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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Swetnick's Ex-Boyfriend Claims She Threatened to Kill Their Unborn Child
[NR] Julie Swetnick’s former boyfriend Richard Vineccy told Fox News Monday that she threatened to kill their unborn child after he discontinued their relationship.

Vineccy also said that Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, asked him to hit her on occasion.

"Right after I broke up with her, she basically called me many times and at one point she basically said, ’You will never, ever see your unborn child alive,’" Vinneccy said on The Ingraham Angle.

Swetnick’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, dismissed Vineccy’s claims in a CNN interview Monday night, casting him as an aggrieved ex-boyfriend.

Vineccy, who dated Swetnick from 1994 to 1997, said she never discussed the recently publicized allegation that Kavanaugh touched girls without their consent at a series of parties in high school and was "present" when she was gang raped at one such gathering.

"Never, never once [did] she mention that to me," he said. "We used to talk about everything. She never once mentioned that at all. ... If you ask me personally if I believe her, I don’t believe her. I really don’t believe her. Nobody knows Julie Swetnick better than me."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 07:58 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Certifiable.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 9:07 Comments || Top||

#2  What a surprise. She immediately defaulted to the killing of the unborn.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  The Dems have busted down the Overton Window and kept going.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  If it was the other way round she would have a right to be believed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/02/2018 10:45 Comments || Top||

#5  "Fatal Attraction" without the sex. Avenatti found a live one in Julie Slutnick.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ex-Alabama Head Coach Mike DuBose Hospitalized After Accidentally Shooting Himself
[Sports Illustrated] Former Alabama head coach Mike DuBose suffered non-life threatening injuries after accidentally shooting himself while working on his farm, reports ESPN's Joel Anderson.

According to Anderson, DuBose drove himself to his hometown hospital in Opp, Ala., but he was then airlifted to another hospital. The extent of his injuries is not yet known. According to WSFA, an investigation has been opened into the incident.

The 65-year-old DuBose played at Alabama as a defensive lineman under Bear Bryant from 1972‐74, winning a national championship in 1973. He then coached the Crimson Tide from 1997‐2000, where he went 24‐23 and won the 1999 SEC title.

He hasn't coached collegiately since 2010‐11 at Memphis as an assistant, but he has worked with high schools in the area, according to WSFA.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 11:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Missing the boy's shower?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 16:16 Comments || Top||


Your Weekly East Boston MS-13 Gang Update
[Via Universal Hub] - BOSTON ‐ An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in East Boston.

Carlos Melara, a/k/a "Chuchito," a/k/a "Criminal," 21, a Salvadoran national, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 36 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Melara will also be subject to deportation upon completion of his sentence. In April 2018, Melara pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more commonly referred to as RICO conspiracy.

On Sept. 7, 2015, Melara, along with Edwin Gonzalez, a/k/a "Sangriento," Henry Parada Martinez, a/k/a "Street Danger," and a juvenile MS-13 member participated in the murder of a 15-year-old boy on Constitution Beach in East Boston. The defendants targeted the victim in a "catfishing" scheme in which they used a fake Facebook account to trick the victim into thinking he was talking to a girl. In reality, the Facebook account was being controlled by Gonzalez and other MS-13 members to lure suspected rivals so that the gang could murder them.
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 11:13 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Georgetown Prof Gets Castrated - Suspended By Twitter
I'm really surprised at this - let's see if they let her back on after a week, when the attention / heat dies down.
[Twitchy] - Twitter suspended Christine Fair, the Georgetown professor we told you about yesterday who tweeted about castrating the corpses of entitled white men and feed them to swine.
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 10:40 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


'No Excuses' A retired USN SEAL runs ultamarathons to raise money for the children of fallen special operators
[October 2018 VFW Magazine] David Goggins - ’No Excuses’: A Retired Navy SEAL Runs Ultramarathons to Raise Money for the Children of Fallen Special Operators.

As retired Navy SEAL David Goggins took the stage as the VFW National Convention's Joint Opening in july to accept the VFW Americanism Award, he was warmly welcomed by hundreds of his fellow VFW member from around the world.

"I'm very humbled to be here talking to all of you today," said Goggins, a member of the VFW Department of Tennessess. "I want to thank VFW very much for giving me this award. It means more to me than anything I have received in my entire life.

Goggins thanked his late grandfather, Air Force Master Sgt. Jack Gardner - saying it would be the "happiest day" of the World War II veteran's life if he were still alive. Goggins went on to thank his mother who was on the stage with him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 10:02 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


The Man Who Ran a Carnival Attraction That Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Wasn't a Doctor at All
[Smithsonian] Nurses in starched white uniforms and doctors in medical coats tended to babies in glass and steel incubators. The infants had been born many weeks premature and well below a healthy birth weight. Stores didn’t make clothes small enough to fit their tiny, skeletal frames so the nurses dressed them in dolls’ clothes and knitted bonnets.

A sign above the entrance read "Living Babies in Incubators" in letters so large they could be read from the other end of the Chicago World’s Fair grounds, which took place over 18 months in 1933 and 1934. The infant incubator exhibit was built at a cost of $75,000 (worth $1.4 million today) and was painted in a patriotic red, white and blue.

The men in charge were leading Chicago pediatrician Dr. Julius Hess and Martin Couney, who was known across America as "the incubator doctor." Couney was a lugubrious man in his 60s, with thinning gray hair, a mustache and a stoop, something he jokingly attributed to a lifetime of bending over babies. Couney and Hess employed a team of six nurses and two wet nurses.

Martin Couney had run infant incubator exhibits, in which premature babies were displayed to the public, for more than three decades, most famously at Coney Island in New York City. He had long been regarded by desperate parents as a savior, one who offered medical help to babies written off as "weaklings" by mainstream medicine.

But for Hess, who was accustomed to carrying out his work in a more conventional hospital setting, this was a career first.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 09:38 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lu·gu·bri·ous - ləˈɡ(y)o͞obrēəs/Submit
adjective, looking or sounding sad and dismal.
synonyms: mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, glum, melancholy, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, somber, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour, cheerless, joyless, dismal.

...a potential Burg reader or contributor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 14:29 Comments || Top||

#3  "O looking glass, who is the droopiest?"
"Well, you... though at first I was dubious,
For you smirk and you snark
As if life were a lark...
But beneath it, you're uber-lugubrious."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/02/2018 23:15 Comments || Top||


Judge Kavanaugh committed party foul in 1985
NEW HAVEN — As an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett M. Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report.

The incident, which occurred in September 1985 during Mr. Kavanaugh’s junior year, resulted in Mr. Kavanaugh and four other men being questioned by the New Haven Police Department. Mr. Kavanaugh was not arrested, but the police report stated that a 21-year-old man accused Mr. Kavanaugh of throwing ice on him “for some unknown reason.”
Posted by: badanov || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Glad my college fighting records aren't making national headlines.

What's next on the Kavanaugh character assassination tour - a chew & screw at a New Haven restaurant? Place your bets!
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Coulda been a lot worse. Could've been a member of a choom gang like one recent Dem President boasted of being a part of.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 10/02/2018 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  'Throwing ice', a violent altercation?

I set a guy's hair on fire once.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 1:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Slowed him down enough I could end the tussle by hitting him with my beer mug. Put the fire out.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 1:15 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/02/2018 19:25 Comments || Top||

#6  *snort*
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2018 20:07 Comments || Top||

#7  My grandmother threw ice at me once.

Once.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/02/2018 23:13 Comments || Top||

#8  And? Come on, don't leave me hanging here!
Posted by: Hillary || 10/02/2018 23:19 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Health officials 'very worried' as African swine fever spreads in Europe and Asia
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 10:23 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Quake-hit Indonesia starts burying dead in mass grave
[DAWN] Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people on Monday, for victims of a quake-tsunami that devastated swathes of Sulawesi and left authorities struggling to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster.

Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta had been keen to show it could deal with a catastrophe that has killed at least 844 people, according to the latest official count, and displaced some 48,000 more.

But four days on some remote areas are only now being contacted, medicines are running out and rescuers are struggling with a shortage of heavy equipment as they try to reach desperate victims calling out from the ruins of collapsed buildings.

In response, Indonesian President Joko Widodo opened the door to the dozens of international aid agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are lined up to provide life-saving assistance.
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#1  Indonesia tsunami: Death toll rises to nearly 1,350
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Indonesia tsunami: Palu hit by 'worst case scenario'
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 11:09 Comments || Top||


#4  God, early one autumn, bethought Him
To blot out the city of Sodom,
For lo, He was pissed...
Okay, blotto... and missed.
Ah, but someday... "Bang, zoom, to the bottom!"

Off the pile, with no disrespect to today's suffering and dead.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/02/2018 23:09 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe’s rich spitting in the face of the dying
[CAJNEWSAFRICA] DESPITE the broke country enduring an escalating cholera outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives, some Zim-bob-wean entrepreneurs are exercising their financial muscle by splurging on
multimillion-dollar vehicles.

The latest set of luxury wheels to turn heads as the water borne disease spreads with no end in sight is a mouthful ‐ a Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès, one of only 20 in the world.

Carrying a price tag of over US$3 million (about R42,5 million), it was offloaded on Friday at the Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win....
International Airport in the capital Harare, which is the epicentre of the cholera outbreak that had killed about 50 people and left 5 000 hospitalised by this past weekend.

It is said to belong to South African-based Zim-bob-wean businessman (name supplied to CAJ News).

According to the Bugatti website, the name of this highly exclusive model refers to the main Hermès store on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the eighth Arrondissement of Gay Paree, the "Fbg" stands for Faubourg.

The road beast represents a perfect blend of the technical and aesthetic finesse of Émile Hermès and Ettore Bugatti, according to the website.

With a top speed of 407 kilometres per hour, it the second luxurious car to be offloaded in Harare in as many months.

In August, as the cholera outbreak was confirmed, a Bugatti Veyron, Diamond Edition, was delivered.

The car is a special edition of the Veyron 16.4, which was limited to four units globally.

Media speculated it belonged to a Zim-bob-wean businessman based in South Africa.

While the majority wallows in poverty, elites are leading opulent lifestyles and are never troubled flaunting their wealth.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While the majority wallows in poverty, elites are leading opulent lifestyles and are never troubled flaunting their wealth.

That needs to change, perhaps with a lot of bloodshed.
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  A surprise to whom?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 11:01 Comments || Top||

#3  African Liberation Theory - get a whiff!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/02/2018 14:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Top speed of 407 kph? So in an hour it can cover all the roads in Zimbabwe that won't rip its undercarriage apart?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/02/2018 22:50 Comments || Top||


South Sudan War Deaths Estimated At 400 000
[All Africa] The five-year civil war in South Sudan has killed about 400 000 civilians, which is higher than initially thought.

Around half of the lives have been lost through violence while most deaths occurred in the northeast and southern regions of the country, and appeared to peak in 2016 and 2017.

These are among findings of by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which further established that those killed were mostly adult males but also included women and kiddies.

As of early 2018, the war had caused the displacement of about 2 million people within South Sudan and a further 2,5 million as refugees to neighbouring countries.

Although a Compromise Peace Agreement was signed in August 2015, temporarily leading to shared government, it broke down in July 2016, resulting in the conflict gaining intensity and spreading geographically.

The humanitarian response to this crisis is among the largest worldwide, targeting about 6 million people with a total funding requirement of US$1,7 billion.

"The findings indicate that the humanitarian response in South Sudan must be strengthened and that all parties should seek urgent conflict resolution," authors of the report stated.
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#1  the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Doctors without jobs?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 16:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Syria better pick up the pace, Sudan's ahead.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 16:24 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese ship comes ‘within 45 yards' of US destroyer in South China Sea
[Independent] An American navy ship came dangerously close to a Chinese warship during a recent exercise, forcing the US destroyer to perform evasive manoeuvres to avoid a collision.

The incident has been called an "unsafe" encounter between the two ships by Pentagon officials, and at one point the Chinese ship was reportedly around 45 yards from the American vessel.

"A [Chinese] Luyang destroyer approached USS Decatur in an unsafe and unprofessional manoeuvre in the vicinity of Gaven Reef in the South China Sea," Captain Charles Brown, a spokesman for US Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.

Mr Brown said that the Chinese ship "conducted a series of increasingly aggressive manoeuvres accompanied by warnings for the Decatur to depart the area".

The US warship was in waters near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The crew was conducting a freedom of navigation routine, which is a regular mission and intended to ensure open trade routes.

The close encounter comes as the US and China have seen an increasingly tense relationship, with the two super powers disagreeing over trade policy, and on issues related to election meddling. Just recently, officials with the Department of Defence told CNN that Defence Secretary James Mattis has cancelled a planned trip to Beijing later in October.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 08:09 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The clock is ticking on this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Cue Fred Thompson in Hunt For Red October ("this business will get out of control.")

Shame on me, but my first reaction was that after the McCain and Fitzgerald incidents the Chinese captain had brass equipment to get that close to a USN ship. Somebody please tell me I'm wrong.
Posted by: Matt || 10/02/2018 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Ditto Matt. Trump, Mattis, Pompeo, Bolton.... backing down, not in their DNA. I wonder how many will die before it gets shut down ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 15:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm not too worried. It's the non-warship encounter with the US Navy that I am worried about. What, they had two collisions last year or so?
Posted by: Clem || 10/02/2018 16:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ...At fifty yards, they should have trained the forward 5" mount on the ChiCom's bridge and sounded the siren.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/02/2018 19:15 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Facebook logins for sale on the dark web for just $3.90 EACH days after the 'worst ever' hack of 50 million users
[DailyMail]
  • Email logins sell for as little as $2.70 each, according to experts

  • The majority of someone's online life could be available for just $970

  • Best way to protect these details is by multiple verification, the report found
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Best way to protect these details is by multiple verification, the report found

No. The best way is to never sign up.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 10/02/2018 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn’t get mine, never had one.
Posted by: KBK || 10/02/2018 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn’t get mine, never had one.

I don't even like business cards.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 9:17 Comments || Top||


Economy
Amazon ups hourly wage to $15, will advocate for higher pay
[ABC] Amazon, which has faced political and economic pressure to raise pay for thousands of employees, is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.

"We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO.

The wage hike will go into effect as Amazon hires more than 100,000 holiday workers to pack and ship goods in its warehouses. Employers are facing the tightest job market in nearly two decades, making it more difficult to lure workers who have a lot more choices about taking a job than just a year ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 10:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Buying good PR in an competitive labor environment. You have to raise it to get the better employees. Adam Smith's invisible hand, not the heavy hand of government fiats (see - Venezuela).
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 10/02/2018 11:38 Comments || Top||

#2  boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour

Hiring more illegals?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/02/2018 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  As near as I can tell about $ 12.00/hr is near the floor even in low income areas these days. Welcome to all the inflation everyone says isn't going on.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/02/2018 12:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Amazon is already well on the way to automating every job they can. Wage increases just hasten the pace. This is a PR stunt.
Posted by: Elmogum Dark Lord of the Wee Folk6272 || 10/02/2018 13:05 Comments || Top||

#5  This is a PR stunt.

Maybe. It is true that Amazon is automating the hell out of anything they can.

But there is more going on as well. Near as I can tell, the economy is ramping up. Demand for workers is up, especially since a lot of people left the labor market during the Dread Obama Years. Classical economics predicts that if there is a shortage of something, the price for it will rise.

Note that this is NOT the same as an artificially inflated 'minimum wage'.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/02/2018 13:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Having worked through three peaks, my 2cents. This is being rolled out just in time for Peak. Locally there are a lot of HELP WANTED signs up at every fast food place I visit. I hurt my foot so I tried to get a lawn service to cut my grass but to no avail. Amazon also doesn't work in a vacum. Last year Walmart was hiring seasonal workers at a higher pay rate than Amazon. The Walmart.com warehouse is huge. When it opened I stopped at Burger King across the road and they were out of eggs!
Automation can only do so much. If you see how the Fulfilled by Amazon comes in you would need an Azimov type robot to deal with all the strange ways things are packed. Also a failure in automation can shut down the entire building, People can work around problems.
One of the main beefs people had with Amazon was that people woking there had the pay determined by the average retail worker wages rather than the average warehouse worker's. Where I work there are often signs advertising for warehouse workers saying things like $30 a hour with small print saying "up to".
So I will see what this means to me in November when this takes effect. Predidtion by next year people will be griping about pay.
Posted by: Thrise Shomble3667 || 10/02/2018 14:16 Comments || Top||

#7  $15.00 an hour huh? Do you gotta buy your own piss bottles?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/02/2018 15:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, buy the code and OPS, RIF the talent.
Can't wait for the Pakis and Indians to get at it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 16:21 Comments || Top||

#9  I really don't know where this piss bottle story comes from. I've never seen anyone be told they have to ask permission to go to the bathroom. The main thing people bitch about in our building is there are no bathrooms on the second floor. Nobody took my suggestion of installing fireman poles by the bathroom since going down is more important than climbing back up the stairs.
You can get written up for time off task but I think this would apply to someone who takes several hour or 2 "bathroom breaks". The people you really have to be worried about doing stuff like that is your co- workers that have to slow down because you are f-ing off. Case in point at the sort center somebody managed to scan a whopping 5 packages an hour. The manager made a point of saying don't worry about me worry about your co-workers bitching to me about it.
IMAO, Amazon does have its flaws but it isn't a terrible place to work. If you wanted something as first job I would recommend it since other employers seem to be impressed by you working there. Working during peak is where things can really get crazy. You never know when things are going to suddenly go completely crazy.
Posted by: Thrise Shomble3667 || 10/02/2018 16:57 Comments || Top||


GE exec defenestrated after market losses
General Electric Co. GE 7.09% fired Chief Executive John Flannery after 14 months in the job as deeper problems in the conglomerate’s troubled power unit blindsided the board and caused GE to warn it would miss profit and cash targets.

The company named board member Larry Culp, who became a director in April, its new chairman and CEO, effective immediately. Mr. Culp, a former CEO of Danaher Corp. , had joined GE’s board as part of a broader shake-up of the struggling conglomerate.

Shares of GE, which have tumbled by half during the past year after the company slashed its dividend and missed financial targets, rallied on the news. On Monday, the stock rose 7.1% to $12.09.

More from the Daily Mail
Posted by: badanov || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess he was kinda castrated too.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  ...I wouldn't feel too sorry for him - he likely had a few contract clauses that will still leave him securely in the 1%.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/02/2018 4:58 Comments || Top||

#3  The company was a solid blue chip company for years until Obama's buddy, that left-wing nutjob Immelt was CEO and took it down.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Ref #3: Yes, always referred to as a 'never sell' stock investment. Sort of disproves the 'never sell' meme doesn't it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Like Kodak
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2018 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  The leftist is always attracted to rent-seeking and has a distrust of earning profits.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2018 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7  I believe GE was dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Index awhile back. More of the same.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/02/2018 14:48 Comments || Top||

#8  GE was indeed dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in June of this year. link The company accumulated entirely too much debt.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/02/2018 21:15 Comments || Top||

#9  GE's slide down.

He's financial branch got into the subprime loan business. That was part of it's slide downwards.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 23:59 Comments || Top||


Europe
Frenchman at the centre of Nobel Prize rape scandal in Sweden is jailed for two years for the attack
[DailyMail]
  • Jean-Claude Arnault found guilty and sentenced to two years for a rape in 2011
  • So 1/10th of a year for each of the twenty years in which he was busily taking advantage of his wife’s position...
  • Arnault is married to a member of the body awards Nobel Literature Prize winner

  • Crisis forced Swedish Academy to cancel 2018 prize and prompted resignations
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doesn't anybody rape at home anymore?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Keith Ellison?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2018 19:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
IHC dismisses petition against Dawn regarding editorial policy
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court on Monday dismissed a petition against Dawn newspaper regarding its editorial policy.

The Civil Society of Pakistain, through its chairman Muhammad Tahir, had filed a petition against Dawn, questioning its "conduct" and urging the court to unmask the people behind what it claimed was the publication's "anti-state policy".

After advocate Tahir Abdullah appeared before the court on the petitioner's behalf today, a single-member bench of the high court comprising Justice Muhasan Akhtar Kiani declared the petition as non-maintainable before proceeding to dismiss it.

Justice Kiani advised the petitioner to approach the Press Council of Pakistain, which he remarked was the right forum for his concerns.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Female constable's sexual assault case is a test for my ministry: Shehryar Afridi
[DAWN] Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi on Monday said that the recent case of sexual assault of a female police constable in Islamabad was a test for his ministry and the capital police.

After a female constable reported being subjected to sexual assault by an unidentified individual on Saturday, Afridi visited the victim at the Polyclinic Hospital today to enquire for her health and well-being.

"This is a test case for my ministry as well as the Islamabad police," the minister for interior said while talking to DawnNews.

"We are taking every possible measure to ensure the arrest of the culprit," assured Afridi.
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The incident concerning the constable had taken place on Saturday night when she was returning home via the highway.

Senior Superintendent Police Amin Bukhari had confirmed the assault, saying the attacker expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the crime.

According to an initial medical examination at Polyclinic Hospital, the woman was sexually assaulted by one person, police said.

An FIR under Section 443(18) against an unknown suspect was registered by the victim herself on the night of the incident.

Afridi said that during patrolling hours, effective measures, particularly for women, need to be taken so that incidents such as the assault of the female constable could be prevented.

The minister stressed the need for best practices to be implemented in the federal capital, which can later be replicated in provinces.
Posted by: Fred || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Real-life story of 1980s Mossad base disguised as a Red Sea resort
[DailyMail] ...and used to evacuate 7,000 Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan is being turned into Hollywood film starring Chris Evans.
  • Hollywood has found inspiration for a film coming out next year on the Mossad operation of the early 1980s

  • Arous was a Mossad base to secretly evacuate 7,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel from refugee camps in Sudan

  • As far as tourists and authorities knew, the resort was owned by Europeans who employed local residents

  • Agents had set up a fake diving resort in Sudan to rescue the Ethiopian Jews

  • The operation played out for four years, from 1981 to 1985

  • The tale is set to become a Hollywood film, starring Ben Kingsley, Haley Bennett and Chris Evans
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  kinda reminds me of Argo(fuck yourself)
Posted by: 746 || 10/02/2018 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Argo
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 1:26 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Scientists behind game-changing cancer immunotherapies win Nobel medicine prize
STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for game-changing discoveries about how to harness and manipulate the immune system to fight cancer.

The scientists’ work in the 1990s has since swiftly led to new and dramatically improved therapies for cancers such as melanoma and lung cancer, which had previously been extremely difficult to treat.

"The seminal discoveries by the two Laureates constitute a landmark in our fight against cancer," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said as it awarded the prize of nine million Swedish crowns ($1 million).

Allison and Honjo showed releasing the brakes on the immune system can unleash its power to attack cancer. The resulting treatments, known as immune checkpoint blockade, have "fundamentally changed the outcome" for some advanced cancer patients," the Nobel institute said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What no Muzzie?
Posted by: Slolutle Cloluse3142 || 10/02/2018 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  What no Muzzie?

They're busy working on Polio.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 14:33 Comments || Top||


US subs would be sitting ducks for new Chinese 'Death Star' laser satellite that will be able spot them 1,600ft below the surface
[DailyMail]
  • 'Project Guanlan' lasers may be so powerful they will make the sea 'more or less transparent'

  • The artificial laser beam could be one billion times brighter than he sun

  • Some experts say this type of deep-sea surveillance is 'mission impossible' as lasers are fundamentally unable to penetrate that deep

  • Project Guanlan, which means 'watching the big waves' launched in May at the Pilot National Laboratory in Qingdao in Shandong

  • Components being developed by more than 20 universities across China
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  •The artificial laser beam could be one billion times brighter than (t)he sun

Like the one coming out of my ass? Totally believable!
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  If it did exist it will be the first target before hostilities begin
Posted by: 3dc || 10/02/2018 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Since it's probably a copy of something anyway, someone would know where the thermal exhaust port is located.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/02/2018 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Totally believable! My "Gell-Mann amnesia" is in full operation! Get those submarines hidden now!
[PANIC mode]
[PANIC mode]
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/02/2018 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Rah is right. total fantasy.

Current lasers can city through steal easy enough but require a large room full of support cabinets and power amps. Such a satellite would be massive and thus a target; lasers are finicky and need attention; laser gasses would have to be replaced; laser beams are always expanding or contracting and thus have limits on range and this is long range; atmosphere and water are going to kill the power to nothing before it can hit a sub.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 10/02/2018 8:36 Comments || Top||

#6  "Could be", "May be"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2018 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Uh huh....

I guess the same PR guy that works for Iran is now doing work for China.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/02/2018 9:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Up to 1600ft down? Somehow I don't think so but I'm sure the journalists will be all over this one.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/02/2018 9:24 Comments || Top||

#9  "A 'laser'"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2018 9:28 Comments || Top||

#10  'Death Star' lunar circling degrades reception, the downside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 9:28 Comments || Top||

#11  So they can get DirecTV in a submarine?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 9:48 Comments || Top||

#12  I keep thinking Goldfinger.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/02/2018 11:50 Comments || Top||

#13  'Diamonds are Forever'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/02/2018 15:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Jill St. John. Wait, what were we talking about?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/02/2018 15:25 Comments || Top||

#15  Assuming this is legit, an obvious countermeasure would be unmanned decoy submarines.

Cheap hulls in the right shape, plus some simple propulsion and a computer putting these contraptions on a random but plausible course would probably look like real subs to Guanlan's first iteration.

Of course this would only be the first step in an arms race. Both decoys and detectors would improve.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/02/2018 15:32 Comments || Top||

#16  Japan takes the lead!

Posted by: Thrise Shomble3667 || 10/02/2018 17:30 Comments || Top||

#17 

007 got Exclusive look at Chinese satellite!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2018 18:29 Comments || Top||

#18  Wait, did someone mention Jill St. John? Mmmmmmm
Posted by: Frank G || 10/02/2018 20:03 Comments || Top||

#19  As a counter-measure I would (1) use mirrored decks on surface ships that would deflect the bulk of a laser strike (2) Tactics to have subs roll and dive to ensure the laser can't continue to hit the same spot for more than a few seconds (3) Constant ground based lasers aimed at the satellite to encourage self-tasing and prevent the thing from firing at all.

The cool temperature of the ocean would also be wonderfully helpful for subs to defuse the laser heat before it could cut into the subs hull.

Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/02/2018 23:19 Comments || Top||

#20  "artificial laser beam"? Oh the environmentalists will protest that they should be using Natural laser beams in the ocean.

Is this the Weekly World News? Is BatBoy aiming the lasers?

I guess the inverse square law and refraction of moving water, and the air, and the air-water interface do nothing at all to dissipate that.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 10/02/2018 23:43 Comments || Top||


The Ribbon Gun
The Army adopted its battle rifle in 1963 and has spent 55 years looking for a replacement for the M-16 and its variants.

They might have found it in Martin Grier’s Colorado Springs garage. Grier, a self-described inventor who has worked at a local bed and breakfast, built the new "ribbon gun" with a hobbyist’s tools. It looks like a space-age toy drawn by a fifth-grader.

But goofy origins and cartoon-looks aside, this could be the gun of the future. The Army is studying Grier’s gun and has ordered a military-grade prototype.

The specifications are incredible, four 6 mm barrels cut side by side within one steel block. New ammunition blocks fired by electromagnetic actuators that could theoretically give the weapon a firing rate of 250 rounds per second.

And then there’s the feature no soldier would turn down. "It’s called a power shot," Grier said.

That’s the shotgun feature of this sniper-shot, machine-assault gun that can send four bullets simultaneously whizzing toward an enemy at more than 2,500 mph.

It isn’t science fiction. He’s built the gun and patented the technology behind it. Now his garage-based company, FD munitions, is hoping the Army will buy it.

"A multibore firearm, with several bores within a single barrel, could potentially exhibit many of the advantages of a multibarrel design, while reducing the size, weight and complexity disadvantages," Grier wrote in his 2016 patent application.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Metal storm
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  When the adversary fields the same weapon how do you defend against it? You can't. Which means ground troops in a war will be a thing of the past.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 10/02/2018 3:03 Comments || Top||

#3  ....This is a truly cool idea, and there are aspects of it that I think will be incorporated into future weapons - but it's not too likely this will ever be a new battlefield rifle for the US. Way too complex, unlikely to survive battlefield handling, and in order to use it poor Private Snuffy needs to lug around yet another battery and a heavy set of ammo blocks.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/02/2018 4:56 Comments || Top||

#4  And then the barrels overheated.
Posted by: KBK || 10/02/2018 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  New ammunition blocks fired by electromagnetic actuators that could theoretically give the weapon a firing rate of 250 rounds per second.

Heat is not your friend. How is it cooled at these firing rates? Moreover, I'd worry about electromagnetic actuator melt-down. Needs a thorough testing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  And lugging heavy still blocks with only 4 rounds as ammo? no thanks, will take a conventional rifle over that.

Might work for police/bear/hog defense or home defense but not what I'd want for regular use.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/02/2018 18:43 Comments || Top||

#7  So you fire a single (aka one or "1") bullet? Do you finish your patrol with only three(3) bullets in your weapon until you reload? How hard is it to "top off" the magazine?
...Sounds like a *Cute* weapon...
Posted by: magpie || 10/02/2018 19:51 Comments || Top||

#8  4 are chambered. it does reload.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 10/02/2018 23:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Trump Administration Halts Visas For Same-Sex Partners Of Diplomats, UN Employees
[HotAir] President Donald Trump’s administration this week began denying visas to the unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and officials and employees of the United Nations ‐ making marriage a requirement to be eligible for a visa.

The policy was made effective Monday.
He sure knows how to get their goat!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/02/2018 14:21 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Non-issue! Further down the article, it states that the same applies to hetero couples. Spewing headlines!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/02/2018 19:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Hetro or not, it's a bit of a thump on the UN noggin by President Trump.

If true, too funny.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/02/2018 21:14 Comments || Top||


Government
Pres. Trump Says Only $1.6 Billion For Border Wall in 2019
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump told reporters that Congress would only approve $1.6 billion for a wall in the pending 2019 budget, dashing hopes that Congress would provide $5 billion for a concrete border-wall in 2019.
"I want borders," he said in a Wednesday afternoon press conference, adding:
We’re getting another $1.6 billion in border [funding]. We’ve spent $3.2 [billion], and we’re spending another $1.6 [billion] and then eventually we’re getting the whole thing and we’ll complete the wall ...
Trump’s statement reinforces news reports that Trump will approve the GOP leadership’s plan to pass a bill funding several agencies this week, and postpone passage of the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security until after the election.

Conservatives fear Trump will be in a weaker position after the election to pressure Republicans and Senate Democrats to approve his wall-spending plan for 2019. The Washington Post reported:
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 05:25 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then veto it.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/02/2018 5:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Georgetown Prof: 'Castrate' White Men's Corpses And Feed Them to Swine'
[Daily Caller] Georgetown Professor C. Christine Fair tweeted over the weekend that "entitled white men" should have their corpses castrated and then fed to pigs.

Fair, an associate professor in Georgetown’s Security Studies program, tweeted, "Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement."

Fair linked to a video of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham defending Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from allegations of sexual assault from when the judge was in high school.

"All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps," Fair wrote. "Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes."

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's mighty tough talk from an old hag of a professor, and we know Twitter won't do jack shit about her account, 'cuz lefty death wishes are just hunky-dory with their CEO.
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Ugly. Inside and out.
Posted by: gorb || 10/02/2018 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait, let me find my organ donor card.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 1:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Videos of her speaking if anyone is interested.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/02/2018 5:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Hate. It's all the Left really has.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 10/02/2018 6:46 Comments || Top||

#6  What is it about women named Christine? The woman may need to go through an anger management course. The left loves these classes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/02/2018 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  I wish she would tell us how she really feels.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/02/2018 8:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Keep it up, bitch. Drive more men and women away from your party.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/02/2018 9:11 Comments || Top||

#9  When is she being sacked?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2018 10:14 Comments || Top||

#10  The better question - 'how much is her raise going to be, and will this finally help her to get tenure?'
Posted by: Raj || 10/02/2018 10:23 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/02/2018 10:45 Comments || Top||

#12  "Georgetown University said in a statement to The Daily Caller that they respect Fair’s right to freedom of speech but also expect her to keep her classrooms “free of bias.”

Oh.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/02/2018 11:40 Comments || Top||

#13  I just see that Twitter has "suspended" her account. Until tomorrow I guess.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/02/2018 11:44 Comments || Top||

#14  An enterprising Lawyer could visit the class and see if any males found her classes a hostile environment.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/02/2018 12:39 Comments || Top||

#15  Daddy issues.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/02/2018 13:33 Comments || Top||



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