Wonder how many panels were tested.
[JustTheNews] At his first outdoor rally since the attempted assassination, Trump will try to counter the DNC and secure the key battleground state
The Secret Service has installed bulletproof glass at former President Donald Trump's Wednesday rally in North Carolina.
It’s better than nothing, at least. Transporting it will add an interesting twist to the agents’ daily routine.
This is his first outdoor rally since the one last month in which a sniper attempted to assassinate him.
A "special see-through protective barrier" will separate Trump, now the GOP presidential nominee, from rallygoers, according to The Washington Examiner.
The sniper at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shot from a rooftop about 150 yards away from the stage and outside of the Secret Service's inner security ring that included magnetometers, which has prompted several investigations into agency lapses and promises for a review of and improvements to policies and practices.
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Next story: in a shocking lapse, shots that killed Trump went straight through defective bulletproof glass, report reveals. The improperly stored glass deteriorated over time and should never have been used, investigators said.
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Why not a full-size round? Like a NATO 7.62? I think I recall--69-71, there were AP rounds along with ball and tracer. Not sure about incendiary, although all had been available in mil 30.06.
Would bullet-proof glass stop a full-size round? Lots of hunting ammo in that ballpark, too.
So I guess the question is what kind of commonly-available ammo will the glass stop?
Going on about AR-15 family of weapons and ammo may restrict the thinking.
When I was in high school, just over sixty years ago, lots of guys, or their fathers, had the 03 Springfield for deer. Fired the mil 30.06. If you lived near Canada, likely to have an Enfield in .303,similar ballistic performance.
And those were the cheap ones. When the US switched to NATO, how many Garands got loose?
I hope somebody's thinking bigger than .223/5.56.
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#7 UAV? After all if Hezbollah can master the tech, why not some, technically competent though leftard otherwise, American kid?
Rather amazing this has not already happened given the wide availability of commercial off-the-shelf drones. I can think of a half-dozen ways to do it that would be really hard to defend against, especially if it was the first instance. Who's up for a nice drone swarm?
Perhaps the overlap between dangerous wokerati lunatics and STEM nerds is not that great.
The new conservative president is keeping his promise.
[BBC] Panama on Tuesday started repatriating undocumented migrants on flights financed by the United States.
The move comes less than two months after José Raúl Mulino was sworn in as Panama's president.
Mr Mulino campaigned on a promise to "close" the Darién Gap, the dangerous stretch of jungle which more than half a million migrants crossed last year on their way north from South America.
The Biden administration said it had agreed to pay for the flights as part of its efforts to deter irregular migration.
A group of 29 Colombians with criminal records were the first to be returned on Tuesday.
Under an agreement jointly signed by the Panamanian foreign minister and US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the US has committed to helping Panama with $6m (£4.6m) for equipment, transportation and logistics to "remove foreign nationals who do not have a legal basis to remain in Panama".
Immigration is a hot topic ahead of November's presidential election in the US and the stream of migrants arriving at its border with Mexico is being closely monitored.
The agreement with Panama aims to drive down the number of people making it to the US border by stopping them further south.
The Darién Gap, an expanse of jungle which straddles Colombia and Panama, is a natural bottleneck for those heading from South to North America.
In 2023, an estimated 520,000 people made the perilous journey on foot, many of whom had to pay gangs who prey on those embarking on the crossing.
President Mulino, who has promised to reduce the number of migrants transiting through Panama, described their situation as "sad".
"Most of them are from Venezuela," he explained. "They're human beings... there are families torn apart, children of five or six years of age whose parents have died during the crossing. We don't even know who they are or what their names are."
The president had earlier said that the flights would in the first instance take migrants to Colombia, the country from which they entered Panama.
It is not yet clear if flights will be organised from Colombia to repatriate them to their homelands.
According to Panamanian government figures, Venezuelans form the largest share of migrants trekking through the Darién Gap, followed by Colombians, Ecuadoreans and Haitians.
There is widespread concern in the region that the flow of those fleeing Venezuela could increase in the months to come if the political crisis triggered by the announcement of disputed election results is not solved.
Ahead of the election, polls had suggested that large numbers of Venezuelans were planning on migrating should President Nicolás Maduro win.
Tension has been high since he was declared the winner by the government-dominated National Electoral Council, with the result being rejected as fraudulent by the opposition and questioned by the US, the EU and many Latin American countries.
Panamanian President Mulino earlier this month offered Mr Maduro "safe passage" so that the Venezuelan leader could leave to a third country, but his offer was rejected by Mr Maduro, who warned his Panamanian counterpart not to "mess" with Venezuela.
"The Safe Mobility Offices are being built by Biden’s pro-migration border chief Alejandro Mayorkas through South America and Africa. They are “one-stop shops” for would-be refugees and migrants"
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[KavkazUzel] A resident of the Astrakhan region posted several messages on Telegram, in which the investigation saw justification for the activities of a terrorist organization banned in Russia, the FSB reported.
According to investigators, a resident of the Astrakhan region, born in 1989, who is a follower of radical Islam, posted several publications on Telegram that justified the activities of a pro-Ukrainian terrorist organization banned in Russia. His posts were discovered by FSB officers.
Radical Islam and pro-Ukraine? An interesting combination.
A criminal case has been opened against a resident of the Astrakhan region under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( “Public justification of terrorism,” which provides for up to seven years of imprisonment, – note from the “ Caucasian Knot ” ), TASS reported on August 19, citing the FSB Directorate for the Astrakhan region.
There were no comments from the suspect's representatives.
"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on August 7 it became known about the detention of a resident of the Astrakhan region, who is suspected of posting calls for terrorist activity on a social network.
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[KavkazUzel] The militants who carried out the terrorist attack in Beslan ...One of Shamil Basaeyev's most Islamic atrocities, a massacre of schoolchildren in the town of the same name, in 2004... received support from abroad, the Russian president said at a meeting with the "Mothers of Beslan". 20 years after the terrorist attack, its investigation has not been completed, the mothers of the victims and the dead reminded.
[JustTheNews] 'Iran seeks to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions,' per the joint statement.
The U.S. intelligence community and FBI have issued a joint statement again warning Iran seeks to "stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions" during this election season.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued the joint statement on Monday.
"Iran seeks to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions," the statement reads. "Iran has furthermore demonstrated a longstanding interest in exploiting societal tensions through various means," according to the statement.
The agencies accuse Iran of using "cyber operations to attempt to gain access to sensitive information related to U.S. elections."
"We have observed increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, specifically involving influence operations targeting the American public and cyber operations targeting presidential campaigns," the agencies stated.
Examples of election interference include the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, which the intelligence community attributes to Iran.
The intelligence community "is confident that the Iranians have through social engineering and other efforts sought access to individuals with direct access to the presidential campaigns of both political parties."
The agencies pledged that they "will not tolerate foreign efforts to influence or interfere with our elections, including the targeting of American political campaigns."
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[GEOTV] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Tuesday discharged former prime minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... 's wife Bushra Bibi in 12 cases related to May 9, 2023 riots.
The hearing was conducted by ATC Judge Malik Ejaz Asif at a makeshift court in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail. The hearing was also attended by investigation officers of the May 9 cases.
At the outset of the hearing, defence counsels gave arguments regarding Bushra's physical remand, whereas, the wife of the 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) founder was represented by her counsel Salman Safdar and Advocate Malik Faisal.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... the ATC judge rejected the Rawalpindi Police's plea seeking phycial remand of the former first lady in the May 9 cases.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the court decided to discharge Bushra in the cases.
Speaking to media outside the Central Jail Rawalpindi, Bushra's lawyer Safdar claimed that the court acquitted her in all cases in which she was nominated in light of different statements.
He added that the court also rejected the prosecution's evidence during today's hearing and rejected the credibility of any statement from a co-accused.
The lawyer said that the PTI founder was given a clean chit in the cipher case, however, a detailed verdict has not been issued yet.
Commenting on the ATC's verdict, he said that four prosecutors from the state appeared in today's hearing. Safdar said that the government reserved right to challenge the ATC verdict in any court.
Bushra has been behind bars for months in different cases since her arrest in the iddat case — also known as the un-Islamic nikah case — in February 2024, however, she and her husband were acquitted in the said case by a local court which overturned their sentences last month.
Yes, that is of course exactly what genocidaires do — vaccinate enemy kiddies against dread diseases... at no charge to the families.
[IsraelTimes] The heads of Israeli medical societies urge the health and defense ministers to allow a humanitarian ceasefire to vaccinate the population in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... In a joint letter sent yesterday to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Health Minister Uriel Buso, the doctors voice their concern after Gaza recorded its first polio case in 25 years last week when tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old baby from the central Gaza Strip.
According to the World Health Organization, about 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against polio in the first quarter of 2024.
"All infants in Israel and Gaza who have not yet received the full vaccinations are at high risk," the doctors write. "Our soldiers in Gaza and those treating prisoners from Gaza are also at risk. Some of those infected may suffer paralysis for the rest of their lives or spread the virus to immunocompromised populations."
IDF International Spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani says on X that "in the coming weeks, 43,250 vials of vaccine are expected to arrive in Israel and will enter the Gaza Strip, enough to vaccinate over 1 million children in 2 rounds."
He adds that according to the World Health Organization, about 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against polio in the first quarter of 2024.
They did it without pausing the war then, too….
"Although the percentage of vaccinated residents of the Gaza Strip is high, babies likely born in Gaza after October 2023 and children who did not complete their polio vaccinations after the outbreak of war need additional doses," says Dr. Eyal Leshem, director of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center.
He says the vaccine to be given, nOPV2, is designed to provide immunity against type 2 poliovirus while reducing the risk of vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks.
"The vaccine is supplied in vials with 50 doses," Leshem says. "Therefore, it is likely that 2 doses can be given to each unvaccinated child, as well as booster doses to those already vaccinated."
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Has anyone ever asked the WHO to explain why it declared Polio globally eradicated in 2015?
The word "eradicated" is being misused here, but essentially they have. At least in civilized countries where the vaccination teams don't get murdered. Eradicated, in the public health sense, means there are no naturally occurring cases anywhere. So far, smallpox is the only disease to have been eradicated. Yay, humans! And 3 cheers for Western medicine.
From the WHO website: Wild poliovirus cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350,000 cases in more than 125 endemic countries to 6 reported cases in 2021. Of the 3 strains of wild poliovirus (type 1, type 2 and type 3), wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999 and wild poliovirus type 3 was eradicated in 2020. As at 2022, endemic wild poliovirus type 1 remains in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"Who done it?"
"The WHO."
"Yeah, that's what I'm asking. Who?"
"That's what I said. WHO"
"What?"
"No, WHO."
"ARGGHH!"
(sounds of violent scuffling)
Not that the details matter. In the end, Hamas will accept nothing less than Israel’s conquest and destruction — it’s in their founding document. Anything they agree to in the meantime is merely a hudna to keep the world quiet and Israel bound until Hamas resumes the conflict with another 10/7.
[IsraelTimes] An unnamed Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... source reiterates that the Paleostinian terror group turned down the latest "bridging proposal" by the US because it contains ostensible new elements that the source says were added by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and are unacceptable to Hamas.
The sticking points in the latest proposal include the possibility of Israel objecting to the number and identities of Paleostinian security prisoners to be freed in exchange for hostages, and the deportation abroad of a large number of those prisoners, as well as the searching of displaced Gazooks as they return to their homes in the north of the Strip, the source tells the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-owned al-Araby al-Jadeed.
The source argues that Hamas has shown flexibility with regard to the timeline for the IDF withdrawal from the Strip, walking back its demand that it must take place in the first phase of the ceasefire, but Netanyahu has not done the same with regards to the IDF withdrawal from the Philadelphi and the Netzarim corridors, and has added new conditions.
Al-Araby al-Jadeed further quotes Hamas politburo member Suheil al-Hindi saying that Hamas will not budge from its July 2 response to an earlier Israeli proposal, and will not renegotiate the deal.
Al-Hindi accuses Netanyahu of interpreting Hamas’s "flexibility" as a sign of submission and surrender, and says that the terror group has conveyed its position to mediators Egypt and Qatar, urging them to pressure Israel to abide by what has been agreed upon.
In a statement on Sunday evening, Hamas claimed that the latest US-backed text — a "bridging proposal" that was conveyed to Israel and to Hamas at the end of the talks in Doha on Friday — was aligned with Israel’s demands, citing Israel’s position on the two corridors and issues related the release of Paleostinian security prisoners, without further specification.
On Sunday, a Saudi paper reported ostensible new details of the deal, including a reduced IDF presence on the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -Egypt border, the possibility of Israel vetoing the names of at least 100 Paleostinian prisoners slated for release, and the deportation of many of them abroad.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media outlets report that 33 detainees, including two women, were released by Israel back to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip this morning.
Israel regularly returns Gazook detainees to the Strip, mostly after determining they are not suspected of terror activity. Some terror suspects who are considered low-risk have been released due to lack of space in Israeli jails.
Got their photos and biometrics to make identifying their bodies easier should it become necessary, graphed out all their family and work connections — no need to keep the actual people if they aren’t germane to the current conflict.
[IsraelTimes] Army cancels exemptions due to manpower shortage caused by hostilities in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and the north.
The reservists set to be recalled to duty are those who were released from service due to the army closing units or reducing manpower in certain units, and who are younger than the exemption age, which is 40 for most soldiers, 45 for officers, and 49 for specialists.
[IsraelTimes] Leaders of Tzav 9, which has attacked humanitarian supply convoys headed to Strip, say their focus shifted from ‘field activity’ to political efforts to influence war policy
For months after the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... attacks of October 7, right-wing activists made headlines for blocking aid convoys on their way to the Gazoo
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has renewed his call for an agreement for a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... truce and the release of captives in the enclave, Al Jazeera reported.
"Enough with the briefings, enough with the tweets, enough with the rhymes in front of cameras," he wrote on X.
"All of Netanyahu's attempts to sabotage the negotiations should stop. Deal now, before they all die," Lapid added.
[GEOTV] There could be a long wait for Iranian retaliation against Israel, Iran's Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Alimohammad Naini said on Tuesday.
The Middle East has been bracing for Iran's avowed retaliation over the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied that it was behind the killing.
"Time is in our favour and the waiting period for this response could be long," Naini said, referring to potential retaliation against Israel.
He said "the enemy" should wait for a calculated and accurate response.
Iranian leaders were weighing the circumstances and the Islamic Republic's response might not be a repeat of previous operations, he added, according to Iranian state media.
Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of carrying out the strike that killed Haniyeh hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian.
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"All of our operators are busy. Please stay on the line. Your destruction is important to us."
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.
[BBC] Panama on Tuesday started 
...One of Shamil Basaeyev's most Islamic atrocities, a massacre of schoolchildren in the town of the same name, in 2004...
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...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
