Having heard a rumor that the Internet recently created an HR department, I, out of caution, am not going to acknowledge or comment upon the mugshot posted in the article.
[ValiantNews] A transgender individual from Arkansas has been arrested for calling in fake bomb threats in Mississippi.
On January 31st, the Oxford Police Department were informed about a post on social media, mentioning multiple times that a bomb had placed in the Mississippi city, which serves as the home of the University of Mississippi, also known as “Ole Miss.”
According to reports, police officers, including a K9 unit, searched the area of Oxford mentioned in the online posts, and after a while, came to the conclusion that there was no bomb after all. The investigation then switched to finding out who was behind the posts to begin with.
Investigators determined that Lily Mestemacher, 29, a transgender individual who identifies as a woman, was behind the posts. Mestemacher is a resident of Conway, Arkansas, hundreds of miles away from Oxford.
An arrest warrant was subsequently issued to Mestemacher for the crime of false reporting of placing explosives that evening. They were then arrested by Conway Police, and extradited to Oxford on February 10th, where they were booked.
The transgender individual was taken in front of a Lafeyette County Justice Court judge for the initial bond hearing, and given a $50,000 bond for the alleged bomb threats.
Following the news breaking, a number of conservatives and others online were quick to mock the news and police for referring to Mestemacher as a woman. In a mugshot issued by Oxford Police, Mestemacher can be seen with a shock of long blonde hair, but also a very obvious beard, revealing they are a biological male.
The creature clearly spends more time grooming his beard than on the rest of his appearance combined.
Last year, the federal government seemed to confirm that transgender “women” still count as men for at least one purpose, when they announced that those who are born male must still register for the draft.
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He could move to Spain and have his paid menstrual leave.
Seriously,
feminists:
I'm stronk and embowered and can do man things better then men!
Also feminists:
I need a week of paid vacation every month because my feelz!
So I ask the fashionistas:
Sure see a lot of loser, predatory males deciding to be female in order to gain advantages. Sure don't see loser females pretending to be men for advantages. Any thoughts on this?
We discussed this attack on Monday in comments — which is why it didn’t show up in the searches — at which point Mr. Sor was thought to be homeless.
[NYPOST] The deranged U-Haul driver who killed one person and injured several more in Brooklyn thought it was "judgment day" when he unleashed his rampage, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. ”He heard this trumpet, see, and he thought it was the last one."
The revelation So to speak...
came as 62-year-old Weng Sor’s attorney questioned whether his client was fit to stand trial, and a Brooklyn judge ordered that the accused killer undergo a psychiatric evaluation during his first court appearance. "He's got bite marks in the small of his back!"
"Yeah. He put 'em there himself!" Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling...... police sources provided more details on the suspect’s mental state — including that he was obsessed with Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... and rambled on about the ex-president during barely coherent statements to detectives. Meaning he's a liberal?
"[He’s] absolutely deranged," one source said of Sor. Hey! You can't call him that!
Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney David Ingle alleged that Sor had been out for blood when he launched into his more than hour-long rampage Monday, running down New Yorkers in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge before finally being stopped in Red Hook. “He stated that he wanted to hit those people that [disturbed] me,” Ingle said as Sor was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
“‘It’s judgment day,'” Sor told cops after his arrest, according to Ingle. “‘l want it to end by taking out enemies. Shoot me! I will not give in.'” "O'Malley!"
"Yes, Chief?"
"Whack his pee-pee!"
[Whack!]
"Argh! Police brutality!"
"Shuddup."
Police officials said Tuesday that Sor “was suffering a mental health crisis” during the mayhem and that he told cops he was set off by “an invisible object” he saw coming at his truck. "An invisible space alien! Look out!"
Sor had rented the U-Haul from West Palm Beach, Florida — and allegedly told police he’d traveled there from his home in Nevada because he wanted to meet Trump, according to sources.
The crazed U-Haul driver who allegedly mowed down at least eight people, killing one, during a violent Brooklyn rampage Monday has a troubling history of violence and mental illness — and spent time in prison for knifing his brother, his family said.
The suspect served about 17 months behind bars for stabbing his brother in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2015, according to court and prison records. He was then sentenced to nearly a year in the county jail in 2020 for stabbing a man during a scuffle — and underwent months of psychiatric evaluation.
“He’s a schizophrenic. He’s crazy,” Daryl Singer, Sor’s brother-in-law told The Post.
US Journalist Seymour Hersh lays the blame of the blowing up of two underwater pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Germany squarely at the door of the CIA
He alleges US navy divers planted explosives on pipeline during NATO exercise
Three investigations by Germany, Sweden and Denmark failed to find the culprit
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Wilderness of Mirrors mist forms after Hersh expose and Balloon-gate, right on schedule? It certainly feels like a media-management playbook is being followed to muddy-up any clear thread for talking heads to follow?
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Given Hersh or the pipeline guy who posted ere a couple of months ago, I'll take the Burg poster - poor maintenance and operation and a sloppy restart. Did Seymour 'splain that away?
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Sadness. Wasn't supposed to go like this but I guess just too much money to be made in DC. But knowledge is good and on a good day, I like our chances.
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Not 1 of the Norwegian ships was near that area when Seymour says they were. Not that truth, reality and facts animate the USA right wing anymore.
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/\ Brainstorming is NOT dead. We see it on the Burg every day. Throw it up there (comment), talk about it, rank order it, arrive at a logical decision or conclusion. There are some great minds at work here, excluding my own addled noodle.
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The area is where they're practicing reintroducing the wolf which had pretty much been wiped out about a hundred years ago. Apparently, the wolves prefer the easier ranchers' stock than the feral beasts wandering the area.
[FoxNews] Visitors at the Texas state capitol earlier this week were witnesses to the 65th annual Rattlesnake Roundup.
The event entails the Sweetwater Jaycees, a public service organization, bringing the reptiles to town to promote what is billed as the "World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in March.
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[REGNUM] Iconic American action actor 67-year-old Bruce Willis is suffering from a disease associated with age-related brain changes - aphasia.
That poor man. At least they know what they’re dealing with now.
“Doctors diagnosed frontotemporal dementia. Today there is no cure for this disease. As Bruce's condition progresses, we hope that the media will shed light on this ailment, which requires much more public awareness and more research , ”relatives addressed the public.
The family, in a released statement, admitted that Bruce Willis has a speech impediment, but he is cheerful and even sometimes shoots videos for social networks.
As REGNUM reported , actor Sylvester Stallone admitted that due to health problems, his colleague Bruce Willis "is going through difficult times."
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Not that particular type, but dementia took my dad too. Smart man, Phi Beta Kappa and AOA, he just stopped eating when some part of him decided it was bullshit.
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Don't have many options, but I certainly wouldn't want to be a burden to anyone.
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It's a tough road. Dementia runs in the Mundi family on the female side. Old tales of the "crazy aunt upstairs" were not fairytales. Grandma Mundi, Mother Mundi succumbed. Thankfully we still had family in state to help out. Daughter and graddaughter Mundi could be next in line unless something comes along. Thoughts n prayers to all those who are dealing with this... a very hard road indeed.
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A massive stroke killed my maternal grandmother. A series of strokes robbed my mother of her reason ...it is an ugly way to go.
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[REGNUM] YouTube CEO Susan Wojciki has announced on the service's blog that she is stepping down.
"I have decided to step down from my position as head of YouTube and start a new chapter that will focus on my family, health and personal projects," Wojciki wrote.
Following Elon Musk’s Twitter revelations, YouTube and Facebook are started to get official attention from Congressional Republicans. Those responsible for the reason for that attention are wise to flee those sinking ships.
In her position, she worked for nine years out of a total of 25 years in video hosting.
The new successor will be the experienced Neil Mohan, who was the product director.
Susan Wojciki suggested that she might eventually become a consultant at Google and Alphabet.
As REGNUM reported , the call of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, to quickly save and transfer content from YouTube to Russian platforms "blew up" the Internet.
Is this a new pattern or an old one suddenly gaining national attention?
[NYPOST] A train transporting hazardous materials partially derailed Thursday in suburban bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , officials said.
The derailment occurred around 8:45 a.m. in the area of Huron River Drive between Martinsville and Haggerty roads in Van Buren Township, about 30 miles west of downtown Detroit, local police said.
Aerial footage showed at least six cars off the rails. The accident damaged the tracks and caused several sets of wheels to detach from the cars.
Officials said no injuries were reported, and there was no evidence that hazardous chemicals were spilled, according to the statin WXYZ.
"At this time no one is aware of the release of any hazardous materials, the car carrying hazardous material has been put upright and is being removed from the area of the other derailed cars, and EPA is dispatching a team to ensure public safety," Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat whose congressional district includes Van Buren Township, said in a statement.
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In the 1970s there was a new pattern as the railroads struggled with getting government permission to abandon unprofitable lines. Maintenance was deferred, train speeds reduced, and spectacular fireballs (propane, PVC) and toxic clouds resulted. Hazmat regulations and training for mitigation and easing of regulations ensued.
Recently, railroad have focused on longer trains to reduce crew costs, there are always union issues - people fall asleep on trains, and there is the distraction factor for politics coupled with outrage for the media. But Detroit is a blue town anyway, and this minor derailment would've never made it to the news any other time.
Railroad safety has consistently improved since the 1920s, IMHO, with some hiccups - like the 1970s.
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in 2022, there were about 1000 train derailments
this is below the long term average of about 1700
however, this conceals several factors
Since the 70s, there are fewer trains but they have gotten longer (Bobby's comment gets at this a bit). This is good from an economic efficiency standpoint. However, a 4 train derailment is way different than a 40 train derailment.
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Train carrying hazardous materials derails near Detroit
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When I was working with a railroad company the engines had cameras and audio. One of my fares was Suspended for 2 months because he was working a crossword puzzle in order to stay awake. They were also required to refrain from talking about anything except what was going on in the train. The engines are computerized so the computer drives the train.
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[USNInews] The Marine Corps and other service branches are competing to attract the same 412,000 eligible Americans between the ages of 17 to 24, a Marine recruiting commander said Tuesday.
There are approximately 32.8 million Americans, part of Gen Z, but when looking at those who qualify for and want military service, that number quickly dwindles to 412,000, said Brig. Gen. Jason Morris, commander of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, speaking at the West 2023 conference hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA.
There are a number of disqualifiers that account for bringing the number to 412,000, Morris said, including obesity, drug use and mental illness.
“We encourage people to get help, but once they get help, it’s in their records and we have to sort through that,” he said.
The number of Gen-Zers, or those who were born between 1997 and 2012, is approximately 7 million – less than that of millennials. This means the services, which have to compete against industry in addition to the other branches, have a smaller pool of people to attract, Morris said.
Bonuses and other incentives that the military offers, such as college assistance, are no longer unique to the services, with companies like Starbucks or Amazon offering similar benefits.
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Same 'bitch' by women looking for a good man. After you go through all their 'requirements' and look at the available pool, you are usually down to single digit percentages of the male population. At least the women can settle for cats.
And the military can settle for robot dogs carrying machine guns.
I am amused that while the article states the size of Gen Z and the available recruiting pool, it fails to mention the number of recruits needed. Journalists, bless their hearts!
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Same 'bitch' by women looking for a good man. After you go through all their 'requirements' and look at the available pool, you are usually down to single digit percentages of the male population.
Out of the entire male population of the world, I only needed one to meet my requirements for husband material, Procopius2k. Which I imagine is your point.
[Breitbart] The UK government is currently rehearsing an economic response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a report on Wednesday has claimed.
Government officials in Britain are reportedly wargaming the country’s economic response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, a report published by The Guardian has claimed.
Fears over the possibility of such an invasion have dramatically increased over the last few years, with both the war in Ukraine and the recent Chinese spy balloon scandal prompting some officials in the West to become more concerned about possible aggressive military action on the part of the Chinese Communist Party.
According to the report officials in Whitehall have now begun considering the UK’s economic strategy should war break out, with the country now said to be wargaming multiple scenarios involving an aggressive war by China against Taiwan, a major concern given the dependence of the west on so many manufactured items made in Taiwan.
One source has reportedly admitted to The Guardian that such an invasion would represent a vastly different challenge than the war in Ukraine, with the fact that the world’s supply of electronics and microchips are so intimately tied up with the two nations posing certain challenges for Westminster.
“It’s no secret that the supply chain problems would be greater, but just because it’s complicated that doesn’t mean it’s impossible,” the source remarked, adding that the UK would have to ” think in a different way” compared to its response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Officials are also said to have stressed to the publication that the preparations were purely precautionary, and that a potential invasion of Taiwan was just one of many so-called “black swan” events that the UK government makes preparations for.
Such a claim will likely not be all that assuring to many members of the general public, with tensions between the West and China growing substantially over the last number of weeks amid claims that the Communist nation has been deploying spy balloons over North America.
Some officials are also worried about how the West’s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict could shape relations with China, with one think-tank warning that the failure on the part of many pro-Ukrainian nations to replace weapons it sends to the Eastern European country mend up emboldening President Xi Jinping’s regime.
“The United States has been slow to replenish its arsenal, and the DoD has only placed on contract a fraction of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine,” Senior Vice President Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies reportedly remarked last month.
“Effective deterrence hinges, in part, on having sufficient stockpiles of munitions and other weapons systems. These challenges are not new,” he continued. “What is different now, however, is that the United States is directly aiding Ukraine in an industrial-style conventional war with Russia — the largest land war in Europe since World War II — and tensions are rising between China and the United States in the Indo-Pacific.”
Meanwhile, the UK has seen an increasing hawkishness towards China, with former Prime Minister Liz Truss expected to give a speech in Japan this week that will push for her successor, Rishi Sunak, to take a more confrontational approach towards Beijing.
[Defense One] China’s high-altitude spy balloons took Western politicians and publics by surprise, but they really shouldn’t have. Chinese strategists and industry have worked for more than a decade on 21st-century applications of the 18th-century invention—with some assistance from the West.
Aerostats—the word encompasses powered airships ("blimps") as well as unpowered balloons—have long been associated with military applications, particularly information-gathering activities. They hold numerous advantages in persistence and cost, and thus many of the Chinese organizations that produce them are directly funded by China’s military industry.
China’s interest in aerostats dates at least to the Mao era. Their modern applications have been noted as far back as 2010, when the National Air and Space Intelligence Center reported that China considered aerostats desirable for their large surveillance area between 1,000 and 2,000 km, low radar profile, ability to persistently loiter above desirable locations, and for their relatively inexpensive operating costs.
Two years later, a seminal conference further illuminated Beijing’s visions for aerostat development. The event was held at China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University, one of China’s "Seven Sons of National Defense" with extensive ties to the PLA and defense industry. It drew a wide range of participants, including Beihang University (another one of the Seven Sons, and the home of an aerostat company recently sanctioned by the Biden administration), the Chinese Aeronautical Society, and the PLA Air Force Equipment Research Institute.
The main theme of the conference was "innovation, development, exchange, and cooperation" with the clearly military goal of deploying aerostats for "early warning, command and communication, and anti-submarine activities." The conference was particularly interested in topics such as how to increase aerostat payloads, improve energy efficiency, and aerodynamics. It also encouraged participants to track aerostat developments internationally.
In 2020, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concluded that the PLA envisions an overlapping network of satellites and near-space aerostats to provide redundant and persistent intelligence and targeting capabilities. The value of that persistence is illustrated by not just the balloons crossing over U.S. and other nations’ skies, but by China’s own aerostat makers. For example, the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation claims that one of its model aerostat systems can stay aloft for two weeks, while the Aerospace Information Research Institute, claims its Jimu-1 can operate for months some 20 kilometers up in the air.
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This example of a Western aerostat company cooperating with PLA-linked organizations is, however, not unique. In 2018, the Texas-based company Nanoracks signed a partnership agreement with the China's Kuang-Chi Science company to produce the Traveler series of near-space balloons. In the words of Nanoracks, the Traveler balloon would have various uses “from ecological and terrestrial observation to satellite deployment and space research.”
[NYPOST] Apple — which thus far avoided the mass layoffs that have claimed tens of thousands of workers at Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft — has quietly begun axing contractors, On The Money has learned.
According to people with direct knowledge, the iPhone maker over the past few days has started to cut ties with hundreds of contractors — workers technically employed by outside agencies who work alongside Apple employees on projects — in what looks like a stealthy move to cut costs.
Instead of waiting for contracts that are typically renewed every 12 to 15 months to expire, Apple is firing contractors outright, sources said. One contractor claimed to have been blindsided, saying Apple management had assured him that all jobs were safe. Only a few weeks earlier, some had been gloating that Apple hadn’t overhired like other tech companies, the source added.
#4
Welcome to the Temp help reality. No no gold watch now, or ever. Termination by email. We're holding hour check until you drop off our laptop and cell phone.
[BLSgov] The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.7 percent in January. Prices for final demand goods advanced 1.2 percent, and index for final demand services moved up 0.4 percent. Prices for final demand rose 6.0 percent for the 12 months ended January 2023. was supposed to be +0.4
still probably only a 25 basis point increase in the Fed Fund rate but chances for a 50 point increase are higher than they were
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Laughing at even discount store prices and we are buying 18% to 20% less.
Recently took Store bought eggs @ $5.45 a DZ, when you can find them, off the shopping menu. Now buying eggs from a Hispanic neighbor for $2.50 dz, and he said he is making a profit at that price.
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^ Yes. Your neighbor does not have the inflationary costs of licensing and shipping.
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We could eventually revert to a very local economy, the opposite of gerbilization. Hardest hit, big blue city, better than you (in their own minds) snobs.
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Oh, you can't come down from that $67,000 on the F-150.
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BTW: Why is it, America’s largest egg producer, saw a 600% jump in profits in the last quarter. IF their production costs have risen to the levels they claim, and were just passed on in the form of HIGHER egg prices?
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Just checked
The COVID-19 vaccines authorized by FDA are not manufactured using egg products or technology. So the 12.7 + billion C-19+ doses administered worldwide did not affect egg inventory.
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This is really not good news. Once inflation gets going, it is very hard to stop. The Fed is a bit late to the party, but they do appear to be serious. We'll know if they do increase rates at least 1/2 percent, as two of the governors hinted very strongly yesterday that they would.
Of course, all bets are off until after we see the February inflation numbers--the last before the Fed Open Market Committee meets again in March 20.
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Something I was pricing at $699 two years ago, priced at $799 two months ago, and now $849. No change in the formula. Formula and suggested price basically matched two years ago. Suggested price is now about 12% more than my formula price.
[Breitbart] Dallas Alexander, a former special operations sniper with Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), said in an interview with retired U.S. Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan published Tuesday that he was removed from the Canadian military following his refusal to comply with “vaccination mandates” imposed by the Canadian government on the country’s military personnel.
In recent years, the Canadian military began increasingly infiltrated by “wokeness,” Alexander remarked. These “woke” policies, he added, included “sensitivity training” that reduced available time and energy for martial training.
“Every category of wokeness, it seemed like there was a sensitivity course that came along with it,” he stated. “Now, do I think people need to be nice to other people? Yes. Do I think it needs to take away from my fucking range time because you have some agenda? No.”
“So instead of learning how to kill people, you’re learning how to not hurt anybody’s feelings,” Ryan replied.
Discussion about the stages leading up to him being blocked from the army camp can be read and watched at the link.
Ryan linked the “woke agenda” to an undermining of morale, recruitment, and retention across Western militaries.
He stated, “Because of the jab mandates and the woke agenda, because this is happening across the world — it’s horrible — they’ve demoralized all of the units. The attrition rate is a joke now. They can’t keep anybody in. They can’t recruit anybody, because they miscalculated who joins the military, especially who serves in and who wants to serve in SOF [special operations forces] environment.”
Ryan said his communications with Navy SEAL alumni led him to believe many special forces left the military due to vaccine mandates.
“This is just an estimation that’s not based off any factual information other than just who I know left the SEAL teams because of the jab, and I’m gonna say, it’s damn close to 50 percent,” he remarked.
He concluded, “Between the woke agenda and the jab mandates, these are the only people in the fucking country that stand up for what they believe in. Everybody else has just got their head down and they’re just trying to get through the day. These are the only fucking people that step up to the plate.”
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It's more important to get the shot rather than make the shot in today's woke military? Especially in light of more and more info coming out concerning the risks of these shots.
#5
He hates America and despises Americans — and presumably Canadians — yet believes we should join him in taking up arms against our respective governments. How disgusting.
[Aviation Week] A small, globe-trotting balloon declared "missing in action" by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.
But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, "pico balloon" reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.
There are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts’ community, which combines ham radio and high-altitude ballooning into a single, relatively affordable hobby.
"I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down," says Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS), a Silicon Valley company that makes purpose-built pico balloons for hobbyists, educators and scientists.
The descriptions of all three unidentified objects shot down Feb. 10-12 match the shapes, altitudes and payloads of the small pico balloons, which can usually be purchased for $12-180 each, depending on the type.
"I’m guessing probably they were pico balloons," said Tom Medlin, a retired FedEx engineer and co-host of the Amateur Radio Roundtable show. Medlin has three pico balloons in flight in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Aviation Week contacted a host of government agencies, including the FBI, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the National Security Council (NSC) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for comment about the possibility of pico balloons. The NSC did not respond to repeated requests. The FBI and OSD did not acknowledge that harmless pico balloons are being considered as possible identities for the mystery objects shot down by the Air Force.
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#4 We're already dead. All that remains is the dirt we'll be planted in. Cheers!
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Skies suddenly fill with balloons
And presstitutes suffering swoons,
"But the scariest thing,"
So our overlords sing,
"Are those new white supremacist moons!"
The Man Who Wasn't There? The View from The View? Laughter of the Spheres?
#4
Thanks, Johnny McShame for dragging out the last tanker replacement competition for 15 years.
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Was the backup IT Eng. for the KC-130 sim at Seymore Johnson AFB. The Boom operator position was a position I could never understand why anyone would sign up to do. Imagine sitting on tons of JP fuel waiting for a spark or a static discharge to happen.
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On a Space-A flight years ago, while still on Active Duty, got a chance to literally sit off to the left behinds a Boom Operator as they did a BUFF refueling in flight. Far more complex than I imagined, and really, really impressed on me the skills/stones of both the boom operator and the BUFF pilot!
[SpaceWar] The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Babcock International Group a six-year contract to manage and operate Skynet, the MOD's military satellite communications system, on February 15.
The contract is called Skynet Service Delivery Wrap (SDW), it is valued at 400 million pounds ($486.6 million), and it is expected to support 400 jobs in Corsham, Bristol, and Plymouth, UK.
SDW is a part of the MOD's 6 billion pound Skynet 6 satellite communications program aimed at delivering battlefield communications to British and allied forces operating around the world. Skynet 6 is currently being built by Airbus and is set to be launched in 2025 and become operational in 2028.
Babcock is a British aerospace, defense, and nuclear engineering services company based in London, England.
David Lockwood, CEO of Babcock, said, "We are delighted to have been chosen to support this world-leading technological safeguard. Skynet enables vital communications to the UK Armed Forces wherever they are, helping to keep them safe."
"Babcock is a world leader in secure communications for the military. Together with our partners, we will provide a high-tech solution which combines the availability, affordability and capability that the UK needs." he added.
Babcock will partner with SES, GovSat, and Intelsat to manage and operate the current fleet of four Skynet 5 satellites, all built by Airbus.
The rival bidders for the SDW contract are Lockheed Martin UK, which partnered with a Serco-led consortium comprising CGI and Inmarsat, as well as British Telecommunications (BT), Viasat, and Airbus Defense and Space, who partnered with KBR, Leidos, Northrop Grumman, and QinetiQ.
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Kuiper going up soon. Will be on one of the first Vulcans, too.
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The poles are problematic for LEO sats. Not many customers there either.
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There's also a "Skynet" company in the Houston area, that does internet cabling. Driving to a site and seeing a van with 'Skynet' on it provokes an odd feeling.
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DOD is able to conduct drug surveillance over Midwestern states but it would be inappropriate for them to block illegals invading across our southern border.
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The drug interdiction angle is a shuck.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
/\ Brainstorming is NOT dead. We see it on the Burg every day. Throw it up there (comment), talk about it, rank order it, arrive at a logical decision or conclusion. There are some great minds at work here, excluding my own addled noodle. 
Susan Wojciki suggested that she might eventually become a consultant at Google and Alphabet.
This example of a Western aerostat company cooperating with PLA-linked organizations is, however, not unique. In 2018, the Texas-based company Nanoracks signed a partnership agreement with the China's Kuang-Chi Science company to produce the Traveler series of near-space balloons. In the words of Nanoracks, the Traveler balloon would have various uses “from ecological and terrestrial observation to satellite deployment and space research.”
Has the Chinese-Moffett field contract been finalized ? 
