Zaker said the explosion stemmed from a military exercise in the city. Hours later, the government denied that an explosion took place.

Israel and the U. S. have indicated they know nothing about the explosions.

7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem. Oveer 80% could not pass the exam for citizenship.

Wednesday, December 7^th is the 70^th Anniversary of the Empire of Japan’s sneak attack on the U. S. Naval base and fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• 2,388 Americans died in the Sunday morning attack
• 1,178 Americans were wounded
• 21 American ships were sunk or damaged
• 323 American aircraft were destroyed or damaged
• 1,177 Americans killed in the attack were serving on the USS Arizona
• 333 servicemen serving on the USS Arizona survived the attack;
• 22 sets of brothers died on Arizona

The five Sullivan brothers enlisted on January 3, 1942 with the stipulation that they serve together. The Navy had a policy of separating siblings, but this was not strictly enforced. George and Frank had served in the Navy before, but their brothers had not. All five were assigned to the light cruiser USS Juneau. Early in the morning of November 13, 1942, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Juneau was struck by a Japanese torpedo, and while withdrawing was struck again. Its magazine exploded and all five brothers died. Afterward the sole survivor rule was enforced and dramatized in the film “Saving Private Ryan.”

I briefly serviced in the Navy with my father and both brothers. We met only once in uniform, and no one had a camera. My father was a senior master chief fond of describing his life as “everytime someone gives a war I get invited.”

An oxymoronic 1845  British law makes attempting to commit suicide a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

Major US-Israel differences surfaced suddenly Thursday, Dec. 1, over the timing and circumstances of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, when Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, said: “I don’t know whether Israel would alert the United States ahead of time if it decided to take military action against Iran.” Three hours later, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak maintained US policy would enable Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon without the possibility of attacking it. Meanwhile, facilities are being hidden underground.

In an interview, General Dempsey went on to admit a range of differences between the US and Israel on two key issues: The first related to their expectations from the sanctions and the diplomatic moves being taken by the Obama administration, “with the stated intent not to take any options off the table” - language that leaves open the possibility of future military action.

“I am not sure that the Israelis share our outlook” on this matter, said the American general.

The second issue on which the Americans and Israelis are divided is their perspective on the future course of events relating to the Iranian nuclear program and the Middle East:  ”And … because to them this (a nuclear-armed Iran) is an existential threat I think probably that it’s fair to say that our expectations are different right now,” said Gen. Dempsey.

Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. Pigs are smart.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will become the fifth Republican presidential hopeful to visit Donald Trump, according to CNN.

Gingrich, who is surging in the polls and sparring head-on with front-runner Mitt Romney, will meet the business mogul Monday at the Trump Tower in New York.

“I can confirm that Mr. Trump and Mr. Gingrich are meeting on Monday,” spokesman Michael Cohen told CNN. “I suspect, like the other Republican candidates, Newt will seek Mr. Trump’s advice and endorsement.”

Trump will moderate a GOP debate on 12-27.

Nearly every other GOP Presidential hopeful has already genuflected to the hair piece.

On New Year’s Day of 1776, Washington flew a flag over his camp near Boston consisting of thirteen red and white stripes along with two crosses (familiar British Symbols).  The earliest documentation of a flag consisting of thirteen red and white stripes and thirteen stars on a blue field was in a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.

It wasn’t until 1870 - almost 100 years after the fact - that the legend began when it was told by Betsy Ross’s grandson William J. Canby.  Supposedly, she had told him this story in 1836.  While it is possible that Betsy Ross sewed the flag, the evidence does not support the claim that she designed it.

An advertising campaign encouraging shoppers to “Buy American” has been banned in Seattle for being too political.

King County, which includes Seattle, rejected local nonprofit organization TAP America’s attempt to run the ads on the sides of buses, citing county policy against ads expressing a view on “matters of public debate about political, religious or social issues,” the Seattle Times reported.

The rejected ads read: “December is Buy American Month. Shop Locally. Join Seattle’s TAPamerica.org.”

TAP America - which stands for “Tolerance, Americanism, Patriotism” - had sought to place the ads starting this week, concentrating on bus routes that run through downtown Seattle shopping districts. Under intense pressure due to media opponents have relented and the ads will appear.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has surged to the largest national lead held by any candidate so far in the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters finds Gingrich on top with 38% of the vote. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is a distant second at 17%. No other candidate reaches double-digits.

Rasmussen defends the poll results saying they are replicable.

In mid-November Obama had a 12% lead over Gingrich but by monthend Newt was 2% ahead according to a compilation of all polls over the course of the month,

Islamist states in the Middle East are expanding their presence in the Mediterranean, according to the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. The center identified Egypt, Libya, Lebanon and Turkey as having all been dominated by anti-Western Islamic movements.

“A review of the political dynamics in the states on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean generates great concern about the ability of the West to continue enjoying unrestricted access to this area,” said the report, “The Threats in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.”

Authored by center director Efraim Inbar, the report warned that Israel could be harmed by the expanding Islamist presence in the Mediterranean. He said Israel and Greece are the only pro-Western navies in the region.

Egypt, now ruled by radical Islamicist was cited as a key concern in the Mediterranean because under Muslim Brotherhood rule, it could block access to the Suez Canal while providing services to Iran.

“Significantly, Egypt has already opened the Suez Canal to military vessels belonging to the Islamic republic of Iran,” the report said. “This enhances the ability of radical Iran to supply its Mediterranean allies, such as the current regime in Syria, Hizbullah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza. Moreover, it has enhanced Iranian access to Muslim states in the Balkans, namely Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo, thereby increasing its influence in that part of the Mediterranean.”

The report said Islamic militias could use makeshift ports in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to hamper pro-Western naval operations. Inbar said the Sinai could become an Islamic no-man’s land similar to Somalia, and threaten merchant ships to and from the Suez Canal.

Turkey is also seen as a danger to Israeli and Western shipping in the Mediterranean. Turkey, a key supporter of Hamas, is threatening to use its navy against both Israel and the Republic of Cyprus.

Turkey “has over the past few years shifted away from a pro-Western foreign policy, instead adopting a radical stance on many issues,” the report said. “Moreover, Turkey has displayed huge ambitions for leadership in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean. A combination of Turkish nationalism, neo-Ottoman nostalgia and Islamic-Jihadist impulses has pushed Turkey into an aggressive stance on several regional issues.”

Inbar expects the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip to try to establish a naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean. The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah in Lebanon has also been building a naval force in the region.

“Hizbullah has already laid claim to some of the huge Israeli-found gas fields in the sea that could diminish Europe’s energy dependence on Russia and Turkey,” the report said.

Obama was repeatedly warned of just such threats and consequences as he sided with anti-West elements hostile to Mubarack. But, those warning were ignored on advice of the propeller heads he has surrounded himself with to worldwide dismay and alarm.

The youngest US serviceman in WWII was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His medals and benefits were later restored by act of Congress in 1988. He died in 1992.

Boeing, beleaguered domestically by the NLRB says is prepared to license production of the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet jet in Japan beginning in 2017. Last week the Kansas based Hawker - Beechcraft company was cut out of a Penmtagon contract in favor of a Brasilian company for a new light fighter-bomber. The decision was heavily influenced by the White House and will cost 300 jobs immediately and more later,

Boeing;s  co-production in Japan would be contingent upon Japan Air Self-Defense Forces choosing the jet to replace its aging F-4 fleet, according to Boeing Vice President James Armington, who spoke in Tokyo.

The F-18 is less capable than the new F-35, which is considered an advanced fifth-generation fighter.

In addition to the F-18, Japan is also looking at the Eurofighter Typhoon and the F-35. A decision is expected by the end of the year.

Japan is building up its military forces amid concerns over China’s growing military power,  and Obama’s Rodney King-like foreign policy that has Asian and Middle Eastern allies amid growing angst.

Chinese naval forces in recent months have made close passes to Japanese waters in what experts say appear to be provocative gestures.

In World War Two fighter pilot slang. The engine throttles were topped by little balls. The throttle was advanced by being pushed forward. If the throttles were at maximum power, the balls were to the wall (the instrument panel). Hence the phrase “balls to the wall.”

The Homeland Security Napolitano nitwits are keeping us all safer such as:, an 84-year-old New York grandmother said Saturday that she was injured and humiliated when she was strip searched at JFK airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner. Lenore Zimmerman said she was taken to a private room and made to take off her pants and other clothes after she asked to forgo the screening because she worried it would interfere with her defibrillator. She missed her flight and had to take one two-and-a-half hours later, she said.

“I’m hunched over. I’m in a wheelchair. I weigh under 110 pounds and I’m going to be 85 in February. Do I look like a terrorist?

In 1923, Harry Chandler, a real estate agent and investor built the famous Hollywood Sign to advertise the area “Hollywoodland”. The total expense for this advertisement was $21,000. Initially, it was built to last only for eighteen months. However, as of today, the Hollywood Sign has lasted for over eighty years.The letters L-A-N-D were removed in 1949.

Moscow has delivered the first 36 P-800 Yakhont missiles to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad as part of the Russian-origin Bastion coastal defense system.

 The Yakhont cruise missile is a highly accurate Russian weapon with a 300-kilometer  (186 miles) range, capable of carrying a warhead of up to 200 kilograms (440 poungs)..

“The Yakhont supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles have been delivered to Syria,” a military source said.

The sources did not provide details of the Yakhont delivery, including date or size. Syria was said to have ordered 72 P-800s, with a range of 300 kilometers.

The Kremlin has maintained that it would not bow to pressure to cancel the Yakhont deal, reported to be worth $300 million and signed in 2007. These missiles will defend the entire Syrian coastline against attacks,

Iran says it shotdown a U, S, design and flown UAV over its territory most likely using a Russian supplied Surface-to-air missile. Russia is known to have supplied Iran with SAMS although they could have got their hands on the missiles via Libya.