A self-described anti-feminist lawyer found dead in the Catskills of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound is being investigated as the possible gunman in the shooting of a federal judge’s family in New Jersey. https://t.co/ntjo5nN3xR
A self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead in the Catskills of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound is considered the prime suspect in the shooting of a federal judge’s family in New Jersey, the FBI said Monday.
Roy Den Hollander, who received media attention including appearances on Fox News and Comedy Central for lawsuits challenging perceived infringements of “men’s rights,” was found dead Monday in Sullivan County, New York, two officials with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press.
The FBI said Den Hollander was the “primary subject in the attack” and confirmed he had been pronounced dead but provided no other details. Found among his personal effects was information about another judge, New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, a state court spokesperson said.
A day earlier, a gunman posing as a FedEx delivery person went to the North Brunswick, New Jersey, home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, and started shooting, wounding her husband, the defense lawyer Mark Anderl, and killing her son, Daniel Anderl.
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It makes no sense that the gunmen did not kill himself at the house unless he was planning on being paid somewhere else later. This might serve as a warning to other potential assassins.
#3
Then I assume we are expected to believe that the late Mr. Den Hollander was the Salas shooter ?
I guess that just about wraps it up. Oh wait !
I know it sounds crazy, but could possibly do a ballistics test on the weapon used? Say, compare the results to spent ammo found in Seth Rich for instance, or others ?
#5
You do not open the door to anybody and say, "May we help you?" Basic survival. Got to learn basic survival when you are a potential target.
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When folks are locked in and the suicide rate goes up who knows who might just snap. The real question is how did he get the delivery truck? Does he know a driver? Did he steal it? Did he buy a similar truck and have it painted. Each points to a different level of planning that could be important.
There is also the chance he didn't do it and he's just another suicide by Covid.
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rj, I'm not sure if it's because of the lockdown/increase in online ordering or what, but several times in our neighborhood, FedEx delivers in a plain white van. The driver has a FedEx shirt, but that is probably not too hard to get hold of.
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Not all of Idaho is "rural" - The Boise-Nampa metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, includes five counties with a combined population of 709,845.
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New York cases are about 10% what they were in mid-April, and have been pretty flat for the last month. Deaths are about 5% of the peak. Isn't that curve flattened, Gov?
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California not quite so clear, but the death rate is headed down.
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Florida didn't peak in April, when the US as a whole did. It may be peaking in July.
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[MAIL] Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry has been accused of 'violently raping' one woman and sexually harassing another in a bombshell new lawsuit.
The federal suit was filed on Monday in the US District Court for Southern New York by Jennifer Eckhart, a former associate producer at Fox Business, and Cathy Areu, a frequent guest on the network.
Eckhart claims that Henry - who was fired from the network on July 1 after an unnamed employee accused him of sexual misconduct - handcuffed her and raped her in a hotel room in 2017 after trying to coerce her into a sexual relationship.
Areu also claims she was sexually harassed by Henry, 49, and several other men at the network - including star anchors Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson and journalists Howard Kurtz and Gianno Caldwell.
#2
Coming up on 5 years of ignoring FauxNews myself. I still catch bits and pieces of Tucker Carlson video in various online articles but there's nobody else left there I want to hear from at all.
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Areu also claims she was sexually harassed by Henry, 49, and several other men at the network - including star anchors Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson and journalists Howard Kurtz and Gianno Caldwell.
"They turned me into a newt, they did!" Gosh, this sure smells like attention-whoring. Of course, it all hinges on exactly how you define sexual harassment. 'Last Tuesday, he said I looked nice." "He keeps correcting my grammar in memos."
#4
I have trouble believe the latest allegations as it would suggest the hosts were stupid enough to harass after O'Reilly face planted, and that they were ignorant of the lefts ability to send Harassment Kamakazi's in hoping to destroy Fox News.
[ToloNews] Five years after his leadership in the National Unity Government, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... this week admitted that 90 percent of the country’s population is living below the poverty line, having less than $2 daily income. Analysts say this indicates a catastrophic situation in the country.
"This nation, despite 90 percent of the population being under the two dollar-a-day poverty line, has the spirit of an able nation," Ghani said on Saturday as he announced a new relief package for needy families struggling with the COVID-19 crisis. The food distribution plan announced by Ghani costs $244 million, the highest relief fund in the country so far.
Political analysts see these figures as evidence of the president's failure to alleviate poverty despite billions of foreign aid.
"It is a regret that the president of Afghanistan is confessing that his people are living below the poverty line," said Shahzada Massoud, a former presidential adviser.
"The poverty and calamity that are facing a group of Afghans are the consequences of illegitimate governance, political corruption and the consequences of false slogans by those who do not have trust in the collective destiny and who are gambling the security and political lives of the people of Afghanistan for their own interests," said Asif Ashna, an analyst.
"Our president is primarily responsible, and then his insufficient ministers who have been working as acting ministers for years," said Attaullah Mohammadi, an MP.
According to Integrity Watch Afghanistan, almost $2 billion every year has been paid as bribes to corrupt government officials over the last decade, something that critics say has had a big role in an increase in poverty in the country.
"Bribes have increased every year over the last 10 years, and this has a direct connection with the increase in poverty in the country," said Nasir Taimuri, a researcher at Integrity Watch Afghanistan.
Data shows that in 2014 when the National Unity Government was formed, 38 percent of the population was living below the poverty line. This increased to 56 percent by the end of 2016.
"Unemployment is increasing day by day and more youth are becoming jobless," said Yarghal Ahmadzai, a former government official.
Amid rumours of Lukashenko's hospitalisation, Belarusian TV is showing video of him from July 16 when he said the opposition was planning to seize power by force. https://t.co/NVIxO7J0Qn
#2
There are about 25 nuclear reactors in the direct path... another 15 within striking distance and a total of 60 that could be hit depending on severity of the flood.
#4
3dc: Are you suggesting a Fukushima-type situation at these sites? Because even the cooling ponds over-flowing would be... well, catastrophic. The amount of radiation and contamination from 25 Nuclear Plants at once makes me think half of China may be uninhabitable when looking at the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
And it would be Chernobyl. I don't believe for a second the Chinese built or would take care of their plants like the Japanese.
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3dc: Well. I wondered why China would be supporting Antifa now. Guess they're trying to take us down with them.
And Dear Lord, the Chaos this is going to unleash. Everything being made in China, all the trash, all the Chemical Plants. I... I don't know how to feel right now. I'm kind of numb thinking about the sheer scope.
China as a nation might cease to exist entirely before the year is out. I'm... I'm actually scared of what this could mean.
Could this be why we have two carrier groups in the South China Sea?
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Unless it was designed by idiots, there will be an emergency spillway that will pass all the incoming flow when the reservoir is full. Not may, in itself, be catastrophic.
Or, 'opening all the gates' is the best they have.
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Or, 'opening all the gates' is the best they have.
I suppose they could detonate a TN device upstream to vaporize some of the water...
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37,700 cu meters/sec is 1.33 MILLION cu ft per second! 30.5 acre*ft per second, or 9.95 MILLION gallons per second!! To give a comparison to 3 gorges dam to Grand Coulee dam (another gravity dam), 3 Gorges is 3.4 times the volume of Grand Coulee. (soures: 3 gorges wikipedia, Grand Coulee Bureau of Reclamation fact sheet)
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Mullah Richard:
I read the article on the mathematical model for spillway scheduling. This paragraph jumped out at me:
Several big floods in the Yangtze River basin, including the flood in 1981, have caused serious disasters. Based on the Chinese guidelines for design flood, the flood in 1981 is used as the typical flood to design flood hydrographs of 20-year return period flood (the flood prevention standard for the Yangtze River). Finally, the design flood hydrograph of the TGR, with a return period of 20-year, is used to test the proposed method. The optimal scheduling of the proposed MILP model is compared with the conventional method.
It seems to me that the present design margin for the dam has been reached with the present flow. Look, the dam is near volume capacity and there is no space left for absorbing floodwater volume.
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Check out Table 3 in the paper, Mullah Rihard. That is the table for the schedule of water release from the dam for the 1981 20 year event. Look at the flow rates. This mathematical model will not work when there is no room in the reservoir. Hoping that flow and rain values drop is just that: hope.
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#17 AP - consider too that upstream drainage area has to be totally saturated (i.e.: more runoff)
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Yes, Frank. That raises the magnitude to the potential disaster. The unit hydrographs of the areas will be different, because the runoff coefficients will be different--really different--due to saturated soils.
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After reading the article (and trying to resurrect my college math classes....with slide rules), I came to the same conclusion AP.
Based on the article data, they didn't leave themselves an 'out' for the current situation. Bobby's question about a separate emergency spillway would be answered 'No' (unless the article fails to mention one, or two, if they actually exist).
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Based on the flooding and widespread area, the food supply is gonna be really short. Good thing they're not in Flu/Tariff/Militarism fights with food producing nations.
Oh...wait
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Google maps satellite photos don't show any spillways, but there are some locks they could open; dunno if that would be enough to make a difference.
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Opening the two locks I see would basically produce the same result as dynamiting a 100-ft section of the dam down to the river floor.
Once you start opening both the upper and lower lock gates, there would be no way to control them as the pressure would override any mechanical means of control.
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Maybe they could make some siphons and drape them over the dam?
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Google maps satellite photos don't show any spillways
The entire middle section is the spillway. All the floodgates are open. What the photos don't show is if the middle top section also has an over topping spillway.
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The thing that blew me away with Table 3 of the mathematical paper on scheduling flood control was that flows for this so called flood control approached 60,000 cu meters/sec, which is a big flood event in itself. Some flood control scheme. CCP peer review obviously.
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AP, we gotta get you and Frank something to do.
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Sadly no. And Qualcomm/SD Stadium/The Murph will be torn down once this one is operational, on the same site
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From the link @29 (the link didn't work, but I found it anyway) - The 483-meter spillway, located in the middle of the main dam, has 23 bottom outlets dimensioned at 79 meters. Each of its 22 surface sluice gates measures 8 meters wide. The maximum discharge capacity of the TGP is 116,000 cubic meters, the biggest in the world. Sluice gates? Do they get floating debris in a Yangtze flood?
So you can't have three feet of flow over the emergency spillway, which would save the dam from overtopping.
What happens when you get three feet of water over the crest of the dam? Uncontrolled flow, for sure, but would it breach the dam?
Me, I'm glad I live 200 feet above the nearest flood-control lake, which put two feet of water over the emergency spillway four or five years ago.
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116,000 cu meters/sec would be an epic flood event downstream in its own right. The Wuhan lab would head out to sea. And the bat meat market, too.
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Do they get floating debris in a Yangtze flood?
Yes, but the debris looks like trees, cars, farm animals, deceased humans, houses and factories that have been ripped apart. Anything that floats.
Would look the same way here under similar circumstances.
The cleanup (if that has to happen) will be ghastly.
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BREAKING: UK suspends extradition treaty to Hong Kong and extends an arms embargo that applies to mainland China (for lethal equipment & restraining gear like shackles) to Hong Kong in response to Beijing's imposition of nation security law on the former British territory
China has urged United Kingdom to avoid meddling in its affairs after reports that Britain was poised to suspend an extradition treaty for Chinese-ruled Hong Kong.https://t.co/4MbkwCIFgR
[American Military News] India has made a significant addition to the Indian Army’s firepower with urgent procurement and fast-tracking crucial military deals, one of which was the purchase of 72,400 Sig Sauer SIG716 Assault/Battle Rifle.
The deal for procuring 72,400 SIG716 rifles was finalized in February 2019 by the Ministry of Defense under the Fast Track Procurement (FTP) procedure and cost $99 million US Dollars. The deal was made for the SIG716 Patrol G2 version of the rifle, which has a more powerful 7.62x51mm caliber configuration and is suitable for both battle and counter-insurgency scenarios.
10,000 rifles were already delivered in December 2019, and the remaining rifles will be delivered by the end of 2020.
The 72,400 rifles will be distributed among 3 India’s three military branches. The Indian Army will receive 66,400 rifles, the Indian Navy will receive 2,000 rifles, and the remaining 4,000 will go to the Indian Air Force.
Indian Army will replace their decades-old domestically-made INSAS 5.56x45mm caliber Battle Rifle built by the state-owned Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). The order for 72,400 assault rifles from Sig Sauer Inc. was the single largest contract for assault rifles since 1998 when the INSAS entered service.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] PTI MNA from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and TV host Aamir Liaquat Hussain said on Monday that he presented his four-page long resignation to Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... in today’s meeting with him but he didn’t accept it.
"After a long meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan my four-page resignation was rejected. I opened my heart told the prime minister everything. The prime minister hailed my efforts for raising my voice for Karachi’s issues and said thinking about the public was the role of an elected leader," he said on Twitter.
Earlier today, in a statement on Twitter, the renowned TV personality said he has been vindicated in front of the minority Christian community in his constituency.
He said they have installed in 960-long water pipeline in UC-13 Jehangir East which had no water supply for the past thirty years. He added he vowed to serve his constituency and is making fill efforts to serve his people to the best of his abilities.
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Red Bull just reminded their ’wokest’ employees who calls the shots in a total massacre of "social justice warrior" employees.
Not only were the top two North American executives fired, but so were entire marketing teams and "culture" teams that were dedicated to pushing the lie of systemic racism.
Red Bull has just shown the way forward for all who want to prevent a total Marxist-style takeover of business and government in America. There is no appeasing these people, the only way forward is to fire them as quickly as possible, and with no mercy. Err on the side of firing everyone, if need be.
#9
The interesting thing is I've always had the impression (because of their stunt planes and xtreme teams) that their marketshare was dominated by extreme sports and their enthusiasts which I'd thought leaned left.
Either their market is bigger than I thought, that market might be left but not woke, or they just don't care as the SJW are a plague.
[NYPOST] Trader Joe’s plans to remove ethnic brand names from its products as a petition calling for their removal gains steam.The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based grocery chain said it’s working to phase out foreign names it has attached to ethnic foods, such as "Trader José’s" for Mexican cuisine, "Trader Ming’s" for Chinese products and "Arabian Joe’s" for Middle Eastern dishes. "Gathers steam" = 2200 signatures?
"While this approach to product naming may have been rooted in a lighthearted attempt at inclusiveness, we recognize that it may now have the opposite effect — one that is contrary to the welcoming, rewarding customer experience we strive to create every day," Trader Joe’s spokeswoman Kenya Friend-Daniel said in a statement.
Trader Joe’s revealed the plans after the launch of an online petition urging the company to ditch "racist" brand names that prop up ethnic stereotypes and treat other cultures as exotic.
The petition — which had racked up more than 2,200 signatures as of Monday morning — also raises concerns about the roots of the Trader Joe’s name itself. The brand was inspired by Disneyland’s "Jungle Trip" ride and the 1919 book "White Shadows in the South Seas," which both contain racist depictions of indigenous people, according to the petition.
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Remove all ethnic images from all food. I want everyone to see a white guy with a pitchfork every time they eat anything. Let them know where their next meal comes from.
How hard is it to check the name of a classic ride at the oldest theme park in the world? It's Jungle Cruise.
And Trader Sam is a character in the ride -- a headhunter who's running a sale -- two of his heads for one of yours. Best thing -- Disney cornered themselves by naming bars after Trader Sam; they can't remove the character without renaming the popular bars.
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And what's wrong with viewing other cultures as exotic?!
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Why doesn't Trader Joe's just name all their products, "Product X" to really confuse patrons? Of course, you are then discriminating against Product A, B, C,...and Z.
You could just have everything come in plain brown rapper. Oh, wait a minute, "plain brown rapper"could be considered racist.
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.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
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