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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Four alleged neo-Nazis charged with conspiracy to impair US power grid
Shades of the Hutaree
[Jpost] A group of men who united via a neo-Nazi forum were criminally charged last week after allegedly devising a terrorist attack on the power grid in Idaho and the US Northwest, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.

On Friday, Paul James Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Jordan Duncan, 26, and Joseph Maurino, 22, were indicted in North Carolina. According to the DOJ document, Collins and Duncan are former Marines previously assigned to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to damage the property of an energy facility in the US, the document states.

According to the accusations, the defendants researched, discussed, and reviewed in depth a previous attack on the power grid by an unknown group. The group in the earlier attack used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a power substation. Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk produced firearms while Collins stole military gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles and had them delivered to the other defendants. During that time, Duncan gathered a collected information, some military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins.

The indictment also states that the group members discussed using homemade Thermite, a combination of metal powder and metal oxide which burns at over 4000°F to destroy power transformers.

In mid-2020, Collins allegedly asked the group to each buy 50 pounds of Tannerite, a binary explosive containing aluminum powder and oxidizers, and can be used to make Thermite. Later that year, a handwritten list of approximately one dozen intersections and places in Idaho and nearby states was found in Kryscuk’s possession, including places with components of the power grid for the northwest US. The harm caused, if destroyed, could exceed $100,000.

Court documents claim that Collins and Kryscuk met each other on the now-defunct online neo-Nazi medium Iron March and used the forum to recruit the others. According to court documents, Collins wrote on the forum that he hoped the group would be "a modern-day SS," referring to the infamous Nazi force.

Their training was administered in a desert area near Boise, Idaho, Newsweek reported. A propaganda video the group recorded during training shows participants dressed in masks associated with the neo-Nazi group AtomWaffen Division firing assault rifles before displaying the "Heil Hitler" sign under a Nazi symbol. The video ends with a message stating "come home white man."

If convicted, Collins, Duncan, Kryscuk and Maurino could each face up to 40 years in prison.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another FBI-led operation, I assume.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 08/25/2021 5:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Given what we have learned from The Jan. 6 "Insurrection" And Gretchen Whitmer "Kidnapping", not to mention Coimtelpro program. I'm gonna reserve judgement.
Posted by: Sonny Black || 08/25/2021 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3 

This is according sources like The Southern Poverty Law Center. Neo-Nazi's are part of the National Socialist Movement.

Which seems to fit with the Political Party of the KKK, Jim Crow and Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/25/2021 6:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Gretchen Whitmer "Kidnapping"

1st sentence to be handed down in Michigan gov's kidnap plot
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#5  After five years the FBI decides to close it down. The participants have married, moved apart, had children, and are attending Divinity schools. /s/
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/25/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Who is pulling this groups strings?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/25/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Like actual nazis?
Posted by: Phineling B. Hayes4229 || 08/25/2021 21:27 Comments || Top||


Penn Station shooting suspect who wounded bystander seen on video: NYPD
[NYPOST] Police on Tuesday released video and a photo of the suspected gunman who opened fire outside Penn Station Monday night, striking an innocent bystander from New Jersey.

The alleged gunman, wearing black pants, a black shirt and lugging a red backpack, is seen getting off an escalator at the transit hub after wounding the 58-year-old victim.

Police said the shooting happened around 5:50 p.m. when the suspect got into an argument with another man, possibly over food.

Cops said the argument ensued outside the NJ Transit entrance at Seventh Avenue and West 31st Street when the suspect approached his intended target, who was eating at the time.

"At this point, we know that we have two individuals, one of which is eating food," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a briefing at the scene Monday night.

"The shooter comes up to the male that’s eating food, possibly asking for some food," Shea said. "He’s kind of shunned away, and that kind of spills onto the street here. We do not believe they knew each other prior to this interaction."

Shea said the suspect followed the 56-year-old would-be target outside and opened fire, missing him but hitting the bystander, police said.

The maimed man was hit in the leg and taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


-Obits-
Liquor company CEO identified as man who fell to his death at Citi Field
[NYPOST] A liquor company CEO has been identified as the man who was allegedly high on acid when he plummeted to his death at Citi Field, police said.Ian Matthew Crystal died Friday after falling 30 to 50 feet during intermission at the Dead & Company show, an NYPD front man confirmed Monday.

The 46-year-old Brooklyn resident was a co-founder of the New York-based Evolution Spirits, according to his LinkedIn page.

Sources said Crystal allegedly took acid before the fatal plunge and had been drinking and smoking pot beforehand.

The late entrepreneur served as CEO of Evolution Spirits, the creator of Monkey Rum from Trinidad that’s available in 11 states. The liquor was developed out of a challenge in 2014 to create a new brand to support the National Geographic Channel show "Chug," according to Crystal’s LinkedIn profile.



Posted by: Fred || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never use your own product.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Matthew "Meth" Crystal
Posted by: Warthog || 08/25/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3 
Per the article #1, we have been assured,
Mr. Crystal will never do that again.
Posted by: Chusoter Whomoling7153 || 08/25/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Masks are back: Oregon becomes first state in US to reimpose OUTDOOR mask mandate, regardless of vaccination status
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 07:34 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are just providing cover for ANTIFA.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/25/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Another place I'm not going, not spending any money there.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Why outdoor?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  /\Outdoor riots with molotovs are the bomb! All the cool kids do it!
Posted by: magpie || 08/25/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Sorry you are late, the ruler of New Mexico decreed it last week.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/25/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
World's fastest-accelerating rollercoaster which boasts of 'super death' speed is suspended after riders suffered broken backs and necks
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Speed kills. Faster speeds, kill faster.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2021 4:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "rollercoaster was recently renovated in 2017, and modifications were made to increase its speed from 106-112 mph"
Ah. They improved the equipment.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  You should be allowed to buy a "death ride." The sign should say you must be at least this tall willing to die to get on this ride. Legal department satisfied.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Does riding on this thing void your life insurance?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2021 18:35 Comments || Top||

#6  They have to stop "Seniors Day" ride discounts?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/25/2021 19:33 Comments || Top||


So You Want To Fly A Drone Over A Nuclear Weapons Lab
[C4IsrNet] Drone pilots beware: Authorities at one of the United States’ top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday that airspace over Los Alamos National Laboratory is off limits.

The birthplace of the atomic bomb, Los Alamos lab reported that recent unauthorized drone flights have been detected in restricted airspace in the area.

Officials said if you fly a drone over the lab, you likely will lose it.

"We can detect and track a UAS (unmanned aircraft system), and if it poses a threat, we have the ability to disrupt control of the system, seize or exercise control, confiscate or use reasonable force to disable, damage or destroy the UAS," said Unica Viramontes, senior director of lab security.

The lab would not release any specifics about how the system works, citing security protocols. They also would not say how many unauthorized flights have occurred in recent months.

Lab officials also warned of the potential for "collateral interceptions" of normal commercial or hobbyist drone flights, saying pilots should stay well outside the lab’s restricted airspace and the additional no-drone zone designated by the Federal Aviation Administration.

According to the FAA, drones are prohibited from flying over sites designated as national security-sensitive facilities. Aside from military bases and other Defense Department sites, restrictions are in place for national landmarks and certain critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants.
Posted by: Uniting Ebbaviling5617 || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Last time I drove past the fenced boundary of LANL in 2006 I remember seeing posted signs warning of buried munitions starting on the other side of the fence.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/25/2021 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I've always thought we should have about a 2 football field distance mine field on the border. If you make it though, you can stay.
Posted by: Chris || 08/25/2021 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Keep your non-government systems away from our controlled airspace. If there is any AGS (Aerial Gamma Spectrometry) sniffing to be conducted, we will do it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2021 5:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Always the assholes who ruin things for the rest of us. Might want to keep your drone clear of the secret government nuclear facility, eh? Oh no. They have to get blurry shots of the grounds so they can post them on social media and get likes. Because their lives are so empty that that's the only thing that matters.

Meanwhile the rest of us get our nice hobby fucked with. Good job, assholes.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 08/25/2021 5:38 Comments || Top||

#5  You may have noticed that the drones that were shutting down UK airports are out of the news. It's likely the geeks who were flying them are at a black prison in the Baltic now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Why not?
The Israelis do it!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems like an excellent way for free testing of laser based point defense systems. If they can take down missile and artillery shells, zapping drones should be easy.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/25/2021 16:29 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Can the US crack down on fake vaccination cards?
[BBC]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 08:22 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I really don't see how. My vaxx card is standard offset print on card stock. No hologram, no chip. That's the CDC card, which is what most people in the US have. It's hilarious that people who think ID to vote is up there with a mirror for a vampire are suddenly credential conscious.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  It's worth noting, the batches of fake cards that have been seized in the US so far were of typical low pathetic Chinese quality and were interdicted because of the channels they arrived thru.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  With all the other Fake ID's out there some idiot had to ask?
Posted by: magpie || 08/25/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  "White people passing themselves off as black. Is it A Thing?" Coming to Atlantic or Vox soon now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, an implanted chip. If you don't have it you can't work, travel, buy food etc.

Sound familiar?
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/25/2021 12:11 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 Are you perhaps referring to the mark of the beast?
Posted by: Rhinemann || 08/25/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Bingo
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/25/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Here is process I am sure Democrats will approve of.
A mass mailing of vaccinces to all unVAXed along with a form to be completed stating they took the VAX .... then they get a Vax card in the mail.
Well hell. The logic was ok for the 2020 election.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/25/2021 16:06 Comments || Top||

#9  We were able to stop the flow of drugs and illegal aliens across our borders, so I see no reason we cannot stop the spread of something that anyone can create at home with some poor-quality card stock and a cheap laser printer.

(psst. Tell the guy at Kinko's that SteveS sent you and he'll hook you up. The password is Swordfish)
Posted by: SteveS || 08/25/2021 22:31 Comments || Top||

#10  You don't even know me, but voted --
Oh yes! -- for your government Ovid.
So, don't you adore
Metamorphodite war?
Up your nose with a hose: War on Covid!
Posted by: Flains Flinter9060 || 08/25/2021 23:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Here is a problem. A friend of mine laminated their card. If that person wants to travel are laminated cards valid?
Posted by: Grampaw Cookie || 08/25/2021 23:25 Comments || Top||


Due to FL Covid hospital needs of LOX, SpaceX may need to delay launches in FL.
[TWITTER]


In their Boca Chica TX Starbase, SpaceX has their own LOX and LNG plants with NG wells.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Florida C-19 Stats
Note: Last updated figures are for YESTERDAY and what the NEWS would be based on.

#1 in the USA for New C-19 Cases = +21,208
#29 for New C-19 Deaths = 6
#2 for Active C-19 cases = 779,088

OTHER STATES & STATS
#1 for New C-19 Deaths = Texas @ 215
Note: This figure includes illegal immigrant deaths.


ICE DATA
Remember to make a mental note as you read this in that currently CBP has a less than 48% capture rate for illegal border crossings.

ICE politically screened and provided data as of 08/20/2021.
25,512 of the 306,313 detainees tested, 8.32% were found infected.

We also know reading around the way the ICE data is provided.
ICE as of 08/22/2021 claims only to be holding 1,248 COVID-19 Infected persons in custody.

So the question is: If ICE is only claiming to hold 1,248 infected Illegal immigrants now. Then what did it do with the 280,801 it acknowledges it found infected so far this year?



Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/25/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  When you see those pretty vapor clouds rolling off those rockets on the pad before launch, you are seeing pure waste. It took a lot of energy to concentrate and liquefy that O2...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3 

Correction to my comment for better accuracy.
The figures are Feb. 2020 to date, NOT year to date.

See ICE-COVID Numbers for deeper details.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/25/2021 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Pure waste? Rather a design decision like the F-111s that deliberately leaked hydraulic fluid so that the actuators wouldn't have clogs in flight. The early F-111s actually had drip pans the ground crew placed under their wings on the ground and, as an USAF vet told me "You could tell that F-111s were on the base when you got near the runways from the smell of the hydraulics".
Posted by: magpie || 08/25/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The rear trans on a Chinook used do leak badly as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Once had a ride on a USMC C130 out of Corpus Christi. There was a steady trickle of red hydraulic fluid running down along the inside airframe (they were using Dextron; long story).
Crew chief said if the leak stopped, to let him know.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Or is this a 'as it heats materials expand to close those gaps' a la SR-71?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/25/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#8  IIRC, Robert Goddard chose Roswell, NM for the fact that he could easily get LOX from TX via the ATSF railroad since it was a by product of the time (ca1930's) of the natural gas industry. There is a liquid gas plant next to Patrick AFB. There is also a new one in Lakeland near the power plant.
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 08/25/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#9  That explains the Roswell Incident, they where here for the bagels & lox
Posted by: Heriberto Bluetooth8854 || 08/25/2021 14:33 Comments || Top||


NRA Annual Meeting cancelled. Again...
[NRA] FAIRFAX, Va. — Due to concern over the safety of our NRA family and community, we regret to inform you that we have decided to cancel the 2021 Annual Meeting & Exhibits. This cancellation applies to all events and meetings that were scheduled in Houston. We will provide future notification regarding a rescheduled date for the annual Meeting of Members.

We make this difficult decision after analyzing relevant data regarding COVID-19 in Harris County, Texas. We also consulted with medical professionals, local officials, major sponsors & exhibitors, and many NRA members before arriving at this decision. The NRA Annual Meeting welcomes tens of thousands of people, and involves many events, meetings, and social gatherings. Among the highlights of our annual meeting are acres of exhibit space featuring the latest and greatest firearms, the display of countless accessories, and the offering of adventures and group gatherings that many travel hundreds, and some even thousands, of miles to experience. We realize that it would prove difficult, if not impossible, to offer the full guest experience that our NRA members deserve.

The NRA’s top priority is ensuring the health and well-being of our members, staff, sponsors, and supporters. We are mindful that NRA Annual Meeting patrons will return home to family, friends and co-workers from all over the country, so any impacts from the virus could have broader implications. Those are among the reasons why we decided to cancel our 2021 event.
Last year it was COVID. This year it's vendors pulling out. Those who feel the COVID issue has brought out the worst in some commenters here should take some time to see what's happening in the comments on 2A blogs. If you don't want Wayne LaPierre drawn and quartered, you deserve to be cast into the outer dark yourself, many feel. I think the guy should have been gone a while ago, but that would involve a leadership responsive to its members. That seems to be a big problem in many places these days...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  @M. Murcek, links to 2A forums?
Posted by: Saltie Fork || 08/25/2021 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Article from TTAG, comments at bottom
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Article from Ammoland, comments at bottom
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds good. It would just provide more theater for the jackasses around Houston.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
96-year-old WWII veteran touches the hearts of millions after performing a heartfelt rendition of the national anthem at a Michigan baseball game - 78 years after fighting in the war
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine appoints new army chief
Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[UAWire] Major General, Valery Zaluzhny has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, replacing Ruslan Khomchak.

General Zaluzhny was formerly Commander of the Pivnich (North) Operational Command.

Khomchak headed the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for two years. He says that during this time, the Ukrainian army has become closer to NATO and is ready to respond to a possible escalation by Russia.

Khomchak led the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Ilovaisk in 2014, for which he is often criticized because of the huge losses of the Ukrainian military. Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Khomchak head of the General Staff immediately after assuming the presidency..

President Zelensky wants to see synergy between the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said presidential press secretary Serhiy Nikiforov.

Khomchak moves to the post of First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.

The new Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Zaluzhny was born on July 8, 1973, in the city of Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region.

Zaluzhny has been in the Donbas since 2014.

"For me, the war began in mid-July 2014, when I was appointment a deputy commander of sector C, formed in the Donetsk region. Since then, I led almost all the army units that were created there. I reached the position of Chief of Staff of the Joint Forces Operation," Zaluzhny said.

In 2017, Zaluzhny became Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander of the Operational Command West of the Land Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and in 2018, Chief of the Joint Operational Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and First Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces Operation.

On December 9, 2019, Zaluzhny became the commander of Operational Command North.
Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


AK-12 to become basic rifle for Russian troops
[TASS] The AK-12 assault rifle developed by the Kalashnikov firearms manufacturer (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) will become the basic weapon for Russian troops in the coming years, the Kalashnikov press office told TASS at the Army 2021 international military-technical forum on Tuesday.

"The AK-12 has served as a replacement for the AK-74 since 2018 and will become the basic gun of the Russian Armed Forces in the next few years," the press office said.

The Kalashnikov gunmaker has launched production of upgraded AK-12 automatic weapons, it said.

"The AK-12’s final design, shaped following its operational evaluation by troops, was featured at the Army 2020 forum. Now the Kalashnikov is producing this AK model already taking into account all improvements," the press office informed.

The AK-12 has been upgraded to get the capability to use round-the-clock sights, it said.
AKA Tritium sights which are useful for night and all weather use, and which do not require batteries.
"The AK-12 provides for its 24/7 employment and is distinguished by good ergonomics and accuracy. Its design has been fully tested and the customer confirms this. The assault rifle is set to become the basic weapon of the Russian soldier for decades to come. The experience of its operation in the troops confirms that the assigned task has been accomplished in full," the Kalashnikov press office said.
Same cartridge, same rate of fire. The only change is the claim as to its accuracy.
The Kalashnikov Group, the creator of the world-renowned AK-47 assault rifle, signed a contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry at the Army 2021 international military-technical forum earlier on Tuesday on the delivery of AK-12 automatic weapons to the Russian troops.
Rostec still will make a 7.62x39mm version for special forces, and others.
Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  guess some general can sell off the old shit now
Posted by: Chris || 08/25/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Won't be selling them in the US, for now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Hornady had a brass cartridge for the 5.45x39mm about 18 months ago, before they were discontinued. The anti-Russian ban sucks for sure, (I use Silver Bear 60 grain in my AK-74) but I am confident that the Russians will move production to another east European country (Prvi Partizan comes to mind) so production and prices will return to normal.

At least, that's the plan.

As for seeing this rifle in America, recall it's just another AK-74 with an improved barrel, improved sights, and dedicated rails. It uses the same cartridge the Russian Army uses (7N6 (53 grain slug)). My best guess is that someone in America will come up with an after market Tritium sight for the AK family.

Again, that's the plan.
Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  World is divided into people who gotta have a combloc gun and all the rest of us. I respect everyone's choices. I'm happy to struggle with keeping my 6.8 SPC AR fed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm happy to struggle with keeping my 6.8 SPC AR fed.

Helluva fine rifle.
Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#6  If the SHTF, the 6.8 goes in the ground. If the right prevails, I'll dig it up. If not, I'll be dead.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  What I really need to add is a scout rifle in 7.62. I'm on the hunt for one...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Helluva fine rifle.

Gotta ask, badanov, are you channeling Rick James there?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Got a buddy that bought a Czech bolt action in 7.62x39.

Good out to 200m Trigger needed work however.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#10  6.8mm SPC tested in Iraq by contractors:

Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Mine's a 24" barrel tactical. Perfect for what the guy in the vid was doing. Hell on hogs from a blind. Crazy cartridge, based on obsolete .30 Remington case. It's never let me down.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#12  CZ would always be high on my list, Besoeker.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Also in the hunt...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Should have also said, my 6.8 is based on a DPMS lower and a Model 1 Sales upper...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China: Baiyin City, Gangsu - “Health Code” AND Vaccine Passport required.
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  No shoes, no shirt, no vaccination - no service!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Perfect.
Posted by: Wren || 08/25/2021 3:52 Comments || Top||


#4  Not just China. That's Malaysian.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Beats "Heather has two mommies"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  /\That's a "happy" dragon because it is eating someone else first?
Posted by: magpie || 08/25/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Watch them slowly decline in all aspects of life. Slow national suicide. Isolated, no allies and a population if able will leave. Ration cards (implanted chips)rationed energy, rationed food,rationed medical and so slow suicide. They are dying and don't even realize it.
Posted by: Dale || 08/25/2021 19:03 Comments || Top||


Economy
Manufacturing activity across the central Atlantic region of the U.S. skidded in August, even while inflationary pressures rose to a record high, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond showed Tuesday.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes indeed. Rail traffic for two weeks was nonexistent from the West Coast to the east coast. The state to state truck traffic first of the month will halt also. Seems they want to mandate truckers show proof of vaccine jab. Sales reps say first of month price increases on all products. Make more money on the few things they are able to supply. Then they blame in every industry their problems are that people don't want to work. $25,000 sign on bonuses if they come to work but that doesn't even work. Some(trucking industry) offered $5,000; get the bonus,then move on to another company.
Posted by: Dale || 08/25/2021 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't it interesting that 'blame' (according to the media and central planners) is generally placed upon the consumer, worker, and indolent citizen, never the oppressive government system ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2021 4:06 Comments || Top||

#3 

ALSO
If you have been watching the Food store shelves for certain items. You may have noticed a growing number of shortages in the last few weeks.

BTW: In the past few months, we are finding 2nd tier food stores (Aldi's, Lilda's & Dollar Tree etc...) to have better supplies and prices than Wally World.

Plus based on a wide difference in taste & package lot # data. It seems WW maybe using multiple alternative vendors for some items, in trying to acquire supplies.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/25/2021 6:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Was in the grocery store yesterday. Nothing out of stock.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Was at local Kroger Super Store for canning supplies, noticed low supplies in the areas I was shopping and labels on cans I had not seen before. Prices stupid high.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/25/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||


#7  ^ UK
Posted by: Frank G || 08/25/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Australian truckers may go on strike. Be interesting to watch what happens. Don't imagine many US truckers are excited about getting the jab.
Posted by: bman || 08/25/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#9  My concern is fuel haulers. Several out of fuel in my area and super was delayed because of distribution issues.
Posted by: Dale || 08/25/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#10  All comments are describing life in the 3rd world,
now you know your place under a democrat regime,
and your status as a nation.
Posted by: Flolurong Phumble3205 || 08/25/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  ..as in the Peoples Democratic Republic of America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/25/2021 17:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
President Joseph R. Biden To Discuss Cybersecurity With Business Leaders | Foreign Brief
Posted by: Jealet Unomotle9825 || 08/25/2021 03:40 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2 
Tomorrows Headline

WH claims JB's instructional hearing aid was hacked along with his notes on the teleprompter.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/25/2021 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  ^#1 And Amazon & Microsoft are requesting 750,000 new H-1B visas for Chinese IT workers?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/25/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Well I guess we have to do something with all the un-vetted, un-verified Afghan 'refugees' we are bringing in.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/25/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Want more cyber security people? Try paying them more and stop undercutting IT job security with the indentured slaves on H1B visas. And chop support for college programs for anything other than STEM. The nation doesn’t need more women’s studies grads or gender studies “experts”, so top subsidizing them. Take their money and put it into the hard sciences, math, technology, and engineering departments. Make the socialist science crap pay all their own costs - credit for STEM are free, all others have to pay for their own programs departments and professors via credit hour tuition
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 08/25/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  And after the meeting adjured, US President Joe Biden, senior administration officials and private sector leaders met for a luncheon

Posted by: Sheba Hatrack8913 || 08/25/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India to receive first S-400s by end of year.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wish I could touch them...
Posted by: Wren || 08/25/2021 4:02 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Zambian prophet who believed he could recreate the resurrection of Jesus dies after getting his followers to bury him alive for three days
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
'For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

'Now some will be dumber than others.'

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Jesse Jackson and wife remain under observation for COVID-19
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Doh!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 7:20 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
New massive High Bay for Boca Chica, TX Starbase.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


New US Air Force secretary to shake up Advanced Battle Management Program
[C4IsrNet] The new U.S. Air Force secretary says he’s skeptical about current plans to build the service’s Advanced Battle Management System, signaling the program could be heading for an overhaul.

“I want to focus it more on specific operational return on investment,” Frank Kendall told Defense News in a Aug. 13 interview. “Where do we get the most improvement in performance operationally in the battlefield, for investments in that type of technology?”

“I don’t think we’ve thought thoroughly enough about where that type of technology can have the most impact and how to get there as quickly as we can,” he said. “I want to emphasize fielded, meaningful military capability, not just a demonstration that you show what cool thing you could do, but real capability in the hands of operators.”

The goal of the ABMS program is to create an “internet of things” for the military that would provide the technical infrastructure to connect all platforms and sensors, allowing information to flow freely among them. The service is also interested in integrating artificial intelligence technologies that could parse information and aid in decision making.

But in Kendall’s view, the program has yet to answer important questions about what information will be transmitted and why, what results it is aiming to achieve and how those results will be an improvement on current command-and-control capabilities.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  we would get more ability out of everything f ppl like you were not involved.
Posted by: Chris || 08/25/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  connect all platforms and sensors, allowing information to flow freely among them... also interested in integrating artificial intelligence technologies ... parse information and aid in decision making.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 2:43 Comments || Top||

#3  There was a 60es story by Poul Anderson (name escapes me). The bad guy is connected to a computer that gives him an IQ of 1000 - but he's still an idiot.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 3:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Fun fact, Grom:

Did you know that a story by Harlan Ellison was the inspiration for The Terminator, the whole Skynet premise? Story goes, Ellison was uncredited by the makers although they took the idea for an evil AI and humanoid killbot from his work. So he encountered Cameron at a party and punched him in the face. Being a black belt he musta caused good pain too.

Since then, whenever the credits roll, Harlan Ellison is always mentioned. One of my favourite writers.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 3:55 Comments || Top||

#5  If decision making itself is left to AI, that'd be something. We could start with courts.

A networked microchip array and a few SSDs could deliver in a second what a thousand judges and district attorneys and two thousand clerks couldn't in months.

Adapting the thing to battle would be far iffier. But policywise, AI would slay.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 4:00 Comments || Top||

#6  ^😂
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 4:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Since then, whenever the credits roll, Harlan Ellison is always mentioned. One of my favourite writers.
Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-25 03:55


...And even though Harlan has shuffled off this mortal coil, they'll continue to do so to make sure he doesn't come back.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/25/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Dangerous Visions
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 6:45 Comments || Top||

#9  they'll continue to do so to make sure he doesn't come back.

He's probably in The Region Between, Mike.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 Skidmark, fabulous collection. I have all three. Those are all writers who just got it.

Hardly anyone from the current crop of woke wakandan hippies and lesbìan lunatics being entertained by the publishers can tell a story that will mean something to everybody who reads it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/25/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Last guy who could be considered to have a sexual chip on his shoulder and wrote a good Sci-fi story all the same, Samuel R. Delaney. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is still one of my favorites.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#12  Fred has a couple of science fiction books in the yellow sidebar. Good reads all, I thought.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/25/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Alternative histories and SciFi, not my thing. My simple mind bogs down often enuf dealing with reality. Each to his own I suppose.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#14  Every day is a sci-fi story. You wake up under a nuclear furnace and actually enjoy it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#15  #13 Mundanes!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#16  You can smell the arrogance in assuming that the Enemy™ will be incapable of jamming, spoofing, hacking and/or suborning the network system. Brings up the question that "If we are that superior why do we need fancy toys -- why not squash them like the bugs they are?"
Posted by: magpie || 08/25/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#17  Hold up.

Isn't 'secretary' old white male r@p-st hat speech?

Think we need Benny Drama on a catwalk with a 4 hour powerpoint presentation to explain how triggering this is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/25/2021 18:18 Comments || Top||

#18 
AI - Programming by Men - Strategic Approach ~ Chess

AI - Programming by Women - Asymmetry ~ Cat Fights
Posted by: Betty Omomonter3979 || 08/25/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||

#19  In the shade of a terebinth-- "GIDEON!
You'd better be chipping obsidian,
Not dreaming or scribbling!"
"Yes, dear," he sighs, nibbling
A nut as he slaughtereth Midian.
Posted by: Flains Flinter9060 || 08/25/2021 18:44 Comments || Top||


General: Key components missing to bring JADC2 to contested battlefields
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Arthur C. Clarke Superiority.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/25/2021 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  They seem to think that IOT (internet of things) needs to be implemented on the battlefield. Like you're going to get an Amazon delivery in combat.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-22
  9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks
Sat 2021-08-21
  U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol
Fri 2021-08-20
  IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds
Thu 2021-08-19
  US freezes assets of Afghanistan central banks as Taliban takeover
Wed 2021-08-18
  Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
Tue 2021-08-17
  Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US
Mon 2021-08-16
  Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace
Sun 2021-08-15
  Kabul has fallen, Taliban is killing political leadership and religious minorities in Afghanistan
Sat 2021-08-14
  Herat: Ismail Khan captured by the Taliban
Fri 2021-08-13
  Source: US tells Ashraf Ghani to step down
Thu 2021-08-12
  Bangladesh Police Arrest 3 Men Suspected of Planning Drone Attacks
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  Taliban takes control of border with Uzbekistan


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