A classic conflict between futurist authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell centers in that Orwell thought information would be withheld from the public while Huxley opined that the public would be drowned in a sea of irrelevant data, unable or unwilling to decipher pertinent information they require.
Score one for Huxley.
A new story came across the transom last week that I found most concerning, and it disappeared with a false explanation about as fast as it appeared. NBC News was discredited, which is nothing new.
Los Angeles International Airport, LAX, was shut down for several hours, causing delays and cancellations backing up airline travel across the globe. Among the busiest airports in the world, I would think such an issue would be major new.
Additionally, given the world we now live in, the cause for such an interruption in air traffic would seemingly be of paramount concern.
NBC News reported a "computer glitch" caused by a high flying US U2 Spy plane adjusting altitudes was the source of the problem, wreaking havoc on on flight command control and radar systems. As is common with the once proud peacock network, the story was quickly discredited.
As reported by NBC News, the U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but air traffic control computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it. The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed. The U-2 spy plane is the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago and more recently Afghanistan.
U2 Spy planes have routinely operated at these altitudes for decades without issue, so what may have happened at LAX.
A theory I am given from consultation with insiders within the business informs me that data entry on the ERAM system was possibly a culprit. There are reported issues with ERAM, and there literally is no adequate backup system as there appears to be interface issues with the previous backup system which is quickly being phased out. This leaves no adequate backup system, and therefore, for the first time in history, the FAA is flying without double redundancy.
The Air Force officially denied the U2, also known as the Dragon Lady, caused the issue, which seems obvious. It is assumed the Air Force knows what caused this troubling issue, but they have not made their findings public.The U2 has more problems landing than it does wreaking havoc on flight systems.
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Actions in the Ukraine have seriously strained US relations with Russia, and Vladimir Putin has stepped up military action and mobilization across the globe. Russian long range aircraft have been acknowledged along the California coast, as reported by SHTFPlan.com.
Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast. There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California.
Did the Russian aircraft test advanced technology, which may range from system jamming equipment, stealth technologies or perhaps a non-nuclear EMP weapon, in muscle flexing fashion?
Given the current US weakness, it would be the perfect time for Putin to seize the opportunity to test new military technology.
Beyond revoking his NetFlix card, what might Obama do? Putin is not afraid of hashtag rhetoric, and he is not happy with financial sanctions the Obama administration has imposed.
Perhaps the US accidentally caused the issue while testing technology? If so, this is also troubling as this type of accidental error could have had devastating consequences. Given our military remains the envy of the world, I really doubt we inadvertently made this error.
We are in real trouble, and are under attack. The hacking of computers, from major retail to the military, has been an issue, there have documented attacks on our financial markets and there have been lightly reported attacks by unknown foes of power grids across the nation. A airport flight control system seems a logical next step.
With the US at its weakest position in five decades thanks the policies of President Obama, those who wish America harm see the remaining years our his presidency as an optimal time to attack us. Given our remaining military prowess, these attacks will not be with conventional weapon systems.
The weapons of choice will be strategic, through use of technology in hijacking, disabling or dismantling our computerized systems. Even primitive actions like starting fires can become very costly weapons, through finance and manpower, to our infrastructure.
The facts of what happened at LAX remain elusive with very limted media coverage. Was this a dry run of some sort? Who knows?
While the news media routinely dismisses stories like these, bombarding you with useless stories of irrelevance and news item propaganda, you should keep promptly dismissed stories like this one ON YOUR RADAR!
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