Fort Benning PAO reports the memorial service for LTG Hal Moore will be held Friday the 17th, 1100 hrs, at the National Infantry Museum. Private graveside services to follow with reception back at the museum.
[Al Jazeera] After years of protests, Yale University has announced that it will change the name of a residential college that honoured a 19th century white male supremacist and ardent supporter of slavery.
The US university said on Saturday it would rename Calhoun College after Grace Hopper College, a female Yale alumnus who invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral.
Yale said it was the final decision in a controversy over former US Vice President John C. Calhoun's legacy that had simmered for years and boiled over with campus protests in 2015.
Four people were tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in a peaceful protest as recent as Friday after they blocked street traffic.
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white male supremacist and ardent supporter of slavery. According to the left, the terms white male, supremacist, and supporter of slavery are synonymous and therefore redundant.
John Calhoun was the first whitemalesuppremacistsupporterofslavery to resign the VP office; the second was Spiro Agnew.
I certainly hope no brown smelt are harmed.
[SACBEE] The Butte County Sheriff’ Office released the following statement on Facebook:
This is an evacuation order.
Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered. "And this time - no ark."
A hazardous situation is developing with the Oroville Dam auxiliary spillway. Operation of the auxiliary spillway has lead to severe erosion that could lead to a failure of the structure. Failure of the auxiliary spillway structure will result in an uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville. In response to this developing situation, DWR is increasing water releases to 100,000 cubic feet per second.
Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered.
This in NOT A Drill. This in NOT A Drill. This in NOT A Drill.
Chris Orrock, a front man for the Department of Water Resources, told The Bee the failure happened as the bottom of the emergency spillway began to erode.
"It happened quickly," he said.
Sutter County also put out an alert on Facebook:
We have received information about the potential for increased flows in the Feather River of as much as 100,000 cubic feet per second. We are gathering as much information as possible and will be providing additional information as soon as it is verified.
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The moral of the story is: Don't build your house in a flood plain...especially if the dam was built in California.
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This is just part of the plan to release water for the delta smelt, right?
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Just did some googling of the Oroville Dam. It's built on the Feather River which, it turns out, is the main tributary to the Sacramento River. The Sacramento River flows right through, you guessed it, Sacramento which is the California state capitol. So none other that Moonbeam himself and all the loonie legislators and bureaucrats are directly downstream from the Oroville Dam. Now I've heard about draining a swamp but I wonder if flushing it might have the same effect.
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the emergency spillway seems to be several hundred feet long and the damage seems to be at least 30' wide
that will require somewhere near 200-400 truck loads of boulders - seems like they really ought to be able to take care of that as today, tomorrow and most of Wed will have good weather
I don't know how they could fix the regular spillway quickly because they are using it to remove water as fast as possible from the reservoir.
unfortunately, the Feb 16-20 storms look to be significant rain events for the basin
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that will require somewhere near 200-400 truck loads of boulders - seems like they really ought to be able to take care of that as today, tomorrow and most of Wed will have good weather.
Funding may be the problem. If I owned a trucking company, I'd be asking for up-front payment. Brown is currently begging for federal funds. You know the old saying about 'money talks'... the other stuff walks.
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I underestimated the length of the emergency spillway- its 1700' long
also, the damaged area next to the spillway seems to be more like 100' to 200'
so they need thousands of truckloads of boulders, not hundreds
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Lord Garth, that's the main spillway. The emergency spillway starts just to the north-west and ends near the corner of the boat ramp parking lot. See this google maps picture.
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Unlike conventional power systems, renewable power isn't matched to demand, and there are frequent large surpluses. Which get 'stored' in pumped hydro dams like this one. It would not surprise me if this was a contributing cause of the current situation.
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Rantburgers, while I appreciate the opportunity to poke fun at the incompetent government of California, this is a problem.
The first picture in this news article shows the real an imminent danger to the damn dam.
The erosion on emergency spillway is about 50 feet from busting the dam. This erosion was due to less than a day of use. That means 100 feet of water on Oroville, and 10 on Yuba City.
It is going to rain 4" in two days. This thing is an unequivocal emergency situation. Every single truck in California needs to be putting rocks and fill into this hole. Right now. If the water ever gets up over the emergency spillway before it is filled, there are just a few hours before something like a cubic kilometer of water comes down stream. And 50 more if the dam itself is compromised by further erosion.
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This is red state part of CA, not that it should make any difference. Been tracking this since Friday. It has not been fun, nor funny in the least.
This has been handled very professionally. Support is important right now
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One Fire truck can pump 1,000 gallons a minute. Some trucks more. That is 60,000 gallons an hour.
Every fire department in the region should send at least one truck to the area as mutual aid in getting as much water out of that body of water behind the dam as possible.
Pumpers (what firemen call their trucks) should stay during the two day rain continuously pumping.
This is something only firemen know about so people should get the word out about this approach.
[Al Jazeera] Six-nation GCC expected to introduce 5 percent value-added tax at the start of 2018, senior UAE financial official says.
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More fracking!
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They're self destroying their own economies.
VAT is a tax upon working (and it's impact suppresses wages) and will thus make employment less likely.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro claimed Sunday that a large wave of Colombians were entering Venezuela in order to "flee violence" in their own country.
Speaking during his weekly TV show, "In contact with Maduro," the president said "we are receiving this massive migration, a product of the continuing civil war and violence in Colombia. Yesterday, 359 people were registered at a single border crossing on the Colombia-Venezuela border."
Maduro also said he had ordered the governor of the northeastern state of Zulia, Francisco Arias Cardenas, to take all necessary measures as the border with Colombia "is very long and the situation could worsen."
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Colombians were entering Venezuela in order to "flee violence" in their own country. Frying pan into the fire.
[TheDiplomat] The United States Air Force (USAF) has deployed four B-1B Lancer heavy strategic bombers to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam in the Western Pacific. The deployment is in support of United States Pacific Command’s continuous bomber presence mission in the region.
The four bombers of the USAF’s 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (EBS) of the 7th Bomb Wing will replace the 34th EBS. B-1B bombers and over 300 Airmen from the 34th EBS of the 28th Bomb Wing first deployed to Guam from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota in August 2016. It marked the first deployment of B-1B bombers to Guam in over a decade. The supersonic Lancers replaced the base’s fleet of B-52H long-range heavy bombers. The USAF has routinely been stationing B-1, B-52H, and B-2 Spirit bombers in Guam since 2004.
The B-1B Lancers from the 9th EBS, like their predecessors, will conduct routine, strategic deterrence patrols and regional training missions with allies and partner nations in order to enhance interoperability and to strengthen regional cooperation. "They will provide a significant rapid global strike capability that enables readiness and commitment to deterrence, offers assurance to the U.S. allies and strengthens regional security and stability in the region," according to a Pentagon press release.
Developed in the 1970s, the B-1 constitutes the backbone of the United States long-range bomber force."The USAF’s 62 B-1B Lancers are capable of carrying up to 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms) of weapons--the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the USAF’s inventory. Though heavily armed, the bomber can reach a top speed of Mach 1.2 and can operate at altitudes above 30,000 feet (9,100 meters)," as I explained elsewhere.
In September 2016, one supersonic B-1B Lancer heavy strategic bomber, escorted by USAF F-16 fighter jets and Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) F-15K aircraft performed a low-level flight near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula and landed at Osan Air Base in South Korea. It was the closest a B-1B Lancer has ever flown to the border separating North and South Korea. (In January 2016, the USAF also flew a B-52H, accompanied by two ROK F-15Ks and two USAF F-16s, to the Korean peninsula in response to a North Korean nuclear test.)
In response, Pyongyang accused the United States of trying to launch a preemptive nuclear strike. However, the B-1B is no longer nuclear capable--the United States eliminated the nuclear mission for the bomber in 1994. The conversion of the USAF’s B-1 bomber fleet from nuclear to conventional began in 2007 and ended in 2011.
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You gotta be careful with those B2's at Anderson on Guam. I understand the grass has finally grown back from where the Spirit of Kansas B2 made a smoking hole in the ground next to the runway. That ferrite laced composite really burns (about $1.4B worth).
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he fears Britain will divide the European Union’s 27 remaining members by making different promises to each country during its Brexit negotiations.
“The other EU 27 don’t know it yet, but the Brits know very well how they can tackle this,” Juncker told Deutschlandfunk radio. “They could promise country A this, country B that and country C something else and the end game is that there is not a united European front.”
Don't worry, Jean-Claude, you'll still have your phony-baloney job when the dust settles...
Britain will by the end of March trigger formal divorce talks with the EU, a major test for the bloc which is struggling to have a grip on other challenges like keeping Greece in the euro zone, the refugee crisis and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.
To add to all of that, the Netherlands, France and Germany are holding general elections this year, in which populist anti-EU parties are expected to make strong showings.
Wonder why?
“Now everyone is saying in relation to Trump and Brexit: ‘Now is Europe’s big chance. Now is the time to close ranks and march together,’” Juncker said in the radio interview which will be aired on Sunday. “I wish it will be like this, but will it happen? I have some doubt. Because the Brits will manage without big effort to divide the remaining 27 member states.”
The Brits are good at doing that. It's how they managed to win a bunch of wars the past 400 years...
His warning echoed remarks by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at an EU summit in Bratislava last year aimed at finding a way forward after Britain’s vote to leave, that the bloc is in a critical situation.
Juncker said one area where the remaining 27 could improve cooperation was defense. Britain and France are the only EU countries with nuclear arsenals.
Jean-Claude, doesn't the EU have a defense force? I seem to recall the French and Germans having something like a combined force. Add in the Belgian heavy barbers. That's what you had in mind, right?
Juncker, who will host U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Brussels next weekend, said a protectionist trade policy by the Trump administration would be an opportunity for the EU to forge new trade alliances.
“It would be a change that we have to use,” Juncker said. “And we should not allow the Brits to pursue trade deals now with others because they are not allowed to do so.”
Try and stop them...
He added that as long as Britain was in the bloc, the European Commission was in charge of negotiating trade deals.
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Perfide Albion back to old tricks, eh Jean-Claude?
Authorities in Jerusalem arrested two men Monday morning in an apparent crackdown on a vigilante "modesty squad" which has operated for years in the capital’s haredi neighborhoods.
The two men, whose names have not yet been released for publication, are both senior figures within the Committee for the Purity of the Camp. Formerly known as the Modesty Patrol, the Committee is a fringe organization seeking to impose its own standards of modest behavior and dress on the larger haredi population through intimidation and harassment.
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We toured Jerusalem 8 years ago and because of a map error we ended up in an Haradi neighborhood. A billboard stated something to the effect that if anyone saw a person who did not belong there to politely show them out. We walked into a butcher shop, several customers left, and the manager showed us out.
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..the butcher politely showed us how to get out of the neighborhood.
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You can visit these neighborhoods but they ask that you follow a few rules.
"1. Women and girls (young girls as well) should wear a skirt that goes beyond the knees, and clothing that covers the shoulders and a closed neckline, and sleeves that go at least until the elbows.
Both women (young girls as well) and men (young boys as well) must avoid wearing shorts.
Moreover, there are several rules of behavior:
1. Tourists are asked not to travel in large groups.
2. Residents should not be photographed and certainly not filmed without asking for permission, especially on the Sabbath. But taking photographs of random street scenes is fine in most neighborhoods, except in some parts of Meah Shearim.
3. During the Jewish Sabbath, known as 'Shabbos' or 'Shabbat' (from sunset Friday until it is completely dark on Saturday night, i.e., 25 hours long), refrain from violating the Shabbat in these areas. That means: no mobile phones, no cigarettes, no (photo or video) cameras, and perhaps somewhat more respectable dress. These items should not only not be used, but they should also not be visibly carried around. If they must be taken along, carry them in a bag, and don't forget to turn off your mobile phone.
4. Avoid wearing Christian symbols, such as crosses or religious shirts. Also, since many residents are anti-Zionist, some of them very strongly so, wearing pro-Israel shirts and the like may lead to uncomfortable looks."
If you don't follow the rules, you will be politely (and firmly) asked to leave.
They won't kidnap or behead you, unlike some other neighborhoods. They might insult you a bit though.
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In the early 70's I got the same thing in a number of Chicago neighborhoods. "We don't serve your kind here!"
But I DID have long hair, FUman, boots and bells.
Outside of the dress code I guess.
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.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro claimed Sunday that a large wave of Colombians were entering Venezuela in order to "flee violence" in their own country.
The B-1B Lancers from the 9th EBS, like their predecessors, will conduct routine, strategic deterrence patrols and regional training missions with allies and partner nations in order to enhance interoperability and to strengthen regional cooperation. "They will provide a significant rapid global strike capability that enables readiness and commitment to deterrence, offers assurance to the U.S. allies and strengthens regional security and stability in the region," according to a Pentagon press release.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he fears Britain will divide the European Union’s 27 remaining members by making different promises to each country during its Brexit negotiations. 
