[Audacy] Two former U.S. Marines have been indicted in a contract killing plot in which automotive executive Erik Charles Maund of Austin, Texas paid to have his mistress and her lover killed in March 2020.
Trouble began after William Lanway, the boyfriend of Maund's mistress, Holly Williams, threatened to expose the affair to Maund's wife, according to a Department of Justice release. The Texas executive then turned to a man named Gilad Peled, who owned Speartip Security, a company intended to help people deal with extortion attempts.
Peled, who claimed service in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), hired former U.S. Marines: Bryon Brockway, who served in Force Recon, and Adam Carey.
A source who worked with Peled and Brockway, speaking to Connecting Vets on the condition of anonymity, stated that despite Peled's claims of having served in the IDF that both he and Brockway were former CIA contractors. Brockway's callsign while deployed overseas was "Ink" which was also the name of his company called Ink Force LLC. Read the rest at the link
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Go figure, when you train people to kill and then turn them loose on society, they fall back on their training. And why not? It's what they're good at.
#2
...Keep an eye on the always entertaining This Ain't Hell (valorguardians.com) for more on this - they tend to dial in real fast when people are claiming to be operators of one sort or another...and ninety-nine times out of a hundred, they ain't.
Mike
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#3
Go figure
Another popularist meme taring all in uniform.
I suppose these 3 weren't incentivized by the $900,000.
#4
Ever wonder if deep soviet plans lasted longer than the nation that created them? I mean our major institutions are riddled with commies and falling apart. If Reagan hadn't outspent them exposing their corrupt system they'd probably be winning right now.
#5
I'm impressed that they went looking for hired killers, and actually found some.
I mean, not a police sting or whatnot.
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From the article: Both men served with the CIA's Global Response Staff (GRS).
This is the multi-departmental task force that is supposed to respond (in real time) to incidents like Benghazi. It is also the task force that Susan Rice sabotaged by refusing them permission to take off (they were parked on the runway for 6 hours) until it was too late to save our people.
This is why I believe Obama knew ahead of time that the attack was coming. He intentionally sabotaged all efforts to rescue our diplomats, even relieving a general and admiral who tried to bring in TF Delta and a Marine MEU that were within range.
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/\ Another Klingon operation gone very badly. They wanted no external visibility or assistance with the EXFIL. Had it been a DoD incident, DoD would have likely launched to secure the situation and conduct the evacuation.
[Warzone] The U.S. Marine Corps has decided to ban its entire fleet of tracked Amphibious Assault Vehicles, or AAVs, from taking part in "regularly scheduled deployments" or entering the water for any reason except to support emergency crisis response operations. This comes more than a year after an AAV sank during a training exercise, killing eight Marines and a U.S. Navy sailor, an accident that was attributed to a slew of maintenance, training, and leadership failures. The Corps is already working toward replacing its aging AAVs with new 8x8 wheeled Amphibious Combat Vehicles, or ACVs, but is also in process of scaling back its heavy vehicle capabilities — it notably began divesting all of its M1 Abrams tanks last year — as part of a radical redesign of its overall force structure.
The Marine Corps announced the new policies for employing its AAVs, a primary job of which is to move troops and equipment ashore from amphibious warfare ships, earlier today. It's not clear how many AAVs, of which there are a number of variants, the service has in inventory in total at present. A 2016 edition of The Military Balance, an authoritative guide to military forces around the world that is published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a U.K.-based think thank, put the figure at 1,311 vehicles.
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The Corps "is also in process of scaling back its heavy vehicle capabilities — it notably began divesting all of its M1 Abrams tanks last year — as part of a radical redesign of its overall force structure." And where can that redesign be found?
#3
If you talk to a Navy diver (or Seal for that matter), ask them about sinkers. Somebody's gotta go get the bodies. Marine exercises and air crew training. (Ever wonder why there's a Seal training facility near P'cola?)
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Blinding dust storm moving at hurricane force winds of 90mph has blanketed half of Kansas
The winds were so powerful that they knocked down tractor trailers and caused destruction in Colorado
They also sparked fires throughout Oklahoma, with reports of tornadoes in Iowa and Nebraska
A severe weather alert was in place for 100 million people in states throughout the Midwest and Great Plains, with the National Weather Service calling it a 'historical weather day'
It came amid some record high temperatures, just days after dozens of powerful tornadoes swept through the area, flattening homes and businesses
#3
My friends in Loveland and Longmont had pictures of trees falling on houses and small structures ripped apart. Looked like a small tornado ripped through there.
Where I am we have just had 60ish MPH wind gusts and lawn decorations deciding they needed to visit Kansas. Definitely small dog warning in effect.
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[NewsFrontInfo] Ukrainian artillery units fired mortar fire on separatist positions at Staromikhaylovka early Wednesday morning according to data supplied by New Front news outlet and by Donetsk Ministry of Defense news releases.
The artillery originated from Pervomayskoye, the security zone of the Ukrainian 54th Brigade. The area where the artillery strike occurred is southwest of Donetsk city.
For a week until Wednesday, separatist media had reported no artillery coming from the Ukrainian side. Tuesday separatist media reported automatic grenade launcher (AGS) fire on Gorlovka, north of Donetsk city. AGS fire again took place on Gorlovka on Wednesday.
The fire came from Novoluganskoye, in the security zone of Ukrainian 30th Brigade.
According to a news report which appeared on the website of lb.ua, Ukrainian media reported that the separatists fired mortar fire on their positions at Pervomayskoye. The fire from the separatists included AGS fire.
Ukrainian media also reported mortar fire on Peski, nearly directly adjacent to Donetsk city in the west.
Ukrainian media also reported mortar fire on Lugansk, but the location was not reported.
The New Front account also added that several artillery units were brought close to the line of contact by the Ukrainians, including anti aircraft missile carriers.
Germany declares two Russian diplomats personae non grata over Khangoshvili murder case, after a court sentenced a Russian citizen with his murder, which done in the name of Moscow https://t.co/oSZ5Dqgqxp via @guyelster
[DW] Conventional sources of energy accounted for more than half the total electricity generated in the third quarter of 2021. The share of electricity sourced from coal, to be phased out by 2038, rose sharply.
[MAIL] The founder and billionaire behind Coinbase, an American cryptocurrency company, is now looking to cure aging and is using machine learning to do so.
Brian Armstrong recently announced his new 'epigenetic reprogramming' company, called NewLimit, which aims to make therapies that reverse the aging process.
According to a press release, NewLimit will 'start by deeply interrogating epigenetic drivers of aging and developing products that can regenerate tissues to treat specific patient populations.'
Armstrong plans to employ machine learning to determine what cell features change as we age in order to create 'therapies that could slow, halt, or reverse this process.'
However, NewLimit is still in the concept stage, but Armstrong says the company's founders, which includes Stanford PhD Blake Byers, have committed $105 million to getting it off the ground.
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.
[MAIL] The founder and billionaire behind Coinbase, an American cryptocurrency company, is now looking to cure aging and is using machine learning to do so.
