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Issue both sides the Davey Crockett and be done with it.
As I recall, the main issue with the Davey Crockett was that the range of the weapon was about the same as the blast radius of the nuclear warhead. Which kinda sorta makes it ideal for the application Besoeker suggests.
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When Chicago mayor Lightfoot entered the hospital area where the wounded officer is fighting for his life, all 30 cops there turned their backs to her.
[FoxNews] Surveillance footage that showed the brutal beating of a 22-year-old freelance photographer in Seattle emerged on social media Sunday raising new safety concerns in the city, a report said.
Jason Rantz, a host on KTTH 770AM/94.5FM, posted the footage on Twitter. The video appeared to show two men passing each other on an empty city street. The two look as though they were shaking hands, but the man in the white shirt can be seen being tossed on the ground and repeatedly stomped.
The 770 report said the victim identified himself as Caliber Visuals from Los Angeles. The incident occurred at about 6:15 p.m. on July 31, the report said. The report said the suspect stole at least $900 in cash and an iPhone 12. The victim, who set up a GoFundMe page, reportedly suffered a brain bleed and a fractured eye.
Seattle Police said in a statement that a bystander "came to the victim’s aid and called 911. Medics transported him to Harborview Medical Center, where he received treatment for head trauma and significant injuries to his face."
The suspect was identified as a Black male, 5’10", 180 lbs., with a medium build, and was wearing an orange and yellow t-shirt and black pants with a white stripe down the side at the time of the attack, police said. Manual Reparations
The victim reportedly posted online: "Four days later I’m trying to stay positive with the fact I’m still here and able to move forward in life but I still find myself spitting up blood and severe headaches."
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The report said the suspect stole at least $900 in cash
Why is someone walking around with $900 in cash in a strange city in the evening? We're not being too cheap to use an ATM in most large American cities?
The University of Wisconsin removed a controversial boulder from its Madison campus Friday after the Black Student Union and other activists objected to its description nearly 100 years ago with a racial slur.
Chamberlin Rock, which rests atop Observatory Hill, is named after a 19th Century geologist and former university president, Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, whose work centered on glacial deposits, according to a bio on the university’s website.
But it was a reporter’s reference to the rock in a nearly century-old Wisconsin State Journal article that prompted the push for its removal.
In October 1925, the university had the boulder excavated and placed prominently atop the hill to honor Chamberlin, who would die in Chicago three years later. The rock was a rare specimen believed to be more than 2 billion years old, and before it was installed on Observatory Hill, only about a foot and a half was visible above ground, according to the article. It was believed to have been carried by glaciers from Canada to Wisconsin.
In the 1920s, a slang term used to describe large dark rocks included the N-word, and it appears in coverage of the rock’s installation.
University researchers did not uncover other instances in print where the rock was referred to with this word, but they said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at the time of the rock’s dedication, according to an article in the same newspaper published earlier this week.
Juliana Bennett, a senior and a campus representative on the Madison City Council, said removing the rock signaled a small step toward a more inclusive school.
"This moment is about the students, past and present, that relentlessly advocated for the removal of this racist monument," she told the Associated Press. "Now is a moment for all of us BIPOC students to breathe a sigh of relief, to be proud of our endurance, and to begin healing."
University Chancellor Rebecca Blank approved Chamberlin Rock’s removal back in January, but the school also needed approval from the Wisconsin Historical Society because the boulder sat within just 15 feet of a Native American burial site.
Chamberlin will get a new plaque in a building already named after him, and the boulder will find a new home near Lake Kegonsa on other university-owned land.
Student groups had also demanded the removal of an Abraham Lincoln statue from campus – but university leaders rejected that request.
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Jesus, they are cancelling rocks.
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Yes. Pretty much the only bright spots in this nonsense are that the taxpayers didn't pay for this, and nobody lost his job.
There will, of course, be no "healing."
I do wish the tribal leaders had said "no."
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Canceling rocks, tsk. Why are people taking advice from college students? College students are idiots. And I say that with love, because I was one. One of the reasons to go to college is to learn about all the things you don't know.
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What if Kazakhstan were to seek a few million dollars in aid for a slew of gender reassignment surgeries? For 'disturbed young men caught up in gender confusion', the advancement of LGQBiters and all?
I'm sure Biden would oblige. The HoR would jump at it too. Until someone told them it was rapists they were 'curing'. Then there'd be... sanctions!
From the CDC July 26th, 2020 Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings
Camp/Sector Level:
A group of shelters such as schools, community buildings within a camp/sector (max 50 high-risk individuals per single green zone) where high-risk individuals are physically isolated together.
One entry point is used for exchange of food, supplies, etc. A meeting area is used for residents and visitors to interact while practicing physical distancing (2 meters). No movement into or outside the green zone.
#1 such as schools, community buildings
Dead shopping malls
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....Even better - all those empty KMart and Sears stores. Most of them still have power attached and a surprising number of them have been maintained, though at a minimum level. For the most part though, they'd be perfect - big, open and easily controlled spaces, and likely far more accessible than malls.
Mike
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Undocumented immigrant housing. We're doing it for the children.
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A year-old contingency plan, drawn up on a worst-case basis, is not a plan to create death camps. Chill out, people, and stop falling for the distractions.
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... 1 year contingency plan.
Whether its 1 year old or 10 years old.
It is an official Written and Approved Federal Government Plan for Federal operated Interment Camps.
A plan that was quietly developed by a Administration made up of just over 1/3 Progressive / National Socialists in key leadership positions.
Another fact is, that it is STILL on the Federal Planning books and only takes a simple scribble with a Ink Pen by a Mindless Government official aka JB to activate it.
QUESTION:
Does anyone think the ruling political COUP can be trusted to use such power and authority wisely and w/o Social Political agenda applications?
How many times have we already heard the White House and related Admin appointed officials threaten to exercise greater lock-downs and door to door VAX checks and now a VAX Travel Card requirement?
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We've had smoke from the Dixie fire (and the Oregon/Washington/Idaho fires) in our air so thick it looks like it's cloudy. Been here for four or five days now. We need some rain!
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Between the Tamarack fire and the Dixie fire we’ve been breathing bad air in northern Nevada’s Carson Valley now for three weeks. At one point the air quality index in Gardenerville hit 268, unhealthily for even expat Cuban cigar makers.
[FRANCE24] Hundreds of Greek islanders packed up their belongings and fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia on Sunday as wildfires continued to rage after a record heatwave.Greece and neighbouring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... have been battling the devastating fires for nearly two weeks, with 10 people confirmed dead and dozens needing hospital treatment.
While rain brought some respite from the blazes in Turkey over the weekend, Greece continues to suffer a hot, dry summer.
The blazes have destroyed homes and reduced thousands of hectares of land to ash on Evia, Greece's second-largest island just northeast of the capital Athens.
Civil protection deputy minister Nikos Hardalias said a fire front in the north of Evia was being pushed by strong winds towards beach villages.
"We have ahead of us another difficult evening, another difficult night," he said, adding that 17 aircraft were helping to fight the fires on Evia.
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[Reason] I remember one of my mother's uncles, at a picnic, responding to a comment about a proposed gun ban with a laconic "Doesn't matter. We'll build our own." Building rifles was his hobby, I learned during that day of grilling and shooting on his land in long-ago rural New Jersey. His comment has come back to me over the years, especially after, for Christmas, my wife gifted my son and I a jig for completing an unfinished AR-15 lower receiver. Like my great uncle, we built our own. We recommend the experience.
Making personal firearms is perfectly legal under federal law, if that matters to you, though states and localities may have their own rules. To that end, finishing "80 percent" receivers has become a popular pastime since the roughed-out blocks, shaped like the part of the AR-15 rifle that contains the hammer, safety, and trigger, but with solid material where those parts should fit, can be purchased without the legal rigmarole required for buying a firearm (the privacy offered by a DIY gun is somewhat compromised if you then write an article about your activities). It's a modern version of my uncle's hobby, simplified by the use of jigs that guide drill bits and end mills for finishing the project.
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Built several AR's. Easy. Anyone can do it. Do several and you know more than that Mr. Knows Everything you encounter at any range or gun show.
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You can say whatever you want about 5.56 vs bigger rounds. In the field, I'd rather get an AR back into battery than a Garand or M14. And, yeah, I have those too.
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I suspect 20-30 years from now it might be something else, but logistically speaking 5.56 is a safe bet for you and your neighbors.
[Al Jazeera] The months-long conflict in Æthiopia faces a fresh wave of fighting as an Amhara regional official says Amhara forces will launch an offensive on Saturday against Tigrayan forces who have entered the region and taken control of a town hosting a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
"This is the time for the Amhara people to crush the terrorist group," Sema Tiruneh, the Amhara region’s head of peace and security, told the regional state-affiliated Amhara Media Corporation on Friday.
"Preparations have been under way to reverse these moves and an offensive will start tomorrow. Freedom doesn’t come cheap. Everyone should come forward and defend themselves."
Separately, Æthiopia’s foreign ministry on Friday warned that the Tigray forces’ incursion into the Amhara and Afar regions in recent weeks "is testing the federal government’s patience and pushing it to change its defensive mood which has been taken for the sake of the unilateral humanitarian ceasefire".
The incursions have displaced some 300,000 people, it said.
Æthiopia’s government is "being pushed to mobilise and deploy the entire defensive capability of the state" if overtures for a peaceful resolution to the conflict are not reciprocated, the statement said.
Æthiopia’s government declared a unilateral ceasefire in late June during a stunning turn in the war, as its military retreated from Tigray and the resurgent Tigray forces retook key towns and walked into the regional capital, Mekelle, to cheers.
The conflict erupted in Tigray in November after a falling-out between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray ruling party that had dominated Æthiopia’s government for nearly 30 years. Since then, thousands of people have been killed.
Getachew Reda, the front man for resurgent Tigray forces, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency that if forces from Amhara launch the threatened offensive on Saturday, "we’ll extend a warm welcome".
Getachew says Tigray forces have crossed into the Amhara region, and the Afar region, in recent weeks in an attempt to break the blockade that Æthiopia’s government has imposed on Tigray and its six million people. Hundreds of thousands of people face famine conditions, and the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and the United States this week sent high-level officials to Æthiopia to urge more access to aid.
"We have to deal with anyone who’s still shooting," Getachew said. "If it takes marching to Addis to silence the guns, we will." But civilians should not fear, he said in response to allegations by ethnic Amhara that the Tigray forces have carried out attacks.
[France24] Only shrubs grew naturally in the sandy acid soil that farmer Volker Miros chose as a site to test the potential for truffle production in South Africa. After years of trial and error, today Miros is a pioneer of South Africa's budding truffle cultivation industry.
[Al Jazeera] The upcoming election in Nicaragua "has lost all credibility", the United States has said, amid a string of arrests of presidential hopefuls and the disqualification of the main opposition party set to challenge President Daniel Ortega in the November polls.
In a statement on Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the move to disqualify the Citizens Alliance for Liberty (CXL) demonstrates that Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, have a "desire to remain in power at all costs".
"The United States views the regime’s latest undemocratic, authoritarian actions — driven by Ortega’s fear of an electoral loss — as the final blow against Nicaragua’s prospects for a free and fair election later this year," the statement reads.
"That electoral process, including its eventual results, has lost all credibility."
Dozens of opposition leaders and presidential contenders have been detained since early June in Nicaragua as the government rounded up individuals it accused of planning a coup against Ortega.
But human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups and international observers have accused the longtime leader of increasing authoritarianism and seeking to clear the way of potential opponents in his bid to secure a fourth consecutive term as president in the November 7 elections.
Seven presidential hopefuls are among those detained in recent weeks.
Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... (FSLN) party confirmed last week that the 75-year-old would seek re-election, with Murillo as his running mate again.
The wave of arrests has prompted the US and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to impose sanctions and visa restrictions on Nicaraguan officials in recent weeks as they seek to pressure the government to release the detainees and ensure free and fair elections can be held.
"The political situation in Nicaragua has further deteriorated in recent months," the Council of the EU said in a statement this week, as it announced fresh sanctions against eight Nicaraguan government officials, including Murillo.
"The political use of the judicial system, the exclusion of candidates from the elections and the arbitrary delisting of opposition parties are contrary to basic democratic principles and constitute a serious violation of the rights of the Nicaraguan people."
Ortega governed Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990 and returned to power in 2007, winning two successive re-election bids since then.
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yep, we're the ones to judge
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Ah, their little coup failed, eh? No wonder they're squealing. But they can't let electoral results count because otherwise the people will choose to benefit themselves instead of US banks and corporations. And we can't have that.
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Meanwhile, back on the plantation, Democrats and not a few republicans are desperately seeking ways to keeping Donald Trump off the 2024 Ballot, not to mention keeping the insecure mail in balloting mandated in place.
[BenarNews] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed grave concern Friday about what he described as China’s growing nuclear arsenal and told an annual regional security conference that the Asian superpower should also cease "provocative behavior" in the South China Sea.
America’s top diplomat raised these concerns during his first appearance in that role before the ASEAN Regional Forum, a virtual meeting that drew his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and 10 of the bloc’s dialogue partners, including China, Russia, Japan and other world powers.
"The Secretary ... noted deep concern with the rapid growth of the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] nuclear arsenal which highlights how Beijing has sharply deviated from its decades-old nuclear strategy based on minimum deterrence," the State Department said in a statement about Blinken’s participation at the meeting.
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[NATION.PK] Kohsar police have booked as many as 22 persons under multiple charges after they had fired and pelted stones the officials of Capital Development Authority (CDA) when they reached Talhar Village for conducting an anti-encroachment operation, informed sources on Saturday.
A case was registered under sections /506ii/353/186/148/149 of PPC against Mirza, Arshad, Kausar, Khizar, Moazam, Juma Khan, Shah Jahan and 15 other unknown armed accused on complaint of Ateeq Ur Rehman, Assistant Director Environment, CDA Islamabad, they said. Police have arrested an accused while others are still on the lam, sources said.
According to sources, CDA AD Environment Ateeq Ur Rehman lodged complaint with PS Kohsar officials stating that he along with his enforcement team,
AC City Islamabad and other staff reached at Talhar Village to demolish illegally built houses in Zone 3 as per directions of Supreme Court of Pakistain when Mirza and his gunnies appeared from somewhere.
He said the armed mob launched an attack on the enforcement team and other government officials besides pelting us with stones.
He added the attackers also hurled death threats at them. The CDA officer appealed to police to register a case against the accused and to arrest them. Police have filed a case against the accused and nabbed the accused, sources said.
They said raids are being carried out to arrest the other accused.
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[Al Jazeera] US prosecutors say they have charged two Myanmar citizens over a plot to attack the country’s United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun, an outspoken supporter of the democracy movement who has refused orders by the military government to quit.
In an alleged conspiracy foiled by US Sherlocks, the pair spoke of hiring assailants to force Kyaw Moe Tun to resign or, if he refused, to kill him, officials said on Friday.
The pair "plotted to seriously injure or kill Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in a planned attack on a foreign official that was to take place on American soil", said Audrey Strauss, the US attorney for the southern district of New York.
Jacqueline Maguire, the acting assistant director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, said law enforcement acted "quickly and diligently" after learning last month of the potential liquidation that was planned in Westchester County, a suburban area north of New York City.
"Our laws apply to everyone in our country, and these men will now face the consequences of allegedly breaking those laws," she said.
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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.
This process is taking entirely too long. Issue both sides the Davey Crockett and be done with it. 
From the CDC July 26th, 2020
Nuclear excavation could achieve geographically balanced rightsizing. 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
[Reason] I remember one of my mother's uncles, at a picnic, responding to a comment about a proposed gun ban with a laconic "Doesn't matter. We'll build our own." Building rifles was his hobby, I learned during that day of grilling and shooting on his land in long-ago rural New Jersey. His comment has come back to me over the years, especially after, for Christmas, my wife gifted my son and I a jig for completing an unfinished AR-15 lower receiver. Like my great uncle, we built our own. We recommend the experience.
[France24] Only shrubs grew naturally in the sandy acid soil that farmer Volker Miros chose as a site to test the potential for truffle production in South Africa. After years of trial and error, today Miros is a pioneer of South Africa's budding truffle cultivation industry.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[NATION.PK] Kohsar police have booked as many as 22 persons under multiple charges after they had fired and pelted stones the officials of Capital Development Authority (CDA) when they reached Talhar Village for conducting an anti-encroachment operation, informed sources on Saturday. 
