Only 11 days?
The Memory Hole is sucking faster.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] One of the two men shot by Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's would-be assassin has been released from hospital after 11 days.
Former marine David Dutch, 57, was released from Allegheny General Hospital on Wednesday after being shot in the chest and liver, as reported by ABC News.
He was among the crowd at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire, missing the former president but killing Corey Competore, 50.
Dutch was initially placed in a medically induced coma.
His family said in a statement: 'David and our entire family are especially grateful to all the first responders and medical professionals who saved his life, including the Life Flight and trauma surgical teams.
[GatewayPundit] Pentagon Looks to Rescind 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers in the 1890s
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Department of Defense to review the Medal of Honor awarded to 20 soldiers for their actions in the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place in 1890.
Austin wrote in a memo, "The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions."
In a separate statement, a senior defense official shared, "It’s never too late to do what's right." Because he is a pompous racist DEI black man and the soldiers were white.
On December 29, 1890, the 7th U.S. Calvary Regiment arrested members of the Lakota tribe for violating a government ban on a Native American spiritual ritual called "Ghost Dancing."
Once arrested, soldiers held them at a camp near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
As soldiers attempted to disarm members of the Lakota Tribe, a gun was accidentally discharged, and U.S. soldiers opened fire.
A battle quickly ensued, resulting in more than 250 Lakota tribe members being killed.
Twenty-five U.S. soldiers were also killed in the engagement.
It would be terribly cynical to ask what they are trying to distract us from.
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....IMHO - YMMV, of course - this is something I've believed is at least justifiable for many, many years.
Wounded Knee was not a battle by any reasonably accepted definition of the word. It was a brutal, lopsided curbstomping conducted by men whose unit history more than motivated them to do it; and justified after the fact by Army leadership that was still embarrassed and angered by Little Big Horn.
To be clear - there was no way that Wounded Knee was going to end in anything other than Lakota dead. But the fight didn't require 290 dead.
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It was one of the very few medals back then. Check the chest of former chairman Miley for the proliferation of ribbons and medals which basically is a personnel file. Today they're very parsimonious with the MoH. It certainly wasn't a Rorke's Drift.
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Actually, George Custer was charged with deserting his post. Reproved, fined, and send back to work on the frontier.
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#4 Actually, George Custer was charged with deserting his post. Reproved, fined, and send back to work on the frontier.
Posted by: ed in texas 2024-07-26 09:37
Ed in texas,
Indeed - and there were also charges that he'd flat-out murdered a couple of recaptured deserters. Had it been anybody else besides Custer, they would have at best thrown him out and at worst locked him up and thrown away the key.
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Perhaps Austin can take a page out of a Vatican Playbook and dig up Confederate corpses to try for sedition or mutiny? When you need to do ANYTHING to troll for minority votes and tarnish the US Military, there is always someone who can find the next outrage to avenge.
Couldn't get to DC I guess.
[Daly Mail, where America gets its news] Armed Florida cops wrongfully stormed a black war veteran's home while searching for a felon who was in fact in prison.
Naomi Simmons, a 27 year old who served in Afghanistan, told NBC Miami she was sitting at home on June 14 when she heard a banging on her seven-year-old daughter's bedroom window.
When she went outside to check what the commotion was 'there were two guns pointed at me,' she recounted.
'I said, why are you guys pointing guns?' she asked, noting that the Miami-Dade coppers did not identify themselves before she opened the door.
They then told her they were searching for a man named Marquise Wiley, who was wanted on felony gun charges. His ID listed his address as Simmons' home, she said.
But Simmons and her daughter had been living at the Miami Gardens home for more than a year, and had never met Wiley and did not know anything about him.
When police finally left her house, satisfied that Wiley was not hiding out there, Simmons said she sat back on her couch and was able to track down the suspect's whereabouts using just her phone.
She then found that Wiley was already in jug, dealing with two criminal cases in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
'I was able to find it with no resources and a cellphone on my couch,' Simmons told NBC Miami, adding: 'He was at the prison before they even came to my door.'
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Naomi Simmons, a 27 year old who served in Afghanistan, told NBC Miami she was sitting at home on June 14 when she heard a banging on her seven-year-old daughter's bedroom window
Is it just me, or there's something odd about these numbers?
Working with large quantities of flammables can be dangerous…especially in the Third World.
[FoxNews] Rescue teams on Wednesday found another body at a tequila distillery in Mexico a day after an explosion and fire, bringing the death toll to six. Two workers were injured.
The factory belongs to the Jose Cuervo company, one of Mexico's most famous tequila brands.
The local civil defense posted on X that the latest body was found in a waste area where large containers had collapsed.
The company on Tuesday said the explosion occurred as employees were carrying out maintenance work. Authorities on Tuesday night said the situation was under control, but on Wednesday morning a fire broke out in a storage area with cardboard and other materials.
The town of Tequila is about 375 miles northwest of Mexico City. Overlooked by a volcano and surrounded by plantations of agave, the plant from which the liquor is produced, life in the municipality of 40,000 residents revolves around tequila production and the tourism it generates.
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I prefer Del Patron Anjeo. I had to quit making moonshine when my still sprung a leak and caught fire. Quick action with a fire extinguisher saved the shed.
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[JustTheNews] Gov. Abbott created the role and appointed Scott in 2022 after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde to ensure that all public schools in Texas are implementing school safety policies and using best practices to safeguard against school shootings or other dangers.
new school safety system has launched in Texas through the Texas Education Agency.
“As a new school year approaches, the safety of students, school faculty, and staff across Texas remains a top priority,” Gov. Greg Abbott said. “To bolster school safety standards, we are launching Sentinel – a new, sweeping system to enhance the safety and security of students and teachers across our great state. This cutting-edge technology is available to all schools in Texas and will expand the state’s threat assessments process, improve real-time communication capabilities, and better safeguard our children, teachers, and school communities.” Is it replacing the big guys with clubs?
Abbott thanked the head of the TEA’s Office of School Safety and Security, John Scott, for working with superintendents and school safety personnel across the state to create and implement the new system.
Abbott created the role and appointed Scott in 2022 after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde to ensure that all public schools in Texas are implementing school safety policies and using best practices to safeguard against school shootings or other dangers.
Scott previously served as assistant special agent in charge for the U.S. Secret Service Dallas/North Texas District. He’s been the single point of contact for coordinating school safety and security efforts statewide, working with the Texas School Safety Center, the Department of Public Safety, the Health and Human Services Commission, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, and the Advance Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, school districts, and other entities.
Since he was brought on, several new policies have been implemented. Scott said his office “continues to search for ways to better support the 1,200 school systems in Texas and their efforts in keeping students and staff safe. The launch of Sentinel represents this continued focus, and I'm grateful for the Governor's support in getting this critical safety infrastructure off the ground and operational."
Sentinel is an innovative and comprehensive system designed to enhance the safety and security of students, faculty, and staff in school buildings statewide. The TEA provides it for free to all schools in Texas. It enables robust monitoring of school systems’ implementation and operation of safety and security policies and improves the threat assessment process.
Sentinel was designed to standardize Behavioral Threat Assessments (BTAs) into a single reporting mechanism to enable schools to have a clear way of conducting BTAs and managing threats. This uniform approach helps school systems identify, assess and mitigate risks to students and staff.
Sentinel is also part of statewide emergency operations providing state leaders with timely and accurate information and informing schools about local or statewide emergencies through a mass communication capability. The communications capability will also enable the TEA to securely communicate guidance, resources, or other information to schools.
Sentinel was developed after the Texas legislature passed two bills that Abbott signed into law last June.
House Bill 3, filed by state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, strengthened state monitoring of school safety and increased the school safety allotment. It became effective last September. Senate Bill 30, filed by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, provided an additional $1.1 billion for school systems to bolster the safety of their facilities. It became effective last June.
The Texas School Safety Center has also extended its school safety reviews to ensure all public schools are following the appropriate procedures to maximize school safety. Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training programs have also expanded training to all school districts, prioritizing school-based law enforcement.
State agencies are also expanding their ability to report suspicious activity through the iWatchTexas reporting system as well as expanding public awareness through public safety campaigns.
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[REGNUM] A Spanish court has sentenced 76-year-old Spanish citizen Pompeyo González Pascual to 18 years in prison for sending letter bombs to the Spanish Prime Minister and the US and Ukrainian embassies in November 2022.
According to the local press, Pompeyo opposed Western support for Ukraine after Russia launched the SVO. And he found no other way to demonstrate his disagreement with the "united view of all of Europe" on this issue than by threatening some officials in Spain and other countries.
Spain's highest criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, found him guilty of terrorism and manufacturing explosives.
The indictment, excerpts from which are cited by the online publication Infobae, states that “the former employee of the mayor’s office of the Basque city of Vitoria, now a pensioner, expressed his disagreement with support for Ukraine by sending envelopes by mail containing substances that could explode when opened by the recipient.”
Letter bombs containing improvised explosive devices were sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Defense Minister Margarita Robles, and the US and Ukrainian embassies. The recipients also included a Spanish arms company that produces grenades, a batch of which was donated to Ukraine, and the main Spanish air force base in Torrejon.
Only one of the parcels caused harm to the recipient - a worker of the Ukrainian embassy received minor injuries when opening it. Moreover, the information about this case was contradictory. Some publications claimed that someone from the embassy decided to open an envelope on the territory of the garden that had not been scanned for dangerous contents. Others - that the postal item was carefully opened by a security guard, but something went wrong and an explosion occurred.
However, "explosion" is too strong a word. As it turned out a little later, something clicked in the envelope, a spark flew and the parcel caught fire. After the incident, the guard was taken to a medical facility, where they treated the cut on his finger and covered it with a bandage.
All other recipients were either smarter than the Ukrainian diplomats or less curious and entrusted the opening of the "gifts" received by mail to engineers and sappers. The professionals did not have anything click or catch fire. And, of course, there were no injuries to arms, legs or anything else.
The Ukrainian ambassador to Madrid, Serhiy Pogoreltsev, immediately declared the existence of a "Russian trace". And he was the only one who came up with such a crazy idea. The other addressees stated that the Spanish law enforcement officers should identify the perpetrators.
Spanish investigators figured out the author-producer of the dangerous mail quite quickly. The press was unable to find out the details of the search, but law enforcement officers generously shared information with journalists that left no doubt that the villain would not escape the punishing hand of the law.
During a search of Pompeyo González Pascual's apartment, operatives found a drill, bits, metal plates, screws and nuts - everything needed to make small containers filled with explosives and shot.
In addition, specialists from the biochemical laboratory established that the almost invisible grease stains found on the surface of the cardboard envelopes have the same DNA structure as the skin samples of the retired bomber, who, in addition to all his shortcomings, turned out to be a fan of the Basque terrorist organization ETA and a hardened Marxist (a copy of Capital was found on his bookshelf). He was also an admirer of Dolores Ibárruri (leader of the Communist Party of Spain from 1942 to 1989) and, of course, a member of the Communist Party.
This entire body of evidence allowed Spanish investigators to charge the elderly ex-communist with terrorism and making homemade bombs. However, the Basque pensioner was considered surprisingly safe as a terrorist, because before the trial he was left to walk around on his own recognizance, and not placed in a cell or even under house arrest.
A court this week sentenced Gonzalez Pascual to 18 years in prison - 10 years for terrorism and another eight for making homemade explosive devices.
The convicted man did not plead guilty. And during the hearing he said that "he bought the envelopes (30 pieces) on Amazon, wanted to use them to send letters to friends with congratulations, but had to throw away what he bought, because the material from which the envelopes were made turned out to be too hard and thick, unsuitable for letters." It is therefore not surprising that the discarded cardboard boxes had traces of the pensioner's hands.
The person who later, obviously, found these envelopes in the garbage container could do with them as he pleased. Maybe even stuff them with TNT. There are not as few people in Spain who like to rummage through garbage cans as you might think.
As for the drill and bits found on him, according to Pascual, this is the same as considering a person who has knives for cutting bread or butchering meat in the kitchen to be a potential murderer.
Judging by the way the crime and punishment of the 76-year-old bomber are presented in the Spanish press, both the evidence of guilt and González Pascual's explanations appear, to put it cautiously, not solid enough.
But the most interesting thing about this story is that not a single Spanish publication rushed to trumpet that since an employee of the Ukrainian embassy was injured, then “it’s Putin’s fault.”
In general, it should be said that the press in Spain, as well as in other EU countries, does not favor Russia and uses any slightest excuse to demonize the Kremlin. But in the described case, for some reason, this did not happen. Perhaps because it would have looked completely comical.
Spaniards are increasingly pointing out in their comments under articles in the press that they are being presented with the opinion of only one side, while they would like to see both points of view and independently understand who is right and who is wrong in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
And so the call of the head of the Ukrainian MFA Dmytro Kuleba to the embassies of all countries in Madrid to "increase security measures" was received with understanding, but without unnecessary fuss. And no one came out to demonstrate under anti-Russian slogans in Madrid's Plaza Cibeles.
Even after Kuleba added that those responsible “will not succeed in intimidating Ukrainian diplomats or stopping their daily work to strengthen Ukraine.”
As for the fairness or unfairness of the sentence for Dolores Ibarruri's fan, this will be decided by higher courts, where the convicted man's lawyers will send their appeals.
[Breitbart] The Mormon Church — officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) — is quietly welcoming thousands of migrants colonists sent to Utah from overcrowded Denver, Colorado, despite public protests by state and local elected officials.
Utah has suffered under the arrival of thousands of cast-off border crossers sent its way by officials in Denver, but even as the state has no resources for migrants colonists, the Mormon Church is quietly welcoming them, causing the public burden to magnify.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox voiced his outrage in June after he said he just "learned" that Denver had been sending thousands of border crossers to Utah.
"We recently learned that the Democrat mayor of Denver has been sending illegal immigrants colonists to Utah without proper notification or approval," Cox said on X. "This is completely unacceptable and follows on the failed catch-and-release policy of the Biden administration."
Cox added, "All 50 states, including Utah, are now border states due to the failed immigration policies of President Biden and Congress. Once again we call on the Biden administration and Congress to solve this crisis."
[TOSD] The Navy announced Wednesday "game-changing" technology that will allow its warships to be reloaded with guided missiles while at sea.
The new Transferrable Rearming Mechanism, or TRAM, was successfully demonstrated in a land-based test at Port Hueneme near Ventura earlier this month.
TRAM will allow the Navy to reload the vertical launch tubes on destroyers and cruisers while they are on patrol, rather than requiring a return to port.
Tim Barnard, director of the NAVSEA Technology Office, said TRAM "will allow our ships to reload missiles just like they refuel — using connected underway replenishment, steaming at speed and in open ocean."
The latest Arleigh Burke-class destroyers carry 96 large guided missiles, but those can be expended quickly during intense fighting as has occurred against the Houthis in the Red Sea.
"Being able to quickly rearm our warships’ vertical launch tubes at sea will significantly increase forward, persistent combat power with the current force," said Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro. "No longer will our combatants need to withdraw from combat for extended periods to return for vulnerable in-port reloading of weapon systems."
A test of the new technology at sea is expected later this year.
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Skid, the really sad part about the pier was, it's the Army's pier. Delivered on an Army ship, constructed by Army personnel.
The Navy doesn't have one. Such concerns are beneath them... kind like being able to reload.
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Reloading tubes at sea and on land is significantly different. What sea state can they actually handle, how fast is the process per tube and how many tubes are sacrificed for the crane? This has been a problem for the last 20 years
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The USN is one of the only navies that refuels alongside underway. Physical stores are mostly transferred by helicopter underway. Previously crane transfers were done at anchorage by tenders. All of the tenders were decommissioned in the 90’s. Tenders stored shell type ammo, but not missiles. Ammunition ships did more rigging and transfer of ordinance. Not sure if that was done underway.
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Now do "Boomers" - No reloading necessary (or, likely, possible).
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[Regnum] A tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of fuel oil under the Philippine flag capsized and sank in Manila Bay. This was reported on July 25 by ABS-CBN News.
The Terra Nova tanker sank seven kilometers off the municipality of Limay in Bataan province with 17 crew members on board.
"We managed to rescue 16 of the 17 crew members, one person is missing," Philippine Transport Minister Jaime Bautista said at a briefing.
An oil slick was found in the waters of Manila Bay at the scene of the incident, and marine conservationists have been mobilized to contain it. Bautista said strong winds and high waves are complicating efforts to eliminate the consequences.
According to Coast Guard officials, an investigation is underway into the circumstances of the ship's sinking, to determine "whether there were any weather anomalies in the surrounding waters at the time the marine incident occurred."
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported on the sinking of the Norwegian fishing vessel Argos Georgia near the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, as a result of which three Russians died and another is listed as missing.
On the evening of July 23, it became known that the fishing vessel Argos Georgia sank in the area of the Falkland Islands. As a result of the emergency, several crew members, including Russian citizens, died.
The Spanish agency EFE reported on July 24 that the death toll from the sinking of a fishing vessel near the Falkland Islands had risen to eight people. It was noted that five more crew members of the vessel were missing.
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.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
[FoxNews] Rescue teams on Wednesday found another body at a tequila distillery in Mexico a day after an explosion and fire, bringing the death toll to six. Two workers were injured.
[TOSD] The Navy announced Wednesday "game-changing" technology that will allow its warships to be reloaded with guided missiles while at sea.
