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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

‘Suicide Bomber’ Detonates Explosive at Oakland Health Clinic

Authorities in California say a man in a wheelchair detonated a pipe bomb inside the waiting room of an east Oakland health clinic on Tuesday night, killing himself in what is believed to be a suicide bombing, though not necessarily with the intent to kill others.

“At this time it doesn’t appear to be related to terrorism,” Oakland police Lt. Rachael Van Sloten said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Oakland Police Department released the following statement regarding the incident:
Witnesses reported that an adult male, who was in a wheelchair, entered the lobby of the clinic armed with what appeared to be a pipe bomb and detonated the bomb taking his own life. No other injuries were reported. The investigation reveals this is an isolated incident where an individual took his own life. OFD and emergency medical services responded to the scene. The Alameda County Sheriff’s bomb squad also responded.
According to the OPD press release, the man was the sole person in the lobby when the bomb was detonated. His name has not yet been released. According to the East Bay Times, the man may have been sitting in the lobby for as long as one hour before setting off the bomb and taking his own life.
The Chronicle notes that Oakland police said the explosion occurred at 6:26 p.m. inside the San Antonio Neighborhood Health Clinic, located on 1030 International Boulevard.

Source:
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/10/19/suicide-bomber-detonates-explosive-at-oakland-health-clinic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Monday, October 17, 2016

My Review:Expectre Nomad Take Down Survival Bow unboxxed and tested

Expectre Nomad Take Down Survival Bow unboxxed and tested
Thoughts:

I would suggest that if anyone buys this bow to put a different arrow rest on it.  That is really the only flaw in the design that I could find.  Other than that the bow looks and functions great.  You will NOT get a full draw on it as you would a 1 piece bow.  There is no place to mount sights but as I have always said K.I.S.S.(Keep It Simple Stupid).  The more crap you have on something the more things that can break.  You also will need to twist the string before fully stringing the bow and you will want to wax it as well with sex wax(bees wax that is used on surf boards or bow wax. Learn to instinctive shoot.
This bow can be used by both right and left handed shooters.
I would suggest adding a nock point and IF you want, a peep sight.  Like I said, K.I.S.S.

You will also need to twist the string before you fully string the bow.

The bow breaks down in to a total length of 18 inches so it fits perfectly in a bug out bag or back pack.  The arrows are 2 piece carbon arrows that screw together.  All of breaks down to fit in a nice little canvas case that comes with it.

Their products can be purchased here
https://survivalbreakdownbow.com/
Link to their take down survival bows
https://survivalbreakdownbow.com/products/survival-tools/category/survival-bows-arrow-sets

Thank you to Xpectre for sending me this product to try out and review.  I would hope that they would send me some of their other bows to try out as well.

Video can be seen here
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4xtwml

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum

WAIT. WHAT???? I thought AL WHORE GORE Said Polar Bears were drowning and all the coast lines were going to flood because of Global Warming. er.. Climate Change was melting all of the ice.
  
NASA REPORT FROM 2014



Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
The new Antarctic sea ice record reflects the diversity and complexity of Earth’s environments, said NASA researchers. Claire Parkinson, a senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has referred to changes in sea ice coverage as a microcosm of global climate change. Just as the temperatures in some regions of the planet are colder than average, even in our warming world, Antarctic sea ice has been increasing and bucking the overall trend of ice loss.
“The planet as a whole is doing what was expected in terms of warming. Sea ice as a whole is decreasing as expected, but just like with global warming, not every location with sea ice will have a downward trend in ice extent,” Parkinson said.
Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has lost an average of 20,800 square miles (53,900 square kilometers) of ice a year; the Antarctic has gained an average of 7,300 square miles (18,900 sq km). On Sept. 19 this year, for the first time ever since 1979, Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 7.72 million square miles (20 million square kilometers), according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The ice extent stayed above this benchmark extent for several days. The average maximum extent between 1981 and 2010 was 7.23 million square miles (18.72 million square kilometers).
The single-day maximum extent this year was reached on Sept. 20, according to NSIDC data, when the sea ice covered  7.78 million square miles (20.14 million square kilometers). This year's five-day average maximum was reached on Sept. 22, when sea ice covered 7.76 million square miles (20.11 million square kilometers), according to NSIDC.


A warming climate changes weather patterns, said Walt Meier, a research scientist at Goddard. Sometimes those weather patterns will bring cooler air to some areas. And in the Antarctic, where sea ice circles the continent and covers such a large area, it doesn’t take that much additional ice extent to set a new record.
“Part of it is just the geography and geometry. With no northern barrier around the whole perimeter of the ice, the ice can easily expand if conditions are favorable,” he said.
Researchers are investigating a number of other possible explanations as well. One clue, Parkinson said, could be found around the Antarctic Peninsula – a finger of land stretching up toward South America. There, the temperatures are warming, and in the Bellingshausen Sea just to the west of the peninsula the sea ice is shrinking. Beyond the Bellingshausen Sea and past the Amundsen Sea, lies the Ross Sea – where much of the sea ice growth is occurring.


That suggests that a low-pressure system centered in the Amundsen Sea could be intensifying or becoming more frequent in the area, she said – changing the wind patterns and circulating warm air over the peninsula, while sweeping cold air from the Antarctic continent over the Ross Sea. This, and other wind and lower atmospheric pattern changes, could be influenced by the ozone hole higher up in the atmosphere – a possibility that has received scientific attention in the past several years, Parkinson said.
“The winds really play a big role,” Meier said. They whip around the continent, constantly pushing the thin ice. And if they change direction or get stronger in a more northward direction, he said, they push the ice further and grow the extent.  When researchers measure ice extent, they look for areas of ocean where at least 15 percent is covered by sea ice.
While scientists have observed some stronger-than-normal pressure systems – which increase winds – over the last month or so, that element alone is probably not the reason for this year’s record extent, Meier said. To better understand this year and the overall increase in Antarctic sea ice, scientists are looking at other possibilities as well.
Melting ice on the edges of the Antarctic continent could be leading to more fresh, just-above-freezing water, which makes refreezing into sea ice easier, Parkinson said. Or changes in water circulation patterns, bringing colder waters up to the surface around the landmass, could help grow more ice.
Snowfall could be a factor as well, Meier said. Snow landing on thin ice can actually push the thin ice below the water, which then allows cold ocean water to seep up through the ice and flood the snow – leading to a slushy mixture that freezes in the cold atmosphere and adds to the thickness of the ice. This new, thicker ice would be more resilient to melting.

That suggests that a low-pressure system centered in the Amundsen Sea could be intensifying or becoming more frequent in the area, she said – changing the wind patterns and circulating warm air over the peninsula, while sweeping cold air from the Antarctic continent over the Ross Sea. This, and other wind and lower atmospheric pattern changes, could be influenced by the ozone hole higher up in the atmosphere – a possibility that has received scientific attention in the past several years, Parkinson said.
“The winds really play a big role,” Meier said. They whip around the continent, constantly pushing the thin ice. And if they change direction or get stronger in a more northward direction, he said, they push the ice further and grow the extent.  When researchers measure ice extent, they look for areas of ocean where at least 15 percent is covered by sea ice.
While scientists have observed some stronger-than-normal pressure systems – which increase winds – over the last month or so, that element alone is probably not the reason for this year’s record extent, Meier said. To better understand this year and the overall increase in Antarctic sea ice, scientists are looking at other possibilities as well.
Melting ice on the edges of the Antarctic continent could be leading to more fresh, just-above-freezing water, which makes refreezing into sea ice easier, Parkinson said. Or changes in water circulation patterns, bringing colder waters up to the surface around the landmass, could help grow more ice.
Snowfall could be a factor as well, Meier said. Snow landing on thin ice can actually push the thin ice below the water, which then allows cold ocean water to seep up through the ice and flood the snow – leading to a slushy mixture that freezes in the cold atmosphere and adds to the thickness of the ice. This new, thicker ice would be more resilient to melting.

 Source:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum

Assange is ALIVE and Well

The internet link of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was “intentionally severed” early Monday by a state party, the organization has claimed.

 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787889195507417088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


According to a statement released at 12:33 a.m., the “appropriate contingency plans” were taken shortly after.
The announcement came only hours after three cryptographic hashes, used in verifying the integrity of data, were also sent out on WikiLeaks’ Twitter account.
The hashes – which concern US Secretary of State John Kerry, Ecuador and the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office – led to widespread speculation over potential issues with Assange’s asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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The pre-commitment tweets suggest WikiLeaks is in possession of data concerning the aforementioned governments. Releasing the 64-character codes allows any upcoming data dumps to be verified and checked for any unwarranted alteration.
The day prior WikiLeaks released its 9th batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta.
The situation will be updated as new information becomes available.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

DEVELOPING:Did Hillary Have Julian Assange Assassinated? RUMORS JULIAN ASSANGE IS DEAD — WIKILEAKS POSTS DEADMAN’S KEYS

DEAD! Strange “deadman’s keys” were posted in the Twitter feed Sunday afternoon. assange-dead
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Julian Assange and Wikileaks released THOUSANDS of John Podesta emails this week.
Podesta is Hillary Clinton’s top advisor.MORE—
Assange talked about his deadman’s switch in August.
Followers believe it is a key to open files on Hillary Clinton.
USA Supreme reported:
When WikiLeaks released a mysterious file labeled “WIKILEAKS INSURANCE” for people everywhere to download in advance of a huge upcoming announcement,everyone was having a second thought of what this file actually contain. This file serves as a type of “deadman’s switch” that is currently encrypted. WikiLeaks will release a second encryption key to unlock the file if they are prevented from making a planned announcement. Because of previous statements made by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, many people are wondering if this insurance file is meant to ensure that WikiLeaks can release potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Well, Assange give a response to that question in an interview with John Pilger an Australian journalist based in the United Kingdom and his answer won’t surprise many!

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“I’m a low level intelligence officer, not CIA. The tweets are SHA256 hashes, not keys. They signify that the files to come are real.
Read it here first. Ecuador has caved to pressure from Clinton & Co. Assange is being extradited. The situation is very fluid and he has threatened to kill himself if removed from the embassy.
The file hash is directed at Sec. Kerry as a direct threat.
No, I don’t have any proof I can share; these are diplo cables I’m getting form this. But Assange will likely be either imprisoned or dead within 12 hours.
If they get me for sharing this, at least I died a patriot.”
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Obama Tells CIA To Prepare For Cyber War With Russia

In what is looking more and more like a season finale of the HBO series "House of Cards" with each passing day, the Obama administration is now literally threatening a cyber war with Russia over allegations it was behind the hacking of Clinton's emails.  According to an exclusive NBC report, the Obama administration "is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action" (though it's unclear how exactly it's covert if Biden is announcing it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd)  against Russia, in "retaliation for alleged" interference in the American presidential election, and has asked the CIA to draft plans for a "wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership."
So now the Obama administration is overtly leveraging the full power of the United States to intimidate foreign governments, and most likely Julian Assange, in order to maintain control of the Executive Branch of the government.  Does anyone within the mainstream media see any problems with this?  Certainly Chuck Todd and NBC do not.  And notice that even the NBC article refers to "alleged" Russian interference because not a shred of evidence has been presented to prove that senior Russian officials were actually behind the hacking of Hillary's emails...but who needs facts when you have a complicit media eager to advance whatever propaganda is necessary to maintain power?   

The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Current and former officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership.

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The sources did not elaborate on the exact measures the CIA was considering, but said the agency had already begun opening cyber doors, selecting targets and making other preparations for an operation. Former intelligence officers told NBC News that the agency had gathered reams of documents that could expose unsavory tactics by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Vice President Joe Biden told "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd on Friday that "we're sending a message" to Putin and that "it will be at the time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact."

When asked if the American public will know a message was sent, the vice president replied, "Hope not."
Former CIA officers interviewed by NBC said that there is a long history of the White House plotting potential cyber attacks against Russia.  That said, none of them were ultimately carried out because "none of the options were particularly good, nor did we think that any of them would be particularly effective."


Two former CIA officers who worked on Russia told NBC News that there is a long history of the White House asking the CIA to come up with options for covert action against Russia, including cyber options — only to abandon the idea.

A second former officer, who helped run intelligence operations against Russia, said he was asked several times in recent years to work on covert action plans, but "none of the options were particularly good, nor did we think that any of them would be particularly effective," he said.
Others warned that the White House has always caved on plans to follow through with cyber attacks because anything the U.S. can do against Russia, they can also do in response.  As one of the former CIA officers said, "if you are looking to mess with their networks, we can do that, but then the issue becomes, they can do worse things to us in other places."
"We've always hesitated to use a lot of stuff we've had, but that's a political decision," one former officer said. "If someone has decided, `We've had enough of the Russians,' there is a lot we can do. Step one is to remind them that two can play at this game and we have a lot of stuff. Step two, if you are looking to mess with their networks, we can do that, but then the issue becomes, they can do worse things to us in other places."

Putin is almost beyond embarrassing, he said, and anything the U.S. can do against, for example, Russian bank accounts, the Russian can do in response.

"Do you want to have Barack Obama bouncing checks?" he asked.

Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell expressed skepticism that the U.S. would go so far as to attack Russian networks.

"Physical attacks on networks is not something the U.S. wants to do because we don't want to set a precedent for other countries to do it as well, including against us," he said. "My own view is that our response shouldn't be covert -- it should overt, for everybody to see."

Source:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/obama-administration-threatens-cyber-war-russia-save-hillary-campaign

Putin Obama
 

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!

British media

To take the yellow press first, on October 13 the Sun ran a piece entitled: WAR READY Putin orders all Russian children and relatives studying abroad to return to the ‘motherland’ as he ‘prepares for WWIII’.
The tagline reads: Move comes after Moscow held defense drills for 40m citizens in apparent preparation for an all-out nuclear war.
This seems conclusive enough. May as well shaft the mortgage payment this month and go shopping.
Russia then, according to the Sun, is ordering all officials posted abroad to remove their children from schools and return to Russia immediately. The source is cited as “local [i.e. Russian] media” but no link provided.
Supporting evidence is implied by the fact that Putin cancelled a scheduled meeting in Paris “after Hollande accused the Kremlin of war crimes in Syria.”
But even a generation with minds addled by endless distractions and indulgence is able to grasp a distinction between a cancelled meeting and all-out thermo-nuclear war – or, at least, so one assumes.
The view of “ultra-nationalist” Vladimir Zhirinovsky that Trump’s election as President is all that stands between us and war shores up the article.
The Express mirrors the Sun’s hysteria in a piece dated October 14 which rejoices under the title Vladimir Putin issues emergency call to ALL Russians to return home amid WORLD WAR fears.


The tagline reads: RUSSIA’S Vladimir Putin has issued an emergency decree that all officials urgently repatriate any family members living abroad amid fears the world is about to be plunged into a new global conflict.
And what follows repeats, in essence, what the Sun ran with.
This same basic story has been repeated also by Fox News and is found quoted ad nauseam by bloggers and the like further down the food chain.
The Express piece cites “reports”. But the only source is the Russian-language site znak.com – a subject to which we shall return.
The broadsheets are hardly more restrained. Their tack is different, but their bearings are the same: war with Russia is coming.
The Independent features former cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell who compares Russia’s actions in Syria to those of the Nazis before World War II.
The unsubtle conclusion we are left to infer is that Putin is the new Hitler.
Everyone the Establishment doesn’t like is the new Hitler – whatever we mean by that term. Its use merely signals to the masses who is to be the new target – be it economic, cultural, political or military.
And while we’re about it, what we mean by the new Hitler is someone we must now attack without for a single second considering if perhaps he has a point.
Less than a year ago, the Telegraph ran a piece which featured a quiz where readers are invited to guess whether Hitler or Donald Trump said a particular thing. So Trump is also the new Hitler. Putin is the new Hitler. I expect after this article, I will be the new Hitler as well.
The Independent ran a piece proclaiming Russia accused of ‘posturing’ as its warships head for English Channel.
That’s it. Russians are about to storm the beaches of Kent. Where’s Churchill when you need him?
Meanwhile, in the Telegraph, Boris Johnson – the UK’s new Foreign Secretary – displayed a cool head and undeniable facility for international diplomacy by labeling Russia’s actions in Syria war crimes and calling for protests outside Russian embassies.

Media campaigns

In public relations terms, the anti-Russian sentiment outlined above comprises what is called a campaign – that is, a coordinated and strategically cohesive presentation featuring particular messages intended to create a shift in the (usually unconscious) perceptions of target audiences.
In my opinion, there is little one reads in the mainstream press which is not part of a campaign. Campaigns are designed to create impressions; people like to claim that facts underpin their decisions and opinions, but they rarely do – especially among those with no background in logic.
For their part, Russian public relations teams seem finally to have grasped that what works with Western audiences is not arguments or facts but simple name-calling. Accordingly, they are now using the term Russophobic to rebut parts of the current media frenzy demonizing Russia.
Addressing the media frenzy
But perhaps we should consider the facts.
There is no statement anywhere in the official Russian press which confirms the claims made by the Express and the Sun, and echoed elsewhere.
TASS is unequivocal. It states: Peskov does not confirm a recommendation to officials to limit children’s schooling abroad.

Dmitry Peskov is Putin’s press secretary. He speaks for Putin. And Peskov said on this subject – and I quote – “I have neither seen nor heard anything like that.”
The source which TASS refers to is the same znak.com mentioned above.
RIA Novosti – itself a state-owned news outlet much like the BBC in the UK – confirms the TASS position: nobody of any substance has heard of such a thing, and the only source for the yellow-press portion of this furor is, again, znak.com.
The original znak.com article was penned by one Ekaterina Vinokurova. Vinokurova is hardly a Putin fan-girl, as may be deduced here if you speak Russian. But to judge on the basis of the merits of the article rather than its writer, the piece in question is modest.
The story suggests that political discomfort exists that the children of the Russian elite are being schooled abroad. After leveraging anonymous sources, Vinokurova explores opinions held by relevant persons on the question of whether such a tendency might not be compromising.
Such sentiments have surfaced in Russia since the time of Peter the Great. And when put in context, this story corresponds to a scenario in which the British elite began sending its scions to be educated in China rather than at Eton.
The piece closes with remarks considering the effects of the cold economic war via sanctions conducted by the U.S. and its allies to drive a wedge between Putin and the Russian elite, but there is no talk of an impending hot war.
To return to the piece in the Independent about the “Russian warships”, the fact is that Russia is sending its only aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean by the same route it always uses when it sends a ship to the Mediterranean from northern Russia – a fact which the piece tacitly acknowledges some way below the salacious title, where an unnamed Royal Navy spokesman is quoted as saying: “UK and Nato assets routinely monitor warships from other nations when they enter our area of interest and this will be no different.”
And readers of the Sun may not know that Zhirinovsky – while a longstanding member of the Russian Duma – has never formed a part of any government in the Russian Federation. His party, LDPR, has only 3 seats out of 170 in the Federation Council and less than one-tenth of the seats in the Russian Duma. And Zhirinovsky – while a skilled rhetorician and showman – is famed for outlandish and inflammatory statements, such as the one about Trump. He occupies a position in the Russian political landscape which combines the offices of court jester and pet bulldog, and while his views may entertain the Russian leadership, they in no way inform or reflect government policy.

Warfare

I return to Andrew Mitchell, the UK’s former Secretary of State for International Development, since my perception is that his message is the real payload in the current campaign, whereas the rest is merely the delivery system.
Mitchell is quoted by Press TV as saying to the BBC “[…]if shooting down Russian jets ends the conflict in Syria, then that is what Britain and its allies should focus on.”
We non-military specialists have a polarized, primitive conception of warfare. Our conditioning references sports: two teams duking it out until the bell – after which points are totted up, winners announced, and the final score recorded.
But modern warfare is not like American football or ice-hockey. It is like a child’s kaleidoscope; an ever-changing chimera of refractions and illusions which serves to keep the less intelligent observer engaged in turning the tube because it is distracting – and the more intelligent observer engaged in trying to guess what part of what he sees is real.
The object of the present media noise, in my view, is twofold. It is to make the prospect of getting into dogfights with Russian jets seem somehow acceptable in the eyes of dissolute Western audiences – at least when compared unconsciously to the prospect of all-out nuclear war – and it is to manage an incremental escalation in the long-term project of war with Russia without spooking the herd.

Source:
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/362949-war-russia-us-uk/