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US To China: 'Infrastructure Bank' This! - Test-Fires ICBM As A "Visual To The World"
With allies migrating en masse to China's new infrastructure bank (and even the US having to admit it will 'cooperate'), it appears America has fallen back on what has worked for it in the past to ensure the world's largest creditor remains the world's reserve currency ad inifinitum - rattle its nuclear missile sabre... As the following clip shows, The US Air Force just test-fired a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from California, providing a "visual to the world."
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Check out this morning's #ICBM test launch thanks to @30thSpaceWing, F.E. Warren & @AFGlobalStrike #Airmen! http://t.co/QUwj8kbwjQ #AirForce
— U.S. Air Force (@usairforce) March 23, 2015
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As RT reports, an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired early Monday from a facility in California, the US Air Force announced, saying the tests were a message to the world about Washington's nuclear capabilities.
The Minuteman III missile was fitted with a “test re-entry vehicle” instead of a live thermonuclear warhead, and was test-launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) in California at 03:36 local time (10:36 GMT), according to the Air Force statement.
"With these launches, we not only verify our processes and the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) weapon system, we provide a visual to the world that the Minuteman III is capable of striking pretty much anywhere with extreme precision," said Lt. Col Tytonia Moore of the 90th Missile Wing, based out of the Francis E. Warren AFB in Wyoming, according to the statement.
The "Mighty Ninety" is one of the USAF’s three missile wing commands – the other two being the 91st at Minot AFB in North Dakota and the 341st at Malstrom AFB in Montana. There are roughly 450 ICBMs between the three.
Take that China! Can't catch one of those in a fishing net...
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Yeah that would be a great opportunity for someone's anti messle capabilty; over international waters, mind you.
Imagine the snark and war of words that would follow.
We ICBMed some folks.
A nuclear missile ... fired with "precision." That's pretty funny.
Islamic extremism is not an existential threat to the US, but an alliance between Germany and Russia. US made sure since WW1 that this did never happen [here we go!]
... says Stratfor founder George Friedman. This and other highlights of American foreign policy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLu_yyz3tc&t=3198
US has become the new evil empire.
It is about freaking time we fired something off! Screw you Putin!
You mean Obama jerking off with the Constitution wasn't good enough for you?
Message to the world?
What a farce.
Message for the ignorant sheep because their priorities tend to lapse.
If no media message was made, the likes of Russia and China would know full well in any case what had happened.
Sheesh. The USless electorape is soooooooooo phukking stoopid.
and the neocon martians escaped to earth... explains a lot.
Smells like NKPES [North Korean Penis-Envy Syndrome]
Rattle *this*
Time to rotate out the old ammo and fuel... Fuck it just push the red button...every body now...turn the key, push the button!
This is what North Korea does, quite succesfully actually....
you are kidding, they can barely get their missiles to fly over Japan, and then with their SCUD era guidance systems what are they going to hit? the Pacific Ocaen is a big target
But don't you remember weasel dick (Leon Panetta) testifying in front of Congress saying they could reach the West Coast? (I just rolled my eyes when he began babbling on about North Korea's "three stage nuclear missile".
"I've said this many times so I'll say it again. This is not about being pro Russia/China. This is about being anti war. I wanna make a good wage. I also wanna not lose my hair and die with my children in a basement cuz NeoCon fux want the whole world"
Shall we all sing Koombaya together? Hold hands. Roast hot dogs? Who gets to bang the bongo?
Are you fucking kidding me?????
There always has been and there always will be war. Because in case you hadn't noticed survival is a fight to the death - there are 7 billion people wanting what you have --- and given the chance they would tear your fucking head off to get what you have.
We are fucking vile beasts us humans. That is our nature.
You think Putin is any different than the guys runinng the US? Give your head a shake. If the tables turned he will be FUCKING YOU as hard as we are fucking him.
Look at history - things NEVER change. One empire replaces the other --- and the new empire is as or more vicious.
Because that is how you get to the top --- in the geopolitical game --- in the business world --- in sports.
Survival of the fitttest.
Pacifism will get you a BOOT on your THROAT. Because there will always be someone out there who says hey look at this stupid sucker --- I am going to cave his head in and TAKE.
Look at the Jews - the piss pounded out of them - what did they do? Same thing to the Palestinians.
Look at the US blacks --- some were sent back to Africa (Liberia) and guess what they did? You got it - they enslaved the native Africans.
If you think this is going to change you better think again --- because there are 7 billion of us nasty fuckers on this planet --- and as we know from reading these pages, there is even less of everything to go around.
We are running out of cheap to extract oil - the lifeblood of the global economy. Fresh water is becoming a massive problem
Just watch what happens as this picks up steam - we'll be ripping each other to pieces. More wars, more extremism, you name it. The gloves will come off and the knives will come out.
And you would have the US PTB dance around the camp fire singing Koombaya? Are you fucking NUTS!
This is the last gasp of civilizaton -- you do whatever you have to to ensure your side gets as much as possible
Because you know what?
The other side is doing the exact same thing.
Same as it ever was --- only different this time
"We are fucking vile beasts us humans."
The "bad guys" are viles beasts that prey on humanity.
The "good guys" are not.
The goal is to get rid of all the bad guys.
That is the goal I choose.
I find that to be a noble goal.
What is your goal?
Words of wisdom there.
The most vicious team wins. Yes, it is a distasteful message to hear. But it is the TRUTH.
The guys on the other side of the wall will overrun you in a heart beat. Putin will - if given the chance - do to the US what the US has been doing to the world for decades now -- pillaging, murdering, torturing.
And the US is on top because it is the most vicious country.
But make no mistake --- this is a zero sum game. And everyone wants YOUR piece of the limited pie
You like your nice house - your car - your 3 meals per day? Great. But remember you have that and a Somalian does not - because you are on the Winning Side. You get a sliver of the spoils.
Are you ready to give your little sliver away? I thought not.
So time to shut the hole and be thankful you are not an iraqi, or afghani, or libyan or syrian.
Because that is what you are wishing for. Thankfully those at the top recognize the realities of the world we live in -- and that humans are intrinsically vicious beasts. Every last one of us
Nobody is on the winning side, pal. Not even those with access to the red buttons. Either we evolve or we keep killing each other to the end.
What would you choose for your children?
Oh did I forget to mention:
Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large earthquake hit the area. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-japan-fukushima-insight-idUSBRE97D00M20130814
The problem is if the spent fuel gets too close, they will produce a fission reaction and explode with a force much larger than any fission bomb given the total amount of fuel on the site. All the fuel in all the reactors and all the storage pools at this site (1760 tons of Uranium per slide #4) would be consumed in such a mega-explosion. In comparison, Fat Man and Little Boy weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained less than a hundred pounds each of fissile material - See more at: http://www.dcbureau.org/20110314781/natural-resources-news-service/fission-criticality-in-cooling-ponds-threaten-explosion-at-fukushima.html
A typical 1 GWe PWR core contains about 80 t fuels. Each year about one third of the core fuel is discharged into the pool. A pool with 15 year storage capacity will hold about 400 t spent fuel. To estimate the Cs-137 inventory in the pool, for example, we assume the Cs137 inventory at shutdown is about 0.1 MCi/tU with a burn-up of 50,000 MWt-day/tU, thus the pool with 400 t of ten year old SNF would hold about 33 MCi Cs-137. [7] Assuming a 50-100% Cs137 release during a spent fuel fire, [8] the consequence of the Cs-137 exceed those of the Chernobyl accident 8-17 times (2MCi release from Chernobyl). Based on the wedge model, the contaminated land areas can be estimated. [9] For example, for a scenario of a 50% Cs-137 release from a 400 t SNF pool, about 95,000 km² (as far as 1,350 km) would be contaminated above 15 Ci/km² (as compared to 10,000 km² contaminated area above 15 Ci/km² at Chernobyl).
Thus, it is necessary to take security measures to prevent such an event from happening.
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/publication/364/radiological_terrorism.html
Print bankers print!!! Keep that motherfucker going as long as possible. Because when the printing pushes on the proverbial string - we are over.
EXTINCTION IS IMMINENT
EXTINCTION IS IMMINENT
ya sure, just like all the other sky is falling shit I've seen spewed...
peak oil
GREXIT
market crash
collapse
derivatives implosion
global reset
yada yada yada
First point. In a fight without rules; a street fight, or a war, nobody wins. There may be survivors and non survivors but you're not a winner. There Is only loss.
Only an idiot fights the way the other guy expects him to.
in your book, does doing what it takes to be at the top of the vicious dudes list include killing your own people? killing the citizens of your country? "sacrafices have to be made" and all that? is that in your playbook?
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... http://goo.gl/ezLA00
Did they drug-test the launch crew first ? I wonder if they have many Coke-heads at Vandenberg ?
Could two people really have such a stupid name ?
http://www.mylife.com/tytonia-moore/e611235979230
the reason for such nuke missile accuracy is the fact that they are a geometric space / time device , and simply will not detonate if not delivered "on time and on target " .with- in very small parameters, :)
remember the third nuke dropped on japan ? ....failed to detonate .... inaccurately delivered..., or tokyo would have been toast too .
USA! USA!
they wore the old whore out. she's only good for toothless slurpees now.
it was a good run. on to the new amusement park at the chindrus prosperity circle.
No word on this from any other source besides ZH and RT, both Russian protagonists. We don't have to prove shit to no one, and it amazes me that ZH continues to need to stoop for this kind of BS anti-American tripe. Russia has to threaten Denmark, what the fuck is the value of that? No one I know wants any territory, any part of Russia, they can have it, period.
ZH does a lot better when you focus on your financial analysis and issues and less on politics. Quit trying to stir up shit, those of us who grew up with all of this it is quite transparent. ZH's quality of posting has gone down a lot in the last 1-2 years. Get back to what you do well. You have never posted a pro-American position on any issue, any subject, any time in recent memory and your columnists hide behind the Tyler Durden moniker. Yet you cite other blog sources where the bloggers are courageous enough to identity themselves. Now I am not in favor of a lot of what DC does and Congress blows, but seriously you aren't any better with this kind of sniping. No government is wrong 100% of the time and that includes the USA, your arguments would have a lot more credibility if you referred to a few times when DC actually did something good to show you are capable of independent thought and not just some Russian mouthpiece.
Here is some more Bullshit ant US tripe.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bbc-foreknowledge-of-911-collapse-of-wtc-bu...
Oh no it appears to be backed up by photo evidence and a British judge.
What you are doing is akin to being a Steelers starter --- and cheering for your QB to break his leg.
Think about it.
Please. as if finances and politics weren't parts of the same game..
technically, no, the political moves are made to fit the finance "reality"
you do not make politics to change finance, a compagny do not need any governmant to make cash....
but a government need cash to work...
got it ?
Is this the nobel prize of peace's final strategy to bring stability to the world?
Minuteman is 45 years old technology.
So these are expendable as fireworks to show off and impress the American people who would jump, clap & shout with an air "we are the invincible ; We can nuke you".
Btw, in todays world , every Tom , Dick & Harry has Nuke Missiles in his backyard.
If the Israeli controlled America is doing sabre rattling , it will be the Israel which would be the target of the next nuclear war with the holy land made holy with nuclear radiation (along with arabs too) .
A point to ponder : Will you worship Israelis as angels when they start glowing?
Anyone who thinks "we are the invincible ; We can nuke you" hasn't read Sung Tzu... 2500 year old thnking.
This is accelerated perfection, capable of dropping numerous warheads across a continent. Tyler might want to find a better video (instead of Wikipedia narratives) of how these suckers actually work - still two generations of spitwads ahead for being almost 50 years old.
They aren't called Peacekeepers for anything but untouchable.
Let's all join hands and sing along --- Koombaya my lord... come on sing --- you all know the words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo9AH4vG2wA
Someone's get fucked over again Lord --- Koobaya
Somone's getting tortured Lord -- Koombaya
We are vicious fucking cocksuckers Lord -- Koombaya
Let's pass out the bongos --- come on Tyler you get one too --- bang the drums ---- ok who wants to be a back up dancer? here put on the frilly pants with the bell bottoms--- this is awesome --- peace love - we are getting along just like i knew we would
Let's share the peanut butter and wonder bread ---- this is the way it was meant to be!!!
Wait.... what is that coming --- OMG --- but no --- we are living in peace here --- you can't do that ... we are kind people -- we only want our kids to grow up free of war and violence
https://philebersole.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/vladimir-putin-time-mag...
And now look at you : http://www.iwallfinder.com/black-and-white-era/the-first-series-of-child...
KOOMBAY FUCKING YA
Mummy ..... Mummmy....... help me Mummy .... it didn't turn out quite the way I expected.... please Mummy save me ...
you need a serious break dude, you on the edge, have some hot chocolate.
lol what a dunghill cunt
Just confirms to China that they should have very close relationship with Russia, India
USA reminds all that they are the worlds bully. The ever evolving arrogance of the US since 1945 has them turning to violence and threat thereof as their main mode of diplomacy....if economic violence didn't work.
And having bullied the world the US then turned on its own people...and turned/s turning them into a nation of indentured poor and unemployed under a 1% and 0.001%
In the end even American's wont cry for America as their country has been captured by a handful of people.
Nobody will cry for Assyria, nobody will thus cry for the USA.
All the ICBMs in the world wont stop ICBMs inward bound on US
oh wow
i'm really impressed.
now why don't you try and fix the plumbing, the school system, the health system.
f*ckin' morons.
"Nobody is on the winning side, pal. Not even those with access to the red buttons. Either we evolve or we keep killing each other to the end. What would you choose for your children?"
I wasn't aware that there was a choice? We have reached the end of the line here.
The furious money printing is all the is between us and extinction.
See Fukushima?
Guess what happens if they can't keep those massive pumps dumping tonnes of water on thos cores every day for decades?
They explode -- like thousands of Hiroshimas
Likewise the 4000+ spent fuel ponds that need high tech cooling for literally decade.
Try that trick when civilization is collapsed
Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large earthquake hit the area. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-japan-fukushima-insight-idUSBRE97D00M20130814
The problem is if the spent fuel gets too close, they will produce a fission reaction and explode with a force much larger than any fission bomb given the total amount of fuel on the site. All the fuel in all the reactors and all the storage pools at this site (1760 tons of Uranium per slide #4) would be consumed in such a mega-explosion. In comparison, Fat Man and Little Boy weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained less than a hundred pounds each of fissile material - See more at: http://www.dcbureau.org/20110314781/natural-resources-news-service/fission-criticality-in-cooling-ponds-threaten-explosion-at-fukushima.html
A typical 1 GWe PWR core contains about 80 t fuels. Each year about one third of the core fuel is discharged into the pool. A pool with 15 year storage capacity will hold about 400 t spent fuel. To estimate the Cs-137 inventory in the pool, for example, we assume the Cs137 inventory at shutdown is about 0.1 MCi/tU with a burn-up of 50,000 MWt-day/tU, thus the pool with 400 t of ten year old SNF would hold about 33 MCi Cs-137. [7] Assuming a 50-100% Cs137 release during a spent fuel fire, [8] the consequence of the Cs-137 exceed those of the Chernobyl accident 8-17 times (2MCi release from Chernobyl). Based on the wedge model, the contaminated land areas can be estimated. [9] For example, for a scenario of a 50% Cs-137 release from a 400 t SNF pool, about 95,000 km² (as far as 1,350 km) would be contaminated above 15 Ci/km² (as compared to 10,000 km² contaminated area above 15 Ci/km² at Chernobyl).
Thus, it is necessary to take security measures to prevent such an event from happening.
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/publication/364/radiological_terrorism.html
EXTINCTION IS IMMINENT - PRINTED CASH IS THE ONLY THING BETWEEN US AND THAT FIASCO
A typical 1 GWe PWR core contains about 80 t fuels...
Well, for starters, Fuk used boiling water reactors (General Electric), not pressurized water reactors (PWRs--made by everyone else).
November 29, 2014, Russia fired a Bulava missile from a submarine. Did you feel impressed? No? Why then do you assume the Chinese feel impressed by the test-firing of a Minuteman missile?
AFAIK this may just be getting rid of the old stock. Minuteman III is a 1970's era missile, after all.
just be getting rid of the old stock. I don't think so mate .
"Might is right" as Bush senior once said
Can it be? Is the Pentagon really playing catch-up ball with the Ruskis?
On the morning of March 23, 2015, the US Air Force released a video tape of the test firing of a Minuteman ICBM, which they hope will have Russia and China cowering in terror and ready to give Breedlove whatever he demands.
Except for one thing. Russia released a similar video at the end of November 2013. A year and a half before today's test at Vandenberg.
http://www.military.com/video/guided-missiles/explosive-warheads/russian...
Another meaningless article from the pro-Obama clique at ZH.
I suppose those who are so inclined can argue whose silo cover is thicker, more desirable and best to snuggle up with.
This article reads like an Air Force Press Release.
Note to Zerohedge: I like to read news. If you want me to read propaganda, you'll have to pay. Send me a PM for hourly rates.
I just wonder if the war head was Antimatter.
Proper response to nuclear threats of Russia and North Korea. Bandits only understand the language of force.
I wonder whether the missle launch is tied to a banner: "Buy US Treasuries".
Are we going to take out Obama or wait until he gets us all blown up?
How amusing. You think Obama actually has a say in all of this. I piss my pants laughing.
You truly are a bunch of fucking ignorant and/or stupid donkeys here.
You spend years on this site and you still don't have a fucking clue how the world works.
Enjoy the matrix dumb asses
The vast majority here know this. I'll add you to the troll list. Try Yahoo.'This comment would apply there. You've been here 50 weeks. You were commenting like a drunken dick. WTF makes you different?
Hier in ze Third World Fourth Reich ve stil haff vondervoll Vunderwaffen e ven if ve haff no pott tu pi$$ in!.
Sieg Heil
Vis dant hoch zeifenheuler mein hopscotchen zoof.
Ache Tung baby
"Everybody knows you never go full retard!!!"
It's fairly obvious what the nuclear strategy here is.
The US is investing in a useless missile shield that does not actually work.
The shield stands zero chance of working against a real attack, but a single missile or two... maybe.
Nukes have been off limits for a long time now. If you want to bring them back into the field though, here's what you do:
A single launch against a nuclear power. Limited damage, find some excuse for it and then spam the media about it not being nuclear. The enemy is well aware of what really happened, but MSM will talk about how they are liars and trying to find an excuse to launch a nuclear war and how THEY are the ones at fault.
So here's the response. If it's a full launch, there's the end of the ballgame. A launch in-kind however might be able to be gotten away with. That shitty missle shield has a shot at denying it. So say the shield works. The propaganda machine is in hyperdrive about how the US is protected and how it downed a rogue missile (as long as the enemy is willing to play along now). If the missile gets through, then the US can claim it was attacked without reason and the public will back a full response.
This position is established by the state of the media. The majority still sees them as legitimate and on the international scene they can pretend they are independent by blabbering about issues that do not matter. It's all government controlled propaganda, but that's still "tin foil hat" territory for some reason... despite it being proven over and over again. Opposition news agencies are decried as non-legitimate or pure propaganda in a clear cut case of pot v kettle.
The US would LOVE to get into a nuclear war for the same reasons it LOVED getting into WW2. If the US can get away with a nuclear launch, it's game over, US wins. If a full exchange happens, it all really comes down to who starts it and how. If the US can play the victim it gets a free hand to basically nuke everything. Up north is the vast wasteland of Canada which has always been considered an ace in the sleeve. US infrastructure is falling apart anyways, it's a great excuse to rebuild, and at the same time, there's not going to be as much of a power vaccum in a post-nuclear world in north america as there will be in europe and asia. in a world war, whoever is on their feet first wins the next century.
laomei, have you considered the point of view of those who have really something to say in the US? they own lots of things they don't want to see incinerated
it's easy to say "The US would LOVE to get into a nuclear war for the same reasons it LOVED getting into WW2" from the point of view of someone that can move, and move his assets with him
war is a business. no profit, no war. but there is ample profit in war posturing
Their much hyped and PR propaganda system can't work against russian nukes . Let it be GMD , THAAD , AEGIS . Chinese nukes are still in modernization phase .
So 7 million plus to wake me up 2 hours early.
The fact that the USAF felt compelled to call the launch a "visual to the world" is a clear sign of desperation and fear.
obamao has gone from delusional to demented and dangerous. this clearly unstable person has his finger on the nuke button? god help us!
I'm surprised there were no comments on the "costs" of this "visual to the world".
According to Wikipedia , Manufacturer is Boeing. Price is $7 million each(tax dollars), unless we(taxpayer) get a discount if we buy 450 of them....?
Is our leadership so delusional as to believe they can still win wars, despite the last two decades worth of evidence to the contrary?
Jump you fuckers.