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Jeff Head

General
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Really sobering to see that something so deadly can be so beautiful.
Yes. Without the staging/separation, you would see how someone would think of it as a comet or large meteorite.

This was well out to sea and most of the stunning pictures came from telephoto zooms, either from cameras or modern smart phones.

Also, this is in the ascent stage as the missile gets near the edge of the atmosphere.

Of course actual incoming RVs would not have the large exhaust plume or any separation. They may well glow on reentry like meteorites and have some small tail...but nothing like what we see here.

The real horror would be to look out to sea and see several hundred such glows, with small tails coming at you, and then see them MIRV.

The beauty of that would not last long.
 

SteelBird

Colonel
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YANGON/HINTHADA, Myanmar, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat in the country's general election on Monday as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory.

"We lost," Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) acting chairman Htay Oo told Reuters in an interview a day after the Southeast Asian country's first free nationwide election in quarter of a century.

The election commission has not yet announced any results from Sunday's poll, but Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) said that partial counts showed it had won more than 80 percent of votes cast in the densely populated central regions.

NLD spokesman Win Htein said that outside the central area, the Nobel peace laureate's party had so far won more than 65 percent of votes cast in the states of Mon and Kayin. Results from the five other states were not yet known, he added.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
I am really concerned about some of the things Aung San Suu Kyi have been saying of late.

Her intention to ride roughshod over the constitution to rule above the President, even though the constitution bans her from being able to run for president (because of her British passport I believe, which while a little unfair and obvious aimed at her, is hardly that unusual or unreasonable) is particularly troubling and not at all in keeping with the selfless heroine image she has carefully cultivated for herself.

I am getting the same vibe from her as I did with Obama - someone who seems very patient and calculating. Able to meticulously maintain the perfect image of what the world wants to see, but who I feel is hiding their true self from the world.

Someone able to do that is a very capable and determined political animal, but also someone who I am extremely vary of.
 

Jeff Head

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(From the Gatway Pundit)

This is what Israel deals with on a daily baisis:


Here are images of the sequence of events of an attack at a street corner, the location of an Israeli security check point.

Here a Palestinian woman approaches the checkpoint on the corner:

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Here she hands her ID to the security checkpoint guard:

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Here she waits as the guard checks her ID:

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Here she pulls a large knife out of her purse:

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Here she lunges toward the guard who falls back:

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Here she lies on the sidewalk just down from the check point:

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She wounded the checkpoint guard, but he was able to shoot her and critically wound her after a short struggle which came back out onto the sidewalk.

She is a 23 year-old Palestinian woman, whom the IDF now believes wanted to attack a bus stop there after she dealt with the guard. We shall never really know, but we do know she attacked the guard and tried to kill him.
 
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delft

Brigadier
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(From the Gatway Pundit)

This is what Israel deals with on a daily baisis:


Here are images of the sequence of events of an attack at a street corner, the location of an Israeli security check point.

Here a Palestinian woman approaches the checkpoint on the corner:

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Here she hands her ID to the security checkpoint guard:

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Here she waits as the guard checks her ID:

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Here she pulls a large knife out of her purse:

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Here she lunges toward the guard who falls back:

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Here she lies on the sidewalk just down from the check point:

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She wounded the checkpoint guard, but he was able to shoot her and critically wound her after a short struggle which came back out onto the sidewalk.

She is a 23 year-old Palestinian woman, whom the IDF now believes wanted to attack a bus stop there after she dealt with the guard. We shall never really know, but we do know she attacked the guard and tried to kill him.
That's what you get when you treat millions of people as less than citizens in their own country, terrorize them, destroy their olive trees, steal their land.
I think the time for a two state solution has passed. Israel should end its Apartheid system, as US did in the 1960's, South Africa in the 1990's, annex West Bank and Gaza, and give voting rights to all Palestinians.
After all the Palestinians have living in the country since before the name Palestine was introduced by the Roman Empire at the end of the Bar Kochba war.
 
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plawolf

Lieutenant General
The longer the impasse continues, the worse it gets for Israel and the moderates on all sides.

As things stand, the demographics trends look like a ticking time bomb for Israel.

Without a Two State Solution, Arab-Israelis, who are predominantly of Palestinian descent, are set to become the dominant ethnic group in time.

On the other hand, within the Jewish-Israeli segment, the moderates are also loosing ground, demographically speaking, to the ultra-orthodox hard right.

As things stands, I and many experts fear things will come to ahead.

As the Arab-Israelis are set to become the dominant ethnic group within Israel, the ultra-orthodox group are set to become the dominant group within the Jewish-Israeli segment of Israeli society.

That is going to create a situation where it is frighteningly easy to imagine an actual Apartheid system being introduced in Israel aimed at keeping Israel a Jewish state and to stop the Arab-Israelis "taking over from the inside".

If that happens, its going to get real ugly and real unpleasant for an awful lot of people.

The best way to avoid that potential nightmare is a real viable Two State Solution.
 

Jeff Head

General
Registered Member
That's what you get when you ....
Delft, "That's what you get..." is just another way of saying it is justified.

It's not.

When you have a group of people whose mandate in their constitution calls for the destruction of Israel it would be just as easy to say, "that's what they get."

I personally believe that Israeli's expectation that denouncing their mandate calling for Israelis destruction is, and should be non-negotiable

Having said that, my post above was meant simply as news. It is precisely what happened.

It was not mean as an initiation for political debate.
 
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