#7
Pleading the 5 on every question seems excessive. A real prosecutor would have charged her and offered her a plea deal. This looks like kabuki where it was in everybody’s best interests to find nothing.
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01/07/2024 14:32 Comments ||
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Terrified passengers have revealed what it was like on board an Alaska Airlines flight that almost ended in catastrophe on Friday evening
Emma Vu said she was asleep when she 'felt the entire plane drop', as a cabin window blew out and depressurized the jet
She texted her family her final goodbyes, while other passengers said they were preparing for their 'final moments'
Investigations have been launched by the National Transportation Safety Board, Alaska Airlines and Boeing, with the Boeing 737-9 MAX jet only going into service in November 2023.
The incident has sent shockwaves through the aviation industry and sparked urgent safety concerns, with Alaska Airlines grounding dozens of its Boeing 737-9 MAX jets for urgent safety checks following the emergency landing.
Reports indicate several other airlines and regulators are urgently looking into grounding their Boeing 737-9 MAX fleets, with critics pointing to several deadly crashes and systems failures involving the jets in recent years.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Except that it’s only climate variation, sometimes going up a bit, sometimes going down a bit. But the Daily Mail does like getting excited.
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Wiki: In January 2018, China released its official Arctic Policy paper.The document draws a picture of how China views the economic possibilities the region offers. With this, China has vowed to actively participate in Arctic affairs as a "Near-Arctic State" and a major stakeholder in the Arctic. China has also focused on developing military projection capabilities of the People's Liberation Army that would extend into the Arctic region.
#3
"Arctic has always been part of the Middle Kingdom"
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/07/2024 7:49 Comments ||
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#4
Doncha gettit? The Russians are controlling global climate change to further their sinister plan for world domination!
Why not? Is there nothing climate change can't do?
Posted by: Bobby ||
01/07/2024 8:05 Comments ||
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/\ They're headquartered on the 14th floor of Trump Towers. They've leased the entire floor. The elevators don't stop on the 14th without a special code reader card scan.
[TheTimes] The chosen candidate will replace Rear-Admiral Simon Asquith as director of submarines and will be responsible for “elite operations” and the nation’s nuclear deterrent, according to the advertisement.
The advert, which went up on LinkedIn in December, has raised eyebrows among the military community, with one former senior submariner saying it was "utterly shameful".
He said that when the advert was first published, the only person who applied [...] was not properly qualified.
#1
"The service operates six fleet submarines (SSNs), of the Trafalgar and Astute classes (with two further Astute-class boats currently under construction), and four ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), of the Vanguard class. All of these submarines are nuclear powered."
And none of these commanders are worthy of promotion? Something is odd about this?
The PLA suffers from the same afflication as the Russian Army.
[RedState] American foreign policy experts have long argued that China has been laying the groundwork for a permanent rise as a major global power, and U.S. politicians (particularly on the Republican side) have certainly counted the ways in which China is clearly our No. 1 geopolitical foe.
However, China's ascendency isn't without its setbacks, and at times it seems possible that China is closer to declining than rising. Their economy hasn't recovered since COVID-19, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been dealing with more internal struggles than were previously let on.
One such problem for the leader of the Chinese Communist Party is growing corruption in his military, which recently came to a head - and a major purge.
The new report, which comes from Bloomberg, indicates a lot of problems for Xi as he tries to extend China's influence to counter the West.
Rampant corruption comes with the territory when it comes to having complete control over every aspect of your country, including the economy. According to U.S. intelligence, "corruption within the People’s Liberation Army has led to an erosion of confidence in its overall capabilities, particularly when it comes to the Rocket Force, and also set back some of Xi’s top modernization priorities."
The corruption, however, has resulted in some hilarious setbacks for Xi, according to the Bloomberg report, "including missiles filled with water instead of fuel and vast fields of missile silos in western China with lids that don’t function in a way that would allow the missiles to launch effectively."
U.S. think tanks and defense contractors believe that Xi aims to have a completely modernized military that is capable of taking on any global power by 2027. One such example is the rapid assembly of aircraft carriers and other naval vessels at a rate that far outpaces the U.S. Navy. But just because they can be rapidly assembled doesn't mean they're ready to go right away.
#4
As much as I would like to imagine rocket fuel ethanol filtered thru N95 masks, this reads a lot like a rebuttal to the US Missileers' report from last week.
#5
And their artillery pieces are armed with spitballs.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/07/2024 12:17 Comments ||
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#6
This is why I don't feel all that alarmed about China. Xi is apparently dead set on destroying China even faster than Joe is set on destroying the US.
Posted by: Tom ||
01/07/2024 13:07 Comments ||
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#7
Alarmed about China? They need us more than we need them.
Anything in any of these box stores you couldn't find elsewhere, or simply live without ?
#8
Communism always leads to faking things to meet “the plan” and not get shot. The fudging gets detected. There is embarrassment. People are shot. Families are persecuted. The system continues.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/07/2024 14:38 Comments ||
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The US military is infiltrated by narco gangs, too, and radical communists, and most dangerously radical Islamists, who have from time to time massacred their fellow soldiers. But some of them outgrow it, some get killed or otherwise leave, and some get caught and jailed. The stories of many of the convicted neo-Nazi types can be read at the link.
The Department of Defense said in November that it has investigated 183 cases of extremism within the military, including 78 insurrectionist plots
But experts have told DailyMail.com that the numbers are likely to be a significant underestimate, citing a series of alarming cases in the Armed Forces
Both current and former Army members have plotted to assassinate political leaders, bomb media organizations and topple the U.S. Government
A 2020 Military Times poll showed a third of active service members had witnessed signs of white nationalism or racism among their fellow troops
#6
Military does not have disproportianate extremeism.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/07/2024 14:11 Comments ||
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#7
Enlisting in the US military will not put anyone in a position for a coup ever. Nor can someone get in that position through the commissioning process.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
01/07/2024 14:42 Comments ||
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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.
"The service operates six fleet submarines (SSNs), of the Trafalgar and Astute classes (with two further Astute-class boats currently under construction), and four ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), of the Vanguard class. All of these submarines are nuclear powered."
