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airanons having fun again!

The Navy’s probe into sky penis. kek

It prompted viral guffaws from some and online outrage from others.

There are shot glasses commemorating the event and it birthed memes ahead of the annual Army-Navy game.

But the inside story of how an EA-18G Growler jet crew drew a penis across the clear blue skies of Washington state in 2017 has never been told.

Until now.

It was the work of two junior officers with the “Zappers” of Electronic Attack Squadron 130, who had sky time to kill and noticed that the white contrails their jet produced were particularly robust that afternoon.

But they never counted on those contrails lingering long enough for folks on the ground to see their phallic rendering, according to a copy of the military’s sky penis investigation obtained exclusively by Navy Times.

KREM 2, a local TV station, broke the news after a woman snapped pics of the sky drawings on Nov. 16, 2017, near a training area for the squadron, which is based in western Washington at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

“A mother who lives in Okanogan who took pictures of the drawings reached out to KREM 2 to complain about the images, saying she was upset she might have to explain to her young children what the drawings were,” the station reported.

The story of the sky penis took wing from there, spreading umbrage and juvenile glee to all corners of the internet.

It also prompted nervous commanders to file urgent communiques to Navy leadership back in Washington, D.C., letting them know that this was about to turn into a thing.

Within hours of the phallic rendering, the squadron sent an alert to higher ups in an “official information dispatch” that reached the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

“Aircrew maneuvered an EA-18G aircraft in a pattern that resulted in contrails depicting an obscene symbol when viewed from the ground,” it warned. “Media attention is expected.”

Flying as “Zapper 21,” the lieutenants responsible for the drawing took off from Whidbey with another jet at about noon that day, according to the investigation.

The squadron’s commanding officer would later praise the pilot as a shy introvert and “a ‘whiz kid’ who managed our training and readiness with higher efficiency and effectiveness than anyone else I have seen in a squadron,” according to the investigation.

His cockpit partner that day, an electronic warfare officer, or EWO, was “my best junior officer,” the CO noted.

What discipline the Zapper 21 duo faced remains unknown.

Citing privacy regulations, officials declined to provide such records, and all names are redacted in the report copy provided to Navy Times in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

More hard reading here, to give you the main thrust of the story:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/05/14/the-navys-probe-into-sky-penis/

>>6492220

German air force gives us this one too!

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‘Siri, Watch That Guy’: Pentagon Seeks AI that Can Track Someone Across a City.

The intel community's researchers are looking for datasets to help train their computers.

The U.S. intelligence community’s research arm wants to train algorithms to track people across sprawling video surveillance networks, and it needs more data to do it.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is recruiting teams to build bigger, better datasets to train computer vision algorithms that would monitor people as they move through urban environments. The training data would improve the tech’s ability to link together footage from a large network of security cameras, allowing it to better track and identify potential targets.

Computer vision is a type of artificial intelligence that allows computers to interpret images and videos. Many law enforcement and public safety organizations already use the tech to investigate crimes, monitor critical infrastructure and secure major events that could be targets for terrorists. An early version of the tech was used to identify the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, for instance, its popularity has only grown in the years since.

But according to IARPA, the data used to train algorithms today is fairly narrow, which limits the tech’s ability to dissect the wide range of situations they’d see in the real world. With the new datasets, officials aim to improve the training process and enable computer vision systems to connect footage shot from cameras positioned across a broad geographic area.

“Further research in the area of computer vision within multi-camera video networks may support post-event crime scene reconstruction, protection of critical infrastructure and transportation facilities, military force protection, and in the operations of National Special Security Events,” IARPA officials wrote in the solicitation.

Under the solicitation, selected vendors would compile roughly 960 hours of video footage covering numerous different environments and scenarios.

The dataset must include footage from at least 20 different security cameras with “varying positions, views, resolutions and frame rates” scattered across roughly 2.5 acres of “urban or semi-urban space.” The videos would be shot all hours of the day and in different weather conditions, and include pedestrians, moving vehicles, street signs and other “distractors.”

The footage must also include at least 200 test subjects behaving in different ways across the camera network. Ultimately, these are the people the algorithms would focus on to sharpen their identification and tracking skills.

Interested vendors must respond to the solicitation by May 17.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/05/iarpa-needs-more-training-data-video-surveillance-algorithms/156955/?oref=d-channelriver

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EU TO COVER PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SALARIES AND PENSIONS FOR MONTH OF APRIL.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas meets European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini

(May 12, 2019 / PMW) The European Union has pledging to give the Palestinian Authority 15 million euros to cover the salaries of public employees—salaries that leader Mahmoud Abbas cut to keep up the P.A.’s payments to imprisoned and released terrorists, wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.

Abbas has declared that the P.A. is “obligated” to continue rewarding the terrorist prisoners and families of so-called “martyrs.”

Earlier this year, Israel decided to withhold from the tax money it collects on behalf of the P.A. an amount equaling the sum the P.A. pays to terrorist prisoners. These prisoners include mass murderers and heads of terror organizations. In response, the P.A. has refused to accept all the tax money, amounting to over 50 percent of its budget, thereby inflicting a serious financial crisis on itself.

To overcome this crisis—and in order to have money available to continue to pay the terrorists in full—the P.A. cut the salaries of its public employees by 50 percent.

According to the Palestinian Media Watch NGO, Abbas then turned to Europe for money, claiming Israel was responsible for the P.A.’s self-inflicted crisis.

The European Union has now answered his appeal.

E.U. Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn stated to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee of P.A. donor countries in April: “We are all aware of the fiscal crisis the P.A. is facing and of the potential human, social and security consequences. Both sides need to move towards a solution. Israel’s decision to withhold clearance revenues violates current arrangements. At the same time, we do not support the system of Palestinian payments to ‘prisoners and martyrs.’ ” (Website of the European Commission , April 30, 2019)

https://gellerreport.com/2019/05/eu-to-cover-terrorists-salaries-and-pensions-for-month-of-april.html/

Space stuff

BLUE ORIGIN UPGRADING NASA TEST STAND

Blue Origin and NASA announced an agreement that would allow the company to test two of its new rocket engines in Alabama.

On April 17, 2019, the U.S. space agency announced that Blue Origin is planning to upgrade and refurbish Test Stand 4670 at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Blue Origin is expected to use the stand to evaluate its BE-4 and BE-3U engines.

“This test stand once helped power NASA’s first launches to the Moon, which eventually led to the emergence of an entirely new economic sector—commercial space,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard in a news release. “Now, it will have a role in our ongoing commitment to facilitate growth in this sector.”

Blue Origin is currently building a rocket engine factory in Huntsville. The use of the test stand would allow Blue to test its engines without having to truck them to its existing test facility in West Texas, near the town of Van Horn.

The company’s BE-4 engine is apart of a new class of rocket engines. Much like SpaceX’s Raptor engine, the BE-4 runs on liquid methane and liquid oxygen. The engine is being designed to power the first stage of two next-generation rockets: United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan and Blue Origin’s own New Glenn rockets.

The BE-3U is expected to be utilized in the second stage of New Glenn. It is a derivative of the BE-3, which powers Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. It consumes liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The New Glenn upper stage will utilize two BE-3Us.

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/blue-origin/blue-origin-upgrading-nasa-test-stand/

The noose is being tied as we speak.

TREASON!

Whilst US forces sail to deal with a very real and present threat from Iran, guess who is betraying every man & woman on that glorious armada?

JOHN KERRY!!

>>6492274

On a ship together….

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SPACE POLICY MAY 12-18, 2019.

Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of May 12-18, 2019 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session this week.

During the Week

The title may be “Humans to Mars Summit,” but this year’s H2M conference is as much about the Moon as the Red Planet. In keeping with the new direction from the White House to focus on returning astronauts to the lunar surface, a number of sessions will discuss how the Moon fits into the longer-term goal of Mars.

The three-day conference (Tuesday-Thursday) is being held at the National Academy of Sciences building on Constitution Ave in D.C. this year. It will be webcast.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is scheduled to be the opening keynote speaker on Tuesday morning (will there be news about the Moon 2024 budget?). It will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by John Logsdon, founder of and Professor Emeritus at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute, on “Beyond Apollo: Can a 2024 Moon Landing Enable a Mars Landing in the 2030s?” (Bridenstine told Congress that one reason for accelerating the human return to the Moon is to also accelerate human landings on Mars.) Note that the panel will be talking about a human Mars landing in the “2030s” not 2033, Rep. Perlmutter’s passion. The Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) recently published a report concluding it is “infeasible” even for humans to orbit, never mind land on Mars in 2033, but humans orbiting Mars might possible later that decade. Bhayva Lal, one of the authors of the STPI report, is on the panel. Also on the panel: Ryan Whitley from the National Space Council; Ken Bowersox, a former astronaut who is now Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate; and Rob Chambers from Lockheed Martin.

A special feature is a luncheon address on Wednesday by renowned space journalist Leonard David who just published his latest book: Moon Rush: The New Space Race (National Geographic). The book is perfect not only for experts, but for policymakers who don’t spend full time thinking about human spaceflight. It provides just the right amount of context about the formation of the Moon and its exploration to date before delving into questions about why anyone would want to return and the challenges that will be faced in trying to live and work there. We don’t want to steal his thunder since you can hear from the author himself on Wednesday, but the book was released on May 7 and is available from Amazon and elsewhere. David has been reporting on space for more than 50 years and is also the author of the National Geographic’s book on human exploration of Mars (Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet) and co-author of Buzz Aldrin’s Mission to Mars: My Vision for Mars Exploration.

Meanwhile, up on Capitol Hill, the Senate Commerce space subcommittee will hold a hearing Tuesday afternoon where Bridenstine will testify on a somewhat different topic — The Emerging Space Environment. Joining him at the witness table are Kevin O’Connell, Director of the Office of Space Commerce at the Department of Commerce; Robert Cardillo, who just retired as Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Lt. Gen. David Thompson, Vice Commander, Air Force Space Command; and USAF Col. Pam Melroy (Ret.), a former astronaut who is now a consultant. The hearing “will examine civil-military coordination, cooperation, and related issues within the space domain.” Separately, the full committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Stephen Dickson to be FAA Administrator on Wednesday. If confirmed, one of the offices he will oversee is the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, which regulates, facilitates and promotes the commercial space launch and reentry business. The committee webcasts its hearings.

Also, the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee will markup the FY2020 DOD appropriations bill on Wednesday, along with two others (Energy & Water, and Interior). The committee is moving apace with its markups. NASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier told the House SS&T space subcommittee on Wednesday that the Administration was still 1-2 weeks away from being ready to submit an amended NASA budget request to pay for Moon 2024. It really has no time to waste if it wants that to be part of the regular FY2020 budget cycle.

More here. (too much text to post here.)

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/whats-happening-in-space-policy-may-12-18-2019/

>>6492411

Ignore it fren.

just clown scum trying to make the board look like racists.

And sometimes smelly jew haters too.

Division shills will fail.

The anon fam is an inclusive fam.

Cheers.

Thank You

To the various agency folks who tirelessly work their butts off, in the worst places, against the most wicked faces.

never think that you are not appreciated and prayed for

These are momentous times & darkness is being dispelled by the light of truth, hope & justice.

Thank you again. Prayers being said.

WWG1WGA

GOD BLESS

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>>6492657

We shall have to have a special nite here to celebrate.

Might get a extra special bits message!

goosebumps or what?

>>6492693

Spell mistake. Meant 'special Boys' not bits!

>>6492627

a nice one year anniversary cake as mentioned below for mommy.

>>6492737

KEK!!!!

Google got something right for once!

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CIA Recruiting Comes Out Into The Open.

At a superhero extravaganza in Washington, comic book fans dressed the part. No matter which way you turned, middle-aged men were in Batman costumes.

Not exactly the place you'd expect a CIA discussion on recruiting foreign spies. And yet CIA staff historian Randy Burkett, wearing khakis and a polo shirt with the CIA logo, was doing exactly that.

We came up with this game," explained Burkett, who handed out copies of an actual letter Albert Einstein sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 warning about early Nazi efforts on an atomic bomb.

Einstein was already in the U.S. by this time. But for this game, the twist was to pretend he was still in Nazi Germany and figure out how to recruit him — without getting him arrested or killed.

A man dressed as the Joker explained: "Clearly a stable individual, forward thinking. It's going to be difficult to get in and out of Germany."

Presence on social media

This is just one quirky example of the agency's new outreach to a broader base of potential recruits. For generations, the CIA recruited its workforce discreetly — by word of mouth, a tap on the shoulder, or through a friend of a friend.

But under Director Gina Haspel, the CIA is reaching out in very public ways it has never done before. The agency says it needs a wider range than ever of specialized skills — from linguists to scientists to cyber experts. It advertises positions on Twitter and Facebook. And it just joined Instagram.

In a recent speech at Auburn University, Haspel noted the change since she applied in the mid-1980s. "I wrote a letter to the CIA on my manual college typewriter. I mailed it to CIA with my résumé. I didn't have an address. So I just put, 'CIA. Washington, D.C.,' " said Haspel. "'And here I am."'

More here.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/718729715/cia-recruiting-comes-out-into-the-open?t=1557801008873

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