[Stephen Kinzer, 'Poisoner In Chief' page 26 - 27] Japanese police officers, acting on orders from the Counterintelligence Corps, found Shiro Ishii living almost openly in his hometown and arrested him. On January 17, 1946, he was brought to Tokyo. He was installed in his daughter's home on a small street. Over the next four weeks, he sat willingly for interviews with a Camp Detrick scientist. They were informal and at times even genial. "He literally begged my father for top-secret data on germ weapons," Ishii's daughter later recalled. "At the same time, he emphasized that the data must not fall inot the hands of the Russians."
[Page 29] During the war years, Kurt Blome and Shiro Ishii had known of, admired, and encouraged each other's work. Designs of their medial torture centers were remarkably similar. When the Axis was finally defeated in 1945, it was reasonable to expect that they would share the same fate. So they did-- but not the fate they might have feared. Scientists from Camp Detrick had rescued Ishii. Now they must find a way to rescue Blome.
Wiki links to Ishii and Blome added.
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Well, you could say, "he spread the seeds of his own destruction" - He doesn't look so happy in his mugshot... Cheer-up Bub, you are going to be a dad!
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“The idea is you’d have people running up and down Whitehall handing out carbon copies of documents to colleagues at other departments or agencies, to keep people in touch,” one of the officials told the newspaper.
And thus, the return of a heretofore "extinct occupation" - Paper Boys
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"Police say no motive for murder in subway." Hey, Sandy Pearlman called that by a more than couple decades.
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Andrews Air force base high level security of transport flights for sensitive people. Janitor was caught collecting carbons thrown into trash. Many moons ago.
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The A/C's not working, the electrical system is all balled up, must have Lucas installed on it. (wink)
British Engineering... (Nothing new, it's a British Tradition) Are Lucas electricals as bad as everyone says?
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What power the carrier? I did a quick search and nothing came up except that the carrier has a 0,000 nautical miles range, which indicate that it's not nuclear powered?
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Union labor has been trash for a long time now. It's reaching chinese levels of sub-mediocrity.
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Don’t chortle too loudly; our very own USS Zumwalt is such a disaster that the originally plan of 33 (I believe) ships was cut to 3(those already under construction) because they were either too expensive, systems didn’t work as planned, or both of they above. In addition, many of the newer ships that were fitted with manpower-reducing automated systems (damage control and the like) are being refitted with additional berthing, as HAL ins’t working as planned. I was curious as to how a Dell laptop could carry and install a DC plug 5 decks down.
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USN Ret, don't forget the entire class of the Little Crappy Ships.
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Zum was supposed to be a land bombardment ship. Who the f*ck made that decision? They are being refitted to handle hypersonics now.
As always, lessons are being learned. But at a stupidly high price.
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Ref #9 above:
Zumwalts' as land bombardment ships? With 2 popgun turrets and about 150 missile tubes that need shore reloads after firing? Seriously? Sounds like a staff study cover story for a major mistake.
We had a pretty good idea for that mission back in 1944:
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She left port on only one screw as I recall, wake image confirmed it was the port side (left for the USAF guys), and no escort vessels offshore, suggesting to me that they knew she was busted but needed to make the photo-op departure and hoped to fix her a bit away from the press. Her return to port suggests worry about propeller damage, suggesting dive shaft misalignment/bearings issue?
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/\ Yes, but having gotten rid of these people once, West Africans were not that welcoming. The entire plan quickly began to fall apart and violence and bloodshed erupted.
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"Mind own business, prease!" Or, A Man, a PLAN, etc.
Confucius say, "Long live King Pooh!
Although... in the future [boo hoo]
We may have a few more.
When those kings go to war,
Who decide whose crude geegaws get through?"
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] So, he wasn't Russian?
Calls regarding the jump at 56 Leonard Street near Church Street came in at around 12:30pm on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the NYPD The city's EMS officials responded to the incident and were seen carrying the man's body off in a black body bag at the base of the famous Manhattan tower
The man was pronounced dead before leaving the scene
He was identified as Gustavo Arnal, Chief Financial Officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, early Sunday morning
Bed Bath & Beyond announced just days earlier that it would have to lay off 20% of its staff and close 150 stores nationwide as high inflation and a sagging economy hammer large US companies
Arnal took on the role of CFO in 2020, having previously worked as an executive at several major companies including Avon, Walgreens, and Procter & Gamble
President Trump predicted this, but he was mocked and reviled for it. Interesting times we live in.
[HotAir] Russia has shut off the gas supply to Germany indefinitely. Russia has been playing this game for months and now it seems to have reached its inevitable outcome. The gas supply flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been completely shut off. Russia claimed this week that it was shutting the gas supply off temporarily in order to do maintenance on the line. Then it claimed it had discovered a problem which prevented it from resuming the supply. No one is being fooled by any of this anymore. Even the German company that built the machines used to pump gas through the pipeline has said Russia’s explanation makes no sense.
The Russian-owned energy giant had been expected to resume the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Saturday after three days of maintenance. But hours before the pipeline was set to reopen, Gazprom said that problems had been found during inspections, and that the pipeline would be closed until they were eliminated. It did not give a timeline for restarting...
In its statement Friday, Gazprom said it found oil leaks around a turbine used to pressurize the pipeline, forcing it to call off the restart. The German company Siemens Energy, the maker of the turbine, cast doubt on that account. "As the manufacturer of the turbines, we can only state that such a finding is not a technical reason for stopping operation," the company said late Friday. Siemens also said there were additional turbines available that could be used to keep the pipeline operating.
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As the manufacturer of the turbines, we can only state that such a finding is not a technical reason for stopping operation
Probably not many technical reasons for sanctions, either, but, there we are.
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At least Russia shut it down in steps, giving Europe a chance to get used to it and start working on a response.
I imagine there are those in Europe now saying, “See? This is exactly what that awful Trump would have done, if we’d let him talk us into making America our main supplier.” Which shows how important it is for every country to have at least part of their energy production domestically controlled.
[DNYUZ] High Seas Deception: How Shady Ships Use GPS to Evade International Law
The scrappy oil tanker waited to load fuel at a dilapidated jetty projecting from a giant Venezuelan refinery on a December morning. A string of abandoned ships listed in the surrounding turquoise Caribbean waters, a testament to the country’s decay after years of economic hardships and U.S. sanctions.
Yet, on computer screens, the ship — called Reliable — appeared nearly 300 nautical miles away, drifting innocuously off the coast of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. According to Reliable’s satellite location transmissions, the ship had not been to Venezuela in at least a decade.
Shipping data researchers have identified hundreds of cases like Reliable, where a ship has transmitted fake location coordinates in order to carry out murky and even illegal business operations and circumvent international laws and sanctions.
The digital mirage — enabled by a spreading technology — could transform how goods are moved around the world, with profound implications for the enforcement of international law, organized crime and global trade.
Tampering this way with satellite location trackers carried by large ships is illegal under international law, and until recently, most fleets are believed to have largely followed the rules.
But over the past year, Windward, a large maritime data company that provides research to the United Nations, has uncovered more than 500 cases of ships manipulating their satellite navigation systems to hide their locations. The vessels carry out the deception by adopting a technology that until recently was confined to the world’s most advanced navies. The technology, in essence, replicates the effect of a VPN cellphone app, making a ship appear to be in one place, while physically being elsewhere.
Its use has included Chinese fishing fleets hiding operations in protected waters off South America, tankers concealing stops in Iranian oil ports, and container ships obfuscating journeys in the Middle East. A U.S. intelligence official, who discussed confidential government assessments on the condition of anonymity, said the deception tactic had already been used for weapons and drug smuggling.
After originally discovering the deception near countries under sanction, Windward has since seen it spread as far as Australia and Antarctica.
“It’s a new way for ships to transmit a completely different identity,” said Matan Peled, a founder of Windward. “Things have unfolded at just an amazing and frightening speed.”
Under a United Nations maritime resolution signed by nearly 200 nations in 2015, all large ships must carry and operate satellite transponders, known as automatic identification systems, or AIS, which transmit a ship’s identification and navigational positional data. The resolution’s signatories, which include practically all seafaring nations, are obligated under the U.N. rules to enforce these guidelines within their jurisdictions.
The spread of AIS manipulation shows how easy it has become to subvert its underlying technology — the Global Positioning System, or GPS — which is used in everything from cellphones to power grids, said Dana Goward, a former senior U.S. Coast Guard official and the president of Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, a Virginia-based GPS policy group.
“This shows just how vulnerable the system is,” he said.
Mr. Goward said that until now, all major global economy players had a stake in upholding an order built on satellite navigation systems.
But rising tensions between the West, Russia and China could be changing that. “We could be moving toward a point of inflection,” Mr. Goward said.
Analysts and Western security officials say the U.S. and European Union sanctions on Russian energy imports as a result of the war in Ukraine could drive Russia’s trade underground in coming months, obscuring shipments of even permitted goods in and out of the country. A large shadow economy risks escalating maritime deception and interference to unprecedented levels.
U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that the spread of AIS manipulation is a growing national security problem, and a common technique among sanctioned countries. But China has also emerged in recent years as a source of some of the most sophisticated examples of AIS manipulation, officials said, and the country goes to great lengths to conceal the illegal activities of its large fishing industry.
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How many times do we need to discover that trust should not be extended to peoples and nations until it is earned? Trust but verify is not racist or insulting, just prudent. Someone needs to tattoo that on the forehead of every Department of State employee above GS-7.
That includes the naive assumption that widely used technology is immune to manipulation by those with whom you would never trust with your daughter! My personal list includes most of the known world, all of Iran, Pakistan and Communist China, and a majority of Democrats here at home. Even acouple of my grandkids are a bit sketchy
[Discover Magazine] On Nov. 30, 1803, military physician Francisco Xavier de Balmis set off from the port of La Coruña in northwest Spain on what would become a three-year mission. On board with him were 22 orphan boys. Their goal: to complete the first global immunization campaign.
The world was riddled with smallpox, which killed one-third of all infected. Though Edward Jenner had discovered in 1797 that pus from a cow’s cowpox blisters could be used as a vaccine, the majority of the world had no access to the inoculation. Cowpox was such a local disease, mostly found in England and occasionally France or Italy, that it was unclear how anyone could scale vaccination to more people.
Eventually, Jenner came to the realization that he could remove the cow from the vaccination equation. He discovered that by taking the pus from a vaccinated person’s cowpox blisters and putting it into the arms of others, he could create a "warm chain": arm-to-arm vaccination.
King Charles IV of Spain was watching in horror as family members and millions of people in his colonies were felled by smallpox. He conceived of a grand mission, the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine, which would take the vaccine to the Americas, save his people, and make the Spanish Empire the first with a robust plan against the pox.
Smallpox was so incredibly infectious that any adult alive probably had already lived through the disease, and anyone with existing immunity would fail to develop the blisters needed to harvest more pus and propagate the vaccine.
Children were the only subpopulation that could keep the vaccine alive, so Balmis recruited 22 orphan boys, aged 3 to 10 years old. King Charles announced that the crown would take care of all these boys as compensation for their bravery, taking on all expenses related to the boys’ wellbeing and ensuring their schooling and financing until they were old enough to support themselves.
At times it looked like the cowpox vaccine would run dry and the expedition would be cut short. But despite close calls due to stormy weather and travel delays, Balmis persevered with the vaccine intact. At every stop he made sure always to instruct new physicians on how to schedule vaccinations to best keep the cowpox alive. He also helped local authorities set up vaccination institutions to oversee and track the administered doses. Versions of some of those vaccine boards still exist today. While records are incomplete, experts today believe the team managed to vaccinate 100,000 to 150,000 people in North and South America.
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OK, history of medicine, when people attempted to practice medicine, and relevance to their time. Now 220 years later, different time, different "goals" for the medical community & international rich power players, the governments, the pharmaceutical industry, and you...substituted for laboratory rats, here try this untested experimental mRNA, DNA mutation "vaccine" which kills your body's natural defense mechanism, forever. Lab Rats.
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Smallpox was so incredibly infectious that any adult alive probably had already lived through the disease
No, no, no. The stupid, it hurts.
When you get smallpox and don't die, the smallpox sores leave scars all over your body. They are unmistakable and are on the face as well. This is the origin of the phrase "pock-marked". You've been marked by the pox as a survivor.
#SriLanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been provided with an official residence and security by the government after returning to the country he fled in July during economic unrest, two senior officials say.https://t.co/NKYSeX7V8K
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.
[Stephen Kinzer, 'Poisoner In Chief' page 26 - 27] Japanese police officers, acting on orders from the Counterintelligence Corps, found 
The world was riddled with smallpox, which killed one-third of all infected. Though Edward Jenner had discovered in 1797 that pus from a cow’s cowpox blisters could be used as a vaccine, the majority of the world had no access to the inoculation. Cowpox was such a local disease, mostly found in England and occasionally France or Italy, that it was unclear how anyone could scale vaccination to more people.
King Charles IV of Spain was watching in horror as family members and millions of people in his colonies were felled by smallpox. He conceived of a grand mission, the Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine, which would take the vaccine to the Americas, save his people, and make the Spanish Empire the first with a robust plan against the pox.
