Bizarre armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective
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People suspected the Dendra armor was ceremonial, but new tests show its
utility.
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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ~ Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.EXTERNAL LINK
"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," he said. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.
"This is going on here in Arizona," he said. "This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States." read more