~~~~ Pentagon to send troops to bolster Saudi defenses after attack

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U.S. President Donald Trump has approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air defenses after Saturday’s attacks on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has blamed on Iran, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The Pentagon said the deployment would involve a moderate number of troops and would be primarily defensive in nature. 

U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the deployment would not reach thousands of forces but he declined to be more specific.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is currently assigned the Persian Gulf region.

Abraham Lincoln   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Abraham_Lincoln_(CVN-72)

Were There Giants In Bolivia? Lawyer Believes These Are Huge Footprints ...

By Dahboo7 

Underground Word News

Are these enormous footprints near Tarija the missing link to the ancient giants that roamed Bolivia.
This is what a lawyer believes.
They are known as “huesos de los gigantes antiguos de Tarija” or “bones of the ancient giants of Tarija” across the world.
And those bones seem to be a clear evidence that an ancient race of giants once roamed Bolivia and South America.

For example, ancient artifacts and skeletons in Peru speak for the existence giants, all males, on the borders of Atacama, and who, having excited the wrath of Heaven, were ultimately destroyed by thunder and lightning. Refences: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=otr8pOQtyzI&event=video_description&redir_token=bmH4Pyle4EAogCUomwXltNe66Ch8MTU2OTEwMjE1N0AxNTY5MDE1NzU3&q=https%3A%2F%2Fstrangesounds.org%2F2019%2F09%2Fwere-there-giants-in-bolivia-lawyer-claims-he-has-found-enormous-footprints-near-tarija-that-could-be-the-missing-link-to-the-ancient-giants-that-roamed-the-area.html Dahboo7 on Dlive.tv

~~~~ The Pentagon Orders "Suddden" Deployment Dill for the Ready Reserve Force ~ Turbo Activation

Pentagon Orders Sudden Deployment Drill Of Unprecedented Size For Its Sealift Ships

Dozens of reserve logistics ships are getting ready to sail amid concerns about the readiness of these vital support fleets during a major conflict.

By Joseph Trevithick   September 17, 2019

Thilo Parg via Wikimedia

U.S. Transportation Command, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command and the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration, kicked off a massive snap sealift exercise yesterday across the United States.  It involves an unprecedented 28 ships from the Ready Reserve Force, a fleet of support ships with merchant marine crews that would be vital during any large scale conflict, but which has experienced serious readiness problems in recent years leading to concerns that they would be unable to support a sustained conflict abroad.

The exercise, aptly nicknamed Turbo Activation, began on Sept. 16, 2019, and involves crews from the Ready Reserve Force getting no-notice orders to "activate" their ships and get them ready for operations. The general goal of these exercises, four of which generally occur every fiscal year, is to validate the readiness of the vessels involved and test the ability of merchant mariners to get them operational within an assigned timeframe. How long a crew has to prepare varies from ship to ship and can be anywhere from four to 20 days.

"The activated ships are directed to transition from a reduced operating status to a fully crewed status, with the quarters made habitable and cargo gear ready, within five days," according to the U.S. Transportation Command "Activations are commonly followed immediately by a sea trial."

"These exercises typically involve only a few ships, but this event targets 28 vessels for activation to provide a better assessment of the readiness of U.S. sealift forces than can be accomplished with fewer activations,"

USN The first-in-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke, at far left, sits next to, left to right, the M/V Cape Race, M/V Cape Ray, and M/V Cape Rise, all of which are part of MARAD's Ready Reserve Force

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The War Zone

~~~~ Biggest oil price surge since 1991 as 'locked and loaded' U.S. points finger at Iran for attack.

An attack on Saudi Arabia that shut 5% of global crude output caused the biggest surge in oil prices since 1991, after U.S. officials blamed Iran and President Donald Trump said Washington was “locked and loaded” to retaliate.

 “UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK”

According to U.S. government information, 15 structures at Abqaiq suffered damage on their west-northwest facing sides.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there was no evidence the attack came from Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been battling the Houthis for over four years in a conflict widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Muslim rival Iran.“Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply,” he said. 

The Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls Yemen’s capital claimed responsibility for the attack, which damaged the world’s biggest crude oil processing plant. Iran denied blame and said it was ready for “full-fledged war”.

Oil prices surged by as much as 19% before coming off peaks. The intraday jump was the biggest since the 1991 Gulf War.

Prices eased after Trump announced that he would release U.S. emergency supplies, and producers around the world said there were enough stocks stored up to make up for the shortfall.


“There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!” Trump said on Twitter on Sunday.
While Iran has denied blame for the attacks, its Yemeni allies have promised more strikes to come. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group carried out Saturday’s pre-dawn attack with drones, including some powered by jet engines.

U.S. officials say they believe that the attacks came from the opposite direction, possibly from Iran itself rather than Yemen, and may have involved cruise missiles. Wherever the attacks were launched, however, they believe Iran is to blame. 
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi called the U.S. accusations of Iranian involvement in Saturday’s attacks “unacceptable and entirely baseless”.

The giant Saudi plant that was struck cleans crude oil of impurities, a necessary step before it can be exported and fed into refineries. The attack cut Saudi output by 5.7 million barrels a day, or around half.

Big countries such as the United States and China have reserves designed to handle even a major outage over the short term. But a long outage would make markets subject to swings that could potentially destabilize the global economy.

Russia and China both said it was wrong to jump to hasty conclusions about who was responsible for the attack. Britain also stopped short of ascribing blame but described the assault as a “wanton violation of international law”.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

https://www.reuters.com/journalists/rania-el-gamal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Wari

https://www.reuters.com/journalists/aziz-el-yaakoubi
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https://www.reuters.com/video/?videoId=OVAWRXCKF

~~~~YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME - Powerful Motivational Video

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Edited by: @benlionelscott
Spoken by: Ray Lewis, Mat Wilson (https://bit.ly/2wAYfAm), Eric Thomas, Andy Frisella
Footage by: Reebok, Kazim Gunyar, Nike, Reebok, Tribe Riga, Andre Stringer, Nike
Music: Revolt Production Music - Neogenesis 

How do you keep going? Why do you keep going? There's two sides of pain, there's one side of pain that's the suffering and discomfort side of pain. But then there's another side pain, that's called effort. It's called glory. It's called if you can find a way to push through pain, there's something greater on the other side of it. 

If the enemy within is controlled, then the enemy outside can do you no harm. It's time to say enough is enough. Stop feeling this way about yourself. Stop letting years and years of negative sh*t affect who you are now. You have the power to stop it. You've got to put your foot down and say, "That's it. Enough is enough. No longer am I going to listen to that voice inside my head telling me I'm nothing, telling me I'm weak, telling me I'm useless.

And today, and from every day after today, I'm gonna start fighting back. I'm going to start doing what I want to do with strength and pride. I'm going to take on the world because that's what I'm made to do. that's what's inside me." You ain't the only one that feels or has ever felt helpless, let me tell you. We've all been there. But what happens up until this point means nothing. It's what you do from this point on that's going to determine the rest of your life. You can either be a victim of your life or the master of it. But the choice, that's down to you. 

When you lose, that's an opportunity to improve. That's not the time that you go sit over in the corner and feel sorry for yourself, and make excuses for why you lost. You gotta own the reasons you lost. It's time to take ownership. Take full ownership of your time, of your mind, of your day. It won't be easy. It will be hard, because life is hard. And these challenges, they're gonna do their best to take you down. Do not let them. Do not let them. Stand up, dig in. Line up those problems and confront them, fight them. Do not let them bring you down. In fact, let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow. Lay hold of it. And when that thing tells you to quit, you look at it in its eye and say, "I ain't going nowhere. I will break you before you break me. You will not defeat me. You will not destroy me." Some of you are so ignorant, Some of you are so ignorant, you've been through so much hell, you're gonna quit now? You should have quit 10 years ago. You don't quit now, it's the 10th round. And when you get to a certain level of success, it's about stamina. It's about you won't break me, you can't take me. I've fought too long, I've fought too hard, it's too late now. You should have broke me a long time ago, I'm unbreakable now. So in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, "Thank you. You made me better."

~~~~ By: me The People Perspectives

The secret history of the word "Cracker"  

By me The People Perspectives

     Jelani Cobb, a historian at the University of Connecticut and a contributor to The New Yorker, wrote about the etymology of some anti-white slurs: peckerwood, Miss Anne and Mister Charlie, and buckra, a term that was once widely used throughout the black diaspora, in the Americas, the Caribbean and in West Africa.

     "Cracker," the old standby of Anglo insults was first noted in the mid 18th century, making it older than the United States itself. It was used to refer to poor whites, particularly those inhabiting the frontier regions of Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. It is suspected that it was a shortened version of "whip-cracker," since the manual labor they did involved driving livestock with a whip (not to mention the other brutal arenas where those skills were employed.) Over the course of time it came to represent a person of lower caste or criminal disposition, (in some instances, was used in reference to bandits and other lawless folk.)

     But it turns out cracker's roots go back even further than the 17th century. All the way back to the age of Shakespeare, at least.     "The meaning of the word has changed a lot over the last four centuries," said Dana Ste. Claire, a Florida historian and anthropologist who studies crackers

     Ste. Claire noted Shakespeare's King John, published sometime in the 1590s. One character refers to another as a craker — a common insult for an obnoxious bloviator.

"What craker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath?"

     "It's a beautiful quote, but it was a character trait that was used to describe a group of Celtic immigrants — Scots-Irish people who came to the Americas who were running from political circumstances in the old world," Ste. Claire said. Those Scots-Irish folks started settling the Carolinas, and later moved deeper South and into Florida and Georgia.

     But the disparaging term followed these immigrants, who were thought by local officials to be unruly and ill-mannered.     Ste. Claire said that by the 1940s, the term began to take on yet another meaning in American inner cities in particular: as an epithet for bigoted white folks. But he wasn't sure how it happened.

"The Georgia "cracker" is eminently shiftless; he seems to fancy that he was born with his hands in his pockets, his back curved, and his slouch hat crowded over his eyes, and does his best to maintain this attitude forever. Quarrels, as among the lower classes generally throughout the South, grow into feuds, cherished for years, until some day, at the cross-roads, or the country tavern, a pistol or a knife puts a bloody and often a fatal end to the difficulty.

James Wells Champney - "The Great South" p. 372 (see below)

A "cracker cowboy" with his Florida Cracker Horse and dog by Frederick Remington, 1895A "cracker cowboy" with his Florida Cracker Horse and dog by Frederick Remington, 1895

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Cracker

  https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197644761/word-watch-on-crackers

http://upf.com/book.asp?id=CLAIRS05

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/john/full.html


https://www.npr.org/people/182264497/gene-demby


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_A_cracker_cowboy.jpg#/media/File:Remington_A_cracker_cowboy.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wells_Champney