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Sunken Superyacht Security Suspicions
I am sure that Internet surfers will recall the sinking of the $40,000,000 super-yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily last month – a sudden squall arose, and the brand new 184-foot boat quickly went down. Seven died, including billionaire Brit Mike Lynch. Boats at nearby anchorages weathered the storm fine. Multiple theories were aired […]
Scathing report indicts LCS’s entire Chief’s Mess in WiFi scandal
A while back, in one of my Stupid people of the week features, I mentioned the above pictured sailor. In June she was convicted at court martial and reduced in grade to E-7 for installing and utilizing an unauthorized WiFi set up while her ship (USS Manchester [LCS-14]) was under way. Her bio indicates she has […]
USSS Professionals In Action
Secret Service Apologizes to Massachusetts Salon Owner for Breaking into Shop to Use Bathroom Olivia Rondeau U.S. Secret Service agents taped over a security camera and broke into a Massachusetts salon in order to use the restroom ahead of a recent Kamala Harris fundraiser, the business’s owner has complained. Alicia Powers, owner of Four One […]
Stolen Valor, UK Police Edition
British newspaper The Guardian is reporting on this fella, the former chief constable for Northamptonshire in Great Britain. Turns out the guy as only 15 when the Falklands War happened, but he was presenting himself as a veteran of the conflict. From The Guardian; A police chief constable who wore a Falklands war medal despite […]
AF General on trial this week
Air Force Major General Phillip Stewart has been accused of a variety of sexual crimes, and is due to be court-martialed for them. Court-martial proceedings for an Air Force two-star general charged with sexual assault are being held this week in Texas, marking only the second time in history that a general officer in the […]
Hard Call
You may have read last week that a young Air Force man, Roger Fortson, assigned to the 4th Special Operatons Squadron at Florida’s Hulrburt Field was shot by police after a domestic disturbance call was placed. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was responding to a disturbance between a man and woman in the apartment building, […]
Tuesday ‘Say it Ain’t So’ liars
So what do January 6 and the Panama Canal have in common? We always associate informers with totalitarian states, especially the anonymous tippers that get people in enormous amount of trouble. Sometimes it’s malicious, like the well-known SWATting. Call up the cops, tell them your neighbor has a gun, is making wild threats and beating […]
Airman’s Gaza Hunger Strike
Airman Starts Hunger Strike at White House over Gaza, Inspired by Another Airman’s Self-Immolation Death By Thomas Novelly A 26-year-old airman on leave from his overseas duty station is going on a hunger strike outside the White House to protest the war in Gaza — a move he said was inspired by the self-immolation death […]
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