The boy at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, intentionally shot his teacher Abby Zwerner, who has been described as bubbly and outgoing
Incident occurred after the class had finished reading a story before art lesson
Children fled to another classroom for safety, where they remained in lockdown
Zwerner, 25, had life-threatening injuries but her condition is improving
Classes have been canceled for the 550 students at the school until Wednesday
Under Virginia law guns need to be secured from children under the age of 14
[FresnoCounty] ....the following road yards will remain open 24 hours a day. Empty bags are provided free of charge to County residents, homes located in unincorporated areas.
You must bring your own shovel in order to shovel sand into bags yourself.
For more information, please call the County of Fresno, Public Works & Planning Department, Road Maintenance Division at (559) 600-4240, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00 pm
If you have an emergency, please call the Fresno County Sheriff's Department at (559) 488-3111.
---------------- other counties in California have similar free sand bag programs; another strong atmospheric river event is expected to begin early am 9 January. This is after several similar storms; ground is already saturated. Also, snow levels will rise and be near 7000'for a few hours thus melting snow will add to the valley rain runoff. Above pass levels, especially above 7000', avalanche danger is about as bad as it ever gets as the snow-pack is about double the long term average in the Sierra.
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Do they come with the sand already installed?
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That will surely mess up your Tesla.
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List of all the major dams in California, and their levels as of yesterday. The New Melones dam was built in 1980, the last dam built, and since then California's population has gone from 23.67 million to 39.44 million.
[Just the News] he U.S. Army is continuing to enforce the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the National Guard and Reserves, despite the recent abandonment of the controversial and legally shaky order by Congress and the Pentagon itself.
On Dec. 23, President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the $858 billion defense spending bill repealing the mandate. On Dec. 29, the Defense Department followed suit, rescinding the mandate that has frayed military morale and resulted in the discharge of over 8,000 service members who refused the vaccine.
In rescinding the vaccine mandate, the DOD acknowledged the NDAA requires the Defense Secretary to rescind his Aug. 24, 2021 memo issuing the sweeping order.
Last week, however, the Army issued a new guidance, FRAGO 35, which reads: "The FY2023 NDAA does not address the Secretary of Defense's directive regarding COVID-19 vaccination for members of the National Guard and Ready Reserve (Annex AAAA). Commands will continue to adhere to Annex AAAA and to paragraphs 3.D.21-3.D.23 unless and until Annex AAAA is superseded or rescinded by the Secretary of Defense."
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Annex AAAA, according to FRAGO 35, is a Nov. 30, 2021 memo from the Secretary of Defense that requires all National Guard members to be vaccinated, as there were "members of the non-federalized National Guard who remain unvaccinated."
However, the November memo mentioned that the August memo already required "full vaccination of all members of the Armed Forces under DoD authority on active duty or in the Ready Reserve, including the National Guard, who are not fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)."
The FRAGO 35 guidance also notes that service members won't be removed from the Army for the sole reason of being unvaccinated.
"Commands will immediately suspend processing and initiating involuntary enlisted separation and officer elimination actions that are based solely on a soldier's refusal to comply with the DOD COVID-19 vaccination order," the guidance reads. "Commands will continue to adhere to other previously published policies regarding the Army's response to COVID-19 pending further guidance."
Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement to Just the News on Friday: "The DOD's continued politicization of the COVID vaccine and their disregard for the law will have consequences. I look forward to working with my colleagues to fix this issue for our reservists and National Guard personnel."
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who introduced the measure in the NDAA repealing the vaccine mandate, told Just the News on Monday, "Every single branch struggled to hit its recruitment goals last year, including the U.S. Army, which fell 15,000 soldiers short. Repealing Biden's COVID vaccine mandate on the military will help boost those numbers and keep servicemembers be focused on bolstering our national defense -- not political mandates. We expect all branches to be treated equally and follow the direction of Congress under the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act."
Military attorney R. Davis Younts, who has represented service members in lawsuits challenging the military vaccine mandate on religious freedom grounds, also denounced the Army's interpretation of the mandate's repeal.
"The Army's decision to interpret the NDAA language as not applying to the Guard and Reserve is deeply troubling and a strong indication, that without further Congressional action, the DoD will continue coercive efforts to vaccinate or separate military members," Younts told Just the News on Friday.
[IsraelTimes] In scenes resembling the events of January 6, 2021, in the US Capitol, masses of Brazilian supporters of defeated far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro are seen breaking into the country’s Congress building, presidential palace and Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... In social media videos, many demonstrators are seen breaching the buildings, climbing on top of the Congress roof and breaking the glass in its windows, also vandalizing objects inside.
The dramatic scenes unfold following days of protests against the allegedly flawed election result, which returned left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to power.
Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting against Lula’s electoral win since October 30, blocking roads, setting vehicles on fire and gathering outside military buildings, asking armed forces to intervene.
Tweeted videos can be seen at the link. More here.
Subsequently:
[IsraelTimes] At least 170 arrested as cops use tear-gas, water cannons in bid to gain control over Brasilia institutions stormed by far-right protesters refusing to accept election results
Brazilian security forces mounted a massive operation Sunday after hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as a "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... " attack.
After hours of all-out chaos at the seat of power in Brasilia — reminiscent of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol building by supporters of then-president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , a Bolsonaro ally — security forces managed to reclaim the Congress building in the evening, AFP news hounds said.
A massive operation was still under way to evacuate the demonstrators from the Planalto presidential palace and the Supreme Court, with security forces using riot police on horseback, water cannon and tear-gas bombs fired from helicopters to fight them back.
Lula, who was in the southeastern city of Araraquara visiting a region hit by severe floods, signed a decree declaring a federal intervention in Brasilia, giving his government special powers to restore law and order in the capital.
"These fascist fanatics have done something never before seen in this country’s history," said the veteran leftist, 77, who took office a week ago after beating Bolsonaro in Brazil’s bitterly divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... October elections.
"We will find out who these vandals are, and they will be brought down with the full force of the law."
Police made 170 arrests, Brazilian media reported. TV images showed police ushering Bolsonaro supporters down the ramp from the presidential palace in single file.
The Senate security service said it had arrested 30 people in the chamber.
The chaos came after a sea of protesters dressed in the green and yellow of the flag flooded into Brasilia’s Three Powers Square, invading the floor of Congress, trashing the Supreme Court building and climbing the ramp to the Planalto.
Brasilia Governor Ibaneis Rocha fired the capital’s public security chief, Anderson Torres, who previously served as Bolsonaro’s justice minister.
The attorney general’s office said it had asked the Supreme Court to issue arrest warrants for Torres "and all other public officials responsible for acts and omissions" leading to the unrest.
[BBC] Ana Montes - among the best-known Cold War spies caught by the US - has been released from prison after more than 20 years in custody.
The 65-year-old spent almost two decades spying for Cuba while employed as an analyst at the Defence Intelligence Agency.
After her arrest in 2001, officials said she had almost entirely exposed US intelligence operations on the island.
One official said she was among "the most damaging spies" caught by the US.
Michelle Van Cleave, who was head of counter-intelligence under President George W Bush, told Congress in 2012 that Montes had "compromised everything - virtually everything - that we knew about Cuba and how we operated in Cuba".
"So the Cubans were well aware of everything that we knew about them and could use that to their advantage. In addition, she was able to influence estimates about Cuba in her conversations with colleagues and she also found an opportunity to provide information that she acquired to other powers."
After her arrest, Montes was accused of supplying the identities of four US spies and oceans of classified material. She was handed a 25-year prison sentence, with the sentencing judge accusing her of putting the "nation as a whole" at risk.
However, unlike other high-profile spies caught during the cold war, Montes was motivated by ideology, not personal gain. She agreed to work for Cuban intelligence in part based on her opposition to the Reagan Administration's activities in Latin America.
In particular, a report from the defence department's inspector general found, she is believed to have been angered by US support for the Nicaragua Contras - a right-wing rebel group suspected of committing war crimes and other atrocities in the country.
She was initially approached by a fellow student at Johns Hopkins University in 1984 after expressing outrage at US actions in Nicaragua. She was later introduced to a Cuban intelligence agent and at a dinner in New York City she "unhesitatingly agreed to work through the Cubans to 'help' Nicaragua", the inspector general's report said.
After travelling to Havana the following year for training, she joined the Defence Intelligence Agency, where she would eventually become the organisation's senior analyst on the island's communist government.
For almost two decades she met with Cuban handlers every few weeks at Washington DC restaurants and sent coded messages containing top secret information to them via pager. She received her orders by transmissions sent over short-wave radio.
She was finally detained in September 2001 after US intelligence officials received a tip that a government employee seemed to be spying for Cuba. One of the FBI agents who arrested her said she had appeared stoic upon her arrest.
Montes will remain under supervision for five years after her release and will have her internet usage monitored. She will also be banned from working for the government or contacting foreign agents without permission.
But Pete Lapp, one of the FBI agents who arrested Montes, told CBS News that he thought it was unlikely that she would try to re-establish contact with Cuban agents.
"That part of her life is over," Mr Lapp said. "She's done what she's done for them. I can't imagine her risking her liberty."
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Just yank her citizenship and send her back to her actual employer, CUBA. let her retire as a Communist with ZERO US SSA or other bennies.
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If she does go back - and I would be surprised if she didn't - she will spend the rest of her life in the Worker's Paradise, with all the bennies one could ask for.
And 'supervision for five years'? Hah. The Current Administration couldn't supervise its a$$ with both hands.
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“La Otra” has paid her debt to society. She should be permitted to return to her old Cuba desk at the Silver Bullet or offered an Ambassadorship. Female, criminal, latin, (probably still maintains her access), hates the US, still has friends in the community, she's a perfect fit for the beltway. She could qualify for full Federal retirement soon.
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The damage undoubtedly went well beyond Cuba. Those desks are fishbowls. Regional intelligence is shared and fused. Not a bad thing, but there are potential consequences relative to non-compartmented intelligence sharing.
Good for political campaign crowds and church services.
Not much good for the first ones shot.
See Las Vegas concert.
[FoxNews] The Department of Homeland Security said its Science and Technology Directorate has developed a portable gunshot detection system in collaboration with the Massachusetts-based Shooter Detection Systems company.
The department said that the system, known as SDS Outdoor, could provide "critical information about outdoor shooting incidents almost instantaneously to first responders."
The new system is reportedly an enhancement to the commercial, off-the-shelf Guardian Indoor Active Shooter Detection System.
The department said SDS Outdoor uses both the sound and flash of the gunshot to detect and validate each gunshot, in order to drastically reduce false positives.
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NOTE: "Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Executive director Fox Cahn added that there are privacy concerns around such systems,
which "can often be misused as illegal wiretaps." and ...the system falsely reported fireworks and car backfires are active shooters..."
In a study published in 2021, the MacArthur Justice Center found that 89 percent of alerts that ShotSpotter sends to law enforcement
had no evidence of gun-related crimes. However, ShotSpotter has claimed that its system had a 97 percent accuracy rate.
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I was in a city and they had these solar powered device towers w/ microphone clusters setup on the corner. Happened to be a cop on the corner walking his beat. I asked about these device. He admitted, he was bragging, that they were portable gun-shot detecting devices that they were testing.
I thought I had a talker. I asked if the protocol was VOIP? And if they were recording, how long did they keep the recordings. He was not a talker, didnt answer further, and kept his b-line down the street.
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.
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
[BBC] 
“La Otra” has paid her debt to society. She should be permitted to return to her old Cuba desk at the Silver Bullet or offered an Ambassadorship. Female, criminal, latin, (probably still maintains her access), hates the US, still has friends in the community, she's a perfect fit for the beltway. She could qualify for full Federal retirement soon.
