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2008-04-27 Home Front: WoT

PBS 10-Part "Carrier" (Mel Gibson Documentary) Starts Tonight

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Posted by Bobby 2008-04-27 10:28|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I guess all the Nimitz's problems are the fault of us Jews.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-04-27 13:40|| 2008-04-27 13:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Either 10 parts is very detailed or a waste of film.

Posted by Glolung McCoy7404 2008-04-27 17:29|| 2008-04-27 17:29|| Front Page Top

#3 PBS take: After Pearl Harbor, our carrier force swelled to a size that was just "unfair" for japan to deal with. America is to blame...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-27 19:13|| 2008-04-27 19:13|| Front Page Top

#4 ENJOY IT = NIMITZ-CLASS, etc. WHILE WE STILL CAN > in reality, wid CVN21-class we'are prob looking at the last "classic/traditional" USN "flat/throughdeck" CV. The USDOD-USN is already seeling to base UAV robo-units and squadrons aboard the current NIMITZ-CLASS, to include UAV ATTACK BOMBER + SUBMERSIBLE ATTACK-OTHER VARIANTS. POST-CVN21 + "SEA BASING" CONCEPTS > will likely be some kind of MULTI-SYSTEM, ALL-PURPOSE HYBRID SUPER-ARSENAL SHIP = FLOATING BATTLE STATION WID BOTH OFFENSIVE-DEFENSIVE CAPABILS, LOCAL CONVENTIONAL THRU GMD THRU SPAWAR THRU "FIRST/SECOND-STRIKE" STRATEGIC MISSLE WARFARE, ETC.

What I liked and used to label back in the 1980's, and still do, gener as SEA/BATTLE FORTRESSES, among other sur-labels.

As for GUAM > Various personages are still telling me that the proposed "MARINE RELOCATION-BUILDUP" from Okinawa is actually part of a LT PRE-PLANNED "PHASED CLOSURE/SHUTDOWN" of the USG-USDOD sector here on Guam, that the Marines [or those that come here] will actually only stay a short time before relocating again back to CONUS, + that starting after 2015 the USG MAY ACTUALLY OFFER GUAM FORMAL UNILATER INDEPENDENCE. Iff these sources are correct, Guam's BIG NAVY will be formally shut down or mostly shut down by 2020, ANDERSEN AFB in roughly another decade after that???

FLOATING DRYDOCK > MY GENERATION in the 1990's HELPED TAKE DOWN THE AFDM-8 AT [former]SRF GUAM DUE TO BRAC; ANOTHER MAY END UP CLOSING DOWN THE AFDB, aka "BIG BLUE"???

* SEA BASING. MOB, GLOBAL/PROMPT STRIKE, SPACE STRIKE, LUNAR COMMRECCE + "SPACE PLANES", ETC. > eevrything will EVENTUALLY originate andor transit to, from CONUS-NORAM.

WHAT DOES GUAM GET = WIN IN THE US + WORLD GEOPOLITICAL LOTTERY???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-27 20:05|| 2008-04-27 20:05|| Front Page Top

#5 WHAT DOES GUAM GET?

the bomber base of the South Pacific?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-27 20:11|| 2008-04-27 20:11|| Front Page Top

#6 * GLOBAL WARMING > TOO LONDON/EURO-STYLE FOGGY for GUAM PORTOPS to see anything.

* ASIA-PACIFIC "EARTH CHANGES" > PORTOPS tug propellers driving over sunken parts of Guam's former Commercial Port, etal. See older posts.

* NEW > PHILIPPINES-ASIA RICE FAMINE 2020 > besides INDONESIAN-SUMATRAN, etc. regional diasporas caused by earth = land changes, Guam will also have to do its part as per potential FILIPINO DIASPORAS-MIGRATIONS due to pervasive famine, WHICH WILL AGAIN HEAVILY STRESS GUAM's TRADITIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS.

D *** NG IT, LETS NOT FORGET CHINESE EMIGRES TRYING TO LEAVE CHINA-ASIA ABOARD TRANPORTS MADE IN PART FROM OLD USAF B52S.

And INDEPENDENCE too - WHO SAYS THERE'S NO GOD!

AL PACINO to KEANU REEVES> Consider the Source, Son...The MAN UPSTAIRS IS THE GREATEST VOYEUR, DIALECTICIST, PERVERT, .........ETC. OF US ALL!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-27 20:35|| 2008-04-27 20:35|| Front Page Top

#7 On a smaller note, construction has just begun on BRAND NEW FUTURE OLD/ABANDONED BULDINGS next to the Agana Shopping Center.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-27 20:38|| 2008-04-27 20:38|| Front Page Top

#8 IRNA > ASIA AND PACIFIC REGIONS NEED TO RETHINK THEIR ENERGY SECURITY. By Year 2030 AsPac demand will comprise 1/2 of world total, wid approxi 80% of same being for DECLINING? FOSSIL FUELS, i.e. OIL AND COAL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-27 22:56|| 2008-04-27 22:56|| Front Page Top

#9 OTOH, Gibson's new documentary is appropriate as per FUTURE TIME + POST EARTH CHANGES > a future US servicemember from Guam being witness to US carriers transporting many islanders including Guamanians to new homes, vv GEOLOGICAL CRACKS/FAULTS IN THE PACIFIC???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-27 23:01|| 2008-04-27 23:01|| Front Page Top

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