[FOX] Family and friends of a male escort found dead in the West Hollywood home of a high-powered Democratic Party donor last year continue to press for answers‐in a case that has eluded the national media spotlight on incidents of sexual misconduct and racial injustice.
Gemmel Moore, 26, was discovered by police on July 27 inside the apartment of Ed Buck, 63. Buck is a well-known Democratic contributor, and has given more than $500,000 to an array of Democrats including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and a variety of state and local organizations in California.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office initially ruled the death an accidental methamphetamine overdose. But the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Bureau on Aug. 14 announced they would investigate if there is any criminal culpability, after Moore’s family and friends disputed the initial finding.
Investigators told Fox News they would like to have the inquiry wrapped up in the near future‐but have had trouble interviewing certain witnesses.
"We should have all the information, so we can make a good evaluation of everything that transpired to see if there’s any criminal culpability," Lt. Joe Mendoza, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office homicide bureau, told Fox News in a recent telephone interview.
Detectives have already interviewed "numerous" witnesses who have information to share about their interactions with Buck, according to Mendoza. But investigators are trying to schedule additional interviews with people who may have useful information.
[BALTIMORESUN] A federal jury has convicted two Baltimore Police detectives for their roles in one of the biggest police corruption scandals in recent memory.
Detectives Daniel T. Hersl, 48, and Marcus R. Taylor, 31, were found guilty of racketeering conspiracy and racketeering. The convicted officers join six of their former colleagues who previously pleaded guilty in the case, four of whom took the stand at the trial and testified for the government.
Mayor Catherine Pugh said in a statement: “The verdict rendered by jurors in this disturbing trial is clearly the right one, given the abundance of compelling and damning evidence against these former officers of the now disbanded Gun Trace Task Force. I want all of our citizens to know that I have likewise been appalled by the level of dishonesty and betrayal that these individuals, and others also implicated, perpetrated here in our community. There is no more important element to effective policing than trust between the men and women of our police force and those they have sworn to protect and serve."
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January 4, 2018
VI ELECTRONIC TR NSMISSION
The Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein
Deputy Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue,NW
Washington, DC 20530
The Honorable Christopher Wray
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,NW
Washington, DC 20535
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Director Wray:
Attached please find a classified memorandum related to certain communications between Christopher Steele and multiple U.S. news outlets regarding the so-called Trump dossier that Mr. Steele compiled on behalf of Fusion GPS for the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee and also provided to the FBI.
Based on the information contained therein, we are respectfully referring Mr. Steele to you for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, for statements the Committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained in the dossier.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this important matter. If you have any questions, please contact Patrick Davis or De Lisa Lay of Chairman Grassley' s staff at (202) 224-5225.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Grassley
Chairman
Committee on the Judiciary
Lindsey O. Graham
Chairman
Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
Committee on the Judiciary More at the link
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"Those who cannot understand that we cannot simply start arresting w/o first ensuring the safety & well-being of the population, shifting the narrative, removing those in DC through resignation to ensure success, defeating ISIS/MS13 to prevent fail-safes, freezing assets to remove network-to-network abilities, kill off COC to prevent top-down comms/org, etc etc. should not be participating in discussions."
[ALARABY.CO.UK] An Algerian member of parliament has come under fire after she attacked the language of the Berber minority in the North African country with comments that have been widely condemned as racist.
Naima Salhi said in a controversial video posted on social media last month that she would "kill" her young daughter if she spoke Berber.
"My young daughter was in a school where the majority of students are Kabyles so she started to learn their language... I told her if she speaks a word of the language I would kill her," Salhi said.
Salhi explained her divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... comments on local Ennahar TV on Tuesday, saying: "I refuse to let my daughter speak the fabricated Frenchified Kabyle language taught in the Zionist Berber Academy in Gay Paree."
French and Zionist? Worse than that cannot exist!
"I would kill her if she spoke it... meaning I would severely punish her," she added.
Salhi, who is the head of the Islamist Justice party, has claimed the Berber Tamazight language is a "dead non-language" that lacks the terminology to be used in science and the public sphere.
The Kabyle, who are the largest Berber minority in Algeria, have long called for greater rights with some separatist movements even calling for an independent Berber state.
Salhi's comments have been widely slammed on social media and have led to politicians calling for her resignation.
"We have demanded that the head of parliament take action. This woman cannot be part of a parliament that represents all Algerians," member of parliament Khaled Tazaghart told Ennahar TV on Friday.
Tuareg politician Baba Ali also demanded she resigns for "attacking the culture and identity" of the Berber people, who refer to their community as Amazigh.
The controversy comes amid growing official recognition of the Amazigh people, who make up roughly a quarter of the country's total population.
The Tamazight language was first given official status in Algeria in 2002, a year after bloody riots that left 126 people dead in Kabylie.
In 2016, it became enshrined in the constitution as a state language alongside Arabic.
Last month, the country's interior ministry released its first ever official communique in Tamazight.
In December, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... declared Amazigh New Year's a national holiday and called for the establishment of an official authority to regulate the Tamazight language.
The move came after protests in Berber communities over politicians blocking funding for the teaching of the Tamazight language in government schools.
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Salhi, who is the head of the Islamist Justice party, has claimed the Berber Tamazight language is a "dead non-language" that lacks the terminology to be used in science and the public sphere.
A pity they won’t remain dependent on Israel, but this is better than remaining dependent on supplies from the decreasingly wealthy Gulf countries.
[AlAhram] Production from Egypt’s offshore gas field Atoll has started seven months ahead of schedule, BP announced in a blurb on Monday.
The company also announced savings in expenditure, with the Atoll Phase One project being delivered 33 percent below the initial cost estimate.
"The longstanding partnerships we have in Egypt allowed us to fast-track Atoll’s development and deliver first gas only 33 months after discovery," said Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive.
"This is a further demonstration of our commitment to help realise Egypt’s oil and gas potential and meet the increasing demand from its growing population," Dudley added.
Gas is now being produced from the field at 350 million cubic feet of gas per day (cfpd), in addition to the production of 10,000 barrels of condensate per day.
Production from the field, located in the North Damietta concession in the East Nile Delta, will feed into Egypt’s national gas grid.
Egypt’s natural gas production currently stands at 5.5 billion cfpd, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said earlier this month.
Production is expected to reach 6 billion cfpd by year-end.
BP announced the discovery of Atoll gas field in March 2015.
The field’s main reservoir is estimated to hold 1.5 trillion cubic feet of gas and 31 million barrels of condensates.
"The Atoll Phase One project is an early production scheme involving almost $1 billion investment," the BP blurb read.
"Atoll is our first major project in Egypt to be delivered in 2018, following the West Nile Delta Taurus and Libra project and then Zohr last year," said Hesham Mekawi, Regional President, BP North Africa.
"We are extremely proud of Atoll’s efficient execution through our joint venture, the Pharaonic Petroleum Company," Mekawi added.
Trial production from Atoll began in December at a production capacity of 300 million cubic feet per day of gas.
BP acquired a 10 percent stake in the Shorouk Concession from Eni last year; the concession contains the giant Zohr gas field, which began production in December.
[BLOOMBERG] South Africa’s ruling African National Congress decided to tell President Jacob Zuma to step down after he refused the top party leadership’s request for him to resign voluntarily, according to five people familiar with the matter.
The ANC’s National Executive Committee took the decision during a 13-hour meeting that ended early Tuesday in Pretoria, the capital. It was called to decide on a transition of power to the party’s new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, said the people, who declined to be identified because the decision hasn’t been made public. Calls to ANC front man Pule Mabe’s mobile phone didn’t connect.
"Zuma is clearly digging in, fearing what could come next should he resign prematurely," Mark Schroeder, vice president of Africa analysis at geopolitical advisory company Stratfor, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday. "It’s an open question whether the ANC members of Parliament will vote with the multiple opposition parties to compel the president to resign."
The ANC is trying to remove Zuma allow Ramaphosa, 65, to take over as president more than a year before the 2019 elections, giving him time to convince voters that he’s committed to meeting his pledges to rebuild a battered economy and clamp down on the graft that critics say has become synonymous with the Zuma era.
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[All Africa] Zim-bob-we will invite international observers to monitor its elections later this year, signaling a shift in relations with Europe, whose observer missions the deposed administration of Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... barred from attending.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) have not been invited since 2000 when Mugabe accused Western nations of impartiality and using the opposition to effect regime change. This was in reaction to the EU slapping his government with sanctions for alleged electoral fraud and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations.
Tensions have eased with new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa at the helm.
He has assured the international community of credible, free and fair elections scheduled for July, hence his pledge EU, Unites States of America (USA) and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... (UN) observers would be invited.
Addressing ruling party, Zanu-PF supporters in Mvuma, some 200km south of Harare, Mnangagwa also reiterated the call for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... (AU) to deploy observer teams.
"There is nothing to hide. We want a peaceful and a transparent election. There is no reason for Zanu-PF or any other political party to be violent," Mnangagwa said.
He said the ruling party supporters should desist from violence against opposition activists.
"All citizens belong to one nation, which is Zim-bob-we," Mnangagwa said.
His party, under Mugabe, has been accused of unleashing violence against the opposition to maintain a stranglehold on power since independence from Britannia in 1980.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of ailing former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and National People's Party (NPP) of Mugabe's former Deputy, Joice Mujuru, are seen offering the biggest challenge to Zanu-PF.
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[gCaptain] Cyprus on Sunday accused the Turkish military of obstructing a ship contracted by Italian oil company Eni from approaching an area to explore for natural gas, highlighting tensions over offshore resources in the east Mediterranean.
A spokesman for Eni said on Sunday the Saipem 12000 drill ship had been heading from a location southwest of Cyprus towards an area southeast of the island on Friday when it was stopped by Turkish military ships and told not to continue because of military activities in the destination area.
Turkey, which does not have diplomatic relations with Cyprus, claims that certain areas in Cyprus’s offshore maritime zone, known as an EEZ, fall into the jurisdiction of Turkey or that of Turkish Cypriots.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said Turkey had violated international law by blocking the ship and Cyprus would take “necessary steps”, without elaborating, although he seemed keen to avoid exacerbating the situation.
“From our side, our actions reflect the necessity of avoiding anything which could escalate (the situation), without of course overlooking the violation of international law perpetrated by Turkey,” Anastasiades told journalists in Nicosia.
A spokesman for the Italian foreign ministry confirmed that Turkish authorities were not allowing the ship to proceed towards its destination.
Italy is following the matter “at the highest level through its diplomats in Nicosia and Ankara … and following all possible diplomatic steps to resolve the question,” the spokesman said.
A spokesperson for Italy’s state-controlled Eni said the ship, which was travelling after reporting a natural gas discovery in another prospect within Cypriot maritime boundaries on Feb. 8, would remain stationary until the issue was resolved.
“The vessel has prudently executed the orders and will remain in position pending an evolution of the situation,” the spokesperson said.
The ship was heading to Block 3 of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone, ENI said.
Turkey’s ministry of foreign affairs, in a statement on Sunday did not make any mention of obstructing the Eni ship but said exploration of Block 3 was a unilateral move by Greek Cypriots that violated the sovereign rights of Turkish Cypriots on the ethnically-split island and Greek Cypriots were jeopardising security and stability in the region.
Greek Cypriots, who are exploring for natural gas, run Cyprus’s internationally recognised government. Turkish Cypriots run a breakaway state recognised only by Ankara in north Cyprus and say resources around the island belong to them too.
Cyprus’s state radio reported senior officials from Eni would hold talks in Nicosia on Monday.
The island was split in a Turkish invasion in 1974 after a brief Greek-inspired coup. Peace talks collapsed last year.
Turkey’s ministry of foreign affairs said it would continue to protect Turkey’s own rights and interests on its continental shelf, and those of Turkish Cypriots.
“We also make use of this opportunity to strongly emphasize our expectation that companies centred in third countries refrain from supporting … this unconstructive Greek Cypriot attitude which also constitutes a major obstacle to the settlement of the Cyprus issue,” it said.
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[CNBC] Move over, Blue Apron. Uncle Sam could soon be delivering "America's Harvest Box."
The Trump administration is proposing replacing a portion of the federal food stamp program with actual boxes of food delivered to recipients' front doors, putting the U.S. government directly in charge of what goes on the dinner plates of more than 16 million low-income households.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney likened the model to that of the dominant meal-kit delivery service, Blue Apron, and called it one of the most "innovative" ideas in the president's budget.
Been saying this for years, except that food stamp recipients pick up a limited assortment of pre-filled boxes at grocery stores. Now with Amazon, other delivery services and the internet, recipients can be assured of nutritious food with limited options to rip off the system.
[Breitbart] Monday on ABC’s "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg criticized Vice President Mike Pence for what she deemed to be a show of a lack of respect for North Korea by not standing for the entrance of the country’s Olympic athletes.
Partial transcript as follows:
HOSTIN: I thought that Mike Pence said that it was inappropriate to make political statements at sporting events? Wasn’t he that guy who walked out of the football game because people were kneeling and not standing?
JOY BEHAR: Well he would say that’s in their own country is what he would say to that
HOSTIN: But he’s representing the United States of America isn’t he?
GOLDBERG: We have to be respectful because what we do know about politicians is they end up sitting with people that you and I say well, why are they sitting with them? So if you’re in Korea, you need to stand up. You need to stand up and show respect.
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ABC's Miss fart cushion stuck, dedicated on stupid. Racism, Christaphobia are mandatory for the lack of View.
She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion; "If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee (fart) cushion.' And that's where the name came from
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Hi EC. Educate me please. What is the origin of the picture, and what is that multi-pointed star shown over one marcher to the left. Thanks if you know this. I makes me aware that we can search for words or phrases, but I am unaware of any publicly available image search. (Maybe too many cat pic searches)
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Okay. I decided to look into it. Google's 'best guess' is Adolf Hitler gives a speech during 1936 Olympic games held in Berlin, Germany. HD Stock Footage - YouTube.
The mustaches were a hint. It turns out you can reverse lookup many images. images.google.com iirc. I had no idea. I also hit 70 this week, so maybe that is an excuse? No? Ah well.
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Congratulations on the milestone Mike. Please take the remainder of the afternoon off with pay.
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You know, if her pet thugs can't be bothered to show respect to the US Anthem, shit on her and her flaming tyrants. Why does the left hate humans so much?
[TheIndianExpress] In a strategic move to expand its footprint in the Indian Ocean region, India has secured access to the key Port of Duqm in Oman for military use and logistical support, top sources have told The Indian Express. This is part of India’s maritime strategy to counter Chinese influence and activities in the region.
This is part of India’s maritime strategy to counter Chinese influence and activities in the region. This was one of the key takeaways of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Oman over the last two days.
This was one of the key takeaways of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Oman over the last two days. He met Sultan of Oman Sayyid Qaboos bin Said Al Said and an annexure to the Memorandum of Understanding on Military Cooperation was signed between the two countries. Sources said following this pact, the services of Duqm port and dry dock will be available for maintenance of Indian military vessels.
The Port of Duqm is situated on the southeastern seaboard of Oman, overlooking the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. It is strategically located, in close proximity to the Chabahar port in Iran. With the Assumption Island being developed in Seychelles and Agalega in Mauritius, Duqm fits into India’s proactive maritime security roadmap.
[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore on Monday charged a man with raping and murdering six-year-old Zainab Amin in a case that enraged the country and sparked riots in his home district of Kasur last month.
Imran Ali, 24, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to sexually assaulting and murdering Zainab, said defence lawyer Mehr Shakeel Multani.
"The police have levelled baseless and false allegations against my client," Multani told AFP.
The hearing was held in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail for security reasons. Witnesses will be called on Tuesday.
Zainab's rape and murder last month had sparked outrage across the country after the six-year-old, who went missing on January 4, was found dead in a trash heap in Kasur on Jan 9. Her case is the 12th such incident to occur within a 10 kilometre radius in the city over the past year.
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[Al Jazeera] UK-based charity Oxfam's second-in-command has quit over allegations aid workers paid for sex while on assignments in Haiti and Chad.
Penny Lawrence, Oxfam's deputy chief executive, said in a statement on Monday she was "ashamed" of staff members' use of hookers in both countries.
"Over the last few days we have become aware that concerns were raised about the behaviour of staff in Chad as well as Haiti that we failed to adequately act upon," Lawrence said.
"I am desperately sorry for the harm and distress that this has caused to Oxfam's supporters, the wider development sector and, most of all, the vulnerable people who trusted us."
Staff reportedly used hookers in Chad at the charity's staff house. Those allegations followed news reports last week that Oxfam staff paid sex workers while on an aid mission following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake.
Oxfam fired four staff members for gross misconduct and allowed three others to resign following a 2011 internal inquiry into the sex scandal, the downloading of pornography, and bullying and intimidation during the assignment.
A Times article published on Friday - based on a copy of the internal Oxfam report it obtained - said the country director in Haiti, Roland van Hauwermeiren, was among those allowed to resign after it was revealed he paid for sex at a property rented by the charity.
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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
[AlAhram] Thousands of websites, including ones run by U.S. and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies, technology news site The Register reported.
More than 4,200 sites were infected with a malicious version of a widely used tool known as Browsealoud from British software maker Texthelp, which reads out webpages for people with vision problems, according to The Register.
The news comes amid a surge in cyber attacks using software that forces infected computers to mine crypto currencies on behalf of hackers. The prevalence of these schemes has increased in recent months as the volume of trading in bitcoin and other crypto currencies has surged.
The tainted version of Browsealoud caused inserted software for mining the digital currency Monero to run on computers that visited infected sites, generating money for the hackers behind the attack, The Register said.
Representatives of the U.S. and British law enforcement agencies and Texthelp could not immediately be reached for comment.
Texthelp told The Register that it had shut down the operation by disabling Browsealoud while its engineering team investigated.
[Task & Purpose] U.S. Special Forces can relax now that the Army has officially unveiled a beret for combat advisors that is absolutely not green.
At an activation ceremony Thursday at Fort Benning, Georgia, the Army unveiled the new brown berets, flash and unit insignias for the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, which is set to deploy to Afghanistan in spring
The choice of brown berets came following an outcry in October when a picture of a new green beret for soldiers in the unit was posted online, which prompted a petition which called on the 1st SFAB to immediately abandon the distinctive headgear.
"The wearing of the Green Beret is a symbol of commitment and sacrifice to the men who challenged themselves to be the best of the best in the U.S. Army Special Forces," the petition said. "This honor is earned, never issued."
No cheap ethnic stereotyping here, nosiree!
[Chicago Tribune] - yeongchang is a mountainous county 110 miles southeast of Seoul in South Korea, and the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
P.F. Chang’s is an Asian-inspired chain restaurant with 210 U.S. locations, including ones in Chicago, Lombard, Northbrook, Orland Park and Schaumburg.
PyeongChang and P.F. Chang’s are not the same thing, and beyond the fact that they both begin with the letter P and end in "Chang," they have little in common. Thanks for pointing that out, Einstein. Katie Couric could use the tip, though...
Arrogant, condescending & stupid is no way to go through life, cookie.
[USAToday] Katie Couric might want to visit Amsterdam sometime.
The broadcaster is drawing criticism on social media after her unusual reasoning for the Netherlands' success in speedskating over the years. Couric, who co-anchored NBC's coverage of Friday's Olympic opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, said that the Dutch rely on skating as a form of transportation in their capital city, which sits at sea level.
"As you all know, it has lots of canals that can freeze in the winter," Couric said, "so for as long as those canals have existed, the Dutch have skated on them to get from place to place, to race each other and also to have fun." Click on for world-class mockery, so richly deserved...
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There posed in D.C. a great Thinker
Who plugged leaky dikes with his finger,
Though he wasn't quite Dutch
Nor especially butch,
And he skated as well as Hans Brinker.
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Skating on the canals depends entirely on the winter being cold enough, long enough to freeze solid. Has this been the case during these recent years of much-trumpeted catastrophic global warming?
As I recall, Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates was set during the Little Ice Age, when winters were much colder, allowing London to hold Frost Fairs on the frozen Thames.
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The last Elfstedentocht (skate run through 11 towns) was held in 1997. The canals don't freeze easily these days. But look at Dutch paintings of the 17th century.
Couric isn't entirely wrong but frozen canals in Amsterdam are a rare event these days.
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My understanding is pole vaulting originated in Amsterdam as well. The Dutch used the poles to vault across the canals. Exciting little factoid there but I won't vouch for its credibility.
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Nope, that was already done in ancient Greece
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Cruising in my klompen
On a Sunday afternoon...
https://youtu.be/rpX0mPSYMC8
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The problem is, you can't count on walls having airbags on the other side.
This is why during a siege the attackers often catapulted rotting animal carcasses over the walls - to have something soft for the pole vaulters to land on. Just another little known fact.
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"It's true, and no bullshit." The Bulgar,
A boatman, was prone to be vulgar.
"A sturdy devochka
Would chop down a tchotchke,
And over the Volga vaults Olga."
[SOFREP] Last week, SOFREP reported on the Navy’s latest venture into autonomous warfare, the 140 ton ACTUV, which holds the record for largest unmanned vessel in the world. Not one to be left behind, the U.S. Army also recently announced entering the next stage in development of their own unmanned vehicle, an armed Humvee called, “Wingman.”
While still far from entering service as a combatant, the “Wingman” Joint Capability Technology Demonstration, or JCTD, program has had a fair amount of success in developing and testing an autonomously piloted and specially configured Humvee armed with with a modified 7.62 weapon system. The platform’s early testing took place with an M240B machine gun, but feed issues forced the team to develop an electrically driven 7.62 weapon system to replace its gas operated predecessor.
“Obviously if you’re a kilometer away from your vehicle, jams are not good,” said Thomas B. Udvare, deputy chief of the program. “What’s nice about their electrically-driven system is that the incidents of jamming are greatly reduced.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Bouteflika
[gCaptain] Cyprus on Sunday accused the Turkish military of obstructing a ship contracted by Italian oil company Eni from approaching an area to explore for natural gas, highlighting tensions over offshore resources in the east Mediterranean.
[Breitbart] Monday on ABC’s "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg criticized Vice President Mike Pence for what she deemed to be a show of a lack of respect for North Korea by not standing for the entrance of the country’s Olympic athletes.
[Al Jazeera] UK-based charity Oxfam's second-in-command has quit over allegations aid workers paid for sex while on assignments in Haiti and Chad.
[Task & Purpose] U.S. Special Forces can relax now that the Army has officially unveiled a beret for combat advisors that is absolutely not green.
[SOFREP] Last week, SOFREP reported on the Navy’s latest venture into autonomous warfare, the 140 ton ACTUV, which holds the record for largest unmanned vessel in the world. Not one to be left behind, the U.S. Army also recently announced entering the next stage in development of their own unmanned vehicle, an armed Humvee called, “Wingman.”
