Bryan Minkyu Martin, assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, is accused of accepting money from an undercover FBI agent in exchange for military information, some of which was classified as top secret, according to the warrant.
Authorities applied for a warrant to search Martin's hotel room in Fort Bragg, his vehicle, financial records and electronic equipment, including cell phones and computers.
Authorities said Martin met with an undercover FBI employee, who was posing as an intelligence officer of a foreign country, in a Spring Lake hotel lobby on Nov. 15.
During the meeting, Martin described his access to military computer systems and named classified network systems he had access to, the warrants said. Authorities said Martin told the agent that he was seeking long-term financial reimbursement.
Perhaps he didn't trust that Social Security funds would be there when he was ready to retire.
Wanted to start a supplemental retirement pension, did he ...
The warrant says that Martin accepted $500 from the undercover agent with the promise of additional money in exchange for documents at their next meeting. Over the next four days, Martin met twice more with the FBI agent at different area hotels, trading documents marked "secret" and "top secret" for two payments of $1,500 each.
In November 2006, Martin signed a counterintelligence brief at the Naval Recruiting District Pittsburgh, which stated that if he is ever contacted by a representative of a communist or hostile government, he is required to report the incident to his commanding officer.
The warrants claim Martin did not contact his commanding officer concerning the contact made with the undercover agent. "Are you a spy? No, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!"
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Mink Martin meet Julian Assange. Julian Assange meet Mink Martin. Oh... you already know one another. Well here, keep the $500. bucks as a Chinese Christmas gift and small token of our appreciation. I've got another meeting at the Mash House in 30 minutes. See ya's.
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Back about 1970, a captured NVA propaganda film showed somebody who looked familiar to the guys at Bragg. Turns out his new gig was teaching Vietnamese at the language program there.
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I used to work at a subunit. If he had JWICS access like that little buddyfucker Manning allegedly had, he could have done some serious damage, and got operators killed or captured as well as blowing the missions.
I wish they would hang these would-be traitors by their nuts, and hand out bats to the units they compromised so their victims could give them the pinata treatment they so deserve.
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lotp
I hopeit was the article that left out "thousand" and not the programmers.
I do recall a US effort to Mars that went astray by forgetting to convert metric to English units.
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#5 - and before that there was the US rocket launch that went awry because the mission software had a ";" where there should have been a ":" in a line of Fortran which went undetected until too late to matter.
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AH hello! I was hoping you would turn up today.
First I wouldn't like to be the programmer on that one. I wanted you to review this as it seems related to the politics of today;
#9 AH I hope you are still on. Please visit;
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/15235.html
Thing from snowy mountain posted this today;
" We entirely forgot God and placed our faith in men, and the more we turn this over in our minds, the madder we become". Olivares
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[Pak Daily Times] A shark tore the arm off an elderly German tourist at an Egyptian Red Sea resort, killing her almost immediately, security and diving officials said on Sunday, only days after sharks badly mauled four other European tourists in the waters. The German was swimming in the waters off Sharm el Sheikh, a famed diving and vacation resort in the Sinai Peninsula, when the shark attacked, Egyptian security officials said. "It was definitely a shark attack," said Hesham Gabar, the head of Egypt's Chamber of Diving and Water Sports. The German Embassy in Cairo could not be immediately reached for comment. Sunday's deadly attack comes after oceanic white tip sharks mauled three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist last week, also off the coast of Sharm el Sheikh.
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Julian Assange of Wikileaks will release the code that decrypts a cache of uncensored, unredacted documents that has already been circulated worldwide, in the event he is detained or the Wikileaks website is permanently removed from the internet. One of the key files available for download -- named insurance.aes256 -- appears to be encrypted with a 256-digit key. Experts said last week it was virtually unbreakable.
Assange has warned he can divulge the key to unlock the classified documents in the "insurance" files if he is detained or the WikiLeaks website is permanently removed from the internet.
Other documents that Assange is confirmed to possess include an aerial video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, BP files and Bank of America documents. I would be interested in seeing a video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan that killed BP files and Bank of America documents, but only out of curiosity.
I've read elsewhere that Mr. Assange is also willing to dump documents about space aliens and UFOs should it become absolutely necessary.
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can he release the key is he is suddenly incapacitated during a rendition? If this mope is willing to essentially blackmail the US with great economic and political damage through the receipt of stolen information, does this not constitute the equivalent of war, and warrant actions commensurate with it? He is not a US Cit and does not even have any presumed protections of the first amendment.
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I feel sure the AES key in question is already in the possession of trusted associates of Assange, who will release it should he come to an untimely end of some sort. Perhaps he has even already transmitted an unencrypted version to US intelligence to back up his threat. The question is how much of a problem the cache would create if it were decoded.
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If more than he has the key then his website already proves that eventually the key will out..
Therefore his threat is empty as the key will out so grab him.
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So basically, the KGB (or its modern successors) can be reasonably sure that if they whack him a whole lot of stuff of interest to them will be released?
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Bank of America! Now that's playing with fire.
But seriously, there is really nothing that can be done about Wikileaks. Everyone will have to grin and bear it. The guy, as far as I can see has done nothing legally wrong. Morally, of course is another question.
The Pentagon Papers set the president. If he, as a journalist is charged, they will also have to charge the NYT, Guardian, etc.
Not going to happen. Although I did see he called for Obama to resign, if he is found to have caused the UN to be spied upon, so maybe Obama could get some heavies from Chicago to do the job.
The only ones who would assassinate him would be BofA or the Russians and they probably won't because they are enjoying the discomfiture of the US too much.
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It was strongly suggested that former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown sold the Chinese a list of US listening posts surrounding their country, with the names of those individuals manning them, severely compromising US national security. And this resulted in his accident, with extreme prejudice.
At this point, everyone affiliated with the core staff of Wikileaks should be subject to termination. Assange and Manning, however, are destined for ADX Florence, as what they did deserves living hell, not just death.
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Experts said last week it was virtually unbreakable.
'Experts' don't work for the NSA. Once a third party has it and cracks it, they too can use it for the same sort of 'muscle' to make friends and influence people.
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Over the years I have agreed with many of the views on Rantburg. But Assange is one issue we will be differing on.
He is a whistleblower.
Our freedom does not depend on which of the two parties wins an election but on how well-informed we the public are about what is really going on.
The bureaucrats and politicians that make the decisions and keep us in the dark on many issues so we never challenge or question what they are doing.
It is very easy for we the population to be controlled that way.
Our greatest threat is big, intrusive, spying, controlling Government that turns its bureaucratic organs against the individual. Witness what is now happening to Assange: the trumped up rape charges, the frozen bank accounts, the highly unusual requests by the Australan Attorney-General to the AFP to investigate him.
Due process and the rule of law means Assange should be treated as any other citizen.
Otherwise none of us have any individual rights. In which case the pretext of our Governments having legitimacy because they protect our democracy and freedom is just a sham.
In a dictatorship such as the USSR under Stalin, the ruling class did not need to worry too much what the population thought because they could be sent en masse to gulags or shot.
In democracies such as ours, it does matter what the public think as we can vote out elements of the ruling class if they are too corrupt or pursue bad policies.
The biggest light the Assange incident has thrown on our societies is just how much the ordinary people are controlled and managed by the ruling class.
I think - and I know most here disagree with me - that Assange has thrown a light switch on many dealings of Governments internationally and that greater transparency is ultimately a force for good in the world.
He is my countryman and I am proud of him. I would help him in any way I could.
It is absolute piffle that wikileaks is endangering lives right now.
The biggest threat to our lives is our own Governments making bad decisions: eg sending our countrymen off to fight foreign wars with potentially little chance of success etc.
And our ruling classes will continue to make bad decisions unless they are held accountable.
You cannot hold them accountable if you are in the dark.
That is why Wikileaks is important.
Also a couple of facts you might not have heard.
1) Julian Assange was not "in hiding" from the authorities. He offered assistance to the Swedes and stayed in the country an extra 30 days - but his offers were refused.
2) British police have known where he was at all times.
3) Big Media has systematically silenced his side of the story, never quoting his spokesperson - they have no desire for Wikileaks to interfere with their role as public opinion controller. I was fortunate to hear an unedited interview with Assange's lawyer on ABC radio national this morning. On the website, those vital quotes were cut out.
We are all being lied to and spun right now by our Governments.
If we value freedom at all, then we will try to listen to Assange's side of the story and treat him as what he is: an Australian citizen with the right to due process of law.
I think he is the most important journalist of our time and I respect and admire the website he has created. I think it will change our world for the better and prevent corrupt and inept bureaucrats from hiding their mistakes.
Better Governance comes from freedom of information. Long live freedom.
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Those of us that have put our lives on the line for freedom know what freedom is and know the true costs. Pissants like you who pontificate on the internet form the comfort of your chair yet ignore the very real and deadly consequences of your stupidly naive approach, are a danger to that very freedom by endangering those who maintain it.
Anon1, you are an irrational, fucking fool. Thanks for proving it with your emotionally laden but ignorant and consequence-free defense of the indefensible. Guys like me end up bleeding because of fairyland idealist assholes like you.
If he stole your bank account numbers and balances and published them, would he still be a "whistle blower?" He is dealing in stolen, sensitive USG property, classified documents and intellectual property if you will. He is a spy, a saboteur, a killer. He should be dealt with accordingly.
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OldSpook: what is the point of putting your life on the line if the people who direct you to where to go and do that have made the wrong decision?
Unless there is greater transparency the people who put their lives on the line could be doing so for nothing.
like all the US soldiers who died in the last year of the Vietnam war - imagine if they had brought the close of that war forward by just one year. We lost anyway, so no harm done, and lives saved.
Next time there is a Vietnam, organs such as Wikileaks might ensure the war is ended sooner.
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Besoeker: the US Government is accountable to the US people. It should not be keeping so much information secret.
The same goes for my Government double. And for the UK Government.
Knowing that the Sri Lankan Government committed war crimes against the Tamils is important.... that is another thing to come out of Wikileaks.
Why should that type of thing be kept secret.
We deserve to know what our Governments know.
They are only angry because the unaccountable bureaucrats, spy chiefs and politicians have been embarrassed. Not because lives are at risk at all.
They have been endangering lives for years.
It is a threat to the power structure of our own society, in favour of the citizens being better informed and having a greater say on what our Governments do.
It is not stupid or foolish.
It is our own Governments that threaten our freedom the most. Not foreign powers.
Sorry mate, you're dead wrong on this one. Our US Gov't and Department of Defense have something called "NEED TO KNOW" with regard to government documents and information. Neither I, or nearly anyone else has unlimited NEED TO KNOW. The classification of documents, information, and activities is not a new concept. It is a practice that goes back to colonial times and the birth of this nation. In fact, the keeping of State secrets has it's origins in the earliest of civilizations. What might have been the outcome of the WWII D-Day invasion had some Wikileaks broadcast the beach landing sites? Think about it my friend, just think about it.
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This is what President Assange said: My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing.
Sorry, slip of the tongue, meant to say President Obama.
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Yea Tipper, Obama's talking dog Holder didn't say squat about Wikileaks while they were attacking DoD. When they started in on the US State Dept, the doo-doo suddenly hit the mixmaster.
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Besoeker, I agree with you. I agree there is no unlimited right to know.
But what i believe is that our governments (US, UK, Australia) have had an increased ability to control and restrict the flow of information in recent years.
I have witnessed it - 15 PR flunkies dribbling spin for every reporter.
Freedom of Information requests that try for years to get a video or document released to no avail.
Remember the helicopter gunship that shot the wounded Reuters reporter and rescuers? Reuters filed FOIs for months to no avail. Wikileaks released the video.
The problem is our Governments restrict too much information.
Much more than in the past. Even the Vietnam War era, more information got out than now. Now everything is so carefully stage managed that the general population has got no idea what is really going on.
That is not healthy.
Wikileaks would probably not exist but for that fact.
Now any employee of the Government or a company or a department must sign confidentiality agreements to work there. None of them can talk to the media unauthorised.
No information gets out. If someone talks out of turn they are sacked or demoted or isolated or marginalised.
Something had to give somewhere.
Our governments need to be more open and accountable.
But I agree, not everything should be open slather.
It is waay too easy to say : don't release that information, it could endanger lives
that gets said even when no lives are endangered and the only thing on the line is a bureaucrat's pride.
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Wikileaks is NO WAY to change the over-classification problem or the system.... if as you say, there is a classification problem. Wikileaks is terrorism in my view.
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verbose and wrong is no way to go through life, hon
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In a nutshell.
Assange on sex charges.
“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.” Stanley Baldwin 1931.
By definition Assange is a harlot. But how is he different from most of the media, other than the fact that his PR would make Barnum and Bailey jealous?
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With all due respect, I've been spending the last few years primarily in diaper duty.
Wikileaks disclosed NOTHING that I couldn't have gotten on my own during my kids' nap time. If there were any big "bombshell" disclosures, you haven't been paying attention.
anon1, I think you haven't been paying attention. Considering that you are a long-time poster here, that's one of the few shocking things to come out of this mess to me. (Oh, and I thought Qaddafi preferred Russian nurses to Ukrainians. My bad.)
#31
Comment #16 is NOT the kind of civil, well reasoned discourse that I have come to appreciate on the Burg. I'm offended that you, Oldspook, would be so unchivalrous as to speak to a female in that fashion. Shame on you!
Since Rantburg is read daily by those in power in Washington then why have the mods not dealt with this nonsense? If I use the very same words and phrasing as Oldspook has I will no doubt be banished. His lack of courtesy, lack of imagination in his choice of words and the mods inaction have upset me a lot.
I thought that adults visited and commented on this site but now I see that ill-behaved and undisciplined children are also allowed.
BAH!!!!! Perhaps things will be back to an adult level tomorrow. Perhaps Oldspook will have found the courage and true masculinity to apologize for his outburst, not just to Anon1 with whom, by the way, I rarely agree, but also to us all.
* Tourism minister insists diving will continue because 'sharks will not attack divers' ...unless they get hungy again.
* Foreign Office warns Britons to avoid cheap dive tour operators Yeah, they're real sharks
* Thomson and First Choice warn holidaymakers to stay out of the water WE aren't going to jump the shark.
* Just days earlier officials claimed they had caught two deadly predators The Amity police are on the job, thanks to mayor Larry.
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week So? There must be thousands of tourists who haven't been attacked...yet.
* Killer shark may have been attracted to waters by dead cattle and sheep thrown overboard before Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha Ahh, the plot thickens. I knew Muslim customs would figure in this somehow. Hey, lefties blamed Bush for the Nigerian e-mail scams, so there!
Egyptian officials have insisted it is safe for tourists to go back into the water despite a 70-year-old German woman being killed in Sharm el-Sheikh after another shark attack. "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
While many holidaymakers have steered clear of the water and British travel companies halted all boat trips and diving excursions, others were pictured swimming and snorkelling in the Red Sea despite the killer fish still being on the loose.
The German pensioner died after her arm was torn off by the shark. Four other tourists suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents.
Just days before authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks - an oceanic whitetip and a mako - and the water were safe again for swimming.
Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after a whitetip tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.
But officials again played down the danger and said they had called in experts to help determine what type of shark they were looking for.
Tourism minister Zuhair Garana said: 'We are not allowing people to swim in deeper water and we are flying in a marine biologist from Florida to identify exactly what kind of shark we are dealing with. [Spit!]
[Pushes sailor hat back on his head, leans bronzed forearms on rail]
"I'd say it's a big 'un."
[Spit!]
We have had attacks before but we have never had this number of attacks over just a few days. [Spit!]
[Gazes absently into sun going down over bounding main]
"I'd say it's a hungry big 'un."
[Spit!]
'Diving is being allowed. We are advised that sharks will not attack divers. ....unless they go in the water. Divers are completely safe in the bars.
'I cannot say that deep waters are completely secure but shallow waters are 100 per cent secure.' And the Americans are nowhere close to the Baghdad airport....
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In general, sharks go after swimmers and snorklers, not divers. Or so scuba divers are taught. On the other hand, Mr. Wife was head-butted by a seriously annoyed barracuda while diving in the Florida Keys...
[Iran Press TV] Laurent Gbagbo, who claims himself the re-elected president of Ivory Coast, has appointed Gilbert Marie N'gbo Ake as the country's new prime minister, an official says.
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[Iran Press TV] Both candidates in Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election take oaths of office as the Constitutional Council overturned earlier results declaring opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as the victor.
The country faces renewed unrest as incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo was sworn in as the country's president on Saturday even though the electoral commission on Thursday declared Ouattara (Wah-tahr-ah), a former prime minister and top IMF official, the winner with 54 percent of the vote over Gbagbo's 46 percent.
A few hours later, Ouattara also conducted a swearing-in ceremony, putting the two rivals on a collision course.
Officials in Gbagbo's camp have alleged that massive vote fraud had invalidated the original results in most of the opposition strongholds in north of the country.
Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council, reportedly allied with the Gbagbo, annulled vote results in seven provinces in the north, giving the incumbent president just enough margins to win the presidential poll.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... spokespersons for the opposition have warned that any attempt to reverse the original results declared by the election commission would incite further divisions and return the country to civil war.
"We will not recognize any decision by the constitutional council taken under such conditions," said Amadou Gon, a senior aide to Ouattara, in a press briefing.
Ouattara's victory has been backed by the United States and the European Union as well as the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society.
UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon has reportedly expressed a "deep concern" about the Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election. The UN Security Council has warned of possible sanctions against anyone obstructing the will of the voters.
Last Sunday, Ivory Coast held a second-round presidential election in the African country under tight security and an imposed curfew.
There have been violent festivities since October's first round of voting, which set up a competition between President Gbagbo and Ouattara. No candidate won a majority in the first-round voting.
The election has been postponed six times over the past five years due to a political dispute in the country.
The poll is seen as a turning point for the country, torn in two by a 2002-2003 civil war that led to a political deadlock and harshly affected its economy.
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So, what are they gonna do if some "pagan" says that his/her festivals aren't listed (as in, for example, they worship Norse or Egyptian deities, which AFAIK don't have lactating sheep)?
Someone, somewhere, is having his little joke. Bot to mention, ick. Beyond eating Greek salads, my imagination fails about how to celebrate such a holiday.
An MP today denied his Russian assistant was a spy after security services arrested her on suspicion of espionage.
Liberal Democrat Mike Hancock confirmed Katia Zatuliveter has been taken into detention and is facing deportation from the UK. But he insisted his aide, who he described as 'bright and intelligent', had nothing to hide and declared that he backed her '100%'.
Ms. Zatuliveter was vetted by UK security before being employed by the MP and getting a pass to the House of Commons. Her father, contacted in Zmeika, near the Caucasus, had this to say: "Get out. I'll kill you, b******," before chasing the journalist through the village, first on foot and then in his car. Her dad reminds me of the Russians who used to run a local computer store. Terrible customer relations they had. Every customer complaint or attempt to get service after the sale always got the same response, a death threat.
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Sounds like what is needed is a software/hardware arcana, a black box without which the aircraft cannot function, which is impervious to useful scanning, and is destroyed when it is opened.
Most electronics are simple, because of the limited number of components that *typically* can be used. Resistors, capacitors and batteries, inductors, switches and transistors, are pretty standard in their use, whether in micro or macro levels.
But these can be redesigned, to obfuscate their function and circuit. That is, that unless you measure the circuit while it is running, it could be one of a hundred possible circuits. And when its case is tampered with, it scrambles the current flow and operating instructions.
Versions of this have been around for a long time, mostly using surges of static when the case was opened. But the technology never advanced much, mostly because there was little that valuable to protect.
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A smarter way to keep the brains out of planes etc, is to have them load at launch, and wipe on a power outage (landing, crash etc)
Basicaly the equivalent of keeping all the programming in ram, but loaded from a trusted server.
Of course I'm three whiskeys in at this point...
After 7 years in power, the Spanish ruling Socialist party has been tossed out on its ear. Catalonia, a region of Northern Spain, is now back with its traditional center-right party.
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Is the losing party Zapatero's? Does this mean the Anti-American nut cases are out?
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Only in the Catalonia portion of Spain (which produces most of the economic output of Spain). The rest of the country will have to wait for the next election which I believe is next year.
Engineers have strung a $500 million extension cord across San Francisco Bay, allowing San Francisco to draw electricity from clean, green, feel-good, renewable sources from someplace else. Renewable sources are mostly dams across nature's pristine rivers, blocking the swimming of fish, and navigation of canoes and rafts - wait until they figure that out! The City hopes to close its sole remaining power plant, the Potrero gas-and-diesel plant, which has long been considered a blot on the city's otherwise impeccable environmental record. Warning: The link takes you to the NY Times. Hat tip to the civil engineer's blog.
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Once they shut down that last power plant they'll be 100% dependent on those highly vulnerable (ask Baluchistan) 'extension cords.'
#2
I love the way these urban dwellers consider themselves "green", any urban dweller is among the most "non green" of humans anywhere. Hopefully the 'Big One" isnt very far off for california
#4
This is nothing new. Back in the '20's I think SF took over The Hetch-hetchy valley, blocked it with The O'Shaunessy Dam and drowned the "most beautiful valley " (per John Muir) in the Sierra's for their water supply. On the other hand, I spent a few weekends at one of the cabins they supplied to water dept workers up there, so I guess I'm part of the problem.
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#4 - that dam was featured prominently in Ken Burns' series about the National Parks last year, very informative. One of the nicest things about being a San Fran environmentalist is that s/he can mess up the environment and enjoy the benefits along with a feeling of superiority while someone else far away has to deal with the adverse consequences.
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The type of fuel is interesting;"Hydrazine and Nitrogen Tetroxide". I will have to look those up. I love Hydrogen and would be interested in why the change. The other fuel looks hazardous. Skidmark you are correct. It is curious that the cargo bay doors show discoloration over large area.
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Hydrazine and Nitrogen Tetroxide; Most excellent choice in fuels. Spontaneous contact ignition and small amount rather than heavy bulky liquid hydrogen. Toxic however.
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Imagining clamshell doors I would propose a 'snatch'. Doors opened, vessel positioned between an object of interest and the Earth, suddenly illuminated by a ground-based laser the black reentry tiles bear the brunt of the radiation unmarked but the insulation blanket above is singed...
...or blown nose wheel hydraulics in a slapdown landing. What did Pan say he was driving?
They are calling it MAHEM, which stands for Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition. The intent is to create a device that creates a powerful enough electromagnetic field to propel streams of molten metal at enemy armor.
"This could provide the warfighter with a means to address stressing missions such as: lightweight active self-protection for vehicles (potential defeat mechanism for a kinetic energy round), counter armor (passive, reactive, and active), mine countermeasures, and anti-ship cruise missile final layer of defense."
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This seems to be a HEAT round (think WWII bazooka) where the molten jet is accelerated by electromagnets.
What I don't understand is how they intend to keep the molten jet around long enough to be accelerated by the electromagnets.
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Not sure how they plan to keep the stuff molten but I have never liked passing one of those flatbed semis with a crucible full of molten aluminum on the trailer
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FaL, once accelerated the molten stream cools in it's travel becoming a kinetic weapon with tremendous velocity.
Imagine the energies required to propel a molecule to tremendous speeds, then the next and next until they become a stream. Lorenz says it doesn't take much.
They collesce in cooling into a single mass because they are ionized by the flight. The ones leading slow as they give up energy in cooling and become the shaping framework.
Not such wicked leaks
02 December 2010 LIBÉRATION PARIS
For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication.
Secondly, the very notion that any old hacker can delve into the most secret secrets of the most powerful country in the world has dealt a hefty blow to the State Department's prestige. So the scandal actually hurts the "perpetrators" more than the "victims". This is what really hurt, and is why they are trying to destroy Assange. Nothing to do with 'lives in danger' or trumped up rape charges.
But let's turn to the more profound significance of what has occurred. Formerly, back in the days of Orwell, every power could be conceived of as a Big Brother watching over its subjects' every move. The Orwellian prophecy came completely true once the powers that be could monitor every phone call made by the citizen, every hotel he stayed in, every toll road he took and so on and so forth. Yes even your Government and my Government. That is the US, UK and Australia. The weapons they turn against your 'enemy' they turn against you, also.
The citizen became the total victim of the watchful eye of the state. But when it transpires, as it has now, that even the crypts of state secrets are not beyond the hacker's grasp, the surveillance ceases to work only one-way and becomes circular. The state has its eye on every citizen, but every citizen, or at least every hacker -- the citizens' self-appointed avenger -- can pry into the state's every secret.
How can a power hold up if it can't even keep its own secrets anymore? That last I disagree with. I think the power will not only hold up but be more robust than before. A Government open to criticism, scrutiny and change will evolve to be way stronger and more advanced than its competitors who allow incompetence to breed in the dark corrupt corners awau from public scrutiny, eg China.
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its competitors who allow incompetence to breed in the dark corrupt corners awau from public scrutiny The US parades its incompetence and corruption up front & in your face while its public is distracted or asleep. I guess that's an improvement.
They have the brightest and best. And many of the things they do that people criticise, they do so out of necessity.
The best thing that would come from Wikileaks is if some of those real reasons become public. People might then understand why it was that they had to at least *try* to remake the Middle East for example.
If you want to see corruption try Indonesia.
China is also corrupt but on a State-wide scale so it's no longer called corrupt just an autocratic new brand of mercantalism where they lock up foreign directors of companies they don't like in trade negotiations.
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On an absolute scale the U.S. government is corrupt, Bright Pebbles. On a relative scale most other governments are more corrupt. The absolute scale thingy is the same mistake the supporters of Mr. Assange make: they crow over the release of secrets that possibly should not have been kept, while not noticing that there are other countries whose secrets are considerably worse, and considerably more in need of being even partially revealed. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Belgian Congo (or whatever we're calling it these days)... the list goes on and on. Hacking into those secrets and revealing them to the world would actually do some good, which is why Mr. Assange and others of his ilk will never even think of trying.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
* Tourism minister insists diving will continue because 'sharks will not attack divers'
