Today a Special Ops told China to end the tensions with Tiawan.

These are the acts of the men and women of the USA military. They are vital to international balance of power. They are unheralded, but, they are there when it matters.

2020/10/8
By Keoni Everington

Taipei — China's declaration the median line (click here) in the Taiwan Strait does not exist was upended when Taiwanese aviation enthusiasts saw an American warplane appear to "draw" the exact location of the unofficial boundary.

On Sept. 21, Beijing suddenly decided to deny the existence of the median line in the Taiwan Strait, despite the fact there has been a tacit agreement in place not to cross the line since 1955. Since September, People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft have repeatedly crossed the median line and breached Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ).

The Facebook page of Taiwanese aircraft spotter "Southwest Airspace of TW" (台灣西南空域) at 11:19 a.m. on Thursday morning stated that an MC-130J was flying north to south along the median line. The administrator of the Facebook page, surnamed Hsu (許), made a comment below noting the placement of the flight path in between Taiwan and China and wrote "this is a little weird."

At 11:24 a.m. on Thursday, aircraft spotter CANUK78 posted a tweet stated that a US Air Force Lockheed MC-130J Commando II was flying over the Taiwan Strait. The flight path included in the tweet showed the aircraft flying right down the middle of the Taiwan Strait from north to south.

At 11:54 a.m., aircraft spotter JW Wiese posted a tweet also stating that an MC-130J had flown over the Taiwan Strait and listed it as a "Multimission combat transport/special operations tanker, assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)." The route shown on JW Wiese's tweet showed the plane first flying down the middle of the Taiwan Strait, before making a sharp turn to the east, taking it briefly over western Taiwan, and later heading west over the Taiwan Strait.

After the plane had made perfect "L" shape, Hsu at 12:27 p.m. wrote, "The median line has been drawn, mission completed." Another Taiwanese aviation fan then joked, "Did the chief judge come today to draw the line?"

On Thursday afternoon, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) stated that it was aware of all flights that morning and "the situation is normal." The MND had previously reported a similar mission by the same type of aircraft on Aug. 29 last year.

The plane's airframe identifier is AE596A and it is special mission aircraft operated by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). According to the aircraft's maker Lockheed Martin, the MC-130J is “capable of worldwide employment for missions requiring clandestine single- or multi-ship low-level aerial refueling of Special Operation Force vertical and tilt-rotor aircraft and/or infiltration, resupply and exfiltration by airdrop, or landing on remote airfields.”

There is no greater honor.

Humayan Kahn was a talented and brilliant man. He was exceptionally compassionate. He could not look at the disabled without feeling a need to help their lives to be better.

This brilliant man loved his country. As war unfolded following the attacks on USA soil on September 11, 2001, he felt compelled to take up the protection of the country. He went to fight for all of us. We lost him because of his heroic acts.

Today, facing a global pandemic we call many people heroes and they are. But, without men such as Captain Humayun Khan, we would not have a country to provide for heroes to save lives from a very vicious virus.

The greatest sacrifice an American can make is to give their life in war. Captain Khan was one of those men and his family is embraced for their loss to remind them exactly who he was and who they are.

I am sorry for the Kahn family loss, but, he fought to protect us all and we won't forget the sacrifice of a true hero and his love of this country where his immigrant family found peace and happiness.

1 August 2016

Capt Humayun Khan (click here) - a US soldier who died fending off a suicide bomber in 2004 - has become an unlikely player in the 2016 election.

But who was the Army officer whose parents are now locked in public battle with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump?

Khan was born in 1976 and his Pakistani family immigrated to the US two years later.

They settled in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Humayun grew up with two brothers.

His father has described him as a patriotic child with a fascination for Thomas Jefferson, one of America's founders.

While in secondary school, Humayun volunteered to give swimming lessons to disabled children.

After joining the University of Virginia, he signed up for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which prepares university students to become officers in the US military.

His father, who is a lawyer, was opposed to the move. But the younger Khan persisted.

"He wanted to give back. That's what he wanted to do," his father told the Washington Post.

After graduating from university in 2000, he served in the Army for four years and rose to the rank of captain.

What is a political crime?

There is fraud, and misdirecting the USMail, but, what the heck is a political crime?

Oh, yeah, sedition and treason. There is espionage like the Russian hacking of the Clinton campaign and then publish it to undermine an election.

An act or omission prejudicial to the interests of the state or government. 

An attack on the political order. Hm. That must be like the attack Trump is currently engaged in premeditated election ballot disarray. Right, DeJoy? Those sorting machines repaired and reassembled yet?

There is no formal statute that defines "political crime." There is no formal statute that defines political crime in any state or territory of the USA either.

This is an academic video and definition.

Political crime (click here) is an offense committed with the intent to harm a federal, state, or local government under certain conditions. This lesson discusses political crimes, what differentiates them from other crimes, and some examples of political crime over the years....

This is what I call political crime. Trump's son in law volunteers his time in the Oval Office. Right. It was all self-serving. Kushner even admitted the diplomatic efforts by countries in the Middle East is not called a peace process. Palestine? Palestine who?

October 1, 2020
by Heather Vogell

Despite a history of underperforming properties, (click here) Kushner Companies received a near-record sum from a government-backed lender. Should it default, taxpayers could be forced to foot much of the bill. The agency says politics played no role....

Basically, Kushner extorted the federal government for every dime he could find.

The legal definition for "Shake Down" would be interesting in this case.

Kushner got LOAN GUARANTEES. Guess what happens next BECAUSE OF THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC?

"Heil Trump"

 

Joe Biden and audience MUST be completely protected from the air Donald John Trump breaths.

I don't think anyone cares about these debates anyway, there is too much risk.

The only way to protect everyone from Typhoid Donald is to place him in a hermetically sealed booth that has negative pressure to vent the booth's air to the outside.

The entire Trump campaign is infected with SARS-CoV-2 and they don't care. Please understand that THEY DON'T CARE.

INFECTING JOE BIDEN and the audience in the room is an agenda item for Trump. 

Trump PRACTICES "Herd Immunity" every day of his life. He does not care about infecting anyone else. "It is what it is."

Joe Biden has to make it clear he will uphold his standard. There is no other solution. If Joe decides to cave on this, it will jeopardize his promise to America.

Yesterday Kamala Harris was in the room with Pence that was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 within the previous week. She could be at risk as well. There is absolutely no compromise on this issue going forward.

A Virtual Debate is perfectly fine and if Trump refuses, then we don't need to hear from him. 

Chris Christie (click here) is still hospitalized after being exposed to the virus while coaching Trump for the first debate. This is outrageous. There is just no way Joe Biden and the audience should be in the same room with Trump and unprotected.

I congratulate Chris Christie on staying in a hospital room receiving treatment and protecting others from this virus. He needs to stay in the hospital until he is completely well. This is a very bad virus and he needs to be careful.

By all rights, Trump should still be in the hospital. He isn't because he believes he knows more than his physicians do and refused to follow their orders. Sure he was discharged, but, he is the president and there really wasn't another path for the doctors or hospital, short of taking him to court to enforce a quarantine. They should have done that.

Donald Trump is risking it all. There is no reason for anyone else to do the same thing.

There is a reason why indoor air is more dangerous and why restaurants and bars are super spreader events.

October 5, 2020
By Apoorva Mandavilli

Two weeks (click here) after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took down a statement about airborne transmission of the coronavirus, the agency on Monday replaced it with language citing new evidence that the virus can spread beyond six feet indoors.

“These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation,” the new guidance said. “Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.”...

Mike Pence carries Trump's lies. He is therefore as untrustworthy as his boss.

Last night Kamala Harris stated she would be first in line to take a vaccine if recommended by the public health authorities, but, not if dictated by Donald John Trump. Mike Pence took offense by that statement and said it was not the best idea to stand against the public health of the USA. That statement to Camala Harris indicated that Mike Pence carries Trump's lies to the public health. Kamala Harris is correct in that clearing a vaccine for use in the requires the recommendation of the public health authorities. Neither Trump nor Pence have credentials that allow them to insist on a vaccine that is not backed by the public health authorities.

The WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (click here) has stated he expects a vaccine by the end of the year.

That said, Donald John Trump states he wants the same treatment he is receiving to fight COVID-19 for all the people of the USA when needed.

Fine.

Where is the money?

Donald John Trump has a team of seven doctors, a multidisciplinary team that includes nurses, RESPIRATORY THERAPISTS, and ancillary help that provided personal care, including linen changes and providing towels as well as a dietitian and the kitchen attendants that bring helpful and healthy food.

I want the cost of care to Donald John Trump known to the public and then the Congress and the Executive Branch must allocate that amount of money for every American in the country should they need it. That allotment of monies needs to go to the hospitals in the country ON ADMISSION OF COVID-19 PATIENTS.

Now.

October 6, 2020
By Siladitya Ray

 

“There is hope” (click here) that a vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by the end of this year, the World Health Organisation’s Director-General said in his closing remarks to the global agency’s executive board on Tuesday without offering any additional details, according to a Reuters report...