Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Fwd: Rush Limbaugh‘s Final Warning to America



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Date: March 31, 2021 at 7:17:01 PM CDT
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Subject: Rush Limbaugh's Final Warning to America
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Rush Limbaugh had a final warning about America and the danger we now face . . .
 
 

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Rush Limbaugh had a final warning about America and the danger we now face . . .

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Before he left this world, Rush Limbaugh had a warning to America.

He announced this dire warning on his radio show.

Rush said that if America did not stop the far left and their plan to implement socialism, they would destroy America.

Rush posted the message on his website with this powerful headline: "It's Time to Rise Up and Defeat the Socialist Left."

Rush began his warning about socialism talking about abortion.

For years, Rush complained that liberals and even some Republicans "have approached me and told me that I have to get the party to stop talking about abortion, that it's killing us [the Republican Party]."

Rush continued: "Now, don't have a knee-jerk reaction and tune out here. This has a point. They would tell me, 'We're losing elections because we have a Christian or Religious Right position on abortion, and we're targeting ourselves. We just have to forget it. We are fiscal conservatives, but we've got to stop this conservative social issue stuff because it's killing us.'"

So what did abortion have to do with socialism?

Rush explained: "This is about the fundamental thing we all only have one of, and it's a life, and we have a political party which is pushing every day for the right to kill whoever they think is inconvenient — and they're gonna do it one way or the other. They're gonna do it with law. They're gonna do it with healthcare, and every time I would point this out, they would pooh-pooh me and say that I was being paranoid and irrational, and abortion was a standalone issue that didn't have any growth features. It just was what it was.

"I could not find a way to get through to them and tell them that this was not just about babies and women's rights to choose and all this. It was about what kind of country we were eventually gonna have. If these people who revel, who celebrate the right to kill little children . . . if those people continue to gain power and don't pay a price for that . . . But I got nowhere . . .

"They didn't want to hear about any culture war . . . They didn't understand that Democrats were liberals, were socialists, were communists, budding communists.

"They didn't understand that," Rush said, slapping his desk, the sound echoing from radio speakers across America.

Rush explained that Joe Biden was a pawn in implementing this socialist agenda — nothing more than a puppet of Barack Obama!

"I don't think Obama has given up any control over the Democrat Party whatsoever," Rush said. "I mean, how the hell does Biden become the Democrat nominee in the first place and then get elected president? How the hell does that happen, of all people."

And then Rush made clear that socialism "is what the Democrat Party stands for."

He urged his listeners not to fall for the media spin about the Democrats' agenda, but to beware of their real plans.

"That's what Joe Biden wants to do. Biden, Pelosi, all these Democrats — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whoever you think — Crazy Bernie," Rush said with a sigh.

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They're using the pandemic to control schools and businesses, as they move to close down churches and restrict our most basic freedoms.

They want to destroy not only the pillars of our free enterprise system — but our religious and educational and cultural institutions.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of their young leaders, says Democrats should create lists of Trump supporters so they can be "held accountable."

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  • Why former President Obama is pushing a nationwide coronavirus surveillance system. (Page 15)
  • How Democrats and left-leaning activists are disguising their socialist goals to fool you. (Page 23)
  • How Republicans are getting a free pass over this alarming upheaval — simply because they are Republicans. (Page 39)
  • Why we've been taught that public schools are good for children. (Page 61)
  • Using Christianity: how we're allowing wolves in sheep's clothing to teach socialism as Biblical lessons. (Page 75)
  • Pope Francis' secret role working with U.S. socialists to undermine our economy. (Page 88)
  • Busting the myth that socialists care about the youth of America. (Page 95)
  • Our failure to grasp that not all self-proclaimed do-gooders actually do good. (Page 113)
  • The Billionaire Cabal: George Soros leads Bill Gates, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation in an effort to bring globalism to America. (Page 125)
  • How America has turned blind to the globalist snakes in the grass. (Page 135)
  • Why our nation is ceding the Constitution to technology. (Page 151)
  • Dangerous facial recognition: the new system is being used by cities all over the U.S. to track you. (Page 158)
  • How and why America is quickly forgetting its storied and illustrious history. (Page 171)
  • How socialists are getting America to buy their lies. (Page 201)
  • Face masks have nothing to do with stopping the virus, it's about control! (Page 202)
  • Facebook, Twitter targeted Trump, now they're targeting you. (Page 219)

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Cal Thomas, nationally syndicated conservative columnist, says: "What is it about the founding principles of America that the secular progressive left would make better? The answer is: Nothing. In her new book, Cheryl Chumley reminds us of those principles and calls on those who still believe in them to engage the failed policies and ideology of socialism and atheism and to fight back."

Michael Savage, host of The Savage Nation, says: "Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — when it comes to socialism in America, these two aren't the problem per se. They're simply symptoms of the real problems that usher in socialism: a dysfunctional entitlement-minded society, a propaganda-pushing school system, a decayed culture, a sieve-like border. As Cheryl Chumley points out in Socialists Don't Sleep, we can't root out socialism unless we first address the real problems."

Phil Robertson, star of TV's Duck Dynasty and New York Times bestselling author, raves: "Socialists Don't Sleep exposes the flawed thinking of the socialist left."

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Shuttle

I think that was a mistake. Space Shuttle was and remains the most capable flying machine ever conceived, built and operated. We learned much from the thirty years of Shuttle flights, and in my opinion, we should still be flying them. Shuttle carried a crew of seven, plus nearly sixty thousand pounds of payload to low earth orbit. After transforming from a rocket into an orbital research or construction platform, it entered the atmosphere and landed on a conventional runway at the end of its mission. After around one hundred days of processing, it was ready to fly again.
Leroy Chiao

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Fwd: Who Controls Space



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From: launchspace <info@launchspace.com>
Date: February 16, 2021 at 8:00:39 AM CST
To: Bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: Who Controls Space
Reply-To: info@launchspace.com

February 16, 2021

 
(Launchspace Staff Writers)
 
Bethesda, MD – It is well known that the Straits of Gibraltar provide access to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of strategic importance, this geographic phenomenon provides a control point for all seagoing traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Is there an analogous strategic structure for access to space?

For low-Earth orbit (LEO) traffic there is such a geographic phenomenon. Thanks to the physics of orbital mechanics, the equatorial plane offers the potential to act as an access-control point. The underlying reason is that all LEO traffic must cross the equator within every 50-minute time interval. This means that every satellite in every LEO constellation must cross the same plane twice per circuit around the Earth. If some entity were to place an offensive/defensive system in equatorial orbit, this could potentially control all near-Earth space operations. Such a concept could represent the foundation for a space-control architecture.

Imagine a scenario in which the US Space Force (USSF) might want to control all LEO operations. It is conceivable that one or more armed military space stations could be placed over the equator with crews that consist of USSF Guardians who operate a variety of onboard and ground-based weapons. Such vehicles could be equipped with docking ports to allow rendezvous and docking of other spacecraft for crew transfers and resupply activities.

Currently, there is only one fully operational and permanently inhabited space station in LEO, the International Space Station (ISS). This huge spacecraft is over 20 years old and is used to provide an orbiting facility for studying the effects of spaceflight on the human body and for conducting many long-length scientific studies. Because China, India, Russia and the US are planning other stations for the coming decades, space is already heavily contested by several spacefaring nations. There are already many adversarial operations in LEO and these seem to be intensifying. A primary mission of the USSF is to protect space assets and maintain US space superiority.

Equatorial orbits for space stations have not previously been considered. All prior space stations have been flown in orbits that cover most of the populated Earth. In other words, their orbits are inclined relative to the equatorial plane. The ISS is in an orbit that is inclined 51.6 degrees away from the equator. This orbital inclination was selected to accommodate Russian launch-site constraints while offering coverage of most populated areas. Without Russian participation the ISS orbit could have been inclined at 28.4 degrees, the latitude of the US launch site at Cape Canaveral. Unfortunately, the use of inclined orbits imposes certain limitations on launch timing and orbital operations as compared to equatorial destinations.

The use of an equatorial launch site would relieve certain constraints. For example, all spacecraft that are sent to the ISS have very narrow launch windows because liftoff can only occur as the launch site passes through the plane of the ISS orbit. If a planned launch window is missed, there is a one-day launch delay. A launch from an equatorial launch site to an equatorial space station can occur at any time because the launch site is always in the plane of the station. This geometrical convenience is also true for reusable transport vehicles, i.e., reentry will always bring the vehicle back to the equator.

A number of on-orbit operations can be simplified when operating in equatorial orbits. Maneuvering propellant is minimal because no plane changes are required for rendezvous and servicing of satellites. Rescue operations can be conducted at any time. On the adverse side, surveillance of the Earth's surface is limited to near-equator regions and launch operations would require an equatorial spaceport. Nevertheless, there may be important national security advantages for over-the-equator stations.



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