[Clinton News Network] A Vermont utility company said Friday it had found on a company laptop the same kind of malware that US authorities believe was used by Russian hackers in an attempt to influence November's election.
What US authorities? Name them...
Burlington Electric said it found the code after utility companies nationwide were sent an alert by the Department of Homeland Security.
The company, which serves 19,600 customers in Vermont,
Oh nooooo! That'll shut down 0.0056% of the country if the laptop is connected to the computer controlling the Vermont power plant!!!
said the malware was on a laptop that is not connected to the organization's power grid systems.
"Our team is working with federal officials to trace this malware and prevent any other attempts to infiltrate utility systems," spokesman Mike Kanarick said.
The federal government refers to the malicious cyber activity as Grizzly Steppe.
US Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said he and his staff were briefed on Friday by Vermont state police about the development, which he called a "direct threat to Vermont."
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Zerohedge says it was "outdated Ukranian malware"
Regardless of who did this, and regardless of the fact that this was a soft target, I do hope that the new administration puts its focus on locking down critical systems instead of making sure everything has a backdoor so they can read teenage sexts.
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I don't know what they do in Vermont, but where I work we have several networks, and laptops don't get to access the more important ones. Since laptops travel about, you've no idea what got loaded on them when the user connected in some random Sturbocks.
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This story goes along with the Trump border wall story. You see, if we had effective border security, guys like this wouldn't be allowed to rape women in the U.S. Mention this the next time an American feminist brings up rape, or campus rape, or something like that, and see how they respond.
A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.
Three U.S. Republican senators — including Kansas' Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts — demanded this month that the Department of Homeland Security provide immigration records for 38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, who is charged with a felony in the alleged Sept. 27 attack aboard a bus in Geary County. He is being held in the Geary County jail in Junction City, which is about 120 miles west of Kansas City.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, from Iowa and chairman of the judiciary committee, co-signed a Dec. 9 letter with Moran and Roberts to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, calling it "an extremely disturbing case" and questioning how Martinez-Maldonado was able to re-enter and remain in the country.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it has placed a detainer — a request to turn Martinez-Maldonado over to ICE custody before he is released — with Geary County. ICE declined to discuss his specific case beyond its October statement regarding the 10 deportations.
Court filings show Martinez-Maldonado has two misdemeanor convictions for entering without legal permission in cases prosecuted in 2013 and 2015 in U.S. District Court of Arizona, where he was sentenced to serve 60 days and 165 days respectively.
A status hearing in the rape case is scheduled for Jan. 10. Defense attorney Lisa Hamer declined to comment on the charge, but said, "criminal law and immigration definitely intersect and nowadays it should be the responsibility of every criminal defense attorney to know the possible ramifications in the immigration courts."
Nationwide, 52 percent of all federal prosecutions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 were for entry or re-entry without legal permission and similar immigration violations, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
It's not unusual to see immigrants with multiple entries without legal permission, said David Trevino, a Topeka immigration attorney also representing Martinez-Maldonado. Most of Martinez-Maldonado's family lives in Mexico, but he also has family in the United States, and the family is "devastated," Trevino said.
Devastated enough to disown a rapist?
"(President-elect Donald Trump) can build a wall 100 feet high and 50 feet deep, but it is not going to keep family members separated. So if someone is deported and they have family members here ... they will find a way back — whether it is through the air, under a wall, through the coast of the United States," Trevino said.
And if the man in question is a rapist, he'll rape again.
He declined to comment on his client's criminal history and pending charge.
Records obtained by AP show Martinez-Maldonado had eight voluntary removals before his first deportation in 2010, which was followed by another voluntary removal that same year. He was deported five more times between 2011 and 2013. In 2013, Martinez-Maldonado was charged with entering without legal permission, a misdemeanor, and subsequently deported in early 2014 after serving his sentence. He was deported again a few months later, as well as twice in 2015 — including the last one in October 2015 after he had served his second sentence, the records show.
ICE said in an emailed statement when it encounters a person who's been deported multiple times or has a significant criminal history and was removed, it routinely presents those cases to the U.S. attorney's office for possible criminal charges.
Cosme Lopez, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Arizona, declined comment on why prosecutors twice dismissed felony re-entry after deportation charges against Martinez-Maldonado in 2013 and 2015 in exchange for guilty pleas on misdemeanor entry charges.
Cosme ended up denying her own name by the end of the interview...
Arizona ranks third in the nation — behind only the Southern District of Texas and the Western District of Texas — for the number of immigration prosecutions among the nation's 94 federal judicial districts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, TRAC records show.
Moran told the AP in an emailed statement that the immigration system is "broken."
"There must be serious legislative efforts to address U.S. immigration policy, and we must have the ability to identify, prosecute and deport illegal aliens who display violent tendencies before they have an opportunity to perpetrate these crimes in the United States," he said.
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Not certain which type of criminal activity is ignored more by the liberal media and pols, Mexican illegals raping and murdering, or Chicago gang-bang warfare.
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Pretty obviously he needs to be disappeared or he'll be back again to rape
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Every illegal in this country should be deported, if they have a criminal record here, then executed. If we catch them again, they go in the organ banks or up against the wall. If Mexico complains, put a hellfire though their presidents bedroom window and tell him to sit down, shut up and control his people. Or the next one we catch is an act of war.
All the #FakeNews that's fit to print
A story published by The Washington Post Friday claims Russia hacked the electrical grid in Vermont.
CNN reported it, too, and we captured it here. Just our usual Rantburg service.
This caused hysteria on social media but has been denied by a spokesman for a Vermont utility company.
The Post story was titled, "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, officials say."
The story said, "A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials."
The Post published the story before being able to get comment from the two utility companies in Vermont.
"The scoop! Toujours le scoop! Good journalistic practice as taught at Columbia be damned if it interferes!!"
The Burlington Electric Department would end up putting out a statement showing the premise of The Washington Post story as being untrue.
Oh dear. So much for being the other newspaper of record.
"Last night, U.S. utilities were alerted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of a malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name DHS has applied to a Russian campaign linked to recent hacks," a spokesman for the Burlington Electric Department said. "We acted quickly to scan all computers in our system for the malware signature. We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization's grid systems." RussianPr0n, likely
The Vermont Public Service Commissioner Christopher Recchia told The Burlington Free Press, "The grid is not in danger."
However, this false Washington Post story about a Russian intrusion into the American electrical grid has caused panic among journalists. "journalists"
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This isn't surprising if you followed the MSM's reporting on Iraq. On a scale of 1 to 100 (100 being best), they deserved about a 5.
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WaPo currently has their kneejerk alarm set for "Russia" and "hack", and the system went off by itself.
A story about meatcutters hurrying through work, "rushing and hacking" could easily be the headline tomorrow.
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Guys who visit pr0n sites get STDs on their computers.
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I'd like to see the evidence of Russian hacking that some in the current administration claim was done.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... al-Saud has ordered the transfer of the Egyptian twins ‐ Menna and May ‐ conjoined at the head from their country to Riyadh to conduct the necessary treatment and evaluate the possibility of separating them.
The daughters of Islam Saqr Ramadan Hassan from Egypt are conjoined at the head and are set to be flown to King Abdul-Aziz Medical center in.
"This parental and humanitarian gesture from the King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques is an extension to his great and noble attitudes towards humanitarian work and serving the less fortunate of this dear homeland and the Arab, Islamic and friendly countries are derived from the teachings of our Islamic religion," said Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Rabiah, an advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Relief and Humanitarian Center.
The twins are conjoined in the back of the head and share some tissue and veins around the brain area.
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I'm pretty sure Pappy would send you to your room for that, Besoeker.
It won't be long before it is brought to the Saudi king's attention that he no longer has the oil income to indulge in such hand-waving munificence. Isn't it lovely that we needn't suffer the oil running out before we can kick sand in the Soddy national face! Here's hoping the some tissue the girls share isn't critical to brain function, and the girls survive the surgery unharmed.
If simple intention was sufficient, Marxism would work. Having the skill to attempt a procedure, that is noteworthy. Kind of an Apollo 13 thing, I guess.
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[Salon] HELSINKI - A children’s event at the National Opera has kicked off a year of festivities in Finland to celebrate 100 years of independence from its huge eastern neighbor, Russia.
Celebrations will culminate Dec. 6, the day Finnish Parliament declared independence in 1917.
Saturday’s events also include a concert paired with state-of-the-art New Year’s Eve fireworks over Helsinki, the capital.
Throughout 2017 there will be hundreds of events in this Nordic nation of 5.5 million -- from films, dance parties and environment-related events to concerts and activities linked to Finland’s renowned sauna tradition.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia with which Finns share a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) border, shared his good wishes Friday in a phone conversation with his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinisto.
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FINLAND: Paid in Full
Time - Monday, Sept. 29, 1952
Finland's last "golden schooner" slid into Russian waters last week. Named for the bright brass and copper alloy used for its fittings, the schooner meant gold for Russia in another sense: it was the final payment of doughty Finland's $570 million reparations debt to Russia. Finland thus lived up to a reputation established as the only World War I debtor nation which punctually made its payments to the U.S.
[Libya Herald] Maltese police tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a Libya man in the early hours of this morning banging on the gates of the prime minister’s summer residence, the Girgenti Palace in Siggiewi.
According to the police, the man acted aggressively and appeared to be intoxicated. It is reported that he had earlier been involved in a fight elsewhere and was dropped off near the residence.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... another Libyan man, 36-year old Ahmad Yassine, was sentenced today to 280 hours community service and fined €10,000 for a bomb hoax at the law courts on 16 November. The magistrates’ court heard today Yassine had called the law courts and claimed a bomb was in the buildings in order to try and prevent a hearing on separation from his wife.
He changed his plea to guilty today after the magistrates, who described him as "a coward, gave the opportunity by to do so. The magistrate decided, however, there was little point in a custodial sentence.
As well as the fine to cover the costs of lost time and work at the court as a result of the hoax, the man was ordered to pay additional court costs.
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[American Lookout] Michelle Obama’s school lunch program has been a national disgrace. Kids hate it. Parents hate it. The disgusting food choices have been documented on Twitter countless times.
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama’s children have enjoyed gourmet food on a daily basis at an exclusive private school in Washington, DC. Finally, congress is preparing to undo her awful school lunch program.
The Conservative Tribune reports: Congress Looks to Repeal Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Rules When the new Congress meets with a Republican chief executive, no Obama regulation will remain untouched -- and that even includes those that originated with Michelle.
According to Politico, the House Freedom Caucus, a powerful group of Republican lawmakers in the lower chamber, is urging Congress to end first lady Michelle Obama’s hated school lunch program.
A document released on the website of Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., called for the repeal of certain parts of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Of 2010, the legislative bill that helped enshrine Michelle Obama’s signature program into law. It’s part of a wider initiative called released under the title "First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke and Issue."
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The normal thought that comes to mind is "it's a shame to throw out all that food..." But "shame" and "food" probably don't apply in this case. Re-purpose it to refugee centers on the border and watch the self-deportations become a stampede...
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To celebrate, buy all the kids a Wendy's hamburger for 99 cents, and everybody comes out ahead.
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A ketchup pack will still be a serving of vegetables right? Or was it a fruit...
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Remember, there has been talk of drafting Moochelle to run for President in 2020. Just think of the damage she could do if she were actually elected.
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Donald Trump’s pledges to deport undocumented immigrants and build a U.S.-Mexico border wall helped fuel Republicans’ surprising election victories, but they now face growing challenges from fellow party members.
Three RINO Republican senators are working with Democrats to shield about 750,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation if Trump cancels a 2012 order from President Barack Obama that let them stay in the U.S.
Lawmakers want to “ensure that children who were brought here by their parents, through no fault of their own, are able to stay and finish their education and continue to contribute to society,” said Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona. Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are joining him on a measure drafted by the No. 2 Democratic leader, Dick Durbin of Illinois, that will be introduced after the new Congress convenes Jan. 3.
Trump’s campaign was largely powered by his get-tough stance on immigration. A Pew Research Center poll in August found that 79 percent of Trump voters want a border wall, compared with 38 percent of all registered voters.
But among lawmakers in Congress, the desire to build a wall along the entire 1,933-mile border with Mexico has evaporated.
Was it ever there in the first place?
Republicans in both chambers instead support more fencing, border patrol agents, drones and other resources to curb illegal entry. House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said he’ll offer a bill with some of those steps in January.
“Starting next month, the people are going to get what they asked for,” the Texas Republican said Dec. 9 at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, contending that the "border security surge" plan is as good as a wall.
That may not be good enough for Trump, who pushed back after House Speaker Paul Ryan said Dec. 4 on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that "conditions on the ground determine what you need" in different areas of the border.
"We’re going to work on the wall, Paul," Trump told a cheering audience when the two appeared together Dec. 13 in Wisconsin on the president-elect’s thank-you tour. "We’re going to build the wall, OK? Believe me."
In a Time magazine interview in early December, Trump didn’t back off a promise to cancel Obama’s executive orders on immigration. But he also said he’ll seek a solution on young undocumented immigrants -- known as “Dreamers” after failed legislation to protect them -- that will “make people happy and proud.”
I think I see the beginnings of a deal: Trump gets more of a wall and the RINOs get some modification of the "deport them all" idea Trump bandied about. The wall gets built in some places, not all.
Among the pivotal Republican senators who disagree with Trump is John McCain of Arizona, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. McCain highlighted his split with Trump’s approaches during a Dec. 20-21 trip to Mexico, where he discussed the U.S. relationship with its southern neighbor with Mexico’s Interior Minister and other government officials.
While there, McCain said he holds the view of most Senate Democrats that any border security changes should be part of a broader immigration measure to address the status of some or all of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
The Dems say that because they know that's how they can stall any action at all, which is their real goal. That's why they also demand that the Trump team and the Pubs have a 'replacement plan' in place before repealing O-care -- they're not interested in the replacement plan, they're just trying to stall. Same thing on immigration -- gum up the works.
He also emphasized the need for a secure border, but didn’t directly affirm Trump’s call for an actual wall.
"I believe that we need to have significant improvements in border enforcement, but I believe the way that you do that is technology primarily," McCain said.
Tried and failed. Remember the Boeing fence idea? Never worked.
Mexican officials provided some of their own pressure after Trump’s repeated calls for that country to pay for fortification at the border.
Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu met with Ryan in Washington on Dec. 14 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico relationship. She also met with Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, to discuss Mexico’s support for the bipartisan bill protecting younger undocumented immigrants.
For some reason Mexico doesn't want its young citizens back. I wonder why?
Most Republicans in Congress, particularly those in the House, favor securing the border before changing the immigration law. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California has said McCaul’s border-security ideas are a “good place to start.”
McCaul in 2015 advanced a measure through his committee that would have required the Department of Homeland Security to achieve operational control of the Southwest border in five years, based on a sector-by-sector analysis. The agency’s political appointees would be denied pay raises and bonuses if the bill’s goals weren’t met. He has indicated his new proposal will be more extensive, coming under a Republican president who sees the border as a bigger priority.
“We must start with an immediate border security ‘surge,’” McCaul said at the Heritage Foundation. “We have started to work on emergency plans in Congress to build the tough array of barriers we need along the border, close all gaps and defend American sovereignty."
In the Senate, Homeland Security and Government Reform Chairman Ron Johnson says he isn’t in a hurry. He says he wants to wait until the confirmation of retired Marine General John Kelly, Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and to work with him on a proposal.
In the meantime, Johnson recently returned from a trip to Israel to discuss border security with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and examine nearly 160 miles of steel fencing that separates Israel from the Sinai. Johnson estimates it might cost the U.S. about $4 billion to build something similar along portions of the border with Mexico, and wants to consider whether Israel’s approach offers a model.
At least he's talking to people who know fencing...
“I’m interested in passing a bill that will actually work,” said Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican. “It may take a little more time and a little more thought.”
Regardless of the pace of the broader debate, Congress could add funds for border security to the next spending bill to keep the U.S. government open after current funding expires April 28.
While Trump promised to make Mexico pay for the changes, few lawmakers see that as a realistic goal -- at least not initially.
A ten percent excise tax on wire-transfers to Latin America would be simple to implement.
Representative Mark Meadows, the new chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said that while most members of his group will want to offset the cost with reductions in other spending, a border plan without spending offsets won’t lose many of their votes.
Freedom Caucus members see border security as a “major problem, and the American people want it built," Meadows of North Carolina said in an interview. "We can probably move the funds from something that is not paid-for to the wall."
The last significant action on immigration was in 2013, when the Senate voted 68-32 for its plan that included a path to legal residency and $46 billion to secure the U.S-Mexico border. The bill would have doubled the Border Patrol’s size by adding 20,000 agents, required 700 miles of border fencing, and added unmanned drones to help police the border. The House didn’t consider the bill.
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As the new year approaches I vow not to repeat the same comments on every Trump vs The RINO's article. But God Allmighty, in every sense of the description Trump is the ultimate RINO. He's new to the party and only for a vehicle for his Presidential run. And even then he threatened to break as an independent. Moreover, Trump has had (and continues to have) nothing but contempt for the party apparatus. He breaks with a number of traditional Republican policies. Trump is NOT a conservative. In fact, many of his proposals are liberal. He has a thumbless grasp of the US Constitution and could give shit who cares. He has even boasted that he will continue Croney capitalism as way to "get things done". His foreign policy is clouded but certainly breaks with traditional Pub orthodoxy.
This is NOT a judgment on the man nor his policies. This is an observation of an absurd narrative developing that it's spineless politicians standing in a true Republican President's way.
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Sigh. How did I know as soon as I read the headline that Lindsey Graham was involved?
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Trump is NOT a conservative.
Define conservative. If you think Lindsey Graham is a conservative then, OK, I'm a liberal.
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Obstructionists congress-critters will be up for re-election sometime in the near future. The voters may have to impose term limits on them. I thought the legislation for a building a wall was already in place from several years back.
[GEO.TV] ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaurdhy Nisar said on Friday that a prosecution committee was being formed to probe the Axact fake degree scandal, days after an Axact executive was charged by a US Federal Court for his part in a $140 million fake diploma mill scheme. Good idea. Form a committee. That'll fix it.
Umair Hamid, 30, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scam that impacted tens of thousands of consumers.
Speaking at a ceremony here, Chaudhry Nisar said two more committees were being formed to probe the Axact and Khanani and Kalia money laundering case, adding that much of the record in Khanani and Kalia case had been wasted. Even better idea: Form three committees.
He said the investigating officer in Axact case was ill and that the prosecution committee will be formed next week.
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[GEO.TV] ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions judge was probed on Friday over alleged torture of a 10-year-old domestic help child who worked at his home in Islamabad.
Taiba, 10-year-old domestic help, was recovered from the house of Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan.
The minor girl, whose face and hands bore torture marks, had initially denied being hurt by her employers. She told the police that she got a wound to her eye after falling from stairs, while her hand was also burnt accidentally.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the poor girl narrated her ordeal after being politely inquired by a female magistrate later. She stated before the magistrate that she was beaten and her hand burnt on stove for losing the broom.
Officials recovered Taiba from a house in Sector I-9 upon receiving complaints. A case was lodged on Friday against Additional Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife at the Industrial Area cop shoppe for torture and violence.
The FIR stated that the judge and his wife had been subjecting the child to torture for the last two years. And in the latest spate of violence, the domestic servant was beaten up for losing a broom.
The chief justice of the Islamabad High Court took notice of the incident and asked for a report on the incident in two days, after which the IHC registrar summoned the judge for an inquiry. The judge denied all charges.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the domestic worker was given into state custody. Whereabouts of her family are still unknown, and no one from her family has come for her since the last two years.
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the domestic worker was given into state custody.
I'm sure there is a herd containment facility nearby.
[GEO.TV] At least 26 people including a kid sustained injuries as gun sex broke out in the city on New Year’s eve.
Despite of strict security measures taken by the government in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , heavy gun sex rocked various parts of the metropolis.
According to the hospital sources, one and a half year old child among 26 got injuries as a result of firing.
Earlier, police closed several roads leading to Clifton after which hundreds of vehicles struck in massive traffic jam on main thoroughfares of the city.
Sindh Government had also put ban on riding double and carrying licensed weapons.
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[AnNahar] Antonio Guterres assumes the reins of the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... on Sunday hoping to breathe new life into the world body, in the wake of its impotence over Syria's humanitarian catastrophe. The Portuguese former prime minister, 67, will become the first onetime head of government to lead the UN, succeeding South Korea's the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon for a five-year term.
His unanimous election has energized UN diplomats who see him as a skilled politician who may be able to overcome the divisions crippling the United Nations.
Guterres faces a monumental task grappling with complex crises in Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, North Korea and elsewhere -- overseeing a clunky entrenched bureaucracy and a bitterly divided Security Council that will leave him little room to maneuver.
Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's arrival in the White House on January 20 likely will further complicate his task.
Guterres has acknowledged that "the secretary general is not the leader of the world," but rather that his work depends on the goodwill of the world's great powers.
After two terms under Ban, widely criticized for lacking initiative and charisma, some diplomats are banking on a change of style and personality to revitalize the U.N.
An engineer by training and a practicing Catholic, Guterres fought for migrants colonists' rights as the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, anchoring his country to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and working to raise living standards.
He has laid out three priorities for change: working for peace, supporting sustainable development and improving internal UN management.
One issue looms above the others, however.
"My deepest regret on leaving office is the continuing nightmare in Syria," Ban recently declared.
Guterres has acknowledged the criticism, saying "it is time for the United Nations to recognize its shortcomings and to reform the way it works."
"The United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient and effective."
He has already begun implementing one of his promises -- working toward gender parity -- by appointing three women from developing countries to key positions, including Nigeria's Environment Minister Amina Mohammed as deputy secretary general.
[The National Interest] Nuclear-powered submarines have traditionally held a decisive edge in endurance, stealth and speed over cheaper diesel submarines. However, new Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology has significantly narrowed the performance gap on a new generation of submarines that cost a fraction of the price of a nuclear-powered boat.
A conventional submarine’s diesel engine generates electricity which can be used to drive the propeller and power its systems. The problem is that such a combustion engine is inherently quite noisy and runs on air--a commodity in limited supply on an underwater vehicle. Thus, diesel-powered submarines must surface frequently to recharge their batteries.
The first nuclear-powered submarines were brought into service in the 1950s. Nuclear reactors are quieter, don’t consume air, and produce greater power output, allowing nuclear submarines to remain submerged for months instead of days while traveling at higher speeds under water.
These advantages led the U.S. Navy to phase out its diesel boats in favor of an all-nuclear powered submarine fleet. However, most other navies have retained at least some diesel submarines because of their much lower cost and complexity.
In the 1990s, submarines powered by Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology entered operational use. Though the concept dated back to the 19th century and had been tested in a few prototype vessels, it was left to Sweden to deploy the first operational AIP-powered submarine, the Gotland-class, which proved to be stealthy and relatively long enduring. The 60-meter long Gotlands are powered by a Stirling-cycle engine, a heat engine consuming a combination of liquid oxygen and diesel fuel.
Since then, AIP powered-submarines have proliferated across the world using three different types of engines, with nearly 60 operational today in fifteen countries. Around fifty more are on order or being constructed.
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Other pertinent questions:
So they carry diesel fuel, how much?
So their range and speed is how little?
So they release their exhaust stream as a bubble trail that can be heard on passive sonar how far away?
The take away is they're functionally diesel electrics, suitable for shallow, coastal work, not deep dive or far transit.
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Ed's comments and questions at #2 are why I enjoy the Burg dialogue. There is always something to be learned.
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The key phrase in the article is "relatively long enduring". Relative to what? Ordinary diesel submarines? The only limitation on a nuclear sub is food supplies. They can go out and stay submerged for months, not days or weeks. And they can go faster submerged than surfaced.
I'm not saying that AIP subs are useless or not a threat. I just don't think they make nuclear subs "obsolete".
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#6
But "journalists" love writing "American (fill in the blank) obsolete..."
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[Wash Times] Rapper Nick Cannon continued his criticism of Planned Parenthood this week, arguing that the organization was founded to increase the number of abortions in urban areas and "exterminate the Negro race."
In an interview with DJ Vlad posted Tuesday, Mr. Cannon explained that he doesn’t consider himself anti-abortion, because he doesn’t think the government should be allowed to dictate what women do with their bodies. His real beef is with Planned Parenthood and its founder, Margaret Sanger.
"I feel like it’s a systemic issue," the "America’s Got Talent" host said. "When you look at what Margaret Sanger and all the people who follow eugenics and all that stuff. It was all about cleansing. Margaret Sanger said that she wanted to exterminate the Negro race, and that she was going to use her organization as she founded to do so."
Mr. Cannon, 36, said his stance was never about abortions, because he doesn’t consider himself pro-life or pro-choice.
"It was never about abortions," he said. "I never speak on abortions. It was more about the sterilization and when it comes to actual ethnic cleansing -- where they actually said we want to get rid of a class of people, a group of people.
#9
Extermination of Negroes was Margaret Sanger's original intention. She made no secret of it. She wrote it up.
Luckily for Planned Parenthood. most people don't read much that isn't in People magazine or the grocery store bloids.
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#10
Beat me to it, Fred.
Sanger was a vicious racist and eugenist. Most progressives in her day were. Many today still are.
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#11
Can't help thinking crack cocaine and heroin are part of the same strategy.
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#12
What Nguard and AlanC both said.
Also Dr. Steve, with one quibble: MOST still are.
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#13
A friend told me she decided to stay home when she saw the video of Hilary Clinton talking about Black super-predators, back in the day. She was not, she said, the only one. A tipping point approacheth that will be healthier for the African-American community than the one from Republican to Democrat.
#14
Do a search on Nick Cannon and planned parenthood. The MFMSM is doing what it did during the last presidential campaign. They are simply ignoring it.
An inconvenient truth. It ain't fake news if it is simply ignored, right?
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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.
[Clinton News Network] A Vermont utility company said Friday it had found on a company laptop the same kind of malware that US authorities believe was used by Russian hackers in an attempt to influence November's election.
[American Lookout] Michelle Obama’s school lunch program has been a national disgrace. Kids hate it. Parents hate it. The disgusting food choices have been documented on Twitter countless times.
[GEO.TV] ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaurdhy Nisar said on Friday that a prosecution committee was being formed to probe the Axact fake degree scandal, days after an Axact executive was charged by a US Federal Court for his part in a $140 million fake diploma mill scheme.
[GEO.TV] At least 26 people including a kid sustained injuries as 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
North Korea
[The National Interest] Nuclear-powered submarines have traditionally held a decisive edge in endurance, stealth and speed over cheaper diesel submarines. However, new Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology has significantly narrowed the performance gap on a new generation of submarines that cost a fraction of the price of a nuclear-powered boat.
