Ten Aircraft Carriers Aligned in a Row — Paul Craig Roberts

[HAPPY2BME]

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/01/12/ten-aircraft-carriers-aligned-in-a-row-paul-craig-roberts/

Readers have asked me why 10 of 11 US aircraft carriers are lined up in a row in dock allegedly for maintanence. It reminds them of the battleships at Pearl Harbor. Readers ask if this could be an indication that the Deep State is planning a false flag attack on the carriers, as was carried out on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in order to get the US at war with the independent Muslim world, this time in order to get the US at war with Russia before Trump can restore normal relations.

I don’t think so. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was real, if provoked. The deception apparently was in the fact that Washington had warning but did not share it with the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The Battleships were outmoded weapons, and the aircraft carriers had been removed. It would be extremely difficult to blame a false flag attack on US aircraft carriers on Russia. Indeed, if Russia wants to attack the US, the target would not be obsolete weapons such as aircraft carriers.

According to what I have been told by former(?) intelligence officers, the aircraft carriers are in dock so that their copper wiring can be replaced by fiber optics. Apparently, the Russians have the capability to shut down the operating systems of our ships and aircraft that are copper wired. In behalf of this conclusion, there were news reports that a missile ship Washington sent to impress the Russian naval base in Crimea had all its systems shut down by the overflight of one Russian jet. According to another news report, two Israeli US jet fighters were sent to express disobedience to Russia’s controlled airspace in Syria. The Russians asked the Israelis to leave, and when they did not, the Russians shut down the fire control and communication systems of their aircraft.

According to what I have been told, the Russians discovered that copper wiring permits them to disrupt the operating systems with certain radar frequencies built into their air control systems

If this account is true, and I lack the technical expertise to judge what I have been told, we are presented with a test case of what we are told are Russian and Chinese aggressive intentions against the West. With the US carrier task forces inoperative, this is a prime time for Russia to seize Ukraine and whatever else they are alleged to want, and it is a prime time for China to take Taiwan and Japan if they want it. There is no American Navy to deploy to stop them, and a nuclear threat from the clowns in Washington would mean nothing other than the complete destruction of the entire Western world, with the moronic idiots in Washington being the first to go.

The charges of Chinese and Russian aggression are fantastic lies. China has not declared the Gulf of Mexico or the seas off the California coasts to be “areas of Chinese national interest,” but the killer bitch Hillary in the regime of the Nobel Peace Laureate declared the South China Sea to be “an area of US national interest.” This is provocation beyond provocation. No intelligent diplomat would ever make such a ridiculous and provocative claim.

Russia conquered Georgia in response to Georgia’s invasion of South Ossetia, but released it and did not reincorporate the former Russian province back into the Russian Federation where it had resided for 300 years. Russia refused the requests for reincorporation from the Donetsk and Luhansk breakaway republics in Ukraine. Russia has not declared the Baltics and Eastern Europe to be areas of Russian national interest, but the US has and has incorporated them into Washington’s mercenary army, stationing troops, tanks, and missiles there with which to attack Russia. Russia has not responded in kind.

All of the aggression in the world stems from Washington. This is plain as day. How come so few see the obvious? Who else but Washington has been at war since the Clinton regime murdering people in nine countries?

Why is the entire liberal-progressive-left helping the entrenched CIA Establishment demonize president-elect Donald Trump, whose stated goal is to normalize relations with Russia? Is this an indication that the liberal-progressive-left is a CIA front? This possibility is not far-fetched. As it is a known fact that the CIA owns the American and European print and TV media, why would the CIA ignore the liberal-left “progressive” Internet media?

The rule is that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Clearly the Establishment enemy of the liberal-left is Trump’s enemy, so why is the liberal-left allied with its Establishment enemy against Trump?

The real question is: Does the US really have an independent liberal-left?

If so, where is it? The liberal-progressive-left has served as protectors of the fake 9/11 official story that a few Saudis uninformed by an intelligence service or a state apparatus outwitted all 16 US intelligence agencies, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, airport security, air traffic control, the US Air Force and Dick Cheney himself, along with Israel’s Mossad and all the intelligence services of the US Empire, and inflicted the most humiliating defeat on an alleged “superpower” in the entire history of the world.

Anyone stupid enough to believe the official 9/11 story is not sufficiently intelligent to be qualified to be left-wing or even a sentient being.

What the Western world hurtling to its destruction desperately needs is a real left-wing, a left-wing immune to emotional disabilities that blind it to reality.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/01/12/ten-aircraft-carriers-aligned-in-a-row-paul-craig-roberts/

[Crazy Horse]

Oh FFS

[Crazy Horse]

Just FYI, we don't have 11 active carriers.

[FactMan56]

After you stated that 9/11 was an inside job, I immediately placed the proverbial "tin foil hat" on your melon, and lost interest in anything else you wrote.

Beam me up, Scotty!

[Eupher]

I wonder if Roberts and Alex Jones are related.

[HAPPY2BME]

Navy: Half the Carrier Fleet Tied Up In Maintenance, Other 5 Strained To Meet Demands

Currently, four of the Navy's 10 carriers are in "deep maintenance" and a fifth, the USS George Washington, was headed back from South America for repairs, Stackley said. The result is that there are now "five carriers then that are carrying on the operating cycle," he said.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/04/us-navy-down-to-five-aircraft-carriers-at-sea-none-the-mideast.html

Navy: Half the Carrier Fleet Tied Up In Maintenance, Other 5 Strained To Meet Demands

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on aircraft carrier presence, Program Executive Officer for Aircraft Carriers Rear Adm. Tom Moore said that five of the 10 carriers are unavailable for tasking due to maintenance work.

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is in the middle of its Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding, and USS George Washington (CVN-73) is making a slow, engagement-filled voyage from its previous homeport in Japan to Newport News Shipbuilding, where it will await the start of its RCOH in 2017. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is in a 14-month availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is in an eight-month availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is in a six-month availability in San Diego, Moore said.

https://news.usni.org/2015/11/04/navy-half-the-carrier-fleet-tied-up-in-maintenance-other-5-strained-to-meet-demands

[SVPete]

Just FYI, we don't have 11 active carriers.

Going a step farther, here ya go H2BM, a list of USN full-sized carriers by class, from CV-1 Langley forward. If the USN has 11 CVNs in commission, list them by name!

Langley, class of 1, originally a USN collier, converted to seaplane tender, sunk in WW2
Lexington, class of 2, originally designed as battle cruisers, converted during construction, 1 sunk in WW2, 1 sunk during atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
Ranger, class of 1, first purpose-built carrier, scrapped
Yorktown, class of 3, 2 sunk in WW2, 1 scrapped
Wasp, class of 1, sunk in WW2
Essex, class of 24, all scrapped or museums
Midway, class of 3, 2 scrapped, 1 museum
Forrestal, class of 4, all scrapped
Kittyhawk, class of 3, 1 scrapped, 1 sunk as a target, 1 in reserve
Enterprise, class of 1, first nuclear carrier, inactive, defueling
John F. Kennedy, being held for donation (last using conventional fuel)
Nimitz, class of 10, all in commission, based at 5 Norfolk, 2 based at Bremerton, 2 based at San Diego, 1 based at Yokosuka
Gerald R. Ford, class of ?: Ford not in commission, John F. Kennedy in construction, Enterprise planned

And another step farther ... some of the Nimitz class CVNs are undergoing maintenance/upgrade. Here are their locations, page updated in 1/2017:

Norfolk - Nimitz, Lincoln (refueling/overhaul near completion), Washington, Truman, Bush
Bremerton - Eisenhower, Stennis
San Diego - TR
Yokosuka - Reagan
Deployed - Vinson (left San Diego 1/5/2017)

I ignored the Independence and Saipan class light carriers, which have all been sunk or scrapped.

Sloppiness and ignorance like that factoid, "10 of 11 US aircraft carriers" - or the JBS video's absurd claim that Neocons are Trotskyites - at the heart of a conspiracy-theory-esque article destroy the credibility of the source, and reflect ill on the one linking/quoting the articles and videos. Whoever Paul Craig Roberts is, it would have taken him far less than a minute to search, "what us navy carrier is deployed" and come up with the webpage I did that gives the locations of the USN's 10 active carriers.

[SVPete]

Navy: Half the Carrier Fleet Tied Up In Maintenance, Other 5 Strained To Meet Demands

Currently, four of the Navy's 10 carriers are in "deep maintenance" and a fifth, the USS George Washington, was headed back from South America for repairs, Stackley said. The result is that there are now "five carriers then that are carrying on the operating cycle," he said.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/04/us-navy-down-to-five-aircraft-carriers-at-sea-none-the-mideast.html

Navy: Half the Carrier Fleet Tied Up In Maintenance, Other 5 Strained To Meet Demands

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on aircraft carrier presence, Program Executive Officer for Aircraft Carriers Rear Adm. Tom Moore said that five of the 10 carriers are unavailable for tasking due to maintenance work.

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is in the middle of its Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding, and USS George Washington (CVN-73) is making a slow, engagement-filled voyage from its previous homeport in Japan to Newport News Shipbuilding, where it will await the start of its RCOH in 2017. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is in a 14-month availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is in an eight-month availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is in a six-month availability in San Diego, Moore said.

https://news.usni.org/2015/11/04/navy-half-the-carrier-fleet-tied-up-in-maintenance-other-5-strained-to-meet-demands

Ummmmmm H2BM, while it's nice that you've accepted that the USN has 10 active carriers and not 11, and that there are not 10 all lined up in one location, did you chance to notice the dates on those two articles? Maintenance and upgrade are a fact of life in the Navy. Heavy usage and budget cuts have made things difficult. IOW, nothing conspiratorial or sinister.

[Eupher]

Ummmmmm H2BM, while it's nice that you've accepted that the USN has 10 active carriers and not 11, and that there are not 10 all lined up in one location, did you chance to notice the dates on those two articles? Maintenance and upgrade are a fact of life in the Navy. Heavy usage and budget cuts have made things difficult. IOW, nothing conspiratorial or sinister.

I don't think H2BM is truly Happy unless he's posting somebody else's commentary. Probably 90% of the new posts are his, with links to other stuff and not a lot of analysis or even just plain ridicule.

[thundley4]

I don't think H2BM is truly Happy unless he's posting somebody else's commentary. Probably 90% of the new posts are his, with links to other stuff and not a lot of analysis or even just plain ridicule.

[youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE[/youtube]

[docstew]

I don't think H2BM is truly Happy unless he's posting somebody else's commentary. Probably 90% of the new posts are his, with links to other stuff and not a lot of analysis or even just plain ridicule.

And the other 10% are one word or one line posts bumping his C+P posts

[J P Sousa]

I wonder if Roberts and Alex Jones are related.

I thought they were the same. 

[SVPete]

I thought they were the same. 

A Sandy Hook and Orlando denier and thinks the Charlie Hebdo attack was carried out by the US? PCR is into some serious fruitcakery!

[RMN]

Navy: Half the Carrier Fleet Tied Up In Maintenance, Other 5 Strained To Meet Demands

Currently, four of the Navy's 10 carriers are in "deep maintenance" and a fifth, the USS George Washington, was headed back from South America for repairs, Stackley said. The result is that there are now "five carriers then that are carrying on the operating cycle," he said.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/04/us-navy-down-to-five-aircraft-carriers-at-sea-none-the-mideast.html

Navy: Half the Carrier Fleet Tied Up In Maintenance, Other 5 Strained To Meet Demands

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on aircraft carrier presence, Program Executive Officer for Aircraft Carriers Rear Adm. Tom Moore said that five of the 10 carriers are unavailable for tasking due to maintenance work.

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is in the middle of its Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding, and USS George Washington (CVN-73) is making a slow, engagement-filled voyage from its previous homeport in Japan to Newport News Shipbuilding, where it will await the start of its RCOH in 2017. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is in a 14-month availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is in an eight-month availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is in a six-month availability in San Diego, Moore said.

https://news.usni.org/2015/11/04/navy-half-the-carrier-fleet-tied-up-in-maintenance-other-5-strained-to-meet-demands

There was just a period where we had no Aircraft Carrier at sea.  WTF?

 

[HAPPY2BME]

There was just a period where we had no Aircraft Carrier at sea.  WTF?

 

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China now has a SINGLE WEAPON that can take out US aircraft carriers.  Russia has it too.

Even though China and Russia are putting money into aircraft carriers, weapons technology will soon make them obsolete.