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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Trump Campaign Adviser Identified In Dossier Sues Yahoo! News
[Daily Caller] Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, filed a defamation lawsuit against the parent company of Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post on Thursday over articles published alleging collusion with the Kremlin last year.

The focus of the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York against Yahoo’s parent, Oath Inc., is a Sept. 23, 2016, article published by veteran political reporter Michael Isikoff.

The core allegations in the article appear to have been provided to Isikoff by Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the now-infamous Trump dossier.

The article, entitled "U.S. Intel Officials Probe Ties Between Trump Adviser and Kremlin," stated that U.S. intelligence officials were "seeking to determine whether an American businessman identified by Donald Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers has opened up private communications with senior Russian officials."

Isikoff’s report cited intelligence reports that had been shared with U.S. officials which alleged that Page met in Moscow last July with Page met with Igor Sechin, an associate of Vladimir Putin’s and the CEO of Russian oil giant, Rosneft, and another Putin aide named Igor Diveykin.

Isikoff’s sources said that Page, who did travel to Moscow at that time to give a commencement speech at the New Economic School, may have discussed the removal of sanctions with Sechin and Diveykin.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 16:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One would think Robert Mueller would have something of an interest in the so-called Trump Dossier issue, but apparently he does not.

Difficult to pick up the Dossier by the 'clean end' I suppose.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||


Judicial Watch: New Clinton Emails Uncovered, Reveal Additional Mishandling of Classified Information
[Judicial Watch] Washington, DC ‐ Judicial Watch today released 1,617 new pages of documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing numerous additional examples of classified information being transmitted through the unsecure, non-state.gov account of Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, as well as many instances of Hillary Clinton donors receiving special favors from the State Department.

The documents included 97 email exchanges with Clinton not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 627 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over, and further contradicting a statement by Clinton that, "as far as she knew," all of her government emails had been turned over to department.

The emails are the 20th production of documents obtained in response to a court order in a May 5, 2015, lawsuit Judicial Watch filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)). Judicial Watch sued after State failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking: "All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-’state.gov’ email address."

On September 11, 2009, the highly sensitive name and email address of the person giving the classified Presidential Daily Brief was included in an email forwarded to Abedin’s unsecure email account by State Department official Dan Fogerty.

The State Department produced many more Clinton and Abedin unsecured emails that were classified:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 10:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Comey's investigation was obviously a sham. Come on Sessions and DoJ, get off your collective arses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Is Sessions part of the deep state?
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2017 11:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems to be a nice fellow, but that's not paying the rent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Is Sessions part of the deep state?

No, but there's another name for it.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/15/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Collusion?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/15/2017 13:40 Comments || Top||

#6  He was a Senator. Try something else.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/15/2017 14:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Parasite!
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2017 15:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Chickenpoop?
Posted by: Cravilet Poodle5789 || 09/15/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Sessions might be too much of a gentleman. Seems to be an affliction shared by many Republicans.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/15/2017 19:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Gentleman? I was thinking milquetoast.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2017 21:11 Comments || Top||


Cartel members tied to meth ‘super-lab’ arrested in Dallas
[STAR-TELEGRAM] Eight suspects linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico have been placed in durance vile
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in Dallas on federal drug charges, accused of trafficking methamphetamine and other drugs from a "super-lab" and selling them out of a used car dealership over the last year, authorities announced Wednesday.

The suspects are also accused of using homes in Dallas and DeSoto as laboratories to recrystallize the meth, according to a federal indictment, which was unsealed Wednesday.

The defendants are: Marco Antonio Gonzalez, 31; Ricardo Mendez-Negrete, 42; Jose Trinidad Medina Tapia, 31; Miguel Carrillo-Ayala, 38; Alma Zoraida Borrayo-Villasenor, 32; Javier Guizar-Hernandez, 28; Hector Garcia-Gomez, 36; and Ivan Gonzalez, 22.

Borrayo-Villasenor, Carrillo-Ayala, Tapia and Guizar-Hernandez are Mexican citizens and were here illegally, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Car dealerships are notorious 'cover's for action.' I would officer DNC Information Technology fellow Imran Awan's Cars International as an example.

The closure of this "super-lab" will have a devastating effect on the urban economy. What were they thinking ?

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Reminds me of the Haitian tire shop down the street from a friend's in Florida. Lots of all hours milling around, not much tire changing. Definitely cover for something.
Posted by: Crusoth Clock7726 || 09/15/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Is a cartel the same as a gang?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/15/2017 23:23 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Crocodile Rock Lagoon Claims Life of Oxford University Graduate
[SUN] A Financial Times journalist was killed by a crocodile while washing his hands at a lagoon in Sri Lanka during a holiday with pals.

Paul McClean, 25, an Oxford University graduate, is understood to have wandered away from his group of friends to find a toilet when he was attacked.

The British victim, from Surrey, was seen "waving his hands in the air" in desperation before being dragged under water at a lagoon called Crocodile Rock near Arugam Bay.

McClean graduated from Oxford with a First Class Honors degree in French in 2015 before joining the Financial Times later that year.

He had covered Brexit and the EU for the newspaper and had recently returned to London after living in Brussels for a couple of months.

The lagoon, known to be crawling with crocodiles, is yards away from popular surf spot Elephant Rock near Arugam Bay on the southeast coast.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 05:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And not just any species of crocodile either. An estuarine crocodile. Bad news.
Posted by: Unereth Protector of the Bunions4999 || 09/15/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Florida rapper music video shows him lynching a young white boy
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] XXXTentacion's video for Look At Me shows him lynching a young white boy

  • It also shows him and two other black men being hanged elsewhere in the video

  • The video reenacts the killings of Emmett Till, Philando Castile and Heather Heyer, a white woman who was killed at the Charlottesville protests

  • XXXTentacion claims the video condemns racial violence on both sides

  • He was blasted by critics who said it was 'sick' to use a kid to prove a point

  • In the past, rapper was accused of beating a pregnant woman and strangulation
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who's the real Klan now?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/15/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Too bad one can't with 3Xs in the test or link. Though one can still search on

"stage name" + Will Begin Trial For Beating Up Pregnant Girlfriend, Faces 30 Years In Prison

and

"stage name" + Reported Victim Details Grim Pattern of Abuse in Testimony

to get a glimpse of the feral animals your tax dollars and the "It takes a village" crowd have raised.
Posted by: Snomble Throluter4608 || 09/15/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  My how rap has declined.

We have gone from 50 Cents to 30 Tents.

Heather Heyer, how was that depicted?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||


Tucker Battles Writer Who Considers 'Star-Spangled Banner' a 'Neo-Confederate Symbol'
[INSIDER.FOXNEWS]
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Intelligence has limits; ignorance has no bounds.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/15/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I disagree John, Ignorance can be cured, stupidity cannot.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/15/2017 10:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The latter is eventually self-curing.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/15/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Tucker is having way too much fun!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/15/2017 19:50 Comments || Top||


Equifax had 'admin' as login and password in Argentina
[BBC] The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations.

Cyber-crime blogger Brian Krebs said that an online employee tool used in the country could be accessed by typing "admin" as both a login and password.

He added that this gave access to records that included thousands of customers' national identity numbers.

Last week, the firm revealed a separate attack affecting millions in the US.

After being notified of the latest breach, Equifax temporarily shut the affected website.

"We learned of a potential vulnerability in an internal portal in Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
which was not in any way connected to the cyber-security event that occurred in the United States last week," an Equifax spokeswoman told the BBC.

"We immediately acted to remediate the situation, which affected a limited amount of information strictly related to Equifax employees.

"We have no evidence at this time that any consumers or customers have been negatively affected, and we will continue to test and improve all security measures in the region."

The discovery came less than a week after Equifax revealed that a separate breach meant about 143 million US consumers and an undisclosed number of British and Canadian residents might have had personal details exposed.

The firm took six weeks to make the discovery public after first learning of a problem.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suggest they change the password from "admin" to "toast".
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 09/15/2017 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  The three main credit reporting agencies are Equifax, Experian, and Transunion. Equifax has had a data security breach. It's not clear why the hackers hacked into the data and for what purpose. Perhaps stealing one's identity, blackmail or fraud. Regardless of the purpose, floating credit to someone is based on these credit reports. I can see where these hacks could really mess with the economy.

Equifax was the only credit agency hacked. It would seem that if Equifax data were hacked and altered, it could be checked against data held by Experian and Transunion. If there were disparities, then it would appear there is a problem. Perhaps, some arrangement could be made to true the credit record based on those reports which have not been changed and are accurate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/15/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian troops agree to withdraw from Abia
The Nigerian army has agreed to withdraw soldiers from Aba and Umuahia in Abia state. According to The Cable, Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia state governor, made the announcement of the withdrawal of troops during a press conference on Thursday. Troops had been deployed to the state for a military exercise tagged Operation Python Dance II.

But earlier:
Troops invade home of IPOB leader

At least four persons were said to have been killed when troops from the Nigerian Army broke into the Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia country home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

However, there were conflicting figure of the number of dead as unconfirmed reports put it at between 18 and 22 with scores injured.

But the whereabouts of the IPOB leader is immediately known but a reliable source from the family confirmed that he was safe, At about 5.30 shortly after Governor Okezie Ikpeazu ended his media briefing where he announced that he has reached an understanding with the army for gradual withdrawal of soldiers from the streets of Aba and Umuahia, sounds of sporadic gun shooting started coming out from the direction of Kanu’s home.

All the entrances leading to the house were barricaded with military vans with scores of soldiers stationed there, shooting in the air to scare away people. The shooing and operation in the house lasted for over 30 minutes.

According to a family source, “the Palace was desecrated and ransacked as the soldiers searched all nooks and crannies of the house”. The source also claimed that cars in the house was vandalized a family dog shot dead.

The father, HRH Eze Israel Kanu and his wife were said to be in the Palace while the operation lasted. It was not however clear if any incriminating. Calls put across to the Army public relations officer of 14, Brigade, Major Oyegoke Gbadamosi was not picked but his boss, the deputy director, Army Public Relations, 82 Division, Col- Sagir Musa said he was not in Umuahia and promised to make inquiries from his men on ground and get back to me. But he has not got back as at the time of going to filing the report Thursday night.
If you're like me, the only thing you know about Nigeria is from the film "Tears of the Sun". Apparently, things have been festering since early last summer between the Nigerian government and a separatist group in the region known years ago as Biafra.
Posted by: badanov || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Saudi to take bids to kick off ambitious nuclear power plants
All the work will be done by hired Philippine and Palestinian technicians, desultorily supervised by grossly overpaid native Saudis with degrees but no hands on experience. What could possibly go wrong?
[Iran Press TV] 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...
is preparing to launch a tender for its first nuclear power plants as early as next month, sources in the industry say, noting that the oil-rich kingdom is bent on diversifying its energy supply.

The world’s top oil exporter is hoping to lure in potential vendors from countries like Russia, South Korea, La Belle France, China and Japan to start construction next year of reactors needed for two plants with a total capacity of up to 2.8 gigawatts, Rooters reported on Thursday, citing three sources.

"Competition will be fierce," said an industry source, noting that Riyadh was expected to file a Request for Information (RFI) to suppliers come October, officially starting the tender process after completing feasibility studies.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  The Russians will make a killing sell them American uranium. Hillary's Red Reset button really works.
Posted by: Snomble Throluter4608 || 09/15/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||


Britain
DSEI 2017: Chinook to stay in UK's future fleet (UK wants SOAR G variant)
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sometimes technology reaches a plateau and it is incredibly difficult to make a better mousetrap. The Ma Deuce, the C130 Hercules, the B52 BUFF, and the CH47 Chinook... replacing with better, possibly, but how much would it cost for the little that you would get?
Posted by: magpie || 09/15/2017 19:46 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Russia, China Playing Major Role in Keeping Venezuela Afloat
[FreeBeacon] The countries 'have provided capital, goods, services, and political backing'

Russia and China have played a major role in keeping the dictatorial Maduro regime in Venezuela afloat, according to expert testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday.

Evan Ellis, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor at the U.S. Army War College, appeared before the Western Hemisphere subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee for a hearing on the malicious influence of state and criminal actors in the Latin American nation's ongoing breakdown.

"I would like to emphasize how both Russia and China, in the pursuit of their commercial and strategic interests in Venezuela, have provided capital, goods, services, and political backing that has indirectly enabled the populist regime to ignore and ultimately destroy the mechanisms of democratic accountability," Ellis began his testimony.

Venezuela has been wracked by a social and economic crisis in recent years, driven in large part by clashes between the government of President Nicolás Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the opposition-controlled National Assembly. The struggle has seen the dissolution of the Parliament and the subsequent creation of a Constitutional Assembly in an election that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called a "sham." There have been numerous, bloody street protests, with more than 100 dead in connection with anti-government demonstrations. The Trump administration has sanctioned Venezuela and Maduro himself.

This political turmoil may be further exacerbated by the possibility of a credit default by PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.), Venezuela's state-owned petroleum firm. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, and the Venezuelan economy relies on oil for 95 percent of export revenues; PDVSA also provides substantial revenue to the current government. Rumors have circulated for months about a PDVSA default, which would plunge the government into a financial crisis that could result in the collapse of an already unsteady regime.

Amid the crisis, both Russia and China have established serious leverage over Venezuela. China, which Ellis ranks as the more involved of the pair, is now Venezuela's principal banker, and has been since August 2014. Venezuela also stores a portion of its gold reserves in China. Additionally, China represents a "major source of credit" for Venezuela, Ellis said, to the tune of 62.2 billion dollars since 2005. Those loans are mostly repaid in shipments of oil.

"As the majority of international companies have withdrawn from Venezuela, the work performed by Chinese entities funded by such credit has become increasingly critical for building and maintaining the oil, electricity, and transportation infrastructure to get Venezuela's oil to market," Ellis explained. He noted that China had just handed another 2.7 billion dollars to Venezuela in the form of further infrastructure projects, including a new Chinese oil refinery.

China has also supplanted Russia as the top provider of arms to Venezuela, billions of dollars worth of deals extended mostly on credit.

Russia's presence in Venezuela ranks below China's, but is "significant" in Ellis's estimation. It has sold over $11 billion in military hardware to Venezuela since 2006, and used Venezuela as a basis for military power projection in Latin America, including the deployment of several nuclear capable Tu-160 Backfire bombers there.

Russia is also tied up in Venezuela's oil economy. Rosneft, a Russian state-owned oil company, has provided $17 billion dollars to PDVSA since 2008, including six billion dollars during the current liquidity crisis. In 2016, Rosneft traded $1.5 billion dollars in loans for a 49 percent stake in PDVSA subsidiary Citgo.

All of this assistance from Russia and China effectively shores up the stability of the Maduro regime, Ellis said.

Ellis said that neither Russia nor China is particularly opposed to the collapse of the Maduro regime, assuming that it would create a vacuum into which an even more anti-U.S., pro-Russia and China actor could enter.

"I believe that Russia and China as much as everyone else wants a transition away from the Maduro regime," Ellis explained. "But what they want to transition to is very different. I believe that they are hoping they can get a transition to an equally anti-U.S. authoritarian regime that will let them legally legitimize their holdings."

While their involvements in Venezuela may pose a political and military threat to the United States, Russia and China's entanglement in the teetering Maduro regime also provides insight into the appropriate diplomatic and sanction strategy for the U.S. to adopt. Ellis was bullish on the prospect of further sanctions, targeted at PDVSA, which would severely challenge the government's ability to continue to service the ballooning debt that China and Russia have used to keep it afloat.

"I actually believe that we are at a unique moment where, although oftentimes sanctions are not effective, sanctions may have a particular opportunity to be effective in this case, specifically because PDVSA is at the brink of a cascading liquidity crisis," he said.

U.S. sanctions have forced the Maduro government to prioritize servicing its debt, as those sanctions have limited Venezuela's ability to restructure, according to Bloomberg. However, Bloomberg estimates that the likelihood of a Venezuelan default over the next 12 months has declined from 65 to 61 percent.
there's lots of links there, I didn't bother copying them over.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/15/2017 09:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Russia and China have played a major role in keeping the dictatorial Maduro regime in Venezuela afloat.

Afloat? Yes, and other examples might include; North Korea, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, and Cuba just to name of few.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Make sure those 2 countries don't build an NKor missile launching site in Venezuela.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/15/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  It's all in the interest of White Nationalism, I'm sure. And Maduro is just a Brown Aryan.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/15/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Fine. Let them throw their money down a rathole.
Posted by: Tom || 09/15/2017 13:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Who cares what happens to Venezuela? The only ones who care are the banks who are furious that there's a country they don't control.

Let Venezuela stew in their own juices. They'll collapse of their own accord. Why we have any kind of interest there is a mystery to me.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 09/15/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  In short, shut up and let China/Russia take ownership of the oil there. Blah blah blah.

The Bankers, The Capitalists, the Juice, it's all the same...

They're implementing 14th century mercantilism worldwide with the US as the designated mark/patsy, all the while saying (depending on who they think the audience is) they're fighting the Bankers, the 1%, the Globalists... (while they're instituting a globalist system, no less!) and pretending they're nationalists at the same time.

Here's a reminder of what they've done in Venezuela in the past...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-china-reselling-chavezs-cheap-oil/

President Hugo Chavez's government has sold China oil for as little as $5 a barrel and was upset that China apparently profited by selling fuel to other countries, according to a classified U.S. document released by WikiLeaks.
The report about Chinese companies diverting oil was one of several newly released documents that also describe falling crude output in Venezuela caused by a host of problems within the national oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA.

The documents, posted online Monday by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, also showed that American officials have managed to cultivate sources within the state oil company in spite of Chavez's antagonism toward Washington.

The confidential memo from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas on Feb. 26 said a PDVSA director revealed that the state company "had analyzed its crude sales to China and determined that China had only paid $5/barrel of crude on a couple of deals" - a small fraction of the market price.


Hate to take up the bandwidth, but since y'all are either the platonic ideal of Short Attention Span Theatre or trolls or both, well, there it is. Go to the link for more details.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/15/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Gee, seems like the old days of the '50s - 80s.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/15/2017 18:04 Comments || Top||

#8  So wet need to get involved and overthrow maduro so that the commies dont get their hands on that shitty crude Venezuela produces? Eh?

Yes, in fact, Venezuela is one of the few countries not under control of the bankers and this makes them rage. For America it's not in our interest to spend any blood and treasure doing anything there. Let them rot.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 09/15/2017 20:26 Comments || Top||

#9  since y'all are either the platonic ideal of Short Attention Span Theatre or trolls or both,

Wait...Whut?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/15/2017 21:31 Comments || Top||


Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens
[Guardian] At least some of the incidents were confined to certain rooms with laser-like specificity, and some victims now have problems recalling specific words.
Pictured here, IDF Scream-II with left brain/right brain subwoofers disguised as diplomatic security arms room ammo can.
The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.

Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 US victims in an astonishing international mystery still unfolding in Cuba. The top US diplomat has called them "health attacks".

New details learned by the Associated Press indicate at least some of the incidents were confined to specific rooms or even parts of rooms with laser-like specificity, baffling US officials who say the facts and the physics don’t add up.

"None of this has a reasonable explanation," said Fulton Armstrong, a former CIA official who served in Havana long before America re-opened an embassy there. "It’s just mystery after mystery after mystery."
I'm, I'm, I'm incredulized. To borrow a phrase, a virtual 'riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.'

Second article, same topic - [Guardian] Botched surveillance job may have led to strange injuries at US embassy in Cuba.

BLUF: John Sipher, who spent 28 years in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, argued that while direct targeting of US diplomats is rare, unintended harm caused by surveillance efforts that go wrong are much more common.
Lucky for John, he can still remember.
"These efforts, while designed to further surveillance and eavesdropping and not to cause malicious damage, nevertheless risked or resulted in residual physical harm to US diplomats," Sipher said in a commentary on the Just Security website.

Sonic weapons are being developed by security forces around the world. The Israeli defence forces have a vehicle-mounted blaster called The Scream, while cruise ships have adopted a military grade "sound cannons" to project deafening noise over 300 metres to defend against possible pirate attacks.

However, such weapons have an immediate, crippling effect. Whatever has happened in Havana appears to have crept up on its victims more gradually and subtly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 00:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Muted U.S. Government outrage? Except for the Guardian, media non-play.
Nothing much if anything from Congressional Intelligence Committees. Much yawning, and discussion topic changing you say ?

Limited to certain rooms? While Cuban technology is impressive (note the numerous 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air's still poking about). Could it possibly be that our own "botched surveillance" or.... counter-surveillance systems are responsible ?

Just thinking outside the transmitter box. Perhaps we too, should change the topic of discussion, or no ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Just as likely that US Gov't efforts/devices in Cuba have misfired & hurt our own personnel. Induction of permanent brain damage without leaving a trace is scary stuff. Details of what actually happened will be very slowly released if they never get known at all.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/15/2017 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder if Trump's just waiting to play his hand here and reverse Obama yet again when he feels the time is right? I'd think anything tangible that can be pinned on the Cubans will be all he needs to close the embassy there and reinstate sanctions.
Posted by: Raj || 09/15/2017 3:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Easy to make, just get two or more directional tweeters and feed some amplified high frequency signals to them. Where the sounds cross paths, you get the annoying sounds as described, If you're in a single sound path, you hear nothing.

Good trick if you're in a museum, stand in front of an object and you'll hear narration about said object, move on to the next one and the old narration fade out and a new onw fade in.

It's a little tricky to insure proper out of phasing so as not to mix up the narrations, but satisfying whe it all works.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/15/2017 3:20 Comments || Top||

#5  "These efforts, while designed to further surveillance and eavesdropping and not to cause malicious damage, nevertheless risked or resulted in residual physical harm to US diplomats,"

Hey, Raul, new guinea pigs!

Trying something like a laser microphone, but in the lower energy spectrum.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/15/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Too often I've found that for which I've been looking.

1) Are others outside the embassy effected?
2) Does the embassy sit in the path of the AT&T microwave crossing the city?
3) Any measurable EMF from local high tension power lines?

I wouldn't be surprised if the cheap chinese surge protectors were decaying from transients and creating secondary effects.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/15/2017 13:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
NKor's Nuke Test Site: Sats Shows New Activity in Alternate Tunnel Portal Areas
[38North] Imagery from September 8 also shows a large tractor/trailer cargo truck in the South Portal Area for the first time, and mining carts and other equipment are present outside the West Portal. Such activity, coming shortly after the largest underground nuclear test conducted at Punggye-ri to date (via the North Portal), suggests that onsite work could now be changing focus to further prepare those other portals for future underground nuclear testing.

Revised Magnitude Estimates Raise the Equivalent Yield to Approximately One Quarter of a Megaton

At the time of 38 North’s first report on the sixth nuclear test, the preliminary seismic magnitude estimates varied from 5.8, as published by both the CTBTO and NORSAR, to 6.3 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). More recently, both the CTBTO and NORSAR have officially revised their estimates upward to 6.1. This revision is significant because, rather than providing an equivalent yield of about 120 kilotons derived from the lower magnitude estimates, the application of standard formula with appropriate constants shows that the yield can now be estimated to have been roughly 250 kilotons (one quarter megaton). This large explosive yield is also quite close to what 38 North had previously determined to be the maximum estimated containable yield for the Punggye-ri test site.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/15/2017 10:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Please add Punggye-ri to the target folder.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's nuke it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  They keep 'shakin and bakin' that mountain, it really will come down.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/15/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||


North Korea tested hydrogen bomb on Sept. 3: US nuclear commander
[Iran Press TV] The US general who is in charge of America's nuclear forces has confirmed that North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.

North Korea on September 3 announced it had conducted a "successful" hydrogen bomb test, hours after two tremors were detected in the country.

"The hydrogen bomb test was a perfect success," North Korean state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, adding that the device was capable of being loaded onto long-range missiles.

The United States had previously declined to characterize the test.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I'm sure glad we have highly paid experts to get obvious answers to us so slowly.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2017 11:19 Comments || Top||


North Korea threatens to reduce US to ‘ashes and darkness’
[NYPOST] A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test.

The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external ties and propaganda, also called for the breakup of the Security Council, which it called "a tool of evil" made up of "money-bribed" countries that move at the order of the United States.

"The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the committee said in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency.

Juche is the North’s ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  And the US will turn N Korea into a plain of radioactive glass.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/15/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Suet face has rhetorically painted himself into a corner, he's been so belligerent in his language that he is essentially on a course of action, he can't retreat from and now is beyond his control.

I expect him to actually try an attack on the US or US ally in the near future.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/15/2017 15:31 Comments || Top||

#3  "...But enough about Detroit!"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/15/2017 19:20 Comments || Top||


North Korea fires another missile, less than 2 weeks after nuclear bomb test
[Bus Insider] North Korea reportedly fired another missile, less than two weeks after its suspected hydrogen bomb test, South Korea's Yonhap News said on Friday morning local time.

South Korean military officials reportedly said that the missile was fired near Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, and headed eastward.

Emergency alerts in Japan were issued and an one account claims that it passed over Hokkaido at 7:06 a.m. local time and over to the Pacific Ocean.

Japan did not attempt to shoot down the missile, NHK reported.

A North Korea n state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a UN Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test, Reuters reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This location was undetected until the launch. Pongyang is a ghost town as residents were ordered to evac in April. He is still winning the psychological warefare aspect of this situation.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 09/15/2017 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Could have been a mobile launcher. Hard to keep tabs on.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/15/2017 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, a mobile transporter erector launcher (TEL) truck. Those are the ones imported from China due to the fact the NORKS do not have the technology to produce them.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles on the other hand......
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  And we just watch. We have given up on thumping our chests even.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2017 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  A few days back, I read that NORK was sitting on a pile of Bitcoins.

The day before yesterday, I read that China, in keeping with UN Sanctions™, had announced that its national bank would no longer deal in bitcoins.

Yesterday, NORK launches another missile, something I would take as a genuine swipe at the face of the UN and, more importantly, China.

China appears to have lost control over Li'l Kim, and I believe will not accept this latest evolution of their Loose Cannon. It's been fun to use NORK to troll the U.S., but crossing "Loss of Face" behavioral boundaries is not the Asiatic way.

I anticipate a new NORK leader more to the liking of China in short order.

Or, maybe not.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/15/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Well Gorb, you know what's said about wrestling pigs.

The silence from us should tell them something, mostly that we're too busy to waste time talking...
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 09/15/2017 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Chinese have to be made aware it's going to hurt them if this continues. Slapping a 100 percent tariff on computers imported from China would be a good start. Dunno if our leaders have the will for that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/15/2017 10:57 Comments || Top||

#8  If China were tired of their BS, they'd stop watering down the sanctions.
Posted by: gorb || 09/15/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Small, reluctant, incremental steps, oftentimes sideways. Behold the Chinese 'long-game.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Dunno if our leaders have the will for that.

Sorry Abu, I DO know...........they don't.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/15/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||


Europe
Catalonia launches campaign for independence referendum
[Iran Press TV]
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


US army robbed in Poland; nobody realised the burglary had taken place until two days later.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait until you've exercises in Romania
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/15/2017 4:13 Comments || Top||

#2  We lost Billions of dollars worth of equipment in Pakistan and Afghanistan - stolen from containers. Billions with a B...the largest theft in US history and nothing was done about it. The theivery left many units non mission capable...and we still deal with Pakistan...and we still transport our materiel through that country. This is criminal negligence by our military leaders.
Posted by: Tennessee || 09/15/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mnuchin: I would have paid for government plane myself
[The Hill] Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that he would have personally paid for the use of a government jet for his honeymoon, following a report that he had requested the use of such a plane in order to have secure communications.

"I didn't use a government plane on my honeymoon, and if I had I would have paid for it myself. #FakeNews," Mnuchin wrote on Twitter.

Mnuchin earlier Thursday defended his request to use a government plane for his honeymoon in June, saying "this had nothing to do with convenience. This was purely about national security."

Mnuchin, who is a member of the National Security Council and oversees the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, claimed that the story was "misreported" by the media.

The Office of the Inspector General in the Treasury Department is investigating the request for an Air Force jet for a European honeymoon with Mnuchin's wife Louise Linton, ABC News reported earlier this week.

Mnuchin and his wife are facing a similar inquiry from the inspector general for an August trip to Fort Knox in Kentucky, looking into whether the two used government resources to view the total solar eclipse.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 06:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, U.S. taxpayers spend millions ferrying the indolent arse and 'Resist Movement' chairman Soetoro everywhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 6:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Faisal Mosque official ‘target of incitement campaign’
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Amid growing concerns regarding the radicalisation of students, especially in the aftermath of the tragic lynching of Mashal Khan, the issue of bad boy activities on campuses has acquired renewed significance.

On Wednesday, another worrying incident came to light when a senior Faisal Mosque official alleged that he had been made the target of a concerted smear campaign that had declared him to be ’Qadiani’ ‐ a pejorative term for Ahmadis ‐ on social media.

Speaking before the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, Mosque Deputy Director Mohammad Tahir accused a staff member of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) of engineering the campaign, which instigated some 30,000 students to cause him physical harm.

The committee, chaired by Senator Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
, directed Senior Superintendent of Police Sajid Kiani to take the matter seriously and ensure the security of the complainant.

However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
IIUI Rector Dr Masoom Yasinzai told Dawn he had taken up the issue with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and sought an explanation was sought from the staffer in question, who had denied involvement in any campaign against Mr Tahir.

Talking to Dawn, Dr Masoom Yasinzai said the issue surfaced when the university learnt that CDA wanted to take control of the mosque.

Briefing the committee, Mr Tahir also claimed that on July 25, he had told a parliamentary committee that the IIUI still occupied offices inside the Faisal Mosque premises.

"Following my appearance, an IIUI staffer declared me to be ’Qadiani’ and extolled the 30,000 students of the university to not tolerate it. Since then, I have been feeling insecure with students’ demeanour towards me. I can say oath on that I am a Moslem, but no one believes me," he said.

Mr Tahir said he had complained to both police and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

Senator Malik said it was unfortunate that students were being instigated to take action against an individual who had been declared a ’Qadiani’ for personal gains, and asked the FIA about progress in the case.

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Boys 'cried from barred windows' as Islamic school blaze kills 23 in Malaysia
[MOBILE.REUTERS] A blaze at an Islamic boarding school in the Malaysian capital killed at least 23 people on Thursday, most of them teenage boys who cried for help from barred windows, officials and witnesses said.

The fire broke out at around 5.40 a.m. in a top-floor dormitory in the three-storey building, firemen said, where most of the students were sleeping in bunk beds, with many of the windows covered by metal grills. One survivor said there was just one window the boys managed to open.

Two teachers were also killed in the fire at the Darul Koran Ittifaqiyah, a 15-minute drive from the iconic Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, police said, adding that most of the victims died from smoke inhalation.

The youngest was just seven, media said.

The disaster has renewed calls for greater scrutiny of so-called "tahfiz" schools, where students learn to memorize the Koran. They are unregulated by the education ministry, being the responsibility of the religious department.
Posted by: Fred || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dormitories with bars on the windows. What's another name for them?

Greybar Hotel springs to mind.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/15/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Security bars on the first floor, sure. Second floor, eh well I guess still in ladder range or terrain. Third story?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2017 15:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Our 21st Century. The worst place
To be? A Mohammedan-cursed case:
Islamic Malaysian
Koran "education"
Looks up at the Triangle Shirtwaist.

Okay, a little hyperbolic. Sue me.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/15/2017 20:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Harvard Withdraws Chelsea Manning's Visiting Fellow Invitation
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/15/2017 09:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cut off his fellowship, they did.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Cut off his fellowship, they did.

A dick move, after they went and invited $INDEFINITE_PRONOUN. But I gotta ask, what was Harvard thinking in the first place? Does the School of Govt have a Treason program?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/15/2017 16:15 Comments || Top||


#4  Butt-hurt:

Chelsea Manning hung up phone on Harvard dean who delivered fellowship snub

It's The Guardian, soooo...
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/15/2017 16:59 Comments || Top||

#5  "Bradley....you lost another fellow?"

A dick move, after they went and invited $INDEFINITE_PRONOUN. But I gotta ask, what was Harvard thinking in the first place? Does the School of Govt have a Treason program?

Yeah, real Elizibeth Warren givers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2017 21:11 Comments || Top||

#6  "Bradley....you lost another fellow?"

A dick move, after they went and invited $INDEFINITE_PRONOUN. But I gotta ask, what was Harvard thinking in the first place? Does the School of Govt have a Treason program?

Yeah, real Elizibeth Warren givers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2017 21:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry, computer texted with forked submit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/15/2017 21:12 Comments || Top||


Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell resigns from Harvard after Chelsea Manning named fellow
[Washington Examiner] Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell resigned as a senior fellow at an institute within the Harvard Kennedy School on Thursday after Chelsea Manning was named a visiting fellow.

Morell said he could no longer be a part of an organization "that honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information by inviting her to be a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics."

The university announced Wednesday that Manning would serve as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Even Klingons have standards.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even Harvard discovered it had standards:
Harvard Withdraws Chelsea Manning’s Visiting Fellow Invitation
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/15/2017 2:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has announced that the school has withdrawn its invitation to convicted WikiLeaks leaker Chelsea Manning to serve as a visiting fellow.
Douglas W. Elmendorf stressed that Manning was invited to talk with students and then host a forum where she would be asked “hard questions” about her story. He said the school never had any intention to honor her or endorse “any of her words or deeds.”


Then his lips fell off. STFU you lying bag of SJW crap
Posted by: Frank G || 09/15/2017 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/15/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Being too hard on poor Chelsea. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to make the change from being a pr*ck to a tw*t?
Posted by: Solomon Glick1376 || 09/15/2017 13:49 Comments || Top||

#5  where she IT would be asked “hard questions”

FIFY
Posted by: AlanC || 09/15/2017 18:26 Comments || Top||



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