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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Colorado's roughest city plagued by MORE embarrassment as [500] feral teens take over mall, in latest dystopian incident that has terrified locals
They used to call this wilding. Now they call it a teen takeover, but the behaviour is the same.
[DM] A group of 500 feral teens stormed a Colorado grocery store and vandalized it in the latest dystopian incident that has left locals terrified.

Teens besieged a King Soopers on Peoria Street in Aurora on Sunday afternoon, causing property damage and stealing items, police said.

Social media video showed teens carrying stolen tables, throwing food items on the floor, and running around the aisles as shoppers attempted to complete their grocery runs.

Teens crowded every part of the store, with the main aisles being overwhelmed with children between the ages of 14 and 17, who screamed and laughed as they caused disruption.

'It was like a nightmare,' an anonymous employee told KDVR. 'Everybody was littering over here... It was like a lot of people. And I talked to security and they said yeah we are taking care of it. But obviously not.'

They would later flee in large groups to local businesses, including a Burger King down the street, where they stood on tables, jumped around, and appeared to sing a song, a social media video showed.

'While some simply ran through the businesses, others vandalized property and stole merchandise,' the Aurora Police Department said.

The Aurora Police Department dispatched around 70 officers to the scenes to regain order in the city, which took several hours, it said.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 12:32 || Comments || Link || [232 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Shoot on sight.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/01/2026 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Obviously there's security cam footage of the Lil Rascals. Jail em, fine em, and deport them (even the US citizens, Frank G? Yes.)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2026 13:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Now if they banned smart phones from teenagers like they ban guns, a lot of this could be reduced. Alternately, like the shut off button on gas stations, the management could have a very localized phone jammer to activate in case of similar events.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 16:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Flamethrower will clean that right up.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/01/2026 16:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Start treating them as adults.
Issue them real Jail time, not probation. Or slap them in Juvy getting only 3 meals and a bed. No snacks, smart phones, Internet access and no TV.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/01/2026 17:36 Comments || Top||


Serial California Butt Sniffer Arrested Again
[BB] A California man with a history of lewd behavior towards women was arrested once again after police received another report of a suspicious individual in a Glendale, California, business on Friday. Police officers arrested 39-year-old Calese Carron Crowder after two separate businesses reported suspicious activity.

Police officers responded to the area at around 3:30 p.m. on Friday. According to a report by mynewsla.com, a witness saw the man “hunkered down” and approaching people to smell them. Police were also dispatched to a nearby clothing store near South Brand Boulevard and East Broadway regarding a similar report. At that location, police reviewed surveillance video and identified Crowder as the suspect in the incident after it showed him allegedly engaged in similar offensive “sniffing” behavior.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, Crowder’s history of arrests for lewd activity is well known among surrounding Los Angeles area municipalities. In July 2025, Crowder was arrested after police received similar reports of a man loitering at a department store in Burbank, California.

On that occasion, according to a Burbank Police Department press release, officers responded to the report of a suspicious individual in the Nordstrom Rack department store at 1601 North Victory Place. Upon arrival, they were informed by store employees that the man had left. Police began searching the surrounding businesses in hopes of locating the man.

During a search of a nearby Walmart, Crowder was located as he moved around the various departments of the big-box retailer. Using the store’s surveillance system, officers monitored the suspect as he walked through the women’s department, where he was observed following a female customer.

According to the officers, Crowder was observed and captured on video as he crouched behind the female customer and inappropriately sniffed her buttocks. After observing the lewd behavior, officers approached Calese Crowder and detained him for further investigation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 12:12 || Comments || Link || [166 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You, dog, you!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 19:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Who nose?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 09/01/2026 22:56 Comments || Top||


Trump admin shuts down 270 driving schools in fraud crackdown
[FOX] President Donald Trump's administration announced a "historic" crackdown on trucking fraud during a news conference in Detroit on Monday.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the move alongside Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, saying tens of thousands of illegal drivers' licenses were issued during former President Joe Biden's administration.

Duffy noted that millions of illegal immigrants were allowed into the country under Biden and many were granted commercial drivers' licenses, with many of them not even able to speak English.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 04:52 || Comments || Link || [220 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Please jail some of these people who ran the schools.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/01/2026 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Jailing them? Hanging them would get more attention, and guarantee no repeat offenders. Something we should consider with repeat offenders guilty of multiple murders, rapists, and other crimes. It worked before. . .
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/01/2026 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I second the hanging solution.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/01/2026 9:22 Comments || Top||

#4  I should probably send in the name of the CDL school I went to. What a joke. Literally, the first time I drove a tractor-trailer on a public road was on my CDL exam. Then they got me a job with a Ukrainian outfit out of Chicago, another disaster. I was completely new to the industry and did not know any better and should have gone to the tech-college just up the road.
Posted by: Menhadden Henbane5781 || 09/01/2026 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Do send in the name, Menhadden Henbane5781. The sooner hat mess is cleaned up, the sooner the feds can turn their attention to the next thing on a very long list.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Should you go to the tech college to fill in the holes in your education, just in case?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 11:54 Comments || Top||



WATCH: Maryland carjacking suspect plows toward cops as they open fire
[FOX] Newly released body camera footage shows an alleged carjacking suspect driving toward Maryland police officers, striking an officer and multiple cars before officers opened fire as she attempted to flee.

Police in Anne Arundel County responded on May 7 at around 9 p.m. to the area of North Crain Highway and 11th Avenue in Glen Burnie for a report of a hit-and-run. When police arrived at the scene, they learned a woman had crashed her car into another vehicle before forcibly taking the vehicle belonging to a family member who had shown up to help her.

The woman, identified as Jasmin L. Cooper, 28, was later located inside the vehicle on the 8500 block of Severn.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 04:49 || Comments || Link || [136 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs


NYPD shoots, kills knife-wielding woman who stabbed two people, one fatally, in Times Square
[NYP] A maniac was shot dead by police in the heart of Times Square Monday after she stabbed two people, one fatally, and confronted cops while wildly waving two knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD said.

The caught-on-camera mayhem erupted in the Crossroads of the World after Pamela Cisneros, 49, randomly knifed a man and a woman in a 20-second span near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue just before 4:30 p.m., cops said.

Officers found Cisneros a block away behind an NYPD substation, waving two knives at them, according to sources and harrowing footage of the confrontation.

Two officers then opened fire, striking the Cisneros, who had a known history of mental illness with the department. She was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.

The unprovoked stabbings and subsequent shooting all occured in roughly 20 minutes and sent panicked tourists and commuters scrambling for safety.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 01:34 || Comments || Link || [271 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  Well dang, the NYPD didn't give a judge a chance to release her on her own recognizance.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Not sure that a visit to NYC during stabbing season is prudent.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/01/2026 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  She was a chunker (photo at link)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2026 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Was she a he?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Appears one of her victims got the death penalty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 12:07 Comments || Top||

#6  BofA vice president Piacenti killed in Times Square stabbing
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7 
Being NYC is under strange political control.

Surprised the Police are still funded, firearm and allowed ammo, and not arrested and charged with murder?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/01/2026 17:39 Comments || Top||

#8  She got tired of eating herself to death so cut to the chase and did suicide by cop.
Posted by: Difar Dave || 09/01/2026 19:55 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Death toll from Nepal floods and landslides rises to 951
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The death toll from the floods and landslides that hit Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region has reached 951, China Central Television reported on August 31, citing Nepalese police.

"According to the latest data, as of 5:00 p.m. local time on August 31, the death toll from the landslide in Nepal has risen to 951," the TV channel said in a statement.

Previously, 919 victims were known.

The fate of nearly 4,200 people, including 592 foreigners, remains unknown. Nine Russian citizens are on the list. Additionally, approximately 933 hydropower facility workers may be trapped in the tunnels.

On the morning of August 26, an earthquake struck Nepal.
So not the fault of the Chinese hydroelectric power plant built at the edge of the glacier after all? Glad to hear it. There is quite enough evil emanating from CCP works without adding this.
It triggered a rock and ice avalanche, blocking the local Lhende River. As a result, the river overflowed its banks and flooded areas downstream of the Bhote Koshi and Trisuli rivers. The disaster also affected China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Posted by: badanov || 09/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [161 views] Top|| File under:



-Land of the Free
US Army Phase Out ‘Lessons Learned’ Experimental Drone Unit
From 08/20/26
[TheHill] The U.S. Army plans to phase out a drone unit that was studying and incorporating lessons from foreign wars, including the use of uncrewed systems in the Russia-Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

The infantry battalion, known as the Unmanned Assault Battalion, will participate at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center this month and next month in Germany. After the exercises, the battalion will “refocus on its core warfighting tasks as an airborne infantry battalion assigned to a Mobile Brigade Combat Team (Airborne),” the official said.

The unit is part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, a quick-reaction light infantry brigade team stationed in Vicenza, Italy. It was championed by former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who was ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year.
The U.S. Army Europe and Africa, with the backing of the Army and U.S. European Command, tasked the infantry battalion to “prototype an employment concept for a tactical unmanned systems battalion,” the official said.

The unit was also championed by Gen. Chris Donahue, the former commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, whose July removal by Hegseth divided Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
As DarthVader pointed out when we first saw this story:
Yes, the specialized battalions are being removed. They are being broken up and pushed down to the infantry battalions as an integrated part of the unit. Lessons from Ukraine showed that this capability embedded at the smaller unit worked a lot better.

So no U-turn, more of a redeployment into the actual units that will need them.
Has anything more been reported on this or other similar reorganizations? This is a good opportunity to follow up on an interesting way the US military is being renewed by the Hegseth team.

Posted by: Dopey Photch2701 || 09/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [288 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Army has been running 'tests' with drones since the early 1990s at the National Training Center in force on force exercises, till it got sidetracked by the WoT.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  So, no 'Lessons Learned'.
Only conclusion I can come to.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/01/2026 13:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Or the lesson is that it’s time to turn the troops loose with it at the unit level, without the need for close supervision.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 15:10 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 No it's a dynamic process coordinated through CALL. Information and data is gathered, analyzed, tasked to Schools and Centers for implementation and integration in to doctrine and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 16:20 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Malian government has adopted a decree increasing the national participation in the capital of the future Kobada gold mine

Translated Text:

#Mali: 🇲🇱 The Malian government has adopted a decree increasing the national participation in the capital of the future Kobada gold mine, located in the Koulikoro region, to 35%.

The State will directly hold 30% of the project, while 5% will be reserved for Malian investors. The Australian company Toubani Resources will retain the remaining 65%.

Of the State's share, 10% will be held free of charge and without dilution, while an additional 20% will need to be acquired for cash.

However, the government has not yet specified the amount required to finance this acquisition, nor the terms for Malian investors to access the 5% reserved for them.
Posted by: badanov || 09/01/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [127 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Feds seize domains in San Diego to block China from cyber hacking entities, from NASA to the Fed
[Just The News] Federal law enforcement has seized core infrastructure reportedly used by a Chinese state-sponsored cyber platform to target high-profile U.S. government entities and critical infrastructure in a campaign dating back to 2018.

Authorities said the hacking targets varied from NASA to the Federal Reserve.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced the court-authorized domain seizures targeting QScan and QTRouter, two cyber platforms that investigators said have ties to a Chinese group known as QTFY.

Officials announcing the seizures included U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California, as well as Special Agent in Charge Mark Remily of the FBI San Diego Field Office.

Authorities said QTFY worked through Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Co. to provide hacking services to Chinese intelligence and military arms.

Among QTFY's targets were NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. departments of Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. Senate.

According to court filings, the platforms infected thousands of devices worldwide to construct an obfuscation network that masked attack origins. Federal agents reportedly neutralized both tools by seizing hard-coded domains essential for the malware's communication.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 01:46 || Comments || Link || [183 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Not much, but it's a start.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  side note: The only time I was ever on a jury, we convicted the local Hells Angels head of some minor violations of his probation (so, back to prison). Now U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California (not yet a big wig) was the District Prosecutor. Seemed like a very sharp guy
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2026 7:05 Comments || Top||

#3  China has been waging cyber war against the rest of the world since the invention of the Internet. It's about damn time our government got wise and started doing something about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/01/2026 9:41 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canada PM Mark Carney torches Trump officials after Pete Hegseth attacks teenage cadet
[DM] Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has torched the Trump administration for 'doing memes' after cabinet secretaries were accused of mocking the country's military.
Oh noes! Not the MEMES!
Carney on Tuesday blasted the officials for 'trying to be tough' and urged them to 'start being serious' about discussions to end the trade war.

Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America last week, escalating tensions between the two nations with no end to the dispute in sight.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday night posted an image from a cadet training center in British Columbia showing a teenage girl receiving a medal from a female instructor with the caption: 'This is real.'

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy meanwhile dismissed Canada as 'a country that doesn't have a military' during an appearance on Fox News Sunday on August 23.

Asked about the attacks by Trump cabinet secretaries, Carney told reporters 'it's beneath their office.'

'There's a positive opportunity that has always existed with the United States for a mutually beneficial trade deal that respects Canadian sovereignty,' the PM said.

'When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 12:35 || Comments || Link || [208 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The sorry dude wants to be able to transship Chinese exports to the US. You've made your choice. Besides, the Ottawa government is moving ahead with population replacement using Indians.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 16:00 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Spats Whereck2759 || 09/01/2026 19:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Re #1: the correct term for the replacements is "Jeets".
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 09/01/2026 23:32 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
New Documents Suggest Fauci Connected to Researcher Accused of Designing Dangerous Viruses
[RedState] Newly released documents detailing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s long-running relationship with the CIA reveal that Americans may have a very big problem in their intelligence community.

As we previously reported, newly obtained records showed that Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had a long-running relationship with the CIA.
Search results based on comments, below:

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 01:57 || Comments || Link || [231 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The rest is behind the paywall, so I am left in suspense to wonder who is the dangerous researcher?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 2:43 Comments || Top||

#2  EcoHealth Alliance needs a much deeper look.

EcoHealth Alliance was
a left-of-center nonprofit organization that focused on understanding the emergence and spread of infectious diseases around the world. Initially a nonprofit organization that focused on wildlife conservation, it re-branded in 2010 to study infectious diseases.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/ecohealth-alliance/
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 4:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I am left in suspense

EXCLUSIVE: Fauci’s Institute Worked Hand In Glove With CIA, New Documents Confirm
A CIA whistleblower recently filled in more details about the NIH-intel connection.

Former CIA Senior Operations Officer Jim Erdman, a former member of a declassification task force under former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, described the NIH-intel connection that developed in the early 2000s in written testimony to Paul’s committee.

“The lines between public health and biodefense have been blurred beyond recognition ever since,” Erdman wrote.

Some scientists conduct lab research on “sensitive WMD topics” under contracts for the intelligence community, he said. Sometimes the research contributes to open-source papers funded through civilian health agencies like the NIH.

In addition, biologists advised the IC through a group called the Biological Sciences Expert Group (BSEG).

These advisers included coronavirologist Ralph Baric, who collaborated on coronavirus engineering experiments with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Baric recently retired from the University of North Carolina, and could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 4:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Virologist Robert Redfield, who was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during Trump’s first term and the start of the pandemic, has gone further still with regard to Baric. “I think there is a real possibility that the virus’ birthplace was Chapel Hill,” Redfield said on a podcast in 2024. He has called Baric “the scientific mastermind” of a Chinese government project to engineer the virus. Reflecting the lack of evidence around the possible lab-leak scenario, another camp asserts Baric did not create the virus, but taught the WIV scientists the methods they used to make it.

https://www.science.org/content/article/virologist-accused-starting-covid-19-will-fight-u-s-ban-funding
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 6:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Evidently Soetoro banned gain-of-function research in the US.

When did those biolabs in Ukraine and Georgia, to name two, get established? Just wondering.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/01/2026 7:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Why do i have feeling this book will not have a happy ending?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/01/2026 7:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems like killing millions ought to get you in some sort of trouble.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/01/2026 8:10 Comments || Top||


#9  Thank you, gentlemen. Name search for Ralph Baric added to the article.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 12:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump warns Chicago ‘will die' if lefty Gov. Pritzker refuses federal help after bloody weekend leaves 41 shot
[NYP] President Trump warned Tuesday that Chicago “will die” if Illinois governor JB Pritzker continues to refuse federal government help to get crime under control – as the lefty pol joined revelers in downing shots for a world record attempt despite a weekend of bloodshed that saw 41 people shot.

Fifteen people were struck in what was Chicago’s largest mass shooting of the year on Saturday, bringing the city’s 2026 gun violence tally to 1,255 victims, which is up by almost one percent on last year.

“Chicago violence is unchecked and at record levels. It has never been worse,” Trump blasted in a fiery Truth Social tirade before warning Chicago faces ominous consequences if trends are not bucked.

“This weekend 41 people were shot, 3 DEAD. These numbers are becoming normalized. It is out of control!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 14:46 || Comments || Link || [157 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  There not far from getting enough counties in IL to back a referendum calling for separation from the lake counties.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 15:56 Comments || Top||

#2 
Having worked East-St. Louis/Scott AFB and Chicago back in the 90's. It took me months to get my Il State Patrol issued Firearm license. Waiting, I quickly learned Illinois is a rabid Gun Control state. Laws which do not hinder Thugs/Gangs and Nuts from getting a firearm on the street to rob and kill people. It just hinders honest citizens from protecting their families and themselves.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/01/2026 17:32 Comments || Top||


Trump orders shock voter fraud crackdown across nine states as secret ICE blitz starts TOMORROW
[DM] Donald Trump has ordered Homeland Security to launch a nationwide voter fraud crackdown targeting key swing states as Republicans brace for a brutal midterm fight.

Beginning Tuesday, Homeland Security Investigations, ICE's investigative arm, will launch a 'coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review,' CNN reports.

The operation, aimed at substantiating Trump's claims that widespread voter fraud - including by illegal immigrants - has marred recent elections, will authorize agents in nine states to pursue investigative leads through mid-October.

The initial sweep is expected to cover Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 06:19 || Comments || Link || [232 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  secret ICE blitz starts TOMORROW

???????????
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/01/2026 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  will authorize agents in nine states to pursue investigative leads through mid-October

Not exactly a blitz.

But one hell of an October surprise if arrests and charges come down around Oct. 20th!
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/01/2026 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  @2 I don't know if this is wishful thinking or not, but I'm expecting a late September early October surprise. It would certainly fit Trump's style.
Posted by: Chantry || 09/01/2026 10:10 Comments || Top||

#4  starts TOMORROW

The article is dated 8/31, Grom. Yesterday’s tomorrow is today. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Nevertheless, how it's secret?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/01/2026 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  A fair question, Grom, which just means ICE will have a leaker to track down, as well.

Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 12:50 Comments || Top||

#7  😎
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/01/2026 12:52 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Leaders of China, Russia, India among heads of state meeting to counter US influence
[IsraelTimes] The leaders of China, Russia and India gather with other heads of state in Kyrgyzstan for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group billed as a counterweight to US global influence.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are attending the events in Bishkek, the capital of the Central Asian nation.

Putin met separately with Xi and Modi in two of the many bilateral sessions on the sidelines of the summit, Russian state media reports. Putin affirmed to Xi Moscow’s readiness to make the visa-free regime with China permanent, and he said Russia’s relationship with India is strengthening, according to the reports.

Talks between Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are expected tomorrow, when the official SCO sessions begin.

Russia, now 4½ years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Iran, six months into a war with the United States that began with Israeli participation, see the summit as an important platform to strengthen their relations with non-Western partners.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said last week that the SCO has successfully “explored a new path for regional cooperation.” Beijing has consistently promoted the idea of an alternative world order with Russia’s support.

For many SCO members, the summit will be an opportunity to show that they maintain strong ties on the global stage despite souring relations with the West.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/01/2026 2026-09-01 01:22 || Comments || Link || [167 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Three Blind Mice.
Posted by: Albemarle Tojo8564 || 09/01/2026 7:31 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
'Locked to the Sun and Moon': The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
[BBC] In August 1966, a US astronomy professor shared his astonishing findings with the BBC. He believed that the Neolithic stone circle was built to predict eclipses.

Experts have long debated the meaning of Stonehenge, the prehistoric stone circle in the south-west of England. They have speculated that the mysterious monument might have been a place to commemorate the dead, a sacrificial altar, or a site of other religious ceremonies. But in August 1966, a Boston astronomy professor, Gerald Hawkins, told the BBC's Chronicle programme that he'd solved the puzzle thanks to a peculiar configuration of numbers — and an early IBM computer.

Hawkins' theory formed the basis of his popular and influential 1965 book Stonehenge Decoded. The British-born scientist suggested to the BBC that alignments of the huge slabs and archways meant that "circles at Stonehenge could have been used as a computer to follow the Moon, and predict eclipses". Eclipses, such as those witnessed around the world this month, could have been accurately foretold by ancient Britons — more than 4,500 years ago.
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Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/01/2026 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Read the book back in the '70's. Guy made a convincing arquement, hampered by the 'bluestone field', that made the eclipse progression calculation, having been plowed and tilled for maybe 1000 years in the meantime.
You have remember, this was all privately owned farmland since the 1066 survey. At one point, a landowner wanted to knock it all down to clear the area up. Too much work.
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Japan's First Dedicated Missile Defense Warship Is A Monster
[TWZ] Japanese always go big.
Japan's first ASEV missile defense ship just had its huge radar mast installed, providing a new sense of scale for these cruiser-sized warships.

The first of Japan’s two new cruiser-sized Aegis System Equipped Vessels (ASEV) is continuing to take shape, recently receiving its huge main integrated mast, giving the vessel a new and remarkably imposing silhouette. The four very large fixed arrays for the ship’s powerful AN/SPY-7(V)1 radar will eventually be integrated onto this structure. The ASEV’s stated primary mission is missile defense, but Japanese authorities plan to give the vessels additional counter-drone, anti-ship, and land attack capabilities in the future. Tomahawk cruise missiles are notably set to be added to the ship’s arsenal down the line.

The ASEVs are large surface combatants, set to be some 620 feet long, have a beam (the widest point of the hull) of some 82 feet, and a standard displacement of 12,000 tons. For comparison, Japan’s largest surface combatants today, its Maya class destroyers, are just over 557 feet long, have a beam of some 73 feet, and a standard displacement of around 8,200 tons. It is worth noting here that the size of new and advanced destroyers, often optimized for anti-air warfare missions, has been trending upward globally in recent years. This, in turn, has caused the line between destroyers and what have more historically been categorized as cruisers in certain cases.

The first ASEV was laid down at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) shipyard in Nagasaki in July 2025. The second was laid down in February of this year at Japan Marine United Isogo shipyard, which is situated in Yokohama City near Tokyo, according to a past report from Naval News. The Japanese Ministry of Defense is currently aiming to have the first of these vessels in service before the end of the country’s 2027 Fiscal Year, which runs from April 2027 to March 2028. The second is expected to follow in the 2028 fiscal cycle, which extends into 2029.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/01/2026 09:07 || Comments || Link || [206 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Go to the cited source and see how fast the Japanese can build a ship.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/01/2026 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Prob don't want to be on deck with hot tunes on those radars.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/01/2026 11:41 Comments || Top||



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