Stun gun allergy ?
[Insider] Fitness YouTuber Erich Stelzer, 25, died in custody on Thursday after police found him attacking his Tinder date with a knife and used stun guns on him, according to a press release from the Cohasset, Massachusetts, Police Department.
Police received a call about a disturbance and found Stelzer assaulting a 24-year-old woman with a knife, the district attorney's office told Boston 25 News.
The woman, identified as Maegan Tapley, had reportedly met Stelzer on Tinder. She sustained extensive stab and slash wounds and was able to escape when police arrived on the scene, according to authorities.
Police said they tried to control Stelzer with "tasers." Tasers are a brand of electroshock weapon that are said to be nonlethal but have the potential to stop someone's heart.
"In an effort to rescue the victim and disarm Stelzer, Cohasset Police officers used tasers [sic] to subdue Stelzer," the Cohasset Police Department said in a statement posted to Facebook on Friday. "Stelzer was immediately provided medical attention by EMTs. During transport to a local area hospital, Stelzer became unresponsive and was later pronounced dead."
[DAILYCALLER] A car-carrying vessel caught on fire on New Year’s Eve in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Japan, leaving several sailors missing and three likely dead.
The captain of the ship signaled an intent to abandon ship after the car carrier, Serenity Ace, caught fire and subsequently lost power while adrift 15- to 18-foot seas, according to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).
A nearby merchant vessel was able to rescue 16 of the 21 crew members. Two crew members are reportedly missing, and the remaining three were "unresponsive and unable to grab onto lifesaving equipment to be brought aboard."
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The cargo ship image in the article is off. These are what they use and while they look awkward, they obviously work. They unload all the time in National City on San Diego bay
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I can't imagine being on one of those in 15 to 18 foot seas! They have got to roll and pitch like crazy, not to mention being blown around with those slab sides.
Yes, I've seen them do exactly that in the protected water of San Diego Bay. Can't imagine what they're like in 15 to 18 seas but, like Frank G says, they go out there all the time.
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Once a ship loses power, it can no longer be steered. You want keep the ship pointing into the wind. Once it gets turned around, it will likely capsize.
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[RT] Poor things. They look so exploited. I can't wait to watch the new house dress competition in Atlantic City... or wherever they hold it. If they do.
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And not a single transgender in the lot - Ruskies are soooo backward.
[TerrorismWatch] "A type of land mine called the "butterfly" has a particularly insidious reputation for two reasons: It is known for killing or crippling children who may pick up what looks a lot like a green plastic toy, and its mostly nonmetallic construction means it often evades traditional mine detectors. Butterfly mines’ light-touch detonators go off easily if stepped on by a fighter‐or farmer‐and their relatively small charge often maims people without immediately killing them.
More than a million Russian-made PFM-1 land mines‐the most common butterfly type, possibly inspired by similar U.S. weapons deployed during the Vietnam War‐still litter Afghanistan after decades of conflict. During the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s, military helicopters dropped swarms of these mines, whose "wings" let them flutter to the ground. This created instant minefields blocking high mountain passes, contributing to the problem of land mines and unexploded ordnance responsible for killing or injuring more than 30,000 Afghan civilians since 1978. In recent years children have made up the majority of victims killed or wounded by such weapons in Afghanistan.
Land mine clearance usually involves a careful, meticulous, time-consuming process of interviewing local residents and then sweeping suspected areas twice on foot, using handheld mine detectors. The estimated costs of removing a single mine can range from $300 to $1,000‐and even confirming a patch of ground is safe without finding any mines costs money. But now, early tests by a group of U.S. researchers have shown they may be able to make the process a lot faster and more efficient by using a thermal imaging camera mounted on a quadcopter drone.
"The only way to clear mines is to poke every inch of the ground," says Alex Nikulin, assistant professor of energy geophysics at Binghamton University in New York. "But we can tell you where to poke.""
[ALMASDARNEWS] The missile troops of the Russian Ground Forces will be fully reequipped with the Iskander-M missile systems in 2019, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
"In 2019, the process of reequipping the missile troops of the Russian Ground Forces with the Iskander-M missile systems will be completed. In accordance with the state defense order, the manufacturer will hand a unit of the Iskander-M systems over to the Western Military District," the statement reads.
Senior politician: Russia did not test Iskander-M missiles with range violating INF Treaty
The Iskander-M ballistic missile systems are capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 500 km, destroying multiple-launch rocket systems, long-range artillery guns, aircraft and helicopters at aerodromes, command posts and communications centers. The complex is capable of outmaneuvering any air defenses.
About 200 new types of weapons will be tested at the Kapustin Yar range in Russia’s southern Astrakhan Region in 2019.
"In 2019, about 200 new types of weapons are planned to be tested, which is commensurate with the 2018 number and half as many as in 2017," the statement reads.
According to the ministry, the number of tests carried out at the site has been growing in the past two years. "As steps are being taken to implement the state rearmament program, the range of tested items will expand in the two years to come," the Defense Ministry stressed.
Improving the protection of military facilities and testing weapons ranging from intelligence equipment to precision weapons guidance systems will be among top priorities, as well as the development of methods to test advanced weapons and military hardware.
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[Guardian] A South Korean MP has confirmed that North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song-gil, has gone into hiding, after reports that he had asked for asylum.
Kim Min-ki said Jo’s mandate had been due to end in late November, and he and his wife had fled the North Korean embassy in Rome without notice at the beginning of that month.
South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that Jo had applied for asylum to an unidentified western country.
JoongAng Ilbo’s source said that Italian authorities"protecting him in a safe place" but "agonising" over what to do next, the newspaper quoted an unnamed diplomatic source as saying.
The Italian news agency, Ansa, reported on Thursday that Italy has not received an asylum request from a North Korean official.
"For diplomatic purposes, at the time the ministry was informed about the changeover of the appointment," a foreign ministry source told the agency. "That changeover then took place."
Jo, 48, had been acting ambassador in Rome since October 2017 after Italy expelled the previous ambassador, Mun Jong-nam, in protest at a nuclear test by the North a month earlier in violation of UN resolutions.
[Al Jazeera] Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that no one can change the fact that Taiwan is "part of China", adding that Beijing will not give up the use of military force as an option to ensure "reunification".
Xi made the comments on Wednesday in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of a policy statement that eventually led to a thaw in relations with the self-ruled island.
"We are firmly against those who conspire behind the ideo of 'Two China', or 'One China-One Taiwan', or Taiwan Independence," Xi said in a part of his first major speech addressing the people of what Beijing considers a breakaway province.
"We have achieved great victory on defeating any pro-independence or separatist activities. Nobody, and no party, can change the historical and legal that Taiwan is part of China and that both sides of the strait belong to China," Xi said in Beijing.
China "reserves the option of taking all necessary measures" against outside forces that interfere with peaceful reunification and Taiwan independence separatist activities, he added.
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Unless they suddenly built several thousand amphibious assault craft, Taiwan has nothing to fear. They don't call the theoretical Chinese invasion "the million man swim" for nothing.
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Formosa has not been part of China since the medieval period. The fact that Formosa was invaded by Japanese and later ethnic Chinese doesn't change that according to international law as far as I know.
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For most of its history, the inhabitants of Formosa were aboriginals and not ethnic Chinese.
The Chinese (other than a few farmers) had no real interest in Formosa/Taiwan until the mid-1600's. One of the emperors actually called it "a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization".
The Spanish and Dutch were there as settlers (trading ports) a half-century before the Chinese, so do Madrid and Amsterdam have a say in this too?
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If you had a truly free, secret and democratic referendum in both China and Taiwan:
a) Would the people of Taiwan want to join China?
b) Would the people of China want to join Taiwan?
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[Market Watch] After a brutal stock selloff in December and for the year, markets could be due for a rally in 2019, says Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
There’s one catch ‐ the U.S. needs to avoid a recession, which some economists and the market are already pricing into expectations for this year.
On top of that, investors may need to wade through a rough first three months of the year to get to rosier times, Siegel told MarketWatch during a phone interview, reiterating comments he made earlier during a CNBC interview on Wednesday.
"My feeling is that the market is virtually positioned for a mild recession, but I just don’t think that it’s going to happen," Siegel said. "If we avoid a recession, we’re going to have a really good market," he told CNBC.
The Wharton professor who forecast that the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.08% would see 20,000 at the end of 2015 says now that a combination of a better-than-expected corporate and economic results should embolden bulls in the near term.
"I think we swung too positive last summer and now I think we’ve swung too negative," he said.
Indeed, last month’s drop for stocks marked the worst December for the Dow and S&P 500 SPX, +0.13% since 1931 and the worst annual return for the three main equity benchmarks, including the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.46% since the financial crisis of 2008, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
[PUNCH] One of the leaders of the "yellow vest" anti-government demonstrations was detained by police in Paris late Wednesday for organising an unauthorised protest, signalling a harder line by the authorities against the movement.
Eric Drouet ‐ who already faces a trial for carrying a weapon at a previous protest ‐ was held while heading for the Champs-Elysees, which has been the scene of violent clashes over the last month.
"It’s called respecting the rule of law," Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday as he defended the arrest which drew criticism from some leftist opponents of the government.
"It’s normal that when you break the laws of the republic, you face the consequences," he added.
French police locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Eric Drouet, one of the key figures in the so-called yellow west protests, near Place de la Concorde in central Gay Paree over, local media reported.
Drouet was arrested for the "organization of a non-declared manifestation" late on Wednesday, the La Belle FranceInfo broadcaster, reported, citing a police source. The outlet added that Drouet and around 50 other people had arrived at the square to light candles for those injured during the yellow west protests. Apart from the opposition figure, a lot of other participants of the campaign have been arrested for identity checks.
The broadcaster noted that Drouet already faced trial in La Belle France in the wake of his previous arrest on December 22 over illegal possession of a police baton and participation in a group established for the purposes of violent activities.
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Ah, the Maduro approach. Well, you won't have to buy any tanks and planes to keep the peasants in place. Just find the generals who will shot their own people.
h/t Instapundit
[AyPee] A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, state media said.
The lunar explorer Chang’e 4 touched down at 10:26 a.m., China Central Television said in a brief announcement at the top of its noon news broadcast.
The far side of the moon faces away from Earth and is relatively unexplored. It is also known as the dark side of the moon.
The pioneering landing demonstrates China’s growing ambitions as a space power. In 2013, Chang’e 3 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in 1976. Something, IMO, is very wrong with the 21st century.
Can anybody verify this took place? Any messages from the far side of the moon? Or are the Chicoms staking out territory?
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I'm not saying they didn't, but the video of mission control going ape to the footage of the lander landing....from a camera about 8 yards away from the Commodore Amiga looking vehicle, well...I've seen better Bollywood.
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Confucius say, "Mission to land
On backside of NASA unmanned
But quickly expand,
For one rabbit in hand
Worth ten thousand in plan." And he fanned.
First click Pic-a-Nic, fa true.
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The Persian excursion, much grander:
"Um... Sarkhand?" "Let's try Alexander."
All systems were healthy.
Smoke belched from the stealthy
Green Egg that they used for a lander.
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.
[Market Watch] After a brutal stock selloff in December and for the year, markets could be due for a rally in 2019, says Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
[PUNCH] One of the leaders of the "yellow vest" anti-government demonstrations was detained by police in Paris late Wednesday for organising an unauthorised protest, signalling a harder line by the authorities against the movement.
