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Department of Justice (DOJ) announced guilty pleas on 12 individuals across 7 construction companies in Marion County [South Carolina] involved in an illegal hiring and fraud scheme. It is now the largest criminal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) operation in the region’s history. Executives at Daniel Lavoie Construction Services, Duran Masonry, Extreme Siding, Master Homes Calabash, Metro Concrete Finishers, Master Homes Design Center, and Paint By Numbers pleaded guilty for their involvement in the scheme that defrauded the government out of millions of dollars and cheated qualified Americans out of construction jobs.
Basically if you bid and get a federal construction job you must pay the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics (re:'union').
Do you really believe those illegals were being paid that? If they weren't, who was grifting the difference?
[NYPOST] A flight from New York City to Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, made an emergency landing after a passenger attacked a flight attendant Wednesday evening.
American Airlines Flight 976 from Kennedy Airport to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana was diverted to Denver following the altercation, the airline said.
The plane landed safely and the suspect was arrested.
"The individual involved in this incident will never be allowed to travel with American Airlines in the future, but we will not be satisfied until he has been prosecuted to the full extent of the law," a statement provided to The Post read.
"Our thoughts are with our injured flight attendant and ensuring that she and her fellow crew members have the support they need at this time."
The flight took off from Queens just before 5 p.m. and landed in Colorado at 6:43 p.m. local time, according to Flightview, a tracking website.
Airlines have experienced a surge in violent mostly peaceful incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic, with thousands reported to the FAA.
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Same as the subway slapper.
No one man enough to put'em down.
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....As much as I hate to suggest this, a no-fly list across all airlines and mandatory six-figure fines need to be a thing for these idiots. When you have to take Greyhound from NYC to LA a few times as you contemplate a paystub for $150 bucks, you'll have plenty of time to reflect upon your sins.
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/\ Exactly Mike. Imagine where we would be if it not for pre-boarding security screening.
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As much as I hate to suggest this, a no-fly list across all airlines and mandatory six-figure fines need to be a thing for these idiots. When you have to take Greyhound from NYC to LA a few times as you contemplate a paystub for $150 bucks, you'll have plenty of time to reflect upon your sins.
I wouldn't sentence the hardest criminal to riding an interstate bus. That's under cruel and unusual punishment.
On the other hand, riding an interstate bus, he would be around his "peeps."
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The problem with the "get tough" approach is we all know how it would be used. Slide that mask to the side to take a sip of water? A flight attendent will call you on it. And you know that sooner or later somebody is going to bark back at the attendant and BOOM--here come the "get tough" penalties.
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I wouldn't sentence the hardest criminal to riding an interstate bus. That's under cruel and unusual punishment.
I took a Greyhound Cincinnati-Buffalo, NY so I could drive back with my mother in her car when she moved down here a few years ago. I found it reasonably pleasant.
[NYPOST] A former top executive at a North Carolina-based health care system has won $10 million in a legal battle over his claim that he lost his job because he is a white man.
David Duvall, a former senior vice president of marketing and communication at Novant Health, was awarded the money by a federal jury in Charlotte on Tuesday.
In his lawsuit, Duvall had alleged that he was pushed out of his job without warning or explanation in July 2018 as the company tried to diversify top leadership positions.
"We are pleased that the jury agreed that Duvall’s race and gender were unlawful factors in his termination — that he was fired to make room for more diverse leaders at Novant," his attorney, S. Luke Largess, said in a statement to the Winston-Salem Journal.
"Duvall was a strong advocate of diversity at Novant. We believe the punitive damages award is a message that an employer cannot terminate and replace employees in order to achieve greater diversity in the workforce," he added.
A rep for Novant Health said the company was disappointed by Tueday’s verdict.
"We are extremely disappointed with the verdict as we believe it is not supported by the evidence presented at trial, which includes our reason for Mr. Duvall’s termination," spokeswoman, Megan Rivers, told the newspaper. "We will pursue all legal options, including appeal, over the next several weeks and months."
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So discrimination on the basis of race and sex is illegal. Who knew?
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Well it continues to be, and the guy that won the case agree with racial discrimination.
[USAJobs.com] From November 5 - 12, 2021, the U.S. Forest Service Northern Region - that's Montana, north Idaho, and parts of the Dakotas - will accept applications for Summer 2022 seasonal and temporary jobs. These job advertisements will include all summer positions, including firefighter, fire management, wilderness technicians, trail, and recreation technicians, engineering & surveying technicians, forestry technicians, hydrologic technicians, biological science technicians, archaeological technicians, equipment operators, motor vehicle operators, laborers, maintenance workers, visitor information/guides, office services, & more!
The ONLY way to apply for these, and any other Forest Service job is through USAJobs.gov . Which can be very confusing!
If you are interested in any of these positions and don’t know where to start or unaware of the difference between a federal resume from a private industry resume, please send resume to lucy@military-civilian.com and we will have rep reach out to you and assist you in this process.
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Bending the rules a bit here. We don't normally post job openings on the Burg, but I thought this might be of benefit to some of our readership's children or grandchildren.
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For the 10+ Million 'New Joe Biden Endorsed Arrivals', I've machine translated this advertisement as a 'Rantburg - fixed-it-for-you'.
When you send your resume to lucy@military-civilian.com make sure to tell her, "Lets Go Brandon" sent you.
Si está interesado en cualquiera de estos puestos y no sabe por dónde comenzar o desconoce la diferencia entre un currículum federal y un currículum de la industria privada, envíe su currículum a lucy@military-civilian.com y haremos que el representante se comunique con usted y lo ayude en este proceso.
Del 5 al 12 de noviembre de 2021, la Región Norte del Servicio Forestal de los Estados Unidos, es decir, Montana, el norte de Idaho y partes de las Dakotas, aceptará solicitudes para empleos estacionales y temporales del verano de 2022. Estos anuncios de trabajo incluirán todos los puestos de verano, incluidos bomberos, manejo de incendios, técnicos de áreas silvestres, técnicos de senderos y recreación, técnicos de ingeniería y topografía, técnicos forestales, técnicos hidrológicos, técnicos de ciencias biológicas, técnicos arqueológicos, operadores de equipos, operadores de vehículos motorizados, trabajadores, trabajadores de mantenimiento, información / guías para visitantes, servicios de oficina y más. La ÚNICA forma de solicitar estos y cualquier otro trabajo del Servicio Forestal es a través de USAJobs.gov
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The 33-year-old man, an electrical engineer named Dylan, was able to pay off some of his student loans, get married, and purchase a home, thanks to the money he saved eating at Six Flags, according to Mel Magazine.
A man making $150,000 (or more, it's California) is driving twice a day to get free meals. He'd be better off using that time ($75/hour or more) to brown bag it and be more productive to get raises and bonuses.
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Should have became a Honduran and taken the bus to the US boarder and crossed.
"faces charges of manslaughter, three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon"
All that, and he didn't even shoot her on a movie set.
[CNBC] Facebook on Thursday announced that it has changed its company name to Meta.
The name change, which was announced at the Facebook Connect augmented and virtual reality conference, reflects the company’s growing ambitions beyond social media.
The re-branding also comes after the company has dealt with a barrage of news reports over the past month stemming from whistleblower Frances Haugen’s trove of internal documents.
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Bet they will spend 70K+ $US designing new logos as well...
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"What is the definition of meta in gaming?
In the world of gaming, meta is used in two ways. Meta can be used as an acronym for “most effective tactics available,” and calling something “meta” means that it’s an effective way to achieve the goal of the game, whether it’s to beat other players or beat the game itself.
What Does \"Meta-\" Mean? | Grammarly"
...on the bleeding edge of cheating, hmmm?
On Sunday the Earth will get hit from a massive mass ejection by the Sun. Don't know what it will do to the Dragon Capsule taking astronauts to ISS that day... but don't trust in communications or power on Sunday. I would do a post on it but might wait until later in the week. Aurora is supposed to drop to mid-latitudes and be wild.
A Direct Hit for #Halloween! The #solarstorm launched during the X-flare today is indeed Earth-directed! NASA predictions confirm impact by early October 31. Expect #aurora to mid-latitudes, as well as #GPS reception issues and #amateur radio disruptions on Earth's nightside! pic.twitter.com/Jjk3eixWIq
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LEMO Hint: Some people might backup their systems and place the drives, with a LMOE laptop and solar charger in a home-built EMP Protective storage container.Built for under $30 each using LOWE'S or Home Depot purchased items.
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I stick to well grounded metal computer and drive case enclosures for that, NN2N1.
Laptop, key fobs and cellphones go into a grounded shielded case at night.
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And don't look at the #10 hardware cloth installed above the rafters, and down the sides, in my garage. Or the ground lugs for our vehicles.
My youngest installed metal building siding inside his garage.
Not like we're conspiracy theorists or anything.
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A field expedient way to have a quick faraday cage is what most people have in their house already. The microwave. It has one built in by design to keep microwaves from overly spilling out.
Put your phones and other small electric things in there and the chances are pretty good they will survive.
[Free West Media] MITRE has been awarded huge security state contracts to pioneer invasive spy technology, including the implementation of digital vaccine passports.
The organization is a non-profit corporation run by military-intelligence professionals contracted by the Department of Defense, FBI, and national security sector, reported The Grayzone.
MITRE’s effort "to expand QR code vaccine passports beyond states like California and New York" is a public-private partnership known as the Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI) described by Forbes as a "cloak and dagger [research and development] shop" that is "the most important organization you’ve never heard of".
Elizabeth Renieris, the founding director of Notre Dame and IBM’s technology ethics lab, worries that MITRE would "pursue new revenue streams in healthcare and financial services...privately owned and operated ID systems with profit-maximizing business models threaten the privacy, security, and other fundamental rights of individuals and communities".
In January 2021, several WEF partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and other mega-corporations announced the launch of the Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI) in order to roll out QR code-based vaccine passports across the US.
"A non-profit established by the Rockefeller Foundation and called The Commons Project is leading the lobbying push for digital SMART cards through the VCI it co-founded. And Commons Project CEO Paul Meyer happens to have been cultivated by the WEF as a ’young leader’," according to The Grayzone.
Based in Northern Virginia, the military-intelligence think tank MITRE receives $2 billion a year from US agencies including the US Department of Defense and is run by mostly former Pentagon officials and ex-intelligence operatives. It was founded in 1958 as a joint project of the US Air Force and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop "command and control" systems for nuclear and conventional warfare.
Noam Chomsky was incidentally one of their early appointments for the "development of a program to establish natural language as an operational language for command and control".
Thus MITRE’s SQUINT browser plugin app, for example, "enables rapid social media situational awareness of COVID-19-related misinformation for public health officials through crowd-sourced reporting," according to promotional material.
The CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, is also listed among MITRE’s Covid-19 Healthcare Coalition. In-Q-Tel’s VP Dan Hanfling told the Washington Post in September that unvaccinated people should be denied healthcare: "That group of individuals who have willingly chosen not to vaccinate, for illegitimate reasons, it would be fair to place them at the back of the line."
The Washington Post omitted the mention of Hanfling’s affiliation with the CIA and instead it described him as an "emergency physician".
The Chairman of MITRE’s Board of Trustees, Donald Kerr, served as the deputy director for science and technology at the CIA, where he received the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal.
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The CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, is also listed among MITRE’s Covid-19 Healthcare Coalition.
Absolutely shocking! Who could have imagined a potential connection ?
BTW, MITRE is a Not-For-Profit. A senior analyst with MITRE can make as much or more than a high-grade GG or SES. If you land a contractor position at MITRE, you've hit the beltway motherlode. Non-WOKE applicants need not apply.
Four servicemen were injured due to careless handling of ammunition, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported.
The incident took place today at about 1000hrs (0900 hrs Moscow time) at one of the combat posts in the eastern direction, a representative of the department told the " Caucasian Knot " correspondent.
"All the wounded received first aid. An investigation is underway to clarify the circumstances of the incident," the Defense Ministry's press service noted. All victims received minor injuries.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" has repeatedly reported on the injury and death of Armenian soldiers during armed incidents on the border with Azerbaijan. So, on October 9, soldier Misak Khachatryan was wounded. The Armenian Defense Ministry insists that they fired from the Azerbaijani side, but the Azerbaijani military department denied any involvement in the incident. Azerbaijan
A formal request from the breakaway government of Donetsk People's Republic was transmitted to the Ukrainian government requesting the entry of humanitarian supplies to the residents of village recently taken over by Ukrainian forces, according to data supplied by officials with Russian backed separatist forces.
The previous day a Ukrainian military unit entered the village of Staromaryevka in the gray zone between the lines of Russian backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. Neither side released any data as to casualties or to combat, so it is assumed that the village as taken without a shot -- and to the rebel's complete surprise.
So far the Ukrainian ministry of defense to date has remarked on the Ukrainian operation.
According to the DPR Ministry of Defense: "Staromaryevka is located in the 'gray zone' 10 km west of Telmanovo, the administrative center of the DPR district of the same name."
It was previously reported by the DPR minister of foreign affairs, Natalia Nikonorova, that Ukrainian military units made their stab at Staromaryevka three days ago, using 82mm and 120mm mortar fire in support. The nearby village of Granitnoye was a position held by Ukrainian troops, where the mortar fire originated.
According to a separate report supplied by the separatists, elements of the Ukrainian 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade commanded by Vyacheslav Kotlik, were involved in the takeover and the artillery fire.
The report said that artillery fire had severed a 300mm diameter water pipe in Telemanovo.
A separate Russian backed militia news account which appeared in novorosinform.org, reported several residents of Staromaryevka were arrested by Ukrainian military units. The presumed detachment commander of the Ukrainian operation, Georgy Medvedev, reported on the arrests, and also reported Ukrainian units already left the Staromaryevka.
Elements of the Ukrainian 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, commanded Dmitry Bryzhinsky, also were responsible for artillery firing on Zaistevo and in Gorlovka. Both villages have been under Ukrainian artillery fire since the beginning of the war in 2014.
Other separatist reports are that Ukrainian artillery was fired on Yasinovataya, Dokuchaevsk and Staromikhaylovka.
The report said that criminal cases were being prepared for the attacks.
DPR defense spokesman Lt. Colonel Eduard Basurin said an overflight of a drone, commissioned by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), was jammed by Ukrainian electronic intelligence units.
The announcement did not specify if the drone's flight and functions were impaired, but did specify the number of villages, all in southwestern Donetsk, which were reached by the drone.
The Ukrainian side reported, according to data supplied by the Ukrainian language daily, lb.ua, that the separatists dropped an explosive device from a drone in Granitnoye, severely wounding on unidentified Ukrainian soldier.'
The report also said Ukrainian units observed a drone enter and leave Ukriaian airspace. It is possible that was the OSCE drone.
According a news report in the Russian language daily rusonline.org, the Ukrainian units tasked with capturing Staromaryevka has requested, but have been denied orders to withdraw. This after expectations the position would be reinforced by the Ukrainians.
The subtext is that separatist units defending the area have yet to withdraw, and likely have the village under observation.
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, speaking in the State Duma at the discussion of the budget, called for depriving the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, "Fair Russia - For Truth" and "New People" the status of parliamentary parties and expel them from the parliament building for their position on the country's budget.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia - For the Truth immediately expressed their position that their representatives would not vote for the financial document. The leader of the New People faction, Alexei Nechaev, said that the party is worried about the budget.
"We must fight poverty, and you have billionaires in two factions (the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the SRHP, who opposed the budget). What do you consider other people's money (budget)? Count your money," Fair Russia," said Zhirinovsky.
“They should vote as United Russia, (leader of A Just Russia Sergei) Mironov and (United Russia representative Boris) Gryzlov - shook hands. That's all! Therefore, they should not twist. A Just Russia is the younger sister of United Russia. If they are for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, then here he is, his minister (of finance, who presented the budget, Anton) Siluanov, and you must vote for the budget! " continued the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
After that, he accused the representatives of "Fair Russia - For the Truth" of supporting the president, while speaking out against the government.
"You (SRHL) advocate for the budget or leave the State Duma building. You get your salary from the budget, apartments - from the budget, summer cottages - from the budget. And for the maintenance of your party (Communist Party) you will receive 1.5 billion, Gennady Andreevich. Your budget: Give up all the money. And you too, "Fair Russia." They receive everything from the state, but try to stir it up. Don't need a budget? Then get out of Russia and "New people," said Zhirinovsky.
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Next time ⌚ China fires one of these missiles, a powerful country should 'nudge' it out of its orbit and solve a problem ----- Instantly Deniable Solution
[ToI] Anything outside of China is an improvement
Semiconductor giant’s new offerings include ’world’s best gaming processor’; over 1,000 Israeli engineers worked on ’largest-ever’ chip hardware development project
Intel on Wednesday officially launched its 12th-generation Intel Core processors, code-named Alder Lake, designed chiefly in Israel and based on a hybrid architecture for PC users.
Intel called the new lineup among the "most significant architectural innovations in a generation" when The Times of Israel previewed the processors two months ago.
Alder Lake is Intel’s most intelligent client system-on-chip (SoC) architecture, according to the announcement, featuring a combination of Efficient-cores and Performance-cores for faster, better-performing PCs. Alder Lake mobile chips are also in the works. It includes "the world’s best gaming processor," the Core i9 12900K, which Intel said was "the most powerful gaming performance improvement Intel has ever achieved."
"We are super proud to share this product with the world. It is a huge development and the first client product that really takes two very complex cores and combines them into the product known as Alder Lake," Guy Shalev, the design manager of Alder Lake desktop processor, told The Times of Israel in August.
Raja M. Koduri, chief architect and senior VP of Intel’s architecture, graphics and software division, provided a deft analogy between the design of Alder Lake and that of hybrid cars during an internal presentation.
"The fastest racing cars in the world like in Formula One use hybrid technology to achieve maximum performance. In addition to the conventional turbocharged engines that give them top speed and enough range to make it to the finish line on a tank of fuel, they add electric power to blast them out of the corners with acceleration that cannot be achieved with conventional engines," he said.
Alder Lake is a high-performance hybrid processor based on two cores that activate depending on which applications are running, he explained, adding that it will "delight billions of PC users."
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Sony tried the two core architecture in PS3. From what they learned, market and performance wise, is reflected in that they went to single core in PS4.
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The new CPUs are built on a 10nm lithography process. Intel is well behind until they can move to a 5nm process. AMD builds their CPUs and graphics chips on a 7nm process and their new Zen4 CPUs should arrive early 2022 will be on a 5nm process. Plus the AMD chiplet tech allows a higher yield than the larger Intel chips, further cutting costs.
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the new infections of about 2.5k/day are troubling but the fatality rate is only about 10 per day which in a population of about 5M (with a substantial number of seniors) isn't great but not too scary either
also I don't know if Ireland aggressively classifies covid as cause of death or not
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^Here DX is Covid for every death. Cornier at local hospital directed Nurse to type Covid as cause of death and the nurse refused. Clearly congestive heart failure. He pushed her aside and entered his DX. Nurse decided to take retirement to get out of the Hospital billing racket.
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.
[NYPOST] A former top executive at a North Carolina-based health care system has won $10 million in a legal battle over his claim that he lost his job because he is a white man.
MITRE has been awarded huge security state contracts to pioneer invasive spy technology, including the implementation of digital vaccine passports.
The previous day a Ukrainian military unit entered the village of Staromaryevka in the gray zone between the lines of Russian backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. Neither side released any data as to casualties or to combat, so it is assumed that the village as taken without a shot -- and to the rebel's complete surprise.
