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North Korea's new satellite cruised over Levi's Stadium after Super Bowl 50
NY Daily News ^ | February 8, 2016 | Nicole Hensley

Posted on 02/08/2016 5:50:10 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

North Korea's new satellite cruised over Levi's Stadium after Super Bowl 50

BY Nicole Hensley /

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /

Monday, February 8, 2016, 5:29 AM

Kim Kwang Hyon/AP

North Korea's satellite, which was launched on Feb. 7, passed over the Super Bowl 50 game. Pictured is the country's Unha 3 at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang in 2012.

A "Shining Star" was watching over Levi's Stadium after the Broncos 24-10 win.

As football fans poured out of the Bay Area stadium, North Korea's observational satellite zipped by the field at an orbit 300 miles above the Earth at 8:26 p.m., said Martyn Williams, a North Korean technology watchdog.

"North Korea's new satellite just flew right overhead Levi's Stadium," Williams tweeted.

"I would put it down to nothing more than a coincidence, but an interesting one," he added in an email to the Associated Press.

NORAD tracked Pyongyang's satellite and its third-stage rocket booster to Earth's orbit after the country's successful launch Sunday. Kim Jong-un's isolated country cheered the "fascinating vapor" that trailed the rocket's trip into the upper atmosphere, where it will complete an orbit every 94 minutes.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; defense; iran; levisstadium; nkorea; nksatellite; norad; nuclear; superbowl; superbowl50; war
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That satellite should have a little “accident”, maybe meeting up with some space junk. After all, it may contain an EMP device and be hazardous to Americans.


22 posted on 02/08/2016 6:52:16 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Mr Apple

MPs like in military police? Why?


23 posted on 02/08/2016 6:55:28 AM PST by pfflier
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To: r_barton

China could have filled it with good stuff like a pinata.


24 posted on 02/08/2016 7:27:26 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Helicondelta

Yes. Last night’s thread about it at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3394170/posts


25 posted on 02/08/2016 7:27:51 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: ThunderSleeps

How much weight is necessary for an EMP? Their latest test was thought to be small, IIRC, but right for a super EMP. Am I understanding that correctly?


26 posted on 02/08/2016 7:30:51 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: TigerLikesRooster
By Roberto Suro and John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, May 31, 1998; Page A16

"Loral Corp. general counsel Julie Bannerman's rush order to stop transmission of a fax from her company's Beijing office to the Chinese government came an hour too late. The 25-page document, a report by Space Systems/Loral and other U.S. firms on why a Chinese rocket carrying their communications satellite into space had crashed, had already been sent to a distribution list that included the Chinese rocket-builders. (snip)

27 posted on 02/08/2016 7:33:35 AM PST by Mr Apple ( Thank you Bill Clinton)
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To: 1Old Pro
Too bad we don’t have a shuttle, we could have just retrieved it and dumped it in the ocean and laughed.

That's what this is for:


28 posted on 02/08/2016 7:38:54 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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To: Mr Apple
I remember that, about a year or two after the fire storm of Loral controversy, we had at FR chamber-of-commerce shills defending Loral, arguing that everybody is doing it, including Boeing, IBM, etc. It was a little shock to see that the mood switched in such a short time.

I am not sure if some of them are still around at FR. I have only one thing to say "Go to hell." They are complicit in building Chinese war machine, especially ICBM arsenal.

29 posted on 02/08/2016 7:42:03 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: ThunderSleeps; Helicondelta

Peter Vincent Pry said back in 2012 that the Norks had the power to EMP attack us. See http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/north-korea-emp-attack-could-destroy-us-now/?page=all


30 posted on 02/08/2016 7:43:59 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: MRadtke

Yes. . if they can launch a satellite into opbit that gives them ICBM capability.


31 posted on 02/08/2016 7:45:15 AM PST by Hulka
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To: butterdezillion

A 2013 article about the danger we’re in: http://acdemocracy.org/u-s-vulnerabilities-to-emp-attack/

An article from 2015 noting that NORAD moved back into a facility within a mountain because its computers would be protected from an EMP attack there. They note that both NK and Iran have South Pole orbits and seem to be preparing to exploit the vulnerability caused by the hole in our south=facing radar : http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/electromagnetic-pulse-attack-threat/2015/05/01/id/642149/


32 posted on 02/08/2016 7:53:27 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: r_barton

So its in a polar orbit. Over Colorado right now. Perfect placement for an EMP.


33 posted on 02/08/2016 7:54:14 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea has quietly built long-range missile base(photo)

Posted on September 10, 2008 at 6:26:35 PM CDT by TigerLikesRooster

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079478/posts

34 posted on 02/08/2016 7:56:23 AM PST by Mr Apple ( Thank you Bill Clinton)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079478/posts


35 posted on 02/08/2016 7:56:45 AM PST by Mr Apple ( Thank you Bill Clinton)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Unfortunately, the U.S. has been giving North Korea a pass for a long time when it comes to their missiles...


US frees N Korean vessel carrying missiles - Thu, Dec 12, 2002,

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/us-frees-n-korean-vessel-carrying-missiles-1.1107134

“The United States reluctantly handed over a boatload of Scud missiles to Yemen yesterday after the Yemeni government promised the weapons would not end up in the hands of terrorists.

Following high-level talks between the two governments, the US navy was ordered by Washington to release the unflagged cargo ship, which was carrying the Scuds from North Korea when it was stopped by two Spanish warships on Monday in the Arabian Sea and searched.

US concerns about the shipment centered on fears the Scuds could be mounted with warheads filled with chemical, biological or nuclear materials by Iraq or another rogue state or terrorist organization.”


36 posted on 02/08/2016 7:57:35 AM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: r_barton
Barack Obama To Shut Down Southern Air Defense Systems marketdailynews.com/.../barack-obama-to-shut-down-southern-air-defen...

Jan 23, 2013 - These defense radars detect low flying aircraft infiltrating our borders. ... southern border, then wouldn't we want as many early warning systems as possible ...

37 posted on 02/08/2016 8:13:04 AM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: spokeshave
US 'Space Fence' Radar System Goes Silent, After 50 ... - NPR www.npr.org/.../u-s-space-fence-radar-system-goes-silent-after-50-year...NPR

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38 posted on 02/08/2016 8:14:38 AM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: spokeshave

There is a North Korean embassy in Havana. It could contain a small satellite control station to detonate a nuke EMP satellite when it passes over the U.S.


39 posted on 02/08/2016 8:16:16 AM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: r_barton

If so, then Obama is laughing his fool head off at the way he has “normalized” relations with the regime that’s figuring to blow us up. Nice.

Not.

Do you know how long that NK embassy has been in Havana?

I wonder if there’s an Iranian embassy in Venezuela. IIRC Hugo Chavez promised Ahmadinejad a base from which to launch missiles if so desired. He also allowed planeloads full of Hamas and Hezbollah operatives to fly into Venezuela on unchecked flights so there would be no security to keep them from being - and bringing - whatever they wanted, right south of the door that Eric Holder was suing AZ to hold wide, wide open for any terrorists who cared to enter...

This is treason. This whole stinking mess is treason. And America needs to know what Obama has been doing the past 7 years to get things ready for America to go out with a bang. The commies and Islamists he’s befriended his whole life long - and helped in their endeavors - mean to see America dismantled, and Obama has given them exactly what they need to do it. Probably in November or December when he plans to be in South America, Cuba, etc gloating with them...


40 posted on 02/08/2016 8:29:08 AM PST by butterdezillion
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