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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Woman says estranged husband's twisted sex demands gave her PTSD
[NYPOST] Icky yuckie.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then you scroll down on the right of the source for an advertisement labeled "Now on Decider - The 30 Best Erotic Thrillers on Streaming, The 10 Sexiest Shows & Movies On Streaming, Last Call! See What Titles Expire From Netflix In September."

Hello America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2015 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  prominent Long Island Democrat

Anybody shocked by this? Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/01/2015 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  a twisted fetishist who wore a chastity belt to work and diapers and a horse tail during sexual foreplay, according to court papers obtained by The Post. At other times, Stein pretended to be a cat who “used [a] litter box and cleaned himself” and wanted Mundy to walk him on a leash, the papers say.

they say that like it's a bad thing
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2015 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  In my experience, if you're a husband (present or former), you're guilty.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2015 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  All the nasty details of many divorces get displayed for everyone to see. It is what lawyers do. If lawyers did have some ethics, most would think they are giving the profession a bad name.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/01/2015 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Why did she put up with participating in it for seventeen years, if it was so abhorrent to her?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2015 11:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe he stopped compensating adequately for the "experience"?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/01/2015 12:03 Comments || Top||

#8  A person can only happily clean so many hairballs. Ever get out of the shower or otherwise have wet feet and walk across stray litter; its infuriating.

Frank G with the grace and honor to not mention how the horse tail didn't fall off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/01/2015 17:04 Comments || Top||

#9  LOL, TW. Way to nail the only question that needs asking, on cross-exam.
Posted by: RandomJD || 09/01/2015 19:49 Comments || Top||

#10  High praise indeed, RandomJD.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2015 23:38 Comments || Top||


Suspect Allegedly Unloaded His Entire Pistol in Texas Deputy
[ABCNEWS.GO] A gunman unloaded his entire pistol into slain Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth when he stopped at a gas station near Houston Friday, prosecutors said in court today, adding that officials found 15 shell-casings at the scene.

Suspect Shannon Miles, 30, allegedly ran up to Goforth as he was filling up his tank and began firing immediately, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said today at Miles' court appearance.

Anderson said Miles kept firing even when Goforth was on the ground.

"The gun holds 14 in its magazine and one in its chamber," Anderson said. "Fifteen shell casings; you can do the math. He unloaded the entire pistol into Deputy Goforth."

An eyewitness, who saw the suspect flee, described the make and model of Miles' red Ford Ranger, prosecutors said, leading authorities to Miles' house. Prosecutors said they found a gun matching the ballistics of the gun that killed Goforth.

A witness viewed a video line-up and positively identified Miles as the shooter, prosecutors said.

Miles, who appeared disoriented in court today, remained cuffed throughout his appearance and wore yellow jail jumpsuit. He is facing a capital murder charge. No plea was entered. Miles was provided court-appointed attorneys Anthony Osso and Charles Brown.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  According to what I've read, the clerk, who was waiting on customers, missed seeing the whole thing. When he heard gunfire, he followed procedure and hit the button to lock the doors. The shooter had at that point shot Deputy Goforth three times; he then walked to the door of the store and tried it. When it wouldn't open, he went back and emptied his gun into the cop on the ground.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/01/2015 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Per FoxNews this am, they're setting him up for a 'diminished capacity' defense.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/01/2015 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't give a shit if he has "diminished capacity".

He willfully unloaded 15 rounds into a cop.

Hang the bastard.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/01/2015 18:02 Comments || Top||

#4  He had enough capacity to pull the trigger 15 times. Seems like he had enough capacity to stand on a capital murder charge...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/01/2015 18:10 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Texas emerges as top destination for Californians fleeing state
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns fled the state in unprecedented numbers over the last decade, and their primary destination was Texas, according to an analysis issued Monday.
Oh, good idea. Go to Texas to get away from Caliphornia's taxes, claustrophobic laws, and corruption. Vote Democrat so you make Texas into the same sort of sinkhole.
About 5 million Californians departed the Golden State between 2004 and 2013, while 3.9 million arrived from other states for a net population loss of roughly 1.1 million, the Sacramento Bee reported Monday using tax-return data from the Internal Revenue Service.

The estimated loss from the migration in annual income to California? Roughly $26 billion.

Nearly 600,000 Californians wound up in Texas, while about 348,000 Texans moved to California. The other top net recipients of Californians were Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, the analysis found.

Even so, California has seen its population increase slightly from 37 million in 2010 to nearly 39 million, thanks largely to an influx of foreign-born immigrants.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Californians did the same thing to Colorado. Fled the high taxes and oppressive government... then voted in people to raise taxes and make the government more oppressive.

Seriously, some people just need put in a rocket and fired into the sun.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/01/2015 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Here goes the neighborhood.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2015 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Back in the early 90s when the economy was horrible Eastern Washington was full of Californians raising the housing prices which was great for those already in the market and lame for those who weren't. They all moved back when the economy in California picked up again.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/01/2015 1:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Here goes the neighborhood.

In Akureyri, but on a much smaller scale.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2015 1:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Most popular destination? The People's Republic of Travis County, aka Austin.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/01/2015 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Now, ed, I like to think of it as a ghetto for lib-progs.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/01/2015 9:10 Comments || Top||

#7  ..build the wall now.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2015 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  California was ruined by too many people flooding in from other states. This is all just fair play.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 09/01/2015 11:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Strictly anecdotal, of course, but I remember back in the 1970's when it seemed like every other car I saw had Texas plates. The ones that didn't had New York plates. I hope you're getting the New Yorkers because it was the weirdos from all of your states who came out here and made California weird. Thank you very much.

You think I like all the hippies, loonies and illegal aliens? Did you see the last line of the article where it says our population still increased because of foreign-born immigrants? That's a national policy that has been foisted upon California in part by you folks in your flyover states. So you deserve a few Californians to atone for your sins. How about you take a few of these Chinamen off our hands?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/01/2015 11:38 Comments || Top||

#10  These are idiot immigrant invaders
Posted by: newc || 09/01/2015 13:08 Comments || Top||

#11  The newly arrived Pinewood Studios in my area has brought a number of California folks. It all began a few years back with the filming near here, of 'The Walking Dead' series. Moving to Georgia was probably quite a shock for the 'deaders.' We've also experienced an influx of New Englander retirees, who have come here to escape the high taxes and related thievery of the communist east coast.

Neither the deaders or the New England folk receive much of a welcome from the locals. Change is very slow here. Unfortunately the locals are quite proud of slow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2015 15:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Do what you can to keep them from contaminating your state with marxist blue.
Posted by: newc || 09/01/2015 23:11 Comments || Top||


Egypt muezzin suspended over 'Facebook prayer call'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptians in a Nile Delta province were outraged on Sunday after a holy man allegedly changed a line in the traditional Islamic call to prayer to mention Facebook.

Instead of saying "prayer is better than sleep" twice during the dawn prayer, Sheikh Mahmoud Maghazi of Beheira province allegedly said: "Prayer is better than Facebook."

The issue drew nationwide attention when he defended himself against shouted accusations on one of Egypt's most-watched television talk shows, called 10 PM.

Talk show hosts play a major role in leading public opinion in Egypt, where a quarter of the population is illiterate.

The Religious Endowments Ministry ordered an investigation after locals complained last week, senior ministry official Mohammed Abdelrazik said. That prompted Maghazi to go on hunger strike and deny that he made the reference.

"I don't know what Facebook is and I don't know how it is spelled," he swore to the silver-haired host, Wael el-Ibrashy. Maghazi went on to charge his accusers with being members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group.

He said they were trying to remove him from the mosque because he would not allow them to hold protests and organize unlicensed Islamic lessons there.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Death toll at 158 in blasts at China port
[HERALDSUN.AU] THE death toll has risen to 158 from explosions at a chemical warehouse in north-eastern China, with 15 people still missing.

THE toll included 94 firefighters and 11 police killed in the August 12 accident, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

Hundreds more were injured by the multiple explosions that shot into the sky above the port city of Tianjin.

Eleven local officials are being prosecuted over the blasts.

Port officials failed to manage the risk of storing dangerous chemicals, the Ministry of Public Security said.

The warehouse, operated by Ruihai International Logistics Company, was storing about 40 substances, including 500 tons of flammable materials and 700 tons of highly toxic substances, mainly sodium cyanide, Xinhua reported.

Water near the site contained cyanide levels 356 times higher than the national safety standard, the Environmental Protection Ministry said on August 20.

The blasts caused varying degrees of damage to 17,000 residences, Xinhua reported.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There seems to be a corollary of countries with large populations and big industrial explosion causing many casualties. See - Roanoke and the Value of Guns (scroll down)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2015 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  More big booms in China [+ Thailand] have occurred in which Uighur andor pro-Uighur Muslim Militants are suspected.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Zee News India] UIGHUR HAND IN BLASTS IN TIANJIN AND THAILAND: CHINA.

* GROONG > [Telegraph.UK] BANGKOK BOMBING: WAS IT THE [Pro-Uighur, Ultra-Nationalist] "GREY WOLVES" OF TURKEY?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/01/2015 23:26 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Tobruk oil slick kills birds and fish
[Libya Herald] A large oil slick off the coast of Tobruk has killed seabirds and fish Tobruk council has said.

The municipality's front man Saleh Fouad said officials had been alerted to the slick by local fisherman.

He gave no size for the pollution but said that samples had been taken both from the sea and a tanker nearby. An investigative committee had been formed.

There are currently two tankers at Tobruk but it is unclear if either is under suspicion.

Classically oil slicks occur when tankers pump out their ballast and bilges but international regulations demand that this polluted water is put into slop tanks and discharged into other tanks ashore.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remmember Exon Valdez panic? Gaia is #1 cleaning woman.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2015 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of things died in the La Brea Tar Pits. Blame Big Oil!(tm). (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2015 10:36 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Suspected forest robber killed in gunfight
[Dhaka Tribune] An alleged forest robber was killed early yesterday in a shootout with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Sharankhola range of Sundarbans in Bagerhat.
Someday I'm going to combine all these stories into Tales from Bagerhat.
Lt Col Faridul Alam, Commander of RAB-8, claimed the dear departed Little John Khalil was the second-in-command of 'Monir Bahini'.
A band of merry men inhabiting the Sunderbans. They rob from the rich and give to the poor, which usually equates to them.
Alam said on a tip-off, they raided Dorjar canal area around 5:30am while Khalil with his cohorts were preparing to commit robbery.
"Ho ho, my good bishop! You look tired! Lemme relieve you of all those gold ornaments!"
[BANG!]
"Hey! Wot gives?"
[BANG! BANGETTY BANG!]

Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the elite force members, the robbers opened fire on them, forcing them to fire back that triggered a shootout. Khalil was caught in the line of fire and was struck down in his prime while other members of the gang managed to flee the spot.
"We're outta here!"
"Hey! Youse forgot my lute!"

"After they left, we went to the spot and found the body along with the weapons and other materials," Alam also said.
"Gosh, Chief! Is that a long bow?"
"Yeah. Long arrows, too!"

The seizure list contains four double-barrelled shotguns, one single-barrelled gun, three sawed-off rifles, three light guns, an air-gun, various ammunition, sharp weapons, mobile phone and tokens for collecting ransom and protection money.
"Never bring a quarterstaff to a gunfight."
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


SC cancels Joynal Hazari's acquittal in corruption case
[Dhaka Tribune] The Supreme Court has scrapped the High Court verdict that acquitted former Awami League politician Joynal Hazari in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, passed the order yesterday.

"The Supreme Court scrapped the High Court verdict after we filed a leave-to-appeal petition against the verdict," said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.

The apex court also ordered to hold further hearing on the appeal at the High Court.

Hazari was charged with illegally amassing wealth worth Tk1.13 crore in the case filed by M Shafiqur Rahman, ACC deputy director in Comilla, with Feni Sadar cop shoppe on October 2, 2007.

On November 27, 2008, a Special Judge's Court in Dhaka sentenced Hazari to 10 years in prison and fined him Tk1 crore in the case.

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
Hazari challenged the verdict at the High Court and was acquitted of the charges on December 5, 2011.

On April 14, 2012, the ACC filed a leave-to-appeal petition with the Appellate Division against the High Court verdict.
Posted by: Fred || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Protests break out in Ukraine over giving regions more power
h/t Gates of Vienna
Clashes have broken out between police and protesters outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev after a controversial vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east.

The decentralization of power was a condition of a truce signed in February aimed at ending the fighting between Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed separatists that has left more than 6,800 dead. But many Ukrainians oppose changing the constitution, saying that threatens the country's sovereignty and independence.

A total of 265 deputies in the 450-seat parliament voted Monday to approve the changes proposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Three parties that are part of the majority coalition in parliament, however, opposed the constitutional changes, which face a final vote Tuesday.

Outside the parliament building, riot police faced off against hundreds of protesters.
I understand there are casualties
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2015 12:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Muzhenko: Shirokino did not matter


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The chief of the Ukrainian Army general staff Lt. General Viktor Muzhenko said that the occupation of the western part of Shirokino starting last spring and ending with the rebel withdrawing from that town was a "publicity stunt and no more", according to a Russian language news account which appeared in 0629.ua.com.

Last winter, western parts of the former resort town were occupied by elements of the "Azov" Regiment in counter to its occupation by rebel forces during the the rebel winter offensives. Reports at the time said that only a tiny part of the town was occupied by Ukrainian forces, and despite near constant artillery attacks from both sides, the battle for Shirokino remained a stalemate until last July when rebel forces, as a gesture of good will, abandoned the town.

Shirokino was a major focus of rebel forces during the winter months as battles raged near Donetsk city and Debaltasevo.

Despite rebels abandoning the town in order to get the Ukrainians to agree to its demilitarization, Ukrainian commanders instead moved parts of a naval infantry regiment in town and reinforced it with tanks and artillery. The marine unit is on a different level than the volunteer Azov regiment, General Muzhenko said.

This writer has since read about only two attempts by rebel forces to fight the marines in the town, but with no apparent effort to actually retake it.

General Muzhenko said that the occupation of Shirokino by Azov "created more problems than positives."

He added that control of the heights around Shirokino has made the defense of Mariupol, which is only a few kilometers to the west, a much easier task.

Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
Posted by: badanov || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Fear of Russia Drives High-Voltage Power Projects in the Baltics
Former Soviet Union satellites such as Ukraine, Georgia, and the three Baltic states—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—rely heavily on Russian energy, a dependence that colors the ongoing geopolitical tussle among the Russian Federation, the European Union, and NATO. But new energy infrastructure is beginning to free the Baltics from this drama, including two high-voltage direct current links to Lithuania nearing completion: the 500-megawatt LitPol Link with Poland and the 700-MW NordBalt cable to Sweden, which is among the world’s longest subsea power links.

The links will give the Baltics the ability to get 100 percent of their imported power from non-Russian sources. Laying the 453-kilometer NordBalt cable was hindered by a series of nerve-wracking interventions by Russian naval ships, prompting Lithuania to lodge an official complaint with Moscow. Despite this hurdle, both NordBalt and LitPol Link are expected to begin testing by December and should be in operation from January 2016, says Daivis Virbickas, CEO of the Lithuanian power grid operator Litgrid.

Virbickas says that LitPol Link and NordBalt­ represent a “new era” for Lithuania, the largest of the Baltic states. While Lithuania declared its political independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, it became more dependent on Russian energy after joining the EU in 2004, which required that it shut down the Ignalina nuclear power plant’s ­Chernobyl-style reactors.

Overnight, Lithuania went from being one of Europe’s major power exporters to heavy reliance on Russia. Since the closing of the last reactor, at the end of 2009, Lithuania has imported 70 percent of its power, roughly two-thirds of that from Russia. Its domestic power plants burn natural gas imported from Russia’s ­Gazprom. As a result, Lithuanians pay the highest energy prices in Europe.

Dependence also adds to the Baltics’ sense of insecurity, which has risen in recent years as the Russian Federation has invoked power plays on other energy clients such as Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine, whose Crimean region Russia annexed last March, now relies on Russian power imports since separatist activity has disrupted supplies from its eastern coal mines.

NordBalt and LitPol Link are, to a great extent, products of Russia’s occupation of the Georgian region of South Ossetia in 2008. In 2009, the European Commission, the Baltic nations, and several neighboring states, including Sweden, forged a common action plan to end the Baltics’ energy isolation and to synchronize their power grids with Europe’s. That plan has been bankrolled by European financing.

Natural gas options are also opening up. Last year Lithuania began operating the Baltic states’ first liquefied natural gas terminal, which is receiving Norwegian gas.

The Baltics are also taking steps to synchronize with Europe’s grid. Currently, the three countries’ grids form the western flank of a massive interconnection that spans eight time zones and is dominated by Russia’s power system. But earlier this year the Baltic transmission system operators hammered out a joint plan outlining how to desynchronize their AC grid from the Moscow-directed interconnection and synchronize it with Europe’s. The specified power line reinforcements and upgraded grid controls could take a decade to complete and could cost the Baltics €1 billion (approximately US $1.08 billion), according to Virbickas.

That may be more than the Baltics can earn back from a more fluid power market. But the cost and effort is justified, says Virbickas, because it will boost supply security. He expects Lithuania to be an equal partner in the cooperative management of continental Europe’s grid by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, the ­Brussels-based consortium of European grid operators. In contrast, he says, the Baltic grid operators have little role in determining how the Russian grid is run.

One delicate question remains unanswered, however: the electrical fate of Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that’s sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. Discussions on whether Kaliningrad will become an electrical island or join the European grid ended with the breakdown in Russia-EU relations last year. “It is a difficult project geopolitically because we have Kaliningrad in between,” predicts Romas Švedas, formerly a Lithuanian diplomat and vice minister of energy. “It will be a lengthy process.”
Posted by: Steve White || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Putin wants to bully and intimidate the Baltic states----there are consequences.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/01/2015 10:04 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Is This the Warship of the Future?
Re: Steve White's posting of 30 Aug.
[DefenseOne] If you thought the battleship era faded after World War II, just wait a few decades. A group of British designers with the Startpoint group have revealed concept art for a future warship called Dreadnought 2050, the product of an open-thought experiment at the informal request of the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

Named for the 1905 British man-of-war that rendered its predecessors obsolete, Dreadnought 2050 has all the futuristic accessories that a mid-21st-century warship shouldn't be without. The ship is powered by hydrogen fusion -- or if that proves unworkable, then at least by "highly efficient turbines driving silent electric motors to waterjets." The hull is composed of "ultra-strong" composites of the finest acrylic. Out back, there's a floodable dock for launching Royal Marines and swimming drones, a deck for launching armed aerial drones, and 3D printers to make more as needed. The designers don't specify the size of their new dreadnought, but they imagine it would replace a ship with a crew of about 200 -- perhaps making it comparable to the U.S. Navy's 15,000-ton Zumwalt-class destroyer.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And sharks with frikin lasers attached to their heads.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/01/2015 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't forget a long spike on the bow, so that they can ram enemy ships. (sarcasm)
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/01/2015 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  THe fundamental problem of the battleship is that it was totally outranged by the aircraft carrier and that even the mighty Yamato could be sunk by a carrier at the cost of a few aircraft. That meant an exchange rate of two or three thousand men against twenty or thirty and a gazillion dollars (in 2015 terms) a against a, by comparison tiny amount of money and resources.

For the article it looks more like a paper written by sfi-addict teenager than by qualifiued personel. Just think in the "ultra-strong composites" (I don't doubt by 2050 there will also be ultra-string explosives) and the 3D printers making drones (with all their electronics requiring silicon pure to about one atom of something else in a _billion_ atoms of silicon. Also apparently those "experts" didn't even think in equipping it with Gauss guns in order to fill the range gap with aircraft carriers. For the drones, if your primary weapon is a fleet of drones then you are not a battleship but an aircraft carrier that happens to be operating unmanned vehicles.
Posted by: JFM || 09/01/2015 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  I am not sure paper written by a a sci-fi addict teenage accurataly depicts this text. Drunk, high on crack sci-fi addict teenager would becloser to the target.
Posted by: JFM || 09/01/2015 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  The object is to deliver ordnance on target at a specific point or target. The fiddlely part is how much ordnance, cause delivering a 1 kiloton device would usually take out most targets.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2015 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  How about a battleship with Gauss guns?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/01/2015 9:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Just hope that the spec sheet excludes Lucas as the electronics supplier (unless they really want to go to The Dark Side)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/01/2015 14:45 Comments || Top||

#8  I think the future is subs that can deploy drones and or ships that can deploy a dozen disposable PT-type boats. Consider the ships expendable and you can cut the crew down to nothing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/01/2015 14:58 Comments || Top||

#9  He forgot the Phasers and Photon Torpedoes.

And of course the Wave Motion Gun in the bow.

What's a swimming drone? Wouldn't that be a marine drone or unmanned boat?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/01/2015 17:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Need to get going mining the unobtanium for the hull
Posted by: OldSpook || 09/01/2015 22:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
DJIA Drops 470 Points
Just wait until Obama 'pivots' back to the economy!
Posted by: Raj || 09/01/2015 16:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got my emergency food stuffs and ammo.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/01/2015 18:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Behold the global Chinese economy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2015 18:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't forget the brown liquor DV. It'll be worth it's weight in gold.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/01/2015 19:23 Comments || Top||

#4  And don't forget the toilet paper.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2015 21:00 Comments || Top||


Government
China And Russia Are Cross-Indexing Hacked Data to Target US Spies
Goody.
[Mil.com/LA Times] WASHINGTON -- Foreign spy services, especially in China and Russia, are aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer databases -- including security clearance applications, airline records and medical insurance forms -- to identify U.S. intelligence officers and agents, U.S. officials said.

At least one clandestine network of American engineers and scientists who provide technical assistance to U.S. undercover operatives and agents overseas has been compromised as a result, according to two U.S. officials.

The Obama administration has scrambled to boost cyber defenses for federal agencies and crucial infrastructure as foreign-based attacks have penetrated government websites and email systems, social media accounts and, most important, vast data troves containing Social Security numbers, financial information, medical records and other personal data on millions of Americans.

Counterintelligence officials say their adversaries combine those immense data files and then employ sophisticated software to try to isolate disparate clues that can be used to identify and track -- or worse, blackmail and recruit -- U.S. intelligence operatives.

Digital analysis can reveal "who is an intelligence officer, who travels where, when, who's got financial difficulties, who's got medical issues, (to) put together a common picture," William Evanina, the top counterintelligence official for the U.S. intelligence community, said in an interview.

Asked whether adversaries had used this information against U.S. operatives, Evanina said, "Absolutely."

Evanina declined to say which nations are involved. Other U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments, say China and Russia are collecting and scrutinizing sensitive U.S. computer files for counterintelligence purposes.

U.S. cyberspying is also extensive, but authorities in Moscow and Beijing frequently work in tandem with criminal hackers and private companies to find and extract sensitive data from U.S. systems, rather than steal it themselves. That limits clear targets for U.S. retaliation.

The Obama administration marked a notable exception last week when a U.S. military drone strike near Raqqah, Syria, killed the British-born leader of the CyberCaliphate, an Islamic State hacking group that has aggressively sought to persuade sympathizers to launch "lone wolf" attacks in the United States and elsewhere.

Junaid Hussain had posted names, addresses and photos of about 1,300 U.S. military and other officials on Twitter and the Internet, and urged his followers to find and kill them, according to U.S. officials. They said he also had been in contact with one of the two heavily armed attackers killed in May outside a prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. Hussain is the first known hacker targeted by a U.S. drone.

The Pentagon also is scouring the leaked list of clients and their sexual preferences from the Ashley Madison cheating website to identify service members who may have violated military rules against infidelity and be vulnerable to extortion by foreign intelligence agencies.
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