Very interesting article in the Washington Times today talking about the role of an intelligence cell on the Battle of Midway:

It was during the spring of 1942 that the tide of the Pacific War  began to shift — not in a battle at sea, it turned out, but in the  depths of “the dungeon.”

That was the nickname for the cramped basement space in the Pearl Harbor  Naval Shipyard, conceived as a storage room before being converted to  an office for Capt. Joseph Rochefort’s “Station Hypo” code-breaking team  during World War II.

Rendered cold and damp by the installation of an overzealous air  conditioner, the dungeon, as its moniker would suggest, didn’t offer the  most luxurious of working environments. While the shadow of Japan’s  control over the Pacific grew, the American code-breakers worked day and  night in their dark, dank accommodations, desperately hoping to find an  advantage against a force of naval precision unlike any they had seen  before.

And that’s exactly what they did. Late that April, they cracked the  empire’s naval code. On June 4, 1942, a Japanese fleet featuring four  aircraft carriers set its sights on Midway, a small coral outpost used  by U.S. forces in Hawaii. When they arrived, the forewarned Americans  were ready.

You should go read the whole thing as it is incredibly interesting.  I did find a video that talks a little about the role of the INTEL guys:

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U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER MICROWAVE WEAPON

Each day, a nationwide microwave/laser “multifunctional” electromagnetic radiation directed energy weapon attack system employing “phased array” cell tower antenna transmitter/receivers and GPS satellites — under the apparent command of dozens of U.S. Department of Homeland Security- administered “fusion centers” and military contractor Lockheed Martin — is used to silently and invisibly torture, impair, subjugate, and degrade the physical and neurological health of thousands of unjustly, extrajudicially “targeted” American citizens…

 

…and most of the victims have no idea what is making them sick, tired, exhausted, irritable, confused, lethargic; plagued with painful, debilitating head and body aches, sharp, piercing, painful ringing tones audible only to the target, temporary or permanent cognitive impairment…

  

…leaving them unable to function normally and lead a happy, healthy life.

  

Victims of this government-engineered, stealth genocide are robbed of the most basic of human rights — free will, freedom from external manipulation of their physiological and neurological functions.

  

The weapon system is capable of delivering scalar (or longitudinal) microwave and other radio frequency energy attacks that are precision tuned to specific brainwave frequencies of each human target. Virtually all of the victims previously have visited a doctor or neurologist seeking treatment for pounding headache, unexplained fatigue, sleep problems, or disturbing symptoms such as cognitive impairment. Those medical visits allow shadow government operatives to harvest medical records, including EEG test results that facilitate “brain mapping” — how microwave torturers are able to mount radio frequency attacks fine-tuned to each unique individual targeted for no-touch torture, impairment, or, over time, slow-kill murder.

Who ya gonna call?

From my other home….

When I was a young lad I had a book which contained some of the famous speeches and writings from US History, with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Paine and others. My favorite was always JFK’s inaugural address, but not as much the “ask not” section as much as the section that was his defense of liberty….

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Later I would get some of the backstory on this speech, mostly his anger when China was lost to the Maoists….

Mr. Speaker, over this weekend we have learned the extent of the disaster that has befallen China and the United States. The responsibility for the failure of our foreign policy in the Far East rests squarely with the White House and the Department of State. The continued insistence that aid would not be forthcoming, unless a coalition of government with the Communists were formed, was a crippling blow to the National Government.…This is a tragic story of China, whose freedom we once fought to preserve. What our young men had saved, our diplomats and our President have frittered away.

I was thinking about this quote the other day as I read numerous reports about the sad case of Pakistani Doctor Shakil Afridi who has been charged and convicted of Treason, with a sentence imposed of 33 years. A reminder from The Washington Post:

The ISI [Pakistani Inteligence] detained Afridi, a government surgeon, three weeks after U.S. commandos killed bin Laden. Afridi, 48, ran a fake hepatitis vaccination drive to collect bin Laden’s DNA as a way to verify the al-Qaeda leader’s presence in Abbottabad, the garrison town in Pakistan where he hid for six years until his death.

Senior U.S. officials and several members of Congress have expressed outrage at Pakistan’s punishment of Afridi, while lauding him as a hero and patriot. But Pakistani leaders call him a traitor who spied for a foreign power that launched an illegal unilateral operation.

Within the context of JFKs world view, is Pakistan a friend or foe? And what can be done about Doctor Afridi?

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Seriously, these guys are so full of shite:

The last decade has seen major changes in the American radical right. What was once a world largely dominated by a few relatively well-organized groups has become a scene populated by large numbers of smaller, weaker groups, with only a handful led by the kind of charismatic chieftains that characterized the 1990s. At the same time, there has been explosive growth in several sectors of the radical right, especially in the last few years, much of it driven by anger over the diminishing white majority (the Census Bureau has predicted that non-Hispanic whites will fall to less than 50% of the population by 2050) and the severe dislocations caused by a still-ailing economy.

And, listed in their Top 30 activists:

Malik Zulu Shabazz

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Let me say at the outset that I think this case is fine.  The combat exclusion for women is kind of a dodge anyway, because it isn’t actually followed.  Which is not to say I think women should be SF or anything else.  But last month when I was running around, I was doing so with two wonderful young ladies from a CA unit that were patroling with the INF guys.  (SSG Booth and I forget the other young ladies name.)  So, I think they have a point that the policy isn’t followed anyway.   Here’s the story on the case:

Two female soldiers asked a federal judge to throw out the U.S. military’s restrictions on women in combat, claiming the policy violates their constitutional rights.

U.S. Army reservists Jane Baldwin and Ellen Haring, in a lawsuit filed today in Washington, said policies excluding them from assignments “solely because they are women” violate their right to equal protection guaranteed by the Constitution’s 5th Amendment. The complaint names Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Secretary John McHugh as defendants.

“This limitation on plaintiffs’ careers restricts their current and future earnings, their potential for promotion and advancement, and their future retirement benefits,” the women said in the complaint filed by Christopher Sipes of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington.

I’m curious to any who support the women in this case to explain to me though how the differing PT standards would not be a good cause of action for men?  If you take a male and a female service member with the exact same background across the board, and give them the same exact raw numbers on the PT test, the woman will get promoted, and the man will get flagged for PT failure.   Would not the differing PT standard tilting towards women not violate the men’s right to equal protection guaranteed by the Constitution’s 5th Amendment?

It’s not a novel thing here, and I know that as well, but I’ve still never heard a good articulation as to why women excluded from combat units is an injustice, but women’s lower PT standards isn’t ALSO an injustice.

Been reading this for about an hour now, and my IQ has easily dropped to half what it was when I woke up.   It’s like the dude was channeling Jesse MacBeth to write it:

The numbers in the camp used to be close to one thousand but the daily beatings and thehard work caused hundreds to sneak out and leave. There was one case in which some people had slept through their shift of guarding. So they were lined up and told to extendtheir hand to be smacked with a stick 10 times (although it would have been more if Ihadn’t have explained that there is no more than 10 lashes for penalties other than those prescribed in the Qur’aan and Sunnah). One unlucky customer was crawling all over theground crying in agony. I think I later found out that he had fractured his hand or something.(Just to throw in a disclaimer, the trainer really did mean well. He actually thought this wasthe best way to train people. He himself had gone through much worse and he used toexplain how his Kung fu teacher would make them do crazy exercises. Despite his toughappearance, he used to cry in the prayers when he heard the verses of the Qur’aan recited.So it’s not like he was a terrible guy.)

I don’t know why this cracked me up.  Old Kung Fu Jones here hitting people with sticks. Hilarious.  I cry watching Army Wives.  Probably a different reason.

Anyway, if you have time, go read it, but protect your brain and read it in small doses.