[GEO.TV] Princess Meghan Markle ...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage... has shared her final verdict on UK return as Prince Harry gears up to attend a key charity event in the country.
While Duke of Sussex's trip to England scheduled for September 30th has sparked speculation about a potential royal reconciliation, an insider has shared that Meghan has other plans.
According to Radar Online, the Duchess of Sussex is determined to become an ''international superstar'' and sees England as her husband's ''hated homeland.''
"She is determined to become an international superstar, and I can't imagine her ever willingly returning to Harry's hated homeland,'' the insider shared.
"Harry's trip was his first step in mending bridges, especially with his cancer-stricken father, King Chuck ...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years... ,'' they added.
"Diana's family, including her sister Lady Jane, Lord Fellowes' widow, has worked hard to keep communications open since palace doors were slammed in Harry's face after his toxic attacks on the royal family.''
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... the insider added that Prince William and Kate Middleton are opposed to reconciliation with Harry due to his past criticisms of the royal family.
"That's good news for Meghan and the future of her marriage,'' the insider noted. ''Her success depends on keeping Harry and their royal titles!"
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“Garcon- l’ll have whatever that dizzy bitch is drinking.”
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Whistling past the fame "graveyard" as increasingly she has nothing left to sell except phony racism victimhood and pretentiousness, and neither one is in short supply these days. Harry is becoming even more vestigial and homesick, and her final play is dumping him and claiming....racism... on Oprah.
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Patton had substance and accomplishments against supreme adversity behind him. She has... a racial grift and a Prince-enthralled cooz...which seems to be losing allure
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Wild footage showed a Texas man's outrageous attempt to outsmart a police robot that ended with him being tear-gassed and rammed by the droid.
Felix Delarosa, 39, was arrested after he opened fire on police in Lubbock, Texas, with the incident turning into a SWAT standoff, according to local station KCBD.
Delarosa opened fire on anti-gang cops
…from this should we conclude that Mr. Delarosa is a gangster?
who tried to make contact with him at a hotel he was staying at, and repeatedly refused orders from SWAT negotiators.
This prompted police to send in their bomb squad robot, which was also shot at by the wanted man.
As the bot approached Delarosa's room, the former inmate could be seen stepping outside to cover the bot with what appeared to be either a blanket or towel.
Delarosa appeared to think he had bested the machine, but the officer controlling it shook off the fabric and deployed tear gas into his room through an open window.
The convict could then be seen crawling out through the open window and dropping onto the floor.
A disoriented Delarosa covered his face and struggled to get up but the robot then started driving over him, pulling his shorts down and exposing red underwear.
It continue to ram him and eventually pinned him against a wall so that SWAT officers could safely move in and make an arrest.
Delarosa is now charged with aggravated assault against a public servant
…the robot?? That seems a bit excessive…
following a standoff that lasted nearly two hours.
Police had originally gone to look for Delarosa because there was a warrant out for his arrest due to a parole violation for tampering with his electronic monitoring device. In 2017, Delarosa was sentenced to 20 years in prison for manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance. He looks like a meth guy
Delarosa was released from prison and placed on parole in April 2022, according to state prison records.
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Thank you, claiming Dad Joke Protection Status.
A bit more serious,
Question yesterday about whether a remote monitoring is actually an extension of a human person and therefore counts as a paid government agent:
Delarosa is now charged with aggravated assault against a public servant
[FoxNews] Michigan officers performed a life-saving feat along a busy stretch of road to assist a driver who was experiencing a medical emergency.
The Macomb County Sheriff's Office provided footage of the harrowing act, which occurred on Sept. 12 at approximately 2:18 p.m.
Deputies Nicole Miron and Anthony Gross responded to the stretch of busy road after authorities received a report that a silver GMC Sierra was driving erratically.
As Miron and Gross came closer to the GMC Sierra, they attempted to pull the erratic driver over. Police said that the 63-year-old male driver failed to stop and continued driving at approximately 5 mph.
Body camera footage from Miron's perspective showed the pair of deputies pulling up alongside the driver. Police said that he "appeared to be in a daze, unable to comprehend the requests."
Authorities said that he eventually pressed on the brakes, slowing the vehicle down further.
In a heroic move, Miron lifted herself through the driver's side of the window as the truck was moving along.
"Luckily, I am very small. When I went through the window, it was a big-size front kind of window, I was able to slide right through. I don't think any of my gun or gear touched him, so I slid through, my small stature helped and the fact that we were a two-man car helped," Miron told WXYZ.
To everything there is a season, including tiny policewomen. Betcha she can meet the push-ups and pull-ups standards.
The Clinton Township Fire Department came to the scene and treated the driver, who was experiencing a medical episode, police said.
[Breitbart] President of Panama José Raúl Mulino announced on Thursday that local authorities have detected an increase in U.S.-bound Chinese migrants crossing the Darién Gap jungle trail.
The Darién Gap is a 30-mile-wide, 100-mile-long jungle trail that Panama shares with neighboring Colombia and is the only land bridge between South and Central America. In recent years, a dramatic and unprecedented number of migrants have passed through the dangerous jungle trail en route to the United States.
Panama’s Migrant Authority documented 520,085 migrants who crossed the Darién Gap in 2023 — a record-breaking number that doubles the 248,284 logged in 2022. In 2021, authorities documented a total of 133,726 migrants who passed through the trail.
While Venezuelans fleeing the socialist regime in their country amply lead the statistics, Panama’s migration authority documented a notable surge in the number of U.S.-bound Chinese nationals passing through the jungle trail in recent years, going from a total of 296 in the entirety of 2010-2019 to 12,070 during the first eight months of 2024. China is now the fourth-largest group by nationality on the list.
In 2023, local authorities documented 25,565 Chinese migrants who passed through the jungle trail, up from the 2,005 logged in 2022.
“We have gone down in terms of [total migrant flow through the Darién Gap], but citizens from Nepal and China appeared in greater numbers in the last few entries,” Mulino said during a press conference.
Mulino, who took office on July 1, vowed to curb illegal immigration through the Darién Gap throughout his presidential campaign. Shortly after taking office, the new Panamanian government began installing barbed wire fences across some of the jungle trail’s routes and signed an agreement with the United States to establish U.S.-funded deportation flights that reportedly started in August. In that same month, the Panamanian government announced that it would launch deportation flight programs to China, India, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Mulino reportedly said during his Thursday press conference that his government is seeking to reach an agreement with Beijing to deport Chinese nationals passing through the Darién Gap but did not provide further details.
In August, Panamanian authorities announced that officers from the Senafront National Border Service dismantled a “VIP” route that Chinese migrants used to pass through the Darién Gap, arresting 15 individuals who managed it.
The “VIP” route, according to local prosecutors, saw its organizers offer Chinese migrants packages ranging from $2,600 to $8,000 per person for a faster, safer passage through the dangerous jungle trail. Passage through the “VIP” route allowed migrants to cross the jungle trail through a different route than the typical paths migrants take, which can take between five and eight days to complete.
According to Panamanian Prosecutor Emeldo Marquez, at least 700 migrants are believed to have paid for the exclusive route.
The Panamanian government reportedly foresees a considerable reduction of migrants passing through the Darién Gap by the end of 2024 compared to 2023 due to the closure of some trails and repatriation flights.
In addition to Panama, Ecuador began cracking down on illegal Chinese migrants passing through its territory by reinstating entry visa requirements for Chinese nationals in July, suspending a visa waiver agreement signed in January 2015 during the pro-China administration of socialist former President Rafael Correa.
While Panama vowed to curb the migrant flow passing through the Darién Gap, migrants can avoid the dangerous jungle trail altogether by flying to Nicaragua, where communist dictator Daniel Ortega maintains a policy of “weaponization” of migrants against the United States, granting U.S.-bound migrants safe passage through Nicaraguan territory in exchange for several fees and “fines” that have resulted in record-breaking profits for the communist regime.
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You'd think Tampon Tim Walz (D-CCP) would expedite their entry
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Curiously misleading article, China has a huge footprint in Panama though the Warehouses in the Colon Free Zone and the number of Chinese employed directly or indirectly by Hutchinson Whampoa involved in infrastructure management. They don't need to sneak through the Darien Gap, they just take a boat to Colon.
"...the population of Chinese origin has always had a relative presence. The Chinese community in Panama is made up of some 135,000 people, which represents 4% of its 4 million inhabitants."
"China is the largest provider of the Colon Free Zone (CFZ), located on the Caribbean coast of Panama, next to the northern mouth of the Canal. It is the most important free zone in the Americas and the second largest in the world, with an annual volume of imports and re-exports of $16.16 billion. In the first semester of 2017, the FTZ imported $1.344 billion worth of goods from China. Likewise, important Chinese companies have sought to establish themselves in the FTZ taking advantage of the strategic advantages it offers."
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[Regnum] A Chinese court has sentenced official Zhong Yang to 13 years in prison for having affairs with 58 subordinates, the South China Morning Post reported on September 19.
Ick.
Zhong Yang, who headed the Qiannan Bui-Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province, was convicted of accepting bribes totaling 60 million yuan (US$11.5 million) and misconduct, including having sex with subordinates.
The court sentenced the official to a fine of 1 million yuan (about 13 million rubles), and on September 1 she was expelled from the ranks of the Communist Party of China.
As the publication noted, Zhong Yang became a party member at the age of 22 and was able to build an impressive career: she was appointed governor and deputy secretary of the party committee of Qiannan-Bui-Miao County. Emphasis on "party"
At that time, the politician was even nicknamed "the handsome governor" for her striking appearance. According to the publication, Zhong Yang, among other things, loved to visit nightclubs.
Complaints began to come in from businesses that she had refused patronage to. One entrepreneur said Zhong Yang had neglected companies that had no personal connection to her, which had stifled the growth of private business in the region.
In April 2023, the Guizhou government launched an investigation into the official, which revealed that Zhong Yang had accepted large bribes. For example, she approved the development of 170,000 square meters of land in a high-tech industrial zone for a businessman with whom she had a close relationship. He later transferred the land for development, from which Zhong Yang made a significant profit.
In October 2022, China's top anti-graft official Xiao Pei publicly announced that China had effectively curbed the spread of corruption since the 18th Communist Party Congress in 2012. Some 80,000 officials had voluntarily confessed to their wrongdoings over the past five years.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on September 18, a Moscow court seized a penthouse belonging to the wife of Yevgeny Makovsky, acting director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums and Enterprise for the Production of Bacterial Preparations,” who is accused of attempted bribery. He was arrested at the end of last year while attempting to receive a bribe of 19 million rubles from Rusbiopharm. In exchange for the money, he promised to extend the contract for the supply of Convasel COVID-19 vaccines.
[Axios] The Chinese government is running another broad campaign to hack as many American organizations as possible — heightening the threat across critical infrastructure.
Why it matters: The new hacking campaign suggests China could hold more expansive power to turn off key U.S. infrastructure than previously thought.
Driving the news: FBI director Christopher Wray said at the Aspen Cyber Summit on Wednesday that the bureau and its partners hijacked thousands of devices last week that a Chinese hacking group had infected with malware.
Flax Typhoon, a new China-backed hacking team, infected home routers, firewalls, storage devices, and Internet of Things devices like cameras and video recorders.
Zoom in: As of June, Flax Typhoon's botnet included more than 260,000 malware-infected devices across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia, according to a U.S. government advisory.
Half of the hijacked devices were located in the U.S., Wray said in his remarks.
Security researchers at Black Lotus Labs said in a coinciding report that hackers have used the botnet to target U.S. and Taiwanese organizations in the military, government, higher education, telecommunications, defense and IT sectors.
The FBI also alleged that the Flax Typhoon hackers worked for Integrity Technology Group, a Chinese tech company that does contract work for Beijing's intelligence agencies.
The FBI also said that Integrity Technology Group operated and controlled the botnet.
Threat level: A senior administration official told reporters that while Flax Typhoon is focused solely on espionage, its more destructive counterpart, Volt Typhoon, shared some of the infrastructure for its attacks.
The big picture: The threat of China lurking inside U.S. and other global networks is now existential for American companies and government agencies, Tom Fanning, former executive chairman at electric power operator Southern Company, told Axios.
"While Flax Typhoon is the latest manifestation of a nation-state attacking the private sector, we do know that these things happen all the time," Fanning said.
Officials worry that China is establishing these footholds in networks tied to the U.S. and its allies so it can cause societal panic and trade disruptions during a potential Taiwan invasion.
Flashback: Earlier this year the country's top cybersecurity officials warned Congress about Volt Typhoon and shared that they had taken down that hacking group's own network of infected devices.
Volt Typhoon, a hacking group first publicly unveiled in May 2023, has gained access to several major critical infrastructure organizations, including a West Coast port, a utility in Hawaii, and at least one oil and gas pipeline.
Similar to Flax Typhoon, this group also targeted routers to gain initial access to these systems.
Yes, but: Botnet takedowns aren't a foolproof fix for taking down hackers, especially nation-state actors.
Despite a successful botnet takedown in January, Volt Typhoon has remained a persistent threat to critical infrastructure, officials have warned.
Cybercriminal gangs have quickly found workarounds after the government seized their botnets.
Between the lines: Operations like the one targeting Flax Typhoon still make it "riskier, costlier and harder" for nation-states to spy and hack U.S. critical infrastructure, Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging tech, told reporters.
What we're watching: Wray warned that the Flax Typhoon operation is just "one round in a much longer fight."
Stopping future threats will require the private sector and government to strengthen collaboration to get "as much of a real-time view of what's happening as possible," Fanning added.
[CBSnews] All of 23andMe's independent directors resigned from its board this week, a rare move that marks the latest challenge for the genetic-testing company.
The resignations follow drawn-out negotiations with 23andMe CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki, who wants to take the company private. In a Tuesday letter addressed to Wojcicki, the seven directors said they had yet to receive a "a fully financed, fully diligenced, actionable proposal that is in the best interests of the non-affiliated shareholders" from the chief executive after months of efforts.
The directors said they would be resigning effective immediately — arguing that, while they still believed in 23andMe's mission, their departures were for the best due to Wojcicki's concentrated voting power and a "clear" difference of opinion on the company's future.
Wojcicki later responded to the resignations in a memo to employees, published in a securities filing, saying she was "surprised and disappointed" by the directors' decision. Still, she maintained that taking 23andMe private and "outside of the short term pressures of the public markets" would be best for the company long term.
Wojcicki added that 23andMe would immediately be identifying independent directors to join the board. Wojcicki, who holds 49% of the voting power at 23andMe, was the only remaining board member listed on the company's website as of Thursday. A spokesperson had no further updates to share when reached by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
23andMe, which went public in 2021, has struggled to find a profitable business model since. The company reported a net loss of $667 million for its last fiscal year, more than double the loss of $312 million for the year prior.
Shares for 23andMe have also plummeted — with the company's stock closing at 33 cents Thursday, down more than 97% since its 2021 stock market debut, according to FactSet.
Was given a kit for my birthday a few years ago. I refused to use it because there was no absolute assurances that the data would be held secure and not sold and shared.
Also reading on back channels that a company merging with it wants to use AI the sort thru collected social data and DNA related data for political agenda purposes.
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Once you've done an ancestry test and they show you a family tree, there's not much further products to sell you
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So then you go private and become the outsource for those who are interested in genetics for -whatever reason-.
Unless you are one of those wacky foil hat people who think it was a honeypot operation to harvest DNA from the get-go. Man, those people, I'll tell ya.
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I have donating blood to the Red Cross since High School. There is little chance that my DNA has not been bought and sold. No sense in paying a company money to exploit me.
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If I were a Insurance company I could use the data to determine which to insure or not. What to charge and when to drop coverage due to genetics.
Not sure if Alcohol, drug use, med's used could be detected from the swab simple?
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The original mission, as I understand it, was to provide a data base for medical research, which would inevitably lead to blockbuster drug treatments — doing very well by doing good. Unfortunately, that has not yet delivered. And of course there were the data breaches.
But at least no one is accusing her of faking the tests and test results.
[FoxBusiness] In which another computer/internet behemoth unexpectedly shows societal responsibility, working over/under/around the idiots who’ve had a stranglehold over energy policy in America and the West. We may yet talk about how Bill Gates, the Oracle guy, etc. saved civilization instead of destroying it.
[AEROTIME] It is quite remarkable for an aircraft type to remain in active service for 70 years, especially when it is still in production.
On August 23, 2024, the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft had been flying for 70 years to the day since its very first flight.
Although keeping its general configuration and easily recognizable look, the venerable Hercules has seen numerous iterations since that eventful day of 1954 on which it first took to the skies.
Today’s version of the Hercules, the C-130J Super Hercules, which is produced and marketed by Lockheed Martin, is a thoroughly upgraded version with modernized engines and avionics.
During all these decades, the C-130 has also been adapted to perform a broad range of missions beyond the original tactical transport role. The Hercules has been used as a tanker, gunship, firefighter, electronic warfare, maritime patrol and special operations aircraft, to name just a few of the jobs it has performed.
More than 2,500 C-130s in its different versions have been built since.
The first of them was delivered to the US Air Force in 1956, but its versatility has also made the C-130 a best seller among air forces all over the world, with the number of past or current operators being counted in the dozens.
It has also had an active role in a large number of conflicts, starting with the Vietnam War, but also in the Falklands War, the two Gulf Wars and many of the post-Cold War conflicts and in support of numerous humanitarian emergencies.
Lockheed Martin markets also a version of the Hercules for the civilian market, the LM-100, LM-100J in its latest iteration.
With more than 500 C-130J Super Hercules already delivered and quite a few orders in Lockheed’s order book, it looks like the C-130 may well become a centenary aircraft three decades from now.
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A flight in a C-130 for the first time, and seated behind the pilot, is quite a thrill. It gives the appearance that the plane's landing gear won't deploy and the Herc is about to make a belly landing.
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Flew to Calif in the back of a USMC Herky once. There was a red hydraulic leak running down the inside wall in one spot. Told the crew chief. He said "Tell me if it stops."
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Got to ride one from Elmedorf to Adak, carrying our detachment and tools as well as refuel one of our Intruders. Mission was to certify Adak as a CV divert field.
On the way back the crew enjoyed som low level caribou chasing.
We guys in back were not as enamored by the yanking and banking….
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I just went to the Oceana Air Show today to see the Blue Angels with my son and his wife. My Ukrainian daughter-in-law said that her favorite plane was the C-130 Fat Albert.
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[GEO.TV] Cash-strapped Sri Lanka began voting for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation's unprecedented financial crisis.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is fighting an uphill battle for a fresh mandate to continue belt-tightening measures that have stabilised the economy and ended months of food, fuel and medicine shortages.
His two years in office restored calm to the streets after civil unrest spurred by the downturn in 2022 saw thousands storm the compound of his predecessor, who promptly fled the country.
"We must continue with reforms to end bankruptcy," Wickremesinghe, 75, said at his final rally in Colombo this week.
"Decide if you want to go back to the period of terror, or progress."
But Wickremesinghe's tax hikes and other measures, imposed per the terms of a $2.9-billion IMF bailout, have left millions struggling to make ends meet.
He is tipped to lose to one of two formidable challengers including Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the leader of a once-marginal Marxist party tarnished by its violent mostly peaceful past.
Sri Lanka's crisis has proven an opportunity for the 55-year-old Dissanayaka, who has seen a surge of support based on his pledge to change the island's "corrupt" political culture.
Fellow opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, the son of a former president assassinated in 1993 during the country's decades-long civil war, is also expected to make a strong showing.
"There is a significant number of voters trying to send a strong message... that they are very disappointed with the way this country has been governed," Murtaza Jafferjee of think tank Advocata told AFP.
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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.
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
