[FOX] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Los Angeles International Airport recently seized more than eight pounds of crystal methamphetamine concealed in the undergarments and carry-on baggage of three passengers attempting to leave the country, the federal agency reported on Wednesday.
A French citizen was intercepted as he attempted to pass through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint with nearly four pounds of crystal meth, planning to take the drugs to his home in French Polynesia,
according to a CBP statement.
Other members of the man's group were escorted to the CBP inspection area at the Tom Bradley International Terminal, where two more travelers were found to have more than four pounds of the drug concealed in their carry-on bags.
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This week in meth news: First, meth lollypops and now underwear meth smugglers on airplanes.
A French citizen was intercepted as he attempted to pass through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint with nearly four pounds of crystal meth, planning to take the drugs to his home in French Polynesia.
French Polynesia? Wasn't this where Obummer was writing his memoirs his novel for a month or so?
Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers have performed a planned routine flight over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed, adding that the air group was intercepted by western Air Forces on several occasions.
“As a territorial surveillance authority of Finland, the Finnish Air Force has ordered its F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters on Quick-Reaction Alert (ORA) duty to identify and photograph the Russian military aircraft observed in the international airspace in the vicinity of Finland’s airspace,” the country’s military announced in a statement."
[Breitbart] In keeping with President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue launched the effort on Thursday along with representatives from 22 federal agencies that are taking on the wide-ranging initiative.
The task force will work to find ways to increase jobs, housing and educational opportunities for America’s rural communities, and to remove obstacles, such as burdensome regulations, and to improve infrastructure and access to technology.
The task force held its inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C., and attendees included Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai, and other government officials.
"What we began here today is to lay a fertile seed bed in rural America, where good things can grow," Perdue said. He went on:
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The task force will work to find ways to increase jobs, housing and educational opportunities for America’s rural communities, and to remove obstacles, such as burdensome regulations, and to improve infrastructure and access to technology.
Steal one from the 'progs', high speed internet all around. How could they object to one of their own demi-god's creation? Why do business in expensive dangerous cities, when you can be just as efficient in your business in rural America?
[Daily Caller] James T. Hodgkinson, the shooter who opened fire on dozens of Republican congressmen and staffers at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, had a list of Republican names in his pocket that was recovered by the FBI, The Daily Caller has learned.
The news that the shooter had a list of names suggests the shooting was not a random outburst, but instead appears to be a premeditated political assassination.
The list was written out on notepad paper and found in the shooter’s pocket, according to multiple sources with intimate knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the investigation.
It is nice to know, but the FBI needs to fix that leak problem post haste. There is no reason to leak when it will be formally announced soon enough -- assuming it is true.
The list of names included Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan and Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, TheDC has confirmed.
The FBI has contacted at least one of the three congressmen to inform them of their inclusion on the list.
None of the three offices would offer comments on the record when asked about the names on the list. Brooks and Franks’ office further directed all inquiries to the Capitol police, who declined to comment. The FBI’s Washington field office, which is handling the investigation, also provided no comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
All three representatives are members of the House Freedom Caucus, which contains the lower chamber’s most conservative members. Both Duncan and Brooks attended Wednesday’s baseball practice.
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Good question CF. Saw a clip by Bill Still yesterday that Congressman Scalise was pushing legislation which provided severe penalties for pedophiles. Also read or heard the list contained the names of the most conservative Pub Congressional members.
[CNN] The rifle used in the attack that left a congressman and four other people wounded on a baseball field is a Soviet-era relic that is widely available in the United States and was used in another mass shooting last year.
The gunman, James Hodgkinson, who was shot dead by law enforcement, is believed to have used an SKS 7.62-millimeter caliber rifle in the attack, a law enforcement source told CNN. Investigators also recovered a 9-millimeter handgun at the scene, but it is not known whether Hodgkinson fired it.
Investigators said Thursday that they have no indication Hodgkinson bought either gun illegally.
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I bought mine for $200 a few years ago. Mine has a 20 rnd mag. They are fun to shoot and the rounds are dirt cheap because you can use the dirtiest produced cartridges. And the steel case rounds don't fuck up the internal mechanisms.
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What is CNN article doing here? They are fake news. let's not give them clicks.
It was the closest thing I could find to a confirmation of the type of weapon used. A semi-trained ear can usually tell the difference between the report (sound) of a 5.56 round and that of a 7.62x39. From the video filmed during the attack, I had my doubts about the initial claims of an M4.
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The article still reads like an editorial and contains inaccuracies. Yeah, you can buy it online, but it still has to be shipped to an FFL and you still need a background check. As for the 100 rounds or more in an AR mag, I've seen people playing with them, they aren't concealable at all and not especially reliable either. Not the sort of thing many people would buy for presumably one time use.
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As for the 100 rounds or more in an AR mag......not especially reliable either.
Oh so very true. If one is well-trained - 30 round mags are all you need. The time you spend f'ing w/those 100 drums w/failure to feed, stoppages, or just changing the stupid thing is wasted time. Learn how to to smooth mag exchanges.
Mr. B - I'm in your AO now and stand ready to to deliver on the steak dinner.
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I was just up there for a retirement ceremony at Myer-Henderson Hall. Might be able to conduct a FACECOM at Hartsfield-Jackson. If you're headed to hell, you change planes in Atlanta. I wish YOU and your trusty 225 had been at that congressional baseball practice. That numbnut would have been spitting blood before he could get his second stripper clip loaded.
The steak is unnecessary. Nobody within 250 miles of Hartsfield-Jackson eats that 'food.' Perhaps an adult beverage.
100 rnd mags? About as practical as a facial penis. But that's just my opinion.
CNN claimed the SKS that Rachel Maddow-inspired assassin James Hodgkinson used was a "variant of the AK-47."
It's not. And that's important, because claiming it's a "variant" of the fully-automatic AK-47 makes it a lay-up for banning by the gun-grabbers; CNN's "error" just happens to track with the language that gun control groups would prefer.
In fact, the one-shot-per-trigger-pull SKS was developed before the AK-47, making it hard to see how this gun could be a "variant of" the full-auto AK-47.
But they refuse to correct.
Several observations:
Once again, I repeat that the media's ignorance here is an ignorance they're proud of. They don't like icky boy-stuff; they like lots of whipped cream on their moccachinos.
This is Genteel Ignorance, a cultivated ignorance that one is proud of, like an aristocrat proud that he has no idea how to fix his own door. We have "people" for that, after all...
...Media: We don't want to ban all guns, you Paranoid Gun-Lovers. We only want to ban the Bad guns.
Expert: But you just completely botched your identification of the "Bad" gun involved here.
Media: That doesn't matter, they all need to be banned eventually anyway.
They're giving the game away, and they don't even care that their lying is not even of the half-hearted level of exertion any longer.
They want you to know they're lying -- just as a serial killer, ultimately, wants you to know he's the one.
They're each proud of their respective butcheries. They want to be famous for them.
They are not just murdering facts; they are unleashing a Great Revolution with their ritualistic torture of basic facts. What is the point of doing so, if the world does not know who the Author of these noble murders is?
[DAWN] The alleged abduction and conversion of a minor Hindu girl in Thar has triggered a wave of anger and indignation among members of the area's Hindu community.
Ravita Meghwar, 16, had allegedly been kidnapped by men from the Syed community of Wanharo village near Nagarparkar, Thar, on June 6th.
Yesterday (Thursday), the girl, along with 'husband' Nawaz Ali Shah, had met with local journalists in Umerkot to 'inform' them of her consent in both embracing Islam and her marriage.
She claimed to have embraced Islam in the presence of Pir Mohammad Ayub Jan Farooqui, an Islamic preacher, near the Samarro town of Umerkot district.
On Friday, the girl once again claimed to journalists in Islamkot that she had not been kidnapped but had eloped with Shah. She also demanded protection for both herself and her husband.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the Hindu community, along with the girl's family, has insisted that she was kidnapped and forced to convert. Satram Das Meghwar, Ravita's father, has alleged that influential members of the Syed community had kidnapped his daughter after giving sleeping pills to the family.
He alleged that despite frequent appeals, Thar police avoided tracing the girl till she was forced to convert.
According to the marriage certificate issued by the preacher, a copy of which is available with Dawn, "The girl is approximately eighteen years old, can marry the person of her choice and her Islamic name is Gulnaz".
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... according her primary school certificate, available with Dawn, Ravita was born on July 14, 2001.
The PML-N MNA from Thar and chief of the Pakistain Hindu Council, Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, has expressed his concern over the alleged abduction and the subsequent conversion of Ravita.
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[DAWN] Blame game seems to have become the order of the day and Friday was the turn of Prime Minister House that accused the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case of phone tapping and monitoring of witnesses -- a violation of the law and the Constitution.
"The reliance and reference to ’technical analysis’ is indeed an admission by JIT of phone tapping and monitoring of witnesses, a violation of the law and the Constitution," said the PM House in its rejoinder to the JIT application in which it had accused some government institutions of creating impediments in its work and tampering with relevant documents.
The PM House’s rejection of allegations is part of Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf’s four-page rejoinder to the JIT application, submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday. A three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan had asked the AG to submit his reply to the application.
The PM House denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! that it tutored witnesses and persons who were being summoned by the JIT -- constituted under the April 20 Supreme Court judgement to probe allegations stemming from Panama Papers leaks.
In its application, the JIT had alleged that witnesses were being tutored at the behest of the Sharif family and confidential letters were being leaked by misusing the PM House. The chief executive officer of the Ittefaq Group -- a close associate of the prime minister -- directed Tariq Shafi, the cousin of Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , to come to the Prime Minister House prior to appearing before the JIT, it alleged.
In its denial, the PM House said, if needed, the persons being named were willing to file rejoinders.
Similarly, it denied that the PM House had leaked summons issued by the JIT and said the summons might have been leaked by the team itself or the JIT staff. Nevertheless, it said, such summons were matter of public knowledge and their leak did not in any manner hamper investigations as alleged.
The AG’s reply also contained the rejoinder of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) which denied hacking the Facebook account of a JIT member, Bilal Rasool, or his family members or any other member of the team.
"Low-downs on members of JIT was done under the standard operating procedures," it said and also denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! that IB field staff were found loitering outside the residence of Mr Rasool on May 24.
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Wow. The legal authorities in Pakistan are willing to break the law. Who would have ever suspected such an unfortunate thing might ever occur?
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[ABC] The nonprofit organization Consumer Reports stated the popular liquid laundry detergent packets, sometimes referred to as "pods," may pose a "lethal risk" for adults with dementia, who may mistake the highly concentrated detergent packets for food.
The group obtained statistics from the Consumer Product Safety Commission after filing a Freedom of Information Act. The data showed that there have been eight deaths related to ingesting the liquid laundry detergent packets in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017. Of those deaths, six were adults with dementia and two were young children.
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My favorite is still years back when a marketing campaign put little bags with foil pack samples of Sunlight dish detergent on people's front doors. Lots of folks saw the lemon on the label, mixed it in a glass of water and drank it without ever reading the words on the label.
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Eight people died over an eight year period from ingesting laundry detergent packets? That seems like a very low risk. The government can't protect us from everything--not even 911, San Bernardino, or Chattanooga.
[Digital Trends] Scorkl is a self-contained system that allows users to fill their own air tank and use it to stay underwater for up to 10 minutes at a time.
Awhile back we took a look at a device called the AirBuddy, which billed itself as a safe and easy to use alternative for those who want to try scuba diving without having to take special classes or get any kind of certification. But a new gadget called the Scorkl looks to take that experience a step further, giving users even more freedom for exploring underwater.
Scorkl, which derives its name from the combination of scuba diving and snorkeling, launched on Kickstarter a few days back. In a nutshell, it is a compact and lightweight scuba system that comes with a miniature air tank, an always-on regulator, and a pressure gauge. It is small enough to carry just about anywhere and can even be safely take on a plane, making it a good option for travelers and those who don’t want to waste a lot of time getting into the water.
The system allows users to dive in relatively shallow waters and stay submerged for up to 10 minutes at a time. Scorkl designers say that it is safe for use down to 20 meters below sea level, provided the diver is scuba certified, although they recommend that most people don’t go any deeper than 10 meters. They also recommend that uncertified divers stay within 3 meters of the surface at all times.
[Daily Mail] In a major breakthrough for quantum teleportation, scientists in China have successfully transmitted entangled photons farther than ever before, achieving a distance of more than 1,200 km (745 miles) between suborbital space and Earth.
Entangled photons theoretically maintain their link across any distance, and have potential to revolutionize secure communications – but, scientists have previously only managed to maintain the bond for about 100 km (62 miles).
Using the ‘quantum satellite’ Micius, the scientists were able to communicate with three ground stations in China, each more than 1,000 km (621 miles) apart.
i have a girlfriend who did medical research for a Japanese company while her husband was on assignment over there with an American firm. She said that such research is always done under temperature-controlled conditions, eg. at room temp defined as, say 72F + 0.5 degrees. In the U.S. the room will be controlled to that temperature and that range, because that is what the thermostat is capable of. In Japan, she said, the experiment write-up will give that same information, because that is what the thermostat is capable of, but the building services team turned off the heating or air conditioning -- depending on the season -- at night and on the weekends as a cost savings measure when no one was supposed to be there. That was in the 1990s; since that tidal wave-induced shutdown of Japan's nuclear power plants, trailing daughter #2 commented that when she was in Tokyo for an internship a few years ago there was no air conditioning to be had in her office or her studio apartment all summer.
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Absolutely legitimate, g(r)omgoru. I should have clarified my own point better: the Japanese don't fake results, as far as I am aware, it's just that their understanding of conditions, while fine for car parts, will lead to biomedical results difficult to reproduce beyond their shores.
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I've should've mentioned that I - and everybody else I know - make the distinction between Japanese and Chinese scientists: it's like the manufactured staff Chinese sell - like it was their national sport to see how far they can cheat the barbs ( = non-Chinese).
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When I worked for USGS, we calibrated our prototype fault creepmeters and tiltmeters in a 150 year old ammunition vault buried under 30 ft of earth and concrete at the Presidio in San Francisco. Diurnal temperatures varied within a range of 0.2 deg C.
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The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away.
Who the hell do you think orders them to be dishonest? The Easter Bunny and Santa Claus?
[American Thinker] Navy destroyer in Sea of Japan: A sideways collision or more fake news?
By Brian C. Joondeph
Yesterday’s news, aside from the usual Trump obstructing, colluding, and making money on his investments, included a ship collision. As described by ABC, a "Navy destroyer collides with container ship off coast of Japan." NBC had a similar headline, "Navy destroyer collides with ship off Japan."
Fox News worded their headline a little differently, "US Navy involved in collision." As did CNN saying, "Navy destroyer collision off Japan."
It was a terrible accident as US sailors are missing and potentially injured or worse, but my point is regarding the choice of words describing what happened.
The dictionary definition of collide is "to hit something violently." Something hits something else. A verb. Seems straightforward. The word collision is a noun, an event that occurred. Not clear is what hit what.
Two of the above mention stories uses the word "collision", which is clearly what happened yesterday. Two other stories used the word "collide", meaning one ship hit the other ship. The headlines, by saying the US Navy ship collided with the Japanese container ship, imply that the Navy ship hit the container ship.
What do the pictures say? This first photo is of the US Navy destroyer.
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Looks to my untrained eye that the container ship aimed for the destroyer - even to the point of making a couple of u-turns.
Or am I missing something?
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Although we won't know a lot more until more of the investigation is done, according to the rules of the road, the ship on the left (the Fitzgerald) is responsible for keeping clear of the other ship. I'm not sure what would happen if the container ship suddenly decided to ram.
According to Wikipedia, the Fitzgerald has two surface search radars so they should have seen the other ship coming.
When I was on active duty 45 years ago, there was always a lot of tension the bridge when you were in a shipping lane with lots of traffic - especially at night.
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The world should be a war zone when you skipper a destroyer.
I'd suggest "past-tense" for many of those in charge
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Negligence on both bridges, and clearly a command climate that harbored poor junior leadership. Early morning makes one wonder who might have been in eyeball defilade.
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.
[FOX] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Los Angeles International Airport recently seized more than eight pounds of crystal methamphetamine concealed in the undergarments and carry-on baggage of three passengers attempting to leave the country, the federal agency reported on Wednesday.
[CNN] The rifle used in the attack that left a congressman and four other people wounded on a baseball field is a Soviet-era relic that is widely available in the United States and was used in another mass shooting last year.
[DAWN] Blame game seems to have become the order of the day and Friday was the turn of Prime Minister House that accused the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case of phone tapping and monitoring of witnesses -- a violation of the law and the Constitution.
[Daily Mail] In a major breakthrough for quantum teleportation, scientists in China have successfully transmitted entangled photons farther than ever before, achieving a distance of more than 1,200 km (745 miles) between suborbital space and Earth.
