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I dunno, Pan. By the time they get done smearing his name with all kinds of (likely made-up) sh*t, a lot of jurors won't be very sympathetic. And suits, especially high profile ones against government, drag on for years. Even if she wins, only her lawyer will get rich.
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Lots of potential jurors have been unemployed, foreclosed on, following the news in general, and may well be most unsympathetic toward government representatives who are either negligent or abusive of their powers.
"Send them a message." - Johnny Cochran
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Cool! But I gotta tell you, that girl is out there without a wetsuit and the water in Santa Cruz is pretty darned nippy especially at this time of year.
[An Nahar] Reality television superstar Kim Kardashian Wednesday hit back at speculation her lavish wedding was a stunt, saying her short-lived marriage to Kris Humphries was for love, not television.
In Sydney to promote her new handbag range, the celebrity revealed her pain after filing for divorce on Monday from basketball player Humphries, who she married less than three months ago.
"It's a hard time right now," said Kardashian, known for the reality show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," who was mobbed by photographers and fans as she arrived at Sydney airport.
"I don't really think I'm ready to get into the details of it. You know, I am following my heart," she told Australia's Network Ten. As shallow and cold as it is, she's following that sucker...
The 31-year-old, who has been married and divorced once before, said it was painful to hear talk that her August 20 wedding to towering New Jersey Nets power forward Humphries, 26, was not genuine.
"I think that's probably the hardest part, just from the start there have been so many different reports that just aren't true. Like my wedding cost $10 million," she said. "I married for love, anyone that would, you know, get married for a TV show, it's just, you know, ridiculous and it's just sad that I even have to defend that.
"I guess that's the kind of scrutiny you get when you live your life on a reality show but everything I do is, you know, just for love. I'm a hopeless romantic."
Kardashian said had made a donation to a charity to cover what people would have spent on wedding gifts, feeling that this would be a better contribution than returning the presents. Oh, how utterly tacky...
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Oh how nice, she's going to get a tax deduction for the value of her wedding gifts. Gag.
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I guess this sort of nonsense is why there is a year grace period for giving wedding presents. You wait to be sure they aren't just selfish prigs looking for attention and parting gifts. Hopefully this brew-ha-ha will finally spell the end of the Kardashian reality tv juggernaut that has long overstayed its welcome.
MANATEE -- In his 50-year career as a plumber, Jerry Laliberte has found all kinds of things in walls and under floors: screwdrivers, flashlights, dead rats and squirrels, to name a few.
But on Oct. 20, Laliberte discovered something most of us will never have a chance to touch: $20,000 in $50 and $100 bills and travelers checks.
Two aluminum foil-wrapped packages tumbled out of an air return duct at a house he was servicing. Jerry Laliberte, a plumbing technician with Air & Energy, found $20,000 in cash tucked in a wall of a house he was servicing. The owners have been contacted with the help of owner Trudy Moon and Manager Stewart Moon.
I thought it was drugs at first, said Laliberte, 62, a plumbing technician for Air & Energy air-conditioning, plumbing and electrical service on Holmes Beach.
The discovery left him with shaking hands.
Thats a lot of money! he said. Ive been doing this a long time and never found anything like this.
Laliberte had been called to the empty house to stop a water leak underneath a second-floor shower floor. He was alone when he found the money, but didnt think twice about calling his bosses and informing them of his find.
I wouldnt have been able to sleep at night if I had kept any of it, said Laliberte, who has two daughters, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. And I didnt want to just put it back in the duct, because they rent the place out as a seasonal rental. He is obviously not an Occupy Wall Street type.
The owners had inherited the house from a relative who had made it clear in her will that cash was stashed throughout the house, said Trudy Moon, co-owner of Air & Energy.
Police have asked Air & Energy not to identify the address, or even the town, in which the cash was located to protect the owners from potential harassment.
Lorna Yankee, an Air & Energy manager who spoke to the homes owner, said the owner wasnt surprised at all to hear about the stash of cash Laliberte had discovered.
I guess this hasnt been the first time theyd been left money like this in this house, Yankee said. They just hadnt found this part of it.
Laliberte has worked for Air & Energy for eight years.
I was very, very proud of him, to say the least, Moon said. After all, he was alone in that house. Its not like there were people around him. The temptation would have been terrifically high. Were making a huge fuss about him. IMHO, the owners should give him a finder's fee or some kind of reward, then tear the house down and find the rest of the fortune, Bwahahahahaha! Just kidding. A good man, here.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday called on President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... to step down saying old age was catching up with the veteran ruler.
President Mugabe, 87, this year is reportedly suffering from advanced prostate cancer but wants to stand against the 59 year old premier in next year's elections.
The former liberation war leader's coalition partners have complained that his frequent visits to doctors in Asia were disrupting government business.
On Sunday, President Mugabe returned from his seventh trip to Singapore this year where he is reportedly receiving treatment.
But he denied reports that his health is deteriorating and declared himself fit.
"The question of age is catching, the question of health is catching up," Mr Tsvangirai told journalists.
"I am sure that advisably he would be in a position for the sake of the country, for the sake of his legacy, for the sake of his children to consider stepping down."
President Mugabe in power since Zim-bob-we's independence from Britannia in 1980 has already indicated that he will stand for another term in elections expected next year.
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Surprising he hasn't developed 'health problems' that forced him to quit some time ago.
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He's hung around long past his 'use-by' date - am amazed he can still control things. When he's gone, expect some serious infighting over succession.
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By Chris Covert
The disgraced former Coahuila state finance director at the center of a major financial scandal was caught at a small airstrip by Coahuila state judicial agents as he attempt to board a small aircraft bound for the United States Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
Meanwhile, the Mexican national attorney general's office, Procuradoria General de la Republica (PGR) issued two new arrest warrants and has taken jurisdiction in the debt scandal in Coahuila.
Hector Javier Villarreal Hernandez was found at an airstrip at Plan de Guadelupe Monday at about 1600 hrs by Coahuila state judicial agents. Villareal had been ordered by a Coahuila state court Monday to appear by Tuesday to begin 40 days of incarceration as preventative detention.
A second preventative detention order had been issued Monday by judge Adrian Gonzalez for Sergio Ricardo Fuentes Flores, who like Villareal is charged with forgery and fraud.
Fuentes Flores failed to appear before the court, necessitating an arrest warrant issued for his arrest.
Fuentes Flores was director of Deuda Publica de Municipios y Entidades Federativas for the Coahuila state treasurer's office.
The Coahuila state attorney general's office, Fiscala General del Estado (FGE), Jesus Torres Charles, confirmed to the press Tuesday that his office has issued additional arrest warrants for three others including two unidentified Santander bank senior executives for their role in irregularities in contracting debt for the state of Coahuila.
Torres Charles also told press that the amount in question was MP $2 billion, instead of MP $3 billion, and that the transaction were two actual loans each from Santander and Banco de Baijo banks, not bonds. One of those loans went to the Coahuila state water department. The official heading that agency, Fausto Destenave Kuri, Monday requested a leave of absence from his duties. He has also been called before a state court to explain his actions.
On Tuesday, the Mexican federal Procuraduria Fiscal de la Federacion (PFF), a general counsel for the Ministry of Finance, filed two more complaints with the PGR alleging irregularities in five loans totalling MP $5.3 billion.
The banks included in the new request for investigation are Santander, Banco del Bajio and BBVA Bancomer. The issue became apparent last May when officials with Santander and Banco del Bajio attempted to collect on their loans and were told their transactions were based on false documents.
The amounts of the loans involved include:
Banco del Bajio MP $1 billion.
BBVA Bancomer: MP $1.65 billion.
BBVA Bancomer MP $550 million.
Santander MP $1.1 billion.
Santander MP $1 billion.
An official with the PFF, Javier Laynez, said in an interview Wednesday that four of the five transactions took place during the term of then Coahuila governor Humberto Moreira Valdes, who is now leader of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Laynez also said his agency had been investigating the five transactions since May.
Moreira has been under considerable pressure both inside and outside the PRI to step aside while his role in expanding indebtedness for Coahuila while he was governor was being investigated. Moreira has thus far resisted those calls, countering that charges against him are a campaign of "mud and lies" perpetrated by his political opponents.
Gustavo Madero, like Moreira newly appointed to his post as leader of Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), has been putting Moreira's role in Coahuila's unprecedented run up of debt -- Mexico's fourth largest in absolute and largest in per capita terms -- front and center in the upcoming presidential elections next year.
[Dawn] Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was flying to the chic French Riviera resort of Cannes on Wednesday to explain himself to European leaders furious over his surprise referendum on a bailout deal that took them months to work out.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... , German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... and top European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... officials arrived at the Palais des Festivals, site of Cannes' famous film festival, for private talks ahead of their meeting with Papandreou, scheduled for 19.30 GMT.
The pledge to hold a referendum has riled financial markets and threatens to derail a debt crisis plan that's not even a week old. A "no" vote in the referendum could lead to a disorderly Greek default and force Greece from the euro, toppling fragile banks and sending the global economy spinning back into recession.
Even scheduling the vote could scuttle pending payouts of bailout money Greece needs to avoid default. And the wait is ramping up the pressure on Italia, the eurozone's third-largest economy, whose debts are enormous but which is considered too big to be bailed out.
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EU- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was flying to the chic French Riviera resort of Cannes on Wednesday to explain himself to European leaders furious over his surprise referendum on a bailout deal that took them months to work out.
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Greek crisis: Papandreou 'to offer to resign'
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is expected to offer his resignation within the next half-hour, sources in Athens have told the BBC.
Mr Papandreou will meet Greek President Karolos Papoulios immediately after an emergency cabinet meeting has finished.
He is expected to offer a coalition government, with former Greek central banker Lucas Papademos at the helm.
Mr Papandreou himself would stand down, the BBC understands.
The Greek government was on the verge of collapse after several ministers said they did not support Mr Papandreou's plan for a referendum on the EU bailout.
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When you owe the bank $100,000, you have a problem; when you owe $100,000,000, the bank has a problem. Substitute 'Greece' for 'you', and 'Germany' for 'the bank', and add a few more zeros to the amounts and you have described the current situation.
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The Elites are aghast that the commoners expect to actually be allowed to vote on something their masters have already decided for them. EU delende est.
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Speamble, ordinarily that's the case: the Eurocrats quickly mask their distaste, magnanimously let people vote - then make them keep voting till they get the answer they want.
This was different. The point of this exercise was merely CYA for the Greek government. To create the illusion that one option might be better than the other, when in fact the people of Greece are f*cked either way.
But point taken. Europeans haven't had a voice in their own governance for a very long time.
[Dawn] An index that measures prosperity as a function of both income and wellbeing for 110 countries around the world has placed Pakistain fourth from the bottom, below Sudan and Yemen.
At 107, Pakistain is ahead of only Ethiopia, Zim-bob-we and the Central African Republic. In the Asia-Pacific region, it is ranked last out of 22 nations.
London-based research organization Legatum Institute released on Tuesday the 2011 Legatum Prosperity Index, in which countries are ranked in eight areas before being given an overall prosperity rank.
Nordic countries dominate the overall rankings, with Norway and Denmark bagging the top two spots and Sweden and Finland also appearing in the top 10. Others in that group include Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , the Netherlands and, lastly, the United States
Pakistain is listed at 86 for Entrepreneurship & Opportunity, 96 for both Economy and Health, 98 for Governance, 100 for Social Capital, 104 for Personal Freedom, 105 for Education and 109 for Safety & Security. In this last category it is preceded by Colombia and followed only by Sudan.
The numbers for Social Capital and Personal Freedom may provide some cause for scepticism. As the report itself admits, Pakistain has relatively strong social networks, and at times these have functioned as private social welfare nets. And the Personal Freedom score seems low compared to some other countries listed above Pakistain, such as Soddy Arabia, China and Syria.
. Some of the reasons listed for Pakistain's poor performance include an unstable economy with uncertain growth prospects, limited access to technology, income inequality, lack of competition and accountability in the political system, limited spending on public health, low school enrolment rates and poor quality of education, political violence, demographic pressures, and limitations on civil liberties.
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I would argue that rankings like this are manifestly unfair to a country (I'm using the term loosely) like Pakistain. All the criteria represent Western values: GDP, economic well-being, freedom, education and so forth. If the criteria were things like seething, corruption, the ability to believe in multiple and possibly contradictory conspiracies, volatility, and general hatred for infidels, then Pakistain would be leading the pack rather inhabiting the flooded bottomlands of the civilized world.
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You're right, SteveS. These cultural imperialists can't recognize their own bigoted value judgments inherent in the presumption that human existence should be any better than animals.
But hey, no doubt Pak is in the top 5 for Islamic purity. I wonder if there is a correlation?
[An Nahar] The U.N. development agency called Wednesday for a currency transaction tax to help the world's poorest countries deal with the effects of climate change.
"In updated analysis prepared for this report, the North-South Institute estimates that a tax of 0.005 percent would yield around $40 billion a year," said the UNDP's annual Human Development Report.
"The revenue potential is thus huge," it added.
"Even a unilateral currency transaction tax limited to the euro could mobilize $4.2 to $9.3 billion in additional financing," it said.
"Clearly then, a currency transaction tax could, even under very conservative assumptions, dramatically scale up global public good expenditure," it added.
La Belle France, which holds the presidency for the G20 this year, has been pushing for a tax on financial transactions to fund development projects. It is expected to make the same pitch when heads of state of the group of 20 nations gather in Cannes later this week.
The UNDP noted that the most disadvantaged people continue to be subject to the biggest impact of environmental degradation.
They are not only vulnerable to the impact of the environment, but also confronted with threats including air pollution, water pollution and sanitation problems.
To measure these serious health, education and living standards deficiencies, the UNDP has taken environmental deprivation into account for the first time in this year's human development index.
The agency has measured environmental deprivation in terms of access to drinking water, clean sanitation or cooking fuel.
"The figures are very shocking," said Jeni Klugman, a lead author of the report.
In developing countries, at least six out of ten people suffer from an element of environmental deprivation while four out of ten suffer from at least two.
In addition, half of the malnutrition cases in the world arise from environmental factors, added the UNDP.
Overall, this year's annual human development ranking showed progress made in the quality of life. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... when adjusted against inequalities among the population, there was an overall drop of 23 percent in the quality of living this year.
"The biggest drops were recorded in education, followed by revenues and health," said Klugman, underlining that all the regions of the world posted a fall in the adjusted indicator.
Norway, Australia, the Netherlands led this year's overall index, while the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger and Burundi came in at the bottom.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... when adjusted for inequalities, some countries fell off their top rankings. The United States, for instance, was the fourth best in the index, but only ranked 23rd when adjusted for inequalities.
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Banning biofuels would be easily the most effective measure to aid the world's poor.
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Has to do wid Biofuels taking up all the land for that certain vital thingy Humans like known as CROPS = aka FOOD.
Its an Oldie but always a Goodie.
* ION CC CHINA DAILY FORUM > FUTURE HOLDS MORE EXTREME WEATHER, FLOODS [monsoons], HEAT WAVES [wildfires], DROUGHT | KEY UN CLIMATE REPORT TIES CLIMATE CHANGE TO EXTREME WEATHER.
ARTIC = GWCC, Weather Perts changing their focii towards SUPER-HEAVY RAINSTORMS, as per storm size, frequency, + [abnormal?]droplet composition. SOME LANDS, REGIONS TO LOSE MOST OR ALL OF THEIR HUMAN HABITABILITY.
OTOH ....
* SAME > UN HIRES [new]GRAD STUDENTS TO AUTHOR KEY CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.
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I am so tired of self important, bureaucratic shits holding out their hand over and over asking for more of my money. They are going to start pulling back a bloody stump.
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Forget about the currency tax. Human-created climate change has not been proven. Banning the U.N. would stamp out considerable corruption and a huge drain on the West. It seems the U.N. would like to bring all industrialized countries down to the level of the world's poorest countries.
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Get the U.S. OUT of the U.N. and let the rest of the world GO TO HELL.
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Before the EUniks start another scheme, they better let things settle down after the PIIGS epidemic is over. They may be one of the poor themselves.
Pretty exciting spending other people's money, eh?
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Ay-pee article. Summary: State legislators are meeting to consider shifting the alignment of the Trans-Canada pipeline because a spill that might happen someday might possibly damage the Ogallah aquifer.
Environmental review is complete, waiting on the State Department, due to Canadian origin of the pipe line and oil (700,000 bpd from tar sands).
Meanwhile, Keystone Pipeline is running radio ads saying how many jobs and what a big increase in the tax base will result from this pipeline project, not to mention the reduction in the dependence on foreign oil.
Greenies and NIMBYs and their legions of attorneys waiting in the wings to shift the pipeline far enough away that the environmental review will have to be done over.
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Look for subtle money from nation's we currently import from to keep this oil off the market by supporting these "eco" groups.
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It will also cause fire and brimstone, plague and cats and dogs will live together.
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Canada was prepared for this. They knew how difficult the meany greenies would be. They have also a western pipeline to their west coast for export to build. The big thing is rail. Truck hauling also. Massive need for cars now. They can't build lines fast enough. China is purchasing everything they can get their hands on. Poorest quality we can't burn here is going there. We are opening old mines also because of selling the lower quality coal. One hub in our area is seeing 8 train coal cars a day about a mile long each. So the back up plan is rail or truck. We need the line but this is the back door. I may be wrong but I have heard mines are getting $240/ton for coal.
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Canada's plan B is to pipe oil to Vancouver where China will happily buy it and transport it via tankers.
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I say we render the greenies down for fat and turn them candles we can sell to the Filthy Dirty Hippy 'Occu-squatters' as 'natural and recycled'.
And just think, as a candle, they will provide a valuable, productive part of society for the very first time in their lives.
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I thought someone would ask what are they doing with all that coal?. More than they need. Some is for steel. Then many other uses. A large amount is being buried. Maybe they are planning ahead. I know the states exporting it have a huge tax revenue at this time. Black gold rush days.
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Spill from Saudi oil can damage aquifers, too.....eh?
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I just heard Politico has a scoop that Canadian oil sand was sued for sexual harassment back in the 90s. I don't know about that big bad oil sand, just seems so dangerous.
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LOLs. Canadian experts are we? Frankly, why would Canada sell you dumb hillbillies anything...
I'm not sure, but I think I might be a Yankee, Omomoth Hatfield1094 dear. It really is important to get these little insults correct, if you want them to bite. As for why my mother-in-law's people would want to sell their oil to their nearest neighbor, the economics are basic enough that even a little suburban housewife like me can grasp it: you see, it's ever so much more profitable to sell to a neighbor than someone farther away, shipping costs being so much lower. And of course, the product is so much fresher due to shorter transport time, which avoids all sorts of problems. Oil is much like the fruits and vegetables at farmers markets when one thinks about the essence of the things, or so I'm told.
Or if you prefer, we could talk of the present value of money, squeezing out excess costs by smoothing the production curve, even EBITDA if you insist.
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You do flatter me, SteveS! I just thought I'd give dear Mr. Omomoth Hatfield1094 the choice between the comfortably homely concepts he'd expect from hillbillies and the vocabulary I hear entirely too often at the dinner table.
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Materials Testing Facility announced that it has fired its electromagnetic railgun 1000 times and reached a materials testing milestone toward the deployment on warships.
Many of the shots were fired to research and test different barrel designs and to evaluate the damage generated by the gun.
The first shot was launched more than four years ago, in March of 2007, and the railgun has since been enhanced from an energy level of 0.5 megajoules to currently 1.5 megajoules. In comparison, "a one-ton vehicle moving at 100 mph has approximately one megajoule of kinetic energy," the U.S. navy explained.
The railgun developed by the Navy launches and accelerates hundreds of conductive projectiles along pairs of metal rails using the effects of a strong magnetic field. The Navy railgun is rumored to accelerated a 7-pound projectile to a speed of 2.4 km/s or 5400 mph. However, rumor has it that velocities of up to 3.5 km/s have been achieved.
In comparison, projectiles fired from an M16 rifle top out at 0.9 km/s. Navy officials said that the range of a railgun is up to 20 times greater than that of conventional weapon systems. A projectile could reach a target 290 miles away in less than 6 minutes and impact it with massive force. The idea is to potentially replace extremely expensive Tomahawk missiles, at least in some scenarios.
"A railgun weapons system must be able to launch hundreds of projectiles and withstand extreme pressures, currents and temperatures," said NRL Commanding Officer, Capt. Paul Stewart in a prepared statement.
"Today's firing of the one-thousandth shot demonstrates Navy researchers are steadily progressing toward achieving that goal, developing a more effective and efficient future ship combat system." They are shooting for a 10-shots-per-minute rate, with accuracy of 5 meters within a 200km range, and destructive force just slightly greater than a conventional 1,000lb bomb.
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OTOH what USN Warships would those be, given ...??
* TOPIX > TWELVE US WARSHIPS FACE AXE DUE TO BUDGET BATTLES.
Nine "Ticonderoga"-class CGS + three "Whidbey Island" Amphibs planned for cut in FY 2013 + 2014. SELL THE "TICONDEROGAS" TO INDIA???
AFAICS "Motherships", all-purpose + Drone, BMD-capable, remains the future for the USN + "OWG/Global Navy" [OWG Task Force] in this era of GWCC + the 21st century???
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I saw the video and aftereffects of such a round hitting a decommissioned M-1 Abrams tank. Holy macanarsels.
At that velocity, it actually engages the surface tension of steel, shattering the tank like it was made of glass. Comparatively, like a rubber ball dipped in liquid nitrogen, that shatters.
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Maybe time to bring some of the battleships back out of retirement and load a mess of these things on them.
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A flotilla of ships each with a rail gun firing 10shots/min, each shot more than equal to a 1000lb bomb....
So 1 gun in one min = 5 tons of HE.
10000/5 = 2000 min with one gun = Hiroshima explosive power
2000/20 = 100 or 100 guns in 20 mins = Hiroshima
It' could be a real game changer just on tonnage. Now that it is very accurate hi-velocity tonnage with quick time on delivery and no explosive power in the shell itself makes it a total game changer.
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each shot more than equal to a 1000lb bomb....
33MJ at the muzzle is the energy in one gallon of gasoline or 17 pounds of TNT. That's about 2/3 the HE in a 155mm HE shell.
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There is a difference between muzzle velocity and explosive power.
I wonder if they could bring the Iowa class back, put a nuke in it and automate it for a smaller crew and mount railguns. A large mass platform might be handy.
"The seat of the recoil force is still debated. The traditional equations predict that the recoil force acts on the breech of the railgun. Another school of thought invokes Ampère's force law and asserts that it acts along the length of the rails (which is their strongest axis). The rails also repel themselves via a sideways force caused by the rails being pushed by the magnetic field, just as the projectile is. The rails need to survive this without bending, and must be very securely mounted."
This is also a factor in the type of rail gun being used, as this would apply to a traditional rail gun. But there is also a hybrid rail gun that uses a thin conductive film behind the round.
As the vast current flows through it, it is turned into a conductive plasma that is more like traditional explosives, that starts the round moving forward, and then the traditional rail gun accelerates the round even more.
This most definitely gets a lot of more typical breech recoil.
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Thats, a riot! Especially when the catered food comes in.
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It's Catchup and Wiener. I believe they are a cover for mustard. Subliminal message, another e...vil corporate money grubbing grab. Where's MINE!.
Wait is it Catchup, Catsup, or Ketchup?. Tomato or tu'maa-tow, "Oh, let's call the whole thing off".
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.
[An Nahar] Reality television superstar Kim Kardashian Wednesday hit back at speculation her lavish wedding was a stunt, saying her short-lived marriage to Kris Humphries was for love, not television.
[Dawn] Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was flying to the chic French Riviera resort of Cannes on Wednesday to explain himself to European leaders furious over his surprise referendum on a bailout deal that took them months to work out.
