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Low tech sabotage and test runs by enemies foreign or domestic. Imagine the turmoil if a few hundred of these were spread across the US simultaneously. For practically no cost or evident preparations a coordinated strike across he country would paralyze our National leadership and emergency efforts just in time for a strike somewhere overseas, like the South China Sea perhaps?
Even just the nationwide impact would aid in the destabilization effects underway across the once-fruited plain... Cui Bono
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I haven't seen figures on how much a Mavic 2 can lift, but its not much and the extra power needed will cut its range and speed massively. This particular model is more about being a stable camera platform than high performance or lift.
The most I've ever seen one lift is a roll of toilet paper, but they're supposed to be able to lift a Go Pro or similar camera in addition to the built-in camera.
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Murcek, actually not so much. The US used a cruise missile delivered cluster bomb unit that carried carbon filament loaded charges to take down Iragi electric stations during the late unpleasantness.
High voltage lines mostly use air gap for insulation, and once there's an arc strike, it perpetuates itself. If you've ever been near high voltage towers in damp weather, you get to hear them sing and crackle. At the yard transformer is the really hazardous zone. That's why there's a fence around the place.
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At the yard transformer is the really hazardous zone. That's why there's a fence around the place.
I am still wondering why there isn't some kind of a sight barrier to conceal (at least a little bit) the transformers within, to make it more difficult for a scoped rifleman to put a few holes into them from a safe distance. Using drones to hover in the area could facilitate that kind of attack.
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High voltage lines mostly use air gap for insulation, and once there's an arc strike, it perpetuates itself.
That happened at my house years ago. A circuit breaker to my sump pump was triggered during a heavy rain. I switched it back on, the pump started up, and I could see an arc strike INSIDE my service panel.
White smoke suddenly poured out and beams of arc light shone through it.
For a second I just thought of running away. I wondered how conductive the white smoke might have been.
Instead I reached to the top of the panel, about 18 inches from the arc, and switched off the two main breakers supplying the rest of the panel. The arc stopped immediately.
It turned out there was a lot of corrosion between some of the breakers and the aluminum buss bar. Apparently when I reset the breaker, there was a spark between it and the buss bar connection, started the arc, which immediately spread to a couple of other nearby breaker connections.
Some electrician told me this is a problem with aluminum buss bars and moisture which is much less likely to happen with copper buss bars.
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Bubba, the problem with aluminum bus bars and conductors in general, is that the rate of expansion is higher than copper. When heated, or when current flows through it, the conductor expands slightly. Infinitesimaly. Power off, it draws back. Repeat this a thousand times, a gap forms. Corrosion grows in the gap.
One day, power on, there's oxide in the gap, increasing resistance, heating up. POW!
NFPA (the people that write the fire and electrical codes) have a set of films about arc strikes taken by local surveillance cameras. Watching them makes you want to go sit in a tent somewhere.
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Some electrician told me this is a problem with aluminum buss bars and moisture which is much less likely to happen with copper buss bars.
Two dissimilar metals in contact form a battery and corrode. Two dissimilar metals in close proximity to each other which get wet (water is the electrolyte) will form a battery and corrode.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Two Iowa teenagers are being charged as adults in the death of a Fairfield High School teacher, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office said
Authorities said Nohema Graber, a 66 year-old Spanish teacher, was reported missing on Tuesday
Her remains were found later that day at the Chautauqua Park in Fairfield, where she often goes for walks
Two students at Fairfield High School, Willard Noble Chaiden Miller, 16, and Jeremy Everett Goodale, 16, have been arrested and charged as adults
They face charges including first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide
Pair are being held on $1 million bond ahead of their next court appearance November 12
Graber suffered trauma to the head and her body was found under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties at the park
Authorities have not revealed Graber's cause of death or released other information about the case
Fairfield students were dismissed from classes Thursday and all classes on Friday were canceled although the school's counseling services remain open
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Or looking at this from the Chinese Side
Designer Bio-warfare has arrived !!!
The Chinese Wuhan is being tested 2018-2021
and found to be 60% effective in eliminating
"The Despicables" of the Asiatic Race.
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“The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.” Are people of color next?
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[BBC] At least 99 people have died after a massive explosion when a fuel tanker collided with a lorry in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
Fuel spilled before igniting and the resulting inferno engulfed bystanders and vehicles at a busy junction.
Footage broadcast by local media outlets showed badly charred bodies in the streets surrounding the tanker.
Some 100 people are being treated in hospitals and health centres around Freetown, some of which are said to be overwhelmed.
The explosion is believed to have happened at a junction outside the busy Choithram Supermarket in the densely populated Wellington suburb in the east of the city at around 22:00 GMT on Friday.
[BBC] A Chinese intelligence officer has been convicted by a US jury of plotting to steal secrets from aviation companies, according to the US justice department.
Xu Yanjun was found guilty of five counts relating to economic espionage and trade secret theft.
He faces up to 60 years in prison and fines of more than $5m (£3.7m).
Xu was first arrested in Belgium in 2018 and is possibly the first Chinese operative to be extradited to the US for trial.
Chinese authorities have not commented publicly on Friday's verdict. Beijing has previously dismissed the accusations, saying there was no basis to the charges.
According to a statement by the US justice department, Xu is a senior member of the Jiangsu branch of China's Ministry of State Security - an agency responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and internal security.
Xu was accused of targeting employees at several companies based in the US, among other countries since at least 2013.
In one instance, he arranged for a GE Aviation employee to travel to China in 2017 to give a presentation at a university - paying for their travel expenses and a stipend.
The following year, Xu asked the expert for "system specification, design process" information. With co-operation from the company - which was working with the FBI - the employee emailed Xu a two-page document labelled as having sensitive information.
Xu later asked the employee to send a copy of the file directory for his work-issued computer.
He also tried to arrange to meet the employee in Belgium, leading to his eventual arrest.
"For those who doubt the real goals of [China], this should be a wakeup call," said FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler. "They are stealing American technology to benefit their economy and military."
The charges come at a time of raised tension between the two countries - with China recently testing a new form of hypersonic missile, and US President Joe Biden pledging to protect Taiwan from any Chinese military incursion.
According to CNN, CIA Director Bill Burns described China as the greatest technological threat to the US. Last month he said the spy agency would boost its efforts towards China.
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Chinese pretensions to technological expertise are amusing. In their very long history they invented ( noodles aside)
gunpowder, movable block printing on paper, and the bamboo backscratcher. Guess which one they developed to it’s full potential?
[AlJazeera] China will make people who support Taiwan independence criminally liable for life, according to a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, amid heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei.
On Friday, the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing warned that "the mainland will pursue criminal responsibility for Taiwan independence diehards in accordance with the law, to be effective for life". Straight out of the State Department threatening someone.
China will enforce punishment on the people on the list, by not letting them enter the mainland and China’s Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau said spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian in a statement on Friday. Yup, yup, State does the same thing.
The blacklisted people will not be allowed to cooperate with entities or people from the mainland, nor will their companies or entities who fund them be allowed to profit from the mainland, she said. Ditto.
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Microsoft shut down LinkedIn (StinkedIn) in China also. Will be interesting to see how it affects their revenue numbers. I suspect it will be found they weren't making much. At least they didn't knuckle under to the Chinese censors. Not that they don't anyway.
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"The Necromongers believe that each 'verse has its own god, that life is antagonistic to the natural order of the universe and must be purged from it to be reborn in the Underverse". China behaves this way in my opinion.
[Bureau of Labor Statistics] Good News:
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 531,000 in October, and the unemployment rate edged down by 0.2 percentage point to 4.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread, with notable job gains in leisure and hospitality, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in transportation and warehousing. Employment in public education declined over the month. Bad News:
In October, average hourly earnings for all employees on private non farm payrolls increased by 11 cents to $30.96 [this is less than inflation]
following large increases in the prior 6 months. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 4.9 percent. In October, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and non supervisory employees rose by 10 cents to $26.26. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
The average workweek for all employees on private non farm payrolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 34.7 hours. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged down by 0.1 hour to 40.3 hours, and overtime edged down by 0.1 hour to 3.2 hours. The average workweek for production and non supervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 34.1 hours. Also bad is that Q3 productivity continued a downward trend that began earlier. This is mostly because supply chain issues keep people on the job without the products they need to finish the job and maybe also that key people are out with covid.
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Pointed out elsewhere, all the jobs "created" since Bidet was installed have not yet put us back to where we were before the plandemic started.
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[DetroitNews] Police are calling an explosion Thursday evening at the Chrysler minivan plant in Windsor, Ontario, an "intentional act" and are asking members of the public for any information they may have.
No injuries were reported after the explosion at 5:45 p.m. in a vacant second-floor storage area on the west side of the plant, and there was no active fire as a result, according to the Windsor Police Service. The Explosive Disposal Unit located a "suspicious package" that detonated, and it will undergo further testing and examination as a part of the investigation.
Authorities were on the scene, and the plant was evacuated before 6 p.m. "out of an abundance of caution," said LouAnn Gosselin, spokeswoman for Chrysler brand parent Stellantis NV. The plant was down for the remainder of the afternoon shift and resumed Friday morning as scheduled.
"The space has since been cleared and employees are expected to report to work at their regularly scheduled time," she said in a statement. "Our employee health and safety, as well as the safety of the community are our top priority."
Windsor police originally identified the device as an improvised explosive device, but retracted the statement because not all of the components had been tested.
The explosion comes amid some tensions between the automaker and its employees in Windsor. Canadian autoworkers union Unifor is objecting to Stellantis' plans to enforce a requirement that all workers at its Canadian facilities get the COVID-19 vaccine, or they could face consequences, including termination of employment.
Windsor employs 4,213 hourly and 185 salaried workers on two shifts, but Stellantis last month informed employees it would cut the second shift and about 1,800 jobs in April as a result of the ongoing global microchip shortage after a third shift and 1,500 jobs were dropped last year. The automaker, however, says it will uphold its commitments in its 2019 contract with Unifor, which includes a $1.13 billion investment into Windsor by 2024 for a new platform supporting plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Unifor says that will return the plant to three shifts.
"It is essential to make sure when our members go to work, they feel safe and secure," Dave Cassidy, president of Unifor Local 444 representing workers at Windsor, said in a Facebook post Friday afternoon. "Over the last couple of weeks, there have been some incidents going on in the plant based on anxieties. I know we have had some hard news as of late, but any lashing out in the facilities cannot and will not be accepted and needs to stop.
"All our livelihoods depend on the future of the plant. Trust and know that we are working through the unprecedented challenges that we are up against right now. Our priorities will always be the safety of our members and their long-term future employment. Any antics will negatively affect our reputation and our future, that is a fact.
[GREATERKASHMIR] China has built a large 100-home civilian village inside disputed territory between the Tibet Autonomous Region and India's Arunachal Pradesh, claimed the US Department of Defense in its annual report to Congress on military and security developments involving China.
These and other infrastructure development efforts along the India-China border have been a source of consternation in the Indian government and media, it stated.
The report also specifically points out that China has attempted to blame India for provoking the standoff through India's "increased infrastructure development" near the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Asserting that its deployments to the LAC were in response to Indian provocation, Beijing has refused to withdraw any forces until India's forces have withdrawn behind the its version of the LAC and ceased infrastructure improvements in the area, it stated.
Chinese state-controlled media forcefully asserted China's intent to refuse any territorial concessions demanded by India.
"PRC (People's Republic of China) officials, through official statements and state media, had also sought unsuccessfully to prevent India from deepening its relationship with the US during and subsequent to the standoff, while accusing India of being a mere 'instrument' of US policy in the region," it stated.
The department also asserted that Chinese officials have warned US officials to not interfere with the their relationship with India.
Elaborating about India and China border dispute in the last 18 months, it stated that despite the ongoing diplomatic and military dialogues to reduce border tensions, the PRC has continued taking incremental and tactical actions to press its claims at the LAC.
The report stated that tensions with India along the LAC sparked an ongoing standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in mid-May 2020, which lasted through the winter.
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Bully boys as always. China is a bad neighbor. Boarder disputes with all about it boarders and beyond. I wonder what they will claim in space.
[ZeroHedge] Earlier Thursday morning, we shared a report about a strange phenomenon unfolding at hospitals and emergency rooms across the US. Even as COVID cases continue to fall, emergency rooms across the country have become absolutely packed with patients seeking treatment for abdominal pain, blood clots, heart conditions and respiratory problems. All of these symptoms line up with the wide range of official COVID symptoms reported by the CDC. But, as the news reports state, the cause of this sudden wave, which has led to some patients being treated again in hospital hallways, remains officially unclear.
More than 18 months after it first emerged from Wuhan, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, remains an enigma to scientists, who have been conducting a wide range of studies to try and learn more about how the virus does what it does. One of COVID's most notable features is its ability to cause damage not just to patient's respiratory system, but to the heart and vascular system as well. Oftentimes, this damage leaves patients with long-lasting symptoms that persist well beyond the initial infection.
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Old News: Way in the beginning of this soap opera, there was an article posted om the Burg which argued that Winnie the Flu was primarily a blood disease not a pulmonary disease.
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A deranged immune response seems to cause nearly all the deaths from COVID-19. Children with their healthy immune systems usually throw off a COVID-19 infection without a problem -- hence their remarkably low death rate from COVID, lower than their death rate from influenza infections. Vasculitis is the chief manifestation of the deranged immune response. Read about Kawasaki disease which has been much better researched for all the manifestations of immune-mediated vascular disease. Its cause is thought to be some kind of infectious agent -- which has not been identified. Apparently this "agent" sets off the immune response, and shortly after cannot be found at all. The Kawasaki immune damage continues long after the actual infection has ended. Very similar to what has been observed in COVID.
Unfortunately very few autopsies are being done on deceased COVID patients and so, little information (nothing like what has been done with Kawasaki patients) has been collected.
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Where’s g(r)omster? He’s been awfully scarce lately.
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.
[BBC] A Chinese intelligence officer has been convicted by a US jury of plotting to steal secrets from aviation companies, according to the US justice department.
China will make people who support 
[ZeroHedge] Earlier Thursday morning, we shared a report about a strange phenomenon unfolding at hospitals and emergency rooms across the US. Even as COVID cases continue to fall, emergency rooms across the country have become absolutely packed with patients seeking treatment for abdominal pain, blood clots, heart conditions and respiratory problems. All of these symptoms line up with the wide range of official COVID symptoms reported by the CDC. But, as the news reports state, the cause of this sudden wave, which has led to some patients being treated again in hospital hallways, remains officially unclear.
