(KUNA) -- A 16-year-old boy has been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in Britannia on suspicion of cybercrime, police said here Wednesday.
The teenager was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock at a south London address yesterday and taken to a central London cop shoppe, where he remains in jug, the police said.
He was held on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
The Metropolitan Police is liaising with the FBI and authorities in the Netherlands, a police front man added.
It is understood that he is suspected of being connected with hacking group "Anonymous".
It came as 14 people were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in the US for allegedly mounting a cyberattack on PayPal's website in retaliation for suspending the accounts of WikiLeaks.
The attacks on the online payment specialist by the group Anonymous followed the release by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks in November of thousands of classified US State Department cables.
Anonymous, a loosely-organised group of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks, has grabbed credit for attacks against corporate and government websites all over the world.
The group also claims to have disrupted the websites of Visa and MasterCard in December when the credit card companies stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
The 14 allegedly involved in the PayPal attack were charged in US District Court in San Jose, Caliphornia, and were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in Alabama, Arizona, Caliphornia, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... FBI agents executed more than 35 search warrants around the country in an continuing investigation into co-ordinated cyberattacks against major companies and organizations. There were two arrests in the United States unrelated to the PayPal attack and four arrests by the Dutch National Police Agency.
The London suspect is the second British teenager to be set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock over allegations of cybercrime in recent weeks.
Last month Ryan Cleary was jugged and accused of attempting to hack into the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).
Cleary, 19, who is accused of taking part in a conspiracy to attack sites including those of Soca and the British Phonographic Industry, is currently on conditional bail.
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
Of Union Army forces, 460 were killed, 1,124 were wounded, and 1,312 were captured or went missing.
Of Confederate Army forces, 387 were killed, 1,582 were wounded, and 13 went missing.
The Confederates were at an initial disadvantage, until a brigade of Virginians under a relatively unknown colonel from the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas J. Jackson, stood their ground, which cause a disorganized retreat by the Union forces.
From this, Jackson received his famous nickname, of "Stonewall Jackson".
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Can you imagine the heat as it is now in July. That area on into DC has allot of humidity also. The clothing was not vortex. Then the sketers (mosquitoes). I'll pass on that please.
The Sports City Stadium, one of 12 facilities being built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, would be among the most technologically advanced, with removable seats that can scale the building down to a 10,000-seat amphitheater. The Stadium design is inspired by the shape of a Bedouin tent
Originally designed to accommodate 45,000 spectators, the stadiums capacity is now being increased to 65,000 which could take its cost past $2bn.
A lot of the cost is the fact that its much more than a stadium, Meis said. Its a full entertainment destination in one building. Its a mall, it includes a hotel tower, an office tower and a media tower that all support this giant floating roof and theres occupied space up on the roof, as well. There are places where you can look from the roof of the building down to the pitch or to the plaza.
Making the best of other sucesses...
The stadium will have a partially retractable roof, which will open and close in 15 to 20 minutes.
The technology to adjust seating is based on Japans Saitama Stadium, also designed by Meis. Large seating blocks move on trucks and they can slide back and be moved elsewhere to open up space. They are similar to the retractable field used at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The cooling system will be combined with the stadiums retractable roof, extending its reach beyond the pitch [soccer field] to plazas outside the venue to create an oasis-like feel in the desert. I'll start making my 2022 vacation plans right now!
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It would be best if they spent that money educating their children in useful trades, but next best is wasting it on toys instead of jihad.
[Emirates 24/7] A woman has been eaten by a lion after it escaped from a game reserve in Kenya.
According to The Sun, Martha Nduta was said to have been attacked in her own home, and dragged from the property on Friday.
Officials, who searched the area in the Nyahururu district for her, found only a human skull and a few scraps of bone.
Relatives identified the tragic 58-year-old's body from the remains of her ripped clothes and a shoe found at the scene.
Francio Nyamatari, Laikipia West police chief, said Kenya Wildlife Service rangers are now hunting the male lion as panic-stricken villagers fear it may strike again.
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"Escaped" from a game reserve? What, it's all fenced or something? Did the lion tunnel out?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Police threw tear gas and fired live bullets in the air to disperse thousands of Malawians who took to the street to protest against President Bingu wa Mutharika's government.
People were stopped from marching following of an injunction that Mutharika supporters obtained in the middle of the night restraining the organisers of the protest from proceeding with the protest, however the organisers went to court to challenge the injunction.
Court delay to lift the injunction angered thousands of people who later took upon themselves, after enduring a five hours waiting, to start marching to the Blantyre City Council offices where they were expected to deliver a petition.
Donning red attires and singing songs denouncing the Mutharika regime, an estimated 4000 people in Blantrye joined civil society leaders, politicians and religious leaders in the march.
Things get out of hand when news filtered in that the court has granted the organisers permission to proceed with the march, the noise that followed forced police to start shooting in the air and throw tear gas at the people.
The scuffle led to shops breaking and looting and increasing violence. Unconfirmed reports indicate that one person has been killed in Blantyre.
About 50 organisers of the protest across the country are said to have been tossed in the clink.
Meanwhile the government has invited Malawi Defence Force soldiers to reinforce the security as situation was getting out of hand.
"The situation is very bad here," Human Rights Commission front man Mike Chipalasa told AFP.
"There have been running battles between the police and demonstrators," he said. "People are angry. The situation is tense," Mr Chipalasa said.
One witness told AFP that protesters ransacked two Lilongwe businesses owned by politicians of the ruling Democratic Progress Party.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a meeting. It was to be his last... in the northern town of Mzuzu, two vehicles and DPP offices were also torched, witnesses said by telephone.
"The police were overwhelmed here by the crowd of people, although they finally suppressed the rioting crowd," Chipalasa said.
"The demonstrators were just angry for being not allowed to march by police. They resorted to looting," he added.
A coalition of more than 80 rights groups had organised nationwide marches for Wednesday to protest the soaring cost of living and moves by President Mutharika to control the media and limit street protests.
Another group calling itself "Concerned Citizens" then announced a rival march in support of the government.
In the end, the court banned both demonstrations to prevent "possible disruptions and undesirable incidents".
The opposition has denounced Mutharika for failing to smooth over a diplomatic row with Britannia, after London suspended economic aid to its former colony.
Relations between the two countries were strained in April when a leaked British diplomatic cable accused Mutharika of "becoming ever more autocratic and intolerant of criticism".
The spat saw both countries withdraw their ambassadors, while London last week suspended around £19 million ($30.7 million, 21.7 million euros) of budgetary aid meant for anti-poverty programmes in one of the world's poorest countries.
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The Jinggangshan dock landing ship, which is the largest warship in the Chinese Navy, was officially launched in Shanghai.
With a displacement of 19,000 tons, the amphibious warship is 210 meters long and 28 meters wide and can carry helicopters, armored fighting vehicles, boats and landing craft as well as nearly 1,000 soldiers.
According to an earlier report, Jinggangshan is the second of the Type 071 dock landing ship and was built by the Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard. The first one, Kunlunshan, was launched in 2006 with a displacement of 18,000 tons, it said.
Jinggangshan, or Jinggang Mountains, is located in East China's Jiangxi province and is known as the birthplace of China's People's Liberation Army and the cradle of China's revolution.
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Sounds like quite handy things to have to seize little islands in the South China Sea that have lots of natural resources around them and are also claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines.
New claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week following two declines, a setback for a sector that hasn't been producing many jobs.
Separately, U.S home prices posted a monthly increase in May, a government agency said Thursday, but are still lower than year-earlier levels.
Claims increased by 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 418,000 in the week ended July 16, the Labor Department said Thursday. The prior week's claims figure was revised to 408,000, up from an originally reported 405,000.
The increase was the first in three weeks. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast claims to remain unchanged.
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"Unexpectedly" My ass, more like "Expected Jobs Unemployment Jump".
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I have it on good authority that Oden has been of the same mind "I am so sick of that word". How about inexplicably.I actually would like"whatever"at this point.
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Take from this self-appointed 'expert' economist & forecaster: The US economy and unemployment will continue to stink for years into the future, unless total collapse supervenes.
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Border's bookstores is unexpectedly closing across the U.S. There goes another 10K jobs. The space program is unexpectedly shutting down. There goes another 9K jobs.
(KUNA) -- King Albert II of Belgium Wednesday expressed concern over the ongoing political crisis in his country and warned of its negative consequences on the integration process on Europe itself.
In his address to the nation on the occasion of Belgium's national day on Thursday, King Albert said "I am concerned about the longest government formation in living memory".
Elections were held in Belgium over a year ago but the country still has no formal government due to differences over state reforms between the Phlegmish and French-speaking political parties.
"Among a large sector of the population the length of the crisis has led to incomprehension of politics that cannot provide any solutions. We should be well aware that if this situation continues the social well-being of the Belgians will be under attack," he warned.
King Albert referred to the leading role that Belgium has played in European integration.
"Brussels has become the de facto European capital. Our country, with its cultural diversity has partly been seen as a model for the European Union", ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... he said, and added that "our partners are now concerned and that this concern can damage our role in Europe and even the European unification process itself".
The monarch reminded the people of the risks that threaten all Belgians as a result of a lengthy crisis.
"I am again urging all politicians to be constructive and quickly work out a balanced solution for our problems," he added.
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"lenghty political crisis could damage European Union"
If you're lucky....
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Oh, Belgium! Does anyone remember the Marc Dutroux case?
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[Dawn] A three-member judicial commission headed by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court has held the federal and provincial governments and the Federal Flood Commission (FFC) responsible for the devastation caused by last year's floods and recommended accountability of former and incumbent heads of the flood commission.
"There are latent structural disconnects and omissions which, by and large, stem from an indifferent and disinterested provincial irrigation and planning (I&P) department," said the commission's report which was released on June 30.
The commission, which also included Abdul Sattar Shakir and Shafqat Masood, said some of the issues had been on the agenda of provincial and federal governments for many years supported by substantial funds, but "no tangible results have come forth and even today there is no policy for flood plain management or hill torrents management". The commission's report said the FFC had not lived up to its objectives and morphed into a post office, which simply compiled flood schemes of various irrigation departments in the country.
The Punjab government's I&P department, it said, lacked expertise, research, innovation, vision and dynamism befitting a department that had to lead the largest contiguous irrigation network in the world for the welfare and uplift of the people of Pakistain and its heavily dependent agro-economy. "The overall flood governance seems to be in disarray."
The report quoted Pepco as having said that under the rural electrification programme, connections were extended to people living in the vicinity of the river -- active flood plains. Although no fatal accident took place on account of the electrification network during floods, the report noted that even the active flood plains were electrified by Wapda under the programme which encouraged habitation within the plains.
The report said the National Flood Protection Plan clearly laid down the foundation and a framework for the development of a flood management plan way back in 1978, but "since then the FFC has miserably failed to provide the vision and the plan it was set out to give".
"The FFC has been reduced to a post office, stamping away flood protection schemes prepared and developed after every flood season by zonal chiefs of the I&P department.
The report said there was no master plan or holistic flood management plan which controls the scope or tests usefulness of the schemes. Besides, it added, the schemes prepared by the zonal heads lacked research, innovation and ingenuity. "The schemes which go through are usually the one that are pushed by the local political patronage, leading to a series of haphazard, unstructured and ineffective flood protection schemes at a heavy financial cost on the national exchequer."
The judicial commission said: "The current and previous chairmen of FFC are accountable for their failed stewardship of the commission since 1977. The country does not have an integrated flood management plan; this omission is criminal and its chairmen must be held accountable for it.
"The federal government must hold a detail audit of the FFC by a panel of experts, including members from civil society, to assess the performance of the FFC since its inception. Why has the FFC failed to develop a flood management plan and continued to approve localised flood sector schemes without first assessing their need in the larger context of the flood management plan?
"The FFC needs to be pulled out of its cocoon; it is not to act as a lame secretariat or a post office for PIDs (provincial irrigation departments), but assume its real role of a principal flood sector authority of the country.
"It is recommended that the federal government must ensure that the FFC develops the first-ever National Flood Management Plan before the start of the next flood season and shares it with flood managers of the provinces.
"The Federal Flood Commission simply rubberstamps flood sectors schemes prepared at the end of every flood season by zonal officers of the irrigation department. This is not the role of FFC. The federal government must immediately pull up this apex flood institution to perform its role under the law."
The judicial commission also criticised the federal government and said: "We notice with deep concern that the National Water Policy is still a draft and has been awaiting approval since 2005. Additionally, the National Flood Protection Plan-IV (2008-18) has not been approved. This governmental and perhaps bureaucratic inertness is most disturbing and can be listed as a cause behind the recent devastation."
The commission called for early development of a flood plain management plan as part of the larger integrated flood management plan.
"Flood plains must be clearly zoned and demarcated. Inhabitants and built up structures within the flood plains be subjected to special regulation which ensures extra protection for their life and property," the commission said.
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Yeah, Fred. Pepco's pretty bad. They don't handle storms well, and they communicate with their customers even worse. Shouldn't this be in a US section?
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(KUNA) -- UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Wednesday said the Security Council bears a "unique responsibility" to mobilize national and international action to confront the "very real threat" of climate change to international peace and security.
Addressing a Council meeting on the Impact of Climate Change on Maintenance of International Peace and Security, Ban said "we must make no mistake. The facts are clear: climate change is real; it is accelerating in a dangerous manner; and it not only exacerbates threats to international peace and security, it is a threat to international peace and security".
He commended Germany, the Council President, for suggesting the "right debate" about what can be done to "confront the double-barreled challenge of climate change and international security," urging the Council to play a "vital" role in making clear the link between climate change, peace and security.
Extreme weather events, he argued, continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, "not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums".
He noted that hundreds of millions of people around the world are in danger of going short of food and water, "undermining the most essential foundations of local, national, and global stability".
He indicated that competition between communities and countries for scarce resources - especially water - is "increasing, exacerbating old security dilemmas and creating new ones," with environmental refugees reshaping the human geography of the planet.
This trend "will only increase as deserts advance, forests are felled, and sea-levels rise," he warned, stressing that these are all threats to human security, as well as to international peace and security.
He recalled that the international community has reached certain agreements in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009, and Cancun, Mexico, in 2010, in the context of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
These agreements provide an "important, but incomplete, foundation for action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enabling all countries to adapt," he noted.
"Now we need accelerated operationalization of all the agreements made at Cancun, including on protecting forests, adaptation and technology," he urged.
He called for "ambitious" targets that ensure that any increase in global average temperature remains below 2 degrees Centigrade.
He suggested that the UNFCCC, to be held in Durban, South Africa, this December provide a "clear step forward on mitigation commitments and actions by all parties, according to their responsibilities and capabilities".
He said a "political formula must be found without delay" to ensure that existing commitments and needed future commitments and actions are not delayed by "negotiating gamesmanship".
"We cannot ignore history. But we must clearly recognise that there can be no spectators when it comes to securing the future of our planet," he concluded.
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Since real problems are too hard to handle, he decided to pay attention to made up problems.
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Some things never change...when I went through USN electronics school back in '74-'75, I was trained on a reasonably up-to-date fire control radar that had all of its electronics (except for the microwave transmitting and receiving sections) as digital circuits on removable PC boards. Soooo...when I finished the training and went to the fleet I wound up on a destroyer that was, of course, equipped with the original mark/mod of this particular radar. Two words tell ya all you need to know - "Vacuum tubes."
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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.
(KUNA) -- A 16-year-old boy has been 
A woman has been eaten by a lion after it escaped from a game reserve in Kenya.
New claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week following two declines, a setback for a sector that hasn't been producing many jobs.
(KUNA) -- King Albert II of Belgium Wednesday expressed concern over the ongoing political crisis in his country and warned of its negative consequences on the integration process on Europe itself.
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
