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Influenza

The Military Knows!: Going Viral, 09-11 February 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 09 to 11 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

At least 23 influenza deaths in pro-vaccine Alberta Province, Canada, more than 1-million doses of flu vaccine injected 

Michigan reports increase in flu-B infections

16 years old U.S. girl dies days after getting flu-B, despite treatment with tamiflu

Iowa reports children hit hard by influenza

Kentucky news media says focus on the killer virus that’s here and now; influenza

India reports new cases of chikungunya and dengue

Singapore reports spike in dengue infections, warns it is a new version of an old version (strain DenV-3)!

Sri Lanka dengue infections hit 11-thousand

Four more killed by lassa, in Kogi State

Adamawa State lassa outbreak update, more infections & deaths

Why are children ‘missing’ from coronavirus outbreak cases?
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Santa Clara County, California, declares coronavirus emergency 

Woman infected with coronavirus mistakenly released from California hospital!

Infected cruise ship denied docking by three countries, passengers now ‘adrift’!

United Kingdom Faces ‘Major’ Coronavirus Outbreak
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UN WHO claims Progress in Fight against Ebola Virus in Africa
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  More proof of Operation Jupiter (or, The Military Knows What’s Coming): Since 2018 the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine has been working with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to develop a training program prepare medical Airmen to respond to infectious disease outbreaks.  The USAF says the program is now ready to begin training this October: “As military personnel deploy to diverse geographic areas, they may encounter infectious disease threats. These hazardous and communicable threats can be naturally occurring or deliberate and have a significant impact to our operations. Military personnel that work with such patients must know the proper procedures to protect patients, themselves and the mission.”-Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Schnaubelt, Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTaRS)-Omaha

Washington State University scientists have developed a phone app that can tell if a dog has been vaccinated for rabies, just by looking at its face, they’re now testing it in Tanzania

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Orange County, North Carolina, reports second confirmed rabies case

Henrico County, Virginia, offering rabies shots for ten bucks. Rabies vaccinations for pets are mandatory in Virginia.

Saint Lawrence County, New York, offering free rabies shots

In Arizona, Luke Air Force Base veterinarian explains the military purpose of the job: “The primary mission is to take care of the military working dogs. The second mission is actually food for facilities on base. We inspect off-base facilities of commercial establishments to make sure they’re in compliance with our regulations. Our next mission is control of zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. We take care of people’s pets, seeing more than 20 per day.”-Nicole Avci, Luke AFB Veterinary Services clinic officer

Going Viral, 07-08 February 2020: BLAME ANIMAL TRAFFICKING?

OPERATION JUPITER: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

International

“global systemic collapse”: Climate Change, 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 01 to 08 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Some scientists blame extreme temperature changes for the decline of the wooly bumblebee

Ocean currents getting faster, due to faster winds

Thawing permafrost will speed warming

Multiple Overlapping catastrophes“have the potential to impact and amplify one another in ways that might cascade to create global systemic collapse”
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ARGENTINA: Hottest day ever?

AUSTRALIA:  Charcoal and beef usually means BBQ, but something from 3-hundred BC might reduce methane produced by feeding cattle; Biochar

Despite regulations supposedly limiting industry pollution, it’s revealed the government actually approved increased industrial emissions!

BRAZIL: Discovered; the lumber industry is so aggressive it’s now cutting down trees during the rainy season!

CANADA: Quake strikes Atlantic coast

FRANCE: Cities are filling with trash

GREECE: 4.7 quake

INDIA:  5.1 quake

ISRAEL:  Earthquake near Haifa

ITALY:  Old solar panels meant to be recycled were instead shipped to parts of the Middle East and Africa

KOSOVO: European Union spends U.S.$83-million for filters to fight air pollution coming from electricity factory

SERBIA:  Considered Europe’s most polluted country

SOUTH AFRICA: Shrubs can stop climate change?

UNITED KINGDOM: British taxpayers funding African fossil fuel projects worth U.S.$750-million

UNITED STATES:

 So much for environment saving wind turbines, it’s estimated that this year alone at least 8-thousand wind turbine blades will be thrown into municipal trash dumps!   What’s more, the blades are supposed to last 20 years but most are thrown away after only ten!  They can’t be recycled!

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Kentucky; 
The final ‘shell’ emplacement had been delayed by unusually high water levels, but now that water levels have dropped the U.S.$1.22-billion Kentucky Lock Addition Project can continue.  Ten ‘shells’ were needed to build the new lock addition in dry conditions.  Reports say that since December 2019 the level of the Tennessee River was over-topping the nine shells already in place, each shell is 31-feet/9-meters high.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spending at least U.S.$16-million to repair a breach in the Buffalo North Breakwater, which was caused by the Halloween Night Storm last year.
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Altus Air Force Base is experimenting with a new cheaper way to clean-up its ground water, called a ‘bio-wall’ (‘bioreactors’ filled with locally sourced micro-organisms): “The purpose of the bio wall is to degrade the manmade contaminates currently found in the groundwater and break them down into naturally found elements. The bio walls act like a big water filter that is 30 feet underground. As the water flows through the wall, we are purifying it from the potentially harmful chemicals that were put in the ground a long time ago.”-Mary Bitney, Altus AFB Remedial Project Manager
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Puerto Rico; 5.0 earthquake 
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Tennessee;  2.7 quake
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Virginia;  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a U.S.$23.7-million contract to Florida based contractor to rebuild the eroded beach at NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, including construction of breakwaters using 1.3-million cubic yards of sand.
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Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020: OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD

Technology

SnowBlind: C-130 Ohio C-17 Pennsylvania

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C-17s of the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, 07FEB2020.

“Honey, I’m home!”

Video, C-130s of the 179th Airlift Wing, Ohio, 07FEB2020:

Video, De-icing C-130s in Ohio, 07FEB2020:

A-10C SNOWBLIND WALKAROUND IN IDAHO!

BARE METAL: C-17 STRIPPED

U.S. TAXPAYERS TO RESCUE “DONATED” C-130 (with new pics)

Influenza

Forget coronavirus, Bird Flu about to get genocidal!: Going Viral, 05-06 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 05 to 06 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Doctor who blew the whistle revealing coronavirus, dies! He was bullied by police and the hospital where he was a patient misled the news media about his condition.

So much for vaccinations, report says old diseases are now more deadly 

Doctor says masks and gloves actually spread disease!

Vietnam ramps up production of face masks

United Nation’s WHO finally to hold special forum on coronavirus, but not until five days from now!  WHO officials remind UN member nations it’s time to pay ‘donations’, needs at least U.S.$675-million to fund current missions!

As of 05FEB2020, the UN’s World Health Organization still does not list the novelcornavirus (Novel-CoV) in any of its three categories of “emergencies”.

Universities cancel study-abroad programs amid virus fears
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California husband and wife infected with coronavirus ‘suddenly much more ill’
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3-thousand-7-hundred foreigners quarantined on cruise ship in Japan, disease spreading

Japan establishes Tokyo Olympics coronavirus committee

Russian economy slowing due to cornavirus, hackers targeting public health data

1-thousand-7-hundred Russians waiting for evacuation from China

Malaysia confirms human coronavirus transmission arising from Singapore meeting

Taiwan halts visas from Hong Kong, Macau as global coronavirus deaths hit 565

Macau economy crashing due to coronavirus

Thai economy crashing due to coronavirus

Boy dies due to care givers being quarantined, officials who made the call are fired

Doctor says newborn contracted coronavirus after being handled by several people, can’t link coronavirus transmission through the womb

Coronavirus to become the new influenza?

Rebels kill dozens of villagers in Ebola-hit Congo

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Sri Lanka reports 10-thousand-89 cases of dengue

Philippines Province of Pangasinan reports 313 cases of dengue in past month 

Revealed; Huge increase (28-million more) in vaccinations of Norwegian farmed salmon, you’re eating it!

UNICEF, along with the Gates Foundation’s vaccination arm GAVI, announces yet another global measles vaccination drive (notice that GAVI’s global measles vaccination campaigns coincide with the global outbreak of measles, which came first?)

Yet another scientific explanation on how you can get sick with the flu after getting the flu vaccination (including admission that each season’s flu vaccine does not cover all types of influenza, and is only based on previous season’s flu strains)

56 people in Taiwan die from H1N1 swine flu

Vietnam reports human H1N1 swine flu infections

Indian state of Odisha reports human H1N1 swine flu infection

Indian state of Manipur reports detecting human infections of H1N1 swine flu while conducting testing for coronavirus

More of what I call Operation Jupiter; the U. S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine working on new flu vaccine: “We work with military installations here in the United States and abroad to see if something is occurring and work with the CDC and FDA here in the United States and the World Health Organization globally…”-Doctor Paul Sjoberg, U.S. Department of Defense Global Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Program 

Proof the U.S. government is expecting a genocidal flu season: Food and Drug Administration approves H5N1 bird flu pandemic vaccine! 

H5N1 bird flu ticking time bomb?

4-year-old Colorado boy dies from the flu
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Oregon to review grade school students’ vaccination records this month

Texas conducts yet another rabies vaccine air drop

Arizona warning of hantavirus

Parvovirus shutting down dog parks in Montana

Lack of hunting in the U.S. being blamed for spread of viruses in wild animals?

More proof vaccines are money makers: Influenza Medication Market has potential to be worth U.S.$993.7-Million by 2026

Going Viral, 03-04 February 2020:AT LEAST 10,000 DEAD, JUST IN THE U.S.!

OPERATION JUPITER 2019: MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OR EVIL BILDERBERG VACCINE PROGRAM?

Technology

Weapon I-D: Mark 82, Cold War & beyond

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Bombing-up an S-3A Viking with Mk82s. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Michael D.P. Flynn, 01FEB1988.

The Mark 82 (aka BDU) is a 5-hundred pound/227-kilogram unguided ‘vehicle’ (practice bombs about 400lbs/181kg) designed to hit your enemy with 192 pounds/87-kilograms of Tritonal high explosive. It was first used during the U.S. occupation of Vietnam.  It’s part of the Mark 80 series of low-drag bombs, from Mk81 to Mk84, of similar shape but increasing size.

Mark 82s on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Stephen Schester, 27APR2010.

The shape and size of the standard fins have changed over the decades, and the type of fins used changes the nomenclature (the various fins/tail cones have their own nomenclatures as well).

They’ve even been fitted with nose fuse extensions.

This video is about the history of the F-4 Phantom-2, but it has a couple of scenes from Vietnam in which F-4s off-load massive amounts of Mk82s:

Most ‘live’ Mk82s are painted olive drab with yellow markings and trim.  Some are light grey with yellow trim.  Yellow indicates it is a ‘live’ bomb.

“Bombs can be filled by conventional explosive or other explosive compositions (TNT, Tritonal, Comp B) with a wide range of fuzes (M904-M905, FMU-139, FMU-152, FBM 21, ID 260).”

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ryan Callaghan, 25JAN2017.

This live Mk82 has a nose mounted M904 fuse.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Don Sutherland, 01FEB1981.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Zachary Heal, 05FEB2020.

Many bombs have varying shades of paint from one to the other, depending on how they were stored, exposure to sunlight, etc.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Zachary Heal, 05FEB2020.

This live Mk82 has a rear mounted M905 fuse.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Jacob M. Thompson, 27JAN2021.

Some tail cones have ‘pinwheels’ (ATU-35A/B tail mounted fuse drive assemblies) that have an arming wire connected to the bomb release mechanism.  The ATU-35 is for both the M904 nose fuse and the M905 rear mounted fuse.

Pinwheels on the tail cones of these practice bombs, denoted by the blue stripe around the nose. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, 27JUN1987.

These Mk82s have the M904 nose fuse with the ATU-35 tail drive. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, 27JUN1987.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Steven Walls, 28JAN2020.

The live Mk82s (BSU-33s?) on this AV-8B Harrier are grey with yellow trim.  Note the USMC fins are the similar to the USAF fins.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal James Marchetti, 14JAN2014.

Mark 82s onboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Tracy Lee Didas, 01OCT1989.

Same aircraft carrier, but in 1993. Mark 82s onboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Hayhurst, 01OCT1993.

For those model builders who are worried that they’ve hit their Mark 82s/BDUs with a paint bomb, most U.S. Navy/USMC bombs have a thick stucco looking coating of paint.

USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Tracy Lee Didas, 04NOV1987.

Mark 82s being transferred from ship-to-ship during Desert Storm. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Charles W. Moore, 01FEB1991.

Video, 726th EABS Munitions Systems team shows you how to build a Mk82, November 2019, Djibouti:

An F-4E Phantom II off-loads a bunch of blue bombs onto the Bardenas Bombing Range in Spain. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant David Nolan, 25MAR1986.

Practice bombs are painted blue, or O-D with blue trim and fins.  Some are so old the blue paint is extremely faded.  Some practice bombs have spotting charges in the fin section to make it easier to spot where it impacts on the target field.

BDU-45 mounted on P3C Orion. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Harry J. Rucker the Third, 25OCT2009.

The U.S. Navy calls their practice Mk82 bomb the BDU-45.  Note there is a difference between USN fins and USAF fins.

BDU-45 mounted on P3C Orion. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Harry J. Rucker the Third, 25OCT2009.

USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Araos, 02JUL2012.

Blue bombs.

Georgia Air National Guard F-105G gets bombed-up with a cement filled Blue Bomb. Photo by Airman First Class Sheryl D. Barnett, 10APR1981.

Video, Davis Monthan, Arizona, Operation SnowBird 2013, Idaho National Guard bombs-up their A-10s with Maverick missiles and Mk82s:

An Iranian F-14 tomcat bombed-up with Iranian made Mk82s on Iranian designed bomb rack.

A-10A on Sembach Air Base, Germany, being bombed-up with a Mk82 Snake Eye. USAF photo by Sutherland, 22APR1982.

The Mk82 can be fitted with low-drag fins or the infamous high-drag fins called Snake Eye.  The Snake Eye, or Mark 14 Tail Retarding Device, was developed because aircraft making low-level bombing runs would get hit by the shrapnel from the low-drag Mk82s.

A-7 Corsair II releasing Mark 82 hi-drag (Snake Eye) bombs on bombing range in Florida. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Frank Garzelnick, 01MAY1980.

The Iranians love the Snake Eye, using it during low-level high-speed bombing runs against invading Iraqi forces in the 1980s and still using it today.

Iranian Thunderbolts (twin tailed F-5s) dropping snake eyes.

U.S. Navy A-6 Intruders dropping snake eyes.

Snake Eye outside the U.S. Air Force 88th Operations Support Squadron, Munitions Flight, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 03MAR2021. USAF photo by Ty Greenlees.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dennis L. Carlson, 07DEC1978.

GBU-12 Paveway II is a ‘smart’ Mk82 with laser guidance system.

Canadian CF188 (F-18) being bombed-up with a Paveway in Kuwait, 13JAN2015.

This Mk82 is equipped with the Air Inflatable Retarder (AIR) tail.

FB-111A off-loads Mk82-AIR bombs, USAF photo by Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, 17NOV1990.

VEHICLE I-D: F-22 RAPTOR

U.S.

“Haven’t got one wrong yet”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 26 to 31 of Gregorian January 2020.

U.S. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) report on nonimmigrant students in U.S.

U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) National Drug Threat Assessment

ALABAMA:  Illegal immigrants arrested for abusing toddler

ARIZONA: GoDaddy founder pays the tuition for illegals attending Arizona State University

Gang of 11 arrested for drug running

  Man sent to prison for human trafficking

ICE has flown more than 450 migrants to the interior of Mexico since December

The first 30-foot panel for the Yuma 10/27 project is placed at Barry M. Goldwater Range.  Yuma 10/27 will be a 31 miles ‘secondary’ wall, behind the first wall seen in the background.

CALIFORNIA:  Governor Newsom Expands taxpayer funded Health Care Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

Longest cross border tunnel yet, discovered 

FLORIDA: Illegal from United Kingdom dies in ICE custody

Illegal from Cuba dies in ICE custody

 Illegal from Cuba goes to prison for human trafficking

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)-Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) captured more than 176-thousand counterfeit (fake) sports-related items heading to the Super Bowl, worth an estimated $123-million (MSRP, Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price).

BLACK Border Patrol HELICOPTERS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

Video, Super Bowl truck scanning:

Video, U.S. Coast Guard Super Bowl boat patrol:

GEORGIA: 31 people sentenced for arraigning false marriages to avoid immigration laws

ILLINOIS: Illinois Tech offers MAP funding to illegals

MARYLAND: State legislature overrides governor’s veto of a bill that provides in-state college tuition for illegals

MASSACHUSETTS: Man wanted for wartime rape crimes in his home country, was deported by ICE

ICE deports illegal wanted for attempted murder in Brazil

MICHIGAN: MSU informs all students are eligible of its resources “regardless of immigration status.” 

MINNESOTA: Judge finds county was breaking law by holding immigrants for ICE

NEW YORK: ICE arrests illegal accused of child rape

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 75 undocumented immigrants 

Illegal man wanted for drug crimes in Spain, deported 

Man sent to prison for gun running from Kosovo

Two Mexicans accused of killing a Mexican soldier and running drugs into the U.S.

OHIO:  judge uses a hunch to call ICE on undocumented defendants: “Haven’t got one wrong yet”

PENNSYLVANIA: ICE arrests illegal who has been repeatedly arrested and released by local immigrant loving law ‘enforcement’

Chester County is or is not a sanctuary county?

PUERTO RICO:  U.S. Coast Guard captures 37 illegals from Dominican Republic on 29JAN2020, bringing the one week total to 69 illegals captured.

TEXAS: Company hit with $3-million fine for knowingly hiring illegals 

Illegal from Mexico goes to prison for human trafficking

UTAH:  Illegal ‘Dreamers’ can now become attorneys in Utah

VERMONT: Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Takes Hold, to counter illegal immigrant sanctuary cities

VIRGINIA: ICE arrests gang member wanted for crimes in El Salvador

WASHINGTON:  A legal resident, from Bosnia, going to prison for gun running

ICE, along with state and local law enforcers, arrest seven people for child sex trafficking

WYOMING: ACLU says privately run ICE prison is illegal 

Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 19-25 January 2020: “THIS IS NOT A REQUEST, IT’S A DEMAND!”

 

Influenza

Sick, or just intoxicated?: Going Viral, 01-02 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 01 to 02 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Immune systems not prepared for climate change

Coronavirus is scary, but the flu is deadlier, more widespread

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H1N1 flu virus kills 13 people in Taiwan in one week

Is it a cold, the flu or coronavirus? How to tell the difference.

Paraguay reports 35-thousand Dengue fever cases

In mandatory vaccine Mexico, a 62% increase in Dengue fever cases and 13 deaths

Kenya records new suspected coronavirus case, Nigeria ‘ready’ for virus

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Philippines reports Chinese man died from coronavirus

Korean man on the street thought to be sick, was just intoxicated

China state bank begins flooding economy with cash, as more viral outbreaks kill off businesses  

Deadly bird flu outbreak among chickens in China, near coronavirus epicenter

At least two Chinese cities are virtually banning people from leaving home

Wuhan doctors beaten up, overworked, under supplied

New Chinese coronavirus hospital will be operated by 1-thousand-4-hundred military personnel!

Coronavirus spread through human crap?

Hong Kong universities quarantine students

State of emergency declared in two districts in Russia’s Far East

Russia declares coronavirus as bad as HIV and the Black Death

U.S. declares public health emergency

U.S. Department of Defense prepared to quarantine nearly 1-thousand people
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8th U.S. infection by coronavirus

Missing link found? Geneticists discover the placenta evolved from ancient form of HIV!

Scientists learn how viruses infect your body by making the virus glow in the dark

Thailand claims to have miracle vaccine ‘cocktail’

Israel to build new vaccine factory

California punishes doctor who gave children exemptions from vaccines

Washington state treats coronavirus victim with unapproved Ebola vaccine!

Going Viral, 30-31 January 2020: “I’M THE ONLY ONE LEFT”

VACCINE FAIL: FLU SHOTS DON’T WORK ON CANCER VICTIMS!

International

Oceans sink as the Lands flood: Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 26 to 31 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Melting glaciers could unleash ancient viruses
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Having fewer children touted as the answer

Some insects and some animals are breeding like mad, some are good some are bad

Good crop insects are dying at rapid pace

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The Ocean Floor is Sinking

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Powerful Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Near Jamaica and Cuba; Buildings Shake in Miami

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5.4 magnitude quake strikes Mediterranean Sea

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Fossilized Footprints Show Neanderthals Climbing An Active Volcano

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NATO members Canada, France, Italy, Lithuania and the United States are testing energy saving tech at this year’s Smart Energy Training and Assessment Camp.  It includes LED lighting, energy metering, atmospheric water generation, and various sizes of portable solar arrays.

ALBANIA: 4.3 quake, 31JAN2020

AUSTRALIA: Canberra declares state of emergency

BRAZIL:  Exploding canals, imploding malls

More than 30-thousand homeless due to flooding

indigenous group takes on “invader” mining company
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ICELAND: Alert level raised for expanding volcano

INDONESIA: More flooding, more deaths

ITALY: Vehicle ban goes into effect on Sunday

ROMANIA: 5.2-magnitude earthquake

SENEGAL: Has already lost one town to ocean rise

SWITZERLAND:  Warming rivers means less fish to eat?

TURKEY:  4.0 quake, 31JAN2020

UNITED KINGDOM:  Flood victims say new flood plan will make things worse

UNITED STATES: Wine making will end if a new climate adaptable grape cannot be found 

Trees Aren’t the Simple Climate Solution They Seem to Be

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‘Stop using the worst-case scenario … as the most likely outcome,’ experts say
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Illinois;  FEMA grants city additional U.S.$2.3-million to buyout flood prone residential properties (for some reason this news article refers to the grants as an ‘award’, as if the city won a contest)
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North Carolina; 2.3 quake
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Oregon; Utility company pays for climate change education in Portland grade schools (it should be noted that the same utility company announced in November 2019 that it will shutdown its remaining five customer service centers in Spring)
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Puerto Rico; 

Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Caycee Watson, 30JAN2020.

Puerto Rico Air National Guard personnel with the 156th Medical Group, inspect toilets and hand washing facilities at  an earthquake response ‘base camp’ in Guayanilla, 30JAN2020.
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West Virginia; FEMA grants one county U.S.$131-million to rebuild flooded schools (for some reason this news article refers to the grant as an ‘award’, as if the county won a contest)
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

Going Viral, 30-31 January 2020: “I’M THE ONLY ONE LEFT”

Influenza

Going Viral, 26-29 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 26 to 29 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Kansas girl latest to die from flu

With 8,000-Plus Deaths in U.S. Alone, Flu Far More Deadly Than Coronavirus

New Jersey says its top concern is still influenza

Two Utah Military Academy students die from flu

Digging deeper into this year’s flu vaccine & its effectiveness

Apparently some people in the U.S. think coronavirus is related to Corona brand beer!

More proof they only care about the money: Cruise ship industry cries about losing U.S.$4-billion for every cruise halted by the epidemic!

Global coronavirus map

U.A.E. Reports First Cases of Novel Coronavirus

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U.A.E. admits viral outbreak bad for oil industry

China’s Supreme People’s Court blames police for trying to cover-up virus outbreak!

U.S. wants to send medical team to China

240 Americans airlifted from China diverted from original destination of Ontario Airport in California to U.S. military base

How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses?
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Coronavirus in the U.S.: Map of where the virus has been confirmed across the country
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Ivory Coast tests woman for China virus
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U.S.

Black helicopters swarm Super Bowl-54

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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 might as well put the military in charge of the NFL.

U.S. CBP photo by Ozzy Trevino, 23JAN2020.

Among the assets being used are the CBP’s black and gold UH-60 Black Hawks, oh, and their little AS350 A-Star ‘copters. CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

U.S. CBP photo by Jerry Glaser, 27JAN2020.

CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

U.S. CBP photo by Ozzy Trevino, 29JAN2020.

CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

CBP video by Jerry Glaser, 27JAN2020:

VEHICLE I-D: CBP’S BLACK HELICOPTERS DEPLOY TO PUERTO RICO, QUICK MINICRAFT KIT REVIEW

BLADE FOLDING ARMY BLACK HAWKS