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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI wiretap: Sean Miller Discussed Paying Deandre Ayton $100K to Commit to Arizona
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 09:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who would have died if this wasn't uncovered? In the respect that the FBI was spending resources on this, college bassetbaw cost lives...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2018 16:28 Comments || Top||

#2  In the past most dedicated students said they couldn't be paid to go to the U. of Arizona, the glorified junior college. It seems that Miller, at least, has found a way.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 02/24/2018 18:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Corrupt sports departments don't shoot.

(Usually.)
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/24/2018 21:26 Comments || Top||


FBI call warning about Cruz says he's into ISIS, mentally slow [transcript]
[Right Scoop] The FBI released a transcript of the call they received about Nikolas Cruz before the shooting, and it’s crazy. The tipster couldn’t have made it more clear, and they still did nothing.

The tipster says he was into ISIS, but that’s because of what she saw on his Instagram – we posted some of it here.

Still, it’s unbelievable that the FBI had all of this and did nothing.

Here’s the lesson from the Parkland shooting everyone should get, but won’t:

Related story at Hot Air
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 04:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FBI call warning about Cruz says he's into ISIS, mentally slow

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2018 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  They were busy with a dossier investigation
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2018 9:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, now that their March Madness bracket work on College Basketball is public, maybe they'll have time to address some murders.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I see a great future for armed guards for hire since the "Law Enforcement" is failing to do their jobs.
Posted by: Roth LaDoad || 02/24/2018 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Direct link to PDF of FBI transcript. Get it while it's still out there.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2018 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Found a comment elsewhere to explain away / discount the fact of this ignored warning:
the volume of credible threats that have to be processed must be overwhelming
Interested to hear how other 'Burgers would respond to this deflection attempt.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2018 11:58 Comments || Top||

#7  the volume of credible threats that have to be processed must be overwhelming

In a mother-my-I system. Then volume overwhelms the 'mother'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2018 12:37 Comments || Top||

#8  #6, Anguper, stop wire tapping presidential candidates and pay more attention to credible threats to shoot up schools. Pass warnings like this to the local FBI field office. Are the local agents too busy to check up on a kid like Cruz? Did the warning get passed to the local field office? Um, I guess it didn't.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/24/2018 13:09 Comments || Top||

#9  I recommend Jeff Sessions appoint Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a special investigator. Joe could hand pick a couple of assistants (Mark Fuhrman and David Clarke if they're not busy) and probably get to the bottom of this thing in about 3 days and have a final report back to Sessions within a week.

Get off your butt Jeff, fok'n do SOMETHING, even it it's wrong !
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 13:18 Comments || Top||

#10  I just don't see the Ohr fambly or Sztrok / Page protecting anyone from anything
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2018 14:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Direct link to PDF of FBI transcript. Get it while it's still out there.

the volume of credible threats that have to be processed must be overwhelming

Just the fact [from the transcript] that the first point of citizen contact is an "Intake Specialist" tells me why the system is overwhelmed.

"So if anybody else has questions they can call you back. Is that correct ma'am?"

Apparently any 'alarm key' indicators set by the Intake Specialist were ignored.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 15:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Interested to hear how other 'Burgers would respond to this deflection attempt.

[from the transcript] The audio is stored in a file titled 010518_0231_pm_Nikolas_Cruz_Phone_Call.wav.
There is no indication of when the 13 minute audio session was processed but the transcript completion date appears to be 2/15/2018.
Perhaps some 41 days later during which the content was recognized to be significant enough to generate a report.
One day AFTER the shootings.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 16:10 Comments || Top||

#13  This doesn't relate to the FBI, but if you want to read, this is pretty damning about the Broward County Police Force.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/966854507744374784.html
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/24/2018 18:09 Comments || Top||


Florida Gov. Rick Scott Pushes Gun Confiscation Orders, Opposes Arming Teachers
[Breitbart] Gov. Rick Scott (R) is pushing firearm confiscation orders and stands opposed to the suggestion that teachers should be armed for school safety.

CNN reports that Scott is pushing a "Violent Threat Restraining Order," which are similar to California’s Gun Violence Restraining Orders in that they a designed to secure court orders to confiscate firearms following a family member’s complaint.

It is difficult to see how such orders‐designed to be triggered by family requests‐would have been effective against Nikolas Cruz. After all, the family with which he was staying repeatedly called the police on him in November 2017 but refused to file charges when sheriff’s deputies arrived. A member of the family with which Cruz was staying explained away Cruz’s erratic behavior by saying he "had been suffering significantly from the loss of his mother" earlier in the month.

Scott is also pushing a bump stock ban, "tougher background checks," more stringent rules against the mentally ill, and a ban on purchasing or possessing firearms by anyone "subject to an injunction for protection against stalking, cyberstalking, dating violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or domestic violence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 04:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Where are my people going? I must find them for I am their leader and must get out in front of them."

I'm beginning to see the advantages in not having any principles other than self-serving ones.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/24/2018 5:53 Comments || Top||

#2  How does any new law matter when the police won't enforce the ones we have?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/24/2018 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  What is beginning to emerge in Broward County Florida appears to be a tragic example of selective enforcement, based on race. Mind the crime and incarceration statistics. Our only industry is tourism and we don't need any Malmo, Sweden stories.

BTW, any cash estate (estimated to be somewhat large) that the murdering, nutcase Cruz may have inherited from his deceased parents should be forfeited and ordered split among the families of the victims, NOT his related caretakers.

They didn't file charges or take appropriate legal actions, they are part of the problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Besoeker, you might find this very interesting reading. I posted it to the previous article, but to make it easy, here it is again:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/966854507744374784.html
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/24/2018 18:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Thanks! We ran it here yesterday or the day before. Quite revealing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 22:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Glad to see you here again, dear Old Patriot.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2018 22:49 Comments || Top||


Bad Guy in critical condition after attempted robbery in Tulsa
Video at the link
[OKCFox] Liquor store clerks shoot armed robbery suspect, fight over gun
Posted by: badanov || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Get a larger caliber weapon, practice head shots.
Posted by: Betty Hatfield5124 || 02/24/2018 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Photo of Tyrone (from a previous conviction) at link.

Why dese bishes gotta be shootin at him. He was turning his life around and sheeet
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2018 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  "We're not going to be victims," said Justin Christen.

But now the public knows of a underarmed cash drawer. Expect a 'trophy' robbery.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Brave ladies non the less. Too bad the perp isn't dead to save the state the cost of a trial and incarceration
Posted by: Warthog || 02/24/2018 10:02 Comments || Top||


Hero dog takes bullet for teenager in Des Moines home invasion
[KIRO7] The dog confronted the burglars, who beat him until he was bloody. The dog ran back upstairs.

With the dog out of sight, the home invasion continued as the two burglars trashed the house room by room. When they came into the bedroom where the teen and the dog were hiding in the closet, and the teen was on the phone with 911, the dog stood up to them with the little strength he had left.

He threw himself at the burglars, the teen's family wrote on a GoFundMe page, and was shot four times in the neck, leg and knee.

As the sound of sirens became audible, the burglars ran away.

Officers found smashed sliding door glass when they went into the home to get the teen outside safely. They also found Rex, who at first looked dead.

While SWAT teams looked for the suspects, Rex was taken to the animal hospital.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love dogs, in the spiritual sense.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 16:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Rex, indeed.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/24/2018 19:29 Comments || Top||


Four sheriff's deputies hid during Florida school shooting (Unconfirmed)
[NYP] Not one but four sheriff’s deputies hid behind cars instead of storming Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during last week’s school shooting, according to a new report.

Sources from Coral Springs Police Department tell CNN that when officers arrived on the scene, they were shocked to find three Broward County Sheriff’s deputies behind their cars with their weapons drawn.

The school’s armed resource officer, Deputy Scot Peterson was also outside ‐ he resigned Thursday over his failure to act.

The cops entered the building to engage the shooter on their own, and then a new batch of Broward County deputies arrived, and two of those officers ‐ plus an officer from Sunrise, Florida ‐ joined the police inside the building, the sources said.

It’s unclear if the shooter was still inside at the time, CNN reports.

Related: Same sad story at the Daily Caller
And courtesy of charger, Twitchy’s take on the subject.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has 4 stars on his collar - one for each of his cowards.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2018 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  That "coward of the county" song, but flipped...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2018 14:28 Comments || Top||


Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and a sigma looks like a bomb, so arrest me.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/24/2018 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn straight. Use x^(1/2) instead.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/24/2018 6:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like a diving board to me.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/24/2018 9:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Dr. Steve might say it looks like half an EKG. "He's dead Jim"
Posted by: Warthog || 02/24/2018 10:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Lucky it was not a cube root symbol.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/24/2018 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  cube root symbol = assault index?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2018 12:43 Comments || Top||

#7  My late father (wow, 50 years ago) was a coon ass from way back in the woods. His favorite joke was about "Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square."
I never thought I'd get to use that line.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/24/2018 14:06 Comments || Top||

#8  My late father (wow, 50 years ago) was a coon ass from way back in the woods. His favorite joke was about "Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square."
I never thought I'd get to use that line.


After Sunday dinner, a proud country father instructs his son to "say something in..... Algeebraw" to the preacher........
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 15:38 Comments || Top||

#9  So does Logical Negation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/24/2018 19:15 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
California Sets Up 24-Hour Hotline to Report 20-Pound Rodent Sightings
[PJ] The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is asking for the public's help in identifying populations of invasive nutria (Myocasator coypus). The giant, rodents, natives of South America, have reportedly been reproducing in California, and CDFW authorities are trying to determine the extent of the infestation.

"To date, nutria have been found in wetlands, rivers, canals and other freshwater habitat in Merced, Fresno and Stanislaus counties," CDFW explained in a recent bulletin. "If allowed to establish, nutria will severely impact California’s resources, causing the loss of wetlands, severe soil erosion, damage to agricultural crops and levees and reduced stability of banks, dikes and roadbeds, as they have done in Louisiana, Chesapeake Bay and the Pacific Northwest. Nutria also degrade water quality and contaminate drinking supplies with parasites and diseases transmissible to humans, livestock and pets."

A multiagency Nutria Response Team has been activated, tasked with creating a nutria eradication plan.

"We have no idea how many there are or how they were reintroduced," CDFW spokesman Peter Tira told NPR. "We don’t know if someone set one loose or if there was an isolated population out there that we didn’t know about. But we do know we have to get rid of them."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 04:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  didn't know the state legislature was still in session....
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/24/2018 5:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Such hostility to immigrants who are only trying to feed their families and make a better life for themselves. Is is because their fur is brown?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/24/2018 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Myocasator coypus. they will do the work white people refuse to do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  A multiagency Nutria Response Team has been activated, tasked with creating a nutria eradication plan.

Ah, now there is graft. Just offering a bounty on the pelts is too simple.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2018 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  All right! "Invasion of the Giant Venezuelan Rats!
Coming soon to a wetlands near you!"

I hit one with my truck going down the local FM road here once; imagine a black rat the size of a raccoon.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/24/2018 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Big rodents? Quarantine Sacramento to keep them where they belong.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/24/2018 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  We have some good recipes for them here in Louisiana.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/24/2018 11:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Do they eat poo and used hypodermic needles?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2018 11:26 Comments || Top||

#9  A nutria attacked Jimmuah Cahtah once. It was reported that he beat it off with a canoe paddle...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2018 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe the new generation of self-driving cars can have automatic nutria detectors / deflectors / destroyers built in. Or imagine anti-nutria drones...
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2018 12:00 Comments || Top||

#11  I had some east of the Lake Charles area, Glenmore. They're actually quite tasty.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/24/2018 12:38 Comments || Top||

#12  A multiagency Nutria Response Team has been activated, tasked with registering them to vote, I bet.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/24/2018 14:40 Comments || Top||

#13  Report them so the DNC can sign them up for welfare and register them to vote [Democrat].
They will even be willing to fill out the ballots on their behalf!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/24/2018 16:00 Comments || Top||

#14  A nutria attacked Jimmuah Cahtah once. It was reported that he beat it off with a canoe paddle...

The handjob President.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#15  #3 Myocasator coypus. they will dodestroy the work white people refuse to do.
Posted by: Besoeker

Fixed it for you. I grew up in Louisiana. I know how destructive they can be.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/24/2018 18:18 Comments || Top||

#16  Asseverates modern Ms. Cleaver,
"A nutria's just like a beaver!
Trans-feminist studies
Sez all must be buddies...
Except the conceiving believer."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/24/2018 20:04 Comments || Top||

#17  I had to look up asseverates, but now I know. My learning for the day — thank you, Zenobia F!
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2018 22:53 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Breathes Fire Over Mnangagwa Rule
[All Africa] Former president Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win....
this week came out guns blazing at his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his first ever briefing to outsiders since his ousting by the military last November, saying his successor's rule is "unconstitutional", detailed notes provided by those who attended the meeting show.

In a scathing brief to African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Commission (AU) chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat at his "Blue Roof" mansion in Harare's Borrowdale suburb on Monday afternoon, Mugabe said the Mnangagwa government was illegal and the AU should help to "restore normality and democracy in Zim-bob-we".

In the emotionally-charged meeting, Mugabe also said the country was effectively under military rule, hence the need to urgently restore democratic order.

He said he was willing to call a spade a spade as he was not afraid of anyone to help bring Zim-bob-we back to a constitutional and legal path. He added that his security and wellbeing were not guaranteed as he was being denied his constitutional benefits while his wife was being harassed.

Mugabe further said the upcoming general elections would not be free and fair as they would be run by the military.

Apart from Mugabe and Mahamat, the meeting was also attended by Mugabe's wife Grace, AU Commissioner (Political Affairs) Minata Samate Cessouma, the AU chair's interpreter, Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, chief secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda, Zim-bob-we's former ambassador to Namibia Chipo Zindoga, and a former diplomat in Angola now a bigwig in the Foreign Affairs and International Trade ministry. The interpreter translated from French to English, and vice-versa as Mahamat asked to speak in French, but listen to Mugabe's address in English.

The meeting, recorded by several officials who attended, began with the usual greetings and an exchange of pleasantries between Mugabe and the AU officials before serious business commenced.

Mahamat who met with Mugabe, Mnangagwa and Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Sibusiso Moyo and National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda, among other officials, ‐ then indicated he was in Zim-bob-we on a fact-finding mission to understand the political and security situation on the ground in the aftermath of events which occurred in November last year. He did not use the words "coup" or "transition" in his address at the meeting, notes show.

Posted by: Fred || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shut up you dog.
Posted by: newc || 02/24/2018 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  saying his successor's rule is "unconstitutional"

Bob would know unconstitutional
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2018 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Bob needs to have a "come to Jesus" meeting with 20 armed Marines. If any of them have any ammunition left after the meeting, they need to face a court martial.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/24/2018 18:21 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Cash-strapped Venezuela faces eviction from Miami consulate
[MIAMIHERALD] Venezuela's cash-strapped government faces eviction from a Miami building it once owned after its consulate failed to pay rent since August.

The notice demanding the consulate vacate the building in the ritzy Brickell neighborhood was filed Feb. 15 in a Miami-Dade county court. The landlord, a developer behind Miami's tallest high-rise, the still being built Panorama Tower, said Venezuela owes $142,119 in unpaid rent.

The potential eviction is a major reversal for Venezuela's government, which owned the building until 2005, when it sold it for $70 million.

"The fact Venezuela can't come up with such a small amount of cash tells you what dire straits they're in," said Russ Dallen, a Miami-based investor specializing in Venezuelan bonds who discovered the eviction notice on Thursday.
Posted by: Fred || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  More like whomever is supposed to pay the rent pocketed the money instead.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/24/2018 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  $142,119 is like 3 Billion VZ Bolivars
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2018 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Venezuela must be running out of salable dope.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/24/2018 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they can get jobs as Sheriff's school security officers. Can't be any worse than the ones they have.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/24/2018 14:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Going to bet Hiassen organizes a bake sale for them any minute now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2018 15:38 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Gertz: China ASAT Test Part of Growing Space War Threat
[FreeBeacon] China earlier this month conducted the latest flight test of one of its newest and deadliest strategic missiles‐the DN-3 anti-satellite interceptor.

The test, as in the past, was masked by the Chinese military as a missile defense interceptor test. American defense officials, however, said the DN-3 is one of several direct ascent anti-satellite missiles capable of destroying most U.S. satellites.

A more significant development was disclosed eight days later through intelligence made public during a Senate hearing: China is moving beyond the testing and development of space weapons and will soon deploy military units dedicated to attacking satellites and conducting space warfare.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Trump announces 'heaviest ever' North Korea sanctions
[Al Jazeera] The US has imposed its "heaviest ever" sanctions against North Korea, President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
says, as the US seeks to prevent North Korea from further developing its nuclear programme.

The measures - aimed at disrupting North Korean shipping companies and vessels - will heighten pressure on North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
, a US treasury department statement, said on Friday.

"This will significantly hinder the Kim regime's capacity to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports, and erode its abilities to ship goods through international waters," Steven Mnuchin, treasury secretary, said.

"The president has made it clear to companies worldwide that if they choose to help fund North Korea's nuclear ambitions, they will not do business with the United States."

The new sanctions target almost all shipping currently being used by North Korea, Mnuchin said.

The measures prohibit US citizens from dealing with more than 50 vessels and companies, and one person, located in countries including North Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Assets held by the firms within the US will also be blocked.

Trump described the measures as the "heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before" in an address in Washington on Friday.

He cautioned the US will "have to go to phase two" if the sanctions don't have Washington's desired impact, adding that "may be a very rough thing ... very unfortunate for the world", Rooters news agency reported.

Posted by: Fred || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I'd prefer the Cold War usage of the term "sanction".
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/24/2018 5:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Limpits attached to ships hulls will be faster and more effective.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/24/2018 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  A US nuke sub standing off of each Korean port would work, too. Taking out NKor's navy would be a signal even Pudgy could understand. The Sinpo submarine base would be a good place to start.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/24/2018 18:24 Comments || Top||


Down Under
POTUS Announces Plans to Name U.S. Ship ‘Canberra' in Honor of WWII Australian Ship
[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump announced on Friday while speaking at a joint press conference next to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that a new U.S. Navy ship will be named "Canberra."

Three Australian Navy ships have been named Canberra, Australia's capital city, in the country's history. The U.S. vessel will specifically be named in memory of the heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra, a ship that sunk during the Battle of Savo Island in World War II. Not long after the sinking, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered an American cruiser, the USS Pittsburgh, be renamed the the USS Canberra (CA-70/CAG-2) in memory of the HMAS Canberra. The first USS Canberra was decommissioned in 1970.

Trump said in his announcement at the White House that the new Canberra will be Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 30, and the ship's sponsor will be Australian Minister of Defence Marise Payne.

"I know that the USS Canberra will be a worthy successor to her Australian namesake and her American predecessor, the former Navy Baltimore-class cruiser the USS Canberra," Trump said. "As she sails the open sea, the new USS Canberra will symbolize to all who cross her path the enduring friendship between the United States and Australia. There is no closer friendship."

Turnbull thanked Trump for the honor of having an American vessel named Canberra. Turnbull also noted LCS-30 will be built by Australian company Austal at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama where American workers are employed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2018 04:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump said in his announcement at the White House that the new Canberra will be Littoral Combat Ship .
Cost overruns, underwhelming demonstrations, and debilitating mechanical failures, lets call it Canberra. God I love Trump's sense of humour. And Turnbull thinks he is back in the good books after his last inept stunt.
Posted by: Classer || 02/24/2018 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The Canberra got lit up and sunk at Guadalcanal.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/24/2018 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Think of all the other (horrible) names that have been used lately and be happy... like the USS John P. Murtha (!).
Posted by: magpie || 02/24/2018 17:33 Comments || Top||


Europe
Satellite just launched by SpaceX more interesting than presented
My best guess short summary: This Spanish sat working with the 2 German sats can do high-resolution trinocular 3D radar imaging. Since they are in the same orbit but not in the same position at the same time this would not be 3D for transient or moving objects but for static or fixed objects. The period for the 3 of them to image the same spot is 11 days so that's the transient vs fixed time delta. Or same place for 11 days (worst case if one sat is right next to the other) = 3D high res image. The phrasing of the "calibration" statement suggests the 3D scientist involved or some of his previous students. If he is involved it is correct accurate and well designed. Trinocular is much more accurate then the binocular imaging that the existing pair of sats are likely engaged in. In addition trinocular imaging requires much less computational resources than binocular and ambiguity tends toward zero for the visible surface. If one wanted full minimal ambiguity in all directions it would require the target object to be in space with a tetrahedral arrangement of imagers so this is a minimal resource, optimum solution, for a 3D image of the surface of the earth (shell).

[Forum.NasaSpaceFlight] DLR German Aerospace Center, Corporate Communications, Linder Hoehe, 51147 Koeln, Germany -
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India-Pakistan
Police given three weeks to arrest key suspect in stripping case
[DAWN] A 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 bench on Thursday directed the Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
police to arrest the prime suspect in the teenage girl stripping case within three weeks.

Chief Justice Yahaya Afridi and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan adjourned the hearing into the case until March 20 observing if the police failed to arrest the main suspect by then, the deputy inspector general of police (headquarters) should appear before the court to explain their failure.

The bench issued the directives after additional advocate general Qaiser Ali Shah and AIG (legal) Falak Nawaz submitted the case progress report in line with its earlier directives.

The AAG and AIG said the Dera Ismail Khan regional police officer had constituted three teams headed by superintendent of police Mohammad Ashfaq for arresting the absconding suspect.

They said eight of the nine suspects charged by the victim had already been jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
The AAG and AIG pointed out that after receiving information that the absconding suspect had stayed with some people, the police had registered five FIRs against several of his alleged controllers.

The bench asked why the police had not arrested the absconding suspect as during previous hearing, it had issued specific directives for the purpose.
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#1  Criminal
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 16:59 Comments || Top||


Two doctors get death for killing colleague
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court here on Thursday convicted two doctors and awarded them death sentence for kidnapping their doctor friend for ransom and subsequently stabbing him to death.
"What... what's that in your hand?"
"A scalpel!"
"It looks like a Bowie knife! It's a foot long!"
"It's a Bowie scalpel!"

ATC judge Sabir Khan pronounced that the prosecution had proved its case against the two accused persons named Dr Ahmad Ali and Dr Haseeb Anwer and the evidence on record connected them with the commission of the offence. A third accused in the case, Habibur Rehman, was also convicted and was sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment.
"Aaaiiieee! What are you doing!"
"Taking your appendix out!"
"It's already out! And it was a foot lower than that!"

Senior advocate Syed Abdul Fayyaz appeared for the complainant Mohammad Ashfaq, father of the dear departed Dr Salman Shahzad, and contended that there was incontrovertible evidence against the accused persons. He contended that the accused had kidnapped Dr Shahzad and killed him in a brutal manner. He stated that the dear departed was a doctor at the Children Hospital Danishabad, 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.
, and had left home in the afternoon of Dec 20, 2015, stating that he was going to attend a feast arranged by his friend Dr Ahmad Ali.
"Hi, ya'll! I'm here for the feast?"
Syed Fayyaz stated that the dear departed had not returned and his family had received a call from accused persons demanding a ransom of Rs10 million for his release. He added that the caller had threatened that they should not disclose it to anyone otherwise Dr Shahzad would be killed.
"Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
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#1  So, they actually killed this guy, rather than treating him to death.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/24/2018 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder what happened to the two SOF guys that killed their teammate in AFR for exposing their money scheme?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 9:34 Comments || Top||


Maldives warns India to 'refrain' from interfering in political crisis
[DAWN] The Maldives warned India against interfering in its political crisis, deepening a rift with the country once seen as its closest ally.

New Delhi had expressed concern about the situation in the honeymoon islands, whose president has sacked top judges, jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
political dissidents and imposed a state of emergency in recent weeks.

On Wednesday it said it was "deeply dismayed" by the extension of emergency rule, earning an official rebuke from the Maldives foreign ministry.

"There is no doubt that the Maldives is experiencing one of the most difficult periods in the history of the nation," the islands' ministry said in a statement late Thursday. "It is therefore important that friends and partners in the international community, including India, refrain from any actions that could hinder resolving the situation facing the country."

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#1  Obutthole's favorite Argentinian claimed territory...
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Mother of three, suspected paramour gunned down 'for honour' in Shikarpur
[DAWN] A man and a mother of three children were bumped off on Friday in Qaisar Badani Jatoi village, some 80 kilometres off Shikarpur, over suspicion of having an illicit relationship, police said.

The incident took place within the jurisdiction of Faizo cop shoppe, where the 25-year-old woman, identified as Hayatan, and Gul Hassan Jatoi, 30, were reportedly rubbed out by the husband of the dear departed woman following an allegation of karo-kari
...the Pak practice of murdering women on suspicion of having had 'illicit relations' with other than a close relative...
[honour killing] levelled against the two, said Khanpur DSP Nazeer Ahmed Lashari.

The body of the dear departed man was handed over to heirs following the postmortem examination from Taluka Hospital, Khanpur.

The bigwig said police was investigating the matter, however, a case has not been registered. Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
the suspect remains on the lam.

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Science & Technology
Freezing Navy EA-18G Crew In Ice Filled Cockpit Navigated Home Using Their Smart Watches
A U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler recently made it back to base after suffering a terrifying mid-air mishap, which left its two-person crew flying blind and frostbitten after the aircraft’s environment control system failed in part thanks to a pair of high-tech wrist watches. The incident occurred just over a year after the canopy on another one of the electronic warfare planes exploded in a bizarre over-pressurization incident and as the service continues to struggle to find exactly what’s causing persistent reports of "hypoxia-like" symptoms across the F/A-18 Hornet, F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, and Growler fleets.

Defense News was first to report this new incident, which occurred approximately 60 miles south of Seattle, Washington. The EA-18G, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (VX-9), was flying at approximately 25,000 feet on a mission from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, between Seattle and Vancouver BC, when the cockpit temperature plummeted to -30 degrees Fahrenheit.

The broken environmental control system (ECS) also let in a fine mist of liquid, which then froze, coating the inside of the canopy and vital flight instruments in an opaque sheen of ice. The ECS consists of a number of sub-components that are supposed to work together to manage oxygen flow to the crew, as well as cockpit pressure and temperature.



Despite using up all of their emergency oxygen supply, the crew was able to wend its way its way back to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island with help from air traffic controllers on the ground and their smart watches. In July 2017, Navy Hornet, Super Hornet, and Growler pilots each got a $450 Garmin Fenix 3 wristwatch
$345.00 at WalMart.
, which can measure air pressure and altitude and display an individual’s course heading.

The service issued the watches in order to provide a backup alert mechanism in case the ECS' on-board oxygen generation system, or OBOGS, malfunctioned and cockpit pressure dropped to unsafe levels and the aircraft's built-in safety mechanisms and warning systems also failed. The Navy had not publicly stated that it could serve as a improvised navigational aid in an emergency.
Continues.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good to see that the Navy hasn't fixed the oxgen rigs in the planes yet. That means it doesn't matter of the Ford can't launch them safely, because you couldn't fly it anyway. Problem solved.

I do, however have to wonder what language the editor of the article speaks, what with a phrase like "environment control system failed in part thanks to a pair of high-tech wrist watches".
Did you even read that line?
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/24/2018 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Paid by word count Ed, not legitimate language use.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/24/2018 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "HAL 9000, turn up the damn heat!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2018 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Should have a comma after failed.
Posted by: Unick Darling of the Veal Cutlets8500 || 02/24/2018 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Should have a comma after failed.

Technically known as the Navy comma.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/24/2018 11:23 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon 'detains suspect' in Joanna Demafelis' murder in Kuwait
[Al Jazeera] One of the two suspects in the murder of a Filipina maid in Kuwait has been placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
and detained in Leb, according to the Philippine department of foreign affairs.

Nader Essam Assaf, a Lebanese national, was arrested in his home country for the death of Joanna Demafelis, Alan Cayetano, the Philippine foreign affairs secretary, said in a statement on Friday.

Cayetano said President Rodrigo Duterte "welcomes the news" of the arrest and expects Kuwaiti authorities to request the extradition of Assaf to stand trial in Kuwait.

"Assaf’s arrest is a critical first step in our quest for justice for Joanna, and we are thankful to our friends in Kuwait and Leb for their assistance."

A second suspect remains unaccounted for.

Demafelis had gone missing in September 2016, and her body was found in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait earlier this month.

She left for Kuwait in 2014 hoping to earn enough to support her family.

The statement said a senior Kuwaiti security official informed the Philippine ambassador to Kuwait of the arrest.

Earlier, Mousaed Al Thwaikh, Kuwait's ambassador to the Philippines, assured the Philippine government that his country would do everything it can to find the suspects.

Assaf and his wife, Mona, a Syrian national, are accused of torturing and killing 29-year-old Demafelis.

Mona remains wanted and is believed to be in Syria.

They reportedly left Kuwait following Demafelis' death.

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Home Front: Culture Wars
LevinTV host Mark Levin's Fox News show premieres this Sunday
[ConservativeReview] This weekend, Fox News will launch the first episode of LevinTV host Mark Levin’s new weekend program, "Life, Liberty & Levin." Premiering Sunday at 10:00 p.m. ET, Levin’s new show will feature in-depth, long-form interviews.

"Hosted by nationally syndicated radio talk show personality Mark Levin, the hour-long show will explore the fundamental values and principles undergirding American society, culture, politics, and current events, and their relevance to the nation’s future and everyday lives of citizens," Fox News said in a press release.



"As a proud citizen of the United States, I am delighted to share the significance of American values with such a wide audience and look forward to engaging with important guests about crucial topics," Levin said.

The first episode of Levin’s new weekly program will feature an interview with syndicated columnist Walter Williams, an economist and professor at George Mason University.

Viewers can catch Mark Levin on his daily show "LevinTV" weeknights on CRTV.

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#1  Walter Williams is always a great listen
Posted by: Frank G || 02/24/2018 9:19 Comments || Top||



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