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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Corpse found in water identified as mob family member
I seen dis movie.
The corpse found in cement overshoes in the waters off Brooklyn over the weekend has been identified as a member of a notorious local mob family, police said Tuesday.
who buys cement overshoes in this day and age? Nice Bruno Maglis are comfortable AND stylish
The body of Carmine Carini, 35, was found Saturday near East 58th Street and Avenue U near his residence in Mill Basin ‐ with a cinderblock brick bound to his legs by an electrical cord and his body wrapped in a blue tarp and sealed with duct tape.
"Natural causes" sez Quicy
"It was right out of ‘GoodFellas,' " a law-enforcement source said.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at a press conference Tuesday, "The victim was a reputed mobster's son. His father had the OC [organized crime] ties, not him. Right now, we're in an active investigation to see who was in his life at the time."

Carini died from blunt-force trauma to the head but had also been stabbed, police sources said. He was identified through fingerprints.
Who leaves fingers any more? Kids nowadays
Carini's dad ‐ also named Carmine ‐ is an associate of the Colombo crime family, a police source said.

Carmine Sr. spent nearly a quarter-century behind bars for the 1983 killing of a Bay Ridge record-shop owner.

He was later freed in a plea deal after two mob turncoats revealed his cousin Vinnie was the actual killer ‐ only to wind up back behind bars a year later when he was busted posing as a cop to commit home-invasion robberies.
"He was turning his life around"
Vinnie and another cousin, Enrico, later famously botched a hit on a former Mafia prosecutor and ended up paying the ultimate price.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He really does sleep with the fishes!
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ No funny stuff, though -- he just lies next to 'em and... um...
Posted by: Thrinert Huputh8286 || 09/06/2017 4:10 Comments || Top||

#3  The body of Carmine Carini, 35, was found Saturday near East 58th Street and Avenue U near his residence in Mill Basin ‐ with a cinderblock brick bound to his legs by an electrical cord and his body wrapped in a blue tarp and sealed with duct tape.

It doesn't seem that one cinder block would offset the buoyancy that results from increasing internal gases. Just can't find good help these days.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  If the body is never found, no clear message is sent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  "his cousin Vinnie" - was he a Yute?
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/06/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Lol #2

A of bundling perhaps?
Posted by: Shipman || 09/06/2017 10:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Bit of bundling...
Posted by: Shipman || 09/06/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  It's called spooning
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2017 11:31 Comments || Top||

#9  It doesn't seem that one cinder block would offset the buoyancy that results from increasing internal gases.


Just think of those stab wounds as ventilation.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 09/06/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Yet another PSH (Public Service Homicide).
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Dude misplaced his codpiece?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 16:01 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Want to escape hurricane Irma via airlines? Bring lots of CASH !
[Miami Herald] Miami native Lissette Diaz is frantically trying to fly her family out from South Florida in case Hurricane Irma hits. But it may cost her thousands of dollars.

By Wednesday, prices for flights out of South Florida skyrocketed as high as more than $3,000 per person for domestic flights that would otherwise cost a fraction of the price during what’s typically one of the slowest times of the year for air travel.

Diaz, who grew up in Miami but is in school at Andrews University in Michigan, scoured Expedia.com Tuesday afternoon for a flight for her mother, adult cousin, 71-year-old grandmother, 11-year-old sister to New York.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 13:28 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suggest President Trump direct that PAX terminals at all the major USAF bases in Florida be opened and mission tasked to begin the orderly shuttling of civilians to northern destinations.

Box lunches and bottled water included w/o charge.


Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2  more than $3,000 per person

You can probably go a long way with Lyft or Uber with that sum. Just saying. Unless you really want to be intimately groped by a TSA agent.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 13:44 Comments || Top||


Trump Signs Emergency Declaration For Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Ahead of Hurricane Irma
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump signed emergency declarations in advance of Hurricane Irma for Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

On Tuesday, Hurricane Irma grew to a major Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 185 mph. President Trump’s declarations allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to respond as quickly as possible after the storm moves through the affected areas.

"Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide, at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency," the White House announced in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. "Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding."

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Hurricane Irma is moving to the west (280 degrees) at 15 mph. As of the 8 p.m. AST bulletin, officials reported the storm is located 85 miles east of Antigua. The barometric pressure continues to fall and is currently at 27.05 inches (916 mb).

The NHC reports:

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for...
* Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, and Nevis
* Saba, St. Eustatius, and Sint Maarten
* Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy
* British Virgin Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra
* Dominican Republic from Cabo Engano to the northern border with
Haiti

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for...
* Guadeloupe
* Haiti from the northern border with the Dominican Republic to Le Mole St. Nicholas
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* Southeastern Bahamas
* Cuba from Matanzas province eastward to Guantanamo province

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Guadeloupe
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic from south of Cabo Engano westward to the
southern border with Haiti

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for...
* Haiti from south of Le Mole St. Nicholas to Port-Au-Prince

The storm is expected to impact the northern Leeward Islands late Tuesday night and move on to the Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Puerto Rico should experience the catastrophic winds of Hurricane Irma late Wednesday or Wednesday night. Forecasters call for the storm to move on to Cuba and begin a slow turn towards the southwestern tip of Florida on Sunday.

Emergency Management officials in Florida’s southernmost county issued mandatory evacuation orders in advance of the now-185 mph Hurricane Irma, Breitbart Texas reported. "You must evacuate, you cannot stay," officials warned.

"My wife is leaving the Keys today," Monroe County Emergency Management Director Martin Senterfitt said in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. "She would rather go to the dentist than sit in traffic. The sooner people leave the better. If ever there was a storm to take serious in the Keys, this is it."
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonder if it's going to crush Cuba?
Hope it spares the Caymens.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Left bi+ches about him about him being too proactive in 5..4..3....
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Cat 5 (154mph+ winds) destroys buildings in under 6 seconds. The highest recorded winds was only two hurricanes Haiyan and Meranti at 195mph.

Irma is off the scale early this morning with 200mph winds and growing.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/06/2017 1:56 Comments || Top||

#4  IOW, don't use an umbrella unless you're Mary Poppins.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 3:16 Comments || Top||

#5  or you want to visit Oz
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 7:16 Comments || Top||

#6  BS HS
Posted by: Shipman || 09/06/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I can't help but feel the death toll is going to be higher in Florida than Texas. Can't imagine why...
Posted by: Charles || 09/06/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||


Engineers 20 years ago warned of Houston flooding risk
HOUSTON (AP) ‐ The Latest on the aftermath of Harvey

A report released two decades ago about the Harris County reservoir system predicted with alarming accuracy the catastrophic flooding that would besiege the Houston area if changes weren’t made in the face of rapid development.

The report released in 1996 by engineers with the Harris County Flood Control District says the Addicks and Barker reservoirs were adequate when built in the 1940s.

But it notes that as entire neighborhoods sprouted over the years around the reservoirs in western Harris County, as many as 25,000 homes and businesses at the time were exposed to the kind of flooding Harvey has now brought.

Engineers proposed in the report, obtained by The Dallas Morning News , a $400 million solution that involved building a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel.

Arthur Storey, who in 1996 was director of the flood control district, says he’s embarrassed that he "was not smart enough, bold enough to fight the system" and implement an action plan to prevent the damages of Harvey from occurring.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The silver lining in this cloud is that it should be much cheaper to install this fix now that everything will have to be torn up anyway!
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Should have been the LA swampland instead.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Those are what tsunamis are for Skid or a small size asteroid just in the right spot in the Pacific off the coast? A real Noah moment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/06/2017 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  "a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel"
Hoho haha. You'd have an elevation drop of what, maybe 10 or 12 feet? Plus the Galveston Bay Foundation sued to stop plans that require large flood discharges into the ship channel, because it negatively impacts the estuary.
I say we need more crawfish holes. Did you ever put a water hose down a crawfish hole? You're putting water right back into the water table. Nature's own drains.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/06/2017 20:03 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Ohio deputy shoots news photographer during traffic stop
[Cleveland.com] NEW CARLISLE, Ohio -- A newspaper photographer was shot by a deputy Sunday night after the deputy mistook the man's camera for a weapon, reports say.

The New Carlisle News reports its photographer, Andy Grimm, was taken to Miami Valley Hospital for surgery and is expected to recover from his wound.

Grimm had his camera and a tripod and was outside at about 10 p.m. Sunday attempting to take photos of lightning during a storm, the News reports.

Clark County Deputy Jake Shaw reportedly was on a traffic stop that didn't involve Grimm when he saw the photographer with the tripod and camera and mistook it for a weapon. Shaw then fired at Grimm, the News reports.

"I was going out to take pictures and I saw the traffic stop and I thought, 'Hey, cool. I'll get some pictures here,'" Grimm tells the News. "I turned around toward the cars and then 'pop, pop.'"
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 04:39 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As if often said here, 'never take a Zenit to a gunfight.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 4:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Remembering the 'liberation' of Baghdad when a foreign reporter on a balcony pointed his shoulder braced camera at some American tanks, who only had a fraction of a second to determine at long distance if it was just a camera or an anti-tank missile launcher.

Given the ambush and killing of cops is 'de rigueur' promoted by the violent Left, take a jury son.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  My old hometown - go figure. The reporter is already out of the hospital. My observation is why was the deputy such a poor marksman? He felt endangered, or else he had no justification to shoot. He identified his target. He shot twice at a stationary target and neither were critical hits. I am glad the reporter was ok but if that had been a genuine bad guy with an actual weapon, the cop would have been subject to return fire based on his inability to put rounds accurately on the target.
Posted by: Thor Peacock6932 || 09/06/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  TP6932, ever fired a weapon? Ever fired a weapon at night? Ever fired a handgun at night under duress? Plus how far was the target from the policeman firing a handgun at night under duress?
Getting two hits under these circumstances is great shooting! Not so great for the photographer but can't win them all.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/06/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Mike Dewine, Ohio Governor wannabe, current AG, and former US Senator, is making as much noise as possible about the case.
Posted by: jvalentour || 09/06/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#6  The photographer sounded very understanding, and said he knew the policeman and did not want him to lose his job over it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/06/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Gov. of Virgin Islands Uses Pending Natural Disaster as Potential Firearms Grab
[Breitbart] With hurricane Irma expected to dump heavy rains and high winds on the U.S. Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp has ordered the Virgin Islands National Guard into active service and authorized them to seize privately-owned firearms and ammunition.

The order is worded so that they can seize firearms and ammunition as needed to carry out their duties.

A copy of the order was published by the Daily Caller. It announces that the Virgin Islands National Guard is called to active service for the purposes of "[maintaining] the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the Virgin Islands in the face of imminent danger or potential disaster from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irma."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 03:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Never let a crisis go to waste"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be a piss-poor national guard to have to seize privately owned firearms. What a stinking joke on more than one account.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/06/2017 9:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Five bucks says they'll gin up some excuse for having destroyed the weapons rather than return them to their owner. And they won't compensate them.

Seems this may well land in SCOTUS.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  And the order requires citizens to turn in incendiaries, too. Damn, got to turn thre thermite grenades.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/06/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Napalm? Nope, got none of that governor.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Governor Kenneth "King Canute" E. Mapp, Are you ordering them to lay down suppressing fire on the rising tide storm surge?
Posted by: magpie || 09/06/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, since only criminals have guns.../sarc
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/06/2017 19:35 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Lesotho army commander 'shot dead' by soldiers
[Al Jazeera] Official says Lieutenant General Khoantle Motsomotso was shot by soldiers who had recently been fired.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..so they fired back.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't bring a termination letter to a gun fight
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Step 1. Disarm the soldiers
step 2. Send someone else to deliver pink slips.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/06/2017 20:00 Comments || Top||


Britain
Brexit Scaremongers in Retreat as British Manufacturing and Retail Sales Surge
[Breitbart London] EU loyalists and Brexit doom-mongers have experienced another setback, with Britain’s manufacturers and retailers enjoying a surge in exports and sales.

"Britain’s manufacturers are enjoying buoyant conditions on the back of export markets going from strength to strength," announced the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) in a press release, following a "major survey" of some 416 manufacturing firms.

"Manufacturers appear to have taken the recent political upheaval in their stride," noted EEF chief economist Lee Hopley, with the cheaper pound boosting British firms’ competitiveness abroad ‐ as experts predicted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 03:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will someone please tell me why the United States actually needs Chinese imports ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  So corporations like Hewlett-Packard can have their stuff manufactured by cheap slave labor.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/06/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Willsomeone please tell me why the United States actually needs Chinese imports ?

Kickbacks?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/06/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Commenters #2 and #3 have answered correctly. The purse will be divided equally.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Because the US is a nation that consumes, rather than saves. China's stuff is cheap because it's built by slave labor (their competitive advantage) and carries little/no tariffs. So we buy Chinese (or Vietnamese or Indonesian, whoever's cheapest) as fast as we can. Straight economics at work.
Posted by: Glomosing Omainter7636 || 09/06/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Brazil police raid home of Olympic committee chief
[Al Jazeera] [Al Jazeera] Brazilian police have searched the home of Carlos Arthur Nuzman, head of the country's Olympic committee, as part of a corruption probe into the 2016 Rio Games.

At least 70 officers - in liaison with French officials - on Tuesday also served two arrest warrants and conducted search and seizure operations in 11 sites across Rio, in an investigation into a suspected international vote-buying scheme to secure Rio de Janeiro's selection as the host of last year's Olympics.

Brazil's federal police and French officials, including well-known French anti-corruption judge, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, could be seen outside Nuzman's house in Rio's affluent seaside Leblon neighbourhood.

Nuzman himself was seen leaving by car as police exited his house carrying sacks of evidence.

In a statement, Brazilian police did not give names, but said they were probing "an international corruption scheme" aimed at "the buying of votes for the election of (Rio) by the International Olympic Committee as the venue for the 2016 Olympics."

Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gee, wonder if we could do that for Mitt?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't share with upstairs?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/06/2017 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I like Brazilian people. Some of them are very much like Americans. I even thought about doing international business in some way in Brazil, but after closer scrutiny, I found two major problems:

1) Their government is very anti-business. You think the US Dems are bad, read the booklet provided by the Brazilian consulate to Americans considering doing business there. It is so pro-worker that there is almost no way to make money as a capitalist. The socialist party goes out of its way to take any profits.

2) To try to survive therefore, business people have to lie and hide a lot of their commercial activities from the government, which breeds corruption, which is getting to be the way to do things to keep a buck.

The rich who live in the high rises on the resort beaches such as Rio Camboriu, Santa Catarina, Brazil got there not by just hard work, but by deceiving the "workers party" government in major ways.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/06/2017 1:23 Comments || Top||

#4  correction Rio Camboriu should be Balneário Camboriú.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 09/06/2017 1:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Their government is very anti-business.

I.e., corrupt socialists.
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 1:45 Comments || Top||

#6  After spend $125 million on their bid, Chicago never even saw the long knives come out before they hit the ground.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 09/06/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan accused of $2.9bn money-laundering scheme
[Al Jazeera] Azerbaijan's ruling elite ran a secret 2.5 billion euro ($2.9bn) slush fund to pay off European politicians and launder money, according to an investigation by a group of European newspapers.

The fund operated for two years from 2012 to 2014 through bank accounts of four shell companies registered in Britannia, according to the investigation by papers including The Guardian and La Belle France's Le Monde and published on Tuesday by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

Nicknamed the "Azerbaijan Laundromat", the origin of the fund is unclear "but there is ample evidence of its connection to the family of President Ilham Aliyev", the report said.

Authorities in the energy-rich country dismissed claims that the funds were linked to the first family and said the reports were "biased, unfounded and provocative".

"They are part of a campaign to smear Azerbaijan," presidential adviser Ali Hasanov told AFP news agency, pointing the finger at arch-foe Armenia and the "global Armenian lobby."
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  US aid money?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Clinton Foundation subsidiary.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/06/2017 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  The fund operated for two years from 2012 to 2014 through bank accounts of four shell companies registered in Britannia...

€ 2.5 Bn? John Brennan must be turning green about now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
How North Korea could wipe out electrical networks across the US with a high-altitude EMP blast
[DailyMail] North Korea's latest nuclear weapons test has renewed fears of a devastating electro-magnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could wipe out electrical grids across the US.

For the first time, North Korea specifically mentioned the possibility of an EMP attack on the US following Sunday's test of a 100-kiloton weapon, which the regime claims is a thermonuclear bomb.

The weapon could wipe out much of a city, but the pulse from a high-altitude blast could sow chaos and destruction far wider.
North Korea's state news agency warned that the weapon 'is a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack.'


A nuclear bomb detonated 19 miles above the earth would affect Kansas and the surrounding states. One detonated at an altitude of 294 miles would affect most of the continental US. The map above shows EMP blast zones (red) of detonations at different altitudes (black numbers)
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 07:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As anyone else with the capability, which the Norks have yet to achieve. Why haven't you taken hardening measures because of others but now with Kimmy you seem to pay attention?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  It would take several weapons to wipe out the US grid system. The effect of one warhead is limited by the size of the weapon and the altitude it's detonated.
Mainly, our cell phones would be fried but our Fleming valve audio amplifiers would be fine.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/06/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Fleming valve audio amplifiers would be fine

Only if we can use them to order pizza and read the 'Burg.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Why would we ignore the thing as it rose from North Korea, not shooting it down over China or the ocean?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/06/2017 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Everything should have been hardened during the cold war. That it was not says a lot about our elites.

I'm not even talking about the Soviets either, solar storms and other natural things can cause all sorts of damage and our elites shrug and hope and spend the money on hookers or their new estates or whatever.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/06/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#6  A North Korean EMP attack would still be a nuclear attack by an identified adversary, very likely triggering nuclear retaliation.

I'd be more worried about North Korea organizing smaller scale (i.e. a few 100s or 1000s dead) WMD terror attacks on western targets.

North Korea, as a nuclear state sponsor of these attacks could then offer the alternative of paying protection money or getting used to monthly massacres.

If, hypothetically, there was a VX terror attack on Japan or even the US killing 1000s of people and North Korea was the likely state power behind this, only able and willing to maintain implausible deniability, would the US go to nuclear war over this? And what would be the consequences if there was no US response?

North Korea has already crossed the chemical WMD threshold. Nuclear deterrence and the use of WMD offer the not too unrealistic opportunity to turn Western nations into tributary states.

An EMP attack would be outright suicidal.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/06/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  A misslle launched from a ship in the gulf of Mexico would be impossable to intercept.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2017 11:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't be all that surprised if/when a North Korean nuclear blast wipes out a large Chinese city. Stranger things in history have happened. You read it first on the 'Burg.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/06/2017 13:45 Comments || Top||

#9  "Everything should have been hardened during the cold war. That it was not says a lot about our elites."

One of the least well informed comments at Rantburg, against stiff competition.

DTRA has spent a lot of time and effort attempting to model EMP potential effects and devise manageable hardening approaches that cost less than the GDP every year. The explosion of electronics everywhere, including related to the power grid(s - there's more than one), and the role of the Internet in SCADA signalling to control the grid, makes this extremely difficult to do.
Posted by: Knuckles Slineger2610 || 09/06/2017 19:57 Comments || Top||


North Korea: 'More gift packages' coming for the US
[Al Jazeera] North Korea has threatened to send "more gift packages" to the United States, days after testing the biggest nuclear weapon it has ever detonated.

Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
in Geneva, addressed the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday after his country carried out its sixth nuclear test.

"I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force," Han told the Geneva forum.

"The recent self-defence measures by my country, DPRK, are a gift package addressed to none other than the US," Han said.

"The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK," he added without elaborating.

Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Just watched an 'old' movie, "Outbreak".
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone should remind this fat fuck that we have over 2,000 'gifts'.
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Just "regift" them to the Chinese government. If China don't want them, then they should contain Nkors.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/06/2017 3:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Japan Nukes

Meanwhile in Tokyo, ruling party heavyweight Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday on a TV show that Japan should review its policy of not allowing the U.S. to bring atomic weapons into its territory, according to Kyodo News. This would strengthen the deterrence provided by the alliance with the U.S. in the face of the North Korean threat, the lawmaker said.

Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that Japan was gathering information on North Korea’s electromagnetic pulse attack development.

Hours after detonating the device, North Korea’s state-run news agency called it a “thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.”

Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday that the explosion was 10 times more powerful than the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in the final days of World War II.

Bloomberg link
Posted by: 3dc || 09/06/2017 6:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I could be wrong, but something tells me Kim Jong-un will never live long enough to cash his first Social Security check.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||


Russian-North Korea projects foundering because of missile tests
[Rooters] Commercial ventures planned between Russia and North Korea three years ago are not being implemented because of Pyongyang’s missile testing program, the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East, Alexander Galushka, said.

Russia has been under international scrutiny over North Korea because it has taken a more doveish approach to Pyongyang than Washington, and Russian trade with North Korea increased sharply at the start of this year.

The United States government earlier this month imposed new North Korea-related sanctions that targeted Russian firms and individuals for, it alleged, supporting Pyongyang’s weapons programs and providing oil.

However Galushka, in an interview with Reuters, said Moscow was faithfully implementing the international sanctions regime on North Korea, and held up the stalled bilateral projects as an indication that Pyongyang was paying an economic price for its weapons program.

“Russia has not violated, does not violate and will not work outside the framework (of the resolution) that was accepted by the U.N. Security Council,” said Galushka, who also heads a Russia-North Korean Intergovernmental Commission.

Russian businesses discussed a number of projects with North Korea in 2014. But then North Korea conducted military tests, including some involving nuclear weapons, and the projects became difficult to implement, Galushka said.

One such project, called “Pobeda”, or “Victory,” would have involved Russian investments and supplies that could be exchanged for access to Korean natural resources.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Great note Pappy, thanks.
Seems the US is washing money thru NKor to Russia.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  It started three years ago. The sanctions didn't happen until recently.

Who was President three years ago?

As far as "washing money", that makes no sense.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/06/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Vlad just doesn't feel the investment is worth it to save a Chinese puppet state... Sanctions, We don't worry about no steenking sanctions!--Vlad (paraphrasing the old movie line)
Posted by: magpie || 09/06/2017 14:54 Comments || Top||


North Korean mountain above nuclear bomb test site is at risk of COLLAPSING
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] North Korea staged its sixth nuclear test blast at its Punggye-ri base on Sunday

  • US monitors measured a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake near testing site

  • Chinese experts fear another blast could 'blow the roof' off mountain at the base

  • A collapse in the mountain 'could spark a toxic radiation drift across the region'
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Of course it could also begin to spin the Pacific plate.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Chinese experts fear another blast could 'blow the roof' off mountain at the base

What are the Chinese experts doing there? Very suspicious!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/06/2017 3:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Chinese experts fear another blast could 'blow the roof' off mountain at the base

Why warn the enemy that they are making a mistake?
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I would laugh my ass off if it did. Especially if Pudgy was caught underneath it at the time.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe they'll blow the top off and chubby can finally build his SPECTRE-quality volcano base.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/06/2017 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Too bad we don't have covert operations organization which isn't as compromised as a steel sieve... We might take advantage of this situation.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/06/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Nice mountain ya' got there.....
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/06/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Indeed, Seeking Cure: I doubt Kimmy is operating without ChiCom consent - or more likely, assistance.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/06/2017 15:01 Comments || Top||

#9  So when the mountain collapses, does Godzilla or Mothra come out of their tomb?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/06/2017 15:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Most likely it would be Pulgasari the North Korean Kaiju.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/06/2017 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  The Stay-Puft Kim Jong-Un.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/06/2017 15:55 Comments || Top||

#12  I can understand a mountain collapsing when you set off nukes under it. Bad for the foundation.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/06/2017 19:55 Comments || Top||


ACLU to Trump: Only Congress can authorize North Korea military action
[THEHILL] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned President Trump on Tuesday that only Congress can authorize a military strike on North Korea, as tensions with Pyongyang continue to escalate.
You knew something like this was coming.
"The American Civil Liberties Union strongly urges you to uphold the Constitution, and the fundamental principle of separation of powers, by recognizing the sole authority of Congress to declare war ‐ and to refrain from the use of force against North Korea in the absence of explicit congressional authorization for the use of force," the group wrote in a letter to Trump on Tuesday.

"This drumbeat of threats over the past several weeks has raised concerns across the country about whether you will abide by the check on the president’s power that is fundamental to the Constitution’s separation of powers on war authority."

The letter cites a number of comments Trump has made over the past month about North Korea after the country test-fired intercontinental ballistic missiles and carried out its sixth nuclear test.

Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Can we move the ACLU headquarters to Guam?
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Tell it to the Libyans.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/06/2017 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Just awoke from an 8 year sleep?

Why don't you take that up with Congress run by the Uniparty which has funded wars for that same period. Which is why if you had any concept of the Constitution and it founders, they focused on keeping the standing army and navy small and backed off of alliances so that the Executive couldn't get involved in these things. That was all thrown out in 1948. You're late to the party. See - Thomas Jefferson vs Barbary Pirates, if you like precedent.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2017 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump's going to have a kinetic military action, it's not a war.

ACLU are obviously racists if they complain...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/06/2017 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  And homophobes.
Posted by: gorb || 09/06/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Technically, you fucknuts, we are already at war. Just in a very long truce and we can fire at any time.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Two points. 1. If we had to wait for Congress to do anything it might happen sometime towards the end of Trumps second term or never. 2. If there were a launch against the U.S., there would not be time to obtain a declaration of war against the Nork's. Are response would be required ASAP.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Darth, technically we are in an armistice. Per Wiki: It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. representing the United Nations Command (UNC), North Korean General Nam Il representing the Korean People's Army (KPA), and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. It doesn't say why S Korea did not sign it.
Seems we were the first to abrogate the treaty by putting nukes in S.Korea in the 60's.
Posted by: texhooey || 09/06/2017 18:10 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Outspoken East Tennessee white nationalist at Fort Sanders rally once active in Occupy, communist groups
[KnoxNews] One of the most visible white nationalists at the recent Fort Sanders Confederate monument demonstration was, until until a few years ago, active in communist organizations, the Occupy movement and protests against racism.

Garon Archer, a native of Johnson City, was the protester on Aug. 26 who repeatedly screamed, "The Southern nation is a white nation."

He said he came to last Saturday’s demonstration to represent the League of the South, an Alabama-based white supremacist group that has said it considers mainstream U.S. culture "corrupt" and is rebelling against the "politically correct" and multicultural diversity in the South.

Two weeks earlier, Archer was visible in "Democracy Now!" footage of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Clad in a baseball helmet and holding a shield, he attacked a counter-protester. At a similar rally in New Orleans, he was recorded screaming racial slurs at a black woman.
I didn't watch the videos, but if you click through to the article, they have videos of this guy in his various incarnations as white nationalist and Occupy Johnson City...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  I suppose we have white nationalists around East Tennessee but you don't usually hear much about them. I never heard of Garon Archer. He must not make too much noise. Johnson City is about 100 miles north of Knoxville. Many of these people seem to be confused and in search of identity and attention.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 15:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Do we have a false flag operation in progress amoung the leftists?

Geez, they are smarter than I thought.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/06/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
House Intel subpoenas FBI, DOJ over Trump dossier
[The Hill] The House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the FBI and Department of Justice for documents about a controversial dossier that linked President Trump to Russia.

The committee issued the two identical subpoenas on Aug. 24, requesting that both agencies hand over documents containing information about the dossier, the FBI’s relationship to its author and whether the FBI had supported an opposition research project against Trump in the last months of the 2016 presidential campaign, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

The subpoenas set a deadline of Sept. 1 for the documents to be handed over, but it was extended to Sept. 14 after both departments missed the deadline, according to the Examiner.

The panel also issued subpoenas Tuesday to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appear before the committee to say why they hadn’t handed over the documents.

"We got nothing," committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told the Examiner. "The witnesses have not been produced, and the documents have not been produced."

The controversial dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, contained unverified information about Trump that tied to him to Russia.
That would be the same Christopher Steele who can no longer be contacted or located.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has also homed in on the dossier in their investigation into Russian election interference. The co-founder of the firm that ordered the dossier, Fusion GPS, spoke to investigators from that committee last month.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 04:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We got nothing," committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told the Examiner. "The witnesses have not been produced, and the documents have not been produced."

And I'm betting you never will !

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 4:14 Comments || Top||

#2  "What is this Treadstone that you speak of?"
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 4:32 Comments || Top||

#3  There is an obvious fight going on between the intelligence services and the Republican led congress. It's a power fight.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2017 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Cut their funds and staffing
Posted by: Frank G || 09/06/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||


Sheriff David Clarke Takes New Position in Pro-Trump Super PAC
[Free Beacon] Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke announced Tuesday that he had accepted a position with the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action.

Clarke will become a spokesman and senior advisor to the PAC, Politico reported. Clarke announced his departure from Milwaukee County law enforcement last week.

Clarke is known as a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, having stumped for the president on TV and appeared at the 2016 Republican National Convention. He has also attracted controversy: during his tenure as Milwaukee County Sheriff, the jail Clarke oversaw was accused of mistreating inmates on several occasions. Some staff members remain under investigation.

Brian O. Walsh, America First Action’s president, released a statement on Tuesday the describe Clarke has having "devoted his life" to "making America safe again."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2017 04:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Clarke is a white supremacist right?




do I need a /sarc?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/06/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  According to Maxine Waters so is Ben Carson.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course he is - his true identity is solely determined by the perception of the aggrieved
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/06/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course he is - his true identity is solely determined by the perception of the aggrieved
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/06/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  I second that BF.
Posted by: Angaimble Fillmore2744 || 09/06/2017 11:17 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
With just 4 universities in top 1,000, Pakistan falls in world rankings this year
[DAWN] Four Pak universities have made it to the 14th annual edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings this year.
That's where they teach 'em all that logic stuff.
The rankings reflect a decline from last year's list, which included seven Pak institutes among the top 1,000 in the world.

Of the four, only Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) is among the top 500 universities. The shift into the 401-500 cohort for QAU is an improvement from its position in the 601-800 band in last year's rankings.
Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Let's give them the Common Core!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Their political science departments specialize in "how to be too clever by half."
Posted by: PBMcL || 09/06/2017 2:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Whew! For a minute there, I was worried about my alma mater (UNH - Durham) losing out to one of these fine Pakistani universities...
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 2:44 Comments || Top||

#4  But they can still provide IT experts to the US Congress, right?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/06/2017 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  4 actually made it?
Posted by: John Frum || 09/06/2017 19:28 Comments || Top||

#6  That's OK, universities here in the US will be happy to let them in.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/06/2017 19:52 Comments || Top||


Ex-judge’s son falls to death after escaping arrest
[DAWN] The son of a retired judge beat feet from police custody and died after jumping from the rooftop of a house in Morgah on Sunday night, police said.

The former justice of the Lahore High Court had filed a complaint with the Morgah police against his son Omer Khattab, 42, over a family dispute and asked the police to take him away.

In response to the complaint, the police picked Omer from his house on Sunday night. The police said while Omer was being taken to the Morgah cop shoppe in a police van, he jumped out of the vehicle and bravely ran away.

As the police started a chase, Omer entered a house and jumped onto the street from its rooftop and suffered fatal injuries.
As seen on teevee and in on video games.
He was shifted to the Fauji Foundation Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
said the police.

Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gene pool!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2017 0:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Californians Give North Korea Congratulations On Achieving Their Dream Of Hydrogen Bomb
Moved to Page 3

Gotta' hit the link to see. The comments are, er, "interesting."
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/06/2017 13:21 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just when you think people couldn't get any dumber...
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2017 14:28 Comments || Top||

#2  They should invite Kimmie to Burning Man.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/06/2017 19:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Love the graphic! I'm stealing it right now!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/06/2017 19:54 Comments || Top||


Bill Would Block Universities in Ohio from Disinviting Controversial Speakers
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/06/2017 07:52 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



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