'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Video Fwd: SPACE WARFARE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Bruce Gagnon blog
Oct. 26, 2009
SPACE WARFARE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT



The Air Force Research Lab is located at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Is this kind of research and development for endless high-tech space warfare how you want your tax dollars spent?


The original Youtube site describes as below

“Air Force Research Laboratory developed D.I.M.E Weapons

AFRL is the U.S. Air Force's only organization wholly dedicated to the discovery, development, and integration of warfighting technologies for air, space and cyberspace forces.

AFRL traces its roots back to the vision of early airpower leaders who believed in science as the key to air supremacy.

DIME bombs blast a superheated "micro-shrapnel" of powdered heavy metal tungsten alloy (HMTA). Studies indicate that HMTA embedded in the body disrupts biochemistry and rapidly causes cancer. Like depleted uranium (DU), HMTA is genotoxic—it is capable of inflicting genetic mutations.

Publicly slated for deployment in 2008, DIME bombs are small but unusually powerful. Their carbon fibre casings make "more of the blast energy available as blast as opposed to being absorbed in steel case". The carbon reportedly breaks into "thousands of harmless fibres" to prevent unintended casualties from casing shrapnel.

The 'footprint of the DIME blast is much smaller than a conventional bombs, because gravity and air resistance quickly drag the dense, finely powdered "micro-shrapnel" to the ground. The blast radius is reportedly as small as 25 feet.

DIME is part of the Air Forces Focused Lethality Munitions (FLM) program, which is expected to "allow" the targeting of "terrorists" wherever they are, even in places "previously off limits to the warfighter."

The ideal of FLM is to reliably kill every human within the blast zone—one way or another. It is 'total war on a 50-foot circle, within which deaths are not admitted as collateral, but purchased as insurance.

Israel's new weapon "slices" off its victims legs, leaving "signs of heat and burns near the point of the amputation". Its "as if a saw was used to cut through the bone", according to Dr. Habas al-Wahid, head of the ER at Gaza's Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital.

Viewing photographs of the living and dead Palestinian victims of this device, many of whom are children, we notice patches of darkened but unburned skin, possibly where metal powder was driven into and/or through the skin by blast force. A child's torso is peppered with holes, some of which, judging from doctors reports, probably tunnel through to exit wounds in the back. The skin and muscle of one victim is ripped into a blood-encrusted pulp, as if blasted at close range with tiny bird-shot. Some of the corpses are unrecognisable. Most of the recent photos of "strange" wounds from Gaza appear to be consistent with what is known about DIME weapons.

The area of a DIME blast should be treated with caution until it has been decontaminated (assuming this is possible). Depending on the local HMTA concentration, soil in the blast area may remain barren for an indefinite period of time, or it may grow plants internally contaminated with HMTA.”
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