#2
An article about a new, presumably illegal drug with no discussion as to what it might be except that it comes in a clear gelatin capsule. It is true that to become a journalist, one must have their curiosity gland surgically removed?
That would be a first. No other psychedelics are addictive. In fact, they are used to treat addiction. Also, interesting they know this about a brand new substance about which nothing is known.
#5
Are you suggesting that the holes drilled into monkey skulls were to access certain parts of the brain, with the delivery system to be determined later.
Because that would be crazy. Ha ha ha. Ha. Errr...
#6
It's new and addictive! It's Paint!
Who knows what it is or it ain't,
But, "We've heard of concern,"
Says some school, so, in turn,
Ms. Guzman informs readers, who... [thud]
[WJLA] A new warning has been issued regarding a potential attack on the electrical grid in the northeast United States. A newly-released intelligence bulletin, obtained by ABC News, reveals a plot involving the use of a drone to disrupt an electrical grid in Pennsylvania in July 2020.
The drone, which crashed atop a building near a Pennsylvania power substation last year, was likely intended to disrupt operations by creating a short circuit to damage transformers, according to the memo from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center. The drone had a thick copper wire attached to it.
That isn’t comforting.
The memo was based on a review of drone incidents dating back to 2017.
Thank goodness someone finally decided to look at the data.
A concern is the illicit use of drones over energy infrastructure and other potential targets are growing. Drones are very difficult to detect or even to defend against.
Officials believe it's the first time a drone was used to deliberately damage the U.S. energy structure.
The person responsible removed the camera, memory card, and all markings to hide their identity.
So no hint at all who might have done this? Black Bloc eco nuts or Occupy Wall Street types, jihadis, someone else? Let’s leave the article on Page 3: Non-WoT until more is revealed.
Federal officials tell CNN they are distributing the intelligence bulletin now to "raise awareness about the incident and the general threat of drones to critical infrastructure."
#2
So sitting on the information for 16 months helps?
90 days I can understand... You didn't want to scare the voters in 2020. So what else are you guys hiding?
#5
The article links to an ABC News report video that shows the Homeland Security memo (at about 31 seconds in). The incident took place on 16 July 2020, according to the memo, and was published in an intelligence report on 18 August. The drone is apparently a Da Jiang Innovations Maverick 2, and looks like a quadcopter of some sort. Could it be a kit?
#6
DJI Mavic 2 frame -- without the camera it's not possible to know if it was sold as a "Pro" or "Zoom". The "Pro" has a better lens and bigger sensor, but no zoom capability. They're not kits; they were the top of their line for "prosumer" drones -- good enough you could start a business with one, but cheap enough for a hobbyist.
It will have a serial number in the firmware, as will the battery. Since DJI has been criticized for how much data the drones send back to them, it should be pretty easy to get more information on it.
Now, it's possible the firmware was hacked, but I haven't looked into what that involves, so I don't know what effects it would have. DJI has been criticized by some consumers for automatically obeying US no-flight zones, but I doubt there are declared no-drone-flight zones over every substation.
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#7
Meant to say they were their top-of-the-line until the announcement of the Mavic 3, which hasn't been released yet. But rumors about the price of the Mavic 3 might change the segmentation of their line; if it's too expensive it might just be a professional drone with their Mini and Air models targeting the hobbyist market.
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#8
This sucks. I can think of two ways to defeat drone attacks like this with 20 seconds of thought. What being done?
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#9
Well, Remote ID will be required in a few years. Think of it as license plates for drones. Older drones will either have to have added equipment to support it, or will only be allowed to fly in restricted areas.
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[CSNBC] After being name-dropped by a UN official who said that just small percentage of a fortune like Elon Musk's $300 billion could help solve world hunger, the Tesla CEO tweeted his own challenge: Explain how $6 billion will fix the problem, and he'll sell Tesla stock "right now."
His conditions follow:
On Sunday, Musk tweeted, "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now," he said about Beasley's assertion.
In a follow-up tweet, Musk added that the UN's plan must include "open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent."
#2
According to the UN Report on Hunger
Over 820 million people suffering from hunger
$6B/820M Hungry = $7.31
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[American Mil News] The U.S. Navy has relieved the three senior leaders of the USS Connecticut (SSN-22), the U.S. Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine that ran into an underwater mountain in the South China Sea last month, injuring 11 sailors and forcing the submarine to limp back to port in Guam.
On Thursday, the U.S. Navy announced U.S. 7th Fleet commander Vice Adm. Karl Thomas reached the decision to relieve the USS Connecticut’s commanding officer Cmdr. Cameron Aljilani, executive officer Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Cashin and Chief of the Boat Cory Rodgers.
In announcing its decision to relieve the three senior leaders of the submarine, the Navy described a "loss of confidence" in the leaders.
"Thomas determined sound judgement, prudent decision-making, and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning, watch team execution and risk management could have prevented the incident," the Navy statement read.
Following the command relief, the Navy said Capt. John Witte will assume duties as interim Commanding Officer. Cmdr. Joe Sammur will assume duties as interim Executive Officer and Command Master Chief Paul Walters will assume duties as interim Chief of the Boat.
#4
"Thomas determined sound judgement, prudent decision-making, and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning, watch team execution and risk management that doing Navy things could have prevented the incident,"
As mentioned, axing the CO, the XO and the COB is a pretty big bite. A messed up local culture on the boat?
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...What I'm thinking is this:
The Seawolf class - all three of them - are likely the finest attack subs on the planet, and definitely the quietest. That's one reason they tend to get some seriously touchy assignments (especially Jimmy Carter). Now with that in mind, it's perfectly reasonable to believe that Connecticut was in the SCS on one of those 'if-I-told-you-I'd-have-to-kill-you' missions.
Something goes sideways, for whatever reason, and the skipper - who's counted on to get in and out invisibly - puts the spurs to the boat and gets out of Dodge...and runs into that seamount.
I don't think he's getting relieved so much for the collision as much as whatever actions and circumstances required him to be running at full speed in an uncharted area. I think they got caught, or were about to be so, the skipper got rattled, and made a run for it.
Mike
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#11
A report I read said the sonar dome on the front of the boat was literally ripped off, with sensitive systems and equipment onboard. If so, are they going to retrieve it before the PLAN scoops it up, or do they think the PLAN already has the schematics?
#12
Being blamed for hitting an invisible obstacle. Good ol' Navy. The same ones that ran their destroyers ragged and hit two cargo ships in a short time.
#13
I think Mike K is probably right. Running into an UNCHARTED sea mount should not be a career ending event - unless there was something else going on.
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#14
no more sperm whale anal to make fluids for the new woke breakfast drink at bunk and bulshit!
#10
I was in Brazil in 2004 fishing for peacock bass...if you snagged your line the guide would go in the river and free up your lure.
I did catch one piranha with a crankbait...narly teeth.
#3
There has always been a swath of society that can't be trusted with even their own eccentricity. However, allowing them to dictate to the vast majority of normal people is a very recent development. We'll see how long it lasts.
#Ukraine appoints a new defense minister with a mandate to strengthen the army, as the country remains locked in conflict with pro-#Russia separatists.https://t.co/4kQQzofdvv
And the moon could be made of green cheese. What’s the probability that they will, and what’s the probability that however many they have will function as intended?
[OneIndia] China could have 700 deliverable nuclear warheads by 2027 It could top 1,000 by 2030 and this arsenal is two and a half times the size of what the Pentagon had predicted only a year ago.
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is investing in, and expanding, the number of its land-, sea-, and air-based nuclear delivery platforms and constructing the infrastructure necessary to support this major expansion of its nuclear forces, the Pentagon report said.China has been continuing to take "incremental and tactical actions" to press its claims at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India and has unsuccessfully sought to prevent New Delhi from deepening its relationship with the United States, the Pentagon also said.
After WHO nod, People vaccinated with Covaxin can now enter US from November 8: Details hereAfter WHO nod, People vaccinated with Covaxin can now enter US from November 8: Details here
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] Beijing has repeatedly criticised the signing of a security pact between the UK, the US and Australia earlier this year, which it interprets as being directed against China. AUKUS also sent ripples throughout the NATO alliance, as neither the UK nor the US warned their partners of their plans.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, criticised Canberra's decision to participate in the creation of the AUKUS security agreement as "extremely irresponsible", reportedly from the point of view of nuclear non-proliferation.
Wenbin stressed that, driven by the "pursuit of its own interests", Australia has not only undermined regional peace and stability, but has also violated its international obligations in the sphere of non-proliferation. He called on the country to change its course and amend its "mistakes".
"The Australian government should correct its mistakes, abandon the Cold War mentality, conscientiously fulfill its international nuclear non-proliferation obligations, earnestly safeguard regional peace and stability and give a responsible answer to the international community".
The foreign ministry spokesman also stressed that issues stemming from the signing of the security pact between the US, UK and Australia go beyond a mere diplomatic spat between the western countries, and affect the entire international community.
[TN.GOV] Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today filed a lawsuit, joined by the attorneys general of Ohio and Kentucky, challenging the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, asserts that the Administration’s mandatory vaccination requirement is unlawful and unconstitutional.
“Unless we intervene, federal contractors in Tennessee will be forced to make sense of the mandate’s many inconsistencies that require their entire workforce be vaccinated or face potential blacklisting and loss of future federal contracts,” said General Slatery. “That is simply unworkable and this lawsuit seeks to stop it.”
In the lawsuit, the attorneys general outline the harm the mandate will cause for their respective states and citizens.
Nationwide, the Department of Labor reports that federal contractors account for approximately one-fifth of the country’s entire labor force. The coalition of attorneys general argue that the potential workforce loss among federal contractors presents a significant concern for the economies of their states and could exacerbate ongoing supply chain issues.
The attorneys general further argue that the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate violates state sovereignty by preventing the states from exercising their police power to establish laws regarding workforce vaccination policies.
The attorneys general also contend that the mandate is unconstitutional because Congress did not give the President authority to issue such a broad mandate. The coalition writes that “the imposed mandates are unconstitutional because Congress did not articulate a clear principle by legislative act that directs the Executive to take sweeping action that infringes on state and individual rights.”
[Sandboxx] America Really Launched An ICBM From The Back Of A C-5 Cargo Plane
The Minuteman I ICBM, or intercontinental ballistic missile, was a globe-spanning weapon with nearly ten times the destructive capacity of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, and in 1974, America successfully launched one out of the back of an airborne C-5 Galaxy.
As if lobbing an 87,000-pound nuclear payload out the back of an aircraft in flight wasn’t a dramatic enough undertaking in itself, the team responsible for history’s only air-launched ICBM were also under a strict deadline and potentially apocalyptic pressure. While their efforts could have resulted in a new approach to leveraging America’s nuclear arsenal, actually fielding a new capability may not have been the real aim of the program. Instead, the entire effort may have really been about sending a message to the Soviet Union before entering into a new round of disarmament talks. Some cool video at the link
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#4
I remember when they proposed putting them on railroad cars to move around. Something about the quality of the existing roadbeds and NIMBY seem to reduce it to a toy in the end.
#5
/\Roadbed quality (at a RR Crossing we stop for no one!), but mostly trying to arrange a security perimeter while maintaining the dispersion that was the whole point of the idea.
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[CSNBC] After being name-dropped by a UN official who said that just small percentage of a fortune like Elon Musk's $300 billion could help solve world hunger, the Tesla CEO tweeted his own challenge: Explain how $6 billion will fix the problem, and he'll sell Tesla stock "right now."
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Beijing has repeatedly criticised the signing of a security pact between the UK, the US and Australia earlier this year, which it interprets as being directed against China. 
