http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2454875/Air-Force-general-Michael-Carey-fired-loss-trust.html
http://www.debka.com/article/23349/Netanyahu%E2%80%99s-show-of-muscle-comes-too-late-to-deter-a-nuclear-Tehran
Israeli commentators noted that the drill broadcast a message to Tehran that Israel’s military option for bombing its nuclear program was alive and kicking. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bombarded European TV media with interviews warning their leaders that the Iranians were conning the world while continuing to develop a nuclear weapon capability. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” he said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was acting as though he believed he still holds three spanners for throwing into Iran’s nuclear program:
3. The US Congress, on which he counts to block future presidential applications to approve the lifting in stages of sanctions against Iran, simply by withholding approval of his agreements with Tehran.
However, the truth which every Middle East and Western leaders knows by now, is that the battle against a nuclear Iran is lost.
Netanyahu may keep on calling this a bad deal. But after all, it took shape on his watch as prime minister. And after Barack Obama became president in 2009, Israel failed to stall Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb – not in Parchin, Arak and Fordo – but in the White House.
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SECOND general in charge of nuclear missiles is fired over 'loss of trust' as Pentagon is forced to deny he's an alcoholic
- Maj. Gen Michael Carey was fired in response to an investigation into personal misbehavior
- Carey took command of the ICBM force, based at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., in June 2012
- It is the second firing this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces
The Air Force has fired its two-star general in charge of nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior, they said today.
It was the second sacking this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces.
Maj. Gen. Michael Carey was removed from command of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for three wings of intercontinental ballistic missiles, a total of 450 missiles at three bases across the country, according to an Air Force spokesman, Brig. Gen. Les Kodlick.
Maj. Gen. Michael J. Carey was fired in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior
The decision was made by Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command.
Kowalski is in charge of all Air Force nuclear weapons, including bombers.
On Wednesday, the second-in-command at U.S. Strategic Command, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was relieved of command amid an investigation into alleged gambling issues.
Strategic Command is responsible for all Air Force and Navy nuclear forces.
'It's unfortunate that I've had to relieve an officer who's had an otherwise distinctive career spanning 35 years of commendable service,' Kowalski said in a written statement from his headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base, La.
An internal email obtained by the AP on Friday said the allegations against Carey stem from an inspector general probe of his behavior while on an unspecified 'temporary duty assignment'.
Lt. Gen. James M. Kowalski (left) fired Maj.Gen. Michael Carey and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein (right)
The email said the allegations are not related to the operational readiness of the ICBM force or recent failed inspections of ICBM units.
Kodlick said the investigation is not yet completed. He would not provide details about the alleged misbehavior by Carey except to say it does not involve sexual misconduct.
At a Pentagon news conference, Kodlick was asked whether Carey's dismissal was alcohol-related.
He did not respond directly but said Carey is not an alcoholic.
Kowalski has selected the vice commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein, to temporarily replace Carey as head of 20th Air Force.
Carey began his Air Force career in the enlisted ranks in 1978.
He was commissioned as an officer in 1983 and is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He took command of the ICBM force, based at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., in June 2012.
http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/10/time-has-run-out-for-iran-nuclear-work/
WASHINGTON – Israel’s military practiced long-range missions and mid-air refueling over the past weekend even as Iran made clear that it will continue with the development of its nuclear program, which Israel is convinced is a cover for making nuclear weapons.
In fact, Israel believes Iran is pursuing negotiations with the U.S. to buy time to finalize its ability to enrich existing low-enriched uranium stockpiles to high-enriched uranium needed to make some seven or eight nuclear weapons.
But there’s now word that time may be short.
“The coming weeks probably represent the last opportunity for Iran and the international community to reach an enforceable deal that will dismantle Tehran’s nuclear weapons program, before Israel concludes that time has run, that Iran has gotten too close to creating its first atomic bombs, and that the time for a military strike has arrived,” according to regional expert Yaakov Lappin, whose articles appear in The Jerusalem Post.
Despite assurances from Iran that it is not embarked on a nuclear weapons program, Israeli officials say that Iran has not halted uranium enrichment with an increasing number of centrifuges that extract more enriched uranium that could be used for nuclear weapons.
Israeli officials believe that centrifuges at the underground nuclear facilities in Natanz and Qom continue the enrichment process unabated.
In addition, these sources assert that the heavy water plutonium facility at Arak also continues its production.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that talks between Western powers and Iran on October 15-16 aren’t going to amount to anything and will only buy Iran more time to enrich more uranium for what he says are nuclear weapons.
“A bad deal is worse than no deal,” Netanyahu told the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Iran “will ask for a partial lifting of sanctions for cosmetic concessions that would leave them with the ability to have a nuclear weapons capability,” he said.
He even suggested that Iran was more dangerous than already nuclear-armed North Korea, dedicated to spreading terror in the world.
“You demand enrichment if you want to build nuclear weapons,” he said.
“The speech given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in which he warned that Israel would act alone against Iran if it needed to, is an authentic warning and serves a dual purpose,” Lappin said.
In effect, Netahyahu’s speech is said to have renewed the declaration that there is a credible military threat by Iran, even though such warnings had waned significantly since August when the U.S. didn’t carry out a military strike against Iran’s ally, Syria.
“A diminished threat of military force leaves diplomatic efforts with Iran almost no chance of success,” Lappin said. “It leaves Iran with virtually no incentive to stop its nuclear progress, despite the painful economic sanctions it faces.”
He said things just changed, though.
“(Netanyahu) has placed the military threat firmly back on the table, lest Iran forget that even if the U.S. will not act militarily any time soon, Israel most certainly will if it must,” Lappin said.
The second point of Netanyahu’s U.N. speech, Lappin said, was to serve notice to the international community about the urgency with which Israel views Iran’s nuclear development program, and to assure that Israel will act soon, with or without U.S. assistance.
“Should the international community continue to allow Iran to buy more time for its nuclear program, as it has done for more than a decade, after Netanyahu’s warning, it will not be able to respond with surprise when Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites,” Lappin said.
Lappin, who is close to high-level Israeli officials, said that Israel doesn’t intend to miss its window to act, since it would violate a central tenet of Israeli defense doctrine of not to depend on any external power such as the U.S. to deal with existential security threats to Israel.
He said that Israel’s clock in gauging Iran’s nuclear progress “ticks faster” than that of the U.S., whose analysts believe that Iran isn’t as far along in developing a nuclear weapon as Israel does.
“Once Israeli intelligence agencies and senior military command levels conclude that the clock has struck one minute to midnight, no amount of pressure from allies will succeed in dissuading it from acting in self-preservation,” Lappin said.
Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-16 fighter squadrons this week carried out exercises testing their capability to conduct missions at long ranges from base, the Israeli military said Thursday, Oct. 10. The drills included air-to-air refueling and dogfights against foreign combat planes. They were conducted together with Hellenic Air Force aircraft and naval units over the western Peloponnese and the Myrtoon Pelagos of Greece, shortly before the Six Power talks begin in Geneva on Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli commentators noted that the drill broadcast a message to Tehran that Israel’s military option for bombing its nuclear program was alive and kicking. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bombarded European TV media with interviews warning their leaders that the Iranians were conning the world while continuing to develop a nuclear weapon capability. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” he said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was acting as though he believed he still holds three spanners for throwing into Iran’s nuclear program:
1. The Israeli military as embodied in its air force;
2. European leaders, who are dismayed by President Barack Obama’s precipitate rapprochement with Tehran. Addressing them, Netanyahu warned: “Better no deal than a bad deal.”
3. The US Congress, on which he counts to block future presidential applications to approve the lifting in stages of sanctions against Iran, simply by withholding approval of his agreements with Tehran.
However, the truth which every Middle East and Western leaders knows by now, is that the battle against a nuclear Iran is lost.
President Obama has wound up his secret negotiations with Iran and instructed US delegates to put on the table of the Geneva negotiations on Oct. 15 the understandings or deals he has reached with Iranian leaders.
Those understandings are about to be endorsed by the P5+1 (the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany) for implementation in stages. They will leave Iran with the capacity, reduced but intact, to continue to enrich uranium along with its ability to use clandestine sites to house the nuclear weapons they are able to produce.
Netanyahu may keep on calling this a bad deal. But after all, it took shape on his watch as prime minister. And after Barack Obama became president in 2009, Israel failed to stall Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb – not in Parchin, Arak and Fordo – but in the White House.
The prime minister staged the long-distance air force drill more for domestic consumption than for use as a deterrent to impress Tehran. The Iranians have succeeded far too well in their diplomatic maneuvers to take much notice. They are sure the Netanyahu government will tire of its campaign, end up aligning once again with the Obama administration and swallow its deals with President Vladimir Putin on Iran, just as it did for Syria’s chemical weapons.
http://www.infowars.com/missing-nuke-investigation-special-report/
Missing Nuke Investigation: Special Report
Infowars.com
October 12, 2013
October 12, 2013
Top nuke commanders Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina and Maj. Gen. Michael Carey terminated following exclusive high level military intelligence over secret nuclear warheads transfer.
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Hey Fred, I love the term "not for profit" sellers :), hmm would I rather own stocks that the government is propping up daily or would I rather own PM's that the government is doing their best to suppress the price.
ReplyDeleteThe firings of the Generals is worrying, doesn't bode well.
I hope your weekend is going well, busy one for me.
Morning Kev - I would worry about holding government supported stocks ( they will be supported right up until the moment they aren't supported ) ......
ReplyDeleteOfficial story regarding the Generals doesn't scan for me , so i am worried what the real state of play is......
Have a fun weekend , check in when you can !