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O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

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I believe you call this Californicated.

Politico;

Eric Swalwell suspended his bid for California governor amid sexual assault and misconduct allegations that threw his campaign into a tailspin, upending the race to lead the nation’s most populous state.

“I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” Swalwell wrote on X on Sunday. “To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past.” […]

The Democratic congressman’s exit completed a stunningly swift collapse for a candidate who had shown signs in recent weeks of pulling ahead of a crowded Democratic field, with prominent interest groups and elected officials beginning to coalesce behind him.

But an ex-staffer’s allegation that Swalwell had sexually assaulted her, detailed in a San Francisco Chronicle report and followed by more misconduct allegations in a CNN report, led those allies to abandon Swalwell en masse as high-level staffers departed his campaign.

So Noted: Ouch.

Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter

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Open Source Intel;

The U.S. has begun enforcing a naval blockade on Iran, targeting all vessels entering and exiting its ports across the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The move is expected to inflict about $435M in total daily losses across Iran’s exports, roughly $13B per month, even as its oil revenues rose 37% during the war to about $139M per day.

The IRGC had been operating a paid “protection corridor,” charging up to $2M per vessel in crypto, but the blockade could halt exports, disrupt imports, trigger food shortages, and accelerate the collapse of the rial.

Plus: vessels entering the Strait of Hormuz without authorization are subject to interception, diversion, and capture by the U.S. military. […] “The blockade will not impede neutral transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz to or from non-Iranian destinations.”

More: The thing about that Persian Gulf stranglehold is that, like the Sword of Damcles, it’s only effective until it’s played.”

I’m on the road this week and mostly out of the news cycle, so drop related links in the comments.

He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

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Via @RealAndyLeeShow;

Patrick Pichette served on Twitter’s board of directors during a time period when many political dissidents – myself included – were banned. At the same time, he sat on the board of directors at the Trudeau Foundation.

Elon Musk fired him.

“The timing is extraordinary.”

Claws of the Panda It's Probably Nothing 15 Comments

Shanaka Anslem Perera;

While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything.

CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups.

Ten petabytes. For context, the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress is approximately 10 terabytes. This breach is one thousand times that volume. It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defence agencies and aviation firms across China.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

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@jenstilmanydots

18 tweet rant – because it’s important:

China imports ~4% of their crude from Venezuela.

I suspect most have zero clue what China owns in Canada, and I’m astonished and angered by the naivety of my fellow countrymen.

I’m not putting my elbows up – we deserve what we’ll be getting.

Why?

Because we’ve been wilfully ignorant and complacency has consequences.

Threadreader version here. h/t Prairie Putz

Only 43lbs Of Fentanyl

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We sure do make a lot of fentanyl for a country that has no major exports.

The RCMP’s Ontario Federal Policing unit announced Friday that search warrants executed on September 7 in Schomberg, northwest of Toronto, resulted in the seizure of nearly $10 million in suspected controlled substances, along with prohibited weapons, chemical precursors, and a range of illegal production equipment.

In addition to cash, drugs, and chemicals, officers discovered a pill press, firearms, handwritten drug “recipes,” flasks, chemical glassware, and other lab components. Approximately 20,000 litres of hazardous waste were also removed from the site.

Art Of The Loser

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Taking advice from Warren Kinsella on Canada-US relations is like buying furniture for your girlfriend thinking your wife won’t find out.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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Roger Kimball;

In the matter of James Brien Comey Jr., how finds the court? I do not mean a court of law. I mean the tribunal of history.

Granted, we will be hearing from a Virginia court of law about JBC quite soon. On Thursday, Comey became the first former FBI director in history to be indicted by a grand jury for a felony. The charges? Lying to Congress and obstructing justice. (For the legal eagles among you, the statutes in question are USC 18 §1001 and USC 18 §1505.)

Call it karma, irony, or just good old-fashioned just desserts: whatever your literary preference, there is a delicious symmetry in the fact that USC 18 §1001—which prohibits making “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement” to a government official—was the statute under which Comey tormented and bankrupted General Mike Flynn, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor for a few weeks in 2017.

It’s Probably Nothing

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing 14 Comments

Melinda, via email – Something I now have on my radar, due to the high % of Toronto residents now on the dole.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

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Because the promised “big one” was taking too long.

The road to recovery after the Palisades Fire has been anything but smooth for a group of historical business owners on the eastern edge of Malibu.

For years, the Reel Inn was a staple along Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The famous seafood shack fed surfers and tourists for nearly 40 years.

Its sign is now in a pile of rubble, and because of a yearslong dispute over land use, the Reel Inn may never reopen.

Other businesses are facing the same roadblocks when it comes to rebuilding — The Topanga Ranch Motel, Wiley’s Bait and Tackle, Cholada Thai and Rosenthal Wine Bar.

[…]

Today, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is using the land, which is owned by California State Parks. They recently informed the destroyed businesses that their leases are cancelled and they can’t rebuild.

“Due to the catastrophic property loss associated with the Palisades Fire, DPR has regretfully determined that it will not continue to lease this site,” the letter the Reel Inn received read.

“We wanted to rebuild, remodel, expand from day one for thirty years. We thought that somebody from state parks, at some point, would go, ‘Look, we’re remodeling the whole place down there anyway. These guys have got good press. Why don’t we lean in with them and do something cool? And let’s do it rather sooner than later because it will make it look like we’re getting things going down here.’ And the phone, not only didn’t ring, but we got that letter two weeks ago,” said Andy Leonard, the owner of the Reel Inn.

h/t Joe

The Libranos: Contract Tracing

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Blacklocks;

The Department of Health ordered so many surplus ventilators from Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. it couldn’t give them away, Access To Information records show. Ex-Liberal MP Frank Baylis (Pierrefonds-Dollard, Que.) credited the sole-sourced $237 million contract with helping rescue his company during the pandemic: “We re-mortgaged all our buildings; we extended our line of credit.”

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Demand was “…not as robust as expected”.

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