Sessions' 4 page response to Grassely, Goodlatte, and Gowdy contained herein.
Probably a very good decision strategically:
(1) This US Attorney is in Utah and out of the Beltway cesspool.
(2) The federal grand juries in Salt Lake City are very law enforcement friendly and the makeup of the grand jurors is most notably conservative, unlike the DC court where a good 90% of the grand jurors are Democrat or Democrat leaning. Additionally, the FBI Special Agents in Salt Lake City will be working under Huber's direction, not swamp based FBI headquarters.
[TAMPABAY] A man traveled from Miami to kidnap and sexually batter a 10-year-old girl whom he met online, according to the Polk County in a hotel
Deputies say 23-year-old Jonathan Diaz Fundora took three days off from his job as manager at a Burger King to drive to Lakeland on Tuesday and meet the girl, whom he met through an online app.
He was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Tuesday after deputies found them at a Motel 6 in Lakeland. The girl was located hiding in a bathroom, and both the girl and Fundora told detectives they had sex.
"This suspect groomed and manipulated a little girl online and then traveled all the way to Polk County to sexually abuse her. He is the poster child for why it is critical that parents monitor their children’s activities online," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news release.
According to deputies:
Fundora groomed the girl after meeting her online six weeks earlier, directing her to perform sex acts and send him photos and video.
He arranged to meet the girl at the end of the road where she lives, and deputies say the girl left a note with her parents stating she would be staying at a friend’s house for three days.
A parent immediately called 911 and reported the girl missing upon seeing the note and realizing she was gone.
Within 35 minutes of receiving the 911 call, deputies had identified the suspect and his vehicle through his Facebook page, deputies said.
Deputies then located his car at the Motel 6.
Preliminary testing of Fundora’s electronic devices confirmed he had received photos and videos from the girl that he directed her to send, deputies said.
Fundora is being held at the Polk County Jail on several felony charges including kidnapping, sexual battery of a victim under 12, child pornography and use of a computer to seduce a child.
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"Someone misused the internet. Time to turn it off!"
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throw him in with the general population in the county jail. Problem solved
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It's Florida. He'll get room and board for the rest of his life. A hundred years ago, that would have been a very short life. Aren't we so civilized now? /rhet question
[EcoWatch] The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sample tested, even independent beers. Heavenly sunlight being provided through a crack in the cloud cover. Nothing more.
Moms Across America released test results of 12 California wines that were all found to be positive for glyphosate in 2016. We tested further and released new findings last week of glyphosate in all of the most popular brands of wines in the world, the majority of which are from the U.S. and in batch test results in American beer.
What do these events all have in common? Monsanto's Roundup.
French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini released shocking findings in January of 2018 that of all the Roundup products they tested, over a dozen had high levels of arsenic—over five times the allowable limit along with dangerous levels of heavy metals.
Roundup is commonly sprayed in vineyards to keep the rows looking tidy and free of so-called weeds and on grain crops (used in beer) as a drying agent just before harvest. Glyphosate herbicides do not dry, wash or cook off and they have been proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors and a cause of liver disease at very low levels.
The wine brands tested included Gallo, Beringer, Mondavi, Barefoot and Sutter Home. Beer brands tested included Budweiser, Busch, Coors, Michelob, Miller Lite, Sam Adams, Samuel Smith, Peak Organic and Sierra Nevada.
Some of the test results were at first confusing. One would expect the organic wines and beers, and the carefully crafted independent beer brands to be free of glyphosate, as the herbicides are not allowed or used in organic farming. Instead, it appears that they are contaminated. Previous testing did show that some organic wines were contaminated, and in this round, one of the organic brands was as low as 0.38 ppb, but conventional wines had glyphosate residues 61 times higher, at 23.30 ppb. Studies have shown only 1 part per trillion to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells, so any amount is concerning.
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I seriously doubt anyone has demonstrated any effects at the 1 part per trillion level.
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Science! Proven! Shut up you peasants! Science Has Spoken! "...proven to be neurotoxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruptors and a cause of liver disease at very low levels." Danger: One look at the source of this 'article' may cause your eyes to fall out of your head due to excessive eye-rolling! Because Science! Reminds me of all the di-hydrogen monoxide warnings. No facts presented here, just panicky handwaving. But Moms Against America say so, so it must be so. Not that I want to drink Roundup, mind you.
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I looked it up, too. Whoa! We had that all over the place when I was a kid, and I didn't know what it was called. Nor that it was edible. I thought it was pretty (back when I could see the flowers close up without the aid of a microscope).
Back in those days, we didn't have the magic of the internet to tell us what things were called, so I made up my own names for them. Can't remember what I called henbit.
How it exactly ties in with Monsanto, Round Up, and beer, I dunno. Does it go good with beer?
GOOD. Appoint a Conservative.
[TheHill] Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a judge on the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and a champion of liberal causes on the court, died Thursday at the age of 87.
A court spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that Reinhardt was at a dermatologist's office when he died unexpectedly Thursday afternoon.
Reinhardt, who was appointed by former President Jimmy Carter in 1980, served on one of the country's most notoriously liberal courts, issuing many prominent decisions during his tenure including a 2012 decision striking down California's ban on gay marriage.
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Good riddance to an imperialist liberal judge. A symbol of everything wrong with the courts.
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I do recall back in the 80s or 90s the Army Institute of Heraldry which is the office for official heraldry for the federal government declared an end to use of French or Latin in new design creations.
2nd Cavalry. AKA 2nd Dragoons. My old regiment. Back in my day it was the 2nd Armored Cavalry. Longest continuous active duty combat (non-ceremonial) regiment in the US Army.
[SFGATE] A Bay Area obstetrician-gynecologist and former member of a legendary punk band proved he retains his DIY sensibility at a recent medical malpractice trial, where he saved a prospective juror's life. "Yer honor, I object!"
The judge declared a mistrial, fearing the doc's heroics would sway the jury. "[BANG!] Sustained!"
"No good deed goes unpunished," Dr. James Lilja, a San Jose and Fremont-based physician and founding drummer of The Offspring, told Law360. Lilja left The Offspring in the late 1980s to deliver offspring.
Lilja faces medical malpractice charges, filed by Stephenie Sargiotto and her husband, John, in Alameda County Superior Court, for the alleged negligent treatment of Ms. Sargiotto.
Trial proceedings didn't get very far this week after one of more than 35 prospective jurors collapsed, hit his head and lost consciousness, Law360 reports. Lilja and his nurse assistant rushed from the courtroom to the juror's side and found him without a pulse and not breathing.
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The judge declared a mistrial, fearing the doc's heroics would sway the jury.
We have a trial going on here, we can't have facts undermining our rituals!
The wreck of the Hunley was discovered in 1995, approximately 300 meters (984 ft) from the remains of the Housatonic, and was subsequently raised in 2000. The 40-ft (12-m) submarine was almost entirely intact, and the skeletons of all eight crew members were still located along a hand crank that was used to propel it. The men hadn't operated the bilge pumps or opened the topside air hatches, which doesn't seem to be in keeping with the theory that they died from drowning or suffocation. Instead, Lance thinks that they were killed by the shockwave from the explosion that sank the Housatonic.
The Hunley didn't shoot out self-propelled torpedoes like a modern sub, but instead carried a copper keg of gunpowder on a 16-ft (4.9-m) pole out in front of itself. The idea was that it would ram ships with that keg, hitting them below the waterline. Unfortunately for the sub's crew, this placed them perilously close to the blast zone.
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...The problem with Dr Lance's theory is that - you'll pardon the expression - it doesn't hold water. The Hunley showed a blue signal light from more than a mile further out to sea almost an hour AFTER Housatonic went down - this is confirmed by both Federal and Confederate records. They would obviously have been unable to do so had they been killed when Housatonic's mag exploded. That explosion more likely opened up the seams in her ballast tanks and she went down from a combination of progressive flooding and errors by an anoxic, hypothermic crew.
As far as why the crew was found at their stations, keep in mind Hunley was less than four feet wide and the crew was seated on either side of the crank - on their side and flooding, there was nowhere TO go. And finally, there was no indication of them.trying to open the hatch because at thirty feet down, it was physically impossible to do so.
Dr Lance's work is important and crucial to understanding what happened to the Hunley - I simply feel she drew the wrong conclusions.
Mike
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Sorry, Mike. She was 300 feet from the wreck of the Housatonic not a mile away and there was no evidence of efforts to escape or movement of the crew from their posts. The blue lamp is not conclusive either that could have been from any ship at sea. The concussion could have killed the crew and they would have died instantly. Massive internal hemorrhaging.
Thanks for your comments if I may, let me address them.
*One reason it took so long to find Hunley is that everybody kept looking for her close to the Housatonic. That in turn was because salvage divers just after the Civil War said they saw her next to the cruiser and looked inside - patently untrue. Had that been the case, she would have been found during the salvage work that was done to clear Housatonic's wreck. Instead it appears her skipper let her drift with the ebb tide so as to get away from the USN ships converging on the 'flaming datum'. The official Hunley website (www.hunley.org) states that the wreck was discovered about four miles off the coast of Sullivan's Island, and as Housatonic was just three nautical miles offshore, that is consistent with a drift of approximately 1 kt/hr.
*A lamp was located in the wreck, and although it does not have a blue lens, some pyrotechnic mixtures from that time burn with a distinct blue glow. Although it must be regarded as possible that the lamp seen was from another vessel, it should be pointed out that the USN records of that night do not account for any vessels further out, and nor do CSA records.
*The Hunley's hull is extremely cramped - less than four feet across, and the crew would have been seated along each side, facing one another. Escape under the best possible conditions was problematic (see accounts of her first sinking at FT Johnson across from FT Sumter) and submerged at night would have been flatly impossible. Water pressure would have kept the hatches closed no matter how hard the crew tried to push them open. In addition, when the Hunley impacted the bottom, she was likely under power and skidded/rolled onto her side in the position she was found. Since her ballast tank bulkheads didn't extend to the top of the hull, this means water would have immediately started to pour in from the bow and stern, submerging the port side crew at once, and the starboard side crew - at this point hanging down over the crank - would have had little time or chance to go anywhere.
*Massive internal hemorrhage is absolutely a side effect of a shockwave caused by a nearby explosion. I had the honor to serve for twenty years as a USAF Munitions Maintenance Supervisor and am familiar with the type of damage shockwave can cause. However, the kind of shockwave that would have killed the Hunley's crew would also have probably sank her on the spot - but we know it did not. Without question, her crew would have been at best badly rattled and at worst seriously injured. I believe, and detail in my book The Long Patrol, that Hunley instead was essentally snapped like a whip, opening the seams on the ballast tanks fore and aft. This would not have sunk them outright, but instead would have doomed the boat to a death of a thousand cuts. They submerged her to get away from the attack site, drifted approximately a mile, then partially surfaced to show the signal light. Submerging again, this time they compromised her already damaged buoyancy beyond help, and were sinking as they headed back towards Sullivan's Island. The crew was desperately tired, malnourished, anoxic, hypothermic, and likely suffering from respiratory problems, and all of that combined to put them into a corner they couldn't escape.
*The boat did have a snorkel, but it was not used often and in fact may not have worked well at all. With Hunley on her side, the bilge pumps would have been effectively useless, as the ballast tanks would no longer be upright, and no matter how hard they worked them, it would have made no difference.
I don't claim to have the final, absolute, no-kidding answer. And I definitely don't claim to be an expert, as it has been my experience that calling one's self an expert is generally the fastest way available to find out just how much you don't know about a subject. I am an enthusiastic amateur who did what I believe to be solid research and came up with an answer that I believe is the most technically possible and which fits all the facts as we know them.'
Respectfully,
Mike
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Thank you both, Mike and Roth. Not an enviable end, however it happened
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[Breitbart] A judge in South Africa sentenced a man to four life sentences in prison on Tuesday for the murder of his nieces and nephews ‐ whose ears, he confessed, he planned to sell at a high price to a witch doctor for use in potions.
Southern African countries have spent much of the last decade fighting violence fueled by witch doctor, or traditional herbalist, demands for body parts to use in their ceremonies and potions. In nations like Tanzania and Malawi, the body parts of albino people can fetch as much as $75,000 for a whole body, according to United Nations studies. Tanzania has the largest albino population on the continent.
In South Africa, 32-year-old Ben Zimele Mbhele pleaded guilty to killing his two nieces and two nephews, aged between four and 12, last year after meeting a man who told him that the children’s ears would sell at a high price to a witch doctor that he knew. Mbhele reportedly told police initially that he had to kill the children because they "were haunting him and that it was a satanic act," according to South Africa’s the Times. His story changed when the court found that Mbhele took out a life insurance policy on the four children shortly before they were found dead, and collected 60,000 South African rand (about $5,000) total on the four children.
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Who are we to question his culture, since all are equal?
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Yet another legacy of Dutch colonization. Think of the mischief they could achieve if they were properly armed and lived on the south side of Chicago.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The daughter of a Russian ex-spy poisoned in a nerve-agent attack is improving rapidly and is out of critical condition, the hospital treating the pair said Thursday - an unexpected piece of good news in a chilling mystery that has sparked an international crisis.
Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious and critically ill in the English city of Salisbury on March 4. British authorities say they were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent made in Russia.
Salisbury NHS Trust, which oversees the hospital where the Skripals are being treated, said Thursday 33-year-old Yulia is "improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition. Her condition is now stable."
"She has responded well to treatment but continues to receive expert clinical care 24 hours a day," said Dr. Christine Blanshard, medical director at Salisbury District Hospital.
Sergei Skripal, 66, remains at death's door, the hospital said.
Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer, was imprisoned after he sold secrets to British intelligence. He was released in a 2010 spy swap and moved to Britannia.
Britannia says he and his daughter, who was visiting from Russia, were poisoned with a nerve agent developed in Soviet times and that it must have come from Russia.
Police say they were likely exposed to the poison on the door of Sergei Skripal’s suburban house in Salisbury, where the highest concentration of the chemical has been found.
About 250 British counterterrorism officers are working on the investigation, retracing the Skripals’ movements to uncover how the poison was delivered. They have searched a pub, a restaurant and a cemetery, and on Thursday cordoned off a children’s playground near the Skripal home.
Moscow vehemently denies involvement in the attack, which has sparked a diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West.
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[TheJamestownFoundation] The Federal Security Service (FSB) as well as Russian military intelligence (GRU) have both been stepping up their efforts to gain control over the country’s private military companies (PMC).
As is so often the case in this kind of intra-elite competition in Russia, the standoff between the military and the FSB/GRU is not being driven by them directly, but rather by two nominally independent groups, which are in fact surrogates for the two sides: the defense ministry–connected Voluntary Society for Supporting the Army, Airforce and Fleet (DOSAAF) and the FSB/GRU-linked Union of Donbas Volunteers. Both organizations are taking the lead in promoting the legalization of PMCs by the Duma (lower house of parliament). If PMCs are legalized in one particular way, that will tilt control away from the defense ministry; if in another, it will ensure that the ministry retains a dominant position.
According to Moscow-based military expert Aleksey Tarazevich, the fight over such new legislation, which remained in the background during the presidential campaign, is now set to become public with new force (Dailystorm.ru, March 22; Newizv.ru), March 23). “Formally,” he writes, “DOSAAF is a non-governmental organization, which, nevertheless, is connected with the state” and especially the defense ministry. Earlier this month, DOSAAF’s deputy head, Nikolay Staskov, “indirectly confirmed” both that it has the capacity to train private military companies and has developed its own draft legislation to legalize them (Omvesti.ru, March 3).
Other pieces of draft legislation, including some prepared by those close to the Union of Donbas Volunteers, which is close to the intelligence agencies, have been floating around for some time. According to Tarasevich, neither the pro–defense ministry version offered by DOSAAF, nor the pro-FSB or pro-GRU versions offered by the Union of Donbas Volunteers gained much traction in the Duma, because the Kremlin did not want the issue to surface during the presidential campaign lest it raise questions about Vladimir Putin’s intentions. Now with that campaign over, the situation has changed.
[TheJamestownFoundation] A new scandal is adding fuel to the fire of Russian fears about Chinese penetration of Siberia and the Russian Far East. The Russian media in those regions is reporting that in order to sell Russian agricultural products to China—something that benefits both local oligarchs and Moscow—Russian taxpayers are being forced to subsidize the sector. And those taxpayers are reportedly receiving nothing back in return, because what the Chinese are willing to pay is less than the costs Russians incur producing the food (Babr24.com, March 22, 2018; RBK, November 23, 2017).
Were this a single isolated development, it might not be that significant. But it comes on top of others that have sparked headlines like “The Siberians Feel They are Losing Baikal to China” (Regnum, February 27), “Baikal: Appropriated by Bureaucrats and Seized by China” (Regnum, February 13), and “Russian Only for the Time Being: China Takes Control of Baikal” (Regnum, January 15). Thus, this recent agricultural subsidies scandal could prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. Notably, it links Russians’ anger at their own government—as exemplified this week in the furious reaction to official responses to the Kemerovo mall fire disaster (Meduza.io, March 26, 27; The Moscow Times, March 27, 28)—with public concern about what those same officials are allowing or even encouraging China to do on Russian territory.
[ATimes] Report charges Chinese attacks service strategic objectives that are aligned with national industrial policies. Plausible deniability is maintained.
China’s government is engaged in a systematic program of cyber attacks on American and foreign companies, according to a US government trade report made public last week.
The cyber intrusions into corporate networks are one of four areas identified by the office of the US Trade Representative as unfair trading practices. These have prompted the administration of US President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on Chinese products in the coming weeks.
The other areas outlined in the USTR report include restrictions on businesses operating in China designed to induce technology transfers, and systematic acquisitions of technology companies to obtain advanced commercial know-how.
“Estimates of the losses of cyber theft alone are in the hundreds of billions of dollars.”
On cyber attacks, the 215-page report states that for over a decade “the Chinese government has conducted and supported cyber intrusions into US commercial networks targeting confidential business information held by US firms.”
It adds that: “Through these cyber intrusions, China’s government has gained unauthorized access to a wide range of commercially-valuable business information, including trade secrets, technical data, negotiating positions, and sensitive and proprietary internal communications.”
The report concludes that the cyber intrusions and information exfiltration poses “a grave threat” to the economy and competitiveness of the US.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday stresses in an article that it is a contemporary task and common duty of each country and nation to struggle for genuine international justice.
The imperialists are describing their interference in other countries' internal affairs and invasion of them as "just actions" for "combating terrorists", "championing human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... " and "ensuring peace", the article says, and goes on:
"War on terrorism" touted by the imperialists as one for "ensuring world peace and stability" is nothing but a state-sponsored terrorist act against anti-U.S. independent countries, an act for new war of aggression.
The imperialists often find fault with "human rights situation" in other countries while styling themselves an "international human rights judge". This is little short of an artifice for justifying their interference in internal affairs of independent countries standing against imperialism, and pressure, invasion and moves for toppling their regimes.
Typical of such acts are the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq perpetrated under the pretext of "anti-terrorism" and "protection of human rights".
If the imperialists and hegemonic forces are allowed to perpetrate hooliganism under the mask of "justice", the world will turn into a lawless land where injustice overwhelms justice and invasion and war are rampant.
What matters is that the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , which claims standing up for international justice in name, is being abused by specified countries for attaining their unreasonable purpose.
If the UN fails to set right the present abnormal situation in which high-handed and arbitrary practices by a specified state prevail and double-standards are openly connived at and allowed, it will be reduced to a nominal body and this will hinder the establishment of a fresh and fair international order. That's why a lot of member states of the UN are struggling for its reform.
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[DAWN] The body of a girl who had gone missing earlier this week was found in a canal on Wednesday.
According to a doctor at the hospital where autopsy was conducted, she was subjected to rape and violence before being strangled to death. The victim was a student of English literature at the Government College University, Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... Ali, the girl’s father, told the media on Thursday that his daughter had left the university after attending her classes, but did not return home.
"I and my relatives got worried and launched a search for her, but to no avail. I then approached Gulberg police for registration of a case, but the SHO not only refused to entertain my application but also used objectionable language.
"I then sought assistance from City Police Officer Athar Ismail. But the CPO neither bothered to take action against the SHO nor ensured registration of a case," Ali said, overcome with emotion while recalling his helplessness.
The girl’s father quoted eyewitnesses as saying they had seen some people bundling her into a car near the university.
Ali said he suspected some university students’ involvement in the crime.
Her class fellows remembered her as an intelligent, simple and reserved person. They said police could have saved the victim by tracing her mobile phone location and call data, besides using footage of the CCTV camera installed on roads leading to the university.
A senior police officer said on Thursday a murder case had been initially registered against unidentified persons by police on the complaint of a police volunteer. Claiming that the culprits would be "nabbed soon", he said police would investigate why the case was not registered by Gulberg police when the father approached them.
Suspension
The CPO has suspended the Gulberg SHO over the delay in registration of the case. A departmental probe into the incident has also been initiated against him.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... has sought a report on the matter.
The CPO has formed two teams to trace and arrest the culprits.
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Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine there's nothing as important as you, nearly as important as me. Good and evil are constructs, so fighting one and aspiring to the other are pointless. Live your life like a sea slug, never try the air. You're born, you procreate, perhaps depending on which gender you've chosen, and you die. Your life is no more important than the spermatozoon that that swam through its briny deep and conceived you, and less productive, because it (or one of millions of them) found an egg. Footnote: In a statement released on Mar. 29, after Scalfari's report garnered worldwide attention, the Vatican said:
"The Holy Father Francis recently received the founder of the newspaper La Repubblica in a private meeting on the occasion of Easter, without however giving him any interviews. What is reported by the author in today’s article [in La Repubblica] is the result of his reconstruction, in which the textual words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father."
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This jackass constantly (metaphorically) steps on his own crank and borders on heresy and heterodoxy. He must be forced out. He serves as a reminder of just how stupid and poisonous modernists and liberals are in the Catholic Church.
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… My troubles are many, they're as deep as a well
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell
Swear there ain't no heaven and pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell,
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When I fight fire eternal with comrades who'd fell,
To save the good souls who'd found about hell.
Quick down the hose line the story will pass,
To not even piss on your sorry lost ass.
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"If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go." NSFW, and not especially relevant; just felt like hearing some Curtis after that Ronnie Oneal story the other day reminded me of him.
[TheDrive] Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system that size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.
The patent, for a portion of the confinement system, or embodiment, is dated Feb. 15, 2018. The Maryland-headquartered defense contractor had filed a provisional claim on April 3, 2013 and a formal application nearly a year later. Our good friend Stephen Trimble, chief of Flightglobal's Americas Bureau, subsequently spotted it and Tweeted out its basic details.
In 2014, the company also made a splash by announcing they were working on the device at all and that it was the responsibility of its Skunk Works advanced projects office in Palmdale, California. At the time, Dr. Thomas McGuire, head of the Skunk Works’ Compact Fusion Project, said the goal was to have a working reactor in five years and production worthy design within 10.
Of course, it remains to be seen if Lockheed Martin’s fusion reactor will actually become a reality. Many other companies and institutions have tried for nearly a century to create workable fusion power without success.
On the one hand, a corporation receiving a patent does not necessarily mean they are actively pursuing the technology that the document describes, either. In addition, since the media blitz in 2014, Skunk Works has said very little about this project outside of the plasma physics community. The U.S. government also reserves the right to classify patents it feels might be a threat to national security if they were public, so the fact that this one is not might also calls into question how mature the system might be in actuality.
Still, the that Skunk Works continued to pursue the patent process over the past four years would similarly seem to indicate that they are indeed pushing ahead with the program, at least to some degree. This storied division definitely does have an impressive pedigree when it comes to advanced research and development projects, too. They were also confident enough four years ago to give interviews and offer significant details about the basic reactor design, the projected timeline, and the overall program goals, suggesting that it was a serious endeavor.
Considering the five year timeline Dr. McGuire put out in 2014 for achieving a workable prototype, maybe we’re due for another big announcement from Lockheed Martin in the near future.
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Fusion? With the coming of electric cars, we can basically gut the petroleum market for anything other than lubricants and plastics, and perhaps aviation/military use.
[CNBC] In seeking regulatory approval for its planned use of office space in San Francisco, a Neuralink employee said the company was looking to house rodents and conduct operations "for in vivo testing."
Elon Musk has said Neuralink will initially focus on providing brain implants to people with disabilities. But he has not talked about testing on animals.
[Gizmodo] Gizmodo obtained public records that showed Neuralink CEO Jared Birchall tried to renovate the headquarters in a letter to the Planning Department, with a “small operating room for in vivo testing, and a small room to house rodents.” The letter explains that rodents are exempt from the Animal Welfare Act. The company then told the city that it had abandoned those plans, and evidence suggests Neuralink has instead been researching at the Davis campus at University of California since June 2017, with potential ambitions to revisit plans in the future. An architect involved with the project told the publication that the company was now looking elsewhere for a place to build.
[DailyMail] Elon Musk's Neuralink may be testing its 'Matrix' style computer-brain interfaces on animals, it has emerged. Devices being developed by the firm are designed to give people advanced mental abilities, which Musk says will let humanity keep up with 'godlike' AI systems
No mention was made of when he planned to make controling implants on California's politicians.
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The trick I think is to rebuild warfighting manufacturing. Autonomous electric vehicles and a grid of 12000 hardened internet satellites to guide them is a start. NVIDIA demoed the armchair soldier.
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*Yawn* As a teenager it was sobering to know that Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City and OCAMA (One of the main repair sites for B-52s) was about 15 miles north of my home -- in fact on cloudy days I could look up and see landing gear down on their approach to Tinker AFB. State Capitol, main crossing of river railroads and the I-35/I-40 intersection meant OKC was going to be plastered hard in the second wave of ICBMs....
Anyway, with a few low, rolling hills between home and a series of air and ground bursts I felt that Global Nuclear War would be a brief experience -- very brief.
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Global Pandemic (Natural, Man-Made Accidental, Man-Made Terrorist), Asteroid/Comet Impact, Cyber-War destroying world-wide infrastructure, and/or Carrington Event... For a TEOTWAKI Global Thermonuclear War rates just above Alien Invasion by E.T.'s on by Threat-O-Meter.
This is the StarLink system of up to 12,000 satellites to provide multi-gigabit up/down data service everywhere on the planet.
This marks the first time the FCC has allowed a U.S.-licensed satellite constellation to provide broadband services through low-Earth orbit satellites
The communication satellite network SpaceX envisions was publicly announced in January 2015, with the projected capability of supporting the bandwidth to carry up to 50 percent of all backhaul communications traffic and up to 10 percent of local Internet traffic in high-density cities. CEO Elon Musk believes that there is significant unmet demand for low-cost global broadband capabilities.
SpaceX has articulated the explicit goal to provide broadband internet connectivity to underserved areas of the planet, as well as provide competitively-priced service to urban areas. Moreover, SpaceX has indicated that the positive cash flow from selling satellite internet services would be necessary to fund SpaceX Mars plans.
In early 2015, two space entrepreneurs announced Internet satellite ventures in the same week. In addition to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announcing the project that would later be named Starlink, serial-entrepreneur Richard Branson announced an investment in OneWeb, a similar constellation with approximately 700 satellites that had already procured communication frequency licenses for their broadcast spectrum.
Extending to use beyond Earth In the long-term, SpaceX intends to develop and deploy a version of the satellite communication system that would be used on Mars. In the mid-term, SpaceX is interested in the satcomm system on Earth generating revenue that would be helpful in providing capital for the company's Mars transport project.
The system will not compete with Iridium satellite constellation, which is designed to link directly to handsets. Instead, it will be linked to flat user terminals the size of a pizza box, which will have phased array antennas and track the satellites. The terminals can be mounted anywhere, as long as they can see the sky.
While internet via a geostationary satellite has a latency of no less than 240 ms, the lower latency limit for Starlink orbiting at 1100 km is only 3% of that, about 7 ms.
The system will use a peer-to-peer protocol simpler than IPv6.
SpaceX began flight testing their satellite technologies in 2018,[13] with the launch of two test satellites. The two identical satellites were called MicroSat-1a and MicroSat-1b during development but were renamed Tintin A and Tintin B upon orbital deployment in February 2018.
The satellites orbit in a circular low Earth orbit at 625 kilometers (388 mi) altitude in a high-inclination orbit for a planned six to twelve-month duration. The satellites will communicate with three testing ground stations in Washington and California for short-term experiments of less than ten minutes duration, roughly daily. Both microsats were originally slated to be launched into 625 km circular orbits at approximately 86.4 degrees inclination, and to include panchromatic video imager cameras to film image of Earth and the satellite.
[Town Hall] Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a new report Thursday detailing serious lapses by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to follow up on polygraph tests failed by applicants and employees of the law enforcement agency.
According to the report, "the FBI did not always adhere to its policy restricting access to sensitive information for employees whose unresolved polygraph results were under investigation" and "the FBI does not fully document or centralize its record keeping of polygraph case information."
Further, the investigation found that because of the lengthy period of time between an FBI applicant or employee failing a polygraph and action by the Bureau to follow up, a number of individuals still had access to classified information and sensitive national security secrets after failing the test.
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.
[TAMPABAY] A man traveled from Miami to kidnap and sexually batter a 10-year-old girl whom he met online, according to the Polk County in a hotel
[EcoWatch] The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed residues of glyphosate in every single sample tested, even independent beers.
[SFGATE] A Bay Area obstetrician-gynecologist and former member of a legendary punk band proved he retains his DIY sensibility at a recent medical malpractice trial, where he saved a prospective juror's life. 
[TheJamestownFoundation] 
[KCNAWATCH.CO] -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday stresses in an article that it is a contemporary task and common duty of each country and nation to struggle for genuine international justice.
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
[TheDrive] Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system that size of shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.
[Town Hall] Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a new report Thursday detailing serious lapses by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to follow up on polygraph tests failed by applicants and employees of the law enforcement agency. 
