Black helicopters swarm Super Bowl-54

U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Ozzy Trevino, 23JAN2020.

Since at least 23JAN2020, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations, Miami-Dade Police, and other government agencies have been training-up for Super Bowl-54.  Every year so much taxpayer funded security is heaped upon the Super Bowl you […] Continue Reading…

Pacific Ring of Fire, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

Earth’s $40-Billion Weather Disasters of 2019: 4th Most Billion-Dollar Events on Record

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World risks ‘disaster’ as reuse of natural resources declines

 

ARGENTINA: 4.8 quake

5.5 quake

CANADA:  4.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island

FIJI: 4.3 quake, 24 January

JAPAN:  new Nankai trough […] Continue Reading…

“This is not a request, it’s a demand!”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 19 to 25 of Gregorian January 2020.

El Salvador holds man on charge of promoting migrant caravan

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Tensions Rise at Mexico’s Southern Border With Guatemala

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Lawyers accuse government of not complying with a federal court order that protects mentally disabled […] Continue Reading…

Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

Africa Climate Change Fund approves […] Continue Reading…

U.S. taxpayers to rescue “donated” C-130

24 January 2020 / 21:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (05 Bahman 1398/29 Jumada l-Ula 1441/01 Ding-Chou 4718)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

“The U.S. commitment to this partnership is stronger than ever, and I look forward to building upon it in the days ahead.”-Michael Raynor, U.S. Ambassador to […] Continue Reading…

NATO Vehicle I-D: Challenger vs Leclerc

NATO’s 2020 anti-Russia training was held in the eastern European country of Latvia (right on Russia’s border).

NATO promo-video, NATO’s Adazi Training Base, Latvia, 23JAN2020:

LECLERC, NATO-France:

French Leclercs invade NATO-Germany, 29MAY2018. U.S. Army photo by Kevin S. Abel.

U.S. Army (USA) video by Kevin S. Abel, May 2018, France ‘invades’ […] Continue Reading…

U.S. taxpayers deliver MD-530F Cayuse Warrior to Kenya

24 January 2020 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Bahman 1398/28 Jumada l-Ula 1441/30 Yi-Chou 4717

Handover Ceremony at Embakasi Barracks, Kenya, 23JAN2020.

It’s a few months late (first promised delivery was for mid-2019, then pushed back to the end of 2019) but the first six of 12 taxpayer funded MD-530F Cayuse Warrior […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: Cold War and beyond, C-2A to C-2A(R) Greyhound, now ‘On Final’! Can you get a kit of it?

Nice, Italy, 1970. Photo via U.S. Navy’s VR-24.

The Grumman C-2A Greyhound has been around for a long time, joining the U.S. Navy in 1966 (production started in 1965).

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 1990. USN photo by Don S. Montgomery.

Somewhere over the Pacific […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: USN Goshawk T-45

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

The U.S. Navy (USN) is currently testing its new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), and the venerable T-45 Goshawk is one of the guinea pigs.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist […] Continue Reading…

“The fire breathing dragon of clouds.”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 12-18 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 12 to 18 of Gregorian January 2020.

According to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program, the overwhelming majority of volcanic eruptions taking place the third week of January are on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

ARGENTINA: 5.0 quake near border with Chile

AUSTRALIA: […] Continue Reading…

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