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I contend that the Siberian land bridge theory, as today accepted by most of humanity is the true origin of most if not all of America's Indigenous people. There many have been small groups from other places, but that is controversial.
controversial? For/to whom? Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas
Discovery Points to Earlier Arrival of First Americans
The peopling of the Americas “was multipronged, stretching over a substantial period of time, involving different migrant groups and entry routes, and diverse ways of life,” Adovasio says. “Florida is about as far from the Bering Strait as you can get in North America. If you’ve got people in Florida 14,500 years ago, at the same time they are in so many parts of the Americas, the simplistic notion of a colonization by rapidly moving, late-arriving population is simply false.”.
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no! When the former head of USAF Air Combat Command stated, "The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22"... he, quite obviously, wasn't speaking in terms of a comparison/contrast between the F-35 and the F-22. Only you are continuing with that ridiculous premise.
Canada's multi-billion dollar F-35s ‘irrelevant’ without U.S.-only F-22 as support, American general saysin it's response to the F-16 kickin' the F-35's azz, JPO came right out and stated the F-35 was never designed for close-range dogfighting... and per that Janes article commentary I posted, the following still stands as LockMart/JPO have not been able to prove otherwise:
"The point the War is Boring article was trying to make, and the point the JPO has failed to refute in its rebuttal, is that aircraft do not always get to fight on their terms, and that it is no good saying that just because the F-35 is not designed to dogfight it will never have to do so..... This concern will persist until the F-35 is able to prove otherwise, regardless of whether the aircraft was designed to dogfight or not."
which ties in directly with the USAF Gen. Hostage's comment, vis-a-vis the F-35 lacking in maneuverability/short range air combat capability... not built as an air superiority platform!
as for your other comment, are you now categorically stating that the F-35 was never marketed as a, "highly proficient close-range fighter with high-maneuverability"? Is that what you're saying?
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Does that mean you also accept his comments on the limitation of F-35 "dog-fighting and air-superiority" capabilities... those too?
Contrasted with the F-22? Without a doubt.
please show where the former USAF 'head of combat' was drawing a contrast with the F-22... sure you can!
He contrasted both aircraft in the link I provided regarding "stealth".
classic! Because you continually do this... steer off and away from the actual focus/discussion, I've taken the trouble of showing the sequence of related posts... in fact, as shown, you bold-highlighted the sentence in my post you were replying directly to... you did that, you bold-highlighted the reference to, "dog-fighting and air-superiority". Of course, the prior focus had been on the (now retired) former head of the USAF's Air Combat Command's statement, "The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22". That is not "contrasting with/to/against the F-22... that was speaking to the inherent limitations of the F-35! And when I ask you to show where that supposed drawn contrast was made... you steer off and away to speak to stealth. Notwithstanding, as already stated, even in that stealth context, the broad statement is made that F-35 stealth "is better" than the F-22... and the guy never states why - never elaborates... just makes the statement that you presume to then leverage and extend upon.
again, yet another of your classic moves!
of course, in those earlier years, LockMart/JPO did tout the F-35 as a 'dog-fighter'... a highly proficient close-range fighter with high-maneuverability! And how many countries signed on over that long-trumpeted theme? Then somehow, over time, the message began to shift, to change and 'air-to-air fighting' capability was dropped in favour of the "new reality" realized in initial testing... suddenly the F-35 became the "best ground-attack" fighter... and the "best designed plane to engage, shoot and kill the enemy from long distances”. Have I missed anything?
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Topaz, harper never crossed my mind ,but quite the idea. I wonder if he would even think of it. If it did trudeau might want to quit meeting the premiers. lol
when the NDP won in Alberta, Harper was on a mission - Stephen Harper had plan to unite Alberta’s right as Conservative Party. After Trudeau sent Harper packing... while still "finding his way", there was a lot of serious "scuttlebutt" that Harper would take a run at directly "settling the Alberta right"... on through to a run as Alberta Premier. Apparently, he found a better offer instead! Stay tuned for just what that might be...
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Who do you think the "Pentagon" works for ? Why is the U.S. DoD enlisted as a white knight by desperate climate change faithful ?
why... how conspiratorial of you... and you claiming to be an ex-militaryMan!
reading you dismiss the GOP actions in favour of applying your standard deflecting GW/AGW/CC denier routine is gold.
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You can't make an omelet without scrambling a few eggs.
speaking of scrambled eggs... Trump is "fortuitously" in Scotland to reopen his "Turnberry golf course": "running a nation is a lot like running a golf course. When the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly".
Brexit... all about Trump and making him some coin!
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He only needs cover from the very extreme outliers of the outrage industry who wake up every morning, ram a broonstick up their butts and then look for a reason for the pain.
It was a very slow outrage day, that day.
I guess if you consider mainstream media outlets and First Nation peoples... outliers! I trust Kenney will acknowledge his coverTroops... with a tweet!
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This is a rejection of the elites, a sign that ordinary people felt the elites made decisions which largely benefited themselves.
they sure showed them there elites... so what if their economy tanks... and their 'kingdom' falls apart - they sure showed em'!
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Restating a point while continuing to ignore the context does not help. The DOD simply accepted the spurious claims that climate change is going to increase global conflict (probably because doing anything else would lead to conflict with the Obama administration). It did not go out and check if these claims had any merit in the first place. Any pronouncements on climate change by the DOD must be assessed given this context.
uhhh... "Restating a point while continuing to ignore the context does not help."
c'mon, you should be on board... the U.S. DoD focus is your focus - adaptation! Department of Defense (DoD) --- 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap (CCAR)
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I've never heard anyone refer to indigenous people as "settlers". The common usage of the term is certainly different than how Kenney was using it. Was he making some sort of political statement?
all this attempt to give Kenney cover! The first migrators! The first occupiers!... uhhh... the first "settlers"! Why bother; Kenney appears to have bigger fish to fry and will make himself inconsequential on the national stage - Jason Kenney - the first "settler of the Alberta right"!
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Logically for stealth critics, the F-22 is useless in the future, and that's why the Russians and Chinese are so busy trying to copy it. They should have purchased Super Hornets instead !!
you claim to be a former USNguy... from the chiefCheese: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert:
- "You can only go so fast, and you know that stealth may be overrated. ... Let's face it, if something moves fast through the air, disrupts molecules and puts out heat — I don't care how cool the engine can be, it's going to be detectable. You get my point."
- {2012}..."better computing power would ultimately greatly undermine the value of stealth".
- "Those developments do not herald the end of stealth, but they do show the limits of stealth design in getting platforms close enough to use short-range weapons"
- "It is time to consider shifting our focus from platforms that rely solely on stealth to also include concepts for operating farther from adversaries using standoff weapons and unmanned systems — or employing electronic-warfare payloads to confuse or jam threat sensors rather than trying to hide from them."
as for the Russian and Chinese stealth pursuits you presume to apply your wedge with, why my read has them aligned with the USN top dog... pursuing UAV: do ya think the Chinese name 'Divine Eagle' has any implication?
so again... why hasn't the USN embraced the F-35... why is that, hey?
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Contrasted with the F-22? Without a doubt.
please show where the former USAF 'head of combat' was drawing a contrast with the F-22... sure you can!
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Just reading the reaction to Jason Kenney's tweet about Aboriginal Day. Some people sure have a lot to say about nothing.
oh my! Referring to 'First Nation' peoples as the first "settlers" ... how... colonial of him.
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Like these now long retired aircraft, Canada's CF-188's should have been in museums years ago.
oh my! Not that its needed, but if there ever was a statement that clearly shows your lack of knowledge... this is it! Care to comment on the current inventory of active Hornets in the USMC and USN? Why... I understand the USMC just extended the life of it's Hornets to 2035... a 'paper-shuffle' with the Harrier coming forward 5 years; apparently more cost effective to extend the Hornets over the Harrier jets. Well, that... and the continued delays with the F-35!
these links are just weeks old now:
Navy Lays Bare F/A-18 Readiness Gaps, Could Take Year to Surge Air Wing
Navy Digging Out Of Fighter Shortfall; Marines Still Struggling To Fly At Home
if you suggest Canada's Hornets, "should be in museums years ago"... where does that position the USN and USMC Hornets, expected to be there to 2040, 2035 respectively?
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You are entitled to your conspiracy theory, as that is a story that you have heard.......I'll take a clear statement from the head of the USAF's fighter force
nice! Again... the guy you keep touting has been retired almost 2 years now - update your talking point, please! Clearly, anything from the U.S. military that aligns with your position/agenda... that's not propaganda fueled by LockMart/JPO influence... that's absolute and "statement of fact"... to you, anyways! Does that mean you also accept his comments on the limitation of F-35 "dog-fighting and air-superiority" capabilities... those too?
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Low frequency band radars (VHF/UHF) can't direct (guide) missiles, anymore than 1950s rabbit ears on a tv can, due to the fact that they are low frequency and are subject to "ghosting"......as accurate as playing darts blindfolded..........in addition, unlike high frequency radars (fire control/search radars), low frequency bands can't be strobed (turned on and off rapidly), making them more susceptible to anti-radiation attacks........any emitting (active) radar can be "seen" long before by attackers then the inverse.
The F-35's radar/DAS can track something as small as a mortar round or as fast as a ballistic missile........The West might start taking notice of the Russians (or Chinese) once they join the rest of the world in this century........
uhhh... clearly, low-band detection of stealth aircraft has been there for some years now - and here I understood the only thing constraining the discernment of targets more precisely was... improved computing power - yes? All that "talk" of Chinese and Russian pursuits to that end... that's just talk? Seems to me you've used that convenient, "where there's smoke, there's fire", comment in the past - yes? And you seem so, so, certain too!
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Uh.....no, per the head of Air Combat Command:
No, per the head of the USAF's fighter force, the F-35's all aspect "stealth" is better than the F-22........the aircraft rumored to best all others is the B-2......which being apart of the nuclear triad, they won't publicly confirm.
hey D2.0... have you stayed away long enough... to avoid all those pointedly critical references to the F-35? Why, I even replied to you directly with a couple of those... and yet somehow you've managed to ignore them and all of a sudden pop-up when stealth reference comes forward. Go figure, hey! The again, those many pages of non-F35 derail discussion did help the 'bury job' on all those critical posts, right?
let me remind you that Gen. Mike Hostage has been retired almost 2 years now... but we had some 'fun' with earlier comments of his, right? You remember where he stated, "If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22.". That really went over quite well - all that ensuing "heated debate in aerospace and defence circles", yes? I guess since no countries outside the U.S. have F-22s, why... that sort of fits right into the mold of JSF doesn't it? The U.S. gets all these "nation partners" to line-up and become the "fodder F-35s" feeding successive waves of the next U.S. led "intervention"... and the next, and the next, etc.. But hey now, I guess that comment of his fits right in with the F-35 not being able to "dogfight", right?
so let's go back those couple of years and examine the retired Gen. Hostage's remarks on F-35 versus F-22 stealth... and particularly all his trumpeted statements on how he would deploy 'x' number of F-35s in the first wave, etc., - what's that based on... 2 years ago? Hell, what's it even based on today - simulators?
certainly, by the strict numbers of RCS, the F-35 can't match the F-22 - and that's just the 'head on' look... clearly the F-35 'bottom/top/sides' presentation signature doesn't come close to the 'head on' number, right? But then again, you used the words, "all aspect stealth" and don't bother to elaborate further. Imagine that! - then again, all this talk/hype about resurrecting the F-22, where's that coming from and how does it reflect upon the F-35, hey? And you can't dismiss that as "blog talk", can you... not when it reaches into the top echelon of military and political discussion, right?
of course one could look at the context of the retired Gen. Hostage's remarks and view it as just 'internal USAF versus USN' banter/posturing... and their respective 'philosophy differences', yes? There is a reason why the USN hasn't quite embraced the F-35... what could it be, what could it be?
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SO much notwithstanding. Regardless, I don't think we're arguing about anything here. I brought up the concerns with the F-35's stealth tech years ago. The F-22 has been in service since ~2005 and the Reds have no doubt been working on improving their detection capabilities since then. The F-35 isn't as stealthy as the F-22, however, so what we're really banking on is that the Russians will not have been able to solve either the F-22's stealth abilities nor the inferior F-35's either with 20+ years of research.
notwithstanding your unnecessary smarmy references to... notwithstanding, those notwithstandings... stand! They're significant above and beyond the principal focus of claimed inherent F-35 'stealthiness'. Notwithstanding advances in infrared 'search & track' - notwithstanding that! If you claim to have years ago expressed concerns over the F-35 stealth tech, your comment I replied to is... odd; where you said, "The really scary thing about this plane IMO is what happens if/when the Russians/Chinese are capable of defeating the F-35's stealth systems?" Which, of course, presumes they (I presume your described "Reds"... really, "Reds"?) don't have that capability now. Wasn't it the Russians who actually pioneered IRST? In any case, the point is most MLW neophytes here speak of the F-35 stealth as some form of invincibility... that it's not.
"What does that next strike fighter look like?" Greenert said during the speech in Washington. "I'm not sure it's manned, don't know that it is. You can only go so fast, and you know that stealth may be overrated ... Let's face it, if something moves fast through the air, disrupts molecules and puts out heat — I don't care how cool the engine can be, it's going to be detectable. You get my point."
Greenert's has a long-standing skepticism of stealth, which he believes will not be able to keep up with advances in radar technology. In 2012, Greenert wrote that "t is time to consider shifting our focus from platforms that rely solely on stealth to also include concepts for operating farther from adversaries using standoff weapons and unmanned systems — or employing electronic-warfare payloads to confuse or jam threat sensors rather than trying to hide from them."
Greenert's position on the questionable utility of stealth meshes with what certain figures in the US defense industry are saying, with Boeing taking the view that electro-magnetic warfare and the use of jamming technology is fundamentally more important than stealth.
... as in the Boeing Super Hornet F/A-18F variant, the EA-18G Growler
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These days, one should be more concerned about shouting "Shooter !" instead of "Fire !".
in which country would that be, hey?
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Canada's fighter "jets" radar signature will soon be the smallest of all, 'cause there will so few of them deemed airworthy. Very inexpensive stealth,,,,
hey, no worries - see interim 'gap-filling' purchase, uhhh... suggestion; ya, suggestion! Try to keep up, hey!
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Whatever happens in Canada means nothing in this game.
oh really!
Talk to the NRA-hand: NRA involved in gun registry debateThe National Rifle Association, a powerful lobbying group in the United States that advocates fewer gun controls, has been actively involved in trying to abolish Canada's long-gun registry for more than a decade, CBC News has learned.
Documents and correspondence obtained by the CBC show the NRA has provided logistical and tactical support to organizations such as the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (CILA), established in 1998 to lobby Ottawa to shut down the registry.
In 2000, the NRA paid $100,000 for an infomercial about what it called "the Canadian situation" that aired on The National Network in the U.S., according to Bernardo, who appeared in the video.
It cautioned gun owners the registry was a government plot to find out how many guns there were in order to seize them and leave citizens helpless to defend themselves.
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The fact that its radar signature is significantly smaller than its peers and that radar is still the primary means of detecting aircraft?
notwithstanding the absence of any formal statement on the state of F-35 stealth, vis-a-vis real-world testing (isn't "classified" just a handy ready go-to), the F-35 signature you speak to is, per specification/as reported, keyed to 'X' band with a stated good stealth capability on a "narrow frontal aspect" (supposedly not F-22 good, but still...); less so from the sides/bottom/top/rear. However, see tech advances in 'X' band radars on board fighters making them more capable of stealth target detection; e.g. Russian Su-35 fighter & IRBIS-E X-band radar. Notwithstanding, of course, advances in lower-band radars (VHF, UHF) allowing mobile ground-based radar systems to, reportedly, detect "low-observable aircraft" and more accurately direct missiles toward those targets.
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So. Should one take their pension at 60 or wait until 65?
Yeah, but how does one work out the cut off date. If I take my CPP at 60, in a couple of years, and invest it wisely into RRSPs, I then have to consider the tax implications of withdrawing that money later compared to just banging the CPP into a savings account. Given that I keep working for a few more years after age 60.
I'm economically illiterate.
crossover point... "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and said bird can be invested, generating even more returns." Notwithstanding, typically, a health related diminished "quality of life" as you age past... "what age"? If you have ever had occasion to visit long-term care facilities, you will also readily recognize the disproportionate number of women-to-men still living... there's that too.
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Jason Kenney - Unite the right in Alberta
in Provincial Politics in Canada
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Jason Kenney... not the Uniter; rather, the Leaver!
Congratulations to the British people on choosing hope over fear by embracing a confident, sovereign future, open to the world! #Brexit