[Daily Mail, where America get its news] A US army installation in Georgia was placed into lockdown early on Saturday morning due to an active shooter incident that saw one killed.
Fort Eisenhower,
…per NN2N1 below: formerly known as Fort Gordon…
in Augusta, posted on its official media pages saying they were initiating lockdown procedures immediately.
They urged anyone in danger 'to take appropriate action', before later confirming that one person in on-post housing was killed.
According to the facility information surrounding the victim would be released after next-of-kin were notified.
They said they managed to apprehend the shooter and that the incident appeared to be isolated.
WRDW reported that a firetruck and an emergency medical vehicle were seen heading toward one of the gates of the facility.
The base is the current home of the US Army Signal Cops, Cyber Command and the Cyber Center of Excellence.
Almost an hour after the original warning was issued, they announced that the 'dangerous event had passed' and gave an all clear.
In a statement, they said: 'Fort Eisenhower is actively supporting the victim's family and assistance will be available to anyone impacted by this tragedy.
'The safety of our residents and personnel remains our primary concern.'
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I lived in Raleigh during this farce. If some of the students' parents hadn't been rich enough to afford good attorneys, the lacrosse team would have ended up in jail.The local DA, Mike Nifong, was aggressively pushing the case, in order to cater to the black population. He eventually was disbarred for misconduct.
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[REGNUM] On December 13, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a new prime minister, his fourth this year. After much hesitation, he chose centrist François Bayrou. While the new head of government considers candidates for ministerial posts, the French are discussing how long he will hold on to the job.
François Bayrou began his political career in the early 1980s. During this time, he served as a member of parliament, a member of the European Parliament, and as Minister of Education under Presidents François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
He also ran for president in 2002, 2007 and 2012. In 2007, he and his party, the Democratic Movement (MoDem), created specifically for the elections, even took third place in terms of the number of votes received – 18.57%, which, however, did not allow him to advance to the second round.
In 2017, he entered into an alliance with Emmanuel Macron, supporting his candidacy for the French presidency. Since then, Bayrou has been considered a loyal ally of the head of state. His name was mentioned among potential candidates for the post of prime minister after the resignation of Michel Barnier. However, Macron apparently made his choice at the very last minute. And he made it largely after Bayrou’s insistent requests.
This version explains the nervousness that the new prime minister clearly felt when he delivered his speech during the ceremony of handing over power from his predecessor. In his hands he held a sheet of paper with handwritten outlines of his speech, obviously hastily written. He did not thank the president for the trust he had shown. Instead, he spoke a lot about the difficulties associated with the post he was now taking on. And they were all serious.
The first problem is related to the state budget. The fact that this document was not adopted this year will lead to additional expenses starting from January 1, 2025. As a result, whatever the budget proposed by the new government, it will be physically impossible to fit the savings proposed by Michel Barnier into it.
Consequently, the national debt will only increase, which will have a detrimental effect on both the domestic economy and France's position in the European Union. It is not for nothing that the American rating agency Moody's, a few hours before the announcement of the new prime minister, lowered France's credit rating and expressed doubts about the country's ability to quickly improve the state of public finances.
Also important is the question of whether Bayrou will be able to secure a parliamentary majority and avoid another vote of no confidence. This is what France Insoumise
….a leftwing French political party launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament and former co-president of the Left Party...
of the left-wing NUPES coalition is insisting on, assuring that many other members of this group are ready to support such a proposal.
Indeed, the majority of the left shares the view that Macron has once again failed to learn from his mistakes and continues to act as before, blind to the obstacles that arise. However, for now, the leaders of the Communists, Greens and Socialists have
…all idiots by definition…
said that they will refrain from trying to immediately dismiss Bayrou. Although the latter have said that they will refuse ministerial posts in the new government if they are offered them.
The right has also adopted a wait-and-see attitude. The so-called independence that Bayrou has always tried to demonstrate is mistrusted by them. In particular, they voice concerns that the new head of government will be too favorable to the left. After all, in 2012 he called on his supporters to vote for François Hollande in the second round.
The position of the right will largely depend on the first steps of the new prime minister. An important moment will be the choice of the Minister of the Interior: the "Republicans" are very much counting on Bayrou leaving their party member Bruno Retaillo in this position.
Unfortunately for Bayrou, he has neither a wide circle of political supporters nor the goodwill of the press. His performance as a politician is rated average.
Since 2020, he has headed the High Commissioner for Planning, an advisory agency that is supposed to work on optimizing the activities of public services in certain areas. Many officials consider the existence of this agency useless and pointless, because the recommendations coming from it are extremely rare and superficial.
Moreover, the prime minister is under threat of trial. François Bayrou was tried on exactly the same charge as the head of the National Rally parliamentary faction, Marine Le Pen: creating fictitious positions in the European Parliament, the funding of which was used as salaries for members of their parties. Such employees, who appear on the payroll but do not exist in reality, have been called "snowdrops" since Soviet times.
In connection with this process, Bayrou even had to leave the post of Minister of Justice, to which he was appointed after Macron’s election in 2017, where he held it for about two months.
The court found that there was no evidence against Bayrou, but some members of his MoDem party were convicted. For example, Jean-Luc Benamiat received a 30,000 euro fine, a 12-month suspended sentence and a three-year ban on running.
By the way, Le Pen faces five years in prison, three of which are suspended, a ban on being a candidate in elections for five years and a fine of 300 thousand euros. But the justice system continues to remind that it is not sure of Bayrou's innocence, and a new trial may begin in the near future.
The job of Prime Minister of France looks particularly unattractive these days. The consequences of any decision will be negative, and attempts to rely on different political forces will cause discontent among their opponents.
At the same time, budget expenditures on social security will inevitably be reduced, causing popular discontent. This is confirmed by the recent speech of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. He complained that Europe spends too much on pensions and health care, at a time when it is necessary to switch to “wartime thinking” and increase funding for the Alliance from 2% to 4% of GDP.
So only skillful political maneuvering can save François Bayrou from resignation.
Except that it sounds like he is neither skillful nor clever. Eventually it will comedown to the candidates on the right.
December's rash of mysterious drone flights over Langley Air Force Base has changed how the U.S. plans to defend against such threats domestically. Are we designing a system to keep the pigs (agents of accountability) out, or keep the pigs in? You have noticed the absence of DoD activity ?
[War Zone] Snippet: Despite all the evidence that we have brought up over the years that points to foreign actors using drones to collect intelligence about U.S. military tactics, techniques, and procedures, Guillot insisted he does not know of any “organized or unorganized foreign nexus.”
So whom does that leave ?
Are they training for some upcoming event ?
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Fully armed interstate highway closure variant. Reliance upon local law enforcement or the military is totally unncessary. Trained operators are standing by.
Unoccupied aerial vehicles, better known as drones, have rapidly advanced from a quirky, high-flying novelty to a versatile workhorse.
They are tools for search and rescue, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring, and perhaps even package hauling.
One day, they may work with humans to augment the task of conducting surveys to detect low levels of radiation—information that could contribute to the decommissioning of sites no longer needed for nuclear-related energy production or research.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers found that drones have potential to conduct decommissioning radiological surveys, but further research is needed before the devices are approved for decommissioning purposes. The PNNL researchers detailed their findings for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the recently released proof-of-concept report, “Drones for Decommissioning.”
“Drones would be particularly useful in areas that are unsafe for humans to access due to things like terrain that’s difficult to walk on,” said Amoret Bunn, an environmental engineer at PNNL and a study author. “Drones could also survey vertical surfaces that humans can't get to like the outside of a tall building.”
[IsraelTimes] The ancient artifact, which dates to the 9th century BCE, is on view through January 5
Last year, New York City’s Jewish Museum imported a new director from the Israel Museum. Now, it’s brought the oldest archaeological evidence of the existence of King David from the Jerusalem museum, too.
The Tel Dan Stele, a stone fragment long held exclusively by the Israel Museum, is on view at the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side until January 5.
A 12-by-13-inch chunk of basalt, the Tel Dan Stele is a 9th-century BCE stone document acknowledging the military victories of a person whom scholars believe to be King Hazael of Aram, an area in contemporary Syria that includes what is today Damascus. One of those victories was over a descendant of David, the king of ancient Israel.
When it was discovered in northern Israel in 1993, the Tel Dan Stele became the earliest evidence beyond the Bible that King David was a real figure.
"There is no archaeological evidence surviving from the First Temple," said James Snyder, who took the helm of the Jewish Museum a year ago. "There is from the Second Temple, and that’s at the Israel Museum. From the First Temple, what therefore becomes important are these references to this archaeological evidence of the time of the First Temple, and of evidence that reinforces biblical history."
The First Temple, believed to have been built by David’s son King Solomon in the 10th century BCE, was destroyed during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
"What makes the Tel Dan Stele so important is that it’s the oldest archaeological evidence of the existence of the House of David, which is the sort of touchstone or fountainhead for the unfolding thereafter of Judaism, Christianity and then Islam," Snyder added.
In fact, it’s so old that the Aramaic used in the stele was still being written in the Phoenician alphabet — a language that predates Aramaic.
The ancient inscription refers to the "House of David," in translation saying, "[I killed Jeho]ram son of [Ahab] king of Israel, and [I] killed [Ahaz]iahu son of [Jehoram kin]g of the House of David."
Before coming to the Jewish Museum, the stele was on display for nearly two months at a biblical archaeology museum in Oklahoma. It was previously displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, just blocks from the Jewish Museum, a decade ago. (A replica is also on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.)
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the Temple Mount Sifting Project (which began about 20 years ago continues to this day) has resulted in many artifacts from the 1st Temple period (in contradiction to the article). The artifacts are all fairly small including seal impressions, stone weights, pieces of jugs and bowls, etc.
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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.
