NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) ‐ Several Airmen from Joint Base Charleston are facing scrutiny from base leadership over photos and video showing them engaging in what some feel is unprofessional behavior at work and in public.
JBC officials announced Tuesday morning they were working to identify the airmen in an attempt to address the situation appropriately.
The inquiry was prompted by photos shared publicly on Facebook Monday morning, April 28, showing three women in Air Force uniforms riding mobility assistance scooters through a Charleston-area Walmart.
Later, video surfaced on an Air Force humor Facebook page, appearing to show the same three women dancing while inside an office on Joint Base Charleston.
"I am disappointed in the actions of the Airmen. Their actions are not representative of the members of Joint Base Charleston," said Col. Terrence Adams, commander of Joint Base Charleston. "We expect the utmost professionalism and respect from all of our service members."
LONGMONT, Colo. - Werner Trei is accustomed to being on a man on a mission.
This time around, the decorated Vietnam War veteran is on a mission to gain U.S. citizenship.
The 71-year-old said his family moved from Germany to Lincoln, Nebraska, when he was just 2 years old.
After he graduated from high school, he was drafted into the Vietnam War, defending a country in which he could not vote and returning home with three Bronze Stars.
"Every man that ever went out with me I brought back. Never lost a man. I can be proud of that," Trei said.
He has qualified for green-card status over the years and was under the impression that once he served in the Army, he would gain citizenship.
But it never happened.
Now. Trei has brain cancer and is in hospice care. His caregivers at The Peaks Care Center in Longmont are reaching out to Gov. Jared Polis and Sen. Cory Gardner to help him finally become a citizen.
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This nation in the past has always kept the battlefields at arms length so that the ones the soldiers loved and were protecting would not experience the horrors of the battlefield.
The above video from the TV series The Pacific was right on when capturing the return of soldiers to a sheltered society. The soldiers of WWII had only one thing to learn, to be the best killing machines in the world, nothing more and nothing less. Like Sledge said, they got pretty dam good at it. It was so obvious to them how disconnected the US civilians back home were from an understanding of living hell.
[Reuters] United Nations human rights experts voiced concern on Friday at what they called the “disproportionate sentence” of 50 weeks in prison imposed on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for skipping bail in Britain.
Assange is being held in the high-security Belmarsh prison “as if he were convicted for a serious criminal offence”, the U.N. working group on arbitrary detention said in a statement, adding that this “appears to contravene principles of necessity and proportionality”. It described the skipping bail charge as a relatively “minor violation”.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Fierce clashes reportedly broke out along the Colombian-Venezuelan border today, as opposition and government groups confronted one another on the Simon Bolivar Bridge.
The situation is still not clear, pro-opposition accounts claim that pro-government collectivos and pro-Guaido supporters engaged in an intense shootout at the Simon Bolivar Bridge.
This shootout comes just two days after Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido announced the last phase of his attempt to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro.
The Venezuelan government has responded to Guaido’s announcement by calling on their supporters to take to the streets and protest against the opposition.
Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration stated that they would not rule out military intervention in Venezuela, despite pleas by Russia and China to avoid any confrontation with the government.
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Report: Cilia Flores, Maduro's wife, left #Venezuela on Tuesday on a Bombardier Global Express sent by Putin from Moscow. According to this flight tracker, the plane left Caracas on Tuesday and arrived at Istanbul on Thursday via Punta Cana. Not certain Cilia was inside. pic.twitter.com/TRbMwCNSXQ
Latin American diplomatic sources tell me there are private talks within the Organization of American States to invoke a dormant 1947 Inter-American defense treaty known as TIAR, or the Rio Treaty, against #Venezuela. See: https://t.co/5YkhZv5ksL@miamiheraldpic.twitter.com/MCAGaDqITM
April 26, 2019: In Siberia, large portions of the KrasMash manufacturing complex exploded and burned. It was feared this might delay production of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles and satellite launchers. The most notable missile built at KrasMash is the RS-28 (SS-x-30 or Satan 2) heavy ICBM which has passed recent test firings and is on schedule to enter service in 2021. It was later revealed that the explosion and fires were at the portion of the complex that manufactures consumer goods (refrigerators). The missile production areas were unaffected.
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"Dual Purpose" - it'll keep your vodka chilled and fire small projectiles into space
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It was later revealed that the explosion and fires were at the portion of the complex that manufactures consumer goods (refrigerators).
Interwar German humor on cheating the Versailles Treaty: "If you disassemble a Krupp baby carriage you can only put it back together as a heavy machine gun..."
[Jpost] North Korea fired several short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea's military said, the first missile launch since 2017 as it steps up pressure against Washington after a failed nuclear summit.
The North fired an unidentified short-range missile from the city of Wonsan around 9 a.m. (0000 GMT), South Korea's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The Office said it was conducting joint analysis with the United States.
Several missiles flew 70 kms to 200 kms (44-124 miles), the Joint Chiefs of Staff said later.
The launch is the first since the North fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in November 2017, before declaring the building of its nuclear force complete and extending an olive branch to the South and the United States.
Its leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , has vowed to no longer test nuclear weapons or ICBMs, but the North has conducted other weapons tests since then.
The missile firing, coming after the North's test of what it called a tactical weapons system, added to the pressure it has exerted on Washington in talks on ending the North's nuclear program.
"It also seems clear that North Korea is angry over what appears to be a lack of flexibility in the Trump administration’s position on relieving sanctions, sticking to a policy of 'maximum pressure'," said Harry Kazianis at the Center for the National Interest, a think-tank.
Kim has held two summit meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , the second in February in Vietnam, but the two failed to make progress on ending the North's nuclear program due to disagreement on weapons dismantlement and sanctions relief.
[RT] A minor outbreak of African swine fever among some 400 pigs in Shenyang in northeastern China is now threatening the global food supply chain and may increase pork prices for years.
Despite a mass cull, a blockade to prevent any further transmission and a government declaration that the outbreak of the particularly nasty strain of swine fever had been “effectively controlled,” China, the country with half of the world’s pigs, failed to stop the spread of the disease in time. Domestically, this contagion is already massive: China has a $128 billion pork industry and is third-highest global consumer of pork.
In the truest sense of the word, the outbreak has already gone viral, spreading to Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia and farther afield. The strain of African swine fever kills virtually every pig it infects with a bloody death reminiscent of Ebola, although it is not known to infect humans.
“It’s the biggest thing to affect the animal-protein market this year, and will probably have a lasting effect for a number of years,”said Angus Gidley-Baird, a commodities analyst with Rabobank in Sydney. “It will move markets and possibly influence geopolitical situations.”
Official estimates in China count one million culled pigs so far but many expect 100 times that number will be eradicated in 2019. The US Department of Agriculture is predicting a decline of 134 million animals from Chinese hog populations, equivalent to almost one-and-a-half times the entire US inventory of 75 million pigs.
Effects have already been seen on the other side of the globe. The price of bacon in Spain already jumped 20 percent in March owing to increased Chinese demand, while wholesale pork prices in China are reportedly up 19 percent from 2018 levels, and rising.
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Don't mess up Smithfield like you did china. You suck at everything commie idiots. Why don't you ACT and BE on the Level with US? Stop acting like thieves and back stabbers and all that other Horrible shit you do. You are NOT acting like a great country. You are acting like you could be a great country - yet you have none of those features at all. It makes me weary of your ascendance
Yet, from what I can tell, you are too lazy to do your own homework so you will fall apart fast.
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Word to the wise never buy food products that originate in China.
Good luck with that! Working at a fluid milk plant I was *unpleased* several years ago to notice that the bulk food additives, food chemicals in 55-gallon drums, were from Mainland China. Knowing their track record on things like baby formula...
[windowslatest.com] Update: Mozilla has identified the problem and issued a fix for Firefox, Firefox Beta and Nightly. The update will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours and bring back extensions to the original state. There is no action required by the users.
"Our team has identified and rolled-out a fix for all Firefox Desktop users on Release, Beta and Nightly. The fix will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours. No active steps need to be taken to make add-ons work again," the company said in a new blog post.
Mozilla is using Firefox's Studies system to deliver the fix on short notice and the general fix is also being worked on. "We are working on a general fix that doesn't use the Studies system and will keep this blog post updated accordingly," Mozilla explains.
To turn on the 'Firefox's Studies system', follow the instuction below:
[Techguy.com Forum] Posted by Cookiegal; There's an update to that article and in order to get the update you have to allow "studies" to run in order to receive the fix. This is under Tools - Options - Privacy & Security and scroll down to the section entitled "Firefox Data Collection and Use". I had everything disabled there but that will prevent the fix from coming through. I've temporarily enabled it and will leave it like that for a few hours to see if the fix arrives.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ After turning on the above, turn off Firefox and wait a few seconds (to make sure Firefox shut down completely) then restart. This fixed my issue!
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Dandy idea. Polish chicks are hot and that's a kind of war bride without the war.
Plus, if your cardiologist doesn't mind, Polish cooking is really, really good.
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And you get your knickers in a bunch when Russians show up in Caracas.
[Breitbart] According to data released by the Gesellschaft fur Deutsche Sprache (Society for the German Language), the most popular boy’s name for newborn babies in Berlin is Mohammed.
Mohammed ranks first as the most popular name for newborn boys in the German capital once all the variations of the name, such as different spellings like Muhammed and variations like Mehmet, are counted together, German tabloid Bild reports.
The name has also become very popular in Bremen, where it ranks in third place for newborn boys behind Ben and Elias.
However, while Mohammed is the most popular name for children in Germany’s urban capital, it failed to make the top ten in terms of popular names across all of Germany.
The top five most popular names across Germany for boys were Paul, Alexander, Maximillian, Elias, and Ben.
[DAWN] Reuse of syringes by quacks appear to be the leading cause behind the recent wave of HIV-positive cases in Larkana, which rose by 32 on Friday to reach a figure of 128 ‐ of which 102 are children ‐ since last week, according to sources within the Sindh health department.
"Only in one case, the child’s mother was HIV-positive which shows that the virus was vertically transmitted from the mother to the child [in one case only]," said a provincial level health functionary on condition of anonymity.
Since the unusually high number of cases were reported in the last week of April, a total of 3,483 people have been screened in Ratodero taluka by Sindh government’s AIDS Control Programme staff.
Typical medical malpractice for that part of the world, but better than the other possibility, which would be a typical non-medical practice for that part of the world.
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Cargo cult medicine. We shall employ the white man's juju, but we don't understand the fundamental concepts like the germ theory of disease or infection control.
[THEDRIVE] The U.S. Air Force has revealed that a ground-based surrogate for a laser weapon system that could protect American fighter jets and other aircraft from incoming threats in the future has successfully shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test. The service's publicly stated goal is to have a podded prototype system ready for actual flight tests by 2021 and an actual operational capability by the end of the decade.
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) conducted the test on Apr. 23, 2019, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, together with defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which is developing the laser. Lockheed Martin first received the contract to build the directed energy weapon in 2017 as part of AFRL's Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) program. The laser component, or Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments (LANCE), is just one part of the SHiELD effort. Work on a turreted mount and a self-contained pod to attach the complete system to a fighter jet-sized aircraft are separate as part of the SHiELD Turret Research in Aero Effects (STRAFE) and Laser Pod Research & Development (LPRD) projects, respectively.
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[The Drive] The U.S. Air Force has revealed that a ground-based surrogate for a laser weapon system that could protect American fighter jets and other aircraft from incoming threats in the future has successfully shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test. The service's publicly stated goal is to have a podded prototype system ready for actual flight tests by 2021 and an actual operational capability by the end of the decade.
The above paragraph has qualifying words in it and likely needs careful parsing. Words like "surrogate" always worry me.
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) conducted the test on Apr. 23, 2019, at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, together with defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which is developing the laser. Lockheed Martin first received the contract to build the directed energy weapon in 2017 as part of AFRL's Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) program. The laser component, or Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments (LANCE), is just one part of the SHiELD effort. Work on a turreted mount and a self-contained pod to attach the complete system to a fighter jet-sized aircraft are separate as part of the SHiELD Turret Research in Aero Effects (STRAFE) and Laser Pod Research & Development (LPRD) projects, respectively.
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The very idea of a laser was science fiction until it wasn't. Same with rockets landing on their fins.
It seems to take a couple decades to go from laboratory curiosity to off-the-shelf product. For airborne lasers, it appears the bottleneck was the acronym generator.
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There are some mechanical "batteries" that do work. The island of Kauai takes unused power generated via solar during the day to pump water up the mountain. Then releases it at night to power generators. Perfect - no. Useful - yes.
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Utility batteries are not for storing power. They are for absorbing transient demand spikes or to operate for the 15 minutes for a gas turbine peaking power plant to come online. They reduce the need for spinning standby reserves.
Lulz!
[Newsbusters via Weasel Zippers] This week it was reported that CNN lost 26 percent of its audience, down 237,000 viewers since April 2018, and down nearly 40 percent from its 2016 peak. To put those numbers in their proper perspective:
■ According to Wikipedia, the population of prostitutes in the U.S. (approximately one million) is larger than the population of CNN viewers.
■ Across all cable networks, CNN now ranks 15th, behind Home and Garden TV (4th), the Hallmark Channel (9th) and the Food Network (14th).
■ The 237,000 viewers CNN has shed over just the last year is more than the populations of Richmond, Virginia (227,032), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (225,374) or Des Moines, Iowa (217,521).
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"Even though we are becoming more selective in our appeal, for people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like."
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.
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) ‐ Several Airmen from Joint Base Charleston are facing scrutiny from base leadership over photos and video showing them engaging in what some feel is unprofessional behavior at work and in public.
North Korea
[RT] A minor outbreak of African swine fever among some 400 pigs in Shenyang in northeastern China is now threatening the global food supply chain and may increase pork prices for years.
[windowslatest.com] Update: Mozilla has identified the problem and issued a fix for Firefox, Firefox Beta and Nightly. The update will be automatically applied in the background within the next few hours and bring back extensions to the original state. There is no action required by the users.
[Breitbart] According to data released by the Gesellschaft fur Deutsche Sprache (Society for the German Language), the most popular boy’s name for newborn babies in Berlin is Mohammed.
[DAWN] Reuse of syringes by quacks appear to be the leading cause behind the recent wave of HIV-positive cases in Larkana, which rose by 32 on Friday to reach a figure of 128 ‐ of which 102 are children ‐ since last week, according to sources within the Sindh health department.
[THEDRIVE] The U.S. Air Force has revealed that a ground-based surrogate for a laser weapon system that could protect American fighter jets and other aircraft from incoming threats in the future has successfully shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test. The service's publicly stated goal is to have a podded prototype system ready for actual flight tests by 2021 and an actual operational capability by the end of the decade.
