Detroit's "Public Lighting Authority" has opened litigation against "Leotek Electronics USA" after newly installed LED streetlights are displaying signs of end of life wear well short of their anticipated 10 year lifespan. Detroit has spent 185 million USD in the last 3 years in an effort to light their streets. How much the new litigation will inflate this cost has yet to be seen.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Portuguese National Flying Mirage Jet Downed In Libya By General Haftar's Forces
Alleged Portuguese national and mercenary Jimmy Reiss was shot down in Libya by forces aligned with leading warlord and de facto Libyan sovereign General Haftar (archived). The 29 year old was flying a Dassault Mirage F1 in Haftar's airspace before his capture. Haftar's control of Libya is disputed by a UN backed "national unity" government that occupies Tripoli.
Hamplanet Health Minister In Belgium Still Morbidly Obese Nearly Five Years In, Responsibilities Keep Expanding
Maggie De Block was sworn in as Belgium's Minister of Social Affairs and Health back in October of 2014. Zher appointment inspired headines including "Is she too fat to be a Health Minister?" yet this fem identifying mayo is still on the job and still very morbidly obese (archived). Zhe makes the Belgian government's decisions in the area of health (archived), and just this past December was additionally appointed Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration (archived). The migration appointment was not an understandable shuffling of the obeast away from the Health Ministry, but an addition to her role as Health Minister.
New Microsoft Chromium Based Browser To Include Legacy IE Attack Surface
Microsoft has announced that while making their newest browser from Google's Chromium code, they will also be including a legacy "Internet Explorer Mode" for "businesses" and South Korea (archived). Apparently Microsoft's accumulated technical debt is so great that in brushing away the mess of its past, it needs to bundle the mess it was trying to escape with the perceived solution.
After Coup Embarrassment USG Goes On Tilt Aggressing On All Rivals At The Same Time
Engaged in an embarrassing quagimire in Venezuela following a spectacularly inept coup attempt, the criminal organization calling itself the United States Government has impotently gone on tilt by escalating zher ongoing aggression against zher rivals. A carrier group and bomber task force have been sent flex near Iran following an imagined provacation the US is hyping up despite an absence of any acute aggression or other notable movement on Iran's part (archived).
At the same time the US is sailing two small warships through the South China Sea near islands claimed by China (archived). Most Pantsuitist Anglophone media is hyping small trade related disputes while China is engaged in diplomacy abroad by committing to develop much of the world as part of its belt and road initiative though this movement is ignored in USG lands (archived).
Finally Russia's Khmeimim airbase was shelled, allegedly by members of the group formerly known as "Al-Nusra Front" today. Al-Nusra Front is one of many group in Syria who availed themselves of US weapons during the Hussein Bahamas and Hillary Clinton era of USG thuggery.
USG "Intelligence" Organs Fail Spectacularly In Venezuela As Maduro Orders Military To Prepare For Invasion
After the CIA's failed coup attempt in Venezuela, Maduro has placed the Venezuelan military on alert to repel a possible US invasion (archived). In the aftermath of the coup's failure various criminals calling themselves US government officials communicated their displeasure that many named Venezuelan officials they allegedly counted on to defect to the CIA backed "interim regime" did not defect (archived). The US based criminals also advanced a conspiracy theory that Democratically elected Venezuelan President Maduro was going to board a plane during the insurrection and exile himself in Cuba but didn't due to mysterious Russian shennanigans.
Besides ample unintentional comedy, the childish lack of self awareness from which these USG tantrums stem renders impossible any sort of deniability of USG's "leadership" (or more properly, dreamership) of the remarkably braindamaged plot. Most egregiously there is no acknowledgement from any of the USG conspirators that they were ineptly passing around a treasonous 15 point plan among officials of the democratically elected government of Venezuela without considering the possibility that the fellows could choose to mislead USG criminals out of a loyalty to their country.
In exchange for the massive embarrassment of an operation the USG failed to capture La Carlota Airbase or a defection of the Venezuelan Military while acquiring the release of opposition figure Leopoldo López from the safety of house arrest. The release of López was the USG's designated signal for triggering the rest of the debacle. At the same time Maduro has gained substantial material to advance shared meaning among his supporters against an external enemy.
EuroPolice Knock Down Two Darknet Markets
Europol and a number of USG organs working in concert managed to take out two "darknet" market places (archived). One operation calling itself "Wall Street Market" and another called both "Silkkitie" and "Valhalla Marketplace" are now closed. The US DoD Tor network remains unsuitable for safety critical applications.
Local Governments In Texas Cease Defense Of Private Property
Dallas County District Attorney John Cruezot has ended his office's policy of prosecuting cases of tresspass and theft, in cases under 750 USD where the thief "needed" what they stole (archived). This bleeding Texas heart pantsuit has determined that defending private property isn't something government needs to do anymore. For a desire to progress and reduce "mass incarceration" a pantsuit in government decided to quit the one responsibility that was used to justify the socialist government's claimed monopoly on violence. Thanks to John Cruezot you can indeed mess with Texas. Sorry for your loss.
Yet Another NOBUS Backdoor To Root On Cisco Kit Burned After The "Us" Set Expanded
A backdoor in the SSH management portion of Cisco's "Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software" has been documented (archived). This particular incarnation of the hole has been patched by Cisco after the whistle was blown. The hole involves a default root SSH keypair which could be used by anyone connecting over IPv6 to login as root. This is not the first Cisco NOBUS backdoor to be burned after the definition of "us" capable of using the backdoor expanded.
Brits Slam Assange With 50 Weeks In Prison Over Skipping Bail On Dropped Charge While Extradition Formalities Play Out
The Brits have hit Julian Assange with a 50 week sentence1 for skipping bail of a charge that was eventually dropped (archived). Other alleged supporters of Assange have been arrested since Assange was abducted in Ecuador's embassy including one man in Ecuador and one Bradley/Chelsea Manning in the US who after having their sentence commuted by Hussein Bahamas now faces confinement for contempt of the court circus.
Of which normal UK practice would have him serve 22 weeks. ↩