BYE BYE ROD.
Where will Rod visit in the next week or so?
Who will he visit with?
Will he perhaps go overseas for a short break?
We are on a ship
& now we are really sailing!
WWG1WGA.
Arab Bathhouse Barry Sotero will need those lawyers real soon.
Anons know this and wait with an expectant air of impending justice joy.
Arrrr mi hearties!
There be habbenins' ahead!
And where the habbenins be… The treasure be!
Arrrrrrr!
Notables..
Hungary: The EU has provided 2 million migrants with unlawful cash cards worth 1.55 billion euros in an effort to legalize illegal migration!
Over two million migrants have received anonymous debit cards at a cost of €1.55 billion, according to the Hungarian government.
“Over two million migrants have received anonymous debit cards. The equivalent of 500 billion forints (1.55 bn euros) has been spent in this manner”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television.
Mr. Bakondi said that the cards are unlawful, because European citizens cannot own anonymous banking cards, they cannot be monitored, and no public procurement procedure was launched for their issuing.
“This solution, which has not been thought through and is unlawful, and other efforts on the part of the European Union to legalise illegal migration such as the migrant visa and the establishment of legal channels for immigration, represent a security risk with healthcare, economic and cultural consequences for Hungarian and European citizens”, he stated.
In the Chief Security Advisor’s opinion, the EU doesn’t want to stop migration, but legalise it.
“Hungary, however, does not agree with this. Hungary’s opinion is that the problem must not be brought into Europe, but that instead, assistance must be provided to enable problems to be solved on site”, he added.
Mr. Bakondi also mentioned that the good weather has led to an increase in the number of migrants on the Balkan migration route.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/hungary-the-eu-has-provided-2-million-migrants-with-unlawful-cash-cards-worth-1-55-billion-euros-in-an-effort-to-legalise-illegal-migration/
Notables..
Islamic terror plot involving Muslim military veteran thwarted in Southern California.
TERROR PLOT INVOLVING MILITARY VETERAN THWARTED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SOURCES SAY
By Richard Winton and James Queally, LA Times, Apr 29, 2019:
A domestic terror plot aimed at “multiple targets” in Southern California was disrupted by federal and local law enforcement agencies, sources told the Los Angeles Times on Monday.
One man, described as a U.S. military veteran, was caught in an online sting operation and arrested by the FBI, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case with the media.
It’s unclear how far the plot got, but sources said the man had specific targets, including one in Long Beach. The sources said he had converted to Islam, but it was not known if that was related to the plot.
An official who said the plot involved “multiple targets” declined to elaborate further. A news conference to discuss the case has been scheduled for 1 p.m. in downtown Los Angeles.
Representatives from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Central District of California, the FBI, the LAPD, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Long Beach Police Department are expected to speak. A source in the Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the agency was involved in the surveillance and detention of the suspect.
The development comes less than 48 hours after a gunman opened fire inside a San Diego County synagogue, killing one woman and wounding several others in what law enforcement officials are investigating as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
Southern California has been the scene of several terror incidents.
In 2002, a gunman killed two people at a busy ticket counter of El Al Israel Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport.
In 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, entered a holiday gathering for county employees at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino and, using rifles purchased by a friend, killed 14 people and injured 22 others.
Authorities alleged that Farook and a friend had plotted additional terror attacks targeting students at a nearby community college and drivers on the 91 Freeway.
https://gellerreport.com/2019/04/muslim-veteran-terror-in-california.html/
Justice ahoy!
Q Ahoy!
Full steam ahead!
Justice coming real soon.
Notables..
Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Competitive Prototype program progresses ahead of schedule.
Story by Kerensa Crum
CCDC Aviation & Missile Center
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (April 29, 2019) – As part of the Army’s Future Vertical Lift modernization priority, the competition to design, build, and test the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Competitive Prototype is progressing ahead of schedule and exceeding expectations along the way.
The FARA CP program falls under U.S. Army Futures Command and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center’s Aviation Development Directorate.
Out of eight proposals, five Other Transaction Authority for Prototype agreements were awarded April 23, well ahead of schedule.
“FARA represents the leap-ahead technology we've been talking about,” said Col. Craig Alia, Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team chief of staff. “It's a critical program in that it fills an existing capability gap created by the divestiture of the OH-58.”
Dan Bailey, CCDC AvMC ADD, is the FARA CP program manager and responsible for the planning and execution of the program to maintain cost, schedule, and performance. He touted the fact that, though the FARA CP solicitation was publicly announced in late 2018 with anticipated awards in June 2019, the already aggressive timeline was beaten by two months.
“What's exciting about the new process the Army has put in place through the Army Futures Command and cross-functional teams … is that we've gone from concept … to awards in basically a one-year period of time,” said Bailey who, as the program manager, heads the effort to execute the FARA CP effort on the FVL CFT’s behalf.
The mandatory requirements included integration of government-furnished equipment: engine, gun and rocket launcher, a minimum speed, specific target gross weight, a maximum 40-foot diameter rotor, and an affordability goal. Range, endurance, and payload were among the desired requirements that provided industry trade space for their specific design. Apart from those mandates, the timing of the execution plan, funding profile requirements, acceptable risk level, statute requirements and the potential of executing the entire program all the way through field capability by 2028 were also examined.
“We're at an inflection point where we can't afford not to modernize,” said Alia, echoing a sentiment he said is often expressed by his boss, Brig. Gen. Walter Rugen, FVL CFT director. “We know that the current fleet is fantastic and has done a great job for us, but we can't indefinitely continue to incrementally improve 1970s and 1980s technology,” Alia said.
The awards were made about six months after the initial solicitation went out in October 2018. Bailey explained that there is a phased approach to the execution of the program. The first phase is for the initial designs that will be provided by February 2020. “Those are designs of the aircraft, updated plan to execute the entire approach and risk assessments of proceeding, followed by another evaluation process,” the FARA CP program manager said.
But what is key, Bailey said, is that the five vendors know only two of them will make it into the next phase. “The awards made this week were not just for phase one; it was for the entire execution all the way through flight test on these vehicles” he explained. “We looked at all aspects of being able to execute, not only the CP effort through flight test in 2023, but also their ability to execute an (engineering manufacturing and development) phase follow-on and a production phase afterward,” Bailey explained.
Giunta reiterated the flexibility of the OTA that allows the government to move forward or slow down as necessary without having to amend the contract. “We only make awards based on their progress as observed by the government,” he said. “There are defined milestones. If those milestones are hit early and the government is satisfied with those milestones, the program can proceed quicker than what was anticipated.”
“This is a true team effort,” Alia said. “Everyone recognizes it's not business as usual and the total Army team recognizes that, which is why we've been able to move so quickly.”
Alia attributes the success of this effort to the expertise and professionalism of Bailey as the program manager, of ACC, and leadership and focus of Army Futures Command. “With this team effort, we think we're going to continue to meet milestones, continue to knock down obstacles, and … every opportunity we have we’re going to look to accelerate.”
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/319948/future-attack-reconnaissance-aircraft-competitive-prototype-program-progresses-ahead-schedule
We be closin' in fo' sure Captain!