Moved to Page 3: Non-WoT. While vicious, this is a recounting of events from 2009, written to dwell on the lurid details and completely unrelated to the war against those engaged in Muslim jihad.
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Lincoln Park and Gold Coast neighborhoods have a lot of 'anti-gun' libs who probably would be easy targets.
West Englewood and Austin, not so much.
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@#2: The LP and GC residents of means have plenty of hired hands on the payroll to let Smith & Wesson do the talking without their experiencing the icky feel of cold steel.
[WAPO] It was her favorite place to be -- the beach. And on Wednesday, Lottie Michelle Belk was at Virginia Beach, celebrating her birthday and a marriage anniversary when a rare, tragic accident happened.
A big gust of wind lifted a beach umbrella out of the sand, blew it down, and struck Belk in the torso. She later died at a Virginia Beach hospital.
The incident unfolded about 5 p.m. near 33rd Street. Belk, 55, of Chester, Va., was at the beach with her family, according to several media reports. Life is short. Death is certain.
In a graveyard in Hungary, solemn contemplation gave way to frantic sportsmanship on Friday as dozens of grave diggers battled to prove they were the fastest and best in the business. I don't mean to be morbid but there are plenty of opportunities these days.
Taking their places at plots selected by pulling names out of a hard hat, 18 two-man teams waited for an official to shout "Start!" before shoveling at the ground to dig a precise, regulation-size grave as quickly as possible.
"I don't think this is morbid," the Hungarian Undertakers’ Association's deputy chairman, Zoltan Juracsik, told Reuters at the national grave-digging contest at the wooded cemetery in Debrecen, Hungary's biggest city after Budapest.
"This is a profession, and the colleagues who toil in competition today are proud and deserve our respect."
In less than half an hour, the local team, perhaps enjoying the home advantage, finished their grave first. The stragglers took almost one hour.
The graves were then judged on neatness and whether they complied with the regulation size: 200 cm long, 80 cm wide and 160 cm deep (7 feet by 2 feet 7 inches by 5 feet). The winning team wins a place in an international tournament against Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
The contest is meant to improve the prestige of grave digging and attract young men to a job that must still be done by hand in crowded graveyards where mechanical diggers cannot fit.
One of the competitors, Csaba Halasz, 21, began by taking summer job after high school. Although he graduated with a degree in physical education, he stayed in the business.
"This job chose me," he said. "It's hard but it's worth it. Relatives come and thank me every time. The profession just lured me in."
[Praag.org] High-level UK diplomats have discussed lifting the visa regime for nearly 1.5 million Turks, as a "symbolic gesture" necessary to incentivize Ankara on the controversial EU-Turkey migrant deal, according to leaked British embassies’ cables.
The diplomats advised visa liberalization to prevent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from derailing the landmark EU-Turkey migrant deal, according to five leaked diplomatic cables seen by The Sunday Times exclusively.
In a telegram to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Janet Douglas, the deputy head of mission in Ankara wrote: "Should [EU] visa liberalization be granted, we will need to develop our own lines on the UK’s stance to visa-free travel for Turks."
"One option would be to assess again the possibility of visa travel for Turkish special passport holders, which would be a risk, but a significant and symbolic gesture to Turkey," Douglas said.
Special passports were issued for up to 1.5 million Turkish government officials, civil servants, teachers and their families who were able to travel to the UK without a visa until 2009, according to the newspaper.
If talks on visa liberalization fail, "an impetuous and riled Erdogan ‐ prone to come out fighting when he feels betrayed ‐ could carry through his threat to ’open the floodgates’ to Europe for migrants," her telegram warned.
The source is pro Ukrainian so a measure of salt is required. Artemovsk shelling overnight kills one civilian
First Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's representative to the humanitarian subgroup in Minsk Iryna Gerashchenko reports a serious deterioration of the situation in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, and points to a record high number of casualties at the front in the last four weeks, according to a UNIAN correspondent.
"We have now an absolutely tragic period for this year – a significant increase in attacks after the May holidays and in the number of violations of the ceasefire in the east," Gerashchenko said during a roundtable meeting in Kyiv on Monday.
"We have an absolutely record number of the dead and wounded at the front over the past four weeks, including among civilians. And, obviously, security in Donbas, its significant deterioration is the key point, which does not allow speaking about the possibility of solving issues in the humanitarian and economic spheres... The security situation in the east is a priority," Gerashchenko said.
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 40 times on Sunday evening alone, 39 attacks were recorded in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region.
A businessman has been caught in Istanbul trying to sell a dagger looted from the palace of former Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. He was trying to sell the dagger, which was made of ivory and garnished with gold, emeralds, diamonds, rubies and sapphires, for $10 million, Turkish daily Habertürk reported on June 13.
The businessman, identified as A.A., was caught by anti-smuggling police as he tried to sell the dagger to Saudi businessmen.
“Your exchange office should pay our exchange office $10 million. If the dagger is not authentic, then you can come and take your money from us,” A.A. told the police, who had disguised themselves as customers wanting to buy the dagger.
The police then began to track the businessman, who was a textile exporter from the southeastern province of Mardin, and started an operation after learning he was going to sell the dagger to his Saudi customers in a hotel in the Bakırköy district of Istanbul.
A.A., who left Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir district in one of three luxury cars, was stopped by the anti-smuggling police, who were disguised as traffic police. The cars were trying to reach Bakırköy separately from three different roads and the dagger was found in the trunk of one of the cars. The businessman and two others working with him were detained in the operation.
A.A. claimed he bought Gadhafi’s dagger from the opposition groups in Libya for $4.6 million.
The dagger was later sent to Turkey’s Chamber of Jewelers to prove its authenticity and the chamber concluded that the dagger was original. It was worth at least $2 million, according to the chamber.
There seems to be some disparity in the value of the dagger...
Legal action was taken against the businessman for the ivory in the dagger, which violated the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and for smuggling.
If the progressives had only known that Gadhafi had killed an elephant for its ivory they would have wanted him dead two decades ago...
Gadhafi’s dagger was seized on the grounds that it was a piece incompatible with CITES and was brought to Turkey illegally.
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Man caught trying to sell Gadhafi’s dagger in Turkey
...Bet he had Zuzu's Petals right next to 'em, along with the map to King Solomon's Mines and the owner's manual for the Oak Island Money Pit.
Mike
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Rheinmetall represents new 130mm L/51 tank gun for the future generation of main battle tanks at Eurosatory 2016 international land and air-land Defence and Security exhibition.
The new 130mm L/51 tank gun: an independently developed demonstrator for the main armament of a future generation of main battle tanks.
According to Werner Kraemer, president of Rheinmetall Waffe Munition’s executive board, the new 130 mm gun should be in production by 2025.
You can read the ship's vitals here
Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is expected to sign a contract with the Kremlin to build a massive new warship called Project 23560 Lider (or Leader in English) after the design is finalized later this year.
"At present, Preliminary Design 23560 Leader is under consideration at the Ministry of Defense,” Igor Ponomarev, USC vice president for military shipbuilding told state-owned RIA Novosti. “After a positive decision, we expect to sign a contract to develop and design the ship under terms defined by the Ministry of Defense.”
The new warship is classified as a destroyer but will displace 17,500 metric tons, with a length of 200m (656.2ft) and a beam of 20m (65.6ft)—making it larger than most World War II-era heavy cruisers.
Is there a reason why we can't call it a heavy cruiser?
Indeed, the Leader-class—which is expected to be armed with no fewer than 200 missiles—will be the second largest modern surface combatants built after the four massive 28,000-ton nuclear-powered Project 1144 Orlan battle-cruisers (better known as the Kirov-class).
The new warship is being designed with anti-aircraft, anti-ballistic missile, anti-surface and anti-submarine capability. It is also likely to have a significant land-attack capability using long-range cruise missiles such as the Kalibr-NK. From what little is known about the Leader-class, the vessels are expected to be equipped with 60 anti-ship cruise missiles, 128 anti-aircraft guided missiles and 16 anti-ship guided missiles. There are no details available about the exact mix of missiles that are expected to be carried onboard, but the air defense systems are likely to be based on either the S-400 or S-500 while some of the anti-ship weapons are likely to be variants of the Zircon hypersonic missile.
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The lubberly Russian's a boozer;
His lovely new cruiser's a bruiser:
Is tubbish; his tonnage
Will rubbish his gunnage;
Is probably dubbed Biggest Loser.
1. The Russians commission the first new frigate class in nearly sixty years, the Admiral Grigorivich class FFG, in March of this year. (The Grigorovich design is by all apparent indicators an update of the long-serving Krivak class, first commissioned in the late '50s.)
2. While arriving at her home port of Sevastapol for the first time on June 9th, the crew ran her into the dock, doing some serious damage in the process.
3. The last three ships in the class are still sitting in the yard without engines. Seems a Ukranian company was to provide them but no longer wishes to (I know, can't imagine why either) and the new Russian contractor can't provide them until 2019.
I hope the Russians won't take it personally if I'm just a wee bit skeptical.
Mike
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
In a graveyard in Hungary, solemn contemplation gave way to frantic sportsmanship on Friday as dozens of grave diggers battled to prove they were the fastest and best in the business.
[Praag.org] High-level UK diplomats have discussed lifting the visa regime for nearly 1.5 million Turks, as a "symbolic gesture" necessary to incentivize Ankara on the controversial EU-Turkey migrant deal, according to leaked British embassies’ cables.
