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        Today, Saturday Jun 6, 2020 is another anniversary of "D day". A Day that changed the world for the positive.The operations were better known on the day of their occurrence as the " Normandy landings" and  were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed "Operation Neptune" and often referred to as "D-Day" these naval landings and airborne operations were the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. (Links above to WIKIPEDIA) 

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CHINA'S SECOND C-19 BREAKOUT

China’s New COVID-19 Outbreak Is in "Harbin" Which Also Has BSL-4 Biolab

The Wuhan National Bio-safety BSL-4 lab became operational in 2018, less than two years prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, after being certified as meeting the standards and criteria of BSL-4 by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS). The Harbin BSL-4 biolab is reportedly currently awaiting accreditation by CNAS. As noted in  Nature "BSL-4 is the highest level of BIO-CONTAINMENT: its criteria include filtering air and treating water and waste before they leave the laboratory, and stipulating that researchers change clothes and shower before and after using lab facilities. THE chinese expect to build  about 5 to 7 0f these labs and despite mounting EVIDENCE that the C-19 virus originated from a containment failure in the Whuhan lab China still refuses to allow international inspection. 

According to Nature, two more BSL-4 labs are expected to be created in Beijing and Kunming.  These labs are planned as part of a network of between five and seven labs throughout China. Few nations have even one such lab and only international inspection is convincing that such labs are not bio-weapon development labs. The fact that the C-19 virus doesn't appear to be altered has no bearing on whether or not it was intended as a bio weapon. It has put some of our warships in the Pacific Fleet out of operational status for a protracted period. It has devastated all Western economies and has the added advantage of plausible denial. ( China: Its not weaponized and we don't know how it got out into the population starting two blocks from the Wuhan lab). Now we are picking up tentative reports from Western intelligence that there is a sudden appearance of a C-19 "hot spot"near the evolving new lab in Harbin.  We have noted before, the expansion of BSL-4 biolabs in China is a concern because of China’s history of lab leaks. The SARS virus escaped from other high-level (BSL-3) containment facilities in Beijing multiple times before, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, in Nature. Ebright is also not convinced of the need for more than one BSL-4 lab in mainland China.

Ebright also worries that the large planned expansion of BSL-4 labs in China and its excess capacity can be used for the potential development of bio-weapons.So AAB is not alone in this concern. 

As explained in AAN previously (American Action News), “These facilities are inherently dual use,” Ebright says, referring to the labs being able to be used for both civilian and military purposes. Other analysts have also expressed their concerns these labs could be part of a greater covert bio-weapons research program. Meanwhile China is still in a state of denial over the second break out in Harbin and is not sharing any reliable information with the West. Interesting to note:Just in time for the Whaun and Harbin break outs China has enough medical protection gear to cover their own needs and export to the US most of the masks, impermeable gloves, and coveralls that the US so desperately needs. Think about it.



Did the Dragon Bring us this?

BOOK REVIEW ,FUTURE WAR IN SPACE

THE FIRST SPACE WAR by J. Furman and T. K. Rogers.

 We looked at "future wars in space" in our analytic post on the new SPACE FORCE. Much like the U.S. Air Force out of which the Space Force is evolving we saw the first military engagements in space to be in support of military operations on earth. But we also predicted many mission additions over the coming decade that would require more manned efforts in space by the newly formed SPACE FORCE. China has declared its intention of being dominant in space and to dominate the global space industry by mid century. The most worrisome issue with this ambition of the Dragon is the fact that China does not see the solar system as part of the commons of mankind but fully intends to make territorial claims. We predicted this behavior not only on the Dragon's public declarations but also on their observable behavior in the commons of the seas.  (SEE: THE DRAGON IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND OUTER SPACE. Our view of "War" in Space looked much like this:  Actions between remotely controlled weaponized satellites aimed at disrupting or destroying enemy space capabilities useful on the battle grounds of Earth. The "war" in space that Daniel and Rogers write about is speculative , set well past the mid century mark that we explored and would look more like this :

We find the type of writing found in THE FIRST SPACE WAR to not fit just right into science fiction, or science fantasy. It delivers its warnings about possible future events through a fictional narrative but the back ground science is rock solid. We won't quibble about the title for in actuality, in fact,  our view of a potential mid century "war" is really a space theater of operations in war between earth bound peer powers over earth issues and resources. Set more than century into the future beyond our field view "THE FIRST SPACE WAR" is about a real war in our solar system complete between Earth and certain Earth Colonies, most notable Mars. The issues may include colonization and colonial rule generally, asteroid mining, and and terraforming.  In our view the most important issue for a war of independence between Earth and Mars would have to be decades of success in terraforming Mars. It would be suicidal for a colony ( think corporate town(s) ) that was dependent on a mother planet for vital supplies to keep its atmosphere breathable and water supply up to par to start a war for independence. However, assuming that tarraforming meets with huge success on Mars and elsewhere, the narrative enters the realm of possibility. 

 The authors go beyond our present day view of military space activity in support of terrestrial conflict to outline why and possibly how human expansion into the solar system could lead to war between Earth and her colonies. 

 The book is easy to read with essay style chapters and mostly free of technical jargon. This is a fictionalized version of what could be the first real Space war, but it is instructional. We recommend it for the professional reading of members of the new SPACE FORCE. Lawyers studying space law. NASA administrators, senior Air Force Officers. It can be a bit pricey with some vendors charging more  $95 a copy. The publisher  is Lexington Books in Lanhan, MD.
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