[IoL] Cape Town - Vandals and looters have taken advantage of lax security at the site of the abandoned GF Jooste Hospital between Manenberg and Gugulethu.
The Western Cape Department of Health closed down the hospital last year because it was due for major renovations. The then-health MEC Theuns Botha said the reconstruction would cost roughly R785 million. In 2010, the hospital received a R2m donation from the Oasis Crescent Fund Trust for the upgrade of its emergency ward. Roughly $200k USD from the OCFT. Appears they might have been a bit hesitant, and rightly so.
Now, all that remains of the building are smashed windows, wrecked walls and demolished ceilings.
The Cape Argus visited the hospital on Wednesday and discovered that the building had been looted for scrap.
It's alleged the looters made off with their gains in broad daylight and were not stopped by private All 4 Security Solutions guards stationed at the site.
Pastor Lewellyn Adams, of the Manenberg community police forum, led the Cape Argus through the gutted medical institution that once served more than 1.6 million patients.
Adams said: "A month ago we saw these people running around with window frames and scrap metal.
"We did not know where they got it from. Then we realised they were stealing it from the hospital. Next, they will be breaking down bricks so that there would be nothing left here."
Inside the building, water covered the floors. Remnants of aerolite, rhinoboard, chipwood and waste were strewn from pillar to post. Armed with a sledge hammer and a duffel bag, two vandals proceeded to free an aluminium window frame from the wall in full view of the Cape Argus team.
One of the vandals told the Cape Argus he chose to steal from the hospital because the security guards were "bad at their jobs and did nothing to stop him".
"They said that we could break down at the back as long as they could break down at the front of the building. If we give them dagga or beers -- then it's alright. I blame the security, they are supposed to secure the place, right?" “Die government gee nie vir ons werk nie, so, ons steel nie, ons het net gevat wat ons wil hê.” (The gov't gives us no work, we don't steal, we are smart to take what we wish). Link .......Meanwhile back in Baltimore, MD: “Let them loot, it’s only property,” ~ Mayor Rawlings-Blake.
[Fox] The man arrested in connection with the seemingly random killing of a woman who was out for a stroll with her father along the San Francisco waterfront is an illegal immigrant who previously had been deported five times, federal immigration officials say.
Further, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says San Francisco had him in their custody earlier this year but failed to notify ICE when he was released.
"DHS records indicate ICE lodged an immigration detainer on the subject at that time, requesting notification prior to his release so ICE officers could make arrangements to take custody. The detainer was not honored," ICE said in a statement Friday afternoon.
Kathryn Steinle was killed Wednesday evening at Pier 14 -- one of the busiest tourist destinations in the city.
Police said Thursday they arrested Francisco Sanchez in the shooting an hour after it occurred.
On Friday, ICE revealed their records indicate the individual has been previously deported five times, most recently in 2009, and is from Mexico. An unapologetic Donald, how refreshing.
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The San Fran nutjob liberal city government made the city a "sanctuary" and therefore do not abide by any of the rules of engagement that ICE has in place to gather such individuals off the streets.
Of course, we know ICE doesn't always follow their own rules
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For eight years, from the relative calm of the early '60s through the decade's turbulent later years, Andy Griffith— who died today at 86 — sat at or near the top of the ratings with The Andy Griffith Show. One of the rare shows to actually end its run at No. 1, Andy and its star were a calming, home-spun refuge from the social and political struggles raging outside the fictional world of Mayberry.
Vietnam, the sexual revolution and the fight for civil rights would eventually invade TV in the form of All in the Family. But Mayberry was a place apart — a bucolic paradise where elderly aunts dispensed comfort and homemade jam; drunks let themselves in and out of the county jail; and a warm, loving father opened each half-hour by taking his son fishing.
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No problem Badanov. Unfortunately, his death is ongoing. In America, he dies a little bit more each day. Like the innocent 'Dukes of Hazard,' someone will someday find a reason to extinguish those innocent, happy times and reruns altogether.
Fascists keep coming first for your resources, then your means of self defense and then your life.
The NY Times editorial board, a hive of scum and villainy, is now pushing for a "good cause justification" for granting concealed permits. This is an opening shot, a counterattack, if you will, ammunition for their sycophants in other states to start pushing for this new standard, soon to be the legal buzzword in the push to destroy gun rights.
After the latest declarations from SCOTUS, it is no stretch to imagine this will be applied as a standard to destroy states' rights.
Continuing the Star Wars motif, Jabba the Hutt had a few words for "every racist, war-mongering, Pseudo-Christian, RW Gun Extremist..." who want keep and bear arms:
Rantburger Brer Rabbit from last week posed the question:
I got a hankering to pick up an AK 47. Does anyone have a recommendation? Mostly just looking for a plinking rifle.
My reply:
AKs are pretty much a commodity, so quality comes down to who assembles it. The key issue in AKs is the feeding of ammunition and spent shell ejections.
Problems in AK comes down to two: ejection issues and bolt over base issue, both problems are imminently fixable with the assembler, in the case of a new build, or a gun smith in the case of a personal build.
As a personal note, the AK is a helluva fine rifle.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition and for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.
Looking at prices from last quarter and then comparing them from the first of the year, prices for .223 ammunition are still ten percent per round higher now than they were from 4Q, 2015, but prices have moderated from a high of .27 per round from 1Q, 2015, after the attempted ATF power grab of banning M855 cartridges.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher, while prices for used rifles were mixed.
This week it is the AK pattern 7.62x39mm semiautomatic rifle and the AR pattern .223/5.56x45mm pattern semiautomatic rifle which have reached new low average prices. The 7.62x51 NATO Ar pattern semiautomatic rifle has increased slightly this week.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q1, 2015: .27 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, FMJ, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lee's Mags, Northern Hills, FMJ, Reloads, .27 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each (From Q1, 2015: .24 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q1, 2015: .20 per round, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Brown Bear, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Selway Armory, Bite the Bullet, FMJ, Reloads, .17 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) (From Q1, 2015: .35 per round, -.07 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: Ammunition To Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .33 per round (From Last Week: +.03 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q1, 2015: .27 per round, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 weeks) (From Q1, 2015: .48 per round, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .45 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 480 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, steel cased, Reloads, .58 per round (From Last Week: +.18 Each (!!) After Unchanged (2Q, 2015))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q1, 2015: .24 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (From Q1, 2015: .08 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Aguila, RNL, .09 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors USA, Federal Automatch, RNL, .09 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
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I really like my Springfield XD(M) in 9mm. 13+1 with the easy to conceal mag, and then 19 round in the extended ones. Very accurate, wonderful trigger and very nice to shoot.
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I went shopping. Very few to be had locally at the stores. I found a good one online. Its in shipment to a local shop ($644 inc transfer and backgrd chk):
[BREITBART] Political commentator and author Ann Coulter was signing copies of her new book Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole at a Barnes and Noble Tuesday night when the calm was shattered by protesters inside the store.
As dozens of fans waited their turn to have a book signed, several people rose from the tables in the adjacent Starbucks and began bellowing slogans:
"Undocumented, unafraid!" they yelled. "Ain't no power like the power of the people 'cause the power of the people don't stop!"
The protesters inside the store, unfurled a large banner reading "Adios, Ann Coulter," and brandished Mexican and anarchist flags. Some approached the front of the line and attempted to confront Coulter, but were fired upon rebuffed by security guards.
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These people are like the Muslims who threaten to kill us when we say they are violent. We fret about how they're turning our country into a third world hell hole and they proceed to do just that right in front of the cameras, waving their Mexican flags to make certain we understand that this really is the Reconquista.
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But these r dreamers or peaceful people doing jobs Americans won't. Obomo told me so.
[THESTAR] Google executives have proposed to the Cuban government a way to expand Internet access on the island quickly and massively, but Cuban authorities are skeptical of the plan, several sources familiar with the proposal have told El Nuevo Herald.
The sources said the proposal would make the Internet available through Wi-Fi connections and cellular phones, much like Google Ideas executive Brett Perlmutter suggested during a recent visit to Havana. The sources asked for anonymity and declined to provide further details.
"Cuba has a big opportunity to jump its infrastructure directly into mobile phones, without going through all of the fixed cables that are being installed in African countries," Perlmutter told the digital magazine On Cuba during the visit.
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on Friday that Greek banks were preparing contingency plans for a possible "haircut" on deposits amid fears of financial collapse, a report the country's banking association said was "completely baseless".
"Lies! All lies!"
The report came two days ahead of a referendum in which Greeks will accept or reject the tough terms of an aid deal with international creditors, a vote with the potential to decide the country's future in the euro zone.
Greek leaders have repeatedly dismissed the possibility they will have to "bail-in" depositors to prevent the collapse of the banking system.
And if you can't believe a Greek politician who can you believe...
But citing bankers and business people with knowledge of the measures, the Financial Times reported: "The plans, which call for a 'haircut' of at least 30 percent on deposits above 8,000 euros, sketch out an increasingly likely scenario for at least one bank."
The report quoted a source as saying: "It (the haircut) would take place in the context of an overall restructuring of the bank sector once Greece is back in a bailout program."
The head of Greece's Bank Association dismissed the report as "completely baseless".
Louka Katseli, who also chairs the National Bank of Greece, told Skai TV that suggestions that authorities were planning a raid on deposits belonged "only in the sphere of fantasy."
"There are no such scenarios at any Greek bank, not even as an exercise on paper," Katseli said.
And he'll keep saying that right up to the moment they do it...
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[DAWN] LAKKI MARWAT: Two people, including a proclaimed offender, were killed in a clash between two groups in Azerkhel village of Darra Pezu town here on Thursday.
Officials of Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan cop shoppe said that both the groups exchanged firing over a minor dispute wherein Mohammad Zahid from one side and a proclaimed offender, identified as Ameer Nawaz, from the other side were killed. They said that Nawaz was wanted by the area police in cases of murder and attempted murder.
Police have registered two separate cases against the accused person, including Farmanullah, Mohammad Ayaz, Irfanullah and Shah Nawaz from one side, and Najibullah, Naqeebullah, Zahid and Zarkaim from the other side. Sources said that doctors at the Titterkhel health facility were not present on duty when the bodies were taken there for medico-legal formalities. The relatives waited for hours and following intervention by the deputy commissioner the doctor and paramedics reached the hospital for conducting the postmortem.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... the local administration finalised arrangements for re-polling on eight polling stations of union councils of Lakki Marwat district scheduled to be held on July 5.
In this regard, a meeting chaired by deputy commissioner Ihsanullah Khan discussed matters to ensure foolproof security and maintain law and order situation during the re-polling. District election commissioner Noorza Ali Shah, assistant commissioner Sher Alam Khan, returning officers and other relevant officials were present in the meeting.
The deputy commissioner reiterated that all-out efforts would be made to ensure transparent, impartial and peaceful conduct of re-polling in the district. He asked the officials concerned to arrange chairs, tents and power generators at the polling stations. He also directed the returning officers to respond quickly to the polling personnel in case of emergency on the polling day and ensure effective surveillance of the polling stations under their jurisdiction.
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[DAWN] In a series of inflammatory tweets on his official Twitter account, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... on Friday took the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government to task over the recent arrests of two of his nephews by Punjab police for allegedly violating traffic rules.
The PTI chief questioned the police's actions and whether traffic violations warrant such a reaction. He claimed that his nephews were mistreated "because of who they are".
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the test plane was missing some of the F-35’s most impressive technology, such as long-range abilities that allow it to avoid dogfights to begin with
Where have I heard this before? Oh thats right, the F-4, didnt need a gun because it would never get into dogfighting range.
The pentagon princes havent any institutional memory? Old spooks like me certainly arent welcome anymore because we call them out on it. Progressivism at work in the military - counter information is treated like hostile political act instead of something to be analyzed and acted upon. Years Obama deliberate promotion of that sort of officer are rotting the armed forces from the inside.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
The academic-technological complex has also been damaging. Bay Area Techo-oligarchs and academic climatologists to the courtesy phone.
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I think this is the sixth time I've seen this half-truth and lie infested article posted here at the 'burg alone, without reference or anything similar to all the things Axe left out in his hatchet job. For the first three days it was easier to find the corrections, but now searching on "F-25 F-16 dogfight engine power" doesn't bring an¥thing up but further spam-links of the original lies now. I didn't realize y'all would be repeating this shit ad nauseum, and didn't think I had to make .pdf's and references to endlessly repost in reaction to the endless reposting of the lies.
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Read the first post on:
http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27186&p=294491#p294491
412 TW is 412th Test Wing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/412th_Test_Wing
mkellytx is an F-35 test pilot and full name and rank avaialble in a search.
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Are you in particular referring to what he wrote here?
Puts things in perspective here. So, the Viper was flying right around it's corner and max instantaneous, while the F-35 was supposed to go elevated AoA and see if the control laws would prevent the plane from departing when performing elevated AoA BFM. The Viper was at a clear advantage all along, but it wasn't there to win, it was there as a visual reference to maneuver against. The whole point was to put the F-35 in a bad position and see what the control laws did. Which is exactly what the JPO said.
While the dogfighting scenario was successful in showing the ability of the F-35 to maneuver to the edge of its limits without exceeding them, and handle in a positive and predictable manner, the interpretation of the scenario results could be misleading.
Turns out the early law are biased towards departure prevention(not a bad thing early in a program), not exactly an Earth shattering discovery, and that there's plenty of margin available to improve performance, again not exactly Earth shattering. At least a sizable subset of these critics aren't old enough to remember that the first wave of FBW A/C went through similar cycle or didn't pay attention/forgot that Super Bug and Raptor did also.
Now with the critic's original argument discredited they take something else out of context...Wash, lather, repeat, the cycle continues. They're always certain their right but curiously avoid making a stand in the face of a rigorous technical argument.
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I'm also trying to find a reference to the engine power thing.... I didn't know the original part would be endlessly repeated, like old-time mainstream media before the Internetz, and we needed to endlessly repeat counter-arguments.
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.
[BREITBART] Political commentator and author Ann Coulter was signing copies of her new book Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole at a Barnes and Noble Tuesday night when the calm was shattered by protesters inside the store.
ATHENS -- The Financial Times reported 
[DAWN] LAKKI MARWAT: Two people, including a proclaimed offender, were killed in a clash between two groups in Azerkhel village of Darra Pezu town here on Thursday.
