Air Force shutting down "Space Fence" ...

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:35:56 PM UTC-7, Brüder des Schattens Söhne des Lichts wrote:
"Hägar" wrote in message

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... due to budgetary constraints, but we can afford to reward the ghetto

denizens to breed like rabbits, at $1200 a pop and feed, clothe and house

them ... so that they can pursue their illegal activities of drug dealing

and crack whoring.



http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-sh...001115570.html





WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force will shut down its space

surveillance system that tracks satellites and other orbiting objects by

October 1 due to budget constraints caused by automatic federal budget cuts

known as the sequestration, it announced Monday.

Deactivating the system by October 1 would save the Air Force Space Command

$14 million annually starting in fiscal year 2014.

The surveillance system got the nickname "Space Fence" because it transmits

a "fence" of radar energy vertically into space that can detect any object

or debris that crosses it without being cued to do so.

Commander of the Air Force Space Command, General William Shelton, said the

system - which has been in operation since 1961 - was outmoded and that

newer technology will provide more accurate observations.

Shelton said a new Space Fence is being planned now, which will provide more

precise positional data on orbiting objects and would become the most

accurate radar in the Air Force's space surveillance network.

The system that will be discontinued on October 1 is a series of three

transmitters and six receivers located across different points in the

southern United States. It is operated by Five Rivers Services in Colorado.

"When combined with the new Joint Space Operations Center's high performance

computing environment, the new fence will truly represent a quantum leap

forward in space situational awareness for the nation," Shelton said in a

statement Monday.

(Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)



$14 MILLION / YEAR to operate 6 radar sites !!!!!

should have shut that down long ago.

Indeed, because like a lot of what our government does for us is more than duplicated by others (some of which we don't even have to directly pay for)..

Part of the reason 9-11 caught us with our local, state and federal pants all the way down is directly related as to departments, agencies and contracted services having been so compartmentalized and yet so redundant, in that the need was never there to begin with, unless orchestrated proxy wars and our mutually perpetrated cold-war era was actually fully justified.

Perhaps they can’t fight us with sophisticated technology of their own, but clearly they've mastered using some of our technology against us. Perhaps the use of an internet kill-switch would make it very tough on those assigned to disrupt and if possible destroy us. Even home grown mafia like our Whitey Bulger found ways of using our corrupted FBI and even the executive authority of the White House to his own advantage.

Of course for the past decade our civil and federal service workers have simply made out like bandits, while the rest of us took enormous hits and forced into bankruptcies and/or as having to lose everything as our only option while our local, state and federal government workers paid via taxation and assorted local, state and government fees along with numerous entitlements were actually gaining ground and even their agencies getting created and/or expanded at a time when the rest of us could least afford it, and oddly very little of this hard earned loot went into improving our local or national infrastructure. Now that the Oligarch/Bilderberg piper has to get paid, and the federal debt has exceeded 17 trillion (not even including its annually compounded cost plus personal or state debts that are collectively nearly as bad), it’s clearly showing how our civil and federal workers are into squirming and whining as now it’s becoming their turn to buck-up, to even as little as taking a 10% hit of what the rest of us have had to live with seems oddly unacceptable to their own job-security and benefit-security entitlement way of thinking.

How much government should be cut per year after year, and at least systematically culled annually for the next decade?