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Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by scully95: 1:34am On Jun 17, 2016
The way the media is propagating this flying coffin and making mass pr, one would think it has already started flying and in fact winning wars. so it's not a flying coffin yet. Who awarded it 'flying' self ? This is more of an imaginary coffin grin grin

What is that quote of the century again grin 'Here in the U.S/ the Anglozionist Empire, Everything is over hyped, over priced and over lied by the media establishment to sell to permanent puppets and temporary puppets. A good example is the entirely useless Patriot Defense System and the F-35 flying coffins.'

Yes, flying coffin , you heard right ? The prime minister of canada confirmed it is flying coffin for real. read bellow.


The defense contractor attempted to extort one of the most powerful sovereign countries in the world, warning that as many as 10,000 jobs would be lost if the country did not commit to purchasing a fighter jet that 'does not work.'


This weekend, American defense contractor Lockheed Martin threatened to exclude Canadian companies from production of the much maligned F-35 fighter jet if the Trudeau government decides to instead purchase a fleet of Boeing’s Super Hornet fighter jets.


"The F-35 does not work and is far from working," said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a June 7 parliamentary debate, blasting the fighter jet that has cost the Pentagon over $1.5 trillion. Despite this exorbitant price tag, the jet continues to spontaneously shut down mid-flight due to software glitches.

The fighter jet that cost US taxpayers more than the gross domestic product of Canada will not face an initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) until mid-2018, according to Pentagon reports. Due to this delay, Lockheed Martin will not complete production of a full fleet of F-35s until 2019 at the earliest and the aircraft may not be combat ready until nearly 2021.

Lockheed Martin attempted to mislead the public about the fiscal and battlefield realities surrounding the costly warplane, conducting a publicity tour across Canadian TV over the weekend to threaten the country’s people with economic reprisals amounting to several hundred million dollars and nearly 10,000 jobs.


"I don’t want it perceived as a threat, but we will have no choice: If Canada walks away from F-35, expect to relocate work in Canada to other purchasing nations," Steve Over, Lockheed’s director of F-35 internal business told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Canadian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Jordan Owens blasted the defense firm’s flagrant attempt at intimidation, maintaining that the government will decide on a fighter jet based on security needs.

"Despite Lockheed’s eagerness to send a spokesperson from Texas to Ottawa in order to game out hypothetical scenarios in the media, Canada remains a member of the Joint Strike Fighter program," said Owens.

The Joint Strike Fighter program is a development and acquisition alliance of the US, UK, Turkey, Italy, Australia, the Netherlands and Canada, under which the member states selected the F-35 Lightning II to replace various tactical aircraft.


The program has brought $610 million in contracts to Canadian defense contractors, but Ottawa argues that the JSF agreement does not tie them irrevocably to the F-35 in order to receive program benefits.

"According to the agreement, as long as Canada remains a JSF partner it is fully entitled to have its industry bid and get contracts," said Alan Williams, the former assistant deputy minister at Canada’s Department of National Defense. "There is no stipulation that Canada has to purchase the F-35."

Williams returned the threat to Lockheed Martin saying that any attempts to disenfranchise Canadian firms while the country remains a JSF partner and contributes its payments into the effort will result in immediate legal action against the defense contracting firm.


Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Cindy Tessier shot back that the defense firm’s position was that Canada’s involvement in the Joint Strike Fighter program was predicated upon "Canada’s stated commitment to the procurement of 65 jets."

The previous Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper initially committed to purchasing 65 F-35s, but attempted to back out of the arrangement citing unforeseen costs and technical issues with the aircraft that made the acquisition impractical.

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by Dreal11247: 2:22am On Jun 17, 2016
Only Jesus Christ can save.
Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by scully95: 9:24am On Jun 17, 2016
Dreal11247:
Only Jesus Christ can save.

have you tried the compedium embeded in Ifa ? what we have today i.e Christianity/Islam is a copy, paste and re-modify of our traditional religion which dates back to over 10,000BC. the next in history that is also as old as ile ife is the Palmyra of Syria which is only 9,000BC.

“Passive Jesus is not godly behavior, but a tool of enslavement” – #FactsOnly -



Godly behavior is being assertive like Ogun.” While enslavement of a body can last a short while, it will never endure unless enslavement of the mind takes hold. For this reason, the Europoid Christians teach their slaves a religious view that holds passivity as divinity. The turn the other cheek Jesus motto was intentionally designed to keep you a slave.

That is why all of the Black African/Yoruba heroes that Europoids promote for you, are the ones who live by this passivity (Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Mandela, etc). Many Black African Christians are thus very proud to react to things passively because they think this is Godly behavior.

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by Adminisher: 9:27am On Jun 17, 2016
Premier Justin Trudeau is wrong. The F35 is working.

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by NairaMinted: 10:27am On Jun 17, 2016
Trudeau is indeed right. This pan doesn't work

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by Nobody: 11:58am On Jun 17, 2016
Adminisher:
Premier Justin Trudeau is wrong. The F35 is working.

And how did you arrive at this conclusion? Let me guess - because the Pentagon says so. grin cheesy grin

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by cstr9: 7:34pm On Jun 20, 2016
That jet is too sophisticated for its own good. Too much next generation softwares and and ''alien level'' avionics that it would take a lot of hardwork, brilliance and patience to fit them all together.
Once the kinks gets fixed, the canadians would be jumping in to get the product. That jet is going to rule the air for next foreseable future.
God bless america.

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by ValerianSteel(m): 4:47am On Jun 21, 2016
cstr9:
That jet is too sophisticated for its own good. Too much next generation softwares and and ''alien level'' avionics that it would take a lot of hardwork, brilliance and patience to fit them all together.
Once the kinks gets fixed, the canadians would be jumping in to get the product. That jet is going to rule the air for next foreseable future.
God bless america.
Do you mind these lots?

The world's most sophisticated and most advanced fighter is 80% ready and these Kremlin clowns call it a failure when it hasn't even entered service.

FYI,Scully95 and Zoharariel,six more months for Israel,just wait,watch and marvel at what the IAF makes out of these birds.

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by NairaMinted: 12:16am On Jul 10, 2016
The jet is 80% ready lipsrsealed

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by scully95: 12:24am On Jul 10, 2016
NairaMinted:
The jet is 80% ready lipsrsealed

this flying coffin again... grin grin

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Re: Lockheed Threatens Economic Harm To Canada For Refusing To Buy F-35 Flyingcoffin by NairaMinted: 12:38am On Jul 11, 2016
I insist the F-35 is 80% ready. wink

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