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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Who is Seth Kenney? 'Rust' shooting investigation focuses on 'armorer mentor'
[Meaww.com] Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, wasn’t the only weapons wrangler involved in the 'Rust' tragedy, but a second gun expert called Seth Kenney was also part of the set. Kenney owns a licensed Lake Havasu City, Ariz., weapons and props rental company. Late in September, Kenney was added to the 'Rust' crew as an 'armorer mentor' for Gutierrez Reed, claimed an internal 'Rust' crew list shared with the Los Angeles Times. The 'Rust' tragedy involved cinematographer Halyna Hutchins being killed after actor Alec Baldwin's prop gun misfired.

Kenney, 51, recommended Gutierrez Reed for the armorer job, sources told the Los Angeles Times. According to six people who are familiar with the matter, Kenney also supplied the guns used in 'Rust'. Two sources said Kenney provided the Colt .45 that Baldwin fired that day.

WHO IS SETH KENNEY?
How large of a role Kenney played as Gutierrez Reed's 'mentor', however, is unclear. A number of longtime prop masters have claimed that they have never heard of such a position and that the employment of an 'armorer mentor' for a film or TV production is very rare. According to one longtime armorer, supervisory roles are usually called a 'key armorer' or 'weapons master'. A more common title, according to another prop master, would be 'armorer assistant' for the more junior person.

Kenney was an entrepreneur in San Clemente over two decades back. Back then, Kenney, along with his then-wife, was part-owner of several San Clemente businesses, including a stationery store, Cheers; a gift shop, Summer House; and the Del Mar Bicycle Co., which Seth Kenney ran, a 1996 article in The Times claims. Kenney has been working in the film industry for at least a decade, and was listed as a 'weapon's consultant' on the 2015 Shia LaBeouf film 'Man Down'.

Kenney worked at the Hand Prop Room from 2011 to 2016, where he handled the store's weapons arsenal. He also dealt with prop masters for shows such as AMC’s 'The Walking Dead', and movies such as 'Django Unchained'. "He’s very knowledgeable in the field. He’s a personable person, very good at educating individuals who aren’t so good at weapons," said an individual who was not authorized to speak publicly. "He customized the weapons for whatever load you’re needing, which is very precise, he’s one of the very few who know how to do that. He provided weapons to hundreds of productions when he worked there."

Later, however, there were issues between Kenney and the Hand Prop Room’s owners over alleged misconduct and missing guns. Following the falling out, the Hand Prop Room filed suit against Kenney in Los Angeles County Superior Court in May 2016. It accused Kenney of taking some of its weapons in an attempt to start a competing business. It also accused Kenney of trying to siphon off its clients for his own business.

Back in January 2016, Kenney had formed his own company called PDQ Media Arm & Prop in Georgia. In its lawsuit, the Hand Prop Room claimed that Kenney was trying to poach one of its longtime customers -- the prop master of 'The Walking Dead'. They accused Kenney of opening his own firm in April 2016 while he was still employed with them. However, the case was dismissed in 2017 after the Hand Prop Room asked for it.

Western Journal - Gun Baldwin Used When He Accidentally Killed Worker Was Supplied by Mysterious 'Armorer Mentor': Report

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 03:46 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I'm wondering if Mr. Kenney hadn't spread himself a bit thin, and was hiring people with little/no experience to handle things on set for him.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2021 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm wondering when 'the blame charade' for the Colt .45 that Baldwin fired that day stops.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Face it, he will skate. He might even qualify for an insanity plea.
He should have never been allowed near a gun of any type. His contempt for 'guns' blinded him. The most rudimentary level of gun safety training would have informed him that 'every gun is presumed loaded'.
The 'press' is looking for a way to absolve him of the murder he committed.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/10/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Did Baldwin as Producer bother to vet this guy?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #3: The 'press' is looking for a way to absolve him of the murder he committed.

No, nothing will come of it. Somewhat akin to the 'nothing will come of it' of the Capitol Police Officer Lt. Michael Byrd shooting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Gun (revolver) leaps into person-1's hand then rotates person-1's arm to point at person-2 then fires itself killing person-2. Person-1 is not at fault, it was the 'guns' fault.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/10/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Kenney is the contractor that supplied the pistol in question (they're usually on lease). If the gun functioned correctly (it appears it worked) then that's pretty much that.
More mud added to already muddy water, plus some payback stabs.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/10/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#8  I blame Gun Violence. He gets around, he's everywhere. Arrest him!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#9  "Misfired"?

No, the gun did not misfire. It fired. It worked exactly as it was supposed to. Why there was live ammunition on a film set I'll never know.

Hannah Gutierrez Reed had all the right qualifications. She was Hispanic and woke. Remember, being competent at your job is a sure sign of white supremacy.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 11/10/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  This whole thing is disgusting. If anyone but a prominent lefty celebrity had shot someone who later died of the gunshot, they would long since have been in jail charged with murder.

The only reason I can think of why this is stringing out so long is that the DA is considering whether indicting Alec Baldwin would help or hurt a run for state Attorney General in the future.
Posted by: Tom || 11/10/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Beat me to it OP9064.

Baldwin is a notorious drug and alcohol abuser. Wonder if that is why he skipped town so quick, all 'fired up' for big hero scene.

Shouldn't skipping the State activate the federales? I mean, like for anyone else?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2021 16:01 Comments || Top||

#12  I don't think the feds would normally be involved, no charges, let alone any of the restrictions that come with being out on bail. You of course would maybe see US Marshals in a high-profile flight to avoid prosecution situation, but that's not the case here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2021 16:20 Comments || Top||

#13  the employment of an 'armorer mentor' for a film or TV production is very rare.

That is because the position of armorer is a grown-up job with some life-or-death responsibilities. If you mess up, people get hurt/dead. Presumably, Gutierrez-Reed got the job via apprenticing with her famous in-the-business dad. The presence of an armorer mentor suggests she was not quite ready for the job.

Normally, the armorer works for the prop master who is in charge of all props on the set. Two separate people, lots of stuff to keep track of. In this case, as I understand it, HGR was filling both roles. Likely this did not increase attention to detail in the armorer role. Although, the bean counters were pleased.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2021 18:15 Comments || Top||


Brian Williams is quitting MSNBC when his contract is up in December
[Page Six] One less paid LIAR
Bye-Bri.

Brian Williams has announced he’s quitting MSNBC next month after nearly three decades with NBC News.

Williams, 62, had been working in the relative hinterlands of the NBC news family for years, scrabbling to turn “The 11th Hour” into a hit following his six-month suspension in 2015 when it came out that he’d falsified details of stories that he’d covered, including one about taking enemy fire while riding in a helicopter in Iraq.

In a note seen by Page Six: he wrote to staff Tuesday: “Following much reflection, and after 28 years with the company, I have decided to leave NBC upon the completion of my current contract in December.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He will be sorely missed at MSPMS.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2021 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2 

Yes he was a very good Anchor/journalist in his earlier years.

But as some may remember. He was outed for lying and then demoted for fabricating a collection of stories during the Iraq War. Which got him sidelined for 6 months. On return booted out of NBC, exiled to the MSNBC (2015-->2021) group, never to regain his past fame and viewership.

Note: This happen back in a time when the media still had "some" integrity standards.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/10/2021 5:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem in the media is not with being a liar. The issue is not being a believable liar. Brian needed to stick to the scripted lies.

I look forward to reading the fact checks of his autobiography.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/10/2021 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ..that was when there was still a population of 'newshounds' that grew up in the old era of trade. That is when it was apprentice, journeyman, and master type of development. Notice it all shifted with it became a 'credentialed' job and more and more of the 'talent' were products of academic environment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2021 6:34 Comments || Top||

#5  if it ain't in rantburg it ain't true.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/10/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Any truth to the rumor they have bought out Siegfried-Roy and will be appearing at the Mirage over the holidays? Snopes, Bueller, anyone ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#7  His reporting bodies floating down the street near his hotel during Katrina..
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/10/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ bodies of ...?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 for the win!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/10/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#10  #8...Residents...
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/10/2021 13:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Off to fly Little Birds in the Horn of Africa.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#12  #6 Any truth to the rumor they have bought out Siegfried-Roy and will be appearing at the Mirage over the holidays?

"Watch us pull a rabbit fable out of our hat ass..."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 17:34 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Dean Stockwell - best known for his role as Admiral Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap - dead at 85 after 70 year career
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The veteran actor died at his home, peacefully of natural causes on Sunday morning a representative confirmed

  • Stockwell had starred alongside Scott Bakula in all 97 episodes of the sci-fi show which aired over five seasons from 1989 to 1993

  • The actor was critically-acclaimed for the role and earned four Primetime Emmy Nominations and won Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 1990 Golden Globes

  • He was also recognized for his work in film as he earned an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo in 1988's Married To The Mob

  • He later found major success when he joined the cast of Battlestar Galactica in 2006 and starred in the series until 2009

  • The acting legend first began his career in the 1940s as he was a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

In the mid-1960s, Stockwell dropped out of show business, becoming active in the Topanga Canyon hippie subculture as a close friend of visual artists George Herms and Wallace Berman, fellow child actor and "dropout" Russ Tamblyn, and musician Neil Young.[22][23] "I did some drugs and went to some love-ins," he later said. "The experience of those days provided me with a huge, panoramic view of my existence that I didn't have before. I have no regrets."

He reunited with Bakula in a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans, titled "Chasing Ghosts," and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment (2015).

It was reported in January 2017 by his ex-wife Joy, that he had suffered and recovered from a stroke in 2015 and was retired from acting.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2021 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  ...His work on the Battlestar reboot was utterly amazing - he played a perfect SOB.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2021 5:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Agreed; as fun as Quantum Leap was, that was his best role IMHO.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Fight 'White Language Supremacy,' Prof Will Grade on 'Labor' Not Results
[PJMedia] “White language supremacy” is the problem, and destroying grading standards is the solution, at least according to one Arizona State University English professor.

Asao B. Inoue is a professor of Rhetoric & Composition at ASU and he is urging his fellow (xello?) teachers to fight “white language supremacy” by implementing “labor-based grading” which “redistributes power in ways that allow for more diverse habits of language to circulate.”
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2021 13:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't drive over bridges designed by these failures.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Because obviously black kids are too dumb to turn in proper work.

Woke racism is racism.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 11/10/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Racist... should be removed from teaching and investigated for grading fraud regarding Federal student DOE school granted $$$$
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/10/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Well at least he'll fabricate education with overage kids rather than metallurgical results on submarine parts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two hoards were found during excavations in the central square of Derbent
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A large number of coins in the form of two treasures were found by archaeologists following the workers who were improving the city square in Derbent and stumbled upon a complex of the 11th-12th centuries.

"During the excavation of the archaeological complex of the XI-XII centuries, copper coins were found in the central square of the city of Derbent. The complex itself was discovered in the course of a comprehensive improvement of the city square," the press service of the Derbent administration reported.

Two hoards with a large number of coins were located in one of the investigated rooms. One hoard was a collection of coins, while in the second they were scattered across the floor. The coins will be exhibited in the Derbent Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve, the press service of the mayor's office said.

"In Derbent, it is a rather unique case that such a number of coins were left in a dwelling," Interfax quotes Kydyrali Shaushev, a researcher at the Scientific and Production Center for Tourism and Local History, Kydyrali Shaushev.

The "Caucasian Knot" wrote earlier that in October scientists from the Novosibirsk Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences found tools and objects of the Early and Middle Paleolithic era in the Derbent region of Dagestan

Posted by: badanov || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great historical find.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2021 22:37 Comments || Top||


Monument to victims of the Holocaust opened in Volgograd
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Representatives of the Volgograd Jewish community and officials took part in the unveiling of a memorial sign at the site of the mass execution of Jews during the Battle of Stalingrad today.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote , the foundation stone at the site of the execution of more than 600 Jews killed in 1942-43 was installed in the Volgograd park named after March 8 at the end of 2007.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn, and Stalingrad
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Germans prioritizing the murder of Jews over winning the decisive battle of the war.
Posted by: borgboy || 11/10/2021 16:15 Comments || Top||


Russian Kommie deputy facing elk poaching charges
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] The Communist Party plans to submit a report on the incident with the deputy Valery Rashkin after November 8, when the regional week ends, Nikolai Ivanov, chairman of the central control and audit commission of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti.

"The party is investigating, examining the situation around Valery Fedorovich Rashkin," he said.

The politician added that the party statement on the Rashkin case will be ready after all the deputies return from the regions, after the end of the regional week.

"Now the deputies are in the regions, and the central committee, too, and the control and audit commission. This will be after the 8th ... then, accordingly, we will return to this issue," the parliamentarian added and noted that a report will be drawn up following the results of the proceedings. for the party.

Earlier, the Committee for Hunting and Fisheries of the Saratov Region told RIA Novosti that Rashkin was caught with a dead elk carcass in a car. According to the deputy himself, he found the carcass while walking in the forest, and decided to take it home with him. However, not far from the car, the inspectors found the skin and other parts of the animal.

A criminal case on illegal hunting has been opened on the fact. In the current qualification, the case involves up to two years in prison, but, as the lawyers explained to RIA Novosti, in the future the charge may be toughened, and the sanction will be up to five years.

Posted by: badanov || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "a dead elk carcass in a car"
Large car, was it?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/10/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  It takes a big man with a big pan to poach an elk.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2021 18:31 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden sends CIA Director Bill Burns to Moscow to warn Vladimir Putin off building up troops on Ukrainian border after energy crisis sparked fears of Russian invasion
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • CIA Director Bill Burns made a rare trip to Russia to hold talks with their national security officials, who are directly involved in the troop buildup

  • The United States is growing more and more concerned by the activity, multiple sources said

  • Burns also spoke to Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone, a senior State Department official told CNN
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  LOL, right.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2021 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin was KGB. CIA vs KGB. I'm rooting for the KGB.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/10/2021 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Vladimir Putin's EXCELLENT Moscow orchestra. Enjoy!

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/10/2021 1:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Russia is a wet noodle and poses zero threat to Europe.

However the CIA would very much like to find an excuse to invade. Such a war would likely go nuclear and kill millions of Americans, but that's a price the CIA is willing to pay. Our lives are worth literally nothing to them.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 11/10/2021 7:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Our lives are worth literally nothing to them.

Speak for yourself.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Russia is a wet noodle and poses zero threat to Europe.

The Russian "threat" is a concoction of Euro elites, a prop in their Woke fantasies. As plausible as the Clintonites' grand Russia Hoax.

Russia : EUroweenies :: Deplorables : USSA Wokemons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Sure, we're not all veterans of the intelligence community.

But the rest of us, they couldn't care less. Remember back when they ran mind control experiments and dosed us with LSD without our consent or knowledge?
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 11/10/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#8  I always miss out. I got my COVID vax before they started bribing people to get it. I never got any CIA LSD.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Russia is a wet noodle and poses zero threat to Europe

Tell that to the Armenians and Ukrainians. Now go to lunch and listen to those of the old Baltic states. It's easy to be dismissive of other people sitting thousands of miles away.

Doesn't mean I believe in supporting the Euros who should have take over responsibility for their own defense by the end of the last century. Russia is a demonstrative threat in its region.

Sweden’s government announced that Sweden is going to increase military spending by almost 40% in the next five years and also double the number of people conscripted into its armed forces. The level of funding to the Armed Forces will have increased by SEK 27.5 billion, compared with 2020. In total for five years, 79 billion will be allocated to military defence during the period. The navy will get an extra submarine, increasing the number to five, and the corvette fleet will be updated, while the army and air force will get upgraded weapons systems. This agreement is accorded between the government parties, the Centre Party and the Libera Party. This decision shows that in comparison to 2014, in 2025 the military defence funding will be increased by 85%. - cite.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2021 15:37 Comments || Top||

#10  the CIA would very much like to find an excuse to invade. Such a war would likely go nuclear and kill millions of Americans

Dude, put down the pipe and back away. There may be local squabbles but no one is playing Global Thermonuclear War with Russia. Russia is much more useful as a boogeyman. Having an actual war would spoil the game.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||

#11  But will General Milley call Putin to tell him that we aren't serious?
Posted by: magpie || 11/10/2021 20:33 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Fresh Evergrande warning as Chinese property giant owing $400billion misses its FOURTH deadline to pay off debts - and it's terrible news for Australia
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Reserve Bank of Australia worried Evergrande won't repay all of its huge debts

  • It noted property giant's $420billion debt equivalent to 2 per cent of China GDP

  • Apartment builder's debts occurring as iron ore prices fall below $US90 a tonne

  • Chinese steel production already made record cuts to steel production in 2021
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Now let's default on our chi com depts.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2021 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 Now let's default on our chi com depts.Posted by: Woodrow 2021-11-10 01:27


....Would that it could be so. If we defaulted on our debt to China, the shockwaves would send the entire planet into recession - or worse. And then we'd have to face the reality that without our debt to keep the Chinese even remotely honest, they would feel that they had nothing to lose.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2021 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Westpac senior economist Justin Smirk said the record annual collapse in Chinese steel production was even more severe than 2008 during the height of the Global Financial Crisis.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 11/10/2021 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Default on our debt, and our mortgage rates will go back to the levels seen in the Carter Administration.

Our elites joined us at the hip to China. We're screwed, by (their) design
Posted by: Thrirt Tholuque4361 || 11/10/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ But how could that BE ???
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#6  China is awash in trillions in bad loans. They have been papering it over with foreign currency and investors. But it can't go on forever especially with economies still shaky with the Coof running through them and the shutdowns.

What can't go on forever won't and it looks like the end game is coming. While China will be hurt, especially with the food shortage from the floods and factory shutdowns, the investor nations will be hurt the most as their economies tank into depression. They rely too much on raw and manufactured goods from China and the marketplaces, along with bond markets will be ruined.

It will be very, very interesting times.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Pestilence, Famine, Death.
But at least we're not at War
yet
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The Chicoms may just stiff the Aussies, just to cause them pain.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/10/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Wouldn't a property giant have property as collateral? Evergrande should sell property before they default. They aren't doing that because they hope to have it both ways. If they don't pay the Bank of Australia should claim and sell the property.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/10/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#10  the property's crap. Apartment towers built in the middle of nowhere.

This is the Mother of all Property Bubbles. Subprime to the 10th power
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Terrible news for anyone in Australia who was stupid or greedy enough to get into bed with China.
Like Sun Tzu said, "Don't trust China. China is asshole."
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Many wheeler-dealers are in thrall to the "money on the table" rule, which justifies any deal by saying "if I don't make that deal, someone will." This obviously is both true and a rationalization for making skeevy deals with skeevy parties. The people dealing with China know damn well what they are lining up with. Right, Disney? Right NBA?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Merrick Ferret, why is an Australian bank loaning money to wealthy chinese property developers for property in China?
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/10/2021 16:33 Comments || Top||

#14  evergrande today defaulted on two more payments and is over the grace period on two others

so that is officially in default IIUC
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/10/2021 17:16 Comments || Top||

#15  #13 Merrick Ferret, why is an Australian bank loaning money to wealthy chinese property developers for property in China?

Confucius say, "For find the greater fool, Grasshoppa"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 17:27 Comments || Top||

#16  DMSA - Deutsche Marktscreening Agentur, German finance company is preparing legal action.

In a few days a court will hear initial statements at which Evergrande will, unless they get money from the PRC, declare themselves bankrupt.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/10/2021 17:47 Comments || Top||

#17  Payback for when Australia called out China's shitty Covid supplies last year.
Posted by: Slappy || 11/10/2021 19:44 Comments || Top||

#18  The Chicoms may just stiff the Aussies, just to cause them pain.

If that happens, I wonder how fast Australia suspends coal exports to China?
Posted by: Raj || 11/10/2021 19:59 Comments || Top||

#19  ^^ and pork shipments
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2021 22:16 Comments || Top||


Economy
Another Month, Another Big Inflation Report
WASHINGTON (AP) ; Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% last month from a year earlier, matching September's record annual gain and offering more evidence that inflationary pressures are not yet easing.

... A 6.7% jump in wholesale gasoline prices helped drive goods prices up.

Mostly dormant for decades, inflation has returned to the United States this year. The economy's strong rebound from the 2020 coronavirus caught many businesses by surprise. Their scramble to meet unexpectedly strong demand ...
Typically I will use the BLS write up but the AP used the word 'unexpectly' so I decided to use their write up since I like it when the AP pretends to confess other people's ignorance.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the hits just keep on comin'...

How much longer will we tolerate kakocracy?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#2  The current inflation is "transitory." Problem is, neither we or our children will live long enough to experience the "transition."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  'Transitory' - Lol
This administration is so completely incompetent, their own corporate lackeys are now demolishing their lies

Big business bosses are warning that supply chain issues and inflation are here to stay

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Unilever's CEO dares to speak truth to our moron-rulers:

"We are seeing commodity inflation across every type of input cost that we have — agricultural commodities, petrochemical commodities, paper and board, transport, logistics, energy, labor — all are moving in an upward direction..."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I've got koffee, bacon, crackers, soup, ENVY m6 and F-150 still plugging along. Not sure I have an urgent need for anything sitting at anchor off the California coast.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ If I stay well and need no meds, I may be alright. If at some point I need Big Pharma.... I may be up the creek without a paddle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  one of the humor sites attributed the loss of the VA Gov race to supply chain issues as 50,000 Democrat votes were on a ship awaiting docking at Long Beach, CA.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/10/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Turns out the year over year CPI increase in Oct was "only" 6.2% as opposed to the 8.6% WPI (as announced this a.m.).

The BLS data on wage rates for Oct isn't due for another 2 weeks but the Sept20 to Sept21 increase was 4.2% so a net loss of about 2%.

Awful. Really Awful News.


Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/10/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Remember the '70s?
Whip Inflation Now
Misery Index
"A crisis of confidence in our nation"
Malaise
"the Moral Equivakent of War [M.E.O.W.]"?
America's enemies, on the march
Epic crime waves, soaring murder rates
Race-hatred, division, cultural decline, drugs

Well, the 70s are back. "Back and badder than ever"

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#10  The facade of Bidet being anything other than a Mr Bluster (look up howdy-doody puppet show on google)has become utterly transparent. First the payments to illegals reversal, and now the oil pipeline shutdown study make it apparent that he is only aware, dimly, of whatever the last script said or the earpiece muttered. The Kalorama White House staff in the offices surrounding this snile fool are taking orders from Obama 3.0 and the Marxist plan create the USSA.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/10/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Is Soros pulling the strings?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Just follow the media. Biden is president. No need to fear or worry, be happy. So what, big deal move along.
Posted by: Dale || 11/10/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#13  Soros made his fortune by arbitraging the British Treasury and crashing sterling in the early 90s.

Does this master manipulator (or his sons) have a hand in the absurd and disastrous policies we're now seeing from this administration?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 12:23 Comments || Top||

#14  #9, actually, I had been trying my best to forget the 1970s. But I guess I'm getting a refresher here.
Posted by: Tom || 11/10/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Appliances 10-15%; hopefully no end of 2nd Quarter Price Listing Review.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#16  Was at Home Depot the other day, charcoal that used to be about $12 and change now $14 and change. Looked at some lumber (that I fortunately do not need) and almost split a gut checking the prices.

I'm in no danger of going in there to casually shop until Let's Go Brandon and his malevolent economics are gone.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2021 16:24 Comments || Top||

#17  Last 2 months data will look even worse since inflation in the last 2 months of 2020 was essentially 0.
Nov 2020 inflation was -0.06
Dec 2020 inflation was +0.06

BTW, all wage gains last year have been wiped out and then some by inflation this year. USA is getting poorer.
Posted by: Sneaque Flenter9480 || 11/10/2021 17:41 Comments || Top||

#18  Nov 2020 inflation was -0.06
Dec 2020 inflation was +0.09

Fat fingers.
Posted by: Sneaque Flenter9480 || 11/10/2021 17:42 Comments || Top||

#19  I posted here no more than 2 months ago about the average inflation of American goods and services being 18% on average for the period ending Aug2021 and the coming period being 21% on an average.

I was ridiculed...

RANTBURG GFYS (Go F-CK Your Selves)

Your IDIOTs

With NO Economic Education amonst yourselves . you a FN Idiots
Posted by: Ulereger Omack4469 || 11/10/2021 22:34 Comments || Top||

#20  Insulting doesn’t persuade.

On the other hand, why bother spreading your pearls before swine?

On the third hand, there are graceful ways to say “Toldja so!”, especially coupled with the next prediction, which may or may not prove right.

Choose one, please.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2021 22:43 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Lebanese Muslim posed as ultra-Orthodox Jew, married Brooklyn woman — reports
Love jihad? Hezbollah hard boy deep undercover? Illegal immigrant finding a way to stay in- country? May the truth soon be revealed, for better or worse.
[IsraelTimes] Rabbi’s wife reportedly tried to question groom’s religious background ahead of wedding but was ignored; FBI, Homeland Security said probing matter after 3 passports found

Two weeks after her Orthodox wedding, a Jewish newlywed woman from Brooklyn discovered that her husband is apparently a Lebanese Moslem, who may be a Paleostinian, and had been posing as a Jew, according to US and Israeli media reports Monday.

The man reportedly spent several years learning in a yeshiva and convincingly presented himself as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, concealing details of his origins. He was identified as Eliyah Haliwa, according to a statement from a Texas Chabad rabbi who is familiar with the groom.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
US military testing Iron Dome in Guam – report
[IsraelTimes] The US military is testing Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system on the Pacific island of Guam amid concerns over potential Chinese attacks, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The report notes tests that the US Army held in New Mexico this August and says that while the Iron Dome is less effective against cruise missiles than the projectiles launched by Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-based Paleostinian terror groups, it is able to intercept some cruise missiles traveling below the speed of sound.

The newspaper also cites analysts questioning whether Guam was the best place to deploy the Iron Dome, suggesting it would be better suited for South Korea, near the border with North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...We already have two ballistic missile defense systems in the ROK, as well as PATRIOT, which has an impressive ABM capability. Guam, IIRC, doesn't have anything yet - IRON DOME is a good fit.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2021 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  So they be like puttin' an Iron Dome on Guam? Ain't gonna help Guam stay afloat. Right, Congressman?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  #2: the additional weight may capsize the island.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/10/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  May help keep the drone swarms away. It's that season there.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/10/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I can see Iron Dome coming in handy during the opening missile barrages in the upcoming Battle of the South China Sea.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||


Metallurgist pleads guilty to fraud after falsifying steel-test results for Navy submarines
[FoxNews] Tests were intended to show steel would not fail in submarines' collisions or in certain 'wartime scenarios'.

A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.

Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls.

From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain "wartime scenarios," the Justice Department said.

There was no allegation that any submarine hulls failed, but authorities said the Navy had incurred increased costs and maintenance to ensure they remain seaworthy. The government did not disclose which subs were affected.

Thomas faces up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine when she is sentenced in February. However, the Justice Department said it would recommend a prison term at the low end of whatever the court determines is the standard sentencing range in her case.

In a statement filed in U.S. District Court on her behalf Monday, her attorney, John Carpenter, said Thomas "took shortcuts."

"Ms. Thomas never intended to compromise the integrity of any material and is gratified that the government’s testing does not suggest that the structural integrity of any submarine was in fact compromised," Carpenter wrote. "This offense is unique in that it was neither motivated by greed nor any desire for personal enrichment. She regrets that she failed to follow her moral compass – admitting to false statements is hardly how she envisioned living out her retirement years."

Thomas' conduct came to light in 2017, when a metallurgist being groomed to replace her noticed suspicious test results and alerted their company, Kansas City-based Bradken Inc., which acquired the foundry in 2008.

Bradken fired Thomas and initially disclosed its findings to the Navy, but then wrongfully suggested that the discrepancies were not the result of fraud. That hindered the Navy’s investigation into the scope of the problem as well as its efforts to remediate the risks to its sailors, prosecutors said.

In June 2020, the company agreed to pay $10.9 million in a deferred-prosecution agreement.

When confronted with the doctored results, Thomas told investigators, "Yeah, that looks bad," the Justice Department said. She suggested that in some cases she changed the tests to passing grades because she thought it was "stupid" that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at negative-100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  she thought it was "stupid" that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at negative-100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Why -100? Guessing to test brittleness?
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2021 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  This sounds like China's quality control. This sort of thing pervades throughout China.
Posted by: Dale || 11/10/2021 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  The government did not disclose which subs were affected.

All of them built between '85 and '17, clearly. This broad needs to go to jail for a very, very long time.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/10/2021 6:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Why -100? Guessing to test brittleness?

Thomas criticized a particular test that was conducted at -100 degrees Fahrenheit (-73 degrees Celsius) on the grounds that it was a "stupid requirement" and a "stupid number" to test because nothing operated at -100F in the water.

"Metal shrinks as it transforms from liquid to solid (known as solidification shrinkage) and undergoes additional thermal contraction as it cools to room temperature. Cast parts are therefore designed with shrinkage allowances to result in parts of the desired dimensions. Cast steel, for example, will shrink about ¼ in. per foot and produce rough-looking castings. Shrinkage allowances are known for various metals and an experienced mold designer will take the shrinkage into account when designing a mold. For more information on casting in general please refer to our article on Types of Casting Processes.

Shrinkage can also cause defects in cast products which can lead to failure, leakage, and so on. Sometimes these defects appear on the surface of the casting and can be detected visually or through dye penetrant or similar non-destructive procedures. Sometimes the defects are internal to the casting and require X-ray inspection or destructive tests to uncover. These defects are collectively known as open- and closed-shrinkage defects."
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/10/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Was she saving herself trouble? Keeping costs down and her department's profitability up? Not allowing faulty manufacturing to become known?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/10/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Stupid? Maybe the water doesn't get that cold without freezing solid, but if you surface the air can get pretty cold in some parts of the world. If bits of the boat shrink in the cold and don't quite fit anymore when you try to submerge...

And you want to test a little beyond operating limits.
Posted by: james || 11/10/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#7  What are her Chinese connections?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/10/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#8  "That which doesn't get inspected (to include the inspectors), doesn't get done"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#9  The grain structure of the steel changes with the sub zero temperatures. Ever hear of the sub zero heat treatment for knives? It all goes back to stabilising the material, which then has to be welded on.
Think about cracks propagating in uneven joints.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/10/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Cryo treatments also used for firearm receivers and barrels.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#11  So USS Connecticut was fortunate to even survive its collision with a moving Chinese seamount...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/10/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#12  The punishment for our Hero of Socialist Labour should include a noisy, most uncomfortable dive test.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#13  She's an over-educated fool. Just because it doesn't get to -100 in Seattle, she can't fathom (SWIDT) for what the test is necessary. Cunb dunt.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/10/2021 15:13 Comments || Top||



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