12.02.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism at 9:30 am by George Smith
UPDATED
If there is an alternative illustrative definition to the word persistent in the dictionary, it is the Cult of EMP Crazy.
It is a fringe group of GOP politicians and staffers who are the most extreme among the extremists. They encapsulate the worst aspects of our political culture (the new normal, in other words) — stubborn ignorance and the relentless pursuit of personal agendas and idee fixe at the expense of their constituents.
The Federation of American Scientists informs that GOP House members Roscoe Bartlett (Maryland) and Trent Franks (Arizona) have introduced legislation “[to] require the Director of National Intelligence to submit a report on the foreign development of electromagnetic pulse weapons.”
This at a time when the GOP has vowed to block all legislation in the Senate for the duration of the lame-duck Congress, or until it gets what it wants.
And so, while the majority of the government tries to focus (or at least create an illusion of focus) on the pressing issues of restoring the economy, reducing mass unemployment, and keeping the jobless spending a little over the holiday season, two GOP congressmen have written H.R. 6471, a piece of nuisance legislation aimed at squeezing a report out of the intelligence community on the threat of very frequently notional electromagnetic pulse weapons.
Why? Because such a report would afford more opportunity to warn of electromagnetic pulse doom — the US-civilization-ending catastrophe Roscoe Bartlett has regularly announced is coming upon us … for at least the last ten years.
Bartlett and Franks are kooks … as is everyone in the Cult of EMP Crazy. Bartlett is also an anthrax-denier, a member of another fringe group which strongly believes Bruce Ivins was not the perpetrator of the bioterror attacks which killed five.
He has previously introduced legislation in an attempt to compel the intelligence community to divulge whether the anthrax mail attacks had foreign involvement.
His colleague, Trent Franks, is a notorious birther — one of those who does not believe the president is an American citizen.
Franks has also implied that African-Americans had it better under slavery.
More recently, in Congress he was chosen to be one of the recipients of the Team B report issued by Frank Gaffney — another member of the Cult of EMP Crazy, and notorious Islamophobe/retired military man, William “Gerry” Boykin.
The Team B report purported to show how, domestically, sharia law was being used to subvert the nation — possibly at White House Iftar dinners.
In short, there is nothing to recommend the legislation of Bartlett and Franks.
It is reprehensible work from hardened political nuisances, designed only to keep the issue alive in Congress. Or to perhaps give Bartlett a report which he can use in future attempts to create more legislation promoting defense against electromagnetic pulse attack and ballistic missiles.
Bartlett has never been successful. Most recently, Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski wiped out pet legislation from him aimed at promoting hardening of the nation’s infrastructure against EMP attack. This blog mentioned it last week here.
Despite the lack of success, the Cult of EMP Crazy is never idle. It has produced videos for YouTube, a yearly conference at Niagara Falls, a movie on electromagnetic pulse doom, innumerable opinion pieces for the nation’s newspapers, a relentlessly flogged science-fiction book and — recently and most stupifyingly — a cable TV special starring — Roscoe Bartlett.
A video of Roscoe Bartlett’s latest attempt, in June, to get defenses against electromagnetic pulse doom instituted is here on YouTube.
He stands before an apparently almost empty room.
Like previous legislation, Bartlett’s HR 6471 will probably not get very far. However, the Congressman will inevitably return next year, at the earliest opportunity, with more pestering potential legislation on the menace of electromagnetic pulse attack.
Since Roscoe Bartlett has been at his cause for so long, one might legitimately ask what is the man’s legacy?
Striking fear into people who are not particularly perceptive is one of his signal achievements. Over the past few years it’s not difficult to find such who write things like what I’m about to excerpt. Bartlett’s unstinting work aimed at describing the total end of US civilization in an instant is particularly resonant within the Christian right.
Here’s a symptomatic piece, from around the web and inspired by the Heritage Foundation which works in lockstep with Bartlett on the matter, picked up in the Google news tab this week:
The time to [mount a defense against EMP] was actually yesterday, but since yesterday is gone, the time to prepare and prevent an EMP attack is now!
My point in reporting this information to you is not to cause you fear or distress. I want us not to despair, but to prepare. Be armed with knowledge, and make your own disaster plan. You may consider stockpiling food, water, guns, ammunition and other supplies as best as you’re able. This is not always easy, since many of us don’t have the space or money to be able to stockpile very much. Plus, we have no way of knowing how much we would need and for how long.
Regardless, we know that this world is a dangerous and deadly place and always will be. The only source of true, eternal “safety??? is in God through Jesus Christ. In the event of something like an EMP attack, the Lord is more than able to give us what we need and even to keep us alive against all odds, but even if we do perish, those of us who cling to Him know we’ll be A-OK in the very end.
The puckishly named website, youngerthanroscoe.com, states that — among many other things — Bartlett, who won re-election at 84 in November, has been around longer than PEZ candy, parking meters and penicillin.
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12.01.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons at 10:00 am by George Smith
No better way to say it, from Secrecy blog:
Nuclear physicist Sam Cohen died Sunday at age 89, the Washington Post reported in an obituary today. Cohen, a veteran of the Manhattan Project, conceived, designed and advocated development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation anti-personnel weapon.
He cordially despised the Federation of American Scientists, which didn’t stop him from writing and calling us regularly to discuss his bodily ailments, the history of nuclear weapons, classification policy, and whether or not former Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary was the devil’s spawn.
Steve Aftergood references Cohen’s self-published autobiography entitled “Shame,” an utterly frank and self-lacerating recollection of his life travels.
Among the material already mentioned, the first edition contained Cohen’s fascination with the fictional substance, red mercury, which he — and many others — thought was real in the Nineties, going so far as to warn of it on television and in various news stories.
“We Should Be Terrifed!” was the title of one chapter in Cohen’s “Shame.”
“Specifically, at issue here is an extremely small pure-fusion mini-neutron bomb, roughly the size of a baseball, which in all probability the Soviets designed years ago with the knowledge of Boris Yeltsin and the Russian Mafia and what used to be called the KGB have been smuggling the technology and even the bombs themselves to known terrorist states and others who feel the need for them — at a price, a big one,” he added.
“The triggering material, known as red mercury, is a remarkable non-exploding high explosive which technically is one of a very special class of so-called ‘ballotechnic’ explosives which apparently Los Alamos has been investigating (at the classified level) in nuclear weapons research … Red mercury produces vastly more energy per pound than conventional explosives but does not explode in the conventional sense …Instead, upon being detonated, it becomes very hot, extremely hot, which allows pressures and temperatures to be built up that are capable of igniting the heavy hydrogen [also in the mechanism] and a pure-fusion mini-neutron bomb.”
Red mercury was not real. Although things said to be it have been used as bait to sucker people in the clandestine arms trade.
And the fascination with ‘ballotechnic’ explosives like red mercury was consequentially so great DARPA once funded now utterly discredited research into the possibility of making a golf-ball sized superweapon composed of a related material.
In later years, Cohen published an updated and re-edited version of “Shame.” Although the story of red mercury did not make it to the second copy, the book remains a captivating read.
The FAS notice on Sam Cohen is here.
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Posted in Crazy Weapons, Why the World Doesn't Need US at 8:48 am by George Smith
The American habit of brainlessly bragging about all things always produces something like this:
It looks and acts like something best left in the hands of Sylvester Stallone’s “Rambo,” but this latest dream weapon is real — and the US Army sees it becoming the Taliban’s worst nightmare …
After years of development, the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, about the size of a regular rifle, has now been deployed to US units on the battlefields of Afghanistan, where the Army expects it to be a “game-changer” in its counterinsurgency operations.
And for those who get erections watching clips from Futureweapons on YouTube:
The gun’s stats are formidable: it fires 25mm air-bursting shells up to 2,300 feet (700 meters), well past the range of most rifles used by today’s soldiers, and programs them to explode at a precise distance, allowing troops to neutralize insurgents hiding behind walls, rocks or trenches or inside buildings.
“This is the first time we’re putting smart technology into the hands of the individual soldier …”
Use of the XM25 can slash civilian deaths and damage …
The next weapon, always promised to be game-changing and nice to civilians. And then the war grinds on, and civilians keep getting killed, the Taliban doesn’t give up, the bodies stack up, the government remains corrupt, its soldiers turncoats, etc …
But the promos sure look great.
Just can’t curb the bragging and delusional thinking over weapons technology.
Bugsplat was going to change everything, too. Not to mention the sensor-fused cluster bomb, the … and the …
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11.29.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism, Imminent Catastrophe at 7:58 am by George Smith
Given the bum’s rush by one of their own in Congress in October, the collection of nuisances and parasites known as the Cult of EMP Crazy have begun prepping the astro-turf.
This means the releasing of a report, just before Thanksgiving, warning of all the standard horrors due from approaching electromagnetic pulse doom. And what must be done to stop it. Namely, the putting of said “report” into the hands of GOP Congressman who can be persuaded to add something noxious as an appendix to legislation to be done before the end of the year.
This new thing is the work of the Heritage Foundation, the far right group/organization useful for the gathering of various suspect ideas — that healthcare reform must be defeated, that the welfare class is getting too much in entitlements and undeserved stuff, that the rich are being taxed too much, that global warming, while no longer a cruel hoax, if dealt with will result in diminished US business, poorness for the wealthy and a much weakened military — and employs its stable of bought-and-paid-for experts to craft pieces which exhort readers on the excellence of such beliefs.
Today’s Heritage menu, for example, features blandishments to raise the retirement age, a short video on why START should be opposed, an argument that since China isn’t really green — the US shouldn’t need to go green, either, and how food stamp programs need abolition because the people who use them are parasites usurping money that could be used for ballistic missile defense to save us from EMP attacks.
Well, not the last one. I made it up. But Heritage will probably get around to it, sooner rather than later.
The first place to go to get a good GOP/extremist right astro-turf campaign going is World Net Daily.
So today, from there — courtesy of Heritage, in “Report warns Obama about new Dark Ages:
Two national-security experts have issued a report through the Heritage Foundation that warns Obama administration officials to start working now to prevent – and mitigate the damage from – an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States because of the potential for “unimaginable devastation.”
“Not even a global humanitarian effort would be enough to keep hundreds of millions of Americans from death by starvation, exposure, or lack of medicine. Nor would the catastrophe stop at U.S. borders. Most of Canada would be devastated, too, as its infrastructure is integrated with the U.S. power grid. Much of the world’s intellectual brain power (half of it is in the United States) would be lost as well. Earth would most likely recede into the ‘new’ Dark Ages,” states the report by James J. Carafano, the deputy director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, and Richard Weitz, senior fellow and director of the Center for Politial-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute.
The report, which is described by the Heritage Foundation as a “backgrounder,” is titled “EMP Attacks – What the U.S. Must Do Now” and was released just days ago, says what is needed right now is for the government to “prevent the threat,” by pursuing “an aggressive protect-and-defend strategy, including comprehensive missile defense; modernizing the U.S. nuclear deterrent; and adopting proactive nonproliferation and counterproliferation measures.”
Unimaginable devastation.
Next, Clifford May to write an opinion piece saying the same thing for the Ventura Star or a couple other little newspapers in various Bumblefucks scattered across the nation. To be followed by another piece in USA Today, like the piece about four weeks ago.
Maybe they could step up the game a little and enlist Ted Nugent to write about it for the Washington Times. That’s if he could be pried away from recommending the elimination of Social Security, Medicare and all taxation for a minute or two.
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11.24.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism at 1:11 pm by George Smith
Whenever the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy sees its plans go down in flames, you never hear much in the mainstream.
The only stuff you do see is when it’s busy astro-turfing the issue. Which can be seen in all the opinion pieces on the country being thrown back into the Dark Ages, appearing like mushrooms on the manure pile after a wet spell, in the same media.
So you had to search for this one.
Lisa Murkowski, the GOP senator from Alaska, slew the Cult beast, for the time being, in mid-October.
Well done!
Here (Page down a bit to see the repost):
In a surprising election-year gambit, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has gutted legislation with strong bipartisan support that would protect the U.S. power grid from solar flares and Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons, to benefit a “clean??? energy bill backed by Senate Democrats.
The original bill, known as the GRID Act, authorized the federal government to take emergency measures to protect some 300 giant power transformers around the country. It passed the House of Representatives by a unanimous voice vote in August, an unusual show of bipartisan support in this Congress.
But when it went to the Senate, the bill was gutted of the measures to protect the power grid from EMP attack by Murkowski and committee chairman Jeff Bingamon, D-N.M., while other portions of the bill were added to her own energy bill, S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Act of 2009.
“Sen. Murkowski stripped H.R. 5026 of the main elements designed to protect our infrastructure and did not add them to her bill,??? said Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition.
An aide to Murkowski said that Murkowski voted for stripping out the EMP provisions of the bill on practical, not political, grounds.
“The bill was going nowhere. The administration opposed it, and favored a government-wide effort, not a piecemeal approach.??? He added that blaming Murkowski, the ranking Republican on the Energy Committee, for altering legislation being managed by the majority Democrats was “an election-year gambit by far right wing groups. Murkowski did not place a hold on the House bill.???
Murkowski recently declared victory over the Tea Party kook, Joe Miller, in a write-in campaign after the latter unseated her in a primary.
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11.09.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons at 8:58 am by George Smith
At ph2dot1, it is written:
Every so often you come across items that are simply begging for the “Dick Destiny” treatment! An example: Seven Terror Tech Trends.
And some of them are:
“… new forms of airborne attack… model aircraft as “a homemade cruise missile??? or even building a model sailplane out of plastic or composites with a pound or two of explosives and something to serve as shrapnel,??? the presenter said. Such a craft could evade radar and penetrate no fly zones to hit specified targets such as “the next presidential inauguration,??? he said. “Let’s call this a homemade cruise missile???
Terrorist cyber ops…
“Dirty” bombs… Oh, and EMP bombs too… which the terrorists would promptly use to target… the Internet!
“DIY bio-chemical weapons”… and “genetically targeted pathogens” Apparently the latter have been spotted “in several decades…”
“Mass-effect things that go bang.???
Engineered bio-weapons. Hmm, what could these be? “… man-made bacteria designed to take out entire cities… “malignant nanomaterials??? designed to “eat building materials??? and devour vehicle lubricants.”
I missed it. My bad.
ph2dot1 does what’s needed, even including the Strangelove shot of Sterling Hayden.
The only mildly remarkable thing is the Army still wasting effort on premature ejaculates and Toffler-ian turds that were old a long time ago — particularly the evergreens of microbes that eat buildings, microbes for eating specific kinds of people, electromagnetic pulse bomb suitcases, and so forth.
Ten years ago it was hilarious and exciting to read tortured crap from some US Army man going on about ESP, telekinesis and computer viruses that could cause heart failure in a leadership journal for officers.
Now it’s really long in the tooth.
“Security Error” announces my browser upon hitting the Army’s Unified Quest website.
Unconvincing at being forward-looking.
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10.28.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Imminent Catastrophe at 8:59 am by George Smith
Jason Sigger at Armchair Generalist notes a piece on electromagnetic pulse doom in the current issue of USA Today here.
J. notes it’s a more balanced piece than usual. That’s very true. But only in comparison with what has been the general procedure with such things.
It still starts with the cliche lede on the matter:
The sky erupts. Cities darken, food spoils and homes fall silent. Civilization collapses.
End-of-the-world novel? A video game? Or could such a scenario loom in America’s future?
There is talk of catastrophe ahead, depending on whom you believe, because of the threat of an electromagnetic pulse triggered by either a supersized solar storm or terrorist A-bomb.
Here’s the same idea from the same newspaper, from September 2009:
“It sounds like a science-fiction disaster: A nuclear weapon is detonated miles above the Earth’s atmosphere and knocks out power from New York City to Chicago for weeks, maybe months. Experts and lawmakers are increasingly warning that terrorists or enemy states could wage that exact type of attack, idling electricity grids and disrupting everything from communications networks to military defenses.”
The Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy splits into two basic camps.
A tamer wee side concerned with solar ejections, one which has fueled apocalyptic angry sun and end-of-the-world stories this year. A couple of examples are cited here.
Contrary to the idea that there hasn’t been enough public warning about this, nope. There has been no shortage of news, if only because it also provides an opportunity to engage in end-of-the-world scenarios with clips from the movie, The Road.
The other part of the Cult of EMP Crazy is the rich cast of GOP characters pushing missile defense and many other bad ideas.
And USA Today mentions one of its chieftains in the top of the story — Newt Gingrich — without adding the disreputable nature of his work. It includes one of the man’s stock quotes on the issue.
Over the past couple of years, using anthrax-denier GOP crackpot Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, the Culf of EMP Crazy has turned electromagnetic pulse attack on the US into a cottage industry.
It’s for the selling of a book, regular congressional hearings featuring the same people over and over always saying the same thing, a yearly festival, the prediction of imminent catastrophe, regular astro-turfed pushes into the mainstream newsmedia and promotion of white male Tea Party survivalism fantasies.
They’ve even made movies and commercials no one cares to see.
This piece, from DD blog last year, summarizes its membership:
Next up, a survey of all the press the GOP electromagnetic pulse crazy lobby placed over the last ninety days, in excerpts. (Minus larger opinion pieces placed directly by the EMP Crazy lobby members, covered earlier on this blog. And since this blog has already covered all the major GOP politicians and celebrities involved with it — Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Curt Weldon, Trent Franks, Roscoe Bartlett, Pete Hoekstra, etc — their contributions can be more finely delved in the link at the very foot of the piece.)
Readers again notice it’s exclusively the property of the crank GOP right, now the great norm of the party …
The acute observers of Congressional nuisance nobodies will also note it encompasses the same people constantly pushing Islam-o-phobia. And a handful of people who think the president is a secret Muslim.
And DD noted this as recently as Monday, when citing The Tennessean newspaper’s story of ‘national security experts’ in the business of making money of the latter here.
Indeed, one sees the stink of this wafting into USA Today lede, one insinuating terrorists might bring on EMP doom with an A-bomb.
That’s the message of the Islam-o-phobes in the bunch.
In other words, the Cult of EMP Crazy is largely a vile-smelling potpourri of characters with bad intents and political agendas completely at odds with anything that would actually benefit the American middle class.
It cannot be emphasized enough. Reasonable people consider this exclusively GOP cult rotten to the core.
So it’s almost purely coincidence that Cult of EMP Crazy stories now rope in a small number of real scientists who speak of solar storms and ejecta in 2010.
To the old hardcore who make up the cult, this is a gay convenience, another handle for mouthpiecing the group’s standard toxic bullshit into the mainstream media.
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10.25.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism, War On Terror at 12:41 pm by George Smith
Today the Tennessean newspaper ran a big expose on the lucrative business of spreading hate and fear over Muslims taking over America, as peddled by a small group of extreme right “national security” experts.
“Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear,” is the headline.
This isn’t news to the followers of blogs like this one. The field of US national security is thoroughly contaminated with people who’s only business is encouraging Americans to despise Islam by mouthpiece-ing the hate through the media.
However, it’s welcome to see a newspaper’s investigative team digging into it so thoroughly.
Steve Emerson, who has been radioactive poison for a good long time is the biggest figure profiled. His business is described as one that uses a non-profit to front a for-profit business selling his ‘expertise’ about reputed Muslim group ties in the US to terrorists overseas.
It’s a damning takedown.
Also up for scrutiny is Frank Gaffney.
Gaffney is a charter member of the Cult of EMP Crazy, where he and other members of the GOP regularly push stories into the media about how Iran will send US back to the horse-and-buggy age with an electromagnetic pulse attack.
Writes the Tennessean:
Frank Gaffney, head of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Security Policy, earned a $288,300 salary from his charity in 2008. Gaffney was a key witness in recent hearings in the Rutherford County lawsuit filed by mosque opponents. He said he paid his own way.
On the stand, the Reagan-era deputy assistant defense secretary accused local mosque leaders of having ties to terrorism, using ties to Middle Eastern universities and politics as evidence. His main source of information was his own report on Shariah law as a threat to America, one he wrote with other self-proclaimed experts.
But, under oath, he admitted he is not an expert in Shariah law.
The list of people on the anti-Islam circuit goes on. IRS filings from 2008 show that Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihadwatch.org blog, earned $132,537 from the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative nonprofit.
Gaffney authored the recent “Team B” report alleging Shariah law and Muslim terror was taking over the heartland of America.
The report, pumped by Fox News, the Washington Times, and many others in the right wing noise machine, acted as a convenience for the usual gasbags to fan the flames of Islam-o-phobia.
Ted Nugent, for example, being just one.
The Tennessean asserts the message from these non-experts resonates strongly in middle Tennessee among the hardcore Christian white right of the Bible Belt.
And it has been a very lucrative business. The thrust of the article contains tax returns from the various “businesses,” revealing the additional fact that they employ non-profit fronts as tax dodges.
The Tennessean article is here. Everyone should read it as a graphic example of the malicious application of fear for the making of money. At the expense of all Muslims in the United States.
Another fact is worth restating. The people who carry this out are the sole property of the Republican Party. And they are disgraces.
Perhaps the Tennessean newspaper has contributed to driving a stake through some of them, at long last.
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10.21.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons at 8:18 am by George Smith
They all are.
However, in the US arsenal the biggest was the B-53 gravity bomb, a 9-megaton monster to be used on the Soviet leadership.
Jason at Armchair Generalist notes a Post story by Walter Pincus on the slow disassembly of the B-53.
With an explosive power of 9 million tons of TNT — the Nagasaki and Hiroshima 12 kiloton bombs are almost not worth mentioning by comparison — the B-53 was apocalyptic.
It is probably true that no big civilized nation — the US or the Soviet Union — surviving even three or four hits from 9-megaton shots like the B-53. There is no coping with such destruction over an urban area. Government would cease.
The fireball from such an explosion would engulf all five boroughs of NYC.
Now imagine the blast effects. And the fallout from all the debris of incinerated Manhattan tossed into the air and blown downrange. Depending on prevailing winds, virtually entire states could be rendered uninhabitable.
The B-53 was made to take out deep bunkers, delivered so the shockwave would crush them.
Even if a blast wave didn’t collapse such a hiding place, an explosion of such magnitude would guarantee no one emerged. Ever.
For the Strangelovian excercise, there was the succinctly named Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer, a kind of circular slide rule for anyone to use.
And there is this PC weapons simulation calculator, made for the US government. It is in DOS, however.
It will still run on a Windows PC, offering you the option of an unclassified or classified session.
And for everyone else, there is a web-based blast radius calculator here.
Input 9000 kt to make it work. And your favorite city, any country.
I chose OneWest Bank (aka Satan’s Bank of Pasadena) on Lake St. in Pasadena as ground zero. As a near miss on Los Angeles, it would still destroy most of LA County.
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09.29.10
Posted in Crazy Weapons, War On Terror, Why the World Doesn't Need US at 2:08 pm by George Smith
Here’s a story, straight from Popular Mechanics, written by and for guys who get hard-ons thinking about machines that blow foreigners up, preferably those smaller, darker and poorer.
Featured prominently on Google News, which was probably paid to display it, here are the great quotes:
How small can air-to-ground weapons get? Air Force officials are publicly suggesting the development of 1-pound munitions that could kill an individual in a crowded area without harming innocents standing nearby.
So, guys, you go stand right next to the wooden target on the test range, then. Any takers? Thought not.
[The small flying cluster bomb/anti-tank mine] spins like a maple seed as it descends, scanning the area for its targets using laser and infrared sensors.
Like a maple seed. I bet the p.r. person at Textron who came up with that description got a raise.
The 9-foot torpedo, petite enough to be carried by unmanned submarines and drone helicopters, is currently under development at Penn State University, in association with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
Petite. A 9-foot torpedo is petite. Who could write such s—? Someone not to be invited over for drinks and barbecue, that’s for sure.
Now, if you know some androids who throw parties where they eat bags of arsenic and roofing nails for kicks …
The work of that segment of the economy unhurt by the Great Recession. If you were in the business of making petite torpedoes and anti-tank mines that spin like maple seeds, things have been great.
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