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This Picture Should Scare The Hell Out Of Everyone

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THIS PICTURE SCARES the HELL out of me! 

Forget about the blather de jour that the media puts forth on a nightly basis.  There has been almost NO  media coverage of this REAL EMERGING THREAT.

What are we looking at?  Well it’s a commercially available quadcopter or “drone”, with an explosive attached to it.

I found that you can buy this exact drone online for $199 with free shipping.  I suspect that the Mexican cartels used this particular drone as they are manufactured in Tijuana, Mexico.  Oddly it was designed in Berkeley California, the hub of “free speech”.  There are numerous OTHER quadcopters made in China which are available for retail purchase for a few hundred dollars and they all have similar capabilities.  And it’s the CAPABILITIES that are worrisome.

As an alternative to buying a completed drone, you can buy all the parts and pieces from many sources, foreign and domestic, to put one together.  In fact if one were sneaky, one would probably source the parts through a number of different vendors to cover one’s tracks and not raise any red flags.  Notice I say “one” which has significance that I’ll clarify below.

The picture shows what Mexican drug cartel operatives were caught with.  The report said it is carrying what they call a “potato bomb”.  It’s 1 pound of explosives wrapped in shrapnel (nails and ball bearing) to enhance its killing capabilities.

Here’s what i find disturbing about this.  A drone like this can fly at 30 mph or more.  It has a flight time of at least 10 minutes before the batteries die.  It may be able to travel faster and have a flight time of possibly up to 20 minutes.  Using the conservative numbers of 30 mph for 10 minutes, that’s a range of AT LEAST 5 MILES, possibly more than 10 miles.  With the built-in GPS it can travel those 5 to 10 or more miles and arrive at a target within about 10 feet, possibly even closer.  There are ways to get it within INCHES or factions of an INCH of a target.  There is a possibility to fly it through a window or doorway just to give some additional food for thought.

A drone like this is capable of completely autonomous operation.  What does that mean?  Well an evil doer can program in the GPS coordinates for the target and set it loose to cause mayhem.  It does not require any further human interaction once the target location has been programmed in.  Virtual waypoints (locations to define the drone’s flight path) can be programmed to allow the drone to skirt around buildings and other obstacles which would make it harder to detect.  You’ll hear some naive “experts” saying that you can “jam” the drone.  That is patently FALSE!.  Again, it flies all by itself.  Once the drone is in flight there is NOTHING to jam.  Keep in mind that NO training or experience is required to get the drone flying.  Technology has made it that simple.

It gets worse.

Now here’s where it can get even scarier.  At a cost of $200 a bad actor could buy 100 of them for less than the price of a nice used car ($20,000).  They could be released miles away from a target and the flock of killer drones could approach the destination from multiple directions.  Recall above that the flight path can be programmed in.  The bad guy could also “sequence” them so they arrive in “waves”, staggered a few seconds apart from each other, again coming in from all directions.  The odds of stopping  ALL 100 drones coming in from multiple direction in “waves” would most likely be near ZERO.  An attack in an urban setting would make detection and interception virtually impossible by any means.  I don’t think the military, law enforcement, or any government agency has the capability to stop such an attack.  And again, some food for thought.  100 drones means 100 pounds of explosives.  That’s a heck of a big boom.

The press likes to use the term “lone wolf“.  Well one bad guy could easily load 100 drones into a van and let them loose miles away from the intended target, ALL BY HIMSELF!  One EVIL man.  No vast network of terrorists required.

This is why I said, this should scare the hell out of everyone.

Culture, Government

Put Out A Fire Using ICE?

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The fires in Northern People’s Republik of Kalifornia (taking the lives of at least 42 people) have “ignited” more debate on immigration.

It turns out that an illegal alien (undocumented guest worker in PRK-speak), described as a homeless man, started fires in Somoma County. Jesus Fabian Gonzalez was previously deported twice back to his home country of Mexico. He had been released from custody as he was protected by the “sanctuary” policies and hence Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, was never notified of his arrests even though they had a detainer request on him. Some of his previous crimes rose to the felony level. But we don’t want to be mean to our uninvited “guests”.  We only enforce “good” laws here in the PRK.

Breitbart is spreading the story that Gonzales may have been responsible for a string of these wildfires, but the local officials are downplaying that notion, saying that this is “unlikely”.  Notice they did not say impossible.

Now I’ll “fire” up the conspiracy theory machine. Has anyone looked into whether or not undocumented guest Gonzales has any ties to the Mexican drug cartels?  Could he have been a hired stooge to set the fires?  Why would the cartels want these wildfires?

One of the outcomes of the fires in Northern PRK is that several of the large marijuana farms had their crops destroyed right at the peak of harvest season. These farms were getting ready for the 2018 rush to buy “legalized” recreational dope (thanks in advance Gov. Moonbeam, for the dead people and increased crime that will result from the legalization of dope). Now if the PRK crops are gone, where do you think the weed will come from to satisfy the BIG demand for recreational drugs, come the new year? Oh maybe where weed come from now, the Mexican drug cartels.  Of course the cartels wouldn’t start trouble that might cause the deaths of 42 people.  That would be a lot of deaths.  Just as a factual data point, 23,000 people were killed in Mexico by the cartels in 2016.  But they were for the most part poor brown people in some backwater bergs, so that number is fairly meaningless.  We Americans need our drugs, doggone it.

Of course the cartels sneaking someone across the border to burn down the competition couldn’t happen here in the progressive PRK.  That would be against the law.

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Signs of Intelligent Life?

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The brilliance of our elected officials never ceases to amaze me.
Just now on the fake news network MSNBC (yes, I do watch the enemy’s propaganda channel. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”), I heard congressman Eric Swalwel from the PRK IMPLY that there is clear evidence of collusion between the Trump election team and the Russians.

As some background, Komrade Swalwel is the representative for the PRK’s 15th district which encompasses cities around, no surprise here, the San Francisco bay area. He is apparently on the congressional “Intelligence Committee”. At least that is what was written on the scroll at the bottom of the screen. If you are on the Intelligence Committee you would think that there should at least be a hint of intelligence by the member. I guess if your IQ is somewhat above that of a head of lettuce that’s sufficient qualification.

What was this material that Swalwel IMPLIED as clear evidence of Trump-Russia collusion? He stated that the “hashtag” “grow a spine, vote Jill Stein” (that is, GrowaSpineVoteJillStein) is clearly something that only a native English speaker from the Trump election team could have created for the Russians as it uses the idiom “grow a spine”.  He IMPLIES that no Russian operative could have come up with that particular phrase and there must have been assistance from the Trump team.  There’s your smoking gun folks, proving  the Russians colluded with the Trump team!!!  It’s just so obvious. Thank you oh most learned scholar Swalwel for unearthing this UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE.

Sheesh, and we pay these jokers nearly $200,000 per year for such great thinking. Maybe we need to give them a raise and see what other great thoughts we can get from a head of lettuce.  And before you jump all over me, let me apologize in advance.  I realize my comparison of a congressman to a head of lettuce might be construed as insulting to other forms of vegetation.