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-Lurid Crime Tales-
U.S. Indicts 9 Chinese Cyber Spies
[Free Beacon] The Justice Department announced the indictment of nine people on Tuesday linked to a Chinese cyber intelligence operation targeting aerospace technology.

The nine people, including intelligence officers, state-controlled hackers, and recruited agents inside companies were linked to computer intrusions at U.S. and European companies and the theft of turbofan jet engine technology used in commercial airliners.

The operation was directed by cyber spies operating out of the Jiangsu Province branch of the Ministry of State Security, the civilian spy service, based in Nanjing, China, and known as the JSSD.

Two MSS officers indicted in the case were identified as Zha Rong and Chai Meng, who worked with state-controlled Chinese hackers and insiders working for targeted aerospace companies.

The MSS hacker team under the direction of the two MSS officers were identified as Zhang Zhang-Gui, Liu Chunliang, Gao Hong Kun, Zhuang Xiaowei, and Ma Zhiqi.

The Justice Department did not say where the nine people are or whether any have been arrested.

"From January 2010 to May 2015, JSSD employees, along with individuals working at the direction of the JSSD, conspired to steal sensitive commercial technological, aviation, and aerospace data by hacking into computers in the United States and abroad," states the indictment dated Oct. 25 and unsealed on Tuesday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 00:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So what's the punishment? Denial of visas so they can birth their children in the USA?
Posted by: Ebbaitch Squank4369 || 10/31/2018 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Firewall their asses. Firewall the whole damn country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2018 9:59 Comments || Top||


Stolen inflatable colon found in vacant home
[NYPOST] A giant inflatable colon that was stolen from the University of Kansas Cancer Center nearly two weeks ago has been found, police said.

The "giant, inflatable, pilfered intestine" was recovered from a house in Kansas City, Missouri after Sherlocks followed up on a tip. The Kansas City Police Department tweeted on Monday that nobody has been taken into custody yet, noting their investigation into the theft is ongoing.

The "stolen colon" ‐ weighing 150 pounds and costing more than $4,000 ‐ was poached from the bed of a parked pickup truck in a Kansas City neighborhood on Oct. 18, according to the Colon Cancer Coalition. It was supposed to be displayed at a breast cancer 5K on Oct. 20.

On Saturday, the American Society of Gastroenterology offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who came forward with information regarding the missing colon.

The inflatable colon is often used as an educational tool by medical center staff for various university and community events.

Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If the American Society of Gastroenterology didn't get that ack it would have wrecked 'em.
Posted by: gorb || 10/31/2018 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  cool-o!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/31/2018 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  The gift-ass inflated with helium
Bewildered all wise men of Ilium
Till one Trojan solon
Declared it a colon
And blew the Greeks seaward with psyllium.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/31/2018 2:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Abandoned when they read it wasn't a vagina?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 4:39 Comments || Top||

#5  ..they can read?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 6:54 Comments || Top||

#6  "Some asshole stole our colon!"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2018 8:37 Comments || Top||

#7  "Finally, some GOOD news."

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 8:46 Comments || Top||

#8  What a pain in the ass.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2018 10:40 Comments || Top||

#9  A Mattapan man sought a pardoner
And cut back his intake of hardener.
He'd never felt greater
And several days later
He shat out that art from the Gardner!

"So that's what it was!" said his partner.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/31/2018 14:53 Comments || Top||

#10  It's like a big gay inflatable bouncy castle. And by 'gay', I mean happy, of course.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2018 15:01 Comments || Top||

#11  "For suggesting I'm not wholly happy,
Or that buggery sometimes is crappy,
Or that dapper gay chappies
May age in grey nappies:
Your room!" - Homosexual Pappy
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/31/2018 16:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Ah, ZenFlo, you've done it once again! We're not worthy.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2018 16:36 Comments || Top||

#13  Perpetrators were...ingested?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/31/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||

#14  An old dago lady, alone,
Complains to her clone on the phone,
"These Spanish are clannish...
Our monuments vanish.
They're calling Colombo, "Colón!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/31/2018 17:07 Comments || Top||


Meanwhile in Chicago
[ChicagoTribune] Chicago saw one of its most violent days of the year Sunday, with 26 people shot over 18 hours, many of them in neighborhoods on the West and South sides.
It's worse than the Al Capone days.
That level of violence has been surpassed only once before in the city this year: on Aug. 5 when at least 41 people were shot over seven hours. A total of 75 people were shot that weekend, the most violent in Chicago in at least two years.
Are they going for the Guiness world record?
Over this past weekend, at least 42 people were shot, five of them fatally, including a 16-year-old boy, according to data kept by the Tribune. Nearly half of those shootings occurred in the Englewood police district on the South Side and the Harrison and Austin districts on the West side -- neighborhoods that have borne the brunt of violence this year.
Only 5 fatalities. Someone needs more range time.
A 23-year-old man was killed and a 24-year-old woman was injured when someone shot into their vehicle Sunday morning in the South Side’s Englewood neighborhood, police said. The pair was in a vehicle about 10:55 a.m. in the 5500 block of South LaSalle Street when someone in a black four-door Audi opened fire, police said. The man was shot in the chest and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The woman was shot in the lower right leg and taken to the same hospital in serious condition.

Earlier Sunday, at about 2:15 a.m., a 16-year-old boy and 19-year-old man were walking through an alley in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood when they were shot by someone in a silver sedan. The 16-year-old was shot in the chest and left shoulder and taken to University of Chicago, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The 19-year-old was shot in the foot and showed up at Holy Cross Hospital in stable condition.
Shot in the foot. The shooter must have taken lessons from a Palestinian.
About two hours earlier, a 20-year-old man was killed and a 21-year-old woman was wounded in a drive-by shooting about 12:20 a.m. in the 5900 block of South Peoria in the Englewood neighborhood. The pair was standing on the sidewalk when they were shot by someone in a dark-colored SUV. The man, shot in the neck, was taken to St. Bernard Hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead, said police. The woman, shot in the right leg, was taken to University of Chicago, where she was stabilized.

About 5:50 p.m. Saturday, a 33-year-old man was parked in the 2000 block of East 95th Street in Calumet Heights. The man was in his vehicle when he was shot in the back by someone in another vehicle. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

The first fatal attack of the weekend happened about 10:30 p.m. Friday in the first block of North Karlov Avenue in the city’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. A 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were walking on a sidewalk when the assailant walked up and fired. The 20-year-old was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, and the teen was in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the back, also at Stroger.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chicago has beer.
Wonder why the troops didn't go there instead of Iceland to drink beer?

Not safe. Too much shooting I suppose.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 16:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Chicago has free-flowing taps
For rappers commencing their naps,
And Blackhawks that grunt
As they skate to the front
Where the cubs bear the brunt of the collapse.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/31/2018 18:52 Comments || Top||


Kentucky shooting being investigated as hate crime
Worth noting that the shooter's ex-wife and child both are black. This story is the least agenda laden story I could find.
[CBSNews] JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. -- A federal prosecutor says the shooting at a Kentucky grocery store that left two people dead is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Fifty-one-year-old Gregory Bush has been charged with murder and other crimes in the fatal shooting of two shoppers at a Kroger store on Wednesday afternoon.

Both victims were black. Bush is white.

U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman in Louisville said Friday that federal investigators are examining if there were any violations of federal law, "which includes potential civil rights violations such as hate crimes." The FBI is investigating alongside local police.

Coleman said in a prepared statement that the shootings "are not being taken lightly by the United States government."
Posted by: badanov || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  federal investigators are examining if there were any violations of federal law

Two people dead isn't enough?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 4:43 Comments || Top||

#2  ..."trying to make a federal case out of it" - old colloquialism.

I believe the reason they're making a 'federal case out of it' in Pittsburgh is that there is a death penalty at the federal level that is iffy with Donk governors and their personal need for virtue signalling.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 6:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Just remember,


Posted by: Thrise Shomble3667 || 10/31/2018 18:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Booooosh
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2018 19:29 Comments || Top||

#5  So... hate war crime? Or war hate crime?
Posted by: Black Bart Fillmore9543 || 10/31/2018 19:40 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Hang em High!
[AsiaTimes] Surge of hangings in Singapore while Malaysia shuns death penalty.

The young Malaysian, sentenced to death for couriering 7.97 ounces of heroin into the city-state in 2014, was among at least six individuals executed in Singapore this month for drug offenses. His fate was sealed after the President’s Office of Singapore rejected two petitions lodged by family members and civil society groups requesting clemency.

Though the Singapore Prison Service does not routinely release information about imminent executions apart from figures released in its annual report, anti-death penalty activists claim that seven executions have taken place since the beginning of October, including four this week.

WORLD’S STRICTEST DRUG LAWS
Both countries inherited colonial-era capital punishment laws from British rule, which impose the death penalty – carried out by hanging – for crimes such as murder, kidnapping, some firearms offenses, and drug trafficking. Singapore is regarded as having the world’s strictest drug laws and the majority of the country’s execution cases are for drugs offenses.

Those found possessing specific drugs above a prescribed amount are automatically presumed to be traffickers and are subject to the death penalty, a practice that despite attracting foreign criticism and condemnation by international rights groups is seen elsewhere in the region in Vietnam, Indonesia and – until recently – Malaysia.

Malaysia’s decision to pull back from capital punishment is part of broader institutional reform push now being undertaken by the ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition, which clinched a historic election victory in May. The new government also intends to repeal the colonial-era Sedition Act, which critics said was long been used to stifle dissent.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Singapore is regarded as having the world’s strictest most effective drug laws

Guess Philippines is falling second?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Can we compare drug related burglaries and robberies between there and here? Nah, it would be racist!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  In California, bastion of progressive idiots, they had over 600 people on death row, and the last execution was while I was still working in the criminal justice policy agency right at the turn of the century. Death sentences and the appeal process was calculated down to a near exact science, with appeals timed to the last moment, change of venue requests, and easily the average case was over 20 years in the process. So the idea that a system that has far more people die of natural causes than execution has ZERO deterrent effect. Singapore has it right. And the deterrent is powerful, and the recidivism rate is non-existent.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/31/2018 18:30 Comments || Top||


Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger killed in prison at 89 years old: reports
[Al Jazeera] James "Whitey" Bulger, who lived a double life as one of Boston's most notorious mobsters and as a secret FBI informant before going on the run for 16 years, was found dead at a federal prison in West Virginia, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.

The FBI was looking into Bulger's death, the Bureau of Prisons said in its statement on Tuesday.

Bulger's death at age 89 came a day after he was transferred to the high-security prison. Federal officials did not give a cause of death but the Bureau of Prisons said no other inmates or staff were injured.

CNN and the Boston Globe reported that Bulger was killed without giving further details.

Henry Brennan, a defence lawyer for Bulger, said in an email he could not confirm or deny the reports.

Bulger was convicted in August 2013 of 11 murders, among other charges including racketeering, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years.

Prison had been something Bulger had gone to great lengths to avoid - killing potential witnesses, cultivating corrupt lawmen and living as a fugitive for 16 years. It all ended when a tip from a former Icelandic beauty queen led to his capture in June 2011 in Santa Monica, California, where he was living with a long-time girlfriend.

Bulger and his Winter Hill gang had operated for more than two decades in the insular Irish-dominated South Boston neighbourhood, engaging in loan sharking, gambling, extortion, drug dealing and murder.

They did so with the tacit approval of an FBI agent who looked the other way when it came to Bulger's crimes so that he would supply information on other gangsters.
And courtesy of Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365:
Whitey Bulger Was About to Dish On The FBI Informant Program

[DailyMail] Law enforcement sources tell DailyMail.com that Whitey had been talking about outing people in the top echelon of the controversial FBI informant program.

It may not be a coincidence that US Rep. Stephen Lynch is from Southie, Bulger's old turf.

The Massachusetts Democrat last year introduced the Confidential Informant Accountability Act - which calls for congressional oversight into the selection and use of confidential informants. It's possible that Bulger was set to open up to someone on Lynch's team with claims of abuses in the program.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There seems to be two explanations about Bulger's death - a mob hit by a connected prisoner or negligence / deliberate malfeasance by certain former Boston area US Attorneys. Both explanations are plausible.

Without further research, I tend to discount the alleged (direct) connection between Lynch & Bulger - their age difference alone explains that.
Posted by: Raj || 10/31/2018 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I should expand on that a bit - the unusual movement of a 89 year-old wheelchair bound inmate with a well-known heart problem from a Florida prison to an Oklahoma prison and then to a West Virginia prison (where three prisoners just happened to have been murdered in recent months) in a matter of weeks makes it plausible to think the FBI moved him there on purpose to avoid Bulger revealing certain embarrassing information about that organization.
Posted by: Raj || 10/31/2018 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  It's looking like Whitey was wacked with a padlock in a sock from a Genovese connected hit man. The connection may be tenuous and the hitter was operating freelance.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/31/2018 10:54 Comments || Top||

#4  One could believe this was a hit to silence Whitey. Or is it the settling of an old score?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2018 12:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Whitey was awfully familiar with the corruptness of the FBI. Now that you mention it, why did it take 16 years for them to find him in CA?
Posted by: regular joe || 10/31/2018 15:09 Comments || Top||

#6  One could believe this was a hit to silence Whitey. Or is it the settling of an old score?

Two birds, one stone. Given the whole Whitey saga, it's not hard to imagine someone's FBI handler saying "Do this for us and we'd be... grateful"
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2018 15:26 Comments || Top||

#7  A rhyme of feds, Eyeties, and Celts;
Of Seals, locks and laces and belts;
Of pelts tied up tidy
And wrapping up Whitey...
They'd never fight anyone else!
Posted by: Ebbusosing the Full Bosomed7594 || 10/31/2018 16:56 Comments || Top||

#8  FBI moved him there on purpose to avoid Bulger revealing certain embarrassing information about that organization

Spot on! Mueller must have borrowed some hit men from the Clintons. Snark off.

Mueller-Connected Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Killed in Prison... As He Was About to Out FBI Officials
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/31/2018 18:52 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Everything We Know About The B-2 Spirit Emergency Landing in Colorado Springs
See Link in title.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least it didn't burst into flames like the one at Guam.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/31/2018 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder why there and not a secured airfield - Buckley AFB is just to the north.
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 || 10/31/2018 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Lawn chair collapse?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/31/2018 12:45 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
US needs ‘offensive weapons in space' for self-defense, Mattis claims
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 05:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Interstate 85 traffic stop linked to possible human smuggling, ICE spokeswoman confirms
[IndependentMail] A traffic stop along Interstate 85 in Anderson County late Monday that led to an investigation by federal authorities is tied to possible human smuggling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to the Independent Mail on Tuesday.

What began as routine traffic stop for a pickup truck that wasn't staying in its lane near rural Townville quickly turned into something larger, local authorities said.

"ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations received a call from local law enforcement regarding possible human smuggling activity," Carissa Cutrell, a spokeswoman from ICE, said in an email.

Cutrell said three passengers in the vehicle were being driven from Texas to Virginia. The driver was released, and two other passengers in the vehicle were taken to a bus station to continue their trip, Cutrell said.

One passenger in the truck was arrested and charged with illegal re-entry, she said.

The identity of the person arrested and the identities of the other people in the vehicle have not yet been made public.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  One passenger in the truck was arrested and charged with illegal re-entry

Smuggling, but the driver and other passengers were released.

So, 'catch, release, track' and the 4th was a CI, or the 4th was a 'snatch'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Officer Shoots Suspect While Being Dragged By Vehicle
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Police say an officer shot a suspect while being dragged by a vehicle in Baltimore County Monday evening.

This shooting happened in the 2400 block of Cleanleigh Dr., just after 8:30 p.m.

A Baltimore County Police Department officer was working security in the nearby shopping center, when he was told about a vehicle driving erratically in the parking lot.

The officer spotted the vehicle, a black SUV, and went to talk with the driver in front of the ShopRite.

The driver of the black SUV had the door open while talking to the officer, but later accelerated, dragging the officer. The officer fired an unknown number of shots, and at least one hit the driver of the black SUV.

A white vehicle was heading in the opposite direction, and the officer was in between both of those cars, according to Baltimore Co. PD Cpl. Shawn Vinson.

The black SUV continued through the parking lot and became disabled after crashing into a parked car.

Police say the driver of the SUV is in grave condition, and the officer involved was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The officer did not have a body camera on.

Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another ShopRite ValuRight coincidence.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/31/2018 21:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Darn. I think it might have been S-Mart.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/31/2018 22:06 Comments || Top||


Africa North
South Sudan Rebel Leader Set to Return to Juba
[Al Awsat] South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar is expected to return to Juba on Wednesday, more than two years after he fled the country, announced his office on Tuesday.

He will celebrate a peace deal upon his return. The collapse of an earlier accord forced to him to originally flee the country.

Lam Paul Gabriel, a spokesman for Machar's SPLM-IO rebel group, said the leader will "travel to Juba for the peace celebration" due Wednesday.

He would hold celebrations with his long-time rival, President Salva Kiir, in Juba - though there was no immediate confirmation from the government.

Machar's previous homecoming, in April 2016, was put off by wrangling over how many bodyguards he could bring with him and what weapons they would carry, but Gabriel said this time Machar would be accompanied by only around 30 political figures.

"We are worried for his security in Juba, but the truth is here: we are for peace, and what we are trying to do is build trust. So that is why he is able to leave his forces behind and just go with politicians," Gabriel said.

The world’s youngest nation plunged into civil war in late 2013 when troops loyal to Kiir clashed with forces loyal to Machar, the former vice president.

Ethnically charged fighting soon spread from the capital across the impoverished state, shutting down oil fields, forcing millions to flee and killing tens of thousands of people.

“Machar will lead a delegation of the SPLM/A-IO members for the peace celebration in Juba but the program in Juba is entirely in the hands of the regime,” group spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel said.

Under pressure from the United Nations, the United States and other Western donors, Machar and other insurgent factions signed a peace deal with the government in August after a string of failed talks and accords.

Machar fled to neighboring Democratic republic of Congo in 2016 months after an earlier peace deal collapsed. He later traveled to South Africa where he was held under house arrest until peace talks started again in June, sponsored by regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

South Sudan seceded from Sudan in 2011 after decades of north-south war fueled by oil, ethnicity and religion.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Central American Migrants Set Fire to Mexican Immigration Facility
[Breitbart] A group of Central American migrants facing deportation set fire to a Mexican immigration facility in an apparent attempt to escape. The alleged arson comes at a time when Mexican authorities reported the use of firearms and Molotov cocktails within the migrant caravans as they make their way through Mexico to the United States.

The fire was reportedly started at a facility dual-purposed as a checkpoint and makeshift detention center for Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) in Pijijiapan, Chiapas, when a group of migrants housed there set fire to their mattresses, Televisa Noticias reported. According to local public safety director Jaime Marroquin, authorities were housing 21 men, five women, and three children which were in the process of being deported. The migrants reportedly set fires to give cover to their escape.

Firefighters responded to the scene while Mexican Federal Police officers detained the alleged runaways and moved them to a large immigration facility in Tapachula, Chiapas.

The fire comes only hours after Mexican Federal Police arrested two Honduran men who allegedly shot at cops guarding the migrant caravan currently in Chiapas, Breitbart News reported. The caravan began its journey earlier this month in Honduras and publicly announced its intent to reach the U.S. border. The Mexican government offered the caravan temporary jobs, health care, and education if they agreed to stay in southern Mexico and follow the country’s legal procedures for requesting asylum. The group largely turned down the offer, however, according to the INM, 111 migrants agreed and requested Mexican identification documents.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 00:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Charming people. Just the sort you need to build a strong and prosperous nation. Like Honduras, for example
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2018 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Veterans slam Trump for border 'stunt'
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Stunt? The first mission of the armed forces is to protect CONUS. Unwillingness or incapability of such a mission renders their usefulness nil (unless, of course, as a Lefty you believe its purpose is to suppress the citizenry).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  They drank Iceland dry on their way to Norway.
Border defense is not as popular as world dominion.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Budweiser will take care of our soldiers along the southern border.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 7:49 Comments || Top||

#6  That "vet" organization is a pure sham. Fully funded by the left and Soros. They can all suck a shotgun as far as I care.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2018 9:15 Comments || Top||

#7  The migrants seem to be hell bent on coming to the U.S. The benefits are much better here than in Mexico.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2018 12:11 Comments || Top||

#8  G*dDamit B!
You shouldn't make me cry this early in the morning.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 12:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Yep. Tears every time I see that one.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2018 13:21 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's Dry Dock Accident Could Have Far Larger Repercussions Than A Damaged Carrier
[TheDrive] Russia's biggest dry dock has completely sunk and it's debatable if it has anything that could fully replace it anytime in the foreseeable future.

A day after Russia's massive PD-50 drydock suddenly sank underneath the country's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, as it was receiving a long-awaited overhaul in frigid Murmansk, just how big a deal this may end up being for the Russian Navy is becoming clearer. The dry dock, which is the largest of its kind in Russian hands, appears to have sunk at first on a steep incline before it disappeared totally beneath the water's surface. Russian officials are now saying that it could be many months before it is raised from the seabed 160 feet below and that doing so would be a very tedious and delicate operation. That's if they decide to salvage it at all.

Regardless, PD-50 services all types of vessels that make up Russia's most powerful fleet, including its largest submarines. So leaving it out of action for years, or even losing it altogether, would be a major hit for the Northern Fleet and the Russian Navy's overall readiness.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  So now it's a Wet Dock for subs?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2018 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe they could sub out the work to US shipyards?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/31/2018 12:29 Comments || Top||


Russia's only aircraft carrier is damaged when floating dock securing it sinks
[DailyMail]
  • The Admiral Kuznetsov was being repaired on a dock in northern Russia

  • The dock began to sink and a crane crashed onto its deck in early hours

  • One person is missing and four others are being treated for hypothermia

  • Investigators have opened a criminal investigation into the incident
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, its not like firing up a nuclear submarine in dock for overhaul, now is it?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  We shouldn't get too snide, in 1969 we sank a nuke sub, the USS Guitarro (SSN 665) at Mare Island pierside.
Posted by: magpie || 10/31/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  When your preventive maintenance plan and/or facilities is crap, expect to have more maintenance ahead of you than planned.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2018 14:44 Comments || Top||

#4  expect to have more maintenance ahead of you than planned.

"We don't have time for that now."
-- famous last, and occasionally posthumous, words
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2018 14:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Where I retired from: Preventative Maintenance is only seen as a Negative Entry on the Balance Books. After all, until something breaks and the wheels of production stop turning there is no fiscally sound reason to pay for fixing things right, Right?!? Bean Counters, gotta love 'em...
Posted by: magpie || 10/31/2018 16:16 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China Subtly Plays The Iran Card
[Daily Caller] China seeks global domination.

The vehicle to achieve it is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a collection of infrastructure projects and a network of commercial agreements designed to link the entire world directly to the Chinese economy through inter-connected land-based and maritime routes. The guarantor of that soft power approach is the hard power of military expansion.

Beijing’s ambitions cannot be realized, starting with supremacy in South Asia, if its largest single BRI investment, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), fails.

There are certain preconditions for the success of CPEC: (1) the removal of U.S. and NATO military forces from Afghanistan; (2) a reduction of American and Indian influence in South Asia; (3) the curtailment of Islamic extremism and ethnic separatism; and (4) a decrease in regional tensions due to national rivalries; all to be obtained under the stewardship of China, a "Pax Sinica."

Critical among China’s efforts is the successful wooing of Iran and its proper placement within the framework of CPEC. Given the inherent competition and sometimes enmity in the region, China has been obliged to navigate a diplomatic minefield cautiously, combining direct support for Iran with what appear to be calculated, yet sometimes convoluted attempts to leverage the current U.S.- Iranian conflict to its regional advantage.

On October 29th, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Yao Jing stated, "China is interested in the partnership of the friendly states and neighbors of Pakistan, specially Iran, in the CPEC project."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 07:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, neat. The strategy of getting China to support all the basket cases in the world. That aught to put a crimp in the balance of trade surplus they enjoy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  On October 29th, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Yao Jing stated, "China is interested in the partnership of the friendly states and neighbors of Pakistan, specially Iran

Not to mention Afri states such as Namibia and South Africa. Breakaways such as California the Clinton partners and facilitators failed to gain mention as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Iran has oil, China needs oil. Pakistan has ... insanity?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/31/2018 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Pakistan has the India-ns in check.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 12:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Himalayas have India in check as well.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/31/2018 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  That terrain really sucks.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/31/2018 21:51 Comments || Top||


China blocked Australia’s FTA with Taiwan, says Bishop
[AsiaTimes]Former foreign minister says pressure from Beijing made Canberra abandon a planned free trade agreement with Taipei
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I have read that China owns Australia.
Posted by: jvalentour || 10/31/2018 6:40 Comments || Top||


Cyber
US Government Employee’s Addiction to Russian Porn Gives USGS Network a Virus
[SputnikNews] A US government employee with an apparent addiction to Russian pornography is causing a headache at the US Geological Survey (USGS) after infecting their network with malware.

The employee, whose name is redacted from the report, visited thousands of pornographic websites. "Many of the 9,000 web pages [redacted] visited routed through websites that originated in Russia and contained malware," the report says.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Reason 278,925 for repealing the Civil Service Act.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Guys who visit pr0n sites get STDs on their computers.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2018 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 || 10/31/2018 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  USGS-so maybe all those epicenters on the earthquake map are just eruptions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 12:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
Nato holds biggest military exercise since Cold War
[BBC] Trident Juncture, started last week and involves all 29 Nato members, as well as Finland and Sweden.

It's taking place a few hundred miles from Norway's border with Russia, amid rising tension between both sides. But Nato denies it is targeted at a specific country.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 05:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
Mediterranean gas hunt threatened by Cyprus stand-off
[AsiaTimes] Tensions have been rising between Turkey, Greece and Cyprus in recent days as the Turkish survey vessel Barbaros started hunting for oil and gas in the middle of the Eastern Mediterranean.

According to Ankara, a Greek frigate tried to block the vessel, yet was prevented from doing so by its escort of Turkish warships.

“We will never tolerate new harassment,” Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar warned Greece Wednesday.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
School principal in Peshawar handed 105 years in prison for child abuse, rape
[DAWN] A sessions court in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on Tuesday handed a total of 105 years in prison to a private school's principal on charges of child abuse, pornography, rape, blackmail and maintaining illicit relations.

The convict, Attaullah Marwat, was also fined Rs1.4 million in addition to the jail terms. The sentences were handed down by Sessions Judge Younis Khan.

The accused, who is the private school’s owner, was jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
after the Hayatabad cop shoppe started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him on July 14, 2017, on the complaint of a boy student, who had accused him of sexually exploiting schoolchildren, including girls, and filming them with secret cameras installed on campus.

Marwat was convicted and sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment under Sections 354-A (stripping a woman of her clothes), 365-B (kidnapping or inducing a woman to compel her into marriage) and 377 (unnatural offence/sodomy) of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC).

He was also awarded two years and 20 years rigorous imprisonment under Sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 376 (punishment for rape), respectively, of the PPC.

As many as 25 direct and indirect victims of Marwat had their statements recorded before police against the convict; however, it is believed that a majority of his victims had not come forward.

One of the charges against the convict was that he had forced, persuaded, coerced and enticed female students under the age of 18 to engage in sexual activities and exposed their bodies, and was involved in explicit sexual conduct and abuse of minor schoolgirls.

Marwat was also charged with forcing, coercing and persuading female students of his school to engage in sexual activities and capturing those acts on his mobile phones and secret cameras installed in different parts of the school and storing them in USBs.

The convict had allegedly "on multiple occasions and habitually" enticed and compelled multiple women of different ages to have illicit relations with him inside the school.

He was also charged with sexually assaulting multiple women after coercing them with death threats.

Following his arrest last year, the accused had recorded his confessional statement before a judicial magistrate on July 19, 2017, wherein he had admitted only that he used to bring women from outside to the school for the purpose of adultery.

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Mashal murder case: PHC upholds suspension of 25 convicts' sentences
[DAWN] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court (PHC) on Tuesday upheld its Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
circuit bench's decision to suspend the three-year jail terms handed to 25 people in the Mashal Khan lynching case.

On February 7 this year, a Haripur Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had ruled on the 2017 lynching and murder of Mashal Khan, and handed the shooter ‐ Imran Ali ‐ two death sentences, five persons multiple terms of life imprisonment, and 25 others jail sentences.

On February 27, the PHC's Abbottabad circuit bench had suspended the multi-year sentences handed to the 25 ‐ against which the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government and Mashal's family had filed review petitions.

Under PHC Chief Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth's stewardship, a two-member bench of the court today, in a brief order, set aside the petitions against the suspension of the sentences

Mashal Khan, 23, a student of Mass Communications at Mardan's Abdul Wali Khan University, was beaten and shot to death on April 13, 2017 by his fellow students after he was falsely accused of blasphemy.

The lynching took place within the premises of the university and was caught on video, which later circulated widely on social media.

The horrific incident had shocked the nation and sparked a debate over the misuse of the blasphemy laws in Pakistain.

Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Sheikhupura woman shoots husband dead, says she suffered years of abuse
[DAWN] A woman shot her husband dead in Punjab's Sheikhupura district, allegedly in reaction to being routinely abused by him, police said on Tuesday.

Police have taken the woman into custody. She has 'confessed' to killing her husband, 70-year-old Asghar alias Kalu.

A case has been registered.

The dear departed had married a total of eight times. Two of his wives had passed away, Station House Office Latif Gujjar of Housing Colony Police Station told DawnNewsTV. The man had been living with his six wives and 17 children in a single house in Alif Town.

The suspect told news hounds at the cop shoppe that she was married to Asghar around 15 years ago and they had two children.

"My husband used to beat me up and torture me," she said, adding that he last assaulted her 2 days ago.

When Asghar came home around midnight on Monday, she laced the juice she served to him with intoxicants, the woman said.

"[I] shot him at 5 in the morning, which led to his death," she said.

SHO Gujjar said police discovered the man's body at the house. "The woman was present at the scene of the crime and confessed to killing him," he said.

The man was shot in the head, the SHO said. The pistol used for the killing was also recovered.

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Science & Technology
Can we predict when and where a crime will take place?
[BBC] The new crime-fighting weapon of choice for a growing number of police forces around the world isn't a gun, a taser or pepper spray - it's data. But can computer algorithms really help reduce crime?

Tech firm PredPol - short for predictive policing - claims its data analytics algorithms can improve crime detection by 10-50% in some cities.

It takes years of historic data, including the type, location and time of crime, and combines this with lots of other socio-economic data, which is then analysed by an algorithm originally designed to forecast earthquake aftershocks.

The software tries to predict where and when specific crimes will occur over the next 12 hours, and the algorithm is updated every day as new data comes in.
"PredPol was inspired by experiments run by the University of California in collaboration with the Los Angeles Police Department," says PredPol co-founder and anthropology professor Jeff Brantingham.

"That study demonstrated that algorithmically driven forecasts could predict twice as much crime and, when used in the field, prevent twice as much crime as existing best practice."

Predictions are displayed on a map using colour-coded boxes, each one representing a 500 sq ft (46 sq m) area. Red boxes are classed as "high risk" and officers are encouraged to spend at least 10% of their time there.

Prof Brantingham says machine learning allows PredPol to analyse data, draw conclusions and make connections between large amounts of data that human analysts simply could not cope with.

Sceptics say this is pseudoscience, because crunching crime data to make informed decisions on police deployment is nothing new.

Many forces have traditionally used "hot spot analysis", where past offences are recorded and overlaid onto a map, with officers concentrating on those areas.

But PredPol and others working in this space, such as Palantir, CrimeScan and ShotSpotter Missions, say that traditional hot spot analysis is just reacting to what happened yesterday, not anticipating what will happen tomorrow.

AI and machine learning can spot patterns we've never noticed before.

"Machine learning provides a suite of approaches to identifying statistical patterns in data that are not easily described by standard mathematical models, or are beyond the natural perceptual abilities of the human expert," says Prof Brantingham.

Alexander Babuta, of the National Security and Resilience Studies group at the Royal United Services Institute, agrees, saying: "Retrospective hotspot mapping does not distinguish between two types of 'risky' locations, those that simply experience a high volume of crime over time because they are more attractive to criminals, such as insecure car parks and busy shopping areas, and areas where the likelihood of crime has been temporarily increased due to crime events that have recently occurred.

"But machine learning predictive policing technology does."

Police forces certainly seem to be buying in to the idea.

More than 50 police departments across the US use PredPol software, as well as a handful of forces in the UK. Kent Constabulary, for example, says street violence fell by 6% following a four-month trial.

"We found that the model was just incredibly accurate at predicting the times and locations where these crimes were likely to occur," says Steve Clark, deputy chief of Santa Cruz Police Department.

"At that point, we realised we've got something here."

But predictive policing has its critics.

Frederike Kaltheuner, data programme lead at civil rights group Privacy International, wonders whether it will also be used to predict police violence and white collar crime, or simply used against communities that she says are already marginalised.

"We're moving away from innocent until proven guilty towards a world where people are innocent until found suspicious by opaque and proprietary systems that can be difficult, if not impossible, to challenge," she says.

Rand analyst John Hollywood says recent advances in analytical techniques have produced only "small, incremental" improvements in crime prediction; results that are 10-25% more accurate than traditional hot spot mapping.

"Current technologies are not much more accurate than traditional methods," he says.

"It is enough to help improve deployment decisions, but is far from the popular hype of a computer telling officers where they can go to pick up criminals in the act."
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Washington, D.C:
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. --Mark Twain
Posted by: magpie || 10/31/2018 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Shades of a certain Tom Cruise movie...
Posted by: Raj || 10/31/2018 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Fresh eggs sometimes found here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2018 2:18 Comments || Top||

#4  It's called a Section 8 housing map.
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 || 10/31/2018 3:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Anti-social housing.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/31/2018 5:27 Comments || Top||

#6  It's commonly referred to a 'profiling' predicated upon mathematical analysis. Math be racist.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 6:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Can we predict? Of course that's easy.

Will our predictions be correct? Not so much.

Just like any computer model, GIGO.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/31/2018 10:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Mathbe racist.

And soon, computers will be racist, too.
Posted by: gorb || 10/31/2018 16:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Some chickens are prone to use Boost
To phone home from their hoosegow to roost.
Were these bad eggs not loosed,
Our computers deduced,
Crime would drop as arrests were reduced.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/31/2018 18:44 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Power struggle in Sri Lanka
[AsiaTimes]Rajapakse sworn in as new PM amid power struggle in Sri Lanka
There was drama in Colombo on Friday with the president calling on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to step down and hand power to former leader Mahinda Rajapakse, but the PM was still refusing to stand down on Saturday.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,


Home Front: Culture Wars
CDC's handling of polio-like illness criticized by its own advisers
Albany, Oregon (CNN)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's own medical advisers are criticizing the federal health agency for being slow to respond to a polio-like disease that's struck hundreds of children over the past six years.

"Frustrated and disappointed -- I think that's exactly how most of us feel," said Dr. Keith Van Haren, one of the CDC advisers on AFM and an assistant professor of neurology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Van Haren and other doctors who care for these children say the agency has been slow to gather data and to guide pediatricians and emergency room physicians on how to diagnose and treat the children struck with the disease, acute flaccid myelitis.
"This is the CDC's job. This is what they're supposed to do well. And it's a source of frustration to many of us that they're apparently not doing these things," said Dr. Kenneth Tyler, a professor and chair of the department of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and another adviser to the CDC on AFM.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ebola got more attention.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2018 4:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Death gets a priority over crippling and dismembering (unless its abortion).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2018 6:51 Comments || Top||



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