Unable to slow the ship, the pilot radioed an emergency message to have the Francis Scott Key Bridge closed. That mayday call has been credited with saving lives. A second pilot aboard the Dali was an apprentice who had started his training last month.
>Dough
>Red Heifers
Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industry trade show, which begins Wednesday in Ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-procurement-1.6859745
Poland is rearming itself at high speed — could Canada take a lesson from Warsaw?
South Korea just delivered new tanks and guns to Poland only months after the contract was signed
He also considered it "likely" that GRU operatives placed "poison supplies near the tributaries to major US reservoirs."
He described a variety of biological warfare acts that would be carried out on the order of the Russian President in the event of hostilities, including poisoning public drinking-water supplies and food processing plants.
The leading congressional expert on Russia's small portable nuclear weapons told United Press International that the FBI has stepped up its investigation of whether al Qaida or other terrorist groups have acquired these deadly devices from Russian stockpiles.
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., chairman of the Research and Development Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday that he was briefed by the FBI late last week and that the investigation of whether terrorist groups have weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear devices, is now a top priority at the bureau after years of indifference.
"Now they're looking at everything and following up on every lead," Weldon said. It was Weldon, through his R&D subcommittee, who produced over past three years some of the most exhaustive and startling information about the Russian stockpile of weapons that could be an advantage to Osama bin Laden, his al Qaida network or other terrorist groups.
"The question is whether or not bin Laden has had access to nuclear material," Weldon said. "I think it is better than a 50-50 chance that he does."
"Do I think he has a small atomic demolition munitions, which were built by the Soviets in the Cold War? Probably doubtful," Weldon said. But he added that after Sept. 11 the FBI could not avoid running every lead to ground.
In 1997, Weldon brought former Russian security chief Gen. Alexander Lebed before his committee. Lebed testified that perhaps 100 small nuclear devices were missing from inventories under his control. Lebed said the devices were a "perfect terrorist weapon," made to look like suitcases, "and could be detonated by one person with less than 30 minutes of preparation," according to committee documents.
The Russian government immediately tried to discredit Lebed's testimony, but Weldon's committee brought a prominent Russian weapons scientist, Aleksey Yablokov, before the committee in 1998 who reported that he knew the Russians produced small nuclear weapons for combat use.
Yablokov was vilified when he returned to Moscow as a "traitor" for his testimony. Yablokov sued one major Russian magazine over this vilification, Weldon said, and won a 30,000-ruble judgment against the publication.
Perhaps the most startling testimony came from a defector from the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, who testified in 1998 that the Russians secretly pre-positioned weapons, including small nuclear devices, in the U.S. and other countries around the world to be used for sabotage by its agents in time of war.
This witness said it was his job while working undercover in Washington from 1988 to 1992 as a correspondent for the Russian news agency Tass to locate places where these weapons could be hidden both around Washington and in other parts of the country.
Weldon has described the weapons in this testimony as "small nuclear weapons that can fit into a knapsack or a briefcase or suitcase and are designed to be delivered and detonated by one or two people."
He created a mock-up of one in a suitcase form that he uses in speeches and Congressional hearings based on descriptions from Russian sources. He keeps the mock-up in his office.
A Federation of American Scientists compilation, titled Soviet Weapons, notes that there is very little information in the public venue about the size and destructive power of the small weapons. The U.S. backpack nuke weighs 163 pounds and can be carried by one or two men. One Russian naval arms compilation talks about small portable nuclear weapons weighing from 59 pounds to 154 pounds.
The yield, too, is hard to pin down. One former American scientist who worked at the Department of Energy labs said that the "Davy Crocket," which was the small bomb later converted to special operations, had a one-kiloton explosive power and would level the Capitol Building and everything in a half mile radius. It also would spread radioactive waste across a wide area of Washington. The bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. (Each kiloton has an explosive power equal to 1,000 tons of TNT.)
The GRU witness, who testified using a pseudonym, Col. Stanislaw Lunez, said that even after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Russians continued to frame war plans against a range of Western nations including the U.S.
"According to Soviet military plans, very well advanced, maybe a few months, maybe a few weeks, of course, a few hours before real war would be placed against his country (the U.S.), Russian Special Operations Forces need to come here and pick up weapons systems, because they will fly here as tourists, businessmen.
"According to their tasking, in a few hours they need to physically destroy, eliminate American military chains of command, President, Supreme Commander in Chief, Vice President, Speaker of the House, military commanders, especially to cut the head from the American military chain of command," Lunev said.
He said that the Russians had a plan to sabotage industrial, communications and power targets as well.
Weldon said later the FBI discredited Lunev, saying that he exaggerated things, but another federal agency that Weldon declined to identify protects Lunev in an undisclosed location in the U.S. He said Lunev's credentials as a ranking GRU spy assigned to the U.S. have never been questioned.
Later Vasily Mitrokhin, a KGB official, disclosed in his best-selling book "The Sword and the Shield" that the Soviets had secreted weapons and explosives near NATO facilities throughout Europe for use in a war. Weldon said that Belgian officials located and dug up some caches near NATO's headquarters
The backpack nukes are part of some 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons that the Russians possessed in 1991 when they agreed to a unilateral arms reduction with the first Bush Administration. The Russians were to destroy 2,000 warheads a year from 1991, which would suggest there is only a handful left.
The U.S. destroyed the bulk of its weapons, but Weldon said that there is no evidence that the Russians have conducted such a program.
"That's part of the problem. I've continually called for a treaty with Russian and really a worldwide effort to ban or to limit tactical nukes," Weldon said.
"There has been no effort and we have had no success in getting Russia to decrease their tactical nukes. They feel they act as a buffer for Europe; the proximity of European countries. We just don't know whether they have total control of their atomic munitions."
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>I'm not sure how a person would know to video the ship or be in position to get such a clear shot.
https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3968926
>Diddy's dad worked for Frank Lucas, running heroin into the US during vietnam
when they crank the analog radio
>mayday call
Is it gonna be released online?
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>https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/us-news/search-warrant-sheds-light-on-deadly-raid-on-arkansas-airport-exec/
Reason for raid on Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport exec’s home where he was killed in shootout with feds is revealed
>The Constitution is just a piece of paper.
>Q ster
>Hungarian protesters waving the EU flag are not loyal to Hungary.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13223263/Nickelodeon-employed-convicted-pedophiles-child-molesters.html
Nickelodeon was 'infiltrated' by PREDATORS, records reveal.
Channel employed FIVE convicted child molesters and two other accused pedophiles to work on set of kids shows
Legal records reviewed by DailyMail.com show Nickelodeon employed more accused and convicted pedophiles than previously disclosed
Molesters include Nickelodeon production assistants and a talent manager who had sexual contact with young kids and teens
'Convicted pedophiles still get hired in Hollywood today,' a child safety advocate told DailyMail.com. 'Sex offenders worked with children at Nickelodeon'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_(explosive_trap)
Molniya (lightning) was an explosive device used to booby trap certain buried or otherwise concealed containers used by the KGB to cache items, such as shortwave radio receivers, cryptographic materials, and allegedly even suitcase nuclear devices. A sequence of specific actions had to be taken in the correct order to render the device safe prior to moving or opening the container, or the device would automatically detonate. This detonation was designed to be lethal to anyone in its immediate proximity, as well as being sufficient to destroy all materials in the cache.
From at least 1955 to the 1970s, such caches were allegedly pre-positioned in many countries for planned terrorist and sabotage acts during the Cold War. At least some were booby-trapped with "Molniya." One such cache, identified by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities fired upon it using a water cannon. The device was found in the woods near Belfaux. Although the explosion resulted in no casualties, the Swiss federal prosecutor at the time remarked, "Anyone who tried to move the KGB container uncovered in December of 1998 would have been killed."
Multiple Belleville washers may be stacked to modify the spring constant (or spring rate) or the amount of deflection. Stacking in the same direction will add the spring constant in parallel, creating a stiffer joint (with the same deflection). Stacking in an alternating direction is the same as adding common springs in series, resulting in a lower spring constant and greater deflection. Mixing and matching directions allow a specific spring constant and deflection capacity to be designed.
container slaves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_Group
Foremost Group was founded in 1964 by businessman James Si-Cheng Chao and his wife Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, who each immigrated to the United States from China by way of Taiwan. Its chair and CEO from 2018 to 2024 was Angela Chao, the sixth daughter of the company's founders and the third of their children born in the United States.
>www.bge.com/SmartEnergy/InnovationTechnology/Pages/Key-Crossing-Initiative.aspx
BGE owns and operates electric transmission lines that are part of the regional transmission system that transports electricity into, out of, and through the BGE service area. Currently, one segment of BGE's transmission system, which crosses under the Patapsco River next to the Francis Scott Key (FSK) Bridge, is nearing the end of its useful life.
BGE's Key Crossing Reliability Initiative is a Transmission Line Project to replace two high voltage transmission circuits that extend beneath the Patapsco River on the Harbor side of the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Hawkins Point in Baltimore City and Sollers Point in Baltimore County. The existing line is nearing the end of its useful service life.
New overhead lines will replace the Key Crossing underground segment and will connect with the existing overhead system. The Patapsco River is approximately 2 miles wide where the overhead lines will be placed.
From May through September 2021, BGE will construct eight transmission towers; five towers will be erected in the Patapsco River and equipped with water-level structures to provide protection from potential water-traffic collisions. The additional 3 towers will be land based with 1 on the Hawkins Point side of the river and 2 on the Sollers Point side. The work may require periodic lane closures on and approaching the southbound side (695 inner loop) of the Key Bridge.
>five towers will be erected in the Patapsco River and equipped with water-level structures to provide protection from potential water-traffic collisions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade
Who was the captain of the vessel in general?
she got found out