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Anonymous ID: a4dfe2 May 9, 2020, 7:08 p.m. No.9103354   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3373 >>3654 >>3987 >>4130

First border wall contract awarded for Laredo, Texas at $275 million

 

McALLEN, TEXAS (Border Report) — A $275 million contract has been awarded to an Alabama company to start construction of a 14-mile border wall in Laredo, Texas.

Similar to other portions of border wall being built in South Texas and throughout the Southwest, this project will consist of a 30-foot-high bollard wall with all weather roads, enforcement cameras and special lighting, according to a announcement made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection late Friday.

This will be the first portion of a border wall to go up in Laredo, which sits across the Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

The contract was awarded to Caddell Construction Company LLC of Montgomery, Alabama, and construction is slated to begin in January 2021. However, much of the land in Webb County is privately owned and must be obtained before construction can begin.

 

The City of Laredo in February said it would not give CBP access to any city-owned property and would go to court to halt wall construction if necessary. And in adjacent Zapata County, county commissioners voted to deny Border Patrol right of entry onto county property.

Hundreds of Laredoans have voiced opposition to a border wall encircling their city. Since last fall they have held a river sit-in and a downtown march, drawing supporters from across the nation.

Most recently, U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, two Democrats from Texas, filed legislation to designate the area as a historic heritage corridor that might possibly impact border wall plans, Gonzalez told Border Report.

Nevertheless, it appears that construction is slated to go forward.

 

https://www.kxan.com/news/first-border-wall-contract-awarded-for-laredo-texas-at-275-million/

Anonymous ID: a4dfe2 May 9, 2020, 7:19 p.m. No.9103508   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3544 >>3592 >>3599 >>3911

Drone Finds Long Lost Hidden Fort of Scottish Hero William Wallace

 

Is this the stronghold of freedom fighter William Wallace? It’s pretty overgrown now, but a combination of drone flight and 3D tech appears to have found “Wallace’s House” in southern Scotland. From this fort, the legendary thorn in England’s side planned an attack on nearby Lochmaben Castle in Dumfries and Galloway.

As befitting the meeting place of William Wallace, “it must have been a strong place of defence.” Wallace is said to have occupied the “House” along with 16 men at arms in the late 13th century. Setting out, they “sallied forth to annoy the English garrison” – though of course there was far more than irritation involved in the resulting confrontation! Wallace eventually captured the prize of Lochmaben Castle, following an action-packed pursuit by Sir Hugh of Moreland and Greystock.

By this stage, Wallace was reaching the end of his brief but turbulent time as a resistance leader. This started in 1297 and ended with his end in 1305, made famous by the “FREEEEDOM”ye. Around the time of Lochmaben, he’d been knighted and given the title of ‘Guardian of the Kingdom’. This was in the name of John Balliol, former King of Scotland who was dethroned after Edward I seized control north of the border.

 

Not much is recorded about Wallace’s formative years. BBC History writes he “was born in the 1270s in Elderslie in Renfrewshire into a gentry family.” His main victories included the Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297). The historical figure is well known to movie audiences through Mel Gibson’s Braveheart (1995), a fictionalized version where Wallace was quite literally painted as a force of nature. Less vivid is the truth, as described by the BBC who state “Wallace’s strategy was to avoid confrontation and gradually withdraw. He destroyed the countryside as he went, forcing Edward to march deeper and deeper into Scotland.”

The Oscar-winning film will always be a part of William Wallace’s legend. However it’s the land that carries the true echoes of his extraordinary life.

 

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/05/09/william-wallace-fort/

Anonymous ID: a4dfe2 May 9, 2020, 7:39 p.m. No.9103807   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3828 >>3987 >>4130

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Scott Moretti

Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Director for Training

BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY

Term of Appointment: 07/29/2015 to present

 

Special Agent Scott Moretti was named Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Director of Training for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security on July 29, 2015.

 

Under his direction are the Office of Antiterrorism Assistance, the Office of Training and Performance Standards, and the Office of Mobile Security Deployments. The Training Directorate trains Diplomatic Security special agents throughout their careers, prepares U.S. Government personnel to serve at U.S. diplomatic posts in critical- and high-threat countries, administers antiterrorism training to foreign police, and deploys its own agents for training and special protective missions to primarily high-threat overseas posts.

 

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https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/245916.htm

Anonymous ID: a4dfe2 May 9, 2020, 7:52 p.m. No.9103989   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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What message is Corney sending?

 

A Peace Pole is a monument that displays the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth” in the language of the country where it has been placed, and usually 3 to 13 additional translations. The message often is referred to as a peace prayer.

 

The idea of Peace Poles was first thought up by Masahisa Goi in 1955 in Japan. The Peace Pole Project today is promoted by The World Peace Prayer Society as well as other groups and individuals. The first Peace Poles outside Japan were constructed in 1983.[1] Since then, more than 200,000 have been placed around the world in close to 200 countries.[1]

 

Peace Poles are made of many materials; most are made of wood, while others are made of limestone, copper, plastic or stainless steel. The text might be painted, carved, etched, welded, pasted, or riveted on, or it might simply be a plastic plaque attached with screws. In other cases, it is the careful work of an artist or sculptor.

 

Sometimes the word prayer is avoided so that peace poles are note regarded as religious objects therefore violating zoning restrictions. For example, a Quaker group in New York City ran into this problem year after year, and did not get permission to plant a peace pole in a park.[citation needed] Some manufacturers refer to the wording as a Peace Message for this reason.[2]

 

The initial inspiration for planting a Peace Pole often is as a response to a local historic hate crime, incident or issue. The world's second-largest Peace Pole, at 52 feet (16 m),[5] is located in Janesville, Wisconsin at the site of a 1992 KKK rally (Saturday, May 30).[6][7][8] Another of the largest Peace Poles in the world, as measured in tons, is the granite Peace Pole[9] in Beech Acres Park[10] near Cincinnati, Ohio, inspired by hate literature left in the driveways of Jewish residents.

 

In September 2016, the World Peace Prayer Society and the Little Free Library project announced a collaboration to offer a new Peace Pole Library structure. It features the standard Peace Pole message of peace - "May Peace Prevail on Earth” - in a six-foot library. Some of these new libraries were installed at locations significant to the civil rights movement, such as the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.[1

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_pole