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NATO to Adopt First Space Policy in June - Stoltenberg
Everything 'space' continues to gain momentum and importance it seems almost daily.
Now the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will adopt its first space policy in June, the alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Tuesday.
"We are now also working on an overarching space policy, another first for NATO. And next month, I expect NATO defence ministers will adopt our new space policy," Stoltenberg said after the meeting of national security advisers in Brussels.
Stoltenberg also said NATO needs to strengthen the resilience of its telecommunication networks, 5G, undersea cables and space assets.
"We will revise NATO guidelines for the protection of our critical infrastructure, including telecommunication infrastructure," he added.
In February, US President Donald Trump signed a directive to establish the Space Force. Initially, it will be part of the Air Force, much like the Marine Corps is part of the Navy. However, plans call for the Space Force to eventually graduate as an independent unit within the US military.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NATO_to_Adopt_First_Space_Policy_in_June___Stoltenberg_999.html
Notes/News
Report: Over 600,000 migrants entered the UK in 2018
Official reports have revealed that in 2018, more than 600,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom in 2018;
That's twice as many as the number of people who migrated to France and nearly the entire bloody population of Northern Ireland’s capital city Belfast
The data, which was released via the Office for National Statistics (ONS), stated that over a quarter of a million more people arrived with the intention of staying at least a year then left in 2018.
All in all – over the past 12 months – 602,000 newcomers migrated to the UK, while 343,000 emigrated – demonstrating a clearly significant trend toward overall net migration, amounting to 258,000 individuals.
Additionally, the British government granted asylum, resettlement, or alternative forms of leave to 17,304 people in the year ending in March 2019 – marking an increase from the previous year.
The Office for National Statistics reported that “Since 2016, the pattern of migration to the UK for work has been changing. Long-term immigration to the UK for work has fallen, mainly driven by the decline in EU arrivals. Despite this, 99,000 EU citizens still came to the UK long-term to work in 2018, a level similar to 2012. We are also seeing the number of skilled work visas for non-EU citizens increasing, although overall non-EU work-related immigration has remained broadly stable.”
Regarding the ONS report, the vice chairmen of the group Migration Watch UK, Alp Mehmet, had this to say: “Overall net migration remains at more than a quarter of a million — still unacceptably high. And despite the uncertainty during 2018, nearly 75,000 more EU arrived than left, as well as 232,000 non-EU nationals.”
“The clear message in these figures for the next Prime Minister is that they must make it a priority to deliver on the government’s pledge to reduce immigration levels by a lot, in line with the public’s wishes,” he added.
Last Christmas, the Home Office released a report which outlined their plans concerning migration in the year ahead which involved more work visas. At the time, Migration Watch UK declared “there are, literally, no measures to reduce net migration, now running at 270,000 a year”, while adding that it “seems certain that these proposals would allow a massive increase in the number of people entering the UK for work, and [it is]inevitable that many of these would find ways to stay long-term. This is not control. It is an illusion of control.”
Interestingly enough, this comes despite the Conservative party – whose manifesto pledges that in three successive elections that overall net migration would be decreased from ‘from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands’ – has been in power for nearly a decade now.
In a speech given in 2010 by then Home Secretary Theresa May, she denounced the previous Labor government’s track record, saying “over Labor’s time in office net migration totaled more than 2.2 million people – more than double the population of Birmingham. We can’t go on like this.”
But the Conservative government never took any action whatsoever to decrease the number of migrants coming into the country, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people have flowed into Britain in each successive year.
In what has become an infamous article in the Evening Standard, former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne wrote that the leadership in the Conservative party never actually had any intention of staying true to their manifesto’s pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands.
“None of [the Cabinet’s]senior members support the pledge in private and all would be glad to see the back of something that has caused the Conservative Party such public grief,” Mr. Osborne revealed.
When will this migration madness end?
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/report-over-600000-migrants-entered-the-uk-in-2018/
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Merkel refuses to outlaw Hezbollah, snubbing German Jews after kippah row.
It's all about votes
Chancellor Merkel blames the usually pro-Israel and pro-Jewish conservative populists for the skyrocketing antisemitism in Germany. Mass immigration from Muslim countries is what will inevitably finish European Jewry.
The governments that currently lead Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Sweden will never take any meaningful action against Islamic anti-Semitism, due to the voting power Europe’s Muslims now possess.
The latest news about the surge of anti-Semitism in Europe may not surprise people who worry about the rise of European populist parties. The populists opposing European unity and globalism are easily identified with the old Right in many countries. Many of their supporters — whether the right-wing AfD in Germany, the National Front in France led by Marine Le Pen, or the conservative ruling parties in such countries as Poland and Hungary — are also identified with traditional anti-Semitic attitudes.
So when a German federal official recently advised Jews to avoid wearing a kippah or religious head covering in public so they wouldn’t be targeted for violence, most foreign observers concluded that it was right-wing anti-Semites who have been attacking Jews, given that right-wingers have been making gains in elections, including in the recent European Parliament election.
The official, Felix Klein, Germany’s first “Commissioner for Jewish life in Germany and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism,” was criticized by many, including Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, for surrendering to the forces of hate. The outrage inspired the newspaper Der Bild to publish a cutout version of a kipah for readers to wear in solidarity with Jews.
More here on this ever increasingly sensitive & important subject.
https://gellerreport.com/2019/05/mullah-merkel-sanctions-hezbaalh.html/
SpaceNews
ANOMALY OCCURS DURING OMEGA FIRST STAGE STATIC FIRE TEST
PROMONTORY, Utah — During the first static fire test for Northrop Grumman’s OmegA first stage, debris could be seen coming away from the nozzle section of the booster.
This test, which occurred at 1:05 p.m. MDT (19:05 GMT) May 30, 2019, at Northrop Grumman’s Utah facility, was the first full-scale static fire test for the rocket, which the company plans to qualify by 2021 to launch national security payloads into orbit for the U.S. military
The booster fired for about two minutes before burning out. According to Northrop Grumman, the test was successful other than the noted observation with the aft exit cone of the nozzle near the end of its burn time.
“This is why you test,” said Kent Rominger, Northrop Grumman’s vice president of Strategic Programs. “It identified something that we find out when we have 700 channels of data on the motor. We will go dig into this data and see what it tells us.”
Rominger did not speculate as to the cause of the anomaly, stressing that engineers would need to go over the data to get a better idea of what may have happened.
According to Northrop Grumman, the OmegA rocket is built on a multitude of “flight proven” technologies ranging from the RL10 engine to hardware the size of the Space Shuttle and Space Launch System solid rocket booster segments.
However, Rominger did say that the nozzle design between OmegA and SLS had “distinct” differences.
Ultimately, the initial flight configuration of OmegA is expected to include a Castor 600 solid rocket motor, a Castor 300 second stage and a dual-engine cryogenic third stage.
For this test, the Castor 600 first stage utilized the same equipment that was used for the Space Shuttle and Space Launch System solid rocket boosters. As such, the much-shorter booster required several gap segments to span the whole test mount.
Overall, the Castor 600 is 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide and 80 feet (24.4 meters) long. It consists of two common booster segments that were designed specifically for the OmegA program, but with “roots in the strong heritage of Northrop Grumman’s large-diameter solid rocket booster and composite technology.”
The common booster segments comprise the first and second stages with each made of a carbon fiber casing.
Once ignited, the Castor 600, which contains more than 600,000 pounds (273,000 kilograms) of propellant, produced more than 2 million pounds (8,900 kilonewtons) of force. According to Northrop Grumman, the next steps will be to disassemble the stage and begin dissecting and inspecting the casing and the data from the more than 700 instrumentation channels.
More here spaceanons interested..
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/northrop-grumman/anomaly-occurs-during-omega-first-stage-static-fire-test/
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