Sunday, October 19, 2014

LPP Focus Fusion Report


LPP Focus Fusion Report  

October 17, 2014

Summary:

 

  • ARPA-E allows aneutronic fusion applications
  • Tungsten anode installed in FF-1; aluminum cathode model checked out
  • Crowdfunding rewards shipped out

ARPA-E Alters Requirements
To Allow Aneutronic Fusion Applications And LPPFusion Applies For Grant


ARPA-E, responding to a question from LPPFusion, has altered its requirements for its new ALPHA Funding Opportunity Announcement so as to allow aneutronic fusion concepts to compete for grants in the we $30 million program. This is the first time, to our knowledge, that a US Department of Energy program has considered aneutronic fusion proposals. In light of these new requirements, LPPFusion has submitted a proposal to ARPA-E for a $2 million, two-year grant.

The ALPHA (Accelerating Low Cost Plasma Heating and Assembly) funding program was announced by ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) in late August, aimed at funding alternative fusion ideas. However, in the original call for applications, ARPA-E had set a requirement that fusion yield be 5 times input energy—a requirement that was unnecessary for pB11 (hydrogen –boron) aneutronic fuel and probably impossible to meet. LPPFusion sent a question to ARPA-E, asking that the requirement be changed to take into account the much higher efficiency of energy conversion (and much more economical energy conversion) possible with aneutronic fuels.  Such fuels produce energy in the form of charged particles, allowing a direct conversion into electricity, without use of an expensive and inefficient steam cycle.

ARPA-E responded to our question on the “FAQ” section of their website that applicants could instead use a requirement that the electricity recycled back to the next pulse be no more than half
 the total electricity generated. (This is the same as requiring that net power be more than half of total electric power). They specifically mentioned higher efficiency with direct conversion of charged particles, typical of aneutronic fuels (although they did not mention the fuels themselves). They then incorporated this change into a revised announcement. This revised requirement is one that a Focus Fusion generator could meet—although such a generator would still be highly economical, even if net power were only 30% of generated electricity.

ARPA-E will first decide on the basis of 4-page concept papers, which applicants will be asked for full detailed applications. Then 12-15 grants will be awarded on the basis of these applications.

Tungsten Anode Goes Into FF-1; Aluminum Cathode Model Is Checked


October 10, LPPFusion team members Eric Lerner, Hamid Yousefi and Tony Ellis lifted the tungsten anode into place on top of the FF-1 dense plasma focus experimental device (figure 1). The anode had previously been attached to its steel connecting plate (see September report) and was temporarily attached to a metal carrying rod for insertion through the Mylar insulating layers. It was then unbolted from the rod and the steel connecting plate was carefully aligned and bolted to the upper outer bus plate, connecting it into the FF-1 main circuit.
 

Figure 1. The new monolithic tungsten anode rests inside FF-1.  Its base is surrounded by the insulating layers of Mylar that will keep the current from shorting out to the cathode, to be mounted below it.
 

The same week, Lerner and Yousefi carefully measured an aluminum model (Figure 2), shipped to us by Tungsten Heavy Powder, the firm producing the tungsten cathode. Due to the cathode’s complexity, THP wanted us to check the aluminum model before cutting the tungsten piece. Sure enough, a few errors were found, including excessive variation in the distance between the vanes that will carry the current filaments. THP has estimated that higher accuracy will be obtained only with slower cutting of the tungsten. This will, unfortunately, lead to a further two- or three- month delay in our long-delayed tungsten cathode. However, it will be worth the wait to ensure the symmetry needed for good compression of the plasma and the high density we are aiming for.

Figure 2. The shape of things to come: the aluminum model of the monolithic cathode (silvery object with numbered vanes) surrounds that actual tungsten monolithic anode, before it is mounted on FF-1.  Aside from the silvery color of the aluminum, this is what the finished electrodes will look like. The inner ring of holes is part of the vacuum flange that will form part of the vacuum chamber wall. The outer ring of holes is for the bolts that will connect the cathode into the FF-1 circuit.  Since both electrodes will be connected outside the chamber, no arcing can contaminate the plasma.


Crowdfunding Rewards Are Shipped


After some delays, due to under-staffing and summer doldrums, which LPP Fusion apologizes for, the rewards to our almost 2,000 Indiegogo crowdfunding supporters have finally been shipped, or will be, by the end of next week. Thanks to LPP Administrative Assistant John Harhai for a lot of work and to LPP Chief Information Officer Ivy Karamitsos for some vital organizing.

We are currently postponing video and in-person tours of the LPPFusion lab until we have re-assembled and are operating FF_1. However, if you are due a tour as a reward and want one earlier, while we are still assembling, please contact us to request it at lpp@lppfusion.com. If we have a few requests, we will schedule some early tours.

As of today, all donors should be receiving this newsletter.
Shout-outs—completed
Stickers—shipped
Plasma Portraits—emails will be completed early next week
Posters—shipped
T-shirts—shipping next week
Books—shipped
Ferrofluids (all colors)—shipped
Gaskets—shipping next week
Lightning sculptures—shipped

All $1,000 and up donors have been thanked in our monthly reports. We expect to order a plaque honoring the $2500 and $5000 donors next week. We will be thanking our $5,000 donors again, by name, when we publish our results, based on their funding.

If you do not have your rewards in the next two weeks (for those in the US, where we are shipping from), or in the next 4 weeks (for those elsewhere), please notify us.

Note On Press Coverage Of Lockheed Martin Fusion Research


A number of supporters have asked us about the widespread press reports on a Lockheed Martin fusion advance. We want to point out that Lockheed’s team has published no experimental results, so far, in any way. Until they do, this remains just a concept, not a “breakthrough”. In contrast, LPP Fusion has consistently reported its results immediately on its website, presented them at scientific conferences and published them in peer-reviewed journals.

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So there is NO DEFENSE against incoming missiles for the USA?

So there is NO DEFENSE against incoming missiles for the USA?

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Iron Dome: "Rigged Success"?
by
Peter Huessy October 17, 2014


Critics of missile defense must have seen their whole multi-decade, multi-million dollar campaign to stop U.S. missile defenses in danger of crashing to the ground.
"All flight tests of the weapon have been rigged," William Broad, New York Times, June 9, 2000.
The success of Iron Dome apparently gave lie to the repeated claims that missile defense tests are rigged; that missile defense systems cannot work; that they do not save lives, and that the threat of rocket attacks must be dealt with through appeasement and concessions.
Imagine that hundreds of armed terrorists from ISIS are in a secure sanctuary in northern Mexico. For nearly two months in 2015, they launch 4479 rockets into the United States. Their targets are schools, hospitals, apartment buildings and day-care centers in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Then imagine that not a single person is killed from this terrorist rocket barrage (although mortar fire at one border crossing kills two Americans).
Why are so few Americans harmed? A missile-defense system along America's border with Mexico was able to shoot down over 90% of the incoming rockets that were engaged, while others could be ignored as they fell harmlessly into the southwestern American desert.
Further imagine that, say, Canada helped fund such a missile-defense. Americans would be thankful for the help of its Canadian brothers and sisters; cheer the defense industry that developed the missile-defense which, as President Reagan said in 1983, allows us to protect lives rather than avenge them; and they would thank God there were so few fatalities.
The media would tell a story of success; folks would move to support further defensive missile technology, and then tell their leaders go and find ISIS and destroy every last vestige of them.
The parallel to this is exactly what took place in the skies over Israel between July 6 and August 26, 2014.
The aggressor was not ISIS but its sister terrorist group, Hamas, which launched 4479 rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip.[1]
Ninety percent of the rockets launched by Hamas and engaged by the Iron Dome missile defense were destroyed. This defense technology was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Defense (although developed, built and used solely by Israel in 2012 in the first Gaza rocket war).
   There were zero Israeli fatalities from Hamas's rocket fire in areas defended by Iron Dome, although two Israelis perished and 30
   Israelis were wounded, some seriously, from Hamas rockets not intercepted by Iron Dome.
News outlets such as the Wall Street Journal[2] and CNN lauded the Iron Dome's success.[3]
Other 2014 articles echoed a similar story from Time magazine on the first use of Iron Dome in 2012: that Iron Dome was the "most effective, most tested missile shield the world has ever seen."[4]
But then the story changed.
The Union of Concerned Scientists started the skeptical coverage on July 19, 2014 with a story purporting to reveal "The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working."[5]
Reuter's David Axe followed up a week later with a story, complaining on July 25, 2014, "Israel's Iron Dome is more like an iron sieve."[6]
On July 31, 2014, the Middle East Monitor entitled a story "It is a lie to say that Iron Dome is Protecting Israelis from Hamas." [7]
Two weeks later, August 12, 2014, reporter Dylan Scott asked, "For all the Hype, Does Israel's Iron Dome Even Work?" [8]
What happened?
In America there is a strong anti-missile defense "industry." Most of the organizations that subscribe to its views are either highly skeptical of missile defenses, or oppose them altogether. [9]
Most have also worked for many years to stop, delay, or defund American missile defense deployments, especially those designed to protect the continental United States as opposed to our allies or forces overseas.
In tracking the success of the Iron Dome, in 2006, before it existed, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, launched 4200 rockets at Israel; they killed 53 people.[10]
In 2012, when Iron Dome was initially deployed with five interceptor missile batteries, Hamas launched 1600 rockets at Israel; they caused five fatalities.
In 2014, Hamas launched 4479 rockets at Israel, which was protected by nine Iron Dome batteries. The rockets caused two fatalities -- in an open area not protected by Iron Dome.
To compare: from 2006 to 2014, more rockets were fired at Israel than were launched by Nazi Germany against Great Britain in all of World War II. Yet Israel fatalities dropped from 53, to 5, to 2.
As noted by Uzi Rubin, founder and former director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization (in Israel's Ministry of Defense), in his September 12 briefing in Washington, D.C.[11], there were missile defense critics who seemed unhappy that Iron Dome appeared to work well.
Many critics of missile defense sometimes sound as if they assume that the proponents of missile defense want the U.S. to protect America all by itself -- without the help of other nations -- and without relying on arms control agreements with other countries. They thus described President George W. Bush's 2002 plan to build national missile defenses in Alaska and California as a "go it alone" strategy.
But is such a charge true? Today, the American Missile Defense Agency [MDA] website features dozens of nations with which the U.S. cooperates in pursuing joint missile-defense objectives -- precisely what missile defense critics complained was not being done.
Furthermore, simultaneously, from 2002-08 the Bush administration also significantly reduced nuclear weapons stockpiles with the Moscow Treaty between the U.S. and Russia, proving the compatibility of pursuing both missile defense and "working with others" on proliferation threats.
On July 19, 2004, for instance, former MDA Director Lt. Gen. Trey Obering noted in remarks to the Multinational Missile Defense Conference in Berlin, Germany,[12] three keys ways the US had been seeking international cooperation on missile defense during the Bush administration:
"That is why we emphasize in the Missile Defense Agency this simple axiom—geography counts. It matters where we locate the piece parts of the missile defense system. The role for our allies [emphasis added] here is obvious. Second, we need to present a united front to those who would seek to harm us with ballistic missiles. Our ability to deter attacks and dissuade other governments from investing in ballistic missiles will be significantly enhanced if we can speak through our alliances, friendships, and coalitions with a single voice. Third, cooperation means pooling our intellectual and financial resources." [Emphasis added].
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According to Uzi Rubin[13], the aforementioned press reports relied on amateur videos and photographs of the missile intercepts over Israel, as well as on an examination of pictures of the "smoke contrails" of the Iron Dome interceptor and Hamas rocket explosions.[14]
Press reports also noted that much of the critical analysis of Iron Dome came from an assessment of the 2012 Gaza missile attacks, and not primarily from the 2014 rocket attacks from Gaza.[15]
National Public Radio [NPR], on its "All Things Considered" program, just three days after the beginning of the 2014 Gaza War, claimed Iron Dome did not work -- before most data from the 2014 attacks could even be fully collected and analyzed.[16]
After two months of the rocket attacks, some in the arms-control community, such as Subrata Ghoshroy of MIT, originally gave grudging praise for Iron Dome's success[17] while others, referenced such media coverage as the June 9 NPR story in concluding that the Iron Dome probably did not work.
Others concluded that even if the Iron Dome system did work, it does not make Israel any less blameworthy for protecting itself. As it was put in one essay from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [18], "Israel needs to end the lockdown on Gaza." For Israel to allow enemies outspokenly dedicated to its destruction to be better able to attack it?
Still others in the arms-control community eventually went back to their ongoing, comfortable position that if it is a missile defense system, it cannot possibly work. As Philip Coyle emphasized, "No military system is 90% effective."[19]
If Iron Dome is effective, and works well, it would be a huge boost to missile defense in general and the security of the U.S. and its allies in particular.
American arms-control groups, however, have defined "effectiveness"[20] in a manner that makes achieving either workability or effectiveness for U.S. missile defenses extremely difficult.
The current missile defense of the continental United States, for example, intercepts missiles in mid-course, in space, where it is difficult to distinguish decoys and other counter measures from real warheads.
American mid-course-intercept tests have worked in 9 of 14 tests, and have overcome some key technological hurdles. But many critics continue to insist such missile defense tests are rigged and thus the missile defense technology will never demonstrate a sufficient capability to enable a high confidence in the system working. In short, its nothing but a military boondoggle.[21]
Under such assumptions, it is not surprising that as one prominent critic from the Union of Concerned Scientists [UCS], Lisbeth Gronlund claimed, missile defense was unachievable unless it was one hundred percent reliable: "It shouldn't be deployed," adding, "Something is not better than nothing."[22]
Three years later, at a May 14, 2004 UCS press conference, Gronlund said in a variation on the same theme, "No missile-defense is better than some defense," a statement echoed a week later by press conference participant Congressman Rush Holt, who called missile defense a "wasteful, dead-end program that adds nothing to our real national defense."[23]
The United States has conducted dozens of missile defense tests for a variety of systems. Such tests have been successful in 66 out of 81 attempts, including, most recently, 20 successful intercept tests in a row, including consecutively successful tests of the U.S. Navy's Aegis, and the Army's Terminal High Altitude Air Defense [THAAD] and Patriot missile defenses.
But such a success rate is still not sufficient to get the support of missile defense critics. Philip Coyle of the Center for Arms Control, for example, proclaimed at a June 4, 2014 Brookings Institution missile defense seminar that he was "surprised" that some of the American missile defense tests failed because they were all "rigged for success."[24]
As the New York Times put it in a June 9, 2000 report, "all flight tests of the weapon have been rigged". Ironically, this charge by the New York Times was made during the Clinton Administration, although subsequent reporting by the Times made it appear the "rigged" tests were solely an artifact of the subsequent George W. Bush administration missile defense program.[25]
By contrast, the success of Iron Dome upset the rhetorical apple cart of the missile-defense deniers. In the real world of an actual war, this missile defense system worked. There was nothing "rigged" about its success -- and obviously it performed in a "realistic environment."
As many members of the U.S. Congress concluded this summer after watching and hearing of Iron Dome's success, if missile defense can protect Israel, missile defense can protect America, too.[26]
The critics of missile defense must have seen their whole multi-decade, multi-million dollar campaign to stop U.S. missile defenses in danger of crashing to the ground if the American people came to believe missile defenses like Iron Dome did, in fact, work -- and work spectacularly well.
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According to a briefing[27] by missile defense expert Uzi Rubin, most critics of Iron Dome were guilty of making seven key mistakes.
First, said Rubin, the pictures and videos of Iron Dome interceptors appearing to plummet to earth -- and thus giving some the idea that Iron Dome was not working -- were an optical illusion that understandably easily confused non-experts. In fact, the Iron Dome interceptors were actually homing in on their targets.
Second, the critics failed to account for nearly 4500 Hamas warheads that had to land somewhere in Israel. If they were not intercepted, where did they go?
Some Iron Dome critics, said Rubin, simply assumed that thousands of Hamas warheads, while not intercepted, either did not explode or were ineffective and thus did not cause much damage.
In fact, Rubin said, Iron Dome intercepted hundreds of Hamas rockets; others fell in open desert or vacant areas, while some did strike property and, in unprotected spaces, did cause some Israeli casualties and injuries, some serious.
By contrast, in 2006, when Israel had no missile defenses against Hezbollah rockets, many more Israelis were killed or wounded, and property damage was extensive.
Third, critics, pointing to mobile phone "pictures" of Hamas Grad rockets apparently bypassing the Iron Dome interceptors, alleged that the interceptor missile had to "hit the attacking missile head on," otherwise the attacking rocket could not be destroyed.
On July 9, for instance, three days after the Hamas rocket attacks commenced, Bob Siegel of NPR said: "As I understand it, for it to work, it actually has to hit an oncoming rocket head on." His guest assured him that he was "correct" adding, "The Iron Dome has no chance, for all practical purposes, of destroying the [Hamas] artillery rocket."[28]
According to Uzi Rubin, "the critics just got this part wrong".
What they missed, said Rubin,[29] is that Iron Dome has an "elegant capability" to destroy an adversary's rocket even if it is just nearby an incoming rocket. The interceptor, Rubin explained, must indeed "approach" the incoming rocket "head on" but does not need actually to strike the rocket at that point.
Fourth, Rubin said, damage to property in Israel was totally inconsistent with the idea that Iron Dome failed to intercept a high percent of Hamas rockets. Damage from such rocket attacks, he explained, is reimbursed by the State of Israel upon the filing of a claim, no questions asked. Even if it is not unheard of to have people fudge things and occasionally blame some "fender benders" on "rocket attacks," in 2014, despite twice as many rocket attacks as in 2012, the number of Israel property-damage claims fell by 25%.
Fifth, in 2014, despite an increase in the number and frequency of rocket attacks, Israel's fatalities fell from 53 to 2, a decrease of 97%.[30]
Sixth, in all measures of lethality, there were dramatically fewer casualties and property damage in Israel in 2014 when Iron Dome was deployed, compared to the casualties and property damage from rockets in the 2006 Lebanon War, when Iron Dome was not deployed.
Finally, Rubin explained that Israel's civil defense shelters -- often simply safe-rooms in buildings and apartments -- did not account for the low number of casualties and scarce property damage in 2014.[31] The same civil defense shelters were present in 2006 when 53 Israelis died in the missile war that year. And Israelis are not able to run for shelter faster now than in 2006.
The difference, then, between 2006 and 2014 was precisely the presence of Iron Dome.
In short, Iron Dome gave lie to the repeated claims that missile defense tests are "successful" only because they are rigged; that missile defense systems cannot work; that they do not save lives, and that the threat of rocket attacks must be dealt with through appeasement and concessions.
Missile threats from countries such as Iran and North Korea can be dealt with, at least in part, by missile defenses.
We do not have to be victims unless we choose to be. We can successfully defend ourselves.
We should, finally, ask ourselves seriously: Is "No missile-defense better than some defense"? Really?

[1] "Israeli Missile Defense" by Uzi Rubin, who founded and was the first director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization in the Israel Ministry of Defense (MOD) and is known as the "Father" of the Israeli Arrow Missile Defense… September 12, 2014 from C-Span, read more.
[2] WSJ Video, "How Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System Works", July 11, 2014, noting its successful intercept rate.
[3] "How Iron Dome blocks rockets from Gaza, protects Israelis" by Michael Martinez and Josh Levs, CNN, July 9, 2014
[4] "Iron Dome: A Missile Shield That Works", Time.com, November 19, 2012,
[5] UCS: ANALYSIS "The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working", July 19, 2014.
[6] . "Israel's Iron Dome is more like an iron sieve", by David Axe, Reuters, July 25, 2014. Axe writes: The conclusions were based on "Careful analysis of amateur videos and photos of Iron Dome interceptions over the past three years...most of [this] data is from a previous round of fighting in 2012."
[7] "Middle East Monitor Story on Missile Defense Quotes Phil Coyle" by Alastair Sloan July 31, 2014, subtitled "It is a lie to say that Iron Dome is protecting Israelis from Hamas."
[8] In "For All The Hype, Does Israel's Iron Dome Even Work?", Talking Points Memo, August 21, 2014, Dylan Scott asks: "But what if the U.S. government is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a system that isn't nearly as effective as it is claimed to be?"
[9] The Arms Control Lobby Confronts Ballistic Missile Defense: Critics Torture Logic to Discredit Anti-Missile Technology, March 2003 Capital Research Center, Washington, D.C.
[10] From Uzi Rubin, September 12, 2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan.
[11] From Uzi Rubin, September 12, 2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan. See also "Iron Dome—Savior, or Sales Job?", by Jim Fallows, The Atlantic, July 15, 2014, and "Does Israel's US-funded Iron Dome make the world safer?" by Azriel Bermant, The Guardian, August 6, 2014.
[12] From the MDA.org website, Address by Lt.Gen (Ret) Trey Obering, USAF, former Director, Missile Defense Agency, Multinational BMD Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 19, 2004.
[13] From Uzi Rubin, September 12,2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan.
[14] From Uzi Rubin, September 12,2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan.
[15] Aviation Week and Space Technology, "Iron Dome -- Are The Critics On Target?" by Bill Sweetman, Aug 25, 2014.
[16] "The Rockets from Hamas, and the Iron Dome That Could Use Patching", July 9, 2014, All Things Considered, National Public Radio.
[17] "Israel's Iron Dome: A misplaced debate", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), July 29, 2014.
[18] "Israel's Iron Dome: A misplaced debate", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), July 29, 2014. See also: "More Than a Missile: Judging Iron Dome" by Zachary Goldman, August 11, 2014, Commentary;"Iron Dome: The public relations weapon" by John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS). Mecklin writes: "Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system is high-tech. So is the PR campaign around it." 27 May, 2014. And "Iron Dome Boondoggle: Has Obama Just Signed a $225M Check for a Defective Israeli Missile Shield?," DemocracyNow.org. See also David Talbot in Technology Review, "Israeli Rocket Defense System is Failing", July 10, 2014.
[19] Quoted in the Middle East Monitor story by Alastair Sloan of July 31, 2014 entitled "It is a lie to say that Iron Dome is protecting Israelis from Hamas."
[20] For an extended look at what makes missile defense effective, the June 26, 2014 update of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis [IFPA] Independent Working Group on Missile Defense is an excellent source as well as "The Arms Control Lobby Confronts Ballistic Missile Defense: Critics Torture Logic to Discredit Anti-Missile Technology", March 2003 Capital Research Center, Washington, D.C. See Defense Dossier, American Foreign Policy Council, February 10, 2014, "Missile Defense for Today and Tomorrow" by Rebeccah Heinrichs.
[21] Missile Defense Agency - U.S. Department of Defense test data show 65 of 79 actual tests were successful (excluding two tests where the test was aborted because the target or interceptor did not launch).
[22] At the Union of Concerned Scientists, Press Conference, on July 26, 2001. At a later Washington, D.C., UCS Press Conference, on May 14, 2004, Lisbeth Gronlund said: "No missile-defense is better than some defense."
[23] Congressman Rush Holt, (D-NJ), Congressional Record, May 21, 2004, House of Representatives. Also May 14, 2004, UCS press conference and follow-up remarks on May 21, 2004 on the floor of the House.
[24] "U.S. Missile Defense Developments: How Far? How Fast?" Brookings Institution, June 4, 2014.
[25] "Antimissile Testing is Rigged to Hide a Flaw, Critics Say," by William Broad, June 9, 2000, New York Times.
[26] "Americans Should Take Notes on Israel's Iron Dome", by Rebeccah Heinrichs , July 27, 2014, Daily Signal.
[27] From Uzi Rubin briefing in Washington, D.C. provided to over 120 top defense specialists, September 12, 2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan.
[28] "The Rockets from Hamas, and the Iron Dome That Could Use Patching", July 9, 2014, All Things Considered, National Public Radio.
[29] From the Uzi Rubin, "The Gaza Missile Wars" September 12, 2014 briefing (picked up by C-Span).
[30] From Uzi Rubin, September 12,2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan. The rocket attacks were 4200 in 2006 and 4479 in 2014.
[31] From Uzi Rubin, September 12,2014, "The Gaza Missile Wars", CSpan.



Video: Veterans Today Radio (10-15-14) Leo Wanta - "Ed Snowden was never an employee of the NSA"

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Video: Veterans Today Radio (10-15-14) Leo Wanta - "Ed Snowden was never an employee of the NSA"
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Date: Saturday, 18-Oct-2014 21:33:39

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- Leo Wanta expands on the mission assigned to him by president Reagan, and the theft of 27 Trillion dollars of Wanta's proceeds by the Bush cabal, and the Obama regime.
- Wanta reveals the 'national debt', and IRS as total criminal fraud on both counts.
- The true value of the stock market is overinflated based on derivative fraud.
- Ed Snowden was never a NSA employee.
- A very good discussion between Gordon Duff, Leo Wanta and Mike Harris, on the correct solution to the ongoing criminality holding America hostage.
- Gordon reveals that Turkey is now providing military support to ISIL (ISIS) in Syria, with the Turkish operations being directed by US Pentagon Generals and Booze Allen Hamilton.
- We also discover that sitting members of US Corporate Congress, by laws of their own making, cannot be held accountable for any crimes they commit during their term of office, as long as they remain in office.
Published on Oct 18, 2014 By Glenn Canady

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Saturday, October 18, 2014

THE HYPOCRISY OF OBAMA AND THE CREATION OF THE EBOLA CRISIS????

THE HYPOCRISY OF OBAMA AND THE CREATION OF THE EBOLA CRISIS???????

 
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Bits and Pieces on a Very Quiet Saturday Night

10/18/2014
Stage3Alpha:

Sqwatchy October 18, 2014 at 6:50pm

DO NOT SET YOUR SELF UP TO BE LET DOWN.  IMO THE BANKS WILL NOT AGREE TO BE OPEN ON SUNDAY....

THE NEXT MOVE IS THE CBI AND THE GOI....RELEASING THE DROPPING OF THE ZEROS PROJECT.

THAT SHOULD HAPPEN TOMORROW. WE ARE CLOSE, LETS STAY THE COURSE,

ENJOY YOUR EVENING, AND I SUGGEST ATTENDING SERVICES IN THE MORNING...AS YOU WILL HAVE YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED SHORTLY....

GIVE HIM THANKS..IN HIS HOUSE!
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Gg4 October 18, 2014

Signed into www.netdania.com   and saw this on their homepage...hmmmm.

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The maintenance is required in order to keep our servers secure and up-to-date.

Our website, web site components and mobile applications may during this period not return all data requested.

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Brandi October 18, 2014 at 7:49pm  Lots of great things happened today....based on all the great news what day do we think we will we be at the banks?

Ranger4564 > Brandi Theories suggest Monday Tuesday Wednesday, next week.

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TNT:


Gizmosmom: Hi IKO WARD ..haven't seen you much ya got any good forex info today or times we should look out for In the next 2 days

Iko Ward: Forèx closed Friday evening with dinar, dong and rupiah all reflecting CBI resets and flat for the Monday opening. Means they don't have a clue (officially) either.

Tight Wad:  I think if the IQD comes out low - It would be my guess no NDA - if no NDA - I don't know how they could enforce any double dipping. So, I would think the VND would come out at the same time - but if it doesn't I will be changing my chat name to - DD King - as in double dipping king. Also if it comes out that low - isn't it called an RI and no tax on an RI. So what about all our friends who cashed between Nov & April - are we talking claw back?

Fitsgerald: I don't Believe that the PTB will let the other Currencies go in the 2nd Basket, and then allow us to load up on the othere currencies therefore making us wealthy beyond belief

Paperbag: IMO  all four currencies will be in the first basket as planned.

Stardust: 
For those concerned or curious about the new restrictions on future investments you may want to refer to Dodd-Frank bill. I believe that is where you will find that your worth must be at least 10 mill.

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Mdj : Something Maliki never did accomplish, nor did he ever want too! ...all five Kurdish Ministers were sworn in today as well, making today the most important and accomplished Parliament Session in the history of the New Republic of Iraq.

 With all ministers now sworn in this gives Iraq a real Government since the liberation of Iraq took place in 2003 and the formation of the new Iraqi Constitution October, 2005. Mdj wrote 39s ago 10-18-2014 Stryker FINALLY A FULL SEATED IRAQI GOVERNMENT.

Our best chance in seeing the true value of the Iraqi Dinar is finally here.

Today was the most historic day for Iraq under this new government headed up by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. It was just September 8th, a little over a month ago since Abadi and he’s new cabinet was voted in with confidence as the New Government of Iraq and today he has achieved the formation of the First Real Full Seated Iraq Government

I for one have great confidence that they will do what needs done! As Iraqi dinar investors we have never been in a better spot, a true Iraqi democracy should mean a global Iraq, with a global valued dinar

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10-18-14 BGG: [I know the ministers were voted on but does anyone know if they were sworn in as well?]

It appears they have been...given "confidence" by the Parliament is the biggest thing.

It has been reported the Kurdish MP's were sworn in as well. It is massive news.

Stay tuned for a Call this evening
W/BGG and ?? - Oct 18th - (evening) Time to be announced''

KTFA:

The Snod
» October 18th, 2014, Abadi did in a few short months what Malliki wouldn't in 4 years!!! That fact alone speaks volumes!!!!.... Woohoo!!!!

Sager : 
This is fantastic news. I was expecting news like this in conjunction with the ISX news.

I believe our timeline just got even more concrete!

I could be wrong but this is another telling piece that when isx resumes trading on the 26, we will have already seen the new rate . This is just my speculation

MY LADIES:  SAGER THEY CAUGHT US BY SURPRISE TOO, WE THOUGHT THE MINISTERS WOULD GO WITH EVERYTHING ELSE..

NOW HOW ABOUT THEY GET TO THAT PARLIAMENTARY MEETING WITH THE CBI...THAT WOULD BE REAL GOOD.

MY LADIES

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MY LADIES » October 18th, 2014, 7:23 PM

SO HERE WE GO THE USA IS HAPPY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SENDS CONGRATULATIONS.

I TEAM SAYS WE NEED TO DIG IF WE DO NOT SEE SOMETHING TOMORROW...I SURE HOPE WE WONT NEED A BACK HOE..LOL

U.S. Welcomes Selection of Final Cabinet Ministers in Iraq


Press Statement
Jen Psaki
Department Spokesperson
Washington, DC
October 18, 2014

We congratulate the Iraqi people and their elected representatives in the Iraqi parliament on the selection of seven new cabinet ministers today.

These ministers, including new Ministers of Defense, Finance, and Interior, represent the diversity of Iraq, and complete an inclusive cabinet led by Prime Minister Abadi.

Significantly, this is the first time since 2010 that Iraq has had a full cabinet with security ministers confirmed by the Iraqi parliament.

Today's vote is another important step in the long-term campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and restore stability to Iraq.

The United States looks forward to further strengthening our partnership with Prime Minister Abadi, his new cabinet, and the Iraqi people.

We also look forward to working with all the new ministers, in the many fields outlined in our Strategic Framework Agreement, including security, economic, educational, and cultural cooperation.

Our commitment to Iraq is long-term, and this new cabinet, representing all communities inside Iraq, is a key step in overcoming the many challenges confronting Iraq.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/10/233135.htm?goMobile=0

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DELTA
» October 18th, 2014, 7:35 PM  FRANKIE FRANKIE

I GOT UR MSG.... I AGREE WITH YOU ON ISX & THE 19TH.

LOVE YOU BROTHER     DELTA

The Truth Per WW I and WW II

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New Mini Release! (PDF) The Truth About Woodrow Wilson & WW I


This highly informative, heavily illustrated, and very interesting piece makes line-by-line minced meat out of President Woodrow Wilson's February 1918 Congressional Address. It also gives the reader a mini 'crash-course' on World War I, which was every bit as critical to defining the course of world history as World War II and 9/11 were.
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Have a look at the introductory excerpt: 

Woody Warmonger began the annoying "tradition" of over-playing the National Anthem before every sporting event.

THE SETTING / FEBRUARY 1918

Though recently stalemated to Germany's advantage, World War I had been raging in Europe since 1914. The warring factions consisted of Britain, France, Italy and Russia on one side (The Allies), versus Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey on the other (Central Powers).

The war was triggered just a few weeks after Rothschild-controlled Serbian Nationalists, living in Bosnia (part of Austro-Hungary), murdered the Archduke of Austria Francis Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie. The Jewish Press of Vienna, Austria fanned the flames of war by falsely accusing Serbia of orchestrating the plot. The warmongers knew that a war with Serbia also meant war with its protector, Russia; which would then force Germany to come to the defense of its Austro-Hungarian ally; which would then bring France and Britain into the war on the side of its ally, Russia; which had old scores to settle with Ottoman Turkey. Italy would later join the Allies as well.

Knowing how this explosive Globalist game was stacked against Germany many years in advance, German Kaiser Wilhelm II urged his Austro-Hungarian ally to show restraint and talk with Serbia. But when Austria-Hungary succumbed to war fever, the pre-planned chain reaction went into motion. Now bound to fight Russia on Austria-Hungary's behalf, Germany reached out to France in a last minute effort to avoid war. But France and Britain, jealous of Germany's economic advancement and covetous of her markets and colonies, were chomping at the bit to take Germany down; and Russia wanted the warm water port-city of formerly Eastern Roman Orthodox Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey).

All the parties, most especially on the Allied side, wanted something out of the 'Great War'. All Germany wanted was peace!


 

June 28, 1914: The assassination of the Duke and his wife lit the fuse of World War I, as planned!


Standing above, and helping to foment, the ultra-nationalistic folly of the Western Allies were the Globo-Zionist bankers, who wanted war for their own reasons; namely, Globalism, Communism, and Zionism.

Forced into war, peaceful Germany gained the early advantage on both of her land fronts, as well as at sea with her U-boats. Seeking to end the mutually destructive war, Germany had repeatedly offered generous peace terms to the British and French aggressors. All Germany ever really wanted was for the war to end and for things to go back to as they were. Unbeknownst to the Kaiser, the Allies had made agreements among themselves to not accept any peace offers from Germany.

In spite of British efforts to drag the United States into the war on its side (Lusitania sinking of 1915, engineered by Secretary of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill), the handlers of US President Woodrow Wilson had purposely delayed their planned entry into the war.


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The Lusitania luxury liner was used to smuggle arms from 'neutral' America to Great Britain. It was deliberately set up by Secretary Churchill to be sunk by a German U-boat in May of 1915. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. Did not go to war immediately after the sinking. Another 18 months, a Presidential re-election, and a dirty back-room deal would have to come to pass before Wilson's handlers decided to bring America in.


The refusal by the U.S. To join Britain's war finally changed in late 1916 when a dirty deal was struck between the Zionists and Britain. "You don't have to make peace with Germany. We will get our puppet Woodrow Wilson to bring America into the war on your side. In exchange, you must give us access to Palestine after the war." - said the Zionists to the British. (true story!) 

In April of 1917, only months after having been re-elected based on empty promises to keep America out of Europe's 'Great War', Globo-Zionist pawn and former Princeton Professor Woodrow Wilson asked for, and received, a Congressional Declaration of War against Germany and Austria-Hungary. U.S. Entry into the war would enable Britain to divert troops southward in order to steal Palestine from Turkey (Ottoman Empire).


 
Just 1 month after his 2nd inauguration, the 'pacifist' Wilson switched gears!



Had it not been for America's entry into the war, the stalemated parties would have ceased fighting on their own and millions of lives would have been saved. But it would not be until well into 1918 that sufficient numbers of trained recruits would be ready to deploy in major combat operations. Before fresh new rivers of American blood would be shed (117,000 Americans would die of combat or disease-related causes between April and November of 1918 (1) ), both Germany and Austria-Hungary communicated their desire for a peaceful resolution to Wilson, just as they had previously been proposing to make a mutually acceptable peace with Britain and France all along.

In a February 1918 address before Congress, the puppet warmonger admitted that, in response to his recent "14 Points" Statement, Germany and Austria-Hungary had indeed expressed general agreement with Wilson's high-sounding proposals. But in the next breath, the worthless Wilson casually dismissed these promising peace overtures (referring to them as 'peace utterances') as unacceptable. You see, Woody's kosher handlers (Baruch, Schiff, Warburg, Morgenthau, Brandeis etc) wanted their long-awaited war for Globalism (the pre-planned 'League of Nations') and Zionism (the British theft of Palestine); and they certainly were not about to allow any Germanic peace proposals to derail the NWO Express.

 The most astonishing of Wilson's lies that day was his description of what the eventual post-war peace was to be like. The fact that so many naive and war-weary Germans later bought into Wilson's empty promises, which were repeated throughout that final year of war, will contribute to Germany's bizarre, premature and unconditional surrender and disarmament in November of that same year, 1918 (Internal Zionist-Marxist treason also played a major role in Germany's inexplicable surrender.)

Let us review and analyze some of Wilson's most significant statements from that address, and compare his "peace without victory" promises to what actually happened after the war. Remember now, this Congressional address was made BEFORE American troops were sent into battle in any significant numbers - before 117,000 of them, and millions more Europeans, were to die needlessly in the soon-to-be escalated bloodbath.

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Come on man! Join me in dying for Wilson's lies! 
Dead American entangled in barbed wire. If only his mother, father, wife, kids, friends could have watched him die. What would they say to Professor Wilson?
WILSON
Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances
Delivered to the U.S. Congress in Joint Session on February 11, 1918

ANALYSIS
Right from the beginning, Wilson's use of the dismissive word "utterance" for the title of his speech is clearly meant to suggest that any peace proposals emanating from the Central Powers are not to be taken seriously. They are only "utterances", a word which describes a unit of speech in its smallest form and bounded by silence. Meaningless sounds such as "ugh", "ah", "um" can also be classified as "utterances". Considering that mass death of American soldiers is imminent, yet avoidable, Wilson, or rather his handlers, are being shockingly juvenile and flippant in such a choice of words.
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FINALLY A FULL SEATED IRAQI GOVERNMENT.  Our best chance in seeing the true value of the Iraqi Dinar is finally here.  Today was the most historic day for Iraq under this new government headed up by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. It was just September 8th,  a little over a month ago since Abadi and  he’s new cabinet was voted in with confidence as the New Government of Iraq and today he  has achieved the formation of the First Real Full Seated Iraq Government.

Something Maliki never did accomplish, nor did he ever want too! ...all five Kurdish Ministers were sworn in today as well, making today the most important and accomplished Parliament Session in the history of the New Republic of Iraq. With all ministers now sworn in this gives Iraq a real Government since the liberation of Iraq took place in 2003 and the formation of the new Iraqi Constitution October, 2005. Parliament session has been lifted today to Monday the 22ed [Monday the 20th?], where we should start seeing  movement on all the stalled laws including and not limited to the HCL, and the 2014 budget  approval process. The Budget though should now be and center in their upcoming agendas.

We will as always, wait to see but it all sure looks good to be moved forward since  the Federal Courts cannot interfere anymore, it's all up the this new government and  parliament now. I for one have great confidence that they will do what needs done!  As Iraqi dinar investors we have never been in a better spot, a true Iraqi democracy should mean a global Iraq, with a global valued dinar.


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At 2 pm Obama signed with the Chinese, bankrupting the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve is being swallowed up by the UST under new leadership...At 6 PM PST, Robert Won is going to go in and sign over the gold...At Midnight EST the Organic Act of 1871 is repealed and the US Corporation is NO MORE...Long live the REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES, ONE NATION UNDER GOD WE TRUST!...At Midnight PST, “the Admiral” goes in....At midnight PST, IRAQ goes in to include the REINSTATEMENT rate of 3.58 internationally and with a $6 - 8.00 US rate, to gather in IQD for oil credits...General Ham is taking over the US Government and Commander Fairfield is taking over the Treasury