Documents filed in court have revealed details about the motive behind the deadly shooting at Georgia's Fort Eisenhower over the weekend.
Saturday's shooting triggered a lockdown at the U.S. Army base for hours and ended with an Army reservist dead and a soldier in custody.
Officials say the shooting came after the suspected gunman found another man in the bed of his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child. His ex-girlfriend? Clearly she was well rid of him. And possibly he of her, too. But he has no business reacting so once they’re no longer an item.
MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga. - Court documents reveal new details about a shooting at Georgia's Fort Eisenhower that triggered a lockdown and ended with one man dead and another in custody.
Natravien Landry, 25, appeared in court before a federal magistrate judge in Augusta on Monday. He’s charged with a killing Saturday morning at a home on Fort Eisenhower, where Landry served in a Georgia National Guard transportation unit.
[NYPOST] A convicted bank robber freed early from federal prison on a ''compassionate release'' program is heading back to the slammer for the same crime for which he was originally sent away.
Markham David Bond was found guilty by a federal jury in Los Angeles on Thursday on one count of interference with commerce by robbery, one count of using a firearm during a crime of violence, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, according to the US Department of Justice.
Bond, 61, robbed a Brinks courier at gunpoint in a Chase bank parking lot near LAX on Aug. 18, 2023.
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Wonder if he just wanted to go back to a more stable environment? After having seen what Biden and the DC Swamp has turned the US into.
[JustTheNews] The Pentagon is funding alternatives to meat protein, which includes using fungi for food for U.S. service members as part of the White House’s sustainable bioeconomy agenda.
The Department of Defense is focusing on investments into fungi protein as an alternative to animal protein, after initially seeking to fund lab-grown meat earlier this year in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. Critics have pushed back on such initiatives, arguing that they are negatively affecting the military.
In November, the DOD announced that it had given 34 awards totaling over $60 million to bioindustrial firms under the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program (DBIMP). $1.38 million was given to The Fynder Group “to plan a bioproduction facility for fungi-based proteins that can be incorporated into military ready-to-eat meals.”
The program is part of President Joe Biden's Executive Order 14081, "Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy," which is “aimed at bolstering America's bioeconomic strengths while helping the Department achieve advanced defense capabilities,” according to the DOD.
The projects that were awarded funding from the DOD program “will be eligible to receive follow-on ‘build’ awards providing access to up to $100 million to construct U.S.-based bioindustrial manufacturing facilities,” the DOD announcement added.
FUNGI-BASED PROTEINS
In August, as part of the DBIMP, the DOD awarded nearly $1.5 million to The Better Meat Company, which “harness[es] the amazing power of fermentation to make delicious, clean mycoprotein ingredients for food companies to use as the basis of their hybrid and fully animal-free meats.”
“The Better Meat Company, based in West Sacramento, California, was awarded $1.48 million to plan a bioproduction facility for mycoprotein ingredients that are shelf-stable, have high protein and fiber contents, and can be dehydrated,” according to the DOD.
To make the meat alternatives, the company explains that they “feed starchy foods to microscopic fungi and allow them to naturally turn into the meatiest animal-free protein on the planet.”
The CEO of The Better Meat Company is Paul Shapiro, who has donated to Democratic candidates’ campaigns, according to records from the Federal Election Commission. Most recently, Shapiro donated to Virginia Delegate Dan Helmer’s primary campaign for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District this past February and California Sen. Adam Schiff’s campaign in October and November 2023.
The Better Meat Company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
In June, public-private company BioMADE announced that it was seeking “Innovations in food production that reduce the CO2 footprint of food production at and/or transport to DoD operational environments are solicited.
“These could include, but are not limited to, production of nutrient-dense military rations via fermentation processes, utilizing one carbon molecule (C1) feedstocks for food production, and novel cell culture methods suitable for the production of cultivated meat/protein,” which is lab-grown meat.
BioMADE, which is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute sponsored by the DOD, announced last year that it had received more than $500 million from the Pentagon.
Following the June announcement, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Center for the Environment and Welfare (CEW) pushed back on the DOD funding lab-grown meat experiments for the military, causing the Pentagon to reverse course.
“After weeks of engaging with Congress and speaking out against this plan, we are thrilled to have DoD confirmation that lab-grown protein is not on the menu for our nation’s servicemembers,” NCBA President Mark Eisele said in a statement in July. “These men and women make the greatest sacrifices every day in service to our country and they deserve high-quality, nutritious, and wholesome food like real beef grown by American farmers and ranchers.”
"FAKE MEAT"
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who is a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act in June that would have prohibited the DOD from funding research and development of lab-grown meat for military rations, often called MRE's. However, the amendment was rejected.
“Last week, I proposed an NDAA amendment to cut all DOD funding for fake meat,” Bacon posted on X in June. “Nebraska is the Beef State, leading in red meat production. Our farmers and ranchers can feed our military, we don’t need this petri dish protein. The military needs to fund weapons not fake meat.”
A Pentagon spokesperson told Just the News on Wednesday, "DoD is not funding the manufacture of cultivated meat. There is no cultivated meat in military rations nor plans to feed troops cultivated meat. This research involves plant protein-based mycoprotein ingredients that are shelf-stable, have high protein and fiber contents, and can be dehydrated.
"The ability of the U.S. military to project power entails an equally imposing logistical chain to maintain stocks of food, water, medicines, fuel, and other supplies critical to troops and equipment. That chain gets stretched to extremes when the military is called upon to rapidly deploy anywhere in the world and sustain operations without the benefit of fixed infrastructure. Accordingly, DoD is actively investigating ways critical supplies are procured in addition to creating systems that can rapidly produce materials, including food onsite, when and where they are needed. In its research to produce food onsite, DoD is working closely with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ensure all relevant guidelines are adhered to and regulatory standards are met."
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How are we going to provide protein in a sustainable manner for long duration missions in space? The research is a good idea that may take decades to come up with something edible.
[PM] "American companies must return to using merit—not the desire to check a DEI box—to select the most skilled and qualified employees."
American Airlines (AA) will no longer be recruiting and hiring based on the dictates of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. The company admitted that the policy is a violation of federal laws that protect equal access to employment, America First Legal announced Tuesday.
The US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) informed America First Legal about the decision. "American companies must return to using merit—not the desire to check a DEI box—to select the most skilled and qualified employees. American Airlines’ agreement with the OFCCP is AFL’s latest victory in our fight to put illegal discrimination on the no-fly list," said Will Scolinos, America First Legal Counsel
The decision came as a result of a complaint filed by AFL against AA with the OFCCP, which accused the company of not complying with federal law even though the airline does a massive amount of business with the federal government and has been the beneficiary of $140 million in federal contracts since 2008. In order to qualify for those contracts, AA had to promise to adhere to the Executive Order 11246 that prohibits discrimination in hiring, promotion, or employee training based of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It has failed to do so and has embraced discrimination based on race and sex in its hiring practices, Cadet Academy program and promotional activity.
On Dec. 13, 2024, the OFCCP began investigating AFL’s complaint by interviewing AA representatives and assessing the company’s record as per the instructions of 41 CFR §60-1.24 (c) (2). That investigation found clear evidence that the airline had failed to uphold the equal opportunity component, necessitating a compliance conference to initiate remedial action. Following the intervention, AA affirmed it had been in violation of laws banning discrimination based on race or gender when hiring or promoting its business and agreed to cease that contravention.
AFL has also asked for like investigations to occur at United Airlines and Southwest Airlines. The OFCCP has subsequently informed AFL that these airlines have agreed to abolish their discriminatory and illegal recruitment and hiring policies that establish quotas linked to the race and the sex of people who respond.
American Airlines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines together control about 50 percent of airline traffic in the US. AFL promised to pursue illegal DEI practices wherever companies are enjoying the benefits of federal contracts but not adhering to federal laws against discrimination. A US federal court recently quashed NASDAQ’s DEI mandates aimed at the boards of member companies, reflecting an increasing trend against woke policies being promoted in America’s corporate world.
[PJMEDIA] It's been nearly two weeks since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan. Thankfully, his alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured after someone recognized him at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pa.
While the evidence all appears to confirm Mangione is the killer, in a lot of ways, it just doesn't make sense why this kid, who grew up privileged and went to an Ivy League school and everything, would be driven to murder.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... has something to say on that issue that the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... won't be happy about. Adams bluntly described a disturbing trend he's witnessed among young people in America. Speaking candidly about the radicalization of youth, he addressed the troubling case of Mangione, drawing a direct line between the shooter's upbringing and the toxic influence of the education system that led to his violent mostly peaceful actions.
Adams was quick to point out that Mangione's background doesn't fit the typical profile of someone prone to radicalization. ''Ivy League, grew up in an affluent household,'' he said, emphasizing the disconnect between the shooter's privileged life and his eventual descent into hatred.
''His manifesto clearly is showing some signs of hating,'' Adams continued, underscoring that even those with seemingly ideal circumstances can be consumed by a dangerous ideology.
The mayor then turned his focus to the broader problem at hand: the radicalization of America's youth. ''Our children are being radicalized,'' Adams stated, ''I said this over and over again, and everybody's like, you know, 'What are you talking about, Eric?''' His frustration with the lack of attention to the issue was clear, but his message was undeniable. This isn't just a fringe problem; it's becoming a mainstream crisis.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Like George Floyd and that poor schizophrenic Daniel Penny did not strangle on the NYC subway? How very odd.
Portland — @kevinvdahlgren was speaking to a homeless man when he suddenly dropped over and appeared to overdose on camera. Dahlgren then gave him Narcan and called 911. pic.twitter.com/32QIJrTcoB
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I figured it was a Chicago thing, like spring shootings. You see a 'Wet Floor' sign so you have a fight.
"Look, Dude, a wet floor sign! Care to have a go?"
"Put 'em up!"
*Biff*Smack*Ow*
"Is this a private fight or can anyone get in?"
And just like that, it was another evening at the Baggage Claim.
[CBSnews] A Virginia man has died after a bear in a tree shot by one of his hunting partners fell on him, state wildlife officials said.
The incident occurred Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County, which is between Richmond and Danville, Virginia's Department of Wildlife Resources said in a statement. Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.
A hunting group was following the bear when it ran up the tree, the department said. As the group retreated from the tree, a hunter shot the bear. The animal fell onto another hunter who was standing about 10 feet from the bottom of the tree.
The department identified the man as Lester C. Harvey, 58, of Phenix, Virginia. A member of the group rendered first aid before Harvey was rushed to two different hospitals.
Presumably sequentially rather than simultaneously, poor man.
He died from his injuries Friday, the wildlife department stated.
An obituary for Harvey, a married father of five with eight grandchildren, said he was a self-employed contractor and avid outdoorsman. His funeral is scheduled for Thursday, according to his obituary.
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You can shoot a bear but you can’t shoot gravity.
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"Burg teaching point: Whenever possible, hunt alone." What about the recent incident when a hunter fired once at a bear, had his gun jam and the bear killed him? Another hunter might have saved the day.
[BREITBART] The U.S. Navy has awarded actor Tom Cruise with its top civilian award for helping to boost the naval service with his hit Top Gun movies.
Cruise was awarded the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award on Tuesday for ''outstanding contributions to the Navy and the Marine Corps'' with his Top Gun movies.
Cruise was awarded the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award on Tuesday for “outstanding contributions to the Navy and the Marine Corps” with his Top Gun series and other movies, according to Stars & Stripes. Good idea. I think Richard Gere oughta get one too, for starring in the prototype. And Debra Winger. And the other gal, the one with the bewbs, that caused Goose to hang himself...
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Official records show the army has been developing and testing 'counterterrorism' drones in New Jersey for years, amid claims of a government cover-up.
A 2018 defense contract awarded $50 million to a private robotics company to develop craft capable of creating 3D maps of urban areas for a 'counter weapons of mass destruction' program.
The contract was given out by the Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC), which is located at the Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway, New Jersey, where mystery drones were first reported last month.
Meanwhile, documents show the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an air restriction alert on November 21 prohibiting flights over the Picatinny base for 'special security reasons' through December 26.
The White House has claimed the drone sightings - which coincidentally began on November 18 - are not a foreign adversary, pose no threat and are not part of a US military operation.
Retired CIA Intelligence Officer Rudy Ridolfi told DailyMail.com: 'This FAA notice shows US drone testing is happening in the area. It's a warning for others to stay out of the area during those dates.
'While the nature of the testing isn't specified, it's most likely the testing of payloads related to reconnaissance.'
But Matt Sloane, founder of drone consulting firm AI Skyfire, told DailyMail.com that the sightings could be 'a contractor developing these drones for DoD [the Department of Defense].'
The DoD can deny claims of third-party technologies if the drones were placed on a secure tech list for contract disclosures, which means the government is applying special restrictions to the information.
The restrictions are added when technologies protect national security or to keep advanced systems hidden from hostile nations, and the developer holds primary liability if the government is not operating the drones, Ridolfi explained.
A Picatinny Arsenal spokesperson told DailyMail.com: 'We can confirm that they are not the result of any Picatinny Arsenal or DEVCOM Armaments Center (formerly ARDEC) directed actions.'
The government contract was awarded to Maryland-based company Robotics Research.
The FAA alert could signal signal that the contract had approval to test drones in a public area.
'They could have been testing them in a different place on a military installation and now it was time to move the testing out to a public area,' Sloane said.
'The military has in various places around the country that are out of the way of prying eyes. Maybe it was just time to graduate that testing to the public.'
While large swaths of New Jersey are seeing drones, the White House has noted that there are more than one million drones lawfully registered in the US and many of the sightings could be hobby crafts, airplanes and even stars.
Sloane highlighted a similar drone mystery that hit Colorado from 2019 to 2020 when swarms of aerial vehicles fill the sky like the current situation in New Jersey.
Local reports at the time suggested the drones were 'a secretive Air Force program intended to keep prying eyes away from nuclear missile silos,' which are in Cheyenne.
Air Force Global Strike Command, based in Louisiana, confirmed that it conducts counter-drone exercises out of F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, where it is based.
The drones were described to have 'flashing or steady white, red or green lights.'
The story echoes the current situation in New Jersey - residents and local officials were demanding answers.
The drones in Colorado were also rumored to be sniffing for missing radioactive material, which has been a theory in the Garden State.
'I think (at the extreme) this could be a search operation [in New Jersey], said Ridolfi.
'One argument against that (to some degree) is the vast bulk of the sightings are at night. If it really was a national security issue, they'd be running around the clock.'
Sloane said the drones being tested by a government contractor could feature any type of attachment.
'There's cameras, gas detectors, radiation detectors,' he said.
The FAA flight restriction alert last month states the temporary ban is due to national defense and security reasons, prohibiting other aerial vehicles flying within a two-mile radius and below 2,000 feet.
However, exceptions include operations supporting national defense, law enforcement, firefighting, search and rescue, disaster response, event support, and commercial operations with a valid statement of work.
When asked about the FAA's restriction over the base, a spokesperson for the agency said they were unaware of the alert.
Picatinny Arsenal, located in Morris County, develops advanced conventional weapon systems and ammunition and has supplied Ukraine with weapons for its fight against Russia.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An interactive map has revealed hundreds of sightings of mysterious drones and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) throughout the Northeast.
Since mid-November, the region has been plagued by an ongoing, unexplained drone 'invasion.' The unidentified aircraft have been reported in multiple states, prompting a federal investigation that has yet to yield any answers.
'FBI has received tips of more than 5,000 reported drone sightings in the last few weeks with approximately 100 leads generated,' according to a joint statement from the agency and several other federal bureaus released Tuesday.
The map, created by the commercial UFO sightings alert network Enigma Labs, compiles reports from residents of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and other states made during November and December.
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I like the idea of a drone catcher. Catch one these drones over NJ or elsewhere and offer to return to sender if they will come forward and ask for it back.
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for Derek Chauvin and ordered that George Floyd's heart tumor must be tested to determine if it played a role in his death
The information about the heart tumor was not presented to Chauvin in the trialpic.twitter.com/FeHBuyRgqw
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Something seems wrong with any country that would permit foreign nationals messing with their own elections. But we already know that.
Seems to me the only time a country has thoroughly rejected foreign interference is Egypt kicking out Obama's 'NGOs' from the Sisi election. Argentina, maybe, in a more discreet way?
Of course, UK Agents interfering in the US elections just happened, and happened before, but they were invited by internal power movers.
Fact is, foreign interference in a power transfer is the norm, whether an election or a contested throne/dictatorship.
[Straight Arrow News] The British Royal Navy’s operational capacity has reached a historic low, with only two of its six advanced Type 45 destroyers available for deployment, according to the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense. The other four destroyers are undergoing extensive repairs and maintenance at Portsmouth. The number of Admirals in the Navy massively outnumbers the number of ships. Says all you need to know.
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The Argentinians are coming out of bankruptcy. Could they be coming for the Malvinas again?
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Not likely, Mr. Bobby. They keep turning budgets in the black and accumulating chits, they can just purchase them back from the bankrupt British Socialist/Immigrants
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One for each carrier, makes for a kind of sparse carrier battle group though!
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Genius. "Look for it on your friendly family pharm@cy's shelves between Beebo's Placebo and Dr. Algore's Patented Elephant Repellent!" [close-up: hands grabbing vials of Poot-Shoot... as Otto Parts decants gen3ric vodka in storeroom]
"The planet has cancer..." [woke crowing]
"But I have a vaccine!" [cue woeing]
Oncologist future:
"Is hopeless. Nurse, suture."
...
"Your tumor was already growing."
[Townhall] President-elect Donald J. Trump further solidified his position as a defender of the working class this week. Mr. Trump met with leaders of the Longshoreman’s Association, and it was an experience that the top officials of this labor union couldn’t have imagined. Its vice president, Dennis Daggett, posted on Facebook that the meeting was nothing short of historic in his mind.
“I have never seen a Republican take up the mantle for working-class people,” he wrote.
It’s a statement that has to make Democrats sick (via NY Post):
🚨 Statement from Int'l Longshoremen's Association EVP Dennis Daggett on his meeting with President Trump:
"In over 25 years of working in Washington, I have never seen a Republican take up the mantle for working-class people. President-elect Trump proved me wrong yesterday." pic.twitter.com/X8sw8xcSSZ
A top labor union leader breathlessly praised President-elect Donald Trump for proving him wrong and showing that a Republican can champion the working class.
Dennis Daggett, the executive vice president of the International Longshoreman’s Association — the union that shut down ports with a strike earlier this year — said his recent meeting with Trump was “an experience I never imagined in my wildest dreams.”
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Following that meeting, Trump took on one of their top grievances — automation.
“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the meeting.
“The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets.”
In October, ILA went on strike for about three days before reaching a temporary deal that extended contracts until Jan. 15, buying time for more negotiations.
There’s a reason why 60 percent of Teamsters members backed Trump, which led to the weak sauce announcement that the major union wouldn’t endorse any candidate this year. Still, Trump and the GOP will likely continue to be viewed as America’s champion among the working class as Democrats continue to mock, denigrate, and dismiss these voters who happen to number in the tens of millions. It’s political idiocy, as there are not enough college-educated snobs to win national elections.
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
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...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
