The Russians have a tanker plane, the IL-76. Its size is awesome---bigger than anything the Americans have. On a single run, it drops 11,000 gallons of water. So much water, they don't bother to use chemicals.

Ooops. That might be dangerous to the life of certain chemical companies.

The Russians, in the past few years, have offered to fly the IL-76 over here and use it to squelch forest fires in the Southwest. They want expenses, basically. No big deal. The Americans (US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management) don't want that plane coming to the US.

Why not?

At the bottom of the issue, there is the fear that the plane might expose the technology of the US. Look at it this way. If a lone doctor in Nevada discovers a fabulous treatment for cancer after spending three years on the research, at a cost of $50,000, what does that say about the multi-billion-dollar war on cancer and all the US funded labs and the journals and the piles of bullshit that stack up re chemo and so on, year after god-forsaken year?

In exactly the same way, realize that the US government and state governments have put together this wonderful exchange program, through which fire fighters go from one state to another when fires break out---and they have daily teleconferences to determine where the needs are greatest, blah blah blah. It's a whole sophisticated network, and the media are completely on board with it.

Now one plane flies over a fire and puts it out.

The plane is from Russia. The contract for the job was $500,000.

Poof.

How much insanity does that expose?

Much better to leave things the way they are.

Now, I'm sure that US Forest Service people would take great offense at what I'm saying. Let them, therefore, actually go for a ride on the IL-76 as it does its work and check it out---instead of taking pot shots at it from a comfortable distance.

Because, people are dying in Southern California and hundreds of thousands of acres are going up in flames and the air is very bad and billions of dollars have already been lost. I mean, isn't that the point? Why not spend half a mill and get the plane over here and see what it can do?

Or are they still offering the lame excuse that tankers can't fly over the fires because they can't see where they are going through the snoke?

I thought that all big fires created smoke. Now I see that the fire bureaucracies are also creating their own kind of smoke.

STOP GIVING ALL THE REASONS WHY THE PLAN DOESN'T WORK. TRY IT.

In 1999, when Greece was faced with two huge fires burning out of control, they called in the Russians. The plane made two runs, one for each fire. Ssssssssssssssss. Both fires went out. The press called it a miracle.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com www.masterytv.biz/GlobalLight

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