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China used downed U.S. fighter to develop first stealth jet
During Nato’s aerial bombing of the country during the Kosovo war, a Serbian anti-aircraft missile shot the Nighthawk. It was the first time one of the ‘invisible’ fighters had ever been hit.
The Pentagon believed a combination of clever tactics and luck had allowed a Soviet-built SA-3 missile to bring down the jet.
The pilot ejected and was rescued but the wreckage was strewn over a wide area of farmland.
Civilians collected the parts – some the size of small cars – as souvenirs.
‘At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers,’ says Admiral Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia’s military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.
‘We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies... and to reverse-engineer them.’
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Is China the new villian?
- new?********
- been********
- villain that we keep doing business with.74LEO
- new?
- TheBlueOne0
Hello Peasants.
"We have entered a new Middle Ages: an era that most resembles the pre-Westphalian era of nearly 1,000 years ago. That was the period of history when the East was as powerful (if not more so) than the West, cities mattered more than nations, powerful dynasties and trading companies were engines of growth and innovation, private mercenaries fought in all wars, religious crusades shaped inter-cultural relations, and new trade routes over land and sea forged the world’s first (nearly) global economy. ..Davos has nothing to do with sovereignty and everything to do with authority: it’s peer-to-peer among anybody who’s somebody. Where else do hundreds of Fortune 500 CEOs, American cabinet secretaries, the mayor of London, prime minister of Catalonia, chairman of China’s Export-Import Bank, investor-statesmen like George Soros, rock-star activists like Bono, and billionaire hybrid executive philanthropists like Bill Gates speak directly and honestly, and form new ventures on the spot?"
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-marke…
Please be distracted by your Tea Parties and Progressives as the real power brokers have broken the back of the working class in their globalism. Let me know if you think you have a say in what matters.
And +1 to you deluded right wing douches and your lovely bread and circus Tea Party shenanigans that delude you into thinking your on some sort of meaningful crusade that matters to real power in the world.The only thing that ever scared these people was organized little people, and you guys throw that out before you start because it's, you know "socialism" or something thus ensuring your own serfdom.
Rock on.
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- back from the dead BITCHES!********
- THAT IS HOW ITS DONE! MOTHER FUCKAAAAASS!********
- I thought it was only tweener whores that still used the term 'bitches!' Go figure.mathinc
- back from the dead BITCHES!
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THIS IS HOW ITS DONE...
- guns are for pussies!74LEO
- < Agreed. Real men use bladed weapons...or The Force.luckyorphan
- locustsloth0
sorry to tell you guys, but aren't his hands dead and cold now? Or are the NRA keeping his mitts in warm jars of formaldehyde to keep up the metaphor?
- DrBombay0
I remember when this type of speech used to drive conservatives nuts.
Now there is an entire faction of the right saying basically the same thing.
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"The EFV, originally conceived during the Reagan administration, has already consumed more than $3 billion to develop, and will cost another $12 billion to build, all for a fleet with the capacity to put 4,000 troops ashore,
That's a lot of money to get a few thousand Marines on the beach."
Yet dipshit right wingers sit and complain about how much universal health care will cost.
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Nice photo by NYT
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Sign of a divided party? Republicans offer two separate speeches in response to State of the Union, one from Paul Ryan and one from Michelle Bachman (lol)
- bachman is looking for momentum after her tea party pre election celebrity is over.zenmasterfoo
- you're really a fucking scared moron aren't you?********
- moldero0
- sums this thread up nicely********
- ha ha touche, it's the Democrats that seem that they have to police it. Ironic eh?********
- sums this thread up nicely
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- mg330
I read the most awesome comment about Michelle Bachman on a legal blog:
"Her neck looks like lizard skin stretched over several high tension wires. Yuck."
I just about fucking lost my mind on the train when I read that.
- DrBombay0
Matthews calling Bachman a 'bubblehead'
- wow .. this is tough to watchRamanisky2
- Tea Partiers... it's representatives like this that make your party a joke.IRNlun6
- What exactly did she say you had that you had a problem with?********
- look at the hate in chris mathews eyes.********
- In this one example, "Will we be that last generation?"..."The very founders that worked those documents...extingui... slavery."IRNlun6
- I don't hate this woman. She might have many fans, she'll draw a lot of attention... but she's really not going to do much for this country.IRNlun6
- ... not going to do much for this country.IRNlun6
- Why shouldnt he be mad, they're putting this woman out there as a contender for the US Presidency.Josev
- Also, they're rewriting history to suit their agenda.Josev
- America's poor approach toward education claims another victim.luckyorphan
- The founders all had slaves, she said they fought against slavery. It is an important mistake she is making.DrBombay
- But you didn't catch it. Because you are the mouth breather who supports her.DrBombay
- BusterBoy0
A Palin/Bachmann ticket in 2012 would be fun to watch.
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That's some strange historical revisionism she's engaging in.
I guess its natural to want to idolize your country's founders and insist that everything they did was right, but how could that really ever be true?
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State of the Union 2011: Barack Obama gets another F for world leadership
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/new…Tonight’s remarkably dull State of the Union address was dominated by President Obama’s heavily flawed vision for reviving the American economy, with plans that remain overwhelmingly mired in an outdated Big Government mentality, and which spectacularly failed to include a coherent strategy for eliminating America’s massive $14 trillion debt.
But the State of the Union is also traditionally a major opportunity to project US leadership on the world stage, and once again Obama has fallen short.In 2010 I gave the president an F for the foreign policy section of his lacklustre first State of the Union address. His 2011 address was certainly no better. For the second year running, President Obama has demonstrated that he is no world leader, and frankly has little interest at all in foreign policy.
- this guy is a joke!~********
- wow, tuff guy!~
– chilamont1/4
MUST YOU ALWAYS RESPOND TO YOUR OWN POSTS FUCKTARD!fooler - lol********
- wow, great retort********
- this guy is a joke!~
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Following the Tunisian government's overthrow, riots spread to Cairo
- of course, Hosni Mubarak has been in power for 30 years, shit gets stale. bigger problem: muslims attaching coptics********
- of course, Hosni Mubarak has been in power for 30 years, shit gets stale. bigger problem: muslims attaching coptics
