Greek fencers Despina Georgiadou and Theodora Gkountoura won gold and silver respectively at the Fencing World Cup (Sabre) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Saturday. In the first semi-final, Gkountoura defeated US fencer Elizabeth Tartakovsky 15-5 and secured the second qualification to a World Cup final after the 2022 World Cup in Tbilisi. Despina Georgiadou then defeated… […]
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DHS pays over $455K to build ‘security fencing’ around Biden’s beach home
The southern border with Mexico is seeing the highest levels of illegal border crossings in 35 years, but the Department of Homeland Security has found one access point it can shore up — doling out $455,000 to a Delaware construction company for a fence around President Biden’s “Summer White House.” In September, the department awarded […]
Video: Gulag Fencing Goes Back Up Around Capitol; Trump Warns ‘It’s a Setup’
Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show, Journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out how George W. Bush has gone from being roundly reviled by the left to being weirdly held up as some kind of icon as soon as the he began criticising President Trump and his supporters. “It’s worth remembering how liberals used to be overflowing with […]
Steel fencing erected outside St Ives homes ahead of G7 summit: ‘They’ve built a cage around us’
Locals will have to ask a security guard, and produce ID, to enter or leave the high-security area around their homes Colin Drury St Ives@colin__drury June 4, 2021 It’s a “ring of steel” designed to keep world leaders including Joe Biden safe – but for one St Ives street, the security fencing for next week’s […]
Iranian fencers clinch nine medals at 2018 ASEAN University Fencing Championship
Amir Reza Kan’ani, Mohammad Ali Kayhani and Hossein Ja’fari made the Islamic Republic proud on Saturday after they respectively bagged all the available medals in the men’s épée event of the competitions held in the western Malaysian town of Nilai. The épée is the modern derivative of the dueling sword used in fencing. As a thrusting weapon, the […]
Seattle Plans To Erect Miles of Razor Topped Fencing To Prevent Homeless From Camping
Seattle, the city with the dubious distinction of the nation’s third largest population of homeless people, plans to fight that fire of a crisis with gasoline, allotting more than $1.1 million — not toward services, shelters, and programs to help people find shelter — but to erect miles of razor-topped fencing to block underpasses, highway […]
Official foolishness — fencing the U.S.-Canada border
JOEL CONNELLYSeattlepi.com October 5, 2011 A Seattle friend is still wondering how America was made more secure by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency checkpoint that stopped and inspected his car up in Newhalem on the North Cascades Highway. It would have taken a terrorist who was a world class rock climber to […]
U.S. eyes fencing along Canadian border
The Canadian Press September 29, 2011 OTTAWA — The United States is looking at building fences along the border with Canada to help keep out terrorists and other criminals. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has proposed the use of “fencing and other barriers” on the 49th parallel to manage “trouble spots where […]