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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Hunter every time he buys crack and hookers': Elon Musk mocks president's son with meme of man with six GoPros on his head after laptop leaks of Biden with prostitutes and cocaine
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I understand that I am subsidizing his business, but lately I feel like I am getting my money’s worth.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the sort of guy who could very well have had his colonoscopy vid with heavy metal track on that accursed laptop.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/15/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
More Fallout for Democrats From 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Story
[PJMedia] The controversial story of a 10-year-old rape victim who was transported from Ohio to Indiana to procure an child sacrifice abortion has been very clarifying. First reported by pro-child sacrifice abortion leftists around the world, the story was picked up by PJ Media’s Megan Fox, who was the first news hound to ask questions about the sizable gaps in the narrative. Megan’s outstanding research arguably began the pressure campaign that ultimately produced an announcement of the arrest of the illegal alien rapist three weeks after the crime was first referred to police.

Why did the arrest take so long? It’s certainly possible Sherlocks wanted to make sure the case was rock-solid before making an arrest. Or was law enforcement dragging its feet on arresting an illegal alien in a high-profile, barbaric case until the spotlight the pro-aborts had shined on it was focused elsewhere?

But more importantly, the left has just lost another one of its major talking points as the post-Dobbs landscape takes shape: no one will force pregnant children to carry babies to term. Sorry, handmaids: barely-pubescent raped girls will not be experiencing the "forced birth" you’ve all been screeching about.

One of the many fishy aspects of this story is that the victim was transported across state lines to procure an child sacrifice abortion, even though Ohio’s new heartbeat law would have permitted the procedure to take place within the state. The law allows child sacrifice abortion in Ohio when medically necessary: "’Medical necessity’ means a medical condition of a pregnant woman that, in the reasonable judgment of the physician who is attending the woman, so complicates the pregnancy that it necessitates the immediate performance or inducement of an child sacrifice abortion."

This basically rules out forcing any pregnant girl to carry a pregnancy to term. How young is too young to have a baby? This will have to be established, and the medical community will come to a consensus. A momentous change like overturning Roe v. Wade will naturally take some time to sort out. But the tragic Ohio case has just given it a big nudge.

Still another piece of fallout is that Indiana is now investigating the doctor who performed the child sacrifice abortion, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, for failure to report the rape of a minor — something she’s been investigated for before. And not only that, even the mainstream media has been shamed into reporting the investigation. Good: it’s long past time the child sacrifice abortion industry took responsibility for reporting abusers consistently and in accordance with the law.

Was the poor victim unnecessarily transported across state lines for the procedure just so an activist muppet doctor would have a headline? Let’s pray that, for the sake of the child, that’s not the case. Perhaps the Ohio doctors were just overly wary of the newly triggered heartbeat law. But going forward, it’s now clearly established that children don’t need to travel out of states with laws like Ohio’s to terminate pregnancies.

The tragedy of rape and child sacrifice abortion is that the mother did not choose the pregnancy, but that’s also not the baby’s fault. I don’t believe there is a good answer in situations like that. But when you add in the loss of life or health of the mother, then the scales tip further to one sad side than the other. Pro-life absolutism is unlikely to become law in any state.

At any rate, pro-child sacrifice abortion leftists wanted to shine the spotlight on this story, and now they’re getting what they asked for. Good.

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Ace of Spades goes more deeply into the tweet in Skidmark’s link, coming up with this:

Jorge Bonilla @BonillaJL
This portion of a broader interview sheds significant light on the familial dynamics of this case, and further vindicates all skepticism over how the story broke and was handled. We don't even get to this point without the critical work of
@MeganFoxWriter and so many others.

This appears to confirm my thesis of a domestic situation wherein the confessed rapist is also the paramour of the victim's mother (other familial relation is possible but less likely). Unfortunately, I saw many such cases while working as a court interpreter.

The mother's distressed defense of the rapist suggests that
a: She is also here illegally and fears deportation
b: The defendant is the family's sole source of income
c: There is a likelihood of other children in the home
d: Mom is exposed to removal of the children under dependency proceedings (failure to protect). Has there been such a filing yet and if not why not?

Other questions: what was the time gap between the initial reporting of the rape and the filing of criminal charges? Why did the referring abortion provider not report the rape to authorities? Was the child forced to live with her rapist in furtherance of an abortion narrative?

Was the child compelled to stay quiet until after news of the abortion was leaked to the media? If so, how so?

Was criminal reporting of the rape of a Latina girl suppressed or delayed in furtherance of a political agenda?

These questions need to be answered ASAP.


*shudder* Some people are truly evil.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2022 3:27 Comments || Top||

#3  "Ha ha told you it was a true story!....eh?....huh, oh....can we go back to fake story?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Fed authorized human trafficking.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/15/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Not clear what, if anything, is true in this story.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/15/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#6  These messy details serve no one’s interest. Therefore they are most likely true.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  First all you FoxNews boys were preaching this didn't happen, now it's an illegal alien and the point is you right wing folks are perfectly fine with a little girl being forced to have a baby after she's raped.

That's some severely sick morality.
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 || 07/15/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#8  ^^^ sounds like you are putting words into peoples mouths.
Posted by: Chris || 07/15/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 Thanks for your non-opinion, but you failed the entrance exam. I'm not wishing "better luck next time".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/15/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#10  I think #7 is "projection".
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Remember the unborn! The unborn are persons, even if they are unwanted, unplanned, and/or inconvenient persons.
Posted by: Jeatch Crush1603 || 07/15/2022 15:05 Comments || Top||

#12  You know something bad is up when the non-sequiturs are tasked with running about to screech morality.

*clears throat*
The single mother living the hook up lifestyle is entirely to blame for all of this.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2022 16:07 Comments || Top||

#13  It's bad enough that 99% of abortions are for convenience alone. Now, we have leftists crying that abortion is so important that the issues of rape, reporting of child abuse and illegal immigration have to be discounted when abortion is at stake.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 16:12 Comments || Top||

#14  #7 the Russian bots must be having a slow day....
Posted by: 746 || 07/15/2022 16:13 Comments || Top||

#15  Promoting child sacrifice to hide scrutiny of the feminist movement's abhorrent culture goals.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2022 16:16 Comments || Top||

#16  All those little souls will be sitting in the gallery on Judgement Day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 16:18 Comments || Top||

#17  #14 Actually, I think he's Ukrainian.
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/15/2022 16:31 Comments || Top||

#18  Anubis, his balance, a feather,
The soul of a Donte or Heather,
And there, in the box,
Sits a witness. It talks...
Of the life they were gettin' together.
Posted by: Sonny Sinatra3258 || 07/15/2022 17:36 Comments || Top||


CNN Don Lemon Republicans must be treated as danger to society by media, cannot be 'coddled'
“Pay attention to MEEEEEE!!” he cries, but it won’t increase his abysmally small market share by so much as a single point.
[FoxNews] Lemon claimed he and other journalists 'are not doing our jobs' if they don't give GOP harsher treatment.
Given your ratings and your new boss, you will likely not have a job to do, Puddinghead
Appearing on CNN's New Day Thursday morning, Don Lemon once again urged the media to hold Republicans to a different standard than Democrats in their media coverage.

The primetime host tied the GOP to the threat of "growing extremism" on the right. He warned journalists to not give a "false equivalence" to both sides, and instead acknowledge Republicans were endangering America.

"We sit around and we talk about these things and we want to give this false equivalence to Democrats and Republicans. That is not where we are right now. Republicans are doing something that is very dangerous to our society and we have to acknowledge that. We have to acknowledge that as Americans, we must acknowledge that as journalists because if we don't, we are not doing our jobs," Lemon declared.

A Pew survey of nearly 12,000 journalists found that a majority of journalists, 55%, reject the idea that both sides "always deserve equal coverage."

Lemon was referring to Republicans who continue to support former President Trump after the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, as well as the recent Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

"They have to answer for those questions if they come here on CNN, they must answer for that. If they go on MSNBC, they must answer for that. If they go on ABC, they must answer for that. And they cannot expect to be coddled when they go on to a news organization or if they step in front of a crowd of supporters or voters or Americans."

He made a similar plea in June, saying, "we cannot pretend as journalists" that both sides are "equal."

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another call from the left for a Marxist purge.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/15/2022 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2 

Liberal Socialist Media Puppets would be required to
answer for inciting hate crimes against others.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/15/2022 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Every member of the GOP lives rent free in his head...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/15/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, it's a vacant place, Pan
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  He wakes up every morning and finds a new imaginary racist oppressing him...
Posted by: magpie || 07/15/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  It is more of a homeless shelter. There is a whiff of je me sais quoit, by that I mean urine and b.o. about the interior of his empty head. Better to pay rent somewhere else.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Coddled like a bar patron.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#8  That's funny. I think CNN is a danger to society.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I haven't seen one conservative being coddled on 98% of the news in along time.
Posted by: Chris || 07/15/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Unless you consider the satisfaction we derive from watching absolute retards take themselves seriously.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/15/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#11  I am certain that this is a preemptive attempt to provide contextual evidence for his "wrongful termination" lawsuit subsequent to his coming termination. He will play the black, queer, woke cards to the Manhattan audience and CNN will settle to avoid the messy process. The possible alternative is that they will see it coming and payoff his departure bigtime with an included NDA and this was just planned as an enhancement to those negotiations!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Someone missed the poll not too far back, that the majority of those polled considered the media to be an enemy of the people.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2022 20:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Frank! Classic...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/15/2022 20:13 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Snack and Die Early
[American Thinker] Recently, I sat in my airplane seat before takeoff and watched a parade of the obese squeeze down the aisle. Many seemed barely able to shuffle through the narrow space; how they would maneuver their bodies into the 18"-wide seats that awaited them was another mystery.

Never was it more evident to me how unhealthy our society has become than witnessing that performance. I estimated that at least half the passengers on the airplane appeared sufficiently overweight to be clinically obese. How did this happen?

"Something to drink, sir?" asked the polite flight attendant as she passed my row. She placed the famous Southwest snack mix package next to my water. I studied the ingredients: Canola oil, soybean oil, corn syrup along with sugar. There were at least 40 separate ingredients listed, some of which I couldn’t pronounce, a few I didn’t even recognize.

I have eaten these bits of pretzels, crackers, and nuts, before; no doubt, they are sufficiently tasty and salty to make you want a second package. It even says right on the front of the package: "Snack and Smile." Maybe it should tell the truth: Snack and Die Early?

Many years ago, I woke up to the realization that the food industry and the government agencies that oversee them do not seem to have our best interests at heart. All you need to do to verify this point is look around you to see what the overconsumption of processed, highly refined foods has done.

It has led to a pandemic of chronic illness, autoimmune problems, heart disease, diabetes and more. Mix this ingestion of inflammatory chemicals with putting 70+ doses of different vaccines into every school age child’s arm, encouraging mothers to formula feed (when they can find and buy the product), and surrounding ourselves with new powerful electromagnetic fields and you begin to see the danger.

Big pharma has contributed to this new world of chemical engineering by providing and advertising a drug for every ailment. And many of the largest pharmaceutical companies are also in the food business as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2022 03:18 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No need to worry here. With electronic currency the EV attitude will be applied. Every purchase will be approved. Every trip will be pre-planned and authorized. You want to purchase anything for example you will scrutinized. Your LDL is too high you can't have that. You are allowed three potato chips with your four insects. Your alarm wakes you up and you are directed to walk three miles to begin your day. You have sat too long at your computer and it shuts off. Then at a moment of desire you are directed to avoid such activity. Snack and die early doesn't sound so bad.
Posted by: Dale || 07/15/2022 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe if individual people were taught impulse control, delayed gratification and personal responsibility, there would be no need for an external, gummint-imposed framework of lifestyle micromanagement.

But, where's the graft in that? And it would be rayciss...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe if individual people were [could be] taught impulse control
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  some of which I couldn’t pronounce

There is no trope more annoying than "I can't pronounce it, it must be bad". Look at the chemical breakdown of what's in an "organjc" tomato someday -- plenty of "unpronounceable" chemicals in there.

(And when did "conservatives" become the health cops? The other side of liberty is minding your own business.)
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/15/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I hadn't seen the anti-vaccination and anti-electricity parts of the rant. What a load of horseshit.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/15/2022 8:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Note well, we have lived in a very narrow and unique period of human history when food was both readily available and accessible. This condition has lasted more than two or three generations now. The human body has evolved over thousands of years and its adaptation doesn't move that fast. The Navajo have been the canary in the cage in this case and its manifestation is now appearing in the population as a whole. Up till recently they survived in a very barren environment. Their bodies were adapted to extract every possible nutrient out of any food they could get. Now they suffer in general with diabetes and obesity. Two reasons they suffered disproportionately in the initial COVID wave.

Given the incompetency rampant in government these days, it looks like the rest of us are about to return to more basic dietary menus.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  It would be a kindness.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Similar theory of mine as well P2K, like keeping a Husky as an apartment pet.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Your LDL is too high you can't have that.

That's what they told me. It put the fear in me so I decided that I really can get by without it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#10  bodies were adapted to extract every possible nutrient out of any food they could get. Now they suffer in general with diabetes and obesity.

Same with native Hawaiians. Mac and cheese and SPAM were not good for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#11  [eats another roasted cashew, glad he lives in third world crap corner]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/15/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#12  I thought when they banned transfat it was supposed to solve the obesity issue.
Posted by: Chris || 07/15/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||

#13  If you tend towards weight gain, your metabolism is almost fiendish in its ability to hoard calories as fat. I know this from a lifetime dealing with it firsthand.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#14  Oh, and I forgot to add, part of that fiendishness is the metabolism's ability to adjust like a hall of fame cornerback as you try to refine your diet.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||

#15  Never overlook your gut ecology...

My diet was 'okay' until I had a deep puncture wound and had to take a course of full spectrum antibiotics. *Presto* A set of gut bacteria that had spent decades optimizing for my preferred diet and lifestyle were replaced by a "one size fits all" set of probiotics they provided ... which were followed by a more extensive set I bought at my favorite health foods store.
Posted by: magpie || 07/15/2022 17:59 Comments || Top||

#16  Alas, my gut microbes are limited to the ones that can stand up to Wild Turkey 101.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 18:00 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Largest Stolen Valor Fraud in US History
The fella doing this presentation is seriously funneh
He is. Sarah Cavanaugh is a very naughty girl.



The New York Post adds:
Cavanaugh, of East Greenwich, is charged with wire fraud, identity theft, forging a military discharge certificate and fraudulent use of military medals. She faces a maximum of 24 years in prison, but as part of the plea agreement prosecutors will recommend a lighter sentence on the low end of sentencing guidelines.

The judge is not bound by the recommendation.
Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....Yeah, she might have made it if she'd have put as much effort into her research as she did into her Fiendish Plot(TM).

I mean, I was Air Force and I could tell how jacked up that uniform is.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/15/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I know fraud is illegal but are stolen valor claims? If not they should be.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/15/2022 13:27 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Full-Force – removing Al-Shabaab's Menace
A report from the United Nations has indicated through practices of intimidation and brutal methods of coercion, -Shabaab raises as much revenue as the country's authorities, estimated at $20M a month in "taxes" extorted from the Mogadishu business community and the Mogadishu port, illegal levies that started in 2017 under the past administration.
[Garowe] After months of confusion, tension, and political theatre, Somalia elected former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to the presidency, defeating incumbent President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed in a third-round run decided by a parliamentary vote of 214-110.

In a sign of the times, the vote was held in an airport hangar protected by blast walls built to prevent al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The coming division of Ukraine: on historical precedents
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Andrzej Rothmann

[REGNUM] 1772–1793–1795 This set of numbers will not say anything to a non-Polish - but it is burned by fire in every Polish chest. We remember. We will never forget. "Jeśli zapomnę o Nich - ty, Boże na niebie, zapomnij o mnie!"

These dates are the years of the first, second and third partitions of Poland. There was another one, unofficially called the "fourth", when, following the results of the Vienna Congress of 1815, Russia received the Duchy of Warsaw (whose lands, called the Kingdom of Poland, were then called "Kongresuvka"), and there was a fifth - between the Third Reich and the USSR in 1939. But there are still three canonical sections, and we will build on this.

What happened in the last quarter of the 18th century on the East European Plain? Three absolute monarchies divided the territory of the gentry republic among themselves. Three states with regular armies, bureaucracy, a stable system of taxation, developed industry, trade, crafts, communication routes, ports and religious tolerance - divided among themselves mired in anarchy and arbitrariness, torn apart by inter-confessional, class, inter-ethnic and social contradictions, without a regular army , roads, ports and any industrial production, stuck in the era of religious wars, not even a country, but a territory .... Doesn't it remind you of anything?

Today's Ukraine is in many ways the Commonwealth of 1772. Yes, Ukraine has Volodymyr Zelenskythere is an army actively pumped up with modern European weapons, but this is perhaps its only difference from the Poland of Stanislaw August Poniatowski. And the rest... Ukraine, like the Commonwealth, draws the basis of its export potential in the black soil of the middle Dnieper region - exporting grain abroad (in the 17th century it was wheat, now it is the same, plus corn, soybeans, rapeseed and barley).

Ukraine, like the Commonwealth, is at war with the rebels in the East (then they were Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, today they are the rebels of Donbass). Ukraine, like the Commonwealth, is actively clearing its religious space - squeezing out disloyal, from the point of view of official Kyiv, confessions and forcing the rest to complete and absolute obedience. Yes, my dear reader, there is a religious war going on in Ukraine, which has not been remembered in Europe since the Peace of Westphalia!

And, finally, Ukraine, like the Commonwealth, does not believe in the forthcoming division of its territory between its neighbors and continues to hope for some generous allies in the West, who at the right time will give her shoulder and extend a helping hand.... Under Poniatowski, the role of noble saviors was to be played by the French; under Zelensky, the Anglo-Saxons were appointed to this role.

Yes, in the coming division of Ukraine, Poland is destined for the obscure role of Austria and Prussia - but we have at least two justifications. First, the population of Western Ukraine is ready to withdraw from the power of Kyiv and agree to acquire a new sovereign in the person of Warsaw.

And secondly, the aforementioned irredenta will allow, firstly, to save the cities and villages of five Western Ukrainian regions from the horrors of war and, secondly, to end this war itself - for the simple reason that Volodymyr Zelensky will simply have nothing to fight after the falling away of Western Ukraine ...

And the end of the war is, above all, saved lives. Thousands and thousands of lives. Which, if we do not allow the irredenta of Western Ukraine to happen, will also be on our conscience. Which is already difficult enough….

Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks, badanov. So the Russian author of this piece implies "its okay because everyone else is doing it!"
Posted by: magpie || 07/15/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Some people seem to think that this kind of thing cannot happen in the 21st century. But those borders have been shifting back and forth for over a thousand years and there really is nothing special about the 21st century. If Ukrainians, Poles and Russians hate each other so much that they really cannot get along it might be better to let them separate after the borders have been peacefully negotiated so as to avoid bloodshed. Plebiscites might be appropriate to help determine where the people who live in a region want those borders to be instead of having it imposed on them by politicians and generals. Well, I can dream can't I?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2022 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I say we give Ukraine east of the Dnipro river to the Russians and the western part to Poland. The Russians will be happy with their new defensible border and the Poles cannot *bleep* things up worse than the Ukrainians have. It's a win-win!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2022 17:37 Comments || Top||


Economy
A live look at the economy…
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  👍
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/15/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
How much of a gamechanger is Russia's new potential space laser for US, Israel?
[Jpost] An open-source investigation published last week by The Space Review found that Russia is developing a new laser system in the Greater Caucasus mountain range that will disable foreign satellites.

US satellites have been under attack by Russia and China since at least 2021 – and they are now going to potentially be even under a greater threat of severe attacks as Moscow develops a new satellite disrupting weapon.

TIPPING THE SCALES
Will the latest development tip the scales against the US, and indirectly Israel, in a way that could alter the playing field in space wars – with significant impacts also regarding military power and surveillance capabilities on Earth itself?

In November 2021, NASA put an International Space Station spacewalk on hold that had been planned, citing a “debris notification” that could put crew members at risk.

Though the specific source of the potential hazard was not disclosed, the decision came within weeks of a Russian anti-satellite weapon test that created a cloud of shrapnel in Earth's lower orbit.

Unlike that anti-satellite weapon, the latest Russian weapon is being presented as more of a blinding and disabling one, suppressing electro-optical systems of satellites using solid-state lasers.

In some ways, this is a relief, as weapons that disable and blind do not leave shrapnel in their wake, which can create substantial future risks to anything and anyone in Earth’s orbit for an indefinite period of time.

However, the latest weapon may also be cheaper and easier to activate, and may especially allow Russia to blind American intelligence, and possibly even Israeli intelligence, in crucial arenas.

For decades, US superiority with satellite intelligence has facilitated Washington projecting power across the globe and giving it distinct advantages.

These advantages have often accrued also to Israel, whether it was tracing the Karine A mega weapons boat in 2001 which was beyond Jerusalem’s surveillance capabilities, or more recent tracking, early warning and sharing of intelligence by the US with Israel to assist with national defense.

If Russia blinds America, Israel will also become a little bit more blind.

Of course, the Jewish state has far more of its own satellite surveillance today than it did in 2001, but it still does not come anywhere near what the US can do.

Moreover, relations between Israel and Russia are tenser now than they have been in more than a decade because of the situation in Ukraine.

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Think about how much AIR & OZONE a Terawatt Laser will destroy in a burst reaching 110+ Miles up?

Where are the Climate _insert the latest name_ 😎📣 fanatics on this?


Additional Data on the Russian Laser
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/15/2022 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Ask SpaceX to launch more cubesats -- quickly one "Paris Gun" sized facility will be swamped. The huge spysats are nice but no longer necessary with the advancements in technology.
Posted by: magpie || 07/15/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as it's not powered by gasoline and no one smokes around barrels.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/15/2022 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Big mirror. Reflect it back at the Kremlin. That would be fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2022 13:08 Comments || Top||

#5  A lot of satellites are already made of reflective metals to limit solar heat. I would think that would be a problem for a space laser. They'll have to target carefully.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/15/2022 14:46 Comments || Top||


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Southern Islamic Caliphate: Lankan crisis could spell bigger trouble for India
Thinking ahead, the way we wish our people would do.
[OneIndia] With the Sri Lankan crisis deepening, Indian security agencies fear that this could lead to an attempt to set up Southern Islamic Caliphate in the country

Indian security agencies are keeping a close watch on the developments in Sri Lanka as violence continues to rock the economically-hit nation. While on the diplomatic front, India has made it amply clear that it stands with the Sri Lankan people and the democratic process to elect a new leader, on the security front the radar of the agencies has gone up in states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

With scores of refugees attempting to enter India, the Intelligence Bureau warns that with them could come the members who had in 2019 planned on setting up a Southern Islamic Caliphate.

The plan to set up a Southern Caliphate came to light in a big way following the 2019 bombings in Colombo. It was revealed during the investigation that the main accused Zaharan Hashim had instructed bully boyz in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala to help establish the Southern Caliphate.

Clues about such a Caliphate was first found when on September 1 2018, a case was registered at a cop shoppe in Coimbatore. The case pertained to a criminal conspiracy hatched to further the objectives of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
by targeting Hindu leaders and activist muppets.

The case was handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and during the probe, the agency came across a video in which Hashim had urged the Moslem youth from Sri Lanka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu to establish Islamic rule in the nation.

A further probe led the NIA to a case in Kerala where it was found that three persons, Abdul Rashid Abdulla (Kozhikode), Bestin Vincent (Pallakad) and Ashfak Majeed (Kasargod), had travelled to Sri Lanka in 2016. All these men were also in touch with Hashim.

Further the NIA also said that like their accomplices in Kerala, these persons from Tamil Nadu too were in touch with Hashim and were helping him set up the Southern Islamic Caliphate.

The fear of radical elements spilling in comes in the wake of the agencies flagging the refugee crisis that could emerge in India considering the situation in the Island nation. An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that along with the refugee crisis comes the security nightmare.

In addition to the radical elements trying to make their way into states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the agencies also fear that a Tamil-Sinhalese conflict may erupt as there has been a history of the same.
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