[GEO.TV] An aircraft carrying Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others has gone missing, Malawi's presidency said on Monday.
"All efforts by aviation authorities to make contact with the Aircraft since it went off the radar have failed thus far," Malawi's Office of the President and Cabinet said in a statement.
Chilima, 51, was aboard a Malawi Defense Force aircraft that left the capital Lilongwe at 0917 local time (0717 GMT), the statement said, adding that search and rescue operations were ongoing.
President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered regional and national forces to conduct an "immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft", the statement said.
Chakwera, who was due to travel to the Bahamas for a working visit, has since cancelled his trip.
In 2022, Chilima was stripped of his powers when he was arrested and charged with graft over a bribery scandal involving a British-Malawian businessman.
Last month, a Malawian court dropped the charges after Chilima attended several court appearances.
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[YouTube] The SAS commandos silently infiltrated the German air base at Bagush, removed the nearby guards with their knives, set up the plastic explosives in every aircraft nearby, and crawled out of the perimeter completely undetected.
Minutes later, the towering figure of Paddy Mayne, the Irish Lion, observed the fireworks from afar. The enemy base was in flames, but that was not enough for the Irish warrior, who said: (QUOTE) "Damn, we did 40 aircraft. Some of the bloody primers must have been damp."
Unsatisfied with the havoc he had just unleashed with only three SAS commandos, he ordered them back to their heavily armed jeeps and told them the job was not over yet.
The commandos wanted to obliterate the entire base, storming into the blazing perimeter guns.
Such was the restless nature of the Irish Lion Commando, unleashed onto North Africa, leaving a path of destruction and paralyzing the Axis powers.
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[GEO.TV] A woman, who had been missing since Thursday, has been found dead inside a deadly 16-foot-long snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, according to a local official, CBS News reported.
Farida, 45, was discovered by her husband and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province on Friday inside the reticulated python.
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, prompting a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Her husband "found her belongings... which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly," said Suardi.
"They agreed to cut open the python's stomach. As soon as they did, Farida's head was immediately visible."
Farida was found fully clothed inside the snake.
The incident marks at least the fifth of its kind in the country since 2017.
According to CBS News, reticulated pythons grab onto their prey with dozens of sharp curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole.
They are common in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, and are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals.
The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, according to London's Natural History Museum. They are native to Southern Asia and can grow to be more than 20 feet long.
When 3dc was 8, and living overseas, a python that size ate his cat that used to kill vipers
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[JustTheNews] The Public Utility Commission of Texas received 125 applications for low-interest loans and grants for 56 gigawatts of new natural gas-fired generation, totaling $38.6 billion. The fund has enough for $5 billion.
A fund in Texas to support the building of natural gas-fired power plants received 125 applications for the development of 56 gigawatts of new generation. That's roughly the same amount of power that could be produced from more than 18,600 wind turbines.
In November, Texas voters – by a 65-to-35% margin – approved the creation of a fund to provide low-interest loans and grants for the building of new natural gas-fired power plants, and the Texas legislature allocated $5 billion to the fund.
The deadline for applications to the Texas Energy Fund, which is managed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, was Friday, and the applications total $38.9 billion, according to the agency.
“Since Winter Storm Uri in 2021, I have been abundantly clear that we must bring new dispatch-able generation (primarily new natural gas plants) to Texas to ensure we maintain reliable power under any circumstance,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a statement on the “overwhelming” response the program has received.
Uri, in February 2021, sent temperatures across a wide swath of the U.S. into sub-zero temperatures. Texas experienced widespread blackouts, and 246 people died as a result of the cold.
Energy analyst David Blackmon said since the storm, most of the added generation capacity in Texas has been from wind and solar, and the TEF leveled the playing field in terms of financing natural gas generation.
“The strong response clearly demonstrates that, despite its reluctance to build new natural gas generation in Texas for more than a decade now, the power generation community understands the pressing need for more dispatchable capacity,” Blackmon wrote on his Substack.
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Wind power in Texas is problematic. If it's too cold, the generators break down. If it's too windy, the blades have to be feathered. If it's not windy enough, they don't generate any power.
Solar is marginally better, but nuclear is the way to go.
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Good. Now mandate that they be location diverified, and connected to reliable fuel sources. Won't do any good if they're all in the same place, tied to the same feed.
Wind turbine farms wouldn't exist if it wasn't for federal subsidies and too much loose investment capital chasing an ESG score.
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[InsideHook] How would you like to taste an exclusive whiskey from one of Bardstown’s best distilleries? Better yet, how would you like to taste seven exclusive whiskeys from Bardstown’s best distilleries? That’s entirely possible during the first annual National Bourbon Week, which takes place June 11-16 in the Kentucky town nicknamed the "Bourbon Capital of the World."
While there will be plenty of tastings and activities, the focal point of National Bourbon Week will be the unveiling of the 2024 Bardstown Collection, a collaboration between seven area distilleries (up from five just two years ago). What makes them special? Fewer than 500 bottles will be available from each distillery, and many of the whiskey makers have gone out of their way to utilize unique blends, mash bills or age statements — such as the bottle from the James B. Beam Distilling Co, which is the oldest release ever by the company.
Purty pitchurs at the link
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Did the bourbon trail during family reunion a few years back. Everyone now n then I'll burp up a bit.
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Made a trip down there with my brothers. We enjoyed it.
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[REGNUM] Emmanuel Macron's decision to dissolve the National Assembly after his party's defeat in the European Parliament elections sounded like a bolt from the blue. Questions naturally arise about when exactly the president made this decision and why now. In the European Parliament elections held on June 9, the leading party from France was the National Rally, which received twice as many votes as President Macron’s Renaissance. Continued on Page 49
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Good stuff.
Pelican, check.
Gun/ammo/food safes, check.
Duffel, I've gone with HUSKY tool bags, 'tools'/surgical/shelter. Swapped out sutures for staples.
Clothing, urban camo. In a practiced effort to avoid tactical pre-registration I've gone with flowery Hawaiian luau overshirts.
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.
[YouTube] The SAS commandos silently infiltrated the German air base at Bagush, removed the nearby guards with their knives, set up the plastic explosives in every aircraft nearby, and crawled out of the perimeter completely undetected.
[GEO.TV] A woman, who had been missing since Thursday, has been found dead inside a deadly 16-foot-long snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, according to a local official, CBS News reported.
