The Wall of Stupid
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebast...ial-heat-ray-on-border-migrants/#3a6440637457
Border Patrol Officials Proposed Using Pain-Inducing Heat Ray On Migrants. Here’s Why The U.S. Hasn’t Used It — Yet.
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that in 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials proposed using a non-lethal military directed-energy weapon to induce agonizing pain in migrants attempting to cross the border and force them to turn back.
Pain rays may seem like some villainous contraption straight out of Star Trek , but the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon began developing such a device over two decades ago to give soldiers a non-lethal option for dealing with civilian mobs or suspicious interlopers on the perimeter of overseas military bases.
The truck- or Humvee-mounted Active Denial System can affect multiple persons at range of up to one mile away. It uses a gyrotron to silently emit a very high frequency (95-gigaherz) microwave-like beam that can penetrate clothing and heats water molecules on the surface of the skin to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (55 C).
Border Patrol Officials Proposed Using Pain-Inducing Heat Ray On Migrants. Here’s Why The U.S. Hasn’t Used It — Yet.
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that in 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials proposed using a non-lethal military directed-energy weapon to induce agonizing pain in migrants attempting to cross the border and force them to turn back.
Pain rays may seem like some villainous contraption straight out of Star Trek , but the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon began developing such a device over two decades ago to give soldiers a non-lethal option for dealing with civilian mobs or suspicious interlopers on the perimeter of overseas military bases.
The truck- or Humvee-mounted Active Denial System can affect multiple persons at range of up to one mile away. It uses a gyrotron to silently emit a very high frequency (95-gigaherz) microwave-like beam that can penetrate clothing and heats water molecules on the surface of the skin to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (55 C).
Remember; this company was hired to build actual portions of the federally funded wall even on objections by the corps of engineers who denied them contracts and were overwritten by two bit Donnie. You may recall cultists on here applauding the decision.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...t-finds-privately-built-border-wall-will-fail
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail
The report, set to be filed in federal court this week, confirms reporting from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune that found portions of the wall were in danger of overturning if not fixed due to extensive erosion just months after it was built.
It’s not a matter of if a privately built border fence along the shores of the Rio Grande will fail, it’s a matter of when, according to a new engineering report on the troubled project.
The report is one of two new studies set to be filed in federal court this week that found numerous deficiencies in the 3-mile border fence, built this year by North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel. The reports confirm earlier reporting from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, which found that segments of the structure were in danger of overturning due to extensive erosion if not fixed and properly maintained. Fisher dismissed the concerns as normal post-construction issues.
We Build the Wall, whose executive board is made up of influential immigration hard-liners like Bannon, Kris Kobach and Tom Tancredo, contributed $1.5 million of the cost of the $42 million private border fence project south of Mission, Texas.
Last year, the nonprofit also hired Fisher to build a half-mile fence segment in Sunland Park, New Mexico, outside El Paso.
Company president Tommy Fisher, a frequent guest on Fox News, had called the Rio Grande fence the “Lamborghini” of border walls and bragged that his company’s methods could help Trump reach his Election Day goal of about 500 new miles of barriers along the southern border.
Instead, one engineer who reviewed the two reports on behalf of ProPublica and The Texas Tribune likened Fisher’s fence to a used Toyota Yaris.
“It seems like they are cutting corners everywhere,” said Alex Mayer, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. “It’s not a Lamborghini, it’s a $500 used car.”
Since Fisher’s companies embarked on construction of the Rio Grande fence, the Trump administration has awarded about $2 billion in federal contracts to the firms to build segments of the border wall in other locations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...t-finds-privately-built-border-wall-will-fail
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail
The report, set to be filed in federal court this week, confirms reporting from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune that found portions of the wall were in danger of overturning if not fixed due to extensive erosion just months after it was built.
It’s not a matter of if a privately built border fence along the shores of the Rio Grande will fail, it’s a matter of when, according to a new engineering report on the troubled project.
The report is one of two new studies set to be filed in federal court this week that found numerous deficiencies in the 3-mile border fence, built this year by North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel. The reports confirm earlier reporting from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, which found that segments of the structure were in danger of overturning due to extensive erosion if not fixed and properly maintained. Fisher dismissed the concerns as normal post-construction issues.
We Build the Wall, whose executive board is made up of influential immigration hard-liners like Bannon, Kris Kobach and Tom Tancredo, contributed $1.5 million of the cost of the $42 million private border fence project south of Mission, Texas.
Last year, the nonprofit also hired Fisher to build a half-mile fence segment in Sunland Park, New Mexico, outside El Paso.
Company president Tommy Fisher, a frequent guest on Fox News, had called the Rio Grande fence the “Lamborghini” of border walls and bragged that his company’s methods could help Trump reach his Election Day goal of about 500 new miles of barriers along the southern border.
Instead, one engineer who reviewed the two reports on behalf of ProPublica and The Texas Tribune likened Fisher’s fence to a used Toyota Yaris.
“It seems like they are cutting corners everywhere,” said Alex Mayer, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. “It’s not a Lamborghini, it’s a $500 used car.”
Since Fisher’s companies embarked on construction of the Rio Grande fence, the Trump administration has awarded about $2 billion in federal contracts to the firms to build segments of the border wall in other locations.
Because it was a scam from the word 'go'; designed to suck in Trump supporters.
Expecting a quality wall from these folks would be like expecting an education from Trump University--before that scam was exposed.
A border wall with Mexico.
The land border between the United States and Mexico stretches 1,933 miles.
Prior to Trump’s presidency, there were 354 miles of pedestrian barriers and 300 miles of anti-vehicle fencing, for a total of 654 miles of barriers.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website, 360 miles of the border wall system have been built during the Trump administration, covering less than 19 percent of the total border.
However, the vast majority of that construction consisted of secondary barriers added to sections with existing walls, or reconstruction and repair work.
The featured image on this article is one such example of this, February 2019 construction work on a secondary border wall in Otay Mesa, California.
As of June of this year, only three miles of the border wall was actually new construction where no barrier had existed before, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The San Antonio Express-News found a slight increase to that figure as of August, putting the total amount of completely new wall construction at a whopping five miles.
Oh, and yeah…Mexico didn’t pay for it, not even the new five miles.
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...-have-been-finished-and-only-5-miles-are-new/
Prior to Trump’s presidency, there were 354 miles of pedestrian barriers and 300 miles of anti-vehicle fencing, for a total of 654 miles of barriers.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website, 360 miles of the border wall system have been built during the Trump administration, covering less than 19 percent of the total border.
However, the vast majority of that construction consisted of secondary barriers added to sections with existing walls, or reconstruction and repair work.
The featured image on this article is one such example of this, February 2019 construction work on a secondary border wall in Otay Mesa, California.
As of June of this year, only three miles of the border wall was actually new construction where no barrier had existed before, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The San Antonio Express-News found a slight increase to that figure as of August, putting the total amount of completely new wall construction at a whopping five miles.
Oh, and yeah…Mexico didn’t pay for it, not even the new five miles.
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...-have-been-finished-and-only-5-miles-are-new/