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[Regnum] A group of armed men attempted to rob the Chanel boutique on Avenue Montaigne in central Paris by ramming the entrance with scooters. This was reported on November 15 by Le Parisien.
The robbery occurred around midday. Four attackers, armed with long guns and an axe, approached the Chanel jewelry and watch store on Yamaha TMax scooters. They used their vehicles as battering rams, attempting to break through the storefront.
Some of them wore helmets and police-style patches in an attempt to mislead those around them.
The security guard managed to lower the security grille and thwart the attempted break-in. During the incident, he suffered minor blunt force trauma and was examined by medics.
The perpetrators fled the scene on the same scooters. Police are still searching for them. No damage was caused to the store.
This isn't the first attack on the brand's boutique. On October 2, thieves used a car to ram the window of a Chanel store in Paris's 8th arrondissement and stole several bags. The thieves fled before police arrived.
What odds the miscreants are Moslem colonists taking what they were promised, as opposed to non-Moslem miscreants conforming to the current lawless Zeitgeist?
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[Regnum] The number and strength of magnetic storms will gradually decrease as the Sun begins to enter a phase of reduced activity over the next five years. This was reported on November 15 by Nathan Eismont, a leading researcher at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to him, it is believed that the average solar cycle is 11 years, and the maximum activity was presumably last year.
"The intensity and frequency of solar activity are currently declining. We are approaching a minimum, which we will reach in about five years," TASS quoted him as saying.
The scientist noted that even during a phase of low solar activity, fairly strong outbursts are possible, potentially triggering magnetic storms. He explained that the peculiarity of such events is that it is impossible to predict the Sun's behavior with 100% certainty.
On November 14, a powerful magnetic storm ended on Earth after lasting 42 hours. The storm was the second most powerful in the last five years and the most powerful this year.
In Solar Cycle 25, scientists recorded three instances of storm intensity reaching G4.7 or higher. The first was a G5.0 storm on May 10-12, 2024. The current storm is second, and the third is the October 10-11, 2024, event, which reached similar peak intensity levels but was shorter.
American Thought Leaders video.
[YouTube] Declan Ganley’s company Rivada Networks is building a technology that may revolutionize global connectivity and security—and it seems that the Chinese regime desperately wants to gain control of it.
As much as 99 percent of global internet traffic today relies on a series of subsea fiber-optic cables around the world that are vulnerable to natural disasters and attacks. Chinese cable-cutting incidents have shown how easily they can be sabotaged.
Ganley is working on something called the Outernet, a constellation of 600 low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites that would make up the world’s first self-contained communications network.
Unlike traditional satellite networks that route data back to Earth repeatedly, the satellites are interlinked by high-speed lasers and advanced onboard routers, making it possible for data to travel directly through space—touching the Earth only at the start and the final destination.
But progress has been slow. Why? Because Ganley refused to partner with Chinese companies on the project.
“They decided to launch a torrent, a tsunami of lawsuits that were baseless, that were unwinnable, that were almost cartoonish in their flakiness—but in the full knowledge that we would have to spend money to defend against these insane lawsuits,” he says.
So far, he and his company have already had to spend $36 million to defend against a flurry of lawsuits across multiple jurisdictions.
Nonetheless, he believes it’s a battle worth fighting.
“I know what the Outernet can do. I would rather burn it down than have the Communist Party of China have the Outernet. … Our way of life could depend on them not having the Outernet,” Ganley said.
[FT] When Xi Jinping presided over the lavish commissioning of China’s newest aircraft carrier this month, three officers expected to be crucial to the naval chain of command were strangely absent.
State television footage showed no sign of navy commander Admiral Hu Zhongming or Admiral Wu Yanan, commander of the southern theatre that includes the island of Hainan where the commissioning took place. The regional command’s political commissar Admiral Wang Wenquan was also missing.
The absences came amid a new wave of removals of People’s Liberation Army officers by Xi that shows the president’s purge is embroiling large numbers of figures with vital command roles, fuelling speculation over the impact on how the military trains and whether it is ready to fight.
"They are trying to keep up appearances, but it is definitely having an effect on the PLA’s frontline operations," said a US official briefed on the matter, adding that experts who did not perceive such an impact were probably suffering from an "an intelligence gap".
The absence in Hainan of the three admirals came just weeks after Beijing announced the firing of 10 other senior PLA officers, including He Weidong, formerly the military’s third in command, who was quietly purged in April.
Admirals Hu and Wu were among 27 senior PLA officers who were missing from a crucial gathering of the Communist party’s central committee last month, absences that accounted for 64 per cent of its members with a military background. Most of those missing are thought to be under investigation or have already been confirmed as having lost their jobs or party membership.
The heads of all but one of the PLA’s five regional commands are currently unaccounted for, are under investigation or have been fired. The navy and the ground force have followed the rocket force in having their commanders targeted. The heads of several specialised departments under the Central Military Commission, the top command organ led by Xi, have disappeared from public view. And scores of political commissars have been ousted or are under some form of party investigation.
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In modern China, not unlike the old Middle Kingdom dynasties, loyalty is more rewarded than capability.
And saying what the higher-ups want to hear is much safer than telling the truth.
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Different take. PLA has always been corrupt with generals "owning" various industries. Could be Xi is clearing out those more interested in making a buck and replacing them with, you know, soldiers.
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They have at best another quarter century, I understand, before their general population gets too old to support military adventures. They’d want it to be as shiny functional as possible in the meantime, one would think.
[NYP] Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.
"We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough," Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the "Office Hours: Business Edition" podcast published earlier this week.
"We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen."
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Let's rephrase that - "We can't find someone else to train and provide these jobs"
They don't want to pay for the training themselves, they want someone else to foot the bill. They'll send out checks to universities and colleges but not apprenticeship programs. Follow the DoD model, sign them up with a obligation of x number of years of work upon completion of training. Treat them as assets not liabilities on the accounting books.
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That and the 'Flat Rate' style of payment where pay is based on a pre-set amount of time for each job, regardless of how long it actually takes, is turning off many within the trade.
The modern vehicles are often a nightmare to work on where every bit of space conflicts with another.
Also the certifications required to work on each make and model of vehicle. The 'EV Certifications' are the most complex, especially for the hybrids.
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/\ Here's an idea, lets put the fuel pump INSIDE the gas tank !!!
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Here's an idea, lets put the fuel pump INSIDE the gas tank !!!
And make sure that the tank opening for that pump is 100% inaccessible unless you remove the driveshaft, differential, exhaust system from the manifolds back, subframes, rear axles and upper/lower control arms. Then one gets to lower the tank itself for pump accessibility. Make sure that there are a lot of hoses and electrical connections on that pump, too.
When done repairing/replacing the pump (which you can't determine which to do until it's totally removed and tested), put EVERYTHING back together without damage or misalignment.
It gets even more fun when there's more than an eighth of a tank worth of fuel in the tank.
Give yourself half a day (at least) using an appropriate vehicle lift. Even more if you're doing it the 'driveway special' way.
Of course the 'Flat Rate Geniuses' only give you around 2.5 hours worth of pay for doing this.
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Farley you ever consider that trained mechanics don't want to work for your idiotic company?
[FoxBusinessNews] Chris Wright tells American Nuclear Society that nuclear power will be biggest use of DOE loan program funds
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced Monday that the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) will largely focus on financing nuclear power plants.
"By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants to get those first plants built," Wright said at a conference of the American Nuclear Society.
During President Trump's first administration, the LPO, which provides financing for U.S. energy and manufacturing projects, was used only to finance reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.
There are no commercial nuclear reactors being built in the U.S. However, several previously closed power plants plan to open again, and there are plans to build new large and small reactors.
Electricity demand from artificial intelligence and data centers will bring in billions of dollars of equity capital from "very creditworthy providers," Wright said.
That financing will be matched "3-to-1, maybe even up to 4-to-1, with low-cost debt dollars from the Loan Programs Office," he added.
Earlier this year, Trump signed four executive orders aimed at accelerating the deployment of nuclear technologies in the U.S.
"What we're trying to accomplish here is unshackling this industry from stifling regulations that have held it back for too long," a senior Trump administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told FOX Business in July. "This industry is ready to grow. It wants to run. It wants to innovate, and there is a lot of capital available."
During his second term, Trump has placed energy and artificial intelligence dominance at the core of his economic and national security agenda.
Even if AI turns out to be a bubble, getting adequate power production built for long-since increased needs is worthwhile.
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More people died in an Oldsmobile driven by a Massachusetts Senator than died at Three Mile Island. The Sun, even though 93 million miles away, is the nearest continuous thermonuclear reaction in the neighbor and it kills thousands every year. No one runs around like Chicken Little because of that.
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In the mid 90’s, I worked in a coal fired power plant on the Ohio River by Cincinnati. There was a string of them. Some of them were new. I think they are all gone.
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Something that always amused me about nuclear power is that it takes the strongest known force in the universe, the strong nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons, and uses it to boil water. Once you got past the whole "splitting the atom" thingie, you could explain it all to James Watt in 5 minutes.
[GEO.TV] A fresh body pulled from the wreckage of a firecracker factory in Hyderabad's Latifabad area has taken the corpse count to seven, while six people remain injured, rescue officials said.
''There are two deaths, and we have sent four to five injured to hospitals,'' Latifabad Assistant Commissioner Saud Lund told the media soon after the blast.
Rescue teams later recovered four more bodies from the rubble, taking the toll to six before the latest recovery pushed it to seven.
Hyderabad Mayor Kashif Ali Shoro confirmed the increase in the corpse count during his visit to the incident site. "Action against illegal factories must be taken," he said while talking to journalists.
Earlier, AC Lund said that the firecrackers were being illegally manufactured in the house without a licence. "The room, where the crackers were being made, was destroyed in the blast."
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[Regnum] Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb has suggested that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be artificially created. He made the announcement on November 15 in his blog.
The reason for this hypothesis was a publication on the Astronomer's Telegram portal, which reported that 3I/ATLAS, unlike typical comets, showed no signs of disintegration after its approach to the Sun on November 11.
"For a natural comet, the fact that 3I/ATLAS remains a single body is surprising," Loeb noted.
According to the astronomer, this new anomaly in 3I/ATLAS remains to be explained by his colleagues, who claim the celestial body is an ordinary comet. He adds that the observational results force serious consideration of the artificial origin theory.
Earlier, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, using the MeerKAT radio telescope, received the first signal from the 3I/ATLAS space object moving towards Earth.
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.
