Australian Warship off San Diego Coast

24-hours tracking shows UNS chased them off.

Watch the water.

>>13477202

>>13477210

Good find! The patterns are what captured my attention. Did a general search and could not find anything current. Thanks, anon!

>>13477210

Hmm, wrong location, wrong navy methinks.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/military-operations/current-operations/operation-artemis.html

>>13477238

https://archive.md/20171112233710/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html

>>13477261

>>13477238

Sorry, wrong one. Anon needs to go to bed.

Q1346 is too long. Here's Q146.

Link: https://archive.md/20171112233710/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html

>>13477265

RE: https://twitter.com/MarkODonohue_/status/1384758328882995200

Found them! Gulf Of Omen

USNS Carl Brasher https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:455188

RCN HMS Calgary https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:383598

And stumbled across this

https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1384567545768910849

REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_aircraft_carrier_Cavour

interdasting we have an Italian aircraft carrier off USA's east coast. imma peek around.

The owner of the Daily Mail newspaper and MailOnline website is suing Google over allegations the search engine manipulates search results

Associated Newspapers accuses Google of having too much control over online advertising and of downgrading links to its stories, favouring other outlets.

It alleges Google "punishes" publishers in its rankings if they don't sell enough advertising space in its marketplace.

Google called the claims "meritless".

Associated Newspapers' concerns stem from its assessment that its coverage of the Royal Family in 2021 has been downplayed in search results.

For example, it claims that British users searching for broadcaster Piers Morgan's comments on the Duchess of Sussex following an interview with Oprah Winfrey were more likely to see articles about Morgan produced by smaller, regional outlets.

That is despite the Daily Mail writing multiple stories a day about his comments around that time and employing him as a columnist.

Daily Mail editor emeritus Peter Wright told the BBC's Today programme that the search engine's alleged actions were "anti-competitive".

He suggested that the Daily Mail's search visibility dropped after using online advertising techniques "which were allowing us to divert advertising traffic away from Google to other ad exchanges, which paid better prices - and this was their punishment".

"We think it's time to call this company out," he said.

The Daily Mail's MailOnline site is one of the world's most-read websites. It has 75 million unique monthly visitors in the US alone, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in New York on Tuesday.

“Meritless claims”

A Google spokeswoman said: "The Daily Mail's claims are completely inaccurate.

"The use of our ad tech tools has no bearing on how a publisher's website ranks in Google search.

"More generally, we compete in a crowded and competitive ad tech space where publishers have and exercise multiple options. The Daily Mail itself authorises dozens of ad tech companies to sell and manage their ad space, including Amazon, Verizon and more. We will defend ourselves against these meritless claims."

Separately, Google is facing antitrust lawsuits brought by the US Justice Department and attorneys general in several states.

The technology giant has denied abusing its market power and has previously said the ad technology market is competitive.

Sauce: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56828173

Date: 04/21/2021

Jim Steinman: Bat Out Of Hell and Total Eclipse Of The Heart composer dies

His brother Bill told the Associated Press that the songwriter and producer had died of kidney failure on Monday after being ill for some time.

"I miss him a great deal already," he added.

Singer Meat Loaf, with whom Steinman scored his biggest hits, said goodbye with the words:"Fly Jimmy Fly".

Bonnie Tyler also paid tribute, saying she was "absolutely devastated" by news of her friend's death.

Outside of music, "he was also a funny, kind, supportive, and deeply caring human being," the Welsh singer wrote.

"The world is a better place for his life and his work and a worse one for his passing."

‘Multi-million seller’

Known for his bombastic, operatic productions, Steinman hit the big time in 1977 with the Meat Loaf album Bat Out Of Hell.

Styled as a rock opera, it contained hits like You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth and Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad as well as the title track - and became one of the biggest albums of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold around the world.

The high-camp, over-the-top production was often imitated but never bettered - including by Steinman himself, although he came close on Bat Out Of Hell's 1993 sequel, which spawned the worldwide number one single, I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That).

He later won the album of the year Grammy for his work on Celine Dion's Falling Into You; and worked on Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Whistle Down The Wind, which opened in the West End in 1998.

The Bat Out Of Hell album trilogy received its own stage musical in 2017, with every song penned by Steinman.

And while rock critics often looked down upon his extravagant and expansive style, the composer remained nonplussed.

"If you don't go over the top, how are you ever going to see what's on the other side?" he once asked.

Sauce: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56825060

Date: 04/21/2021

Russia's Putin gives key speech amid tensions with West

He has spent more than 30 minutes focusing on Russia's battle with Covid-19, praising the social solidarity of millions of people in the pandemic.

But in the past Mr Putin has also used the occasion to send signals abroad.

Russia has moved more than 100,000 troops close to Ukraine, reports say.

A large part of that force is in Crimea, the peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. A senior Ukrainian officer, Gen Serhiy Nayev, estimated the total force to be 103,200 last week.

Russia backs the separatists holding a swathe of eastern Ukraine, and its manoeuvres have fuelled fears of a new Russian military intervention.

Mr Putin's speech comes as anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, an arch-critic of the president, is being treated at a prison hospital in Vladimir, about 180km (112 miles) east of Moscow. He is on hunger strike and his allies say his life is in danger.

Mr Putin began speaking at Moscow's Manezh exhibition hall at 12:00 (09:00 GMT), addressing both chambers of the Russian parliament. RIA news agency says all those attending have had to undergo three tests for Covid-19 in recent days.

Mr Putin, who coughed several times during his speech, said "vaccination is vital… there is no other way" to curb the pandemic.

"In the autumn we want to have achieved collective immunity," he said.

He described Russia's low birthrate as "extreme" and noted that Covid was making matters worse. "We must maintain tight control to stop the virus spreading."

During the pandemic Mr Putin has largely remained at a residence just outside Moscow, so this is a rare appearance in public.

Russian police have launched raids on supporters of Navalny to disrupt their plans for nationwide protests later on Wednesday.

Two key Navalny aides who are already under house arrest - lawyer Lyubov Sobol and his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh - were detained by police in Moscow. Dozens of other Navalny supporters were detained across Russia.

The authorities say any pro-Navalny mass protests will be illegal. Police are expected to block off streets around Manezh Square in central Moscow, where his supporters plan to rally at 19:00.

Last week the US government accused the Kremlin of "malign activity" and expelled 10 Russian diplomats. Russia responded tit-for-tat. Similar hostile exchanges of diplomats took place between Russia and both the Czech Republic and Poland.

Sauce: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56828813

Date: 04/21/2021

A Texas Rancher Cloned Deer For Years. Some Lawmakers Want To Legalize It

‘‘‘The Lone Star State has long muddled the line between hunting and farming. Now cloning may help game ranches breed big bucks.’’’

AUSTIN, Texas - A Republican legislator wants to legalize deer cloning, and is accusing Texas wildlife officials of using the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine a breeder’s attempts to spawn big bucks.

In a state that often blurs the distinction between hunting and farming, many game ranches have looked to science ― from supplemental protein to artificial insemination ― to grow bigger game for the deep-pocketed customers willing to pay well over $10,000 to shoot them. The proposed law, from state Rep. Matt Krause of Fort Worth, would legalize cloning to help in that endeavor.

But the prospect of commercial deer cloning has raised concern from wildlife officials, who say a rancher cloned and sold deer for years without the state’s knowledge or authorization.

Krause filed the bill on behalf of Jason Abraham of Canadian, in East Texas, who told HuffPost he has cloned somewhere between 35 and 40 deer over the past decade. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issued a regulation forbidding deer cloning last November.

Officials say they thought their rules always barred commercial cloning, but decided to make the prohibition more specific after hearing from unspecified sources that breeders interpreted the rules as permitting cloning.

Abraham thinks they were specifically targeting him. “We did this for 12 years, making clones,” he said. “They put me out of business overnight.”

Legalizing the practice, wildlife officials say, threatens to introduce unknown biological variables into the state’s wildlife populations, and could make it harder to track chronic wasting disease, or CWD, a severe prion illness spreading across the country’s deer herds.

HuffPost was not able to verify if any other states allow deer cloning. Texas officials said they did not know, either, and deer conservation organizations said they don’t track the information. Asked about federal oversight, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service referred HuffPost to the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which in turn said to ask the Food and Drug Administration. An FDA spokesperson said the agency has no rules governing the cloning of either wild or captive deer.

Abraham said his is the only business in the country cloning deer ― or rather, it was, until Texas officials shut him down last year.

Krause, the state representative, described the action as regulatory overreach that threatens to upend the deer breeding business, a $1.6 billion annual industry in Texas.

“We need to get back to a place where the legislature gives their input on some of these big, wholesale changes, including the prohibition of deer cloning,” Krause said at a March 29 committee hearing.

Krause’s bill sailed through committee on a 6-2 vote, but needs approval from both houses of the state Legislature and the governor to become law.

Sauce: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-rancher-cloned-deer-lawmakers-want-legalize_n_607ef3e0e4b03c18bc29fdd2

Date: 04/21/2021

Feds Track Down Capitol Rioter With Facial Recognition Hit On His Girlfriend’s Instagram

“Stephen Chase Randolph was arrested in Kentucky. Federal authorities say he told undercover agents it was “f**king fun” to be in the Capitol mob.”’

Federal authorities arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on Tuesday after they used facial recognition programs to find an image of him on his girlfriend’s Instagram page.

Stephen Chase Randolph, federal authorities say, knocked over a U.S. Capitol Police officer manning the barriers at the building, “causing [Officer-1]’s head to hit the stairs behind her, resulting in a loss of consciousness.” He then “continued to assault two other USCP officers by physically pushing, shoving, grabbing, and generally resisting the officers and interfering with their official duties,” the federal officials said.

The FBI released images of Randolph in late January, designating him as #168-AFO because he was wanted for “assault on federal officers.” Members of the loosely affiliated sleuthing group @SeditionHunters dubbed the suspect as #GrayCarharttHat, based on his knit cap, and published additional images of him.

At some point, the FBI ran an image of Randolph through an “open source facial comparison tool” that had been “known to provide reliable results in the past.”

“The facial recognition tool yielded results associated with the Instagram page of an individual (“Individual-1″) from Kentucky who appeared to be the girlfriend of the SUBJECT,” a FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit. “Individual-1′s Instagram account also contained a photograph of the SUBJECT (see Figure 11) wearing the same grey toboggan with white ‘Carhartt’ embroidered on the front” that was seen in videos at the Capitol.

The FBI then found Randolph’s Facebook page though his girlfriend’s Facebook account. On April 13, the federal authorities said, two FBI special agents went undercover at Randolph’s workplace and talked to him about the Capitol riot. Randolph, the feds said, said “shit went crazy” at the Capitol and that “it was fucking fun” to be a part of the mob.

“RANDOLPH opined that the female police officer likely had a concussion because she was curled up in the fetal position after being pushed to the ground,” the affidavit states. He was arrested one week after the FBI’s undercover visit.

Facial recognition tools have played a big role in the Capitol riot investigation and have been used by online sleuths to identify potential suspects. The FBI had previously conceded that a prosecutors office in Maryland had used facial recognition technology to help the bureau identify Capitol riot suspect Robert Reeder, that the FBI used a “biometric search” to confirm the identity of Capitol defendant Mark Simon and an FBI special agent testified to using facial recognition technology to confirm the identification of Daniel Ray Caldwell at the Capitol insurrection.

But the case against Randolph is among the first high-profile acknowledgements that a facial recognition search ultimately led to a Capitol arrest rather than confirmed the identity of a suspect already on the FBI’s radar. In a recent case, the FBI claimed that “an image search” led them to Grady Owens’ Instagram page.

In Randolph’s case, the FBI is being upfront about the use of facial recognition technology.

Randolph is scheduled to appear Wednesday in court in Lexington before Magistrate Judge Matthew Stinnett of the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Sauce: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facial-recognition-capitol-defendants_n_607f34c0e4b0df3610c17614

Date: 04/20/2021

>>13477737

Indonesian sub goes missing north of Bali

Indonesia's navy is searching for a submarine that has gone missing in waters north of the island of Bali

Sauce: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/indonesian-sub-goes-missing-north-of-bali/ar-BB1fT4q2

Date: 04/21/2021

So many people are about to get $3,600 in new stimulus checks – are you one of them?

Here’s where we stand in the stimulus check disbursement process in the US at the moment: For a variety of reasons, as we’ve noted on more than one occasion now, a fourth round of stimulus checks stemming from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic is probably a pipe dream at this point. While a good argument can certainly be made in support of yet another wave of new stimulus checks, those payments would assuredly face an even tougher wall of political opposition than the last round of checks did. And President Biden, as well as his Press Secretary Jen Psaki, have said almost nothing about a fourth stimulus check at this point, either, which doesn’t bode well for them.

But here’s the good news: This discussion really boils down to semantics, because what is also certain is that a big chunk of American taxpayers are about to get something even better than a new one-time $1,400 check from the federal government soon. It’s a round of monthly payments that add up to $3,600 over the course of the year, and the new payments are set to kick off in July.

These payments are part of an expansion of the federal child tax credit that was included in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief legislation that President Biden signed into law on March 11. IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig confirmed in recent days that these monthly payments are set to begin in July — and whatever else you want to say about them, it’s hard to argue that the payments don’t count as a new recurring stimulus check for people (they’re just not labeled as such).

Here’s how eligibility for the payments breaks down: if you’re part of a married couple earning $150,000 in total or less, or are an individual making $75,000 or less, you’ll get $250 for each child between the ages of 6 and 17 from July through December for a total of $1,500 (6 months x $250). You’ll get $300 for each child under the age of 6. The balance of the $3,600 will come as a tax credit next year.

This is a big deal for the IRS because it puts the tax agency in the position of operating as something that’s altogether new for it. Up to this point, the IRS has basically been the most powerful (and, to some people, the scariest) collection agency in the US. It’s still that, but one that now joins the myriad federal government offices in doling out monthly payments to federal benefit recipients as well.

On a related note, this is why Rettig had to confirm recently that the child tax credit payments would start in July because it’s actually a massive undertaking for the IRS to get set up for this. A whole new online portal needed to be devised, and staff needed to be designated to this endeavor — which also comes at a very busy time for the agency, this being smack in the middle of tax season. And it’s a tax season that lasts a little longer than usual this year, since (again, because of the coronavirus pandemic) the deadline to file your federal tax return has been extended until May 17.

Sauce: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/so-many-people-are-about-to-get-3-600-in-new-stimulus-checks-are-you-one-of-them/ar-BB1fRqti

Date: 04/20/2021

>>13477763

EU Says Russian Troops on Ukraine Border Raise Risks

The European Union’s top diplomat said that Russia’s military presence on the border with Ukraine has grown to more than 100,000 personnel, the largest buildup on the frontier between the two countries in recent times, raising the possibility of further conflict.

“The military deployment of Russian troops with all kind of materials, deploying campaign hospitals and all kind of warfare, has been continuing,” Josep Borrell, high representative of the EU, told reporters following a virtual meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers on Monday. “When you deploy a lot of troops, a spark can jump here or there.”

Borrell declined to say where the bloc had obtained the figure, and a spokesman on Wednesday adjusted the number downward. Borrell added that the 27-member bloc wasn’t preparing fresh sanctions on Russia over the buildup of Russian troops and the declining health of opposition activist Alexey Navalny.

The lastest developments come as more countries line up to condemn the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the Czech Republic blaming Moscow for a deadly explosion and expelling 18 embassy staffers. The EU’s foreign ministers had a one hour dialog with their Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, who has been trying to drum up more support for sanctions against Russia.

Last week, the U.S. ordered a raft of new punitive measures against Russia, including restrictions on buying new sovereign debt, in response to allegations that Moscow was behind a hack on SolarWinds Corp. and interfered with last year’s U.S. election. The Biden administration also warned Moscow of more consequences should Navalny die, with the dissident currently on a hunger strike.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines to “exercise extreme caution” when flying over areas of Russia and Ukraine.

The warning, dated Saturday, said there are “potential safety-of-flight risks associated with escalating regional tensions between Russia and Ukraine, which could potentially result in no-notice cross-border skirmishes, increased military activities, and/or conflict.”

Sauce: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eu-says-russian-troops-on-ukraine-border-raise-risks/ar-BB1fOXlA

Date 04/21/2021

Russia has detained 2 of Alexei Navalny's top allies ahead of planned protests over the Putin critic's health

• Two of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's allies have been detained, their lawyers said.

• They took place Wednesday morning, before planned protests over Navalny's health while in prison.

• Navalny is on hunger strike over a lack of access to medical treatment. Doctors warn he could die.

Russia has detained two of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's closest allies, their lawyers said, ahead of planned protests over his health.

Reuters reported that Lyubov Sobol, who had appeared on Navalny's YouTube channel; and Kira Yarmysh, his spokeswoman, were detained in Moscow Wednesday morning.

Navalny's team had urged people to protest over his treatment in jail and demand that he get medical treatment.

Wednesday also marks Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, a de facto State of the Union address.

Navalny is three weeks into a hunger strike over what he says is a lack of access to medical treatment while in jail.

His doctors are demanding to see him, saying the hunger strike puts him at risk of severe heart problems and warning that he could "die any minute." But several doctors, including his personal physician Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva, said they were denied entry into his prison to see him.

Navalny also said that prison authorities threatened to force feed him.

Yarmysh was placed under house arrest in January after she attended a protest against Navalny's prison sentence.Under her house arrest rules, she is allowed to leave the house for one hour.

It was during this hour, between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m, that she was arrested on Wednesday, her lawyer said.

Navalny is serving a 2-1/2-year sentence after being found guilty of missing parole meetings. His lawyer said he missed the them because he was in Germany recovering from being poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent. Navalny has blamed the poisoning on Putin.

Sauce: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-detains-alexei-navalny-top-allies-before-protests-2021-4

Date: 04/21/2021