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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ICE Deports Illegal Alien Gang Members Convicted of Manslaughter, Kidnapping, Attempted Rape
[BB] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is continuing to deport illegal alien gang members, including those convicted of manslaughter, kidnapping, attempted rape, and armed assault, among other crimes.

“Another day, another deportation flight that makes America safer,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement. “In the last week, ICE deported illegal alien gang members, including murderers, sexual assailants, kidnappers, and burglars.”

Among those illegal aliens deported by ICE is Jonathan Moreno Hernandez of Mexico. Hernandez is a member of the South Sider gang and has been previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter, attempted murder, and assault by prisoner in California.

Before being deported this month, Hernandez was deported three times in 2004, 2007, and 2023.

Likewise, ICE deported Jesus Azuara and German Oliverio Miranda-Tapia, both from Mexico and members of the Paisas gang.

Azuara has been previously convicted of dangerous drugs, larceny, possession of burglary tools, robbery, burglary, making a false report, and illegal entry. He was previously deported five times from the United States.

Miranda-Tapia was previously convicted of third-degree sexual assault involving a relative under 16 years old, risk of injury to a child, assault, and reckless driving. He was previously deported in 2020 by the Trump administration and illegally re-entered at an unknown date.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 05:07 || Comments || Link || [120 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


A domestic dispute in the US led to a shooting and fire, killing eight people
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Eight people were killed in a domestic dispute in Billings, Montana, that led to a shooting and fire. ABC News reported.

The tragedy occurred on the evening of August 23 in one of the private houses.

"We believe this started as a domestic dispute," Yellowstone County Sheriff Kent O'Donnell said during a briefing.

According to police, a 911 call was received about a shooting in a public place. Upon arrival, officers found the house completely engulfed in flames. Four adults and four children are believed to have died in the incident.
Fox11 LA adds:
  • A 44-year-old man shot and killed eight of his relatives, including four children, during a Sunday family dinner outside Billings, Montana, before taking his own life.

  • The victims spanned four generations of a blended family that originally relocated to Montana from the Seattle area.

  • Responding officers heard gunfire before the home was fully engulfed in flames, which investigators say delayed the search and processing of the scene.


THE BACKSTORY:
On Sunday, Aug. 23, 44-year-old Alan Smith shot and killed eight family members — including his grandmother, his parents, his sister and four children — before turning the gun on himself. The attack happened during a weekly family dinner, just weeks after his parents had asked him to move out of their home, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

When police responded to a 911 call at the property Sunday evening, officers heard gunshots coming from the back of the house just before the house was set on fire. Firefighters battled the flames until around 1 a.m. Monday. According to the Billings Fire Department, the home was located in a subdivision outside city limits that is not required to have fire hydrants. Efforts to fight the fire had to be delayed, and the fire ultimately burned the house down to its foundation.

Once the site was deemed safe for crews to enter, Sherlocks confirmed that eight victims had died in the attack, along with the gunman, who suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported the victims were identified as grandmother Evelyn Smith; parents Dana and Barb Smith; Alan's sister, Megan Ghekiere; Megan's two children, 13-year-old Owen Ireland and 7-year-old Chloe Ireland; and Megan's two stepchildren with her current husband, 15-year-old Landon Ghekiere and 12-year-old Charlotte Ghekiere.

LOCAL PERSPECTIVE:
According to reporting by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the Smith family was originally from the Seattle area. Brad Ireland, the former husband of Megan Ghekiere, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that after they divorced six years ago, Megan moved to Montana with Owen and Chloe. That is where she met Adam Ghekiere, who would become her second husband. Adam, the father of Landon and Charlotte, was at work and not at the home when the shooting occurred.

Megan's parents, Dana and Barb Smith, bought a house in Billings and moved soon after their daughter relocated, while Dana's elderly mother, Evelyn, lived in a nearby retirement community.

The shooter, Alan Smith, had moved in with his parents in Montana and stayed with them for years before being asked to move out a couple of weeks ago, family members told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Records and background details cited by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named show that Alan had attended Eastern Washington University but had struggled to find or hold a steady job.



Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [137 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
Deloitte Agrees to Pay $21.5 Million to End DOJ Fraud Probe into DEI Practices
[BB] Accounting and consulting giant Deloitte has agreed to pay the United States $21.5 million to settle allegations it defrauded the federal government by continuing company DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives.

The resolution is the latest settlement to result from the Trump administration’s efforts to rid policies from federally-contracted U.S. companies that prioritize immutable characteristics such as race or sex in hiring and staffing decisions.

“Government contractors cannot reward or penalize employees based on race or sex — and labeling the practice DEI does not make it lawful,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “The Justice Department will aggressively pursue government contractors that have used taxpayer dollars to fund unlawful discrimination.”

“Merit drives opportunity and promotion. Not someone’s sex or race,” added Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. “Today’s settlement is yet another example of this Department’s commitment to eliminating woke, unconstitutional practices from American workplaces.”

The DOJ alleged that the company was in violation of the False Claims Act, and pointed to a provision of law that requires companies contracting with the federal government to certify they will not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of race or sex. The department said the settlement resolves allegations from 2017 to the present that Deloitte falsely certified compliance with those conditions while continuing to engage in discrimination.

The department specifically accused the company of taking race and sex into account when hiring, promoting, and making staffing decisions, as well as tracking “demographic goals” and offering trainings and mentoring programs based on race and sex.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 05:06 || Comments || Link || [181 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only reason they agree to this amount is because the actual damage is much worse. That's how settlements work.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/27/2026 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Deloitte and the government come out ahead. The poor bastards that couldn't get a job or were passed over for advancement will never see a dime.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 8:51 Comments || Top||


News NASA engineer says white men did the grunt work while DEI hires got the careers… lawsuit incoming?
[Revolver] NASA is supposed to be where America sends brilliant engineers to solve problems the rest of us can barely understand.

One engineer who worked on the Orion space program says the harder problem inside that world was way more basic than that. The burning question is, who actually gets a career and who is stuck in "grunt work" mode?

Joshua Foxworth was an aerospace engineer who worked on Orion, and he’s making an explosive allegation about what he says he saw firsthand.

According to Foxworth, white male engineers were pushed into temporary or subcontractor "grunt" roles where they handled the technical work but had lousy job security and no way to move up.

He had better jobs with career paths for the DEI employees working directly for the big contractors.

Foxworth says race and sex were absolutely part of the equation.

And that is illegal discrimination.

This is the X post that got this whole story moving.

Foxworth says white men were disproportionately the ones getting stuck in the dead-end grunt work.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 03:15 || Comments || Link || [282 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A dynamic certainly not the exclusive domain of NASA. "Explosive allegations" or long accepted reality?

I'll take 'long accepted reality' for $600. Alex.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Saw it as early as the '70s in southern California.
Strong tech engineers jumping companies because they had already topped-out the salary ranges.
Tech was in demand and there weren't enough bodies.

See Under Secretary of War Emil Michael's remarks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ There appear to be work-arounds for the "topping out of salary ranges" at least in some government sectors. I might offer Dr. Antony Facci as an example.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 6:25 Comments || Top||

#4 
Having worked a number of 8A set-aside Military contracts in the past. I noted the owners were usually figureheads, usually a minority (Non-white and/or Female).

Many times the actual day to day operations were done by their husbands, or non-DEI type persons that were hired as to actually run the operation/contract.

BUT!!!
It also paid off several times for me, as I worked a fair number of contracts placed on a 90 day Care/warning letters. Told to turn services around or leave.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/27/2026 7:19 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 Reminds me of Soviet Union.
The bosses were always Aryan (Russian or Ukrainian), or "local cadres" in the republics. But the deputies were always Jews/Armenian.
Chief engineers Aryan or local, regular engineers - at least a few Jews, who were expected to carry "local cadres".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/27/2026 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Ref #4: Yep, worked for one in Arlington, VA,"owned" by a Brazillian lady. Her husband was a retired USAF colonel. Aviation contracts with USI in Iraq and the Afg. The ultimate work-around.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Melanin, far too often the work-around for actual talent and knowledge in government contracts and management.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/27/2026 14:31 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Yes, There Is DNA from Aborted Fetal Tissue in the Measles Vaccine
[Aaron Siri/Substack] Billions of fragments, in fact

...RFK Jr. is correct. The fact is, there are billions of fragments of human cellular debris and DNA from the cultured cell line of an aborted fetus in every injected dose of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), chicken pox, and hepatitis A vaccines.

Because viruses multiply in cells, living cells are used to grow viruses for vaccine production, including the cultured cell lines of aborted fetuses. Two such cell lines are MRC-5 and WI-38, which are described by a company that sells them as follows:

The MRC-5 cell line was derived from normal lung tissue of a 14-week-old male embryo...

and

WI-38 cell line is the first human diploid cell line to be used in human vaccine preparation ... [and was] isolated from the lung tissue of a 3-month-old, female, embryo.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/27/2026 17:35 || Comments || Link || [86 views] Top|| File under:


He just met women for the first time (short video)
You are soooo lucky I adore you, Besoeker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 06:31 || Comments || Link || [245 views] Top|| File under:

#1  !
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/27/2026 13:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Already found is first bunch of red flags!
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/27/2026 14:34 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Nepal flood LIVE: Expert reveals 'tsunami from the sky' with 200m-high waves was sparked by glacier dumping 20-million cubic metres of water - as images show 'devastation beyond imagination'
Liveblog with photos and videos. Heartbreaking.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Footage has emerged showing workers in a desperate race of survival as a huge wall of water came crashing towards them during a devastating flood that swept through Nepal's Rasuwa region yesterday.

Nepal is facing what officials have described as 'devastation beyond imagination' after a 'tsunami from the sky' battered the area following a glacier collapse.

The rushing waters, reportedly reaching up to 650ft high, have left nearly 1,500 people missing and at least 392 dead.

Now, according to CCTV News, Chinese Ministry of Water Resources have said today that a significant landslide dam, where rock, mud and debris have slid down and blocked the flow of water, has formed near where the Tsogyal River and the Purupqiangzangbu River meet in Nepal.

This has prompted growing fears of a second tsunami after the landslide dam with a 'high risk of breaching' formed in the river.

As of Thursday morning, the estimated water volume had reached 2million cubic meters, and the lake was overflowing.

Another 3 million cubic meters of water is projected to enter the lake over the next three days. This puts the dam at risk of collapsing, which could flood the area again.

Bishal Nath Upreti, a geologist and academic at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, described Wednesday's flood as 'one of the largest disasters in Nepal', saying the collapse unleashed a 300 to 650ft-high 'tsunami from the sky' and around 20million cubic metres of excess water.

Nepal's tourism board said 777 tourists remained out of contact. 33 UK nationals are among those missing.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development has released a detailed assessment of the disaster, with experts warning the disaster could trigger a second flooding event, with vast amounts of debris washed into the region's river systems potentially creating dangerous blockages.

Experts are assessing whether the Trishuli River has been temporarily blocked at narrow sections. If so, the blockage could form a landslide dam and create the risk of another major flood.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 05:27 || Comments || Link || [202 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That wave looked like something out of the movie The day after tomorrow.
Posted by: chris || 08/27/2026 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to get to the 'high ground' when it's straight up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 8:55 Comments || Top||


A cloud of plasma is approaching Earth after a powerful solar flare
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] A plasma cloud from a powerful solar flare will reach Earth on August 28 and could trigger magnetic storms. This was reported on August 26 by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

An M7.0-class flare occurred on August 25th and was the last in a series of solar flares. Afterward, solar activity dropped sharply and has remained at its lowest level for about 12 hours. However, the active region remains directly opposite Earth, so scientists are not ruling out further flares.

The plasma cloud is currently moving toward Earth, located roughly between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Typically, such ejections take two to four days to travel the approximately 150 million km from the Sun to our planet. The cloud is expected to reach Earth on Friday, August 28.

Initially, scientists predicted strong magnetic storms of level G3, but later softened their assessment. Now, weak and moderate storms of levels G1–G2 are expected. Geomagnetic disturbances could last up to two days.

The coronal hole currently located on the Sun may have an additional impact on the Earth's magnetic field.

As early as August 18, Sergei Bogachev, head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported the onset of a period of geomagnetic instability due to the impact of a coronal hole on Earth. At the time, scientists expected only weak magnetic storms, as no strong solar flares were observed.

Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [148 views] Top|| File under:


Death toll from Nepal's massive floods rises to 95
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The death toll from the massive flooding on the Bhote Koshi River in Rasuwa district in Nepal has risen. According to the latest figures, 95 people have died, The Hindu newspaper reported, citing local police.



"At present, 95 deaths have been recorded," said Nepal Police spokesman Abi Narayan Kafle.

He also added that about 28 law enforcement officers were also missing.

Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal told parliament this afternoon that dozens of security personnel and government officials had been unable to contact him. Contact was also lost with 44 Nepalese army personnel. Furthermore, some customs and immigration officials in Rasuwagadhi, as well as civilians in the affected areas, were missing.



Massive flooding occurred on the morning of August 26 in the Rasuwa district bordering Tibet. The disaster paralyzed tourist routes. Nepalese authorities closed several major highways due to the threat of further flooding and landslides. Many homes, roads, hydroelectric facilities, and other critical infrastructure, including telecommunications networks, were destroyed in the disaster area. More than 30 Nepalese army and private helicopters were deployed for search and rescue operations.

Preliminary reports indicate that the flooding was caused by a rock and ice avalanche in the Rasuwa region. The landslide blocked the Lhende River and caused "cascading flooding" downstream along the Bhote Koshi and Trisuli rivers. Nepal's Foreign Minister reported that the landslide was preceded by an earthquake.

According to the Nepal Tourism Authority, 384 tourists are listed as missing. Among them are 291 foreign nationals and 93 Nepalese. Indian nationals account for the largest number of missing tourists. The list also includes travelers from Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.

Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [177 views] Top|| File under:



-Land of the Free
Amish threaten mass exodus from New York over vaccine fight ‐which is heading to the Supreme Court
[NYP] New York’s Amish community is issuing an ultimatum to state bureaucrats: leave us alone or we’re packing up our buggies for greener pastures.

The threat has been sparked by a vaccine mandate fight that the 25,000 strong religious community is taking all the way to the Supreme Court.

It takes place as state Health Department officials continue to slap thousands in fines on tiny, one-room parochial Amish schools which have refused to comply with a Cuomo-era vaccine decree.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 02:30 || Comments || Link || [177 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kremlin Insider Warns of ‘Semi-Military' Strikes Against Britain For Supporting Ukraine War Effort
[Breitbart] A Kremlin advisor appeared on British state television to warn "a new stage of escalation in the Ukrainian conflict" looms and that Moscow is under pressure from its own people to punish Britain for aiding Ukraine.

Former Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei Fedorov, now billed as a Kremlin insider and frequently appearing talking head on Russian television, has told British state broadcaster the BBC that his president Vladimir Putin is under political, military, and public pressure to retaliate against the United Kingdom’s military support for Kyiv.

Speaking to the BBC’s Newsnight programme, Fedorov said armaments factories in the United Kingdom are a particular target for the hoped-for Russian attacks, which he said could be quasi-military or by computer hackers, but in any case would be by actors at arms-length from Moscow with plausible deniability. Referring to London’s continuing support for Ukraine, and following the announcement on Monday that the UK would be handing over blueprints to a bunker-buster missile to Ukraine so they could produce their own, Fedorov said the country was opening as "Pandora’s box".
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 02:58 || Comments || Link || [175 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oct 1, 1939 - Russia is an “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

~ Churchill
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 3:11 Comments || Top||

#2  It's no mystery if British missiles are hitting Russian targets that it's gonna piss the Russians off. You keep poking your nose into other peoples' business and it's liable to get bloodied.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2026 13:20 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
See now, Act now: Taiwan needs to solve its maritime domain awareness problem
[USNI] China is running a structured probing campaign to map Taiwan’s maritime response latencies. To combat this and get qualified aircraft over the Strait, Taiwan needs contractor-operated ISR services.

By Kitsch Liao and F.S. Mei


Approximately $2.45 trillion in trade—and the semiconductor production capacity upon which the world’s digital infrastructure depends—passes through the Taiwan Strait every year. Taiwan needs to see into its waters clearly enough to detect maritime infiltration and respond before a gray zone action becomes a fait accompli. Yet that architecture currently does not exist.

A near-term solution is available. It does not require new formations, new legislation, or capital expenditure that strains Taipei’s defense budget. It only requires authorizing a contractor-owned, contractor-operated (COCO) fixed-wing airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) program and getting qualified aircraft with military-grade sensors into the air over Taiwan’s maritime approaches.

Contractor-operated ISR services have long been used internationally to enhance persistent surveillance without tying up high-end assets, including by the U.S. Navy. The good news for Taiwan is that such a capability already exists in the private sector. The question is whether authorities will include it in their Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience solution to combat gray zone threats from the sea.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [118 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China is developing ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram page of @china3army

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] According to Bloomberg, China has developed a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) capable of delivering air-to-air missiles to targets thousands of kilometers away. If the system is fully developed, it will threaten not only American fighters but also the most valuable aircraft—the E-3/E-7 AWACS aircraft, the E-6B/E-4B airborne command posts, and the KC-46 and KC-135 tanker aircraft, without which large-scale air operations are impossible.

Currently, the maximum range of the Chinese Jian-16 and PL-17 missile combination is estimated at 1,400 km. The new project is expected to significantly expand this range. The Dongfeng-17 missile with HGV is being considered as a launch vehicle, and the longer-range Dongfeng-27 is expected to be considered in the future.

This isn't about directly hitting a target with a ballistic missile, but rather delivering a specialized air-to-air missile to a designated area, which would intercept the aircraft on its final leg. However, the missile itself is only part of the system. To hit an aerial target at such a distance, its flight must be continuously tracked. To this end, China is actively building a unified reconnaissance and targeting network, integrating satellites, over-the-horizon radar stations, and communications, command, and control systems.

Beijing already has more than 500 reconnaissance satellites capable of supporting long-range "kill chains." The primary objective of such weapons is not to destroy individual aircraft, but to push American air support as far away from the combat zone as possible. If tankers and AWACS aircraft are forced to retreat hundreds of kilometers, US fighters will reduce patrol time, reducing the combat radius and the effectiveness of the entire air operation. It's telling that the United States is following a similar path. The US Air Force is developing a long-range AFLRW missile program with a calculated range of over 1,850 km, and the Navy has already unveiled the AIM-424 MALICE missile with a stated range of 463 km

I hope we are also developing weapons of this class.

Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [228 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Cyber
US says it disrupted Chinese hacking campaign that broke into top government bodies
[IsraelTimes] Justice Department says it seized two platforms used in operation to hack NASA, the Federal Reserve, Senate and other sensitive agencies; Beijing says it opposes cyberattacks

The US said on Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins and attempts on the Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and other sensitive government agencies.

In a statement, the Justice Department said it had seized domains used by two hacking platforms, dubbed QScan and QTRouter, which it said had been used as part of the campaign.

An affidavit identified the US Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and four unnamed companies in the US and South Korea as being among the hackers’ victims.

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said in an email that while they were not familiar with the specifics mentioned in the DOJ statement, the "Chinese government firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyberattacks in accordance with the law."

The US uses cybersecurity issues to "smear or discredit China," the spokesperson said, and China "opposes the US overstretching the concept of national security and using it as a pretext to impose discriminatory restrictions on Chinese companies and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies."

The Justice Department said the platforms were run by a China-based firm, the Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, whose clients it said included China’s civilian intelligence agency, the State Security Ministry, and its military, the People’s Liberation Army.

Nanjing Xinjiuwei did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside normal business hours.

HACK ATTEMPTS STARTED IN 2018
The affidavit said the hackers used tools they developed to compromise critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the US and worldwide since at least 2018.

The affidavit said that not all their attempts to gain access were successful. The hackers unsuccessfully attempted to gain access to NASA networks in August 2019 by targeting a virtual private network vulnerability.

In September 2024, the hackers carried out intrusions at three unnamed Energy Department laboratories, the NIH, an unnamed HHS agency, and a US security device manufacturer, according to the affidavit.

A joint cybersecurity advisory issued by the FBI, NSA, and US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force detailed multiple hacking efforts over the years. These included successful data theft from unnamed defense contractors, financial institutions and universities in May 2024.

The hackers also scanned for vulnerabilities and made unsuccessful attempts to access networks of the US Senate and a US hospital in March 2026.

A NASA spokesperson said the agency does not comment on specific incidents, and the Department of Health and Human Services referred questions to the DOJ. The DOJ did not respond to a request for additional detail.

Chinese-linked hacking campaigns have compromised a string of sensitive US government and private networks in recent years. In March, the FBI notified Congress that hackers had penetrated certain agency networks related to people under FBI investigation, with public reporting later attributing the compromise to China. Chinese-linked hackers have also been tied to a compromise of certain US House of Representatives committee networks, as well as multiple major telecommunications companies in recent years.

Experts who follow Chinese cyber activity say private contractors routinely carry out high-profile intrusions on behalf of various Chinese government agencies.

"Over the last decade, the number of companies offering niche offensive services has went kaboom!," said Dakota Cary, a China analyst with cybersecurity company SentinelOne.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2026 2026-08-27 00:52 || Comments || Link || [228 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  I'm more concerned about what's on the shelves at Target, Harbor Freight, and Walmart.

Curious isn't it, Bessent and the administration are now convinced Iran can be brought to heel through economic measures ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 6:16 Comments || Top||


#4  25 years the ITSEC world was warning Fed/State clients about having external internet access to Internal sensitive data, unless a special dual authentication token system was in placed, and monitored 24/7.

Heck I have see better login/access security on mom-pop websites than some Fed/State sites.

But given the advances we have seen in AI login spoofing and etc. what can be done and 100% secure?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/27/2026 7:31 Comments || Top||

#5  As opposed to swalwell, who is a top government body who got into a chinese hack.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2026 17:14 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ "Hey! I penetrated CCP Intelligence! A couple times..."
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2026 18:24 Comments || Top||


Economy
Another California giant bolts for Texas as multi-billion-dollar company announces move
[NYP] Another California company is pulling up stakes, with a $7 billion biotech firm moving its headquarters out of Irvine.

CG Oncology, a Nasdaq-traded company focused on developing treatments for bladder cancer, has relocated its corporate headquarters to Dallas.

The move took effect earlier this year, according to Sarah Connors, the company’s vice president of communications and patient advocacy.

The new HQ is at Pegasus Park, a roughly 26-acre Dallas campus built around life sciences, research and entrepreneurship.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 02:35 || Comments || Link || [184 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Berlin police are struggling to find enough German-speaking recruits amid surge in migrant applications
[DM] Berlin is struggling to recruit enough German-speaking police officers amid a surge of migrant applicants.

The president of the city's police force Barbara Slowik Meisel revealed that 40 per cent of applicants failed a German language skills test.

She said that this had created a dilemma for her and the force, as the city is in dire need of new cops but cannot afford to lower its standards.

Ms. Slowik Meisel told local media: 'We have applicants, but we also have high standards that we cannot lower.

'[As police officers] we have to explain our police actions day in and day out... and also possibly document things in writing.'

She said that around a quarter of 1,200 entry level positions have been left unfilled since 2025, adding: 'We are facing extremely fierce competition for suitable applicants, and the emphasis is on suitable.'

Figures showed that of the 240 cadets who began training in spring 2025, more than half required additional tutoring in German.

Berlin has the highest proportion of officers from a migrant background of any force in Germany at 37%.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 06:13 || Comments || Link || [255 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Try and find an Englishman at London's Heathrow airport.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2026 6:27 Comments || Top||

#2  "German-speaking recruits"?

How about highly proficient German reading and writing applicants?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/27/2026 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Recruit Ukrainians - they make best Politzei.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/27/2026 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The Romans had problems finding enough Latin speaking soldiers during the 300-400s too.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/27/2026 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Auf wiedersehen, baby!
Posted by: hyper || 08/27/2026 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe they wouldn't need so many cops if they didn't have so many immigrants.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2026 13:30 Comments || Top||

#7  We have applicants, but we also have high standards that we cannot lower

But that's a lot of strength through diversity?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2026 17:33 Comments || Top||


France: Two Dead, 10 Injured After Man Rams Car Into Crowd in Caen
[BB] Two people were killed and at least ten more were left injured Wednesday night after a man crashed a car into a group of people at the northern French city of Caen.

French news broadcaster BFMTV reports that the tragic incident occurred after a man “deliberately” ran the vehicle into a group following an altercation at a nearby bar. Per French outlets, the collision occurred at around 22:15 p.m. (local time).

A judicial source reportedly told BFMTV that the victims are French, Bangladeshi, Egyptian, and Afghan nationals between the ages of 17 and 36. While it was initially reported that only one person had died, a second fatality was confirmed by French outlets on Thursday morning.

According to the testimony of a witness cited by the broadcaster, the victims were sitting on a bench at a bus stop when the car “came from the other side at full speed and ran over everyone.”

The perpetrator has since been identified by the BBC and several outlets as a 26 year-old man born in Russia. The man was arrested about 12 miles away from the town of Ouistreham after he fled from the scene.

According to French officials, the Russian-born man “is not known to intelligence agencies,” but has a prior record of traffic-related offenses with the local police.

French authorities do not “at first glance” presently believe the incident was a terrorist act, but emphasized investigations are just beginning.
Odds are good he’ll turn out to be a member of the Master Religion, but that he has mental health problems, giving an excuse for the authorities to claim it wasn’t really Sudden Jihad Syndrome.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 04:55 || Comments || Link || [176 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  Maybe.
Seems like the headlines go:
Man Rams Car = white
Car Goes Into = jihadi
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2026 17:30 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
US Army plans nuclear microreactors at 5 military bases as part of $2.2B energy security push
[FOX] The U.S. Army is moving forward with plans to bring nuclear power to five military installations as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to strengthen the military's energy security and reduce its reliance on potentially vulnerable power grids.

The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program selected five nuclear energy companies for awards of up to a combined $2.2 billion to own, build and operate nuclear microreactors at bases in North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia and New York.

The announcement comes as the Army works toward a September 2028 target outlined in an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for the first Army-regulated reactor to begin operating on a military installation.

Combined with expected private-sector investment, the Army said it expects more than 20 nuclear microreactors to eventually be built and operated across Department of War installations.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2026 05:23 || Comments || Link || [186 views] Top|| File under:

#1  War IS the engine of technology.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/27/2026 16:10 Comments || Top||


Astrophysicist Pilipenko: A person trapped in a black hole will see the stars move
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Time would accelerate for a person falling into a supermassive black hole so much that they would be able to observe millions of years of the evolution of stars and galaxies. This was reported on August 26 by Sergei Pilipenko, a senior researcher at the Lebedev Physical Institute's Astrospace Center.

The scientist noted that the spacecraft is capable of safely crossing the outer boundary of such an object. During the flight with the engines off, the crew will experience weightlessness and will not feel any changes in gravity.

"When falling into a supermassive black hole, the tidal forces will be weaker, and the spacecraft will be quite capable of falling below the horizon," Pilipenko told RIA Novosti.

The expert also explained that this flight would be invisible from the outside, as the object would disappear from view beyond an invisible boundary. The crew would recognize this by the strong distortion of outer space and the blue shift of starlight.

Time on board will pass so quickly that travelers will see large-scale cosmic processes. However, they will not be able to see the object's center due to the existence of a second internal boundary, beyond which light cannot escape. The end of the flight, according to the astrophysicist, will be tragic, as the ship is guaranteed to be torn apart by increasing gravitational forces during its further descent.

Earlier in July, astronomers for the first time tracked in real time the development of a third giant X-ray flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy IC 3599. It is located approximately 280 million light-years from Earth.

Posted by: badanov || 08/27/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [179 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doubtful that the crew would be able to observe anything. Two issues, one; pointless as crew could not communicate observations to those outside the black hole (think very low communication rte, likely a baud every couple thousand years, if that!)

Two; the spacecraft and crew would become plasma just from the gravity pull long before hitting the event horizon.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/27/2026 7:02 Comments || Top||



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