[Breitbart] Eight people were wounded‐one critically‐after a gunman or multiple gunmen opened fire during a Ja. 16 rally in Miami celebrating Rev. Martin Luther King, say multiple news reports.
The incident occurred around 3:40 p.m. near Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park.
NBC 6 reports the wounded range between 11 years in age and 30. The two youngest victims were girls who were 11 and 13-years old. They were grazed by bullets and treated at the scene.
The Pan-African & Caribbean Family Festival was being held to honor MLK when the shots rang out.
WISTV reports that "two people were taken into custody" and "two weapons have been secured." Other reports to do not indicate that the two were arrested. Rather, they suggest they may have simply been detained for questioning.
[FOXNEWS] A man on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted list for allegedly killing two men in Milwaukee was nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Sunday in Texas after spending nearly six months on the lam, authorities said.
Terry A.D. Strickland, 24, was arrested in El Paso and booked into jail. He had been charged in Milwaukee on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Strickland was among a group of man arguing in front of a Milwaukee home July 17, authorities said. Witnesses saw him go inside the house, emerge with a gun and fire into the small crowd. Authorities said Strickland shot and killed Maurice Brown Jr., 38, who was on the ground, then turned to Michael Allen Reed, 39, and shot him in the head.
"It was vicious," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said when Strickland was added to the FBI's most-wanted list last month. "It was unnecessary. Neither individual posed the slightest threat to Mr. Strickland, but they paid with their lives for occupying the same space."
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I'm sure there must have been other issues with Mr. Strickland to get him 10MW-ed. There many, many people that have done worse, longer, to more.
Strickland was added to the FBI's most-wanted list last month
Two weeks ago?
I wonder if maybe he didn't make the list immediately after they found him.
[Congress.Gov] Introduced in House (01/03/2017). Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3] (Introduced 01/03/2017)
Committees: House - Foreign Affairs. Latest Action: 01/03/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions)
American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017
This bill repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws.
The bill requires: (1) the President to terminate U.S. membership in the United Nations (U.N.), including any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body; and (2) closure of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
The bill prohibits: (1) the authorization of funds for the U.S. assessed or voluntary contribution to the U.N., (2) the authorization of funds for any U.S. contribution to any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation, (3) the expenditure of funds to support the participation of U.S. Armed Forces as part of any U.N. military or peacekeeping operation, (4) U.S. Armed Forces from serving under U.N. command, and (5) diplomatic immunity for U.N. officers or employees.
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Corbusier did a great job on the building,
The renovation costs to remove asbestos alone, not to mention rewiring to modern standards... But hadn't that nice Mr. Trump once offered to do the work at cost -- or was it Ted Turner? One of the billionaires littering the landscape. at any rate.
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The UN building is indeed impressive but Le Corbusier's apartment buildings and houses were sterile, post-modern stark whiteism almost un-livable domiciles. He called them machines for living and they had all the warmth of a cargo carrier.
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Read Tom Wolfe's ""Bauhaus to Our House" for the inside story on this architectural movement. It was meant to be worker housing for the communists.
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Le Corbusier broke everything down into what he called the modular. It was a scale of harmonic measures that set architectural elements in proportion to human scale. ThE problem with this is if something is designed for an individual it will only fit that individual. It works to a certain point. Frank Lloyd Wright used modular schemes in most of his designs but they were geometrical, i. e., 5x3, and not tied to any particular individual.
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[All Africa] A video of a girl been raped by six men in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... making rounds on social media has caused an outrage across the country. The video shot and posted by the perpetrators on their Facebook accounts shows a naked girl in her teen age crying for help as a group of boys force themselves into her. The girl is beaten up and a bleeding wound can be seen on her back.
She is heard pleading "Leave me alone please" in Somali when one of the boys chocked on her neck. The boy lets her lose then demands her to be on her four limbs and threatens to stub her.
The girl refuses to be in that position and is forced on to by one boy. The incident reportedly took place at Galdogob Puntland near the Æthiopian border.
"The suspects have been tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! by Galdogob and will be brought justice" Hassan Mohammed Ayax Commissioner Galdogob told Radio Dalsan.
One perpetrator is said to have escaped arrest and a manhunt has been lauched led by the Puntland Police boss.
Elders from the girls family and that of the perpetrators are been in involved in an arbitration. The incident has also been condemned by religious leaders in Puntland with activists on social media demanding for justice.
"I can't believe that humans are capable of committing such a horrible and cruel act" Alinor a Mogadishu based youth activist tweeted.
"Its for sure that this little girl will live with the scars and trauma of such a heinous criminality" he added.
"I am shocked. No stones should be left unturned in this case. All suspects must face the law. It is time that we put an end to such unbecoming character from our youth and the best way to set an example by punishing the perpetrators" Mohammed Ajib Director CCA told Radio Dalsan.
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It is time that we put an end to such unbecoming character from our youth and the best way to set an example by punishing the perpetrators and sending them to their deaths.
Six soldiers serving with the Somali National Army (SNA) have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder and robbery against civilians in Mogadishu on Monday.
The Somali military court’s chairman Hassan Ali Shuute has announced the court’s verdict, saying each soldier was given 10 years of imprisonment over the crimes they committed. The military tribunal allowed the convicted soldiers a chance to appeal the court decision.
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Why is 'lock-em-up' always selected as a sufficient response over 'removal'?
[Breitbart] Internet-based retail giant Amazon is among the seven online food retailers that will soon start accepting food stamps, as part of a pilot program instituted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The two-year program, set to launch this summer, will test online ordering and payment methods.
The USDA, which oversees the $74 billion food stamp program, also known as SNAP or the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, says it plans to expand the online program nationwide and eventually add more retailers.
Participating retailers include Safeway, ShopRite, Hy-Vee, Hart’s Local Grocers, and Dash’s Market, and will serve food stamps recipients in seven states: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Iowa, and Oregon.
However, Amazon is by far the largest online food distributor participating in the federal government’s new program.
"Amazon is excited to participate in the USDA SNAP online purchasing pilot," the Seattle, Washington-based company said in a press release. "We are committed to making food accessible through online grocery shopping, offering all customers the lowest prices possible."
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Consider it another US dole currency laundering scheme. Amazon wants to capture some of the Paypal instant banking business.
Buy with FS, then cancel for online credit or cash refund. Amazon accounts receivable can sit on the interest bearing FS transaction until the G. reconciles.
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You can order food - real, basic food - through Amazon, and they deliver. Actually could be quite helpful to people without transportation or with mobility problems. Not saying that's how they would be used, but ... is it any worse than the food stamp 'laundering' that goes on in poor neighborhood convenience stores now? But with cheaper food?
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My youngest brother is nearly immobile and can no longer drive. This is very helpful to him.
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Deacon, you have hit upon the real issue. This isn't a bad thing at its core, BUT, it is a wide open door to graft and corruption on another epic scale.
This can help some people that are in dire straits like your youngest brother but the slugs and slime will rapidly get on board the gravy train.
Been there done that with a similar gov't program. It took about a month before the cheat sheets were showing up in the hood.
Trump moves the Overton window again, and masterfully so. See below for a clinic on how he does it:
In an explosive interview with German newspaper Bild and The Times of London, Trump unleashed a volley of verbal attacks on Europe, hailing Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and saying more countries were going to quit the bloc.
“I said a long time ago — that NATO had problems. Number one it was obsolete, because it was, you know, designed many, many years ago,” he said. “Number two — the countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to pay. I took such heat, when I said NATO was obsolete. It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror.”
Trump states the obvious -- the elephant in the room. He then points out that he took heat for saying it but that's he right. Not only is all that true, but it now sets up the argument.
With fears growing in Europe over the US President-elect’s commitment to the transatlantic alliance and over signs he will pivot towards Russia, Merkel warned that the continent now had to take responsibility for itself.
Bingo! That's the point that Trump wanted to deliver. If he had said that it wouldn't have worked, but he got Merkel to say it for him.
“We Europeans have our fate in our own hands,” Merkel told reporters in Berlin when asked about Trump’s criticisms, adding that she will work towards getting the EU to strengthen the economy and fight terrorism.
Why yes, Angela, that would be useful wouldn't it? Trump couldn't say it any better -- get your economy going again and stand up to the thugs invading your country.
Germany’s foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Europe was stunned by Trump’s remarks on NATO, just five days ahead of the billionaire businessman’s inauguration as president.
Europe was indeed stunned, as people are when you point out that the Emperor is buck-nekkid...
“The interview statements of the American president-elect ... caused, indeed here in Brussels, astonishment and agitation,” Steinmeier said as he went from a meeting with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to talks with EU counterparts.
Precisely what Trump wanted. No need to pour oil on the water unless it's fuel grade and you intend to light it off...
France’s top diplomat Jean-Marc Ayrault said “the best response” to Trump’s comments was “the unity of Europeans”.
That would be nice, useful and absolutely novel...
NATO said it was “absolutely confident” that the US would remain “committed” to the organisation.
Until tomorrow's tweet...
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With all the Islamists President Hussein has imported, we will have our own hands full here for decades to come...
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Fuck Europe. Let them choke on their own stink. They freeloaded on us, laughed at us for being such morons to spend our money on defense, and looked down on us for being violent redneck morons who worship the flag and George Washington like good little fascists. They demanded our troops get out. For decades now. They finally get what they wanted all this time, and NOW they're bitching and moaning about it? Europe is getting what it asked for, an America that's going to stop playing world police.
I finally really begin to understand just what anti-Americanism really means. It doesn't mean pro-social justice or pro-equality or any of those things. It just means find out what the Americans are doing and take the opposite view.
If the Americans want to dominate Europe, then that's bad and we need to criticize it. If the Americans want to go home and disband NATO, then we need to criticize that, too. It's such a hateful ideology, but I guess we Americans deserve it. We're bad people. We need to stop oppressing the world, and under Trump that's exactly what we're going to do.
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For background on how anti-Americanism developed, I highly recommend the late French philosopher-journalist Jean François Revel's book by the same name. An easy read -- he writes in the American style by choice -- but he makes it clear that prejudices dating back to before the colonization of the continent and class prejudice have much more to do with stated beliefs than actual facts. At one point it was available in a Kindle version, but now only on paper and audio, for some reason.
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It's astounding to me the comments I'm getting from my Very Liberal Friends over this. Not too long ago they were complaining about how much money we were wasting by keeping a military presence in Europe. Now that Trump is saying the Europeans need to do more the narrative is, "Trump wants to abandon Europe to his Pal Putin".
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Read somewhere this morning that when the Germans cut their nuke program and began sucking on the Russian natural gas pipeline war between the two became nearly impossible. So if Germany is going to go along with Russia on everything for fear of the lights going out what is the point of of NATO?
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1. Not too long ago, Germany did have a national leader, Gerhard Schröder, who in essence ended up as a paid agent of Vladimir Putin. After leaving office, he has spent much of the rest of his career working for Gazprom
2. It was Schröder who made the decision to take Germany off nuclear power and also to make the country energy-dependent on Russia
3. Germans today are some of the most anti-American people in Europe, and that doesn’t help the Atlantic alliance either.
Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbor Russia.
Officials played down any link between the operation and NATO concerns over Russia, but the deployment coincides with the U.S. sending several thousand troops to Poland to beef up its Eastern European allies worried about Moscow's assertiveness.
Marines from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina landed a little after 10 am CET (0900 GMT) at a snow-covered Vaernes airport near Trondheim, Norway's third-largest city, where temperatures were reaching -2 degrees Celsius (28 degrees Fahrenheit). U.S. troops are to stay in Norway for a year, with the current batch of Marines being replaced after their six-month tour is complete.
A spokesman for the Norwegian Home Guards, who will host the Marines at the Vaernes military base, about 1,500 km (900 miles) from the Russian border, said the U.S. troops will learn about winter warfare.
"For the first four weeks they will have basic winter training, learn how to cope with skis and to survive in the Arctic environment," said Rune Haarstad, a Home Guard spokesman. "It has nothing to do with Russia or the current situation."
In March the Marines will take part in the Joint Viking exercises, which will also include British troops, he added.
The Russian Embassy in Oslo did not immediately reply to a request for comment by Reuters on Monday. It questioned the need for such a move when it was announced in October.
"Taking into account multiple statements of Norwegian officials about the absence of threat from Russia to Norway we would like to understand for what purposes is Norway so ... willing to increase its military potential, in particular through stationing of American forces in Vaernes?" it told Reuters at the time.
A spokeswoman for Norwegian Ministry of Defence also said the arrival of U.S. Marines had nothing to do with concerns about Russia.
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Obama is just pissing off Russian because he can, Three more days...
Remember all the media mea culpas after the election, about getting this thing and that thing all wrong and vowing to fix all of that? Complete fucking horseshit.
In the month leaded up to the election on November 8th, we repeatedly demonstrated how the mainstream media polls from the likes of ABC/Washington Post, CNN and Reuters repeatedly manipulated their poll samples to engineer their desired results, namely a large Hillary Clinton lead (see "New Podesta Email Exposes Playbook For Rigging Polls Through 'Oversamples'" and "ABC/Wapo Effectively Admit To Poll Tampering As Hillary's "Lead" Shrinks To 2-Points"). In fact, just 16 days prior to the election an ABC/Wapo poll showed a 12-point lead for Hillary, a result that obviously turned out to be embarrassingly wrong for the pollsters.
But, proving they still got it, ABC/Washington Post and CNN are out with a pair of polls on Trump's favorability this morning that sport some of the most egregious "oversamples" we've seen. The ABC/Wapo poll showed an 8-point sampling margin for Democrats with only 23% of the results taken from Republicans...
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Given the fact that we have had stories about Obumble still being over 50%, people were warming to Trump but now the numbers are horrible and pretty much every other poll the Ministry of Truth puts out... anyone who believes this shit is either a true believer or lying.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Though police are still investigating the child maid abuse case, initial statements of the judge and his wife recorded after the compromise with her parents claimed that they had paid Rs42,000 in advance for keeping her at their home.
Additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife in their statements recorded on January 3, the day when ADSJ Raja Asif Mehmood Khan and another ADSJ Atta Rabbani confirmed her pre-arrest bail and handed over the custody of Taiba to her parents, also claimed that they had been the girl’s guardians since she was seven-and-a-half years old.
The judge’s wife in her statement also said the girl was living in the servant quarter of the house.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... before the Supreme Court, Mohammad Azam, the father of Taiba, 10, testified that he had received Rs18,000 from a woman who provided his minor daughter as a maid to the ADSJ on August 14, 2014, against Rs3,000 per month.
Denying all the charges of torture, the judge and his wife in their statements said a few neighbours allegedly hatched a conspiracy against them. The couple said they had kept the girl on a humanitarian basis due to poverty of her parents.
In initial statements, judge and his wife said they had been Taiba’s guardians since she was seven
The judge and his spouse were booked after the minor girl accused them of keeping her in a wrongful confinement, burning her hand over a missing broom, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in storeroom and threatening her of even worse.
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[DAWN] GUJRAT: The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government on Monday suspended from service three senior-most officers of the Gujrat health department, including Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr the increasingly corpulentAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... , for not informing the higher authorities about the gang rape of two lady health workers (LHWs) during a robbery at the Bheelowal Basic Health Unit near Tanda.
Punjab Secretary Health Ali Jan Khan issued the suspension orders of Gujrat CEO (Health) Dr Altaf, District Officer (Health) Dr Muhammad Ali Mufti and Deputy District Officer (Health) Dr Yousaf Dar with immediate effect.
On the direction of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Health Khawaja Imran Nazir along with the health secretary visited the BHU to probe the incident.
The inquiry team reached the BHU and recorded the statements of the gang rape survivors and other staff and found that the incident had taken place on the night between Dec 29 and 30 but the district health officials did not inform the authorities. And when they did intimate the department after two weeks, they just mentioned robbery.
The minister took a serious notice of concealing of the facts by the officials and suspended the three seniors.
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[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore on Monday sentenced a mother to death in a case of 'honour killing' for burning her daughter alive in June 2016 after she contracted a 'free-will marriage'.
18-year-old Zeenat Rafiq of Lahore's Factory Area was set on fire by her mother Parveen Bibi more than a week after the girl reportedly eloped with Hasan Khan to marry him before a court in Lahore.
Parveen Bibi had earlier confessed she had murdered her daughter for "bringing shame to the family".
Police had suspected that Parveen was helped by her son and son-in-law in killing the girl.
ATC-IV judge Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas on Monday sentenced Parveen to death in the 'honour killing' case, and sentenced Zeenat's brother Anees to life in prison. Zeenat's sister's husband was acquitted in the case.
It was revealed in court that Zeenat's mother and brothers had first beaten her, then her mother threw kerosene on her and set her on fire.
Parveen in court today claimed the credit for Zeenat's death.
Zeenat's husband, Hasan Khan last June had agreed to let his wife return to her home after her family promised, in the days before her murder, to organise a traditional wedding reception for the couple.
He earlier told the media that Zeenat was not willing to go back to her parents’ home because she feared they would kill her. "But she agreed after her family gave assurances regarding her safety," he was quoted by a TV channel as saying.
Witnesses had told Dawn that they had alerted the emergency rescue service after they saw smoke coming out of Parveen’s home.
"Police and rescue firefighters reached the spot, put out the blaze and recovered the body of the girl," a witness had said earlier.
After Zeenat Bibi was set on fire in a low-income neighbourhood of Lahore, none of her relatives sought to claim her body, police said, leaving her husband's family to bury her charred remains in the dark in a graveyard near the city.Mother sentenced to death for 'honour killing' of daughter Zeenat Bibi
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After Zeenat Bibi was set on fire in a low-income neighbourhood of Lahore, none of her relatives sought to claim her body
Public health officials from Nevada are reporting on a case of a woman who died in Reno in September from an incurable infection. Testing showed the superbug that had spread throughout her system could fend off 26 different antibiotics.
"It was tested against everything that's available in the United States … and was not effective," said Dr. Alexander Kallen, a medical officer in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of health care quality promotion.
The woman in Nevada was cared for in isolation; the staff who treated her used infection control precautions to prevent spread of the superbug in the hospital. Chen and Randall Todd, a health department colleague, told STAT testing was done to look for additional infections, but so far none have been detected.
[Dr. James] Johnson [a professor of infectious diseases medicine at the University of Minnesota and a specialist at the Minnesota VA Medical Center] said it's likely, though, that other people in the US are carrying similar bacteria in their guts and could become sick at some point. "It's possible that this is the only person in the US and she had the bad luck to go to India, pick up the bad bug, come back and here it is, we found her and now that she's dead, it's gone from the US. That is highly improbable," he said.
"People have asked me many times ‘How scared should we be?' … ‘How close are we to the edge of the cliff?' And I tell them: We're already falling off the cliff," Johnson said. "It's happening. It's just happening ‐ so far ‐ on a relatively small scale and mostly far away from us. People that we don't see … so it doesn't have the same emotional impact.''
President Obama has commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, paving the way for the army intelligence analyst turned high-profile leaker to be freed on May 17, the White House announced Tuesday.
Manning was on a list of 209 commutations and 64 pardons released Tuesday, though they may not be Obama’s final acts of clemency before he leaves office at midday on Jan. 20. Edward Snowden’s name was not on the list.
Manning was convicted after leaking U.S. military incident logs and diplomatic cables, among other secret government documents, to WikiLeaks, in 2010.
In his final scheduled briefing for reporters, White House press secretary Josh Earnest described Manning and Snowden in starkly different terms.
“Chelsea Manning, as a member of the United States armed forces, went through a legal proceeding administered by the United States military under the laws that govern the conduct of members of the United States military, and there was a hearing and a conviction and a sentence,” Earnest said. “It all went through that regular process. And that’s the way we determine guilt or innocence in this country, particularly with regard to the conduct of men and women in our armed forces. And that’s the way that our system works.”
But Snowden “should return to the United States and face the serious crimes with which he’s been charged,” Earnest said. “He will, of course, be afforded the kind of due process that’s available to every American citizen who’s going through the criminal justice process. But the crimes that he’s accused of committing are serious. And we believe that he should return to the United States and face them rather than seeking refuge in the arms of an adversary of the United States that has their own strategic interests in disseminating information in a harmful way.”
Earlier this week, WikiLeaks said on Twitter that its founder, Julian Assange, would agree to be extradited to the United States if Obama granted clemency to Manning. He has been living in Ecuador’s embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he has been accused of sexual assault.
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This was an easy call; I think Bergdahl and Blago get commutations / pardons as well. I don't think Hillary! or Snowden get them, although what Snowden and Manning did aren't all that different.
At least 39 people have been shot across Chicago over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, leaving 10 dead.
The latest killing happened at 11:36 a.m. Monday in the West Side Austin neighborhood, where a vehicle pulled up to 24-year-old Allante Elmore on a porch near his home in the 4800 block of West Hubbard, and shot him repeatedly, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died.
Let's go for 900 in 2017!
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a vehicle pulled up ... and shot him repeatedly
"At first I thought it was just a backfire, but it went bup bup bup bup and I was like, damn, that must be a automatic!"
The F-35 stealth fighter jet suffers from hundreds of problems and won't be fully combat-capable before 2020, says a scathing report from the Pentagon's top evaluator. New issues keep cropping up, and fixing them all may cost over $1 billion. Given the history of this thing, make that over 4 billion
Dr. Michael Gilmore's damning assessment is part of the massive annual report for fiscal year 2016, and his 62-page dossier devoted to the F-35 paints a grim picture of America's much touted,futuristic Joint Strike Fighter. The program, which began in 2001, was supposed to deliver a fifth-generation jet serving the needs of the Air Force, the Navy and the Marine Corps, achieving savings through a modular design. Instead, it is 70 percent over initial cost estimates and years behind schedule.
Dr. Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational test & evaluation (OTE) under President Barack Obama, is leaving the Department of Defense as part of the regular change in politically appointed officials. Though F-35 officials have continued to insist the jet is doing just fine and that the problems found in operational testing were being fixed rapidly, Gilmore's final report makes it clear that he doesn't believe their reassurances. Sounds like the lot of them need thrown in jail for fraud
"The Services have designated 276 deficiencies in combat performance as ‘critical to correct' in Block 3F, but less than half of the critical deficiencies were addressed with attempted corrections," says Gilmore's report, referring to problems in the F-35's software. "Deficiencies continue to be discovered at a rate of about 20 per month," the report added.
"Much more testing is needed to assess the cybersecurity structure of the air vehicle and supporting logistics infrastructure system," the report says, "and to determine whether, and to what extent, vulnerabilities may have led to compromises of F-35 data."
Worse yet, the program is trying to skip many of the tests and declare the systems development phase over early, shifting the testing to the Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) process starting in August 2017, the report noted. Rushing the tests means shifting the risks onto operational testing, follow-on modernization, and to the pilots intended to fly the planes into combat. Their greed and desire to cover their butts will get our people killed. Again.
The F-35 program office "has no plan to adequately fix and verify hundreds of these deficiencies using flight testing within its currently planned schedule and resources," Gilmore wrote.
"Multiple problems and delays make it clear that the program will not be able to start IOT&E with full combat capability until late CY18 or early CY19, at the soonest," meaning 2018 and 2019, respectively. Finalizing the systems development phase would cost around $500 million, Gilmore noted, adding that the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office's estimate ranged up to $1.125 billion.
In addition to software trouble, the jet is plagued by structural problems. For example, the connection between the vertical tail and the airframe is wearing out much faster than expected, while arresting hooks are fraying after only one use. Engine nacelles are overheating under certain flight tests, horizontal tail continues to suffer heat damage, and the "excessive, violent" oscillations during catapult launches of the naval F-35C version present a safety concern for pilots.
Tests of the pilot escape system showed a risk of serious neck injury or death for pilots weighing less than 136 pounds (61kg), who remain restricted from flying the F-35. The jet is SEXIST AGAINST WOMEN!!!
On the maintenance side, technicians are required to physically connect the Portable Maintenance Aid (PMA) laptops to the aircraft in order to conduct most activities. If the PMA fails to connect to the aircraft properly and technicians unplug it prematurely, the laptop cannot connect to another aircraft until it is reset by an Automatic Logistics Information System (ALIS) administrator, "which can be a lengthy process."
Given all that, the Department of Defense should consider committing to a "block buy" of the jets, since in their current state the F-35 does not fit the legal requirements and the Pentagon's "fly before you buy" approach to purchases, Gilmore's report concluded.
The F-35 is a single-seat, single-engine aircraft that comes in three versions: the F-35A for the Air Force; the F-35B for the US Marine Corps; and the F-35C for the US Navy. It is being developed by Lockheed Martin, with additional funding from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom and Turkey. Israel and Japan have also placed orders for the jet. Cancel the goddamn thing, make the companies that built it eat the costs, jail the project managers and just build more F22s and a bunch of fucking drones.
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skip many of the tests and declare the systems development phase over early,
Anyone who has worked in IT knows that tune. When the schedule starts to slip the first thing to go is testing...then documentation.
Then you do a limited roll out with 2 screens and a report and declare it a victory before starting in on phase 1B ... or 1C ... or 1D whichever is appropriate where you will try and fix it.
Of course the new phase requires a new functional specification...............................and Willie goes round in circles.
#4
You can't always blame the company. After 8 years of the Obama regime, this may be the fault of the Obama transvestite cronyism or the Muslim influence and "contributions" of that element of his pentagon.
#5
Dr. Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational test & evaluation (OTE) under President Barack Obama
That's all I needed to see to know this is FAKE NEWS!
Seriously, the implications are that these are major problems. My spidey sense tells me these mostly small, easily fixed problems. This is Obumbles using a crony to cause more hate and discontent.
#9
You can bet the Israelis told Lockheed Martin to erase the logistics software and just leave the stuff that lets the pilot fly the dammed thing.
I still say it might be a good airframe but all of the technobullshit they piled into the thing to make it a flying automatic parts retrieval system is killing it.
I would bet an audit of the program would show that the vast majority of the developmental cost went to trying to fix that logistics and maintenance wetdream they cooked up to make it easier to maintain.
Easier to maintain? The thing can't fly because of the software.
Daily Mail article is here. Of course it's the Daily Mail so there are plenty of pics, but those might not be as helpful as you'd hope...
[Moonbattery] It used to be that has-beens attempting to extend their 15 minutes would come out as gay.
Maybe she could come out as sober. That'd be a shocka...
I seem to recall she dabbled with girls a few years ago, but mostly played at rehab.
But that doesn’t shock anyone nowadays.
Okay, she could come out as a Republican...
Maybe this will work:
Members of the Muslim faith are welcoming Lindsay Lohan to Islam
Where "hop into the sack" has a slightly different meaning...
after the actress deleted her Instagram account and changed her bio on the social media site.
Over the weekend, Lohan got rid of every photo on her Instagram page, leaving nothing but her profile picture and a bio that now reads: ’Alaikum salam.’ The Arabic greeting translates to ’and unto you peace,’ and many took it mean that Lohan was converting to the Muslim faith.
Soon to be living in Syria married to an DAESH fighter and threatening the West with beheadings and more nude pics...
Lindsay’s acting and singing careers have pretty much petered out,
That is way too kind...
but she may still have work in the entertainment sector in her future -- as an ISIS sex slave.
Definitely bringing new meaning to "career suicide"...
Being an enlightened kind of gal, Lindsay surely knows where women fit in according to the Islamic scheme of things. She ought to demonstrate her sincerity by heading to Raqqa, where she might be able to improve the morale of Soldiers of Allah, provided they aren’t too picky.
Next she'll be preaching the evils of sex, drugs and strong drink...
If you have a strong stomach, watch Lindsay denounce her country on behalf of Islam.
Yes, how .. daring...
Whether she has actually converted or is just dabbling like a Tinseltown flake is unclear. Yes, this is only about Ms. Lohan, but the larger picture is that so many Lister downgrades are converting to this abomination.
It will be educational a few years hence, when Islam is no longer fashionable and they try to give it up.
#7
If she's feeling empty in the ultra-secular entertainment world and looking for some seriously rigorous religion, she could find it nearer home with the Cistercians. Although I understand they don't actually take a vow of silence...
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