[KYRN] A 56-year-old man in Georgia will spend more than a decade behind bars after he pleaded guilty to shooting at a police helicopter, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Terry Kielisch was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $54,960 in restitution to cover the repair costs on a Georgia State Patrol helicopter that was searching for fugitives when Kielisch aimed his rifle at it in 2019, prosecutors said in a news release.
Kielisch wasn’t a target in that search — but he reportedly told law enforcement "he fired at the helicopter because he didn’t like it flying near his home," the release says.
"When Terry Kielisch aimed and fired a high-powered rifle at a police helicopter, he callously endangered the lives of the officers aboard the aircraft and of any people on the ground," U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine said in the release. "The resulting sentence appropriately reflects the senselessness of this attack."
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That was really speedy justice. It seems like it just happened yesterday and now the guy is going to prison. Compare that with the never-ending attempted overthrow of a duly elected POTUS where no one faces justice or goes to jail.
[New York Post] Ghislaine Maxwell is being held in isolation from other inmates in a Brookly Federal jail for her own safety and the "orderly" function of the facility, federal prosecutors argued Thursday.
The British socialite, 58, earlier this week petitioned to be released into the general population at the Metropolitan Detention Center. She whined in court documents of the "onerous" conditions she’s facing — including around-the-clock camera surveillance and guards filing notes on her every move.
But Assistant Manhattan U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller responded Thursday that the Bureau of Prisons’ exhaustive measures were to protect Maxwell.
"For reasons including safety, security, and the orderly functioning of the facility, BOP has made the determination that, at present, the defendant should not be fully integrated into the dorm-style accommodations of the general population," Rossmiller wrote. If she would only start cooperating.
The Bureau of Prisons "will continue to evaluate" where Maxwell should be placed and will only consider sending her into the general population "if and when BOP is assured that such placement would not pose a threat to the orderly operation of the institution," he went on.
Maxwell claimed she’s been treated "worse" than other pre-trial detainees because the prison is overreacting to the suicide of her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein and trying to prevent a similar situation.
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Her complaints indicate she is a very clever woman. She on the offensive. She can now actually argue that being in prison causes disruption of orderly prison function, thanks to the Fed Bureau of Prisons own words in the article above.
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Setting the stage for confinement elsewhere? Hint of the cooperation agreement or window dressing for something more sinister? There is no way a high value subject like this goes into genpop or stays in solitary for the years ahead.
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She's already using the media to be a pain in the ass. And if she is learned anything from her late, famous father, bullying the system relentlessly gets you results, but only if you are famous.
[Garden & Gun] Leo McGee has never been ambivalent about hydrangeas. When he was a boy, his dislike for the beautiful but temperamental blooms veered toward outright hate. "I did yard work for extra money growing up," he says. "Down in Arkansas, the weather was so hot; ten minutes after I’d water the things, they’d dry up again. I even smelled the blooms, and there was no fragrance! So I said to myself: I will never have a hydrangea in my yard."
For decades, McGee kept that boyhood promise. But a few years after he and his wife, Gloria, moved from Nashville to Cookeville, Tennessee, to take jobs at Tennessee Tech, he found himself at Johnson’s Nursery & Garden Center, standing in front of a tempting display of three-gallon Nikko Blue hydrangeas. Out of principle, he wandered around the nursery for forty-five minutes before he eventually gave in to the impulse, taking two plants. He carefully transferred them to his backyard—and waited. The cotton-candy blue puffballs didn’t appear again for three years, which should have validated his previous feelings; instead, it sparked his competitive spirit.
Since the dawn of drones, a quiet war has been raging, and drones are losing. A Michigan bald eagle didn't take kindly to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE, appropriately) operating a drone in its territory last month.
According to a Thursday statement from EGLE, drone pilot Hunter King, an environmental quality analyst, was flying the $950 Phantom 4 Pro Advanced drone to investigate shoreline erosion along Lake Michigan on July 21. He had called the drone back after a short flight when the eagle "launched an airborne attack."
King witnessed the aftermath when he saw the eagle flying away and the drone missing. "It was like a really bad roller coaster ride," King said of what he saw on the drone-tracking video screen. A pair of birdwatchers nearby confirmed the eagle's drone kill.
Fair Park in Dallas held its fourth food drive since the pandemic was declared in March and the event on Tuesday by North Texas Food Bank fed 1,710 families
The offering included dairy, canned goods, noodles, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, rice, trail mix and some recipe ideas
It was their first mega distribution that offered an option for several hundred walk-up clients without transportation
About 10,000 boxes were distributed as people said cuts to unemployment benefit had left them without
Dallas County, where the food bank was located, has recorded 55,787 cases of coronavirus and 794 deaths - in Texas there are 524,814 cases and 9,552 deaths - it's the third worst affected state in the country
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Very misleading article written by someone in the UK.
The fake news writter sez they drove from across Texas, Texas is over a thousand miles across some parts of the state. Then the very next sentence the writer quotes only one driver saying he drove all the way from West Dallas (only 8 miles away) to the location at Fair Park which is near downtown Dallas encroaching the East Side of town.
Fair Park is surrounded by a huge low income area of Dallas, so the line should have been 5 miles long if all the people in East, West, South Dallas were starving to death, which they aren't.
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How many cars can you get in a mile long line, anyway?
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About 1,700 families served [according to the article] times the average length of a car (14.7 feet) divided by 5280 feet per mile is slightly less than five miles long for the line, but the Daily Mail would rather be excited than mathematically accurate. but photos at the link show four lanes of cars. So there should be up to 1.5 miles altogether — including spaces between the cars.
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10,000 acres? Meh. The Nor Cali fire that destroyed my house was 34,000 + acres. No doubt it will grow. All that native brush going up in flames. Can we use Dem tears to dowse the flames?
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[Al Ahram] Floods have displaced 53,158 Æthiopians, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Thursday.
"124,219 people have been affected by flooding in Æthiopia's Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Gambella, Southern and Somali regions, of whom 53,158 people were displaced," the UNOCHA said in a Humanitarian Bulletin report.
The UNOCHA said it's working with the Æthiopia National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) and other humanitarian partners on flood preparedness and response measures. "We're also taking advance donations for the coming drought. Just $19/Month will support a family of parched, drowned, Ethiopians"
A flood contingency plan prepared by Æthiopia National Flood Task Force estimates the impact of the ongoing rainy season could displace around 435,000 people.
The plan estimates a total of 2 million people across Æthiopia could be affected by flooding during the current flooding season.
Æthiopia is in the midst of a rainy season which started in July and is expected to last until mid-September, which occasionally causes landslides and floods in some parts of the East African country.
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Pastor John MacAruthr hosted up to 7,000 worshipers at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California
Photos showed many attendees without masks and flouting social distancing
California only allows religious institutions to host 100 people, or 25 per cent of the building's capacity if lower, for church services during the pandemic
MacArthur has called this restriction 'burdensome' and claims California officials have targeted churches
MacArthur filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials this week
Roberts and Kavanaugh (from whom I always got a squish vibe) continue to pay dividends.
[Chron] The Supreme Court on Thursday rebuffed the Republican Party and allowed a consent decree to go forward so that Rhode Island voters during the coronavirus pandemic could cast mail-in ballots without in-person witness verification.
It was the first time the justices had agreed to a pandemic-related voter relief effort. But they explained in a short, unsigned order that state officials had agreed to relax the rules, and the change already had been implemented during the June primary.
Unlike "similar cases where a state defends its own law, here the state election officials support the challenged decree, and no state official has expressed opposition," the order said. "Under these circumstances, the applicants lack a cognizable interest in the state's ability to enforce its duly enacted laws."
The vote was not announced, but Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted that they would have granted the stay requested by the Republican National Committee and the state Republican Party.
[Al Ahram] At least 17 people have been killed in southern Æthiopia during protests that followed the weekend arrests of local officials, the Æthiopian Human Rights Commission confirmed Thursday. The dead include children.
Security forces met the protests with force after the arrests of Wolaita zone officials, the rights commission said. It expressed ``deep concern over persistent violence and use of excessive force'' against protesters.
Local activists told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named they believed the corpse count was even higher, with at least 34 people killed and more than 100 injured, almost all with gunshot wounds.
This is the latest unrest to challenge the political reforms of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as various communities seek greater autonomy in a country with more than 80 ethnic groups.
``There were also mass arrests of youths who tried to protest following the arrests of local officials and the killing of civilians. Sodo and Boditi towns have witnessed some of the worst violence in years,'' said one activist who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety.
Wolaita zone officials have long sought regional statehood, a proposal which they say has not been entertained properly by regional officials. They have said they would unilaterally declare the formation of a new regional state if their request was not addressed.
Officials have accused them of attempting to destabilize the region by chaotic and unlawful means.
The officials are now suspected of ``attempting to derail the constitutional order of the country.``
On Thursday afternoon, a court granted bail for the arrested officials, and several thousand jubilant people went into the streets to express their joy.
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[MAIL] SAS Who Dares Wins star Ollie Ollerton has revealed his 'shock and disappointment' at being axed from the survival reality show after five years.
The military veteran, 48, admitted that after 'threatening his security' as a former member of the Special Forces, he expected 'loyalty' from the programme in return.
Ollie told the Sun he was dropped from the show in an apparent 'diversity drive' and will be replaced in the next series, which he had already carved out time for.
He said: 'Five years ago we put our heads above the parapet for the first time ever — threatening our security as former members of the Special Forces — to bring that show to fruition. I expected that loyalty to be reciprocated. It clearly wasn't.
He has been a stalwart on the show alongside DS Ant Middleton, Jason 'Foxy' Fox and Mark 'Billy' Billingham since its inception in 2015.
Just in. They started to release prisoners from #Minsk Okrestina jail Many detainees have severely beaten faces, beaten people can barely walk, reports @Belsat_TV
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human challenge trials of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would be vaccinated and then intentionally infected with the virus, Reuters has learned.
The work is preliminary and such trials would not replace large-scale, Phase 3 trials such as those now under way in the United States testing experimental COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and Pfizer Inc (PFE.N), according to a statement emailed to Reuters by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
U.S. officials organizing the fight against the pandemic have been under pressure from advocacy groups such as 1 Day Sooner and others that see challenge trials as a way to speed up tests of a COVID-19 vaccine. Most vaccine trials rely on inadvertent infection, which can take time to occur.
Some drugmakers, including AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), have said they would consider human challenge trials to test COVID-19 vaccines if needed.
"Should there be a need for human challenge studies to fully assess candidate vaccines or therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2, NIAID has begun investigations of the technical and ethical considerations of conducting human challenge studies," the agency statement said.
That includes efforts to manufacture a suitable SARS-CoV-2 strain, draft a clinical protocol and identify resources that would be required to conduct such studies.
Small challenge studies would be done in small isolation units to control the virus. Larger challenge studies involving 100 people or so would have to be done in multiple locations, adding months of preparations to coordinate the studies.
[NASA Spaceflight.com] United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Delta IV Heavy rocket has received its clandestine payload for the upcoming NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office as teams continue launch preparations on SLC-37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.
The mission is set to launch at the end of August and comes as ULA wins 60% of the National Security Space Launch award from the U.S. Space Force with SpaceX winning the remaining 40% of the missions.
NROL-44 progress:
The first Delta IV Heavy mission from Florida since August 2018 is in the final stages of preparation for launch, with ULA and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) personnel transferring and mating the classified NROL-44 payload on top of the heavy-lift rocket — the final integration activity prior to launch.
The Delta IV Heavy is the only remaining Delta family rocket variant currently in active status for ULA following the retirement of the Delta II line in 2018 and the Delta IV Medium line in August 2019.
Launch site preparations for the mission began in earnest in July 2019 when the two side boosters arrived at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard the Delta Mariner (now named Rocketship).
Over the rest of 2019, the remaining flight hardware arrived at the Cape and was moved to the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at SLC-37.
The Delta IV Heavy is built in Decatur, AL, like the Atlas V and Vulcan, ULA’s two other rockets.
Vulcan will serve as the Delta IV’s replacement but will begin flying as the Delta IV fleet is phased out over the next four years. Only five Delta IV Heavy missions remain — three from Cape Canaveral and two from Vandenberg Air Force Base. All are NRO missions.
The final Delta IV mission is NROL-70, scheduled for a 2024 launch from Cape Canaveral.
Vulcan, in its Heavy configuration (with six solid rocket motors and a stretched Centaur upper stage) will have 20-30% greater payload capacity than the Delta IV Heavy and will be far cheaper.
ULA confirms that a Delta IV Heavy costs about $350 million whereas Vulcan Centaur — of of 2015 — was targeting a $100 million per launch cost with the vehicle’s heavy-lift variant understood to have debut cost of $200 million per launch.
In response to a NASASpaceflight inquiry, ULA said that "due to competition sensitive information, ... no update [is] available on Vulcan Centaur pricing " as per the costs listed above.
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[Breitbart] There was a smattering of boos when players from FC Dallas and Nashville SC collectively took a knee during the national anthem before their MLS game on Wednesday night in Frisco, Texas.
Dallas defender Reggie Cannon said he was disgusted by the boos at Toyota Stadium when players and officials knelt to call attention to racial injustice. He said teammate Ryan Hollingshead turned to him afterward and said he was sorry.
"You can’t even have support from your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me," Cannon said. "As a team we try to give the best possible product on the field and these last six months have been absolute hell for us. Absolute hell." Obviously, self-awareness isn't Cannon's strong suit. STFU and get a clue
Dallas and Nashville had not played a game since the season was suspended on March 12 because of the coronavirus. While Major League Soccer’s other teams played in the MLS is Back tournament in Florida over the past month, Dallas and Nashville were forced to withdraw before the start because of positive COVID-19 tests among players from both teams.
The teams met as MLS restarts the regular season in local markets. Some of the games will include fans if local jurisdictions allow it. Just over 5,000 were allowed to attend the match at Toyota Stadium, although the crowd that showed up appeared smaller.
The death of George Floyd has spurred a number of MLS players to form the group Black Players for Change, which seeks to address systemic racism in soccer and society.
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Floyd was smoking grass just before he complained of not being able to breath before the knee to the neck happened. That is on video. As that stuff is being legalized more and more users, the highest percentage being African Americans, are having health issues. Far worse than tobacco use. That is the primary racial inequality I see. Of course a knee on the neck doesn't help but unfortunately people can't see past that part of the incident.
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Everybody act like Asians, won't be no problem.
Plus, without ticket sales, where do the MLS salaries come from? Haven't seen them on television being sponsored by, say, Progressive Insurance or Budweiser. So it would be hard for a television audience to be even less commercially valuable. Tix are it and....
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About 1,700 families times the average length of a car (14.7 feet) divided by 5280 feet per mile is slightly less than five miles long for the line, but the Daily Mail would rather be excited than mathematically accurate.
Incidentally, one wonders how many of those Dallas families are illegals, and therefore receiving neither unemployment payments nor the COVID supplements. According to the charts, as of end-June, 2020 the Dallas, Texas unemployment rate had fallen to 9% from its peak of 13% at end-April.
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.
[KYRN] A 56-year-old man in Georgia will spend more than a decade behind bars after he pleaded guilty to shooting at a police helicopter, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
[New York Post] Ghislaine Maxwell is being held in isolation from other inmates in a Brookly Federal jail for her own safety and the "orderly" function of the facility, federal prosecutors argued Thursday.
[Garden & Gun] Leo McGee has never been ambivalent about hydrangeas. When he was a boy, his dislike for the beautiful but temperamental blooms veered toward outright hate. "I did yard work for extra money growing up," he says. "Down in Arkansas, the weather was so hot; ten minutes after I’d water the things, they’d dry up again. I even smelled the blooms, and there was no fragrance! So I said to myself: I will never have a hydrangea in my yard." 
[Al Ahram] Floods have displaced 53,158 Æthiopians, the 
[Al Ahram] At least 17 people have been killed in southern Æthiopia during protests that followed the weekend arrests of local officials, the Æthiopian Human Rights Commission confirmed Thursday. The dead include children.
[MAIL] SAS Who Dares Wins star Ollie Ollerton has revealed his 'shock and disappointment' at being axed from the survival reality show after five years.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human challenge trials of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would be vaccinated and then intentionally infected with the virus, Reuters has learned.
